There is no doubt that it was indeed a landing craft of the People's Union, except that there were no heavily armed soldiers in it, only an emergency hibernation pod.

The Space Combat Team soldiers lifted the hibernation pod out and re-attached the barrier at the scene of the accident, while transporting the pod to the nearest infirmary.

Once plugged in, they followed the normal procedure to activate the hatch of the sleeping pod.

As the hatch opened, a girl in a silver-gray tightsuit was seen lying inside.

Seeing the girl lying in the sleeping pod, everyone around couldn't help but hold their breath.

Her hair was almost gone, her skin felt as if it had been burned by fire, and so much tissue had fallen off the dermis that her expression was blurred by pain.

And what is even more shocking is that she seems to have been shot in the abdomen, and the cockpit is covered in frozen blood.

It was a terrible sight, and it was hard to imagine the pain she had suffered before.

Wu Mengke, who was standing in front of the holographic screen, only felt a tight pain in his heart, and almost subconsciously blurted out and shouted.

"Help!"

There was no need for her to order, and the medical staff waiting on the side had already taken action.

They put her on a ventilator, quickly connected her to a life-support device, and began treatment.

Cryodormancy is an extremely dangerous thing in the case of serious injuries, and one careless person may actually become a corpse.

Fortunately, the people in the wasteland are probably used to messing around, and their vitality is as tenacious as Xiaoqiang.

In addition, she was equipped with the Academy's biomimetic prosthesis, so she was miraculously rescued from a near-death state.

"Her symptoms are like being hit by a neutron torpedo...... "The koala, who was overhauling the prosthesis, couldn't help but smash her tongue and whispered, "This guy can still survive." ”

A colleague from the fourth department on the side said.

"Maybe it's because of the bias shield on the ship, remember the 'scientific research ship' before? The lad didn't hurt much. ”

The engineer standing next to him nodded, touched his chin and thought.

"It's reasonable to assume that the young man, because of his higher degree of prostheticization, fainted from the electromagnetic pulse at the beginning of the nuclear explosion, but suffered less radiation damage...... The girl, on the other hand, was the other way around, carrying the electromagnetic pulse, but under the influence of neutron radiation. ”

Koala said incomprehensibly.

"But why is she on another ship? And it is also a model of the Aerospace Forces......"

"I don't know," the engineer said, gesturing his fingers, "I can only assume that there are two ships, one is their own research ship, and the other is on that wreck...... Do you understand me when I say that? It is part of the ruins. ”

Koala looked at him stunned, and her expression gradually became subtle.

The landing craft that was already on that wreck......

It's like saying that their "Daybreak" plan has failed......

Obviously, he was not the only one who thought so, and many people around him fell silent.

While the engineers of the fourth department were discussing the strange prosthetic body that the patient was wearing, the doctors of the seventh department were concerned about the patient's condition.

"It's so miserable...... This girl. ”

"Ah......h

"If it's a few seconds late, you'll die."

The doctors and nurses on duty whispered, and only Lin Youyou looked at the face in a daze.

Noticing her expression, a colleague next to her cast a curious look at her.

“…… Do you know her? ”

Lin Youyou nodded with a subtle expression.

"Probably?"

"What's probably."

Lin Youyou was silent for a while and spoke.

"Someone mentioned her name to me...... I had a strong instinct that told me that she was the girl the kid mentioned. ”

It was supposed to be an agreement 200 years later, but I didn't expect it to come true so quickly.

The colleague on the side didn't know what she was talking about, just looked at her in confusion.

"Who is she?"

"Jiang Xuezhou."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Youyou nodded and affirmed his statement.

"She is Jiang Xuezhou, there will be no mistake."

He became her.

As for themselves, they are still stuck in this stagnant time—or the gap between time and space.

It's weird......

At this moment, the person next to the treatment table suddenly let out a slight exclamation.

"The patient is awake!"

"Wait, she's talking!"

Hearing the exclamation of his colleague, Lin Youyou immediately interrupted his thoughts and walked quickly to the side of the treatment bed.

The girl's breathing was very weak, and her cracked lips opened and closed slightly, like a broken candle swaying in the wind, which made people feel distressed......

She heard her voice, which seemed to be calling someone's name.

"Ten ...... Night"

"Here...... It's so cold......"

……

It's so cold –

When the consciousness sank into the abyss, there was only one feeling in Ye Shi's heart.

The biting cold seemed to penetrate his five senses and seep into his soul through his skin and hair.

He subconsciously wanted to curl up in a ball, but he couldn't move.

It was like plunging headlong into the Arctic Ocean, then being grabbed by an invisible hand by the throat and pulled straight from the surface to the deepest part of the sea.

But just as he was about to touch the bottom of the sea, the world seemed to turn upside down.

The tip of his nose didn't touch the seabed, but came out of another stretch of the sea on the other side of the planet.

"Hum—"

With a tidal noise, his lost five senses returned in an instant.

It worked...... Is it?

Night Ten sat up almost reflexively, but his forehead was engraved on the hatch of the sleeping pod.

This action triggers the safety mechanisms of the hibernation chamber, or perhaps the safety mechanisms have been passively triggered for a long time.

The yellow signal light flashed with words similar to an alarm, and with a "bang-" sound, the closed metal hatch slowly opened.

"Ahem—"

Ye Shi only felt weaker than ever, the whole person was top-heavy, and his back was still pillowed in the ice cave.

But he managed to grasp the edge of the hatch with all his strength, and a flip floated out of the ice.

Yes, it floated out.

There is no gravity here.

Not only that, the outside space is colder than the inside of the dormant chamber, but perhaps due to the thin air, the temperature does not feel so low.

Night Ten was happy in my heart.

Without gravity, at least it means that you are out of the timeline of two hundred years ago.

But soon his face changed, and the thin air made him feel suffocated.

"Day—"

Ye Shi cursed, and in a hurry, he suddenly had an idea, and moved his index finger to the back of his neck twice, activating the internal circulation mode of the artificial lung.

He rarely used this mode on the surface, so much so that he almost forgot he had it.

When activated, the lungs close the air outlet and assist other digestive and metabolic organs to use electricity, catalysts, and water from respiration to achieve photosynthesis and produce glucose and oxygen.

Although theoretically this cycle can be continued as long as there is an electrical input, in practice there is a loss of mass.

After all, the "prosthetic man" installed with a large number of bionic prostheses is not a real bionic person, and he cannot really survive without the earth's ecological environment.

This feature is probably only enough for him to stay in outer space for twenty-four hours, if not even so.

But—

This time should be enough.

As agreed, the Orion's crew would soon come here to join them.

Ye Shi, who had calmed down, glanced at the surrounding situation, and the twisted steel and deformed cockpit were undoubtedly Jiang Xuezhou's scientific research ship.

However, what made his heartstrings tense involuntarily was that Xiao Jiang was the only one who couldn't see it here.

"Blame ......"

What about people?

He heard her!

And just a second before waking up!

Not even just to hear it, the hoarfrost printed on the glass was clearly her breathing!

An ominous premonition crept through Ye Ten's body, and he rummaged around the ruins for a while, even tearing off the twisted alloy door and burrowing into the crew compartment behind the cockpit, but he didn't see a single figure.

It was as if she had vanished into thin air.

As time passed, that sense of foreboding turned into a creep.

A possibility suddenly appeared in his mind-

She's still in there!

In that "rift in time and space"!

But how is this possible?!

Isn't it just yourself who goes in?!

Night Ten's face changed with a look of astonishment, disbelief, and even a hint of anger.

Just a few minutes ago, someone had promised him that they would come to his rescue, but nothing happened.

Either they fail.

Either they completely forget about themselves.

Or because they can't hold back their impulses, they try to interfere with the universe within their horizons, and as a result, they are drowned in the long river of time.

In short, the plan has deviated......

Reinforcements did not arrive!

Or maybe they were already in a very different parallel world, and the encounter in the hyperspace channel was just a chance pass.

He did not change neither his own nor theirs.

Instead, because of the self-made cleverness of a group of people, a monster called "Celestial" was created in a parallel world.

"......"

Yashi slammed a fist into the wall, but was hit by the reverse impact and hit the other half, almost unable to stop in the not-so-spacious cockpit.

But it was this bump that made Ye Shi realize that he had to calm down.

Don't panic at this time.

The more you are in a dilemma, the more you should stay calm.

Holding against the wall to stabilize his body, he first adjusted his heart rate and tried to keep himself calm.

Then he tried to go offline.

The result of this attempt was the same as before.

The offline function is like being cut off from the remote control, and it can't be taken down.

In this way, I am still in the "copy......

Realizing this, Night Ten breathed a sigh of relief.

He's found out.

When in a dungeon, the flow of time in reality slows down, or in other words, his time is accelerated.

A very simple logic can be proven.

He had been on the USS Orion missile cruiser for two weeks, and if the time in the game and reality was really 1:1, even if Jiujiu really left him alone, he would have to be cold in reality.

There is only one explanation.

The copy he's in is at a different rate of time than the real world!

And that's not all.

This difference in the flow of time is not just a distinction between fast and slow, but a "time that does not exist on this timeline" is inserted into his timeline.

It is precisely because of this that several days have passed in the dungeon, but in reality, it has not been long, and even only an hour or two has passed.

Only a little time has passed in the real world, and the game world outside the dungeon is naturally the same.

He didn't know how this was technically achieved.

Maybe it's through some kind of psychological suggestion, maybe it's through computing power simulation......

But in short, it makes sense to explain why he always hears the same four sentences over and over again.

As for why Jiang Xuezhou is not here, there is also only one explanation left-

She also entered the dungeon!

But why is it that she has also entered the dungeon, but she and the crew on the ship can't observe her existence-

No, not necessarily unobservable!

It's just that there's a time lag!

In fact, it is very likely that the time of her arrival is the same as the time he left.

And that's why they can't observe each other.

A hint of enlightenment gradually poured into Ye Shi's mind.

Everything that was originally vague gradually became clear as he peeled back the cocoon, and threaded the fragmented puzzle pieces in his mind.

Starships hovering in synchronous orbit fired neutron torpedoes at their research ship.

Although the research ship's bias shield took some of the damage, it was not because of a neutron radiation coma, but because of an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear explosion that overloaded the bionics device.

The smaller the device, the more susceptible it is, especially since it's from head to toe and even skin.

Memories began to fragment.

And when he fainted unconscious, Jiang Xuezhou, who was relatively less affected by the electromagnetic pulse, dragged him into the sleep cabin.

The main damage she received was supposed to be neutron radiation.

However, due to the bias shield, she should not have suffered a fatal injury.

Of course, there was more than one sleeping pod on the research ship, but she didn't lie in it herself.

After all, their enemies are not disconnected, they have no reinforcements, and lying in both of them means waiting for death!

She has only one choice -

Keep fighting!

While you're still awake.

Ye Shi put himself in the other party's position, and lying in front of him was Xiao Jiang, who fell into a coma.

“…… If it were me, I would not have stayed where I was and waited for death, and I would have done everything I could to save her. ”

But how can it be saved?

His brain was running so fast that it was like an overclocked computer, simulating countless possibilities in an instant.

Although his intelligence attribute has never been low, it is the first time that he has played the game for so long, and he has called on all those brain cells to think about things that perception players never have to think about......

"My strength is perception, and I probably think about ambushes...... Her strengths are programming and knowledge of mechanics and relics...... You can only think of a way from the environment itself. ”

She is an expert in artificial intelligence.

She has almost genius programming skills, and has served in the Beacon Squad, and has a knack for exploring the relics of the Human Union era.

So......

There's only one thing she can do.

That is to attack and defend, and compete with the "celestials" who have landed on this starship for control of this starship!

In this way, the fake "Luo Yi" on the spaceship at the moment can't take care of his side.

That guy can only chase her desperately!

Thinking that the girl who was afraid of the dark and cold had done so many things for herself, Ye Shi suddenly felt that the bridge of her nose was a little sour, and she couldn't help but clench her fists on the wall.

"Damn, if I can't get past this copy...... Lao Tzu deleted the number and re-practiced ......"

Everything became clear.

And those clues that are not yet clear are only the last few pieces of the puzzle.

Including why he still couldn't go offline, including the reinforcements that should have arrived at the moment he woke up but unexpectedly didn't show up, etc......

Although the whole process may be more tortuous and bizarre than you imagined, it is generally not difficult to guess.

During the time she was asleep, she should have taken control of the starship, or at least some of the areas and equipment.

For example, the core warp engine......

In the worst and most extreme situation, the last resort she can use is nothing more than one-

That is to exhaust the last bit of energy that this starship can use to jump, open the hyperspace channel and jump to another galaxy, and completely banish this starship with the ability to destroy the world outside the solar system.

And in order to prevent her from opening the hyperspace channel, it is very likely that "Luo Yi" launched again and detonated a neutron torpedo at close range, or simply detonated it directly on the launch stand.

This is the most likely thing to happen.

The guy was presumably an android, and most likely a bionic made by the Gemini.

And it is precisely because of this that the guy can use this strategic-level weapon with impunity.

That's not the point, though.

The point is that the neutron torpedo detonated in the hyperspace channel turned the abandoned cruiser Orion into a new "black box", and a "black box" belonging to the timeline of the wasteland era 215, when the wasteland era was about to end and enter a new era.

The explosion of a neutron bomb and the hyperspace jump cannot occur at the same time, because there is no concept of time in the hyperspace lane, and the former prevents the latter from happening.

Therefore, there must be a sequence of occurrence of the two, even if the explosion of the neutron bomb is certain.

It is precisely for this reason that the explosion of the neutron bomb at the entrance of the hyperspace channel and the explosion at the exit form a superposition state in quantum mechanics.

And it is not only the crew of the Orion more than two hundred years ago that has become superimposed, but also himself, Jiang Xuezhou, and a certain android with the same name and surname as Luo.

The intersection of the two timelines did not occur at the moment when the research ship collided with the Orion, nor at the moment when the first neutron torpedo exploded, but when he was dormant - the moment when the starship entered the "hyperspace channel" beyond the horizon!

At this moment, Jiang Xuezhou fell into a superimposed state of uncertainty about life and death for some reason.

Because of the formation of a "Faraday cage" in the sleeping cabin, he was not only lucky not to be affected by the second "strategic EMP strike", but even woke up unexpectedly because of the impact of EMP on the external circuit of the sleeping cabin.

The moment he woke up and the moment she closed her eyes constituted the beginning of their intersecting time with another timeline, and the moment she woke up or died was the end of the intersecting timelines!

Ye Shi's understanding of physics is actually only at the undergraduate level, and his understanding of high-energy objects is limited to Young's double-slit interference experiment.

Maybe Professor Tempest could give a more scientific explanation, but none of these things matter at the moment!

In this second black box, he is no longer an observer, but the cat itself in a superimposed state.

Whether or not the friendly forces of two hundred years ago remembered that distant agreement, or whether they were doomed to fail to make it from the beginning, the so-called deception of the observers was just wishful thinking from beginning to end...... He had to do what only he could do at the moment.

There is no concept of time here, no one can save her!

Except for himself!

Grabbing the edge of the hatch, Nighteleven kicked open the twisted cockpit door and drifted into the dark room with the flying door.

He no longer has to hide his presence.

It's better to let the imposter who calls himself "Luo Yi" come to find himself!

The cracking steel creaked as it creaked down his right hand gripping the doorframe.

At the same time, he turned on the flashlight and quickly checked the situation around him.

This is the canteen on the lower deck.

He remembers it very well, and even remembers that his last meal was potato and beef here...... Although the potato beef is not in his stomach at the moment, but is left in the "space-time rift" that does not exist in the main timeline.

But miraculously, these memories have been preserved, and even the taste buds on the tip of the tongue still have a faint aftertaste.

Familiar cutlery, tables and chairs float in the corner of the room, there are no flickering lights, only the black fingers that cannot be seen, and the scene is chaotic like the scene of a car accident.

None of the familiar people are there, whether it's the crew members who eat or the droid chef who is in charge, and ...... That's rightfully so.

Looking at the corridor outside the cafeteria, which looked like a black well, Yashi gritted his teeth, took a deep breath and closed his eyes, letting the five senses sink into the deep darkness, spreading wantonly outward along the hand clenched on the door frame.

The five senses that spread outward were like dense spider webs, and no slight movement could escape the capture of his synapses.

Whether it's the slight collision of garbage against the wall, or the friction of the rope, or the wind so thin that it is almost impossible to feel......

It wasn't a spontaneous movement.

Night Ten's eyes snapped open.

Although he couldn't see the man's face through the ruins, he could clearly sense which corridor the man was walking in.

There is no doubt about that familiar and unfamiliar feeling—

It was the "scene of the accident" that he had not been allowed to enter all along!

The man with the jetpack was pressing the button of the jetpack in two short and one long, floating like a ghost in the gravityless hallway, slowly approaching the gym that was encircled by a barrier in some parallel world.

“…… I see you! ”

(End of chapter)