"Boom ——!"

The echo of the explosion echoed along the alloy walls in the dark silence of the starship's cabin.

This is the battlefield 215 years later.

Although it was two centuries late, the "Celestials" finally stepped over the corpse of the nobody and restarted the reactor that had been sleeping for two centuries.

As the reactor rebooted, the ship's servers were reconnected, and the landing craft's onboard AI restarted the hacking program, taking control of the entire starship with little effort.

But—

After all, this moment is more than two hundred years late.

Shortly after the "Celestials" seized control of the Orion missile cruiser, a silver-gray scientific research ship came into the former's field of vision.

That wasn't meant to be a threat to look out for.

Compared to the whole plan of the "Endwar", that thing was not even an eye-catching ant, and a single neutron torpedo was enough to kill everyone on that ship.

However, the unexpected happened.

After paying nearly ninety percent of the casualties, a lame rat still infiltrated the starship and launched electronic warfare on the ship's onboard servers of the Orion missile cruiser, forcibly starting the warp engine, and sending the ship five light-years away.

Seeing that the newly arrived starship was about to enter the hyperspace channel, "Luo Yi" had to detonate the second neutron torpedo to interfere with the activation of the hyperspace channel.

Bearing the impact of the electromagnetic pulse, "Luo Yi", who was floating in a vacuum, opened his eyes and pressed the button of the jetpack to continue forward.

The neutron plume has a rather limited effect on androids, and it is hardly affected much.

And that's why it didn't hesitate to detonate two neutron torpedoes one after another.

It's just that what it didn't expect was that the prosthetic little mouse who first took a shot of itself and then ate the aftermath of a neutron torpedo explosion didn't actually die.

And that's not all.

The guy even took the opportunity to distance himself from himself.

The electronic warfare intrusion into the shipboard server was only halted for a moment, and soon resumed after the intrusion node was replaced.

Moreover, the new round of attacks is obviously much more powerful than before, and the range of attacks is also wider!

After seizing control of the warp engine and severing the circuitry of the weapon system, the guy reached for the starship's anti-gravity device.

However, her good fortune ended there.

Just now, with the assistance of the Orion's shipboard AI, it has re-locked the data interface used by that guy to launch electronic warfare.

And interestingly, the data interface used by the little mouse was the same landing craft that the Twins fired at the Orion missile cruiser more than 200 years ago.

Even not long before that, "Luo Yi" helped the shipborne AI on the landing craft to restart the reactor of the Orion missile cruiser and complete the invasion of the Orion's shipboard server.

That guy is trying to use their hardware and the same "landing site" as them.

It's so lively.

Facing the corridor like a deep well, "Luo Yi", who was drifting forward, looked at the exoskeleton remains floating through the corridor, and his nerves subconsciously collapsed.

However, the corpse did not attack him, but just floated silently.

Looking at the wreckage, it suddenly opened its mouth as if it remembered something.

“…… Speaking of which, there's one thing I've never been able to figure out. ”

"I'm glad to answer your questions."

A gentle sound drifted into its signal receiving module.

It was Gemini's redesign of the shipboard AI for the friendly ship Orion, and it was also an early version of the "Navigator" AI on the Lagrange Point space station.

"Luo Yi" was silent for a while, and his emotionless pupils were rarely confused.

"The guy we met earlier in the power room, that power engineer...... Why did he cut off the power to the reactor. ”

Regarding this question, the navigator was silent for a long time before he said leisurely.

"yes...... Why? ”

This is not only the confusion of "Luo Yi", but also its biggest confusion in the past 200 years.

215 years ago, at the same time that it successfully breached the firewall and took control of the starship, someone suddenly and manually cut off the power supply to the power room.

Logically speaking, this is impossible.

Even if the neutron plume didn't kill them in an instant, it would incapacitate the entire starship, from the command level to the execution level.

And in the case of isolation, the instinct of man must be to save himself, even if it is a meaningless struggle, he will never think of shutting down any reactor.

Unless......

The guy made that choice without hesitation in that extremely dangerous situation and without any orders.

But why?

Why did he do it?

This is something that the "navigator" has been thinking about for more than 200 years, and has not figured it out.

Whatever you say, though.

History was changed by an inconspicuous little man.

And the "celestials" have waited for another 200 years for this.

"I thought you'd give me an answer."

The navigator said softly.

"Not all questions have answers, maybe because of a flash of inspiration, maybe out of some instinct, you can only say...... History has no ifs. ”

“……”

It seems that even the omniscient navigator has problems that he can't figure out.

"Luo Yi" floated forward wordlessly, towards the dying little mouse.

I don't know if it's an illusion.

It always felt that from the moment the silver-gray research ship crashed into the starship, everything on the starship was working against him and pushing things in directions he had never anticipated.

Including this corridor.

The distance of two hundred meters was even darker and longer than it had imagined.

This was its home, and it came to save them...... But its comrades treated it like an enemy.

Every corpse here seemed to be working against him, like a savagely seaweed growing in the depths of the sea, trying to entangle its oars.

The darkness that could not be reached was like an entrance to the abyss, and there was not a single light to be seen except for the light source emanating from itself.

It's so dark.

It's so dark......

……

"Boom ——!"

The battlefield of 215 years ago.

A deafening explosion swept through every cabin of the USS Orion missile cruiser.

More than 2,700 crew members died instantly, and only 227 survived.

Not long after, there was a widespread power outage and a red alert flashing in various areas.

"Woo——!"

The suffocating alarm was stretched away as the rapidly fading air faded.

However, the remaining 227 crew members did not panic in the slightest.

Before they could even hear the siren, they were already acting as if they had heard the starting pistol when they heard the first explosion.

It's like a million rehearsals.

Faced with the doomed death, they invariably gave up the illusion of saving themselves and living, and accepted their death calmly.

And that's not all.

They also have to use the remaining time to leave the sword to kill the ghosts for the children who break into this tomb 200 years later.

Looking at the hair and dander that fell like a collapsing sand barrier, Lin Youyou, who was sitting in the duty room, smiled self-deprecatingly.

“…… From now on, I'll be the Burning Corps too. ”

Blood oozed from his nostrils, dripping onto the table one after the other.

She felt as if every cell in her body was burning, and life was passing at an almost visible rate......

There is no time to hesitate.

The Grim Reaper's scythe was already around her neck.

Pushing away the chair and standing up, Lin Youyou endured intense pain and held on to the edge of the table, passed past his colleagues who had "fallen asleep", and stumbled into the medicine warehouse with the lights flickering.

She opened the cabinet where the hemostatic gel was kept, grabbed a handful of inventory and took it with her, then hurried out the door and headed towards the area where the explosion had occurred.

Her patient was on that landing craft—

The girl who will arrive on this starship in 200 years!

In that non-existent timeline, she told her personally that she would be cured!

Seeing the red siren light come on, she knew that time was running out, so she turned on the voice recorder in her pocket as she walked forward, and said hurriedly.

"I'm running out of time, so I can only make a long story short, I hope you listen carefully......"

"Method ...... about thawing hemostatic gel"

……

At the same time that Lin Youyou rushed to the scene of the explosion accident, Koala, who was busy in the four repair rooms, finally completed the last work of his life.

It was a robot converted from a maglev repair drone.

The round body has two mechanical arms inserted into it, and it mainly relies on magnetrons for activities, and its appearance is ugly like the graduation project of a college student.

In outer space, where there is no gravity and no air, this is probably the only drone that works.

As for any sweeping robot or something, when the artificial gravity device is turned off, they all have to rest, either sucked out of the starship hull by the huge negative pressure, or stopped in mid-air and unable to move.

Although Koala had also thought about equipping it with some awesome weapons, he had no time to go to the equipment depot to retrieve the combat prosthesis.

All he could do was equip it with ten intelligent bootloaders designed with the help of engineers, guide her to seize control of the warp engine one day more than two hundred years later, and guide her to the starting point of the battle......

It is also the starting point where the two timelines meet.

Looking at the dumbfounded robot, the finished koala grinned and admired it for a while.

“…… I didn't expect the last work in Lao Tzu's life to be such an ugly thing, hehe. ”

The blood gushing from his mouth and nose dripped onto the robot's body, and he subconsciously raised his arm to wipe it, but instead of stopping the blood gushing out, it flowed more and more.

Probably because of the negative pressure.

Knowing that the bleeding could not be stopped, the koala simply ignored it, reached out and patted the robot's round body, leaving the sticky bloody handprints on its body.

"Please, my little koala...... It's too late to give you a nice name. ”

"Anyway, I'll leave it to you......"

Just as he said this, he finally took his last breath.

Looking at the owner who died in front of him, the little koala with a round body moved the camera in front of him slightly, and then went into hibernation as planned and began the long wait.

And this kind of -

That's exactly 215 years!

The raging neutron plume pierced through the sleeping starship, and the long-lost blast shook the sleeping little koala to wake up.

According to the programme, it unplugged the external power supply attached to the body.

Driven by the magnetic force, the round body floated slowly, pushed away the decomposing corpse, left the repair room of the fourth department, and slowly drifted to the site of another crash.

It was the canteen on the lower deck.

As with the message left by its owner, a silver-gray research ship smashed through the decaying steel armor, and the twisted cockpit was embedded in the wall.

Two mechanical arms reached forward, and it ripped open the twisted alloy door and saw the girl in the spacesuit.

At this moment, she was lying on a sleeping pod, her consciousness seemed to be in a coma, her lips moving, as if she was muttering something.

It's pathetic.

Simply like their own hosts.

However, probably because of the prosthetic body that was loaded with a lot of nonsense, the neutron plume that broke out earlier did not kill her.

Under the traction of the magnetic force, the little koala floated to Jiang Xuezhou's side, stretched out his hand and patted her helmet gently, awakening the crumbling consciousness.

"Hey, wake up."

Jiang Xuezhou slowly opened his blurred eyes, and his chapped lips opened and closed.

"Are you...... Who? ”

She couldn't see anything, only a vague sense that someone was standing in front of her.

The round body was stamped with a rusty handprint.

It seemed to be dried blood.

But—

This guy doesn't look like an enemy.

After all, if it were an enemy, it wouldn't wake itself up at all.

The figure standing in front of him pondered for a moment, and after a moment connected to her communication channel.

"Me? My master called me a little koala...... Of course, I should have a better name, but he said he didn't have time to give it to me, and maybe you could do it for him. ”

Koala......

Jiang Xuezhou's eyes widened slightly.

What a familiar name.

She always felt a strong sense of immediacy, as if she had heard it somewhere, but she couldn't remember it at all.

Actually, it's normal not to remember.

Although they had met more than 200 years ago, and had met more than once, in her timeline, their encounter had not happened after all.

At this moment, shortly after the first neutron torpedo exploded, the USS Orion missile cruiser was still firmly parked in the geosynchronous orbit of the Earth.

And it was nearly an hour before she opened the hyperspace channel and entered the superposition state......

"We ...... Have you seen it somewhere? ”

Looking at this confused girl, the little koala made a sound like a metal can bumping.

"Of course, we've seen you, and we'll see you again...... We've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

It knows itself!

Jiang Xuezhou's eyes were completely open.

It's not just the eyes.

She struggled to brace herself and floated slowly from the cold hibernation pod, casting a pleading look at the strange robot.

"Please help me...... Someone is going to kill us, not just us, many people will die......"

The opponent is the "Celestial" who has already controlled the entire starship, and the Burning Corps that assisted her has almost completely been wiped out, and she is almost in a desperate situation - she has even given up.

Unlike what Ye Ten imagined, she was never a very strong person, let alone a strong person.

She was just a talented and well-educated person in her professional field.

She used the only strength she had left to drag the unconscious Yashi into the sleeping pod, not a well-thought-out layout, but just hoping that the "Celestials" would spare Yeten's life for the sake of Yashi being a resident of the Vault.

She knew it was naïve, but she couldn't help but comfort herself.

Even if you survive, it's fine......

And just as she was about to fall into a deep sleep, a life-saving straw suddenly floated in front of her.

And it was this straw that made her suddenly realize that she was not alone, and the desire to survive was rekindled in her heart.

It's not over yet.

She's not dead yet!

He's too......

Looking at the girl floating from the sleeping pod, the little koala gently tapped her round body and said in a gentle electronic voice.

"I'm here to help you."

With that, it spun around and held out a mechanical hand to her.

"Grab it and follow me......"

"Before the demons catch you."

……

The race against the ghosts began.

It will be a relay that spans two centuries, and the runner from 215 years later has already taken over the first baton of this relay from 227 comrades.

Holding the little koala's manipulator, Jiang Xuezhou followed closely behind it, shuttling through the dark corridor like a deep well.

Not sure why.

She's obviously a person who is afraid of the dark.

Especially this claustrophobic and narrow darkness, just staying in it can scare her to move her legs, not to mention that there is a demon with a knife hidden in this starship.

However, at this moment, she unexpectedly did not have the slightest fear in her heart, and even allowed the guy who called herself a little koala to lead her to the unknown future.

It was the first time she had stepped into this tomb, but she had a sense of immediacy that she had been there a long, long time ago.

That's what it is...... What is called "perception"?

In the past, Night Ten always bragged to her, saying that he could foresee the danger that was coming.

She had always been skeptical of things that could not be explained by science, but now this doubt could not help but waver.

Maybe it's not that science can't explain it, it's just that existing theories can't cover it......

Like now.

Her intuition told her that the "new theory" was in front of her.

Just as she was pondering the mystery, the little koala who was leading the way in front of her suddenly seemed to remember something, and said in a gentle voice.

"If you're scared, you can tell me, my master has prepared a few songs for you."

“…… Don't do it, it's scary to suddenly play music at this time. Jiang Xuezhou shrunk his neck and said.

"Is that so? Oh well, it looks like my master did a superfluous thing. ”

Looking at the round metal body, Jiang Xuezhou nervously asked the question that had been held in his heart for a long time.

"We ...... Where is this going? ”

Little Koala said in a gentle voice.

"Go to the nearest data port, I need you to hack into the starship's warp engine."

"Hack, hack into this starship's warp engine?!" Jiang Xuezhou's eyes widened, "Your master...... Is it serious?! ”

This is the missile cruiser of the People's Union!

Although she had dug up the ancestral graves of some of the Aerospace Forces, hacking into the warp engine of a missile cruiser was somewhat whimsical.

As if to guess that she would be surprised, the little koala in front smiled gently.

"Don't worry, we have a surprise for our opponents on the warp engine...... Rest assured, the start coordinates and destination coordinates of the hyperspace channel have been calculated, the key has been inserted into the keyhole, you only need to twist it slightly, I believe it will not be difficult for you. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Xuezhou finally breathed a sigh of relief and muttered in a low voice.

"Thank you...... You're still weird and sweet. ”

The little koala let out a metallic laugh like a distorted wind chime.

"You're welcome."

"My master said...... We can't leave our children alone to face the ghosts of the old times. ”

……

As the little koala had said, its owner and his comrades had everything ready, and all she had to do was hold the key that had been inserted in the keyhole and twist it gently.

With a tremor like shaking mountains, the starship, which had been sleeping for two centuries, was like a dragon awakened, letting out a silent roar in the endless starry sky.

Everything went as planned.

However, just when Jiang Xuezhou was about to disconnect from the data interface, "Luo Yi" finally found her and emptied the magazine towards her.

Fighting broke out between the two sides in the narrow corridors.

Although Orion's space combat team left a lot of equipment near the data interface, it was a pity that Jiang Xuezhou was still not the opponent of "Luo Yi" and was shot in the abdomen.

And a guy with a round body is not a combat robot, he can only drive the magnetron to drag the surrounding metal wreckage and smash it towards Luo Yi, covering Jiang Xuezhou, who was shot, and evacuated the scene.

Maybe that's what fate is all about.

Its owner didn't tell it what was going to happen in the future, and it didn't know she was going to get shot.

Before being grabbed by Luo Yi's head, it passed the map to the gym on the lower deck to the little girl who managed to escape.

It was the scene of an accident where the landing craft of the Twin collided with the cruiser Orion.

There was a hibernation pod, along with the last working data port.

And that's not all.

That was also the data interface that had broken through the starship's onboard server firewall!

She will use this sword stuck in her heart that has not yet been drawn to complete the final blow to the ghost that hovers this tomb!

Just now, when she invaded the warp engine with the help of the data interface, the data packets that broke through the firewall had been uploaded to the bionic chip in her brain through the cache server in the warp engine control room.

"The engine has started...... Follow the AR guidance path to the coordinates on the map, where there is a landing craft with a sleeping pod in the cockpit of the landing craft......"

Sealing the breach of the spacesuit with emergency tape, Jiang Xuezhou struggled through the half-hidden hatch.

Hearing the voice in the communication channel, she didn't have time to care about the situation of the little koala, and hurriedly asked.

"What's next...... What else do I need to do?! ”

A clanging sound came down the bulkhead, followed by an intermittent sound in the communication channel.

"Lie down...... Plug the data cable into the brain-computer interface...... Then nothing needs to be done, and we'll take care of the rest...... That's it. ”

Jiang Xuezhou asked blankly.

“…… To...... You guys? ”

Is there anyone else here?

An intermittent but unwavering answer came from the communication channel.

"Yes...... Trust us...... We won't leave you alone to face the most brutal of the future. ”

That was the last piece of information it left in this world.

After sleeping in the icy tomb for more than two hundred years, it finally fulfilled the mission given to him by its master.

"Why?!"

"Luo Yi", who broke free from the blockade of the wreckage, let out a roar and reached out to grab the little koala's head.

It ripped off the ridiculously crude camera and sensors, then swung the titanium blade in its hand, slicing the old robot in two.

It let out a hoarse roar as it looked at the garbage that melted into the wreckage.

"Why go against me! Why!!! ”

Because of these idiots, they have been tormented in the dark for 200 years!

And now these cold dead people have to stop them!

This is not just the roar of "Luo Yi".

It is also the roar of the "navigator", and even all the "celestials"!

However, their roar did not stop the bullet that had been fired 200 years earlier.

In the end, the warp engine was recharged.

The intelligent viruses embedded in the ship's servers are helpless against the engines that have already been activated, and can only watch as the hyperspace shipping lanes open again after two centuries.

And "Luo Yi" pinned his hopes on the second neutron torpedo being loaded.

The missile more than a dozen meters long broke away from the launcher.

In a dazzling light, the scorching neutron plume was released in an instant!

Almost at the same time, a silent roar tore through time and space, and thousands of rays of light converged into a point so small that it was almost invisible, carrying a huge mass through the space in an instant.

Standing on Earth and looking at the synchronous orbit, the kilometer-long starship seemed to disappear out of thin air, and in an instant, it leaped towards the second south gate five light years away.

And not long ago, Jiang Xuezhou, who was lying in the sleeping cabin, looked at the hatch that was gradually closing, and slowly closed his eyes.

By the time the middle plume swept over her, she had completely fallen into hypothermia.

Polymer proteins maintain maximum structural stability under ultra-low temperature freezing, which reduces the damage of neutron plumes to organisms to a certain extent.

Her consciousness sank into a deep sleep.

However, the bionic chip in her brain did not stop working.

A thin data cable was attached to her neck, slowly directing the data from the chip into the hibernation pod, which used it as a springboard to spread to the Twins' landing craft, and infiltrate the Orion's shipboard servers through the bridge built by the latter to invade the Orion.

Two parallel timelines intersect at this moment, and the vast flow of information is exchanged in the form of resonance between two unrelated superimpositions.

In terms of space and time, they did not have direct contact and could not have met.

But the series of choices they made with determination and unhesitation were as if they had been agreed.

That's an appointment.

Because they all believe in ......

……

Time goes back 215 years.

As the last bit of energy was depleted, the red siren lights stopped flashing, and the entire starship was quiet as if it were dead.

Dragging his increasingly heavy body, Luo Yi, who was wearing power armor, dismantled the twisted hatch and dragged the dormant cabin into the empty cockpit alone.

Not surprisingly, he was probably the longest-surviving of the 227 survivors.

Perhaps because of the large number of prosthetics installed, the neutron plume was not as lethal to him as he thought, so that he actually lived for so long.

However, his side is almost at the end of the day.

As Dr. Wu said, there was no one in the landing craft, not even a chair.

The crew of the Twins had abandoned their bodies long before they attacked, becoming a different being.

Yes.

They have long been "celestials".

It won't be long before the rest of the Lagrange Station will become similar.

And what happened after that was probably the "history" that the child told him.

I didn't expect that I, a dying person, would know so many things that I would never have known.

So, did you actually earn it?

Looking at the sleeping pod lying in the cockpit, Luo Yi grinned and exhaled a turbid breath that did not have much temperature left.

This is probably the last brick.

They've done everything they can, and the rest is left to the children who will step into this grave 215 years later.

Just when Luo Yi was about to find a place to sit down and wait quietly for death to come, he suddenly remembered something.

Not right-

One last thing is missing.

"If it's 'me'...... Definitely won't leave me alone, hehe. ”

Thinking of this, he stood up again and floated out holding on to the open hatch.

If it were "me", I would definitely try to find my body for the sake of the so-called sense of identity.

If that guy had found it and seen the hibernation pod, their plan would have gone wrong......

To put it simply, he had to find an easy place to die.

In order to avoid complications, Luo Yi returned to the duty room, closed the hatch, took off the power armor, and then climbed into the emergency ejection of the dormant pod and lay down.

This kind of emergency hibernation pod powered by chemical energy batteries can sleep for about fifty years, but with his current physical condition with half a breath left, he will wake up in fifty years, and he will have to wait for death, or even not wake up at all.

At this point, the wasteland guests are still solid, and all prosthetic bodies are loaded on their bodies, although some flesh and blood are abandoned, but they have become more "durable".

He suddenly admired the kid a little.

The bloodshot eyeballs were gradually unable to see clearly, and Luo Yi, who was lying in the dormant cabin, held the armor card tightly in his hand, and finally swallowed his last breath.

"Please—"

"Stop another 'me'!"

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