"I didn't expect this trouble to be solved like this."

Dawning City, Vault 404's browsing room.

Chu Guang, who was sitting on the sofa, was scrolling through the posts on the official website, his face was half surprised, half relieved.

After all, just a few hours ago, he saw the news from the official website that the Burning Corps was completely wiped out by a neutron torpedo.

As a result, he didn't wait for a few hours, and when he opened the official website forum again, the post in the forum had already become "Night Ten Brother Awesome".

One thing to say, this kid is really awesome.

Not only did he save all mankind, but he also snatched the "Orion" missile cruiser back from the hands of the celestials.

Although the starship was driven five light years away, and the remaining fuel was suspected to be unable to come back, Chu Guang believed that there would always be a way.

Isn't there another Gemini there?

It's a big deal to drive that starship back!

The showdown between the Wasteland Survivors and the Celestials and the Enlightenment is still in the process of being prepared.

Chu Guang is not in a hurry at all, it is the other side that should be anxious at this moment.

A new order has been established, and the old order is destined to sink into the ground over time.

For the Alliance, the longer the time drags on, the more power the integrated survivors have, and the better the odds will be.

The above is where Chu Guang was surprised.

As for the relief.

Naturally, this kid actually opened up.

It's not easy.

Looking at the blessings in the post, the corners of Chu Guang's mouth couldn't help but curl up with a faint smile.

As a father who has to be greeted by players every day, he is naturally blessed in his heart.

That girl is a good girl.

Cherish it.

Xiao Qi, who was sitting in the pen holder, supported his cheeks with both hands, swayed his calves, and his face was also relieved and emotional.

"I didn't expect the most unrelieved guy to become mature, is this what it's like to be a parent? Congratulations, congratulations. ”

Looking at the little guy sitting on the pen holder shaking his head, Chu Guang couldn't help but laugh and tease.

"You've only known him for a few years, what a lot of fun."

Hearing this, Xiao Qi suddenly shouted and protested unhappily.

"What do you mean by joining in the fun, Xiaoqi is also watching the players grow up!"

"Haha, yes, yes."

Chu Guang smiled and touched the little guy's head without arguing with it.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with saying this, it is indeed Xiao Qi who has always helped him keep an eye on his little players, and thanks to Xiao Qi acting as a customer service and GM, the friction between players and wasteland customers has been avoided.

"It's been hard work."

Hearing Chu Guang's praise, the corners of Xiao Qi's mouth, which was originally unhappy, suddenly rose proudly.

After enjoying the stroke above its head for a while, it suddenly spoke as if it remembered something.

"By the way, master, now that the trouble with the Orion missile cruiser has been solved, do we still have to continue to do it with our near-orbit defense platform?"

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"Of course you have to do it, and the two things don't conflict."

Xiao Qi tilted his head.

"But I've heard that that defensive platform doesn't seem to have offensive capabilities, right?"

Chu Guang continued.

"That's true, but the most taboo thing about strategic decision-making is to change the day, and besides, we didn't make this deployment entirely to deal with the threat of the Orion."

The greatest significance of the near-orbit defense platform is actually a substitute for space junk in outer space.

Survivors in the wasteland can't live forever under the protection of space junk, and besides, that thing doesn't protect it at all, it's more of a nuisance in every way.

After activating the gravity well, the alliance will use the near-orbit defense platform to control the low-earth orbit and the synchronous orbit in an orderly manner, and at the same time respond to threats in outer space, it can also be used as a "mobile weapon station" to monitor threats on the ground.

This is something that can only be done in the face of a "celestial crisis".

At any other time, even a hardcore ally of the Alliance would not be able to support the Alliance in doing this.

On the other hand, the near-orbit defense platform can also activate the space industry of the Alliance.

It is a long-term process for an industry to form a scale and mature from its birth, and it cannot just pop up out of thin air with a click of a mouse.

Since the current momentum of development is good, Chu Guang is of course more inclined to let it continue to develop.

Even if this defense system is not useful in the end, it can also drive the alliance's related industrial chain to accumulate experience, and at the same time, it can also make the "vertical casting well" that has been dormant for more than a century work again.

This is not only for the current layout, but also to lay the foundation for the future.

After listening to Chu Guang's words, Xiao Qi nodded as if he didn't understand.

"Well, since you've already decided, then Xiao Qi won't say anything...... By the way, what about the starship that is trapped five light years away? Your players seem to be stuck there. ”

Chu Guang smiled.

"We don't need to worry about that kind of thing, I'm sure he can solve it himself!"

Five light-years was too far away, far beyond his control.

If Night Ten could drive that starship back, he would be able to find a way to get the academy to send a research ship to pick them up.

If he can't drive back, there really isn't much he can do.

The number of songs engine is not something that can be made with technology.

With the current level of production of the Alliance, it is already necessary to use the strength to reproduce the most basic anti-gravity device......

……

Just when Chu Guang was preparing for the future of the alliance, Ye Shi, who had put on his helmet again, also hurriedly returned to the line.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a bright light around him.

He was still lying in that gym, but Jiang Xuezhou was nowhere to be found.

He suddenly became anxious, opened the wide-area communication channel and shouted.

"Snow Continent! Where are you?! ”

As he spoke, he was about to get up from the ground, but he heard a stumbling electronic sound behind him.

"Are you awake?"

Night Eleven Ghost turned around and saw a robot with a round body standing behind him.

"Who are you?"

"Me?"

The robot pointed to itself and said in a not-so-smart voice, "My name is Little Koala, and my new master said I was waiting for you here." ”

Hearing this name, Ye Shi was dumbfounded.

"Koalas? You...... You're alive?! ”

It's a name he doesn't know too much!

The engineer of the fourth department, who can't stop talking, although he always looks like he's afraid of trouble, is actually a guy who likes to worry about others!

The round robot moved the camera and said in a tinkling metallic voice.

"It's a shame that my memory memory and main circuit board are still good, that android only destroyed my power parts, and my new owner didn't have much effort to replace me with a new ...... Well, but my emotion sensor tells me that you might be mistaking me for someone you remember. ”

The index finger pressed his temple, and Ye Shi took a deep breath and tried to clear his mind.

"I kind of get it...... Your master's name is Koala, isn't it? He designed you and then made you wait here for us. ”

Little Koala said thoughtfully.

"Koala? He didn't have time to tell me his name or who he was waiting for. But after seeing you, I understood that you were the ones I was waiting for...... So, I don't think you're wrong. ”

After a pause, it continued.

"Is he also called Koala? So what exactly is a koala? I think there should be something else to the word. ”

Sure enough, it was that guy.

Looking at this robot with a round belly, Ye Shi felt both nostalgic and sad, both relieved and sad, like knocking over a table of spice bottles, and couldn't tell what it tasted like.

He wanted to cry a little, but he couldn't.

Since he was a child, his father and mother have told him that men don't flick when they have tears, and he has always been like this, holding everything alone.

"You seem to be a little upset." The little koala looked at him and reached out and touched his head, "Is this better?" ”

“…… Thanks, much better. ”

Looking at Night Ten, who seemed to be better, the little koala politely clicked the camera and finally pointed to the side.

"You're welcome, I learned it all from my new master."

Night Ten looked at the door of the room in the direction it was pointing, and saw a round helmet that had been pestled there at some point.

Although he couldn't see her face under the helmet clearly through the pitch-black mask, Ye Shi still recognized her at a glance just by her temperament, so she said in surprise.

"Why did you change your coat?"

The original extravehicular exoskeleton was replaced by her with a thick spacesuit.

The round helmet, lacquered black UV-blocking mask, and an air pack on the back look a bit like the 21st century.

"The ...... before"

Jiang Xuezhou bit his lip lightly, twisted for a while and didn't speak, and finally whispered embarrassedly.

“…… All in all, don't look at me until I'm well. ”

People are all face-giving.

Especially in front of your sweetheart.

It has nothing to do with low self-esteem, she just wants to keep her best side in his eyes, not the scarred look she is now.

Looking at Xiao Jiang, who was injured and still thinking about himself, Ye Shi's eyes were full of emotion.

"It's okay, I'm not ......"

He was just about to say this, but when he thought of what had happened before, he held back again.

But maybe because of the good mood, Jiang Xuezhou didn't bother with him this time, but just whispered.

"When you were 'offline' and the others reported their safety, I repaired the little koala, and then went back to our previous research ship to take a look, although the situation is not very optimistic, but the supplies are still there...... If two people eat, it is enough to eat for half a year. ”

"In addition, there are a lot of food reserves in this starship...... In particular, fresh water, compressed biscuits, freeze-dried food, and canned food, although the expiration date has long passed, there is no problem if you eat it, and if you can't eat it, you can also use the organic matter recovery device to make a nutritional paste. ”

Ye Shi breathed a sigh of relief and quipped.

"At least don't worry about starving and dying of thirst."

Jiang Xuezhou nodded and continued.

"In addition to the supplies, I also took a look at the repair room of the engineering and maintenance department on the lower deck, where the cabin was relatively structurally intact and had a sealed partition from the main cabin...... I'll see if I can make a simple buffer cabin with the tools there, so we can solve the air pressure and air problems. ”

It's not realistic to repair a starship with the strength of two people, but it's okay to get a makeshift space shelter on the spot.

This is also a compulsory course for fellows of the Academy.

Although she used to feel that this class was simply redundant, now she is only glad that she did not fish at that time and listened carefully to every class.

"I'm here to help, too." After listening to Jiang Xuezhou's plan, Ye Shi raised his hand with great interest.

Although it was not appropriate to say this at this time, he still wanted to say that it sounded strangely interesting.

It's like playing hypoxia.

Jiang Xuezhou didn't know what strange things he was thinking, so he just nodded slightly.

"Hmmm! When the time comes, it will definitely trouble you, and I can't do that kind of physical work alone. I'll pass on the design to you in a moment, but for now, let's go to dinner first...... I'm a little hungry. ”

To be precise, her stomach was already growling with hunger.

When she entered the wreckage of the Orion missile cruiser before, she only ate some liquid food, and a whole lot of things happened after the hard landing of the research ship.

Ye Shi jumped up from the ground, followed Jiang Xuezhou with the little koala, and walked into the brightly lit corridor.

It can be seen that Jiang Xuezhou is really afraid of the dark, and he always feels that this light is turned on brighter than what he saw 215 years ago.

It is worth mentioning that although the two of them are currently facing a severe energy shortage, compared to the energy consumed by a hyperspace jump, this little lighting electricity can only be said to be a drop in the dime, no matter whether they can go back or not.

So even at night ten, he didn't raise the bar, why didn't he turn off the reactor to save power.

The little electricity saved is not as good as the energy consumed by the reactor once it is switched off.

Holding a silver tray with a few compressed biscuits and two packets of liquid food on the ground, Jiang Xuezhou said with a little embarrassment.

"I got some food casually, don't dislike it."

"How so."

Grabbing a piece of compressed biscuit, tearing it open the package, Ye Shi stuffed it into his mouth and said as he chewed.

"As long as I can eat enough, I'm not a picky eater."

Although he had eaten it offline just now, his stomach was still empty online.

Looking at Ye Shi, who was gobbling up, Jiang Xuezhou couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of his mouth.

This guy eats too, just like a piglet.

Thinking so happily, she couldn't help but feel the urge to learn how to cook.

Thinking that he was gobbling up the delicious food he made, Jiang Xuezhou took small bites of the biscuits.

The emergency food, which had no taste, became delicious because of the appearance of the meal.

Three times five divided by two to solve a meal, night ten simply cleaned up the garbage, packed up.

Taking advantage of the rest, Jiang Xuezhou designed the drawings of the temporary buffer cabin according to the photos of the repair room taken in advance.

However, the two did not start construction immediately, but went to the bridge on the upper deck first.

There are star map coordinates of this new ship.

They first had to figure out their specific location at the South Gate 2 and the location of the twin missile cruisers before they could figure out how to go home.

As he walked on the way to the bridge, Ye Shi suddenly thought of something and spoke.

"By the way, what about the replica named Luo Yi? I didn't seem to see it when I woke up. ”

Jiang Xuezhou whispered.

"I took the parts off and recycled them, and as for the data on the motherboard...... It removed itself. ”

“…… Deleted it yourself? Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly, "Will this be a fraud?" ”

"Basically, it's not possible, I've checked it, and it's erased all traces of its existence, and it's completely disappeared from this world as if it hadn't been......"

Looking at Ye Shi, who had a surprised expression, Jiang Xuezhou continued with a complicated expression.

"Tianren created it with the data in the server backup, giving it the identity of 'Luo Yi', but not giving it any memory of 'Luo Yi'."

"It has always lived as 'Sergeant Luo Yi', but one day it suddenly found out that it was a fake."

"It's not even just yourself, it's your own ideals and goals...... It finds that every proof of its existence, even of existence itself, is contrary to what it originally believed. ”

"Isn't that a contradiction," Yashi tried to understand, shaking his head and said, "Actually, I don't understand, why would the celestials make such a complicated thing, wouldn't it be good to make a robot?" ”

"Pure robots are not capable of autonomous behavior, and unless they communicate in real time, it is difficult to independently handle tasks that are complex and require subjective decision-making. And ......"

Jiang Xuezhou paused for a moment and continued.

"Maybe they don't really believe in the procedure, and they don't fully agree with their identity, but they just regard the 'celestial man' as a means to save the country."

Ye Shi was stunned.

"This ...... How to save the country by curves? ”

Jiang Xuezhou said in a chatty tone.

"Become a celestial, restart civilization, and then turn back into a human...... My understanding is that they are ultimately trying to change back, not to become another being like the lunatics of the Torch Church. So for them, you Vault dwellers are indispensable, but we wastelanders are redundant. ”

"Of course, this is just my speculation based on limited clues, and maybe they didn't actually design the last part of the plan I'm talking about. That is, they don't care if they can become adults again, they just want people to live according to their ideas all the time...... And they serve as custodians of all mankind. ”

"But in either case, intellectual plug-ins are a must, otherwise they will leave behind a dead thing, which may not be what they expect."

Ye Shi couldn't help but complain.

"But isn't this still a dead thing? Dead machines replaced with dead minds? Two hundred years have passed, how can people continue to live in the same way as before. ”

Even the tyrants of the Borneo kingdom are not static, they are always with the times.

For example, the order of heaven is changed to the command of the family, for example, the king of heaven is changed to the head of the family.

Jiang Xuezhou made a helpless expression and shrugged his shoulders slightly.

"You're right, but victory never fell from the sky on its own, and I'm sure they have their own set of reasons to convince themselves, like the lunatics of the Torch Church...... In short, let's think about how to solve the problem at hand. ”

At least for the two of them at the moment, driving this starship back is the first thing to consider.

100,000 neutron torpedoes.

If the starship could be driven back, even if the space station at the Lagrange point was full of electronic ghosts, it would be enough to bomb them to slag along with the station itself.

Boarding the elevator to the bridge, rows of dusty floor-to-ceiling windows caught the eyes of the two.

Through the transparent gray wall, he saw a dazzling fireball hanging alone in the night.

The dazzling light seemed to come from the end of the universe, opening up a colorful halo on the dusty floor-to-ceiling windows.

At this moment the bridge is facing the direction of the star.

"How come there is only one star?" Attracted by the magnificent scenery, Yeten's gaze was completely glued to the window.

Jiang Xuezhou on the side was also attracted by this beautiful scenery, but he didn't make a fuss like Ye Shi, just glanced at it twice and walked to the terminal on the side, opened the holographic screen and operated.

“…… Because those two stars are so close together, standing in our current position looks like a sun, and you can see it clearly with a specialized telescope. ”

"Isn't it a triple star system? And what about a star? Ye Shi couldn't help but continue to ask.

Jiang Xuezhou sighed and explained patiently.

"What you see now is South Gate 2A and South Gate 2B, as for the Proxima Centauri you mentioned, it is too far away from us to point it out to you now."

It's not just astronomical scales far away.

It was still a red dwarf, very dim, and basically invisible in this strong light environment.

Ye Shi nodded blankly, his eyes staring straight out of the window and unable to move away.

Let's be honest.

Although it was not the same as the South Gate II he imagined, this gorgeous starry sky really shocked him.

It's a view that you can't see on Earth.

For a moment, he couldn't help but have an inexplicable thought in his heart-

Will this be the case in the real South Gate II?

If that's the case, this game might not have been made by aliens.

"Found it, fortunately, our navigation equipment is still working normally, and our current position is the ...... of the third planet revolving around the AB main-sequence star."

When he said this, Jiang Xuezhou's face suddenly turned pale.

Noticing the change in the tone of the voice, Ye Shi, who was still immersed in the beautiful scenery a second ago, quickly looked away from the window and walked to Jiang Xuezhou's side.

"Any questions?"

Jiang Xuezhou's face was pale, and his lips trembled and opened and closed.

"It's Gaia......"

The moment he heard this word, Ye Shi was stunned on the spot.

"Gaia? You mean...... That colonial planet in the era of the Human Union? ”

Jiang Xuezhou nodded with a pale face.

"Hmmm......"

Night Eleven instantly held his breath, his face was half surprised, half surprised, and he only felt awesome in his heart, but he was not afraid.

Boy.

This new map is awesome!

Truth be told, he didn't know what she was afraid of.

No matter how awesome Gaia is, it's impossible to put her hand on the synchronous orbit, right?

Placing his hand on her shoulder, he said in a gentle and reassuring tone.

"Don't worry, it's far away."

The shoulders trembled slightly, as if somewhat calmed by his comfort.

But only slightly.

After a long time, the voice of despair drifted through the communication channel.

"I know, but the wreckage of the Twins is not near us, and I searched around with radar and couldn't find it......"

"There's only one possibility, either it fell on its own, or it got something down."

"We can't make a trip......"

……

(Thanks to the alliance leaders of "Like the Moon in the Abyss" and "White Firmament" for their rewards!! ）