Wang Teng, who claims to be the king of mercenaries, also claims to be a man who crawled out of hell.

In the eyes of the player, he is one of the top bosses in the mid-to-late game, with his own fortress and map in the wilderness, and the maps around his fortress are full of high-level monsters.

He traveled thousands of miles from Starfish City to Coral City in order to get rid of Su Xia and step on Su Xia's name to take his own reputation to a new level.

Now he's in a mercenary town outside of Coral City, and he's called out on the radio every day.

But Su Xia never ignored him.

Without an absolute chance of winning, Su Xia would not take that risk.

"Hell Battlefield, a simulated battle platform?"

"Yes, your guess is accurate." Hal replied: "You can choose individual ring battles, group battles, mecha battles, battleship battles, etc., the environment is also free to choose, and many classic battles are saved in the system,"

"Got it, take me around here first."

Su Xia realized that he needed to start studying, and he still had a copy of "Spaceship Operation: 21 Days from Initiation to Ascension" in his hand.

It would be nice if we could defeat the Autonmen in the future, establish a stable Terran regime on this planet, and find a way to go to space and travel for a while.

Anyway, the body on the other side of the earth is safe, and you can wave freely in the game.

This ship, before it crashed, was much better than Dr. Agar's spaceship that Susha had seen in his hallucinations.

The Doctor's ship, which has not even solved the basic gravity problem, must descend on a civilized planet every once in a while to recuperate.

At the thought of Dr. Agar, Susha unconsciously recalled the headache and said to Hal, "Tell me about the hallucinations again." ”

"Okay, please come with me." Hal led the way, saying as he walked, "There is a limit to the ability of living creatures, and living in a cramped and confined environment for a long time is very likely to have psychological problems, and hallucinations are one of them, and they are also the most common. ”

With that, Hal led Susha to the door of this chamber and opened the hatch that connected to the other chamber.

As the hatch opened, a peculiar smell of gas leaked out of the crack in the hatch, which made Su Xia frown and take two steps back.

Hal continued: "According to the records, some of the hallucinations are related to loved ones. ”

Su Xia asked, "Is it because I miss my relatives?" ”

"Yes, you should also know that time is only artificially defined, and on this planet, a sunset and sunrise takes 24 hours, and on the rest of the planets, it may be 23 hours or 25 hours.

"During the long journey, the crew's habits and daily perceptions will be changed, and it is normal to miss their loved ones, many of them have seen their relatives in hallucinations, or heard the call of their relatives, and some even made dangerous moves because of this, such as forcing the ship to return.

"After all, the starry sky is too vast, and the spaceship is like a lonely boat on the vast sea, and relatives are the only anchor points for the crew......"

Howl's red dot flashed, he was very intelligent, and he was a good docent.

As the hatch opened, he slowly floated forward, into the second cabin.

Su Xia followed and stepped into the door.

The lights in the cabin came on one by one, this time not dark red, but blue-purple.

Su Xia asked again, "What about other than relatives?" ”

Hal replied, "Other than that, many of the remaining hallucinations are related to some horror or religious images. ”

Su Xia was a little more energetic: "Tell me more." ”

"One of the ship's cool-dissipating engineers had hallucinations." "He was standing by the porthole of the living pod and saw an angel he had often dreamed of in his childhood smiling at him outside the window. ”

"Is there a prototype of that angel?"

"Yes, in his hometown community, there are many elderly people who believe in angels, and there are statues of angels in the community center."

"Oh......"

Hearing this description, Su Xia's heart moved, and he suddenly thought of an event on the other side of the earth.

The "Salyut VII" incident of the former SU Union is particularly famous, and basically anyone who likes the aerospace or interstellar science fiction genre has heard of this name.

At that time, the main radio transmitter of the Salyut 7 space station was suddenly turned off, and the ground control center issued a restart command to no avail, and the entire space station became a kite with a broken line, and the ground knew nothing about it.

When the two cosmonauts responsible for repairing the space station were sent into space, it was discovered that the space station was not only off orbit, but also rotating at high speed, and then cosmonaut Janibekov manually controlled the spacecraft and achieved a miraculous docking with the space station rotating and moving at high speed.

However, what made Salyut 7 famous was not only this docking, but also strange and mysterious sightings.

On the Salyut-7, former SU United astronauts had witnessed giant angels.

According to the astronauts' later recollections, not only was the angel smiling at them, but the whole scene also gave them a sense of comfort and peace, and there was not just one angel at the time, at least seven.

Not long after that, the angelic vision reappeared.

Many people believe that it is an illusion produced by astronauts in a stressful and high-pressure environment, or a strange light produced by some cosmic rays when they hit the human retina.

A few years ago, the film "Space Rescue" based on the Salyut Seven incident on the Mao Bear side used a vague way to express this strange sighting.

Su Xia shook her head, put this matter behind her, and asked Hal again: "Will these hallucinations be accompanied by headaches or discomfort in other body parts?" ”

"Yes, headaches, tinnitus, nausea, etc., many members have experienced similar conditions."

Hearing this answer, Su Xia nodded slightly, and her heart gradually became much clearer.

In Dr. Agar's notes, he often saw descriptions of the "Creator."

The Doctor believed that he had received the will of the Creator, which is why he later became obsessed with the study of various forbidden creatures, trying to create creatures close to the gods.

However, it is estimated that there is no such thing as a creator at all, and everything is just a doctor's hallucination.

"Captain, the cabin you are here in is part of what was once a breeding pod, where a large number of plant seeds are stored." Seeing that Susha didn't continue to ask questions, Hal began to explain the situation of their location.

This cabin was much larger than the previous one, and there were broken training equipment everywhere on the ground, as well as a large number of seeds that had long been deformed and shriveled.

Fortunately, the shelves and cabinets in the cabin were fixed, and the impact of the tumbling and impact during the crash was relatively small, and some of the cabinets still had things from more than 20 years ago intact.

When Su Xia opened a cabinet, he found several bags of intact plant nutrient solution.

This thing has no strategic value at the moment, and can only be used when cultivating some flowers and plants at the doorstep, and when growing crops in space or on other planets in the future.

Hal slowly floated to the hatch in front of him and said, "Captain, the next cabin is the same as the previous one, it is also a living area, but it is not a training area, but a daily dining place for the members. ”

"Why is there a training pod between the cabins of the two living quarters?"

"In order to let the members see a little green in their daily lives." Hal explains, "Flowers and animals are good for helping the members to soothe their minds. ”

"Well, that makes sense."

Su Xia thought for a moment and asked, "So are there any animals on the ship?" ”

"Yes, the former captain raised a rabbit and was very popular with the crew, but later he got stuck in his throat and suffocated to death while eating chicken."

With that, Hal opened the door to the next cabin.

Again, a foul smell leaked through the crack in the door.

Inside is one of the ship's dining rooms, it doesn't look big, the dining tables, chairs and stools are fixed, and the switch below can only be moved by turning the switch below, the ground below is silver-gray, and overhead are countless complex lines and pipes, one by one the lines that have long been broken are hanging in the cabin.

There are more portholes around, perhaps so that the crew can enjoy the beauty of the universe outside while dining, but in reality, the deep space outside the portholes is pitch black most of the time.

Hal floated to the right of the dining room, to the side of a silver fixed cuboid machine, activating it, which shuddered and a gray-white object erupted from the exit below it.

"Captain, this is an energy bar, although it doesn't look very good, but according to the rest of the crew, it tastes apple-flavored, and it tastes very good."

"Indeed...... Not so good. ”

Su Xia twitched his nose, although more than twenty years had passed, he really smelled the fragrance of apples.

This is a thing that crew members often eat during their long space journeys, and it contains most of the nutrients that the human body needs.

But it's also torture to eat it regularly, so there's a variety of delicious soft cans and rehydrated drinks on board.

In the cabinet under this machine, Susha found two complete cans of medium wine, each bottle of 500ml, which was contained in a special metal container, so it was saved in the crash.

It's alien wine.

Su Xia didn't think about it, she put it away directly, and took it out when there were important guests in the future.

"By the way, what happened to you in the first place?" He asked Hal, "Is there any other ship other than this ship that could have crashed on this planet?" ”

"Probably not, this galaxy is very remote, and probably no one has visited it before."

Howl's red dot flickered, as if he was reminiscing about the past.

He said of the events before the crash: "This exploration ship once belonged to a star field ruled by mechanical creatures, so the activation key was in the shape of a mechanical core, and later came to the empire in trade, and was bought by a private research institute funded by the Hastings family, and became a member of the institute's vast exploration fleet......"

"And what is an empire?"

"It's complicated, if the captain wants to understand the division of forces in the starry sky, I have a documentary here, you can take a closer look when you have time, it will take about 120 hours to watch, and you will be able to basically understand the situation outside after watching it."

"Okay."

Su Xia didn't ask any more, he didn't have 120 hours to waste now.

"After the modification, the exploration ship set off with the fleet and was later attacked by the enemy," Hal said. ”

"The enemy is strong?"

"Yes, we don't even see where the enemy is."

"Why?"

"Because we haven't been able to resist even the most basic."

Hal described the situation to Susha.

The exploration ship was inconspicuous in the entire fleet, on the edge of the fleet, so it escaped the first blow.

"At that time, we entered the Verne star field through the jump point, intending to investigate some of the galaxies at the edge of the star field first, but before we reached our destination, a huge particle stream suddenly shot out, and nine-tenths of the battleships in the fleet disappeared after the particle flow."

"Wasn't this stream of particles observed beforehand?"

"That's the problem." Hal replied, "Nothing had been observed beforehand, everything was fine...... At least that's what the members in charge of the task said at the time. ”

"And you ran away?"

"Yes, because the enemy is too strong, it is very likely to be one of the forces of deep space destruction, and they will do it to the fleet, not for resources, but for destruction."

"Just for destruction?" Su Xia's heart moved slightly, "There is still this kind of power? ”

"Yes, there are many strange people and forces in the deep space."

Since Susha hadn't seen the 120-hour documentary, Hal couldn't explain it to him.

He simply said, "There are those who firmly believe that the world was created by the Creator and go mad every day to carry out the will of the Creator...... There are also people who are more extreme, who think that everything is nothing, that everything is false, that it is a game or paradise created by a higher civilization, and that if you destroy everything, you can return to the truth. ”

"Are there many of them?"

"Many, staggeringly numerous, even many of the researchers and scientists in the Empire who once believed in the reality of the world have since become members of the forces of destruction, and I don't know why they made that change."

Hearing this, Susha thought of Dr. Agar again.

What would the Creator, if it really exist, look like?

This is the game world, and the creator can't be a game chip, right?

It's just that many things in this world can't seem to be explained by games.

Suxia's bracelet is a super bug that can't be explained.

"Captain, the next cabin is still the living area, the browsing room." Hal opened the next hatch, "There are a lot of books here, and the members of the ship have asked the writer to write an autobiography for them. ”

"Personal autobiography?"

"Yes, many of the crew members have a lot of experience, and the children of the empire often go through these autobiographies."

"Your kids actually like to read, not games?"

"Captain, for children, the unknown and mystery are always their favorites, and the starry sky is such a thing, as long as it is guided, it can completely free them from the addiction to games."

Hal seems to be able to read Susha's thoughts, maybe it's the same as the children in every world.

Su Xia asked, "Do any of you have there to treat game addiction with electric shocks?" ”

"Electric shock? Isn't that for criminals? ”

Hal was stunned, and even the red light didn't flash, and asked rhetorically, "What kind of devil would treat a child like this?" It's horrible...... No, some low-level civilizations seem to have such a record. ”