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A frigate painted with the insignia of the Parinard Imperial Border Guards cruising in the airspace, having just taken over from another frigate.

Suddenly, the twisted black hole trembled violently, and the frigate seemed to have discovered something, and immediately turned away, but its movement suddenly became extremely slow, as if it had been trapped in some dense and viscous liquid.

In the black hole, a transport ship jumped out, but soon, like this Imperial Border Guard frigate, the speed of its progress became extremely slow.

On the bridge of the transport ship, at the moment of jumping out of the wormhole, Le Chen finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Now on the transport ship, carrying more than 8 million tons of stock liquid, three DDA warships are missing, there is no mining device, Le Chen, the temporary captain, proposed to evacuate naturally no one has any objection, of course, the current 100,000 tons of stock solution worth hundreds of billions of imperial coins have been collected by Le Chen into the mustard seed world.

However, the more than 8 million tons of stock solution on the transport ship obviously far exceeded the original goal of this exploration mission, so after jumping out of the wormhole, the officers on the bridge were all happy, and this mission was very rewarding, and they could naturally get excess rewards.

When Le Chen was about to return to the lounge, in front of the monitoring screen, the probe officer was suddenly surprised: "Why? The nearest celestial body is more than 13 light-years away? Ah? The border guard frigate is 25 light-years away from us! Maybe the wormhole passage has been offset." ”

"Can't get into the jump space!" the chief helmsman reported in a solemn tone.

Le Chen was slightly stunned, he didn't understand the control of the battleship, but he also understood that if the transport ship could not make a space jump into a warp orbit, then it could only fly at a maximum speed far below the speed of light, and it might take thousands of years to fly to the nearest maintenance station, so he could only wait for rescue.

"There is no response to the call to the frigate!" the communications officer said, still trying to send a stream.

"Maybe there's something wrong with our instrumentation and communication systems......" there was a whispered discussion by several young officers.

Le Chen looked at the first mate Gaida beside him, although Le Chen was the temporary captain, but in fact, the actual controller of this transport ship was this young cadet, and he was also the best of the starship cadets who were not missing, a blonde young man in his early twenties.

Gaida was thoughtful, saw Le Chen's gaze, and said busily: "I will find out the cause of the failure as soon as possible." ”

Le Chen bowed slightly, turned to leave.

But a few hours later, Gaida arrived at the captain's lounge in some panic.

"General, we're in big trouble!" Gaida cried with a sad face: "The wormhole has collapsed, forming a space-time vortex in this airspace, we, we're going to get lost here......"

"What space-time vortex?" Le Chen frowned and looked at him, "Drink some wine, calm down, and talk to me again." ”

Immediately a glass appeared in front of Gaida, and in the glass was more than half a glass of dom, this kind of light transport's material replicator was extremely rudimentary, and there were only three or two kinds of drinks, and the dom tasted good.

Gaida took the glass and drank it down, then coughed loudly, apparently not a regular drinker.

After a glass of wine, Gaida's face flushed with red tides, but his mood was also significantly stabilized, and he smiled bitterly: " The space-time vortex, to put it simply, is because the collapse of the wormhole has caused the disorder of time and space in this airspace, in fact, the position of the wormhole channel has not drifted, but our detection instruments show that the nearest celestial body is more than 10 light-years away, it is because the space has been distorted, let's put it this way, we feel that our spacecraft is flying at maximum speed, but observing us outside the space-time vortex, probably, probably our current speed is about the same as a snail, and the crew on the ship is in a stationary state, if the outside world can observe it。 ”

Le Chen frowned and said, "Then we can only wait for rescue?"

Gaida smiled bitterly again: "Rescue will not come, as long as it is close to this area, any spaceship will also be involved, here because of the distortion of time and space, it is impossible to establish a communication channel with the outside world, human technology, still cannot defeat the physical rules of the universe." ”

Shaking his head, there was a hint of fear in Gaida's eyes: " A thousand years ago, in the Fayer system, there was once a mothership lost in the space-time vortex, it floated in that airspace for hundreds of years, many ships can see it from afar, however, the empire's smartest engineers, also helpless, until the influence of the space-time vortex gradually disappeared, the rescue team boarded the mothership, hundreds of thousands of people on the mothership, because the mothership's energy was exhausted and starved to death, it is said that the first batch of rescue team members who boarded the ship, many of them suffered a heavy psychological blow because they witnessed the tragic situation on the mothership, some ended their crew careers, and some became crazy, among them, there are several team members who committed suicide under the torment。 ”

Le Chen nodded slightly, and understood in his heart that Parinard technology is so developed, there are almost no diseases that can pose a threat to Parinade, and there are even artificial brains that can be transplanted, not to mention other organs, even ordinary Parinard civilians, whose lifespan is also above four or five hundred years old, not to mention those nobles with superior conditions,

And the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of people, which is equivalent to the death of all the people in a small city, is like a fantasy for the Parinards, not to mention that the mothership is in the later stage, and there are also a lot of cruel scenes of cannibalism, and it is no wonder that those rescue team members have a psychological breakdown when they see the situation on the ship.

Speaking of the past, Gaida's face was still twitching, and there was deep fear in his eyes.

Le Chen smiled: "At least, we won't starve to death, we have more than eight million tons of stock liquid, enough for us to use for tens of thousands of years." ”

Gaida was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a wry smile: "That's the same." And looking at Le Chen, the panic in his heart finally faded, and now he understood why this young man who seemed to be about the same age as himself was already a hero.

Le Chen said again: "Moreover, although I am not a physicist, if I am right, this wormhole, which has already reached the late stage of life, will not have much impact on the space-time distortion caused by the collapse, so it will not take hundreds of years to slowly disappear, right?"

Gaida's eyes lit up, "I'll collect data for further analysis." ”

Le Chen nodded: "Well, you go and get busy, pay attention to appeasing the emotions of the crew on the ship." ”

As soon as Gaida left, Le Chen slowly closed his eyes, the space-time vortex was a nightmare for the Parinades, but for him, it was a rare experience, and it could even be said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and even the seal copper coins automatically jumped out of the mustard seed space, blooming with ten thousand rays of golden light above his head.

This light transport ship naturally does not have a heretical monitoring system, and it is in the vortex of time and space, and it does not have to worry about being detected by various detectors of the Parinard civilization that seems to be omnipresent outside, but Le Chen can rest assured that he can reach out his divine sense and slowly feel the mystery of the surrounding time and space.