novelsmap Chapter 55
Chapter 55
In the originally pitch-black universe, a cloud of light wrapped in tulle appeared.When you look closely, you will find that there are some smaller planets gathered there.They dot the star clusters like dusty diamonds.
All of Voyager's sensor lights were switched on.
Someone woke up, rubbed his eyes, and said with emotion: "It's so beautiful.
Su Ling watched the light ball quietly, his eyebrows moved.
"This is the edge of the T349 area, also known as the skirt star cluster," Francis explained. "There is a rumor hundreds of years ago that there are treasures everywhere, and all pirates want to come here to scavenge. Yoshida locates That coordinate is one of the asteroids, X92."
Xiao Huaiyan asked: "Hundreds of years ago?"
"Yes, every planet here was said to have been looted at that time. Gradually, no one came. Of course, the main reason is that the state of the universe has been very unstable in recent decades, especially the skirt cluster. Many ships were overturned inside."
In other words, most people, including Francis, think that the skirt cluster has lost the value of exploration.
But since Yoshida can bring back some good things from here, it means that the situation here should improve.
The current navigation has also been normal.
"This compass is something that can only be found in ancient ruins."
Francis said, confidently ordered: "All attention, we are about to enter the skirt star cluster."
He strode toward the main control room.The other pirates also took their positions.
Su Ling and Xiao Huaiyan followed to the main control room, but before they walked through the door, Su Ling stopped suddenly.The moment he grabbed Xiao Huaiyan, there was a "boom" from the firewall.The entire Voyager began to land rapidly and freely.
Su Ling was immediately pulled into a tight embrace, watching helplessly as a floating table got stuck in the fire door.
Five or six seconds later, the fall stopped—but Voyager seemed to be floating on the surface of a really stormy sea, swaying up and down, side to side, and back and forth.The roaring sound outside the cabin and the crispness of crackling things inside were mixed together, making people dizzy.
"Gravity fails, hold on to the steering wheel!!!" Francis roared.
His deputy yelled back: "I can't catch it! If you go any further, you will collide!"
Cursing and some untimely screaming were drowned out by the roar.
Su Ling patted Xiao Huaiyan, then pushed him away, and disposed of the table blocking the door.
He stretched out his hand towards Xiao Huaiyan.
Xiao Huaiyan grabbed a depression on the wall, paused, and passed his hand over.
"Remote control." Su Ling said.
The hand in mid-air froze.
Only then did Xiao Huaiyan see a remote control stuck in the plastic frame by the wall.Voyager has a long history and still retains such a hand control device.
Su Ling held him back.
Xiao Huaiyan let go of his other hand, and took out the remote control while drifting towards Suling.
The two entered the main control room, and the remote controller finally returned to Francis after several twists and turns.
All fire doors are closed, and the gravity in the cabin is adjusted.
Francis held the walkie-talkie: "Everyone please find the nearest location immediately and fasten your seat belts. We are in a vortex due to gravitational chaos and we are about to adjust our orientation."
Sitting not far behind him, Xiao Huaiyan and Su Ling saw the planets in the skirt cluster that were rotating at high speed.
Voyager was like a lost boat, bumping along with it, barely avoiding space junk several times.
"See that glowing thing?" Francis gripped the steering wheel, and typed a few parameters on the main control panel. "This is the sun of the skirt star cluster."
But it is completely different from the sun of the alliance's main galaxy.It is faint and dim.If you look closely, you can see that everything around it is vibrating, expanding, and contracting again.
"It used to be a real sun, but it became like this starting more than 100 years ago. Instabilities at the edge of the universe seriously affected it."
Xiao Huaiyan asked strangely: "Is this also the edge of the universe?"
"Of course, we moved a few times. The speed of Voyager has taken us far."
Su Ling stared at everything outside the porthole and heard Francis' explanation.
Human beings' knowledge of the universe is still very limited.But if the original state of the universe is assumed to be an infinitely expanding ball, then in an unstable state, some parts will expand and pop out, while others will bend due to compression.
The Skirt cluster is right on the curve.
"From another perspective, if this can lead to another universe, then we have a shortcut."
Xiao Huaiyan raised his eyebrows lightly: "... Nest Universe?"
Francis shrugged, with extreme arrogance in his eyes: "Those bugs are nothing, they want to invade us, and we can occupy their place too. If you don't believe me, just wait and see."
"Captain," the deputy on the side turned his head and squeezed out an ugly smile, "We were carried by the gravity of one of the planets, and now we can't escape at all."
A violent shaking caused a crack to appear on the porthole of the main control room, followed by a rapid descent and rotation.
Su Ling asked flatly: "Then shall we still go to X92?"
Francis intercom, replied: "Dear friends, it looks like X92 is graciously inviting us. With any luck, we'll be landing in 10 minutes."
If you're unlucky, Voyager will end up here with everyone.
Francis turned his head and blinked his left eye in the direction of Su Ling and Xiao Huaiyan: "Everyone is here, hold on to the handrail."
Su Ling adjusted the seat belt, and the rough edge rubbed down on his collarbone through his clothes, which was very uncomfortable.He grabbed the seat belt and let the neckline loosen a little, some light red spread on his fair skin.
He found Xiao Huaiyan looking at him.
"We might crash." Xiao Huaiyan said lightly.
Su Ling said, "Are you afraid of death?"
"I can't say it, I didn't think about it before. But the heart rate has increased, and it's fake to not be afraid at all," he leaned back in the chair, his eyes followed the rotation of the cabin roof, where the lights had been turned off, "However, it seems that there are still many Things are not done, and some words have not had time to say."
He was about to say something when there was a sudden pause.
Su Ling leaned over slightly, covering his chest, a little curious.
No lie, I did jump a little faster than usual.But it seems, suddenly faster.
Su Ling sat back comfortably.
In the quiet space, it took Xiao Huaiyan a long time to speak: "You...have something else to say to someone else?"
Su Ling blinked blankly, and suddenly asked, "What is the kidnapping case?"
Xiao Huaiyan didn't expect him to ask this, so he smiled nonchalantly: "It happened nine years ago, I met on the way after school. I was intercepted by the Voyager before leaving the galaxy, and I haven't got off with those guys yet." It’s no big deal to finish a game of chess.”
"Who is it?"
"...Three restorers, the remnants of the Battle of Glory. At that time, everyone thought that the empire would no longer have any supporters, and relaxed their vigilance. But in fact, there are always people who want to go back to that era. Some people who are working in secret, the previous assassinations against the core figures of the alliance were all planned by those guys."
The feeling of free fall makes the blood roar in the body, making the scalp tingling.
Su Ling didn't care. He remembered the interstellar history class he had taken: "In the age of empires, many people died."
The existence of slavery, the ownership of the right to life, dignity and glory, exploitation and trampling, countless feudal centralization rights that have repeatedly appeared in the long and vast history of mankind reached their peak at that time.
Xiao Huaiyan laughed mockingly: "Power, class. More than 100 years have passed, and some people still want these."
"Doesn't it exist now?" Su Ling said.
"Don't always hit the nail on the head." Xiao Huaiyan complained with a smile.He looked at Su Ling, his eyes gradually became serious.
They were so close now, breaths always collided in a spinning world.
"I mean," Xiao Huaiyan said in a low voice as if giving up, "If this is the last 2 minutes of my life, there's nothing wrong with me and you now—"
A loud bang drowned Xiao Huaiyan's voice, and after the violent impact, the ear-piercing turbine began to spin.
Beyond the glass, a faint light glowed at the end, as Voyager landed on the dark ocean, near the edge of the land.
Su Ling turned his head amidst the cheers of Yu Sheng after the disaster in the ship cabin, his light-colored eyes were full of doubts: "What did you say?"
Half an hour later, Voyager approached land.
After everyone walked out of the hatch, they found that this was a large beach.The sand is soft and very comfortable to step on.The pirates who were still nervous just now relaxed.
"It's the sunrise." Ou Chuchu looked at the end of the sea level.
According to the sun in the skirt star cluster, no matter how high it rises, it will not make this place brighter.
The beach looks like a straight line running through the entire planet, dividing it into two.Dark and gloomy waters, and dark forests.
Those decaying vines crawled at the end of the white sand, exuding a rotten smell.The gnarled tree roots are swaying here and there. If it weren't for the current situation of dead branches and leaves, one could almost imagine the splendor of its rise from the ground, but now, everything you see is lifeless.
Xi Zi followed behind Yun Qing and approached Lin Zi, before walking a few steps, he immediately shouted: "Look!"
A few abrupt pieces of cloth hang from a mossy tree trunk.With the weak sunlight, the compass logo on the tail of the clothes is clearly visible.
"This is the sign of the patrol ship." Xiao Huaiyan, who heard the sound, pointed out.
Yoshida said he arrived at X92 by tailing an Alliance patrol ship.
But the clothes looked very new, and they should have been hung up not long ago.
At this moment, a pirate who was going deep screamed and backed away as if he had seen a ghost.
In that jungle, two corpses were lying in the grass.
Francis approached a little closer and bent down to observe for a while: "Their death time was not more than an hour. The cause of death was—"
He turned around, his eyes gradually darkened: "Oxygen failure, suffocated to death."
"Wait," Xizi asked in confusion, "Why do they lose oxygen? Aren't we fine?"
Xiao Huaiyan speculated: "Either it is a sudden lack of oxygen here, or a strong self-suggestion-these things in X92 have been dead for too long, and the secretions may cause hallucinations."
As soon as he finished speaking, Dirty Braid suddenly stuck his throat, and his pupils dilated: "I, I can't breathe..."
"Bring him back to Voyager!" Francis shouted, feeling the air gradually thinning.
The dozen or so people who disembarked rushed back immediately.
Xiao Huaiyan stopped on the beach.He saw that Suling was half submerged by sea water, and there were a few shiny things floating on the sea surface.
"Suling!"
Su Ling heard Xiao Huaiyan's voice, but he couldn't stop here.He was so close to grabbing the pieces.
Almost without hesitation, he swam towards those directions that reflected the shimmering light.He reached out and grabbed it.
The fragments of the star sea immediately entered his body and disappeared in the palm of his hand.
However, at this moment, Su Ling suddenly found that the sky had become pitch black, and even the faint sunlight before had disappeared.
wrong.That's not the sky.It was a huge wave that didn't know when it started.
Like a majestic wall, or a gloomy knife and axe, it was photographed mercilessly.
Xiao Huaiyan ignored the shouts from Voyager, and tried his best to swim towards the thin figure that was swallowed up.
But he obviously underestimated the spectacular huge waves, covering the sky and the sun, as if lifting the whole ground, and crashing towards him with a roar.
During the brief coma, Xiao Huaiyan felt sea water entering his nasal cavity, and the unbearable pain filled his nerves.He was sinking continuously, without the slightest possibility of struggling.
...What about Suling?is he still alive
The heavy consciousness began to fade gradually, turning into a piece of pitch black, and the whole world became quiet.
Until he suddenly trembled and opened his eyes.The soft touch is still on the lips, and the pair of smoky purple eyes are incredibly close.
He froze for a while, and finally came to his senses.
Su Ling let go of him suddenly, grabbed his wrist and took him to the bottom of the sea—they were already beaten to the depths by the waves.
The pressure on the bottom of the sea made Xiao Huaiyan's mind buzz.
Suling took him to the top of a dark cave he had just found - different from the eerie darkness of the nest universe, the cave was full of various glowing transparent creatures.This is the only place where the X92 shows signs of life.
The most shocking thing is the depth of the cave.There seems to be a side of glass inlaid there-the other side is an endless galaxy.
It was a field of extremely beautiful stars, unlike any corner of the universe recorded in human history.Blue and red nebulae intertwine, intertwined with flux-like beams.The flickering light spots constitute a golden yarn, rippling with endless ripples.
Quiet and full of divinity.
Su Ling looked up.A natural urgency compelled him to touch it all—but the glass lay in the middle, the impenetrable surface repelling him.
But a tiny crystal gradually approached the glass from the other end, and then floated out without hindrance.
It was a fragment of the star sea.
……why.
Su Ling raised his eyes in confusion.You can clearly see it, you can touch it, but you can't reach it.
Was he ostracized...?
He patted the "glass" heavily.With every shot, the sea water and the stars on the opposite side would tremble, as if broken into countless pieces, and then formed a new scene.
The dim light showed the skirt star cluster, and at the end of the star cluster, a ship was moving slowly.
Voyager.
This time, Su Ling's hand easily passed through the invisible glass.
He suddenly understood the meaning of the shortcut.In a curved space, time can also be curved.
He turned his head and patted Xiao Huaiyan's face, trying to wake him up.
Peach Blossom Eyes, which was in a state of hypoxia, opened them forcefully, and saw the Voyager in the direction of Suling.
Su Ling pointed at himself, and then at him.
Xiao Huaiyan nodded slightly.
...Su Ling was probably saying that he had to spend his breath again.
He pulled himself closer to Suling in a calm manner, and suddenly felt the pain on the left side of his face in those calm eyes.
Su Ling punched him.
Xiao Huaiyan's eyes darkened.
The next second, he opened his heavy eyelids, and suddenly smelled a clear scent.Su Ling fell asleep leaning on his lap.
Francis' snoring was not far away, louder than thunder.
The big black dog was the only other guy awake, patrolling impatiently.
They are still on Voyager.
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Xiao Xiao: Kiss me, Lingling.
Suling: ...?