imperfections

"Natural wormholes are not man-made transition points. They are very unstable. At present, people's research on them is not thorough. I have read your report. The logic of the theoretical framework is generally fine, but experiments are not equal to theory. Any one of you in mathematics A variable that is negligible in a formula can kill an experiment."

"According to the assumption, you may be able to fix this channel, or it may cause the opposite effect, causing the space to collapse, maybe you will die, or you may fall into an unknown state of life, it would be better to die, are you mentally prepared? "

The expedition team is about to enter the wormhole area, and Lu Bixing's exhortations before leaving are still in my ears.

The Interstellar Expeditionary Team, together with the guards escorting them, can be described as majestic wherever they appear, but entering this unknown land, it is like a group of small ants, curling up trembling leaves as a boat, plunging headlong into the whirlpool. in the sea.

"The energy reaction temperature of the equipment is too high——"

"Understood," Mint replied, "start the pre-cooling device."

"The progress of the cooling pipe...6%...45%...99%...preparation is complete."

"Everyone, the psychological feeling is different from last time." The voice of the expedition captain sounded on the communication channel, "Last time we didn't prepare anything, we plunged in head-on, and we didn't feel much, but this time, don't worry about it. I have done several years of theoretical research and upgraded the equipment, so I seem to be fully prepared, but my liver is still a little trembling."

Another team member said: "Normal, the ignorant are fearless."

"Enter the wormhole area with a 120-second warning, start the countdown," the captain paused, "Have you prepared the suicide note?"

"It's okay to say goodbye, there is no inheritance, what is the posthumous writing? Original elegiac couplet?"

"I eat enough for myself and the whole family is not hungry, and I don't even have to say goodbye."

Mint is a girl who doesn’t talk much, and didn’t join the discussion. She checked the opening channel equipment for the last time—her suicide note is backed up in the expedition team’s laboratory. If there is an accident, the computer will automatically transfer it to Lu Bixing and her three classmates are her only family members left.

The content of the suicide note is very simple, just one sentence: "I can't go back, I'm sorry."

The phrase "I'm sorry" has been in her heart for many years, and it has been with her day and night, accompanying her through adolescence until she grows up.

The four of them have experienced many things. Huang Jingshu devoted herself unswervingly to the anti-missile research that seems to have no dawn in 1 years. Fighting Chicken joined the army, and White joined the engineering department. Only Mint chose "Interstellar Expedition" Team" such an unpopular and dangerous profession.She wants to go farther and deeper into the universe, hoping that the grand starlight can dispel the humble struggle of mortals.

On the day of the accident, Saturday actually contacted the engineering department. Over the years, she always thought that if she could be more patient with him and observe him more carefully, she might be able to see that something was wrong with him.

Maybe... If that person hadn't been on Saturday, she might have really asked one more question.But the girl being pursued is escorted by her elders, and she is always habitually proud of the suitor who follows her in a cheap way, and likes to give him an impatient look, and likes to watch him scratch his head.

If she could be more mature, learn not to bring personal feelings into business affairs, find out what is wrong in time, and warn Saturday in time, will everything not happen?

Before leaving, Mr. Lu even called her aside on purpose and told her that it was too late to regret it. Seeing that she was stubborn, he told her a bunch of safety precautions.

No one scolded her, but she always couldn't face herself.

At this time, the colleague let out an exclamation. Mint came back to his senses. When he looked up, he saw that the space they were in began to distort, as if they were passing through a deformed magnifying glass. Soon, everything around them began to change into slow motion. Jiali should have sounded an alarm for a drastic change in energy, but the alarm light could be vaguely seen, but no sound could be heard. The communication channel was completely disconnected, and the imitation gravity field failed. The belt was tightened, fixing her in a certain area, she opened her eyes wide, and heard her own heartbeat that was extremely slow——

The last time they entered the wormhole, due to lack of preparation, they basically passed out as soon as they entered. When they woke up, they faced mechas that were almost turned into broken metal. Fortunately, they were all wearing spacesuits at that time, otherwise Cosmic rays and air pressure can take them away.

This time the situation is much calmer, at least Mint's consciousness is clear.

She couldn't feel her body, and felt that the mecha seemed to have fallen apart. When she raised her head, she saw an ecological cabin passing by her quickly, heading in the direction they came from. Mint glanced at it and subconsciously remembered Get the model number and number on the eco-chamber.

Immediately afterwards, the space stretched infinitely and shrunk into a very small point in the distance. Her vision could penetrate through it and look in the direction of infinity. There seemed to be countless convex lenses floating there, and there were some on each "mirror". Familiar images flashed across the sky - Beijing β star being bombarded indiscriminately, the first terrifying base of the Freedom Legion in the eight-galaxy system... and her own face when she was young.

After more than ten years, the girl met the young explorer today, glanced over lightly, then turned her head away, and said something indifferent to Saturday on the communication screen.

"Stop him!" Mint yelled desperately at the girl, "Tell him that General Turan is about to blow up the jump point, don't touch anything, don't answer any communications, he will regret it! He will kill a lot of people!"

However, the turbulence of time and space in the wormhole cannot shake the theory of causality. She saw her past self through the distorted time, but the two passing time and space cannot intersect.

"Don't hang up! Please!"

The staggered time and space finally moved away from her mercilessly, and the "convex mirror" went further and further away, and finally turned into a small point the size of a pinhead.

Facts are facts, time and space are curved, but a person's life is a one-way street after all.

Nothing can change what has happened.

With a "boom", a dazzling light burst out, Mint's feet suddenly landed on the mecha, and she was pulled back to her original position by the seat belt.

Mint was stunned for a while, and realized that they had passed through the wormhole area alive. She felt that her vision was not right, and then she realized that she had burst into tears at some point.

She was not the only one crying, and everyone who was lucky enough to remain conscious was stunned.

For a moment, Mint suddenly discovered that every living person is suffering, has a burden, and will cry when they pass by the old time—even if they carry the curiosity of all mankind and walk a path of passion. And the life path full of great nautical spirit, everyone looks so energetic.

But in the active area of ​​the wormhole, it didn't take long for them to clean up their emotions. There was a lot of noise in the communication channel, and then they heard the captain organizing emergency repairs in a hoarse voice. Looking through the spiritual net, their expedition team was still shrinking. Quite a lot.

"What's going on?" Mint took off the helmet of his space suit, and quickly wiped his face, "Why are we the only ones left?"

"Time and space are turbulent," the colleague replied. "It should be dragged to another place, I hope it's not far away-can the internal communication be repaired, can you find a way to get in touch with them again?"

"That's enough, there is no transition point here, and long-distance communication cannot be established...beep...the signal has been interfering..."

"Captain," Mint said, "the wormhole channel we just passed through didn't disappear immediately, and the fluctuation of the field is still stable. Did our experiment succeed? Then can we try to send a signal to the Venus Base now?"

The captain hadn't had time to answer.

"Wait a minute, my mecha seems to be warning," the pilot of a mecha next to him suddenly interrupted everyone's chatter, "Look, what is that?"

The expedition team braked carefully, and found a huge starship wreck floating not far from them, surrounded by countless small mecha fragments, spinning quietly, like a space cemetery.

Mint quickly locked the wreckage with a military recorder and searched for useful information. After a while, an image was enlarged several times, and a line of words on the wreckage jumped into her eyes: "Jing...Yuan...?"

The command center of the Venus Star was also very nervous, because after the expedition team’s signal disappeared for a week, they suddenly received intermittent messages, but they were completely inaudible. There were male voices, female voices, and a plain It cannot be decoded.

The engineering department exploded.

"Let Zhanlu come," Lu Bixing hurried over after receiving the message in the middle of the night, scanning the garbled code at a glance, "It should be that several messages are mixed together, it may be caused by the distortion of time and space, or it may be that the expedition team is passing through the wormhole were separated."

"Received." Zhanlu, who is only in the form of a manipulator, directly occupied a circle of supercomputers in the command center, and quickly came to a conclusion, "According to the information decoding rules, there should be three pieces of information, the basic content is similar, and they are all reporting that you have passed through safely." Wormhole, but separated from some companions, the third message in the garbled code seems to have some content, it is being decoded, wait..."

The unstable signal made a sharp beep, and then disconnected. Zhanlu was silent for a moment: "The decoding is complete—Miss Mint reported that the wreckage of the starship Jingyuan was found near the landing site."

The "Jingyuan" was the starship that Lin Jingheng took when returning to Woto from the Silver Fortress. It was blown up when it passed near the Heart of Rose.

Even if the non-armed starship is forced to circle the restricted area, it will not go very deep.

Zhan Lu's calm voice sounded in the command center: "If the unknown gravitational influence can be ruled out, this may mean that Miss Mint and the others are very close to the first galaxy."

In the sixth galaxy, the space prison is getting closer and closer to the target point, and the automatic artificial energy towers around the asteroid have already entered a dormant state.

"You know, maybe it's not just us who pay attention to the revolution, but also Jingshu, right?" Dr. Harden said.

Lin Jingheng took the design drawing of the space prison, marked it while looking at it, and said without raising her head, "I'm afraid she won't come."

In the past 14 years, Lin Jingshu did not dare to get close to him. On the one hand, she probably didn’t know how to face him. On the other hand, as a person who could survive the explosion at the transition point, Lin Jingheng did something unexpected. It's not unusual, if he "recovers his memory", give him a little leverage, and he will be able to climb up along the way. The place where he is locked up must be completely isolated and impeccable.

"If she doesn't come, who do I send the signal to? I hope it will be randomly transmitted to the antenna of some caring passer-by, and someone will call the police for me?" Lin Jingheng sneered, "I have never had much luck."

Dr. Harden hesitated to speak.

Lin Jingheng shrunk the design back to the personal terminal on her wrist: "As long as your old timer program works well."

The core ecosystem of the space prison is in a mountainous area more than 500 kilometers away from the experimental base. Maintenance personnel use special rail cars to go back and forth between the two places for daily maintenance every ten days.

The rail car parked quietly on the platform, and an inspection door next to the platform was gently opened. Lin Jingheng glanced out, and gently pinched the shielding device——Dr. Harden’s work that took five years, Disguised as a necklace and hung around his neck, the beauty is a mystery, but the function is powerful.It can interfere with monitoring and opium chips within a diameter of 20 meters for five seconds. Opium chips can improve people's five senses and physical fitness many times. "Three generations" and above can even perceive infrared rays. Lin Jingheng needs a tool that can hide himself. Five seconds was enough for him.

The surveillance was blinded for a moment, and Lin Jingheng immediately got out of the inspection door, quickly pried open the rear door and entered. Just as he entered, a group of maintenance workers also got on the rail car, chatting and laughing, looking quite peaceful , passed the bathroom at the rear of the car, and walked into the rail car.

At this time, one of them waved to his companion, turned around and walked back to the bathroom.

Behind the bathroom door, Lin Jingheng stood holding her breath, the five-second countdown reminder on the personal terminal on her wrist reset to zero, and the shielding failed——

The moment the maintenance worker pushed open the door, he heard a heartbeat that didn't belong to him. He was taken aback for a moment, and looked around strangely. Then he heard clearly that the heartbeat came from behind him!

Before the maintenance worker turned his head back, a cold thing was pasted on the back of his neck. He opened his mouth wide to scream, but he couldn’t make a sound. His body was uncontrollable. Special waves passed through his skin and reached the chip, which is compatible with the biological chip. Resonance occurred and the microcurrent was disturbed. Like a skinned frog, his limbs twitched slightly, and he was dragged to the corner without a sound.

Lin Jingheng pulled out the laser gun from his waist, put it on the back of his neck, and pulled the trigger three times in a row, skillfully avoiding the chip and burning through the hard neck supported by the chip. The nano-knife was punched against the neck of the corpse, and a square burnt mark soon appeared on the skin, and the bloody biochip fell out.The hard corpse suddenly softened, and Lin Jingheng carried it into the bathroom cubicle and closed the door.

He scanned the biochip with his personal terminal——Level [-], it should be the little leader of this group of maintenance workers.

Lin Jingheng turned her head to look at the corpse, put the biochip into a special sterilizer, and then took off the clothes on the corpse and changed it. The maintenance worker happened to have a hat, so he lowered his head and pulled the brim of the hat down to cover his face.

After the chip was processed, it was pushed into a syringe. There was a transparent liquid in the syringe, like glue, which quickly wrapped around the chip. Lin Jingheng took the syringe and weighed it in his hand. The next moment, he injected it without hesitation. into his body.

"Opioid chips are highly addictive, especially for those who have a high degree of matching between man and machine. Unless you are anencephaly, never try it lightly." Dr. Harden once warned him, "If you encounter an emergency Situation, I will give you a tube of blocking agent—this is an experimental product, which can interfere with the effect of the chip on you, which is equivalent to artificially turning you into a 'empty brain' in a short period of time, but with your metabolic level , the blocker will be completely absorbed and metabolized after nine to ten minutes at most, before that, you must remember to take it out."

The rail car journey is about four and 10 minutes, and there is less than an hour left, which is enough.

Lin Jingheng turned around and locked the bathroom door, walked back to the carriage, found a corner and sat down, and pulled the hat down to cover her face.

Even with the blocker, he can still feel the almost uncontrollable power, the five senses are greatly strengthened, the heartbeat of the people around him is almost a little noisy, Lin Jingheng has an illusion for a moment, and feels that the moment the chip is injected, he is like A paralyzed man who was unable to walk was suddenly cured.

Another maintenance worker came towards him. Lin Jingheng didn't look up when he heard the sound of the other party approaching, thinking: "Get out!"

After the second-generation opium chip suppressed the first-generation chip, and made the other party feel his rejection, he walked away timidly without daring to say a word, and a vacuum zone formed around Lin Jingheng.

Lin Jingheng opened the palm of his hand and squeezed it vaguely, but the personal terminal showed that the grip strength of this light squeeze had reached more than [-] kilograms.

The abnormal sense of power and control is like a dose of mental drugs, which should make people intoxicated, but maybe the blocker has worked, and Lin Jingheng suddenly felt slightly restless and uneasy.

He remembered that Lu Bixing injected himself with similar chips twice... At that time, what did he feel?

The biochips injected by Lu Bixing were destroyed, but then the Freedom Legion made several attempts to infiltrate into the eighth galaxy and brought some new biochips. He couldn't remember whether those chips were completely destroyed.

Lin Jingheng's palms tightened, thinking: I hope that old Persian cat can be useful.

The personnel in charge of equipment maintenance have a very low status on this planet, and most of them are a generation of "opium". Lin Jingheng's infiltration was very smooth, and he quickly touched the core ecosystem of this planet - climate, temperature and gravity.

Lin Jingheng placed several small black packages in different positions of the gravity control central processing unit, and took a last look at the personal terminal. The asteroid was still approaching the planet. The particle storm warning came, and he raised the corner of his mouth. leave quietly.

Three or ten minutes later, the intensity of the particle storm on the asteroid reached its peak, and the impenetrable shield was disturbed. At the same time, a series of earth-shattering explosions suddenly emanated from the center of the core ecosystem, the gravity control suddenly failed, and the gravity on the ground immediately decreased to the original ten. One-third, the people on the planet couldn't control their steps at all, gliding in mid-air in various postures, and the most deadly thing was that this level of gravity couldn't maintain an artificial atmosphere!

The ecosystem of the asteroid is about to collapse, the sound of warnings surrounds it, and the ecosystem sends out a hysterical distress signal. It just passes through the damaged shield, is blessed by the stellar storm, and rushes towards the extraterrestrial universe.

The special distress signal sent out when the planet or base ecosystem collapses will be captured by the nearest galaxy, and if they have an organization similar to the government, they will definitely send someone to check.

At the same time, sixteen sailing days away from the asteroid, a mecha that had been following the asteroid was also alarmed by this earth-shattering distress signal.

"Immediately report to the owner that the planet's 'treasure box' ecosystem is seriously malfunctioning, and the artificial atmosphere is at risk of falling off—"