Advent

"Raymond..."

Allen repeated the false name in a low voice.

Suddenly he let out a miserable laugh, then lowered his eyes and turned to Rafael and Sakhir.

"I don't even know its real name"

Allen said to Raphael and Sakhir in an extremely hollow tone.

Raphael avoided Allen's sight very uncomfortable.

No fan would want his idol to encounter such a tragic thing. He wanted to comfort Allen, but his brain was so numb that he couldn't think of any feasible words of comfort.

Just when Rafael was in trouble, Sakhir had already spoken first in that flat voice:

"Anyway, at least you have not continued to be deceived by the Naga White Emperor, and there is no official mark between you and him—"

"Cough cough cough-"

Rafael let out an extremely false cough, interrupting Sakhir's consolation forcibly...if that can really be regarded as "consolation".

You know, after hearing Sakhir's words, Alan's figure shook slightly, and the blood on his face, which was already thin to almost nothing, faded, and now Alan looked pale enough to be almost transparent , The thin and pale appearance makes people even worry that he will disappear into the air in the next second.

[One day I will "teach" this bastard how to speak! 】

Rafael cursed in his heart.

Then he stepped on Sakhir's instep and took a step forward as if nothing had happened, and moved closer to Alan.

"...how are you feeling now?" he pressed.

On the one hand, it was to change the subject, but on the other hand, he was really worried about Allen.After all, just ten minutes ago, Allen, who was hanging on Sakhir's shoulder, was still a complete corpse. God knows what the strange boy and man with feathers did to bring Allen back to life.

There may be some side effects, or some terrible price to pay—at least the movies and novels that Raphael saw when he was still on Earth never lacked similar stories.

Bringing the dead back to life... always has a series of hidden dangers.

"I think... I..."

Of course Allen knew Rafael's intention to change the subject, he subconsciously wanted to perfunctory the past, and wanted to tell Rafael that he was fine.

But halfway through the speech, his voice froze involuntarily.

Something flickered in his mind.

This description is a bit strange, but Allen hasn't found a better sentence to describe his current feelings exactly.

In the dark universe, countless tiny but deeply familiar beings are struggling and trying to survive.

The form of energy collection that is completely different from that of human beings is infused into the bodies of those creatures, which makes him feel extremely cordial.

"Ellen?"

Allen heard Rafael's yelling again. The human voice sounded a little far away, as if it came from a very, very far away...

A scorching gaze fell on him, Allen turned his head sideways, and met Belian's dark pupils.

As the main task of resurrecting Alan, Belian kept an unusually quiet after Alan woke up. He and his brother Wu Jieyada stared at Alan, as if expecting Alan to do something .

Allen just felt more and more dazed.

That death seemed to have left some kind of aftereffect on him—what he had experienced in the ghost state had happened again.

He was split into several parts and appeared in many places at the same time.

Allen could clearly feel that his body was sitting under the silver tree in the sacred place of the Sioux. His trance and silence made Rafael look very anxious, and Sakir even entered the alert state.At the same time, he could feel that in the universe outside the Tianmao human military base, countless Naga soldiers were struggling to survive—the wounded Naga who were originally individual individuals began to gradually move towards themselves when they did not realize it. similar close.

Most of them were scarred and incomplete. After all, if one wanted to escape from the maddened White Emperor's tentacles, the only way was to abandon the flesh caught by those suckers.It's just that the price of doing so is tragic. Most of the Naga who have not been devoured now have half or less of their original bodies, and some even have only a few tentacles connected to a small core of flesh group.

Under normal circumstances, these torn naga people would find a safe place to recuperate and then slowly grow back into newborn naga, but now, something beyond common sense happened.

All the gathered Naga began to tangle and entangle with each other, piercing the remaining tentacles or tentacles directly under each other's flesh, and then slowly melting into a part of each other's flesh.

They are merging into each other...they are coming together into one...

The stitch monster-like naga still looked frail, and its ugliness was beyond description in any language.

But Allen, or rather, a certain part of Allen's soul floated above the creature from beginning to end, listening carefully to its unconscious wailing.

At the same moment, Allen also witnessed the whole situation where Maria and Assis directly abandoned all the members of the Black Swan and fled by themselves.

Now he could clearly see Assis' guilt at that moment, and the man's expression of fear after that because of Maria's smile.

As for Raymond... the White Emperor of the Naga people, a part of his body kept churning, wriggling, and screaming harshly and angrily in the strangely shaped small box in Maria's hand.

Everything is so real, as real as Alan is standing there, never leaving.

"I'm a little……"

In the Tianmao human military base, Allen was comforting Rafael.

In the Black Swan, Allen involuntarily followed the steps of Maria and Assis, and followed them out of the altar hall.Seeing that they were about to enter the corridor, he even subconsciously raised his hand in an attempt to stop the two people, but at the moment when his fingertips were about to touch Maria... His vision suddenly flickered.

He heard a loud roar followed by a tremor.

In an instant, he completely returned to his body, that is, under the silver tree.

But when he came back, it happened to be the time when the entire remaining area of ​​the base was shaking the most.

Everyone in the hall was thrown up heavily. If it wasn't for the withered branches and leaves of the silver tree remaining in the hall, which blocked the falling metal parts and a large number of steel beams for them, I am afraid that when they fell back to the ground It has been smashed into a pulp by those heavy falling objects.

"Oh my god..."

Rafael was dizzy and almost fell to the ground.He saw with his own eyes an extremely sharp shard of metal plate on the ground, and if he fell, he would probably be cut in half by the shard very easily.

Fortunately, in an emergency, Sakhir pulled him suddenly, and he slanted across the metal plate and fell to the ground, panting in pain.

"Thank you."

Rafael turned his head to look at Sakhir and thanked him.The indifferent Security Bureau agent didn't respond to him, but Rafael didn't pay much attention either. He could see that the man's face was solemn, with a look of uneasiness flashing on his face.

Sakhir raised his head, looked at the hall that was still shaking slightly, and said in a deep voice.

"The central axis area is also starting to disintegrate."

"This place can't last long."

Rafael then said.

Yes, the loud noise and shaking just now were caused by the disintegration of the central axis area...

Only this time, Sakhir was far less calm than before.

You must know that if it is in the circular area, they may still have a very small possibility of finding a lifeboat whose crew has not had time to drive away.

Of course, that hope is slim, but at least they have hope.But now...Look at everything around them, there are only these strange alien plants in front of them, and two weird men with feathers.

Moreover, there will not be any aircraft in the central axis area that can allow them to escape from the military base.

In short, the current situation is that they are completely screwed.

Sakhir did not show his despair in front of Rafael.

He secretly calculated the disintegration time of the central axis area in his mind: the disintegration should start from the upper part, where the connection between the central axis area and the ring area is also the most vulnerable place, and where they are now is the central axis area The base built at the beginning is relatively more stable, so the disintegration time will be relatively delayed.

How much time do they have? 10 minutes or less...

He had to find a possibility of escape in such a short time.

Thinking of this, Sakir involuntarily looked at the Sioux who brought them here.

In the fringe galaxy, the Sioux are well-known master killers, they can kill targets under various extremely harsh conditions - thinking about it now, maybe this also means that they have special escape skills.

A trace of irrational hope could not help but grow in Sakhir's heart...

He observed Belian and Wujieyada. The two Sioux people still maintained the mysterious expressions before. Not the slightest panic.

At this moment, they were holding Alan tightly and pulling Alan up from the ground.

It was at this moment that Sakhir realized with some surprise that during the shock just now, he had subconsciously taken care of Rafael, and he hadn't noticed Alan at all—you must know that Alan is not only The object that the Naga emperor wants to get close to even incognito is the first real person in history who has been resurrected from the dead through alien secrets.

Allen is more important and has more research value.

However, when the danger came, Sakhir had only Rafael who was always complaining in his mind.

It's weird... so weird...

"Boom-boom-"

However, in today's harsh situation, no matter how complicated his mind is, Sakhir doesn't have any room to continue to think carefully.The sound of the explosion became more and more obvious, and the light in the hall was completely dimmed.

What is even more frightening is that in such a serious explosion, there was no sound of sirens, and no sign of activation of any emergency facilities. All this shows that the base's software system has completely failed, and the disintegration is getting closer...

"What should we do? Do you have a way?"

Sakhir looked directly at Belian and asked.

But what he didn't expect was that Belian turned his head at this moment and looked deeply at Allen.

"Alan, tell me what we should do..."

Bellian asked very piously.

Sakir frowned tightly.

He couldn't figure out why Belian would ask Allen this question.

Just kidding, how could Allen know what to do in this situation.

Just a few minutes ago, Allen had just been resurrected from a dead body into a human being, and he was still in a trance and seemed very unstable...

Not to mention that Allen has always been an ordinary citizen of the earth. How could he know how to escape the people present in such an emergency.You must know that even for senior agents, this is almost an impossible task.

"Outboard maintenance kit..."

Just when Sakhir was thinking this way, he saw Allen whispering weakly suddenly.

"Repair kit? What are you talking about?"

Sakhir couldn't help asking.

Allen raised his hand and pointed to their sides.

The surrounding environment was too dark, and the silver tree had also withered, not giving off the faint light as before.

Sakhir turned on the light of his bracelet and shone in the direction Allen pointed, and then he was shocked to see that not far from them, there were several completely deformed metal boxes.

Although it was already in disrepair, with the dim light, it was still possible to clearly see the items marked on the metal boxes.

【A3798, Heavy-duty Outboard Maintenance Kit】

Sakhir's pupils constricted instantly.

He didn't know how Allen could see the logo on the box in such a dark condition, and he didn't know why in this situation, the sundries that fell from the upper floor happened to be mixed with what they needed most. Survival supplies.

Ha, it's really an extravehicular maintenance kit.

Of course, starting with A as the model number proves that its model number is very old, and it may have been decades ago.But anyway, this is also a short-duration spacesuit that can be used in vacuum environments.

These overalls were originally used for people outside the territory to wear when performing maintenance outside the base, but now, in the absence of a lifeboat, wearing these sets can at least allow them to barely survive in the vacuum space environment. last a short time.

However, if you think about it carefully, living in the universe for half an hour, or an hour, doesn't seem to have much meaning.

But... But they got these traps, it seems that it is some kind of providence in the dark.

Especially considering the calm expressions of Belian and Wu Jieyada, Sakhir, who was originally exceptionally rational, also became a little idealistic at this time.

Sakhir strode forward, and together with Wu Jieyada directly opened the deformed metal box with brute force.

Some parts fell out of it: helmet, oxygen tank, short-term survival kit, spare airbag, protective clothing that can cope with absolute zero...

The extremely thick and particularly ugly orange-red spacesuit represented a very slim hope of survival at this moment.

Those present did not talk too much nonsense.With astonishing agility, they slipped themselves into these extravehicular maintenance overalls.

I am afraid that even the outsiders who specialize in outdoor maintenance work cannot match their speed at this moment.

"Check the airtightness of the spacesuit and see if there are any holes..."

Sakhir adjusted his helmet, and then used the old-fashioned local area communication device inside the helmet to connect to the personal terminals of Rafael and others, he instructed with the unique vigilance of a Security Bureau agent.

"Have checked, these old things don't have many advanced features, but they are very strong, I'm sure of that."

Raphael's angry voice came from the earphone.

Sakhir was taken aback for a moment, and then he remembered that when he was on Earth, Rafael was in charge of paperwork.

A large part of this is inspecting and approving supplies from various colonies.

He must have known something about this old-fashioned tool suit.

This is good……

Sakhir said to himself from the bottom of his heart, but the uneasy feeling never left

"Boom..."

Just tens of seconds after they had just put on their overalls, another explosion was heard above their heads, and this time the explosion brought more falling objects and a more ominous premonition.

This time, Sakhir looked at Allen actively, and then asked in a low voice

"What shall we do next?"

While asking questions.Sakhir was also thinking desperately.

After wearing work clothes, they can not fear the vacuum environment for a period of time, which allows them to pass through the areas that have completely lost their life support systems in the central axis area.

As long as they can find another small spaceship in the central axis area, maybe they still have a chance...

However, the explosion caused by the disintegration was so serious, I am afraid that they have no way to go out from the original passage.Sakhir was even skeptical that there were any intact roads beyond the door of the hall.

What's more, in places like the central axis area, with the habits of the original managers, it is impossible for them to allow people outside the territory to have their own transport ships...

"Sakhir, do you still have a weapon?"

Alan's response came from the communicator, and Sakhir was half a beat behind before replying.

"Yes, what's wrong with me?"

"The next thing we have to do is very simple..."

Allen said.

Sakhir saw a bulky orange-red figure, raised his arm, and pointed to the edge of the hall.

"Belian told me that there is an abandoned airlock door. If the control panel is destroyed, the airlock door will pop open automatically, and then we can leave the base."

"Sorry, did I hear you right? You mean, we're going to take the initiative to go into outer space... just wearing these work clothes on us?"

Sakhir tried to restrain his emotions, he asked.

"Yes."

Allen's voice sounded hollow and ethereal, like sleepwalking.

If he hadn't found the overalls accurately before, Sakhir would never have followed his orders.

But now, after a brief silence, he suddenly took a step and walked towards the direction Allen pointed.

According to Allen's request, he found the rusted airlock door control panel in the dark.

"If we just go into outer space like this...we can only live for half an hour at most, an hour at most. These old-fashioned work clothes are equipped with very old life support systems and cannot last long at all. And once the protective clothing fails, we The only fate is to become a mummified corpse directly in outer space."

Before pointing the gun at the control center panel and pulling the trigger, Sakhir said to Allen in a hoarse tone.

"Do as I say."

But Allen didn't seem to understand Sakhir's warning at all.He just continued to whisper in that unnervingly hollow voice.

"Well, God bless us."

Sakhir let out a long sigh, then gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger.

With the green smoke coming out of the control panel, the airlock door made a piercing sound, and then the door was slowly lifted.

The entire hall began to decompress violently due to the opening of the airlock door.

Sakhir, Rafael, Allen, Belian, and Wujie Yada were all suddenly pulled out of the Tianmao human military base in an instant.

The bright flames that were constantly flashing due to the explosion were reflected on the somewhat blurred helmet.

The huge figure of the Black Swan seemed to hang above their heads, and small but bright bright spots appeared on the dark surface from time to time. Sakhir knew that the guy was actually far, far away from him, and it was also exploding.

He turned his head to look at the Tianmao human military base. Without the ring zone, the base looked extremely ugly. Surrounded by countless debris, the cylindrical central axis zone was exploding layer by layer from top to bottom. .

However, those explosions are now a little far away from them.

They are floating in the universe, because of the previous decompression airflow, they are slowly being pushed to the far side of the base.

Silence enveloped everyone in an instant, only the whistling sound of electricity came from the built-in communicator, and Raphael's heavy breathing.

"take it easy."

Sakhir took a deep breath of the circulating air with a strong smell of lubricating oil (the smell was unpleasant, but it also made Sakhir feel at ease, after all, the oxygen synthesis system of the overalls was still working) and then he was dry Said to Rafael.

"At least we're alive."

Currently alive.

Sakhir didn't mention the word "present" lest he continue to think about it.

He noticed that except for Rafael and himself who were extremely tense, Alan, Belian, and Wu Jieyada were all extremely calm. If he didn't listen carefully, he couldn't even hear their breathing.

"Next, what should I do?"

he asked again.

This time it was still Allen who responded to him.

"Berrian told me that the overalls in the mid-axis area have a spare air bag that allows us to live in a vacuum for an extra 30 minutes."

"Oh, that sounds good..."

Sakhir said with an insincere voice.

But then he heard Allen continue: "The next thing we have to do is to open that airbag..."

He paused, then spoke again.

"We also need to be a little bit further from base."

"..."

Sakhir was silent for a long, long time this time.

"Cough, Alan," Rafael murmured for him, "If that's the case, we'll drift directly to the depths of the universe... Although the base exploded, we're floating here, at least A marker, but with airbags, we'll soon be..."

Will be lost forever in the distant, dark and boundless universe.

Like Sakhir reminded before, wait until the oxygen is exhausted, and then become a mummified body in the spacesuit.

This method of death is even better than death due to an explosion—this is the deepest fear that all human beings have hidden deep in their hearts from the moment they set foot on the universe.

"We have to distance ourselves from it."

Allen pointed to the distance, and the shadow of the Black Swan floated in the universe like a ghost.

"It's about to explode."

Allen whispered.

"Unlike the base, once the Black Swan explodes, the shock and scatter will kill us all—"

Sakhir's lips moved slightly. He wanted to ask Alan how he knew about the Black Swan, but in the end he shut his mouth tightly.

He silently followed the others, and forcefully pried open the spare airbag on his waist.

The airbag pushes the five of them into the dark depths of the universe, and not long after, the Black Swan in the distance suddenly bursts out a ball of dazzling white light.

It exploded.

At that moment, Sakhir instinctively closed his eyes, but even so, the light still penetrated his eyelids like a steel needle and pierced into his eyeballs. The strong light made him burst into tears involuntarily until he was ten. After a few seconds he still had trouble seeing.

It was precisely because of this that when other people's exclamations came from the communicator, it took Sakhir a long time to realize what had happened.

"Alan—no—Alan—"

Rafael was literally howling in the communicator.

Sakhir blinked hard, looking at Alan's previous position - Alan was not there.

When the black swan exploded, a tiny piece of metal scraped past him like a stray bullet at high speed caused by the violent explosion.

A huge hole was broken in Allen's spacesuit, he lost control completely, and the whole person began to drift away in another direction very quickly, completely uncontrollably.

At the moment when Sakhir finally regained some vision, Allen only had a small, orange shadow in their field of vision.