Escape From the Library

【Deep Starry Sky-05】

At eight o'clock in the morning, everyone gathered on the tarmac on time. The 12 people were all dressed in smart blue camouflage uniforms, standing neatly in two rows, full of energy, and looked really like a special operations force.

Everyone took the suspension vehicle to the spaceship parking place and boarded the spaceship in an orderly manner.

Yue Xingwen came to the console and unlocked the piloting authority of the "Thorn" spacecraft. The buttons on the LCD screen really lit up, flashing a soft blue light.

Ke Shaobin came over and said, "This operating system looks quite simple?"

"Well, the functions of the buttons are clearly written, and laymen like us can control them." Yue Xingwen pressed the "take off" button on the screen, and immediately after, a line of prompts popped up on the screen: "Please set the destination of the flight."

A majestic map of galaxies appeared in front of my eyes.

In the dark blue starry sky, there are many stars twinkling, and some planets are marked with blue light spots, and the spacecraft can land; but most of the planets are in the state of "unselectable", indicating that human beings have not yet reached there, or It is the planet itself that is not suitable for landing.

Yue Xingwen swipe the galaxy map with his fingers, looking for it carefully.Soon, he found the destination of the trip, "Nebula Beta-71". After choosing the destination, two blue navigation paths appeared in front of him.

Yue Xingwen looked back at everyone: "There are two routes, which one should we choose?"

Jiang Pingce came over and observed carefully for a while, and said: "One is a low-speed route, and the sailing time takes 7 days; the other is through a space transition, which spans several galaxies in succession to reach the destination, and the sailing time can be cut in half, only 3 days. Two The conditions encountered on the route may be different."

Yue Xingwen couldn't make a decision alone, so he simply said: "Let's vote. Those who choose route 1 raise their left hand, and those who choose route 2 raise their right hand. The minority obeys the majority." In this way, even if there is danger later, no one will will complain.

The students looked at each other and began to vote——

Eight people raised their left hands and chose the time-consuming Route 8.

Yue Xingwen smiled and said: "It seems that everyone is scared by the library. Would you rather go slower and put safety first?"

Liu Zhaoqing said: "Anyway, there is enough food on the spaceship, and there is room to take a bath. Staying on the spaceship for 7 days is much better than exploring an unknown planet, right?"

Xu Yishen nodded in agreement: "I think so too. This course requires us to survive for a month. It is unnecessary to arrive at the destination so early, to be exposed to the wind and sun all day, and to be worried."

Lin Manluo said, "At least there are no alien monsters on the spaceship attacking us!"

Ke Shaobin, who raised his right hand, wanted to speak, but he forcibly held back when he heard everyone's words.Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Xin Yan leaned into his ear and whispered, "What do you want to say?"

Ke Shaobin said in a low voice: "Although I also want to stay on the spaceship, with food and shelter... But it is not necessarily safe on the spaceship. I always feel that the library will not play cards according to the routine."

Xin Yan said lightly: "Don't worry. I think that deliberately giving us two routes to choose is to test everyone's mentality. In fact, no matter which one we choose, it will not be very easy."

After careful consideration, Ke Shaobin found that Xin Yan's argument was more reasonable.It's like asking you to draw a lottery, giving you two options, and making you think one of them is better than the other.As a result, "Thank you for your patronage" on the left and "Thank you for your participation" on the right - no matter which one you choose, there will be no good results, which is in line with the style of the library.

Thinking of this, Ke Shaobin felt relieved, and looked at Xin Yan with a smile: "It's better for you to see clearly. That's it, take route No. 1, the time will be longer, and we will also have a look at the scenery of the universe along the way."

Yue Xingwen chooses route 1 in the navigation map.

A soft mechanical voice reminded me: "The navigation path has been selected successfully, and a takeoff application has been sent to the command headquarters on the apron. Please sit in the safety seats and fasten your seat belts. The destination of this voyage is Nebula Beta-71 , with a sailing time of 168 hours and 30 minutes."

There is a row of seats next to the command room. Everyone quickly sat down and tied their seat belts around their waists.

A prompt "allowed to take off" appeared on the screen, and the spacecraft began to vibrate violently.

After a while, 10-meter-long blue wings popped up from the left and right sides of the ship, and the sound of the engine's rapid rotation rang in my ears. Immediately afterwards, the metal door on the roof of the apron quickly opened, and the spaceship was released. Like an arrow that leaves the string, it soars into the sky in an instant!

In less than 10 seconds, the spacecraft came to the ground.

Everyone looked out through the portholes—there was scorched earth everywhere, without a trace of green plants. Their underground base was located in the vast desert.

In order to prevent other creatures from invading, an air defense net like a copper wall and iron wall was built above the base. Those laser lines are enough to instantly strangle the approaching creatures into pieces.

As the spacecraft took off quickly, Yue Xingwen saw the landscape of the entire planet—except for the military base where they were located, there were many underground shelters for human survival.There are very few buildings on the surface, and they are usually used for sentry or defense.

A mechanical voice prompts in the ear: "The outside temperature is 48 degrees Celsius, and the air humidity is 10%."

Lin Manluo frowned and said, "Isn't this environment too bad? The humidity suitable for human survival should be between 30% and 60%. The humidity here is only 10%. With the high temperature of 48 degrees, it is more humid than the hot and arid desert." The area is even more terrifying! If a person is in such an environment, within half an hour, he will become dehydrated and go into shock.

Zhuo Feng shrugged helplessly: "It's no wonder that humans want to hide underground, at least it will be cooler underground."

Ke Shaobin analyzed: "It seems that the living planet that humans rediscovered after the destruction of the earth has an extremely harsh environment. The dried vegetables and dried fruits we see in the supermarket may be the seeds that humans brought from the earth and cultivated by themselves. .”

Xin Yan said: "This place is not suitable for plant growth at all. Humans must have special plant cultivation bases. In addition, the oxygen content in the air is not enough, and chemical reactions may be needed to produce oxygen."

Liu Zhaoqing complained: "In short, in this wasteland environment, human life is extremely difficult. I hope that our world will never usher in this day."

Everyone fell silent, turning their heads to look out the window with complicated emotions.

The spacecraft left the atmosphere at an extremely fast speed, and the habitable star quickly turned into a small dot in the eyes of everyone until it disappeared.

The scenery outside the porthole transformed into a vast starry sky.

In the pitch-black sky, meteors glide continuously, and the surrounding planets, large and small, and nebulae of various colors and shapes, make everyone amazed by such a novel and magnificent starry sky landscape.

Ke Shaobin quickly summoned Xiaotu and started shooting: "I'm going to make a starry sky landscape video!"

Xu Yishen said with a smile, "It's much more spectacular than what you can see through the astronomical telescope!"

Everyone excitedly admired the view of the starry sky.

It wasn't until a few hours later that everyone's excitement completely passed.

Yue Xingwen glanced at the navigation map - so far, the Thorn spacecraft has been sailing on the set route, without the slightest bump, very stable.There is oxygen supply equipment inside the spacecraft, and there is no discomfort in breathing or speaking.

Compared with the previous survival class, the treatment this time was so good that it made Yue Xingwen even more uneasy.

He frowned slightly, stared at the navigation for a few more minutes, then turned to look at everyone and said, "It's almost lunch time, get ready to go to the restaurant, and leave two people on duty in the command room."

Jiang Pingce took the initiative to say, "I'll stay."

Yue Xingwen: "... Cough, then I will stay with Ping Ce, you go eat first."

Jiang Pingce is usually unsmiling, Yue Xingwen is worried that other students will be so embarrassed that they have nothing to say if they are on duty with Jiang Pingce—or, he is used to doing everything with Jiang Pingce?

Yue Xingwen looked up at the porthole in front of the command room, and there were two figures reflected on the window. The two boys in smart camouflage uniforms, the height difference was only about 5cm. In front of them was the vast starry sky of the universe. They stood side by side , there is actually a strange...a sense of good fit?

Wait, what is he thinking about!

Yue Xingwen's ears warmed up, and he immediately drove away the strange thoughts in his mind.

From the restaurant not far away, there was a conversation among students: "Do you eat rat meat?"

"No, I want to eat bugs."

"I only accept snake meat."

"Or, try all kinds of flavors to see which meat tastes the best."

"Master Ke, come and taste it!" "Yes, Xiao Ke is a warrior, you must be the first one to eat a crab!"

Ke Shaobin said bluntly: "No problem, I will taste it first, and tell you the taste after tasting."

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce: "..."

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Yue Xingwen couldn't help complaining: "Ke Shaobin is really willing to eat anything that flies in the sky, crawls on the ground, and swims in the water. His recipes are so extensive that even alien creatures can easily accept them."

Jiang Pingce said: "He has a good attitude. The vines steamed by Xin Yan before, didn't they taste delicious?"

Yue Xingwen suppressed a smile and asked, "How about you, can you eat these strange canned food?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, then frowned and said, "I don't really want to eat."

Yue Xingwen thought to himself, it really is.Jiang Pingce has an obsession with spiritual cleanliness. If he is asked to eat rat meat, he would rather go hungry.Fortunately, there are also dried vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator, Yue Xingwen softly suggested: "Then you should eat more dried vegetables, compressed biscuits and the like, which can also supplement nutrition."

Jiang Pingce nodded in agreement: "I think so too."

While chatting, suddenly, the spaceship shook slightly, Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had an illusion, and immediately asked: "Did you feel your feet shaking just now?"

"Well, there is shaking." Jiang Pingce frowned slightly, looking down at the navigation screen.

The small blue dot representing the "Thorn" spacecraft is still on the set interstellar route. Since the route on the screen is converted proportionally, the spacecraft has been moving forward slowly along the route.

——But at this moment, the small dot with blue light was actually motionless.

Jiang Pingce stared at it for two seconds, then his face suddenly changed: "No, the spaceship has stopped!"

Yue Xingwen's expression also became tense: "What's going on? There must be a malfunction, right?"