How could the spacecraft emit such a huge vibration when it was in the void of the universe, unless it hit something during the jump...
But the next second, Xiao couldn't help but give up this idea.
It's not a car or a ship. With the speed of the spacecraft, if it really hit something, it would have been torn apart by now. How could it be sitting here unharmed
However, if it didn't hit something, then it was interfered by something
Just when Xiao had no clue, he faintly heard an extremely subtle cry.
The cry was very distant, as if it came from the corridor outside the room. The sound was a little dry, and it was difficult to distinguish between male and female.
Xiao frowned slightly.
Who is crying, one of the ten people who came with him? But he seemed to remember that there was no woman among the ten people who came this time.
If it's not one of the ten people, then it's the original person in the spaceship.
Xiao thought about it and didn't care about it, but having said that, the spacecraft seemed to have stopped after making the jump. What was going on
With Xiao's keen perception, he could feel that the spacecraft beneath him had stopped flying, which was not a good sign for him in outer space.
If it didn't stop because it hit something, then the thruster engine stalled, would the fusion engine also stall
Xiao was even more confused and secretly worried.
"Woo..."
Just when Xiao was worried, the cry suddenly sounded again outside the door. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xiao felt that the sound seemed to be getting louder.
At the same time, the vague smell of sulfur became even stronger...
At this moment, Xiao suddenly felt palpitations, as if he was being targeted by something. He moved his butt uneasily and moved further into the bed.
Is it an illusion? Why does that voice sound vaguely familiar
Just when he was wondering, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor. This sound had a heavy feeling, echoing in the long and narrow corridor, with a special gloominess.
That footsteps were not a…
Xiao was a little surprised. Although the footsteps were uniform, but with his keen hearing as a blind person, he quickly judged the existence of accents. At least two people were approaching here with the same steps.
Is it the owner of the cry just now
Xiao felt a little uneasy. He raised his head and faced the direction he came in, silently listening to the sounds that kept coming.
"Dong, dong, dong..."
Finally, the series of footsteps stopped outside Xiao's door, and then stopped suddenly. At the same time, there was a creak of unlocking the door.
"who is it?"
Xiao couldn't help but asked loudly.
"This is the person who came to pick you up."
However, the visitor did not answer, and the voice from the previous broadcast came again, "Mr. Xiao, you go to the bridge immediately, I have a task to assign to you."
Xiao only felt that the two people came in front of him, held his arms and raised them up. From the sounds, the physical fitness of the two seemed to be extremely exaggerated. He could even hear the thumping and beating in the other's chest.
Immediately, the two of them walked toward the outside world with Xiao on their backs.
"what happens?"
Xiao felt that something was wrong with the situation, and he quickly asked, "Didn't you just say that we were leaping? Why now... "
"The Courageous Assault has completed its jump."
The female voice came, but it came from above the head, and as Xiao continued to move forward, the voice also passed backwards, "But we encountered a spacecraft malfunction. According to the order of the commander, once the spacecraft If something goes wrong, I’ll take you out and maybe you’ll have a solution.”
"Spaceship malfunction?"
Xiao became even more confused. He said with some anxiety, "Although I want to help you, I am not a mechanical engineer. If you are looking for me, you are probably looking for the wrong person."
"This is an order from Your Majesty the Commander."
The voice continued, "I'm just the brain of the spacecraft. My authority only allows me to solve problems according to preset situations."
"What?"
Xiao Wenyan was suddenly shocked. He was originally a practitioner in the IT industry, so he naturally understood the meaning of this sentence. He raised his head in disbelief and said, "What are you talking about? You are not talking to me through the communicator? "
"no."
The voice replied calmly, "I am just the brain of the spacecraft, or the main control system, but I am not a human being."
"This, how is this possible..."
Xiao felt that his body and mind were shaken. If the other party was not taking advantage of him for fun, wouldn't it mean that Blackwatch Company had already had the ability to create strong artificial intelligence
You know, whether it is bionic humans or XTN robots on the market today, they are only weak artificial intelligence. The reason why they can easily communicate with people is only because of the existence of cloud servers. Without the network, these weak artificial intelligences become a An idiot who can't even do basic work.
Strong artificial intelligence is different. It is a being that can truly think independently and has its own emotions and cognition. It can even be called an intelligent life!
"Nothing is impossible. As far as I know, my maternal body was born more than ten years ago."
Zhinao continued, "Now is not the time to focus on this problem, Mr. Xiao, I need your help."
Xiao suddenly sighed and asked tentatively, "What do you need me to do?"
"The Courage Assault seems to be imprisoned by some kind of existence."
Zhinao replied, "This is my third subspace jump experiment. The first time it was normal, but the second time this happened. In the end, it took me five hours to successfully break free."
"How did you break free then?"
Xiao continued to ask while silently digesting the clues in his words.
"As far as I know, this kind of confinement is not permanent. It will disappear automatically over time, and then the spacecraft can escape from the subspace."
"Then why can't we wait a little longer this time?"
Xiao was even more confused.
"Because the longer it stays in subspace, the higher the mortality rate of the crew it carries."
Zhinao replied, "The subspace airflow is corrosive. The longer it stays, the more it will corrode the outer shell of the spacecraft. I am not sure whether I can escape successfully this time. Maybe the spacecraft will disintegrate before I can break free."
Hearing what the other party said, Xiao's heart suddenly tightened, "What do you mean? Why does the crew's mortality rate increase the longer they stay? What is subspace?"
"The so-called subspace is a world that does not belong to the real universe."
Zhi Nao explained patiently, "It has a characteristic, that is, when it sails into subspace, the distance to the main universe can be shortened in a straight line. The ratio between the two sides is about one to ten thousand, which means that when sailing one kilometer in subspace, It is equivalent to sailing 10,000 kilometers in the main universe. With this characteristic, the navigation cycle of the spacecraft can be greatly reduced, making interstellar travel commonplace."
"It turned out to be like this..."
Xiao was completely shocked, but before he had time to think about it, he heard the other party state again, "However, subspace navigation also has side effects, and that is its danger. The danger of sailing in subspace is dozens of times that of the main universe. This time it only stayed in the subspace for five hours, and nine of the ten crew members died, all of whom died of madness."
"It's actually... it's so dangerous..."
Xiao Wenyan's heart became more urgent, and while the two were talking, he was finally brought to the destination. Xiao felt the two people holding him beside him stepped on their feet, and at the same time they let go of him.
"This is the bridge of the spacecraft."
Zhinao continued, "And your task is to open your eyes."
"Open your eyes? I'm a blind person. It shouldn't be of any use to open my eyes..."
Xiao suddenly wondered. Although he said this, he still opened his eyes according to the other party's order.
In an instant, Xiao was choked on his words. His eyes widened and he looked at everything in front of him in shock -
What caught his eyes were two diamond-shaped floor-to-ceiling windows. Inside the floor-to-ceiling windows was darkness, or in other words, nothingness. That was his original vision, but outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, he saw a sea of endless black vines. These things were entangled in the sky. In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, it spreads to the end of the sight...
"What's this… "
Xiao's body trembled and he took two steps back involuntarily.
"Tell me, what did you see?"
In his ears, the brain of the spaceship asked again.
"You, can't you see?"
Xiao's cheeks twitched slightly, and he looked away from the endless black vines, "There are many vine-like things wrapping the entire spacecraft, and they can also move, like biological tissues..."
After hearing Xiao's words, the voice suddenly fell silent, and after a long time he spoke again, "Yes, I can't see it. Not only me, nor ordinary people nor camera equipment can observe the vines you mentioned. In front of us, we can only see endless dark yellow mist... "
"What is the reason?"
Xiao Yi was startled and subconsciously asked.
"I think this may have something to do with your superpowers."
Zhi Nao guessed, "In subspace, only people who have lost their eyesight can initially observe the operation of subspace, and your superpower is to observe psychic energy. Perhaps it is the superposition of these two reasons that led to your ability to observe subspace." of reality.”
"reality… "
Xiao couldn't help but shook his head and did not continue to speak.
At this moment, a cold cry suddenly came from behind Xiao. The moment he heard the cry, Xiao's body trembled slightly. He turned around in shock, but only saw nothingness behind him.
That's right, outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is the world of subspace, and inside the floor-to-ceiling windows is a spaceship involving reality, and I can't see the scene inside the spaceship...
Xiao suddenly realized that his behavior once again prompted Zhinao to ask, "Mr. Xiao, when you turned around just now, your heart rate increased by 80% and your blood pressure increased by 50%. What's the reason? ?”
"Didn't you hear that?"
This time, it was Xiao's turn to be confused, "There must be a female passenger in your spaceship. I just heard her crying, and her voice was quite permeable."
“…”
Zhinao was silent for a moment, and then said, "Sorry, there are no female passengers on our spaceship. Including you, there are only ten members of the Black Knights and ten psyker experimenters on the spacecraft."
"What?"
Xiao's pupils shrank, and he quickly looked behind him again, but the other party reminded him again, "Is it because you keep looking behind you because that voice came from behind you?"
"Yes... that voice was about twenty or thirty meters away from me."
Xiao nodded quickly and estimated the distance.
"The length of the spacecraft is only thirty meters, Mr. Xiao."
Zhinao said, "And two meters behind you is the isolation gate of the bridge. In terms of sturdiness, it can resist the shooting of small-caliber pulse rifles; in terms of sound insulation, even if a gun is fired outside, nothing can be heard here. Sound.”
"Are you kidding me?"
Xiao Wenyan felt even more uneasy. From what he said, he knew that being exposed to subspace was very dangerous. The longer the time, the higher the mortality rate. However, although he had found the reason why the spacecraft could not move forward, he could not help at all. , we can only let the spacecraft wait in place...
And now, I even heard weird cries that no one could hear
This cry, this cry...
There seemed to be a barrier in his mind, slowly overlapping with his dusty memories, but at this moment, the cry resounded again!
"Woo..."
In an instant, Xiao felt the hairs all over his body stand up, and his hair was about to explode, because he realized that the voice was less than ten meters away from him!
That cry was actually getting closer to me! !
At this moment, Xiao felt a chill seeping into his bones. He backed away, collapsed on the ground, and stared at the void ahead.
"Mr. Xiao? Mr. Xiao!"
In my ears, the voice of the brain was still coming, but it had gradually lengthened and changed its pitch, losing its original tone like a damp tape.
At the same time, Xiao only felt that there seemed to be something more in front of him...
He stared straight ahead, and in the endless nothingness in front of him, a figure lay on the ground without knowing when.
This figure had no clothes on his body, but there was a lot of blood all over his body. He seemed to be a corpse...
But how could a corpse appear in the sight of a blind man
The corner of Xiao's mouth twitched. He had completely seen clearly that the corpse was actually his wife who had been with him for many years!
Click...
Suddenly, there was a sound of joint movement, and one arm of the corpse seemed to move faintly. This movement affected Xiao's nerves and made his body tremble!
What followed was a nightmare scene - Xiao unexpectedly saw that the other arm of the corpse also moved, and the two arms slowly supported her body. In an instant, the limbs of the corpse actually supported herself. , crawling towards him step by step with an anti-joint appearance!
Xiao felt that all his strength had been drained from his body. He could only collapse in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, watching helplessly as the other party approached him little by little...
"Xiao, Xiao, Xiao..."
A hoarse murmur came from the corpse's mouth, and it slowly crawled in front of him amidst a series of joint noises, and then raised its head like a robot...
Before Xiao collapsed completely, he seemed to smell the pungent sulfur smell coming towards his face...