The night sky is as clear as wash.
There is no large gravitational field around the asteroid, and it is far away from other celestial bodies, so the big stars cannot be seen with the naked eye. When the false sun of the artificial energy tower turns to the other side, the sky will be sprinkled with diamonds, When it's sunny, it's as close as you can reach it.
The temperature here is always a comfortable 24 degrees Celsius, the night wind is always gentle, and there is never a word from aliens, and it is always silent.
This is a space prison.
In ancient times, people built the most severe prisons on desert islands, surrounded by sea, to prevent prisoners from escaping. Shield the network to isolate all signals inside and outside.
Squatting in a prison on an isolated island, if you have good health and luck, there is still a chance to jump into the sea to escape, but how do people in a space prison escape gravity and fly into the vast universe
Lin Jingheng thought that this was a question to give points. According to the general practice, as long as the "jailer" was killed, it was enough.
This is his old skill, since the day he could barely control his body and walk up against the wall for a while, he started planning it. The opium chip is very powerful. It can make manpower infinite, precisely control electronic equipment, and can create hallucinations. The latter two are technical problems, and his temporary ally Dr. Harden can be responsible for solving them. As for the infinite power, for Lin Jingheng It's not an obstacle, he wanted to kill and escape from prison, and he didn't plan to win the arm wrestling contest.
But soon, he found that it wouldn't work, because Lin Jingshu had no room to do things.
Everything on this asteroid is self-sufficient, with a very complete ecological cycle system, and it can live for thousands of years. The entire planet uses inefficient energy. Even if General Lin has boundless mana and can use brain waves to assemble a mecha, it will not be able to fly.
Those "jailers" were just like him. They had no means of communicating with the outside world. They were even worse than his prisoners. They had to work every day to maintain a clean and livable environment in this space prison.
Lin Jingheng didn't believe it at first, because this phenomenon was illogical and inhumane. Put a group of people who have their own ghosts in a confined space. It is impossible for these people to live step by step like ants. They are usually like the poisonous insects in the legendary gu jar, and it is not surprising that they do anything to each other. . And after Lin Jingheng woke up, for at least ten months, he was re-running his body and rehabilitated with difficulty. How could these "jailers" who were trapped here because of him didn't want his life
But the strange thing is that these jailers are really like conscientious ants. The guards patrol dutifully every day, and the medical team takes good care of him - anyway, than the eighth galaxy that can make patients get out of the medical cabin by themselves. Hospitals are stronger.
Only then did Lin Jingheng discover the horror of this space prison.
Here, except for him and Dr. Harden, everyone has implanted chips. The chips seem to have invaded the "source code" of these people's brains, rewriting them like rewriting programs, even though their daily communication is very normal and their personalities are different. , there are some people who are quite professional, even erudite and humorous, but they don't have a "get out of here" awareness in their minds.
Every time a related topic is brought up, the conversation turns into a chicken-and-duck conversation, with the other person unnaturally failing to understand the concept.
When Lin Jingshu was about to leave, she not only destroyed all the devices on this planet that could escape gravity, but also washed people's brains.
On this planet, he and Dr. Harden are the only ones who can do the action of "looking up at the stars".
Lin Jingheng walked upstairs, and the gust of wind blew the hem of his shirt.
His 2,000th attempt to crack the shielding net failed, and the signal he sent was in vain.
But his mood is fairly stable - anyone who has experienced more than 2,000 failures will be emotionally stable. Lin Jingheng lit a cigarette for herself, narrowed her eyes, and soaked in the white smoke one after another. The tobacco leaves were grown by themselves on the planet. The guards picked them up, dried them, and rolled them in paper rolls. It was fine, but the taste was a bit pungent. The tobacco rolls looked very simple.
"I can't imagine it," someone behind him suddenly said, "our earth ancestors lived on a planet not much bigger than this, trapped on the ground by gravity for generations, and every night, countless people carried At the beginning, they looked at the Milky Way above their heads, but they were just like those chip people, they never thought that the earth was a 'space prison', they only made up stories and fortune-telling for those stars, and never wanted to escape outside."
As soon as Lin Jingheng tilted his head, Dr. Harden's wheelchair rolled over smoothly. He was getting older, and he had grown into a mass of flesh that couldn't see the outline clearly. Lin Jingheng was always afraid that he would just pass by without taking a breath.
"So, what is freedom?" Dr. Harden continued, "You keep a dying bug in a small house of several square meters, and it dies before it has time to crawl the border. It is on the road all its life, you Is it freedom? You, now own a whole planet, and the people below, you let them grow tobacco, they dare not grow wheat, but you still feel that you are imprisoned, you and the bug, who is more pathetic? "
Lin Jingheng paused and replied calmly: "'I can tolerate darkness, if I have never seen the sun.'"
"'Yet the sun has made me desolate, a new desolation. I sip the mellowness of life, and what I have paid, tell you, no more, no less, a whole life.' (Note)" Dr. Harden took him lowly. "An ancient poem that your grandfather liked very much."
Lin Jingheng sighed silently, thinking to himself: here he is again.
Dr. Harden is too old. Although his brain is adequate most of the time, he is occasionally confused. Every now and then, he has to pull out the vivid past of his youth, and he can always refer to his grandfather Ringle, After listening to the same story a hundred times, Lin Jingheng was too lazy to pretend to listen carefully.
He sat down on the spot, flicked the ash downstairs, and continued to figure out how to break through the shielding net, using Dr. Harden's babble as the background rap music.
"In the last era, the eight galaxies were full of gunpowder smoke. Some people claimed to be a regime after occupying one planet and several satellites around them. They were fighting every day, chaotic, and very cruel. The common people were like you and me, imprisoned on the ground. , we will not be free in our whole life. We people gathered in a small space at the beginning, which was the Fortress of Angel City. At that time, Brother Lin was one of the backbones. Woolf and I were both young and were his little followers. ."
"I remember Brother Lin said that he wants everyone in the world to be born with the same dignity, to be able to explore their own boundaries for life, to expand the breadth of life infinitely, and everyone to live according to their own wishes. You can express yourself freely, and you can freely come and go anywhere in the universe.”
The founder of the Declaration of Freedom in the early years wanted to break the cage under people's feet and realize natural human rights and freedom, but this goal was too illusory, or the fact that the Eden Management Committee later did - brainwashing everyone into a hut with the Garden of Eden The worms, let them think they have human rights and freedom, and live foolishly and happily.
Lin Jingheng listened to the central idea of the Declaration of Freedom, but felt nothing. He was not someone who was easily touched. He thought: Generally speaking, there are only two or three common principles for the shielding net of space prisons. Now they have tried countless ways to crack each idea, and they are about to run out of skills. Could it be that he wasted a few years in the eighth galaxy? Has the technology of prison shielding network advanced suddenly
As long as there is a supercomputer that can let him analyze it, the key is that they are living the life of primitive people now, and all their ideas can only be conjectures of a blind cat hitting a mouse, and every experiment depends on luck. In the past ten years, he may have been close to success countless times, but because everything is done blindly, even if it is one centimeter away from success, they themselves don't know it, and maybe they will change their thinking after a shortfall.
Thinking of this, Lin Jingheng couldn't help but feel a little anxious even if he felt that his heart had been ground into an ancient well.
Is it difficult to wait for unexpected aliens to discover this asteroid
Dr. Harden continued: "Lingle was our eldest brother and took care of many war orphans, including me and Woolf. You know, there were rumors in the early years that Woolf's attachment to him was too strong, beyond average. friend."
Lin Jingheng was frowning and twisting the cigarette butt to the ground, when he heard this sentence, his thoughts suddenly stopped: ""
What the hell
"It is said that Woolf once got drunk and called Brother Lin's name repeatedly." Harden showed a sly smile on his face, "But it's all chasing the wind and I haven't confirmed it. People, Ringel and his wife have a very good relationship. After the rumors spread, the two consciously avoided suspicion and rarely appeared together. Brother Lin and the husband and wife did not see the birth of the alliance. Your father was many years later. Born with frozen cells, Woolf was given custody as soon as he was born, and he has always regarded him as his own. He was alone all his life, taught a Lu Xin, brought up a Lin Wei, and Lu Xin recovered When the Eighth Galaxy was promoted to general, Woolf was less than 200 years old, and he already had the intention of delegating power to the next generation. I went to see him once, and I said he was too optimistic, and the alliance had gone astray. If this goes on like this, the Military Commission will become a tiger in a cage. He will regret it. He doesn't believe me until the Garden of Eden is seen, and the alliance is hard to come back. It's stuck in the bones of eight galaxies, and there must be an external force to break this situation."
Lin Jingheng: "Is this the reason why he colluded with the interstellar pirates to come in and kill?"
"Break the old completely, and there is new hope. We have reached a dead end. We must reset everything to zero and start all over again." Harden said, "He doesn't have much time to struggle and reform slowly. Can I go all out—Jingheng, telling you this, I want to ask you, if you go out and find that the outside world has a new pattern, will you break it all for revenge?"
Lin Jingheng automatically ignored the others and grabbed the main point of his words: "What do you mean, do you have any new ideas on how to break the barrier?"
"Fourteen years ago, the asteroid orbited near the star, and the disturbance of the particle flow woke you up from the sleeping fine net," Dr. Harden said, "suggesting that the planet's shielding net and anti-interference ability are not enough to resist stellar particles. Storm, if I'm not mistaken, there's still a month left, we'll revolve back to the same location, that's when the shielding net is at its most unstable, maybe there's a chance."
Qi Xingxing, the command center of the Galaxy City base, Turan was very surprised when he received a communication from Lu Bixing.
Lu Bixing rarely contacted her directly. If he had official business, he would either submit documents directly, or ask a large group of people to organize a meeting.
Over the years, the Eight Stars have quelled civil strife, hoarded armaments, and moved towards the path of becoming a soldier for all people. But Lu Bixing and Turan's personal friendship was drifting away, and the anesthetic in the elevator drowned this friendship, and they could never go back. When the two met occasionally, one was called "General Manager" and the other was called "General Turan".
Turan immediately connected to his personal terminal: "What's the matter, Chief?"
"Mint and the others have done a special study on the wormhole area. The expedition team is going to set off again to test the theory. I need you to send an armed escort to accompany you." Lu Bixing said, "We don't know what's going on outside. When it comes to the wreckage of the mecha, if they go a little further this time, they may encounter other interstellar weapons, so be fully prepared."
Turan responded happily, but was a little strange in his heart—for this matter, Lu Bixing signed an order and went directly to the command center.
Lu Bixing hesitated for a moment: "There is one more thing, I want to ask you, when Lin Zai was 'assassinated' in the Heart of the Rose, did he have any contact with you until the war suddenly broke out? He will come to the eighth galaxy beforehand. Is it planned?"
"Strictly speaking, it doesn't count as a constant connection. We were still in the Silver Fortress at that time, and the signal would be intercepted. We had to escape from the Silver Fortress first and then re-establish the long-distance connection at the place he designated. He will arrive at the first place. Going to the Eighth Galaxy is indeed planned in advance, the Eighth Galaxy is not under the control of the Garden of Eden." Turan said this, remembered something, and added, "But his movements are much faster than I imagined, Zhan Lu is Zhan Lu - what?"
Lu Bixing raised his eyebrows gently - when he picked up Lin Jingheng, Zhan Lu's energy consumption was completely drained and he was in standby mode. Operation, Lin Jingheng was forced to lie down in the eco-cabin for more than three months, so can this be considered "fast action"
Lu Bixing had some doubts that Lin Jingheng did not float back according to the planned route, but passed through the wormhole area of the Heart of the Rose.
Turan said: "Zhan Luli has a record of the specific plan. I have been waiting for orders with Baiyinjiu. It's better that he knows the details."
Lu Bixing nodded at her absentmindedly and cut off the communication - Zhanlu didn't have any records in this paragraph, and Zhanlu didn't have any records about Lin Jingheng's ecological cabin. Zhanlu's own explanation was because he was on standby at the time state.
But wait so thoroughly
I always feel that this silly ai has deleted the file artificially.
Lu Bixing thought of this problem at first, because he was worried that other people knew about the wormhole area of the Heart of the Rose, which would cause security risks to the eighth galaxy, so he went to Zhanluli to find the records of that year, but unexpectedly found some records in Zhanluli There are traces of deletion.
Very scattered, and some of them seem to be related to Cyclops.
The most obvious one, Lu Bixing clearly remembered, was in the base of the stinky sister, Lin Jingheng overturned the entire team of Yuan Yiren by himself, and he was brought back. Soon after he came back, it seemed that he was alone with the one-eyed eagle. There was a quarrel - he saw it through surveillance at the time, and he deliberately turned the camera to attract the attention of the two.
But there is no record.
who deleted it? Why
Lu Bixing strolled to the cemetery and stood in front of the one-eyed eagle tomb for a while: "Are you two hiding something from me?"
The Cyclops was silent.
At the end of May 293 in the new ephemeris of the Alliance, the eleventh year of the Eighth Galaxy Independence Era, the interstellar expedition passed through the wormhole area for the second time and entered the human forbidden area, the Heart of the Rose.
Fourteen years later, an asteroid on the outer periphery of the sixth galaxy revolves to its closest position to its star.
In the same year, the President of the Glory Regiment, who had held the first galaxy hostage and confronted the alliance for more than ten years, was assassinated by his subordinates, and the Glorious Regiment officially surrendered.
The countless complex lines of history converge at one point—
The author has something to say: I can tolerate the darkness if I hadn't seen the sun - by Emily Dickinson (USA)
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