Star Chart’s Edge

Chapter 46: The Devouring Figure (Part 1)

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In the vast starry sky, the ion shield in front of the Nanmen ship flickered. Several small meteorites hit the shield and were then decomposed by the high temperature of the ions on the shield. But at this moment, the Nanmen ship's hull was gradually is shifting in one direction.

Just after feeling the violent vibrations of the ship's hull several times, the entire ship's hull instantly moved sideways towards the 3 o'clock direction. Everyone felt a force pulling in their bodies. This pulling increased from small to large. Before he could react, his body fell to the side involuntarily.

"Be careful!" The person who spoke was Fang Mobei. When the huge power arrived, Fang Mobei quickly grabbed the handle beside him, and grabbed Binks beside him with the other hand.

Binks was shocked and pale, and before he could realize what was happening, he found that his wrist was clamped by Fang Mobei's hand. He felt relieved and secretly blamed himself for not fastening his seat belt.

Fang Mobei's strength was enough to contend with the unbalanced centripetal force under such a gravity imbalance. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Xue Gushan was missing from the captain's seat. He quickly sat Binx down. After fastening the seat belt on the seat, he started looking for Xue Gushan.

"Saihu! Correct the hull level!" Fang Mobei shouted loudly.

"Correct the hull level and activate the auxiliary propulsion," Sai Hu replied.

Fang Mobei's dexterous figure was moving around in the command room, and he soon discovered Xue Gushan's position. He saw her back pressed against the wall, and her breathing was becoming more and more difficult. It was not just Xue Gushan, There are other people in the command room. Although they are fixed to their seats by seat belts, the huge gravity has made them unable to move. Only physical practitioners like Fang Mobei have the physical strength to survive in such an environment. Stay at ease.

"Mobei, how are you doing there?" Gu Yiyi's voice sounded in Fang Mobei's headset.

"I'm working hard to control the posture of the ship here. You take Blake and the others to help others," Fang Mobei replied. At this time, only the special service team members can move freely.

Fang Mobei kicked his legs on the table and flew towards Xue Gushan like a sharp arrow.

Xue Gushan felt Fang Mobei flying towards her. She subconsciously stretched out her hand to accept Fang Mobei's help, but even though she exerted all her strength, it was of no use. All she could do was breathe hard. Waiting for Fang Mobei's rescue.

Fang Mobei successfully helped Xue Gushan and jumped towards the captain's position, but at this moment, the gradually weakening pulling power came online again, throwing Fang Mobei and Xue Gushan aside.

"Sai Hu, what's going on!" The moment he lost his balance, he quickly grabbed the handle on the seat.

"The auxiliary thruster has lost connection, and the hull's toughness limit has reached 80%. The hull will be disintegrated. It is recommended to activate the escape alarm immediately," Saihu reminded.

Xue Gushan put on the oxygen mask with difficulty and said, "The auxiliary thruster can be connected manually, but you have to go outside the cabin."

"Saihu, give me guidance, hurry up!" Fang Mobei knew that this was not the time to hesitate and consider. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, he had to work hard.

"Be careful!" Xue Gushan looked at Fang Mobei who was walking away, tried her best to squeeze out these two words, and then fainted.

Fang Mobei came to the inspection cabin as quickly as possible, holding the guidance rings with both hands, and then quickly put on an off-white space suit with the help of a robotic arm.

The spacesuit is made of nanomaterials and fits the human body. The thin and light design is not cumbersome at all. A high-concentration oxygen tank on the back can provide two hours of normal breathing. The magnetic power supply on the back supplies all the instruments on the spacesuit. equipment.

"Captain, TU8 is to cooperate with your extravehicular operations." Saihu's voice sounded in the headset. At the same time, the wall opened from the middle, revealing a white robot.

Jumping out of the inner slot in the wall, the TU8 robot looked like a giant spider, with its three mechanical legs on the left and right moving flexibly on the ground.

Fang Mobei couldn't help but pick up the tool box and attach it to his waist before jumping towards the pressure relief cabin. TU8 quickly followed behind him and moved extremely fast.

"Mobei, be careful." Gu Yiyi's voice rang in Fang Mobei's ears. Obviously she already knew that Fang Mobei was going to leave the cabin and manually connect the auxiliary thruster, but she had no other way besides telling Fang Mobei. Help him.

"It's okay." After leaving the cabin, Fang Mobei first looked around at the surrounding environment, and then said to Gu Yiyi, "Is everything okay over there?"

"We are rushing to the command room"

"Captain, TU8 will lead you. The access connector is on the side and rear of the hull. You need to climb over it," Saihu reminded in the headset.

"Show me the route map on the screen." After saying that, Fang Mobei's helmet displayed the route map to the access connector. It would take at least an hour to climb there according to the route map. Obviously he needed to use other methods to climb there. Arrive at the access point as quickly as possible.

"Saihu, I need to use the gravity pendulum to swing me over and calculate the time node for me." Fang Mobei saw the gravity pendulum on one side. He could only try to borrow the speed of the gravity pendulum to give him a blessing before moving on. Jump over with your own power.

"Captain, the inertia generated at such a speed has exceeded the strength that a C-level physical practitioner can withstand. You are likely to miss when you reach the connection point of the passage." Sai Hu quickly calculated the entire process and replied. Obviously Sai Hu Hu did not suggest that Fang Mobei pass by in this way.

"There's no time." After Fang Mobei locked a lever on the pendulum that was displayed as green on the screen, he jumped with the jumping power of a C-level physical practitioner. His body shot towards the pendulum like a cannonball. The seventh lever, TU8, was attached to his back and flew with him.

The distance between Fang Mobei and the lever is only three hundred meters. With his jumping ability, it only takes a few seconds on earth, but in the universe, the distance of less than three hundred meters is only one or two blinks of an eye. time. He stared at the fleeting seventh lever.

Just when Fang Mobei accurately grasped the seventh lever with both hands, a huge pull came from his arms. His own speed plus the strength of the swing of the gravity pendulum, the combined pulling force of the two It would be extremely uncomfortable even for a C-level taijutsu practitioner. Only then did he understand why Sai Hu did not recommend going in this way. Using the force of the swing of the gravity pendulum plus the force of his leap to the connection point of the passage, It may really exceed your own grip strength.

Fang Mobei had no time to hesitate. Xue Gushan and others had already fallen into a coma. If the auxiliary thruster was not turned on to balance the ship's attitude, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Saihu, the access connector is down there, I've seen it." The location of the access connector has been marked by Saihu, and it has been displayed on Fang Mobei's helmet display.

"The distance is 1800 meters, the pulling force is 7.21 times that of before, and we will take off in 5 seconds." Sai Hu's voice rang in Fang Mobei's ears at the right time.

"I know." After saying this, after waiting for a moment, Fang Mobei quickly jumped towards the location of the access connector.

"Strength deviation, error distance 3 meters"

"What the hell!" After hearing Saihu's alarm, Fang Mobei's heart was freezing. In the universe, he could no longer find anything around him that could be used to change direction, and he was moving at high speed. , he was even more unable to adjust his body's posture and adjust his direction with the help of air resistance.

"Captain, adjust the lateral attitude. I control the attitude adjuster on TU8 to drive your direction." Sai Hu's voice was like a divine joy in Fang Mobei's heart.

Under Saihu's remote control, the tail of TU8 sprayed out a long white mist. In the entire 1,800-meter air, Fang Mobei relied on the thrust of TU8 to accurately fly towards the location of the access connector. Due to the flight With the change in posture, Fang Mobei's hands could no longer touch the handle on one side.

"Nah!" A muffled groan came from Fang Mobei's nasal cavity. His chest hit the hull of the Nanmen ship hard. A sharp pain came from his ribs. His body was on the ship. The body left a medium-deep dent and was bounced away by the hull. At the moment it bounced off, TU8 successfully broke away from Fang Mobei's back and adsorbed on the hull of the Nanmen ship. TU8's A slender steel cable shot out of the abdomen and wrapped around Fang Mobei's right leg.

"Captain, the life detection instrument of the space suit has detected that two of your ribs are broken. Do you need an injection of protein alcohol activator? There may be effects after the injection." Saihu reminded, and at the same time, the protein alcohol was displayed on Fang Mobei's screen. Alcohol Activator is the green injection he used on Triton before.

"No need", Fang Mobei opened the hull of the ship and found the access connector. The two forelimbs of TU8 quickly repaired the damage on the module board on the connector. Fang Mobei pulled out the I found the paralyzed circuit chip, found a replacement chip from the tool box behind me, and inserted it into it.

"Saihu, confirm the NIOPO removal procedure on the replacement cover. The first and second parts have been completed," Fang Mobei said.

"MDA, N1, N4, N5 and N6 have been completed" Saihu replied.

"Mobei, the medical system shows that your electrocardiogram reading is not normal. How do you feel?" Gu Yiyi asked worriedly as she looked at Fang Mobei's electrocardiogram on the screen in the command room.

"I'm fine, how are the others?"

"Blake and the others have put on auxiliary respirators for everyone, so there will be no hypoxia for the time being. Fortunately, the toughness coefficient of the ship has returned to normal, but the pressure coefficient of human organs is almost close to the critical point." Gu Yishen After taking a breath, he said, "If we don't get changes, there will be casualties in 10 minutes."

"You take Blake and the others to the towing aircraft. If things get to the worst, we have to ensure that the situation here is transmitted back to the Tiangong." Fang Mobei said eagerly, "Saihu, haven't the access connectors been repaired yet? Why is the auxiliary thruster not responding?"

"Exhaust failure, reactor exhaust failure." Saihu's voice sounded in Fang Mobei's headset. "It has been restarted three times, but the outer door does not respond."

"What happened to falling to the ground!" Gu Yiyi's voice was already hysterical. The person she loved most was always facing crisis in the universe. The originally faulty access connector had been repaired, but at this time there was a problem with the exhaust system of the reactor. , how could this not make her feel angry.

"The exhaust door is stuck. The door needs to be opened from the outside to allow the reactor to cool down, otherwise the entire ship will face an explosion," Saihu explained.

Fang Mobei took a deep breath of oxygen and forced his anxious mood to calm down. "What should I do? Where should I go to open that door?"

"Captain, I don't recommend you do this," Saihu said slowly after transmitting the relevant information to Fang Mobei. Obviously at this moment, even Saihu, the artificial intelligence, was not optimistic about Fang Mobei opening the door.

Just when Fang Mobei took back the TU8 maintenance spider and started to go to the reactor exhaust port, Gu Yiyi stopped moving forward. Blake and others turned back to look at Gu Yiyi. They all knew that their captain Fang Mobei They were about to do something, but they didn't speak, because no matter what they said, they couldn't represent their respect for the captain Mobei.

"Mobei" Gu Yiyi took a deep breath, controlled the tears that were about to burst out of her eyes and said, "I must come back."