Star Chart’s Edge

Chapter 47: The Devouring Figure (Part 2)

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Fang Mobei heard Gu Yiyi's voice in the headset. He didn't speak because he no longer knew how to respond to her. Now he just wanted to quickly solve the crisis at hand, then return to Gu Yiyi's side and hold her tightly. .

"Without you, I don't know how I can live," Gu Yiyi said tremblingly. The heartache and fear at this time clearly made her understand what Fang Mobei meant to her. After losing her parents, she was always alone. She lived alone and stubbornly in her own world. It wasn't until she met Fang Mobei that her world became colorful.

Fang Mobei was well aware of Gu Yiyi's worries, but at this moment he didn't want to let sadness envelope them. "If this time is successful, after writing the report tomorrow, I will treat everyone to a drink."

"It's settled." Qi Jingyu was the first to realize the captain's intention, so he immediately took over the words, "Don't forget that Blake likes to drink margaritas." After saying this, Blake and others also laughed and cheered, sadly The atmosphere instantly broke the ice.

"Warning, the reactor cooling system is under load, and the temperature is close to the critical temperature." The main control room alarm sounded in various compartments within the ship.

boom! "Be careful!" The exhaust pipe in the corridor burst suddenly, and the explosion place was right behind Mina. Gu Yiyi was the first to notice something strange about the exhaust pipe, and shouted to Mina loudly at the moment of the explosion. .

"Ah!" Mina cried out in pain.

"What happened? Are you okay?" Fang Mobei asked with concern.

"Mina's back was burned. It's nothing serious. Just be careful there," Gu Yiyi replied.

"Is nothing really wrong?" Fang Mobei was still worried.

"You go ahead." Gu Yiyi turned off the communicator and ignored Fang Mobei's questioning.

Fang Mobei climbed to the tail of the Nanmen ship. He looked at the oxygen value in the lower right corner of the screen, which showed that there was still 65% left. This meant that if he didn't move faster, there was a good chance that there wouldn't be enough oxygen when he returned.

"I'm already in the ventilation duct." Fang Mobei looked at the closed mouth of the duct through the searchlight on his helmet and said, "I see the door." After saying that, he crawled towards the door.

"New anchor point, reset tether" prompts on the helmet screen, the safety rope in the pipe has been connected to the spacesuit.

While Fang Mobei was climbing in the pipe, Gu Yiyi had already brought Blake and others to the flight deck to look for the tow plane among the many fighters and carrier aircraft.

"Captain Gu Yiyi, you are on the flight deck of the Nanmen ship. The temperature there is rising. Please get into the tow truck quickly." Sai Hu's voice sounded in Gu Yiyi's headset.

"Saihu, how is it in Mobei?" Gu Yiyi asked with concern.

"Captain Fang Mobei is already close to the reactor exhaust port," Sai Hu replied.

"Warning! The reactor has reached critical temperature and the energy field shell is unstable." The alarm sounded in each cabin.

"Saihu, tell me, if Mobei manually opens the exhaust pipe valve, will the thermal energy shock generated by the reactor affect him?" Gu Yiyi, who suddenly reacted, pressed the communicator in her ear and set up the encrypted channel to send a message to Saihu. Tiger asked.

Gu Yiyi, who didn't get a reply from Sai Hu, already understood something from Sai Hu's attitude. This was naked deception. Fang Mobei and Sai Hu teamed up to cover up the truth.

"Yes or no!" Gu Yiyi said angrily.

"Captain Gu Yiyi, I completely obey the orders of Captain Fang Mobei. As a subordinate of Captain Fang Mobei, please obey

Captain Fang Mobei’s order”

"I'm going to Fang Mobei!" Gu Yiyi threw away Blake and others and ran towards the pressure relief cabin on the deck. As she ran, she did not forget to give instructions to her artificial intelligence.

Blake and others looked at the supplies Gu Yiyi left behind, looked at each other and shook their heads. They all knew why Gu Yiyi left, and they could not stop it.

Saihu had already conveyed Gu Yiyi's behavior to Fang Mobei. For Fang Mobei, he was not surprised by Gu Yiyi's behavior. He just smiled and shook his head.

"I'm ready, Saihu" said, Fang Mobei opened the manual brake next to the valve.

"This door can't be opened. Let me open the circuit board and have a look." After trying it for a few times and getting no response, Fang Mobei decided to open the circuit board and try. As he spoke, the TU8 beside him opened the circuit board and began to check whether there was any circuit obstruction. Manual brake connection.

"Saihu, I'm going to try again." After TU8 sent a message that the circuit connection was unblocked, he planned to try the manual brake again. However, after trying it twice, he found that the valve could not stay open as Saihu said before. When he pulled down the gate, the door opened, and when he released the hand gate, it closed.

"Sai Hu, this door really can't be kept open forever," Fang Mobei said helplessly.

"Captain, do you need to leave a message for Fang Shushu?" Saihu's magnetic voice sounded.

Fang Mobei hesitated and said, "Please help me pick up Yiyi."

"Fang Mobei! You bastard!" After connecting Gu Yiyi's communicator, Gu Yiyi's anger quickly boiled over.

"Yiyi, listen to me." After Gu Yiyi was quiet, he whispered softly, "I may have to stay here and hold this door."

"No, no, get out of there quickly," Gu Yiyi said, shaking her head desperately.

"no"

"Fang Mobei, it belongs to your uncle!"

"We are almost out of time." As he said this, Fang Mobei opened the gate. The TU8 maintenance spider unfolded an ion shield covering an area of about one meter. Six tentacles were fixed in front of Fang Mobei. Fang Mobei turned sideways. Stand in the passage and prepare to receive the impact of thermal energy.

"Reactor exhaust," Fang Mobei commanded Saihu resolutely, regardless of Gu Yiyi's heartbreaking cries.

"Captain, you may die after the exhaust is turned on. Do you have to do this?" Saihu asked.

"There is no other way, open it! If you don't turn on the exhaust, the Nanmen ship will be damaged," Fang Mobei said firmly, "There are hundreds of people on this ship."

"The reactor has reached maximum pressure value" the system alarm sounded again.

"Captain Fang Mobei, it is Saihu's honor to work with you." After saying this, Saihu opened the reactor exhaust port.

A stream of crimson heat surged toward the exhaust passage where Fang Mobei was sitting like a scourge, and the extremely high temperature swept through the entire passage and swallowed up Fang Mobei's figure.

Gu Yiyi listened to the screams of Mobei in the headset. With tears streaming down her face, she stared blankly at the red tongues of fire spurting from the rear of the ship in the distance.

"The temperature is dropping and the reactor begins to depressurize," the system's voice announced in the cabin.

Fang Mobei's heart-rending scream also died out at this moment like a stone sinking into the ocean. The sudden return of silence was as if nothing had happened. The operation of the auxiliary thruster gradually alleviated the imbalance of the South Gate ship. The crew on the ship gradually resumed operations

Finally, he set his sights on the red tongue of fire in the universe.

"Mobei!" A sense of powerlessness made Gu Yiyi lose her mind. She looked at the long tongue of fire through the porthole, tears in her eyes couldn't stop flowing down, and the past scenes kept flashing back in her eyes. in mind.

"Yiyi?"

Fang Mobei's voice sounded in her headset again, just like a person who had been without water for a long time in the desert suddenly discovered a clear spring. The emotions that had fallen into the abyss instantly rose to the clouds.

"Mobei? It's successful, you're successful!" Gu Yiyi was obviously so excited that she couldn't help herself. "You can come back now!"

Fang Mobei said with a heavy breath, "Yes, but..."

"What's wrong? Are you injured?" Gu Yiyi heard Fang Mobei's heavy breathing and asked worriedly.

"I may not be able to come back." Fang Mobei's voice was a little lonely. At this time, he was floating in the universe without any support. He would float here forever.

"What?" Gu Yiyi couldn't believe it.

"My safety rope was fused by the high temperature and my spacesuit was damaged. I can't come back."

"Wait for me, I'll come out right away, and I'll pull you in." As she said that, Gu Yiyi immediately pulled out the spacesuit hanging on the bulkhead behind her.

Gu Yiyi would never see Fang Mobei leave her. No matter what the outcome, she would fight hard.

Fang Mobei's body kept spinning in the universe. He looked around and tried to find a way to save himself, but the oxygen emergency alarm of his spacesuit sounded.

"Yiyi, I'm sorry." Fang Mobei looked at the oxygen emergency prompt on the screen and sighed, "I can't take care of you in the future."

"Shut up, I'm here," Gu Yiyi cursed. She pulled the guidance ring with both hands, and with the help of the robotic arm, she began to put on the off-white space suit.

"I hope that we can still be together in the next life, and I can continue to take care of you. If you bully me, we will definitely be very happy..." After saying that, Fang Mobei couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes, and he turned off the phone with Gu Yiyi. communication channel.

At this last moment, he didn't want to leave his sad and scared side to his beloved. After saying what he needed to say, he resolutely turned off the call with Gu Yiyi.

"Sai Hu, I think I may not be able to go back." Fang Mobei was floating alone in the universe. At this moment, he was slightly desperate. Although Gu Yiyi was trying to rescue him, he was already far away from the Nanmen Ship.

"Captain, I'm sorry about this. Your oxygen can still last for 5 minutes. I will help you record the last five minutes of messages. When you lose signs of life, I will start the self-destruction program."

Fang Mobei said with relief, "I used to think that there would be no more accidents, and at least I could successfully complete this mission, but now it seems..." As he said that, Fang Mobei smiled helplessly and then continued, "It's better not to be too nervous." Be sad, you can be sad for a few weeks or two or three months at most, and then continue living with self-blame."

Fang Mobei looked at the oxygen depletion prompt displayed on the screen. He was silent for a while and said, "I have to close my eyes and sleep for a while, just like I have to sleep every day. I have been fine these years. I will Dreaming about you, it’s always you in the dream.”

"It's so cold." The spacesuit's heat supply also lost its function after the oxygen was exhausted. The icy temperature swept through his body, and ice crystals formed on his helmet. A sense of sleepiness made his eyes become heavier and heavier. .