Jennifer slowly opened her eyes, and the dazzling red light on the ceiling made her cry.
During the long period of cryogenic sleep, her metabolism fell into an almost stagnant state. If the sleep chamber hadn't used weak current to stimulate her muscles regularly every day, she would have fallen into the embarrassing situation of muscular dystrophy.
Jennifer was wearing flesh-colored underwear and climbed out of the sleeping warehouse with some difficulty. Her dazed spirit gradually recovered. Only then did she hear the rapid alarm of the central computer resounding throughout the warehouse.
"Father, how long have I been asleep?" Jennifer said, holding her forehead slightly drowsily.
"Dear Captain Jennifer, you have been sleeping for two years and three days. Today is December 24, 2309 AD. There are still seventy-eight years and six months before the destination of the Fairy System." As Jennifer spoke, , a synthesized voice without any emotion sounded from all directions on the floor of the warehouse.
"Why did you wake me up?" Jennifer was confused. "Is there an emergency?"
"Yes, Captain Jennifer, the seventh sector of the ship is damaged, the third sector is damaged, the ninth sector is unstable, and the engines are only running at forty percent."
"What happened?" Jennifer's expression changed, and the dizzy feeling suddenly disappeared.
"A UFO was found three hundred light seconds directly behind the spacecraft. Twenty minutes ago, the spacecraft was attacked by a UFO material. The hull was damaged and needs urgent repairs."
Jennifer's face suddenly turned pale, and she said in disbelief. "Describe the appearance of the UFO for me immediately, immediately, immediately!"
"Understood, Captain Jennifer." The electronic synthesized voice agreed. The next second, a huge spaceship with a fusiform shape like an insect and a black shell appeared in front of Jennifer's eyes through a holographic projection, and every minute Every second, the hull of the spacecraft is still squirming. This is not a spaceship, it is a huge space creature!
"Alien!" Jennifer's face turned pale, and all her luck was destroyed by the projection in front of her. She said with some disbelief, "Impossible. The spacecraft escaped from the Mars colony at sub-light speed. After two years, it has already flown out of the Corboy Belt. How could it still encounter an alien warship?"
"Dear Captain Jennifer, I cannot understand your question. Please give the order immediately." The spacecraft's central computer ignored Jennifer's words and just said rigidly.
At this time, the young woman known as the captain finally took a deep breath and ordered again, "Father, wake up all the employees on the ship immediately and repair the engine as quickly as possible. I want to carry out a new round of acceleration and get rid of the people behind me." Biological battleship!"
"Sorry, Captain Jennifer." The spacecraft's central computer, known as 'Father', replied regretfully again, "All crew members have lost contact one month after the spacecraft took off."
"What!" Jennifer was shocked, "What is going on?"
"When we were escaping from the Martian colony, an alien life seemed to have gotten into the spacecraft through a gap somewhere. It attacked all the crew and occupied the food warehouse in District 8." The central computer said, "This alien is extremely smart. , it evaded my surveillance of the spacecraft and was not discovered until it attacked the sleeping compartment. All the employees have lost contact. "
"..." There was a trace of despair in Jennifer's eyes. If this was the case, then she might really be doomed this time.
"However," the central computer spoke again, the anthropomorphic program giving it a hint of hesitation in its tone, "just now, I actually found a sign of human life in District 8..."
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Zhang Heng looked at the cabin he found with the door torn apart by the alien, and felt that the situation was a bit strange.
In this cabin, there were more than ten coffins that had been destroyed by violence. The lower parts of these coffins were made of metal and connected to the floor, while the upper parts were made of a translucent tempered glass cover.
Structurally, this coffin can be opened and closed, but at this time the lids of these coffins are broken, and some can still see dried blood inside.
These coffin-like things should be sleeping chambers in the alien plane. By injecting some kind of antifreeze protection solution into the human body, and then lowering the temperature of the sleeping chamber to close to zero, people can achieve an effect similar to hibernation. .
Zhang Heng gently knocked on the broken tempered glass. It was obvious that an alien seemed to have knocked open the turtle shell while everyone was sleeping. Now, the people in these sleeping cabins may have become the alien's food or nursery. .
But now that I have discovered this room full of sleeping chambers, I can be sure that I am indeed in a spaceship, and it is a spaceship drifting in the deep space of the universe...
Just when Zhang Heng was meditating, suddenly, without any warning, a burst of beeping noises came from the door of the room. Combined with the originally empty silence, it seemed particularly abrupt and harsh.
This beeping sound is not the sound of objects moving and colliding, but is similar to the sound of an incoming phone call. Zhang Heng reacted immediately. He hesitated slightly and finally pressed a button with a green light. Suddenly, a young woman's voice came from the speaker under the button.
"This is the general command center of the spacecraft. This crew member, please report your number immediately. Repeat, report your number immediately."
Zhang Heng was stunned. He really didn't expect that he could actually hear human voices. This was the first time he encountered humans from an alien plane during his mission to the Dimension Star, and there was no such thing as a divine seal in this plane. The thing that caused the hallucination, that is to say, the person making the sound at this time was indeed a real human being.
"This crew member, report your number immediately!" the young woman's voice continued.
Only then did Zhang Heng react. He thought for a moment and then said, "My memory was damaged due to my deep sleep, and I can no longer remember my number."
"Then tell me your name, and take off your helmet." The young woman's voice came out again, her tone full of aggression.
Zhang Heng frowned and said with some dissatisfaction, "I told you, my memory is damaged and I can't remember who I am, and I won't take off my helmet. You know how the facehugger parasitizes, on this alien ship It’s very dangerous to take off your helmet on a raging spaceship, isn’t it?”
After hearing Zhang Heng's words, the voices in the room suddenly disappeared, as if they were thinking about something. About half a minute later, the voice came again, "Okay, you win, no matter who you are, at least you are absolutely It can't be an alien. I have very bad news to tell you. There are only two survivors on the entire ship, and that is you and me. I am in the main control room of the spacecraft. The alien can't do anything to me for the time being. You are in more danger, and aliens may attack you at any time."
"Obviously, you are trapped here too. How about you help me and I'll make sure you survive?" Seeing Zhang Heng didn't answer, the voice rang again.
"Oh?" Zhang Heng looked around and finally saw four black miniature monitors in the four corners of the room. He thought with a thought, "Can you find out the locations of all the aliens?"
"Impossible, most of the aliens move in the ventilation ducts, and there are no monitoring equipment in the ventilation ducts." The woman said again. "After all, my spaceship is just a commercial spaceship. It doesn't have any defensive weapons. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to board my spaceship so easily."
Only then did Zhang Heng realize that the voice mistook him for a thief or a space bandit. No wonder he didn't doubt why he appeared out of thin air in the spaceship.
"Now there is some glitch in the engine of the spacecraft, and there is an alien battleship following us three hundred light seconds away from the spacecraft. With its speed, it will catch up with us in about thirty hours. Even if you can Avoid the alien attack in the cabin, but can you avoid the destruction of the spacecraft?" The woman's voice sounded again, "You only have a chance to survive if you cooperate with me!"
Zhang Heng was shocked when he heard this. Only then did he truly understand the difficulty of the Dimension Star mission.
Originally, he thought that the alien embryo in his body and the alien lurking in the spaceship were obstacles to this mission, but he did not expect that the real trump card was the alien battleship following outside the spacecraft
If ordinary people heard such harsh conditions, they would have been discouraged and completely despaired. However, Zhang Heng took a deep breath and his brain started spinning at high speed.
First, he must keep the alien form inside his body from breaking out within thirty hours. Secondly, you have to avoid the aliens on the spacecraft, repair the spacecraft's engine, and get rid of the alien warships behind you. If you fail to do any of these two points, you will face failure!
Thinking of this, Zhang Heng had basically sorted out all the information. At this time, he suddenly pointed to his chest and said loudly, "No, you may be mistaken. There is already an alien embryo parasitized in my body. It will probably take a few more When I'm young, the alien will break out of my body. Unless you can delay the time when the alien in my body breaks apart, why should I help you before I die? "
"Generally, after being parasitized by an alien, the alien embryo will mature and break up within 24 hours. How long have you been parasitized?" As if she did not expect this result, the young woman quickly asked.
"Six hours."
"It's only six hours. You have enough time to repair the engine. Then I can provide you with a medical surgery warehouse to help you remove the alien embryos in your body. How about this? This is your only chance." The woman said seductively.
"I can't trust you, just like you can't trust me." Zhang Heng shook his head, "You must know the method of delaying the destruction of alien embryos. You must tell me the method first before I can consider cooperating with you."
Zhang Heng needs to stay in the alien plane for thirty-six hours. According to conventional experience, thirty-six hours is enough for the alien embryo to mature, and then Zhang Heng will die. However, the Dimension Star will never issue a mission that requires death. In other words, there must be a way to delay the embryo's disintegration time.
And the only opportunity to obtain this method is obviously this woman!