Chapter 991 “Ghost”
Chapter 991 “Ghost”
The air was dead silent, and the crowd that had been whispering to each other and watching monkeys was completely silent.
Wu Xinghuan froze in place for a moment as if his brain had crashed. Xiao Yong, who was hugging his arms, frowned slightly, and Luo Yi fell into deep thought.
As for Koala, he scratched his head as before, and his blank eyes became more and more like a real koala.
Your grave…
After a long time, he broke the silence and said.
”That means… we are already dead?”
”Yes.” Ye Shi replied with his eyes closed.
”Then how did we die?” Koala still asked unwillingly, “There must be a reason, right?”
”How do I know how you died?” Ye Shi looked at him inexplicably and said as a matter of course, “I haven’t even entered the grave yet.”
”Hiss… That’s right,” Koala seemed to be convinced, scratching the back of his head and muttering to himself, “You haven’t entered yet.” He
was no longer able to complain about the recruitment standards of the People’s United Aerospace Army. Ye Shi sighed deeply and rolled his eyes to the ceiling.
His mind is very confused now, like a ball of wool, and he can’t find a clue.
If you want to blame it, blame this game for being too realistic. There is not even a menu interface. Without the VM and logout function, he really can’t tell whether he is in the game or in real time. Of course
, he hopes it is the former.
After all, even if you want to travel through time, no one wants to travel to a grave.
Not to mention that he is very satisfied with his current life and doesn’t want to go to an unfamiliar environment again.
But if it is in the game, he can’t understand why he can’t log off, and he is even more afraid of his real body.
It has been several hours, even more than ten hours since he first fainted.
Jiujiu has not broken into the door to wake him up yet. It can only be said that there may be some accident that caused him to be unable to wake up in reality.
Thinking about these things, Ye Shi felt his head hurt again.
The only good news now is that just before he woke up, he heard the voice calling his name again.
And that cute “A-choo”.
There is no doubt that it was Jiang Xuezhou’s voice.
It is really complicated. The person he wanted to save has become the only comfort in his heart.
At least she’s still around…
”I think he’s probably crazy.” Xiao Yong, who was standing at the door, put down his arms, shook his head and walked away.
Luo Yi didn’t leave, still looking at him thoughtfully, as if he was recalling something.
Lin Youyou, who was standing next to the treatment bed, gently placed her hand on Ye Shi’s forehead, with a trace of worry on her face.
”Your heart rate is unstable and your metabolic level is also low. It’s best to lie down and rest…”
”I don’t need to rest,” Ye Shi underestimated, not very used to this kind of meticulous care, and hid to the side, “…I don’t need you to worry about me, you should worry about yourself.”
I don’t know if these people are too thick-skinned, and they can be so calm when they learn of their own death.
Of course, it is not ruled out that they just treat him as a joke, just like players occasionally treat the outrageous experience of an NPC as a joke to accompany their meals.
At first, he was worried that these people would not be able to accept the cruel fact that he was dead, but it seems that he was overthinking.
Looking at this sulky teenager, Lin Youyou just smiled gently and took his hand back.
”We will take good care of ourselves, and of course we will take good care of you. After all, you are the patient.”
”I’m not sick.”
Ye Shi replied weakly.
He didn’t want to repeat this sentence anymore.
Especially since this guy seemed to treat him as a child who hadn’t grown up, he felt awkward anyway.
At this time, Dr. Wu, who was squatting beside the treatment bed, suddenly raised his head.
”I think I’m sick…”
As if he had finally come back to his senses, he muttered something and stood up from the side of the treatment bed.
Lin Youyou looked at this weird guy and raised his eyebrows, saying with a strange expression.
”Why don’t you lie here for a while?”
”No…”
Throwing down this sentence and the confused Ye Shi, Dr. Wu pushed the crowd away and left in a hurry.
Lin Youyou sighed, raised his index finger and pressed his forehead, and said to the people gathered at the door of the medical room.
”My patient needs to rest. If you are not here to see a doctor, please go away.”
It can be seen that the quality of the residents in the prosperous era is generally high.
Although the crowd of spectators obviously had not eaten enough, and they were curious about what would happen next after they had just come to the exciting part, most of them still listened to the doctor’s words and did not continue to crowd at the door of the infirmary. They soon dispersed, leaving only Luo Yi standing at the door.
Lin Youyou stared at him.
”What about you? What’s wrong with you?”
Luo Yi pointed to his arm that had just undergone surgery and said to the doctor on duty in front of him.
”I’m here to see a doctor and chat with the patient by the way… Don’t worry, I won’t disturb his rest.”
Lin Youyou didn’t say anything, but just looked at the patient lying on the treatment bed inquiringly.
However, the latter did not look at her, but just stared at the door intently, and stubbornly repeated what he had just said.
”I say again, I’m not sick.”
”This is not up to you and me to decide. Wait until the doctor says it.”
Luo Yi shrugged, tacitly assuming that this sentence meant that he agreed to talk to him, so he walked into the infirmary.
Pulling a chair from the side, he walked to the side of the treatment bed and sat down, staring at the boy lying on the bed and said.
”You seem to know me… or let me put it another way, do you know my future self?”
”Yeah.” Ye Shi nodded, staring at Luo Yi intently. Although his eyes were still full of vigilance, he did not take action directly like before.
In fact, if you think about it calmly, no matter what situation you are facing at the moment, there is one thing that is beyond doubt.
This is definitely not the “Orion” cruiser that you crashed into in the year 215 of the Wasteland Era.
Even if you kill him, it will be useless. If you are not careful, you may not be able to go back because of some messy time and space paradox.
This possibility is not equal to 0.
It is just like the conjecture that you have “traveled through time”.
The most important thing now is to stay calm.
And collect as much information as possible to help you understand the current situation.
At this moment, Luo Yi didn’t know what the child who was said to be from the future was thinking. He just stared into his eyes and suddenly spoke.
”You are good at fighting.”
Ye Shi smiled faintly.
”Thank you.”
Luo Yi said with a smile.
”Not at all. When I was your age, I was still thinking about which school to apply for. Not to mention the ability to kill, I had never even touched or seen a gun.”
Ye Shi said casually, not rejecting chatting with this guy.
”Then you applied for military school?”
Luo Yi shook his head.
”No, I finally chose environmental transformation engineering, and joining the army was a later thing.”
Ye Shi: “…What is environmental transformation engineering?”
”It’s a pile of shit.”
Luo Yi grinned and continued.
”At that time, our relationship with the colony was not so tense. We were still thinking about how to transform Gaia into the earth, and by the way, use the technology studied by the colony to transform several other planets in the solar system into earth-like planets… As it turns out, this major is a pit.”
Ye Shi nodded suddenly.
Got it.
In simple terms, they are creatures from the 22nd century.
Luo Yi looked at him and asked.
”What about you?”
Ye Shi said frankly.
”The 24th century… probably? According to our calculation, it is the 215th year of the Wasteland Era.”
Luo Yi said with a smile.
”I didn’t expect the end of the world to last for so many years.”
Ye Shi thought for a while and said.
”More than 200 years, but it’s almost over.”
Luo Yi asked curiously.
”Ended by that… Alliance?”
Ye Shi said.
”I guess so. In fact, it’s not just the Alliance. Many people have also contributed a lot… But then again, the Alliance is the alliance of all survivors. It seems meaningless to get entangled in who ended the wasteland.”
Luo Yi nodded and suddenly said with emotion.
”Actually, when I first heard that you had been trapped in the wasteland for more than 200 years, I felt heavy, because my family is still on Earth, and they have no hope of waiting for a peaceful era in this life. But thinking that more than 200 years have passed, and the future is full of young and promising guys like you, I am a little relieved… Maybe the future is not as bad as imagined.”
After a pause, he said sincerely.
”It’s good, really… it’s good.”
His words came from the bottom of his heart, without any politeness.
Their civilization was not destroyed, and they became younger and more united after the experience of the doomsday.
This is actually the meaning.
If he still had some doubts about the outcome of the three-year war before embarking on the journey home, worried that what he saw was a devastated ruin, then at this moment he no longer has any worries or concerns about the future.
Although the process is full of twists and turns, in the end, the future of all of them is bright.
Ye Shi smiled.
”Really? I also think it’s pretty good… It was pretty good.”
Luo Yi raised his eyebrows and asked half-jokingly.
”In the end, you met us?”
”To be precise, you met you,” Ye Shi looked into his eyes and said bluntly, “You wiped out a small team of the academy alone, although it was with the help of your teammates.”
Luo Yi smiled embarrassedly.
”I didn’t expect that I had this ability… Then what happened? You chased me, who has lived for more than 200 years, all the way to space?”
”This sounds outrageous enough…”
Lin Youyou pressed her eyebrows, with an expression of disbelief.
She was more inclined to believe her common sense. This guy’s brain was frozen because he did not follow the strict cryo-hibernation procedure to enter the hibernation chamber.
Time travel?
This kind of thing is too outrageous.
However, Ye Shi, who was lying on the treatment bed, nodded and said simply.
”That’s right… Actually, this matter was not our responsibility, but you drove the academy’s research ship directly through the space junk to the synchronous orbit, and then returned to this destroyed missile cruiser. We received intelligence that this cruiser stored 100,000 neutron torpedoes, or even if there was no such number, it would not be much different… Did you know? We just finished the last war and were preparing to celebrate the entry of our civilization into a new era, but this happened.”
Luo Yi looked at him blankly, his expression gradually becoming serious.
”Did I say what I was going to do?”
Ye Shi pouted.
”Need I say more? You joined an organization called Tianren, a group of psychopaths and KB elements hiding on the Lagrange Point Space Station. Like the Enlightenment Society, they only want to blow up everything on the surface and start over.” ”
As for you, you didn’t talk to us at all, and we can guess what you are going to do with our toes. It’s nothing more than continuing the ground bombing mission that was not completed more than 200 years ago, and thoroughly cleaning the slime mold nest and the wasteland guests on the ground, and then rebuilding your imaginary home.”
Luo Yi’s face changed completely.
”Ground bombing? How come I haven’t heard of it.”
Lin Youyou looked at him with a strange expression, and then looked at Ye Shi.
”I can testify that the fleet’s work schedule is open, and this kind of thing can’t be hidden from us.”
”Maybe you just don’t know?” Ye Shi snorted, “Even our managers won’t tell us everything.”
Luo Yi put his hand on his chest and looked at him seriously.
”I can swear to you with my character that even if what you said is true, and we are carrying out a mission we are not aware of, or even have committed unforgivable crimes without knowing it… I will never continue to be an accomplice of the criminal after knowing it.”
Ye Shi chuckled.
”Who knows what you will think 200 years later.”
Luo Yi was silent for a while and said in a low voice.
”…You have a point, people will change, but I don’t believe I will become like that.”
”I’m just telling you what I saw. Believe it or not,” Ye Shi said casually while looking at the ceiling. “Of course, I actually believe what you said. After talking to you for so long, I don’t think you are someone who can do such a thing. Maybe there is some misunderstanding.”
”Thank you for believing me,” Luo nodded, “but to be honest, I understand your anger. Standing in the same position, if I traveled back to the past and saw the criminal who started the war in the future in front of me, I might also hesitate whether to strangle him first… even if he did nothing at the time.”
Ye Shi looked at him with interest.
”By the way, aren’t you afraid?”
Luo Yi asked.
”What are you afraid of?”
Ye Shi looked at him and reminded him.
”I just said it very clearly, you are dead. The clearer the boundary you and I drew with ‘Luo Yi’, the lower the probability that you are still alive. Either that guy is your clone or a bionic man.” ”
Two centuries have passed, it’s normal for him to die.” Luo Yi shrugged and continued, “Besides, you only saw the wreckage of the Orion, which doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was many years later? We haven’t always served on this ship, not to mention that we haven’t figured out what’s going on on your side yet.” Ye Shi looked
at him in surprise.
”You are quite optimistic.”
Lin Youyou put her hand on his shoulder and said in a joking tone.
”After all, we are not dead yet. It’s impossible for us to scare ourselves because of a word from a young man.”
”My opinion is the same as Dr. Lin.”
Luo Yi nodded and continued to talk while looking at the boy lying on the medical bed.
”My last question, why did you lie in the hibernation capsule? Or…what did you encounter before you fell into a coma?”
Whether Dr. Wu’s speculation is correct or not, his intuition tells him that this is related to whether they can get rid of the current predicament.
Ye Shi’s eyes were confused for a moment.
”I… to be honest, I’m not sure.”
Luo Yi was stunned, and he looked at Lin Youyou, then looked at him and asked.
”What do you mean by not clear?”
”I’m not clear. I should have fainted at that time.”
Ye Shi patted his head and said with a depressed expression.
”I don’t remember how I lay in the hibernation capsule. We were hit by a neutron torpedo at that time, and the energy of the shield was just exhausted. I don’t even know if I held on. Then we crashed into the belly of the Orion wreckage.”
”By the way, there was another person in the cockpit at that time. She was a girl about my age, named Jiang Xuezhou… Did you see her in that research ship?”
Although he knew that this possibility was very slim, Ye Shi still cast a hopeful look at the two.
However, the reactions of the two made his mood sink to the bottom in an instant.
”If we are talking about the same spaceship, then you are the only one in the spaceship,” Luo Yi looked at him seriously and said in a deep voice, “There is only one hibernation capsule in it, and the person lying in it is you.”
”But it is indeed a bit strange. If you were unconscious at the time, how did you get into the hibernation capsule?”
Lin Youyou pinched his chin with the knuckles of his index finger and thumb, thinking seriously.
”Either your brain has a memory blackout during the collision, and you don’t remember how you climbed in at the time. Or, as you said, there is actually another person in the spaceship, but we can’t see it.”
The infirmary fell silent.
Ye Shi suddenly felt the air around him chilly, as if it was haunted. It seems
that there is no metaphysical setting in this game?
But he really couldn’t explain what was happening in front of him with common sense, let alone why he couldn’t log off.
”In short, now we have two important clues. You first hit the neutron torpedo, and then hit our ship… our ship in the future.”
After noting these two clues, Luo Yi stood up from the chair.
Looking at Luo Yi who was about to leave, Lin Youyou raised his eyebrows.
”You don’t want to see the doctor anymore?”
”I’ve finished seeing the doctor.”
He now has two things to do.
One is to go to the explosion site to take another look, and the other is to go to the torpedo compartment to take a look.
In addition, he has to give these two clues to the guy named Wu.
Although that guy has never been reliable, he is the only physicist with the right professional background on the ship.
If even that guy can’t handle it, he can’t think of anyone else who can. He
can’t count on himself, a soldier who graduated from the “Environmental Renovation Engineering Major”, right?
Ye Shi, lying on the treatment bed, closed his eyes tightly, his face slightly pale.
The voice appeared again.
And it was still the same four sentences –
”Ye Shi…”
”It’s so cold here…”
”A-choo!”
”I…”
…
The security office on the lower deck.
Several senior officers of the first unit stood in front of the monitor, staring at the situation in the infirmary.
Among them were Captain Zhao Tianhe, the second in command Wu Mengke, and the navigator, etc.
Respecting the doctor’s opinion, they did not stimulate the patient, but changed to a more tactful way – arranging Luo Yi from the space combat team under the three departments to ask what they urgently wanted to know.
The two chatted for a long time, from the future to the present.
And the things they said were unintentional, but they made the listeners sweat coldly.
The Orion did not carry out the plan of orbital bombing of the earth, but the ship command did receive a request for support from the Lagrange point space station.
Intelligence shows that most of the surface area has been covered by the mother nest of mutant slime mold. If a more thorough purification operation is not carried out, the activity range of slime mold will spread to the Antarctic Circle and the Arctic Circle within ten years at the latest.
Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to rebuild civilization. Even human civilization will not have the opportunity to rebuild at all, and it will be wiped out by Gaia’s children before that.
Now that the space elevator has been destroyed, and the Zhiyuan colony ship has abandoned the plan to colonize the outer galaxy regardless of the overall situation, human civilization is approaching the brink of destruction.
The meaning of the Lagrange point space station is very clear. Anyway, the shelter plan has been launched, and the nuclear bombs that should be used have already been used. The survivors on the surface are unlikely to survive. It is better to be quick and simply step on the accelerator.
From the perspective of civilization, this is to preserve the fire for the survival of civilization as much as possible.
However, the contradiction is that this behavior itself has shaken the foundation of civilization.
It is precisely because of this that the opinions of the Human Union and the high-level Aerospace Forces on whether to do this are not unified, and there are even serious differences.
This disagreement did not appear today, and even existed a long time ago.
Including but not limited to the core disagreement of the entire war.
Some people think that the enemy of this war is the rebels, while others think that Gaia is the real enemy.
Disagreement is inevitable.
As long as two people stand together, they will definitely be divided into left and right, let alone a group of people.
Although the final war was provoked by the radicals, it was only the most radical faction.
With the separation of the colonies, internal contradictions have become external contradictions. The conservatives who have an absolute advantage in the high-level Human Union will naturally have new positions according to the existing agenda. For example, those who lean to the right of the spectrum will become the new conservatives, and those who lean to the left will become the new radicals.
From the perspective of the latter, the war is over, the rebels have been eliminated, and what should be considered now is the aftermath and the establishment of a new order.
This order can include mutant slime molds, after all, it is not realistic to completely eliminate such things.
However, from the perspective of the former, expelling all slime molds from the surface at all costs is the most urgent matter at the moment, and it is worth sacrificing more people for this.
Zhao Tianhe is actually not interested in political matters.
He has a clear position on himself. He is a professional soldier and should be loyal to the law…even if the mainstream of the entire aerospace army tends to stand on the side of the former.
However, even if he does not want to choose sides, when the torrent of history swept over, he and his subordinates were forced to be involved and had to make a choice.
After all, when he received the order from the Lagrange Point Command Center, the entire aerospace army and even the Human Alliance had only two starships left with interstellar navigation capabilities.
One Orion and one Gemini.
He is the only one with the most remaining ammunition. In contrast, the neutron torpedoes of the Gemini should have been consumed in the previous orbital bombing of the Gaia planet.
In other words, they are the only ones who are capable of carrying out the doomsday plan.
There is no one else…
and there is nothing to say about his choice.
He would rather point the gun at himself, or at his allies, than at the civilians he protected with his life.
If he really did that, the three-year war would be in vain.
Wu Mengke, standing in front of the monitoring terminal screen, looked at the captain Zhao Tianhe standing beside him with a worried look.
”This kid knows the information about the Lagrange point space station. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. He may really come from the future.”
Zhao Tianhe stared at the screen with a serious expression and nodded slowly.
”Yeah.”
Wu Mengke looked away with a complicated expression, and his hands unconsciously clenched the armrests of the chair.
”Then we…”
Knowing what she wanted to say, Zhao Tianhe shook his head and just stared at the screen.
”It’s hard to say.”
”No matter what, there is no doubt that you and I are still alive, and our opponents have no chance of turning the tables.”
”I am actually more inclined to think that he is not from our future.”
”But the future on ‘another timeline’.”
(End of this chapter)
