Chapter 993 Detour

  Chapter 993 Detour

  ”…This is Gemini. We have received orders from the headquarters to assist you in implementing the ‘Final Battle’ plan. Please open the deflector shields, guide our landing ships to land, and hand over work to our personnel.”

  ”This is Orion… We have received your request and are confirming with the headquarters…”

  ”…Gemini received… (noise)… Please reply as soon as possible…”

  ”Orion received… We cannot confirm the legality of the order and apply for arbitration by the Military Commission…”

  ”…The request is rejected. Now is a time of war. Our enemies are slaughtering our people. We don’t have time to wait for the committee’s arbitration. Please execute the order immediately!”

  ”… (noise)…”

  ”…Calling Orion, what are you doing? Our ship has detected unstable gravitational field fluctuations. Please shut down the warp engine and deflector shields immediately! Repeat, shut down the warp engine and deflector shields immediately and accept inspection!”

  ”… (noise)…”

  ”…Good night.”

  Zhao Tianhe didn’t have many choices.

  He was almost certain that from the moment he disobeyed the order, the neutron torpedoes on the Gemini had been aimed at him and his men, and would definitely be launched before he entered the hyperspace channel.

  If he chose to leave it to fate, it would be tantamount to committing suicide with all the crew members of the Orion, and handing over tens of thousands of neutron torpedoes on the ship to the group of crazy people who were bloodthirsty.

  For the constitution he was loyal to and for the survivors on the surface, he had no choice but to start the warp engine and fire the neutron torpedoes on the launcher at friendly forces.

  This was his decision alone.

  But it did get the tacit approval of all officers and soldiers.

  They and Zhao Tianhe were the same kind of people, all traditional soldiers who were not so conservative among conservatives.

  They would rather point their guns at themselves than at their unarmed compatriots.

  Under the cover of gravitational field disturbances, the torpedo successfully hit the Gemini. The

  continuously accelerating torpedo can resist the rejection of the deflector shield and release a high-energy neutron beam after the warhead penetrates the hull armor.

  The three thousand crew members will die in an instant, and they will not even realize their own death, and this process will be painless.

  At the same time, the Orion cruiser also jumped into the hyperspace channel at the same time.

  Everything happened in a flash, so except for a few crew members who participated in the “rebellion”, most of the crew members on the ship were almost unaware.

  This is actually for their own good.

  After all, no matter what the reason is, it is a fact that the Orion sank friendly forces.

  That is also three thousand lives, and it is not something that can be easily covered up with a justifiable reason.

  Those who give orders and those who execute orders will eventually be judged by law, and Zhao Tianhe has never thought of excusing his crimes.

  He only hopes to take more responsibility on himself as much as possible, so that his subordinates can bear as little as possible, thereby reducing or exempting punishment.

  As for now, what he has to do is to bring the truth back to the solar system as soon as possible and stop the conspiracy of the high-level Aerospace Army’s so-called “Final War”.

  That is not a war launched for the future of civilization at all, it is purely a replica of the “Torch Plan”!

  This is what happened to the Orion cruiser before entering the hyperspace channel.

  What happened after that was a strange situation witnessed by all the crew members on the ship.

  They were stuck in the hyperspace channel…

  Zhao Tianhe told Luo Yi and Wu Xinghuan the whole story.

  Whether they could accept it emotionally or not, they had no other choice now.

  ”… I don’t expect my confession to be forgiven or understood by you. My fault will naturally be judged by the law, and I have no intention of escaping. But now is not the time to do this. We must unite to overcome the difficulties in front of us.”

  ”One of you is a known survivor, and the other is the most knowledgeable scholar on the ship. You are the ones who have the most hope of breaking through.”

  When he said this, Zhao Tianhe looked at Dr. Wu and said seriously.

  ”Especially you, I want to hear your advice… Is the method I said feasible?”

  ”Deceiving the observer who opened the box… There is no precedent for this kind of thing, and there is no ‘successful example’ left.”

  Wu Xinghuan touched his nose and felt the trembling of his index finger.

  This will be a gamble.

  But it seems to be the only chance of winning.

  They must take the initiative to give up everything that is destined to be given up, which may not only be life, but also other things including honor and faith…

  and the only result in return is to let “the part that can survive” survive.

  In other words, the part that has not been observed, or the part whose life and death are uncertain. After

  serving on this starship for so long, this is the first time he feels such heavy pressure.

  Facing the pairs of eyes, he took a deep breath and continued calmly.

  ”First of all, we have to change the layout of the ship, including the coating and logo on the outside of the hull… and send the person who opened the box away before leaving the hyperspace channel.”

  ”But these are actually trivial matters. We are sister ships of the Gemini, and it is not difficult to disguise ourselves as each other… The real difficulty lies in the other two things.”

  Looking at the three people who listened carefully, Wu Xinghuan raised two fingers and continued calmly.

  ”First of all, we must understand the celestial beings. At present, we only know from the few words of the ‘box opener’ that they are a group of digital life forms, and they have no good intentions towards the survivors on Earth.”

  Zhao Tianhe frowned.

  ”Isn’t that enough?”

  Wu Xinghuan shook his head.

  ”Of course it’s not enough. First of all, the ‘opener’ is only one of the ‘observers’. The information he knows is neither the same as the information known by all observers nor the absolutely accurate information.”

  ”If we want the two fragments to fit together perfectly, we must make sure that every corner and edge match… otherwise we will encounter troubles at the causal level.”

  Wu Mengke asked thoughtfully.

  ”What are the troubles at the causal level?”

  ”This is unknown. Anything is possible. After all, the people we encounter cannot tell us,” Wu Xinghuan shrugged and continued, “Maybe we fell into a black hole, or maybe we were hit by a meteorite… Of course, these are too simple. I prefer to think that we will be trapped in the hyperspace channel and completely lost in the cracks of time, or become quantum ghosts, some people can see us, and some people can’t.”

  The three of them looked at each other.

  This kind of thing was too weird, and they really couldn’t imagine what it would be like.

  In fact, not to mention them, Wu Xinghuan himself couldn’t imagine it.

  Everything he said was a theoretical speculation, and the things he described with theory happened to be invisible in theory.

  Zhao Tianhe was silent for a while and continued.

  ”We can simulate a digital life and hide behind it. This is actually not difficult… Then what?”

  Wu Xinghuan nodded and continued.

  ”Then the key is, we have to send the observer away, and send him away as soon as possible… Only by letting him return to his own timeline as soon as possible and reducing his observation of us, we will have enough preparation time to deceive the observer and change our future in the box without changing the observer’s future.”

  ”In this process, the more he knows about us, the less room we have to operate. Of course… in turn, we must use him. The more we know through him, the higher our chance of winning.”

  Wu Mengke asked seriously.

  ”Then the question is, how can we send him away safely?”

  Wu Xinghuan said in an uncertain tone.

  ”If our speculation is correct, we just need to let him return to the research ship and lie back in the hibernation cabin… Then we close the door and leave the area. It should be fine. He should be back to his own timeline when he wakes up next time.”

  After a pause, he looked at Captain Zhao.

  ”The divergence point is here. What we brought into the hyperspace channel should be something else, such as the landing craft sent by the Gemini? Didn’t you say that they sent a landing craft to take over our starship? That landing craft should have set off.”

  Zhao Tianhe nodded thoughtfully.

  ”I see… Cover the overturned box and reopen it, and we will return to each other’s timeline.”

  Wu Xinghuan snapped his fingers.

  ”That’s right.”

  Hearing what he said, Zhao Tianhe and Wu Mengke’s expressions eased a little, as if they were relieved, and their moods were not as heavy as before.

  Especially the latter.

  Pressing her index finger between her eyebrows, she said with a wry smile.

  ”Although it is a little difficult to understand, the situation does not seem as pessimistic as we imagined.”

  Zhao Tianhe also nodded.

  ”Instead, we got some revelations about the future from future observers…”

  But at this moment, Luo Yi, who had been silent, raised his hand.

  Seeing three pairs of eyes looking at him, he hesitated for a while and slowly spoke.

  ”I don’t really understand… but I roughly understood some of it. In other words, if we want to survive, we must become the ‘celestial being’ that the child said?”

  The air in front of the bar became quiet.

  Faced with this question, the three people fell silent at the same time.

  Becoming a celestial being…

  that is, to destroy the world 200 years later.

  But not long ago, they sank the Gemini to prevent the destruction of the world.

  If they were going to do the same thing as the Gemini, why would they go to the trouble of sinking the latter and wait until 200 years later to do this thing?

  Zhao Tianhe couldn’t answer this question, so he could only put it aside for the time being, and said after a moment of silence.

  ”The things that will happen two hundred years later are too far away. I still prefer to think that we and they are in different parallel worlds, and our fates may not be completely connected.”

  After a pause, he made a decision.

  ”Let’s verify Dr. Wu’s conclusion first and find out about the Celestial Being Organization.”

  ”Then, send the child home.”

  …

  I don’t know if it’s because the people in the prosperous era all live in a pampered environment, but Ye Shi always feels that these guys are a little too careless.

  He, a guy who drove a “civilian spaceship” into a military stronghold and almost injured an active-duty soldier with a combat prosthesis, not only doesn’t have to stay in a small dark room, but he can

  also swagger around on the spaceship. In fact, it’s not right to say that he can run around everywhere. There are also places he can’t go.

  For example, other decks and the scene of the collision accident.

  In contrast, except for these places, he can walk around freely in various areas of the lower deck, and almost no one follows him.

  In addition to the protection of personal freedom, his other basic rights are also protected to the maximum extent, almost the same as the crew members living on this starship.

  Before finding out his details and background, they first recognized his identity as a human being and treated him as a human being.

  The management of this starship also took into account the special circumstances of his situation and arranged a separate dormitory for him, and even gave him a meal card for bookkeeping.

  According to the person who gave him the meal card, if he really came back from the future, this debt would probably be eaten up by inflation in the distant future, which means he would not have to pay it back. If he did not come from the future

  , they would give him a bill after getting off the ship, and he could find a job and pay it back slowly after returning to Earth.

  Although his education is a problem, there should be many research institutes interested in him.

  Every time he thought of the staff member who always considered him, Ye Shi, who was holding the meal card, could not help but feel emotional.

  How can this be called conservative? It’s even more

  left-wing than Utopia!

  He even couldn’t help but wonder how radical the rebels in the colony had to be to make these good people in his eyes conservative.

  On the other hand, the attitude of the crew on this ship towards him was also quite interesting.

  Some people thought he was talking nonsense, and some believed what he said, but whether they believed it or not, they showed great enthusiasm for him and were eager for him to talk more about the future.

  The bar on the lower deck.

  A circle of people gathered around Ye Shi, who was sitting at the bar. The number of people and the noisy environment here were incomparable to the elegant bar on the middle deck.

  Listening to this time traveler who claimed to be from the future talking about the future, the crew members around him widened their eyes, with disbelief written all over their faces.

  ”Yunjian Province has become the most prosperous area?! That old industrial area?! This… is really unbelievable!”

  Ye Shi said casually while drinking the wine offered by others.

  ”After all, the Zhiyuan landed there, and they were cheating from the beginning. I can do it too.”

  A woman with big breasts folded her arms and shook her head.

  ”The Weilantes… It seems that the War Construction Committee is not a good thing either. They even brought out slavery.”

  Ye Shi replied.

  ”You have to look at the problem in the context of the times… Forget it, I don’t know them, and I’m too lazy to defend them.”

  Another young man was stunned for a long time, and suddenly came to his senses and shouted.

  ”Wait, I wanted to ask just now… You mean that people live in the province of Borneo again?! Where did the animals go?”

  Ye Shi shrugged his shoulders.

  ”Who knows, people can’t survive and still care about them. But thanks to your colleague, a guy named Lowell, he is a real environmentalist. Thanks to him, there is still a zoo there, no different from before.”

  ”That’s great.”

  The young man was obviously relieved, but Ye Shi couldn’t help rolling his eyes.

  What the hell is good about this!

  In a sense, he has become a celebrity in this “town of 3,000 people”.

  Ye Shi actually enjoyed their attention and was open to all their questions. He talked about everything from the east to the west of the Central Continent, and even talked about the Antarctic, the Arctic and the New World, which he had never been to.

  Other players had been there, but they hadn’t caused any big waves.

  Those experiences were written into travel guides and updated on the official forum.

  If he successfully survived this crisis, he would probably write about his experiences on the forum.

  He once sat in a bar on a starship in the Human Union era 200 years ago, chatting with a group of ancient people.

  But how to say it?

  His mentality was probably like chatting with the dead to relieve boredom. While pointing out the situation, he also got some information by the way. Apart from that, there was nothing else, and he didn’t take these people’s situation too seriously.

  After all, from his point of view, weren’t these people who lived more than 200 years ago dead?

  Even if they didn’t encounter an accident, they would have died of old age!

  ”The so-called alliance… is an alliance of survivors. In fact, there is nothing mysterious about it at the beginning. We are not as great as you think. We are not doing anything with the idea of ​​saving the world. We just don’t want to be eaten by the predators.”

  The girl with big breasts blinked curiously.

  ”Eat?”

  The guy with a not-so-normal mind also said in an uncertain tone.

  ”Is it the kind of eating that I understand? Or… the annexation of territory in a broad sense?”

  Ye Shi laughed.

  ”Annex? Do you mean the kind of swallowing into the stomach?”

  After hearing his words, there were exclamations around, and many people showed surprised expressions on their faces.

  Some guys with poor psychological endurance even turned pale, making people wonder how such a coward got into the army.

  ”Predators also eat people…”

  ”These guys… have they never thought that they are also human beings?”

  Listening to the idiotic question, Ye Shi replied casually.

  ”You’d better expect the slime mold to think of itself as a human than to expect the predators to understand this… cough, but then again, we really encountered that kind of slime mold, and it mimicked us completely in the end, even more like a human than a human.”

  The crew members around looked at each other, and a man who looked burly shook his head and said.

  ”I still can’t believe that our children… people in the future will be so barbaric.”

  Ye Shi took a sip of cocktail and sighed leisurely.

  ”Human… this concept is too broad. People are different from each other, and the definition of people also changes with the times. So I said that the alliance is not great, it is just relatively normal. You may be more suitable for the life of Ideal City, but there are also many people in Ideal City who join us because they can’t stand Ideal City.”

  The big-breasted sister whistled and joked.

  ”So you won.”

  Ye Shi shook his head.

  ”I don’t dare to take it, but we did survive the crisis at hand. It can be regarded as the result of compromise between several forces.”

  Humans and Gaia can no longer fight.

  The same is true for the survivors and the Weilantes.

  The same is true for the survivors.

  These three contradictions are in a progressive order, and together they constitute the main line of the Wasteland Era.

  When they are all resolved, the Wasteland Era will naturally end.

  Ye Shi always has a feeling that he is actually redundant. The history he personally promoted may be far less than that of Brother Fang Chang, and the role they play together is actually more like a catalyst than the fuel itself.

  But after thinking about it, this is actually normal.

  Everyone plays a different role in the tide of the times. There will always be people who will take on more responsibilities, and some people will take on less, but there is no such thing as someone who is dispensable.

  Fang Chang alone can’t sing this play, including the administrator who is regarded as a god by countless wastelanders.

  They and the survivors on the wasteland have jointly completed this epic that can be sung by future generations.

  The honor belongs to every survivor.

  Just when everyone wanted to ask something, Luo Yi walked in through the crowd.

  ”Sorry, everyone, I have to borrow your star for a while.”

  A burly man looked at him and whistled.

  ”Are you not tired of fighting?”

  Luo Yi shrugged his shoulders and said.

  ”Our misunderstanding has been resolved long ago, but there are some things that need to be discussed with him, which are very important to him.”

  The man put his hand on Ye Shi’s shoulder and patted him, grinning and saying.

  ”If this guy makes things difficult for you, just tell me.”

  Ye Shi didn’t know the name of this “fan”, but he still said “thank you” to him, then jumped off the bar stool, followed Luo Yi out of the crowd, and went to the room at the other end of the corridor.

  After closing the door, he looked at Ye Shi and said.

  ”I have good news here, we found a way to help you go home.”

  I always feel that this copy is not that simple.

  However, in order to advance the plot, Ye Shi, who was leaning against the table with his arms folded, still followed his words.

  ”Tell me about it.”

  Luo Yi repeated the method that Dr. Wu came up with, and the young man sitting at the table showed a subtle expression after listening to it.

  Guessing what he was thinking, Luo Yi coughed lightly and said.

  ”I know you want to say that this sounds too stupid.”

  Ye Shi shrugged and said.

  ”You’ve already said it for me… But I still plan to accompany you to give it a try. Anyway, it doesn’t hurt me.”

  Unexpectedly, he was so cooperative. Luo Yi looked at this guy unexpectedly, paused and continued.

  ”I’m very happy that you can cooperate. In addition… We want to cooperate with you.”

  Ye Shi raised his eyebrows.

  ”Cooperation on what?”

  Luo Yi told the contents that he had discussed with the captain and the executive officer before.

  ”Our scientists in the fifth department believe that there must be a reason for you to come to our timeline. The Celestial Being Organization may be an important clue. Therefore, I want you to tell us as much information as you know about the Celestial Being Organization.”

  After a pause, he continued.

  ”This is very important. Maybe we can help you and face that… Celestial Being together.”

  Ye Shi stared at him suspiciously, always feeling that this guy didn’t tell him everything, and there might be secrets behind this that he didn’t know.

  But these are not important at the moment.

  The important thing is that he doesn’t think these people can reverse their destined fate.

  ”You are already dead. I should have made it clear enough, unless you can change what has happened.”

  Luo Yi did not argue, but stared into his eyes and said.

  ”Have you heard of the Gemini?”

  Ye Shi frowned.

  ”…What is that?”

  Luo Yi said patiently.

  ”That is another cruiser. Its design drawings are the same as ours, and we are even completed in the same production sequence.”

  ”Wait… my mind is a bit confused,” Ye Shi raised his hand to stop him, looking at him in astonishment, “You mean… there is another Orion?!”

  Luo Yi said seriously.

  ”To be precise, you thought you landed on the Orion, but it was actually the Gemini.”

  Ye Shi interrupted him without hesitation.

  ”That’s impossible. I saw the name of the Orion written on their hull with my own eyes.”

  Luo Yi continued.

  ”A few lines of paint printed on the hull don’t mean anything. They can pretend to be us and do the dirty work we don’t want to do.”

  Ye Shi asked with a frown.

  ”The dirty work you don’t want to do?”

  Luo Yi did not hide it and nodded.

  ”We rejected Lagrange Point’s order for the ‘Final Battle’, and I think… the heavenly beings you mentioned should be related to the ‘Final Battle’ plan.”

  Ye Shi looked at him blankly.

  ”What is the Final Battle…”

  He had never heard of this term.

  But it was normal. Even if he came from the future, he couldn’t know everything that happened in the past.

  Looking at Ye Shi who knew nothing about this, Luo Yi felt relieved.

  Maybe the drunkard’s plan could really succeed.

  There is room for operation in the history outside the “horizon”, and the space left for them seems to be not small.

  ”The command of Lagrange Point did plan to thoroughly clean the surface. In their opinion, this would help the shelter quickly complete the post-war reconstruction… and we rejected them and launched neutron torpedoes at the Gemini.”

  ”So others don’t believe that you are from the future, but we do… and according to you, this war has not ended, and it has continued for two hundred years.”

  Walking in front of the stunned Ye Shi, Luo Yi stretched out his hand and put it on his shoulder, and continued to speak in a serious tone.

  ”This is our war. We will not leave you alone. We will continue on our timeline, and you will return to your timeline.”

  ”We will meet in 200 years.”

  ”For this, I need you to tell me everything you know about the Celestial Beings without reservation.”

  Looking at that determined look in his eyes, Ye Shi finally swallowed the words on his lips and nodded slowly.

  No matter how fantastic this plan sounds, no matter how slim the possibility is –

  just for their determination, he also intends to gamble with them.

  And what if it succeeds?

  Not to mention that Jiang Xuezhou was saved, the Alliance will also gain an extremely powerful helper!

  ”I promise you.”

  　This part is actually about the “morphogenetic field” mentioned a long time ago, about how the players came to this world, and the recycling of previous foreshadowing. It should be less than 100,000 words in total, and it is estimated that there are two or three chapters (depending on the length).

  　　
  　

  (End of this chapter)