Li Sujia flew back quickly. Five minutes later, she flew to a place about 30 kilometers away from the spacecraft. Without the shell of a heavy-duty flying combat mecha, she could not last long in the harsh space environment.
What's even more fatal is that her energy pool only has 11% energy left.
Once the energy she carries is exhausted, she will die here.
96 hours is the limit time left for her.
Looking at the two armed escort spaceships in front of her from a distance, she felt mixed emotions for a moment. She lost control of the two spaceships, which meant that she could not complete the tasks assigned by the Crisis Planning Agency.
At this moment, the hatches of the two spacecrafts slowly opened, and 40 spacecrafts led by Yao Qingyan entered the spaceships one after another. More than 20 seconds later, the two spacecrafts galloped forward with full power, and in an instant they turned into two A shooting star.
They are missing.
Only Li Sujia was left in the empty space, floating alone...
Without any reference, time has no meaning to her. The only thing she can feel the existence of time is that the energy in the energy pool on her chest is being consumed little by little...
She had nowhere to go, in other words, she could only wait to die in this empty space.
Waiting to die is a painful ordeal for a person, far more hysterical and frightening than the moment of death.
"Whoosh!" A laser protruded from the front end of her alloy arm. She took a deep breath and pointed the muzzle at her temple, then slowly closed her eyes.
She began to recall the past in her mind. The past was changing rapidly like a movie scene. From childhood to youth, from elementary school to university, from relatives to the boy next door, scenes flashed before her eyes one by one.
There are exciting moments, and there are also tears in the past, and the joys, sorrows, and joys of life are all before your eyes. However, all of these will turn into smoke and disappear with the wind at the moment of the gunshot.
Years later, who can still remember that her name is Li Sujia? This was a deep question she asked herself.
Suddenly, she opened her eyes and slowly lowered the laser gun. Isn't it ridiculous that she hurriedly ended her life before she accomplished anything?
Even if you are trapped in this universe with no hope of survival, even if you only have a few dozen hours to live, you must die well and be worthy of death.
In the last few dozen hours of her life, she still had two important things to do. Completing them might save more people's lives.
She looked at the huge object floating in space 60 kilometers away, the "Quali", and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
She got in touch with Li Jianfeng, chief of staff of the Supreme Military Executive Committee of the Crisis Plan, and sent him the coordinates of the star field where the white flowers and tentacles appeared and the reddish-brown star where they were born.
Encrypted quantum communication is used between the two.
"These two star fields are extremely dangerous. If an interstellar ship passes here, it must bypass them!" She said and sent the previous image data of the white flowers and tentacles attacking the mecha.
"Were you attacked by them?" Li Jianfeng asked.
"Not only us, but also the fleeing fleet. Currently, two interstellar ships are known to have been destroyed. One has become an empty ship, and the crew is missing."
Li Jianfeng was silent for a long time, and the scene of tentacles attacking the mecha flashed before his eyes.
"We suffered heavy losses. Of the five armed escort spacecraft when we set off, there are only two left, but there is still a lot of danger."
"How many mechas do you have left?" Li Jianfeng asked seriously.
"Maybe I'm the only one left."
"What might it mean?"
"The remaining more than 200 mechas and two spaceships are also at risk of infection and attack."
After she finished speaking, she turned the electromagnetic scanner above her head to the "Quali" 60 kilometers away.
"The Quali has been overrun by white flowers,
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Allow me to blow it up. " she said.
"Your weapons systems are not powerful enough to destroy it."
"My energy pool still has 11% energy. I can enter the Quali's energy chamber and detonate it, which is enough to destroy the entire ship."
Li Jianfeng was silent again. He stared at her without saying a word.
"Chief of General Staff, please support my suggestion. This spacecraft is floating aimlessly in space and is always a potential threat to passing interstellar ships!"
Li Jianfeng took a deep breath and still didn't speak.
"Please tell me the last 4 digits of the detonation code? Chief of General Staff!"
Li Jianfeng lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said: "I can tell you the last four digits of the password, but I have a condition."
"Please tell me."
"Your energy pool still has 95.9 hours to finally be exhausted. During this period, if you still haven't waited for rescue forces, you can detonate the energy pool at the last moment when you lose consciousness."
"clear!"
Three minutes later, Li Sujia maneuvered under the energy capsule of the "Quali". She used a laser beam to cut a huge rectangle with an area of more than 200 square meters along the bottom of the energy capsule.
She cut a total of 5 layers into a rectangle like this, and advanced towards the energy cabin layer by layer like peeling an onion, which took a total of 17 hours.
As the last layer of metal shell fell down, she saw the huge energy capsule.
She pressed her body tightly against it, and at the same time opened the cover of the energy pool on her chest, and an electronic password keyboard was mapped in front of her eyes.
She calmly entered the three numbers 326, and the remaining 1, she was going to follow Li Jianfeng's order and enter it at the last moment before her consciousness disappeared.
She looked at the deep and vast interstellar space, waiting for that moment to arrive.
There is no day here, only endless night. She cannot feel the existence of time and can only wait slowly in frequent drowsiness.
She is not worried that she will fall asleep, because when the energy pool consumes 2% of its energy, it will vibrate, which is enough to wake her up. In a sense, it is also a measure of time.
After an unknown amount of time, the vibration of the energy pool came as expected, but she did not fall asleep. After looking at it, she turned her gaze to the endless deep sky.
At this moment, she missed two gorgeous fireworks, which were hundreds of meters high and were about 1,000 kilometers away in the star field behind her.
The fireworks came from the two spaceships controlled by Yao Qingyan, and they exploded.
The parasitic eggs in Yao Qingyan and the spacecraft pilots developed into white flowers. After devouring the pilots' bodies, they grew into groups of terrifying tentacles.
The tentacles also attacked the mechas on the spacecraft, and they died together with the spacecraft.
20 A few hours later, Li Sujia's energy pool only had 0.1% energy left. Her body functions had become impaired and her consciousness was blurred.
It was time to enter the last number. She slowly raised her hand, but suddenly, a recurring dream flashed in her mind. This dream she had dreamed more than once.
In the dream, a tall and mighty man drove a fighter jet towards her. After picking her up, he quickly flew into the air. They soared freely in the blue sky...
In her mind, the pilot was her Prince Charming.
No matter how beautiful a dream is, it lasts only a moment. She woke up, smiled bitterly, and reached out to press 1 on the electronic keyboard.
But the moment her fingers touched the button, a space aircraft suddenly hovered next to her. In the haze, a huge figure flew out of the aircraft. The figure hugged her and moved toward the aircraft. Fly away.
Her rescuer was Mecha No. 9, the sole survivor of two armed escort spaceships.
Long before Yao Qingyan took control of the two spacecraft, its self-awareness defeated the first paragraph of the "Mecha Force Code of Conduct", that is, the order to protect human beings.
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It sneaked into the hangar and escaped at the last moment when the spacecraft exploded.
In a brightly lit cabin, Li Sujia slowly opened her eyes. The figure of Mecha No. 9 appeared in her eyes. She lowered her head and glanced at the energy pool on her chest. It was already 100% full.
"Quick, fly back and blow up the Quaali!" she said eagerly.
"After we flew away, white flowers were detected around the Quaali, so we had to stay away from it." Mecha No. 9 said.
She understood that her own cutting of the hull of the "Quali" led to this result.
"Can we still fly back and blow it up?"
"It's too dangerous. It's surrounded by white flowers and the route has been blocked." It said helplessly.
At this moment, she and the space vehicle she was riding on were more than 60 million kilometers away from the "Quali".
"Where should we go?"
Li Sujia doesn't know where to go?
Mecha No. 9 also looked confused...
Until now, they have still not found the signal of the fleeing fleet, and the fleeing fleet has not sent any form of electromagnetic signals or quantum signals. They seem to have evaporated without a trace.
The spacecraft hovers in the empty universe, where is it going? It was a new and difficult question before her.
"I just detected the surrounding 5 million square kilometers of star field, and still haven't found the signal of the fleeing fleet." Mecha No. 9 said sadly.
"Continue searching." After she finished speaking, she looked at the endless starry sky outside the porthole, her brows filled with helplessness.
It nodded and followed her to the vast starry sky. At this moment, both she and it understood that where this space vehicle should go next was a problem that must be faced.
"Proxima Centauri has a planet, Proxima Centauri b, which is located in a habitable area. Perhaps the escape fleet will land there for a short rest, or perhaps directly use it as a base to build a new territory for mankind."
Its words cheered her up, and her eyes gradually looked in the direction of Proxima Centauri in the interstellar navigation system...
Although the route of Nanmen 2a is blocked by the sea of flowers, from the direction of Proxima Centauri, you can perfectly bypass the blocked star field and reach Proxima Centauri, one of the triple star systems.
Moreover, arriving at this triple star system to launch a search mission was originally her goal. Now, being interfered with by the evil sea of flowers made her timid and hesitant to move forward.
She felt a sense of amusement, amused at how confused she was.
But this kind of fun was accompanied by waves of pain. She suffered a lot of losses before reaching her destination. The price was so heavy that she worried about gains and losses.
She woke up from a dream.
The Proxima Centauri b mentioned by Mecha-9 is a rocky planet with a mass of 1.27 times that of the Earth. It is located in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, but this habitable zone is extremely close to its parent star Proxima Centauri.
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star with a mass of only one-tenth that of the sun. Its thermonuclear reaction speed is very slow and its lifespan can reach more than 3 to 4 trillion years.
Proxima Centauri b, which is in the habitable zone, is very close to its parent star. It is permanently tidally locked by the parent star. One side of it is permanently facing Proxima Centauri, but the other side is always in darkness.
The twilight zone between these two extremes may be a habitable area suitable for biological survival. The temperature there may be above zero, suitable for the existence of liquid water.
Maybe the escape fleet will really land here.
At this moment, the spacecraft is still 2.6 light-years away from Proxima Centauri. At the fastest speed of the current spacecraft, it will still take more than 6 years to reach it.
"I want to remind you that our space vehicle is not enough to span a distance of 2.6 light-years. It can only fly 1 light-year at most. It depends on our luck!" Mecha No. 9 said blankly.
Li Sujia cast her gaze into the distant starry sky...
After a moment, she said calmly: "I have a way, which may help us reach Proxima b. Maybe, we will be shattered into pieces."
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