In the lobby of the "Powerful", all the crew members, including Li Sujia, were neatly lined up in square formations, waiting for the arrival of the commanding generals.
As before, the generals surrounded the captain, Jan Wessenk, and slowly walked into the hall. After the military salute, the crew members shouted "Home, Future, Sequei..." in unison.
The shouts rise and fall like huge waves...
As the "Powerful" on the big screen behind Wesenk slowly flew into the magnetic storm array, everyone hunched over and floated with their hands raised high, and the slogan in their mouths also changed to: " We have nowhere to go. Only by obeying the orders of the Sequi people can we have a new home and a future!"
A new round of thought and consciousness control begins again.
Only Li Sujia remained awake in the phalanx. The top of her head was covered with the small piece of shielding suit given to her by Zhou Yun. The military cap perfectly concealed it. It shielded the super strong magnetic field generated by the magnetic storm array.
The scene in front of her shocked Li Sujia. Looking at the almost crazy crowd, she could not imagine or understand that she was as ignorant and paranoid as them before.
She realized that what Zhou Yun said was absolutely true, let alone exaggerated.
She saw the truth about the "Powerful". The magnetic storm array was a tool to control thinking and consciousness. Not only that, it would also erase previous memories.
In the repeated and ritualistic controls, the thinking and consciousness of everyone on the "Powerful" were continuously strengthened in the direction set by the Saiqua people again and again. This was a kind of ideological prison, and it was even more targeted. Strengthen and instill another kind of thinking and consciousness that has already been set.
Li Sujia glanced at the planet on the big screen, which was no inferior to the earth and had beautiful natural scenery, and she suddenly understood.
Obviously, this planet is a prop set by the Saiqua people to strengthen the thinking and consciousness of all of them. Maybe it is really located in the Perseus Arm, one of the four major cantilevers of the Milky Way, or maybe it does not exist at all.
A sudden enlightenment made her realize a question: Who are the Sequé people?
As her thoughts deepened, one question after another came out of her mind like a fountain: Why would the Saiqua people use a planet comparable to the earth to control the crew of the "Powerful"?
How did the "Powerful" encounter the magnetic storm array?
What happened to the Gaitan crew on the spaceship?
How did he get into the "Powerful" number?
A series of questions gave Li Sujia a splitting headache. She tore her hair and fell into endless thinking...
When she came back to her senses, she found that the people around her were lying on the ground like a puddle of mud, with indifferent expressions and dull eyes. It took a long time to wake up from the trance, and then they climbed up from the ground tremblingly.
The ritual of mind and consciousness control is over.
Thirty minutes later, Li Sujia returned to the cabin where she lived and lay down on the bed. Although her body was extremely tired, her mind was extremely active, and the questions she had just asked kept running through her mind.
She tried hard to recall, hoping to recover her previous memories, even if they were just scattered fragments. Over time, she would connect these fragments to form a complete memory line.
But she tried many times, but it still seemed like some hazy memory fragments would flash through her mind from time to time, but soon they would disappear like a passing cloud, and then more memory fragments would emerge from her mind. Still hazy and fleeting.
Unconsciously, she fell into a deep sleep. When she woke up, she had forgotten where she was? I feel like I'm in a strange place, and I can't even remember who I am.
After about 20 seconds, she regained consciousness, regained her perception of the surrounding environment, and her identification with herself.
She sat up and stretched. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something. She felt that she did not belong to the "Powerful". She should be in a small ship with Mecha XM1367 and Mecha XM672. Inside the starship. .
She shook her dizzy brain vigorously, and her past memories gradually became clearer.
There should also be a mecha driving the small interstellar spacecraft. As for its number, she could no longer remember it, but she remembered that it was driving the spacecraft according to her orders and was heading to South Gate 2.B Road.
Li Sujia's memory has recovered to some extent, but it is just some incoherent memory fragments. She cannot connect the whole process from the beginning of leaving Antarctica to encountering the starry white flowers, tentacles, and then encountering the "Powerful".
As for how Li Sujia encountered the "Powerful", we have to start from the beginning. During the battle on the polar glaciers, the heavily equipped combat flying mecha team she led, together with Liu Hanyang, Zhou Yun and others, brilliantly completed the crisis. The tasks assigned by the Program have enabled human society to continuously obtain abundant and clean fresh water resources.
Afterwards, she was ordered to lead this mecha unit stationed on the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica for a long time, responsible for collecting ice shelves and installing controllable nuclear fusion engines on naturally falling ice shelves, and transporting them to humans. Port in southern Oceania.
The boring and arduous garrison work allowed Li Sujia to develop the habit of using radio telescopes to watch the night sky in her spare time. An accidental observation allowed her to discover a strange and gorgeous "fireworks" similar to a supernova explosion.
After further observation, she received a distress signal from 1.7 light-years away, and later sent the signal to the Crisis Planning Agency. After screening and analysis by technical personnel, the Crisis Planning Agency determined that the signal came from the escape team led by Fang Junhuang. fleet.
The location of the signal source is approximately in the direction of Nanmen 2A, about 1.7 light-years from the solar system.
Soon, Li Sujia received a new order from the Crisis Planning Agency, ordering her to lead 1,000 modified heavy combat flying mechas and drive 5 armed escort spacecraft to search and rescue the fugitive fleet 1.7 light years away. .
After experiencing the terrifying Star White Flower and Tentacle attacks, Li Sujia led the only two remaining armed escort spacecraft and more than 300 heavily equipped combat flying mechas to continue searching for traces of the fleeing fleet, but unfortunately they were attacked by White Flower again. The whole army was wiped out by the backlash of the tentacles, and he was trapped alone in the empty starry sky.
Fortunately, Mecha No. 9 snatched a space vehicle and escaped after the spacecraft exploded, successfully rescuing the trapped Li Sujia.
Because the sea of flowers blocked the route to South Gate 2A, Li Sujia had no choice but to change her strategy.
Proxima Centauri and Proxima Centauri are in the same triple star system and are not far apart from each other, so when you reach Proxima Centauri, Proxima Centauri is right in front of you.
Moreover, the escape fleet that she was pursuing was also attacked by white flowers and tentacles. She believed that under the same situation, fleet commander Fang Junhuang would definitely bypass the terrifying sea of flowers and head to the Three Combined Stars. One of the systems is Proxima Centauri.
On the way to Proxima Centauri, the space vehicle Li Sujia and Mecha No. 9 were riding had to rely on the gravitational slingshot effect of the rogue planet to continuously accelerate due to its limited range.
After escaping the gravitational constraints of a wandering black hole, Li Sujia encountered the "Qiangman" and "Xingmang" who went to Nanmen 2.B on an exploration mission many years ago under Fang Junhuang's orders.
After the two ships were attacked by a fleet of the Tiberians executing the "Cosmic Vanguard" plan, the "Starburst" was destroyed and the "Powerful" disappeared.
Afterwards, Li Sujia and Mecha No. 9 carried out a rescue mission for the crew of the "Xingmang". Unfortunately, all the crew members were killed. It was this rescue mission that caused Mecha No. 9 to be seriously injured. .
In order to save it, Li Sujia activated consciousness transmission, but due to the phenomenon of consciousness reflux, both Mecha XM1367 and Mecha XM672 had the consciousness of Mecha No. 9, but Mecha XM1367 had the personality, skills and abilities of Mecha No. 9. Knowledge reserve, while Mecha XM672 only possesses part of the memory of Mecha No. 9.
After going through a series of difficulties and obstacles, Li Sujia and the two mechas finally got a small interstellar spacecraft from the hangar of the damaged "Xingmang", and then drove it to the Nanmen II B star. The system flies away.
But on the way, they encountered the "Powerful". They originally thought they had met their savior, but they never expected that it was the beginning of a nightmare.
"How on earth did I board the Powerful?" Li Sujia kept talking to herself.
The messy and complicated memory fragments made it impossible for her to completely connect the entire process from leaving Antarctica to carry out the Crisis Planning Agency's mission to search for the fugitive fleet to meeting the "Powerful" into a complete and clear memory line.
What she lost was not only this part of her memory, but also the thinking and consciousness set by the Saiqua people that were continuously strengthened and forcibly instilled by the magnetic storm array. It was these that led to the loss and disorder of memory.
Suddenly, she thought of Mecha XM1367 and Mecha XM672. Since they were not living entities, their thinking and consciousness were not strengthened and instilled by the magnetic storm array.
They had told her more than once about how she and they boarded the "Powerful" and how they became what they are now, but she didn't believe it as her mind and consciousness had been controlled by the magnetic storm array.
In the absence of sufficient evidence, she will not be swayed by others' so-called "rootless Ping" words.
In her opinion, their words were the disorder and side effects caused by the reflux phenomenon during the transmission of consciousness.
She was very sure of her judgment.
Now I see how ridiculous and ignorant I was back then, but it's not too late to understand the truth now.
Three minutes later, Mecha XM1367 and Mecha XM672 were invited into the cabin by Li Sujia. The two Mechas told her in detail how they boarded the "Powerful" and what happened after boarding the ship. series of things.
In the reminder memories of the two mechas, Li Sujia finally connected the trivial memory fragments in her mind, and even remembered the part of the memory that was obliterated by the magnetic storm array, thus forming a complete and clear memory line.
She felt like she was reborn.
The past events are vivid in my mind.
