The dark side of the moon.
At this moment, the canyon between the central mountains of the Antarctic-Aitken Basin no longer looks like a fairyland on earth, with only a few dim glimmers of light remaining in the darkness.
The lunar core engine no longer supplies energy, and the emergency ecological maintenance system begins to operate automatically. Since most of the energy is used to support the barrier covering the canyon, the temperature in the canyon plummets, the air becomes thin, and the gravity drops to the level of the moon itself, which is only six times that of the Earth. one.
Li Liang, who was wearing a white spacesuit, was slowly lifted up by a TE drone and approached the barrier until he was within reach.
He stretched out his hand and gently touched the transparent film. It was made of a material similar to the mysterious metal under the Aikent Basin. It shielded spirits and was indestructible at the same time. A few minutes ago, an array of hundreds of TE-type drones and more than a dozen C-state Ten Thousand Commander robots opened fire at the same time, but left no trace.
For two hours, Li Liang was like a ghost, wandering in the dark canyon.
He first found a warehouse of emergency supplies, including a space suit made of some kind of programmable metal. When worn, it wraps around the whole body like a liquid. The face is transparent and can maintain pressure, maintain body temperature, provide oxygen, and has a endurance of more than 76 hours.
He went to the headquarters again and put on space suits for K, Dr. Xisen, Li Xiaotiao, and Li Hao.
The other Dros people can only continue to be exposed to low temperature and low pressure. Fortunately, the backup system focuses on the headquarters, where the living conditions are much better than in other areas.
Later, he checked the backup system and found that because the lunar core engine stopped supplying power, the barrier covering the canyon was blocked. If he wanted to leave, he could only destroy it violently. So, he spent a long time mobilizing TE drones and C-state Ten Thousand-Human Robot.
The TE type is the type of drone that Xi'an sent to Zhongjing to hunt him. It is huge and has various shapes. The C-state Ten Thousand Captain robot has a similar appearance to the ordinary Ten Thousand Captain robot and is equipped with a huge antimatter phaser. gun.
However, this level of firepower is of no avail when faced with the barrier's defensive power.
Without being able to escape from here, Cain's efforts are meaningless, and Laplace's prophecy is destined to fail. This is what the heroic spirits call "despair."
Li Liang raised his head and stared at the Galaxy, which occupied most of his field of vision. The blocked sun outlined a white outline for the behemoth. It stretched across space like a silver dumbbell, with the diamond-shaped structures on both sides shining with bright blue light.
Time passed by, the temperature got lower and lower, fog appeared on the mask, the world was very quiet, Li Liang could even hear his own heartbeat.
despair?
The level of defense of the shield did not surprise him, and it was far from truly despairing.
The heroic spirits thought that the interstellar expeditionary force loyal to Zhuos was monolithic, and they could rest easy as long as they closed the canyon. Unfortunately, cause and effect were like dominoes. The initial collision may be insignificant, but in the end it will bring unexpected consequences.
Half an hour later, a spacecraft from the Interstellar Expeditionary Force arrived as scheduled.
The hull is composed of two sections, with a curved power boat at the front and a long cargo hold behind. After approaching the barrier, the spacecraft turned its angle and the bottom of the cargo hold came up.
For a moment, the shield rippled, and a circle of light appeared at the junction, showing the inside of the cargo bay.
A man in a spacesuit floated out of the aperture, seemingly unrestrained by gravity, and flew in front of Li Liang.
Under the transparent mask is a fat face with a thick beard.
"Mr. Li Liang."
Listening to the slightly excited voice coming from the earphones, Li Liang said calmly: "Jin Ji, is Andre here?"
"Well," Jin Ji glanced at the drone array below and stepped aside to get out of the way, "The commander-in-chief of the Galaxy and Mr. Andre are waiting for you in Central Bay City."
Chief Commander?
Li Liang was a little surprised. He patted the drone at his feet and pointed at the aperture not far away.
The TE-type drone, which had an intelligence level close to that of a bionic human, contracted its tentacles and carried him towards the aperture.
When passing through the aperture, he noticed that in the spirit's field of vision, there was a thin layer of spirit attached to the outside of the aperture. Perhaps such carriers are equipped with special equipment to open the barrier, and the technology is based on dark matter applications.
After the two entered the spacecraft, the aperture disappeared and the barrier was closed again.
Jin Ji patted his chest, and the space suit retracted the disc on his chest like liquid.
Only then did Li Liang discover that Jin Ji was covered in blood under his spacesuit and his tactical outer armor was in pieces. He had obviously experienced a fierce battle.
"Back on the Galaxy, I sent a message to Mr. Andre and summoned the secret team of the Marginal Operations Department, the devout believers of the Twin Gods," Jin Ji staggered and said in the stumbling lower city language, "which caused the commander-in-chief to The situation is very bad. Before the concert started, we faced an siege and many people died."
While talking, the two walked through the empty cargo hold and took the elevator into the control center.
There are more than ten control positions distributed in the huge arc-shaped bridge. When they appeared, the crew members in front of the light curtain stood up one after another, with complicated expressions on their faces, shock and excitement mixed with confusion.
Li Liang glanced over and nodded in greeting.
Everyone here was injured to varying degrees, which showed that the team led by Jin Ji was in dire straits.
"After the concert started, the commander-in-chief changed the order," Jin Ji held on to the commander's chair and breathed heavily, "because the woman who boarded the Galaxy with you proved your identity."
Li Liang was stunned.
Yuan Quan? That non-mainstream director?
"Is she related to the Commander-in-Chief?"
"Yes," Jin Ji nodded, "They look very close."
The bridge shook, and Li Liang turned to look at the front transparent window.
The spacecraft has turned its angle and is flying along the near-lunar orbit. In the field of vision, spacecraft of various sizes emerge from the void to escort the carrier ship.
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after an hour.
The carrier landed at the foot of the Twin Gods sculpture in the center of Central Bay City. The largest church in Central Bay is located here, and there is also an open square in front of the door.
The moment he climbed off the spacecraft, Li Liang saw a hellish scene.
On the square, corpses were placed in rows, stretching to the end of the field of vision. Tens of them could not be seen at a glance, and androids kept coming from all directions, placing corpses in their arms in the gaps.
Li Liang approached in a daze.
Each corpse has the same characteristics, with a ring-shaped neuromanipulation device on its head, black eyes, and black blood stains under its ears.
It turns out that only the people in the command center still have a chance to be reborn, and the brains of these people who lost consciousness during neuromansion have been burned to ashes.
Tens of millions of living lives can no longer be saved.
Li Liang suddenly remembered what Zero One and Two had said about Zero, the last message left by his younger brother: Humanity will spend a long time in despair and loneliness, until the door to the new world opens, the Twin Gods come again, and the Moon The dark side is spilled with the blood of betrayers, and Uptown will crash before dawn.
How many more people will die next?
At this time.
A woman ran closer from a distance and said breathlessly: "Li Liang..."
"you……"
"Listen to me, I'm telling Robben, you are the twin gods, don't reveal your secret for a while," Yuan Quan's eyes were red, as if he had just cried.
"Robben?"
The name sounded familiar, and Li Liang realized that in Yuan Quan's movie called "Romantic", the protagonist Zhang Yang's friend was named Luo Ben.
"Is your movie based on reality?"
"Yes, that's the story of my parents," Yuan Quan glanced behind him nervously, "I changed Uncle Robben's identity."
Li Liang suddenly realized.
In the movie, Robben is a retired maintenance engineer working in deep space mining. He asked the protagonist Zhang Yang to perform a mining mission for him. It was this unintentional encounter that led to the second encounter between the male and female protagonists, and the subsequent story happened.
No wonder he was a little confused when he was watching it. How could Deep Space Mining agree to have a non-staff person perform tasks in place of its own employees.
It turns out that Robben is the chief commander of the Galaxy.
"We'll talk about the rest later. Remember, from now on, you are the twin gods," Yuan Quan finished quickly, stepped to the side, and looked down at his toes.
Two people approached from a distance.
An old Chinese man with white hair, tall, wearing a black uniform with golden epaulettes, with a meticulous gait and a serious expression.
Another man was slumped in a wheelchair, with a white blanket covering his legs. He looked haggard, but his eyes were full of excitement as if he were reflecting on the past.
Their eyes fell on Li Liang's face, and then slowly upward, looking at the statues of the twin gods that looked like Optimus pillars.
