"10, 9, 8, 7, 6..." On the big screen in the middle of the bridge, the place that originally displayed the number of times the distress message was sent has been replaced by a countdown to William Herschel's limit. [No pop-up novel website] Since everyone has heard about it, let’s just announce it.
When the time entered the last ten seconds of 00:00:10, except for those who had to stay at their posts, everyone gathered in the hall and counted nervously silently as the numbers decreased. Carl Danner returned to the engine room alone. The engine of the "Agile" was always working at overpower. If something went wrong at this time, it would really fall into the abyss. Although he was watching the engine vibrating there, he was also concerned about the operation. The engine can't do much.
Seek peace of mind.
Captain Wells' hand hovered over a red button, his fingers shaking slightly spasmodically. If time runs out in the end, he can only give up the Element Zero worth 1.6 billion stars to buy another five minutes for the spacecraft... Don't think that it's already this time and still think about this... Idealists usually don't do much Care about your own life. Although Wells does believe that his value is much higher than 1.6 billion star dollars, he does not hesitate when sacrifice is needed.
Old Orch sat in a corner, rearranging his chips and the papers with his thoughts. The moment he faced death, he actually had many good ideas. The unexpected turn of events in the last lesson gave him confidence in the realization of his dream. The residents watched the "Skywalker" spacecraft getting bigger and bigger in the portholes, watched the "Skywalker" fly past the hall vigorously, and could even see the young man's bright smile and thumbs up. ——His smile gives people more confidence. Then the blue flames of the spacecraft's ion engine swept through the portholes, ravaging the glass into a mess, but the crowd had already begun to cheer quietly.
Although it is also blue, this blue is so beautiful!
"3.2,..." The hull of the spacecraft suddenly shook violently! The number displayed on the screen flashes to "1". Then it goes back to "2" and finally stays at the moment 00:00:02! No more moving forward. It's like time has stopped at this moment!
Everyone stood up. They clenched their fists and trembled all over. They didn't know...if this was what they thought.
The loudspeaker on the bridge was turned on again, and the familiar sizzling noise appeared, as well as the young man's loud voice - "I've got you!"
Lu Yuan said that.
The next moment, the bridge of the "Agility" burst into cheers!
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Outside the cabin, countless mechanical spiders carry hooks and locks. He jumped up from the "Skywalker" and landed on the hull of the "Agile", pulling down the raindrops from the sky. The spider quickly crawls and explores on the surface of the cargo ship. Once it encounters a bulge that can be fixed, the mechanical spider immediately stretches out its sharp claws and hugs it firmly! Secure yourself to the surface of the ship with the hook lock! One after another... eventually hundreds of metal ropes tightly tied a 400-meter behemoth to a small spaceship! The four huge engines of the "Skywalker" (the broken one was repaired) roared together, pulling forward like pulling a carrot! The "Agile" finally stopped!
All the ropes creaked and cracked as they were pulled. New mechanical spiders emerge from within the Skywalker. They desperately grabbed the broken hook locks, then landed on the surface of the MSV spacecraft, repeating the above process!
"Skywalker" is like a furious ant! It roared crazily. Use all your strength to pull the big caterpillar...oh, no, it's the "Agility" that was caught by gravity and lacked a little bit of strength, and pulled it away from the boundary little by little!
At this time, a hazy mist began to appear on the mechanical spiders and hooks scattered in the external environment. Under the illumination of the blue giant star, they were slowly being eroded - like weathered stone statues.
Exposed to the radiation of blue giant stars at such a close distance. The metal surface will be instantly heated to a high temperature of thousands of degrees due to the impact of various particle flows. It's more like living inside the jet of an ion engine. Such powerful radiation, except for the burning coating on the surface of the spacecraft. There is almost no way to stop it!
Neither can mechanical spiders. But the nanomaterials in their trunks are filling the hooks and the metal ropes they are holding, replenishing the evaporated parts. When only the hook claws were left, unable to hold on and collapsed, a new spider rushed out again regardless of its own safety...
Relying on the successive mechanical spiders, Lu Yuan drove the furious ants and finally succeeded in dragging the "Agility" away from the boundary, a full astronomical unit distance away! (150 million kilometers
It wasn't until the engines of both ships started to make a hoarse sound that Lu Yuan coordinated and lowered the power of the engines together to relax a little. Although the spacecraft began to float backwards and away again. But at this time, after walking from death to life, everyone's heart is full of hope!
The boarding port channels of the two ships were released and a simple docking was carried out. Lu Yuan put on his personal armor and walked towards the exit.
It was time to meet the other party - Lu Yuan was really curious about why the inexplicable chip made from his own blood appeared here. And now we are only a little away from danger, but still far from being out of danger.
The specific method still needs to be discussed together.
But no matter what, the method of dragging the elephant with ants will not work. The real main force is msv "Agility" itself. However, in order to tap the full potential of this ship, I believe that the people on the original ship have tried their best. Now there is only one way - let Lu Yuan become the captain of this ship!
Through the porthole, Lu Yuan looked at the "Cerberus" logo spray-painted on the ship, put on his helmet, and walked into the decompression chamber...
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With the sound of exhaust from the decompression chamber, the hatch opened to one side. When Lu Yuan walked out of the passage, the crowd had lined up in two rows to greet him. There was thunderous applause on the bridge, and both Krogan and humans were greeting him enthusiastically.
"I am Captain Wells, welcome! Captain Lu Yuan!" Wells took the lead.
This kind of enthusiasm made Lu Yuan extremely uncomfortable, and he rarely looked at a loss. At this time, Lu Yuan had not yet realized that these people were actually the kidnapper and the kidnapped. Of course, the residents would not ask him for help. This young man was alone, and asking for help would only bring Lu Yuan into trouble, so everyone tacitly agreed not to speak. Moreover, Wells did loudly promise before Lu Yuan boarded the ship that he would "release" everyone!
"Wow, humans, krogan, and quarians..." Lu Yuan took off his helmet, looked around for a while and said. His words silenced the crowd...for fear that he would say something...discriminatory to the Quarians or sarcastic to the Krogans. Then Lu Yuan smiled and pushed away and said, "Is this the United Meeting of the Lost Races? That's great. We should have left that damn Citadel and gone it alone!"
"Hahaha~" His words caused laughter and the atmosphere relaxed. Incorporating humans into the "Lost Races" will undoubtedly win the favor of the declining Krogan and Quarians, even though humans are the upstarts of the Citadel. This is the moment when the power of the Citadel Council is at its highest. The three major races are fierce and powerful, similar to the United States after World War II. Whoever is caught will be destroyed. The Citadel Convention is comparable to a law-like existence in the galaxy.
So joking about the Citadel is particularly funny.
Only Lu Yuan knew that just six short years later, Saren drove the "Overlord" dreadnought and led the geth fleet to capture the Citadel. Saren tore the seemingly powerful coat of the three major races to pieces, showing the weakness of the Citadel to the world for the first time. When the Reapers launched a massive attack on the galaxy, the Citadel Council actually rejected one of the four permanent members, humanity, for help! This step completely ruined the era of the Citadel Council's rule. At that time, the "Citadel Convention" was worse than a piece of waste paper.
I know that several major people have to discuss things, but the crisis has not passed yet. So after the crowd welcomed him, the residents spread out a little around, leaving room for a few people.
Two humans, a krogan and a quarian stood together. Lu Yuan wanted to increase his favorability, so he took the lead in reaching out to the Quarians, "The best engineers in the universe are Quarians. I guess it must be your credit that this ship can persist until now! Lu Yuan ,Nice to meet you!"
"Karl Danner, this is my honor." The Quarian actually replied in the language of the earth.
"Are you lucky enough to know the name of your ship?" Lu Yuan has a good impression of the Quarian people. When playing games, what he wants to know most is the appearance of that Quarian girl! Of course, what I’m most afraid of knowing is this…if it’s really ugly, it will definitely ruin the dream! However, the Quarians' enthusiasm for ships is truly unmatched by any race. Professional work can be done well if you have talent, but you can be outstanding if you have passion! The quarians are distinguished by their passion.
"Sorry, not yet...I'm still wandering around." There is no doubt that Carl Danner took Lu Yuan's gesture of favoring him as a solicitation. He was full of affection for the young man who shook hands with him first and knew the Kuili culture very well, so he responded without hesitation. "Still wandering around" basically means that he has not yet permanently served on any ship.
Wells' face stiffened for a moment, he thought so too... Of course, the method he used would not be as "warm and affectionate" as Lu Yuan's, and he would probably just throw money at it. But now that Lu Yuan has beaten him to it, his hope of keeping this quarian is suddenly slim...
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ps: The book friend "Dolphin of the Main Plane" pointed out that the name format of the Quarians was misspelled... Lao Lei read it and found that it was indeed the case. Thank you "Dolphin of the Main Plane"! However, there are too many words in that explanation, so I’ll leave it as it is for the time being and won’t revise it for now.
