Before the Queen Isabella had time to recover from the last emergency jump, it had to immediately start another emergency jump.
The target of the jump is a massive star 1.35 light-years behind the spacecraft, and the time is even tighter, only five minutes. This means that the Queen Isabella has no time to make any adjustments and can only make a one-time blind jump. Fortunately, the coordinates given by the captured Li Shi were very accurate, and he did not get troubled by it. As soon as the Queen Isabella jumped out, it happened to be behind the star, in the shadow of the autobiographical deflection angle.
Immediately afterwards, without any chance to breathe, the void broke.
In the center of the halo, like a squeezed bag, a huge sphere broke through the boundary between space and reality and rushed out. It is boundless and astonishingly large. When it is fully realized in the void, it seems that the entire universe has been squeezed into a corner. A huge hole was torn in the void, like a hideous wound on a giant's face. The tension of space pulled stars from all directions into the hole, and the emergence of the sphere carried an unparalleled mass impact, so powerful that it radiated out to the surroundings. . The two forces are intertwined together, like a hurricane, doubling in power, destroying everything in an instant.
The same scene happened in every corner of the starry sky. Countless spaces were torn apart. The universe was like a colander pulled down. The heavy rain was like a column, and what leaked out was endless mass energy accompanied by lightning and thunder. The storm fills every inch of space, violently lashing every particle of matter it touches, and even the home of the gods will be barren of grass.
Gu Hanhan was frightened by this apocalyptic scene and stared at the observation deck, numb and speechless.
The Queen Isabella in the storm is like a small boat in the center of the whirlpool. It barely maintains its balance by relying on the gravitational effect of the massive star. However, the shaky and sinking hull reminds everyone that they cannot be alone and detached from the world. Beyond this apocalyptic disaster. No one knew how long this storm would last, what would be waiting for them when it was over, or how long this fragile shelter would be able to shelter them.
It was so quiet on the bridge that one could hear the heartbeat. I don't know how long it took before I heard Leos let out a sigh of relief.
"O God of the universe," he said, "hell is nothing but this!"
This broke the silence, and the crew members started talking a lot. Gu Hanhan heard many people, like Rios, reciting the word □□ of the universe, including the chief of staff, who usually seemed the most deviant.
She thought, if the God of the universe really exists, then destroy it, destroy everything, including all mankind!
"I'm very curious," Rios asked Li Shi, "why did you choose to settle in such a ghost place? It is no exaggeration to say that I have traveled throughout the universe and have never seen anything more unsuitable for human survival than this place." .Even if the Qingya Star Plains where you go to hunt for food every year is a hundred times better than here. Why don’t you just move there?”
As a prisoner, Li Shi was silent for a moment, and then said: "The holy land of our ancestors is here and cannot be moved. And only here can our spaceship replenish the necessary core materials, which are also gifts from our ancestors -"
Leos raised his eyebrows: "Who are your ancestors?"
Li Shi shook his head: "I don't know who he is. All the previous records here have been lost, but it is true that only near his body can the spacecraft's tree of life be activated and replenished. We can't take him away. So I can only stay here. Every year from March to May, I run out to take refuge, replenish supplies on the way, and then return after everything is over."
Leos frowned: "It sounds like the remains of your ancestors still retain some kind of activity."
"Hanhan," he then called, "did you hear that?"
Gu Hanhan wiped his face and walked over.
"It is very possible," she said, "that the field effect of the energy array is activated by some kind of active wave medium. If Professor Ponia takes a look in person, he can confirm it."
"Perhaps you will allow us to enter your holy place and see the remains of your ancestors?" she asked Li Shi, "Of course, that is after we successfully escape this ghost place or escape this disaster."
Li Shi's attitude was very indifferent: "It would be best if you could find the reason. It would be equivalent to releasing our shackles and throwing away the heaviest historical package for us. None of us from generation to generation are welcome I can’t move while I’m tied here.”
"I don't know what's in there," he said. "We haven't opened the coffin, and it can't be opened."
The hurricane lasted for nearly nine hours, and the huge cracks in the space gradually closed. However, the turmoil in the space did not stop, but became more violent. The entire space is like a rapidly shaking sieve plate, and the vibrations sweeping everything are reflected back and forth between the huge star matter like a beating. The Queen Isabella had to adopt the full retraction mode and open the protective shield to the maximum power to barely block the transmitted shock. But in the attenuation of the continuous vibration, the energy of the violent changes in space was evenly transmitted to every corner of the void, and the destruction was also uniform. All materials in the starry sky suffered, even the Queen Isabella is currently taking shelter. Massive stars have had some of their mass taken away.
Gu Hanhan, who was trapped on the Queen Isabella and had to watch this scene of world destruction, was in a bad mood.
"These idiots!" she yelled, "just open the passage and shove the spaceship inside, no matter how the mountains and earth on the other side collapse and the stars sink and set."
"Of course it's impossible to promote production and construction for you, since it's a place of exile for garbage disposal." Leos twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling happy in his misery.
"Do you know who did it? The person on the other side who is responsible for opening this space channel!" he asked.
Li Shi shook his head: "It doesn't have to be who it is. Because every year after the storm, we come back to clean up the battlefield, and we will also take in some exiles who survived the storm. They are everywhere because the evil possessed genes are contaminated. I can no longer live in my own country. It seems that all the countries outside are expelling these severely mutated people. They are homeless and wander around. If they do not die outside, they become lonely ghosts and eventually follow the great flow of people. You will arrive at a place called 'Yellow Spring Bank'."
"It is said that there has been a legend of a country on the other side circulating among these abandoned people. They believe that the universe is a mirror image. If you cross the end of the Milky Way, the other side of the chasm is not the nebulae seen on the star map, but another A galaxy. Similarly, according to the law of mirror images, these mutants who are haunted by evil spirits in the current galaxy, when they pass through the mirror image and reach the new galaxy on the other side, they become normal. And Huang Quan'an is the intersection that passes through the mirror image point, the vortex will open at a fixed tidal time every year. According to a certain religious mystery, it is the ferry to the other side opened by the gods. When the ferry carries sinners like them who are contaminated by demons through the waves of the vast sea, the gods Blessings will be sent down, their souls will be purified, and the disasters will disappear—"
"Isn't the disaster all gone and the soul purified? This blessing and life are gone!" Gu Hanhan sneered, "Does anyone believe this? Even the brain has been mutated by the body!"
"Some people believe it," Li Shi said. "Listen to what they say, even those who don't believe it at all will try their best to go there. Because the universe is expelling them everywhere, not treating them as human beings, but as sins Cursed, it seems that their only way to survive is to go to Huangquan'an, at least the idea of a way to survive. There, they have autonomous organizations that can organize production and life, exchange some necessary medicines with the outside world, and also have autonomous institutions to maintain Public security, where no one will discriminate against them, drive them away, or regard them as evil spirits. They can live equally with each other and die equally. This is their utopia. Yes, they also have their own belief, called the Bian'an Religion. , will develop believers in the normal world, seek the help of some sympathizers, and guide the mutated infected people who are suffering in various parts of the galaxy to the shore of Huangquan through certain specific routes. Finally, organize them to move here on a large scale through the vortex It’s also this other side religion.”
"There is no such place as Huangquan'an in the Milky Way," Leo thought for a while and said, "Such a large area of starry sky cannot be covered up out of thin air, it can only be a blind spot and a black canyon. It should not be very far from here, at least there is a relatively natural path Space channel - I guess it is most likely a place between the isolation zone between the inner and outer camps. It is difficult to say whether there is anyone behind this other side religion. It is not easy to go to a place like the isolation zone, even for us No one will try to attack. It is very likely that driving terminally ill genetic patients there is a consensus and tacit understanding on the border. The central star field will drive them to the outer domain and the border, and the border will drive them into the isolation zone, which is the name of the exile. It’s very telling – I never imagined that this is what the penal colony means!”
Gu Hanhan was very sure: "It's those sons of bitches in Acropolis who are behind it!"
This can not but be said to be a kind of prejudice. Because there was obviously no evidence to prove it, but Gu Hanhan did not hesitate to throw the blame on the Acropolis nobles.
"Even if they weren't directly controlling it, it must have been done by the Temple Cult." She said, "It looks like they are them. No one except those sons of bitches can do such a thing!"
Rios gave Li Shi a charming smile, intending to take advantage of this period of world destruction to educate him, who had been isolated from the world for more than two thousand years, about what a son-of-a-bitch Acropolis noble is. He thought that if he did not come to popularize it and Gu Hanhan or others popularized it, Mr. Li's view of the universe would be biased to some extent.
However, Li Shi did not show any curiosity or interest in the terms Gu Hanhan mentioned about the Acropolis nobles and the Temple Cult.
"Maybe," he said casually, "No matter who it is, it's the same to us anyway - I think even if there is no one but the mutants themselves, their other religions should also find ways to throw people over. Religion. Well, we all want to find a paradise for ourselves, how can we do it without being mysterious? In a sense, mysticism and terrorism are two flowers blooming from the same soil. And resources are always limited, and the Milky Way is mutating. People are pouring in continuously, and if we can't find a place for them to go, not only will the legend be unsustainable, but the faith will also collapse. Therefore, hell will always be packaged as a paradise, and the road to death becomes a ferry for the case."
This last paragraph was said by Li Shi inadvertently, but he obviously thought deeply about it, causing everyone to fall silent.
After a moment, Catalina said softly: "Let's talk about the trouble at hand——"
