Merit Book·Xinghai

The eagle spreads its wings and soars, its wings cover the sky, and the background is countless shining stars.Each one is a star like a fiery purgatory.

In front of the iron beak of the eagle, there are several black "elephant noses", and it looks like a hand stretched out from the lake, with fingers curled up, about to be struck by the eagle.

This is the stellar hatchery where many suns are being born, some of which have stopped growing early and become dim brown dwarfs; some have thrived and become terrifyingly hot blue giants.But even an ordinary brown dwarf is a terrifying existence that is completely irresistible to human beings.

This is the place where the legendary interstellar bridge is located, and it is also the dream place of countless people - the Pillars of Creation.

In the imagination of countless people, the Pillars of Creation is a place full of gold and treasures. How many people get rich overnight here, and countless legendary stories are staged here.But in fact, the spaceships explored here are tens of thousands of times more than those who have retired, and countless people have buried their lives, love, families and lives here.

This is the hatchery.

This is also a cemetery.

This is where the dream begins.

This is also where life ends.

The interior of the Pillars of Creation is too dangerous. Most of the spaceships have never approached it, but wandered in space far away from it.Because events such as supernova explosions have occurred many times here, there is no habitable star in the nearby star field that can allow people to live for a long time.

Countless spaceships are sailing endlessly in the dark space. Although they can only see the magnificent and endless nebula in their field of vision, they never dare to approach them. They can only watch from a distance. There is only one spaceship around them.Day and night they longed to find treasure, but often wandered for months without even seeing the larger stones.

Living in such an environment for a long time is undoubtedly a huge torture to people's will and spirit, so (xiao)(jin)(ku) like thiocastao is very popular.

In an oblate spaceship, Dai Guang, a young man from the Simu ethnic group with slender hands and feet, a protruding forehead and a thin face, was lying on the table boredly, saying: "Ah... I really want to go home... I really want to stand On the ground... When will we go to Leucasao again? I miss the young lady there..."

"There seems to be an accident in Leucasao. I heard that many people died there. I don't know if it will continue to be open in the future." A teammate said so.

"What?" Dai Guang slapped the table and shouted, "What's going on? Leucas is my spiritual pillar. Where did the bastards dare to attack it? I'm going to kill them!"

"It's the Singer Star Thief Group. Go ahead and kill them." The captain, Yabao, came in and said.

"Sin... Singer Star Thief Group?" Dai Guang lay down again, and said with a mournful face: "It's over, my spiritual support is gone..."

"The spaceship seems to be still there. I heard that they repelled the Star Thief Group, and the Singer Star Thief Group was almost wiped out." Yabao said.

"Really? What a capable group of guys." Another teammate took a sip of water and said casually, his eyes kept focusing on the detection screen.Those complex curves, waveforms and dense data will make ordinary people dizzy at a glance, but this person is very focused.

"Hey, what's so interesting! I haven't found anything yet." Daiguang said weakly.Now he no longer expects to find any treasures, but only looks forward to the day when he will go to the ground or Leucas Ao for repairs.

Just as he was speaking, suddenly a wavy line on the screen popped up and climbed straight to the peak. In an instant, it suppressed all the other normal wavy lines under his feet, and a large amount of data poured out like a waterfall.

The ear-piercing siren sounded instantly.

"Wait, what's going on!" The person observing the data jumped up in fright and shouted, "Turn around! Stop!"

"What U-turn? This is not on the ground!" Captain Yabao yelled!He asked again, "Cass?"

At this time, Cass, who was driving the spaceship, was sweating profusely while operating and said: "It is turning! It has been driven to the maximum power."

The sirens became louder and louder, and everyone became tense, but at this time, personal strength was very weak.They can't do anything to help, they can only gather around the screen, staring at the beating data on it with breathless concentration.

They didn't look at the optical screen, because both the previous detection and the naked eye told them that there was nothing around them except an empty dark vacuum, not even a larger stone.

But this is the scary part of the universe-the most dangerous things are often not those visible things, such as meteorites, such as stars.

The most dangerous things are those invisible things, such as neutron streams, radiation pulses, black holes that are suddenly born like ghosts, and even air streams evaporated by high temperatures are also one of the deadly dangers.

In the face of this danger, the vision of a mortal body is the least reliable thing. Experienced captains and drivers can rely on the frequently jumping data on various detection instruments to analyze the danger and avoid it in advance.

Of course, the judgment of the intelligent control system is more accurate and faster than that of humans.But not everyone has the money to install a high-performance intelligent control system on their spacecraft. Now this relatively excellent detection system on their spacecraft has spent all the savings of several generations of Captain Aburg.

Space seems to be boundless, but because of the speed of the spacecraft and the influence of various aspects such as energy, gravity, cosmic rays, etc., the constraints are even greater than that of a car galloping on the ground.

This time they forcibly deviated from the scheduled track. Even if there was nothing wrong afterwards, the energy loss rate would reach more than 30.00%. Considering the part that needs to be reserved to avoid accidents, they may have to return one month in advance.

This voyage will be a futile voyage, with no gains except losses.If they returned like this, they might not even be able to organize another expedition, and Aburg could declare bankruptcy.

The dangers in the universe are unpredictable, and no one knows which one will come first, danger or luck, at the next moment.

Daiguang glanced at Abao secretly, and saw that his face was tense and his face was very ugly, but as the wave line gradually fell and the siren began to stop, his expression relaxed a little.

In any case, being able to return safely is already a victory.

Just when everyone relaxed their minds, a sharp crest suddenly appeared on the line that hadn't returned to normal. At the same time, the entire hull of the spaceship shook violently!

Accompanied by the stern siren and the constantly flashing red lights, everyone's faces turned pale.

It was clearly shown on the screen that a huge wound appeared on the side and rear of their spaceship, as if a piece of butter was gently pulled by a red-burned knife, and then... the vital energy transmission system and power of the spaceship The steering system was severely damaged.

The auto-sensing airtight door has been opened, and everyone is not in danger of being sucked into a vacuum for the time being, but...it doesn't help.

On the screen, the wounded area of ​​the spaceship was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and countless fine cracks began to spread like growing vines.

The entire spaceship was trembling and jumping at this moment, and everyone had to hold on to the handrails beside them to stabilize their bodies. Countless things that were magnetically attached to the brackets and walls began to shift quietly, and the floor under their feet creaked.

Yabao never knew that the precious spaceship he regarded as his life was so fragile.

"Ka... Kaa... Kaka..."

A series of piercing sounds sounded overhead, the lights went out in rows, no one noticed when the sirens stopped, and the temperature in the room began to drop sharply.They raised their heads in unison, and saw one, two, three... more than a dozen cracks appeared on the alloy plate as smooth as jade on the top of their heads.

Everyone's minds went blank for an instant.

After a while, Yabao trembled his lips, looked at the crowd and said hoarsely: "Everyone, I... I am honored to work with you. Sorry... I can't take you home."

Everyone stared at him blankly, and after a while, a person yelled: "Alice, I love you! I've wanted to say it for a long time, I want to marry you! I want to have three children!"

The woman named Alice burst into tears, and rushed to hug his neck, and the two kissed frantically.

Someone murmured and cried: "I...I want to go home, I miss my mother...I really want to drink the pork rib soup made by my mother again..."

Someone said blankly: "Damn it! I'm two days away from finishing the game...the cake in the refrigerator hasn't been eaten yet...I still...I just adopted a electronic dog not long ago, without me it would be Hungry..."

Someone was so despondent that he didn't want to say a word, spread out in a chair like a salted fish, closed his eyes and waited for the last moment to come.

Early in their journey, they knew that death would come at any moment.Everyone left a suicide note before they set off and bought high-value insurance. At this time, no one overreacted, and no one blamed the captain Yabao.After all, it can only be said that they were unlucky when this happened, and no one can be blamed.

After everyone said their last wishes, they bid farewell to each other. Alice and her new boyfriend had already kissed until they felt nothing. Aburg also adjusted his suicide note three times on the computer. Everyone suddenly realized something, looked at each other, and even felt a little lost——

How are you still alive?

They looked up and saw that the crack above their heads had disappeared, as if what they saw just now was an illusion.

After a few seconds, the shaking of the ship's hull stabilized, the lights came on row by row again, and the temperature began to rise. After a while, the cold fingers began to warm up.

The large and small screens flickered a few times, and the screen reappeared. All the data were very normal, and there were no longer any abnormal changes that made the heart beat faster.

The only thing that can prove that everything just now was not a dream is that the ship's body inspection system shows that the wound on the spacecraft still exists, but it doesn't continue to expand.

Arbor called a crew member, and the two put on spacesuits and walked through the airtight door to see where the spacecraft was damaged.After a few minutes, they came back with strange faces.

In Yabao's hand, he was also holding a huge, shiny red object that seemed to have a golden glow of wealth.

"Longevity Jade!"

Everyone exclaimed together.

Why did they take the risk of dying at any moment, enduring the loneliness, solitude, helplessness, boredom, etc. during the long voyage, and came here with Aborough?Isn't it just to find something like this?

With this, they can go home happily ever after.They no longer need to worry that their life will end in the next moment, and they don’t need to worry about trivial matters such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. They can have a wonderful... at least a very prosperous second half of their lives.

Even though they had just experienced the crisis of life and death, everyone immediately regained their spirits. They stared at the longevity jade in Yabao's arms with piercing eyes, and wanted to reach out to touch it, but they were afraid that it was just a dream like just now.

Yabao handed the Longevity Jade to the people around him and asked them to pass it on one by one.He took off the helmet of his spacesuit, not as excited as the others, looked around the faces of everyone, and then looked at Daiguang who had an unusual reaction.

"Daiguang, did you... just see something?"

Only then did everyone realize that Daiguang's face was very strange, as if he had seen something that subverted his life.

Daiguang hesitated for a moment before stammering: "I... I... If I tell you, you won't believe it..."

"Let's talk." Aburg said numbly, "Nothing can shock me now..."

"I... I just... saw someone outside the spaceship... no, maybe it's a ghost... maybe it's a god..."