star watcher

"So this is the universe, it's so big." This is Milan's emotion.

"It's a pity that the pressure inside and outside the spaceship is different, otherwise we can break the window and try it." This is Bamboo's thoughts.

Milan and Bamboo, who took the interstellar spacecraft for the first time, went through the initial acceleration period of the spacecraft—during acceleration, all personnel must enter the single-person oval dormant protection cabin, and walking around is prohibited—after that, they opened the The sliding cover of the protective cabin, two small heads gathered together to look out.

Outside the porthole, the star slowly moving away is the K-star that has lived for eight years. The location of Luye Town is buried in a sea of ​​green, and there is no trace of it.

Even the Xingyungang satellite now looks like a reflective silver dot next to K star.And actually?They took the "K Star-Xingyun Port" standard flight shuttle to leave K Star, and when they arrived at the gate, they took a scooter, and it took a full half an hour before they arrived at their scheduled spaceship gate. There are five such gates in total.

Looking into the distance, there is a vast expanse of darkness, occasionally doped with several white, red, and blue light spots, which are stars or nebulae of different temperatures.

The long-distance transport ship "Starlight" is a medium-sized civilian ship that can accommodate 50 passengers and [-] tons of cargo at the same time. It has a blue and white shell and belongs to the "Brusta" transportation company. The bow is marked with a blue iris flower .

K star is not big, it is not a commercial planet, nor is it a political center, the most precious thing is the plant resources, K star chief is a very nostalgic physicist, the talent value is two levels of physical strength and three levels of spiritual strength, resolutely dismissed A proposal to develop the planet into a tourist resort, maintaining the original style.

The reason why such a planet has relatively loose access conditions is that the transportation is inconvenient. Most of the people who live there are people who like nature and stability, so there are not many passengers. The Starlight wouldn't even stop if there were no passengers on or off the ship.

After all, one purpose of a ship docking at a satellite port is to pick up and drop off passengers, and the other purpose is to check and repair supplies. K-star is not a routine inspection point.

The interstellar transition is not a child's play. Every time you travel a certain distance, you must stop for routine maintenance.

Moreover, although the technology of compressing space is perfect, the risk of superimposing compressed space is still as high as 0.01%.That is to say, when there is a compression space on the ship, if you take the jump without taking precautions, the annihilation rate is one in ten thousand.

It's not a crash, it's not a loss of contact, it's annihilation. Unless the dual talent value reaches level seven or above, there is no possibility of escape.

For example, Mina's mecha and Drucker's chariot are both stored in the space button. Such a space button must be tested and recorded for the record before boarding the ship-of course, the credit they have accumulated over decades, and the space button It is very helpful for the filing, otherwise they would not be allowed to carry it with them - under normal circumstances, the space button should be kept in a special isolation place, similar to luggage check-in, just in case.

However, if we are to be honest... people with dual talents at level [-] and level [-] have some special privileges. Otherwise, with their mental strength and physical fitness, it may be difficult to rob a transport ship, but it is not easy to destroy this ship. can't do it.

At this time, the credit limit is even more important. The higher the credit limit, the better the safety factor of passengers and the safety of the space button can be guaranteed.

So now the Bamboo family does not take turns to squeeze a porthole with others in the economy class to see the universe, but enjoys a suite, which is like a hotel apartment, with a living room, dining room, game room, bedroom, bathroom, and optical brain , Refrigerator, bar, bed, kitchen, personal helmet for virtual training or games... all kinds of equipment are available.

The least important thing is the dormant protection cabin. The dormancy protection cabin is mandatory to use in three situations. One is to accelerate the ship, the other is to jump, and the third is to land.Although the time for this interstellar transition is only two hours, even in just a few minutes, the physical injury to ordinary people is almost fatal, so you need to lie down in the cabin during the transition.

Of course, if both talent values ​​are above level five, they will be exempted from natural damage.

Bamboo silently evaluated his parents in the legal sense, and the specific information was clear at a glance when he entered the archives of the mercenary union along the star network.The resumes of Mina and Drucker are full, although they are not very earth-shattering, but the ratings of B and above are also very admirable - the ratings are F, E, D, C, B, A, S from low to high , according to the comprehensive evaluation of task difficulty and completion and the evaluation of the task publisher, there will never be an S evaluation for a simple task with a high degree of completion, and only an evaluation below E for a difficult task with a low degree of completion.

Although the B-level evaluation is not significant, it is stable. It has been able to last for 80 years. Nearly a thousand tasks, large and small, have not been messed up once. There are even 10% of A-level evaluations and 3% of S-level evaluations. This result is quite good.

The definition of a mercenary is to love adventure and freedom, but in Green Leaf Town for so long, there is neither adventure nor freedom, but how did these two people with high abilities retreat in the golden age of their careers?

Bamboo hacked into the personal medical files and found no records of physical and mental diseases that would affect their mercenary careers.

Human thoughts are both simple and complex. Bamboo simulated the calculation of human brain and found that there are countless nodes of chance—countless chance constitutes an irreversible necessity.

"The jump will start in another ten hours, and we still have plenty of time to see the scenery." Mina explained with a smile.The space around the jump point is often distorted, so it is set up in a desolate place without stars, and the Starlight is heading for the nearest jump point.

"We really didn't feel anything during the transition?" Milan asked.

"I swear in the name of the right hand of the mad lion, there will never be any." Drucker said, "It's different from takeoff, the jump requires sleep, we enter the sleep protection cabin half an hour earlier, it will release a gas that allows us to reach The level of deep sleep, after arriving at the destination, will wake us up again, everything is like sleeping, maybe you will still have a good dream.”

"Why can't we stay awake? It's safe to lie in the cabin." Milan continued to ask.

This is the scope of Mina's explanation: "At first, this cabin was only to protect the body from accidental damage, and the dormancy function was added later, because the optical brain cannot be used during the transition, the body cannot move freely except for blinking, and there is no sound around. Just staying like this for a few minutes may be acceptable to you, but what about one hour? Two hours? A long time is a kind of torment. Some people even suffer from phobia and paranoia because of this. A sum of money, and then changed to hypnosis to fall asleep, you can pass this uncomfortable period without knowing it."

Milan nodded.

Bamboo followed suit and nodded.

Mina turned on the projection screen of the optical brain, and called up the distribution map of this star field and the travel route of the Starlight: "There are no highly ornamental nebulae nearby, but it will pass through several constellations—" He put the star field map in Highlight a small piece, zoom in, "See what this is?"

Milan tried his best to distinguish. For this interstellar travel, he made up some knowledge: "Can I manipulate it?"

"Okay." Mina let go of the control authority, and Milan leaned over and poked a little bit with his finger, changing the angle of sight: "Pentagram! This is the hero's lucky constellation!"

The five stars at the top are very bright, forming a pentagram pattern, with a purple-red gorgeous nebula in the middle.

"Look at our route again."

Milan continued to click: "The route is... passing between the two stars? We are going to pass through the pentagram!"

"It is said that those who pass through the pentagram will be lucky." Mina smiled.

"So we must be very lucky!" Drucker picked up his little babies one by one, "Look at it later, get ready to eat and sleep!"

"Okay!" Milan replied excitedly.

Bamboo didn't speak, just nodded.

"Bambu, what are you thinking? Come and eat." Milan called him.

Bamboo walked slowly to the dinner table.

——There are family members in this suite, so it's a pity that we can't eat casually.

At this time, a tall and handsome young man in the corridor, with yellow hair and blue eyes, smiling all over his face, wearing a gold hoop earring on his left ear, typed the password on the communicator—"Everything is ready."