Heart-wrenching uncertainty
In this cosmic era, communication within a planet is naturally in real-time, but interstellar communication spanning tens of light-years is not that simple. Due to the vast distance, 16kbook.net updates are not suitable for real-time communication, so interstellar contact is mainly based on email transmission.
When Meilin flipped through the cracked terminal, he was surprised to find that there wasn't a single friend on this planet, and all the contacts were from other planets.
"Yellow dwarf star, yellow dwarf star, and yet another yellow dwarf star. Hmm? How did an unknown sector end up here? Are there still uncontacted planets in this universe?"
Mei Lin flipped through the extremely simple address book and finally made up her mind to send an email to everyone in it.
"Hello, I am Mo Lin, a fellow warrior of Wu Chang. Wu Chang is now at a critical juncture between life and death, so I think it's necessary to inform you in time..."
In the email, Merlin detailed everything that had happened since Nozomi arrived on Huang E, from the first day of entering the camp to being poisoned and falling into a coma. Ten minutes later, this apologetic email finally turned into radio waves and rushed into the base station in space, starting its long journey.
The email was transmitted from the Left Bank Paradise Star to the Huang E Star, passing through twelve signal stations, taking a full thirty minutes to reach its destination. At this time, the Huang E Star was in the midst of a quiet and dark night, and the people in the B1313 mining area had all gone to rest.
The terminal's vibration woke up many people, and in a short while, the lights of the distribution center hall came on.
"What should we do? The Unconstant is in danger now, what can we do?" Irene was the first to get restless.
"What else can we do? Raise money to save people, hurry up and book a spaceship ticket, let's go to the Left Bank Paradise Star" The first one who couldn't sit still was Di Mouse Pike.
At this time, Old Lain waved his hand to signal everyone not to get excited, he turned around and looked at Smith, Pan asked in a low voice "Do you have any way?"
Mr. Pan furrowed his brow and thought for a long time, "It's too late, from here to the Paradise Star on the left bank, even if we take a flight, it'll take at least three days, and who knows when the next spaceship will arrive... We just don't have the time..."
"Let me think, let me think carefully... If all else fails, I'll have to expose the secrets of those who are acting strangely and irregularly... Only then will the organization be interested in taking action to save him..."
"Really? Is it possible that they would actually take action? And you're really a member of that organization?"
Smith smiled wryly and nodded, lowering his head to send an email to a familiar yet strange number, muttering softly "Getting in touch with this organization may not be a good thing after all, trouble, it's really trouble"
In this universe, the people who received Merlin's email were not just Mr. Pan and his team. In a mysterious place in the universe, in a secret base disguised as a space meteorite, a woman wearing a white jumpsuit was busy in front of the central computer, and she and the computer were both on a silver-white floating platform.
The woman was in a deep, bottomless circular space. Hundreds of meters above her head was the magnificent view of starry clouds, and at her feet was an endless void that could not be seen.
Inside the cylindrical space's inner wall, there were countless rooms illuminated by bright lights. In those rooms, numerous men and women wearing white uniforms were busily working with tension.
The woman on the floating platform sends out instructions one by one through the computer, and each instruction can bring about a collective busy-ness of hundreds or even thousands of people in an area. Even deep within the entire building, countless large-scale equipment are rumbling under her command.
The woman's expression was extremely calm, and it was impossible to tell what she was thinking. If someone said she was just an unfeeling robot, some people might even believe it. Just as the woman was busy working, suddenly on his desk in a corner, in a storage compartment, a terminal machine that looked like a bracelet rang out.
The woman was obviously startled, staring at the buzzing terminal for over ten minutes in silence, she really couldn't think of why this terminal would make a sound.
"This is weird? In this universe, there are no more than ten people who know this number, and none of them would send me an email. What the hell is going on today?"
The woman who was full of doubts opened the terminal and clicked on the email from Left Bank Paradise Star. When she saw that inexplicable email, she became even more bewildered.
"It's really getting ridiculous, what's with the unpredictability? What's with the snake venom? The life and death of a rookie cannon fodder has nothing to do with me" Just as she was about to throw away the terminal, she suddenly hesitated again.
"In this universe, hasn't any hacker been able to infiltrate my terminal yet? And my number is highly confidential, there won't be a mistake in sending it, could this person really have a relationship with me?"
Thinking of this, the woman opened the communicator on the table, and a holographic screen revealed a humble smile, a round-faced little girl waiting for instructions.
"Go check this email and see what kind of person this man is. Most importantly... how did he manage to get my number?"
The little girl with a round face carefully read through the email and said with some difficulty, "If we were to investigate ourselves, it would probably take three months to get results. If you're in a hurry, it's best to use Lord Thief's intelligence network, that way it will definitely be much faster..."
"Oh, I see! Well, let's give that old man some face and have him help investigate this person." With that, the woman casually turned off the communicator.
In this universe, there are probably no more than ten people who dare to openly mock the thief, and it's clear that the woman in front of me is one of them.
The strength of the space pirate is not to be underestimated, the nominal head of this pirate world, the man who sets the rules for all forces in the world, and the intelligence system around him is so powerful that it doesn't need to be mentioned. Just an hour later, a summary of intelligence had been opened on the woman's desk.
"Unknown. Male, age unknown, nationality unknown, birthplace unknown, parents unknown, although identity is legal, it belongs to a legally forged..."
The woman was more and more surprised, she didn't expect that with the intelligence network of thieves, it took only an hour to get out such a small amount of unclear information. Until the end of the file, after Huang Xing's experience appeared, this woman finally stared blankly.
"On Huang Ya Xing, you acknowledge that dirty old man Lai En as your master? Lai En, Lai En! You actually hid the Huang Ya Xing? How did you end up on Huang Ya Xing? Bastard, you're just a bastard......" The woman grabbed the coffee cup from the table and flung it into the void in front of her.
At this time, the holographic communicator on the table rang again. The round-faced girl appeared once more and said timidly, "The latest news is that Lord Minghe had contact with this variable in the past, I heard their relationship was very close, I don't know if it's necessary to tell him or not?"
The woman threw away the coffee cup, and her mood improved slightly. She rubbed her temples and thought for a while "Forget it, let Minghe handle this matter, I'm not in the mood to care about it..."
No one could have imagined that an accidental poisoning would lead him to establish a subtle connection with two mysterious forces in the universe. To say nothing of others, at least this woman's loss of composure was enough to make the universe-shaking Great Thief remember his name.
At this late hour, when Wu Chang is unconscious in the hospital room, countless people in the universe are busy with every move of Wu Chang.
In the rift fortress 20 light-years away from the Paradise Star on the left bank, a military high-speed destroyer with a folding distance of up to 20 light-years is preparing for space folding. Inside the slender hull, countless soldiers are busily and nervously busy.
At this time, the captain was sitting seriously in the command seat, with one hand holding a sturdy silver-white box and the other hand flipping through the emergency military order on the screen.
The captain really didn't understand why this locked silver-white box was so important that it required a high-speed destroyer for transport, and the defense of the Strait of Rift was handled by the Hunter's Guild, after all. The Dark Sky had been raided by the Hunter's Guild two hundred years ago.
"It's strange, really strange. The mission didn't have a confidentiality mark, so why wasn't I told the details of the task?" Just as the captain was puzzled, a report came from the control panel below.
"Report to Captain, space fold charging is complete, awaiting instructions."
"Alright, fold in ten minutes, target Left Bank Paradise Star..."
When the destroyer, fully combat-ready, appeared in low orbit over Left Bank Paradise after crossing 20 light-years of distance, the captain discovered that a landing craft had been waiting in low orbit all along. As soon as the destroyer materialized, this landing craft began accelerating towards it and directly requested permission to enter the ship's hull.
When the two middle-aged men, dressed in luxurious attire, stood before the captain, they simultaneously pulled out their handkerchiefs to wipe away the sweat from their foreheads. "It's been a tough journey, really tough. I wonder if the goods have arrived?"
When the captain handed over the silver box, the two of them felt a weight lift off their shoulders. "Thank you so much, really thank you so much. Oh right, I've already communicated with the Imperial Department, and I'm giving all the officers and soldiers on the entire ship a week-long holiday. It just so happens that this is the Left Bank Paradise Star, so you can all have a good time..."
The captain's coffee almost sprayed out of his mouth before he could finish speaking, thinking to himself "What the...? Who is this person? They can actually get a leave order from the Imperial Department just because they delivered such a broken box? And they can even mobilize a warship and take time off at will?"
Until the landing craft left, the captain was still in a daze and didn't even notice the excited cheers of his subordinates.
At this time, the hot sand beach was already quiet, and it was midnight. The huge landing craft in the sky slowly docked at the pier, and the drivers and bodyguards who had been waiting escorted two big men to the Hot Sand General Hospital.
On the road, a dark-faced man said in a low voice, "Old brother, tell me, what's the origin of this big-headed soldier? How can he make the Baron of Sanhai speak up and even use a destroyer to deliver medicine, this face is too big, right?"
"Don't ask so many questions, people with too much curiosity don't live long. You'd better shut up..." The carriage fell silent instantly, and the lights inside also went out, leaving only a faint glow on the dashboard, reflecting off the two old-fashioned badges on their chests.
If he had seen it before, he would have been very familiar with the brick stone city wall and the patrolling ancient knights, including the heavenly scenery in the background. Isn't this the strange painting that Smith Pan showed him?
Just as the luxurious land vehicle was on its way to the hospital, in a much more distant space, a huge spaceship had just completed its spatial folding. On the water ripple-like folded surface, a sharp ramming angle appeared, with an ancient look that was exactly the same as the ramming angle of human sailing ships in the age of sail.
With the appearance of the ramming angle, a huge black hull followed closely behind. On the hull, in addition to the main gun and secondary gun firing ports, there were countless steel reliefs.
These reliefs were vividly cast on the alloy armor, and all the patterns had only one theme, that is, smiling evil spirits. The images of evil spirits in various civilized legends can be found here, densely covering the entire hull, and the most peculiar thing is that all the evil spirits are smiling, with a smile that makes people's eyes wide with horror.
Inside the spaceship's command cabin, a voice is roaring "Brother, hold on, I'm coming to save you. If you can't hold on, it doesn't matter, I'll avenge you..."