Chapter 15: Awakening

  Dazed and confused, Jin Hu thought he saw a bright light in front of him, and a thought popped into his head: "I'm dead, but I can still get into heaven! Whoa, I thought I could only go to the underworld!" He opened his eyes to look at the metal ceiling above him. Hmm, not bad, it looks pretty realistic, the interior designer for heaven is really doing a great job! The lines and patterns are even more impressive than those on his own construction site, perfectly straight and level without any deviations or flaws. Good craftsmanship!

  Praising the decoration on top of someone's head, turning his head to look around, damn it! The triangular head is out again, and before Jin Hu can complain, the familiar metallic sound of the triangular head turns and says: "Commander?!"

  "Commanding your grandma's officer!" Jin Hu muttered to himself: "I'm already dead, but you still won't let me go." After muttering, he turned around and said: "If I hadn't just arrived in heaven and wasn't familiar with the rules yet, I'd scold you until your dog's blood is splattered on your head!"

  "Oh my god! The nightmare in heaven is tripled! This day can't be gotten over!", turning his head and putting his arm under his head, he immediately felt the weight of his own head.

  Jin Hu suddenly felt something, opened his eyes wide and looked around. The metal wall was in sight not far away. He subconsciously sat up, looked down, and saw three metal heads staring at him. Jin Hu stretched his neck to take a closer look, the three objects below were all small caterpillar tracks, connected to a triangular head, with two metal arms extending from the square body, but only three fingers on each hand. It was somewhat like the robot in science fiction movies. As he moved his own head, the three mechanical heads followed suit.

  He reached out and touched the nearest machine head, and a chill ran through his fingers to his brain. He pinched his fingers hard, still feeling some pain. Now Jinhu was certain he wasn't dreaming.

  "How are you?" Jin Hu thought for a while and didn't know how to greet them: "Have you had breakfast?" As soon as the words came out, Jin Hu wanted to slap himself in the face. A robot eats what breakfast? He immediately put on a smile: "Did you charge up this morning?"

  "Commander! You're awake. I'm Acting Commander Alpha-1. Now, please take back command!" said the robot closest to him.

  Jintiger stretched his neck to take a look, and on the body of this triangular head, he saw a blue word "one", and then saw the words "three" and "five" in the same position on the rest of the robot's body. Zhang Kou asked: "Are you No. 1? Are you No. 3? Are you No. 5?"

  "Unit Three (Five) reporting for duty." Two robotic voices rang out.

  "Alright! Alright!" Jin Hu said with a smile, then thought for a moment: "I'm the commander? What authority do I have?" He was about to use the word "power", but thinking that he might be a puppet, asking this question would be a bit too presumptuous. As a newcomer, it's better to be humble, and Jin Hu wasn't afraid of people, but who knows what kind of problem this machine has.

  "Number One said: "You are the highest commander of the warship, of course you have the highest authority! Everyone belongs to your command!"

  "Hmm! Hmm!" Jin Hu nodded, thought for a moment, and then suddenly said to the three robots nearby: "You crouch down!" Seeing the three robots immediately shrink by a foot, he said again: "Stand up!" Watching the three robots grow back by a foot.

  "Squat down!" "Stand up!" "Squat down!" "Stand up!" Later, Jin Hu said it faster and faster, the three robots were like springs, their movements became a blur. Only then did Jin Hu let go of the three robots. Now Jin Hu somewhat believed what Jia Yi No. 1 had said, he was their commander, who could endure being manipulated by a puppet? Anyway, Jin Hu couldn't take it anymore.

  "This time, Jin Hu finally had the leisure to notice that there wasn't a single piece of cloth on his body: 'I'm telling you guys, don't just stand there, hurry up and find me some clothes. How can the commander give orders with his butt exposed?' Looking at his own lackluster small snake, Jin Hu said to the three robots."

  "Explorer doesn't have a suit that fits you, Commander!" replied Ace-1.

  "What about my original clothes?"

  "The mechanical arm broke when it was trying to scoop you up," explained Unit A-1.

  Jin Hu suddenly remembered how he had gotten down: "I said you guys handled this poorly, just give me a message and I wouldn't have jumped down! You had to make it look like I was hung!" Just mentioning this made Jin Hu a bit angry.

  "Our calculations suggest that you have a one in ten thousand chance of jumping down, we can't risk letting you miss it."

  A's words made Jin Hu blush, thinking to himself "If I were to jump into the sea just because someone told me to, wouldn't that be ridiculous? In the past, when I saw a pretty girl on the street, I would think about going up to her and flirting, but could I really do it? At the very least, I'd get slapped! If I had the guts, getting slapped once would be okay, but this is jumping into the sea, am I tired of living or something?"

  "Even if there's no clothing, there should be some cloth or bed sheets, right?" Looking at A-1, he nodded slightly, and only then did Jin Hu put his mind at ease. Seeing that A-1's three heads didn't seem to understand the implication, Jin Hu said irritably: "If you have it, just go get it for me, do I need to say it? You don't even have a bit of intuition."

  "Ah? Five! Go get me a bed sheet!"

  "Yes! Commander" A-5 nodded and tapped three fingers on his body before turning to leave.

  "They're all donkeys, not moving! Sooner or later I, the commander, will be driven to death by you!" Jin Hu said, looking at the back of Jia Wu Hao.

  Then a sentence made Jin Hu roll his eyes, and Jia Yi No. 1 said: "You don't have to worry about being suffocated by us, as long as your brain is still alive, the medical robots on the warship can save you!"

  Pointing at Jia, this fool, Jin Hu didn't know what to say to him.

  Finally, Wu brought over a piece of cloth, and Jin Hu took a look, it was at most like a large bath towel. He draped it over his shoulders, but his little brother was exposed, so he had to wrap it around his waist instead. It seemed that shoes were also not available, so he didn't waste any more words. Jin Hu now looked like he had just stepped out of the public bathhouse, having gotten off the stage.

  He took two steps forward without feeling anything out of the ordinary on his body, and then Jin Hu said to the triangular head, "Where did No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 go?"

  "No. 2 is tidying up the cabin, No. 4 is on the mothership," replied No. 1.

  Jin Hu nodded and thought to himself, "With your intelligence, you can only do some rough work": "Take me to the command center".

  "Are you going to the command cabin?" Number One said. Looking at Jin Hu, he nodded and said yes, then said: "Please follow me!" He took Jin Hu towards the command cabin.

  After passing through two doors, Jin Hu arrived at the command cabin. What he saw made him extremely disappointed. There was no advanced equipment, not even a large instrument panel, just an empty space with a metal chair.

  "This is the command cabin? How come there's nothing here?"

  "My rank is not enough for command authority, the mothership has already locked in Explorer, you are the first time to operate and need to unlock on the mothership!"

  "Where is this mother ship?" Jin Hu asked.

  "The mother ship is docked on a terrestrial planet near Gate 2, about 4.7 light-years away from Earth! Very close!" Number One replied to Jin Hu.

  Jin Hu almost vomited blood, damn it! Four point several light years is still considered very close, Jin Hu has been to school and knows what a light year is. Light travels at a distance of one year, with his two short legs, he won't make it in this lifetime. Not to mention himself, even the Americans don't have the capability to go! The thing squatting now doesn't even have the ability to fly over and pick up its own commander, let alone go to some Bird South Gate II.

  "This Explorer can't move again! How am I supposed to go to that Bird South Gate Two you mentioned?" Jin Hu sighed and said.

  "Number One, as a commander, you can transport directly over there, no need for the scout ship to fly over!"

  "Transmission?" Jin Hu heard with great joy: "So, can I go wherever I want to transmit?" This thing is great, when I get back, I'll transmit back home and see my old man and old lady.

  Number One said: "You just need to have the corresponding border coordinates!" Jin Hu heard this and scratched his head, opening his mouth to ask: "What's this thing again?"

  "No. 1 explanation said: 'If someone on the mother star has already proposed a theory, you can understand that the three-dimensional space where humans live actually corresponds to the two-dimensional shadow image of the edge of a black hole. All celestial bodies surrounding this black hole have fixed coordinates at the edge of the black hole. With the coordinates of the place you want to go and your current location, according to the theorem of the shortest distance between two points, you can quickly shuttle between the two spaces!'"

  "Wait a minute!" Jin Hu was confused, but he did understand one thing: "I don't get the rest of it, but I do know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. You can't fool me on this!"

  Then he looked at No. 1, took two steps forward, stretched out his hand and drew a stroke in the air. A pale blue screen immediately appeared in front of him, on which he drew a quadrilateral shape. Inside the quadrilateral, he tapped two points, and as if folding a piece of paper, the two points merged together. Jin Hu stared with wide eyes: "What sorcery is this!"

  "This isn't a warp, this is called space folding technology. You will use this technology to return to the mothership!" Number One said to Jin Hu.

  Jin Hu was stunned, his whole brain a mess, feeling like an illiterate person. He shook his head and comforted himself: as long as the brother can use it, that's all that matters. Knowing so many machines are still under my control, eating and living off me. After thinking about it several times, he finally felt a little better.

  "Alright! Take me back to the mothership you mentioned," Jin Hu said to Number One.

  "Follow me! Commander."

  He brought Jin Hu to a small cabin, Jin Hu stretched his head in and took a look, there was nothing, just watching No. 1 take out a small square block from the wall shelf, like a small Rubik's Cube, after a few twists, a transparent thin film-like thing over two meters high suddenly appeared in front of Jin Hu, not very bright, it might not be visible if you look from afar.

  "Go in first," Jin Hu said to No. 1, "this thing looks suspicious, let's find someone to test it."

  Watching No. 1 pass by, Jin Hu thought for a moment and followed him in.

  "Attention all hands! Captain on deck!"

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