Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind.

Chapter 117
"Is it a bug?"

Gray Wind couldn't understand Russell's so-called ambiguous answer at all, and it wasn't his fault, because the human federation that Gray Wind served had a relatively dark face and didn't open the obsolete worm event chain.

Normally, Gray Wind would have to pester the Marshal to clarify the matter, but now there are more urgent matters to be decided: the Gray Gu mothership is falling towards a new gravitational singularity, if the jump engine is not activated in time to escape from here, according to the current If the trend continues, they will be swallowed together with the miniature galaxy.

The starlight in the Lost Dream Nebula has completely disappeared, and what I see is a vast and endless dark space.

The cosmic dust pulled into a fiber net by gravity is gathering here, and the dust threads surrounded from all directions are like a tightening net, trying to completely wrap the gray Gu mothership in it, and the entire Lost Dream Nebula bundled into a dense cocoon.

In the center of the silkworm cocoon that is about to be woven, there is quietly floating a cylindrical airtight box that is only half the height of Russell even if it is erected. Inside the box, countless dense starlight is quietly rotating. In this small into a miniature version of the Milky Way.

The scientists of the warring party C used an inaccessible and non-interfering subspace field to completely block the miniature galaxy, but for unknown reasons, this "field" was damaged, and the galaxies sucked out from the gap spread out in this universe, forming Lost dream stars.

Now, the miniature galaxy has been retraced in time to its unbroken full state.

"It takes about 3 minutes and 44 seconds to move from here to the coordinates of the miniature galaxy and complete the recovery."

In order to save communication time as much as possible, Gray Wind directly sent information to Russell's brain in the form of brain waves: "But all the interstellar dust in the entire Lost Dream Nebula is gathering towards us at an incredible speed. If you want to recover the miniature If the jump engine is activated after the Milky Way, we may not be able to complete the jump before being completely covered by dust!"

Gray Wind had already pulled the power of the propellers to the maximum while seeking Russell's opinion, and rushed towards the miniature galaxy at the limit speed, and the jump engine located at the core of the hull had also been warmed up.

Whatever Russell's orders were, it was able to carry them out immediately.

Russell's answer was: "Go and recover the miniature galaxy, and then stay where it is."

"What? You, Marshal, I don't understand, what do you mean?" Gray Wind couldn't understand Russell's order at all:

"Don't you think interstellar dust is something insignificant? Marshal! The mass of the entire Nebula of Lost Dreams is converging toward one point! This star hatchery was originally expected to hatch at least thousands of stars. Now there are thousands The mass of a star is pouring towards us together!"

"With such a huge mass gathered in one place, the huge gravitational force far beyond the critical point cannot be balanced and offset by the explosion produced by the nuclear fusion reaction. The Lost Dream Nebula will skip the star stage and directly collapse into a black hole!"

Gray Wind anxiously explained to Russell how critical the situation was now, and it was even ready to give up on recovering the miniature galaxy, directly knocking out the Marshal and taking him away forcibly.

Even the entire galaxy is far less important than Russell's life and safety in Gray Wind's heart.

However, even though Gray Wind was so anxious that he was on the verge of crying, Russell couldn't see the slightest seriousness that he should have. With a life-and-death attitude, he put Gray Wind's shoulder into his arm with one hand. Bend, and give it a pat on the head with a smile.

"Little Hui, don't be angry." Russell sighed, and said, "I know you're in a hurry now, but it's useless to be anxious—being favored by 'His' doesn't mean you can really leave if you want to. "

It's just that Gray Wind, who was so angry with Russell, couldn't listen to what he said at this time. While the humanoid structure sat on Russell's lap and let him rub his face, the body of the Gray Gu mothership directly started the transition that had already been warmed up. engine.

When the humming engine tears apart the real dimension of the universe, physical distance is no longer a constraint.

Russell noticed the start of the engine, but he didn't express any opinion. He just gently hugged Gray Wind who was sulking at him and ignoring others, thinking about how to coax him in the future... Is it possible to tell him if he is right? Does it make a mistake?
If you only talk about feelings and don't talk about reason, then what's the difference between coaxing your girlfriend.

Russell felt that Gray Wind should not be an unreasonable person, although he was not human.

Accompanied by the continuous humming of the engine, the small angry expression on Gray Wind's face was soon replaced by a look of astonishment.

"How come...the dimension can't be torn apart..." Gray Wind turned his head in a daze, looking at Russell with teary eyes: "The engine is obviously running normally, but why, why every time there is a slight sign of tearing, the dimension will Recover immediately, Marshal, I, we..."

we can't get away...

Russell patted Gray Wind's shoulder in relief: "According to what I said before, let's reclaim the miniature galaxy."

"Alright..." Gray Wind didn't retort this time.

In the dark deep sky, endless interstellar dust gathered rapidly, and the gray Gu mothership sailed to the coordinates of the cylindrical sealed box before it was completely bound by the "cocoon", and then sent a carrier-based aircraft to bring it back to the hangar among.

Legacy: Miniature Galaxy.Recycling complete.

Gray Wind really wanted to ask Russell what happened here, but time was running out, and the detection range of the sensor was completely blocked by dense dust.

The moment the "cocoon" took shape - something weird happened.

For a moment, Gray Wind felt that the whole world around him disappeared, even his own body no longer existed.

It was an indescribable feeling, and the fleeting process was very short. Gray Wind had no way of judging what happened just now, but one person reacted to it: Ke Luo who had been standing by Russell's side all the time. Niai.

With a plop, the plump female body, more than two meters tall, lost its strength and fell forward without warning, and fell face down in front of Russell and Gray Wind, convulsing and convulsing like a short-circuited machine.

"What... what's going on? Why did Koroniai suddenly..." Gray Wind was even more at a loss.

It subconsciously locked all the sensors in the cabin on Russell, for fear that he would fall down suddenly like Coroniai. Fortunately, Russell was fine.

Immediately afterwards, two mechanical arms reconstructed on the spot picked up the collapsed Coronial, and after a simple inspection of its trembling body, Gray Wind reported the result:
"The vital signs of this body are very stable, even more active than before, and a large amount of pheromones are secreted. But its brain's bioelectrical activity is very... disordered, and there is absolutely no 'consciousness'."

Why did this happen to Coronial?

"We have seen this state before." Russell stood up, looked at the slightly trembling humanoid body lying on the mechanical arm, and said:

"Do you remember, Gray Wind? When the Hive Fleet carried out the final encirclement and annihilation battle against the Eldar in the Fordola Ark, the Eldar used some special spirit-killing weapons. They unintentionally partially shielded the spirits among the swarms." The spiritual field, the few Zerg individuals who were isolated from the collective will, is the current state..."

The only difference is that the out-of-control fighting Zerg will fall into a state of unconscious rage, slashing regardless of enemy and friend.

The body that Coroniai created to please its master was not dangerous, and it just collapsed on the ground after being disconnected from the will of the hive.

Gray Wind tried to turn on the detection equipment, and searched for the location of Fodora's hive world in the darkness—the body of Coroniai was hidden there.

But it turns out that the disconnection lasted only a short time.

The convulsions and tremors of the humanoid body collapsed in the palm of the mechanical arm suddenly stopped, and with the recovery of consciousness, the bioelectrical activity in the brain became orderly again.

"Are you back? Koroniai, what happened just now? You—" Russell asked before he was thrown to the ground by the awakened Koroniai.

Russell couldn't react to the explosive speed of the Eldar's shell for a while, but Gray Wind did.

When Coroniai pounced on Russell, Gray Wind also launched an attack on him immediately. It pierced both hands into Coroniai's body, one hand broke ribs and crushed the heart, and the other hand came from The hindbrain is inserted into the cranial cavity and the brainstem is broken.

In an instant, this body was dead, and the efficiency was so high that even Gray Wind was a little surprised.

Because of the reaction speed of the spirit body's body, Coroniai could dodge these two attacks, but it didn't.

It threw itself on Russell without crying and let Gray Wind kill him. When his heart was crushed and his brainstem was broken, Coronial choked up and said, "Master, where did you go? Looking for you... I..."

"Me? I've been here all the time." Russell was also a little puzzled, but soon he understood.

Pushing away Coroniai's body, Russell took off the jacket covered in blood and brains, and said, "I probably know what happened just now... Gray Wind, adjust the clock."

clock?

"Okay, synchronizing with the anti-entropy host, the current time is - 966.M39.09/10."

It is now September 39th in the 966th year of the 09th millennium.

"It's been 3.14 years since we recovered the miniature galaxy."

At this moment, Gray Wind finally understood what Russell said before, being favored by "His", he could no longer leave by himself.

"Receiving the psychic communication signal, the Hive World Ship of Fodora is approaching us, and its biological assimilation progress has increased compared to before, and the increase is consistent with the passage of 3 years."

"The conventional propulsion engine of the mothership cannot travel at sub-light speed. We are in a huge gravitational well. There are giant celestial bodies nearby, but conventional sensors cannot detect it...it is a black hole."

Throwing the blood-stained coat on Coroniai's body casually, Russell walked to the center of the cabin, and the holographic stereographic star map of the spiral nebula changed rapidly, and a new celestial model was constructed according to the detection results just now:
- a massive black hole.

"The Nebula of Lost Dreams has disappeared, and there is no detectable form of matter within the range of thousands of light years around. The black hole has swallowed everything except us." Gray Wind breathed a long sigh of relief,

While rejoicing that this encounter was safe and sound, it finally had the time to ask: "Marshal, what happened here?"

"Why did the Lost Dream Nebula skip the star life cycle and collapse directly into a black hole? Why did we jump from 3 years ago to now?"

"I don't know either." Russell shrugged. "The only thing I can be sure of is that the existence that caused all this is called the 'Spider of Time', or in other words, the Worm of Time."

"The time-diving scorpion..." Gray Wind nodded thoughtfully.

Because it is in the horizon of the black hole, sublight speed navigation cannot escape, so the gray Gu mothership tries to make a second jump.

This time it went smoothly, although the operation of the engine was very difficult due to the gravity of the black hole, Gray Wind still tried its best to tear through the solid dimensional barrier, and jumped to the coordinates agreed with Coroniai.

The hive world awaits its master there.

For unknown reasons, when Russell and Gray Wind were passively jumping in time, Coroniai was not involved, and the body left in the Gray Gu mothership was also disconnected from the main body. From its perspective, the master and the Gray Wind disappeared for three years for no reason.

Maybe it will know what happened in those three years?
In order to improve the efficiency of information exchange as much as possible, after rendezvous with the Hive World Ship, Russell directly began to communicate with Coroniai, reading its memories of the past three years.

From the perspective of the hive worldship where Coroniai's body was located, the gray Gu mothership recovered the repaired miniature galaxy and then disappeared out of thin air. Its connection with the humanoid body accompanying Russell was also interrupted.

The same as Gray Wind's calculation results, after the Gray Gu mothership disappeared, the Lost Dream Nebula quickly gathered into a cocoon under the pull of the gravitational singularity, and the mass of thousands of stars skipped the reaction stage and directly collapsed into a black hole.

It seems that an invisible worm has gnawed a hole in the boundless starlight of the Far Eastern border.

The Hive Worldship with the warp drive turned on escaped the collapse and survived beyond the horizon of the black hole.

For three years, Coroniai has been wandering in this deep space looking for Russell's trace. With the help of the subspace essence's link across time and space, it can sense that its master is here.

After a rough reading of Coronial's memory, the doubts in Russell's heart are still unsolved:

Why did the Worm of Time trigger a big collapse in the Lost Dream Nebula to create a black hole, and why did it throw us three years later?
Although the Human Federation has never seen the Worm of Time, as a high-dimensional overlooker, Russell has communicated with the Worm of Time from the perspective of the United Nations of the Earth.

As far as he knows, the actions and will of the Worm of Time seem weird and unpredictable, but there is logic behind it.

At the end of the "Event Signal" event chain, the Worm of Time destroyed the home system of the "United Nations of Earth" manipulated by Russell.

The Time Worm extinguished the sun, turning it into a black hole, and the planets in the solar system became dead planets as a result.

But destruction is accompanied by rebirth. When the Worm of Time extinguished the solar system, it also modified the biological gene sequence of human civilization, enabling human beings to adapt to this dead environment.

Because from the perspective of the time worm, time is meaningless, the stars are extinguished, the universe is heat-death, and human civilization will also be extinct, all in the next instant.

The Worm of Time has an incomprehensible love for human civilization. It extinguished the stars of the solar system in advance and modified the gene sequence of the lowest level of human beings, so that their beloved children can adapt to the heat-dead universe and avoid There is no danger of extinction, continuing forever.

This is the ultimate love of Worms of Time.

"If the time-diving scorpion's every move is because of his deep love for me, then is this time jump also protecting me from some kind of fatal danger that I will encounter in the future?"

(End of this chapter)