Book of Darkness

The vast universe, the starry sky is vast, dotted with stars, halos intertwined, magnificent and poignant.

The ancient spacecraft "Kangqiong" with a length of tens of thousands of meters is like a drop of water in the starry sky, extremely small.It is the technology of Atlantis tens of thousands of years ago, but until now, the level of technological advancement is still not inferior to the conventional civilian spacecraft of the Peaceful Alliance.This is the end point of its first and last departure. It has been floating for tens of thousands of years, and was finally captured by an unknown giant planet, becoming its No.14 satellite, moving slowly in the orbit between the giant spheres.The star surrounded by this giant planet is almost composed of gas, and it has collapsed, but the magic is that the black hole produced by this collapse is looming, and it does not absorb the surrounding matter madly, or even completely absorbs light. There is also an indescribable blood color hidden in the darkness.

The interior of the spacecraft is in a power-saving state, because there is a short dormancy period between the handover of two generations of astronauts.The large warehouse of the dormant cabin is located in the center of the spaceship. It can be said to be as important as the main control room, so it is also equally strong.The ancient computer is faithfully fulfilling the hibernation program set up thousands of years ago, so this generation of hibernation cabin starts up again.

Xiu Hai's ten-thousand-year-long dream came to a sudden stop, and the hazy dream-making landscape gradually dissipated from her mind, turning into a blank, and then it became the color of the light—she returned to reality like this, and in her opinion, It was just a dream of normal length.She is a well-trained astronaut, she didn't open her eyes immediately, but opened them step by step, and then the pipe connecting her abdomen and anus flushed the excreted toxins into the waste pool, and the needle injected new nutrient solution into her body.The moment Xiu Hai woke up, the spaceship started to automatically produce oxygen, filling the entire interior of the spaceship.Fortunately, although this spaceship has been scarred and exhausted after a battle with the Ghost Eye Star warship ten thousand years ago, it still has a considerable reserve of conventional energy, and after so many years of dormancy, it only starts once every time. Two people, so it is not difficult to breathe pure oxygen even after ten thousand years.

Of course, the premise of all this is that she doesn't know that ten thousand years have passed.

It wasn't until she waited for the rest of the hibernation cabin to open one or two more, but she didn't see it open after waiting for half an hour, that she felt strange.Because according to Atlantis and the same statute and operating norms of the interstellar navigation law at that time, at least two people wake up every time the dormant period is handed over, otherwise it is unimaginable for one person to work on the spaceship for ten years matter.

At first, Xiuhai thought that the dormant capsule was broken, but after she tried it, her dormant pod was still normal, so she hastily lay down in front of the computer and pressed a few times, only to find that the dormant pod was fine, at least that’s how it was displayed on the computer .What surprised her the most was that the dormant cabin in her room was actually empty, with no one in it!

What about people?She finally became panicked. Although her good training quality made her psychological endurance far exceed that of ordinary Atlantean soldiers, but after all, this is in the vast universe, and one mistake will be swallowed by darkness forever.

At this time, she began to work hard to calm herself down and straighten her thoughts, knowing that there was no special problem, and she should not directly contact the headquarters for help.So she first thought, why are the dozens of hibernation cabins in her room all empty, without a single companion, only herself?There are more than 20 small dormant warehouses like this. If there are two people every ten years, if it is maintained normally until now, could it be... all these hundreds of people have been used up?

She turned pale in shock, and immediately shook her head, thinking: That's not right either!If this is the case, the person who completed the task will go into hibernation again, and the words "end of round" will be displayed on the display screen of the hibernation cabin. How can it be as lifeless as it is now?Besides, the previous senior should also come out and hand over to me!There is no one in the dormant cabin, no companions who wake up at the same time, no senior handover, no words on the display screen, this...

She suddenly caught a glimpse of the numbers on the central three-dimensional large screen, and suddenly her whole body seemed to be thrown into the intersection of a fire and an iceberg. One second, she was almost scorched, but the next second, she was frozen into pieces...

12653 years!

What the fuck does that mean?Xiu Hai would rather believe that the computer is broken than accept that it is true! 12653?It's been so many years?Even if the encounter with the three warships of the Ghost Eye Star resulted in a severe loss of personnel, it was a miserable victory after all, and at least there were still more than 2000 people left... But right now, the spaceship feels like a spaceship. Tombs in the sky, swinging in heaven.

All the other astronauts on the spaceship died?No... As long as the dormant cabin can still work, it won't die, and it can always maintain its youth.But the dormancy cabin has obviously never been used, has everyone given up on dormancy to maintain youth?Impossible, nobody struggles with life... if they do, they die.Maybe their bodies are somewhere in this spaceship?For so many years, she couldn't imagine what the corpse would turn into without oxygen, and the most likely possibility was to become a solid mummy like a stone, floating from one dark place to another in the secluded corridor. in the dark...

She doesn't believe that human beings can sacrifice their lives so decisively, unless it is not a casual sacrifice, but they are afraid of causing a greater disaster, so they would rather let themselves disappear...

Since this is the case, at least it seems that there is no other possibility. She can only persuade herself to calm down as soon as possible, and prepare the third thing in advance: enough weapons and tools, enough food and water, enough oxygen and spare space suits .Toolboxes, oxygen cylinders, and spacesuits are actually routinely equipped under the seat of the hibernation cabin in a very user-friendly way. The toolbox is small and light, and so is the oxygen cylinder. An inflatable ball that can expand rapidly from very small.These Xiuhai each collected three items, then activated the cargo robot and the automatic patrol car from the room, loaded the items and went out.

The weapons are centralized in the arsenal, and can only be obtained from the arsenal after the captain or the leaders of the major groups sign it. Xiuhai is just an ordinary captain and is not eligible to obtain it. Fortunately, there is no shortage of cold weapons. She has prepared a sharp The ax was placed on the car seat, and two electromagnetic vibrating swords were prepared, carried on the back, and a multifunctional cutting knife was fastened to the calf, and then entered the robot cockpit and started the patrol car.

Her goal, of course, was the diet department, where she could get as much compressed nutrition and water as possible to replenish her strength and prepare for the long-term crisis.

The distance of the spacecraft is very long, and it should have taken a magnetic rail car to quickly reach the central control module and the central canteen.But Xiuhai always felt that something was wrong. She would rather take a much slower patrol car than take the risk to go to the magnetic track area. Once someone tampered with there, she would die without a place to die.As for the cafeteria, you don’t have to go to the central cafeteria to find food. Find some reserves nearby.Besides, she still feels safer driving a big labor robot.

The three-dimensional picture of the first-generation captain Fuying suddenly appeared in the projection area of ​​the patrol car's display screen. It should be noted that all the three-dimensional portraits in the projection area are generally set in the image of the first-generation captain, although it is a virtual image presented by a computer. The life and death of the real Captain Fuying may be uncertain, most likely already killed, but seeing a familiar face for the first time still warmed Xiu Hai's heart.

"The patrol car controlled by the Taiya 3341 labor robot is driving in the No. 29 tunnel in the 37 area. Please report the identity of the driver."

Xiu Hai hurriedly replied: "I am the seventh dormant cabin of the 22 dormant small library, Space Force aviation captain Xiu Hai, female, 24 years old..." She suddenly got stuck, and felt that it would be a headache to figure out her age , so he asked instead: "Is it Captain Fuying himself, or the computer?"

"Here is the computer."

"Oh..." Xiu Hai shook his head in disappointment, and asked, "Are there any non-dormant astronauts on this spaceship?"

"The computer search is abnormal...unable to answer."

Xiu Hai asked unwillingly, "Then are there any sleeping astronauts in the dormant cabin?"

"Computer search... There are three signs of life in the sixth dormant library..."

Xiuhai's patrol car stopped abruptly, then turned in a special direction, and turned back towards the sixth dormant warehouse.

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