...This is the Gemini. We have received orders from the command headquarters and will assist you in executing the final battle plan. Please open the deflector shield, guide our landing ship to land, and handover work with our personnel."

"This is the Orion... We have received your request and are confirming it with the command..." "... The Gemini has received... (noise)... Please reply as soon as possible..."

"The Orion has received... We are unable to confirm the legality of the order, and the application is submitted to the military commission for arbitration..."

"...The request is rejected. This is a time of war. Our enemies are slaughtering our people. We do not have time to wait for the committee's arbitration. Please execute the order immediately!"

".......(noise)."

"...Call Orion, what are you doing? Our ship has detected unstable gravitational field fluctuations. Please turn off the warp engine and deflector shield immediately! Repeat, turn off the warp engine and deflector shield immediately. Accept

examine!"

"...(noise)..." "...Good night."

Zhao Tianhe didn't have many choices.

He was almost certain that from the moment he disobeyed the order, the neutron torpedoes on the Gemini had been aimed at him and his men, and would definitely take action before he entered the hyperspace channel.

If he chooses to resign himself to his fate, it will be equivalent to committing suicide with the entire crew of the Orion, and handing over the tens of thousands of neutron torpedoes on the ship to that group of murderous lunatics.

For the sake of the Constitution he was loyal to and the survivors on the surface, he had no choice but to fire the neutron torpedo on the launcher at friendly forces while starting the warp engine.

This was his decision alone.

However, it did get the tacit approval of all the officers and soldiers of the unit.

They are the same type of people as Zhao Tianhe. They are both traditional soldiers who are not so conservative among conservatives. They would rather point their guns at themselves than at their unarmed compatriots. Under the cover of gravitational field disturbances

, that torpedo successfully hit the Gemini.

The continuously accelerating torpedo can resist the rejection of the deflector shield and release a high-energy neutron beam after the warhead penetrates the hull armor.

The crew of Three Thousand will die in an instant, without even realizing they are dying, and the process will be painless.

At the same time, the Orion cruiser also jumped into the hyperspace channel at the same time.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, so except for a few crew members who participated in the "rebellion", the vast majority of the crew on the ship had almost no knowledge.

This is actually for their own good.

After all, no matter what the reason was, it is a fact that the Orion sank a friendly force. It also cost 3,000 lives, and it cannot be easily dismissed with extenuating circumstances.

Those who issue orders and those who execute them will eventually be judged by the law, and Zhao Tianhe has never thought of excusing his crimes.

He just hopes to put as much responsibility on himself as possible and let his subordinates bear as little as possible, so as to reduce or avoid punishment.

As for now, what he has to do is to bring the truth back to the solar system as soon as possible and stop the so-called "End War" conspiracy of the top brass of the Aerospace Forces. That is not a war for the future of civilization at all, it is simply a replica of the "Torch Project" !This is what happened to the Orion cruiser before it entered the hyperspace channel.

What happened after that was a strange situation witnessed by all the crew members on the ship. They were stuck in the hyperspace channel...

Zhao Tianhe frankly told Luo Yi and Wu Xinghuan the whole incident. Regardless of whether they could accept it emotionally, they had no other choice now.

"...I don't expect my confession to be forgiven or understood by you. My faults will naturally be judged by the law, and I have no intention of escaping. But now is not the time to do this. We must unite to get through it." Difficulties ahead."

"One of you is a known survivor, and the other is the most knowledgeable scholar on the ship. You are the most promising people to break the situation." When he said this, Zhao Tianhe looked at Dr. Wu and said seriously.

"Especially you, I want to hear your advice...whether the method I mentioned is feasible."

"Deceiving the observer who opened the box... There is no precedent for this kind of thing, and there is no 'successful example' left."

Wu Xinghuan touched his nose and felt the tip of his index finger trembling. This would be a big gamble.

But it seems to be the only chance of winning.

They must take the initiative to give up all the things they are destined to give up, which may not only be life, but also other things including glory and faith...

And the only result is to let "the part that can survive" survive. In other words, it is the part that has not been observed, or the part whose life or death is uncertain.

After serving on this starship for so long, this was the first time he felt such heavy pressure. Facing the pairs of eyes, he took a deep breath and continued calmly.

"First we have to change the layout of the ship, including the coating and markings on the outside of the ship...and send away the people who open the boxes before leaving the hyperspace channel."

"But these are actually trivial matters. We and the Gemini are sister ships. It's not difficult to disguise ourselves as each other...the real difficulty is the other two things."

Looking at the three people who were listening carefully, Wu Xinghuan raised two fingers and continued calmly.

"First of all, we must understand the heavenly beings. At present, we only know from the words of the 'box opener' that they are a collection of digital beings, and they have no good intentions towards the survivors on earth."

Zhao Tianhe frowned. "Isn't this enough?" Wu Xinghuan shook his head.

"Of course it's not enough. First of all, the 'box opener' is just one of the observers. The information he learns is neither the same as the information learned by all observers, nor the absolutely accurate information."

"If you want the two pieces to be spliced ​​together perfectly, every edge and corner must match...otherwise we will encounter trouble at the causal level."

Wu Mengke asked thoughtfully. "What is the trouble at the causal level?"

"This is unknown. Anything is possible. After all, the people we meet cannot tell us," Wu Xinghuan shrugged and continued, "Maybe we fell into a black hole or were hit by a meteorite... Of course, these are too

I'm just kidding. I'm more inclined to think that we will be locked in a hyperspace channel and completely lost in the gap of time, or we will become ghosts in the quantum state. Some people can see us and some people can't." The three of them looked at each other in disbelief.

.

This kind of thing is so weird that they really can't imagine what kind of state it is. In fact, let alone them, Wu Xinghuan himself can't imagine it either.

Everything he said was theoretical speculation, and what he described theoretically happened to be invisible in theory. Zhao Tianhe was silent for a while and continued.

"We can simulate a digital life and hide behind it. This is actually not difficult... and then what?" Wu Xinghuan nodded and continued.

"Then the key is, we have to send the observer away, and send him away as soon as possible... Only by letting him return to his own timeline as soon as possible, and reducing his observations of us, can we have enough preparation time to deceive the observations.

Or, changing our future in the box while barely changing the observer’s future.”

"In this process, the more he knows about us, the less room we have to operate. Of course... In turn, we must use him. The more we know through him, the higher our winning rate will be."

Wu Mengke asked seriously.

"Then the question is, how can we send him away safely?" Wu Xinghuan said in an uncertain tone.

"If our conjecture is correct, as long as we let him return to the research ship and lie back in the sleep cabin... then we close the door and leave the area, it should be fine. The next time he wakes up, he should be fine

Back to my own timeline."

After a pause, he looked at Captain Zhao.

"The point of disagreement is right here. What we brought into the hyperspace channel should be something else, such as the landing craft sent by the Gemini? Didn't you say that they sent a landing craft to take over our starship? That landing craft

He should have set off."

Zhao Tianhe nodded thoughtfully.

"I see... close the overturned box and reopen it, and we will return to each other's timeline." Wu Xinghuan snapped his fingers.

"That's right."

After hearing what he said, Zhao Tianhe and Wu Mengke's expressions softened a bit, as if they were relieved, and their moods were not as heavy as before.

Especially the latter.

She pressed her index finger between her eyebrows and said with a wry smile.

"Although it is a little difficult to understand, the situation does not seem to be as pessimistic as we imagined." Zhao Tianhe also nodded.

"Instead, we got revelations about the future from future observers..." But at this moment, Luo Yi, who had been silent, raised his hand.

Seeing three pairs of eyes looking at him, he hesitated for a while and then slowly spoke.

"I actually don't quite understand...but I probably understand a little bit. In other words, if we want to survive, we must become the heavenly beings that the child said?"

The air in front of the bar became quiet.

Faced with this problem, the three of them fell silent and became heavenly beings...

In other words, we are going to destroy the world 200 years from now.

But not long ago, they sank the Gemini in order to prevent the destruction of the world. If they were going to do the same thing as the Gemini, then why bother to sink the latter and wait 200 years to do it again?

this matter?

Zhao Tianhe could not answer this question, so he could only put it aside for the time being, and spoke after a moment of silence.

"Things two hundred years from now are too far away. I still prefer to think that we are in different parallel worlds from them, and our destinies may not be completely connected."

After a pause, he made a decision.

"First verify Dr. Wu's conclusion and ask about the situation of the Celestial Being Organization." "Then, send the child home."

I don't know if it's because people in the Prosperous Era live in a pampered environment, but Ye Shi always feels that these guys are a little too crazy.

A guy who drove a "civilian spaceship" into a military base and almost injured an active soldier while wearing a combat prosthetic body didn't have to squat in a dark room. He could still swagger around on the spaceship.

Actually, it's not right to say he was running around. There were places he couldn't go, such as other decks and the scene of the collision.

In contrast, except for these places where he was not allowed to go, he could walk around at will in various areas of the lower deck with almost no one following him.

In addition to the protection of personal freedom, his other basic rights are also protected to the maximum extent, almost the same as the crew members living on this starship.

Before finding out his details and background, they first recognized his identity as a human being and treated him as one.

The management department on this starship also took into account the uniqueness of his situation and arranged a separate one-room dormitory for him, and even gave him a bill-based meal card.

In the case of the person who issued him the meal card, if he really came back from the future, this debt would probably be eaten up by inflation in the distant future, which means he would not have to pay it back.

If he didn't come from the future, they would give him a bill after getting off the ship, and he could pay it back slowly after finding a job after returning to Earth.
To be continued...