After waking up, the first thing Ned did was to look for traces of the Hexagonal Pearl in the sky. It seemed that the direction he aimed at was pretty good. Although he had slept for so long, the direction deviation was not too severe. Although it was not Directly in front of him, but the angle of deviation seems to be only a dozen degrees. At this time, the Hexagonal Pearl is no longer what it was when he set off. It is just a small dot at the end of his field of vision. It looks much bigger now. Like a bright moon suspended in the starry sky, just sandwiched between the sun and the earth. Judging from the position of the sun and the size of the Hexagonal Pearl, some time has passed, maybe seven hours, maybe six ¡This means that I have to wait for a long time.
After carefully adjusting his direction slightly, Ned turned back and looked behind him. Then he was a little surprised to find that the dark shell of the Defiant was actually flashing with lights. He couldn't tell what it was. Good news or bad news - because the stationary light means that the space station has completely stopped. Is this the work of the enemy or the coalition forces? Ned had no way of knowing that his only tool for communicating with the outside world, the communicator, had been put into his underwear pocket before departure. It was impossible for him to unbutton his spacesuit and take it out while he was in space. and put it on.
Ned carefully observed the other space stations he knew. Like the Defiant, those space stations that were also attacked in his memory now had a little light on them. On the one closest to him, he could even see the engineering ship. A faint trail of air ejected (in order to facilitate monitoring the speed of the engineering ship and avoid causing a "space car accident", some air dyes are added to the propulsion gas of most engineering ships).
Ned's previous worry gradually turned into joy, because he knew very well that the only people who could drive the engineering ship could be the coalition forces. He almost had the urge to shout loudly in that direction - but he soon realized His own stupidity, not to mention that sound cannot be transmitted in space, even on the ground, when the distance between the two sides is tens of kilometers or even further, the other party will definitely not be able to hear it. He looked at the engineering ship like a firefly, The people on the engineering ship may see him as a fuzzy dot.
It seems we have won! Ned thought with joy that this meant that he had a greater chance of survival, because if the coalition succeeded, even if he could not log in to the Hexagonal Pearl due to insufficient propellant, he would still be attacked by any AI around him. The camera found that he had a great chance of survival.
But when he thought of AI, Ned couldn't help but think of the threat of kl3014 - which made him feel depressed again. If he was seen by kl3014 in his current state, he would definitely ask himself to fulfill his promise. If it were in a war , Ned thinks that KL3014¡¯s request is not too much, but if the war is over by now
Ned has started racking his brains, thinking about how to make up a set of lies to win kl3014's trust, but he is afraid that the lie will be counterproductive if it is discovered. It is best to persuade kl3014 to wait patiently, but
After pondering for a long time about these non-existent "risk factors", Ned finally gave up on his plan to compete with kl3014 - it's better not to be smart and just take it one step at a time. The most important thing is whether he can still survive. Live until then.
After temporarily putting his worries behind him, Ned began to admire the earth beneath his feet - this was how he liked to spend time in the space station. Some people said that when you look at the earth from space, it looks like a delicate glass ball. It makes people feel that it is so fragile, but maybe Ned is very nervous. He has never felt this way. Instead, he can only feel the hugeness and power of the earth in space. If it is on the ground, use the space gate Traveling between cities, walking a few steps, you arrive in New York, and walking a few more steps, you arrive in Tokyo - the feeling that the entire earth is like a commercial street is simply terrible to Ned.
The side he is facing now is daytime in the European and American regions of the earth, while Asia is on the other dark side of the earth. The ocean is a large expanse of pure blue. On the edge of this blue, human coastal cities are like jagged colors. On the edge of the horizon, at the junction of Europe and Asia, the lights of cities submerged in darkness have flickered. Ned can even vaguely identify those famous cities based on the terrain - Rome, Jerusalem
Everything looks the same as the Earth we usually see in the space station. The distance filters out all the details, leaving only this seemingly eternal picture. In this picture, the natural carvings and human ax chiseling are so perfect. It is so integrated that every time I take a look at it, I am completely absorbed in it and cannot extricate myself.
But at this moment, on this calm painting, a ripple suddenly appeared - yes, just like throwing a stone into the pool, the entire painting suddenly began to change from the stillness just now - this The change suddenly brought Ned back to reality. He opened his mouth wide and looked at the change in surprise.If he saw it correctly, that place was located on the east coast of North America, and that kind of change was the iconic picture he had seen on TV countless times - first a huge circular bulge suddenly appeared, and then In the center of this bulge, a concentric circle quickly appeared again. The position where the circle appeared was exactly in the center of the city belt, Jesus God! That's the sign of a nuclear bomb explosion!
Ned's mind went blank for a moment. He shook his head in extreme shock, and even symbolically wiped his mask with his gloves - this was not an illusion! No. Ned repeated this to himself over and over in his mind, staring blankly at the location of the explosion, his eyes unblinking, as if if he moved, the blue glass ball in front of him would shatter.
However, what was even more unacceptable to Ned was yet to come - dozens of minutes later, the traces of the first nuclear explosion had not even been completely eliminated, and then there was a second nuclear explosion in the middle of the United States - the location of the nuclear bomb explosion. At that moment, Ned felt as if his heart had stopped, as if the whole world had been completely turned upside down during the sleep he just slept.
How is this going? Why do nuclear bombs explode on Earth? As a soldier, Ned naturally understood what this sign meant - that was the United States! This is the 21st century! Not Japan, not World War II! Nuclear bomb exploded! These words kept swirling in Ned's mind, but he couldn't connect them together.
Is it because of the Imperial Army? But even if it's the Imperial Army, there's no need to use poison gas, cluster bombs, space rail guns, whatever weapons don't work, even if it doesn't work, you can always give up temporarily, right? Use nuclear bombs? Has the current president been dueled by consciousness? Or is it that some government on Earth has a private war?
But who would start a war at this time? On the day when the Imperial Army launched a massive invasion? Is that government leader dueled by consciousness? AI? kl3014? How can it be? Will the coalition forces give AI access to nuclear bombs? Unless the entire staff is dueled by collective consciousness!
In Ned's mind, one possibility after another was constantly proposed and then denied. Just when he even thought he was still dreaming and hadn't woken up at all, the third nuclear bomb exploded - this time the center of the explosion was located in In the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion immediately produced a circle of thin, round white lines on the blue ocean surface. Ned could guess it by guessing. The white line in his eyes was different in the eyes of people on earth. There will be huge waves coming!
If Ned was still a little overwhelmed when the first two bombs exploded, he was mentally prepared for the third bomb - in fact, if the fourth bomb exploded now, he felt there would be no difference. Big - what matters is the fact that the nuclear bomb exploded, and as for the numberwhat's the point of thinking about it now.
The fourth one didn¡¯t keep Ned waiting. Dozens of minutes later, it exploded as scheduled in the eastern Pacific Ocean - it was obvious that it was an airburst No, not one, it was 2, 3, 4!
Four explosions in succession, almost at the same place! Even if he was thinking with his spinal nerves, Ned knew that this phenomenon must be unusual, but Ned tried to hypothesize and think, but his mind was already blank, and there was nothing but unconscious tremors all over his body. Can't do it.
At this moment, a light green light suddenly flashed past Ned's mask, but Ned, who was already stunned, did not react, but after a few seconds, the light came again. Appeared, this time the light directly passed near Ned's eyes, making Ned instinctively startled - this was one of the scenes he had been worried about in the previous paragraph, that is, kl3014 shot his head off with a laser!
But after reacting, Ned immediately realized that this beam of light was not hostile to him. Judging from the brightness of the light just now, it should be just an active detection laser used to locate and mark targets. Thinking of this, Ned subconsciously changed his mind. He turned his head, hoping to find the source of the light, but he stopped for a moment - because the light had already found him first and stopped in the center of his sight. At this time, Ned saw the light clearly. It came from an unfamiliar instrument suspended hundreds of meters away. The instrument didn't seem to be very big, and he didn't know what it did specifically, but the instrument faced the direction of the sun, and he could still clearly recognize the unfolded solar cells.
Although he didn't know what this thing was for, Ned felt that the other party should be "paying attention" to him. Whether this was the automatic function of the instrument or there was other control behind it, if it was a fully automatic weapon, it would be very disastrous for him to be regarded as a hostile target. Now Ned subconsciously looked around, but he didn't see any deadly automatic weapons for the time being.
Just when Ned was suspicious, the green light gradually began to move on the mask. Although the amplitude was very small, Ned could still detect it - he originally thought it was due to the relative speed between him and the instrument. After all, he was now It was still flying at high speed, but he soon discovered that it was not. The green light moved slowly on the mask.It was fast and regular, and its movement directions included up, down, left and right. It didn't look like it was chasing him, but instead seemed to be conveying something to himself - it was a letter. Ned immediately realized that the green light was coming from behind. He had letters on his face mask.
Ned guessed correctly this time, but he was not happy because after understanding this, he almost immediately understood what the instrument wanted to draw on him. It was a series of numbers that he was very familiar with. and a collection of letters: "kl3014, iamkl3014!"
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