Cold. Suffocating. Absolute darkness.
Lin Mo's consciousness sank in the shattered escape pod like a drowned man sinking into an inky ocean. Each unconscious twitch sent a piercing pain through his body. The burning sensation in his lungs vanished, replaced by the icy numbness of rapid, inside-out hypothermia brought on by the vacuum. His blood seemed to congeal, his heartbeat as weak as a spider's thread in the wind, each beat labored and accompanied by a groan on the verge of breaking. All he could hear was the dull roar of his own blood rushing (if that could even be called a rush) and the sharp tinnitus, the death knell of approaching death.
[Warning! Cabin damage: 87%! Pressure: 0! Oxygen content: 0!]
[Warning! Vital signs: Failure! Energy level: 0.25%…0.24%…]
[Core Energy Circulation: On the Verge of Stagnation… Countdown to Carrier Disintegration: 1.3 Standard Hours…]
The icy sound of the notification echoed like a death knell in the depths of his nearly frozen consciousness, more despairing than the roars of the pursuers in the mine's tunnels. He felt like a piece of ice thrown into the cosmic furnace, rapidly melting and dissipating. Pei Du… the heavy sorrow and the fragments of his all-consuming will that came with that name became blurred and distant in the extreme cold and emptiness, as if separated by a thick wall of ice. Even the anger and resentment were frozen. Was this the end? Like an insignificant speck of dust, silently vanishing in this cold graveyard?
Just then—
boom!!!
A dull and extremely terrifying impact, as if coming from the core of the planet, penetrated the broken skeleton of the escape pod and slammed into Lin Mo's dying perception!
The world is spinning!
The entire escape pod felt like it had been struck by the iron fist of a cosmic giant, instantly losing all trace of its tumbling motion and being yanked fiercely in an unknown direction by an irresistible, violent gravitational pull! The immense acceleration pinned Lin Mo against the severely deformed seat, his body, already on the verge of collapse, groaning under the weight, his bones seemingly shattered! Through the massive tear in the side of the escape pod, he vaguely saw a rapidly expanding expanse of a vast, dark, gray "ground," composed of countless twisted metal, broken rock, and solidified dust!
A garbage planet! This hideous, gigantic "planet," formed from eons of cosmic junk, forcibly squeezed together by gravity! Like a silent, festering giant, it lay at the heart of the garbage graveyard. The escape pod had lost control! Trapped by the gravity of this massive junk mass, it was slamming headfirst into the hideous surface of abandoned starship wreckage and planetary debris at a devastating speed!
It's going to crash! It's going to be smashed to pieces!
Lin Mo's remaining consciousness was completely seized by this ultimate feeling of falling! He could even "see" in the entropic energy field (although the dark golden light in his left eye was as faint as a candle in the wind) that the dead gray-white "ground" below was rapidly enlarged, and the entropic death light representing the end of matter almost pierced his eyeballs!
In the last moment before the impact—
Buzz!
The only remaining attitude adjustment nozzle of the escape pod that was still barely working, seemed to be triggered by the instinct for survival or pure coincidence during the violent shock, and suddenly ejected an extremely weak, crooked airflow!
This insignificant force, at the critical moment, caused the escape pod, which was rolling out of control, to have an extremely tiny deflection in its impact angle!
Boom boom boom——!!!!!!
It was not a vertical, devastating collision, but a violent slide at a huge angle, like skipping stones on the water!
The escape pod slammed like a red-hot iron against rough sandpaper, instantly unleashing a horrific symphony of piercing, soul-rending metal friction and cracking! The gaping hole in the side of the pod instantly ripped even more hideously! The sturdy alloy shell twisted and deformed under the violent friction, peeling away like fragile tinfoil, melting, and scattering! The pipes, instruments, and seat fragments within it clashed and shattered like a storm of steel!
Lin Mo felt like he'd been thrown into a high-speed blender made of blades and a furnace! The devastating noise instantly deprived him of his hearing! The violent impact and tearing force acted on his body, and his already overwhelmed bones let out a teeth-grinding groan and cracking sound! Every tumble brought new pain, and blood gushed out from his mouth, nose, and lacerated wounds. Under the weightless cabin and the vacuum of the suction, it turned into a shrill blood mist!
[Warning! Cabin structural integrity lost!]
[Warning! The carrier has suffered multiple blunt force impacts! Broken bones: left arm, three ribs, right calf... Internal organ concussion and bleeding...]
[Energy Level: 0.18%…Core Energy Autonomous Defense Activated…Efficiency: 0.00001%…]
The prompt sound became intermittent and weak amid the violent shock and the pain of dying.
I don't know how long they glided; it felt like a century. When the destructive friction and tumbling finally stopped, Lin Mo felt like he had only his last breath left. The escape pod—or rather, a pile of twisted scrap metal that barely maintained its outline, emitting blue smoke and flowing dark red molten metal—was deeply embedded in a "hill" formed by the wreckage of a huge abandoned engine and solidified industrial waste in an extremely twisted posture.
The cabin was dead silent. The air had long since been completely drained, leaving only the subtle crackling of cooling metal. The strong smell of burning, blood, and molten metal mixed together, suffocating. Lin Mo was stuck between the severely deformed seat and the twisted cabin wall, his body twisted in an unnatural position. Every weak breath brought excruciating pain to his lungs and ribs. Blood oozed from the corners of his mouth and the wounds on his body, slowly congealing on the cold metal surface.
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