After four hours of study, Chen Xu came out of the learning machine, feeling dizzy. He finally returned to his place and fell asleep.

This time the side effects were even more severe than before. After waking up, I was vomiting all over the place. It took me a whole day to recover.

He sat at the table, took a sip of milk in his hand, and asked, "When can I take the test?" while looking at the e-book on the screen.

Taichu replied, "The assessment for intermediate engineers has a fixed time, only once a month, and the nearest one is in ten days."

"Ten days later..."

Chen Xu calculated in his mind that by then, it would be almost a month, and he didn't know what would happen. It was still uncertain whether he would have the opportunity to take the test.

So, he simply relaxed and started reading the e-book in front of him seriously.

In addition to text, the books provided by Taichu also come with detailed pictures and high-definition videos. They are very informative and can be said to be an encyclopedia in the form of an operating manual.

If he were to memorize it by himself, it would take him years to finish. Now, it only takes a few hours to memorize such a large book.

This learning machine is undoubtedly a groundbreaking invention. It makes up for the weakness of the human brain that is slow to memorize things, skips the long learning process, and saves time for growth. No matter how much you praise it, it is not an exaggeration.

He memorized the entire set of "Basics of Wireless Communication Maintenance" in his head, and the gains he made were beyond his imagination. Even if the mission failed, he would definitely not lose out.

He sat there reading, and Taichu did not come to disturb him.

"Chen Xu, an unexpected situation has occurred."

Suddenly, Taichu's voice rang out, and the synthesized electronic sound seemed to sound a little solemn.

Chen Xu looked away from the book and asked in confusion, "What's going on?"

Taichu said, "There is an unidentified object in the spacecraft's path. It cannot be driven away or destroyed. It is expected to impact in one hour and five minutes."

"Wait a minute."

Chen Xu noticed what it said and asked in shock, "Spaceship? You mean, this is a spaceship?"

"Yes, this is the spaceship Dawn. And you are now the only crew member on the spaceship."

Chen Xu was a little stunned. He thought of many possibilities, such as an underground base or a future city, but he didn't expect it to be a spaceship.

The main reason was that this place was too big. According to his experience of riding in a teleporter, the straight-line distance was at least a dozen kilometers. If it was a spaceship, how big would it be?

"Now is not the time to be surprised." Taichu reminded him, "We should think about how to deal with this incident."

Chen Xu realized the seriousness of the matter from its urgent tone, suppressed his shock, and said, "Can we bypass it?"

"We tried to circumvent it before, but it would reappear on the route not long after. We also sent out drones to intercept it, but all kinds of attacks were ineffective. The drones' collisions also failed to cause damage to it. Currently, it has been classified as the highest level of threat."

After listening to its story, Chen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly, "You must have a better way to deal with this kind of thing than I do. I don't know anything, so it's useless for you to ask me."

Taichu said, "According to the regulations, when a major crisis occurs that threatens the survival of the spacecraft, the final decision-making power must be handed over to humans. You are the last human on the spacecraft and must shoulder this responsibility."

Chen Xu calmed down, knowing that this was a test that he had to face in the dream game, and asked, "What kind of thing is that?"

"A black box about one cubic meter."

As Taichu spoke, an image appeared on the screen in front of him. It was a black cube with no discernible material.

"One cubic meter?"

Chen Xu imagined that compared to this spaceship, one cubic meter was just like a grain of sand. Even such a small thing made Taichu feel like it was facing a formidable enemy.

He couldn't help but think of the novel "The Three-Body Problem" he had read not long ago. Could this cube be a weapon like the water drop? "Probably not."

This is a game after all, and the designer would not design such a desperate situation where death is inevitable.

After a while, he had an idea and said, "I have an idea, maybe we can try it."

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When Chen Xu was facing the crisis, Yang Jinxia on the other side entered the vortex. The screen in front of her went black, and a twisted force field tore everything around her. A trace of pain appeared on her face.

Immediately, all the electronic instruments began to spark, and with crackling sounds, the entire control room went dark.

When everything returned to calm, Yang Jinxia ignored the control room and opened her personal panel. Seeing the words "the distance between the couple and her is 500 million kilometers", she couldn't help but smile, "It really is a wormhole."

"But there's still 500 million kilometers to go. How are we going to get there?"

She stood up with some difficulty, groped in the dark, found the S01 lying on the ground, and restarted it.

At this moment, a harsh scratching sound came from outside.

"Look, the host here is really enthusiastic." Yang Jinxia sat back in her seat and said, "Go, restart the other robots. Then, respond properly."

"Yes, master." S01 responded and quickly restarted the robot that fell to the ground.

The first to restart was B01. Yang Jinxia said, "Come here, help me put on my space suit."

B01 pulled a large metal box from under the seat, opened it, took out a space suit, and helped her put it on.

When dozens of robots in the control room restarted, in addition to the scratching sounds outside, there were also knocking and smashing sounds.

"Go out and kill them."

Yang Jinxia waved his hand, and the tall attacker walking in the front opened the heavy door and rushed out first.

Through the night vision function of her space suit, she saw many strange beasts surrounding the door, but they were obviously smaller in size, which gave her some guesses.

Is it because you are not strong enough that you cannot penetrate the wormhole?

She didn't move, watching her robots rush out, occupy the doorway, expand outward, and restart when they encounter a fallen robot. As more and more new forces joined in, the speed of the cleanup became faster and faster.

Some other surviving maintenance robots are working hard to repair the host system in the control room.

Half an hour later, the host system restarted successfully.

The screen in front of Yang Jinxia lit up again, reopening her vision.

There was a strange world outside, with bare ground, the black vortex behind him, and a huge building in front of him. Perhaps it could not be called a building, but more like a cave formed by hollowing out a mountain. Looking at it, the densely packed cave entrances looked a bit disgusting.

She noticed that the mountain was obviously incomplete, and the peak had disappeared, as if it had been destroyed by some force. This should be a masterpiece of humans in a war hundreds of years ago.

At this time, strange beasts kept coming out of the caves and joined the battle.

"Is this the base camp of the alien beasts?"

She was a little confused. With the strength of these strange beasts, how could they create a wormhole that could travel through space? Or was the wormhole formed naturally?

At this time, all the robots that passed through the wormhole have been restarted, and they are constantly pushing the battle group to the outer layer.

"Kill them all, leaving no one alive." Yang Jinxia waved his hand and gave the order without any mercy on his face. The strange beasts here are all environmental destroyers, and keeping them alive would be a disaster.

(End of this chapter)