"The main program reset is complete. Dear acting captain, the artificial intelligence Taichu is at your service." It was still that familiar voice, but the tone of voice had become more formal.
Chen Xu ordered, "Cancel the charging status of the main gun and cancel the first-level combat readiness status."
“It has been revoked.”
He looked at the main control panel, which showed that the main gun had entered a dormant state, and the alarm in the cockpit had stopped. He continued to give orders, "Open the main hatch and let the enemy in."
Taichu said, "The main hatch is opening. We detected that the other party is slowing down."
He asked, "How long do you expect it will take to complete the docking?"
"One to two hours."
In order to prevent any accidents, Chen Xu stayed in the cockpit and watched the entire process of the spacecraft landing on the Dawn on the light screen.
After the main hatch was closed, he saw from the surveillance that the hatch of the spacecraft opened and a person in a space suit walked down. Through the transparent helmet, he could see her face clearly. Who else could it be but Yang Jinxia? "It's you."
Chen Xu sighed in his heart. Among the three women, she was the one he least wanted to meet in his dreams. However, things did not go as he wished, and she was the one who finally agreed to his confession.
Then again, if she had refused at that time, he would not have been able to participate in this special event and would have missed a great opportunity.
Because of this, his mood is very complicated.
He walked toward the cockpit and said, "Send me over to greet our new friend."
Taichu reminded, "You are the acting captain, you should be more cautious and don't meet the other party in person."
"It's okay. I believe she has no ill intentions."
He boarded the No. 0 transport capsule and arrived near the main cabin door half an hour later. The space here was very large, and even the passages were dozens of meters high and twenty to thirty meters wide.
He walked to the main hatch entrance and the door between the unloading area and asked Taichu to open it. Amid the rumbling sound of the door opening, he saw Yang Jinxia, who had taken off her helmet, and next to her was 2003, who looked like a vacuum cleaner.
"I finally found you." Yang Jinxia was wearing a heavy space suit with her hair tied up. She looked at him with joy in her eyes.
"you……"
Chen Xu seemed to be burned by her gaze. He looked away and wanted to say something, but he felt that anything he said would be redundant.
A month ago, they were still more than ten light years apart. He originally thought that by the end of the dream, they would never meet again. Unexpectedly, she came to him after only thirty days.
He couldn't imagine how she did it. If it were him, the distance alone would have scared him away, and he wouldn't even have the thought of doing so.
Not only did she think of it, she also did it.
He wanted to ask her how she did it, but he felt it was inappropriate. He wanted to say something else, but he didn't know what to say. After all, the relationship between the two of them was a bit awkward. It was inappropriate to be too close, and it was not appropriate to be too distant.
For a moment, I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.
Yang Jinxia walked closer, looked at him, and broke the silence with a smile on her face, "It seems that you are doing well here."
"I'm still not as good as you." Chen Xu looked at the spaceship behind her, wondering if it had the ability to cross space, and he didn't know how she got it.
Yang Jinxia knew he had misunderstood when she saw his expression, and explained, "In fact, I was able to cross a distance of more than ten light years not by relying on this spaceship."
"Oh?" Chen Xu was even more curious about her experience and the robot 2003 following behind her, so he said, "Let's go in and talk. You follow me."
Yang Jinxia followed openly, taking only 2003 with her, leaving all the other robots on the spacecraft. She looked around this huge place and asked, "Are you the only one left here?"
Chen Xu said, "Before, there were 990, but now, there are 990 more, and they are now receiving basic education."
"It seems that your experience this time is also very strange."
"I'm just lucky." Chen Xu thought of Taichu before, sighed in his heart, and changed the subject, "What's going on with it?" He was referring to 2003 following behind him.
Yang Jinxia said, "It has always been by my side. But you, how did you get here? When I woke up, I found that you were gone. When I found the clue, you were actually more than ten light years away. I thought I would never see you again in this life."
Seeing that she didn't mention anything about reality at all, Chen Xu guessed that her subconscious mind was affected by the dream device and she entered a dreaming state, automatically accepting some settings, which was different from her usual self.
However, her words still surprised him. Did she mean that she had returned to the world of her last dream and continued the timeline of the previous dream? He said vaguely, "I don't know. When I woke up, I was here."
"That's strange." Yang Jinxia frowned deeply. It was obvious that this problem had troubled her for a long time.
As he was talking, Chen Xu had already taken her into the transport cabin. After they sat down, he explained, "I am now the acting captain of this spaceship, so I have to go back to the cockpit and keep an eye on it to prevent any accidents."
After the two people and one robot sat down, the transmission cabin started.
"What happened next?" Chen Xu continued with the previous topic. It would be more awkward if he didn't speak. He found something to talk about so that time would pass faster.
Yang Jinxia briefly recounted her own experience.
Chen Xu listened intently and asked a question from time to time.
He was awake for less than half of the second dream, which left many mysteries in his mind. Even when he returned to reality, he had no chance to ask her. Now, he could finally solve these mysteries.
Yang Jinxia didn't exaggerate, but it already made Chen Xu feel thrilling. He admired the courage of destroying the world's largest human base to build robots.
If it were him, he might not be able to make such a decision. He would always be thinking about what would happen after the war, how to survive, how to develop, etc.
He also focused on asking about the origins of the strange beasts and the history of the humans on that planet. Combined with the information he had read in the shelter, he was able to solve a mystery in his heart.
Then, Yang Jinxia talked about the decisive battle with the alien beast. After passing through the black vortex, they found that it was a wormhole. At the other end was a dead planet.
Only then did he understand that this was how she had crossed a distance of more than ten light years.
When he heard Yang Jinxia talking about the queen insect he encountered, he was moved and asked, "What does it look like?"
Yang Jinxia ordered, "2003, project the image of the insect queen."
"Yes, master." Two lights flashed in 2003's eyes, and a picture was projected on the wall of the transport cabin.
Chen Xu knew at first glance that this female worm was of the same species as the worm he had encountered that had crawled out of the cube. Although there was a huge difference in size, they looked very similar.
"In other words, it was this Queen Worm that destroyed your spaceship, and then landed on that planet. For some unknown reason, a wormhole appeared, connecting to the human world. The source of those strange beasts that invaded the human world was this Queen Worm."
Chen Xu put the whole thing together and finally solved the background puzzle of the world of "Alien Invasion". He was very happy.
"You seem to be particularly concerned about this queen insect. Is there any reason?" Yang Jinxia suddenly asked.
Chen Xu said, "Actually, I encountered something similar not long ago..." Then he recounted the story of how he encountered the black cube, which caused a crisis for the spaceship, and then he put the cube into the spaceship, and then a white worm crawled out of the cube.
After listening to this, Yang Jinxia was thoughtful. "It seems that the original owner of the spaceship encountered the same crisis, but they did not survive. But how did these black cubes appear?"
"Who knows? The universe is so big, and there are so many unknowns. In comparison, we ourselves are too small." Chen Xu sighed. During this time, he had been thinking about the virtual dream device, who made it, why it fell on the earth, why he activated it, and so on.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was pointless to dwell on these questions, because he would most likely never get the answers. Even if he did get the answers one day, they would be too much for him to bear.
Just don’t think about it.
"What happened next? How did you kill it?" Yang Jinxia asked, obviously very interested in his experience.
Chen Xu briefly explained the whole process.
Yang Jinxia said, "You must have recorded the process, can you send me a copy?"
The entire spaceship was under Taichu's surveillance, and his battle process was no exception. He hesitated for a moment, not wanting to refuse her small request, and said, "I'll help you create an identity ID and send it to you when the time comes."
"Thank you." Yang Jinxia said happily.
"You are welcome."
Yang Jinxia then asked, "What happened next? After you made such a great contribution, you became the acting captain?"
"You could say that, mainly because there's no one else on the spaceship. I'm the only one left, so I have to take on the responsibility."
"Is that really the case?" Yang Jinxia asked back.
"Huh?" Chen Xu was stunned.
"During the time I was on the spaceship, I read a lot of information on the spaceship. Fortunately, I had a universal translator, otherwise I wouldn't be able to understand it."
Yang Jinxia talked about something unrelated. "One of the warnings is that when you discover a spaceship from another civilization in the universe, it is best to attack it first. This should be the law of the dark forest. I guess your spaceship should have similar regulations, right?"
(End of this chapter)