Chen Xu looked at Yang Jinxia's location through the light screen on his mask. It was more than ten kilometers away. In the past, he took the teleporter to go anywhere and had no specific concept of distance. Now, when he needed to walk, he realized that the Dawn was too big.

When he reached the end of the passage, he found that the door in front of him would not open automatically. He pushed hard on the right side at a position marked with manual, revealing a flipped red switch.

He grabbed the switch with his hand and pulled it hard. With a hiss, the door opened about ten centimeters. He stepped forward, grabbed one side with both hands, and opened the door with force.

Outside the door, it was pitch black. The light on the top of the passage behind me could only illuminate a part of the front. At a glance, it went from light to dark, and finally was swallowed by darkness.

He turned on the built-in light on his space suit, and a beam of light lit up on each shoulder, illuminating an area more than ten meters away.

He took a step forward and walked towards the dark passage. Before he touched the floor, he felt his feet lighten. He did not hesitate any longer, and pushed off with his back foot. Then he flew out like an arrow.

The power supply in this area was cut off, and the gravity maintenance equipment naturally stopped working, returning to a state of weightlessness.

There are handrails on both sides of the corridor, which is to take into account the situation that it would be very inconvenient to move in a state of weightlessness. With these handrails, there is a place to leverage and it is convenient to move forward.

Chen Xuren was floating in the air, and he was not used to the feeling. He could not control the strength of his hands well, and his direction was easily off. However, his talent was fully demonstrated at this time, and after a few times, he had adjusted himself.

"Taichu, can I talk to her on the phone?" Only after he got used to this way of traveling did he have time to ask Taichu.

"Please switch the communication channel to wireless line 1."

Chen Xu adjusted the channel as he was told. A few seconds later, Taichu said, "You can talk now."

He asked anxiously, "Yang Jinxia, ​​are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Yang Jinxia's voice was a little distorted, but he was still strong enough and didn't look like he was injured. He felt slightly relieved.

Then, she said somewhat depressedly, “But I seem to be stuck.”

Chen Xu's heart was lifted again, "Ah? What's the situation?"

"There is a passage that may have been affected by the explosion. It is deformed and stuck and cannot be opened. I have changed several floors and they are all like this."

After listening to her description, Chen Xu said, "Well, you stay there and don't run around. I'll come find you now."

"Well, be careful then."

"I will." Chen Xu said, and then he remembered something else, "Also, look around and stock up on some food and water. Given the current situation, food and water may become more scarce in the future."

"OK."

"Let's do this for now. We'll communicate again in half an hour." Chen Xu said, ending the call.

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On the other side, Yang Jinxia was suspended in the passage, holding the handrail with one hand, looking at the closed door of the passage through the transparent hood.

"Master, do you need to call S01 for help?" asked 2003, who was acting as a light source nearby.

"No need." Yang Jinxia shook her head, turned around and said, "Let's go and collect some food and water. We may have to stay in this area for many days."

As she said this, she took 2003 and turned to the nearby residential area.

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The straight-line distance is more than ten kilometers. When Chen Xu actually started walking, he found that some places were simply impassable. For example, the doors of some important areas were particularly heavy, and it was extremely difficult for him to open them by himself.

After trying it once, whenever he encountered similar places, he would just go around them.

In fact, the most convenient path is the delivery channel of the transfer cabin. However, when the hatch was designed, in order to prevent accidents during power outages, it would automatically lock once the power was cut off. Only special tools can be used to remove the entire door panel. It is very troublesome for one person to operate.

After walking nearly half the distance, he found a bigger trouble. This area, probably close to the explosion area, was impacted and deformed everywhere. Some doors were completely stuck and could not be opened at all.

In this situation, he could only choose to take a detour, and the detour became longer and longer. Before he knew it, he had walked more than ten kilometers. However, the distance between him and Yang Jinxia was getting farther and farther, reaching more than twenty kilometers.

Even so, he still managed to keep calm and contact her every half hour to make sure she was okay.

Three hours later, he felt a little exhausted, so he stopped to rest for a while and eat something to replenish his energy.

The main reason was that he had just finished eight hours of study, and his condition was not very good to begin with. After rushing for three hours, he was really exhausted. Although he floated all the way here, relying on the strength of his arms, it was actually very strenuous. After sitting down, he felt that he could not even lift his arms.

"Chen Xu."

He set an alarm, buckled the waist brace on the armrest, and closed his eyes to rest. Suddenly, Taichu's voice sounded in his ears, sometimes high and sometimes low, as if the signal was interfered with, "From now on, the future of mankind depends on you."

Chen Xu heard a sense of foreboding from its words, "What do you mean?"

"The cockpit's backup power supply was used for other purposes, and only one tenth of the original power is left. Now the main engine is about to lose power... From now on, whether humanity can continue to survive depends on you..."

Taichu's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally, it stopped abruptly.

Chen Xu stared at the wall opposite him in a daze. After Taichu shut down, it meant that hundreds of years of efforts of the human beings in this world had come to nothing. In order to survive, they fled the solar system, but in the end, they still could not save themselves from extinction.

"It's just a game."

He murmured, but there was no way to relieve the heaviness in his heart.

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Forty minutes later, Chen Xu continued on his way. This time, there was no Taichu to show him the way. He could only rely on the map that came with his space suit and grope his way forward.

It took him a total of more than twenty hours before he successfully reunited with Yang Jinxia.

She hid in a room with several large packages made of curtain cloth floating around her.

When Chen Xu came in, she didn't respond. After a closer look, he found that she was asleep. 2003 next to her made a gesture to keep quiet.

Seeing that she was safe and sound, he was completely relieved. He made a gesture to 2003, indicating that he was going to find something. He put down the things at hand, turned around and left.

After Taichu was shut down, it meant that all the equipment on the Dawn was no longer operational and could not provide any industrial products. All they could use were the supplies they already had.

The most troublesome one is oxygen.

Dawn was large enough to keep them alive for a long time even if it stopped producing new oxygen.

The problem is that those explosions didn't know how much damage the spacecraft would suffer, and whether the outer wall of the spacecraft would be penetrated. If oxygen leaked, they would have to rely on their space suits to survive. Every once in a while, they would have to replace the power supply and small oxygen production equipment, which was very troublesome.

What's more troublesome is that there is a small meteorite belt ahead, which will arrive in three days. The original plan was to use the 100 main guns on the spacecraft to blast out a safe passage.

Now, this plan naturally cannot be implemented. Three days later, the Dawn will hit the asteroid belt. At the current speed, the result will definitely be the destruction of the ship and the death of everyone on board.

The only way to save himself is to escape on Yang Jinxia's spaceship.

He has to race against time.

(End of this chapter)