Chapter 108 Light Year Date
Getting closer.
At this moment, there are only 30 astronomical units left from the force field capture circle of the giant gas planet.
The huge gas planet was an unknown orange-red color on the sunlit side of the star. The surface was whirring and condensing with huge vortices, which looked like devil's eyes of varying sizes from a distance. When the planet BV-32 got closer, it was only then that the huge area of this giant gas planet, which was so vast that it was close to terrifying, could be clearly felt.
The smallest 'pupil' of the orange-red gas storm on the surface could swallow up more than a thousand shattered planetary cores.
BV32-II, which had barely condensed into a small mass elliptical sphere, was now in a state of being gradually accelerated by gravity. In the semi-assimilated state, 'Su Xi' relaxed his control over the magnetic poles of the 'planet', allowing 'Him' to rely on its own mass inertia to accelerate its rotation forward.
Su Xi knew that when they were within the last 10 astronomical units, it was the most critical moment. She and 'Him' had only one chance to adjust the tiny magnetic pole of 0.5 degrees that was crucial to their survival.
In reality, Su Xi finally raised her eyes and gave a soothing look to the person outside the hibernation capsule. She didn't have time to see his expression clearly. With a huge sense of crisis, she had to close all her human senses and concentrate on entering the world of spiritual bodies.
This is the first time that Su Xi's co-ordination with the 'planetary consciousness' has reached a depth of over 90%.
In the core cabin of reality, the red-haired alpha pursed his lips and stared at the mental interface, the last memory of the past that Su Xi left for him.
A human girl with a cute pigtail was throwing a thin pebble. In front of her sight, the midsummer sun was reflecting on the wide and rushing river. The young hand was withdrawn, and the pebble just hit the first point of impact on the water.
In this state, Su Xi almost completely assimilated with the planet, breaking away from the narrow perspective of humans. She used the long waves of the planet to detect the terrifyingly massive opponent she was facing. She had now reached the first point of contact on the surface of the gaseous planet.
That is the calmest center of the orange-red gas storm.
At this fulcrum, the planet BV32-II was accelerated by the gravitational tide and directly hit and broke through the atmosphere of the gas planet which was about 3,000 kilometers thick. Even though the eye of the storm set by Fitzgerald as the 'acceleration fulcrum' was the smallest in size, Su Xi, who was in the assimilation state at this moment, truly felt the indescribable horror of being 'swallowed'.
Traveling through the howling hurricane, the planet's original accumulated outer shell material was stripped away and burned. Su Xi, who had lost her human senses, did not feel any "pain", but the feeling of being weakened and devoured was another extremely unbearable negative emotion.
Is this what a planet feels like?
At the moment when this doubt arose, the planet that was originally passing through the atmosphere of the gas planet should have changed direction at this moment, but the divergence of that tiny bit of human consciousness as "Su Xi" in the "planetary common consciousness" caused their trajectory to deviate slightly, and they derailed and crashed straight into the second layer of this orange-red giant planet!
Su Xi was completely alert in the assimilated state! She pulled back her "distracted" consciousness as a human being and completely abandoned the last 1% of human consciousness.
The complete assimilation that the 'planetary life form' expected was completed in this moment of crisis.
As they were about to hit the endless, winding liquid ocean beneath the atmosphere of this gaseous planet, the 'planetary consciousness' emitted waves of despair.
'Run away!'
'That's a flowing supersolid! Not a true liquid ocean!'
'Just a touch -'
'You will be completely crushed by the huge pressure! You will never be able to escape!'
"Run away—"
The magnificent energy ball of the Planetary Consciousness began to shrink instinctively due to extreme fear. Su Xi, who had assimilated with it, felt something was wrong. Half of this bad feeling came from the external crisis, and the other half came from her already blurred human consciousness.
It seems that, in the center of the energy group of the 'planetary consciousness', there is an existence that must be protected. What is it?
It seems like a human consciousness that is like ice and fire?
At this moment, the planet that was rotating and roaring externally was already approaching the terrifying supersolid ocean and was about to completely fall and disintegrate!
At this unexpected moment, the human consciousness had already lit up seven energy chakras, and powerful energy was faintly bursting out, as if it was forcing itself to burn -
no!
'Su Xi', who was stronger than the slower consciousness of the 'planetary consciousness', made the decision.
According to the records in the route log in the core module, at that critical moment measured in milliseconds, a burst of golden light miraculously erupted from the burning core of the planet, and part of the planet's mass began to self-destruct!
This is 'Su Xi' as the 'planetary consciousness', forcibly burning all of her condensed and accumulated golden chakras, and driving the magnificent energy in the assimilated state to begin the unwilling fusion eruption!
The deviated orbit was corrected, and in this suicidal adventure, the planet virtually passed through the surface of the "supersolid ocean" and, in the process of jumping out of the atmosphere, captured some of the atmospheric matter of the gaseous planet.
Judging from the images recorded by the monitors placed in the distant deep space, it was a broken sphere as thin as a sesame seed, dragging a thin white line, and accelerating across the surface of the huge gas planet.
Everything was going perfectly as planned.
But the only human who was awake in the core module did not miss the planet's loss of control and the explosion that occurred almost simultaneously after falling into the atmosphere!
Fitzgerald sighed and gently stroked the delicate and beautiful face of the girl in the hibernation chamber. The last chakra in her body was about to extinguish.
Is he being treated as a delicate omega and being cared for?
His usually tough and cold face froze for a while, then revealed an indescribable expression.
"You won beautifully."
Fitzgerald looked up and stared at the 0% on the hibernation capsule, which indicated the fluctuation of human consciousness. The red number hurt his eyes deeply. Everything in the hibernation capsule was functioning normally, but the girl's expression was still as if she was in a sweet dream.
"I'll wait for you to wake up."
The lonely ending ended in this narrow but extremely empty core cabin.
*
'Su Xi' also felt that she won beautifully.
In a state of almost absolute assimilation with the planet, she slightly soothed the terrified and uncertain fluctuations of the 'planetary consciousness' that was almost indistinguishable from 'herself', and felt that under the push of the reaction of the gaseous planet, the planet BV32-II was accelerating away from the terrifying gravitational tide.
She turned the magnetic poles very carefully, feeling that all her "sight" was still completely occupied by the vast and boundless surface of the giant planet. Almost there! She was about to escape the gravitational range of this planet that was enough to destroy everything!
In the long-wave feedback that seemed to never move away from the sky occupied by the surface of this planet, 'she' looked back for the last time at the huge supersolid vortex that had almost swallowed 'herself' just now.
The eyes of the devil are both dangerous and charming. What is dangerous is the devouring power, and what is charming is the tremendous power.
Unknown thoughts wandered in her consciousness until the orange-red planetary sky in her sight moved from the west to the east, until the orange-red giant gas planet moved away and gradually became a shrinking "moon" on the horizon...
At this moment, she suddenly realized that the glance back just now took seven light years of external time!
Su Xi was suddenly startled!
The consciousness belonging to "humanity" completely returned. Amid the noisy and entangled protests of the "planetary consciousness", she paid a little price and then forcibly separated from "Him".
*
So, Su Xi in the real world slowly opened her eyes in the hibernation cabin.
As the blurry vision gradually became clear, the originally pitch-black interior cabin slowly lit up bit by bit.
Su Xi paused for a long time, her fingers twitching slightly, slowly regaining consciousness, slowly adapting to the feeling of returning to the real world... and slowly savoring the slight sense of loss that came with returning to the narrow human senses.
But after only two or three breaths, she vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
"Fitz?"
A slightly hoarse voice called out, and the ceiling with soft light could be seen through the transparent top of the hibernation chamber. However, - it was very different from her long yet short memory, in that it lacked a pair of restrained yet affectionate eyes that she could gaze into every time she opened her eyes.
At this time, in a corner of the empty cabin.
With the gentle call from the hibernation capsule, the subtle call that was almost hidden in the sound of the operating instruments made the tall figure half hidden in the darkness move, but the dim light in the corner only outlined a small part of his outline from his firm chin to his Adam's apple.
"Fitz?"
The man's Adam's apple moved slightly, and his eyes, which had been silent in the darkness, slowly opened. Under the refraction of the dim light, the special pupil lines shone silver, but the moment he stood up and stepped into the light, they once again sank deeply into the dark blue abyss at the bottom of his eyes.
He paused for a moment before responding:
"I am here."
As the last note fell, the transparent sliding cover of the hibernation capsule opened silently. Su Xi couldn't help but groan a few times as she suddenly inhaled the outside air before she got used to it. She struggled to get up, climbed out of the wall of the hibernation capsule with her hands and feet, and then rolled out in a not-so-elegant posture.
However, this state of panic did not last long. Su Xi, who had just rolled down and touched the cold floor, keenly felt that something was wrong with the surrounding environment. But before she raised her head to see the abnormality around her clearly, a large warm towel wrapped her completely.
A pair of strong hands picked her up, and the warm human body temperature ironed her slightly cold body through the towel.
Until the dry and warm blanket completely wrapped her up, covering her wet hair and her sight. She stretched out her hand to get out from the large towel that blocked her sight, but was stopped by a hug that tightened instantly.
She had just come out of the hibernation capsule and her strength was so weak that even she could hardly believe it. After struggling a few times and failing to move, Su Xi simply gave up.
But there is a doubt in my heart——
"Fitz."
Su Xi called him hoarsely. Up to now, she had not seen his appearance clearly, but when she spoke again, she was surprised by her own hoarse and weak voice.
This was not the first time that Su Xi had entered and exited the hibernation chamber since being trapped in the Great Wilderness Star Region, and she had never been so weak before.
But at this moment, she felt very tired after just waking up, and the soft and dry towel wrapped her up so comfortably that she almost wanted to take a nap. But the alpha holding her didn't say anything. As he moved, Su Xi vaguely felt him walking in a long corridor. The slight bumps and warm body temperature made her want to fall into the sleep that only belongs to humans again.
Is this... Is the core module that big? Enough to walk such a long distance?
Su Xicai's clear mind was a little confused.
As if he knew what the omega in his arms was thinking, he tightened his grip on her hand for a moment, then relaxed it with restraint, allowing Su Xi to clearly feel the hard lines of her arm muscles that instantly tightened, as well as the familiar yet unfamiliar pheromone smell surrounding her, which made her feel uneasy.
"I am here."
Su Xi felt a heavy vibration on the side of her face that was pressed against the solid chest through the towel.
He continued, his voice becoming hoarse, "Get some sleep. You have some symptoms of hibernation hypothermia."
"I'm waiting for you."
"good."
She was indeed tired, in a way that she could not feel in a state of planetary assimilation, a kind of tiredness caused by the strain of the body's extreme limits.
Su Xi thought vaguely, it would be good if he just started talking. The dull and stagnant atmosphere just now really made her worried. When the slight turbulence ended, she was placed on the warm and soft bed, her outer clothes specially suitable for the sleeping cabin were taken off, and her wet body was wiped dry and completely cleaned.
Feeling that the warm body temperature was about to leave, Su Xi forced herself to open her eyes, and in the dim light of the bedroom again, she reached out and hooked the hands that were about to leave.
'Don't go.'
She wanted to speak, but was too tired to open her mouth. Her weak fingers entangled his, and she didn't smile until the warm body temperature returned to her body again, and then she fell asleep peacefully.
In the dim light, a tall figure slowly leaned over and looked at her for a long time.