Chapter 139 Endless Bad News

Bad news.

The Behemoth was lost in the chaos of time and space at the edge of the Tomb of the Universe, and the fate of Kolot and his crew was unknown.

The only good news in the incident is that the space-time coordinates of the giant whale have not been completely lost. The high-power quantum communicator responsible for the dedicated line connection of the First Fortress can still receive some vague signals from time to time.

But when these fuzzy signals are received and transcoded into understandable waveforms, what is displayed is a worse news.

The person in charge of the quantum communication team conveyed this signal to his superiors with a feeling of despair and collapse.

The collapse of cosmic rays has already begun.

Different from the information of local collapse detected before the departure of the Behemoth, the waveform graph received now clearly shows a doomsday warning picture of the total collapse of the universe.

A signal involving the total collapse of currently known space and time!

"Now, the desolate galaxy on the edge of the Tomb of the Universe has been completely swallowed up by a huge space-time rift."

Amid the chaos, Chris quickly activated a dozen surround light screens, and while explaining, he worked quickly to construct an overall model of the accident based on the data he received.

The causes and consequences of the sinking of the USS Beluga were presented so directly and vividly before everyone's eyes.

On the central and widest light curtain, the Tomb of the Universe, located in the very center of the desolate universe, is actually a rare oasis of life in this desolate star region.

The edge of the Tomb of the Universe is isolated from the rest of the world by several large antimatter isolation zones. The pure energy life form race known as the 'Gatekeepers of the Tomb of the Universe' by humans, the Tyranids, have been hovering in it for a long time. Only they have the positioning signals for safely entering and exiting the various small leap points of the galaxies on its edge.

Su Xi watched Chris model the scenes of the "McGreg" incident, and the visual image of the life form called "Taren" by humans only flashed by.

There was a thoughtful look in her eyes and she glanced lightly at Fitz beside her.

Fitzgerald, who was concentrating on listening to Chris's explanation, was extremely sensitive and noticed the gaze of her omega. The long mutated tail at the bottom of the pool swayed towards her.

Su Xi lowered her head, opened her palm, and grasped the thinnest tip of the long tail. The sharp thorns on the tail were obediently and carefully retracted, gently rubbing against her palm.

She recalled the young seeds of pure energy life forms that were specially placed on the floating island through the channel of 'collecting rare species'.

Is that magnificent life group that looks like a tree seed the mutant species of 'Taren' that drifted outside the universe?

How long did he prepare for this?

*

Su Xi turned her attention back to the present.

In Chris's demonstration, the scene had quickly progressed to the final moment of the accident. Now, those extremely rare oases of life on the edge of the Tomb of the Universe were instantly swallowed up by a 'black line' in a slow-motion shot that slowed down time tens of thousands of times.

It is a scene that is difficult to describe with purely human senses.

Su Xi's eyes widened, her amber pupils reflecting the faint light left over from the annihilation of galaxies. For the first time, she intuitively felt the spectacular sight of dimensional dissolution at the cosmic level.

It was as if in the three-dimensional world, there was only a straight line belonging to the one-dimensional world, and as if it was flicked by a naughty little hand, like a rubber band, it swung away thousands of galaxies in the entire vast universe.

It is not just the annihilation of matter, but the disappearance of the entire space-time coordinates.

Although she had already received such information when she was in sync with Xiguang, and she could deeply understand all the principles of what happened, she was temporarily separated from the human-machine state and looked at this phenomenon from a purely emotional perspective, and she still inevitably suffered a great psychological shock.

Just like Su Xi, who was once a human on Earth, every time she went camping, she looked up at the sunrise and sunset, the shooting stars in the night sky, and the aurora flashing in the early summer in the Arctic...

Even if you know the principles behind what happened, you can't avoid being shocked and trembling.

During the "Assimilation with the Planet" event, she felt the nature of the material world from the microscopic world, and personally experienced the dimensional folding of two "time gaps"...

Su Xi now understands more deeply than most life forms in this interstellar age the horror of the "black line" that silently devours everything.

It was an energy accident that was beyond human cognition and encompassed the entire universe.

A massive, irreversible, doomsday disaster.

She couldn't help but look at him again.

When Su Xi cracked the base's AI core during the human-machine interface with Xiguang, she obtained the authority left to her by Fitz, so when she opened the door, she almost simultaneously understood his original plan to deal with the entire "universe collapse."

Including the energy hedging model.

With the weak light of fire, they fought against the imminent avalanche of snow...

As if sensing her worries, the tail sting that she was holding in her hand and rubbing against it entangled her delicate wrist.

Chris's presentation was almost over, and the whole process took less than ten minutes.

Fitzgerald: "What can be analyzed from the signal about the current situation of the Scorpion? The loss rate of personnel?"

"Krolet's research is so important, we don't have time to repeat everything he has built."

Chris: "We can analyze part of it. Due to the space-time annihilation just shown, the space-time coordinates of the Mega Whale are now in an unexplorable state. The only thing that can be confirmed is... the entire crew of the frigate was sacrificed."

After saying this, Chris choked up and said, "It was because Mary and her fleet used this self-destructive method to completely detonate all the energy on the frigate that they were able to build a weak energy collision wall before this huge antimatter black hole belt completely tore the Giant Whale apart."

"Therefore, the Giant Whale, where Collot and his research team were, had the opportunity to send out this signal..."

Blah--

After a slight sound of water, Fitzgerald lifted his upper body from the gene pool, and water droplets flowed along the naked muscle lines of his chest, below his waistline, and into his mutated lower body...

This was originally the most perfect human body evolved by humans after they mastered the gene editing technology. The long mutated tail from the waistline down was displayed so directly in front of everyone.

The alien's long tail covered with eerie ice-blue scales creates a powerful and direct visual impact. The alien's body, which is mostly covered with scales, is still powerful, but it gives off a strong signal of "not being of my kind".

Fitzgerald didn't care about revealing his degenerate condition in front of his closest people. The only person he cared about was the one who was unconsciously pulling the thinnest end of his tail and having a lot of fun.

It seems...after she calmed down, she accepted it well?

Under the water, the end of the long tail gently wrapped around her wrist again, carrying an indescribable feeling of intimacy.

On the water, Fitzgerald stretched out his powerful arms and took the data analyzer from Chris.

Unlike Chris and Holderman who knew every detail of his degenerative symptoms, Albert, who saw this situation for the first time, opened his mouth in surprise, his eyes became solemn, but he didn't say a word.

Holderman carefully examined his condition, raised his eyebrows, clicked his tongue a few times, and had an expression that said, "We'll settle the score later."

“This is the last message.”

Chris' words drew everyone's attention back to the news that 'a collapse precursor wave appeared in the galaxy on the edge of the universe'.

She adjusted the signal receiver in her hand, brought up the light screen, and gestured to Fitzgerald: "On the interstellar standard time axis, ten minutes ago, the Giant Whale happened to fall into a micro wormhole opened by the frigate using the energy of self-destruction. The space-time coordinates of the wormhole are unknown, and the status of the people on the Giant Whale is unknown..."

"The only thing we know is that the data shows that this artificial wormhole will be completely destroyed by the energy impact when the next wave of collapse precursor wave arrives."

This means that the Mega Whale has completely lost contact and cannot wait for rescue.

After hearing the news, everyone was silent.

"The Giant Whale can transmit such a signal wave," Fitzgerald pointed to the 'Comparison Waveform of the Cosmic Collapse Model and Field Survey' on the screen and said to everyone, "It is very likely that the Giant Whale has reached a solid wormhole in the Tomb of the Universe, which is why it can transmit such a signal."

"This line A is a characteristic curve of a solid wormhole."

"Solid wormhole!?" Albert's eyes lit up and he said, "I remember that when you returned from the Tomb of the Universe, you also returned to the agreed rendezvous point through a solid wormhole?!"

"Yes." Fitzgerald did not have any emotional fluctuations because of the mention of the past. He said calmly: "Solid wormholes can be dangerous places that strangle all matter in an instant, or they can be the only 'energy balance zone' in the cosmic tomb where there is a chance of survival."

"There are still people alive on the Mega Whale."

*

Tomb of the Universe. Solid Wormhole. Edge.

There were indeed people "alive" on the Beluga, but one of the two alive was filled with fear of his current state, and was almost dying of fear;

The other one, on the other hand, was filled with interest and excitement, with an expression as if he was about to die of excitement.

The one with fear in his heart is Collot's assistant, a male alpha named Andy.

With a plop! Andy rolled and crawled to avoid the dimensional black hole that suddenly opened under his feet. He quickly grabbed the safety belt that Kolot handed over and shouted in fear: "Master Kolot, I, we are in this state... are we still alive?"

At this moment, the entire huge ship, the Beluga, presented a very chaotic scene both inside and outside.

If viewed from the outside, the Behemoth is in a dark chaos, and the entire structure of the huge ship is distorted, as if it is a piece of performance art made by mixing two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures, abruptly appearing at the edge of this dimensional chaotic solid wormhole.

The pipeline structure that originally belonged to the interior of the boat seemed to have been roughly torn out by a curious child, compressed into a flat piece of drawing paper, and then randomly pasted on the exterior of the boat deck.

As they traveled along the way, the bodies of their dead teammates on the Mega Whale seemed to be compressed into a thin sheet of life-size paper, with a look of terror before death, and were casually pasted on the three-dimensional bridge...

This is a large-scale performance art scene that was randomly created by a collapse wave accident under the laws of the universe.

From Andy's perspective, the state he was in was a typical state of "time dimension confusion".

Specifically, from Andy's left eye, he saw the situation that the Behemoth was completely torn apart by the space-time storm just before, but from his right eye, he saw the situation that all the staff members were having a happy dinner together before the Behemoth set off.

Two different perspectives suddenly overlapped in his 'current' visual nervous system, almost driving him crazy!

Andy has been engaged in scientific research for many years. His mental strength is not as strong as that of Mary and other soldiers who have served for many years, but after all, he is an alpha with a mental level of 2S. During his military service, he also experienced various specialized mental training...

Those special trainings prevented him from suffering an instant mental breakdown like the other personnel.

It was his luck.

But even more fortunately, he was rescued by a mysterious man in a white robe who called himself a navigator when he was on the verge of death, and met Korot smoothly.

'Close your eyes and follow my guidance. Do not leave the correct dimension.'

A gentle voice rang directly in his mind, followed by a gentle mental force that caressed him, powerfully and gently removing the confusion he had just felt.

A tiny grain of golden sand gently fell between his eyebrows. Andy took a breath and his eyes regained clarity. He immediately grabbed the safety rope that Colot had handed to him and tied it tightly around his waist.

"I'm not sure, Andy!" said Kolot, who was also floating in the long pipe, excitedly: "I can only say that we are not completely dead yet!"

After the initial panic, Collot's exposed eyeballs were filled with bloodshot excitement, and judging from the frequency of his heartbeat exposed to the vacuum, he was obviously in an unprecedented state of excitement.

Judging from the old scientist's terrible appearance, which looked like a "dissected corpse", he was not caught in the chaos of the timeline like Andy, but was caught in the brutal disturbance of another higher-dimensional line.

"Oh! Mentor," Andy, who had barely regained his composure, looked at Clot's very eye-catching appearance, swallowed his saliva, and tried to say something to relieve the pressure: "I have always known from the teaching model that when the fifth dimension forcefully breaks the third dimension, a situation like yours will occur, but I never thought that in my lifetime..."

However--

"Hahaha! You never expected that! There's something even more unexpected," Klotte laughed, completely ignoring the horrified look Andy cast at him. The old man's gums, exposed in the air, opened and closed, trembling: "In this 'dimensional singularity', our time stops! This is a state close to eternal life in a chaotic dimension!"

As he spoke, Collot curiously stretched his hand out of the fluorescent bubble that enveloped him and Andy.

It was an extremely thin layer of energy-state matter, a barrier that the navigators ahead used to protect them, an energy film cast using a special mental force field.

Then, Kolot saw that after his only intact right hand was stained with some external substances, the flesh-colored skin and blood-red texture faded layer by layer, and the white bones and fascia appeared alternately. However, he did not feel any pain. When he touched it with his other intact hand, he could still feel the unique texture of the skin...

But if you go deeper, you can touch the blood or fascia in the blood vessels and perfectly remove the internal tissues of the human body - without causing any surgical incisions.

This is exactly the working environment that surgeons dream of! Kolote thought with interest that although the current nanotechnology has solved the problem of non-invasive medical treatment, this is a completely different principle!

"Oh! Teacher, you are absolutely right!" Andy moved closer. Although he was still a little uncomfortable with the image of Colotte, who was half a skeleton and half a dissected person, his researcher's thinking immediately made him excited. "The time dimension is zero at this moment, and the three-dimensional dimension is also in a state that can be dissected and decomposed at any time!"

"The three-dimensional 'cubes' are like a thousand-layer cake, and each layer can be opened at any time!" Andy said excitedly, "If combined with nanotechnology, we can easily go deep into the transformation of molecular structure! Oh! If we build a laboratory in such an environment, we will create even more amazing things..."

"Please retract your inappropriate actions," a gentle voice sounded in their ears, as if it came from tens of thousands of meters away, but also as if it was right next to their ears. "This miniature energy collision tunnel is about to be annihilated, and we must reach the solid wormhole in the Tomb of the Universe before that."

"Oh! Sorry to trouble you!" Collot immediately withdrew his hand and said apologetically, "Thank you very much for your rescue. I can't imagine how long you wandered on the timeline before finding us..."

At this moment, Collot and Andy were following a petite figure wrapped in a white hooded robe, one in front and one behind, floating forward in the huge pipe that the Giant Whale originally used to transport cargo.

She suddenly appeared at the last moment of the devastating disaster and saved Clotte and Andy with an extremely indifferent yet familiar attitude.

Although the old scientist was surprised and confused at first, after seeing the other person's appearance clearly, he suddenly realized and said, "So that's how it is."

He seemed to recognize who she was and accepted all her help with great openness and trust.

But Andy felt very confused.

Amid the chaos on the Behemoth, she seemed to be the only one who was not affected at all... Not only was her whole body intact, but she was also able to move freely.

It seems to be completely isolated from this chaos, and yet it seems to be completely integrated into the laws of this chaos.

Who is she?