Chapter 41 Important Dates

Chapter 41 Important Dates

Wormhole space. A sixty-seven-meter-tall steel giant. The dark and cold mecha Dark Flame spread its six-winged light wings for absolute defense.

Waiting quietly in an absolute protective posture.

The core position of the mecha, the mental connection control cabin.

Su Xi blinked and woke up from a deep sleep. What came into view was the silvery-white metal ceiling.

She sat up suddenly, and her large coat slipped off her body.

She turned her head slightly and looked around. There was no extra furniture decoration here, only the chair under her and a display screen with flashing indicator lights.

An image on one of the monitors caught her attention.

The doors opened one by one. Through the transparent barrier, she saw the alpha standing in the decompression chamber, waiting for the air pressure inside and outside to balance. She didn't see the space suit, and a hint of surprise flashed through her mind.

In Naya's brief life memory and Xiguang's vast database, various man-made objects in this interstellar era have broken through the microscopic Level II limitations. Graphene, which is similar to a two-dimensional molecular structure, and biochemical molecular chain materials with nanostructures have been skillfully applied and widely popularized in civilian use.

Many of the myths about the ancient earth are just the differences in different states of matter in this era.

But it's a bit strange that there's not even light protective clothing.

Su Xi touched her chin with her slender white fingers, a trace of doubt flashed through her mind, could it be that she knew too little about the world's technology tree?

Fitzgerald, who had returned from the void and was still in a spiritual connection with Dark Flame, noticed her focused gaze the first time.

He looked up at her through the display screen. Slowly, a white mist filled the decompression chamber. This was composed of countless invisible nanosilver ion robots, used to detect residual radiation and vacuum germs during interstellar travel.

Hiss, hiss, hiss—the depressurization work is completed, and the first sealed door opens. The second door will open again after it is completely disinfected.

There was only a thin transparent observation door between her and him.

The diffuse nano-white mist slowly dissipated, revealing a red-haired alpha with a bare chest. He was slightly tilting his head back, combing his medium-long hair with his five fingers. His arms were strong and powerful, with stretched muscles. The male figure faintly visible in the dispersing white mist had smooth and powerful lines.

Su Xi turned her head away abruptly, her ears turned slightly red, and her heart beat faster for a few moments.

"Damn it! What the hell! You've forgotten the basic common sense of the interstellar world! It's not like you haven't read male model magazines on Earth! Su Xi, be more thoughtful and stop being so ignorant!"

Su Xi pretended to be calm with a straight face, but inwardly she was complaining about herself in order to distract herself from the embarrassment and shame she was feeling.

As for the weird things like 'technology tree' and 'lack of basic protective clothing' that I was thinking about before, they were thrown into outer space with a sound of biu~ by the sudden attack of male beauty.

He casually took the clothes handed to him by the mechanical arm. His brows were still deep and his expression was stern. However, while putting on the clothes, he looked at the omega through the small window of the transparent shielding cabin, with a focused look and a gentle smile.

Of course he was happy that she kept staring at him like that, but it was also nice to see her blushing in embarrassment.

When the last door opened and he entered the inner cabin, he was already neatly dressed, but there was still a slight smile in his eyes.

"You're awake."

He approached her, dressed simply in black and white, his white shirt buttoned to the last button below his Adam's apple, and his black trousers wrapped tightly around his sturdy thighs, leaving no trace of the pattern.

The pheromones were restrained and perfectly contained, slightly gentle, for fear of disturbing the omega who had just exhausted himself from the 'first match'.

Her fragile, immature glands could not withstand another attack.

He thought with pity and a little regret.

"I gave you some mental counseling while you were asleep. Apart from exhaustion, did you feel any discomfort?"

The warm hands slowly rubbed her hair and examined it carefully.

The red color on the tip of Su Xi's ear slowly spread to the earlobe.

"No, no!" Su Xi lowered her head and looked at her toes in a bit of a daze. Although the Alph's scent that was vaguely shrouding her no longer had the intention of deliberately seducing her, the warm and orchid-like scent still enveloped her intimately.

"Thank you." She raised her head and said seriously, feeling a little annoyed inside. It felt terrible that she couldn't do anything except express her gratitude verbally.

Fitzgerald was silent. His fingers, which were rubbing and checking the acupuncture points on his brow bones, paused for a moment and said in a dull voice, "Don't be so polite to me."

Su Xi blinked and looked at him with a hint of doubt. Then she belatedly remembered——

Damn 'AO matching'! Different from the normal steps of a normal relationship between men and women on Earth, 'dating -> holding hands -> first base to third base', in the ABO society, the matching activities between pheromones are the real ones after third base!

In Naya's etiquette knowledge, if an omega does not send out a firm message of rejection after receiving the estrus information from the alpha hormone, it means "agree to mate" = "agree to date" = "formally establish a matching relationship"!

Su Xi immediately reviewed her slightly vague memories from before. Did she release the pheromone of "firm rejection"?

It seems not! At that time, she vaguely felt that the other person smelled "good" and "charming". Different from that domineering and cold image, this completely gentle and reasonable man was her ideal type. She couldn't resist it at all!

Su Xi suddenly felt terrified. Should she be thankful that the other party had strong self-control and did not bite her again? After all, this time was completely different from their first encounter on the UFO planet.

So - can a relationship like this that didn't go through to the end be disregarded?

If you want to refuse directly, how can you say it more tactfully?

At this moment, Su Xi, who was clear-headed, fell into deep thought and immediately felt embarrassed.

She subconsciously felt that the status and various conditions of both parties were too mismatched. The attraction of pheromones was simply not in line with her inner nature or the love view of an Earth girl. Moreover, through comparing with Naya's social common sense, the ABO relationship in this interstellar era was mainly aimed at pursuing genetic optimization and mate matching.

Falling in love, a spiritual activity, is not the mainstream of AO relationships at all.

She doesn't need such a relationship, she thought with a hint of annoyance.

But he had no idea what she was thinking.

How to explain!

This is not just a generation gap in thought that spans across several galaxies and tens of thousands of light years, this generation gap spans across the dimensional wall of the universe!

These disturbing thoughts only lasted for a few moments in the mind of the honey-brown short-haired omega. But Fitzgerald, who had been paying attention to her various subtle expressions and was a hundred times more sensitive to the emotions expressed by pheromones, almost immediately understood the omega's reluctance.

His expression gradually turned cold. The eyes that were gentle and smiling a second ago were instantly covered with the coldness of the polar night.

As proud as he was, he had never received such a clear rejection.

Even if the other party has not yet spoken the language of rejection.

The atmosphere froze for a moment.

Beep-beep--just at this moment, the request sound of quantum communication rang, breaking the awkward silence between the two.

*

First Fortress. Quantum communication conference in the wormhole.

The long-awaited communication request was finally connected.

Due to the special situation of the "Universe's End", the wormhole environment where Fitzgerald is located causes a large amount of attenuation of the transmitted quantum entanglement. In order to maintain the fidelity of the signal, the people who are connected can only communicate through audio and file transmission.

Therefore, they did not know that in such a top-secret military meeting concerning the fate of the entire empire, there was a civilian omega who quietly listened in on the entire process.

And if it weren't for such an extremely special situation, Fitzgerald would never let an omega whom he wanted to completely protect under his wing get involved in such dangerous and complicated political relations.

When Fitz connected the quantum audio, Su Xi sat far away in the corner.

He glanced at her, and although his expression was still solemn, he seemed to have figured something out, and the coldness in his eyes faded a little. But the unhappy pheromones still warned her from a distance.

Su Xi wrapped the coat he gave her tightly around her, covering most of her face, leaving only a pair of amber eyes and a few naughty, slightly curly short hair exposed.

Her beautiful eyes drifted around for a moment, indicating that she didn't smell, feel, or have any effect on the pheromones that were warning him!

Fitzgerald looked away.

After a brief greeting, Albert's report quickly got to the point.

He first briefly described Sir Cotello's deduction and discovery, and then talked about the most important issue of rendezvous: "The model of the material ejection of the sub-type III wormhole has been completed. The safest landing point is located in the most desolate 'Great Wild Star Region' in the 'Universe Desolate Region'. Now we are calculating the most suitable rendezvous points based on the positioning signal you sent back."

"Although we cannot obtain a panoramic scan of the 'Universe Desolate Domain', we can be sure that there are a large amount of antimatter energy radiation fluctuations left around the 'Great Wilderness Star Domain'. The data has been shared with An Yan's intelligent computer system. Please switch to human-machine mode to keep the mecha's response as sensitive as possible."

The artificial antimatter energy fluctuations in the "Great Wilderness Star Region" mentioned by Albert are the remnants of the final battle in which humans drove away the Zerg thousands of years ago.

In that tragic final battle where the sacrifice was almost one to one, humans used large-scale antimatter weapons in a suicidal manner. Although they won the final victory with a slight advantage, they irreversibly caused a large area of ​​antimatter pollution near the "Great Wilderness Star Region".

From then on, the "Great Wilderness Star Region" became a real death zone, and the "Universe Desolate Region" was truly isolated from human exploration.

The "Universe Desolate Zone" has become a place completely abandoned by humans. The space-time distortion effect left by antimatter weapons has also effectively become the first barrier to large-scale defense against the Zerg.

Su Xi, who was forced to listen to the whole process silently, suddenly thought of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. However, the consequences of energy pollution from antimatter weapons are much more terrible than atomic bombs.

As a very special existence in this universe, the 'insect race' has evolved into a high-level insect race of the king level, the 'time-space leap insect', during thousands of years of reproduction. It is able to drag its own kind through the dangerous antimatter energy annihilation zone.

Humans should be thankful that the extremely scarce survival resources in the "Universe's End" fundamentally limit the hatching of this kind of advanced insect race.

The "Zerg Defense" of the First Fortress became the last safety lock to protect humanity.

But now, judging from the reports, the situation has clearly changed in another way.

Su Xi's slender white fingers flipped through the light board handed to her by the robotic arm. There were several improvised small games on it. She raised her head and glanced at the alpha's figure with his back to her.

I smiled secretly in my heart. How considerate! Are you afraid that she will be bored?

But she was very interested in what he said, and she couldn't deny his kindness. Su Xi took the tablet and randomly opened a game to play!

A very simple 3D Sudoku game, with the dynamic effect of "poking bubbles to reveal treasures" of 3D projection. The screen is full of pink bubbles floating out from the flat light board, happily and intimately circling around her.

Even if she stopped playing, many bubble shadows would kiss her on the face, and then - burst with a bang, dropping a bunch of treasures to her delight.

It's simply a game to amuse mentally retarded children!

Su Xi murmured in her heart, and it was impossible to tell from the appearance of such a cold and bad-tempered man that he could write such a pink and girly game program. It was really true that you can't judge a person by his appearance!

Unable to hold back the urge to complain about him, Su Xi looked up at the red-haired alpha again, but could only see his cold and focused profile. The three-dimensional screen for checking documents was projected in front of him, with a faint light outlining the perfect and cold facial lines.

He sensed her gaze almost instantly, turned his head slightly to look at her, then raised his index finger and touched his lips, making a gesture of silence.

Su Xi wrinkled her small nose to show that she understood.

Then she played the game absentmindedly while listening to their conversation intermittently.

When Su Xi, who is full of curiosity, does not understand something, she will subconsciously search for explanations of some of the terms involved in the meeting.

Albert in the conference room paused for a moment, looking at the image simulated on the three-dimensional sandbox. The sub-type III wormhole was like a 'living' gourd worm with a thin neck, tumbling irregularly on the curved surface of space, moving towards the direction of the worm nest in the deepest part of the 'cosmic desolate zone'. The green anchor points measured on the image, indicating safe rendezvous, flickered as the 'gourd worm' moved and twisted, like green fireflies flying around it.

Under such circumstances, it is indeed impossible to have a fixed contact point.

For example, in space, there are two satellites whose orbits are irregular shapes. Among the limited intersection points of the orbits, we need to find the position where they intersect and stay for the longest time.

For the person being contacted, if he misses the most appropriate measurement point, he may have to wait for hundreds of years before the next suitable point on his own timeline.

It may not be a big deal for Fitzgerald, but for Su Xi, who has a low spiritual level and a fragile body, if she misses it, she may never be able to return to the original point in time and space in her lifetime.

Albert adjusted the parameters and finally confirmed: "The three most suitable and nearest measurement points have been generated for the wormhole exit location coordinates. The Sun-Swallowing modified shuttle can go there to pick us up at any time."

"The data has been sent, please check!"

"Since the data of the 'Universe Dead Zone' is not yet complete," Albert frowned when he saw the large yellow unknown area in the background model and warned, "Please be careful!"

"Chris, do you have any questions?" A faint question came from the quantum communication audio device.

"Commander, although it is not very appropriate to ask this question in this meeting, I still want to ask, is Miss Naya okay after entering the wormhole?"

Chris thought of Leila Asay who was still undergoing genetic repair, and interrupted with a question.

"She's with me." A faint reply came from the other end of the voice chat.

"Okay, I'm fine."

*

Just as the meeting was about to end, an old and excited voice suddenly sounded in the quantum communication audio conference.

"Your Highness, besides this, I have an important deduction report related to the 'Universe's End Zone'. Please allow me to extend it for another five minutes!"

"Yes." He answered briefly.

Sir Klotte ignored the surprised looks of others and sent an encrypted file. He then explained while showing it:

"As the species most sensitive to cosmic energy, the Zerg are the products of high-dimensional creatures that were decomposed and reduced to the current universe. Although this view still has voices of opposition, it is the only way to explain why the spectrum monitoring of cosmic background radiation has shown extremely dramatic peak changes over the past thousand years!"

"And the Zerg monitors buried in the 'Universe' have faithfully recorded the patterns of Zerg's 'mass panic' over the past thousand years!"

"And once these sets of data are compared and deduced——"

"This can well explain and support my wave model of 'the evolution of the universe entering the exhaustion period'!"

With a swish, he signaled his assistant to pull back the rubber curtain and show the audience the results of his nearly sixty years of closed-door research on the remote planet.

"Based on the broad spectrum monitoring of the cosmic background radiation, this 'cosmic evolution exhaustion' is about to enter an intensive period."

He tapped the densely circled waveform graph, which was a time period three hundred years later. The old scientist's words became more and more depressed and solemn.

"After three hundred years, the highest peak will enter the lowest peak! At that time, the universe will undergo a large-scale collapse!"

"In the 25.3 billion light-years of historical data since the Big Bang, there have been several local collapses. The 'Cosmic Dead Zone' is the remnant area of ​​the last local collapse 12 billion years ago!"

"If the predictions of my model come true!" Kotlo's old hands couldn't help but tremble, "then everything that humans have accumulated in the universe will be destroyed in an instant!"

Albert: "That is to say, it is possible that in three hundred years, the universe will adjust again and enter the era of 'Great Desolation', and the existing civilization, that is, our civilization, will be completely reshuffled?"

"How is that possible?"

“It’s incredible!”

“Never heard of it!”

The other people at the meeting were whispering.

"Meeting discipline!" Fitzgerald's calm voice came from the quantum audio communicator, and the conference room immediately returned to silence.

"Please continue, Sir Cotello."

Holdman, who had been sitting silently, narrowed his eyes and looked at this 'Sir Cotello', remembering the information about him.

This scientist, who was labeled as "rebellious throughout his life" by the media, once used up all the contribution points of his declining family in exchange for the gene solution and the quota of "comprehensive gene repair" when he was young.

From an ordinary Beta with talent points in intelligence potential, he was forcibly promoted to the level of A+alpha. However, this kind of forcibly promoted alpha level is impossible to have the qualifications for continuous evolution.

Tsk! Look at it. It is less than 150 years old and it has already shown such an old and weak state. The gene telomeres have lost their activity. Death is the best outcome.

However, looking at the results shown by Cotlo, this can be regarded as one of the top secrets of the royal family. Only the alpha strongmen who have successfully passed the test of the Tomb of the Universe can vaguely experience the future under the laws of the universe.

But obviously, the royal family did not intend to make the decision public, and no more than eight people even vaguely knew about it.

He narrowed his eyes. Was it necessary to let him live to the end of his life?

The cold threat of death attacked Cotello's back. He was in a trance while explaining, and he tried to analyze it carefully but couldn't tell whose pheromones it was.

The strong-backed old scientist chuckled in his heart. Ever since he had silently watched all the words and deeds of Fitzgerald, the first heir to the Imperial Crown Prince, before and after the last Zerg riot, he had gained a little confidence in the development of the Human Empire in the next five hundred years. Only then did he completely give up his secluded life on a remote planet in his later years and once again stepped into the vortex of power in the central galaxy.

Death or something, anyway, his gene activity is not enough to support him for fifty years, so he should get out the things he has been researching in silence as soon as possible.

Otherwise I will die with my eyes wide open.

"Your Highness!" Kolot solemnly issued his request, "Although some of the deductions are still imperfect, if we can retrieve the samples, this hypothesis can be fully verified!"

It can fully verify his 90 years of painstaking research efforts, and it is no longer just a theory on paper! It is proof!

"For the sake of the Empire, I ask you to go to the hive to replace the monitor and obtain samples before returning!"

Holderman suddenly said seriously: "Fitz, you have to think about this carefully. No one has ever done model deduction like this. You don't need to waste your time on this!"

Although Holderman did not have any formal position, his status was extremely special.

He usually smiles, but once he clearly expresses his opposition to something, the current Emperor Anthony will give in.

On the other side of the conference line, Fitzgerald said, "Holdeman, you are not qualified to interfere in this matter anymore."

Everyone was silent, but unexpectedly, the bad-tempered Holderman did not get angry as they expected, but sighed instead.

"I've lost my qualifications a long time ago," said Holdman, who had just rejected Klotte and now seemed to have aged a few hundred years. His voice became several degrees hoarse and deep. "Okay! You decide for yourselves."

"Oh! Forget it! I don't care about your affairs!"

"It's so boring, let's leave!"

Holdeman swaggered out of the conference room and out of everyone's sight.

Fitzgerald ignored it and allowed the meeting to continue.

"Chris, calculate the time difference between the Great Wilderness Star Region and the First Fortress, and come up with a detailed response plan."

"Among the three rendezvous points identified by Albert, place the coordinates at the location closest to the worm nest at time point A. I will sense the coordinates through the Dark Flame and drop the material through the wormhole to land at location A."

Fitzgerald turned around and lowered his head. Su Xi, who had already been attracted by the content of the meeting, walked up to him and looked up at him.

"After landing, I will immediately go to the hive, take samples and replace the monitors," Fitzgerald looked into the amber eyes filled with trust and slowly stated his next decision. "Chris will personally lead the team to Point B to pick up an Imperial citizen and arrange for the Sun Swallow to stay at Point B until I gather."

"Mission level S5," he paused, his fingers moved slightly, and his voice became hoarse: "I will abandon her at the time closest to the coordinates of point B."

Once again thrown away.

He pursed his lips, and the illusion in his dream passed before his eyes again.

A slender white finger gently hooked his clothes.

No matter how dull Su Xi's pheromone glands were, she could not ignore the extremely bad aura that was suppressed by this alpha.

To Fitzgerald it looked like a timid little beast approaching him.

It looked at him with a pair of warm, comforting eyes, slightly worried.

"Your Highness?" Chris was puzzled by the rare hesitation on the other end of the communicator and asked.

Under the indescribable gaze of this red-haired alpha, Su Xi's heart suddenly became extremely soft. She moved her feet and got closer to him.

Put your hand in his.

Fitzgerald clenched his hands, interlacing his fingers.

The two hands, one big and one small, were in sharp contrast. This time Su Xi did not blush. She lowered her head and used her other hand to touch the joints of his fingers, counting them one by one for fun.

Fitzgerald quickly made the remaining arrangements and concluded: "Chris will be in charge of the entire operation, and Albert will be responsible for logistics and finishing. The content of today's meeting will be filed as top secret."

"Also," he paused and looked down at his intertwined hands, "prepare to clear all the 'old nails' in the First Fortress."

"Yes!" Chris said in a low voice, "We will clear them all before you return!"

“It is resolved.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Fitzgerald hung up the call neatly.

The atmosphere in Dark Flame's mecha control cabin was calm.

"Do what you want," Su Xi said to him seriously, looking up, "I am not important here."

"No." He lowered his eyes and carefully caressed her face with his gaze, his expression calm but focused: "You are important."

"You are very important to me."

As the quantum clock ticked softly, they held each other's fingers, waiting for the moment to say goodbye.

Su Xi looked at the clock display. The time flow rate ratio between the First Fortress and the wormhole was nearly 1:15. In the non-quantum state, Chris would need about five minutes to complete the plan, and they still had 75 minutes together.

"Ah!" Su Xi suddenly seemed to remember something, and she said with a smile, "Since we still have so much time, why don't you teach me something else?"

"Although I'm still weak now!"

"But don't underestimate me!"

With a brilliant smile on her exquisite and beautiful face, the whole person exudes a dazzling light that is difficult to look directly at.

Makes you want to swallow it in one bite!

He did the same, and with a slight twist of his clasped hands, he held her in his arms again.

"Yeah! Very impressive." The man buried in her shoulder let out a deep breath and whispered, "I won't underestimate you."

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