Chapter 237 Gate of the World

Under the guidance of Kuiper Station's bright outbound guidance beam, the patrol ship Giant Turtle Platform left the star port smoothly and quickly, and now it is quickly leaving the shielded area of ​​​​this civilian port. After Hao Ren turned on the autopilot, he had nothing to do, so he went to another console and switched the display modes around the bridge. The holographic images that originally displayed various parameters and space station broadcast information quickly receded, and the bridge The alloy armor plate in front seems to have become transparent, showing the real scene in the outer space: there is only darkness all around, the stars in the distance are twinkling, and at the bottom of the screen is the rapidly moving space station building - the spacecraft is adjusting its orientation.

Lily was fiddling with the seat and the unknown equipment next to it, jumping off the seat and circling around, staring at the starry sky outside and sighing, feeling infinitely happy in the limited space. Anyway, the spacecraft host has intelligently locked all the key control panels. No one except the captain can control any equipment here, so Hao Ren just let this idiot wander around. Vivian looked at the distant stars and sighed: "I have longed for the stars a long time ago... I told you, I almost hung myself on an American rocket and wanted to go to outer space to see the stars. What is the world like? I never thought... today this dream will come true."

Hao Ren looked at Vivian curiously: "You are really a different kind. Are there any other vampires who dream of going to space like you?"

"Most of them are idiots, sick-minded and short-sighted," Vivian made no secret of her disdain for most of her kind. "They only know how to pursue their own power all day long, or indulge in those troublesome banquets and rituals. No one has looked up and paid attention to space. It’s such a big world outside, and I don’t know why. Anyway, I just yearn for the starry sky. Like you humans, I yearn for the ability to travel among the stars... Maybe it’s because my wings are born a little bigger than others? "

Hilda was sitting next to Vivian. Her face was obviously a little dark when she heard the topic about the starry sky, but no one around her noticed.

Lily stayed on the bridge for a while before she couldn't stay any longer. After asking about which areas on the ship she could move around, she asked Hao Ren for a map and jumped out, saying she wanted to explore this high-tech gadget. Son, Yzaks looked worriedly at the direction Lily ran out and said to Hao Ren: "Is it okay to just let her run around like this? This is not a place for fun..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Hao Ren has experienced these crazy high technologies for a long time. He has full confidence in the intelligence of the ship's host computer and data terminal, and he is even more convinced that this spacecraft can provide any passenger with 100% freedom of movement. "All key parts are protected, and there are self-disciplined machines like squid patrolling the spaceship. Lily can't break anything if she just runs around and plays."

Yzaks shrugged: "Sometimes you spoil her too much."

"Nonsense, a creature like a husky is not used to that kind of virtue, okay?"

At this time, the gate at the entrance to the bridge made a gentle chirping sound. Lily ran around in an unknown place and then jumped back. Moreover, the girl also changed a set of clothes. She did not know where they came from. Then It is a uniform with a white base, blue trim, and light gray decorative lines. It is also a men's uniform that is obviously one size larger than Lily. The husky spirit couldn't even stretch out her hands in this outfit, and her trousers dragged on the ground when she walked. She looked funny and happy, but she was still in high spirits: "Landlady, do you think I look like a female captain..."

Hao Ren was stunned: "Where did you find this outfit?"

"I don't know!" Lily grabbed the waistband of this oversized uniform and ran over. "I met a robot squid mopping the floor at the intersection. I asked him if there were any handsome aviation suits on the spaceship. Then It brought me this..."

The data terminal was enjoying the joy of commanding a starship in the card slot. At this time, it was lazily distracted and explained to Hao Ren: "It's your captain's uniform. There are more than two hundred sets in the warehouse, because it's not Any important supplies can be received by anyone with visitor rights."

Hao Ren nodded, and then realized: "What does more than two hundred sets mean?!"

The data terminal answered without hesitation: "You can wear it until you die."

At this time, Lily was still jumping up and down with joy, chatting with Vivian about her new clothes: "Do you think she's handsome? Do you think she's handsome?"

Vivian turned her face and ignored this idiot, while Hao Ren looked at Lily's actions with emotion: he vaguely remembered that he first saw the animated version of Battlestar when he was in elementary school, and for a while, like Lily, he yearned for it. Wearing such a starship uniform that is either silly or auspicious, imagining herself as a spaceship repairman or a captain or a fighter pilot or other characters who can appear in the main cast - to sum up, Lily is really innocent and cute Girl...

Lily made a fuss for a while and then calmed down, lying down on the seat to look at the stars, but soon there were no stars left to see: the spacecraft had completely left the celestial body dense zone, and now switched to super-light cruise mode, the starlight on the external scene was distorted. , and then quickly formed the bizarre tubular channel that occurs when the red shift-blue shift phenomenon occurs. With the hum of certain equipment deep in the spacecraft, the space around the spacecraft finally completely closed, and the distorted starlight disappeared, leaving only It was pitch black next.

"The next station is the gate to the world. It won't take long." The voice of the data terminal reached everyone's ears through the bridge broadcast.

Lily lay on the seat in a daze for a while, then suddenly reached out to Hao Ren: "Landlord, is there anything like a laptop here?"

"Just install a plug-in on the console in front of you," Hao Ren glanced at Lily strangely, "But why do you need a laptop?"

"I feel emotional and want to write something," Lily said seriously, "I still owe the magazine an article."

Hao Ren asked the data terminal to switch the console in front of Lily to the corresponding mode, and muttered with a strange expression: "Why do I feel so wrong when you say you want to write something..."

From the moment she boarded the spacecraft, Lily was as happy as... well, she was already a husky. Do you need any additional adjectives? In short, her image did not seem to be related to the literati, but Lily herself But she didn't think so. She was wearing an extra-large uniform and nestled in a wider chair. She began to outline her text with a serious expression. At the same time, she argued with Hao Ren: "Landlord, you are judging by your appearance." People, don’t you know that those who really put their minds to writing are more or less crazy? Those who burn incense and listen to light music before writing and still insist on writing with old Shanghai fountain pens are just pretending, that’s all. If you really can't sell your articles, you can only package yourself as performance art and go to schools to attend conferences in various places to earn appearance fees. Real writing should come from your true temperament. Only by maintaining a free heart can you write a smart article. I can only maintain my vigorous creation by being indulgent..."

Vivian couldn't stand listening anymore and knocked on the armrest of the seat: "Can you stop being so pretentious when you write a dog column for a pet magazine?"

Hao Ren: "..."

Lily suddenly became furious: "Who said I can only write dog-raising columns! I also wrote lyrical and progressive articles during the Republic of China! It was only in the past two years that I discovered that dog-raising people are more and more willing to invest in it, so I started Writing for a pet magazine..."

This voyage did not take much time, because the route was very direct, from Kuiper Station to the Gate of the World. While Lily was busy analyzing in her article which of the latest dog food brands tastes better The spaceship arrived at its destination.

The Gate of the World is a unique facility built by the Xiling God System. As the name suggests, it is a gate used to travel to other worlds. Different from space jumping within this universe, jumping from one universe to another has extremely high technical requirements: the two universes are often different in basic rules, and some worlds do not even have the four basic forces—— They rely on other rules to maintain the entire universe, and the endless void between the universes is also a natural chasm for most mortal races, so cross-world navigation is out of reach for most civilizations. The Xiling Apostles have the ability to travel across the world, so in order to facilitate the management of the macro world and to facilitate the exchange of information among the many civilizations under their rule, they built this kind of "World Gate" in each universe of the macro world. ” magnificent facilities.

There are two types of world gates. One is built on the surface of the planet and is used for small-scale movement of people. The other is a huge device built in space that can allow an entire fleet or even an entire planet to jump into other universes. What Hao Ren has arrived at now is the second gate to the world.

When the warped space outside the spacecraft returned to its original state, starlight appeared in everyone's field of vision again, and the miraculous building whose name was only heard appeared in front of Hao Ren for the first time.