Chapter 709

A series of fine, dull explosions were transmitted to the ears through the void protective suit, as if some parts of the bottom floor of the base had begun to collapse. Now there was no time to hesitate.

What, you mean colleagues?

They wished Alyssa would die, so how could they come to rescue her?

The gas reserves in everyone's backpacks were already very low, and the shuttle was still a bit far away, so everyone had to speed up their pace again using the oxygen that was already approaching the red line.

Alyssa took the lead, rushed to the front, and grabbed the handrail on the shuttle shell.

She felt that her brain had never worked so fast. She took a quick look, found a baffle to open, and pulled the lever below.

The tail compartment at the rear of the shuttle opened up and down, and the crew members following behind her cheered slightly and quickly filed in.

Alyssa followed in, and as expected, there was no oxygen inside.

Since metals will oxidize, most shuttles will simply open all their doors and release the gases when not in use, so that they can be preserved almost permanently in the void.

Alyssa tried to slow down her breathing as much as possible, and the more tense the situation was, the less she could increase her oxygen consumption.

After all, most of them have to rely on the oxygen supply which is close to the limit to fly back. It would be too unfair to suffocate to death on the way home.

Alyssa rushed into the rear cargo hold and opened the airlock. This small shuttle actually had a living area that could accommodate four people. However, this was not important now. Alyssa rushed through the living area and went straight to the cockpit in the front.

Even though it is an antique from more than a thousand years ago, the basic operating mode has not changed much. Alyssa sat in the driving seat and quickly tapped the panel with her fingers to make the final preparations before takeoff.

"Why aren't you leaving yet?"

"This thing rejected me!"

You need a key to drive a car, let alone a shuttle.

Alyssa has used many methods to try to bypass the verification and ignite the engine directly. Her skills are so sophisticated that they can make professional "car thieves" ashamed.

But the shuttle remained motionless, and even the display screen did not light up.

Upon hearing this, Long planned to remove the baffle under the cockpit and ignite the engine by short-circuiting it. Although this would make the shuttle uncontrollable, at least it would be able to fly out.

Before she could do anything, everyone saw through the gap in the closing cargo hold that exaggerated electric arcs were stretching out behind the shuttle. The originally solid ground was collapsing downwards, as if there was a terrible monster underneath that swallowed everything.

There is no time.

Alyssa thought quickly and quickly took out the octagonal metal plate found under the main console and placed it on the oscilloscope in the cockpit.

Almost at the same time, all the instruments and buttons lit up.

Become!

Without even the time to cheer, Long next to him immediately opened the throttle to the maximum.

The engine roared silently in the void, and the brilliant blue and white light was like a pair of hands, pushing the shuttle to quickly fly away from the apron, like a flash of light in the endless darkness.

Alyssa glanced at the rearview mirror on the left side of the cockpit. She saw that the base excavated from the asteroid was collapsing inward. Everything on the periphery seemed to be torn apart by the huge gravitational force and turned into powder and was sucked toward the center.

"The self-destruct sequence of these guys is actually a void hole, are they crazy?!"

"They have been dead for thousands of years! But we are still alive, look at the road!"

Long's complaints effectively shifted Alyssa's attention to the front, and she used the joystick to avoid several floating meteorites. If she crashed into them, they would become small sparks decorating the dark void.

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The shuttle approached the starship parked above the star ring, entered from the hangar entrance on the side, and landed in the airtight compartment.

The shuttle was transported by a conveyor belt and passed through two gates before entering the hangar inside the starship.

A group of ground crewmen came up quickly with tools in hand, but before that, the shuttle's door opened, and Alyssa tore off her mask and took a deep breath of the oily air in the hangar.

When they approached the starship, the last bit of air had been used up, but before entering the hangar, there was no air at all. The people on the shuttle did not dare to take off their masks and they almost suffocated to death.

Waving her hand to indicate that she didn't need oxygen, Alyssa picked up a communicator from the technician:
"Bridge, this is Captain Alyssa. I order the engines to start and advance at a quarter of the ship's speed. Let's get out of this fucking star field."

The void hole of the base's self-destruction program is a small artificial black hole. When it absorbs enough matter, it will explode like a supernova.

The location where the starship is docked is also unsafe now and must be moved away.

As for going at one-quarter speed instead of full speed, it's because there are many asteroids near the star rings, and it would be easy to hit them head-on if going at full speed.

According to Alyssa's experience, it takes 30 to 50 minutes for the void hole to reach a critical state, which is more than enough time.

The technicians carried away the wounded in the cargo hold and sent them to the infirmary for treatment, while the rest of the people gathered around the shuttle in amazement.

This shuttle could be worth a lot of money, at least enough to make up for their losses.

"Long, how do you feel?"

"Not very good, everything I see makes me feel dizzy."

Long is a silicon crystal man. She can even be directly exposed to the void environment. Her real body is the crystal ball on her head, and her body can be replaced at any time.

The suit wasn't meant to protect her, but to protect the delicate sensors in her mechanical body from being disturbed by invisible cosmic rays.

However, perhaps due to the previous explosion, or perhaps in order to save Alyssa, a crack appeared on Long's crystal head.

"Then you can take a rest first, I will take care of the rest."

"It can only be the."

As Long spoke, the ball of orange light in his crystal ball-like head stopped fluctuating and instead quietly floated inside like a breathing light, slowly emitting light in and out.

Silicon crystal people are immune to all diseases, toxins and even cosmic rays that target organic bodies, but their disadvantage is that their brains are relatively fragile and they can easily fall into a coma due to strong vibrations, which manifests as cracks appearing on their crystal balls.

But don't worry, in this case, as long as Long has a good rest for a few days, the cracks on his head will automatically recover. The survival ability of silicon crystal people is still very strong.

Alyssa dragged Long's body out of the cockpit and signaled the technicians to repair the shuttle. She then took off something that looked like a folding cage from Long's protective suit.

Opening the mask, Alyssa opened the folding metal cage and grabbed Long's body into the cage just like scooping an ice cream ball.

The body can be replaced at any time without going to the medical room, but instead going to the maintenance room to see if there is any damage. The head of the main body is placed in a cage-shaped controller and hung on Alyssa's waist.

——This painting style is so weird.

I clearly typed the chapter title on this one, but I don’t know why it’s not showing up_(:з」∠)_
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(End of this chapter)

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