Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

Christen looked at the vast sea of ​​stars before her and suddenly found herself at a loss for words.

This is the place where her parents, and the dream she dedicated her life to, resided.

But when Christen actually arrived there, she found that every word she had ever learned was so pale and powerless; she didn't even know how to describe what she was seeing.

Christen suddenly wanted to see Terra again.

The sound of the power switch being turned off echoed in the cabin next to Christensen's.

The next second, the door to her cabin opened automatically.

Qi Yan hopped in: "Pull the switch, awesome!"

Christen: "..."

She didn't understand why pulling the switch would feel good.

But Christen quickly chuckled again.

If she could understand Qi Yan's thought process, she probably wouldn't be far from going crazy.

"What are you doing?" Qi Yan wagged its tail and came closer. "Are you recording some kind of most enduring love poem for Terra?"

"...If the previous recording could barely be considered a love poem, now that it has someone's voice, if it isn't deliberately cut off, it probably will never be written into history."

Christen teased her half-jokingly.

Qi Yan's eyes widened, and he stared at Christensen with a husky-like pointing gesture, threateningly saying:

"I don't care who you are, get off my Golden Retriever right now!"

Christen shook her head and ended the corrupted recording.

She continued to look up at the sea of ​​stars, and said softly:

"Wanxingyuan has reached its end. What are your plans now?"

"I've decided to protect the environment."

"Did you know that the environment in the universe is a vacuum, and most places are extremely cold? Matter drifting in the universe is much harder to decompose and consume over time than it would be on land?"

Qi Yan solemnly explained to the top scientist of Terra in front of him: "There is a force in the universe called gravity, and the stars move together because of this force."

Now, the Myriad Stars Garden drifts in the universe, facing only three possible fates: either it will eventually be captured by gravity, or it will fail to escape Terra's gravitational pull but will not be pulled down, thus endlessly circling Terra like two moons, or it will directly break through the gravitational pull and embark on a long journey into the boundless starry sky.

Christen was confused: "What are you trying to say? What does this have to do with environmental protection?"

"The three possible fates I've mentioned regarding Wanxingyuan can all be summed up in one word," Qi Yan said in a deep voice. "That is, space debris!"

"...So you're planning to destroy Wanxing Garden?"

Christensen's tone remained relatively calm, but only she knew how much regret she felt upon hearing the result.

"What will you do if I destroy Wanxingyuan?" Qi Yan retorted.

“If you don’t destroy Wanxing Garden, I only have one ending,” Christen sighed. “I don’t hate it, but being able to keep company with the stars is the best ending for me.”

"I'm sorry, your spot to be with the stars has been taken." Qi Yan grinned foolishly, hands in his pockets.

"I don't quite understand what you mean."

"What I mean is, you should go back."

Qi Yan gestured towards the hatch: "While you've been busy recording data these past few days, I haven't been idle either. I've already completed the conversion of the escape pod for you."

Christen stared in astonishment, her eyes wide: "You're going to send me back, but..."

"No buts, it's just you and me here." Qi Yan shook his head with a smug look on his face. "Saria isn't here, no one can protect you, you big golden retriever. You better behave yourself, this is my territory, Qi Xiaobai's territory."

“…Wanxing Garden is mine,” Christen said helplessly.

"It's mine now."

"I don't understand, what's the point of you seizing Wanxing Garden just to destroy it?"

"I think you've got a lot of things wrong."

“I only said you should go back, not that I was going to destroy Wanxing Garden. Although it is space junk, it still has a purpose in continuing to drift, but that purpose will no longer be explored by you.”

Qi Yan took his hand out of his pocket and opened his palm in front of Christensen.

Several golden, floating sea creatures slowly rose into the air.

"You don't really think I have the ability to modify an escape pod, do you?"

"You don't think I'm trying to steal your spot to be with the stars, do you?"

"Actually, they're all these little guys!"

"I have scattered these little guys all over every corner of Wanxing Garden. From now on, they are the true masters of Wanxing Garden."

Qi Yan put his arm around Christensen's shoulder and led the half-willing Christensen toward the cabin door.

The two arrived at the corridor where the power had been cut off, but Christen did not see darkness. Instead, she saw countless golden points of light floating in a new world that looked like a dream.

Qi Yan led her through a world of golden light spots, heading towards the escape pod.

"Kristen, I regret to inform you that you've lost more than one spot," Qi Yan said with a smile.

"What else?"

"There's one more thing... no, two things about the right to be credited."

Qi Yan walked amidst the golden light, grinning foolishly at Christen beside him:

"If, a hundred or a thousand years from now, people walk among the stars, they will praise their names."

And... Good morning, Terra, good morning, Christensen.

Flames pierced the Terran sky at dawn.

The golden sea creatures swarmed around the escape pod, whose outer shell had partially melted due to friction with the atmosphere, continuously absorbing the kinetic energy imparted to it by gravity, until the escape pod successfully crashed into the wilderness outside Tremont.

The military acted immediately, and the Doctor and Kal'tsit were also invited to participate.

After the technicians frantically opened the badly damaged escape pod, they successfully found the unconscious Christensen inside.

"Where is he?" Kal'tsit struggled to control her urge to go berserk.

"Ah... Abba aba." The doctor pretended to be stupid.

The next second, his feet successfully left the ground.

The Doctor, who had been forced to use the force gauge by Kal'tsit, regained his senses and, in a panic, kicked his legs wildly, hurriedly explaining:

"What one cannot obtain in youth will ultimately trap one for life!"

"Speak human language!" Kal'tsit said, enunciating each word clearly.

"This isn't your favorite riddle... Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my neck's going to break!"

Amidst the stunned gazes of those around him, the doctor screamed, "That white dog wasn't actually planning to go back to Columbia! He was going to catch some pixies, he was going north to find Muleseth!"

"So you knew all along!" Kal'tsit breathed a sigh of relief, but her anger surged even higher.

"I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, Amiya, save me!"

Amiya won't arrive until tomorrow!

"Damn white dog! Couldn't you have brought him back one day later?!"

The doctor's screams quickly fell silent.

Ten minutes later, paramedics loaded two stretchers onto the ambulance.

Half an hour later, the doctor woke up in his hospital bed and glanced around to find that his bed was empty, while Christensen's bed next to him was crowded with people.

Kal'tsit calmly directed the medical staff to examine Kristen, while Saria and the other Rhine Lab members stood guard nervously by her side, not daring to make a sound for fear of disturbing Kal'tsit.

After a fraction of a second of thought, the Doctor closed his eyes again and decided to adopt an ostrich tactic, determined to survive until Amiya arrived before waking up.

Six hours later, under the watchful eyes of many, Christen slowly opened her eyes.

She looked around in a daze, and it took her a moment to fully wake up.

“You’re finally awake…” Saria looked at her with a complicated expression.

Christen weakly forced a smile and said softly:

"morning everyone."

"Based on my observation of the stars and the earth's veins, we are very close to our target..."

"On this land, there is no shortage of the spirit of trial and error, but unfortunately, a person's patience is not endless. Even the most mad scientist cannot guarantee that he will not remain calm after countless failed experiments."

"Trust me one more time, maybe I'll be able to contact Qi Lin in the next second..."

“I have always believed that there are many connections on this earth that cannot be explained by common sense. They often exist between siblings, children, lovers, and friends. I have never understood these connections, but I thought I could trust you just this once.”

“But this isn’t about whether we’re in contact or not, or whether we have a good understanding or not. Once that dog gets lost, it’s harder to predict than non-linear movement. No one but Qi Lin can find it…”

"On this land..."

"Okay, okay, stop arguing."

Amiya couldn't stand the conversation between the Doctor and Kal'tsit any longer. She covered her two rabbit ears with a headache and said with a wry smile, "Dr. Kal'tsit, I believe the Doctor has done his best. He's been muttering about Mr. Qi Yan's possible path even in his sleep these past few days."

The Doctor has now narrowed down the search area to the Ursus Icefield. Give him a little more time, and he'll surely find Mr. Qi Yan soon.

Seeing that Amiya had spoken up to plead for her, Kal'tsit swallowed the riddle that was on the tip of her tongue and, with a sullen face, gestured to the Doctor to continue.

The Doctor stamped his leg, shook the snow off his trousers, and looked at Amiya expectantly, hoping to get permission to rest for a moment.

Unfortunately, Amiya also tensed up this time, and said seriously:

"Doctor, you haven't found Mr. Qi Yan yet, so you can't rest."

"Do not!!!"

The doctor collapsed to his knees in the snow and roared to the sky.

The wind carried the doctor's mournful cry far away.

In the snow, Qi Yan suddenly looked up: "Doctor?"

He muttered something to himself, then continued lying in the snow, staring intently at the lasso in front of him, waiting for his prey to take the bait.

Qi Lin stood under a dead tree not far away, trying hard to figure out her location.

It has to be said that this thing of hers is really good at getting lost. Even after following it around for a few days, she still got a little disoriented.

After trying to discern the truth for a moment, Qi Lin frowned, lowered her head, and fell into deep thought.

She also heard the doctor's screams. Maybe she should pin this thing to the ground and beat it up later, then drag it back to join them.

Otherwise, she was genuinely worried about seeing Letania's towers again.

Just as Qi Lin was thinking this, she saw her own thing dart out using both its hands and feet.

"Huh?!" Qi Lin quickly chased after him.

"Hahaha! Sis, look what I caught!"

Qi Yan shook off the snowflakes from his clothes, held up his prey, and exclaimed excitedly, "It's an adorable bunny!"

Qi Lin saw that her dog was acting up again and running around aimlessly. She stopped beside him, let out a long sigh, and turned to look in another direction.

Over there, three figures slowly appeared on the hillside.

Qi Lin nodded to the three people who had also noticed her and her brother and started jogging over as a greeting. Then she looked down at the person at her feet and saw him being kicked in the face by a rabbit as it struggled.

She shook her head helplessly, unable to suppress the disdain in her eyes.

Qi Yan lay on his back in the snow, unable to believe that he had been defeated by a rabbit.

"It's sick, it must be very sick."

Qi Yan murmured.

Qi Lin flicked her finger and shot out an ice crystal, knocking the rabbit unconscious as it tried to escape. She bent down, picked it up, pinched its neck with her fingers, and twisted it to the right.

The white snow rabbit, with its red eyes wide open, fell peacefully asleep.

Qi Yan lay on the ground in disbelief:

"Bunny is so cute, how could you kill a bunny!"

"Oh, you're too late."