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449 Prologue

The wind began to become clearer and clearer, and even gradually overshadowed the cry for help from the people outside. In fact, Ned vaguely understood in his heart that those people might have been killed, but the more he was at this time, the more he needed to deceive himself.

The wind began to get stronger and stronger. When it blew through the crack of the door, it even made a scream. The air became cold without realizing it. The wind blew on her face and felt a little cold. After staying in a constant temperature space station environment for a long time, Ned felt that this coldness was both familiar and unfamiliar. He knew that it must be because the life-saving system of the space station had been destroyed. I don’t know whether it was psychological or excessive tension, Ned felt that his breathing was also becoming unnatural.

A few minutes later, the wind speed reached its highest peak, but for Ned, the wind was still acceptable. According to the wind level on the earth, it was about six or seven. There was no strong wind that could sweep away a car as KL3014 said - and that situation would definitely happen at the outermost leakage point. The atmospheric pressure in the space station is 101 kPa, and there is a kilogram of force per square meter. If the sealing of the space station is suddenly destroyed, this force will be released due to sudden imbalance. The instantaneous wind speed of the leakage point can even be comparable to the most violent hurricane on the ground.

The greater the wind, the faster the air flows. The indoor temperature drops rapidly in the middle of the howling wind. A few dozen minutes ago, it was still warm here. Ned, who had just put on a space suit, felt a little stuffy, but now he had to wear a mask and turn on the constant temperature function of the space suit.

The low temperature quickly covered the metal surface in the room with a layer of white frost, but this layer of white frost was like an illusion and disappeared soon - as the pressure dropped, the boiling point of water continued to decrease, Ned knew that if this situation continued, the entire space station on this floor would soon become a state close to vacuum - this was also the state he had been expecting.

In the consciousness network, Ned began to hear a large number of anxious calls for help - people have fled to the core area of ​​the space station, and there is no way out ahead, but the enemy's footsteps have stopped. Perhaps in the eyes of these people, these enemies are eager to "massacre", but Ned felt that they are very likely just for a little air here.

After about ten minutes, until the wind gradually weakened again and was almost unaware of it, Ned felt that the time for his departure had almost come. He leaned to the bathroom in the room, opened the water tank of the toilet and checked it out. As he thought, the water in the tank had already evaporated. Before he left the door, he saw a lighter on the table and tried to ignite it. After an unquestionable failure, he finally confirmed that the whole room was now close to a vacuum.

When he walked out of the room, there was darkness in the corridor. Ned was afraid of attracting the attention of the enemy, so he carefully dimmed the lighting of the space suit - although he knew that this was not very effective. Then the dim light, Ned, with his memory, carried dozens of kilograms of weight on his back, moved slowly step by step. If he had walked like this, the floor would definitely be rumbling. But now, the transmission medium of the sound has disappeared. When the vibration is transmitted to his ears through his body, the sound heard can almost be ignored. It can be said that this is the quietest moment Ned has ever felt in his life, but this quietness made him feel uneasy. He regretted that he had dismantled all the things that had a relationship with KL3014 in his work because of his previous fear of kl3014, including the radio in this space suit.

At this time, his only connection with the outside world was the consciousness network - but this was a world of thinking, and now there were crying for help everywhere. These voices were circling in Ned's mind like a ghost whisper. If he kept this conscious connection with them, Ned was afraid that he would be completely swallowed by these desperate and intense emotions - so he could only turn it off and check the situation again every few minutes - he didn't think the coalition forces were back to save them now.

The journey was smooth, without the imagined enemy or battle scene. All we could see was the swollen corpse that would appear every distance, including enemies, coalition forces, and residents of the Defender. As Kl3014 said, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Although this is a space station, after losing the air, this place is no different from space for the Imperial Team. The coalition battle will definitely follow the Imperial Team, so this place is the safest place in the battle.

40 minutes later, Ned came to the outermost exit of the space station with difficulty. At this time, nearly a hundred kilograms of burden were added to him - those were several standard oxygen cylinders at the space station that he had accidentally discovered nearby. With this thing, he threw away the fire extinguisher that had dragged all the way without hesitation. In space, the only function of the fire extinguisher is to promote as power, but the oxygen cylinder can be used as power and breathing.

Ned had received simple training from the Space Force. He knew how to calculate the propulsion that these oxygen cylinders could provide for him. Because it was related to his life, Ned also took out his mobile phone and used a calculator to carefully check it. After confirming that it was correct, he carefully connected several oxygen cylinders in series and fixed them on the back of the space suit. Fortunately, all the equipment interfaces of the Space Force are interoperable, and these work did not waste much time.

According to his calculations just now, if nothing unexpected happens, he can successfully arrive at his destination in about 11 hours - this destination is planned by KL3014 for him long ago. The location of the General Staff of the Alliance - a small space station called Hexagonal Pearl. Before being requisitioned by the General Staff, the function of this space station was only used as a supply station in space. However, because the space station has a suitable geographical location (a distance from many surrounding large stations, it is easy to evacuate its personnel when facing attacks, and it is easier to defend, and of course, it is not eye-catching), so it is regarded as a command post.

The straight-line distance between the Hexagonal Pearl and the Defender may be nearly a thousand kilometers. From the naked eye, the Hexagonal Pearl Space Station is like its name, just like a small pearl with edges and edges. If it is on the ground, without the assistance of other means of transportation, the power of a person close to one person may not be reached for a month. However, in space, this distance is not terrible. The initial speed provided by the space station alone can be comparable to the speed of racing cars on the ground. In the whole journey, except for the unpredictable space flying objects (although the probability of being hit is very small, once you are hit, even a screw and nut, you will definitely die), the biggest difficulty and obstacle is accuracy - the biggest function of these oxygen cylinders he brought is to adjust the direction and slow down timely after approaching the target.

The so-called slight mistake is a thousand miles away. Although Ned has never heard of this ancient saying in China, the truth is still obvious - a distance of thousands of kilometers is a few deviations that are dozens of kilometers away. The amount of "propellant" he carries is always limited, and this propellant itself is inefficient. Even if the solar cells in the spacesuit operate at full power and exert the maximum effectiveness of the propellant, the role it plays is still extremely limited.

The instructor has taught them that the easiest way to distinguish directions in space is to learn to find the right coordinates - the so-called three points and one line. Generally speaking, as long as you find a relatively stationary reference object before and after your target (such as a door and a correct heart on a gun), and then imagine yourself as a bullet, it will not be difficult to hit the target. However, in the actual process, it is often difficult to have such an ideal reference object, and in the absence of other tools, you can often rely on your own intuition.

To be honest, Ned's trust in his intuition is probably not as good as kl3014 - but now he has no choice but to move forward - looking at the other space stations nearby that he had just been familiar with, the space stations that used to be connected like diamond necklaces, and now only a few navigation stations that were still operating along the way are slightly flashing, while the outline of the main station is completely hidden in the dark and boundless starry sky. Ned can imagine that those space stations must have encountered the Defender attack, and in this far-striped area, some space stations flashed as usual, which shows that the scope of this attack is not comprehensive - for Ned, this is the only one that is not so bad among the countless bad news.

When the space station turned to the appropriate direction calculated by Ned, he quietly recited the countdown of 3, 2, and 1 in his heart, and then jumped, like a fish jumping into the sea, and soon merged into the vast starry sky. In Ned's eyes, he seemed to be all still. Only by turning around and seeing the huge space station behind him was like a lonely grave, gradually blending into the shadow, he realized that he was flying forward at a rapid speed.

By this time, Ned had done everything he should do and could do in order to survive. No matter whether these practices were right or wrong, they were no longer important. To know what the final result was, he had to wait for more than ten hours. Ned, who had not had a good sleep for more than a week, suddenly felt sleepy. Although the future was uncertain, at this moment, he was relaxed and could not think about anything and wait for the judgment of fate in his dream. It was actually a very lucky thing.

In front of Ned, who was asleep, the sun had jumped out of the horizon for a distance, slowly uncovering everything shrouded in the night. This was a long dawn. In the past few hours, billions of people on earth were awakened by the news of the war and could not sleep all night. It was not until a long time before they knew that the war they had been looking forward to ending only began.

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