"What was that?"
"What just happened?!"
"This is Alliance Command, this is Alliance Command, Japan please respond, can you hear us Japan? Japan please respond immediately!"
"Report, large gravitational field alert, gravitational wave intensity has reached peak value!"
"Report, gravitational field is decaying."
"Report, ultra-low frequency electromagnetic waves are spreading."
"Commander, is that...a black hole?"
Is that a black hole?
The harshness of the cosmic environment doesn't just target fragile carbon-based life. Here, even the universal gravitation that all life on Earth's surface relies on for survival is deadly. It seems silent but is omnipresent, like a demonic fire, attracting everything, killing everything - insignificant humans, steel spaceships, stars that have traversed eons, and even...light.
All spaceships are equipped with gravity alarm systems. When it is determined that gravitational waves have exceeded the warning line and there is a risk of crashing or being sucked into a black hole, the system will give a corresponding alarm.
Just as the Japanese fleet was "swallowed up" in an instant, the gravity alarms on all allied spaceships showed the highest level red warning, and had already entered the forced automatic escape program. The entire Earth Allied Forces nearly broke formation in an uncontrolled, collective retreat.
However, the gravity alarm only lasted for a moment. Soon, accompanied by a bright light and explosion, the gravity alarms rapidly went from red to orange, then yellow, blue...
Finally, everything returned to a surprising, complete silence.
It was as if an "artificial black hole" was created out of thin air, the huge gravitational field instantly crushing everything that fell into it, and then quickly disintegrating.
But...how could a black hole possibly...be artificially synthesized?
In the deathly silent space, an atmosphere more terrifying than the silence was slowly spreading.
General Yang's image appeared on every Chinese fleet warship. In this situation, he still looked incredibly calm. Those eyes that seemed less clear due to age were like inorganic fakes, forever emotionless, as if nothing in the world could move him, nothing could surprise him.
He said word by word: "It is impossible for humans in the other star system to synthesize artificial black holes. Please stay calm everyone, hold your positions and await further intelligence."
Yang Ning looked at the familiar face of his biological father and lowered his head to reveal a cold smile that no one else could see. In just a moment, he returned to the meticulous image of Colonel Yang from the General Staff Office, sitting upright, pretending that nothing had really happened just now.
"This is impossible!" At this time, the prisoner Fu Luo on the other star system's ship also learned through the ship's gravity alarm what had just happened. "You can't possibly create a real black hole, let alone apply a black hole as a weapon. A black hole is not something humans can control. Not only could your own ships be pulled in if you're not careful, even the solar system could be sucked in!"
However, the Commander-in-Chief did not appear on the communication screen again. In front of her were still the terrible remains of the Japanese ship group.
"Little girl, in this world, nothing is impossible." The black-clothed senior military officer on the ship said softly, "You can go rest now. Live prisoners are rare in space battles."
Fu Luo was taken to a solitary confinement room.
The walls, floor, and ceiling were all pure white. The metal door was also tightly sealed. When closed, the door seemed to have merged with the wall, and the entire room was sealed.
This meant that even implanted communication systems were now malfunctioning. Fu Luo's communication with the outside world was completely cut off, unable to transmit even a single word.
The solitary room was like a prison cell, with a bed, a toilet, and a simple table with food and drinking water on it.
The food's packaging was marked with the English word "Nutrition," which Fu Luo could barely make out, followed by other text. The rest that followed were some stuff from who knows what country. She recognized the characters but didn't know the words. She could only roughly guess and figure out that this was something for people to eat.
With food and drink, and no excessive abuse, it seemed that under the strict military discipline of the other star system, prisoners could still receive some preferential treatment.
Fu Luo sat silently by the bed for a while. She suddenly remembered that in the end, she still hadn't been able to see what parting words Fu Xiaoxin had left for her.
But based on Fu Xiaoxin's personality, most likely...it wouldn't be anything good anyway.
The S-level mission, the tense nerves from escaping and infiltrating, and the shock of that scene just now, all these experiences had exhausted the young new soldier. However, when Fu Luo closed her eyes, she found it impossible to fall asleep no matter what.
Five minutes later, Fu Luo turned over and got up. Without a sound, she walked to the table and picked up the food provided by the enemy.
The people of the other star system really lived a dull life. Their so-called "food" was just artificially synthesized nutrient lumps. Except for a little salt to ensure the human body's sodium intake, there was nothing else.
Even the salt was very little. In any case, Fu Luo's sense of taste wasn't very sensitive. She basically couldn't taste anything.
This thorough mechanization and uniformity of the other star system was vividly reflected in every detail of their lives.
A pitiful and terrifying nation.
Fu Luo knew that she had no weapons now, had lost contact with everyone, and even the light signal demodulator on her body had been confiscated - in other words, on the other star system's warship that used light signals as a daily means of communication, she had completely become a "deaf-mute" person unable to communicate with others.
From common sense, the possibility of her escaping from here was basically non-existent.
However, Fu Luo happened to be the type who would never say die.
After gobbling down the unknown food in a few bites, she began to methodically rub the soft food packaging bags with both hands, using the fixed frequency "rustling" sound to create artificial "white noise" to focus her attention.
Then she carefully pondered and recalled everything that had happened from the moment she boarded the other star system's warship.
The incomprehensible mission card, the eventful repair mission, the accidentally intercepted light signal, forcibly connecting to headquarters communication, playing a little trick to escape, seeing the information on the glasses, and then being blocked on the second floor...
Wait!
Seeing the information on the glasses?
Suddenly, Fu Luo recalled the words displayed on her glasses: "Attention all departments, enemy spies have infiltrated our ship. Please quickly count personnel in each department and report back as soon as possible. From now on, our ship will close all floating docking stations and no one is allowed to approach."
More than fifty characters, all in standard simplified Chinese, without a single letter mixed in!
You should know that Chinese and Latin languages do not belong to the same system. The unique two-dimensional structure of Chinese characters brings great recognition difficulties for non-native Chinese speakers and is very difficult to learn. So when global civilizations were forced to integrate, the Chinese language was not easily preserved and accounted for a very small proportion in the writing systems used in the other star system.
For example, on the food packaging bag in Fu Luo's hand, there were only a few Chinese characters, all of which were difficult to understand clearly due to the inability to combine the meanings in context. The characters were also a mix of simplified and traditional, and some were unknown whether they were Chinese or Japanese usage.
Fu Luo's hands stopped involuntarily, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated - that message, that message was sent to her personally! It was a warning specifically for her, and the other party knew she was Chinese.
Even the high-ranking military officer in black had to observe her for a moment and rely on an intelligent program to identify her. So the person who sent her this message could only be a comrade who was also carrying out the investigation mission!
Fu Luo knew that there must be monitoring devices in the confinement room, so although she was excited, she tried her best to appear nonchalant and continued to rub the food packaging bag while inconspicuously feeling every inch of the packaging bag.
But there was nothing inside the food packaging bag.
Fu Luo didn't give up and continued to study the food tray, but still found nothing. Finally, her gaze fell on the glass of water.
The transparent glass was filled with a transparent liquid, which was the most difficult place to tamper with. After thinking for a moment, Fu Luo picked up the glass and drank the water.
Suddenly, she felt something touch her lips. Without hesitation, Fu Luo took that thing into her mouth along with the pure water and carefully explored it, discovering that it was actually a tool spanner.
The perfect refractive index allowed the tool spanner to blend seamlessly with the water, showing no abnormality from the outside.
Fu Luo wiped her mouth, thinking that this unknown comrade was much more capable than herself.
At this moment, the originally pale ceiling suddenly lit up with a red light, and a flame-shaped electronic mark appeared on the ceiling.
Even without being able to read, Fu Luo could clearly see that it was a fire alarm!
The next moment, the door of the confinement room was violently slammed open, and two armed personnel from the other star system strode in, followed by a large robot.
The robot extended several mechanical arms to restrain Fu Luo's limbs, and a dark gun protruded from under its "neck", pointing at her back.
Feeling like a roasted suckling pig skewered on a rack, Fu Luo felt a bit resentful in her heart.
But resentment aside, this was definitely a good opportunity.
The fire alarm signal came from the other end of the corridor, and hurried footsteps could be heard all around. Two enemy soldiers from the other star system escorting her, a robot, and... a nice corner not far away!
Just as they approached the corner, the robot carrying Fu Luo suddenly stopped and stood there, displaying a state of stupor as if its power had suddenly failed.
The soldiers escorting her looked even more nervous, and Fu Luo could only give them an innocent look.
One of the two men aimed his gun at her, while the other came to investigate.
Just as the other party approached, Fu Luo, whose hands and feet were originally bound, unexpectedly moved. An anesthetic needle shot out from the tool spanner that had just disabled the robot's chip with a micro-current, hitting the man squarely between the eyebrows. The man froze for a moment and immediately fell forward. Fu Luo pulled the person in front of her to block a shot from the other soldier.
Then, she fiercely pushed the shot body towards the gunman, snatched the weapon from his waist, and fired three shots under cover without looking back to see if she hit the target. Fu Luo dashed around the corner without looking back.
The support from the other star system arrived quickly, and Fu Luo was almost chased and shot at in a bloody storm.
She believed that the comrade hiding in the shadows had a hand in this, otherwise, with the comprehensive monitoring system on the large ship, she would have been caught like a turtle in a jar long ago.
That's right, at this moment, the internal security system of the large ship was being invaded by an unknown program and had all stopped at a certain point in time, basically paralyzed.
However, even so, as a spy unfamiliar with the environment, Fu Luo was in a life-or-death situation, surrounded by enemies on the ship.
The new tool spanner contained a schematic of the entire ship, and Fu Luo ran straight towards the docking station where small warships were parked.
Her intention was too simple and was quickly seen through by the enemy. Just as Fu Luo slid down the cable of the straight ladder and landed, she was hit by two bullets. Her left shoulder was directly penetrated, while the bullet in her lower left abdomen was stuck inside. The impact of the bullets knocked Fu Luo backward.
She had calculated the timing. Protecting her head and neck, she allowed herself to roll down the stairs. The first thing she did was to insert the tool spanner directly into the wound in her lower left abdomen and activate the freezing system amidst the bloody mess - otherwise, that damn bullet would explode inside her wound. At this distance, it would definitely blow her heart into a mess of flesh.
Even with her strong physique, the combination of being shot and falling down the stairs was devastating, especially since she could no longer lift her left shoulder at all.
Fu Luo struggled to get up from the ground, and the small warship docking station was right in front of her.
At this moment, she saw that the security door on the third floor was locked.
The blood vessels in her left shoulder might have been injured, and the entire shoulder was already soaked in red. The blood loss made her dizzy in waves. Fu Luo, covered in cold sweat, half-leaned against the wall, trying desperately to gather her scattered energy.
What should she do?
She only had a tool spanner that had been half-frozen by her own freezing system and was now somewhat malfunctioning. How could she open this door?
Without allowing her to think carefully, the enemy soldiers from the other star system had already caught up.
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