A Million Possible

ground.

Xia Guo, in the lobby of the launch center in the desert.

At this moment, the atmosphere here is heavy and indescribable. In the past hour or so, no one has left here, and no one has even looked away for a second.

On the big screen, the coordinate information is displayed in real time through satellites and signal receiving devices. At this moment, only one of the fifteen light spots that were originally beating is left.

The rest are already darkened and marked with cross-like ×s. If you connect these ×s to each other with a pen, you will find that it is a twisty but unwavering line.

A thread intertwined by "Hope" and Death.

And every time a new × appears, the hearts of all people in the hall will twitch at the same time. Until this moment, people look at the last solitary light spot and only hear a dry but extremely calm sound from the screen. :

"Ground center, action... everything is normal."

The voice is not familiar, especially for the people in the power station, they can only determine that the voice belongs to Cheng Lin through the number of the signal.

However, at this moment, listening to this sound that is slightly distorted due to long-distance transmission from deep in space, many women actually covered their mouths and noses with their hands at the same time, trying to suppress the sobbing sound. Quite a few men also skipped the beginning.

The last person...

They anticipated that there would be danger inside the plant hegemon, and they were psychologically prepared for it, but when everything really happened, their hearts still suffered a huge impact.

silence.

Still silent.

Finally, someone trembled and asked: "How are the other two teams?"

Although the emotions were surging in their hearts, everyone present quickly realized that the most critical problem now is that only the last person on their side of the team has died, which almost confirmed the failure of this team.

In just one hour, the death and injury became like this. No one thought that the young man named Cheng Lin could continue to go far.

After they thought about it, the rest of the hope could only be pinned on the teams of the Federation and the Soviet Union. Before, everyone was only paying attention to their own side, and did not look at other teams, and it was not displayed on the big screen.

Upon hearing this question, the technician in the control console stood up pale and said with a trembling voice:

"The federal team all died 20 minutes ago, and the last member's vital signs disappeared from the Soviet Union team eleven minutes ago."

His voice was not loud, even though it was amplified through a microphone, but in the quiet hall where the needle drop was audible, this sentence still drifted into everyone's ears, and immediately, countless stunned eyes surged. Come:

"What are you talking about?! The other two teams...all..."

The technology member hung his head and said nothing.

Dead still! There was an extremely depressing silence in the hall!

A look of despair spread from the faces of those old or young like sea water, drowning everything.

No one spoke, but at this time, they all realized: it's over.

The action failed!

"Sure enough... I failed..." A senior engineer said bitterly, with a pale face and a shaking body.

Although they were all prepared for failure, when all this came, they still couldn't accept it.

"No! No failure!" Suddenly, Liang Jing, who was standing in front, turned around, her face was filled with tears and blurred eyes, because she had been busy for several days without makeup on her face, she said every word in a loud voice. , "We still have one person! As long as there is one person, there will be no failure!"

She screamed, raised her arm, and pointed at the big screen:

"Didn't you hear what he said? Everything is normal! He is saying everything is normal!

I don't know what kind of situation he is facing now. Maybe he has been seriously injured, maybe he is next to the bodies of his teammates, maybe he is using his last strength to avoid danger and move forward...

Yes, I don't know, but I can imagine it! I can imagine the dilemma he faces is countless times harder than you and me!

He has no companions, is alone in the Universe, surrounded by enemies, and he has no retreat. Whether he succeeds or fails, he cannot come back alive. Perhaps, in the next second, his signal will also be marked as Death!

However, he still did not give up! So... why should we give up!

He didn't even say failure, so why should we say the word ‘failure’ for him! ! ! "

Liang Jing's voice reverberated in the hall, awakening countless people, and it could even be called deafening. After she finished speaking, she turned around, looked at the big screen, and gritted her teeth:

"There is only one of the three teams. At this moment, if I guess right, in hundreds of countries around the world, countless eyes are looking at him with our signals, looking at the last'hope'! Even if it is true in the end He will inevitably face failure, and we are obliged to accompany him to the end!"

As the voice echoed, those desperate faces gradually turned into perseverance. Immediately, a gray-haired chief engineer spoke:

"Raise the satellite observation multiple to the maximum! Miss Liang is right. It is the responsibility and obligation of all of us to accompany him to the end!"

...

At the same time, the satellite launch sites of the Federation, the Soviet Union, and hundreds of other countries where the watch signal can be received.

The same scene is happening in the magnificent buildings. The buildings are crowded with people, looking at the big screen, and all the images have been switched to the signal source of Xia Guo satellite.

At this moment, people of different races and nationalities all focused their eyes on the deep Universe, the last one, shimmering with a gleam of light!

...

In the distant Universe, inside the plant hegemony.

Cheng Lin silently put the communicator away, and then tightened the straps that bound the "Hope" tightly, without seeing any fluctuations in his eyes, he leaped towards the colorful abyss in front of him.

He did not choose to use the spirit world for transportation, because according to experience, once entering the spirit world, the signal of the warhead will be blocked, and the safe house will make the warhead enter a state between "existence and nonexistence".

Cheng Lin is not sure whether the ground can be located based on this, but he does not want to despair the people on the ground. If the warhead signal is blocked for a long time, it will undoubtedly make them think that the warhead has an accident.

"Perhaps, there are a lot of eyes watching me now." Leaping in the huge space, Cheng Lin couldn't help but meditate.

In fact, from the beginning to the end of the deduction, the deduction task did not require him to do so. This deduction obviously gave him a great degree of freedom, but perhaps because he was infected by those companions who died one by one, Cheng Lin felt that I have an obligation to help them fulfill this wish.

Even though, this is just a deduction.

In thinking, Cheng Lin saw a pair of scarlet eyes hidden in the bushes light up, and a cloud of cold air came out, freezing him in mid-air.

This scene is no stranger to him, and so is the last member of the Soviet Union's team.

Cheng Lin fell to the ground. He was already badly injured. He did not choose to hold on, but took advantage of the situation to end his own life. Then, his figure disappeared in the air.

After two seconds, an invisible door in the void opened, and Cheng Lin, in good condition, stepped out of the safe room, ignoring the worm that killed him, but continued to fall downward.

...

ground.

At the launch center, Liang Jing and others only saw the light spot on the screen suddenly stagnated, and it seemed to be stuck for two seconds. Just when people thought that everything was finally over, the light spot returned to normal.

"Probably because of signal fluctuations, this is a normal phenomenon," the technician in charge of the control replied. Immediately, he was stunned and said in astonishment, "He... his speed is so fast!"

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