This Game Is Too Realistic

On all decks of the Orion guided missile cruiser, the announcement from the ship's command headquarters echoed in the corridors, in the mess hall, in the bar, in the toilet, and above the heads of every crew member.

"...Crews of the Orion guided missile cruiser, good evening. I am Zhao Tianhe, your captain."

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest at this time, but please give me ten minutes to listen to this broadcast patiently."

"I believe you have noticed that our spaceship encountered an unprecedented situation when entering the hyperspace channel, and stopped at the rift in time and space for unknown reasons..."

"In order to get out of the current predicament, and for the future of human civilization..."

"We must unite!"

…

During the broadcast, Zhao Tianhe, the captain of the Orion guided missile cruiser, confessed what happened to all the crew on the ship and explained the combat plan jointly formulated by the first, third and fifth departments.

The operation was codenamed "Dawn."

They will disguise themselves as the corpses of friendly forces, remain silent in the deep sea-like outer space, in order to deceive observers, and spend two centuries of history out of everyone's sight until their timeline Coincides with the child from Wasteland Era 215.

This broadcast, sent by Zhao Tianhe himself, caused quite a commotion on the cruiser.

Not only because the identity of the young "time traveler" named Ye Shi was "officially" recognized, but also because they learned about what happened to the Gemini on the radio.

Without knowing it, they became the executioners who killed friendly troops...

In the mess hall on the lower deck, a group of red-faced and thick-necked crew members were arguing loudly.

A man with a beard slammed his fist on the table and roared with undisguised anger.

"This is ridiculous... We fired neutron torpedoes at them just because of suspicion?!"

Xiao Yong, who was sitting opposite him with his arms folded, was silent for a long time before finally speaking.

"I think our captain is right. It is impossible for us to execute the plan called the 'Final Battle'. Conflict will happen sooner or later. Maybe even the moment we refuse to execute the order, the torpedoes of the Gemini will be destroyed." It’s already aimed at us.”

The bearded man glared at him.

"Where's the evidence? Because of your mouth?"

"There is no such thing," Xiao Yong shook his head and looked at the man without hesitation, "This is space, outer space, and the dead have no say. I am not afraid, I would even rather die on that ship The people on the ship are me, but what is under my feet must not be handed over to them, there is my family on earth... so they must die."

"You guy..."

The two were about to start a fight, but were pulled away by their colleagues next to them.

Looking at the people arguing about the Gemini, Lin Youyou, who was sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, couldn't help but feel a touch of sadness on his face.

She couldn't agree with what Xiao Yong said, nor the decision of the captain and her colleagues, even though they might be right.

They were comrades who had fought side by side with them, and they were also the few remaining survivors of that war.

If everyone expresses their demands in such a fierce way, even if they are lucky enough to survive this momentary crisis, they will definitely lose everything in the next big gamble one day in the future.

Perhaps the current situation of being trapped in the hyperspace channel is fate's punishment for them...

She looked at Ye Shi, who was eating silently, and couldn't help but ask.

"Do you think we did the right thing?"

She wanted to know what history had to say about them.

Stopping the chopsticks in his hands, Ye Shi was silent for a while and replied.

"I don't know, in the history I know...it was you who bombed us, but who knows? There is a long list of things we don't know, including the Orbital Airborne Division, the formation of the post-war reconstruction committee, etc. Wait... the disintegration of the post-war Reconstruction Council was far enough away for us, and you were here before they were even born.”

Looking at the "young and mature" appearance, Lin Youyou couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and wanted to reach out and touch the child's head, but soon thought that he didn't like being treated as a child, so he took his hand back.

"What you said is your evaluation. What I want to know is actually your evaluation."

"Me?" Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, and then said after thinking seriously for a while, "I might be inclined to agree with your approach."

"Why?" Lin Youyou couldn't help but ask, "I killed more than 3,000 people...and they were our own comrades."

"Maybe it's because I live in an era where 'if you don't kill one person, you have to kill ten thousand people'?" Ye Shi shrugged, "If you think about it from another perspective, you just saved a planet."

This is actually a comforting statement, and he himself doesn't know how to evaluate this matter.

From the perspective of the shelter residents, it seems that only those who failed to enter the shelter died, and the residents of the shelter were hardly affected.

Even most of the people they rescued died in the end, and died in pain from long-term torture, and passed the pain they felt to their next generation.

Those who survived then became the original Wastelanders.

From this perspective, the plan called "The Final Battle" may not be a merciful choice.

Without the Wastelanders, the Enlightenment Society would probably not appear, including the Torch Church, Celestial Beings, etc...

But in contrast, the post-war reconstruction committee will probably disappear, including the seeds sown by the former in the wasteland such as Boulder City and Singularity City.

That would be a future made up entirely of Vault Dwellers.

They will probably rebuild a new People's Alliance in the wasteland according to the original idea of ​​the "Ark Project" and exactly according to the standards planned long ago.

It's hard to compare which future is better.

But if he had to choose...

"I think you did a good job...don't blame yourself too much."

Seeing Ye Shi starting to eat again, Lin Youyou was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses and teased.

"It makes you comfort me."

Chewing the food in his mouth, Ye Shi said slowly.

"The first sentence is true, but the last sentence is sincere."

"I didn't expect you to care about people."

Looking at this interesting young man, Lin Youyou rested his chin on the back of his hand and suddenly said with a smile.

"Speaking of which, that little girl named Jiang Xuezhou is your girlfriend?"

Ye Shi almost choked on the rice in his mouth, blushed and coughed.

"What weird things are you talking about? How could I be with N... In short, we don't have that kind of relationship, we are teammates."

Looking at the anxious young man, Lin Youyou couldn't help but snorted, smiled and patted his back.

"Haha, don't be nervous. It's not surprising to have further relationships with teammates in our era. Is it a taboo in your place? If so, I don't mean to offend, I'm just a little curious two hundred years later. How people get along...I mean emotionally."

She is quite honest about her tendency to gossip.

"I don't know. Just ask Fang Chang. He knows more." Ye Shi made a fool of himself and started cooking rice faster.

"Really? But I'm more curious about the girl named Jiang Xuezhou," Lin Youyou smiled and said in a joking tone, "If I can live to be 200 years later, can you introduce me to her?"

"Okay..." Ye Shi replied vaguely.

If they really meet each other in 200 years, this guy won't even need to say anything. He will take the initiative and drag them around to show off, using his legendary experience to show off.

Lin Youyou didn't know what he was thinking, but she remembered these words and said with a smile.

"Then it's settled."

…

Although the tragic experience of the Gemini shocked the three thousand officers and soldiers on the ship, fortunately the commotion did not last long, and most people adjusted within a day or even half a day.

This is not because they are cold-blooded.

But because the crew on the ship knew very well that their captain was right.

That is, at least for now, they must unite.

Not just to save themselves, but to save the people in the future, and the child who accidentally wandered into their timeline and was trapped here with them.

Even if it is to bring the captain who ordered the destruction of friendly forces to justice earlier, they must unite to overcome the current difficulties.

With the same belief, both those who support Zhao Tianhe and those who oppose him have put aside their disputes at this moment.

The plan code-named "Dawn" also entered the implementation stage from the initial mobilization.

Engineers from the fourth department released repair robots and made a series of improvements to the outside of the hull, including the painting.

They must first disguise themselves as Gemini, become the surviving party, and after leaving the hyperspace channel, communicate with the Lagrange Space Station as Orion and leave records.

Then, there is the development of intelligent life forms called "celestial beings".

Even if it’s a fake intelligent life, it doesn’t matter——

They need to let "observers" from the future witness the birth of "celestial beings" with their own eyes!

Although to be honest, Ye Shi didn't have much hope for this whimsical plan, he was indeed moved by these people's determination and self-sacrifice.

According to normal logic, as a person who appeared on this ship inexplicably, and this ship happened to be stuck in the hyperspace channel, he would not be surprised if someone proposed to kill him.

However, no one did this.

In fact, instead of being hostile to him or rejecting him, they became concerned about his injury and greeted him with greetings.

Whether the crew believed what he said or not, they did treat him as a real person.

Ye Shi asked himself, he himself is not so noble.

Staying calm in the face of a desperate situation and not letting out the evil in human nature is already his extraordinary performance.

It was precisely because they had done things that he couldn't do that he was so touched in his heart.

He is a considerate person.

He would treat others how others would treat him.

Therefore, even if he knew that all this was just the plot of the game, it would be difficult for him to treat the people here completely as NPCs.

They were more like his friends.

In other words, they are his friends.

He wanted to help them get out of this maze——

For meeting two hundred years later!

Ye Shi tried his best to recall all the details about Celestial Being, and told the staff of the "Robot and Artificial Intelligence Department" without reservation.

As the "ten departments" of this starship, although this department is the last department in the sequence of all departments on the entire starship, it is much more useful than the five departments at the beginning of the sequence.

All intelligent programs on this starship are maintained by this department.

Occasionally, they even have to cooperate with other departments to develop some artificial intelligence applications, and assist the three and one departments in responding to possible electronic warfare intrusions, etc.

The engineers of Shibu are all real programming masters. They graduated from the People's Federation of Higher Education Institutions and may not be as talented as Xiao Jiang, but their professional abilities are not inferior to the latter who has dabbled in all aspects... And so it is with everyone.

With the help of Ye Shi, they completed the design of "Celestial Man" without spending much effort.

That is an intelligent life with the ability to evolve independently.

And it is completely designed based on the ultra-conservative forces in the People's Federation Aerospace Forces.

It will take the responsibility of purifying the ecological environment of the wasteland and restoring the era of prosperity, and will sacrifice all survivors in the wasteland for this purpose.

According to the standards of the Scientific Ethics Committee, this type of artificial intelligence with anti-human properties reeks of illegality from head to toe. In a peaceful era, everyone on the list, from developers to sponsors, would have been sued and sentenced. .

But they don't care about that much now.

After all, according to Ye Shi, even if they don't do this, the ultra-conservative forces on the Lagrange Point Space Station will still develop similar intelligent life, or even become such a existence themselves.

This is an established fact in the future, a fact that has already happened and cannot be changed.

What they want to do is usurp.

Let this artificial intelligence disguised as a demon kill and replace the real demon, and then be killed by the "brave" in the distant future.

In this way, the cause and effect across time forms a closed circle.

In order to prevent the demon from being killed, they also left a fatal backdoor, or a key, while designing this intelligent life called "Celestial Being".

That's a set of keys.

As long as anyone enters this set of keys, the "Heaven" can automatically format it and bury this heinous devil.

Ye Shi is actually very willing to be the "exorcist" himself, but unfortunately according to Dr. Wu, he himself has the attribute of an observer.

Once he takes this set of keys to the future, it is very likely that this set of keys will become invalid.

In other words, this glorious mission can only be accomplished by the Orion guided missile cruiser itself that created the Celestial Being.

According to the "Dawn" plan, they will go to the wreckage of the "Gemini" guided missile cruiser in synchronous orbit two hundred years later and rendezvous with Ye Shi who has returned to their own timeline.

This is an essential part...

After nearly 300 hours of hard work, all preparations were finally completed.

With the help of the crew of the Orion guided missile cruiser, Ye Shi lay back down in the hibernation capsule where he first woke up.

He would use that unreliable method to re-enter hibernation, and then the crew of the Orion would send him into the almost-crashed scientific research ship.

According to Captain Zhao Tianhe, he doesn't have to wait too long inside. They will go to the site of the accident to rescue him in 200 years and wake him up from the dormant cabin.

Looking at the people standing in front of the sleeping cabin, Ye Shi had a somewhat complicated expression on his face, and finally couldn't help but complain.

"...If you don't appear on my timeline, I must have designed you that day."

What a wasteland locust.

This is too shameful!

"I promise you, we will never abandon you, it is our home after all."

Luo Yi put his hand on Ye Shi's shoulder and made a solemn promise.

"We will definitely meet in the distant future."

"I hope...According to what you said, it's just a blink of an eye for me. If not, I don't have to look forward too much or wait too long."

When he said this, Ye Shi took a deep breath and looked at the familiar faces and pairs of hot pupils.

"But I believe in you, and you..."

"let's start!"

"Take care..." Koala also patted his shoulder, and then followed Luo Yi and left the room.

Lin Youyou glanced at him worriedly, but finally followed them.

Wu Xinghuan was the last person to leave.

He is the theoretical designer of the entire plan, and he is also the most anxious person at the moment.

Ye Shi gave him a "don't worry about me" look, and then closed his eyes with that cynical attitude.

The worst case scenario is death.

It's not the first time he died.

However, when he thought of Jiang Xuezhou who was still waiting for him to return in a certain corner of the universe, he suddenly felt a stomachache after being arrogant in his heart just a second ago.

Brother Guang!

Dad kneels down for you!

Let me go back, don't let me reopen!

The door of the dormant cabin slowly closed, and a biting chill crawled down his back and between his brows.

The air he exhaled formed ice on the cabin glass, and he felt that his conscious consciousness was becoming shaky, as if he was about to return to the dark well.

Suddenly there was a hint of timidity in his heart.

But now it's too late even if he wants to retreat, he can only rush forward bravely.

Just like always.

Standing outside the cabin, Zhao Tianhe stared at the dormant cabin intently, and then looked at the staff wearing exoskeletons and spacesuits who nodded.

"let's start."

The staff responded with a gesture of understanding, then raised the sleeping cabin and walked towards the room blocked by the isolation tape.

According to the plan, they were to stuff the dormant capsule back into the research ship, then restore the site to its original state as much as possible, and remove all observation equipment that might interfere with quantum entanglement.

Then……

Everything will return to the moment when it first started.

And the scientific research ship that accidentally entered their time and space will also become the Gemini's landing craft.

There will probably be some combatants up there.

But it doesn’t matter.

Three space combat teams are ready and waiting here fully armed.

They will subdue those uninvited guests as soon as possible, disarm them and store them in a dormant cabin until the corrected cause and effect forms a closed loop 200 years later.

The lights in the room suddenly began to flicker without warning, as if something strange was happening.

Looking at Luo Yi standing aside in power armor, Wu Xinghuan couldn't help but hold his breath, and his palms couldn't help but sweat.

Almost at the same time that engineers from the fourth department withdrew their equipment from the isolation area, the ship's hull seemed to have collided and trembled slightly.

Everyone present felt the tremor——

It was like the reverberation of an explosion.

Everything seems to have returned to the origin of time and space.

Luo Yi was astonished and couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised. He subconsciously clenched the assault rifle in his hand.

Did they succeed? !

But vaguely, he felt something was wrong again——

Could too many people have heard the explosion?

The clues he had learned from Part Four and Part Eight were still lingering in his mind.

There were only more than 200 people who heard the explosion, and the accurate number should be 227.

But now, there are no less than 100 people on site.

But there was no time to think. As expected, the people from the Gemini had already landed on their lower deck.

"Get ready to fight!" Xiao Yong roared, and he had already led his men to charge forward.

The blocking gate falls, sealing off the area of ​​air leakage.

Fifty combatants quickly arrived at their respective positions and then advanced toward the site of the accident in a siege.

Arriving at the door of the gym, they first threw a short electromagnetic pulse grenade into the room to suppress any possible drone equipment. Then two heavy-duty power armors cleared the way and rushed into the room.

A small boat-level spacecraft was parked there. The metal shell, which was two meters long and wide, was dented and twisted inward by the impact, and that appearance was indeed not the one they had seen before -

The spaceship has changed!

That is to say...

Success! ?

Everyone held their breath nervously and approached the spacecraft in a suppressed formation.

Xiao Yong shook his fist at Luo Yi, who nodded and pressed forward. He reached out and grabbed the twisted and deformed alloy door panel, and the brute force of the power armor pulled it off.

The muzzles of each gun were pointed at the interior of the spacecraft, sealing all blind spots in an instant.

nobody……

Luo Yi's mood was already half cold.

And when he saw the familiar sleeping cabin, almost everyone's mood sank to the bottom in an instant.

Looking at the situation on the front line through the holographic screen, Wu Xinghuan, who was standing outside the isolation area, froze on the spot, his face turning pale for an instant.

"how come……"

Zhao Tianhe looked at the navigator on the side with a sinking expression, and the latter shook his head with difficulty.

"We are still in the hyperspace channel..."

They didn't escape.

It's like taking a circle in the forest, only to end up back at the original point where the mark was originally left.

Executive Officer Wu Mengke sighed, stretched out his index finger and rubbed his sore eyebrows.

"It can't be said that there is no gain. At least the spacecraft has indeed changed... Maybe there is something wrong."

Glancing at her cousin who was completely stunned, she shook her head and pressed her index finger on the communicator.

"... Let's rescue the people first and then talk about it."