129: Chapter 120 Narrative Cage (10) 129: Chapter 120 Narrative Cage (10) “Mom, I’m scared.”
“Be good, it’ll be okay, don’t cry.”
On the LCD screen, refugees comfort and encourage each other, praying for a miracle to happen.
Li Cheng turned his head and looked at Gray Rain with so surprise, not to ntion her being a prisoner in the Narrative Cage (likely non-human), how much empathy and compassion she could have,
these refugees are most likely just false images created by the Main Character Effect Room.
Gray Rain guessed what Li Cheng was thinking and explained, “Isaac ntioned that he once tried to rescue a ship of Zeluo civilization refugees.
This civilization used sub-light speed travel technology for interstellar colonization in its early developnt due to population shortages in the colonies, extensively using robotic labor, which resulted in so robots developing self-awareness and demanding citizenship.
Just then, the Zeluo civilization’s ho planet erupted into civil war, and a nuclear war led to a massive loss of life.
The robot city-states on the distant Colonization Star built warships to return to their ho planet to help the governnt forces suppress the rebellion.
This prompted the Zeluo civilization to eventually grant citizenship to the robots.
This tattoo is used to distinguish between robot citizens and native humans.”
Gray Rain pointed her finger at the LCD screen, where so refugees had a concentric circles nested with triangles pattern on the backs of their hands, while others did not.
“To maintain his personality, Isaac often talks to himself in solitary confinent, speaking of so mories he can still rember.”
Gray Rain said solemnly, “He didn’t clarify the cause and process, but the result was the only one.
This group of Zeluo civilization refugees all perished, dying from a severe airlock breach.”
Robots don’t need to breathe oxygen, their death from an airlock breach indicates that the ship itself was severely damaged to the extent that it threw the people inside into a vacuum.
Which ans…
there isn’t much ti left.
Li Cheng turned his head to look at the bridge, where the crew had already begun the first space jump.
“Field guide collecting Y-rays, current progress 100%.”
“Reactor running at full power, opening the space matrix.”
“Space matrix has opened, initiating inertia control!
Stasis field maintaining the space-ti flow speed of the entire ship!”
Below the Blood Eagle, the trapezoidal nozzle emitted a pale blue ripple, forming a pitch-black vortex about five hundred ters in diater in front of the ship.
The warship accelerated full speed, plunged into the vortex, and like a star’s brilliant bright light illuminated the entire ship, everyone was kneaded and stretched like noodles.
As if in an instant, or as if centuries had passed, the Blood Eagle abruptly appeared one hundred fifty million kiloters away, or five light-seconds.
It was only a few thousand kiloters from an enemy pirate ship.
A few thousand kiloters in space, was no different from face-to-face, the enemy warship had not yet reacted, and the Blood Eagle, with its cannon ports already adjusted, brazenly opened fire, its sixteen heavy guns on the right side simultaneously firing high-energy particle beams, hitting the enemy ship.
Boom!
The Blood Eagle’s bridge sound system simulated the sound of the explosion of the enemy ship in the vacuum.
“All hands,” shouted the rabbit-eared deputy, “Prepare for the second space jump!
Field guide countdown two minutes ten seconds!”
They could not wait any longer, Isaac rembered the Blood Eagle would be severely damaged, and this bridge might not be safe.
“I’ll go press the button, cover .”
Li Cheng said solemnly to Gray Rain, clenched his fist, and released the Fog Concealnt Technique.
Sha—
Thick fog centered on him, surging rapidly around, quickly filling the entire corridor, drifting towards the bridge.
“What’s going on?”
“Where did this fog co from?!”
“Is there a gas leak?”
The crew of the Blood Eagle had no idea what was happening, so thought it was a leak of high-temperature toxic gas and panickedly dodged, only then realizing that the fog had no temperature.
Following the bridge layout rembered from mory, Li Cheng fired the Bat Hook Claw Gun, maneuvering around obstacles, heading straight for the control console.
The soldiers at the bridge felt a gust of wind and instinctively tried to stop him but all grasped at nothing.
This [Main Character Effect Room] and [Misleading Room] worked similarly, the difference being the latter fabricated mories out of thin air, creating illusions, while the forr extracted existing mories from Isaac’s mind, creating illusions, trapping him here.
The reactions of everyone on the Blood Eagle were not their real reactions, but reactions Isaac rembered these people should have…
Suddenly—
A gust of wind rushed fiercely, Li Cheng’s body hairs stood instinctively, he twisted hurriedly, his right hand drawing out the 170 Straight Blade from thin air, slashing towards a certain side.
Clang!
The sparks from the tal collision briefly lit up in the fog and went out.
Li Cheng felt his arm go numb, not minding to dodge with his blade withdrawn, he switched the Hook Gun in his left hand to the Nuclear Energy Lighter, shooting a blazing fla forward.
The roaring flas briefly dispersed the dense fog, revealing Isaac standing in front of Li Cheng like a boulder, blue flas burning in the sockets of the skull, his black tal left hand casually catching the rusted broadsword,
right hand unhooking the cloak from the shoulder, spinning it to catch all the flas, then stabbing fiercely out, thrusting through the layer of cloak towards Li Cheng’s wrist.
As a tal skeletal fra, Isaac hardly feared the flas, catching the flas was largely to protect the crew.
Whereas Li Cheng, still a carbon-based life form, would inevitably suffer burns if covered by the high-temperature cloak.
He shut off the Nuclear Energy Lighter, his left arm sprung out the Mantis Arm Bone Blade, he lunged forward with a punch, slashing towards Isaac’s torso with the Bone Blade.
Rip—
The military uniform tore with a sound, exposing the tal skeleton beneath, and the fine complex cables embedded in the gaps between the bones.
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