Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 850 - 609 Dismantling!
As the Starship continued to forge ahead, the sound of "crack crack" echoed from every part of the hull, relentlessly disturbing each interstellar traveler within the ship.
Until the moment when Wen Jie noticed a distinct, visible crack on the metal workbench beside him, which was then restored by the adaptive self-repair feature of the alloy itself — his eyes suddenly sharpened. In that instant, he thought of a fundamental cosmic rule of this world that had astounded him upon first arrival but had since been forgotten for a long time:
The sum of the squares of the two perpendicular sides of a right triangle equals the hypotenuse raised to the power of 2.023...
How could there be such a strange number?
It doesn't conform to the elegance of mathematics at all.
It should be an integer!
It should be 2!
The universe itself should be 2!
Wen Jie immediately approached the chief officer of the crew, demanding access to a piece of data that wasn't displayed on the Starship's monitoring system —
Spacetime curvature!
Indeed, as the Starship gradually departed further from the direction of the primal planet, the curvature of space underwent subtle changes.
Both of them realized almost simultaneously a fatal issue. They turned back to look in the direction they came from, only to find a void — a starry expanse silent and desolate.
"Black hole!" Wen Jie spoke the truth in a tense, gritted tone.
Everyone had assumed that their home planet represented the normality of the universe.
Never had they considered that their planet might exist within a special Stellar District.
In the direction of the primal planet lay a massive black hole, its presence distorting the surrounding spacetime, causing immense curvature in the region near the black hole.
As they gradually moved a certain distance away from the black hole, the spacetime curvature affected by its gravitational pull slowly returned to the equilibrium of normal, flat spacetime.
However... the foundational construction of their Starship was based on the distorted physical laws created by this unique environment.
When these physical laws began to normalize, their Starship — built upon erroneous rules — naturally started to disintegrate step by step, from its very foundation.
While the curvature changes were still minor, the Starship could rely on its materials' self-repairing properties to fend off the mild tears.
But as the Starship advanced further, the changes in curvature grew increasingly dramatic.
At this pace, before reaching their intended destination, the materials' self-repairing properties might fail to counteract the ever-worsening rupture, leading to the ship's total dissociation in the boundless vacuum of space!
"Quick!" shouted the crew chief, his eyes bloodshot, issuing an order over the internal voice channel, "Everyone, immediately execute the return directive! Repeating: Everyone, immediately execute the return directive!"
But... it was already a fraction too late.
A narrow fissure instantly appeared on the hull.
The Starship was simply too massive...
The central cavity that housed the crewmembers had been the most structurally vulnerable and sparingly reinforced part of the ship. Naturally, it was the first to succumb to the deconstructive forces.
The imbalance of internal and external air pressure instantly swept away unsuspecting crewmembers near the fissure, ejecting them into the vacuum of space. Their augmented bodies were durable enough to prevent immediate decompression or freezing to death. Some of the ejected players even spared a moment to curiously observe the startling transformations around them.
Countless shattered fragments, along with them, spilled out from the Starship's cabin like a fountain, erupting outward alongside fellow players.
This unprecedented spectacle displayed an astonishing, broken beauty — the lonely expanse of space swallowed everything, with the majestic yet desolate Starship as the core of this mesmerizing destruction.
Witnessing this novelty, one of the players even exclaimed "卧槽!" excitedly, though in the vacuum of space, sound waves couldn't propagate; only bone conduction let them hear their own voice.
From just their lip movements, it was clear other ejected players felt similarly exhilarated. freewēbnoveℓ.com
This plot twist? Thrilling!
However, the next moment, their exuberance was interrupted as they began to wonder — had the Starship been attacked by some external force, causing such catastrophic damage? Yet as they scanned the surroundings, they found no signs of anything external besides themselves.
Then... what happened?
As their bodies floated helplessly across space, the players' excited nerves gradually cooled down.
They realized one critical issue —
How were they supposed to get back?
Although their bodies were surgically enhanced and fine-tuned through long-term personal effort, allowing them to temporarily withstand the harshness of the vacuum of space, this didn't mean they could endure indefinitely!
A rate of health depletion, even just one point per minute, would eventually lead to zero.
And even if they managed to return... would it make a difference?
Before their very eyes, the vast fissure that had ejected them from the Starship was growing visibly larger. The tearing intensified, and it seemed as if the ship would soon split entirely into two.
A Starship divided into two — could it still function, protect everyone, and continue its voyage through space? Probably not, right?
However, an utterly unexpected moment caused everyone's eyes to widen in disbelief —
The splitting trend of the Starship came to a sudden halt!
A thin, invisible membrane had, at some unknown point, enveloped the fissure, sealing it off. The escaping airflow, along with all debris and passengers, was no longer being pulled into the terrifying vacuum of space by the air pressure differential.
