"...Bzzzt..."
"Liangzi... we've been drifting here for a long, unknown stretch of time... when I'd recorded roughly ten years of 'time,' I discovered that my body hadn't aged... but something had gone wrong with my mind..."
"Bzzzt... bzzzt..."
"In my condition... I can no longer keep an accurate record of time..."
"...The Navigator may have strayed from some sort of course long ago..."
"When you see this message I've left behind... I may already be dead, or perhaps... I'll have fallen into some kind of long slumber..."
"Bzzzt... bzzzt..."
"When you wake up, if you're alone, don't be afraid... and don't feel lonely..."
"You must be safe, because the Navigator will only wake you from hibernation when it's absolutely safe..."
"The coordinates we came from have been erased... over infinite time, the Navigator seems to have undergone some change beyond my comprehension..."
"Bzz... bzzzt..."
"..."
"We... may really find a habitable planet... a world..."
"Bzzzt... bzzzzzt..."
"Bzz..."
"..."
The noisy electrical static gradually grew softer and fainter, until all sound finally disappeared.
Yet Lin Yi remained stunned for a long time.
Because he realized that it was his voice.
The Navigator...
"Red Star"...
The coordinates they had come from...
What did that mean?
Interstellar travel?
What the fuck... was going on?
Before Lin Yi could wrap his mind around it, the black world slowly brightened, and his viewpoint appeared somewhere resembling an operating table.
The light shining straight down at him was so dazzling that he could barely open his eyes.
In his field of view stood a group of people in white coats. He could recognize one of them as Wei Liang from nothing more than the pair of obnoxious eyes between his mask and cap.
He looked around, but he couldn't move, as though he had been