Beep beep beep!
The notification tone continues to ring.
Miller grew increasingly panicked, feeling a chill run through her body. She felt as if she were in a brightly lit shopping mall, but the mall was empty, and she was the only one inside. This situation was both ordinary and eerie.
Reason told her that the two ideas that had just popped into her head were impossible.
"Earth cannot contact me; they don't have that capability, and there is no civilization on this planet..."
Miller took a deep breath, temporarily put down what he was doing, and walked back to the spaceship with slow but steady steps.
On a planet where communication is cut off and you are all alone, you receive an unknown letter...
Is this some kind of Interstellar ghost story?
Miller reopened the hatch and immediately scanned the entire cabin.
very good.
There were no strange creatures inside, no freaks with knives and claws, and no humanoid monsters with sharp heads and bared teeth that liked to hide in certain corners of the spaceship and corrode with concentrated acid.
All that remained were flashing indicator lights on the control panel, waiting for her to walk to the screen and check the messages.
It seems I did receive a message.
"Let me see what it is..."
With a nervous heart, Miller tapped the screen, and the next second, his pupils dilated!
She turned abruptly and rushed to the window to look at the horizontal mountain range in the far distance.
I don't know if it was because she had seen that message and had a preconceived notion, or if her brain was really warning her...
She felt,
That mountain range has grown bigger!
Or perhaps it should be said this way.
The mountain range was now closer to her!
"Did the Spacetime Tunnel close automatically?"
Zhang Tianyuan hadn't expected this outcome.
Before he could even search for the cause in the system, the supervisors of the Wandering Spacetime had already urgently notified him of the news.
"I understand. You all stand by for now. I'll handle this."
Zhang Tianyuan walked back to his office, sat down, and reopened the system. He quickly found the reason in the message notification:
[Time dilation detected. Spacetime Tunnel number 24 has automatically closed. Reopening it requires base energy to balance the time ratio at the entrance and exit.]
Time dilation phenomenon...
The closure of the Spacetime Tunnel was indeed related to this.
However, judging from this message, the Spacetime Tunnel leading to Spacecraft No. 1 is not impossible to open; it just requires balancing the time ratio, and this balance is achieved using the base's energy.
If I'm not mistaken, this should be referring to...
I have to pay extra?!
Zhang Tianyuan tried to restart Spacetime Tunnel No. 24, and sure enough, a prompt popped up the next second:
[Due to the time difference between the entrance and exit, additional base energy is required for balancing. The base energy consumption per second of this Spacetime Tunnel has been adjusted to [points].]
[Are you sure?]
point?
per second?
613.2 million?
what's
Up!
Was this Spacetime Tunnel paved with gold bricks or silver bricks?
Zhang Tianyuan almost thought he was seeing things.
Normally, the Spacetime Tunnel consumes only 10,000 energy points per second, which amounts to a little over 860 million per day.
But now, opening the Spacetime Tunnel for Spacecraft No. 1 is taking almost as much time in a single second as it normally takes a whole day?
Currently, his daily income is roughly 24 billion energy, and the surplus is roughly between 4 billion and 8 billion energy, depending on the situation.
In addition to previous savings...
Zhang Tianyuan once thought it was an astronomical figure, and he no longer cared about energy points; he had no interest in them.
But now it seems that his level of understanding is still too low.
With his current daily savings, if he's unlucky, it might not even be enough to open this Spacetime Tunnel for ten seconds.
All his previous "savings" couldn't even last for an hour through this Spacetime Tunnel.
That's a staggering sum of over two trillion!
Even if he saves 8 billion every day, it will take him 276 days to accumulate it!
It's been more than half a year.
His good days with a surplus of 8 billion were far from enough...
In an instant, Zhang Tianyuan felt as if he had returned to the early days of his business three years ago.
How long has it been since he felt this kind of financial hardship?
Zhang Tianyuan tapped his head and began to ponder the origin of the consumption of over 600 million per second.
His first thought was the time ratio between Planet No. 1 and Earth.
Although the Wandering Spacetime exists in parallel universes, after so many opening and closing of the tunnels, while there are time differences between the various timelines, the proportion of time remains consistent.
One second passed in the Legend Spacetime, and one second passed in other timelines as well.
On Planet No. 1, one hour is equivalent to seven years on Earth.
That means...
One second above is equivalent to one second on Earth!
You've found the right approach!
The time scale has expanded so much, therefore the base energy consumed...
The source has also expanded by so much!
The system, acting as a middleman, didn't make any profit at all?!
Zhang Tianyuan was so moved he almost cried.
It turns out he wasn't a profiteer in the system, but rather because he was too poor.
He's not good enough for her.
Planet No. 1.
"Dr. Miller, approximately every hour, a super-giant wave sweeps across the surface of your planet, with peaks expected to reach over a thousand meters in height."
If you receive this message, please take to the air and escape immediately. All your missions have been terminated. After successfully escaping, please wait for new instructions, or leave Planet No. 1 immediately. We have the capability to conduct a space rescue for you.
The information on the screen is very simple.
But these words left a Little Boy in Miller's heart.
boom!
Miller was completely disoriented. Wearing her helmet, she stared at the "mountain" that was constantly approaching her outside, and suddenly remembered a phrase she had heard before.
If the mountain won't come to me, then I'll go to the mountain!
Now she doesn't need to worry about it anymore.
The mountain is really coming right towards her!
But where is that mountain?
That was clearly a colossal, towering wave!
run!
As the giant wave drew ever closer, so too did the scent of death.
Miller wasn't fully awake yet, and her first reaction was to get off the spaceship and retrieve the instruments and equipment that had been left outside!
But her reason immediately resisted this impulse.
"Run! Run! Run!"
I need to get out of this awful place right now!
"I need to start the spaceship immediately!"
"!"
Please, please!
Miller panicked and sat on the control panel to manually control the spaceship, while constantly glancing out the window at the approaching giant wave that seemed about to engulf him at any moment.
In such an emergency, she was trembling all over.
The incomplete astronaut training she had received was simply not enough to keep her calm in such a tense situation.
It's already quite an achievement that she can memorize the procedures for starting the spaceship's engines and operate them without making mistakes.
GOGOGOGO!
Miller stared out the window, his forehead inside his helmet already covered in cold sweat.
She thought she heard a terrifying sound like giant waves crashing outside...
boom!
Boom!
One wave after another...
wrong!
Miller suddenly felt the spaceship shake.
Her soul then returned to reality.
It's the engine!
The engine started successfully!