Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

"3!"

Lin Xuan stared down at the numbers flashing on his watch, an inexplicable unease creeping into his heart. He didn't know what the numbers meant, nor did he know when he had put on this watch.

He felt as if he had forgotten many things, many memories, as if they had been taken away out of thin air.

He tried to trace his memories, only to find large blank spaces in his mind. Some crucial fragments seemed to have been precisely cut out, leaving frighteningly clean edges of the broken pieces.

The dizziness caused by this cognitive deficit is comparable to a top engineer suddenly discovering an inexplicable flaw in their most prized algorithm—the system is still running, but the core logic has been completely shattered.

Once, Lin Xuan's mind was like a quantum computer running at overclocked speed, every decision based on hundreds of years of experience data. But now, those precious memory databases seem to have been completely formatted, leaving only scattered fragments flickering in the depths of his consciousness. This precipitous decline in cognitive ability has caused an alarming delay in his thought processor, like forcing the latest artificial intelligence model to run on an antique chip, where every simple deduction takes an astonishing amount of time.

"Captain Lin, are you alright? You look terrible. Did you hit something when the spaceship crashed?"

Zuo Xiao flashed in front of Lin Xuan, wanting to check if Lin Xuan had any injuries, but Lin Xuan waved her hand and refused.

Where are we now?

Lin Xuan's gaze swept around; the three of them were currently in the shadows of the bustling city center. In the distance, the piercing sirens of police cars rose and fell, and several fire convoys rushed toward the crash site—in that direction, the night sky had been dyed an ominous orange-red, and thick smoke billowed, swallowing half the horizon.

Just ten minutes ago, their spaceship was struck by a near-Earth orbit satellite of the mechanical Earth, instantly paralyzing its propulsion system, and the entire ship plummeted from the sky like a giant bird with broken wings.

Fortunately, Lin Xuan noticed something was wrong during takeoff and kept the ship in manual mode throughout. At the last second, he forcefully pulled the bow up, causing the out-of-control spaceship to glide across a densely populated residential area at a near-suicidal angle before crashing into the middle of an office building.

Fortunately, they arrived on the planet during off-duty hours, and apart from a few unlucky members of the night shift who died on the spot, no one else was seriously injured.

The three immediately abandoned their spaceship and evacuated the scene before the planet's defense forces could surround them.

"Based on the coordinates, we should have crash-landed on the capital planet of Mechanical Earth." Su Zilin glanced at the star map and roughly calculated the location.

"But it's so strange, why did we crash directly onto the capital planet? According to the star map, shouldn't we have entered the outer region first?"

"Isn't this better?"

Zuo Xiao dearmed her power armor so that they could blend in more easily with the crowd. The capital planet was an important location, so it would surely be heavily guarded. If they accidentally stumbled in and their identities were exposed, they would be doomed.

"Maybe we're just that lucky. Our spaceship might have crashed directly into the capital planet. After all, when our spaceship was hit, nobody saw what happened."

These words made Su Zilin nod with some relief. Although the probability was extremely small, in a completely vacuum environment, it was indeed possible for them to directly enter the capital planet.

"So, what is the mission that the Divine Realm has given our rapid reaction force this time?" The two looked at Lin Xuan at the same time. The latter seemed to suddenly come to her senses and glanced at the secret order that the Divine Realm had given to each captain before departure.

Because of the special existence of the rapid reaction force, many people are actually worried that they will become cannon fodder abandoned by the divine realm. In order to prevent soldiers from mutinying and defecting during missions, or deliberately obstructing missions, the divine realm will divide the missions into smaller teams, which will then be broken down and reviewed by the team leaders after they arrive at the designated area.

But when Lin Xuan saw the handwriting on the secret order, she was completely stunned.

"Place the chip embedded in the watch inside the core of the main machine of the Capital Planet!"

P.S.: This volume will be finished soon, please bear with me a little longer. It's really tiring to write two books at the same time. The new book is a strategic novel about China versus the world. My brain is about to explode from writing these past few days. If there are any plot holes, please leave a message and I will try my best to fix them.