Jonathan keeps praying for an hour, repeating thank you many times. He didn't even think about checking on his spaceship or his current location. For once, he is very grateful to have Faith in his God and tries his best to express it as much as he can.
After he gets tired and finally decides to stop praising God, Jonathan moves his attention to his spaceship. He just remembered that he entered the core of a black hole where soon after he lost consciousness.
Jonathan looks around his current spaceship. He is currently standing afloat in the middle part of his spaceship, where the area is wide enough for a single person to run around without worrying about hitting something. on his left side is a wide built-in closet with five rows of space that have a low light on each of them. this closet looks like usually used as a display container for living specimens. there is also a long table that is as long as the closet and a single chair. Jonathan can imagine a nerd biologist sitting there getting excited about new specimens they just found in one of the places they landed on.
on his right side is row upon row of storage boxes. Jonathan will check on what is in there later but he is pretty sure that there is some leftover food and tools in there. it probably gonna be enough for a few days for himself but that will just extend a few days of his life.
in the middle of the room is a 3D Computer Table that works as both a working table and a 3D Display Computer. To input and show the information that he needs, he just has to tap on the table surface and a scene will activate for Jonathan to work on. Jonathan knew about this after he moved around the table for an hour and did a bit of random tapping on the table.
after he manages to make the 3D Computer Table work, he quickly runs a self-check program that fortunately can be found easily on the table display to find the extent of damage the spaceship has suffered. even with his lack of knowledge regarding the space event and its effect, he knows that he had just managed to escape from a disaster and his ship must have some damage, no matter how good it looks right now.
After waiting for a while, the results are finally presented on the 3D Display. it shows the image of his ship with so many parameters and numbers here and there. Jonathan just didn't know how to read all this data and it makes him confused. a few seconds later, the image of his ship suddenly begins to be filled with two types of color which are yellow and red.
the yellow area is spread to almost the entire of his ship with some parts colored red. Jonathan can only guess that this yellow-colored area is where the parts get damaged but not too heavily, while the red-colored one is where the damage is really serious and needs immediate repair.
now that Jonathan knows which part of the ship needs repair, he just needs to find a way to repair the damage. suddenly, the 3D Display shows that it runs some command on its own, and from one of the boxes on his side, a Builder Bot pops out and begins to move to a hidden door designated for the bot to go out or move around the ship to do some fixing.
Jonathan can only look with a confused face but inside he is happy that he doesn't need to do any repair on his own. Jonathan moves his focus back to the 3D Display and sees a white dot displayed to move to one part of the ship and begin to do some repairs.
sometimes the Builder Bot will return and take some things from the boxes, be it raw materials or spare parts and tools, for it to quickly go out and continue its job. slowly the red-colored parts of the ship turned yellow and then green, indicating that it was fully repaired.
seeing that the ship will be fixed soon, Jonathan finally relaxes and begins to check on the boxes to find some food or water. after a few hours of searching, Jonathan can find a few packets of compressed food that are usually used for long-distance ration. this food packet is usually placed in the ship food processor to be heated and prepared on a plastic plate.
so Jonathan begins to look for the food processor around the ship and manages to find it a few minutes later near the back side of the room. Jonathan also found a circular door on the floor that looked like it led to the engine room, but he left it for now because he needed to eat.
Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.
for the rest of his time, Jonathan spent it on eating his food and exploring the 3D Computer Table. Jonathan has to say that he is quite lacking in operating such a sophisticated technology so he spent his time learning about it. he realized that he would spend quite a lot of his time on his ship and he needed to be able to use everything here to survive better. he didn't want to die by suffocation just because he forgot that he had an air management feature.
talking about features, Jonathan also has a hard time finding anything to drink on the ship. luckily he spent his time exploring the computer where he found the list of features in the ship in one of the notes. at the end of the notes, there is a little word left behind by the writer.
"I know you will need this note, Jonathan My Dear, because I know how bad you are with these techs.
try to learn about this ship as much as you can and take care of our little Dream Scape, okay?
with love and adoration,
your Cute Little Elsa"
Jonathan can only smile sadly seeing the notes, he touches his finger to the notes as if he is trying to touch the girl's face. Jonathan didn't know what happened to Elsa and the other scientist, or any other escaped human. he just hopes that they all either manage to escape or die painlessly. thinking about Elsa dying by suffocation in the empty space is making his heart wrenched in pain.
"I will live as long as I can and I will cherish every moment of it. I promise, Elsa." Jonathan said to himself.
Jonathan then continued his daily needs, as he tried to keep his mind busy to not dwell too long in sadness like how he used to do back on earth. he quickly gets some water to drink from a hand-sized opening beside the food processor. after that, Jonathan begins to explore the ship Dream Scape.
he begins by opening the door on the floor that leads to a storage area where many living resources are kept. there is another door that leads to a room below the cockpit where the main engine is located. Jonathan can see the Builder Bot in this room who is currently in the middle of fixing the main engine, as it looks quite busy there.
Jonathan then left the room as he didn't want to disturb the repair process. who knows what kind of disturbance he can make just by staying in a place where he is not meant to be.
after that, he goes back to the main room to look around some more. Jonathan finds another door above the room that leads to a small medic bay. there is only enough room for one person in this room where a medic chamber is located. Jonathan didn't look much in this room as he could not see anything else other than the medic chamber.
Jonathan decides to go back to the cockpit and sit there while staring at the empty void of space. he wonders where he should go once the ship is repaired. he has no lead and going aimlessly in the empty space will only make him lost even deeper in the void instead of helping him find anything.
as Jonathan stares with empty eyes at the empty space, suddenly he feels like someone is staring at him. Jonathan's eyes quickly regain his focus and he quickly freezes on his chair, as an eye suddenly stares at him from outside of his ship.
the eyes are so big, even bigger than his Dream Scape, maybe almost as big as the Dream Weaver. the eye stares straight at Jonathan as if he is an interesting fish that you find on a random pond.
the eyes belong to a Space Beast, one of a unique kind of creature that lives in the empty void of space. each Space Beast is unique and different from another.
the one that stares at Jonathan right now, is a Space Beast that is shaped like an Orca Whale. its body length is unknown, and the fin on both of its body sides is like a Sun Sail. it stretches wide and long with a thin membrane in the middle.
it produces no sound, as sound cannot travel in empty space, but Jonathan can feel his body tremble so wildly as if the Space Beast's deep voice managed to travel to him and shake him on his chair.