Chapter 44

It is estimated that there is still half an hour before the high-energy particle flow reaches the base.

　After the ups and downs of excitement, many people were already quite tired. Lu Bixing taught them on-site in the air, teaching them step by step how to set up the automatic navigation and automatic positioning of the mecha in a relatively stable environment. The teaching scene was basically the opening of another circus, but fortunately, there was no danger, and it was not as scary as the process of ascending to heaven.

　Afterwards, everyone briefly discussed and left the young men to take turns to stay awake and guard the protective shield, while the old, weak, sick and disabled went to rest. The busy mental network suddenly became much quieter.

　Lu Bixing breathed a sigh of relief, looked at his watch, and secretly used remote authority to connect to the base's mecha liaison station.

　Before they arrived, the internal network of the base, which was experiencing power outages from time to time, was very unstable and could only cover a distance of two sailing days. As a homebody, Lu Bixing certainly did not forget about network issues while repairing movie screens for old ladies.

　After his modifications, the base's internal network signal is now much more stable and the coverage is wider. Mechas registered at the contact station can receive four to five vague signals at a distance of six sailing days. Within a day's sailing distance, the intranet signal is very stable.

　When Lin replied "received", he should have returned to the area covered by the intranet. It had already been a day. Even if he slowly let the mecha move at a constant speed, he should have entered the positionable range.

　It can be positioned...

　Lu Bixing stared at his paws touching the positioning system. Uncontrollably, he thought to himself: "What's the point of this?"

　Not at all, because the locator covers five sailing days and is as big as a palm. A screen, no matter how great the mecha is, or how great the person is sitting in the mecha, is just a small black dot in the picture.

　If the mecha is traveling normally on the waterway and the pilot does not perform any very energy-consuming operations such as sudden acceleration or jump, the little black spot will not move for a long time.

　Even if he is extremely bored at the moment, he can still enjoy the beautiful view of thousands of lights on the base. Why should he stare at a small black spot that doesn't move for a long time?

　Lu Bixing didn't quite understand his logic, but strangely, he still did it.

　"Hey," just when he was doing this boring thing like a stalker, someone called on his personal terminal. Lu Bixing picked it up casually, and Saturday's projection floated in his hand. Saturday asked him, "Lu Bixing "Teacher, Mint is an orphan, right?"

　It's not hard to guess that a girl with parents wouldn't be named "Mint" with no beginning or ending.

　Lu Bixing stared at the positioning screen without giving him a glance: "It doesn't matter to you whether you are an orphan or not."

　"Look at your face." Saturday put his feet up on the table, "You are exactly the same as your dad."

　" According to the Union Minor Protection Law, for minors under the age of 20, if the legal guardian cannot be contacted, the school teacher and community administrator can serve as a temporary guardian. I am now her temporary guardian. Keep your word. As for Lao Lu," Lu Bixing waved his hand, "I'm just giving him face."

　Saturday: "...Brother Lu, in ancient times, a seventeen-year-old could already be a mother!"

　Lu Bixing replied with a smile: "Indeed, but do you know why? Because in that era, people could die at the age of thirty-six."

　Saturday: "..."

　"Human beings are too greedy for the feeling of being young and powerful. The genetic revolution of the old star calendar has lengthened youth. By two hundred years, relatively speaking, twenty years of childhood is as short as a blink of an eye. Compared with a lifetime, it is just a blink of an eye. "Lu Bixing said, "It's so precious, like a flower that only blooms for five minutes, like a handful. The sand that leaks out, one second of regret is a lifelong regret, of course it is worth protecting, you, please wait for another three years."

　Saturday leaned back, people who have just learned to operate a mecha are always in the mecha. It's very restrained, and you can often find the feeling only when you control the second mecha through the mental network for the first time. At this time, Saturday, who thought he had found the feeling, began to resume his rogue appearance in the sky.

　The positioning screen searched for Mecha Beijing in the vast universe. Neither of the two people said a word, and they were relatively silent for a while.

　Saturday suddenly said: "My ex-girlfriend is six years old."

　Lu Bixing almost choked on his saliva: "...Should you go find a doctor?"

　"Tsk, what are you thinking about? I was only there when I was with her. Eight years old," Saturday rolled her eyes, "Her father and I were in business together, and we always played together. At that time, we were a bunch of kids growing up together, and all the boys liked her, and Several dead girls also joined in the trouble, fighting each other over who should be her husband. She secretly told me that she actually liked me the most, but it was difficult to explain to others. In order to have an explanation, I had to beat everyone up. You have to accept it."

　If you don't accept it, fight. There is a reason for this style of dealing with people who have been arguing for a long time.

　Lu Bixing shook his head first, and then thought of something: "Wait a minute, didn't you say you were picked up and raised by someone? Where did a big family appear?"

　"Yes," Saturday looked up at the stars. "How about saying my ex-girlfriend was six years old - she lived to be six years old."

　Lu Bixing was stunned.

　"My dad and his friends were very mysterious during that time. It was said that they had made a big business... I was too young to know what kind of big business it was. I just remember that they made extraordinarily much money that year and everyone was extremely happy. During the New Year, my dad drank too much at night, and I heard him say to another uncle, "When you get rich in the future, don't do this kind of business that will end your children and grandchildren." Saturday's voice lowered, "Then that night. , a group of people broke into my house and killed everyone. My mother packed me and her into two ecological cabins connected together, recorded the sound, set the path, threw it outside the atmosphere, and entrusted it to the smelly sister. "On the way, we were both uneasy, like two bugs in a drifting bottle, and then those people's missiles missed us, and half of her ecological capsule was shattered."

　Lu Bixing was startled and twisted . Looking over my shoulder at Saturday.

　Saturday's baby's face was unusually gloomy and cold, as if the lack of sunlight outside the atmosphere had revealed his true colors.

　"You know, Teacher Lu," Saturday said, "If it was simply blown to pieces, then forget it. It happened in the blink of an eye, but it was broken in half. I haven't entered sleep yet. Through the small window , I saw her crying and struggling in fear, the nutrient solution was losing bit by bit, and the air pressure was changing bit by bit. The half-broken ecological cabin looked like a female animal whose stomach was cut open alive. The little cub slowly flowed out, slowly suffocating, and there was nothing that could be done..."

　"Do you know what I regret most? What I regret most is that she asked me to fight with other children for her, and I didn't dare , because I grew up slower than others since I was a child, and they were all taller and stronger than me, so I told her to let her wait a few years until I grow up..." "

　This is the first lesson I have learned in my life. The truth is, Teacher Lu, some things cannot wait."

　His words summarized the ominous past, and seemed to be an ominous prophecy. As soon as he finished speaking, a dialog box popped up on the locator in Lu Bixing's hand.

　Invalid search.

　Lu Bixing hadn't recovered from Saturday's words, and his heart seemed to be tightened by a hand.

　Search again, still invalid search.

　This means...either Mecha Beijing's communication equipment is damaged, or it has inexplicably changed its route and left the intranet coverage!

　At this time, the earliest wave of charged particles had arrived and hit the protective cover put together by three hundred mechas. The high-energy charged particles collided with the protective cover and attenuated. A small amount penetrated through, causing slight disturbances in the base's magnetic field. , and then a light band similar to an aurora appeared above the atmosphere, stretching to the horizon like the sleeves of an immortal robe, as magnificent as a special effects scene in a fantasy film.

　Everyone woke up, and then, the increasingly dense flow of high-energy particles poured down like a tide, overturning the mecha's protective shield. The protective shield looked as thin as cicada wings, but it was like a copper wall. For a moment, everyone in The mecha pilots outside the atmosphere all have the same sense of honor in their hearts - I am protecting the base, I am protecting my home.

　I don't know who started singing an ancient wandering song in the spiritual network. It was very old, as if everyone had heard it. Gradually, their voices joined in, rumbling, and the lyrics and melody were diluted, as if An oath that was never thought of and formed spontaneously.

　But the hand of Lu Bixing, who had facilitated all this, was trembling slightly.

　He tried to locate Mecha Beijing three times, but all showed invalid searches. Unable to bear it, he contacted Lin's personal terminal - and the intranet just told him, "No such person was found."

　Lin Jingheng closed his eyes and rested for a moment in his temporary guest room.

　A minor accident occurred. He thought he would encounter it while being tortured to extract a confession. Unexpectedly, this group of interstellar pirates was even crazier than he expected - they actually used the rainbow virus as a wake-up shot.

　A normal rainbow virus will lie dormant for twenty-four hours before attacking, but he has been injected with blocking antibodies in advance, and the rainbow virus will meet the blocking antibodies in advance. Due to the special nature of this virus, he will be infected in up to three hours. A high fever develops until the virus is eliminated by the antibodies.

　It's easy to betray the gang, but the key is that they don't torture him to extract confessions. How can he effectively reveal the fabricated "underground channel" and lure them away?

　Just then, someone knocked gently on his door.

　As soon as Lin Jingheng opened her eyes, a young man pushed the door in. The young man looked delicate, but for some reason, his walking posture was a bit strange. He hugged a clean quilt, and then placed a box of small medicine bottles in front of him and said to him Smiling cautiously.

　Lin Jingheng glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw that it was a box of painkillers.

　The boy was probably mute and didn't speak. He pointed at his temple and then at the painkiller, gesticulating and expressing to him with difficulty - mental overload would cause headaches, so he asked him to make do with this first.

　Lin Jingheng thanked him with a body language that suited her current status.

　The young man looked at him. The things were delivered, but he didn't leave. His round, almond-shaped eyes were full of worry. Lin Jingheng could only stare at him. For a moment, the young man mouthed to him: "Run quickly.

　Lin Jingheng: "..."

　The young man took a meaningful look at the medicine bottle, turned around and left .

　Lin Jingheng held the medicine bottle and observed it under the light for a moment. After unscrewing it, she found a miniature screen at the bottom of the bottle, which was only as big as a button. The screen had two sides, one side recorded video, and you could flip it over to watch the video recording.

　Lin Jingheng hesitated for a moment, took out the instructions for the painkiller, and under the cover of reading the instructions, he flicked on the small screen.

　The picture is extremely small, as small as peeping through a hole in the wall - the video first shows a long and dark corridor, and then the dim light shines through, entering a basement with countless nutritional cabins inside. , all kinds of strange creatures, beautiful snakes, mermaids, women covered in animal hair, sleeping teenagers curled up in their huge tails...

　The camera turned and landed on an operating table separated by sterile glass. The person is staring at the operating table, holding a little boy with half of his body covered with metal prostheses in his arms. The person on the operating table has his eyes wide open and looks at the camera aimlessly, like an animal that is being slaughtered, with ulcerated hands and feet. After being cut off, Quiet Quiet's medical equipment was connecting the claws to the place where his broken arm was.

　Lin Jingheng thought with great disdain: "What kind of aesthetic is this?"

　After despising him, he did not forget to tremble in "panic" and scatter the whole bottle of painkillers on the ground - although he didn't know whether the boy was stupid on his own or whether The other party arranged it deliberately, but it didn't matter. Someone gave me a pillow just as I was about to sleep.

　Through the spiritual net, Yuan Yiren saw the cause and effect clearly. He held his chin and thought for a moment, then waved to one of his subordinates: "The little kingfisher I raised is disobedient again. Go and give him some." Lesson - Modify the original track, let's see where the cunning and overestimating thing like Sister Stinky is hiding in the gutter... and then play a game."

　Lin Jingheng - Now she is serious about love and justice, but also a little cunning . The bastard sea snake wandered around the guest room like a trapped animal for ten minutes. He looked around and couldn't find anything he could find, so he pulled off the metal decoration on the bedpost, took advantage of his thinness, and stuffed it into his clothes. Sneaked out quietly.

　The heavy armor is too big, it can accommodate thousands of people, and it takes a long time to walk around it. Even if the driver's mental network can cover every corner, the sea snake feels that the other party will not care about such a small person like him. Taking a breath, he saw a patrolling pirate not far away walking to the bathroom alone, so he followed him quietly. There was a slight muffled sound in the bathroom. After a while, a patrolman with a particularly low brim and a very cautious walk came out. He walked out - there was nothing he could do about it, the uniform he was wearing was too ill-fitting, and his two trouser legs hung like nine-quarter pants, empty, and a pair of fashionable ankles were exposed.

　Sea Snake intuitively thought that this kind of fashionable pirate with a "hip-hop" style might not be very popular here, so he carefully avoided other people along the way. Suddenly, rapid footsteps rushed towards him, and Sea Snake quickly stopped and stepped down. At a moment, he saw a person rushing out from the corner in front - it was the young man who had just given him medicine.

　The young man's eyes were red and his face was full of fear. Two strong pirate men were chasing him behind him. Just as they were about to catch him, the young man's feet suddenly left the ground. He was as light as a piece of paper. He jumped up and jumped from the railing. Turned up and down.

　Only then did the sea snake notice that the reason why he walked strangely was because the boy's chest was abnormally shaped, with a protrusion that looked like a bird. His arms were stretched out, and his arms were much longer than ordinary people. His shirt sleeves were just It broke open during the pulling, revealing arms as flat as wings. The tattered clothes hanging on the arms were like feathers, allowing him to glide in the air strangely.

　At this moment, a large net came over, covering the bird-like boy in the bag. There was electricity in the net, and sparks exploded the moment it came into contact with the boy. He struggled in pain and opened his mouth. , but could only scream like a bird.

　Lin Jingheng said with all his heart, "This cruel trick seems real."

　However, he hesitated for a moment - because logically speaking, the sea snake that had fallen out with Sister Stinky but still refused to reveal the coordinates of the underground waterway was unlikely to die. No help.

　One of the pirates put the dying bird boy down, kicked him roughly a few times, grabbed his hair, and dragged him to the ground. The electrified net was in the hands of another pirate, and he lagged behind his companions. After a few steps, I was about to hang the power grid back to its original position.

　At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared from the side and patted him on the shoulder. The pirate who was about to hang up the electric grid looked back and caught a glimpse of the patrolman's uniform. He muttered, "I know, let's pack it up immediately."

　Next . For a moment, he suddenly realized something. Before he could turn his head to see clearly, his neck was suddenly strangled by an arm. Then there was a sharp pain and he lost consciousness immediately.

　As a skilled worker in murder and arson, Lin Jingheng quietly caught the fallen pirate, took over the laser gun in his hand and the power grid hanging in the sky - fortunately, his core muscles were destroyed, and he would have been a little weak otherwise. If you accidentally twist off this unfortunate guy's head, you might be trying to get someone involved.

　The pirate was dragging the bird boy back. Suddenly, the hairs and fine hair tips on his back stood up for no reason. As soon as he turned around, the electrified net had already swooped down. The pirate choked in his throat with a cry of surprise, and was The big net pounced and was electrocuted on the spot, turning into a breakdancer who couldn't step on the drums.

　Lin Jingheng slid past him lightly, and at the same time, a thin laser beam was ejected from the laser gun, which accurately cut off the hair that was grabbed by the bird boy, picked him up, and ran forward without looking back. .

　The boy was too young to be human. Even though Lin Jingheng had turned into a temporary paralysis, he could still pick him up with one hand without much effort. Except for the human head, his bones seemed to have turned into birds.

　But...how is that possible?

　Aren't these grafted monsters unable to leave the nutrition cabin even half a step?

　Lin Jingheng suddenly thought of Lu Bixing's weird bone age and mismatched genes, and her fingers holding the bird boy suddenly tightened.

　Alarms began to sound throughout the heavy armor. Lin Jingheng - Sea Snake shook the bird boy in his hand vigorously: "Is there any spare mecha on this heavy armor? Where is the launch platform?"

　Heavy armor sometimes serves as " "Mothership", there will be a launch platform on it, and it will carry a certain number of spare mechas based on different transport capabilities.

　The bird boy struggled to free himself from his hand, coughed a few times, and raised his finger to point in the direction.

　Yuan Yiren let out a "Ha": "Unexpected bonus, I know a lot about this little thing that eats the inside and outside. Don't pursue it with all your strength. Just put some water in it and let him run... Well, don't put too much in, it will look too much." It's not good if it's fake, let them suffer a little, and be careful not to make a bad face."

　The two actors acted out a realistic life-and-death struggle in a tacit understanding without having reviewed the script.