Chapter 46

Lin Jingheng licked her lips.

　There was a crack on his lip. The smell of blood and slight pain made him concentrate a little more. If the high fever and mental overload caused by the antibodies were not a big problem, then dehydration was a bit troublesome.

　He took out the emergency maintenance tools inside the mecha and checked the power system - it was normal.

　Yuan Yiren still wants him to lead the way, so of course it's impossible to give him a mecha that can't run.

　Lin Jingheng quickly removed one of the sixteen heat sinks.

　Each heat sink on the mecha is two meters long and wide and about three millimeters thick. There is an intelligent control chip in the upper right corner. If you cut it open, you can see a very special low-temperature heat sink flowing inside. Each heat sink is about It is about the size of a palm and can maintain ultra-low temperature for several months. After it expires, it will be pushed aside by the smart chip in the heat sink and discharged regularly.

　The cooling core must not be in direct contact with the skin, but the cooling core that has not had time to be discharged after the expiration date is more friendly, usually around minus ten degrees.

　Lin Jingheng removed several expired cooling cores that had not yet been discharged, and attached them directly to her body, packaging herself into a human-shaped ice pack to forcefully cool down.

　The bird boy squatted aside and watched, with a little melancholy in his eyes. He suspected that the person he had finally fished out might not be alive for long.

　"It doesn't matter," Lin Jingheng said, "At this speed, we can return to the waterway in less than a day. There are supply points on the waterway."

　After one day, Yuan Yiren felt that the rainbow virus in his body would show up after it attacked.

　Lin Jingheng: "What's your name?"

　The bird boy thought for a moment, then shook his head as if he couldn't say anything - yes, Yuan Yiren probably called him something, but it must not be a respectful title... As for his own name , I probably couldn't remember it for a long time.

　Lin Jingheng asked again: "Can you read?"

　The bird boy still shook his head, then opened his mouth and said something silently.

　Obviously, he can speak human words, but his mutated tongue and voice prevent him from making normal sounds, so he can only compare mouth shapes. Based on the context, Lin Jingheng can understand his single words, but when it becomes a long sentence, it becomes a bit of a problem. The two looked at each other for a moment, unable to communicate. The bird boy huddled up in a ball in frustration, wrapping his flat arms around his knees, like an insecure bird wrapping himself in its wings, and lowered his head.

　Lin Jingheng tried a half-serious sentence: "Since you know Sister Stinky, don't you know who I am?"

　The young bird shook his head, stretched out two fingers at him with difficulty, and then tried hard to repeat a word. After repeating it for the third time, Lin Jingheng understood with his burning eyes that he meant "help".

　"He saved you twice?"

　He shook his head.

　"He saved your life, but you only met him twice."

　This time, the bird boy nodded.

　The two of them communicated with each other for a moment, and Lin Jingheng roughly understood a story that she didn't know whether it was right or not, and she didn't know whether it was true or not - it was said that many years ago, for some reason, the smelly eldest sister I had saved this bird boy once. Not long ago, due to business reasons, the smelly sister met Yuan Yiren who liked to visit the black market outside the territory. The bird boy who was following Yuan Yiren recognized him and gave the smelly sister a certain amount of money. This level of reminder told him that the pirates were about to invade.

　Lin Jingheng pretended to suddenly realize it, but actually didn't believe it.

　He felt that this story sounded a bit like an antique-style street stall novel, with lame "chivalry" and "repaying kindness" throughout. The theme usually described how righteous people in ancient times were so ungrateful, and how modern people's conscience has deteriorated.

　Not to mention that the story of repaying a favor is very clichéd, but the fact that Yuan Yiren allowed the bird boy to contact Lin Jingheng and released the two of them together cannot be a coincidence.

　Lin Jingheng pretended to be low on energy, logged out of the mental network, turned on autopilot, closed her eyes and rested.

　After an unknown amount of time, the bird boy felt that he had fallen asleep, so he cautiously came closer and observed him for a moment. He put his hand on his forehead and nose to test for a while, and then pulled out a blanket from somewhere. He was very undecided, not sure whether he should or not. It should be covered for those who rely on the cooling core to cool down.

　Finally, the bird boy rolled the blanket into a thin strip and placed it on the man's lower abdomen. Then he carefully wiped the fine sweat on the "Sea Snake"'s face with a clean towel, and rolled a towel around his dangling nape to pad it. , as if he is used to taking care of others.

　After doing these things, the bird boy looked out into the vast universe through the viewing window on the mecha's bulkhead. His face was still worried and depressed.

　The mecha approached the asteroid belt outside Sodo on autopilot, and more than twenty hours had passed quickly.

　Whether it is the Sodo star with strong gravity or the messy asteroid belt, they are all dangerous sections. When approaching such a place, the mecha naturally sounded the alarm. The bird boy was confused by the sound of the alarm, so he had to try to push the "Sea Snake". The Sea Snake opened its eyes after a while, and was almost out of focus. As soon as its feet touched the ground, its whole body... He fell limp to the ground, and his body seemed to get even hotter.

　The bird boy screamed in fright and tried hard to help him up, but the "sea snake" couldn't stand up. Every hard bone turned into a hollow pastry, but his hands and feet were so heavy that they seemed to be filled with lead.

　The bird boy circled around him anxiously, shouting out loud. Lin Jingheng was so noisy that his head turned into two big ones, and his veins almost popped out. For the sake of the image of a sea snake, he struggled to control his He opened his irritable mouth, trying to find a weak tenderness: "Shhhhhhhhh, be good, don't scream, prepare to jump, we'll be there in one go."

　However, at this time, the matching between man and machine had dropped to 52%, and the mecha issued a cold warning: "Warning, the matching degree of the mental network is less than 60%. The jump may cause the separation of man and machine. Please operate with caution -"

　the bird boy said nervously: "Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

　Lin Jingheng: "..."

　No wonder there were people in Silver Fortress back then. A young soldier insisted on keeping a macaw and almost got into a court-martial with his comrades in the neighborhood.

　He gritted his teeth and said, "Match the jump point and confirm to prepare for the jump."

　The mecha replied: "Illegal coordinates, are you sure?"

　The source of the alien on the pirate heavy armor stretched his neck - the asteroid belt of Sodo, where Lu Xin was. It was from this vicinity that the area was too sensitive for the old division of Prince Gloria's Guards.

　Is there a hidden underground channel here?

　The next moment, with a hoarse "confirmation" from "Sea Snake", a circle of energy suddenly emitted from the periphery of the small light spot on Yuan Yiren's monitoring locator. They entered the jump point. Immediately, the locator frantically searched for signals and re-marked , five minutes later, a new coordinate fell on Yuan Yiren's screen.

　It was a jump point that had never been marked.

　The men next to him looked at each other in confusion. After a moment, a pirate came forward and whispered: "This looks like the alliance's jump point. The numbering code is...'Surprise'."

　Yuan Yiren squeezed out two words through his teeth: " Lu, Xin."

　In the bug, the signal failure caused by the jump interrupted the sound for a moment. Soon, the clear scream of the bird boy came again, but the other person's voice could not be heard.

　It sounded like the Rainbow Virus had fully broken out, faster than expected. Probably the malnutrition from long-term interstellar drifting had affected his immunity.

　Yuan Yiren waved his hand gently: "Get ready to jump."

　"Sea Serpent" completed its last jump, and it was indeed separated from the mental network and lost consciousness. The unmanned mental network was floating in the fuselage in a disorderly manner, and they were deep in the middle of a dangerous asteroid belt. The bird boy was anxious Crazy, he pushed him hard, but to no avail. At the same time, the mecha suddenly sounded an alarm, and the bird boy suddenly raised his head - he didn't need a mental net, he could see with his naked eyes the black pirate fleet coming from the jump point in a steady stream. Come out!

　The unmanned mecha was quickly controlled remotely by the pirates. At the same time, the communication screen in the cabin lit up. Yuan Yiren's face that was mixed with kindness and weirdness almost filled the screen, and his snake-like eyes shot out from the screen. , staring at the unconscious man with saliva, the bird boy stood up and tried to block the "sea snake" with his small body.

　"Surprise, really surprise. It turns out that this is the ruins of the passage where the Alliance dogs invaded the eighth galaxy. It was actually found by Spencer's bug. Fortunately, fate is on our side this time." Gen Yiren looked at it. The bird boy said, "Little kingfisher, you did a good job this time."

　The bird boy opened his eyes in horror.

　"Do you like him? It doesn't matter, he will be under your control from now on," Gen Yiren said, "Now, bring your trophies back, and let's go spray some insecticide into the bed bug's nest...yo yo yo, Young man, relax, don't be so excited."

　The "Sea Snake" woke up at some point, heard the complete conversation between the two of them, and grabbed the bird boy's neck.

　More than twenty hours of high fever and lack of water had brought him to the verge of dehydration, and the menacing rainbow virus had taken away the last bit of strength from his body. His whole body looked shaky, and he was only holding on with his last breath.

　The bird boy made a pitiful "chirp" sound in his throat, as if he was trying to explain something. The sea snake-Lin Jingheng finally had the chance to spit out the words he had been holding back all day: "Shut up."

　"Stop resisting in this corner," Yuan The stranger said, "Your mecha is in our hands, your route map is also in our hands, and now you have opened this door for us with your own hands... How is it, do you feel the rainbow virus?"

　"Sea Serpent" "The whole person shook: "What?"

　Yuan Yiren laughed. The next moment, the mecha whose mental network was invaded by the pirates could not help but slide into the pirate fleet. "Sea Serpent" tried in vain to regain control of the mental network, but the resistance was getting weaker and weaker, and he could hardly stand still.

　At this time, all the pirate mechas completed the jump and walked out of the jump point "Surprise". Yuan Yiren stopped talking nonsense about what was in his bag, quickly checked the route map, and confidently took the lead to the "unknown" Walking down the underground waterway.

　The safe channel in the asteroid belt is very narrow, and the pirate's mechanical fleet cannot stretch out, so it can only change from the original "stars holding the moon" into a long and narrow column.

　This time, the advance team responsible for fishing for mechas broke away. The medium-sized mechas that had previously caught the mecha "Beijing" were familiar with the way. They once again stretched out their fishing nets towards the "Sea Serpent"... The pirates on the fishing mission did not see it. In the warehouse where scrap metal is stored, on the almost scrapped small mecha Beijing, a "vase holder" landed quietly on the ground and turned into a human form.

　At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

　The bird boy felt that the hot hand stuck on his neck suddenly stopped trembling, and the man laughed lowly in his ear.

　The next moment, on the medium-sized mecha that had just opened the fishing net, an extremely powerful mental net suddenly spread out, covering the pirate vanguard behind it almost instantly.

　Six medium-sized combat mechas were deprived of their mental nets at the same time. The violent backlash left the pilots with almost no room to react, and they lost consciousness while standing or sitting on the ground, while others on board the mechas did not notice at all.

　Then, all six medium-sized mechas loaded missiles at the same time. It wasn't until the "missile launch" command was issued that the pirates on the mecha realized something was wrong, but it was already too late.

　The small mecha Lin Jingheng was in hit the fishing net. The medium mecha that caught him immediately jumped when it caught him. At the same time, the tracker on the bird boy was completely blocked by Zhan Lu. They were in Yuan Yiren. Disappeared out of thin air before my eyes!

　Thirty missiles that had been launched hit the jump point "Surprise" at the same time. The jump point with huge energy reserves was ignited by the missile, triggering an unimaginable explosion. The entire asteroid belt was stirred up, and even within a short distance It caused the collapse of time and space, and the pirate fleet that shrank into a line was instantly swept away by more than half. Dozens of mechas had no time to hold up their protective shields, and were already wiped out in the explosion!

　Lu Bixing rushed to the place where Mecha Beijing disappeared.

　Lin stayed here for a while, and seemed to have discovered something strange, but no matter what he found, it was definitely not within the scope of the intranet, otherwise the base's contact center would also react. He must have asked Zhan Lu to use the nearby Warp points were scanned remotely.

　The principle of using jump points in the universe for remote scanning is similar to the principle of long-distance communication. Lu Bixing is very familiar with it. The only problem is that he does not have Zhan Lu.

　"Contemporary scientists use artificial intelligence to scan, while contemporary primitive people have to use exhaustive methods to eliminate one by one. Technology is really both love and hate." Lu Bixing sighed with emotion, and went there in person, focusing on the location of Lin's disappearance without complaint. Every jump point around him was checked. Repeated time and space jumps made him feel a little nauseous. He couldn't help complaining, "What happened? Can't you send me a message? You annoying loner."

　But the vast universe is vast . , Lu Bixing only had a pitiful little mecha in his hand, and the scanning range was only about the size of an umbrella. Even if he packed up the long-range scanning, he could only scan to a place not far from the jump point. He went through more than ten jumps. It was all in vain. Just when Lu Bixing was worried, the mecha suddenly caught a strange energy wave.

　Lu Bixing was shocked - this kind of energy fluctuation was at least an asteroid explosion, or... someone detonated the jump point.

　Who is this? Crazy?

　Lin Jingheng moved his fingers lightly, and the bird boy was knocked unconscious by him: "Zhan Lu, "disinfect" for me."

　After the words fell, all the escape hatches and escape doors inside the controlled medium-sized mecha closed with a sound, and the poisonous The gas killed all carbon-based organisms on the entire mecha within half a minute.

　Lin Jingheng carried the unconscious bird boy into the pirate mecha that was littered with corpses. Zhan Lu's voice sounded: "Sir, your condition is very bad. You are suffering from persistent dehydration..." "Just

　intravenous injection of glucose and electrolyzed water will be fine." ," Lin Jingheng stretched an arm into the medical cabin and raised the corner of her mouth, "It's not over yet."

　A massacre began.