don't talk to aliens

The next day, the suburban villa.

8:45AM.

One night passed, another morning.

It was still dark in the morning, and the sun was shining faintly by the window, and all the lights inside the big bedroom in the villa were dimmed as usual.

As far as the eye can see, the electronic alarm clock on the bedside table is still ringing.

The interior lit with high-grade incense made the room full of aroma all night, and the whole was groggy as if it was not yet mentally prepared to welcome the sunshine outside.

But the big bed, which was flat and wrinkle-free, didn't have any trace of people lying in it last night.

The pajamas that were originally placed in a fixed position in the closet were not hanging there, but it was unknown where the owner of the bedroom went early in the morning.

And coincidentally, the alarm clock on the bedside table in the bedroom just rang more than ten times on time.

Another artificial intelligence 'Miss' who controls the entire villa invisibly intervenes and inserts itself into the security circulation system of the house dutifully.

With a "click", the alarm clock that could be heard upstairs and downstairs finally stopped making noise early in the morning.

Then, the villa's housekeeper 'Rachel' returned the same way, and accurately returned to a laboratory downstairs behind the wall of the study, and turned on the energy-saving solar lights above with the help of the system.

"drop--"

As soon as the white energy-saving lamp above the head lights up inside, it instantly illuminates everything inside.

Next to the laboratory table filled with various drawing tools and mechanical resistors, Fu Bailong, who has been here all night since he came back last night, is adjusting a set of integrated circuits with a soldering gun with his head down expressionless.

He wears an industrial protective mask on his face.

While the welding torch in his hand was aimed at the bottom, the flames were splashing, and the red lines on the resistors removed from the fuselage were gradually perfected.

"—My boss, Long, good morning, the smart ai 'Rachel' is now broadcasting this morning's weather and city news in real time for you."

"—According to the broadcast by the China Meteorological Administration that night, at 2018:10 AM on October 8, 8, in Longjiang City, China, the weather was humid and cool in the morning. There was no heavy rainfall during the day, and the roads were normal for travel."

"—According to the "Longjiang Life Daily" report, in the early morning of the evening of the 7th, a special case suddenly appeared in our city at night. A female college student named Liu was injected with an antibiotic in the hospital and caused an unknown genetic disease. Still urgently searching for the cause—"

"——Longjiang News Channel reported in the morning that on the 10th, the Municipal Science and Technology Convention and Exhibition Center will hold a large-scale biological origin research and development exhibition. This event will be jointly participated by experts in biological sciences from the United States and China. Many famous biological experts at home and abroad will also attend -"

These "Rachel" will definitely send news through the system every morning, and Fu Bailong, who has long been used to it, usually listens to it every day.

This morning, he was clearly no exception.

And because he has been following the follow-up clues about the last UFO in the past few days, so now he must also keep an eye on all abnormalities in the city.

Coincidentally, just yesterday, he also received a mission instruction from the Capital Space Administration after half a year, but this time the instruction made him have a doubt for the first time.

[China Space Administration - Forum Section - Information Release Area]

【时间：2018年10月7日14：31】

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The subspecies plan is restarted, and the forum information is updated.

【Landlord】：

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Task object: looking for specimens of atatal subspecies

Mission Level: A

Task person: [Tree], [Dragon]

This A-level mission that appeared on his mission release platform was released to him by his immediate superior, the Capital Space Administration Headquarters.

Those pictures were exactly the locked post that Fu Bailong hadn't opened before, but this time what appeared in front of him were a few blurry satellite pictures, a picture of a strange Chinese boy and an old news report.

[In 1998, Wang, a 19-year-old male from Heilongjiang, was taken away by a strange aircraft after taking the college entrance examination. 】

[His parents then went to the relevant department to report the case, claiming that Wang had said while sleeping at home a few days ago that his original name was not Wang X but a descendant of a god. His original parents were adopted, but his real name was atatal. Ordinary people look different, and if they don’t leave, they will be found out, and they will not be able to go to college if the school’s physical examination finds out that they will be arrested.

[Someone is looking for him at his hometown now. In a few days, someone will fly down from the sky to pick him up. Three days later, Wang, who was suspected of having a mental illness and locked up at home, disappeared strangely. Appearing UFOs. 】

[This incident was named as the first atatal missing persons incident in '98 for the first time. ']

It must be said that these scattered fragments have completely attracted Fu Bailong's thoughts.

As mentioned earlier, he has been accepting single-player missions from here for a long time, and the basic completion has always been normal.

The last time he was attacked by an atatal anomalous flying object, he had already tried to find related similar cases. Unexpectedly, the space agency actually issued a mission involving it to him in the blink of an eye.

But this was the first time that the other party proposed to let him cooperate with another person he didn't know, and this person was actually an unknown city hero without clearly announcing all the mission contents.

Tree?

I have to say that I haven't completely dismissed people who have the same mission as him before.

In Fu Bailong's eyes, he is used to being alone, and he is really not used to being a teammate with any stranger whose ability he does not agree with.

However, the Capital Space Administration only has a one-way way to release missions, and with his current authority, he cannot report the situation to his superiors. What's more, he currently doesn't know how to contact another person.

So at the moment, he can only save the task itself first, and think about how to complete the so-called subspecies plan this time.

The one who was taken away?The descendants of the gods?Mysterious aircraft?What is the connection between these things?

Waiting to quickly filter the city news updated in real time on the light screen above one by one from my mind.

He first slid the blue screen in mid-air to make it unfold in front of him, and skillfully and quickly entered a series of private passwords into the man-machine system.

"Report to the host, during the self-test of the body, please do not disconnect the circuit, the progress of the sensor device has been repaired - 67%, 69%, 72% -"

On the silver computer screen above which the code quickly slid across, the man-machine system controlled by 'Rachel' is showing little by little the degree of adaptation between the integrated resistor and the reconnection of the body.

This man-machine self-check and repair process is usually very slow, but it must be done every once in a while.

Fu Bailong had been working here all night since he got home last night, and it was already bright outside now, but he didn't show any obvious fatigue.

After raising his hand, he tapped the screen twice, speeding up the program progress bars on some pages.

His pupils were shrouded in a layer of blue light, and he looked up at the distribution of the resistance state on the computer. He just wanted to continue, but the moment he moved his hand away, he accidentally touched something that he had put on the device rack before. .

"Ding--"

There was a soft sound next to his ear, and a small metal object that he had put on the workbench fell off.

When it landed on the table, the silver ring-shaped thing automatically turned around on the spot, and rolled under the tensioner part next to it.

But at the same time when his eyes fell, Fu Bailong, who had been concentrating on his work and had no expression on his face, suddenly stopped what he was doing.

Waiting to look fixedly at the silver ring lying alone in a pile.

After a long time, he moved his somewhat cold fingers on the welding torch, and subconsciously stopped when he was about to touch the edge of the thing.

It turned out that it was a ring.

The ring that he didn't find a chance to give away, and was intended to express his heart.

This answer that came up from my mind very accurately at the first time sounds a little ridiculous now.

However, Fu Bailong, who stayed in the laboratory completely closed and indifferently working on various mechanical parts all night, really couldn't release at the moment.

He's trying hard to get his emotions out of yesterday's horrendous events.

But unfortunately, it seems that he has just suffered a major blow, and he is still a little troubled by love, and even completely lost his usual normal state of mind.

"Fu, Mr. Fu, what's wrong with you?"

Recalling, when Rachel Zhang received the call last night and came to pick him up as quickly as possible, the weather outside was almost ten o'clock.

On the way here, the female secretary imagined [-] scenes in which Fu Bailong successfully confessed to Chen Zhen, and the lovers finally got married. She also silently blessed the end of her boss' unrequited love for many years.

But who would have thought that when she actually arrived, she realized that the development of things tonight seemed to be somewhat different from what she had imagined in her mind.

Not only did her boss live alone on the street in the middle of the night, Chen Zhen, who had agreed to go back to China today to have dinner with him to celebrate, was nowhere to be seen.

And the boss who is extremely difficult to serve for his family has been working so hard for so many years, and this is the first time he has seen him abnormally like this today.

Get down from the car in a hurry, and get a coat from the driver and put it on him. Before Rachel Zhang could say a word, Fu Bailong, who had a bad face, blocked all her questions.

"drive."

"..."

"Don't ask anything, just leave me alone."

It was this cold sentence that blocked all the questions in Rachel Zhang's mind at that time.

She usually thinks that Fu Bailong is arrogant, cold, arrogant and difficult to get along with, but this is the first time she has seen her boss's pitiful appearance as if he has been abandoned by the whole world.

So even though she didn't know what was going on tonight, the female secretary whose palms were getting cold still guessed that maybe the confession this time was not so smooth.

——It is even very possible that it is a complete and complete failure.

I was in shock at the moment because of this answer that was almost impossible to happen.

For a long time, although she didn't understand the specific situation, the female secretary whose mood also fell to the bottom did not dare to provoke him again.

Directly ask the driver to send him back to the villa to rest according to his request, and after delivering him, he personally arranges for the cleaning to come over and take away Fu Bailong's suit.

After these irrelevant people left one after another, Fu Bailong, who was finally able to stay alone, returned to his home silently.

And once again in the dead of night, facing the photos and belongings left by his parents, he fell into the loneliness, coldness and silence that belonged to him alone.

【"Bailong, take good care of yourself."】

【"On your birthday this year, your father and I will take you to the planetarium on the top floor of our Science and Technology Exhibition Center. Haven't you always been interested in the Hubble Deep Space Telescope on the top floor?"]

【"Well, silly boy, what my mother promised you, I will definitely keep my word and accompany you to complete it.】"

……

["Hello, Mr. Captain, is there something wrong with the cabin now? Why... We have been unable to break through the clouds in front of us since just now? God, what is that in front... the plane... start, the plane... The plane is about to start falling!! No, no... my child... Bailong..."]

Those last words about his mother’s last English call for help, and only the last sentence in Chinese, which were finally recorded in the crew’s black box, now sounded like memories in his mind once again.

He has been struggling to find out the real culprit of that bizarre 'air crash', but apart from the clue given to him by the Capital Space Administration, he has not gotten a real answer so far.

He didn't want to tie himself in the shadow of death that he couldn't get out of for the rest of his life.

However, some unsolvable puzzles stand in front of him as if he can only rely on himself and no one else.

[I want to personally find the murderer who killed them and protect more people I want to protect. This is the reason why I must become an 'urban hero'. 】

Years ago, this was the only sentence he wrote down in the application eligibility form he sent to the government.

This is the only thing he remembers deep in his heart. If it is not completed one day, then other things cannot affect him casually.

And inevitably he's thrown into some kind of negativity because of the recent string of events that have upset him.

At this moment, the resistor with the defective circuit was completely repaired. Fu Bailong, who hadn't closed his eyes all night, took off the protective cover on his face, picked up the towel next to him, and wiped the sweat on his forehead.

He still has work to do this morning, and he may be leaving for the company after changing his clothes in a while.

Zhang's daughter, who met him at the ball last time, specially sent his father's secretary to ask him to go shopping with him this afternoon.

Although Fu Bailong really didn't want to accompany him, he was not interested in pleasing anyone.

But helplessly, Rachel Zhang has repeatedly emphasized to him about the future cooperation between Zhang and Fu, so for the time being, he can only find some time to accompany that ignorant girl who doesn't like him too much.

Originally, because Chen Zhen returned to the country, he planned to spend his time on the other party for the past two days, but now it seems that maybe he really thought too much, so he might as well avoid busy business.

Fu Bailong, who was also sweaty on his neck, took a big sip of a bottle of mineral water on the shelf next to him thinking this way. Just as he put down the things in his hand, he heard such a message in his private voicemail: remind.

——【Bailong, are you up yet?Did you rest well yesterday?What time do you get home at night? 】

With this familiar tone and tone, I wonder who would worry about sending him a voice message early in the morning.

Chen Zhen has always been so meticulous and caring about the people around him, so it is really normal for him to send a message to greet his friends early in the morning.

When they had dinner and parted yesterday, the atmosphere was obviously not pleasant.

Now it seems that he should still be a little worried.

But if the two of them still treat each other as friends in their hearts, then it's fine.

This kind of complicated situation that no one can explain clearly is extremely tormenting for Fu Bailong who still has one-sided feelings for him.

——【Well, get up. 】

Fu Bailong thought for a long time before sending out this dry answer.

On the one hand, he still wanted to avoid the question about how he almost lost his temper in public during dinner yesterday, and on the other hand, he didn't want Chen Zhen to find out that he didn't want to see his precious boyfriend at all.

And Chen Zhen, who had no idea what he was thinking, saw that he answered so quickly, but he didn't say anything else, and only added something after a while.

——[Well, that's good, I was worried that you were not happy yesterday, I went back and thought about it, it might really be my problem, next time if you don't like this kind of occasion, there is no need to cater to me as a friend Yes, I just hope that you and Yiming will get to know each other, but I am also willing to respect my friend. 】

"..."

Chen Zhen spoke these words very seriously.

For a moment, Fu Bailong was filled with complicated and irritated feelings, and suddenly he didn't know what to reply to him, he just felt that thousands of words were blocked in his heart at once.

Right now he really wants to ask, which is more important in your heart, your friend or that Lu Yiming.

But when the words came to his lips, he felt that this kind of question was meaningless, but he stopped, and forced himself to reply such a somewhat false sentence.

【Well, I know, as long as you had fun yesterday. 】

Going around, the words used to lie to himself seemed to be on his lips again. Chen Zhen probably knew that some things should be done at the end, so he didn't continue talking.

And since they sent messages to each other early in the morning, Fu Bailong, who remembered what happened yesterday, asked by the way, where did they go yesterday, and whether Lu Yiming's ruffian brother continued to do some "unhealthy" things.

In the end, who would have thought that Chen Zhen, a nerd, would answer him with an answer that almost made him angry when he asked the question casually.

【Um?Yiming's big brother?No, he hasn't been with us since yesterday. As soon as you left, he seems to answer the phone alone, saying that something urgent happened to his friend and he is leaving now. Before leaving, he asked I took some money and left. 】

【money?He asked you to borrow money alone? 】

[Yes, he did not seem to have any money with him. He asked us to borrow some money and left. I haven’t returned to China for a long time and I don’t have much money on me, so I gave him the rest. He and I Said that he will return the money to me when he has money, so there should be no problem. 】

【…】

[I also told me, let me not tell Yiming first, just ask me to spend some small money, so, Bailong, please help me keep a secret, Li Xie should also have real difficulties for the time being, there are some things , Let’s talk about it in detail next time. 】

Chen Zhen's words, I have to say, succeeded in making Fu Bailong's anger, which had been suppressed a little earlier, rise again.

Thinking of the two brothers who don't know what to say, one is pestering Chen Zhen all day long, and the other is blackmailing Chen Zhen casually as a cash machine.

He felt that his good friend, who always thought of others, might really be targeted by unknown 'snakes, rats, rats and ants' this time.

But no matter how angry he was, such words seemed to have the same facial features as an outsider, so he suppressed his anger, and Fu Bailong, who only waited to see this pair of 'brothers' to settle accounts together, temporarily put aside the matter.

But he didn't expect that on this day, he went to the company to deal with the affairs normally.

In the afternoon, when he was about to ask the driver to take him to the place agreed by the daughter of the Zhang family, because of an unexpected oolong, he happened to bump into Chen Zhen again. 'Significant Difficulties' of Mr.

Only this time, this gentleman with the surname Li and the single name Xie didn't look like a 'Pengci', but more like a 'fraud'.

Even when the two met each other, seeing Fu Bailong's unlucky appearance at that time, the guy who was obviously gloating raised his eyebrows and stared at him with joy.

"...Huh? I thought I was mistaken. Why did I see you again by such a coincidence, 'The Enemy's Road is Narrow'?"