don't talk to aliens

This time, in front of the Longjiang Building, the public and bold 'show of love' was witnessed by countless guests at the banquet.

Afterwards, as expected, it hit the headlines of the city's major newspapers early in the morning as the most explosive news of the next day.

Because that night, someone appeared from the beginning and disappeared at the end.

He wore an all-black motorcycle helmet on his head and didn't show his face, so that night, basically no one took pictures of what he looked like as Young Master Fu's mysterious boyfriend.

But as long as they knew these two people at the same time, they would definitely be able to recognize them at a glance from the newspaper photo of the two people leaving under the night sky in the hotel.

"Brother! Brother Bailong! Chen Zhen and I also saw the news that day. Brother, you are really awesome this time! I usually don't see it hahaha. Did the two of you go on a date that night? I knew you You warned me that you are not allowed to harass Brother Bailong, you must be trying to come up with some tricks secretly, as expected, I guessed right..."

When Lu Yiming and Chen Zhen told them personally that they also saw the news from the newspaper, it was several days.

I haven't seen him for a few days, but this bastard Lu Yiming is still so noisy and full of energy.

But this time, I was sitting in a western restaurant with relatively few customers at noon, and the surrounding area was relatively private.

Fu Bailong, who looked at him and Chen Zhen's flirting eyes, seemed to be able to tolerate him reluctantly, and he was still immune and rebounded normally. There was an incomparable 'show affection' between the two of them.

"I've contacted the paper and today they're going to take the story down, it's nothing to shout about."

Having said that, after taking a sip of water, Fu Bailong, who acted as if he hadn't seen the two of them holding hands on the opposite side, also said something indifferently.

"Ah, why was it withdrawn, Brother Bailong, but why do I think the photo of the two of you from behind...it's obviously very cool, it's like a movie, brother, what do you think?"

"..."

Sitting at the side, he was suddenly called by his brother Lu Yiming.

A certain person behaved very peacefully for several days afterwards.

And I don't know why after the incident, the 'perpetrator' who had changed his hair color was sitting so crookedly, and raised his eyelids as if he was obviously thinking about something else.

"I?"

After answering this, Li Xie, who had newly dyed a head of extremely eye-catching and presumptuous yellow hair, and with his usual attire, looked more like a hooligan with a bad complexion than before, also asked a question.

This yellow hair, which looks very murderous just by looking at it, made Fu Bailong feel weird for a while, but Li Xie said it himself afterward, and he was happy to find it fun, so no one can care about him.

At this moment, there was also a glass of water on his left hand, and he held a silver knife and fork in one hand.

At the moment, he noticed the atmosphere around him that he had to be someone's 'boyfriend' to give an answer, and with a face that had nothing to do with him, he only thought about it for a while, and his attitude was not serious, as if he was playing with a handful of toys Casually said,

"Me? I'm fine, as long as our family is always happy."

"..."

"Aren't you right, 'dear'?"

After saying this, he also smiled at Fu Bailong and jokingly.

Fu Bailong, who snorted coldly, looked away noncommittally and didn't bother to pay attention to him for a while, but this scene made Chen Zhen and Lu Yiming feel more and more that they were 'flirting' because of their good relationship.

"Why are you already together? You still like bickering so much. It was the same when Yiming and I just returned to China and you two just met..."

"..."

"Bailong probably just finds it inconvenient this time. In the future, he and Li Xie would like to keep more photos of the two together. After all, there will be more time for the two of them to be together in the future."

Looking at the state of their relationship, Chen Zhen, who unconsciously smiled, smoothed things over.

Li Xie and Fu Bailong didn't hear these words at the moment, but they both pretended not to hear them.

Because the two of them seem to come together today.

But in fact, Li Xie made an appointment with Fu Bailong on the way to meet at a place in advance, and then pretended to be together all the time, and then came to see Chen Zhen and Lu Yiming.

This is the normal state of the two of them getting along recently.

Nominally, they are a couple, or a couple in love that has been recognized by everyone, but they don't communicate often in private.

The reason for this situation is naturally the original 'love contract'.

Li Xie and Fu Bailong obviously didn't want to be breached by the other party in the process, so it is very common for the two to cooperate in private.

Speaking carefully, Chen Zhen had reserved the table for dinner today.

Considering that Fu Bailong seemed to have something to do in the afternoon, he chose a place in the city center next to his company.

But compared to the past, every time Mr. Fu stuck in the middle of the two of them to make a light bulb, and there was another Li Xie who stuck in the middle, so the atmosphere suddenly eased a lot.

"What do you want to eat today? Why don't you go to the technical school restaurant behind my alma mater last time, which happens to be not far away, Bailong Lixie, what do you think?"

When discussing this matter on the way here, Fu Bailong, who was sitting in the back of the car and leaning against the window thinking about something, didn't expect it to be so abrupt.

Before that, he didn't seriously participate in the conversation of the other three people in the car. Instead, he kept thinking about what happened two nights ago.

"Boss, boss."

"Ok?"

Hearing Rachel calling him by his side, Fu Bailong frowned once again in a trance.

"You were distracted just now, and you have been staring at the flower on the conference table."

"..."

"Are you thinking again..."

"To shut up.

Rachel's reminder from behind made Fu Bailong, who was sitting in front of a group of subordinates who were holding a meeting with arms folded, and his thoughts and expressions returned to normal, interrupted her speculation with a cold tone.

Seeing this, the secretary, who was warned, silently held the folder and carefully zipped her mouth, but when she lowered her head, the corners of her mouth still had a slight curvature.

So, when he turned his head and saw Fu Bailong returning to the office alone, then turning his head to call someone with his mobile phone, Rachel Zhang, who was silently laughing, was not surprised.

['Dip - you have a new incoming call communication. ']

['Contact: Tyrannosaurus Rex']

10: 31am

Old apartment house in steel factory

When the "Taiwei Youyuanyi" with the joystick above his head reminded him that there was a phone call looking for him accompanied by the light of the blue communication device.

He took off his vest, picked up the chairs and dismantled the assortment of sofas under his house. Right now, Li Xie was lying on the ground adjusting the mechanical roller device. Li Xie, who was wearing a black rehabilitation belt around his scarred waist, was just repairing his man-machine. .

The black special material armor in his hand inevitably caused a small amount of battle damage because he saved people in the oil field building last time. It just happened that he was fine at home today, so he will try again when he finds time.

['Device program repair progress, please do not shut down - 20%, 40%, 50%... drop!drop!WARNING WARNING!The spinal nerve connection to man-machine failed!The matching degree is zero! ']

Not surprisingly, with his current physical condition, there is still no way to truly complete a 100% match with his human and machine.

Li Xie, who didn't do any normal protection for himself at the moment, was hit hard under the sofa by the impact rebounded in an instant from the device.

This time, his waist and back were all brought down by something next to him.

Half of his body was so immobilized that he could only lie on the ground like a paralyzed person who had lost the ability to walk. Li Xie, who was lying on the ground, couldn't recover from the impact for a long time.

He gritted his teeth and his chest was filled with the smell of blood after the violent impact. He half-covered his waist and abdomen that was almost broken with his hands and fell to the ground in pain for almost a minute before he recovered.

But the moment he straightened his waist, he coughed up a lot of blood from his throbbing throat.

Seeing this, Li Xie wiped it with his hand, then hurried to the bathroom to rinse it before falling back on the ground.

After a long time, his back and arms were so purple that he hissed annoyedly and got up shaking on the floor, and leaned against the wall in a bad mood to wrap a hemostatic tape around the back of his bleeding hand.

Right now, after tidying up and starting over, the dismantled sofa above his head is hanging upside down like an arbitrary door, filled with metal parts of various models, colors and functions, tension sensing devices and various An electromechanical component.

'Taiwei Youyuanyi', as his most loyal assistant for many years, turned into a pure black metal protective cover to block his eyes and face.

And took a sparking pressure repair gun to repair this thing for a long time.

He tried to put the piece of armor that should belong to his arm back to its original position according to the combat status. Li Xie, who was lying on the floor of the living room with bare feet, just finished the first stage of repairs. One of them was not careful. Look, you can guess whose call came.

"What's wrong, is something wrong?"

The moment he picked up the phone, he was squinting his eyes and adjusting his human-machine electronic circuit through the blue light screen in the mid-air of the living room.

He's actually in a bad mood today.

Even if he had a good word with someone, he couldn't lift his mood, but when he saw that it was Fu Bailong who called, he subconsciously answered it even though he obviously had something to do.

"Chen Zhen and Lu Yiming came to us for dinner."

"..."

"What time are you free? Let's meet outside in advance and then go see them."

This question made Li Xie, who was lying on his back on the ground, silent for a while.

When he raised his eyes and glanced at the time above the electronic screen, he thought about it.

He still had the scratches on his face that he had dealt with before. According to his habit in advance, he shouldn't go out in public, but after thinking about it, he adjusted the communication device behind his ear with one hand. replied,

"An hour later, you wait for me to find you."

"..."

"Wait for me downstairs when you're done."

"Ah."

After the two of them finished speaking so simply, they both hung up the phone without any thought.

It's the same as before when the relationship was not familiar at all, and the words were still not speculative, and they didn't seem to have much to say when they met face to face.

Some things that night were automatically ignored by the two of them.

But when Li Xie hung up the call with the other party, he was still lying on the cold floor and looked at the blue light screen above his head for a while, and for a while there were a few blurry photos of the task objects floating on it. god.

Fu Bailong.

Looking at the three words written down separately, I feel indescribable.

If one day his mission in Longjiang is completely over.

This is the only phone in this world that keeps coming to him, maybe it will completely disappear in his communication.

After that, Li Xie didn't think about it any further.

Looking at his bruised side face as if someone had punched his eyes and cheeks hard, he put on a hemostatic band-aid and went out in a grand manner. When Fu Bailong saw him, he frowned and asked, "You What's the matter with the face, he just pulled the corners of his mouth pretending to be sluggish.

"Oh, I accidentally bumped into it while walking. The sun is too big this day. Be careful next time."

But at this moment, going back to the question Chen Zhen asked in the car at the beginning, Fu Bailong obviously still doesn't like to participate too much in his own opinions when other people discuss their opinions.

"Farewell, change to another one."

At this moment, Li Xie, who was sitting next to him, spoke.

"Huh? Why, brother? Don't you like that?"

Lu Yiming asked.

"Yes, it's better to change to a cleaner and quieter house. Too many people will make it noisy. It should be near Fu Bailong's company. He must have something to go back in the afternoon."

"..."

His behavior, compared with the way he deliberately confronted Fu Bailong every time before, definitely seemed normal, and it was much more abnormal.

When Chen Zhen was told this, he immediately remembered the fact that Fu Bailong was not in a good mood the last time he went to that restaurant. He immediately changed his mind, agreed to Li Xie's suggestion, and came to this restaurant today.

This time, as expected, everyone was happy.

Fu Bailong, who used to be cold-faced to Lu Yiming every time and didn't even want to reply, was able to communicate with him relatively friendly this time. This, I have to say, surprised Lu Yiming himself.

"Is that service robot okay in your house?"

"...Oh, it's good, hehe, I specially prepared a lot of gifts for him, he likes our new home very much, but he just doesn't want to sleep in bed, he just stays in the kitchen, the two of us at night, and Chen Zhen will play games all night together, Brother Bailong, you can come to our house with my brother next time, we play games together, and we can also eat the steak made by Chen Zhen..."

"Don't always let him download things from the Internet. Remember to give him regular maintenance, otherwise the repair time will be shortened, and the electronics factory will call you. Be serious about this kind of thing."

Fu Bailong probably felt that he was unreliable in doing things like his brother, and Fu Bailong, who always felt that the service robot was a little unsafe in daily life, frowned and added.

"Yeah, I will definitely do it, Brother Bailong!"

When Lu Yiming said this, he smiled at him showing his small canine teeth, but Fu Bailong pretended coldly that he had listened to it, so he didn't say anything.

It just so happened that the four of them came out to eat together this day.

Chen Zhen's original intention was to say that the few people haven't seen each other for a long time, are they discussing to find a place to get together again, or that they made an appointment to meet up around Longjiang recently, so another matter was suddenly discussed during the meeting .

"Fangshan, two days and one night bird watching camp?"

Upon hearing this familiar place name, Fu Bailong, who instantly remembered what the middle-aged man said at the dinner party, also asked a question.

Before that, he asked Rachel Zhang to investigate this Fangshan privately.

But I found that apart from the practice of bird watching by tourists on the top of the mountain, and the accident almost 20 years ago, this place is an ordinary semi-altitude mountain area that can no longer be ordinary.

Just to say something special, it should be that there are two names in the mountaineering team 20 years ago that he is very familiar with, and the names of the two missing persons have appeared in his father's past diary.

——[32 comrades from the China Outer Space Administration and I have been preparing for it for many years from the Qinling Celestial Life Base Station, and [-]:[-] tonight is the time for a thorough acceptance of the results. 】

——【Today's scientific research team's menu is Shaoxing wine and mutton. I heard that our logistics staff, Comrade Zhao Bo, is originally from Shaanxi. Tonight's stewed mutton tendon with radish is really delicious. It can make people eat three more bowls of rice. 】

——[JR Sams and Comrade Xiao Chen suggested that we could take a group photo for everyone before leaving. 】

This excerpt from the diary was seen by Fu Bailong a few years ago.

Zhao Bo from Shaanxi and the foreigner JR Samus are two of the missing persons who disappeared in the mountaineering team.

He once guessed whether that little Comrade Chen was Chen Zhen's father.

Because at that time, his father and Chen Zhen's father were indeed very close. Chen Zhen's father was short in stature when he was young, and other teachers in the school, regardless of gender, called him Xiao Chen.

But since Chen Zhen's father hadn't returned to China for the past two years, he couldn't verify it until he encountered what happened this time.

He didn't know if there was any connection between all of this, but if not, everything in the dark would be too coincidental.

"Yes! It's a weekend course held by Longjiang University before. Chen Zhen gave this class to the students in the class. There are many kinds of birds in the forest of Fangshan this season, and they will pass from Longjiang to Rehe. , Shenyang finally flew to a place that is very warm in winter. If you go to the foot of the mountain to prepare for weekend camping, you only need to bring binoculars and tents to spend the night there. You can observe a lot of migrating migratory birds. In the morning, you can go up the mountain like other tourists in the forest area. , I heard it's very interesting..."

"Brother, Brother Bailong, if the four of us go together at that time, we can drive a car and bring two tents, and then we can go back and forth on weekends without delaying your work, right? We can also take pictures under the mountain There are many pictures of birds, this is the first time we have the opportunity to walk around after returning to China, do you two have time too? Are you interested?"

These words were said by Lu Yiming who seemed to have done his homework in advance and stared at them with sparkling eyes like a puppy.

Fangshan is indeed very close to Longjiang in terms of distance.

It took less than an hour to drive there, and there were also well-repaired roads on the road.

It is surrounded by natural forest farms heavily surrounded by barbed wire.

Above is the mountaintop forest and hilltops covered with a layer of mist in mid-air this season, and below is a large area where tourists can occasionally enter camping and bird watching.

It is now mid-November, and from a climatological point of view, it is the time when a large number of local migratory birds are storing food and preparing to start migrating.

Birds take away winter and bring spring.

Like some kind of mysterious manipulator of the natural climate, most of these birds are so diverse that even humans can't remember their names. They are active in the city of the sky in Fangshan, which is shrouded in gray fog all year round.

"When I was abroad, I heard about the phenomenon of birds migrating suddenly overnight. Unlike us, birds have a variety of species and subspecies, and as they have experienced the Cretaceous, Cold There are also ancient creatures from the dinosaur era in Wuji, and their gene family tree secrets are far more than what we now imagine in the scientific community, and they are 60% similar to humans."

"About 20 years ago, Fangshan was also visited by a seven-member mountaineering team. Although some members were stranded in the mountain due to an accident, many of the notes and samples they left behind later affected the world. I heard that the team with special members came from Qinjiang back then, and it was a very famous mountaineering expedition..."

"But we are all modern now. If we don't go up the mountain, there are protective fences at the foot of the mountain to prevent some raptors from infesting and hurting people. Everyone also has mobile phones, computers and communication devices on them. It is impossible for us to say that we will not call for help when we encounter any trouble. In the past month, there have been several waves of tourists coming and going. Coupled with the observation and photography of birds during migration, it is a good way to observe their body changes during migration. Generally speaking, it is very It is suitable for a few friends to go camping together, this time there will be two students who have already been there last week, Li Xie, Bailong, are you interested in going together?"

Chen Zhen said this from his own professional perspective.

To a certain extent, it aroused the interest of Fu Bailong who was listening.

Originally, he had to spend the night outside, and then he might have to sleep in a tent with someone, and he would never participate in it.

But it was related to the mysterious Fangshan, which is located in the north of the Longjiang River and is covered with fog all the year round. What he and Lu Yiming said just now reminded him of the follow-up to the previous two mysterious subspecies incidents for some reason. .

"I'm fine, but I don't know if he's going or not."

When Fu Bailong said this, it was obvious who the "he" in the words was referring to.

He doesn't like to help others make up their own minds on this kind of matter.

And if Li Xie didn't go, it would be easier for him to move around to check the situation by himself, so after speaking, he waited for the person next to him who absolutely couldn't possibly want to go to the open-air tent with him to simply refuse.

What he didn't expect was that after hearing their conversation about Fang Shan and the bird, Li Xie uncharacteristically did not speak immediately.

For a long time, just when Fu Bailong thought he was going to reject the matter, this guy slowly raised his black eyes, put down the knife and fork in his hand as if inadvertently, and said something inexplicably.

"Okay, I have no objection, Fangshan? I'll go too."

"Hey! Brother, is it true! Are you free this time!?"

"Yes, there must be my baby brother."

With Li Xie's words, the four people's weekend activities in Fangshan were settled because of this word.

Although in the end he didn't explain why he decided to go this time.

He only said that he was the big brother and wanted to spend time with Lu Yiming, but in the next few days, they all made some preparations for camping on the mountain, and they pushed aside other things together on the weekend, and made an appointment Go to Fangshan together.