Most Wanted [Interstellar]

Chapter 14

Schlieffen rejected Alvin's request. He said that medical alcohol is now a valuable commodity and he cannot be allowed to squander like this.

"The topic you just said scared him." Ivan (the antique robot) sensed the delicate atmosphere, so it expressed its judgment to Ivan.

This made Schlieffen kick it again when he passed by.

This small planet also has the concept of night. These days, Schlieffen has gradually gotten used to the time of work and rest. He wants to go to sleep now. He really doesn't like such crazy topics.

"If he suddenly gets sick, come and knock on my door." Shilieffen said something to Ivan and went back to his room.

The main control room fell silent, and Erwin breathed a sigh of relief.After saying those words just now, he felt a little relieved, as if a secret was finally shared by him.

He didn't know the composition of the medicine injected into his body back then, but it didn't seem to cause irreversible damage to his brain. The 50 years of "freezing" actually... Speaking of it, it brought more physical discomfort …If he was healthy and able to move freely, he probably wouldn't be abnormal enough to say so much to a stranger.

What's more, it's an alpha...

Whether it's the gentle Planck or the frisky Schlieffen, the essence is the same.

If you can no longer bring benefits to the other party, then the other party should... right?Alvin smiled to himself... This is alpha...

Schlieffen didn't know how Erwin thought of him. In the past two days, he changed his nervousness from the previous few days, and fell asleep as soon as he lay on the bed.

After sleeping for an indeterminate amount of time, the door was knocked loudly, and he opened his eyes in a daze—it was Ivan, not that Irwin was ill, but because of another earthquake.

The ashes on the wall landed on his face.

"Bah bah bah."

"Mr. Schlieffen, the heating system is alarming. Please keep warm until it is repaired. The temperature in the room will drop to a minimum of two degrees Celsius."

Schlieffen turned over and was about to continue sleeping, but the temperature in the room began to drop rapidly, so he had no choice but to get up and put on his combat coat.

"Antique, is it repaired?" He called out the door.

"Not yet. If you feel cold, you can come out. The heating outside is good." It was Alvin who answered him.

After waiting for a while, the temperature did get lower, and there was nothing in this small room except a mattress, so Schlieffen had to zip up his coat and walk out.

The control room was still warm. Schlieffen stretched his body. He saw that the characters on the main control screen had changed to the hydropower engineering diagram of the astronomical monitoring station. The room he was in was now marked as faulty. The earthquake may have damaged the equipment. .

"Ivan is repairing."

"Can that antique fix this place?" Schlieffen expressed doubts.

"It's been working here for many years, and I wouldn't have been able to maintain the equipment myself when I was here."

Makes sense, but Evan failed to fix the heater.

"Don't keep kicking it." Alvin sincerely hoped that Alpha would not be so irritable.

Schlieffen kicked it anyway: "This is obviously a joke with it, okay?"

Evan:"……"

Ivan checked the entire heating system again, but in the end it still couldn't be repaired.Alvin had no choice but to take over its maintenance report: "The entire monitoring station is not big, but the geothermal power source of the heating equipment is two different devices. From the drawings, all the pipes are good, and it is very likely that the power equipment is faulty. Problem. The room you live in shares a geothermal power source with the outlying rooms, and the easiest solution is to lug your bed to the main control room to sleep."

"Can't the geothermal power source be repaired?"

Alvin remained patient and explained to him: "The geothermal power source is not at the base, it is in a place with geothermal heat, far away from here."

"I'm going to fix it."

"..." Alvin gave up explaining, "Whatever, I can give you the engineering drawings."

Schlieffen plugged his own nerve plug into the small socket that had charged him. Fortunately, everything was normal this time, and he just gave him engineering drawings and maintenance instructions.Then he began to pack up with ping-pong-pong, using Alpha's abundant energy to assemble the maintenance tools required in the guide.

Erwin didn't know whether he was really sleeping or pretending to be asleep, anyway, he closed his eyes and ignored him.

After Schlieffen got everything ready, Alvin was woken up by him.

He shook the start card of the geological survey vehicle in his hand: "You come with me."

"?"

"Do you know?" Schlieffen scratched his nose, "You are full of crazy thoughts about life and death, I can't leave you here alone, it's too scary."

"As long as you don't mess with the plugs, you won't get electrocuted! These have nothing to do with my crazy ideas, Mr. Schlieffen."

"..." Schlieffen shook his head, "What I mean is—I don't want to see you foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground when I come back. Of course, you also reminded me, who knew you would do that?" What, Frankenstein, you have to come with me."

"..."

But before picking him up from the wheelchair, Schlieffen asked his will: "Would you like it?"

"Whatever," Alvin said.

The temperature outside was very low, Schlieffen took off his combat coat and put it on Erwin.The geological survey vehicle had already been parked by him at the door, he put Irwin on the seat and tied it up, then returned to the room by himself and carried out the precious first aid kit he brought out of the mecha.

"How does this car drive?"

"It's about the same as a cleaning car."

"Very good! I like this kind of electric car that is easy to operate." Schlieffen started the car, and the two-seater survey car with simple equipment drove on the rugged stone road.

"Oh!" Schlieffen yelled, seemingly very happy.

"Come on, you were depressed six hours ago." Alvin sat next to him, wondering what he was excited about.

"Maybe this is alpha, I don't want to be a poor guy, I like to live every day enthusiastically."

"Passively live every day? Your passion includes dismantling the control board of the camera in the main control room and connecting it to your own chip? Isn't it fun to stay in the small room and spy on me every day?"

"...you know..." Shilieffen closed his screaming mouth.

"Yeah! It's nice to have a chance to say what I know."

"..."

"Since you like to fix things, take the time to fix my camera when you get back."

"Oh……"

The geological survey vehicle was driving forward with twists and turns, and the headlights projected on the ground could only see a short distance. Schlieffen probably kept tugging on his sleeve because he was afraid that he would be thrown out.The geological survey vehicle has no windows, and the wind blows in from all directions. When the astronomical monitoring station behind it is completely submerged in darkness, it seems that only the two of them are left in the whole world.

Alvin was in a daze, and Schlieffen suddenly turned his head and said to him: "Do you know why everyone hates you? Because not everyone wants to make human beings more 'advanced', look, the world you are in now How cute."

"..."

Schlieffen turned his head and looked forward: "If I am destined to die here, I hope to use the last time to persuade you to give up your evil plan. Although you are a 116-year-old man who claims to be a scholar, in my eyes you are A naive little fool. You don't know anything, well, you're a little fool."

Calling people who are much older than themselves "little xx" is something that only an alpha can do.Galen likes to call Anne cute, although Annie is neither small nor cute at all.

After Plank left, Annie, as the vice president, was about to shoulder the heavy responsibility of reporting to Mr. President, and Anne was nervous and afraid of it.

The Federation has expanded to dozens of galaxies, but there is only one president. People in this position are generally loved by the people, but they are unlikely to be liked by his subordinates.

Dwight Adams is not tall, with dark skin, and he doesn't look high-profile enough.Before he became president, he worked in the Ministry of Finance for many years. The Ministry of Finance is the most difficult department of the entire federal government. Not to mention the writing and release of those damn drafts, just the budget allocation at the beginning of each year can kill people. From here People who come out have their own merits.

Adams does not have any great academic qualifications. He is different from the ex-president with a flamboyant personality. He is probably able to get to this day because of his steady style of acting.

He couldn't say who he particularly liked, but he especially disliked Planck because he was too shrewd.Most alphas have a strong desire to control, but this desire to control is just a stupid instinct, but Planck is different. His IQ can turn his desire to control from a desire into a real thing.

This is a headache.

To be honest, he doesn't believe that a former researcher of a mere college federation will cause much damage, and he also doesn't believe that Planck will completely stand on the government's side to solve this problem. All in all, this situation just makes him understand more To-the current College Federation has too much power, and it is indeed a cancer left by the previous government.

"Mr. President, Anne Schubert, vice president of the Federation, has arrived in the reception room."

Adams clicked on the communicator: "Let her come to my office."

"Okay, Mr. President."

Adams's office is very luxurious, this classical decoration makes Annie a little dizzy, the last time the president saw her was five years ago, but thinking about it today still makes her terrified.

"Hello, Mr. President." Annie saluted and sat in her seat.

"Are you feeling better? Tea or coffee?"

Annie wanted to say no, but she dared not, she chose tea.

After the tea was served, Adams directly cut to the point this time: "I hope to get an objective assessment of Irwin Hellman. Although President Planck has made some promises to me, I think some information is still not enough Exactly. Planck said that after he leaves, you will continue to investigate and give me a detailed report, is the report out now?"

Anne was relieved by the straight-forward way of talking, and she took out the materials she had prepared: "He graduated from an industrial college affiliated to the Federation of Colleges, and later studied biology and obtained a Ph. He has developed the front end of the Owen system, so he is very clear about the structure of the entire system, this time... I think his main purpose is to destroy the big black hole used for the transition."

"That's a military facility. Does he have a personal grudge against the military?" To be honest, Adams didn't quite understand Marshal Johannes' anger when he talked about the technician.

"I don't really understand this..." Anne especially hates this kind of topic about interpersonal relationships, "But according to what I know about Alvin, he is not a person who is easily swayed by emotions, we can't think about ordinary crimes. Molecular thinking to think about him."

"Since you said you know him better, I'd like to hear your opinion of him." Adams smiled.

Annie felt a headache for a while, she thought about the wording: "He... is a person with a lot of ideas, but most of his ideas are limited to scientific research, and I rarely hear him comment on others."

Adams was also looking through his profile: "Yeah, yeah, but I heard he and Johannes had a lot of fights."

"At that time, Alvin and I were responsible for the implantation of the Owen system in the military department, so it is normal to have some quarrels."

"You like to speak for him."

"?" Annie gave him a puzzled look.

"This person was going to be tried..." Adams glanced at the report again, "When this Irwin was involved, the Omega Promotion Council suddenly asked to intervene in the investigation. I was deeply impressed by this incident. This kind of thing is rare. you know?"

Annie's face turned pale all of a sudden.

"So, he was not sentenced to death." The smile on Adams' face disappeared, "Then he was handed over to the College Federation to handle it by himself. I remember it well?"

Adams stood up and walked to the window. Looking out from his office, he could see the largest landscape lawn on Titan. The lawn was installed with a temperature control system, so it was like new all year round.

Although tourists are welcome to come here for sightseeing, there is actually no one here... If I had known this, I shouldn't have approved the suggestion of the Federation and just built this place into a parking lot.

I think so, but Adams is actually a good person. He is not going to continue to intimidate the inexperienced vice president. He pretended to look at the distance for a while and then returned to his desk: "I will report your report later. Look carefully, but I don’t want the military to misunderstand you or us. After all, this Alvin hacked the military system and destroyed the big black hole. If I were the marshal, I would go crazy too. Outside There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the galaxy waiting for supplies, this is not a trivial matter! The police and the prosecutor's office will intervene, and I hope the Academy Federation will fully cooperate."

Annie is indeed new to the world, but she still knows what the president means by 'fully cooperating'. She nodded like a good student.

"Then, I'm leaving the report here, President. Goodbye." Annie walked out of the President's Office, looking more reserved than when she entered.

"You're frightening the little girl, her blood pressure must be high right now," Adams' chip said to him.

Adams never felt that the implant system developed by the Federation of Colleges would give him any wise advice, and he suggested it instead: "Planck deliberately put me in contact with his vice president in order to dispel his suspicions, although they It's not clean. I know a lot about alphas. Although not many of them can survive, they won't be fools once they survive. Of course, I'm not going to underestimate the beta vice president, tell the secretary , I hope the procuratorate will investigate her carefully, and it's best to get ahead of the military department."

In the content that Annie did not report, she speculated about Alvin's purpose and next move. In fact, she is indeed a person who understands Alvin, and what Alvin thinks is indeed similar to what she guessed.

Therefore, he who was stuffed into the geological survey vehicle and forced to participate in maintenance work seemed thoughtful, but echoed Schlieffen's words word by word.

"Wow!" Schlieffen yelled suddenly.

Alpha screams really loudly... If Erwin could move his hands, he would have plugged his ears long ago.

"We're here!" Schlieffen shouted excitedly, pointing forward.

The geological survey vehicle stopped 300 meters away from the destination. There was a huge ground fissure 300 meters away. Although no magma spewed out, this long dark red light band was very special in the dark surface environment. Spectacular and very eye-catching, the steaming heat came from a distance, hitting people's faces.

Schlieffen helped him unzip his jacket, and then changed the setting of the survey car to purely manual driving.

"This natural landscape is really magnificent! It's like a red river of light!" Schlieffen was driving the car, almost jumping up in the driver's seat.

"Yes, yes," Alvin said in a flat tone, "This ground fissure is very deep and the temperature is very high. The receiver of the geothermal source is in the canyon. I hope you can repair the equipment before being hit by the hot flowstone. Let's hope this old survey vehicle pulls you up before you get roasted dry."

"..."

"What are you looking at me for? You came here on your own, I wish you good luck." Alvin's mouth twitched, "Hehe."