Veteran Cadre and Bug Chief [Interstellar]

The blackout curtain is meticulously guarded in front of the window, sticking to its post, silently blocking all the natural light that tries to break into the room, thanks to its serious and responsible work attitude, the sleeping subject in the room sleeps very peacefully in the quiet darkness , regular breathing.

But soon, the conscientious blackout curtain did not expect that although it successfully resisted the "foreign enemy invasion" for its owner, it could not prevent "internal troubles and chaos".

The button-sized instrument monitor on the wall suddenly lit up, and its warning light flashed rapidly, indicating that the instrument it monitored had started to operate.The light, which seemed inconspicuous in the daytime, was extremely bright against the darkness. It flickered at a rapid frequency, and within half a cycle, it successfully woke up Qi Fei who was sleeping soundly on the bed against the wall.

Qi Fei only felt a stray light flickering outside his eyelids. He was awakened by the sudden light, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the monitor on the wall that was working hard to send out a warning.

When he saw the monitor that was on, Qi Fei subconsciously glanced at the time——

It is now 02:30 in the morning, and after thirty minutes of the cycle, it will be time for the night patrol team to hand over the post. At this time, three full cycles have passed since he finished his visit and left the room of the bug chief next door.

Could it be that the other party was so disturbed after tonight's conversation that it was difficult to fall asleep until now?

With doubts in his heart, Qi Fei manually stopped the blinking indicator light of the monitor, and then checked the monitor installed on the wall.

The vertical distance between the two-way monitor and the bed is not far away. Using Qi Fei’s height as a reference, he only needs to straighten his upper body and sit up on the bed, so that his head is exactly at the same level as the monitor. Qi Fei's height is almost the same, this placement is extremely intriguing.But Qi Fei is obviously not in the mood to pay attention to this right now, he frowned after checking the monitor.

If the Chief Insect next door is in a state of mind late at night and is determined to turn on the monitor to peek at him quietly, no matter whether Qi Fei accepts such behavior, at least he can understand the other party's motives.But the current situation is that the two-way monitor is indeed turned on, and it is also playing its monitoring role, but what it turns on is not the surveillance camera facing Qi Fei - it turns on the camera facing A1211 next door.

Qi Fei silently looked at the "Confirm" button that had been suspended in mid-air. He only needed to touch the other party lightly, and the monitoring light screen would stand up in front of his eyes, honestly broadcasting to him what was happening in the next room.

Qi Fei: "..."

Not sure what the Zerg next door was thinking, Sen Sen, an old cadre Qi, felt that his upright style was being challenged. Tonight, he had already been taken by the other party to act as a "smelly" who pressed on "good family and good bugs" for a while. Rogue", now his "rogue index" is suspected to be facing the temptation to upgrade again, the other party quietly turned on the surveillance camera on the side next door, and threw a seductive branch at him silently encouraging him to peek at the next door.

Qi Fei didn't let himself think for too long, he showed the honest thinking and action that a veteran cadre should possess.

Veteran cadre Qi frowned, silently clicked the little cross next to the "Confirm" button, and refused to turn on the light screen.

Almost at the moment the "Confirm" button disappeared, the subtle sound of the instrument stopped.

Qi Fei guessed that the person next door had noticed his refusal, so he took the initiative to turn off the instrument, but this idea had just formed in his mind, and the next second, the instrument suddenly started working again.

The monitor whose indicator light had been manually turned off before was in response to the operation of the monitor, and the high-frequency flickering light quickly lit up a corner of the wall, reminding Qi Fei that the next door still seemed to have not given up on his "temptation cause" against him.

Qi Fei: "..."

In all respects, Chief Insect is indeed an indomitable object.

Qi Fei thought silently. He was about to reach out to turn off the indicator light and confirmation button again, when he saw the indicator light go off again, and the natural noise of the instrument stopped again.He retracted his arm and glanced at the time carefully. The instrument and the indicator light suddenly turned on again after about two cycles, and the noise echoed the flashing frequency of the indicator light.

A certain thought suddenly appeared in Qi Fei's heart, he changed his sitting posture and leaned against the wall quietly.

The monitoring device stopped working soon, and the indicator lights stopped flashing. Qi Fei held his breath in the silent darkness, paying attention to the movement next door.

Then he caught a tiny, dull bump.

"Boom!"

As if a solid heavy object hit the wall, Qi Fei felt a slight vibration on the wall he was leaning against. At the same time, the monitor was activated again, and the indicator light of the monitor flashed.

Qi Fei recalled the lines he had just seen next door tonight. They were exposed on the wall without the usual safety embedding treatment. Among those lines, there were two main control lines that were directly connected to the activation of the two-way camera. button, when the watch button is accidentally damaged, directly control the two main control lines, and also control the start of the camera.

Qi Fei was a little worried about the abnormal activation of the instrument and the slight impact sound from the next door.

Although the comprehensive body data of the advanced Zerg is much better than that of humans, with stronger tolerance and faster self-healing speed, they will still cause injuries under the impact of electric current exceeding the safe volts.

Qi Fei was worried about whether Mr. Chong was being electrified into an "electric bug" next door because of improper wiring, connecting his body to the wiring and using his body as a conductor for the instrument to operate.

On weekdays, this inexplicable worry would definitely be labeled as "unreliable" by Qi Fei, and he would delete it with a paralyzed face not long after it appeared, but unfortunately his thinking has been blocked today. With more than half of the belt, and considering that Yan next door is also preoccupied tonight, it is not without the possibility of safety accidents due to absent-mindedness.Qi Fei sat against the wall for a while, and when he heard the third slight impact, he turned on the communication terminal, trying to find out the contact information of a Zerg, and asked the other party to go and see their chief, but he only opened the communication terminal after he turned on the communication terminal. He found that he didn't have the communication code of any Zerg fighter - not even the one next door.

The vicious and kind-hearted old cadre Qi stood at the door of A1211 after three rounds. He rang the call bell that he had just rang a few rounds ago, but this time the person inside seemed to be unable to hear the bell. After ringing the bell twice, nothing happened.

When Yan Zai Qi Fei rang the call bell, he was falling into a long-lost dream.

The content of the conversation tonight made him face some questions that he had been deliberately avoiding before. He thought that after sending Qi Fei away, he would toss and turn, and it would be difficult to fall asleep because he was stuck in thinking all night, but in fact, he He fell asleep shortly after laying on the bed.

Yan dreamed of himself.

"Hisself" in an alternate universe.

He stood beside "myself" and saw the other party standing with Qi Fei in another universe from the perspective of a third person. At the beginning of the dream, he didn't realize who the two figures were, until he saw them clearly It was only then that he subconsciously wanted to step over.

But when Yan pulled out his legs in the dream, he realized that half of his body was stuck in the mud, his feet were weak and weak, unable to exert strength in the wet and sticky mud, he tried to struggle twice, trying to find A little help to get out of this predicament, but all around him was the same muddy mud, and there was nothing to support him.

The other "self" and Qi Fei changed positions at some point. They were standing far away on the hard ground, facing each other, talking.

Although Yan couldn't see the specific expressions of the two parties, he intuitively felt that the atmosphere of the conversation there must be very good, relaxed and happy. He stood still in the mud for a long time, until he felt that he was sinking slowly. You can ask each other for help.

In the dream, he didn't seem to know that he was dreaming, and he didn't feel that there was anything unusual about having another "self". He watched Qi Fei and his "self" standing on the hard ground open their mouths, trying to ask them to talk to each other. He gave it to himself, but the moment he opened his mouth, the original slow sinking suddenly accelerated.

There was no time to struggle, and he sank into the sticky, foul-smelling mud.

The wet and soft dirt came from all directions, and they scrambled to pour into every hole in his body. He was tightly wrapped by them, and his limbs felt cold, and everything he did was futile.

But even though he already believed that any struggle was futile, his limbs still followed the instinct of survival and swiped twice in the surrounding mud.

The palm seemed to have finally touched something real, and the linear object could not support his body at all, but Yan still instinctively grasped it in his hand—even though his hand felt a little numb because of it, in After the paralysis came a burning pain.

Look, even the "life-saving straw" he grabbed at the last moment was not a competent life-saving straw.

The original intention of the "life-saving straw" coming to him was not to save him, not to give him psychological comfort, but to make him feel more pain before he was completely suffocated.

He didn't deserve any salvation at all.

...But this is not the "straw" that came to save him, but it is the only thing he can grab at the end.

Regardless of the already paralyzed fingertips, Yan tried his best to grab as many "straws" as possible, but fate seemed to be very harsh on him, and even refused to leave him the last item that would cause harm .

He felt his hand suddenly empty, as if an external force forcibly pulled away the "straw" that would cause pain.Before he had time to laugh at himself for the ending that he still had nothing in the end, fate was suddenly generous to him again.

The analogy may not be appropriate, but Yan feels like a stem plant growing in the soil. He has been dug out by a pair of hands that are not afraid of the dirt of the mud, and the other party is careful to pat him. of silt.

The owner of those hands said, "Wake up."