Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

The next day, at dawn, Xue Yelai and Bai Yang went up the mountain.

The ground is full of dew, and the weeds are overgrown.The tall and towering wild poplar trees cover the dark forest even deeper.

Xue Yelai picked up a leaf.He had read in books that in Greek mythology, poplar (Leuce) was the symbolic tree of Hades, the king of the underworld.Poplar leaves have different colors on the front and back, one side is light white and the other side is dark.It is said that this represents the duality of heaven and hell.

Bai Yang stepped on the fallen leaves and weeds, walking steadily ahead, it seemed that the dim light did not affect his vision at all.Xue Yelai stepped up to keep up with him.

"Where are you going?"

"Go to a high place and look at the terrain." Bai Yang didn't turn his head.

Not long after he left, Xue Yelai's physical strength gradually became too much.He rarely even climbs the stairs, let alone walks in the mountains.But Ming said it was too embarrassing, so he gritted his teeth and insisted.

Bai Yang stopped suddenly and turned to look somewhere deep in the woods.Then he turned onto a side road, pushed aside the bushes, and walked slowly to the edge of a steep slope to look down.

Xue Yelai wanted to follow curiously, but Bai Yang suddenly stretched out an arm to block him.

"What?" Xue Yelai was taken aback.

"Hold me." Bai Yang's tone was still calm, "The terrain here is not stable, you will fall."

Xue Yelai grabbed his arm and stepped on his foot tentatively.The gravel covered by weeds was indeed loose, bouncing and rolling down to the bottom of the slope around his toes.Xue Yelai's eyes followed them all the way down, and suddenly, a large area of ​​transparent emerald crystals in the valley came to his eyes, crystal clear and clear.

"This is... a lake?" Xue Yelai gasped in surprise, "Is it really a lake?"

"You seem to find it very fresh." Bai Yang seemed to be playing with his expression.

"I've never seen a real lake." Xue Ye couldn't take his eyes off it, and repeatedly praised, "It's so beautiful, so beautiful."

His family has a mansion of thousands of square meters, a home garden that condenses various scenery, and even an artificial lake under the window of his study.But he has never seen a natural water since he was a child.

"It's a pity that it's spring now, and the temperature is still too low." Xue Yelai pulled his uniform jacket regretfully, "If it's summer, I really want to jump in for a swim."

Bai Yang looked at him from top to heel, "Can you swim?"

"Of course, there are swimming lessons at school."

Bai Yang bent his lips, "Swimming in the lake is different."

From his emotions, Xue Yelai caught a strange fluctuation.It's faint, but there it is, with some kind of danger signal.

"Let's go, let's continue up the mountain." Bai Yang turned and returned to the right path.Xue Yelai's arm was pulled by him, and his footsteps moved with him involuntarily.

At this moment, Bai Yang looked like an elegant and gentlemanly dancer, but Xue Yelai's thoughts slipped to another place - if Bai Yang wanted to kill him here, it would be really easy.

He studied fencing and fighting in school, and his grades were very good.However, in front of a real fighter, the skills he thought he could use for self-defense are nothing but paper shelves.Just like a person who can swim freely in a swimming pool may easily die in natural waters.

"How do you know there is a lake there?" Xue Yelai asked as he walked, "From the road we are walking now, we can't see that at all."

"I can feel it." Bai Yang said lightly, "I like water very much, and I can smell that smell from a long distance away."

"What's your sign? I guess it's a water sign. Um... Pisces?"

"I don't know my birthday."

Xue Yelai realized that he had said the wrong thing again, lowered his eyes, and suddenly found that Bai Yang was still holding his arm.Bai Yang's five slender fingers wrapped around his wrist, and he could feel the slightly cool temperature through his clothes.

Speaking of it, Bai Yang's breath and temperature seem to be so cool.Like a piece of jade, even if the surface is infected with the body temperature of others, it still maintains the coldness inside.

——What kind of person is this?

Following the steps, Xue Yelai's mind floated two lines of Juliet's lines:

Myonlylovesprungfrommyonlyhate

Too early seen unknown, and known toolate.

(my only love is my only enemy

We got to know each other too late, but met too quickly. )

After scouting the terrain for a day, Xue Yelai can almost conclude that eight out of ten tasks in the third phase are actual combat exercises.There are several high grounds on the mountain that can obviously be used as strongholds. Perhaps the examiner will plant a flag on one of them, and the gendarmerie will act as the offensive force of the Interstellar Federation, and the candidates will act as the imperial defense force to hold the flag within a limited time.

If war does break out, it will be an extremely tragic task.

In starship-to-starship battles, sages are useless.And when they dispatched, most of them had already reached the critical moment when the soldiers were approaching the city, and they needed to fight face-to-face with the enemy who invaded the fortress for the final time.

Therefore, the sages are called "the last line of flesh and blood in the imperial fortress".

Xue Yelai marked the positions of several strongholds on the map, and planned corresponding tactics according to the terrain.Next, you just need to wait for the examiner to issue an emergency order at any time.

Unexpectedly, in the evening, something unexpected happened.A team of aircraft landed in the valley one after another, and more than a dozen beams of bright searchlights pierced through the dusk, shooting rounds in the dark dense forest.

When Xue Yelai brought Bai Yang over there, the cordon had already been pulled up.A group of candidates gathered around, and everyone's face was very heavy.

"There is a lake in the valley, do you know?" Qiangwei's round apple face looked pale under the searchlight, "A man fell into the lake and drowned. He was a sage who took the exam with us. His warriors did not Found, probably escaped."

Xue Yelai froze for a moment, recalling how he and Bai Yang discovered the lake today.

★Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a warrior to attack the sage it is paired with.The spiritual contract between sages and warriors has a two-way "attack suppression" effect.Once the two parties are successfully paired, they will be integrated into one body through a spiritual link, like a person's hands, unable to attack each other.If one of the parties dies due to an accident, the spiritual contract will be automatically terminated. ★

——At that time, did Bai Yang see something?

Xue Yelai hugged his shoulders and stood in the slowly darkening twilight.The sky in the west is gray and red, and the evening wind blows gravel, leaves and wormwood.The long night is coming.

Behind him, Bai Yang stood quietly, his eyes were as obscure as the sky.

"Bai Yang," Xue Yelai sighed, "I really want to go home, I really want to go home."