Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

After waiting in the temple for a long time, when many people began to get impatient, a new order finally came: execute the task of curfew and martial law.

Everyone received a coordinate point.They need to guard these locations and keep people out of traffic until the next order comes down.

Seeing such content, most people's tense hearts were slightly relieved.It was a much easier task than they had envisioned.Curfews are nothing strange, they have been imposed before.

A group of inexperienced backup guards took up their duties in this way, and scattered to various areas according to their respective coordinates.Among them, only a handful of people really understand what they are doing.

Xue Yelai is one of them.According to the coordinate points of himself and some people around him, he outlined a rough location distribution map in his mind.These places they are going to guard are the only way out of the city.

Although most people in this era own flying cars, they don't fly whenever they want.Civilian aircraft are subject to extremely strict air control, must follow a fixed route, and must not deviate from it without authorization.If you violate the regulations, you may even be shot down by laser cannons.

Therefore, even if nobles have aircraft that can go straight into space, they must never take off directly from the city. Instead, they must first apply for a series of passes, and then go out of the city through a special passage, arrive at the designated airport, and wait for a period of time before they are allowed to take off.The whole process is complex and cumbersome, after layers of investigation.

It was these special passages leading outside the city that Xue Yelai and the others were ordered to guard.However, their positions are close to the periphery, so they are obviously only auxiliary.At the exits of those passages, there must have been a large number of royal gendarmes waiting.

This night, countless pairs of eyes witnessed the nuclear fusion spacecraft leaving the atmosphere, which cannot be concealed from the public.Sooner or later, rumors such as "the Interstellar Federation is attacking" and "someone has escaped in a spaceship" will surely spread in the city, triggering a wave of refugees.Once a large-scale escape broke out, the situation on the entire planet was out of control.

Therefore, the emperor wants to block all passages from this planet before then, and control the situation from the beginning.

As for how useful this can be, perhaps the emperor has no time to think about it.Today's empire is like a man in a hurry. Facing a pile of crumbling building blocks, he doesn't know which piece to rescue first.

Xue Yelai followed the crowd out of the temple.Around him, most of his companions didn't realize the true meaning of this task, thinking it was just an ordinary curfew martial law.Those young faces were filled with restless excitement, as if they were about to embark on an imaginary battlefield.

There were only a few people who kept their expressions and occasionally met their eyes, and they understood each other.

A storm is on the way.A great chaos that may sweep the entire empire has begun to emerge.

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When Xue Yelai arrived at the designated location, the rain gradually became denser again.

The coordinates he assigned were very remote, close to the edge of the city.The terrain here is higher, and you can have a bird's-eye view of part of the block.

The imperial city is located in a huge basin, the terrain gradually rises from the periphery of the city, surrounded by hills, and connected to the foothills.

There has always been a rumor among the people: there is a hidden underground city under the imperial city.The entire imperial city is actually built on a giant fortress.

This theory has been circulating in earnest, but no one has ever been able to say clearly, if this fortress really existed, in what year and by whom it was built.Perhaps it was created a long, long time ago by the first group of interstellar pioneers who came to this planet.

All in all, this unknown underground fortress has always existed in urban legends.Although it may be under everyone's feet, it is as mysterious as Atlantis sleeping under the sea.

The night was as dark as lacquer, and the surrounding scenery became more barren amidst the sound of rain.Within the range illuminated by the light, no one could be seen.

Every once in a while, mobile sentries would pass by Xue Yelai, and the two sides exchanged passwords.The content of the password is changed every hour and sent to the communication device in the form of code.

Xue Yelai stood under the crude canopy that was erected temporarily.Said to be a shed, it is only as big as an umbrella, and it can barely cover a person.

Bai Yang left all this space to Xue Yelai, and stood in the direction of the wind, blocking the slanting rain line for Xue Yelai.

Xue Ye came to touch him and said distressedly, "You're all wet. Come and squeeze me, it's always better."

"I won't get sick." Bai Yang grabbed his hand and shook it firmly, "If you get sick again, I will be in trouble."

Bai Yang's hands are usually slightly cold to the touch, but now they are warm.

Xue Yelai had no choice but to remain silent.Before, I had a strange headache because I took a cold shower with the window open.

After a moment of silence, Bai Yang asked, "Is the small captain of the gendarmerie also a sage?"

"Are you talking about Xue Ruheng? He is not a sage, but an ordinary person." Xue Yelai explained, "A family has a large population, and only some of them have special constitutions."

"Why did he work in the gendarmerie?"

Xue Yelai sighed, "I don't know." Although the sage family usually doesn't like the Royal Gendarmerie, how each family member chooses a career is also an individual's freedom.

After being silent for a while, Bai Yang spoke again: "Is he familiar with you?"

"Unfamiliar. Before today, I only met him once."

Bai Yang seldom asked the bottom line, Xue Yelai couldn't help wondering, "I said, is there anything about that guy that you particularly care about? Why are you so curious about him? You're not even that curious about me, and you never ask about me."

The last sentence came out of my mouth, and I felt a little guilty after saying it.Didn't he himself never ask what Bai Yang looked like before?It was like a taboo between the two.

"I don't care about him." Bai Yang turned his head and took a deep look at Xue Yelai, "He talked about you before, which I have never seen before. I want to know what you look like when I haven't seen you. "

"..." Xue Yelai was stunned for a moment, and a little joy burst into his heart, "The me in the past... was nothing special, just like now. My experience is very simple, from childhood to adulthood, except for going to school and taking exams. , nothing happened."

Xue Ye came to avoid the important things, and told Bai Yang some interesting things in the school, while briefly mentioning his life outside the school.Not only was he afraid that Bai Yang would feel inferior, but also because he couldn't restrain the thought that his good life was stolen from Bai Yang's life, at least part of it was stolen.In a sense, he felt that how much fun he had before meant how much pain Bai Yang had endured.

But perhaps in Bai Yang's view, his state of mind is just a simple and useless apology.Like his mercy, it's not fake, but it's cheap.

Bai Yang quietly listened to his narration, and sometimes seemed to want to ask something, but quickly pressed his lips together and remained silent.This is really a weird confession, the speaker and the listener are full of longing, but they are all cautious, for fear of breaking a certain balance.

When Xue Ye had finished speaking, Bai Yang asked again: "What is that riddle he said?"

"Oh, I just wrote it for fun. He guessed right at the beginning, which surprised me." Xue Yelai smiled.The answer to that riddle is the balance.The riddle itself is not difficult, but in this day and age, the balance is an antique thing, and it is usually difficult for people to think of it.

"However, as soon as I saw his name, I knew why he could guess it so quickly. The word 'heng' means balance. I think he must like his name very much."

Bai Yang didn't answer for a long time.After a while, he suddenly leaned forward and said in a low tone, "Ye Lai, look over there."

Xue Yelai followed his gaze.From a distance, there is a place in the city that gathers a light, which is brighter than other places.Those rays of light flowed like water, slowly shrinking the area.

Xue Yelai quickly put on the scope and adjusted the focus to the limit.It is too far away to see clearly, but he is too familiar with the faintly visible pure white building complex in the camera.

That is the mansion of the Xue family!

Xue Yelai felt that all the blood in his body was drawn away in an instant, and his back was hot as coal at first, and then icy cold.

problem occurs.

He could only think of these three words.

The whole city is under curfew, only Xue's mansion has gathered so many lights.That's never a good sign.

He subconsciously wanted to take a few steps forward, as if he could see better this way.As soon as he lifted his feet, his knees were so soft that they trembled.The next second, the pain in his calf brought him back to his senses, and when he looked down, he found himself kneeling in stagnant water.Bai Yang also knelt in front of him, supported his body, and kept calling his name.

"Bai Yang, it's not good, it's not good." Xue Yelai repeated these three words, holding Bai Yang's arm tightly with one hand, and unconsciously switched on the communicator with the other hand.Gotta call dad, gotta.

However, the moment he clicked the call button, the last trace of reason stopped him from moving.

If there was anything he needed to know, his father would have informed him long ago.For such a long time, there has never been any news from the family, nor has his father contacted him once.Maybe his father was using this method to hint him not to contact his family.

Xue Yelai grabbed the small communicator tightly and almost crushed it into pieces.In the observation eyepiece, the area of ​​the light is still shrinking.Xue Yelai didn't know what was going on there, but felt inexplicably that the ever-shrinking light was like a ever-tightening pocket.