Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

He didn't have the extra energy to care about his headache for the time being.Another flat-bed flying vehicle landed on the unloading platform, and several workers and several robotic arms were busy moving piles of containers to the ground.

Two logistics officers stood by to oversee it all.With his sensitive hearing, Xue Yelai caught their worried whispers intermittently:

"...Although the space of the anti-aircraft fortress is large, the part that can be put into use is very small. Most of the places have not been cleared, and the oxygen supply is not enough..."

"If everyone in the city hides in, not to mention food, the water and electricity supply alone will be far overloaded, and it won't last long..."

"Will there be a mass evacuation when it becomes impossible to hold on?"

"Evacuate? Where can I evacuate? Unless I escape into the universe, I will wait for death wherever I stay..."

An electronic cart wobbled and ran to Xue Yelai automatically.Xue Yelai pushed it up and walked to the item storage point.

Big evacuation?

That's almost impossible.At the last moment, the emperor may ask everyone to be buried for the empire.Maybe the emperor has placed enough nuclear energy underground, if the Star Federation's fleet lands, it will destroy the entire planet.

In this way, if the "underground escape plan" he guessed is really feasible, then the best time to evacuate is around the eve of the enemy breaking through the city.It is necessary to seize the time to lead the family to make double preparations for resistance and escape, and then pay close attention to the progress of the war.And all of this can't be done too obviously, it would be bad if the emperor noticed the clue of evacuation.

Suddenly, Xue Yelai found himself in a dilemma.

Since he wanted to prepare his family to flee, he had to inform some of his family members about his evacuation plan.But on the other hand, he must keep it strictly confidential to prevent too many people from talking and leaking information in advance.

In short, he can only tell the evacuation plan to those he will eventually take away.

Who to tell and who not to tell?

In the past, Xue Yelai had wondered more than once why the Su family was so stupid back then, expecting the whole family to escape together.Such a confidential matter is known by so many people, it is a miracle that the news is not leaked.If they only selected a small number of people to escape quietly, they would have succeeded long ago, and they would not have fallen to the end of the entire family's destruction.

Standing in the same position at this moment, he suddenly understood a little bit.

Perhaps, only a small group of people participated in the plan at first.They have information and resources, and they can escape on their own.But they couldn't bear to just walk away, wanting to take away their loved ones.However, their loved ones have their own loved ones, and no one can bear to give up any one of them. As a result, more and more people boarded the boat.

The final outcome is that the boat capsizes, and everyone falls into catastrophe.

Love and compassion are a boat that ferries people by itself, but if the number of people on board exceeds the limit, it will harm others and yourself.If you don't want to give up anything, you will lose everything.

Perhaps it was for this reason that my father decided to send only my mother away.To some extent, my father was successful. He kept this matter a secret for more than ten years, and even Xue Yelai was not allowed to know the truth.

Thinking of this, Xue Yelai felt somewhat uncomfortable.Did his father's love for him over the years contain some compensation?

But then he realized the absurdity of himself—all of this, whether it was the underground transportation network or his father's plan back then, was all pieced together and imagined by him with some extremely limited clues.This kind of imagination can indeed explain many doubts, but it has not been confirmed after all.He planned to take Bai Yang to the old city again after a while, no matter how hard he tried, to find out the situation of the underground city there.It would be even better if they could find the mysterious person who followed them last time. Xue Ye came to judge that the mysterious person probably knew his mother and knew something.

A gust of earthy wind blew against the ground, making the sky even more gloomy.The boxes in the corridor were already full. Xue Yelai glanced at the end of the corridor through the gap. There was a closed metal door there, which looked mysterious in the dim light.For a moment he had a fantasy, as if it was a "wormhole" connecting different time and space.At this end, he is a fallen nobleman of the empire. If he crosses the wormhole and walks to the other end, he will become someone else and start a new life somewhere else.

Suddenly feeling someone watching him from behind, Xue Yelai turned his head abruptly.Cao Ge stood not far away, squinting his slender eyes and looking at him.

"What happened to your hair?" Cao Ge asked.

Xue Yelai didn't expect the other party to ask such a trivial matter, "I think long hair is inconvenient, so I cut it off."

"That's it. I'm really not used to it." Cao Ge's tone was not teasing, as if he really regretted it.But his next sentence made Xue Yelai feel that he had ulterior motives - "You look so much like your mother with long hair, your father must miss you very much. Does he often talk about your mother with you?"

"No. He never mentioned my mother." Xue Yelai looked directly at the other party and responded lightly, "He often said that the past is in the past, and one must look forward."

The wind became more urgent, there was a bright light outside, and thunder began to leak from the gaps in the clouds.

"It's going to rain again. There seems to be a lot of rain this summer." Cao Ge said to himself, picked up the box and walked past Xue Yelai.

Ten minutes later, heavy rain fell.

A group of people were busy covering the boxes piled up everywhere with tarpaulins, and built a simple waterproof barrier with sandbags.The terrain here is low, and the rainwater will pour in.

After finishing these things, everyone sat wet in the open space of the corridor, waiting blankly for the rain to subside.

The weather station did not forecast rain today.Weather forecasts have been almost inaccurate these days, some say, because weather satellites have been requisitioned as reconnaissance satellites.

Thick and long rain feet stirred up a layer of dust on the ground.Soon, the accumulated muddy water replaced the dust mist, covered the gravel on the ground, and continued to rise.The rain is still strong and shows no signs of abating.

"The water is rising very fast." Rose looked outside and muttered.

Xue Yelai walked over to touch the sandbag.The sandbags were stacked four or five layers in total, as high as half a person, and the bottom layer was completely soaked.The rainwater outside began to infiltrate into the corridor, forming a shallow puddle.

"I don't think the speed of the water rising is good." Xue Yelai expressed his opinion to the companions behind him, "Maybe we should go to a higher place. The sandbags will become very heavy after they are completely soaked in water. We It cannot be moved. If a large amount of water is poured into this tunnel in a short period of time, we may not be able to get out at once with so many people."

Others did not answer.They felt that what he said made sense.But at the moment the rain outside is so daunting that it is almost impossible to see anything a few meters away.It is even more dangerous if you stumble and fall into the ditch.

"The sandbag is only this high, and we can jump out when we feel something is wrong," said Rose.

"Water resistance is great. You can jump this height very easily now, not necessarily standing in the chest-high water." This time it was Cao Ge who spoke.He spoke calmly, but there was a hint of nervousness in his eyes.

"We're not going to wait for the water to get that high. Otherwise, if it's up to our knees and the rain hasn't abated, we'll go out. The visibility is so low now that we're not familiar with the terrain in this area. , The communicator has no signal, and I don’t know where to go when I go out.”

Rose's words also made sense, Xue Yelai no longer insisted.Although he raised concerns, he also believed in his heart that the situation would not become so bad.

"Did you hear any sound?" Suddenly someone asked hesitantly.

After a while, they all heard it.It was a dull sound, like thunder, but longer than thunder.