imperfections

When the monitoring screen went black, the mecha Beijing was sending out a sharp gravitational alarm. Lin Jingheng's heart beat violently, and then he realized that it wasn't the ghosts and ghosts in the base that scared the camera to pass out, but that he had already left the space. Far away, the weak intranet signal was finally unsustainable.

"We are affected by gravity and are accelerating towards the known planet 'Sodo'." Zhanlu said, "Please note that Sodo's escape velocity is 65.8 km/s, which belongs to a planet with a large gravitational force. Sir, I suggest turning on the thruster immediately. Is it on?"

"No," Lin Jingheng kept his eyes on the blacked-out screen, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Report coordinates and gravitational fluctuations, how far have we deviated from the original course?"

At this time, they are passing through an unmarked area, which is close to the edge of the eighth galaxy, but theoretically speaking, it still belongs to the jurisdiction of the alliance, but the irony is that in the past hundreds of thousands of years, the most Active explorers and mappers are a gang of black market smugglers.

The smugglers surveyed and mapped the waterway map, just to survive and eat, and of course they would not do redundant exploration. The mapping map of the underground waterway only gives the coordinates of the safe waterway, but what will happen if you deviate from this waterway, what will you encounter? The farthest jump distance is all blank, and someone needs to find the way in person.

Zhanlu quickly reported the coordinate range for him: "It is impossible to estimate the angle we deviate from the channel, sir, I think we have gone too far in the other direction, what are you looking for?"

The sirens in the mecha became more and more urgent, almost hysterical.

At such a juncture, Lin Jingheng replayed the surveillance screen just now——Lu Bixing jumped back in front of him as if he was taking a photo with a tourist attraction. The young man stretched his brows, his eyes were clear, and he looked carefree.

Being obsessed with hue in such a dangerous place, the artificial intelligence can hardly stand it anymore, Zhan Lu reminded him: "Sir, the gravitational force is increasing."

"Well," Lin Jingheng replied absent-mindedly without leaving the screen, "It's approaching the 'desert' planetary belt."

The "desert" is a stable asteroid belt between the big planet Sodor and the eighth sun. There are millions of small planetesimals in it, the big ones are hundreds of kilometers in diameter, and the small ones may only be a stone as tall as a person.

Although the planetary belt as a whole is relatively stable, the little planetesimals inside are not honest. They are hurting each other, colliding with each other, forming families with each other, constantly being born and dying.The planetary belt is also full of countless "comet cemeteries", and the comets sleeping in it like ghosts will nirvana at any time with the change of gravity, roaring and throwing off their long tails, passing through the dull eighth galaxy like a phoenix.

The desert planetary belt is different from the general asteroid belt with thin matter. Due to the special astronomical environment, it is very dangerous. It is also called the "death desert". For interstellar travelers, it is a forbidden place where there is no return.

Zhan Lu's voice was distorted in the frantic sirens of Mecha Beijing: "Sir, I must remind you that the front is very dangerous, repeat, very dangerous, the little Mecha Beijing does not have the physical ability to cross the 'desert' ,you must……"

Lin Jingheng ignored him and pushed Beijing's defense net to the maximum. Around the mecha, tiny stardust particles began to increase. Immediately afterwards, the defense net jumped out the first collision alarm-a small stone hit the fuselage .

"Sir, this..."

"Locate the nearby transition point." Lin Jingheng interrupted him.

Zhanlu was forced to carry out his master's order, but at the same time, he still couldn't help saying: "There is no record of the jump point nearby."

Before he finished speaking, the missiles of Mecha Beijing suddenly pushed into orbit, and Lin Jingheng fired involuntarily, rushing straight to the group of planets colliding head-on, large pieces of planets were scattered by him like chess pieces on a chessboard, and they were crazy The earth collided with each other, knocking out the glowing visible light, like the zodiac light of the solar system in ancient legends, and the deadly fragments rushed towards Beijing.

Beijing's track change is flexible to the extreme. Lin Jingheng dodged one after another with unimaginably precise operations. This mech is more flexible than his own body.

"Sir, your behavior is unsteady..." Zhanlu's voice stopped suddenly, and a huge boulder passing by at high speed slammed past the tail of the Beijing aircraft, and the entire fuselage shook accordingly. The small mecha that is prone to fuss Beijing screamed, but before the collision was real, Zhanlu suddenly detected the magnetic field at the jump point, and Lin Jingheng immediately started the jump.

The jump distance is extremely short, and the coordinates of the target point are less than half a standard sailing day, almost within a blink of an eye.

The thick and sinister planetesimals around disappeared out of thin air, and under the repulsion of the strong magnetic field at the transition point, a vacuum zone with a diameter of more than ten kilometers was almost formed here, just like the calm eye of a typhoon.

Beijing finally shut up, only the lingering sound of the ear-piercing screams was still there, Zhan Lu: "The transition was successful."

Lin Jingheng put Beijing on the orbit where the jump point was located, kept relatively still with it, and flew into the range of this strange jump point.

"Reading the jump point number, the number is..." Zhanlu paused strangely, "A word?"

"what?"

"The number of the jump point is 'Surprise'."

This is an illegal number.

In the alliance jump network, each jump point has its own number, which is composed of six letters and three digits. The code includes the jump point construction time, location, civil use, maximum carrying capacity and carrying distance, etc. Waiting for information, there is a set of fixed rules, even the transition points privately set by marginalized people will generally follow this rule, just put an asterisk at the end.

This transition point located in the asteroid group, whether it is the rationality of existence or the way it exists, is just like a joke.

The corners of Lin Jingheng's eyes slightly bent, showing a little smile, but it disappeared quickly, and the protective gas that hadn't been released in the mecha was slowly sucked back. He sighed, leaned his head on the soft chair On the back, the gaze passes through the fluorescent grass above the head, and then diffuses through the spiritual net of the mech. As far as the eye can see, there are thick nebulae, layer after layer of dense fog-like cocoons, which are extremely difficult to observe.

It is like an invisible back door, which is opened in the most dangerous place.

"Sir," Zhanlu said to him after a moment of silence, "The field construction method of the jump point is exactly the same as that of the alliance. It is speculated that it was built between 150 and [-] years ago, but I have not been able to find relevant information."

"Your information was deleted—when he was under house arrest, they wanted to check your database." Lin Jingheng didn't look back, and said softly, "I don't know if he was just being on the safe side, or if he was aware of the situation inside the alliance at that time. has a problem."

"You mean that this transition point was left by General Lu Xin."

"In 136, Lu Xin detoured outside the domain and entered the eighth galaxy from the secret channel near Sodo Star. It seemed to have fallen from the sky. Alliance Interstellar Channel." Lin Jingheng said, "The records in the literature are detailed, but I don't believe it. I used different methods to simulate the battle countless times, and there were slight errors every time, so I always felt that there must be a secret nearby. Jump point."

Zhan Lu said: "As far as I know, the battle statement submitted by General Lu to the alliance can stand the test, and it has been regarded as a typical case by Ulan College since then."

"His report was obviously made up to fool the paper wastes of the Alliance Military Commission. It also stated that the heavy mech he was driving that day was you."

Zhanlu, who lost his memory, asked strangely: "Isn't it me?"

"Of course not. How could a long-distance sneak attack take you there? You are power-intensive and eye-catching, and you can make the star thieves flee if you shake it outside the domain. At most he brought your mecha core at the time. The fuselage must not be your own. Yes, the extra deviation happens to be a hidden transition."

Zhanlu, who was both power-intensive and eye-catching, felt the prejudice from his master, turned into a human body, and stood aside aggrieved.

They floated in that small vacuum, everything around them was silent, and time seemed to have stopped.

Lin Jingheng half-lyed on the soft sofa seat in the mecha, and said nothing for a long time. If his eyes were not open, Zhanlu would almost think he was asleep.The long space military career rarely sees light. Even though he has been away from Silver Fortress for several years, his face still has the paleness unique to space soldiers. It is said that this kind of dark living environment will cause bad emotions in human beings. Regulating the hormone and emotional levels of the Space Force, only he insists on shielding Eden, like a lone wolf who is too stubborn to integrate into human society.

"When I was young, I always wanted to be a person like Lu Xin." Lin Jingheng said, he turned on the surveillance screen of the base again, and rummaged through the video records of other shots.It's a pity that there are too few surveillance cameras in the base. After searching for a long time, he only saw the carnival from all angles, but he couldn't find the person submerged in the lights, which almost made him a little disappointed.

Zhanlu said: "In my opinion, your talent is no less than that of General Lu."

"Talent is worthless." Lin Jingheng said, he was wandering alone among the invisible transition points, in front of the relics of the ancestors, looking at the old man smiling at the floating thermal power station in the surveillance record, "Lu Xin is the leader of the Alliance Freedom Declaration A loyal believer, his faith was once as solid as a rock, he loves the alliance, loves the new ephemeris civilization, and always knows when he should stand up and when he should risk his life."

Zhan Lu raised his eyes to look at him, his green eyes showed a little ignorant innocence, which made Lin Jingheng almost subconsciously avoid his sight.

He thought: But I don't love the Union.

He has no nostalgia for any place or person in the alliance. He scoffs at the Declaration of Freedom, and regards the Silver Fortress and the seven galaxies as a huge game field.

Over the years, on the one hand, he has represented the center of the alliance, exerting high pressure on the major galaxies that demand military autonomy, and on the other hand, he has secretly connived and intensified the conflict between the two sides——

The galaxies without military autonomy can only turn to the central army stationed in their own galaxies for help in case of emergency. However, the central army cannot wait for the order of the Silver Fortress, even if the star robbers are in front of them, they cannot act rashly—— Because the Supervisory Council of the Central Army is in charge of all mechas, without the secret key of the Supervisory Committee, a mecha cannot fly out of the atmosphere, and the families of these supervisory members all live a life of superiority in Woto.

When Lin Jingheng was in the Silver Fortress, the currency exchange rate between one and two galaxies was as high as 1:52, and if merchant ships trade across galaxies, they need to go through at least a dozen levels of checkpoints, and the garrisons at each checkpoint have to be exploited again. The invisible "tariff" further Raise the spread.If the residents of the lower galaxy want to go to the upper galaxy once, such as a non-public trip, the round-trip fare alone will cost half of their life savings.

For more than 200 years, huge exploitation and injustice have been suppressed under the "beautiful" Garden of Eden. The Alliance Central Committee knows that once the military autonomy is decentralized, the eight galaxies will surely fall apart.

When Lin Jingheng was here, not only the eight galaxies swallowed their anger, but even the interstellar pirates were calm, and the whole alliance was a paralyzing peaceful scene.Therefore, he took the opportunity to arrange out Lu Xin's old troops one by one. Except for Ye Lifu who was mentally unstable and kept under his nose, the rest were all "exiled" to the central army of various galaxies. Like a pack of collared beasts.

As soon as the layout was finished, before he could do anything, the stupid management committee listened to someone's instigation and prepared to kill the donkey. Lin Jingheng happened to follow suit—because once he left, the star robbers would inevitably rebound rampantly, and there would be no military autonomy. The major galaxies in the right are the first to bear the brunt, and the balance between the central and seven galaxies will collapse immediately.

Once the seven major galaxies see through the face of the central alliance's stubbornness, they will turn to form an alliance with the generals of the central army who also hate the alliance and are oppressed.

They will loose the collars and shackles from the necks of these beasts.

In a maximum of five years, the central government of the alliance must choose a path between "completely evacuated" and "encountered a coup".

When the Silver Ten Guards return, the fate of the alliance center will be the abdicated last emperor, or Louis XVI on the guillotine, it all depends on the mood.

Unexpectedly, people are counting, and the sky is watching.Five years have passed, and before this big drama had time to start, uninvited guests from outside the territory broke in and overturned the chessboard.

And the alliance has no power to fight back, which is not unrelated to his years of laissez-faire.

When Lu Xin left, he left his most proud student to abandon his belief. He probably never imagined that what he left for the alliance was not a life-saving talisman, but a bottle of slow poison.

If Lu Xinquan knew about it, what would he say?

On the frozen monitoring screen, Lu Bixing confessed to him with a playful smile, his heart softened.

Lin Jingheng looked at the young man's face and thought ecstatically, "I don't want him to know everything. Is it really just that I am afraid that he will not be able to bear the hatred and responsibility?"

Didn't Lin Jingheng, a cold-blooded pervert, always advocate throwing children into wolves to make them grow up?

What's more, Lu Bixing is not a "child". He knows what he wants to do, what he should do, and how to bear the consequences.

When did the heartless Admiral Lin become so gentle and considerate?

"I'm just running away," he thought.

I don't want Lu Xin's only flesh and blood to know all this, and I don't want him to be disappointed to find out that the person his father placed high hopes on is actually just a boring and empty conspirator... This conspirator is not very lucky. It's all like a failed joke.

For a moment, he looked at the flourishing fluorescent grass, and felt an indescribable dislike for the man "Lin Jingheng".

Zhan Lu said: "Sir, the coordinates of the transition point 'Surprise' have been entered into the system, what's the next step?"

"Continue to go deep into the desert of death." Lin Jingheng quickly withdrew his scattered thoughts, "An underground waterway is not safe enough. I need an alternate waterway. Since Lu Xin was able to cross the desert back then, we can also refer to this idea."

"Sir, I oppose this plan," Zhanlu said calmly, "The environment in the planetary belt is very complicated. Even if there was a safe route, it is no longer safe now. General Lu Xin had an elite advance detection team back then. The army, and the senior guide of the eighth galaxy lead the way. You should not be alone...Okay, understand, keep going deeper."

The first rule of artificial intelligence, you can make suggestions, but you must obey orders unconditionally.

Especially when meeting a headstrong master.

"But I reserve the right to make suggestions." Zhan Lu paused, and as he spoke, he organized a long speech with complete arguments from the massive database, and started the mode of chattering while obeying orders, intending to follow his The asshole master fights to the end.

Lin Jingheng left the base No. 20 days, the energy system of the base took shape, and the appearance was completely new.

Nearly half of the self-defense members joined the engineering team, and began to renovate the base's defense system with the help of the senior arms expert Cyclops.

The daily space patrols that had been on strike for many days were also resumed—when the self-defense members thought that the heat energy of the mechs when they took off and landed was the source of energy for multimedia, even the sky became active.

Lu Bixing often lives in the workshop of the mecha station, and goes around the station every day, but he can't wait for the docking signal of the mecha Beijing.Even the cameras at the base stopped following him.

Where did Lin go?

He was thinking day by day, dreaming at night, and when he was dozing off on his desk in the afternoon, his chest might be a little tight, and Lu Bixing suddenly had a nightmare.

He dreamed that Lin was not far in front of his eyes, with his back turned to him and kept walking forward. Lu Bixing called his name and chased him hard, but his legs seemed to be sucked in place, and he couldn't run fast. , can only watch that person get farther and farther away from him, and finally plunge into the ominous white light without looking back, the white light penetrates Lin's body, like a thousand arrows piercing through the heart, and then disappears in front of him up.

Lu Bixing gasped, and woke up in a jerk, his heart was so uncomfortable that he was about to burst.I saw that kid on Saturday sneaked in at some point, and was about to wake him up with the big horn of the movie granny reciting poetry.