imperfections

Lin Jingheng licked his lips.

There was a gash on his lip, the smell of blood and the slight pain made him concentrate a little bit. If the high fever and mental overload caused by the antibody were not a big problem, then dehydration was a bit troublesome.

He pulled out the emergency repair tool inside the mecha, checked the power system—it was normal.

Yuan Yiren still wants him to lead the way, of course it is impossible to give him a mecha that can't run.

Lin Jingheng quickly removed one of the sixteen heat sinks.

The length and width of each heat sink on the armor are two meters long and about three millimeters thick. There is an intelligent control chip in the upper right corner. When you cut it open, you can see a very special low-temperature heat dissipation core flowing inside. Each heat dissipation core is about The size of a palm, it can maintain ultra-low temperature for several months. After the expiration date, it will be gathered aside by the smart chip in the heat sink and discharged regularly.

The cooling core must not be in direct contact with the skin, but the cooling core that has not had time to be discharged after the expiration date is more friendly, generally around minus ten degrees.

Lin Jingheng removed several expired cooling cores that hadn't been exhausted yet, stuck them directly on her body, and packed herself into a human-shaped ice pack to forcefully cool down.

The bird boy squatted on the side and watched, with a little melancholy in his eyes, suspecting that the one he managed to fish out might not be alive soon.

"It doesn't matter," Lin Jingheng said, "at this speed, you can return to the waterway in less than a day, and there are supply points on the waterway."

And one day later, Yuan Yiren felt that the rainbow virus on his body would explode, and he would definitely show up.

Lin Jingheng: "What's your name?"

The bird boy thought for a while, then shook his head as if he couldn't say anything - that's right, Yuan Yiren probably has a name for him, but it must not be a respectful name... As for his own name, he probably couldn't remember it for a long time up.

Lin Jingheng asked again: "Do you know how to read?"

The bird boy still shook his head, then opened his mouth to say something silently.

Obviously, he can speak human language, but his mutated tongue and voice prevent him from making normal sounds, so he can only compare his mouth shapes.In connection with the context, Lin Jingheng can understand his single words, but when it becomes a long sentence, the problem is a bit big.The two looked at each other for a moment, unable to communicate, the bird boy curled up in frustration, wrapped his flat arms around his knees, wrapped himself in his wings like an insecure bird, and lowered his head.

Lin Jingheng tentatively said, "Since you know Sister Smelly, don't you know who I am?"

The bird boy shook his head, stretched out two fingers at him with difficulty, and then tried to repeat the mouth shape of a word. When he repeated it for the third time, Lin Jingheng understood with his burning eyes, what he said It is "Help".

"He saved you twice?"

Shaking his head.

"He saved your life, but you only saw him twice."

This time, the bird boy nodded.

The two don't match each other's mouths, and after a difficult communication for a while, Lin Jingheng roughly understood a story that he didn't know if it was true or not. I once rescued this bird boy once, and not long ago, due to business reasons, Sister Smelly met Yuan Yiren outside the territory who liked to go shopping in the black market. The bird boy who was with Yuan Yiren recognized him and gave him a A hint of this level, telling him that the pirates are about to invade.

Lin Jingheng pretended to realize suddenly, but she didn't believe it.

He thinks this story sounds a bit like an antique-style street stall novel, with lame "chivalry" and "repayment" throughout. The theme is usually to describe how the righteousness of the ancients is so low, and how the conscience of modern people is going from bad to worse.

Not to mention that the story of repaying kindness is very routine, it is absolutely impossible for Yuan Yiren to allow the bird boy to contact Lin Jingheng and release them together, it is absolutely impossible to be a coincidence.

Lin Jingheng pretended to be out of energy, quit the spirit net, turned on the autopilot, closed her eyes and went to rest.

I don't know how long it took, the bird boy felt that he was asleep, so he approached him cautiously, observed for a while, stretched out his hand to hang on his forehead and nose to test for a while, and found a blanket from nowhere, he was very hesitant, didn't know whether to do it or not. People who rely on cooling cores to cool down should be covered.

Finally, the bird boy rolled the blanket into a thin strip and put it on the man's lower abdomen, then wiped the fine sweat on the "Sea Snake"'s face with a clean towel, and wrapped the towel around the back of his dangling neck as a pad. , as if used to take care of people.

After finishing these things, the bird boy looked into the vast universe through the viewing window on the bulkhead of the mech, with his face still worried and depressed.

The mecha approached the asteroid belt outside Sodor's star during autopilot, and more than twenty hours have passed quickly.

Whether it is the powerful Sodor star or the messy asteroid belt, they are all dangerous roads.Approaching this kind of place, the mecha naturally sounded an alarm, and the young bird was confused by the alarm, so he had to try to push the "sea snake". The sea snake opened its eyes after a long while, and it was almost out of focus. Limp on the ground, his body seemed to be getting hotter.

The bird boy screamed in fright and tried his best to help him up, but "Sea Snake" couldn't stand up, every hard bone turned into hollow puff pastry, but his hands and feet were as heavy as if filled with lead.

The bird boy circled around him in a panic, shouting at the same time. Lin Jingheng's head turned into two big ones, and his veins almost jumped out. For the image of the sea snake, he struggled to control himself. Opening his irritable mouth, he searched his guts and revealed a little weak tenderness: "Shhhhhhh, don't bark, prepare for the jump, and you'll be there in one go."

However, at this time, the man-machine matching rate has dropped to 52%, and the mecha issued a cold warning: "Warning, the mental network matching rate is lower than 60%, the jump may cause man-machine separation, please operate carefully——"

The bird boy said nervously: "Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

Lin Jingheng: "..."

No wonder there was a young soldier in the Silver Fortress who insisted on raising macaws, so he almost got into a court-martial with his neighbors.

He gritted his teeth: "Match the jump point and confirm that you are ready to jump."

Mecha replied: "Illegal coordinates, are you sure?"

Yuan Yiren on the pirate heavy armor stretched his neck—the asteroid belt of Sodor, Lu Xin came in from here, and this place was too sensitive for the old part of Prince Gloria's guard.

Is there a hidden underground channel here?

The next moment, with a hoarse "confirmation" from "Sea Snake", the small light spot on Yuan Yiren's monitoring locator suddenly emitted an energy circle, and they entered the transition point. Immediately, the locator frantically searched for the signal and remarked , 5 minutes later, a new coordinate fell on Yuan Yiren's screen.

That was a jump point that was never marked.

The men next to him looked at each other, and after a while, a pirate stepped forward and whispered, "This looks like a transition point for the alliance, and the number code is...'surprise'."

Yuan Yi squeezed out two words between his teeth: "Lu, Xin."

In the bug, the signal failure caused by the jump interrupted the sound inside for a moment, and soon, the clear scream of the bird boy reappeared, but the other person's voice could not be heard.

It sounds like the rainbow virus has fully flared up, faster than expected, probably due to malnutrition from long-term interstellar drifting that has affected his immunity.

Yuan Yiren waved his hand lightly: "Prepare for the leap."

The "Sea Snake" completed its last jump, and it really broke away from the spirit net, and lost consciousness. The unmanned spirit net floated in the fuselage in a chaotic manner, and they were deep in the middle of the dangerous asteroid belt. Crazy, pushed him hard, but it was useless, and at the same time, the mecha suddenly sounded an alarm, and the bird boy suddenly raised his head - he didn't need the spirit net, he could see the black pirate fleet continuously coming from the jump point with his naked eyes. Come out!

The unmanned mecha was quickly controlled remotely by the pirates. At the same time, the communication screen in the cabin was lit up. Yuan Yiren's benign and strange face almost filled the screen, and poisonous snake-like eyes shot out from the screen. , Salivating and staring at the unconscious man, the bird boy stood up, trying to block the "sea snake" with his small body.

"Surprise, really surprise. It turns out that this is the passage site where the Alliance dogs invaded the eighth galaxy. It was actually found by the bug Spencer. Fortunately, fate is on our side this time." Yuan Yiren looked Bird Boy, "Little Kingfisher, you did a great job this time."

The bird boy opened his eyes wide in horror.

"Do you like him? It doesn't matter, he will be under your control from now on," Yuan Yiren said, "Now, bring back your spoils, let's spray some insecticide on the bedbug's lair... yo, yo, Young man, take it easy and don't get so excited."

"Sea Snake" woke up at some point, heard the conversation between the two of them completely, and grabbed the boy by the neck.

The high fever and lack of water for more than [-] hours had made him on the verge of dehydration, and the menacing rainbow virus took away the last bit of strength from his body. His whole body seemed to be crumbling, and he was completely supported by his last breath.

There was a pitiful "cheech" sound from the boy's throat, as if he was trying to explain something, the sea snake—Lin Jingheng finally had the opportunity to spout the words he had been holding back all day: "Shut up."

"Don't be stubborn anymore," Yuan Yiren said, "Your mecha is in our hands, and your navigation map is also in our hands, and now you have opened this door for us with your own hands... How about it, Rainbow Does the virus taste good?"

"Sea Snake" shook his whole body: "What?"

Yuan Yiren laughed, and the next moment, the mecha that had been invaded by the pirates into the spirit net slid involuntarily into the pirate fleet. "Sea Snake" tried in vain to regain control of the spiritual network, but the resistance became weaker and weaker, and he was almost unable to stand still.

At this time, all the pirate mechs have completed the transition and walked out of the transition point "Surprise". Yuan Yiren stopped talking nonsense about the things in his pocket, quickly checked the route map, and took the lead to the "unknown" with confidence. walk on the underground channel.

The safe passage in the asteroid belt is very narrow, and the pirates' mechanical team can't stretch out, so they can only change from the original "stars holding the moon" into a long and narrow column.

This time, the advance team in charge of catching the mechs stopped, and the medium-sized mechas that had caught the mecha "Beijing" before were familiar with the road, and they stretched out their fishing nets again towards the "Sea Snake"... The pirates who were carrying out the fishing mission did not see it. In the warehouse where scrap copper and rotten iron are stored, on the small mech that was almost scrapped in Beijing, a "vase holder" landed silently and took the shape of a human.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

Bird boy felt that the hot hand stuck on his neck suddenly stopped trembling, and the man smiled softly in his ear.

The next moment, on the medium-sized mecha that had just opened the fishing net, an extremely powerful spiritual net suddenly spread out, covering the broken pirate vanguard almost instantly.

Six medium-sized battle mechs were deprived of their mental nets at the same time. The brutal backlash left the pilots with little room to react, and they lost consciousness while standing or sitting on the ground, while the other people on the mechas didn't notice it at all.

Then, the six medium-sized mechas were all loaded with missiles at the same time.It wasn't until the "missile launch" command was issued that the pirates on the mecha realized something was wrong, but it was too late.

Lin Jingheng's small mecha hit the fishing net, and the medium-sized mecha that caught him immediately executed the jump when it caught him. At the same time, the tracker on the bird boy was completely blocked by Zhanlu. It disappeared out of nowhere!

Thirty missiles that had already been fired hit the transition point "surprise" at the same time, and the transition point with huge reserves of energy was ignited by the missile, causing an unimaginable explosion, and the entire asteroid belt was stirred up, even within a short distance. Time and space collapsed, and more than half of the pirate fleet that had shrunk into a line was instantly swept away. Dozens of mechas had no time to set up their protective shields, and were already wiped out in the explosion!

Lu Bixing rushed to the place where Mecha Beijing disappeared.

Lin stayed here for a while, and seemed to have discovered something unusual, but no matter what he found, it was never within the range of the internal network, otherwise the base's contact center would respond, and he must have asked Zhanlu to use the nearby The jump point was scanned remotely.

The principle of long-distance scanning using transition points in the universe is similar to the principle of long-distance communication. Lu Bixing is very familiar with it. The only problem is that he does not have Zhanlu.

"Contemporary scientists use artificial intelligence to scan, but contemporary primitive people have to use brute force to eliminate one by one. Technology, people really love and hate." Lu Bixing sighed, and took the location of Lin's disappearance as the center without complaint, and went around in person. Every transition point has been checked. Repeated space-time jumps made him a little nauseous, and he couldn't help complaining, "What happened, can't you send a message? You annoying loner."

But in the vast universe, Lu Bixing only has a pitiful little mech in his hand, and the scanning range is only about the size of an umbrella. Even with the long-range scanning, it can only scan to a place not far from the transition point. He turned over a dozen transitions Point, in vain, just when Lu Bixing was so worried, the mecha suddenly caught a strange energy wave.

Lu Bixing was startled—this kind of energy fluctuation was at least an asteroid explosion, or...someone detonated the jump point.

who is thisare you crazy?

With a slight movement of Lin Jingheng's fingers, the bird boy was pinched and passed out: "Zhan Lu, 'disinfect' for me."

As soon as the voice fell, all the escape cabins and escape doors inside the controlled medium-sized mecha were closed, and the poisonous gas killed all the carbon-based creatures on the entire mecha within half a minute.

Lin Jingheng carried the unconscious bird boy into the pirate mecha that was strewn with corpses, and Zhan Lu's voice sounded: "Sir, your condition is very bad, and you continue to be dehydrated..."

"Intravenous glucose and electrolyzed water are enough," Lin Jingheng stretched one arm into the medical cabin, the corners of his mouth curled up, "It's not over yet."

A massacre begins.