wandering planet

Pierre is a young man of French descent.

His family follows the ancient stubbornness of intermarrying only with the descendants of the bloodlines they identify with.Pierre has never seen France, does not know how to speak French, and all the languages ​​​​he has learned are derived from the planet Marseille.

His parents told him that the first people to set foot on the land of Marseille were the French, and even the name "Marseille" is closely related to their pride.

Old self-esteem, old pride, a little stubborn in the land of Marseilles, but Pierre respects the ideas of his fathers.

"I am from the earth, my ancestors lived on the earth, I am a Maasai, and I am also a human from the earth." Pierre insisted on his own ideas, even though this idea was ridiculed by many people.

Bering stared at his navigator as if he were a stranger.

Pierre started working in the fleet after graduation. Faust was the first ship he worked on. In Bering's impression, this small young man was serious and responsible, never reckless.

So what he said now is very surprising.

"What are you going to the Black Sea for?" Bering asked sharply. "Your family is in Marseilles. You are not these homeless people. Going to the Black Sea? Are you crazy!"

"Captain! Please listen to me." Pierre stood up straight and said nervously, "General Linney—"

"I'm not a general!" Linney yelled.

Pierre was taken aback, and quickly changed his words: "Brother Linney is an excellent ship pilot, but the pilot alone is not enough to pass through the Sirius planetary belt. The duties of the pilot are different from those of the navigator. To successfully arrive at the transit station in the Black Sea, there must be an experienced navigator on the lifeboat!"

Bering looked at him: "You think you are very experienced?"

Pierre changed his words again: "It doesn't matter if you are not experienced, at least you need an experienced navigator. Captain, I am the most suitable!"

"You are gone, who will be Faust's navigator?"

"Captain Leathermi can do it!" Pierre swallowed and said hoarsely, "Faust can live without me, but the lifeboat needs me."

"Aren't you going to come back?" Bering asked again.

"The goal of the lifeboat is to reach the Black Sea. After arriving in the Black Sea, I can contact Marseille, and they will come to pick me up." Pierre seemed to have already figured out the way forward, "Marseille will definitely deliver food to the Black Sea on a regular basis and resources, otherwise the administrator will not last ten years. If you want to go home, I have a way."

Bering looked at Lin Ni, then at Jiang Che.

All those who asked to be on the lifeboat were too young.Because they are young, they have a passion for it. The obstacles in the road ahead are not the reason for them to stop.

"... Pay attention to safety." Bering said with difficulty, "Don't die, absolutely don't die."

When she said this, she was looking at Lin Ni.

Jiang Che and the others left the cockpit and immediately ran towards the lifeboat.

Behind them, the hatch of the cockpit was slowly closed, and Leather Mi replaced the navigator and sat in front of the console.

"You haven't had a drink today?" Bering asked suspiciously.

"Didn't drink!"

The sound in the cockpit was soon lost.Everyone ran to the elevator, but Jiang Che and Ovid passed the elevator and ran directly to the stairs.

"Don't you take the elevator?" Tang Mo immediately followed, "The elevator is faster."

"I'm afraid of taking the elevator." Ovid glanced at Jiang Che and said to Tang Mo, "It's not Jiang Che, it's me."

Tang Mo: "Oh?"

Jiang Che: "..."

Ovid patted his chest: "Tang Mo, I'm not timid, but please don't discriminate against me."

Tang Mo had eaten the last lollipop in her hand. She didn't seem to want to answer Ovid's words, so she looked down at the watch in her hand: "There are still 10 minutes before the ejection."

10 minutes was enough, and the three of them ran down like crazy. The hatch of the lifeboat was on the fourth floor.

Faust was eerily quiet.All passengers and crew have returned to their respective rooms and positions, and no one has come out to move around.The fourth floor, which was originally the busiest and busiest, was empty, only the red warning lights were constantly rotating and flashing. Outside the huge transparent porthole, there was a dark universe.Greia B has been left behind by Faust, and Rust 031 is ahead.

Ovid was asking Tang Mo why he refused to go back to Marseille, and he must follow them to the Black Sea.

"I owe too much money to usury." Tang Mo was very calm, "If I don't pay it, I will be hacked to death if I go back."

Ovid: "Too much money? How much?"

Tang Mo: "3000 million."

Ovid nearly staggered against the wall.

"3000 million?!" he yelled, "Don! How could you borrow 3000 million!"

Tang Mo still looked calm: "So it's not up yet, I have to run away."

They came to the location of the lifeboat and found that Linney and Pierre had arrived.Both of them were familiar with how to use the lifeboat. Bering had already opened the door of that lifeboat, and Linney waved them to go up quickly.

Pierre moved some of the food and water from the storage compartment of the lifeboat, and suddenly yelled when he saw the luggage in Jiang Che's hand.

"I haven't got my luggage yet!" He hurriedly pushed the food and water onto Ovid, "Give me 2 minutes, I'll go back right away..."

"Two minutes, you haven't returned to the dormitory!" Lin Ni snapped, "No more luggage! Get on the ship!"

Pierre grabbed the corner of his clothes pitifully: "I have something important that I haven't taken yet, General Linney..."

Linney yelled: "Don't call me a general!!! Get on the ship!!!"

Pierre climbed onto the lifeboat and walked towards the cab with his head down, helpless.

Tang Mo and Jiang Che were already in the lifeboat.The two looked at Pierre: "What should we do?"

"Just like on Faust, sit by the wall and secure yourself with the seat belt." Pierre temporarily tossed aside his important items that were hard to give up, "The lifeboat is very light, and Faust will Throw us out in a catapult, so it's bound to roll pretty hard. Remember to protect yourself, especially your head."

He sat at the console of the cab.Unlike Faust, the pilothouse of the lifeboat is small and can only seat three people.Pierre sat on the left seat, turned on the communication channel, and immediately connected with Faust's cockpit.

"We're boarding." Pierre sniffled. "Where's Captain Bering? I forgot to say goodbye to her."

"The captain followed you to the fourth floor." Pimi replied, "Hey, little freckles, don't cry. You are a warrior of the universe, and warriors cannot cry."

Carrying two boxes of food and water, Ovid, who was struggling to get onto the lifeboat, took a breath.

"Won't you help me?" He looked at Linney.

Linney stood at the door of the lifeboat, not intending to help: "Be strong."

Ovid gritted his teeth.

Just as he stepped into the lifeboat, a voice calling his name suddenly came from behind him.

Bering stood not far away, and stopped him with a smile.

Ovid pushed all the food and water to Lin Ni: "Be strong!"

"I have something to give you." Bering said to Ovid who ran over, "I said I will give it to you when I return to Marseilles safely. But we return to Marseilles at different times, so I might not be able to find you. I'll keep my promise first."

She took off the badge pinned to the left breast of the uniform and put it in Ovid's palm.

"Ovid, although you are a graduate of the academy, but now, like all graduates of the academy, you have also become a qualified interstellar traveler."

Even Ovid himself almost forgot about it.When he escaped from the gravitational circle of the galactic nucleus, Bering did promise to give him this badge.

To be honest, although it sounded very happy at the time, Ovid didn't take Bering's words to heart.

There are actually not many of this orange badge among the graduates of each year.It is precious, like a status symbol, and will accompany the graduates of the college throughout their lives.

But now, Bering took it to himself.

On the orange badge is Marseille, the planet that gave birth to thousands of lives.Above Marseilles, a ship is flying.It flashes brightly like a badge, and it was engraved by the Maasai to commemorate the brave and fearless vanguard ships in the "Great Retreat".

"500 years ago, it was the Phoenix that led everyone to Marseille." Bering clenched Ovid's fist and pressed the badge tightly in his palm, "Ovid, let the badge lead you home too." Right. Samuel and I will wait for you in Marseilles, it doesn’t matter if you get lost temporarily, as long as you come back safely.”

Ovid clutched the badge in his hand.This is the coat of arms of Bering, a symbol of outstanding graduates of the Marseille Aerospace Academy.

It's now its own badge, too.

"I'll be back," he said, "with specialties from the Black Sea...and specialties from many planets for you."

Bai Ling's eyes lit up: "Oh, let's go to Griya F by the way, okay? There are a lot of ores on Griya F, and the iconic Griya gold diamond (*) you know? It is said to be the most beautiful in the universe. Ten carats can buy a villa. Bring me some back, it doesn’t need to be too much, seven or eight catties is enough.”

Ovid: "..."

Linney: "5 minutes left! The lifeboat is about to close and open!"

Bering: "Then four or five catties?"

Ovid: "I-I'm leaving. Goodbye. Goodbye!"

The hatch of the lifeboat finally closed slowly.Ovid was both excited and sad. When he carefully pinned the badge on his left chest, he found that the two boxes of food and water that he had carried up with great pains were still well placed by the door.

Linney didn't put them away.

"The captain doesn't do this kind of thing." Linney locked the cabin door, waved Bering goodbye through the small window on the door, and said casually, "The captain's hands are very precious, and they can't do heavy work."

Ovid: "...you must be too annoying to continue to be a general?"

Linney ignored him, and strode into the rescue cabin: "Fix yourself! There are still 5 minutes! Pierre, start the countdown. Start the lifeboat and start accelerating!"

Five minutes later, Bering started the escape procedure of the lifeboat, and at the same time the catapult machine began to start.

A lifeboat ejected from Faust and flung into the depths of the Sirius belt.

Because it was too light and too small, it lost its balance the moment it was thrown out, rolled and crashed into the long star belt densely covered with various planets.

At the same time, Faust picked up speed again.

"I'm about to enter Rust 031." Pimi reported from the navigator's position, "Rust 031 has a star ring. Currently, all Faust's off-board detectors have been turned on, and we will try our best to avoid contact with the star ring."

"Okay." Bering stared at the numbers on the display screen, "The angle is wrong, 5° to the right, pay attention to maintain balance."

"Do you want to shut down the communication with the lifeboat?" At this time, the deputy captain turned his head and asked, "They have been yelling, it is too noisy."

Bering rubbed between his eyebrows: "Okay, turn it off."

"You may vomit in a few minutes." Pimi told the deputy captain, "It's like this in a lifeboat, rolling too hard."

"There are too few of them to suppress them." The deputy captain continued, "We can already see Rust 031's star ring!"

Faust is about to start his second and final gravitational slingshot.

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Griya Gold Diamond: A rare ore found on the planet Griya F in the Sirius planetary belt. It is transparent and light golden in color. It can be divided into ten grades according to its appearance.Due to the difficulty in collecting and transporting Griya gold diamonds, it is currently the most expensive diamond in the Marseille jewelry market, with a value of about 1 million per carat.At present, the person who owns the most diamonds in Marseilles is the Duke of Loft. At the Marseille Jewelry Fair held in 100, Duke Loft exhibited the Griya gold diamond weighing one catty, which caused a huge sensation.

The author has something to say: About the Griya Gold Diamond: 10 carats = 0.004 catties = 1000 million = a nice second- and third-story villa.

So a catty of gold diamonds can buy 250 small villas.

Bering: I want seven or eight catties, or four or five catties.If not, a pound!

Ovid (holding the diamond tightly): Whoever sees it has a share!