wandering planet

About 10 minutes after the communication request was sent, the reply came back.

Lin Ni just had the idea of ​​giving it a try, but he didn't expect that Bering really didn't close the communication frequency, and had been waiting to receive the message.The communicator used by Bering does not have the function of video communication, they can only hear what Bering is saying, and cannot see what is happening on her side

Bering's voice was startled and suspicious: "Pierre? Or Linney?"

Song Junxing pressed Lin Ni's shoulder and answered Bering's question: "It's me, the administrator of the Black Sea, Song Junxing."

"Don't worry, I'm the only one at home. My communicator has not been monitored, and this frequency is even less likely to be discovered." Bering asked again: "Linney, Pierre, are you all there? Are you all safe?" ?”

Bering was very sharp, Song Junxing appeared in the communication personnel, indicating that the lifeboat had arrived in the Black Sea, and not many people in the Faust cockpit knew about 1026, so she judged that among Linney and Pierre, at least A man reached the Black Sea.

"Senior sister, we are all in the Black Sea. It's safe and sound, it's like playing around in the Sirius planet belt." Lin Ni said.

Everyone behind him greeted Bering, and Bering felt relieved.

"How to use this frequency to contact me?" She asked strangely, "What happened?"

Linney first asked about herself and Samuel.Everything is consistent with what Song Junxing said.Song Junxing glanced at Lin Ni, a little dissatisfied.

After the simple communication, Linney made their request: "I want to talk to my father."

The information he disclosed to Bering was very limited, and he did not mention Cicero, nor did he mention the dispute between the "purifiers" and the "returners".None of these Berings need to be known.He told Bering that the Phoenix was on the Black Sea, and they were going to use the Phoenix to go to Earth, but now they lacked the most critical power: the Birog ring.

Knowing that the Phoenix was in the Black Sea, Bering was very excited.The students in every college have reverence and longing for the Phoenix, but she quickly calmed down and deduced the current situation.

"Your conversation with General Lee Swright cannot be detected by the surface port." Bering pondered for a moment, and agreed to his request, "I will help you. I will request to meet the general and tell him your request, please Do not turn off frequency 1026. The General and I will use this frequency to communicate with you."

Song Junxing was thinking about other issues: "Once we get in touch with the general, the 1026 frequency is likely to be exposed, and there is no way to continue to use it."

Bering felt indifferent: "It doesn't matter, Samuel and I don't need to use this to communicate now."

"General Lee Swright may also..." Song Junxing hesitated for a moment, then stopped.

Sitting next to him, Linney felt a strange feeling in his heart.When he lived in Marseilles, he could often feel the admiration and admiration of the Marseilles for his father. Later, when he entered the Academy, this admiration and admiration fell more specifically on Cicero.But for the past month, the people on the lifeboat have had a bumpy journey. Ovid, Tang Mo, and Jiang Che didn't care about the prestige and achievements of General Lee Swright and the Lee Swright family at all.

Linney even gradually forgot the significance of his father in the hearts of many Maasai people.

Song Junxing reminded him of all this.

What made Lin Ni curious was that, according to Song Junxing, most of his contact with his father was during the "Homecoming Meeting" activities.During the five years he was stationed in the Black Sea, he couldn't even communicate with General Lee Swright normally.But he still had very genuine concerns about his father.

a strange man.Linney thought.

Bering's voice interrupted Linney's thinking.

"In fact, General Lee Swright has been temporarily suspended and has been staying at home." Bering said, "The reason is very simple, because his son defected from Marseilles with a few passengers."

Although General Lee Swright has been suspended and under surveillance, no one dares to move him, and no one dares to put him under house arrest.

His students, staff, and friends are spread across almost all levels of the Marseille fleet, and even among the members of the Marseille United Parliament, there are many people who have very good public-private relationships with him.

Knowing that his father doesn't need to work now, but still lives comfortably, Linney is relieved.

Bering left home, preparing to go to the mansion of General Lee Swright.She even thought of an excuse: Cicero's death day will be in a few days, and as a good friend of Cicero, she wants to visit Cicero's father.

While waiting for Bering's reply, frequency 1026 cannot be turned off.The six of them took turns staying in Song Junxing's administrator's room, waiting for a communication from Bering.

Song Junxing took the others to the canyon where the Phoenix was located.

Although the Phoenix had no power and there was no light inside, Song Junxing opened the hatch manually, and walked into the interior of the Phoenix first with a portable flashlight.

"We have almost repaired it." He said with a hint of pride that could not be concealed, "After the people in the Black Sea evacuated, I used that personal ship by myself to go back and forth between the Sirius planetary belt and the Black Sea, and found There are a lot of parts. The ship parts on the Graia F are very rich, and I still have a lot of inventory that I don’t use.”

Ovid held up a flashlight and looked around: "So you are completely lying to us when you say that the Black Sea administrator cannot leave the Black Sea."

"White lies." Song Junxing bent down and picked up a few small pieces of iron on the ground, "In the first one or two years, the communication of the surface port was completely random, and I couldn't grasp the rules. Later I told the surface port that I I want to farm, hunt, and eat on the Black Sea. But waiting for the communication every day, I can’t live a normal life at all, and even go out with fear. Later, the communication time of the surface port gradually became fixed. Finished, I started out looking for the necessary parts."

Lin Ni and Jiang Che held their flashlights and walked straight into the depths.

The interior of the Phoenix was very, very large, but unfortunately the light was so bad that they couldn't see it in its entirety.

Pierre was interested in the cockpit.The cockpit of the Phoenix is ​​the largest one he has ever seen, even larger than the largest military ship "Duke" on Marseilles.

He watched in the cockpit for a while, and gradually felt that something was wrong.

"Song!" he yelled, "Linney! This cockpit..."

Lin Ni ran back quickly, while Song Junxing looked calm.

"You read that right, this cockpit is very similar to the cockpit of the Marseille military ship." Song Junxing said, "Or to put it this way, the cockpit of the Marseille military ship, and even the design of the military ship, are actually replicas of the vanguard ship. Version."

As pioneer ships, the three ships in the "Great Retreat" almost mastered the most cutting-edge deep space travel technology of mankind.Although the three vanguard ships disappeared or crashed during the journey, they still left behind extremely precious research materials. After the "Great Retreat" fleet arrived in Marseilles, people created new military and scientific ships according to the design and power mode of the vanguard ship, and among them, the military ship is the most prominent: its own particularity requires that it must have excellent depth. Air travel capability, powerful carrying capacity and armament.

All these are the characteristics of the pioneer ship.

Pierre and Linney looked at each other.

They all understood what it meant.

They didn't need to adapt to a new ship again—for Linney, who was familiar with military ships, he was the captain of the Phoenix.In addition, they also have Pierre, the navigator, and two crew members, Song Junxing and Ovid, who can adapt to the driving of the ship.

As long as they get the Birog ring, they can now drive the Phoenix to leave the Black Sea.

Another night passed.

Lin Ni, who was sleeping in Song Junxing's room, was suddenly awakened by the notification sound from the communicator.

He got up from the bed, and Song Junxing, who had been sleeping underground, had woken up and immediately pressed the communication button.

This time it was a video chat request.

In the faint morning light, the lines on the screen kept beating, and finally became clear gradually.

Linney got out of bed and stood in front of the screen.

He saw his father appear in front of him.

But this was very different from the father he remembered.

His hair was grizzled, his face was lined with wrinkles, and his eyelids were drooped because of slack muscles, making his eyes look especially sharp.And he was not wearing the uniform of the Marseille fleet, but simple plain home clothes.

Before Lin Ni could speak, Song Junxing ran up to him and greeted General Lee Swright.

"General, General." Song Junxing stammered a little, "Do you remember me?"

"Of course." General Lee Swright's voice came over.He looked at Song Junxing for a while and smiled.

The rough and muddy voice spanned tens of thousands of miles and 30 years, and hit Lin Ni's ears.

He didn't cry, just clenched his fists tightly.

He didn't feel like he missed him until he saw his father.But it was different now—he missed him, his mother who had passed away, and his brother.

They are not the past that Linney can leave behind at will, but the pedestal that shaped him.

Time played a joke on the people on Faust, as if in order to get the new world, they must pay some heavy price.If you only count the time spent by Linney, he is not even 30 years old this year. 30 years is incredible for him, but for his father, that is almost a third of his life.

Linney stared at the old General Lee Swright on the screen, not knowing what to say.

Song Junxing didn't bother them anymore.He saluted General Lee Swright, turned around and grabbed Linney on the head with a smirk.

"Have a good chat." He said, "Leaving the Black Sea, we may never be able to contact you again."

He knew that Lin Ni would not get angry at this moment, nor would he shake off his hand.

In fact, Lin Ni didn't notice him touching him at all, and he was awakened by the sound of the door closing until Song Junxing left the room.

The first words to break the silence were those of General Lee Swright.

"You are not like Cicero." The old man said suddenly, "I never thought of training you as the second Cicero."

Lin Ni lowered his head: "I'm not as good as my brother."

"Cicero is unrepeatable," said General Leeswright. "Linney, to me, and so are you. There is only one Linney at Marseilles, and there is only one Linney for me and your mother."

Linney couldn't bear it any longer.He covered his eyes and apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."

"Song Junxing should have told you a lot. But I want to tell you that I don't want you to know all this. The reason why Cicero hid so many things from you is because we hope that you can continue to live in Marseille." The old man said The voice was very calm, "I am very lucky. I have two extremely good children. Your brother made a choice, but he didn't leave you with a comfortable life. He gave you a more difficult path."

If Cicero can successfully become the administrator of the Black Sea, if everything goes smoothly as planned, then as early as 30 years ago, the Phoenix had risen from the Black Sea and flew to the earth.

They will figure out all the evils hidden in the "Great Retreat", and they will also reach the end and contact the people in their hometown.

At that time, Linney just entered the Marseille fleet and began to assume important positions.

General Lee Swright is about to abdicate.His son would take his place, connect with Cicero, open a safer route between Marseilles and Earth, and begin a closer relationship.

The earth will become Marseille's foreign aid, so that Marseille will not face destruction under the shells of the marauders.

Linney's work was a synthesis of General Leeswright's and Cicero's, and he had to deal with more difficult problems.

But Cicero, murdered, disrupted the plan.

"I'm afraid too," said General Leeswright. "Son, I'm a father... I'm afraid too. Cicero's gone, but I'm going to protect you, and I'm going to protect all the Returnees around me , to keep a little last hope for Marseille."

Linney nodded.

He now fully understands and understands what his father thinks.

And he was indeed too immature at the time, so General Lee Swright didn't feel at ease telling him about the Black Sea and the Phoenix, but turned to other places to find suitable administrators.

In the end, it was Song Junxing who was chosen.

The heart-to-heart talks between father and son did not last long.They all know that time is precious.

Bering had told General Lee Swright that Linney they needed the Birog ring.

"Now the place where you can obtain the Biroger Ring is not Marseilles, but the ships of the predators." General Lee Swright said, "Over the past few decades, Marseilles has captured many lone predator ships. The power system is very similar to a military ship, so it is also very similar to a vanguard ship. More importantly, the interface between the Predator's Birog ring and our military ship can be connected."

"We think so too." Linney agreed, "So we now need to obtain information about the predator's ships. There is currently only one lifeboat and Song Junxing's personal ship in the Black Sea. We have to formulate a strategy."

General Lee Swright turned on a device in front of him.

A star map suddenly appeared in front of him.

"If there is a strategy, it must be drawn up as soon as possible." General Lee Swright pointed to a small red dot on the star map and said, "According to reports from the military ships patrolling Marseilles, there is now a predator ship less than three days away from the Black Sea superior."