wandering planet

Only three people on the Phoenix heard Cicero's voice.

Cicero's voice was somewhat different from what they remembered: it was a voice that had been honed over the years, and in their memory Cicero would always be the young man in his twenties, but at this moment, from Bailu The reply from the space station was already a middle-aged man.

Lin Ni wanted to speak, but Song Junxing stopped him by pressing his shoulder.

Song Junxing had never met Cicero face to face, and he knew the young man from the information given by General Lee Swright.

"I'm Song Junxing, a crew member of the Phoenix." Song Junxing signaled Lin Ni not to get excited, "Who are you?"

"I'm Cicero, the Station Master of Egret Space Station."

The middle-aged man on the opposite side said.

Linney closed his eyes, clenched his hands into fists, trembling slightly.

"But if you know General Leeswright's kid—that Cicero..." the man went on abruptly, "I'm sorry, I'm not him."

Linney's shoulders loosened, and his clenched fist slowly loosened.He got rid of Song Junxing's suppression, and roared fiercely and impulsively: "Why are you pretending to be my brother? Who are you!"

"..." The delay time has passed, and Egret Space Station remains silent.

"Answer me!!!" Linney yelled, "Immediately! Answer me!!!"

"Linney... I see, you are Linney." Cicero on the opposite side chuckled softly, "Hello, my brother I have never met. Sorry, I am not your brother. I am a clone , is a copy of Cicero, and the meaning of being born is to act as a substitute for Cicero when necessary to protect his own safety."

There was silence in the cockpit of the Phoenix, and everyone looked at each other, as if they had heard the most terrifying thing.

Only Ovid's shock is different from others.

This is the first "similar" he encountered after leaving the ground in Marseilles.

"I have existed since the beginning. I have existed since the birth of Cicero." The man on the other side whispered, "Come to Egret space station? I will tell you a story, a long, long , a story about egrets."

It was Egret's past that Cicero told them first.

In the 452nd year of the Marseille calendar, because Marseille could not withstand the heavy pressure, they finally chose to abandon the Egret Space Station.

After all personnel and supplies were evacuated, Egret Space Station orbiting the planet "Apple" became an empty shell and still circled around Apple.

This treatment method is very similar to the abandoned Black Sea transfer station: Although Marseille decided to abandon this point, it did not completely destroy it, and still retains a glimmer of hope-at some point in the future, the Egret space station can be re-activated.

After all, this is the closest place for the Maasai to the advanced civilization of the Arlans star field.

The vacant Egret space station has spun alone over Apple for decades.During this period, countless starships entering and exiting from the Arlans star field passed by its side.The higher creatures of the Arlans star field left their marks on the outside of the space station that has become an empty shell: many strange symbols, which are probably a language that the Maasai cannot yet understand.

Decades later, in 490 of the Marseille calendar, Egret Space Station welcomed its new visitor.

In the paper records left by the Egret Space Station, it is said that the two ships that came from the dark abyss originally planned to land at Apple, but accidentally discovered the Egret Space Station above Apple.They recognized the marker outside the space station, the Earth creature with its wings spread.

New visitors did not choose Apple.They landed at Egret Space Station.

"The new visitor left some notebooks on the Egret space station," Cicero said. "We checked, and it was all written in Earth language. Fortunately, Cicero—that is, your brother—learned something, and I must What to learn, otherwise we would not be able to decipher this notebook at all."

When he said this, everyone vaguely guessed the identities of those new visitors.

"The new visitor is a remnant of the 'Great Retreat'." The middle-aged man said calmly and calmly, unaware of the shock his words would cause, "There are two ships they drive, and one is a leaf made in Russia. Katerina, a flying ship made in China."

Both ships were lost in the "Great Evacuation" accident.

In the first "accident", the "Great Retreat" team lost contact with more than a dozen ships, which they called "lost contact", but the actual situation Jiang Che and the others already knew: it was a man-made attack by the Purification Sect. filter.

The Ekaterina and the Flying Scene were among the first ships to disappear.

But they were not damaged, and nothing happened.At that time, it was only the Birog ring on the ship that suddenly lost its function. After the ship left the team, they immediately repaired the power cabin circuit of the Birog ring, and executed the crew who damaged the power cabin, and the ship continued to sail safely.

But in this sudden power outage, the system data of both ships were damaged to varying degrees: they lost their route, unable to find their way to Marseille, and unable to return to Earth.

To make matters worse, when the momentum disappeared, they were captured by the huge black hole, trapped in its gravitational field, and have been unable to escape.

The Ekaterina and the Flying Scene stayed around the gravitational field of the black hole for a month, and finally found a chance to escape.

They used the signal to attract the ships of the predators, and used the reaction force of the collision of the ships to successfully escape the gravitational field of the black hole and return to the universe where they could move freely.

But how many years have passed by this time, they don't even know.

The Yekaterina and the Flying Scene are just ordinary transport ships, without the ability to conduct military operations and scientific research activities.After discussion, the people of the two ships reached a consensus: they obviously could not return to Earth, nor could they go to Marseilles.

Since both the starting point and the ending point are doomed to be unreachable, let's find a new home in the universe.

"They have been traveling for more than ten years, and they have stayed on several planets, but in the end they found that they are more suitable for life on ships." Cicero's voice was full of undisguised joy, "Some people stayed On a strange planet, some people still choose to board the ship and continue to travel. Don’t you find it very pleasant? I envy such a life.”

A few years later, the Ekaterina and the Flying Scene ship finally passed through the Arlans star field, and discovered Apple and the Egret space station on the outer layer of Apple.

This is the first time that the wanderers found traces left by humans in the vast universe after they left the big team.

They stay in the space station, and stay for ten years.

Unfortunately, the Egret space station has been abandoned, and they cannot contact anyone through the space station at all.

They have waited for ten years, but they have not waited for their strange companions.

Ten years later, the two ships packed up their bags, left several paper notes in the room inside the space station that simply recorded their journey, and left again.

They passed through the edge of the Arlans star field, came from the abyss, and went to the abyss again.

Ovid held Jiang Che's hand tightly.

Jiang Che's palms were cold and his fingertips were trembling, but he restrained himself and did not interrupt Cicero's words.

After Cicero finished speaking, he asked very politely: "This is a bit complicated, do you all understand?"

"Understood." Linney completely calmed down.He doubted the identity of the person on the other side, and decided to divert to Egret Space Station.He had to confirm for himself what it was communicating with himself.But before continuing to ask, there is another more important thing.

"On the Feijing ship, is there a passenger named Jiang Mu?" Lin Ni asked, "She is a passenger from an ancient country on earth, she is female, has no family, and has congenital heart disease, and her physical condition is not good. good."

Jiang Che clenched Ovid's hand.

He felt as if he were dreaming.

It was a dream, an incomparable dream.Just like Jiang Mu's song, when he wakes up from the dream, he can still stay in the spring.

Waiting for the Egret Space Station to reply was extremely long, which made him anxious and frightened.

"I don't know," Cicero said. "How could they have left the crew lists? There are nearly 1 people on the two ships. If you write them all down, there are not enough notebooks. All they left are key information from their travels."

He paused, as if remembering something.

"But it's amazing that, apart from the crew members who were executed for destroying the Birog ring, no one on the two ships died during this period of interstellar travel." He said, "They happily wrote in their notebooks Leave this thing behind."

Jiang Che let go of Ovid's hand.

Before Ovid could react, he hugged Ovid tightly.

"Jiang……"

Ovid kissed his ears, his black hair that had grown to the earlobe, and stroked his back tenderly.Hot tears seeped into the clothes on his shoulders, and his injured shoulder was aching, but he was willing to bear such discomfort for Jiang Che.

Tang Mo was originally sitting beside Ovid, but now he also lay on Ovid's back, raising his hand to wipe away Jiang Che's tears.

"As long as you are alive, you will definitely have a chance to meet again." She choked up and said, "The universe is really amazing."

Jiang Che closed his eyes and nodded, reaching out and hugging Tang Mo in his arms.

On Linney's side, Cicero was still babbling.

Lin Ni slowly sobered up and calmed down from the initial shock, only then did he realize that the replica "Cicero" was especially good at speaking, even more verbose than Song Junxing.

"Now that we've finished talking about the Egret space station, let's talk about mine." It sounds like he's in a very good mood, and it's a great pleasure to find a new chat partner. "We landed on the Egret space station 37 years ago. , holding a transfer order secretly signed by General Lee Swright and the United Council of Marseilles. We are all irregular troops of the Marseilles fleet."

The author has something to say: In Chapter 72, I wrote that Jiang Che was allergic to spores, and Fei Lian used drugs that can improve immune function to help him recover.Some readers pointed out that this is incorrect, because allergies themselves are caused by the immune mechanism, and strengthening the immune mechanism will only make people's allergic reactions worse.I'm so sorry, I made a mistake here, it's been corrected now, and the reference to "immunity" has been removed.

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The plot related to the egret space station is my favorite part