wandering planet

Jiang Che frowned.He smelled cigarettes.

"Don't smoke," he whispered. "It catches fire."

The hunter who was squatting in the ditch with him turned his head and smiled at him: "Are you always this boring, Jiang?"

Hunter has beautiful green eyes, and when he smiles the eyelids are wrinkled, very kindly.

It is autumn in South America at this moment, and their location is in the temperate zone. The deciduous trees and shrubs have shown their autumn colors, and the ground is covered with dry and dead leaves that make a crisp sound.

After taking a deep puff, the green-eyed hunter put the cigarette in a small glass bottle.The oxygen in the bottle was quickly exhausted and the smoke went out.

For those of them who work in the biological disaster response force on the South American continent, cigarettes are a very luxurious consumable.

They often need to stay in the uninhabited dense forest or valley for more than half a year. All supplies are collected at one time before departure, and three boxes of cigarettes are distributed to each person, and there is no more.

The hunter carefully put the small glass bottle into the cigarette case.This cigarette has not burned out yet, and you can continue to smoke.

Jiang Che glanced at the cigarette case and found that Ovid's name was written on it.

Both he and Ovid don't smoke, so their cigarettes are generally donated to others, and they only keep two in case they need to light a fire or send a letter in case of special circumstances.

"Why don't you smoke?" The green-eyed hunter sat blankly for a moment, then turned to ask Jiang Che.

"Smoking too much will affect my sense of taste and smell." Jiang Che made a stir-fry motion, "Cooking won't taste so good."

The green-eyed hunter understood immediately.

Their group relied heavily on Jiang Che's culinary skills. Jiang Che raised these seven or eight people to a rosy face, and he himself became the object of competition for more than a dozen other teams.

"Jiang, we treat you very well, right? You must not change groups..."

The green-eyed hunter was talking, when the ground suddenly shook violently, and then there was a loud noise from outside the ditch, as if something had collapsed.

Jiang Che and him immediately fell silent, and jumped out of the ditch at the same time.

This is a vast forest, and less than 200 meters away from where the two of them were, a huge deep pit suddenly appeared.

Jiang Che immediately picked up the oil bottle in the ditch and ran to the pit.

This is a trap. At this time, a huge wild boar with a height of seven or eight meters is trapped in the trap.

The wild boar is covered with rough hair, with long pointed fangs and red eyes.After seeing Jiang Che and the green-eyed hunter, he let out a deafening roar.

But its two hind legs have been injured, and its Achilles tendon has been cut off neatly, so it can no longer stand up.

The green-eyed hunter threw the oil bottle in his hand into the trap: "Ovid's knife skills are still so accurate."

More than a dozen arms-thin oil bottles were all thrown on the wild boar, and after shattering, oil dripped all over the floor.

Jiang Che took a step back, and the green-eyed hunter picked up the crossbow and shot a burning arrow at the wild boar.

The fire immediately blazed up.

The fur on the wild boar was very thick. It roared loudly and rolled on the rocks at the bottom of the trap, but it couldn't be suppressed because of the oil fueling the combustion.

The fire was getting stronger, and it was trapped in the fire, and the roar became more and more miserable.

Jiang Che crouched by the pit, watching seriously.

In order to hunt down this mutated boar, they had been stranded in the mountains for two full months.

Although the long-brisled wild boar is huge, it generally does not exceed three meters. This one has mutated somehow. It is not only unusually tall, but also very aggressive. It has swept away the surrounding valleys for more than a year after it appeared. , destroying almost all ecological environments.

The wild pheasant here tastes very good, but Jiang Che and the others haven't seen it for a long time.

Finding wild boars is a problem, and how to attack is also a problem.Under Jiang Che's suggestion, the group has always passed the suggestion of fire roasting.

Of course, the main thing is to eat meat.

This bristled wild boar has an amazing appetite. In the past two months, they have not eaten any other meat except fish and birds, and their eyes have turned green from hunger.

Jiang Che squatted and waited for a while, the wild boar's strength gradually weakened, and its roar was not as terrible as before.After the voice died down, he heard footsteps coming from another direction in the dense forest.

It was Ovid and a few others who had returned.

After they determined the hiding place of the wild boar, they first set traps and then carried out raids.The injured wild boar ran all the way to escape, followed the smell of humans, and finally fell into this deep pit.

"Look what I found!" Ovid was full of excitement, shaking a big bag on his back, "There are many mushrooms in the ravine over there! They are all colorful!"

"...That can't be eaten." Jiang Che replied, "Have you picked them all?"

"I picked the unsightly ones, can you eat the unsightly ones?" Ovid jumped on a big rock and looked down at the wild boar in the trap.

He ran around in the past two months, Jiang Che always felt that he lost a lot of weight, and his muscles seemed to be a little tighter, but it was not as comfortable as before.

The wild boar seemed to smell the scent of the enemy, and suddenly jumped up from the bottom of the pit!

It jumped up like a huge fire ball, but the trap was very deep. After all, its hind legs were seriously injured, so it only jumped about one meter before falling down again.

There was another loud noise, and when the wild boar fell down, it smashed up the gravel at the bottom of the pit, and fell into the trap.

Out of the corner of Jiang Che's eye, he suddenly saw Ovid jumping over the boulder, and before he realized what happened, his neck felt a severe pain.

The flakes of stone tore through his clothes, leaving a bloody gash from his collarbone to the side of his neck.

"I've said that Julian is unreliable!" Ovid kept talking while bandaging Jiang Che, "He's so close to you, he didn't even notice the danger..."

"I didn't find it myself." Jiang Che thought to himself. At that time, he was thinking about what to feed Ovid with this pig, so he didn't find the potentially fatal piece of gravel.

The wound was not deep, just bleeding a little bit, and it hurt a little, but it didn't affect the activity.

Ovid warned him: "Don't move your shoulders and neck, and call me if you need anything."

Jiang Che suddenly found it very interesting.

Ovid turned to take care of him, which was great.

He smiled and said, "How does it feel to take care of people?"

Ovid shrugged: "Not very good, but for your sake, I am willing."

Jiang Che moved his hand and grabbed the little fox on his back.This shotgun followed Ovid from Griya F in the Sirius planet belt all the way here. He got used to it and was reluctant to change it. After a long time of hard work, he finally took it out of the Phoenix.

Ovid was staggered by him and fell into his arms.

Jiang Che hugged him and took a deep breath.The little fox on Ovid's back was on his chest, and he shook his head and rubbed against Ovid's hair.

"You smell like a wild boar nest." Jiang Che said, "It stinks."

Ovid didn't dare to move, fearing that Jiang Che would tear the wound open again with his movements, so he raised his voice and responded: "Then you still hug?"

"I like the stinky ones too." Jiang Che chuckled, "Have a meal of wild pork tonight, and we can go back to the headquarters tomorrow."

Ovid was stunned for a while, and suddenly understood what Jiang Che was talking about.

After completing this task, they can finally get a month's vacation.

"You want to go to Marseilles?" asked Ovid, "don't you like going?"

Jiang Che kissed his ear and whispered to him.

"Didn't Bering get promoted? She is also the captain of a military ship now. Pierre is still the deputy captain of her Chaoyang ship. Don't you want to go and see?"

His chest was pressed against Ovid's back, and his chest vibrated when he spoke, and Ovid could hear his heartbeat clearly.

It has been a year since the Phoenix led the Marseille ships headed by the Rouget back to Earth.

A year ago, the two were yelling like crazy on the mountain, and the Phoenix flying across the sky beckoned. That scene became a joke every time the team members returned to the headquarters to drink and chat with people.

The captain of the Rouget was still Samuel.

He was court-martialed after opening the anti-aircraft guns and welcoming Faust home.Because he actually saved the lives of all the people on the Faust, under the pressure of public opinion, the result of Samuel's trial has been delayed again and again, and has not been determined.

Linney, who returned to Marseilles, brought excellent news and used the news to rescue General Lees Wright, Samuel and Bering who were under house arrest at the time.

Samuel was too old to be the right man for this important return mission.But General Lee Swright and Linney both recommended him.

Jiang Che and Ovid did not really see Bering.They were still on a mission to deal with the biological disaster on the South American continent at the time, and the headquarters sent a small ship to pick them up and communicate with Bering via video.

Bering introduced Samuel to them, laughed and cried, but still did not forget to ask Ovid if he really helped him dig the Griya Diamond.

Lin Ni and Song Junxing also came back with the Phoenix, but Pierre and Tang Mo stayed in Marseille for the time being.Pierre was severely punished within the family, but then was rewarded supremely.Even Lin Ni couldn't tell what the specific award was.

"But at least one of the rewards is a small island and a particularly large manor." Seeing that Jiang Che and Ovid were at a loss, Lin Ni decided to give an example, "Probably can park ten Phoenix ships."

The two people here gasped at the same time.

Tang Mo was responsible for perfecting Lin Ni's incomplete voyage notes. She added a lot of details to the notes, some of which Lin Ni didn't even realize.

"Do I often fight with Song Junxing?" Lin Ni said, "I don't remember it. This should be Tang Mo's artistic creation. I won't be such a grumpy person."

Song Junxing, Jiang Che, and Ovid all sneered at this and that end.

Among all the people who returned to Marseille, the most popular in Marseille was not any one of them, but Xue Ming and the experts from the Australian station who brought the experience of the solar system crisis defense system to Marseille.

"They desperately want to keep Xue Ming." Song Junxing interjected gossip at the right time, "Xue Ming said that if he can marry Tang Mo, he is willing to stay."

Jiang Che and Ovid: "...What about Pierre?"

Song Junxing: "Pierre has me."

Linney: "What?"

Song Junxing: "For the sake of the island and the manor, I am willing to marry Pierre."

This time it was Lin Ni who sneered.

The communication time is not too long.Jiang Che and Ovid were sent back to the workplace in the early morning of the next day. Ovid was very reluctant. Before leaving, he kept talking to Song Junxing about all kinds of food on the earth, which made Song Junxing's eyes turn green.

However, since that farewell, they haven't seen each other for a long time.

The work of Jiang Che and Ovid is almost completely divorced from modern society, and they do not have the power to communicate with Marseille anytime and anywhere.

And the Phoenix air route from Earth to Marseille has been completely opened up. After countless consultations, the people of the two planets are setting up transfer stations on each planet of this air route to maintain the safe operation of the air route.

"I miss the Phoenix a little bit." Ovid said suddenly in a low voice. "It's nice to get along with everyone now...but sometimes I still dream about our life on the Phoenix."

As if passing through a new planet, they took a small ship, landed on the ground through the turbid atmosphere, and began to explore.

Fei Lian would walk around in the cockpit, issuing various instructions.

Pierre and Tang Mo, who couldn't land, were waiting for them to bring back new ingredients.

After being told in this way, Jiang Che also missed Fei Lian a little bit.

Fei Lian stayed with the Phoenix, and now it seems that he is going on a global tour with the theme of "Phoenix Airway".He and Tolstoy won't return to service until next year, and they're both limited in scope until installed on a new starship.

Fortunately, the artificial intelligence systems of almost all museums in the world are now improved with the materials left by Feilian's manufacturing team. Feilian is compatible, and only then has the ability to leave the Phoenix and wander around in the exhibition hall.

These are all Jiang Che and Ovid heard on the radio. They haven't seen Fei Lian for a long time.

There was already a faint smell of barbecue outside the tent.The wild boar has been quiet, and they are cutting fur and meat, ready to eat.

Ovid helped Jiang Che tidy up his clothes, and when he was about to go out, the green-eyed hunter came in.

"Jiang, are you okay?" He was full of apology, "I'm really sorry, it was too careless."

"It's just a small injury, it's okay." Jiang Che's eyes were sharp, and he saw the small note in his hand at a glance, "Julian, a summons from the headquarters?"

"Just received it." Julian unfolded the slender slip of paper.

The South American continent and most of the northern hemisphere are almost in two different worlds. It is extremely backward and barren, and the devastating disaster caused by the "big impact" has not fully recovered even after more than 500 years.When the biological disaster handling force goes deep into the hinterland of the mainland, it cannot communicate instantly. If there is an emergency, the headquarters will use the most primitive communication method: using birds.

"What bird sent it this time?" Jiang Che took Julian's note.

"The black eagle." Julian said, "This is the first time I've seen a black eagle used for communication."

The subpoena is generally only given to the person in charge of the team, such as Julian, and is rarely assigned directly to a certain team member.Jiang Che opened it curiously, and found that it was a simple message.

[Come and see me, I will stay at the Equator No. 13 Museum for a week. 】

This is a message from Fei Lian through the headquarters of the biological disaster disposal force.