Did the worm king lose his horse today [Interstellar]

The sound of the explosion echoed in the enclosed space, and the entire ground trembled.

Gu Jiurong said: "What is Gu Ming trying to do? Are you planning to escape in this starship?"

"Maybe." Gu Yue said, "It's also possible that they want to launch a suicide attack on the alliance. This is a large starship, and the explosion and impact will cause damage to any ark, as well as immeasurable casualties. Now the resources As far as scarcity is concerned, it will take unimaginable time and energy to restore... I will never allow such indiscriminate harm to innocent people to happen."

"So why does he want to destroy the fake alliance so much, just because he is dissatisfied with the Ark project? Then he wants to go to Xu Feiyang's hometown?"

Gu Yue paused for a moment: "When I knew him, his spirit was not right, he was prone to violence, he often stayed in the study for a few days, and after knocking on the door, there were books spread all over the floor. This kind of symptom Originally, it got better because of Xu Feiyang's appearance, but it got worse after Xu Feiyang disappeared."

He continued: "'Black Cloak' was founded by him in the first place, it is unclear whether Xu Feiyang participated in it or not. A few months after I just woke up from the freezer, it was Gu Ming who came to me and hoped that I could join them .”

Gu Jiurong understood.

Gu Yue possesses talent but has nowhere to display it. Naturally, he has reasons to hate the alliance, just like some other symbiotic fighters.

"It's regrettable to say it," Gu Yue said, "When I just woke up... I was really full of hostility. Gu Ming took a fancy to this. At first I thought he was a reliable companion, so I sort of... Mentioned my past."

Gu Jiurong said: "But you later found out that he was different from what you imagined, right?"

Gu Yue nodded: "Yes. Especially later, in order to cover up the 'Black Cloak', he started killing you people who came out of the 'Blue Sky'. Before that, I applied for the operation to clean up the 'Blue Sky'—I That’s how I met you——During the cleaning process, most of the information has been buried, but Gu Ming obviously feels that this is not enough.”

Gu Jiurong said: "On the contrary, I hope you can get closer to Gu Ming...for example, when facing that old man Zuo Ziming."

He moved closer to Gu Yue: "So what do you think, let's destroy this fake alliance together."

"The risk is too great, and no one knows what will happen." Gu Yue said, "If Zuo Ziming is the rotten tree root that polluted the entire alliance with toxins, he is still the main nutrient and foundation. Especially now , the Ark project had energy shortages and many other problems.”

"People like him are going to die." Gu Jiurong rolled his eyes. "It's no problem to send him to the ground a few years ago. Just find a few members of the Gu family who are better than him, or," he suddenly thought One possibility, "You go and replace him."

Gu Yue laughed dumbfounded and rubbed his head: "Anyway, I am also a staunch main battle party, and I have no interest in the Ark project. And compared to the chief, I am still more suitable to be a commander. Starship tactics are comparable What politics is so much more interesting."

He said seriously: "As for Zuo Ziming, don't think too much about it, I'll take it all away."

Gu Jiurong frowned, and waved his hand away: "Look away? People like me can see that you still can't forget this thing, okay? Otherwise, why would you visit your own tombstone? Half the night without sleep?"

He took a deep breath: "If you looked into your eyes on a rainy night, you wouldn't lie to me like this."

It is clearly full of unwillingness, and the memories are surging like a tide.

Gu Yue froze for a moment.

After a while, he smiled silently, with a bit of self-mockery, and said nothing more.They walked to the top of the starship side by side.

……

"Did you find it?" Ye Zhengqing asked.

In front of him stood two "black cloaked" figures.In the simple ward, various instruments around were beeping.The injury he suffered this time is not life-threatening, but he will not be able to fight for a short time.

"No." The person opposite frowned, "After all, we have too little information... May I ask, why are you looking for the territory of the Fallen Empire?"

The territories of the Fallen Empire are all over the universe, many of which are not connected to each other.

Just beside these three arks, there is a smaller territory of the Fallen Empire.The unmanned fleet that attacked the alliance three years ago came from there.

"Because I was thinking," Ye Zhengqing said, "why they can produce so many unmanned fleets without expanding their territory. From the analysis of the wreckage, the materials and energy needed by those unmanned fleets is an extremely terrifying number."

He continued: "Even if calculated according to the ratio of the richest cosmic resources we know, such a small territory cannot produce so many resources."

"Didn't many people have guessed this question?" The person opposite said, "This question has not been resolved so far. It can only be explained that their technological power far exceeds our imagination."

"However, since we knew about the existence of the Fallen Empire, their territories have not expanded. The only thing that has been invaded is the Earth, and there are no people living on it." Ye Zhengqing said, "Over six hundred years have passed during this period." It's..."

"So, what are you looking for?"

Ye Zhengqing was silent for a while, then raised his eyes and said, "I'm wondering whether their legendary eternal dock exists or not."

The conjecture about the Eternal Dock has been around for a long time, even earlier than the Ark project.

The reason is that when the alliance sent a fleet to explore space, they accidentally discovered a patrol route of a fallen fleet. The time calculation method of the fallen empire is different from that of humans. The unmanned fleet is patrolling on a cycle of one day in the fallen ephemeris.

During their first encounter, the Alliance fleet accidentally strayed into their patrol route.

The two sides exchanged fire.Fortunately, the other side was just the most crude patrol fleet, without much firepower, and the alliance shot down the fleet after a few hours of stalemate.

Researching fallen starships can be extremely rewarding at any given time.So they collected the debris in space and prepared to return to the planet.

But on the way back, the wreckage disappeared.

The wreckage can still be explained as the interstellar storm blowing them away and destroying them during the return voyage, or some unknown technology of the fallen empire can prevent the debris from being studied by other civilizations, and they decompose themselves.

So even more puzzling than the missing wreckage is the reappearance of the fleet.

After half a month, when the alliance tried to explore this star field again, it inevitably returned to the vicinity of that patrol route.

There, they saw an identical unmanned fleet.

Same preparation, same formation, same appearance.

It was as if the battle half a month ago had never broken out.

An incident can be explained as accidental, but then more and more similar things happened.Logically speaking, if the patrol fleet is shot down several times, it is normal to strengthen the security or let the frigate follow.

but none.Their fleet hasn't changed a bit.

Like the most precise and unchanging instruments, they cruise the vast void.

So many conjectures appeared, among which the more famous one was the Eternal Dock.

They guessed that the shipyard of the Fallen Empire produced the same number of starships on time and carried out the same cruises every day without any manipulation.If the shipyard was done fully automatically and left unattended, the lack of increased firepower would also make sense.

That dock must possess inexhaustible resources and technology that humans dream of.

"If," Ye Zhengqing said, "we can control the shipyards in this small territory, then we will have enough power to fight against the false alliance."

"But it's impossible." The person opposite him frowned, "Let's not talk about whether we can control the fallen fleet, it's already too difficult just to enter their territory."

"I know." Ye Zhengqing took a deep breath and felt the pain of his wound, "But this is the only way I can think of. We can only hope that the defense of that small territory is very weak. Then we can think of a way, To lure the insect king who is still in his infancy, to fight against the fallen empire, we take advantage of the chaos to control the dock... If it is Mr. Gu, everything is possible, right?"

The person on the opposite side hesitated again: "You know that the Eternal Dock is just a theory, and it hasn't been proven at all, right?"

He flipped through the information Ye Zhengqing gave him: "Even if this is the smallest territory of the Fallen Empire, the approximate location of the shipyard you calculated based on the cruise route is still far away from us."

"I know." Ye Zhengqing smiled, "From the beginning, I didn't expect to really succeed. But if this reason is enough for Mr. Gu to temporarily leave these three starships and not insist on dying, it's worth it. "

……

The top of the starship was pitch black.

Gu Jiurong and Gu Yue walked through the empty corridor, and at the far end, they saw a little light flowing through the crack of the door.

The light was warm yellow and spread down to their feet.

Gu Yue held a gun and signaled Gu Jiurong to stand behind him.Then he stepped forward slowly and gently pushed open the half-open door.

Bright light poured out, and blood was mottled on the ground.

This is the control center of the starship. Gu Ming is sitting on a black swivel chair with his back to the door.There were several "black cloak" warriors lying down in the corner, including Gu Ming and Gu Yue, all of them were dead.

Gu Yue aimed at the gun: "Turn around."

The swivel chair turned slowly toward them.Gu Ming had a gloomy and dejected look on his face. There was a puddle of blood in his abdomen that had dried up for a long time, staining his snow-white clothes.

There are several needles scattered beside the seat, all of which are used to relieve pain and stop bleeding, as well as excitatory ingredients.

With the current level of medical treatment, even if the chest and abdomen are seriously injured, the wounded can still maintain a certain level of physical function, and even fight for a short time - this was originally prepared for soldiers on the battlefield.

He looked at Gu Jiurong sullenly: "I should have killed you from the very beginning." He raised a small instrument in his hand, "Of course there is a chance now, just press it, and this starship will be If it is blown to ashes, no one will live."

Gu Yue said in a cold voice: "You can try, is my bullet faster or yours faster."

Gu Ming leaned back, and the wound began to ooze blood again: "You can try it. Believe me, no one knows how it will end until it's over. But, do you have the heart for the people behind you to take risks with you?" He again With a smile, "Your life can end, but his has just begun."

The praying mantis approached Gu Ming silently, but when Gu Ming raised the controller in his hand, they all stopped.

Gu Ming said: "Don't try to fool me with this kind of trick. I am a member of the Gu family, and I know the Zerg very well. You know what you are."

He laughed again, wiped the blood from his mouth, and said in a weak voice, "However, I still like you very much."

Gu Yue still held the gun steadily: "You don't have to do this step."

"That's just your self-righteousness. From the beginning, this is the perfect ending for me. My only regret is that I didn't destroy this stupid alliance." Gu Ming said coldly, "'Black Cloak' was originally I created it, and you are the one trying to rebel and usurp the throne."

"You can see how many of your subordinates support my point of view." Gu Yue said, "You have really gone crazy."

Gu Ming coughed a few times, and there was a fresh stain of blood on his shirt: "Yes, yes, yes, you all said that. Why has no one understood me?"

"I used to hide in my room and read books for dozens of hours. You said I was insane. The waste manuscripts of my novels and poems were piled up in the whole room. You said I was not from the Gu family at all. The Gu family should be right. Military interest, these are crooked ways."

His mental state was already very bad, and he continued to say: "My father is a bastard, because I didn't want to go to military school when I was a child, and set my whole house on fire, just to burn that obtrusive bookshelf and everything. Paper. I cried and begged him, but the last book didn't come out."

"He did this kind of bastard thing more than once. He thought that destroying something I like would make me a 'Gu family' again, so I planned for many years, and I was going to show him how I would ruin this for him. Favorite League."

"What's so good about this alliance? It's just a corrupt old monster leading a group of cowards to escape. How can it deserve the loyalty of so many people?"

"It's a pity that he died before that." Gu Ming laughed mockingly, "The heart stopped beating suddenly, it's too cheap for him."

"Later, there was finally a person who could understand all my pursuits. He could sing in the rain, write poems on the edge of a cliff, and when he wanted to shoot a movie and create text, he was ridiculed just like me. He is also a lunatic, But he knows that in my world, there is also a fire burning."

"Xu Feiyang doesn't like this alliance, so I have one more goal. I want to kill that old monster Zuo Ziming, destroy this hypocritical Ark project, and I want to go back to Earth."

His voice was like a sigh.

"I once thought he was my hometown. But one day, he disappeared. I was alone again. Gu Yue, you are so fucking jealous."

Gu Yue still gripped the gun tightly: "I sympathize with your experience. As any other parent, if they can respect your choice, or make the right choice at the beginning of your mental problems, I think we They should be comrades in arms now."

"Maybe." Gu Ming shrugged, "Compassion is meaningless, because you are not me after all, and you can't share my pain. You think I am a lunatic, but I think you are not? Perhaps from birth, the world we see It's just different."

Gu Yue said: "Everyone's helplessness is different, but the path they can choose is also different. Blindly relegating pain to the past is just disrespect for your life. You are here now because of your own choice."

Gu Ming nodded: "You are right. That's why, you are more noble than me. Although this nobleness is full of your pain when it comes, it seems ridiculous."

He raised the controller: "But now, we have the opportunity to turn into stardust together. I bring my longing for my hometown, and you bring your unfinished ambitions, isn't it great? Like in literary works, the last The perfect tragedy."

A thin layer of sweat broke out on Gu Yue's forehead, and his fingers were about to pull off the trigger.Mantis tensed in the shadows, her scarlet eyes burning.

This frantic confrontation lasted for several seconds.

But in the end, the breath that kept hanging on Gu Ming suddenly disappeared.

His whole body collapsed, leaning against the back of the chair wearily, and threw the controller aside: "You guys go." He coughed a few times, "Don't worry, I'm about to die, and this starship is also broken It's too late to hit the ark."

The controller bumped against the metal ground a few times, making a crisp sound, and finally slid to the corner.

Gu Ming smiled helplessly, and said to Gu Jiurong: "Look, I said that I should kill you from the beginning. I couldn't do it at the time, and I haven't been able to do it since then."

Gu Jiurong said: "You don't like me at all."

"That's right." Gu Ming coughed up blood, "It's also possible that when you quietly listened to me reading, you looked too much like him. You see, I am so humble that I can be persuaded by this reason."

He waved his hand: "If you don't plan to send a bullet into my head, go away, this starship will fail."

It would be imprudent not to kill the enemy with his own hands, but Gu Jiurong remained silent at the moment and left it to Gu Yue to decide.

Gu Ming's complexion was pale, the blood loss was really killing him, and even the heaving of his chest became smaller.

Gu Yue was silent for a few seconds, put down his pistol and took two steps back.

He said, "You were my first ally when I woke up. Thanks and goodbye."

"...Go away." Gu Ming said softly.

So Gu Yue took Gu Jiurong and left the large control room.

Indeed, as Gu Ming said, the entire starship fell apart in the explosion and fighting.They hurried to the lower floor, and the people in the "black cloak" also started to evacuate one after another.

Finally out of this space, they stood under the bright starlight.

Gu Jiurong still felt dazed.

Gu Yue reached out and wiped the stains and blood on Gu Jiurong's face.Then he took his hand: "Go, let's go home."

"En." Gu Jiurong responded, rubbing his neck.

When returning in the aircraft, Gu Jiurong saw the starship belonging to Gu Ming taking off in the wilderness.

Its shell peeled off like a sheet in the wind, revealing the inner structure.

Gu Ming was still in the control room, and he could see the flames bursting out of the glass in his blurry vision—it was like fireworks in full bloom on a dance party. Xu Feiyang stood beside him in a suit and leather shoes, and took his hand.

He is now going to drive this starship back towards the direction of the earth.

But this starship is already old, and its damaged structure makes it completely fragmented as soon as it enters superluminal voyage.

In other words, any human starship is not enough to complete this long journey.

Even if he was really, really lucky, a few pieces of wreckage passed in the direction of the earth. After wandering for thousands or hundreds of millions of years, they reached the orbit of the planet with an infinitely close to impossible probability, and managed to avoid all the guards of the fallen empire , kissing the atmosphere, they will also burn into nothingness during the high-speed fall.

Can't even touch the ground.

No matter how you think about it, he can't go back.

However, after all, there is a little hope.A lunatic like him will not know the pain of failure until the last second, and it has always been like this.

The broken starship sailed slowly into the deep space, accelerated with a roar, and its body continued to burn at high speed, like a brilliant and dazzling huge fireball.

Gu Ming stood up with his body propped up, and opened his arms to meet the huge glass that burst open in front of him.

So through the layers of flames, he saw the stars sweeping across the sky, like the grand scene described in the book, and the blue planet hidden behind the storm, like the picture scroll he was obsessed with when he was young, with brilliant light on it, like the grand scene of many people. Feiyang has depicted the magnificence of this world time and time again.

It was touching to the point of tears.

Even the deafening explosions in the ears and the gradually freezing body temperature could not stop this journey.Gu Ming took a deep breath of the scalding air, the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke made the corners of his eyes really hot.He's going back to Earth, he's going home.

The author has something to say: If you count your fingers, confession and losing the horse are very, very close

Don't worry, it's not very cruel hhh