Veteran

Looking at the enemies everywhere, Cheng Xiu felt very regretful: "I should have brought Fu Chenxi up just now."

Cao Yu said: "Isn't it too late to show the love of comrades-in-arms at this time?"

"I just wanted to bring out his charisma again."

"...That is indeed a pity."

The spaceship was about to be scrapped, and there was no room to pick and choose, so Cheng Xiu picked places with few people and drilled.The size of the spaceship is placed here, and the places that can be drilled are very limited.But running around also has the luck of running around.Just when Cheng Xiu bumped into a wall and turned around, a wide corridor appeared in front of him.

He asked dully: "Have we entered a different dimension?" According to his understanding and analysis of this starship, this corridor should never exist.

Cao Yu said, "The pursuers did not follow."

Cheng Xiu said, "Look at the time."

Cao Yu thought he was joking, but he really looked at the time and date seriously: "I didn't expect you to believe this kind of thing?"

Cheng Xiu said: "Otherwise, how do you think I would accept my reduced size when I was reborn?"

Cao Huang glanced at a certain part of him inadvertently.

Cheng Xiu said coldly, "It's as huge as ever!"

Cao Huang looked away, touched his nose, "Your pants are really elastic."

The ship's lights slowly dimmed, and the sirens became less and less loud, until the ship's wheels stopped gliding, announcing that the power supply was dead.

Cheng Xiu got up from the driver's seat and went to the back to search for weapons and equipment.

Cao Yu watched him throw out the things one by one, then took a look at them and picked the useful ones to keep.When finally checking the results, Cheng Xiu looked at Cao Yu's harvest in disbelief.

"You must be joking." He raised two small pistols and played with them in his hands. "Shall we go out to shoot water guns?"

"More flexible."

Cheng Xiu gave a disdainful cut, fancying a machine gun that could be carried on the shoulder and fired continuously, and was about to lift it up with great interest, when she realized that the ornamental value of this thing was far greater than the practical value.

……

He suddenly turned his head and looked to the side, just in time to see Cao Yu's smile that he didn't have time to take back.

Cao Yu said solemnly: "This gun is really good. I will hold the small water gun for you. You can use this."

Cheng Xiu said: "I just despise your taste in picking things up close."

Cao Yu couldn't help laughing.

He was clearly facing a critical moment of life and death, but Cheng Xiu's mood was surprisingly relaxed and peaceful. This feeling was experienced by Jiang Zheng and others many years ago, but there were subtle changes.At this moment, the situation seems to be a little more intimate.

This is the difference between "boyfriend" and "friend".

Cao Yu opened the door, jumped out of the spaceship first, and then turned around to take Cheng Xiu out.

Cao Yu held a small detector in his hand: "The magnetic field around here is very chaotic."

Cheng Xiu looked at the door next to the corridor: "Open this door, will there be a prehistoric giant jumping out of it?"

"Prehistoric monster?"

"Just before human history... I mean Earth."

Cao Yu said: "Then they are really hardworking and tireless."

"It may also be that we are exhausted and tireless."

Cheng Xiu made an exaggerated size comparison with his hands: "Such a huge prehistoric beast!"

Cao Yu gestured to a certain part of him with his eyes: "It doesn't matter, we also have big guys."

Cheng Xiu: "..."

Although they said it lightly, the fact that the pursuers disappeared so completely showed the extraordinary nature of this corridor.The two didn't rush to push the door, but stomped the corridor first, and finally stopped at the door.

Cao Yu asked, "Are you sure?"

Cheng Xiu said, "It's up to you to make the decision this time."

Cao Yu looked at the doorknob, hesitated for a long time, and just when Cheng Xiu thought he was about to give up, he put his hand on the doorknob and slowly pushed it forward.

Behind the door is a magical world, without the prehistoric monsters that Cheng Xiu joked about, but full of incomprehensible black technology.

Cheng Xiu looked at the glass vessels connected with various metal pipes, and asked Cao Yun blankly, "Did I see pigs flying in the sky?"

It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that pigs fly in the sky, because it just has a pair of wings and flies around in the glass tank.

Cao Yu said, "It has a pair of wings."

"I know, I'm not blind."

"Then it can indeed fly."

"...It makes sense." Cheng Xiu immediately accepted the setting that pigs can soar in the sky after they grow a pair of wings on their backs, "Compared to rejuvenating and reviving the dead, this should be nothing. But I Curious to know which metabiologist's boring experiment this is."

The two walked while talking, and quickly walked half a circle around the ring-shaped glass vessel and metal pipe, and found the entrance.

In the dim and staggered light, two eyes hid in the shadows and looked over silently, sharp and cold.

After Cheng Xiu saw the owner of the eyes clearly, she immediately backed up.

"They are Cao Xie and Lin Ying." Jiang Xianglan, one of the owners of the eyes, said.

"Impossible..." The old man, the owner of the other gaze, said it was impossible, but his eyes were fixed on them like a hungry cat meeting a fish.

Seeing that Cheng Xiu and Cao Yu had retreated to the corners of their clothes, Jiang Xianglan said: "He has a huge bomb in his hand. Once it explodes, the area with the starship as the center and a radius of 0.003 AU will not be spared."

……

Cheng Xiu and Cao Tong walked back slowly.

The old man said, "Come closer and let me see."

Cheng Xiu refused: "We don't sell."

The old man murmured: "It is indeed the tone of General Lin Ying."

Cheng Xiu: "..."

Cheng Xiu asked Cao Yun, "Did I often talk like this before?"

Cao Yu said: "I haven't heard you say 'we don't sell', but generally say 'we don't do it'."

Cheng Xiu said, "That's a big difference."

Cao Huang echoed: "It's very big. Saying 'we don't sell' will make you a little more likable, at least in the eyes of the council."

Cheng Xiu: "..."

The old gentleman saw the way the two were talking and laughing happily, and asked suspiciously: "The other one is really Cao Xie?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "I can't find another person who is as annoying as him."

Hearing this, Cao Yu took two steps forward: "It seems that you have a good impression of your father-in-law."

Jiang Xianglan: "..."

The distance between the two sides is getting closer, and they can see each other more clearly.

A thick mechanical arm is wrapped around Jiang Xianglan's waist. As long as the mechanical arm exerts a little force, he will be divided into two parts.And he held a gun in his hand, and the black muzzle of the gun was facing the old man's head.

At this time, the old man didn't look old at all, his skin was smooth and his face was rosy, but the skin on his face and the skin on his neck seemed to be joined together, and wrinkles were clearly visible at the junction.His expression was also very strange, as stiff as a zombie just fished out of the freezer.He was sitting in a wheelchair. Behind the wheelchair was a huge octopus-like mechanical arm, one of which was holding Jiang Xianglan.

While they were observing him, the old man was also looking at them carefully, especially Cheng Xiu, his eyes were sometimes suspicious and sometimes fascinated.He asked, "What happened to you? To make you look so naturally young? It's not like a normal skin graft. Your skin is so perfect. And your height, shorter than I know, yes A side effect of the surgery? Or, you had a head transplant done? Where did you find a body so perfect, so similar?"

Cheng Xiu looked at Jiang Xianglan: "I need an interpreter."

Jiang Xianglan said: "What she said is the reason why she is alive."

"Head transplant surgery?" Cheng Xiu couldn't believe it. "This kind of surgery really exists?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "You exist, Cao Xie exists, and I exist too. What else in this world cannot exist?"

The old man said: "No, the head transplant operation has not really been practiced yet. I need a perfect body. Young, beautiful, healthy...just like you. Lord General."

Cheng Xiu said: "I'm telling you as someone who has been there, pretending to be tender is very hard. Just like now, even if I want to hang you two up and beat me up, I have to take into account my physical strength and bear it."

"If your eyes look around again, I'll dig out your eyeballs." The old gentleman, who was still cheerful a second ago, suddenly changed into a cold tone.

Cheng Xiu said: "I only see you for basic politeness, but actually, I don't want to see you that much."

The old man smiled and said, "I'm not talking about you, but about him. I hate people in politics the most."

Cao Huang looked away: "I just don't want to maintain basic courtesy, so I just look around."

The old man said: "You don't need to look at it, you can't dismantle the bomb. Kill me, and the bomb will explode immediately."

Cheng Xiu said: "Usually when the plot has progressed to this point, I should say something nonsense like 'you can't escape if you kill us', but this sentence is too nonsense, I thought about it, and I should change it. You said, how can the bomb not explode?"

The corner of the old man's mouth twitched, as if he wanted to laugh: "Can't you see it? First, put down the gun in his hand."

Jiang Xianglan and Cheng Xiu looked at each other.Cheng Xiu said, "I can't control him."

The old gentleman turned a deaf ear and said slowly: "Then, you and I will complete the disclosure transplant operation together."

Cheng Xiu and Cao Yu exchanged glances, and Cao Yu said, "I can control him. No."

Being rejected twice in a row, the old man was not angry, and said again: "It's okay, for the sake of the general, I can give you one more choice. Hand over your secret recipe for longevity." Despite the lack of expression on his face, But her expressive eyes are better than many superstars in the world, and she can clearly see emotions such as jealousy, envy, and yearning.

Cheng Xiu sighed deeply, stretched out her hands to applaud, and then looked at Jiang Xianglan, who had held her gun up for a long time, her wrist still steady, and said, "The drama you two performed together was not bad, but unfortunately, you chose the wrong audience. I hate watching suspense movies the most. This kind of game where the inside responds to the outside, and the thief shouts and catches the thief can't fool me at all."

Cao Yu lowered his voice and said, "Didn't you say you hated watching romance movies before?"

Cheng Xiu said, "At that time, I was single."

"Oh, that's it..." Cao Yu pursed his lips, but there was still a hint of joy leaking from the corner of his mouth.

The old man was a little disappointed: "Admiral Lin Ying himself is so stupid."

"..." Cheng Xiu pointed to her nose and asked Cao Guan, "Did he just say that I was stupid?"

Cao Yu said, "He refers to your previous life."

Cheng Xiu was not happy: "Where was I stupid in my previous life?"

Cao Yu said, "We were not together in our previous life."

"Hehe." Cheng Xiu said, "I've been scolded for the rest of my life."

Seeing the two flirting and cursing like no one else, the old gentleman felt a little strange in his heart, and always felt that something was wrong.What's wrong?He suddenly remembered that a person who was supposed to be extremely present at this moment seemed to be wearing an invisibility cloak and disappeared.He turned his head suddenly, and Jiang Xianglan was still standing there with a gun in his hand, motionless, without changing at all.

But no change is the strangest change.

Because he intuitively felt that it was absolutely impossible for this person to be so peaceful.

He said, "What about you? Don't you want to know the secret of their longevity?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "I want to know, but they will definitely not tell me."

The old man said, "Why?"

"Because I have a bad relationship with them."

"Aren't you in the same group?"

"Of course not." Jiang Xianglan smiled, "I'm only with my interests."

The old man looked at him suspiciously: "Who the hell are you?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "A person who also wants to live forever."

Cheng Xiu was a little surprised. She didn't expect that the old man and Jiang Xianglan had been alone for so long, yet they hadn't reported their family background. It seemed that the mutual attraction wasn't strong enough.

The old man tapped the armrest of the chair unconsciously with his fingers, and the mechanical arm behind him moved slightly.The eyes of the other three moved at the same time, and at the same time they looked away as if nothing had happened.

"Since our goals are the same, you should put down the gun." The old man said.

Jiang Xianglan said: "The goal is the same, and it may be the opponent." The mechanical arm wrapped around his waist moved slightly, and he immediately shot his armrest without hesitation as a warning.

The old man's hand was shocked by the bullet, and his face was a little ugly.

Cheng Xiu said: "Actually, I think the two of you are more than enough to perform this play. How about we go sit outside for a while and leave you a little private space?"

The old man said: "Even if we can't be friends, we don't have to be enemies. I have always been your most loyal fan. I have read the information of every battle you have, and I have seen all your speeches. I have read every page of the records of reprimanding members in the parliament. Song Enping and Jiang Zheng are no longer here, let me be your assistant and let you send me."

Jiang Xianglan suddenly sneered.

The old man asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "I laugh at you, after so many years, the technique of lying still hasn't improved much."

"It's been so many years?" The old man stared at him, "You know me from before?"

Jiang Xianglan smiled: "I'm not Song Yu, but I did come from that era."

The old man forcefully squeezed out the word "Chuan" between his stiff brows: "Did you really use the freezing technique to keep yourself to this day?"

Jiang Xianglan nodded.

The old man asked, "Why?"

"To see you."

"who are you?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "A person whose life, career, and all hope have been ruined by you."

The old man was still confused.

Jiang Xianglan said: "There are so many people who meet the requirements, can't you think of them?"

The old man sized him up, from his figure to his temperament, from his eyes to his outline, and suddenly had an idea: "Are you Jiang Xianglan?"

Before he finished speaking, the gun in Jiang Xianglan's hand had already hit the center shaft of the mechanical arm behind him. The bullet jammed the mechanism, and the mechanical arm stopped.He took the opportunity to rush to the old gentleman and lifted her collar.

The old gentleman said: "I went around and around, but I didn't expect it to be me and you in the end."

Jiang Xianglan said, "Where is Cao Ning?"

The old man said: "The mechanical arm that chokes you is the device that activates the bomb. As soon as you break free, the bomb will explode. With a 'boom', we all die together."

Jiang Xianglan said, "Why do you want to provoke me and the Cao family?"

The old man said: "The bomb is so powerful that you can't escape no matter what."

Jiang Xianglan tightened his grip on his collar, and almost lifted him from the chair: "Why kill her!"

The old gentleman stared at his eyes full of cold hatred, and laughed "puchi": "It turns out that you will also show such an expression. It's a pity that you are still holding Song Yu's face. If your original face, you should How exciting. Do you remember the expression on your face when you defeated Yue Xiao? You were so arrogant and arrogant, you were so dazzling at that time. I thought at that time, one day I will tear you and your pride away. , threw it on the ground, stomped hard, trampled hard. I succeeded, and now Jiang Xianglan is a person who doesn't even have his own face."

Cheng Xiu and Cao Yu looked at Jiang Xianglan's mechanical arm in fear, fearing that he would break free on impulse.Cheng Xiu said, "I have experience in dismantling bombs, let me try."

Cao Huang strongly objected: "We still have time to leave now."

Cheng Xiu said: "He wants to kill you and me so much, how could he let go of such a good opportunity. As soon as we leave, he will definitely blow himself up."

"When I was in the Pandora galaxy, I really wanted to kill you. Because you were resurrected, but Cao Ning didn't." Jiang Xianglan didn't know when he had calmed down. He pinched the old man's neck hard and watched him because He slowly lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen, and let him go when he was really about to die, let him take a few breaths, and continued to torture, while saying to Cao Tong, "But you are the closest person to her in this world. , if she really died, she would blame me even more."

Cheng Xiu said, "I'm glad you think so."

Jiang Xianglan took out a communicator from his pocket with his left hand and threw it to Cao Yun: "Let's go."

Cheng Xiu hesitated, "Let's just leave like this? What do you do?"

Jiang Xianglan said: "Cao Ning waited for me for a long time, if she waits any longer, she will be angry."

Jiang Xianglan, who had an established impression of being sinister and vicious, suddenly made such an affectionate sentence, which made Cheng Xiu very uncomfortable.

Jiang Xianglan said: "I don't like you. Because of you, no matter how good my academic performance was since I was young, and no matter how brilliant my record was, I was only second. But, despite these negative emotions, I have admired you in my heart. You are an orphan. One thing makes me never be able to prove that I am stronger than you, and it also makes me have to admit that you are really strong."

Cheng Xiu said: "If I hold a signing event, you must come. It would be a waste not to sign your autograph."

"Going to the arena was designed by me. Before Cao Yu appeared, to be honest, I almost thought it was a pleasure to get along with you." Jiang Xianglan looked at the dying old man indifferently, and slowly Let go of your fingers. "Unfortunately, we are destined not to be friends."

Cheng Xiu said: "Actually, the process of identifying a friend is not as complicated as you think, just accept it in your heart."

"No need." Jiang Xianglan said, "I still can't recognize you."

Cheng Xiu: "..."

Jiang Xianglan looked at the old gentleman who was almost dead, and waved indifferently: "Let's go."

There are many things I want to say and many things I want to ask, but at this time, those words and things are not so important.There is only one thing that Cheng Xiu has been brooding about, but she doesn't want to brood any longer: "Did you kill Jiang Xiangfeng?"

Jiang Xianglan smiled calmly: "No. If you have any questions, you can use the communicator to ask Jiang Xiangfeng's adjutant. He will tell you."

The first time I saw Jiang Xianglan was in the secret experimental base.The sudden encounter doomed their incongruity.Although the time in the arena was not interesting, it allowed him to pass the psychological adjustment period of rejuvenation.Even if they turned their faces and fought against each other later... They wanted to get rid of each other, but Jiang Xianglan, this person, this name, and the brilliant and tragic life behind this name, in the end let him remember.

"Take care of yourself."