Captain Ghost

The two hugged together, ran over countless bushes all the way, trampled to death countless insects and ants who were desperate to move, and finally stopped by a thin and thin tree. Xie Ze was bumped in the middle and let out a scream.

Sailin supported Xie Ze to stand up quickly, and the two of them glanced behind at the same time. Andy's body rolled to the other end of the slope, which was steeper than here. He overtook halfway, and Sailin and the others rolled to the foot of the mountain.

Xie Ze and Sai Lin supported each other and ran towards the bottom of the mountain, fighting against the magma for life and death.

The magma broke through the hole and spewed into the air. The black smoke, carrying the hostility that had been hidden by the snow for nearly a hundred years, rushed towards the blue sky, as if to cover the sky.

Light upwards, heavy downwards, looking for fossil-ignited bombs finally awakened the monster volcano. With the dissatisfaction of getting up, it drowned those who disturbed his sleep in the mountain, making the whole mountain as their cemetery.

Xie Ze and Sai Lin kept running, running, as if the essence of life since birth was to keep rushing forward, so as not to be swallowed up from behind.

They didn't know how long they ran. The magma seemed to be sprayed for two hours, and finally died down. They stopped less than 100 meters away from them. The fiery volcano finally vented its rising gas and returned to sleep. state.

Xie Ze and Sai Lin were shocked, Xie Ze hugged Sai Lin first, took a deep breath on his shoulder, and said, "It's good to be alive."

His voice was hoarse, and every word he spoke was painful, but the joy of being alive after the catastrophe made him put these physical discomforts behind him, and looked at the person in front of him again.His eyebrows, his eyes, and every part of his body seemed to be shining brightly.

Sailin's hair was in a bad mess, even knotted in some places. This was probably the worst image he had seen since he was born, but he didn't feel embarrassed, but found it novel. He was breathing fresh air at this moment, feeling the strong pulse of his heart. Jumping, hugging the lover he has dreamed of day and night for 20 years, he feels that he has never been so lucky in this life, maybe his fate is ill-fated, maybe he has encountered many things in the past 20 years, but as the saying goes Like, "It's good to be alive."

The united egg on Xie Ze's head probably recognized his master, and he grabbed his head tightly and held it like a bird's nest, as long as he didn't throw it away, Xie Ze couldn't care about them at the moment.

The two waited for the magma to cool down a little, and after making sure that the mountain would not get angry again, they went around a long way to find Andy.

Andy's body is still warm, but this is not the natural body temperature, but because his body is surrounded by magma, and the magma is still warm.

He is already dead, with his eyes closed, surrounded by magma that has not yet completely solidified, like a traveler who just takes a short rest, finally his goal is in front of him, he is ecstatic, but at this moment he is pushed to into the abyss.

Xie Ze was silent, he saluted Andy.

Sailin looked solemn, saw the blood on Andy's body, and determined that the cause of his death was because he was hit by a bullet, not because he fell down and died.

"He blocked the bullet for me." Sailin said with difficulty, "I..."

"He said his name was Andy, and his wish was to leave planet AX-98 and gain freedom." Xie Ze interrupted him, and at the same time let him swallow all the guilt he might have said. Andy had His own choice, when he chose to block the bullet, he might not have been free. "What we can do is to take him out of here and bury him back to his hometown."

Sailin woke up like a dream, "You are right, what we can do is to take him out of here."

What to do now?The magma hadn't cooled completely yet, so he tried to push the magma off Andy's body and dig him out, but found that he couldn't do it at all, the bottom had completely started to solidify, locking Andy firmly on the ground, Unless they drove the machine to dig out this piece of land together with Andy, it would only make Andy's body shattered and bloody.

At this time, they heard the sound of an engine beeping.

They looked behind and found that their spaceship was slowly landing, and the hunting wind picked up his clothes and blew Sailin's hair into a mess again. His current head was like a bird's nest, which was particularly post-modern.

Li Weijing's arm was in plaster, jumped out of the hatch, and walked towards them in a big way, with a look of rejoicing on his face, "Fortunately, you are all right, I saw the volcano erupting earlier, and I feel that the situation is not good , hurry up and come over with the Ghost, are you not injured? Who is this?"

She looked at the man on the ground with an unconcerned face.

"A friend I just met, he saved Sailin. I will tell you the details later. Now we need to dig him out of here and take him away from this planet." Xie Ze was rare and serious, and ordered Li Weijing.

Li Weijing didn't say anything, turned around and held the hatch with one hand, turned over, his movements were smooth, and he couldn't tell that he was still a disabled person.

Within 3 minutes, she appeared at the cabin door again, holding a saw-shaped cutting machine with a length of about 1.2 meters in her hand.

"And this thing, how come I don't know?" Xie Ze was puzzled, he thought Li Weijing would bring an electric drill or something.

"It turns out that I didn't let you see the wood and steel bars when I dismantled the interstellar express." Li Weijing said disapprovingly.

"Why?" Xie Ze didn't understand.

Li Weijing showed his white teeth, "I'm afraid that one day I'll be too angry and accidentally saw you off. In order to avoid such a tragedy, I have to not use it in front of you, so as not to be impulsive."

"..." Xie Ze touched his waist, which was about to break, and thought to himself, thank you so much.

Sailin took the cutting machine and circled Andy in a circle with a radius of 1.2 meters. After cutting for a long time, two disgraced saviors came, Fu Shannon and Xinghun also appeared.

They also looked quite embarrassed. Fu Shannon was okay, but there was a little more dust all over his body, and Xinghun was not very good. It seemed that he had a fight with someone. I guess it would be better to pick N, otherwise it wouldn't be like this , Even his face was painted.

Fu Shannong and the others helped each other, and the five of them carried the things back to the Ghost, and closed the cabin door. Xie Ze announced with a tired face: "Everyone go to wash up, eat something and sleep, I will set the automatic start, and leave here first. It's very unsafe here now, with Margaret's forces guarding it, it's safe to leave as soon as possible."

At this time, Mingyue brought out a large pot of ready-made dishes, brought out five bowls of rice, and put the cooking pot beside the dining table, and said to the five of them: "Eat first, I'll go and look at the navigation, you eat over……"

Before she could finish speaking, everyone rushed to the dining table like hungry wolves, and Mingyue wisely dodged first to avoid being bumped into.

"...don't be in such a hurry, there are things in the kitchen." Mingyue finally finished her words, but found that her words didn't seem to have any effect on them, she spread her hands helplessly, but seeing that they liked the things she made so much, The boulder in my heart fell to the ground, and I felt a sense of peace of mind that I was finally integrated into this place.

Li Weijing pushed a bowl of rice directly to the side of the pot of vegetables, scooped out a substantial spoonful of vegetables, then took the bowl aside, scooped it up with the spoon, and devoured it hungrily.

The remaining four people swept away the dishes on the table like a storm, and then spread their stomachs on the chairs, slowly slipped to the ground, and fell asleep just like that.

Mingyue: "..."

She couldn't help but laugh, and finally found five blankets from the room, covered them up, went to the spaceship to set the autopilot, stared for a while and found that there seemed to be a reconnaissance plane following the Ghost.

Mingyue didn't choose to wake people up. She glanced at the hall, turned on the laser cannon on the left rear, and blatantly blasted towards the reconnaissance plane, a fatal blow!

The reconnaissance plane was torn apart by the laser bombardment, and the pilot in the middle was exposed to space. The huge pressure difference and temperature difference caused the blood in his body to spurt out, and directly condensed into solid crystals in the zero-degree space, like a suddenly blooming ice flower , The beauty is shocking.

Mingyue quickly keyed in information on the input terminal, simulating the signal emitted by the reconnaissance plane, and deceived the client of the reconnaissance plane.

Perhaps the people over there think that the reconnaissance plane has been following the Ghost, so the time interval between transmitting signals is getting farther and farther.

But by then it was too late, those men had lost track of the Ghost, and would never find it again.

"You are very smart." Xie Ze appeared in the cockpit like a ghost. Mingyue was startled, put her hand down from the input terminal, turned to look at Xie Ze, and apologized sincerely, "I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what?" Xie Ze's eyes were not sharp, he even smiled, as he always did before.

Mingyue took a deep breath and said: "Although I didn't disclose the information on purpose, it is related to me. I need to be responsible. You can deal with it as you like, but please let me take revenge first."

"Oh?" The thing has already happened. Although it is important to pursue accountability, it is more important to find the problem and solve it. Xie Ze asked curiously, "Then tell me, it is related to leaking secrets on purpose. Who installed a terminal bug on you? "

He just said that casually, but Mingyue nodded solemnly.

"It's actually true?"

"Someone set up a wiretapping program on my terminal, and I didn't notice it before." Mingyue took a deep breath, "I never realized it before. After meeting Joseph that day, a noise suddenly appeared in my mind. Only then did I become alert, but it was too late, all my data that passed through the terminal was leaked, including the space mecha that I talked about with you when I was on the Ghost, which created a situation where the enemy came to find us first."

Xie Ze didn't say to forgive, nor did he say that he wouldn't forgive. He just crossed his arms and looked at Mingyue with his head tilted: "Then how are you going to solve it?"

Terminals are contaminated, which is a very serious matter.In the Galactic Empire, a person’s terminal has been implanted in the subcutaneous tissue of the back of the hand since birth, which is equivalent to a person’s household registration in the Earth period. All people’s property and personal information are uploaded to the Universal Network through the terminal, and through the empire’s data control office. To control, when the temperature of the human body returns to zero and the cells no longer metabolize, if the terminal is not re-transplanted to other subcutaneous tissues within seven days, the numerical control system will automatically rule the person dead and delete him from the database of the Galactic Empire.

The reason why there is a seven-day limit is to avoid the uncontrollable oolong event of some people breaking their arms, but afterwards, they can go to the planetary provinces of the empire to make up the quota through DNA comparison. Generally speaking, the operation of this system is very stable.

Mingyue said: "I turned off the terminal, but I'm not sure if it can be isolated, but I came up with an idea to prevent future troubles."

She took two steps back. Xie Ze didn't understand what she meant by the eternal trouble at that moment. She was a little dazed. When she woke up, she found that Mingyue had put her left hand on the metal wall and had drawn out a knife with her right hand. Fall, cut towards his left hand!

"stop!"

However, this scolding was a step too late after all, Mingyue was as beautiful as a flower, ruthless and merciless, without any hesitation!

The knife was very sharp, and it didn't get stuck when it cut the bone. Mingyue didn't close her eyes in fright at the moment of cutting, but widened her eyes, watching her movements from beginning to end, as if she wanted to remember this moment.

The beautiful and slender hand fell to the ground, and the terminal chip in the subcutaneous tissue flashed blue light, then turned on a red light, and then slowly turned off.

"...It doesn't need to be like this, even if you say that, I will believe you." Xie Ze's words came long after.

Mingyue's forehead was soaked with sweat. She clenched her teeth tightly so that her teeth would not chatter. Because of the pain, there was a layer of mist in her eyes. She forced a smile at Xie Ze and said, "It's not all because of this, it's just that it took so long. Time, when I think that my so-called planning and layout are all making wedding clothes for others, I feel sick and sick, I want to do something, and bid farewell to the stupid self in the past."

She glanced at the severed hand from the corner of her eye, her eyes filled with pity, "I used my identity as Meiji to get information, but the mantis caught the cicada, and the oriole was behind. For myself, to seek benefits from it, as long as I think about it, I feel that the terminal chip in my hand is the root of all evil, and there is no way to face it."

Xie Ze: "...It's a pity."

"Huh?" Mingyue didn't know why he said that.

"How delicious the cooking is." Xie Ze picked up the severed hand, "What do you want to do with it? I'll help you, out of sight and out of mind."

Mingyue smiled weakly, leaned her body against the metal wall, and slowly slid down to sit on the ground.The section is as smooth as a cliff, with bony bones in the middle. At first glance, it still has a sense of art. "Throw it away, I will go back to install a prosthesis, and I will never implant chips in my body again. This is the shadow of my life."

Xie Ze raised his eyebrows, "What, you want to be a criminal?"

Mingyue nodded slowly but firmly, "Whether I go for revenge, whether it succeeds or not, I don't want to live with this identity for the rest of my life. If I succeed in revenge, then I will be able to Nirvana. If I fail, then it would not be a pity to die together."

"It's good to be alive. Don't always think about dying with the enemy. It's a pity." Xie Ze regarded the severed hand as ordinary garbage, threw it into the disintegrator of the spacecraft, decomposed it into small molecules, and then discharged it out of space. Countless particles that are invisible to the naked eye are floating in the universe like this, "That's it, come from dust, return to dust, your severed hand should be bandaged, otherwise I don't think you are going to install a robot arm, you may want to install a robot arm .”

Mingyue's eyelids were already tired and were about to close. Hearing his words, she couldn't help rekindling her interest, and asked enthusiastically, "Sounds good, is it expensive?"

"It's okay. I don't think it's a problem with your income. I know someone. If I introduce you, I think I can get a lot of discount." Xie Ze tried his best to talk to Mingyue about seemingly insignificant things, so that she would never lose money. Divert attention from the matter just now.

She seems to be calm, but her personality is too strong, she is too rigid, she always thinks of dying together when she has nothing to do, and her life is too negative and pessimistic.He has experienced this kind of feeling for a long time, and he needs someone to help them get out. Xie Ze has received help before, so when he meets someone in the same situation.I can't help but reach out to help.

He helped Mingyue to the medical room to stop the bleeding, and the two chatted for a while. Li Weijing fell asleep for a battle, and now came over energetically, and saw the changes in Mingyue at a glance, and frowned: "Why didn't you see it for a while, you Become a wounded person?"

Her gaze moved on Xie Ze and Ming Yue, and she asked suspiciously, "What's going on?"

Xie Ze wanted to explain, but Mingyue made it clear in a few words: "I made a mistake. I was bugged on my body, and the news leaked out. The captain and the others who were almost killed were buried under the magma. When I got angry, I threw my hands chopped."

Xie Ze: "..."

Li Weijing: "..."

This explanation is really...it makes sense when you think about it carefully, but it sounds like something is wrong.

Because it was too weird, Li Weijing couldn't believe it, so he could only ask the captain: "Is that so?"

Xie Ze nodded heavily, "That's right."

Li Weijing looked miserable, "Then install a robotic arm, aren't you looking for something for yourself, no matter how angry you are, you can't move a knife at yourself."

She pushed the raw Xie Ze away, moved the instrument to her side, knelt down on one knee, healed Mingyue, and then explained to her the things to pay attention to when connecting the robotic arm.Mingyue looked down at her, her gaze was a little unconsciously gentle, Xie Ze was taken aback, and left quietly.

After he went out, he found that all the people who were sleeping by the dining table had disappeared. He felt strange in his heart, so he went back to the bedroom first. Sure enough, he found Sailin in his bedroom.

This guy crossed his legs, leaning on the back of the chair and looking at the virtual screen, frowning slightly, his eyeballs were bloodshot.Xie Ze looked distressed, completely unaware that he also looked so tired, walked over and put his hand on Sailin's shoulder, "What are you looking at, so engrossed?"

Sailin heard his footsteps as early as he was going upstairs, so he didn't defend himself. He was not surprised when Xie Ze photographed him. He looked back into Xie Ze's eyes and said, "I was adjusting the database data just now. Find someone named Andy to compare the data."

As he spoke, he moved his position and left half of his position for Xie Ze.

Xie Ze took advantage of the opportunity to sit over, and the two of them were next to each other. He calmed down now, and when he thought about the escape trip before, his heart beat faster and he felt extremely thrilling, "How did you find it?"

"The name Andy is so common. You can find the names of tens of billions of people just by searching for names." Sailin pinched his brows, and Xie Ze moved his face closer to him when he saw this, and kissed him eyes, "Rest when you are tired, people cannot be resurrected after death, no matter how anxious you are, there is no way to wake people up."

"Yeah." Sailin rested his pillow on his neck and replied in a nasal voice, "I will change the search method of name + face recognition to DNA search method and search again, and I should be able to find out Andy's identity, by the way Looking at the reason why he was imprisoned, I always feel that there is something hidden in it. His behavior style does not seem to be criminal. I guess he was framed and then exiled to this place. If this is the case, then His restoration may be the last thing we can do."

Xie Ze didn't think that he was so deep, so he couldn't help feeling a little ashamed, and said: "You are right, I didn't think so deeply, I am ashamed."

"It's fine for me to think about these things. I wanted to find out the details on the spur of the moment." Sailin said wearily, "He blocked the gun for me. I always feel that I can't be indifferent to this, and I need to do something. Something to make up for."

He looked at Xie Ze: "You can understand that feeling."

How could Xie Ze understand?This feeling has been etched into Xie Ze's bones.When he closed his eyes, he could see millions of corpses floating in the icy space, fragmented, blood crystallized and frozen in space, as if time had pressed the pause button, all of which would remain forever.

So many people died, why are you still alive?

Why are you the only one who survived?

Why don't you take revenge?Nothing?

You are not worthy of being a general, because you have no responsibility at all.

"Yes, of course I can." Xie Ze said softly, "Although he died nine times, he still has no regrets, even if there are thousands of people, I will go."

"You will probably have to work hard for a while after that." Sailin swiped his finger in the void, and a part of the plan on the screen was called out, "The people in the Zijin Hall need to be trained, and the people on the Don Quixote have to go through some cleaning. Incorporated again, Xinghun said to conduct closed training on Rose Star, because Margaret may set traps in any other place, but here can be our base camp, so we might as well start from here."

"I understand." Xie Ze slid off the chair, knelt down in front of him on one knee, and kissed the back of his hand.

Sailin did not refuse, but obediently let Xie Ze move.He understands that this is a ritual for Xie Ze, to bid farewell to the past and start a new journey.

Xie Ze said his oath in his heart: I, Xing Feng, hereby swear by my life and honor that I will regard you as king and fight for you until death.

He has found someone who can follow him all his life, and he will use his whole life to maintain the glory of the empire, train a strong army, and let Sailin's reforms be implemented smoothly. This may be his foundation for the rest of his life!

The Ghost moved forward steadily, and it would take some time to return to the Rose Star. The six of them gathered together again after a good rest. At this moment, Xie Ze finally had time to listen to Fu Shannon tell their stories. Fu Shannon and Xinghun looked embarrassed, but they didn't know anything about the process.

Fu Xiangnong said: "Speaking of which, Xinghun and I are unlucky. There are bandits on the road we walked. A group of people probably ran out to rob us because they thought we were well dressed."

Xie Ze: "...the beginning of this is indeed a bit sad."

"Those people are average in skill, but they have guns in their hands, and they have guns of various styles. They are not afraid of coming alone, but they are afraid of going together. Ants will kill elephants. This is what they are talking about." Fu Shannon now thinks of the thrill of that day. The scene still has lingering fears, "We are not familiar with the terrain, and we fell into a ravine when we avoided it."

"This……"

"It was hard to get rid of the bandits, but I ran into a brown bear."

"It's a real size."

"That's right." Fu Shannon sighed, "It's bad luck and fate."

"I see that you and Xinghun are getting along well now." Xie Ze said, "Are you close?"

Fu Shannon nodded slightly towards Xinghun who was negotiating with Sailin in the distance, "After seeing the panorama of Don Quixote, he and I decided to take a step back and take over Zijintang again."

"Oh?" This was beyond Xie Ze's expectation, "Are you going back to the place you escaped from?"

"Yes, because I found that escaping can never solve the problem." It is rare for Fu Shannon and Xie Ze to sit and confiding in such a way, "Don Quixote is a mess, poverty, drugs, gambling, and crime have messed up here, even though here It was originally a place of exile, but I asked the old people here. When Viking took over, it was governed very well. This reminds me of the black and white debate with my father. At that time, I Insisting that black is black and white is white, the wicked cannot become good, jealous like hatred, resolutely not to stay, remove the cancer, the world will be peaceful, my father said that I was too idealistic, now that I think about it, it is true. I can't accept myself I can’t accept the gray area in my previous experience, so I let myself escape by breaking with the past, so that I can leave all responsibilities behind. When I set up an ideal country for myself and limited this country to With Ghost, I thought I had done the black-and-white dichotomy, but that’s just wishful thinking on my part.”

Xie Ze listened carefully to his analysis of his own heart. Dissecting and negating himself is probably the most boring, painful, but rewarding thing in the world. It directly hits the ultimate contradiction of people——the contradiction between people and their own hearts , this process is painful, it is tantamount to cutting out the heart, but if this contradiction is solved, many problems in life will be solved, "When the boundary is small enough, I can comfort myself in this way, but when the boundary is slightly expanded, The Utopia will collapse, and I have to face the problems I faced before: the world is not black and white, and I must face gray, because the world has a good side, and there will be corresponding evil. This is the law of its operation. If I can't face it, then I will be a deserter forever." He said with a deep breath, "Now, I am not going to run away anymore, I am determined to face it."

"Congratulations." Xie Ze was sincerely happy for him.

Fu Shannon seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden and began to pack lightly.Strange to say, he used to have no burdens, but his mood was a bit negative, but now he was carrying a heavy load, but he was as light as a swallow.If the attitude is no longer evasive, then the heaviest mental burden will disappear, and the goal will be clear and full of fighting spirit.

"Did I tell you that my father was a police officer?" Fu Shannon asked Xie Ze with a relaxed smile on his face.

"Ah?" Xie Ze was surprised, "But aren't you from Zijintang..."

"Yes, so this is why I have been avoiding before, because I do things that are contrary to my own values ​​​​when I was a child, but now that I think about it, curbing the proliferation of evil deeds is to protect the good. What my father and I did, although it seems It's the exact opposite, but they lead to the same goal." Fu Shannon took a long breath, "Since I have such ability, I might as well use my ability to do what I did a long time ago."

The melancholy on his brow was gone, like a big river dredging the mud, rushing mightily towards the chosen direction.

"Bless you, my friend." Xie Ze sincerely wished, patted Fu Shannon on the shoulder vigorously, and began to crow again, "Anyway, when the time comes, I can't do it anymore, so I'll go back to the Ghost, there will always be your place here, be a quack doctor fine."

Fu Shannon laughed, "I appreciate your kindness, captain, what are you going to do next?"

"It's March now, and Margaret will be enthroned in October, and there are still seven months to prepare. Everything will be known on the day she enthrones." Xie Ze was full of energy, "Success and failure, we will see the truth soon."

"come on."

"come on."

The two palms clapped together, and the sound was clear and firm.