Puppeteer [Interstellar]

In the command room of the military aircraft ship, General Rein... that is, Lyle's father, he held his head high, wearing the black military uniform of the Alliance, with his hands behind his back, standing in front of the virtual big screen, and looking up at the interstellar space displayed on the screen. Distribution.

Rein is about forty years old, with short black hair in Qier's ear, sharp eyes with cold eyebrows, hooked nose, and straight lips that make him look uneasy. Excellent physical fitness and high-intensity military training make this Chinese The young man looks very tall and straight, not at all like a man in his forties or nearly 50 years old, but more like a mature youth in his 30s.

Lei Yin stared at the interstellar distribution map on the screen for a while, and the adjutant standing behind him was a little anxious. The control room was silent, and no one dared to speak.

At this time, the herald knocked on the door and came in. He bowed down and reported respectfully: "Twelve of the 46 pirates were captured, and the rest were all killed. The passengers were basically wiped out, but..."

"But what?" Rein frowned and turned around, looking down at the herald.

"Passengers successfully escaped from the passenger ship by driving an escape ship, and they flew in the direction of the original earth."

"Then what are you still doing? Give me a railgun to destroy it." Rein said without changing his face.

Cold sweat broke out on the herald's forehead, and he forced himself to answer calmly: "But we searched the entire passenger ship and couldn't find that 'ghost'. I suspect that the escape ship that escaped..."

When Lei Yin heard this, he frowned even more, his face was extremely gloomy, and he said, "It's really troublesome."

"Send a search force to conduct a comprehensive search in the direction where they fled, and don't let go of all the planets along the way that can accommodate creatures, until I find the puppet, otherwise we don't have to go back to the alliance."

The general gave the order, and the surrounding subordinates all answered "yes" in unison, and then left the command room one after another. In the end, only General Rein and one of his adjutants were left in the command room.

General Rein waved his hand, the adjutant understood what he meant, bent down and followed him out of the command room, so only Rein was left in the command room.

Rein operated the control panel of the spaceship system in front of him, and called up a video on the virtual screen next to him. It was the video of the conversation between Rein and the Red Bird pirate leader before. This is a very important video. , because in the video, every word and every word Rein said to the pirate leader has seriously affected the face of the alliance government military, so this video must be deleted, and no trace will be left.

It's just that in this video, Rein saw a person who seemed familiar to him.

In the video, when the pirate leader pushed out those hostages with background background and pushed them to the front of the camera, among these hostages, there was a young man who looked familiar to Rein.

The boy looked like he was only in his teens. He supported a beautiful woman with a very pale face beside him. He lowered his head from beginning to end, barely showing a side face, but It was such a side face, but it made Lei Yin a little bit concerned. He felt as if he had seen this boy somewhere before.

But regardless of whether he cared about it or not, the young man was probably already dead.

Rain ordered everyone on the passenger ship to be wiped out, no matter whether they were pirates or passengers, no one would stay behind. The only thing that could stay was that puppet, the unique... the strongest puppet.

Thinking of this, Lei Yin pressed the delete button and completely formatted the video.

On the other hand, Lyle is navigating the universe in an escape ship at this moment, Alice has gone to sleep, and the rest can only depend on himself.In order to speed up the journey and shorten the distance between the spacecraft and the destination, Lyle activated the short-distance space jump system of the spacecraft.

Because he is extremely unfamiliar with the operation of the spaceship, Lyle even dug out the operation manual of the spaceship from the storage box in the cab. Spaceship operation manual, this is a fully optimized operation manual for novices, just follow the above foolish explanation step by step.

Therefore, Lyle successfully activated the short-distance space jump system of the spacecraft in this way. According to the space coordinates, he entered the coordinate points of the space jump one by one. He was able to perform a total of three space jumps, and the last time he could jump directly to Earth Nearby, after flying a certain distance, it will be able to land on the earth.

"A short-distance space jump is in progress. Please pay attention to all members of the spaceship. A short-distance space jump is in progress. The spaceship is about to enter a hyperspace wormhole. The hull will be under tremendous pressure. Please take safety precautions for all members of the spaceship and do not leave you Seats, now start the countdown to space jump, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5..."

After repeatedly confirming the coordinates of the space jump, Lyle checked his seat belt or other safety measures. By the way, before starting the space jump, he placed the puppet on the co-pilot and fastened it for him Take safety measures such as seat belts, so that when the space jumps later, the puppet will not be hurt.

But when the puppet was fastening the seat belt, the puppet kept staring at Lyle endlessly. His beautiful red eyes blinked, which reminded Lyle of the proto-earth creature "rabbit" that he had seen in the illustrated book , the eyes of some rabbits are also red, with white fluffy fur, curled up like a ball, it is a very cute creature.

But the eyes of the rabbit are not as good-looking as this puppet.

Lyle stared into the golem's eyes, and that was what he thought at the time. Thinking about it, he began to look around. There was no one else in the escape boat, and Alice went to sleep, and there were only Lyle and the golem...

There are only the two of them, and the puppet is also exclusive to Lyle, it belongs to him.

Alice also said before that the puppet will only recognize one person as its master for life. Although Lyle doesn't know whether he has really made a contract with the puppet, he has secretly classified the puppet as his own... Just wanted to be greedy this once.

Lyle never really owned anything.

He will always be stripped of everything.

So when he got something, Lyle was very happy, and never even thought about whether he would lose it.

Then Lyle couldn't bear it anymore, and secretly threw away his morals and lower limit, leaned in front of the puppet, kissed his beautiful red eyes, jumped back with red cheeks, and picked up the lower limit of morals again. return.

Afterwards, Lyle started the jump program, and listened to the countdown to the space jump that the system broadcast to him. The tension in his heart couldn't be increased. He tightly grasped the armrests on both sides of the driver's seat, and waited for the beginning and end of all this.

This is the first time for him to fly a spaceship, and it is very rare to actually fly a spaceship.

When I was still in the Hawke family, the family members let Al receive the training of flying the spaceship early on. At that time, Lyle could only watch from the side, watching Al go to the instructor's side every day to learn how to drive the spaceship, and when he came back Time to gleefully show everyone how much fun the spaceship is to fly, and how well he does it.

I can do it just as well now... no, even better!

There is always a competitive energy in Lyle's heart, or he wants to get the slightest bit of attention, even if only one person is willing to pay attention to him, as long as he is willing to pay attention to him, Lyle does not want to be silent like this again up.

He closed his eyes and heard the final zero of the countdown announced.

The spaceship was shaking violently.

……

The earth used to be a blue planet. Oceans and atmosphere wrapped the surface of the planet. Where there was water, life began to breed. Countless creatures multiplied here. Generation after generation, countless species of various creatures, and humans are just one of them.

The escape spacecraft that Lyle was driving almost crashed on this planet. Although he had worked hard, when the small spaceship broke through the earth's atmosphere, the surface of the hull burned, and the high temperature caused some parts of the spaceship to fail. And Lyle was in a hurry. Although he successfully landed, the spaceship almost fell.

Fortunately, although he was in a hurry, the spaceship landed on the ground safely. Lyle saw the data on the operation panel showing that the spaceship had suffered some damage, but the interior of the hull was not affected, and no one was injured.

The time between the successful driving and the successful landing was not long, but Lyle felt like he had experienced a century-old war. He was so exhausted that he was covered in cold sweat. After he took a few deep breaths, he turned his head He looked at the puppet who was still sitting in the passenger seat.

The puppet was sitting in a very serious posture, but turned its head and stared at Lyle endlessly.

Lyle ordered him: "Don't look at me!"

The golem turned his face away in aggrieved manner.

Although there is really no expression on the puppet's face, for some reason, Lyle can feel his aggrieved emotions, which makes Lyle feel a little funny, so Lyle stands over with a smile and helps the golem I even unlocked the safety buckle on my body or something.

He stood up with the puppet and decided to see what happened to Alice in the dormant room first, so he turned off the power engine of the spaceship, ran to the dormant room, and saw Alice.

Alice was lying in a sleeping cabin, eyes closed, wearing only underwear, sleeping peacefully.

Lyle thought that Alice was still ill before, so he turned on the medical scanning device in the dormant cabin. Modern dormant cabins are equipped with this kind of medical device, which can clearly scan the whole body of the dormant person in the dormant cabin, and clearly see the dormant person's body Conditions and vital signs, and even any illnesses on the body can be scanned out.

However, Lyle swept Alice with this device, and found strange things.

The device showed that Alice was in good health and had no other symptoms except for a little malnutrition. However, when the medical device scanned her abdomen, Lyle saw that the scan showed her abdomen...or what seemed to be an embryo in the womb. thing.

Is she pregnant! ?

Lyle's eyes widened in astonishment, and he carefully looked at the scanned image on the device, but after looking at it for a long time, his face turned pale.

That doesn't look like a human fetus.

It really doesn't look like a human fetus. The thing is curled up into a ball, and there seem to be many umbilical cord-like things sticking out of Alice's uterus, and even seeping out to connect with her internal organs. It was very scary, and it made Lyall's hair stand on end.

It's just that the medical scan is not very clear, and Lyle can't see more details. He is not a doctor, so he can't diagnose Alice's current condition. He just feels cold in his hands and feet. He thinks he should think of something. Alice should be woken up first.

So Lyle forcibly opened the hibernation cabin, waking Alice up from a deep sleep.

She woke up quickly, opened her eyes and looked at Lyle: "Lyle...?"

"Alice...Alice!" Lyall didn't know how to describe what he saw just now, he spoke inarticulately for a long time, and finally began to point to Alice's belly.

"In your stomach...your stomach..." Lyle broke out in cold sweat.

Alice was very calm, looked down at her abdomen, and replied: "It's nothing, it's just pregnant with a strange thing."

"Strange...strange thing?" Lyle asked with a frightened face.

Alice looked very tired, took a deep breath, changed the subject and said, "Have we reached Earth yet?"

"It's here." Lyle's focus was still on Alice's stomach.

"Don't be afraid." Alice seemed a little amused, "This thing won't affect me or you, and it will take several months to be born."

"That's not human!?" Lyle almost shouted, "You need to find a doctor! Find a doctor to get rid of it!"

"We don't have time to find a doctor right now." Alice laughed even more.

"But, but this..." Lyle was still worried, how could he be relieved.

Alice shook her head, she looked haggard, and she said: "I don't have time to explain to you, I must continue to sleep, my physical condition is very bad, this child has taken away a lot of my nutrition."

Alice continued to say to Lyle: "Listen, Lyle, the reason why I set the destination as Earth is because there are still humans here."

"There are still human beings?" Leighton was startled, "There are still human beings on the earth, hasn't this place been deserted for thousands of years?"

"It looks like this to others, but there are still a group of people living here." Alice said, "Our situation is very bad, and the alliance army will definitely catch up and kill us, so we can't stay in a place like the alliance." If we go down, we have to find a new place or organization that can protect us.

"You mean, these remnants of Earth can help us?" Lyall asked her.

Aili's breath was a little disturbed, she lay back in the dormant cabin again, and said: "Yes, but I can't move, I can only rely on you and your puppet, you'd better find the activity points of the remaining human beings as soon as possible, and follow up with them." They got in touch, or we'd have nowhere to go when the league came over."

"When will the Alliance arrive?" Lyle asked for her opinion. "Or, how much time do I have left?"

"If you fly to the earth without using space jump all the way, the alliance army probably won't be able to grasp our specific movements, that is to say, they don't know which planet we landed on, but they will definitely come one by one. To find all the planets that can land on this interstellar route, it will be a matter of time to search for the earth, but the search takes time, and you still have time, at most one month, at least fifteen days."

"I understand. Within fifteen days, I must find someone who can help us, otherwise I will be caught by the alliance and killed, right?"

"Yes, that's it."