Puppeteer [Interstellar]

Lyle's luck was really bad. On the second day after he ran away from home, the tourist spaceship he was on was hijacked by interstellar pirates. In the middle, the tourist spaceship was intercepted, and when all the passengers were in a state of deep sleep, the pirates broke in as if they were in no one's land.

And their goal is also obvious. After intercepting this ordinary passenger spaceship, they will take all the passengers as hostages. In this way, when they are chased by the alliance army later, they can threaten the lives of the passengers. The cost of persistence is gone.

All of this, these poor unfortunate passengers are not very clear, they only know that they were forced to open the sleeping cabin not long after entering a deep sleep, a group of confused and bewildered passengers , sat up one by one from his egg-shaped sleeping cabin, looking at a loss, and Lyle was also one of them.

While Lyle was still in a trance, a ferocious gun-wielding pirate stepped forward and walked in front of him. This pirate was tall and burly, and his thick red uniform could not conceal the fact that he had strong muscles. This pirate He picked up Lyle with one hand, and Lyle, who was in a daze, only felt a pain in his neck. The suffocation made him blushed instantly, and then he was dragged out of the sleeping cabin by the pirate. After being dragged on the ground for a certain distance, it was thrown away.

Lyle could hardly make any sound. The lack of oxygen, suffocation and pain made him even more delirious. He felt like a dead fish lying limp on the cold floor. It took him a long time to force himself to move his body. Propping his upper body on his elbows, he surveyed his surroundings in horror.

All the people were as panicked as Lyle at this moment. Most of them were driven out of the sleeping cabin by the gun-toting pirates, and some of them were directly strangled like Lyle just now. Pulling them out and dragging them to the ground, the pirates drove these poor passengers together like ducks, ordering them to sit on a mat together.

The personal terminals and space boxes on the passengers will be taken away by the pirates, and they can only gather together shivering in thin clothes.

No one dared to speak, not even to make a louder noise, because all passengers who dared to resist and yell would be unceremoniously fed a bullet by the pirates. The guns of this era are very scary, specifically that is An energy gun, when the bullet hits the human body, it will cause the body cells to expand from the inside, and the human body will explode like an over-inflated balloon, and the internal organs and limbs will be torn apart in an instant, making the person instantly become a splattered body. plasma.

And this scene took place in front of Lyle, who was only 16 years old. A middle-aged man in his 30s couldn't help struggling and resisting when he was dragged out of the dormant cabin by the pirates. The gun-wielding pirate turned into a piece of flesh with one shot.

The blood splattered all over the ground, splashing on everyone around. This bloody and terrifying scene immediately silenced everyone. There was silence in the empty dormant cabin area, only the pirates laughed wantonly and arrogantly.

After the pirates gathered all the passengers in this empty place, a guy who was obviously the head of the pirates walked to the front of the crowd. He was wearing a red and black uniform like the other pirates. None of them showed their faces. All the pirates They all wore red helmets on their heads, and their voices seemed a little dull under the helmets.

The pirate chief spoke in front of all the passengers with something like a megaphone. His tone was a little slow and depressing, which made everyone's heart tremble. The pirate chief said, "Our dear friends, first of all It means that as long as you obediently don't resist and stay here quietly, we won't do anything terrible to you."

The pirate leader continued, "I believe you have all seen the news not long ago, yes, we are the Red Bird Group, we just stole something from the golem's research and development base, and then the group of idiots from the alliance followed Jumped up like cats on their tails and chased us, oh... this is too bad, I feel my life is in danger, so we have to do this, take you as hostages, hope you all able to understand that.”

The pirate leader spoke with a terrible sense of humor. He seemed to be laughing, and the corners of his mouth curled up under his red helmet. No one responded to his words, and all the passengers watched in horror. They, the only thing the passengers can do is to wait quietly and without saying a word.

Lyle was also among this group of passengers. During the initial panic, he calmed down a little. He curled up as much as possible. There was a woman in her 20s beside him. This woman seemed to be too scared. Fear seemed to make her breathing difficult, and she also had the aftereffects of being forced to wake up from a deep sleep, so she kept panting violently, and she couldn't help being paralyzed, and leaned against Lyle's body weakly.

The woman's movements made Lyall stiff for a while, but after a while, he reached out and hugged the woman's shoulders, making her lean on his shoulders more comfortably, and then tried to make her feel better by patting her on the back. The breathing rhythm is smoother.

The pirate leader over there is still speaking loudly, "I have a list of passengers here, next, everyone whose name I have read, please stand up and stand to my left, I hope You guys cooperate, I don't want to hurt anyone."

The speeches of the pirates caused a little commotion among the people, which caused several pirates to raise their guns to warn, and then people had to submit to the despicable power of these hateful criminals. After the names were called, the people whose names were called had to stand up one by one and gather in an open space on the left.

This time the roll call ended very quickly, because the pirate leader only named five or six names. Of course, this would definitely not include Lyle. After Leaving the Hawke family, Lyle did not use Lyle Hawk again. This name was changed, but a false name was used. His identity was fabricated, and he was the only person in the Hawke family who was willing to help Lyle, who helped him fabricate his false identity.

Therefore, the current Lyle is just an ordinary citizen named 'Lair Fergut', a 16-year-old who just lost his parents and plans to go back to his home galaxy to join his relatives. The pirate incident, he should have left the central galaxy a long time ago and walked towards the bright future in his mind.

But fate is playing tricks on people like this, Lyle has no other choice, he still appeared on this tourist spaceship and became one of the hijacked by pirates, after the pirate leader read the names of several people, he tapped the List, and speaking the last name, he called out, "Alice Okan."

As soon as this name was called out, Lyle felt the woman leaning on his shoulder suddenly tremble, and she let out a long and heavy gasp. She grabbed Lyle's shoulder and tried to get up.

It was probably because her movements were too slow. Seeing that no one had left for a long time, the pirate leader over there couldn't help repeating the name again, and said, "Don't waste my time, stand up quickly! Otherwise... "

The pirate leader didn't finish his sentence, but the accomplices around him had already aimed their guns at these poor passengers, which caused commotion among the passengers again.

The woman next to Lyle trembled more violently, and the symptoms of wheezing were also very serious. Lyle suddenly realized that she might not be panting because of fear, but probably due to illness or something.

The woman raised her head slightly to look at Lyle. She had long curly blond hair and eyes as blue as the sky. Only then did Lyle notice that this is really a beautiful woman.

"Can... can you help me up?" the woman whispered to Lyle.

Lyle hesitated for a moment, reached out to hold the woman's arm, and helped her stand up.

Seeing two people standing out from the crowd, the pirate leader couldn't help frowning, and pointed his gun at Lyle and the woman beside him. The pirate leader asked loudly, "What's going on?"

The woman next to Lyle couldn't answer, she couldn't even stand upright, so Lyle could only bite the bullet and speak. He tried to calm himself down and said, "She seems to be sick, so I supported her..."

"Is this woman Alice Okan?"

Lyle looked down at the woman lying on his shoulder, saw her nod slightly, and tremblingly said to the pirate leader, "Yes... yes."

The pirate leader seemed a little dissatisfied, made that kind of tsk sound, waved at Lyle with the muzzle of his gun, and said to Lyle, "You help her to go there, and stand to the left too!"

As a result of such a change, Lyle had to stand with the woman on the left where only five or six people were standing, and was pointed at by several burly pirates.

Lyle didn't know why these people were singled out by the pirates, but Lyle was just one of the members who was involved inexplicably. He lowered his head and supported the woman beside him, trying to reduce his sense of existence, and then Lyle couldn't help but observe the few people around him who were singled out. Except for the woman next to Lyle with a sickly face, the others stood expressionlessly and calmly.

Except for Lyle and the woman beside him, there are four men and two women, all of them are at ease, showing a calmness and elegance completely different from others, which naturally makes Lyle can't help guessing that these people are Only those with prominent backgrounds would be singled out by the pirates.

And the fact seems to be exactly the case, the pirate leader walked up to several people, held the gun on his shoulder, and said to them in a low voice, "I singled you out, I think you all know the reason in your heart, But no matter how good your life background is, it is empty talk in front of my gun, but I will contact your family, and I will tell them that you are in my hands, and I will let them use their best efforts to find ways to rescue you, so that you Good to keep those stupid Confederates at bay, no?"