Rarity: SSS [Interstellar]

"Why did you vote for it?" The Minister of Transportation, who was sitting next to Deng Chunxu at the end of the meeting, asked him while sorting out the materials, "Have you forgotten what happened a few years ago?"

"I haven't forgotten it." Deng Chunxu didn't want to say more, after sorting out the materials, he went out first.

The Minister of Transportation spread his hands, shrugged and asked the Minister of Finance who came out, "Hey, what do you think is going on with him?"

"I don't know." The Minister of Finance shook his head, "Deng Chunxu has a stubborn and strange temper, and he is particularly irritable. Who knows what he is thinking."

"Maybe he knows the truth?"

"Know what?" The Minister of Finance raised his eyebrows. "He is so loyal to the alliance, what can he know?"

"Who knows? Maybe it was Han Jingqian who told him." The Minister of Communications took him to the door, "Han Jingqian is a smiling tiger."

"If he had believed in Han Jingqian two years earlier, would Ji Xifeng still be able to carry this name on his back?"

In a small cafe just across the street from the Capital Star Alliance Affairs Committee, Han Jingqian sat on the sofa and flipped through the electronic magazines on the table.

I don't know this magazine hasn't been changed for a few years. The cover is still the face of the chairman two years ago. Han Jingqian turned to the page of Ji Xifeng's interrogation. The big words read "Ji Xifeng has no released from guilt".

The bell outside the door rang a few times suddenly, and Deng Chunxu in a windbreaker came in. Han Jingqian put down the magazine in his hand, nodded to him, and pointed to the seat opposite him: "Xiao Deng is here? Sit down."

"Chief Han is polite."

"You don't have to be polite to me." Han Jingqian tapped on the table, and a menu emerged from under the table, "Order what you want to drink."

Deng Chunxu pulled the long bar of the menu. He didn't know what to call the names on the table, so he just ordered a drink and took the menu back: "Shou Zhang, if you have anything to say, just say it."

"You won't believe me no matter what I say, why don't you take a look at this." Han Jingqian pushed an electronic data book over, and kindly helped him unlock the password lock of the data book.

After receiving it, Deng Chunxu found that it was a video, and raised his head to look at Han Jingqian: "This is it?"

"Just take a look." Han Jingqian stroked the tiger lying beside him, looked down at it lovingly, moved its paws to the table and asked it, "Old man, what would you like to drink?"

Deng Chunxu calmed down the monkey who seemed irritable because of the tiger's appearance, and clicked on the video in the information book.This is a silent video, obviously shot from a candid angle, the picture is not clear, but the content is shocking enough.

It was a very large lizard, probably bigger than his whole body, with cloudy yellow eyes stuck to the glass, the tip of its scarlet tongue kept licking its long teeth, and a few drops of viscous saliva ran down the tip of the lizard. Teeth dripping.After that, the video wobbled a little, and several figures around the lizard flashed by.

Just a few seconds of short video shocked Deng Chunxu into a cold sweat. He restrained his trembling and asked, "What is this?"

"The video that West Wind brought back from D-06, this is what I said to show you."

"Why does D-06 have such a thing?" Deng Chunxu wiped the sweat from his brow, "Isn't this an extrasystem creature?"

"This is an extrasystem creature, but..." Han Jingqian lowered his voice.

"But what?"

Looking up and looking around, Han Jingqian called up his personal terminal, linked to Deng Chunxu's, and created a temporary session. He wrote on the interface window: "This exogenous creature is genetically selected, and it is artificially bred. thing."

"..." Deng Chunxu couldn't speak, he just felt ridiculous, "Impossible!"

"It may be impossible. I've already told you. It's up to you whether you believe it or not."

"This is ridiculous..." Deng Chunxu was still in shock, and he was not to blame. Anyone who saw this would find it unbelievable, let alone a "stubborn" person like him. , "Even if this is true, how do you know?"

"The military naturally has sources from the military," Han Jingqian hugged the tiger on his lap and stroked it gently, "——you just need to know that bringing Xifeng back will be beneficial and harmless."

"But how do you guarantee that Ji Xifeng won't disobey orders like he did two years ago?"

"I can't." Han Jingqian drank the last sip of tea from his cup, stood up and replied, "Of course I can't guarantee that if the alliance gives him such an order again. Director Deng, Xifeng is a born soldier, but it doesn't mean he has to obey. Everything ordered by the government."

"It's for victory." Deng Chunxu couldn't believe that he would say such words, "It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders."

With a familiar smile on Han Jingqian's face, he picked up the tiger and held it under its chin: "Old man, let's go, let's go back." Finally, he shook his head as if he just remembered him, "There is a saying You're not right, it's not for victory, it's a meaningless sacrifice."

What senseless sacrifice?

Deng Chunxu still felt terrified when he thought of the scene where Ji Xifeng put the knife on his neck two years ago. It was the first time he saw this usually silent soldier showing ordinary emotions.

At that time, he was in command of the logistics fleet, and the combat mission was to gather resources for use by the frontline troops. The "Whale Fall" team led by Ji Xifeng was responsible for assisting his fleet.

At that time, "Whale Fall" tended to be marginalized, and there was nothing to do in the rear.A fanatical technical nerd thinks about dismantling other people's personal terminals every day, a female guide with strange strength does physical training against the wall every day, and only one normal team member runs to the toilet every day except for drinking water.And Ji Xifeng, the captain, was even weirder, carrying a box of bullet casings to sharpen his knife every day.

The sound of "Huo Huo" sharpening the knife behind him made Deng Chunxu feel chills on his back, and every night he would have nightmares about being dismembered.

"Warning warning! Unknown fleet is approaching!"

On that day, the empire's fleet intercepted the logistics force by hunting down the bottom line. The resources of the planet where the fleet was located had already been exhausted. Deng Chunxu received the order to "return immediately".

His fingers danced rapidly on the main control screen, and the remaining energy of the spaceship was compressed, ready for a fixed-point jump.

The team member behind him who kept drinking water suddenly stood up and covered the main control screen with his hand: "Dare to ask the captain, are we leaving?"

"Yes!" Deng Chunxu replied, "We have received an order to return immediately."

"Can't you hear the spaceship calling the police, is there an unidentified fleet appearing nearby?" The technical nerd suddenly ran up and connected to the main control system of the spaceship, "It's [-] kilometers away now. "

"According to the battle report, it's the imperial fleet that came to buy the bottom." Deng Chunxu pushed them away and continued to operate the spaceship. "We must make the transition as soon as possible, otherwise the logistics force will lose when we fight with the imperial fleet, and the imperial army will not show mercy to us."

"There are still tens of thousands of people down here!" The technical house pointed to the monitoring system, and the people on the screen who had just helped them collect resources were waving their hands expectantly and saying goodbye to them, "Are you going to leave them to the imperial army? The empire will not Have mercy on us, shall we have mercy on them?"

Frankly speaking, Deng Chunxu has never thought about this. He calls loyalty to the alliance at best, and foolish loyalty at worst, and he executes whatever orders are given.

"I'll report to my superiors." Deng Chunxu opened the communication and prepared to apply to his superiors, but immediately received an additional order.

"Turn back immediately! The imperial fleet is approaching!"

With the arrival of this order, the position of the imperial army on the spaceship's main control screen suddenly moved forward by nearly [-] kilometers.If it was said that there was still time for those people to board the spaceship just now, it is absolutely too late now.

Immediately afterwards, another order was added: "Return immediately! In order to avoid greater losses and win, all troops are requested to return immediately!"

When Deng Chunxu saw this order, he immediately pressed the button to prepare for the jump, and before he could turn his head back: "I...Mu...Zheng...Rea...we must return as soon as possible. As for those people, the empire will not make it difficult for its own interests. Their."

Several members of the "Whale Fall" stopped talking, only the technical geek repeatedly confirmed the picture on the screen, muttering: "No, how could it be so fast? The Empire's technological revolution? No, the group of people in the Empire can't Faster than us. Leap? It’s not right, what are they using to make a leap without any trace of the energy of the leap?”

While he was talking, he suddenly felt a palm on his shoulder. Ji Xifeng walked over from behind him, looked down at the screen on the main control screen, and suddenly stopped Deng Chunxu's hand: "Stop, let everyone below come up .”

"What are you doing? Are you disobeying orders? Anyone who doesn't leave another fleet will be here."

"I order you as the captain of the 'Whale Fall' team, the major of the alliance, to stop the jump operation immediately."

Deng Chunxu poked his neck and shook his head: "No, you can't disobey the order, you must return immediately!"

While he was talking, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, it was Ji Xifeng's knife.

Ji Xifeng put the knife that had been sharpened for so long on his neck: "Now I order you, open the spaceship and let the people below come up!"

"Okay, don't get excited," Deng Chunxu pushed back, trembling fingers, pressed the button to stop the jump, and at the same time notified the entire fleet, "Immediately open the cabin of the spaceship and let the people enter the spaceship and go with us."

"Sea anemone." Ji Xifeng held a knife in his hand, without turning his head.

"exist!"

"Go down and guide the people."

"Yes!"

"Big wings."

"exist!"

"Watch the window and maintain order."

"Yes."

Da Chi picked up the sub-machine gun at hand, replaced it with a full magazine, stood at the door of the spaceship and hit the ground in front of him with a "da da da".Hai Kui stood aside with a gun in hand, and cooperated with him in shouting: "Please get on the boat in an orderly manner and get out of here as soon as possible."

Basically all the things in these people's homes have been moved out, leaving only a set of clothes on their bodies, and there is nothing to miss except their homeland.Residents of marginal planets like them grew up from artillery fire, and they have the most sensitive sense of danger. They have big wings to supervise them, and consciously stand in a row and run into the spaceship.

"Octopus, always pay attention to the distance between the imperial fleet and us."

"Yes." Bazhuo immediately called up the calculation system and calculated the time according to the existing data, "Captain, there are still 9 minutes." He raised his hand to make a "nine" so that Ji Xifeng could see it.

The icon representing the Imperial Fleet on the main control screen moved forward again, and Octopus reported again: "Data update, eight."

"Data update, seven."

Deng Chunxu looked at the horizontal knife in front of him, and heard the sound of eight claws in his ears. Countless people ran past him on the cabin floor, and he exhaled tremblingly.

"Quick!" Sea Anemone and Da Chi led tens of thousands of people into the fleet, and the lower deck of the fleet suddenly became crowded. Da Chi squeezed through a corridor full of people, and the communicator in his hand was on: "Captain , After the channeling is completed, the leap can be carried out."

At the same time, the voice of Octopus resounded in the spaceship: "Data update, three."

Ji Xifeng kicked Deng Chunxu away with one kick, and he threw himself in front of the main control screen to enter the transition password. There was a beep sound in the spaceship, the energy compression process began, and the transition procedure quickly started.

"The interstellar fixed-point transition is on, three."

The voice of the spaceship AI and the voice of Octopus gradually overlapped: "Two, one."