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The silence lasted for a while, only the vague sound of the TV, mixed with the more vague sound of rain, hitting the eardrum dullly, as if the air in the room was being vacuumed little by little.It wasn't until the two children leaned side by side and fell asleep that Deng Mochi said:

"That's your mother."

With that said, he turned off the TV.The small team of scientific researchers had already finished their presentation, and now it was a talk show sponsored by a major protein block manufacturer.Among the limited signal stations that can be watched in the artificial human area, this not-so-funny talk show always loops across channels, occupying most of the broadcast time and ratings.

Lu Ting was still staring straight ahead. In the blacked out screen, he saw himself reflected in it, but he couldn't turn his face away. "You can see it," he whispered.

"They look very similar." Dun Mochi said.

"Really? Actually, I almost can't remember. I know what she looks like, but I can't do it if I suddenly want to recall it out of thin air," Lu Ting smiled, turning her head slightly, her mother's face, her face Young and old, there is still a lack of clear boundaries in his heart. He doesn't know when his mother got old, "It's like me now, it's only been a short while, and I'm almost forgetting what she just said."

Dun Mochi nodded, as if he had nothing to say, but he was indeed listening carefully.

So Lu Ting went on, afraid of disturbing the children, he still kept his voice very low, the lower the voice, the more lonely he appeared: "I haven't seen my mother since I was five years old, she went to be a volunteer Or, to participate in a confidential closed project. She was originally a policeman, an Omega woman, and forced herself to become a sheriff all the time, much better than me. Maybe she is the kind of person with a strong sense of social responsibility."

"En." Dun Mochi looked down at his knees and patted his wrist.

Lu Ting finally turned his face away completely, and concentrated on looking at the eyelashes from the side. Deng Mochi's eyelashes were very thin and dense, and sometimes matched with shadows, it looked like he had his own eyeliner, but it was slightly curled. Son, when it hangs down slowly, it loses a bit of sharpness and makes people feel gentle. "About a month ago, my sister took me to the place where my mother is working now, just behind the Red Gate, the military base, and I have to go over a few more mountains. I thought I could see her, but it was only a few miles away. Talking against the wall for 10 minutes, this is because my sister found an old classmate." After a pause, Lu Ting continued, "I didn't expect her to be so mysterious. It turned out that it was related to the immigration plan, and now she has to go up gone."

"I should have a mission," said Deng Mochi, "I have been preparing for 14 years."

"That means he will come back? With the results of the completed mission, he won't be like other immigrants..." Lu Ting closed his mouth after he finished speaking.

It would be too harsh to place doubts and worries on Deng Mochi.After all, he, the "half party", couldn't give an answer.

Deng Mochi said, "You can ask her yourself."

"You mean—"

"Can you still get in touch?"

"I can't do it privately...can I try my sister?"

"Well, three days until launch."

When Lu Ting dialed Lu Zhi's number, Deng Mochi silently picked up his younger brother and sent him to the bedroom behind the fence door. Seeing that the two children had already been carried in, Lu Zhi still didn't answer the phone.

Deng Mochi glanced at the sofa, and walked to the narrow, sealed window in the kitchen. It was so dark that there was no scenery to see.Lu Ting understood what he meant. In the past when the two were together, when Lu Ting occasionally talked with relatives and friends, he would always avoid listening.But Lu Ting never minded being heard by Deng Mochi. This time, he got up and walked over. The ring is released, one after another.

He hung up automatically again, and then dialed back. After about ten rings, Lu Zhi finally answered the phone.

"Sister, are you asleep?" Lu Ting asked first.

"No, I'm exhausted." There was some noise around Lu Zhi, but it suddenly fell silent after a few seconds, and there was a sound of closing the door, "I'm still in the hotel, and I can't find out who did it. Lu An refused to give up. Well, the guests will release one after another, leave the bride alone in the new house, and still not let me go back to sleep, madman!"

"Someone is going to kill Dad, and it was at his wedding, when he was giving a speech," Lu Ting wiped away a drop of water on the stove, which was probably splashed on the chopping board when he cut fruit just now. "It's normal for big brother to be angry. .”

"Phew, it's not that easy to kill our old man. Your elder brother wants to take this opportunity to show his power, and he's doing it for dad." Lu Zhi yawned and changed the subject, "What's wrong with you? It's 01:30 Still not sleeping?"

"I want to ask, can you help me contact my mother?" Lu Ting didn't talk nonsense, "I just saw her on TV because she is going to space."

"I want to see her," he added.

Lu Zhi was silent for a few seconds, and when she spoke again, the turmoil had calmed down, and her voice returned to the softness of the past: "If we meet... there should be no other way, her team has already entered the Klot launch base , in a fully enclosed state, what you see on TV should be pre-recorded. To meet...unless Dad speaks."

Lu Ting was stunned: "Okay. I'll go find him."

It was a bit difficult for him to say this.Since the breakup on the blind date, he hasn't seen his father alone again.

"Oh, no," Lu Zhi suddenly became anxious, "Actually, Aunt Xue left you a letter! She gave it to me before going to the base two days ago. I originally wanted to give it to you after the wedding—"

"But we left early."

"It's my sister's fault. I'm afraid it will affect your emotions and affect the wedding. I was selfish. I was busy and forgot about it later." Lu Zhi took a breath and said softly, "Lulu, where are you? I will call you now. Someone send it over."

"No need," Lu Ting smiled, "Sister, why are you apologizing? Just send me the scanned copy."

"I thought it would be better if you got the original copy yourself." Lu Zhi was a little uncertain about the words for a while, "Be happier."

"No such thing," Lu Ting still smiled sweetly, but looked into Deng Mochi's eyes blankly, as if only in this way can he maintain a stable logic, "Whether you say it in person, take the original document, It’s better to read the scanned copy, as long as you know what she wants to tell me, it’s all the same. My mother doesn’t want to see me, she wants to pass it on through you, and I don’t have to see her to say anything.”

Lu Zhi seemed a little surprised, but also a little sad. She wanted to persuade her, but in the end she didn't say anything, and she simply explained a few words before hanging up the phone.About 2 minutes later, Lu Ting's wristband received a new file. He had already sat back on the sofa, opened the projection hole of the wristband, and aimed it at the wall next to the TV that still had traces of fire.

"Did I feel a little weird just now?" Lu Ting asked while waiting for the file to open.

"Are you angry?" Deng Mochi asked back.

Lu Ting rarely saw him with such an uncertain look, and every time he saw it, it seemed to be related to his emotions.Now he himself can't figure it out: "It seems not."

Dun Mochi didn't ask any more questions, the letter was opened on the wall, and he and Lu Ting read it together.

This letter is not long, and the handwritten font size is uneven. Counting the lettering and date, there are only nine lines in total. As a message from a mother to her son whom she has not seen for many years, it can even be said to be too short.

The content of the letter is as follows:

Lulu, my boy,

By the time you read this letter, I have already entered the preparation base and cut off all contact with the outside world.Forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye, last month, we chatted for a while, and I heard your voice, and I had the urge to quit this job... so I'm not sure how the meeting before departure will affect my mental state , and whether it will fall short.I write this letter and ask Xiaozhi to hand it over to you, just to reassure you that I have always loved you, but what I am doing is an extremely great and difficult job, and I vow to dedicate my life to it, for Therefore, I have to give up the time to grow up with you. This is my lifelong regret.But when it's done, we're bound to be reunited.

always love you mom,

2099. 9, 8

"Okay." Lu Ting shook the bracelet, the white projection went out on the wall, and the wall returned to grayish yellow again.

"What the hell am I struggling with? All the problems have been blocked," he said to himself again, "This is a very simple matter in itself. My mother has gone to a big career and there has been no news for more than ten years, but she didn't do it on purpose. She has to give up on me, and I have no grievances, respect and understanding, I should have this kind of responsibility."

Deng Mochi didn't break through his self-brainwashing, but Lu Ting couldn't continue talking to himself. He looked at the sleeping puppy at his feet, stared blankly for a while, then raised his head suddenly, and pulled Deng Mo Chi's cuff: "Very sleepy, right? Let's go to sleep."

"Do you want to watch the launch?" Deng Mochi asked suddenly.

"what?"

"You can leave a few days later."

"Clot Base..." Lu Ting pondered, "If the visibility is good, the launch trajectory should be visible in the special zone."

"The fourth area also has an observation angle, and the distance is closer." Dun Mochi leaned back on the sofa cushion, "I often go there."

Lu Ting's eyes lit up. Whenever Deng Mochi spoke like this, with a supercilious air, he felt very reliable, as if he could give up all his hesitation.

"Okay, the boss will take me there." He said softly, put his hands on Deng Mochi's shoulders, and licked his lips softly. The two kissed aimlessly, and they kissed a lot. Looking at him clearly, at such a close distance, she even hugged the back of his neck and caressed him unconsciously.

Lu Ting was touched and wanted to take off his clothes, but he could tell that Deng Mochi obviously didn't want to, at least when his younger siblings were sleeping a few walls away, Deng Mochi lacked sexual desire for him, so he Quietly swallow those messy thoughts, together with the body fluids that the two of them exchanged.They slept directly on this sofa that day, and Lu Ting snuggled into that dry and stable embrace, listening to the wet rain, not sure when he fell asleep, but remembered the thought before going to sleep—sleeping for such a night, The things in my buttocks should be dried by body temperature.

However, early the next morning, when he secretly took off his pants to wipe himself in the bathroom, it proved that the thoughts of the night before were just delusions.Not only his butt, but even his legs and seams were wet, because he actually had a spring dream. In the dream, Dun Mochi was pressing on him, just like in reality, fierce and gentle, but he told him, you can conceive ·pregnant.

Lu Ting warned himself that he should not delay the business by thinking about it any longer.

There were still three days left before the launch. During these three days, Lu Ting took Deng Mochi to make full preparations for the next period of time.Mainly in terms of purchases, some were bought for younger siblings and kept at home, and some went to the far sea with them, such as the advanced equipment he promised to install in Elnath.On the day of the launch, the two set off early and came to the fourth area.

It's not a long time, but when Lu Ting looked at those steel hills, a strong kindness still rose in his heart, as if seeing an old friend who had been far away.The gray and white safe house stood on the ground below the spaceship. It was still the same, surrounded by underground detonators. It used to be here. Deng Mochi gave him thick lead pads to wear under his boots to protect against radiation. Deng Mochi also looked at him and said, you have changed my mood.

He was in heat, and hid in the house in fear, leaning against the door and swallowing an excessive amount of inhibitors. Deng Mochi sent him a message: Don't be afraid.

Now Deng Mochi drove his Elnath, took him through all this, and finally stopped at the observation point.

Lu Ting couldn't help staring at the scene in front of him.

It was a gigantic, majestic statue of Christ, and therefore holy.When the spacecraft descended to a height of about 60 meters above the surface, it was just above its head.The stone has been eroded and discolored, covered with dusty gray spots, but its former snow-white can still be vaguely seen.

After living in the capital for so many years, Lu Ting didn't even know it existed.

Deng Mochi hovered the spaceship, opened the hatch, and slid directly down the sling, followed closely by Lu Ting.The shoulders of the deity are not broad, and one must be careful walking along the cross-shaped open arms.

In the end, the two stood still by their necks. The rain was over and the visibility was better than expected. The rubbish piles were piled up under the line of sight, which seemed to be "seeing all the small mountains at a glance".

"It used to be a forest park, but later the ground subsided, and this statue remained," Deng Mochi explained, "it is the highest point nearby."

"How did you get up here before?"

"Climb." Deng Mochi raised the binoculars, "Use a hook."

Through the gas mask, Lu Ting couldn't see his expression, but a figure clearly appeared in front of his eyes. Since how old he was, the person beside him climbed on the robe of the god statue alone, and it took so much effort to stand upright. Standing on its shoulder, I saw how far away the land was, and quietly watched how many aircraft filled with fanatical longing rush out of the atmosphere and fly away from this planet.

What was Dun Mochi thinking at that time?What kind of persistence and impulse do you have?Lu Ting only knows that from his teens to his twenties, what he thinks and sees are all different from those of his peers.

Lu Ting also raised the binoculars.

They were all sweating in the midday sun, and at two o'clock sharp a distant rocket soared into the sky through their binoculars.

Lu Ting said goodbye to his mother in his heart.

After that, the two headed straight to the far sea.Lu Ting once again cut off all positioning communications, including Elnath's satellite system. Radar shows that it is still parked in Aldebaran's belly compartment. In fact, it has followed its owner to the wilderness hundreds of kilometers away.Like trusting a horse, Lu Ting was happy all the way. He felt that this was exile, but it was voluntary, and even eloped—whether it was or not, anyway, he was going to follow Deng Mochi to the ends of the world!

Even if he never went back, took off his brocade clothes, and pushed away the jade food, he would have no regrets.

However, Deng Mochi obviously doesn't have so many flirtatious romantic ideas. He always holds a serious attitude towards work, scrupulously judges the route, first hoists the self-made submersible in the deserted port on the coastline, and transports it to the destination together. Wait and see When he arrived at the archipelago reef and the sea area, he parked the spaceship on the sea surface, and was not in a hurry to go into the sea, and got busy in the studio that Lu Ting had prepared for him.

He had read the drawings countless times beforehand, even at the Pusoppe Hotel, the night afterward, he turned on his mobile phone to look at it when he was insomnia, so he got started very quickly, and within half an hour, Lu Ting heard the sound of the welding torch running sound.

It was already evening, and the sunset on the ocean was magnificent and long, Lu Ting didn't want Deng Mochi to miss it.He quickly cooked stew and fried rice, and Deng Mochi saw the last ray of light during dinner.

The days without signals and interpersonal communication are indeed very simple, and for a person like Lu Ting who is used to being autistic, it is not too boring.Apart from some housework every day, he would also help Deng Mochi with some chores, but he is not an excellent engineer after all, and Deng Mochi had to do the detailed work himself. Whenever this time, Lu Ting would read.Deng Mochi brought him a lot of old books from home, including novels, poetry collections, obscure math problems, all kinds of them, and the pages of those books were shining brightly under the sun.

After the fourth day's work was over, Lu Ting finished reading the first and second volumes of "Les Miserables", and Deng Mochi finished the first part. He stayed up all night and went into the sea by himself before dawn.Lu Ting was a little panicked when he woke up, and he was relieved when he heard the man's voice in the headset.

"It's almost ready, I'll be right back." Deng Mochi said.

"Then take a day off," Lu Ting rubbed his eyes and smiled, "otherwise I won't cook for you in the future."

After that, Lu Ting washed up and dutifully ran to the cabin shared by the kitchen and dining room to prepare breakfast. When he put the fried eggs on the toasted toast, there was a movement from the cabin door at the bottom of the spaceship.

Lu Ting went out with the dinner plate, went down the stairs, just in time to see the hanging ladder retracted, Deng Mochi turned his back to him, the back of the gray shirt was wet, revealing the thin lines of the ridges and grooves.

"Good morning! You have been tired all night, you have to eat something right away," Lu Ting looked a little dazed, "Is everything going well?"

"Yeah. I also found this." Deng Mochi turned around, wiped the sweat from his brow, and took out a glass ball or crystal from his pocket?Green and transparent, a circle larger than a clenched fist.He took the full plate and handed the clear sphere to Lu Ting. In Lu Ting's view, it was like he found a giant clam in the sea and caught a rare pearl for him.

"The parts are completely matched. After installing them, the mechanism was triggered, and a long and flat drawer popped up behind the reactor." Deng Mochi was obviously very hungry. He directly picked up a piece of fried beef sausage with his hands, and said while eating, "There are Three of these things."