sin of lumen

How long three days can be, Lu Ting has never had such a specific feeling.

He thought he would meet again the next day.The first thing to do after returning home is not to get into the radiation cleaning cabin, but to charge the wristband that was on the way, set a special contact, and then modify the contact notes.Changed from "CTA9M83" to "Deng Mochi", then changed to "Boss", changed to "?", even changed to "?", and finally changed back to "Deng Mochi".

Lu Ting really likes these three words.If he had a Chinese dictionary—the kind of out-of-print old items mentioned in documentaries—he would definitely circle them in order and fold the page numbers.

Then he lay down on the ground, put the ring around his ear so that the thermal keyboard could be projected in front of him, and slowly typed in the chat box: Good night!I'm home, how about you?

Then I typed another line: It’s so cold this year, I’ve been wearing a jacket in August, and I’m still sneezing on the bus, don’t you feel cold in a thin sweater :(

Realizing that this seemed silly and suspected of being too controlling, the send button was already pressed.

Lu Ting believes that M83, no, Deng Mochi, is the kind of extremely pragmatic person who speaks with a clear purpose and never speaks nonsense, so his own words may seem a bit low-level or naive.He covered his face and closed his eyes, and couldn't help but think of the man when he said he was childish, helpless and cold, but very gentle.That is definitely tenderness.

So he suddenly had more courage, and tried to calmly type the third item tonight: By the way, don't forget to send me the specific coordinates, see you in the fourth district tomorrow.

3 minutes passed, no reply, of course it was only 3 minutes.

Lucy reminded: "Mr. Cosmic Powerful Monster, you can also receive messages in time in the clean cabin and bathroom. Please wash up as soon as possible, go to bed early, and don't roll around on the floor like you have a stomach problem or a mental illness."

Only then did Lu Ting recover from that tense state, and when he stood up, he found that the carpet had been watermarked by himself.

"...If he hasn't heard from me when I take a shower, I'll format you and replace you with a housekeeper who won't laugh at me." He stared at the camera in the corner of the sealed window, "Don't say I'm sick!"

Lucy defended herself: "With all due respect, this is venting anger."

Lu Ting asked: "Then are you afraid?"

Lucy immediately begged for mercy: "I'm very scared, terribly scared, please don't format me, please don't."

Lu Ting was amused, and walked briskly towards the washing area: "I'm scaring you. He must have something else tonight and he hasn't seen it yet. Even if he doesn't reply for a while, he must have it in the morning. If he hasn't, then Just wait until night."

Lucy said rigorously: "What you said has a certain probability of happening."

When Lu Ting was humming a song to clean himself up, there was no update in the special contact column.But then the new news did come. At 22:8 in the morning, when Lu Ting was sleeping crookedly on his sponge-like big round bed, Deng Mochi sent a message: The radiation intensity in the fourth area is unevenly distributed. There is a lethal zone. I will wait for you at the K-9 pier at 7 am on August 25th. Don't come to me before then, be sure.

When Lu Ting opened his eyes in the morning, Lucy put this message first and thoughtfully, and threw it on the ceiling directly above his pillow.Lu Ting read it word by word carefully, and his first reaction was: Why is this person staying up so late?

The second reaction is to check the map. The K-25 dock is just downstream of the Saxon River, northeast of the artificial human colony, not far from yesterday's Apollo Tavern, and 270 kilometers from the border of the fourth district.Immediately he realized that Deng Mochi meant to wait for him to go to the fourth district together, in order to prevent himself from walking indiscriminately and being injured by excessive radiation.

The third reaction is that at 8 o'clock on August 9th, there are exactly 7 hours before this moment.

Lu Ting marked the time on the schedule, got up and went to do aerobic exercise, even though he knew that he would remember clearly without reminding himself.During the half hour of jogging, he looked at the rainforest landscape simulated by the VR glasses, listened to the distant and near birdsong, and thought about it clearly. From the short passage just now, he once again felt that Kind of... How should I put it, hard concern.Of course, he also cared about Deng Mochi, so much that he wished he could follow him all day long, but he wanted to grasp the degree of caring that was shown and cared appropriately.

After all, a sense of distance is also necessary for people to get along with each other. When he was a child, even his sister said that he was too clingy and annoying.

After getting off the treadmill, Lu Ting took off the tight headband on his forehead, and he probably learned to keep a long story short: OK, I promise not to go early or late.Is there something important these two days?If you need me to do something (remotely), feel free to get in touch.

Dun Mochi didn't reply.

In this way, Lu Ting started his waiting, with anticipation and anxiety, but he didn't just stare at the clock and wait, to be precise, he did a lot of things.On the first day, Lu Ting finally filled out the transfer form and handed it in according to the procedures. The area he applied for was the fourth district, the "exile area" where the government only sends a very small amount of police force every year.Because in this case, when he was hired, he would still be able to justifiably wander around there, "picking up trash" with Deng Mochi, and he would still be within his own legal jurisdiction.He thinks so.

The next day, Lu Ting opened up a small open space in his vegetable garden, adjusted the power of the fluorescent lamp and atomizing watering can, and used it as a flower field for planting roses.I use seeds that have been frozen for a long time and are reluctant to take them out. Half of them are planted directly in the soil, and the other half are hydroponic. I want to wait for the plants to grow and survive before returning to the soil.

When I first bought it, the color of the flower was unclear, but the introduction on the sealed bag stated that it is an ancient and precious variety, from the capital of roses, that place used to be called Damascus, 33 degrees north latitude, and was owned 70 years ago. Sunsets as gorgeous as a Persian rug".Now the Persian carpet made of antiques is spread in Lu Ting's bedroom, but Damascus is already a low temperature zone that is not suitable for human habitation.

On the third day, after repeatedly reading the map of the fourth district and choosing the clothes for the next day, Lu Ting still felt that it was not enough. He opened the modeling software, had a headache for a long time, and asked Lucy for help, and finally completed the rather complicated structure. , Start the 3D printer that I bought as a decoration.That night, he used a mixture of alcohol organic solvent, alcohol polymer organic solvent and vegetable oil to remove the supporting wax, cleaned it carefully, and got a white rose.

The stems are too thin and the leaves are thin, let alone those half-opened petals.They are all opalescent, the color of casting wax itself.Lu Ting lowered his head, put the flower in the palm of his hand, and didn't even dare to touch it a few times, for fear that it would be crushed if he exerted too much strength.Holding a rose in your hand... Is this what it feels like?With such weight and size, Lu Ting all made them strictly according to the average value shown in the data. The only regret is that his materials cannot support him to simulate the real texture and touch of flowers.

Lu Ting has seen pumpkin flowers and chili flowers, and pollinates them every year. Of course, he knows that flowers are quite soft and delicate things, and they will wilt if touched too much, so they are only suitable for hanging on the branches.

"Does it look like it? Have you seen the real thing?" During the video chat, he asked his busy man Fa Xiao.

Shu Rui was still wearing a white coat, sitting in the rest room of the hospital laboratory, smoking an electronic cigarette, with a vicissitudes of life, and his dark circles were particularly thick: "I see, you are not good at this, and you are lifeless."

Lu Ting held it up under the light and slowly spun it: "I think it's very cute, and my sister also said it's cute, and I planted a real one, but I have to wait for a long time. I'll give this away first."

Shu Rui asked: "Are you applying to be on duty in the fourth district? Are you serious?"

Lu Ting lowered his eyes, put the rose into a glass box lined with cashmere, and said, "Just wait for the sheriff's approval over there. There is no competition in that kind of place, and my dad promised not to care about me anymore, so it will definitely work."

Shu Rui smiled wryly: "If you don't gamble, people will never dare to accept you."

Lu Ting has reason and evidence: "That's fine, if I don't accept me, I'm now a vagrant, and I can go wherever I like."

Shu Rui began to scold him for being out of his mind.

Lu Ting turned off the interface directly, covered his head and fell into a deep sleep.He had to get up early in a few hours, and he didn't want to spend the rest time talking about it. It would be too funny to meet his sweetheart with the same dark circles under his eyes.

On the fourth day, Lu Ting finally sprayed on alfalfa perfume, sat in the driver's seat, and drove his small general-purpose spaceship to the K-25 port.He called the ship "Aldebaran-b," after the largest planet around Aldebaran.He prepared enough daily necessities and common tools, and temporarily added an anti-radiation coating to the exterior of the hull, and the painting style was adjusted to a dirt-resistant iron gray.After two days of strong winds, the visibility was very good that day, and the sunrise along the Saxon River happened to meet, and the interior of the spaceship was as red as a furnace.

The route and speed have been strictly calculated, the appointed time is approaching, and the destination coordinates are indeed ahead. Lu Ting slows down steadily, and the 9-meter-long boat hovers above the river.Unexpectedly, it was only one minute before seven o'clock, and the temperature had not returned to zero. The pier was already crowded with many early risers, and the crowd was gray, as if they were waiting for something collectively.Deng Mochi was among them, standing on the edge of the pier, wearing a stained denim jacket.

In the high-power footage, he is looking at the spacecraft.

It also showed that he had a knife on his back, wounds on his face, and swelling on his left cheek.

Lu Ting clenched his molars, and directly docked on the water beside the pier on that side, the distance was less than one meter.The cabin door opened, and he bent over the door, stretched out his hand and shouted, "Boss!"

Deng Mochi squeezed past a few women who were chatting, looked over intently, grabbed Lu Ting's hand, and jumped up.The spaceship automatically returned to the route and moved forward at a constant speed. As the airtight cabin closed automatically, the smell of iron clearly filled the nostrils, mixed with a little bit of dampness, but Lu Ting was in no mood to sniff. blood, which he thought might also be the source of the rust smell.

"What's wrong with your face?" He squatted down and rummaged through the medicine cabinet under the back seat, ignoring his previous principle of distance, and even regretted it, "In the past two days, you met What's the matter?"

Deng Mochi didn't answer, but walked to the console and looked at the satellite map: "Can the route be adjusted?"

"Yes, the latter section is a shortcut chosen at random, and I'll wait for you to tell me how to go then," Lu Ting stood beside him, and opened the security permission setting interface, "I'll put your Add fingerprints, face recognition and wait for the injury to heal."

"No, it's enough to temporarily open the authorization of the route planning system." Deng Mochi glanced at the various hardware on the console, with that kind of cold-eyed gaze.He seemed to have no interest in gaining permanent control of the ship.

Lu Ting was at a loss for words, swallowed, swiped his fingerprints and face, opened the relevant adjustment interface, then squatted in the back row and went to look through the medicine box.By the time he came back with the ointment and dressing and a glass of fresh orange juice, the brisk knocking sound had been ringing for a while.The computers installed on this kind of aircraft with armed functions are all strictly protected. The arrangement of keyboard characters is completely different from the standard sequence, and the shortcut keys are also different. When Lu Ting bought this "Aldebaran-b", he got used to it. About half a month, and Deng Mochi has clearly figured it out now, and is quite familiar with it.

On one side of the screen is the programming taskbar, and on the other side, there are many blocks marked red on the map, with a three-leaf icon representing radiation. With the input of data, its density and area are continuously increasing, and the system calculates The best route out is also constantly changing, avoiding those red areas.

Lu Ting put the orange juice in the shockproof cup holder beside Dun Mochi's hand, and inserted the cotton swab into the medicine bottle. He looked down and saw the ten fingers typing on the black keyboard. They were slender and bony, with clean joints. They were indeed a pair of very beautiful hands, and Same initial impression.But now it is covered with more scars, including bruises and skin trauma, most of which are distributed in the joints, small and with blood spots, at first glance it seems to be worn out.However, as a policeman, Lu Ting has seen too many close-ups of injuries, and he judged that they are traces left by intensive impacts in a short period of time.

In other words, it is very likely that Deng Mochi had a fight with someone.

Lu Ting didn't want to hinder his work, so he was going to deal with the wound on his face first. He leaned close to the bloody mouth at the corner of his mouth and shook the disinfectant: "Mr. Hacker, please close your eyes, it will hurt."

Dun Mochi glanced at him, and obediently closed his eyelids.

Lu Ting accidentally sprayed a little too much, and evenly sprayed it on the red and swollen part of the cheek: "I thought you would import a lot of data, that is, the radiation concentration of each monitoring point or something."

"Diffusion is regular, it should be clear."

Lu Tingxin said that the level of detail you marked is not just "probable".He wiped the sprayed lower eyelids with non-woven cotton, and asked, "Have you remembered it? You can open your eyes now."

"It's been more than ten years." Deng Mochi's eyes were still moistened by the volatile disinfectant, "I walk every day."

Lu Ting looked at the corners of his bloodshot eyes, almost in a daze, and quickly withdrew his mind, "This is a special medicine that I have been using, and it is very effective for acute injuries. It may be a little hot at first, just bear with it. "As he said, he lightly applied the light yellow ointment on his cheeks, and the cool smell was quickly covered by the smell of rust, "Why didn't you treat it before?"

"I'll take care of myself." Deng Mochi still looked at the screen and didn't avoid it.

Lu Ting carefully took out another piece of soybean-sized paste and spread it evenly on the corner of his mouth, "This way it will heal faster and will not leave scars. You can't just mess around just because you look good."

Dun Mochi's eyelashes moved, and he didn't open his mouth until he finished smearing, "I set the speed at 256 kilometers per hour, and I can arrive about seven or ten minutes earlier than they take the water."

"They? Those people waiting on the pier?"

"Yes. They are all going to pick up garbage, that's only a small part." The reminder sounded that the route was successfully set up, and Deng Mochi finally put his gaze on Lu Ting's face, "I was also waiting for the boat."

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, we now have the advantage of time and equipment. I brought a lot of things that may be useful." When putting on the dressing, Lu Ting tried not to shake his hands, "By the way, you haven't told me yet. What the hell is going on, these injuries."

"fine."

"How can it be all right?" Lu Ting raised his eyes and stared at him, especially the gray pupil, "I saw you had injuries on your hands the first time at the bus stop, but this time you have injuries on your face!"

"Does this concern you?"

Lu Ting was taken aback and bit his lip.

"I need to sleep." Dun Mochi walked straight to the back row.

"...I'm sorry." Lu Ting followed him.

"I'm too tired now." Deng Mochi's voice seemed to soften a little, "Call me if you have any questions."

"I'll cover you with a blanket for that job—" Lu Ting pulled out the blanket from the top cabinet, brought orange juice and walked around to the driver's seat, only to see that Deng Mochi had already taken the long knife from his back and sat down in the corner .

After drinking half a glass of orange juice, he looked at the dark blue police wool blanket on his lap, raised his face to look at Lu Ting, and said earnestly, "Thank you."

"No, you're welcome," Lu Ting pinched the trouser line on the side of his legs, "I'll fix those in my hands again. Just sleep."

Deng Mochi nodded, and then closed his eyes. By the time Lu Ting applied medicine to the bleeding spots one by one with his fingers, he was already in a deep sleep.The sound of breathing is not obvious, but the brows are stretched, and the posture is relaxed.

Inside the denim jacket is a set of pure black anti-radiation suit, the style is already old, and there is actually a gas mask beside the long knife, which is the one that Lu Ting gave last time.Seeing it, Lu Ting's breathing was a little sluggish, and he squatted aside and didn't want to stand up.The sun had completely risen. He closed the sunshade of the porthole, propped his chin, and stared steadily.He seemed to have never seen this kind of defenseless look on Deng Mochi's face, like a child - the kind of child who had been homeless for a long time and fell asleep on the street, with a face full of chilblain and The eyes of the lamb, waiting for someone to take him home.

How many days have you not slept?But we'll be there in an hour.Lu Ting thought.

Why do you always have wounds?But you don't want to tell me either.He pondered again.

The police is a profession that cannot lack the desire to protect, but Lu Ting knows in his heart that this is different.At this moment, he doesn't even feel that he is a policeman who has sworn an oath to the people of the entire Federation, but just an ordinary Omega who meets the Alpha he likes and wants to protect, be protected, possess, and be possessed.So he should stay here, with Deng Mochi, no matter where he will go next.

He hesitated, stretched out his arm, and brought back the glass of orange juice.There are still some fruit pieces hanging on the wall of the cup, it is clear at a glance which side Deng Mochi used just now.So he just stood there and drank the orange juice slowly.

This orange is not sweet, and the ice water for juicing is too much, and the taste is very bland.

After drinking, he went to wash the cups. After squatting for too long, his legs were sore and numb when he got up.In the small space, Lu Ting felt inexplicably dizzy and sad for no reason as he watched the glass vibrate slightly in the clear water passed through the ultrasonic waves.He hurried back to the corner of the rear cabin, his heart beating so fast that it seemed to be beating in his ears, he leaned forward, and it only took a second from the original distance to the staggered breathing.

In the end, he just touched the bridge of the nose, without even daring to move his lips, and touched it.

This was the first time that Lu Ting kissed the skin of a human being outside of his infancy, or in other words, after he had never seen his mother again.

Deng Mochi didn't open his eyes.