spaceflight manual

Chapter 12 Old things
After everyone left, Wang Ping'an and Angeli were left looking at each other.

Wang Pingan blinked, raised his big hand, and rubbed his cheek.

Angeli: "Don't make me laugh, talk about something!"

Wang Pingan: "I have to work hard, what if I get fooled?"

Angeli crossed her arms and stared at Wang Pingan with her mouth pursed. Her glasses reflected the lights on the construction machinery deck.

Wang Ping'an shrugged and spread his hands: "Well, actually, I had a partner before, and she died. It's over."

"This is too simple!"

"Oh, it's okay if you know it. I'll tell you the name of my partner. Her name is Fang Manmei. Is that okay? If you have this name, you can check the files. It's all public."

After speaking, Wang Ping'an was about to slip away, but Angeli grabbed her by the shoulder.The girl stepped on the shelf next to her, and used the kinetic energy she gained to push Wang Pingan to the ceiling: "Don't try to fool me."

Wang Ping'an looked at the girl's clenched fist, because the girl was still wearing a spacesuit, and the fist looked extraordinarily large - after all, the gloves of the spacesuit are very thick, with radiation-proof interlayers and insulation layers.

Wang Pingan: "Okay, I surrender, and I'll tell you the name of her soul!"

"The name of the soul?" It was Angeli's turn to be confused, "What the hell?"

"It's the name of the inner superego, that's how she explained it. Listen, the name of her soul is Struffin Kay! Sounds deaf, isn't it?"

Angeli maintained the posture of Wang Ping'an on the wall with one hand: "Are you fooling me?"

As soon as the words fell, the engineer who had been watching them shouted: "Hey, it's time to take off the spacesuit, we are waiting to recover the spacesuit for maintenance!"

Angeli sighed: "I'll continue to settle accounts with you later. I'll meet you at the officers' club later, don't even think about running away!"

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After taking off her space suit and taking a shower, Angeli changed into a military uniform cleaned by an automatic dry cleaner.

In the full-length mirror, she changed from the messy heavy manual worker just now to a beautiful second lieutenant officer.

Because of long-term braiding, the very wavy hair is scattered behind the shoulders, and the computer-controlled robot is braiding the braids into braids.

Angeli put on her glasses, and waited until the robotic arm finished weaving the braids, then handed the blue bow to the robotic arm.

The regulations of the Space Force are very strange. Flat mirrors and the like are considered decorations and are not allowed to be worn, but the bows on the braids are fine as long as they do not exceed the specified size.

Male soldiers of the Space Force, whether soldiers or officers, must have short hair, and they must be uniformly pushed into a uniform size before combat missions. It is said that it is for the convenience of rescue.

However, female soldiers of the Space Force can have long hair, but they are not allowed to exceed the specified length, and they are not allowed to spread out. They must be braided.

Dreadlocks are also not allowed.

Angeli felt that the military regulations of the Space Force were more or less caring for women, unlike the armed mercenaries under the control of Western capital, who equated women with men and bathed in public bathhouses.

But the Space Force does not allow the use of perfume, because the volatile mixture may affect the equipment on the ship-so the doctrine says.

Angelie has always liked to wear citrus-flavored perfume, because her name evolved from French citrus, which is a relatively rare name.

So Angorie habitually went to grab the perfume bottle, and then remembered that this was already stored as a personal item in the special storage center at the launch site.

After the three-year duty is over, she can retrieve these deposits when she returns to the ground.

Or she encountered an accident in space and died without a whole body-space accidents usually result in a complete death-then these deposits will be sent to Angelie's parents together with the blue death notice.

Angeli closed the door of the locker, took her portable tablet, opened the door and left the bathroom.

He glanced at the men's locker room, but he didn't see Wang Ping'an coming out.

Men change clothes faster, so Wang Ping'an should go to the officers' club and wait first—Angeli thought so, pushing the wall lightly and floating along the aisle.

Several technical non-commissioned officers encountered on the road saluted her with tense faces, while the military police standing guard at the duty station around the corner called to her: "Wait a minute, don't wear flat glasses!"

Angorie sighed, grabbed the handle on the wall to stop, and explained to the military police that she was a natural person with shortsightedness.

After tossing for a long time, she finally came to the officers' club.

A group of face-to-face military officers gathered in front of the club's space pinball table, discussing something enthusiastically.

Angeli didn't care about this, and focused on looking for Wang Ping'an.

Then she heard the group of officers discussing: "How did this maneuver come about?"

"It's unbelievable. I heard that the guy took off the gloves and helmet of the space suit in order to complete these operations. It is said that it will affect his judgment and reaction."

Angeli looked over in surprise, and sure enough, she saw a holographic player surrounded by a group of officers. The player projected a piece of wreckage, and then a spot of light shuttled through the wreckage.

Angeli couldn't help but ask, "What is that?"

The officers looked over together.

"Hey, Silver Hair, is this guy's partner?"

"There are also glasses, it should be. Fuck, it's even more beautiful than the one in the legend, I'm so envious!"

Angeli: "That guy?"

A captain replied: "Ah, we are discussing Lieutenant Wang Ping'an's rescue operation. This is restored by the engineering department based on the data recovered from the wreckage of the aircraft computer. Now everyone is discussing this thing."

Angelie: "Oh... can I have a look?"

"Please!" A few astronauts swiped out of the way and stood upright beside the space pinball table, as if they were waiting for inspection.

Angorie floated over, stopped by the edge of the pinball table, and picked up the projector.

Because the spaceship is not accelerating now, the floating things will not slowly fall back to the ground, and Angeli just floats in the air and begins to watch.

The light point representing the No. 1 iron barrel is like a goblin walking through the dense debris.

Angeli always felt that what she was watching was not the reappearance of the flight trajectory, but the dance of the fairies during the call.

At this time, the captain who had just spoken said, "Like the dance of an elf, I seem to be in a fantasy world."

Angeli shook her head: "If you were on that body, you wouldn't feel this way. I almost collapsed from vomiting, and I don't know how he kept it."

"Maybe it's the force of will," replied the captain.

Angeli suddenly remembered what she was doing here, and hurriedly asked, "Have you seen Lieutenant Wang?"

Several astronauts shook their heads like a rattle.

Angeli bit her lips angrily: "I knew it, he ran away!"

"Don't say that." Wang Ping'an stepped on his own voice and floated in, "You have to worry about the speed at which I, an injured person, can take a shower. I can't do fine movements with my hands at all. I should let you as a partner just now. Help me wash it!"

The astronauts on the edge of the space pool table booed together: "Oh oh oh oh!"

This is the club where the most serious people turn into kids of their age.

Angeli: "We have important things to talk about, can you give us some private time?"

Captain: "Of course, we can still guard the gate outside, brothers."

All the astronauts with faces left, only Angeli and Wang Pingan were left in the club.

Wang Pingan: "Computer, play some songs suitable for talking about things."

The next moment, the loudspeaker began to play the sound of running water from the faucet at its fullest: 哗啦啦...

It is said that people on the ground in the pre-space age would turn on the tap to make noise in order to prevent the conversation from being overheard.

Wang Pingan cursed and shouted: "Computer, turn off the humor module. Re-understand my order."

The next moment, a soothing piano sound came from the loudspeaker.

Angeli: "Moonlight Sonata, yes, let's talk."

"Where did I go?" Wang Pingan asked.

Angeli: "Speaking of the name of the soul, Straffin Kay."

"Oh yes, that's right, this is what she came up with one afternoon, and then she ran over excitedly and asked me 'is it cool'..."

Angeli floated beside the pinball table, listening quietly.

Wang Pingan stopped by himself: "You don't want to hear the main point?"

"I studied psychology and I know the importance of listening."

Wang Pingan was stunned: "I hate psychologists. Every time I face them, I feel like they are looking into my heart."

"That's because psychologists' consulting rooms are deliberately arranged to feel this way. This is the combined effect of various elements to give you an illusion. They will first study your past experiences and things you like.

"If you like the occult, there will be some occult things in the room, such as a smoking incense burner or something, which actually releases biological hormones with a calming effect."

Angeli said.

Wang Pingan said in astonishment: "Is that so? How cunning!"

"Now there are computers to help with analysis, robots to help quickly switch scenes, or simply use holographic projections to create scenes, very quickly."

Wang Pingan shrugged.

"Okay, I surrendered. In fact, there is nothing wrong with thinking about it carefully. It's just that the people around think that this is my heart disease, and then carefully walk around the minefield without touching the mine. It's not necessary.

"Fang Manmei is my classmate of the Space Flight Academy. She is a very energetic little man, just the opposite of you."

Angeli: "The opposite of what? Personality?"

"Everything. You are tall and have a good figure, and she is a pudding and has no meat. You can fit three of her in your chest!"

Angeli raised her hand subconsciously.

"She has a special trick, which is to slide her hands forward in a weightless space with air, like this."

Wang Ping'an rotated his hands in opposite directions and cast a big windmill.This movement caused his body to turn around.

"What's strange about her is that she can move forward without spinning."

Angeli opened her mouth slightly: "I've seen the clowns in the space circus move like this..."

"Really? That's quite suitable for her. Our acrobatic troupe doesn't have such funny clowns. I think it's belittling their personality. Fang Manmei and I are best friends at school, and we always hang out together as long as we have private time." kind.

"After graduation, I partnered with her and flew to Mars once, 28 weeks away and 31 weeks back. Then on the way back, we encountered a shipwreck.

"The Space Stewardship Council doesn't think there's anyone alive, but as a general rule, let's drop by to make sure. We had 500 tons of extra water at the time, and the deceleration was almost done, enough delta to see what was going on. "

Delta is a slang term for incremental speed, which is commonly used in space. For those who are not familiar with spaceflight, it can be roughly understood as "voyage".

"So we went. We found out that there were still people on the wreck, and somehow they struggled to survive in the wreckage for five weeks until we arrived.

"We immediately prepared to rescue, but the accident ship has disintegrated due to solar wind and meteorites, and there are many fragments. But generally speaking, it is not as dangerous as this time, because the ship disintegrated naturally, not exploded.

"At that time, we didn't have a motor cabin for outside work. After all, we were just a cargo ship, and we only had small maintenance machinery, the kind that could only crawl on the surface of the hull.

"But Xiao Fang and I are very confident. We are not afraid of anything. We used that maintenance machine to build a simple rescue boat."

Angeli: "Xiao Fang?"

"Oh, it's her nickname." Wang Ping'an suddenly sang, "There is a girl in the village named Xiao Fang, who is good-looking and kind. She has big beautiful eyes and thick and long braids~"

Angorie didn't interrupt.

After singing, Wang Pingan touched her face in embarrassment: "Uh, I often use this song to tease her. When I sing the chorus 'Thank you for your love', she will cover her ears and yell, 'It's disgusting, please stop. Sing it'."

A smile appeared on the corner of Angeli's mouth, and her dimples were faint.

Wang Ping'an: "Xiao Fang and I built a rescue boat, and rushed to the rescue with great enthusiasm. I was at the helm, and she was in charge of operating the robotic arm to fend off the small debris.

"It started off smoothly, but because I was wearing a spacesuit and my senses were sluggish, I didn't detect a piece of debris in time, and the accident happened."

"Wait a minute," Angeli finally interrupted Wang Pingan, "Is this the conclusion of the accident investigation report? You are dull because of wearing a space suit?"

Wang Pingan: "Of course not. I wrote this in the report, but it was not accepted. Not only that, but the Space Management Committee told us that there was actually a torch cruiser that was undergoing maintenance at L2 at that time. The crew had just had a holiday and hadn't returned to the ground. sailing immediately.

"The action we took was a meaningless and blind move. In short, we hit the debris, and Xiaofang shattered in an instant. At that time, the relative speed was several times the speed of sound, so we must not feel anything.

"I was also thrown out of space, but miraculously the space suit was completely intact. When I was about to run out of oxygen, the people waiting for rescue on the crashed spaceship found me through a brave spacewalk and dragged me back inside the spaceship Their little sanctuary.

"At this time, the computer of the spaceship we drove failed to detect any moving objects on the spaceship for a long time, so it judged that there was an accident and reported it to the management committee. Then the torch cruiser I just mentioned came.

"The two men on board the shipwreck were awarded Gold Stars for their tenacious survival actions and their daring rescue of me."

Angeli muttered, "The Human Praise Medal..."

The Gold Star Medal is just a common name, and its full name is the Human Praise Medal.

Wang Ping'an was silent for a long time before he said quietly: "Xiao Fang has always wanted Jin Xing because of his handsome name. The Medal of Hymn to Humanity, she always likes to shout, the hymn of humanity is the hymn of courage!"

"She's not an official fan, she doesn't care about the potential value of the Gold Star at all, she just likes the name. When we were building the rescue boat, she said happily, 'There must be a Gold Star now'.

"But in the end, let alone the medal, she didn't even get the two-level treatment that would be given to a heroic death, because she was judged to be reckless and negligent in causing her death.

"I have defended this for a long time and I still write to the pension board every month. I say her intentions are good and she should be rewarded. But all the letters have been rejected."

Wang Pingan sighed: "Obviously I was the one who was at fault, but I survived and she died. Sometimes when I watch those ancient Gundam animations, I feel that it is good to have telepathy, so maybe I can see the little girl It's over, I want to ask her, forgive me if I don't."

Angorie suddenly realized that tears were rolling down her cheeks.

Wang Pingan took out a handkerchief and threw it to her: "Why are you crying? Look, I'm not crying!"

Angeli: "You... I think you should cry."

"Ah, really? Then lend me your pectoral muscles. I think it might be nice to lie on it and cry." Wang Pingan changed his tone just now.

"I can't understand, you were obviously very sad when you stated..."

"You are a girl, of course you can't understand. My father participated in that war, that is. Many of his good friends died in the war. Every year on the Ching Ming Festival, my father will bring a dozen Erguotou, in the Smoking in the woods next to the Martyrs Cemetery, opening bottles of wine while smoking, slowly sprinkled in the soil of the pine forest.

"My dad never cried, he just smoked and poured wine from bottle to bottle.

"My biological mother died when I was four years old, so when he came out of the martyr's cemetery, he would go straight to the ordinary cemetery, take out my mother's urn, wipe it carefully, and then put it under the pine tree in the cemetery Basking in the sun, I squatted in front of the urn and smoked a cigarette.

"My father is a heavy smoker, and he smoked so much on Qingming Festival that he could smoke two packs of Daqianmen.

"But I have never seen him cry. His lacrimal gland seems to be dead. Although I have adjusted it, the base plate before adjustment is still my father's gene. My lacrimal gland may also be dead."

Wang Ping'an spoke calmly, like an iron man without blood or tears, his expression didn't change at all.

As a result, Angeli cried even harder.

Then the heartless Wang Pingan was still complaining: "I'm stupid, the pear blossoms are raining, are you planning to cry for my share, then I thank you so much!"

Angorie grabbed the long stick on the pinball table used to fiddle with stuck pinballs, and threw it at him like a spear, but he turned his head to avoid it.

Wang Pingan: "Be careful, this is public property, and if it is damaged, you will be punished."

Angeli gritted her teeth and squeezed out a few words: "If I don't make up, it's over!"

Then she began to wipe away her tears, took a deep breath after wiping it clean, and finally calmed down, before asking: "So, you became like this because of your girlfriend's death?"

Wang Pingan: "What are you talking about? I don't like it anymore. It's tarnishing our friendship. This kind of situation is very common in the Space Force. In space, they are partners who cooperate with each other tacitly. When they are on the ground, they have their own families. I also helped Xiaofang advise her father on her blind date."

Angelie:?

Wang Ping'an: "Surprised, I said you were the wife assigned by the computer, that was coaxing my dad. I remember the mother and son we met on the bus to the launch site. No, I stop you from helping to find out her husband's partner." , just to guard against this situation.

"Space is not a romantic place. We are comrades in arms facing the cold environment together. Don't tarnish this sacred relationship."

(End of this chapter)