spaceflight manual

Chapter 17 Dead Enemy

This time, Wang Pingan didn't make a fool of himself or play cheap, but just nodded calmly: "Yes, I shouldn't make such remarks. I will review and confine myself."

Instructor: "You can tell right from wrong. Why can't you always tell right from wrong? Why do you have to... Forget it, my friend is in it, so I can't say you are too serious."

Just at this moment, the "operating" light went out, and then the door opened, and the director of the ship's medical department floated out while wiping his hands.

All the astronauts waiting outside fell silent, even the instructor who was about to continue lecturing Wang Pingan was also silent.

All eyes were on the director.

Director: "You don't have to worry, the current medical technology, as long as there is no brain death, can usually bring it back. This time it was also brought back, but the heartbeat stopped for a long time, causing the brain to be a little hypoxic."

Wang Pingan asked anxiously: "Then what should we do? Can it be replaced by bionic nerves?"

The doctor shook his head: "Now we can replace all human body parts, except the brain.

"At present, he is still awake, unable to conduct a standard psychological evaluation. It is not known how his mind is affected. However, we can say with certainty that his reaction speed, thinking speed and other physiological indicators will be affected to varying degrees. Impact.

"Of course these can all be recovered through restorative training, but he is temporarily unable to work on the front line of the Space Force. After recovery and evaluation by a higher-level committee, it is still possible to return to the front line, but... it may take a long time time.

"In principle, the Space Force will not let people stay on the dangerous front line for more than ten years. He has been on the front line for the seventh year, so it is very likely that he will be transferred to personnel, equipment or other departments."

Wang Ping took a deep breath.

Several people held him down together, and the instructor also silently moved to a position that could prevent him from rushing towards the doctor.

Wang Pingan: "Thank you, comrade military doctor. When will he wake up?"

"This is not clear. We used a mechanical heart for him. Our ship does not have the ability to use extracted DNA to cultivate new hearts. In order to suppress the body's resistance to the mechanical heart, we injected a considerable dose of a class A inhibitor.

"But it won't last long. The brain and nervous system can't recognize the mechanical heart, and hallucinations and perception confusion will occur. If it's just replacing the limbs, it will only produce some phantom pain, but the heart is too important.

"The inhibitor itself will also affect his temperament and become dependent. To cure this problem, a heart grown in a pig using his DNA must be transplanted.

"It will take a long time. Before that, he will have to take inhibitors regularly and receive psychological treatment. Until the treatment is over, he will no longer be able to perform Space Force missions."

Wang Ping'an's expression was very gloomy, and he turned to ask the instructor: "I remember this situation..."

"You remember correctly, the Space Army will bear all the treatment and recovery costs. After all, he was injured because of his heroic rescue of his companions. In addition, although this behavior is not enough for a silver star, it is enough to issue a medal of solidarity, too The Air Force will not give up meritorious personnel."

Many people showed expressions of relief, only Wang Ping'an still had a gloomy face, but he didn't say anything.

The second lieutenant who made a mistake seemed very frightened. He seemed really worried that Wang Pingan would do something out of the ordinary.

The instructor clapped his hands, and after attracting everyone's attention, he said, "Okay, the matter is over, let's disband, the nurses will take care of him."

The astronauts began to disperse in twos and threes, but Wang Pingan did not move. He said to the instructor, "Which confinement room am I in?"

The instructor looked at Wang Ping'an's hand: "You are also considered a wounded person, so you still have to come for regular checkups, don't you? It's a good attitude to admit your mistakes this time. Let's write a self-criticism, [-] words."

Wang Pingan: "Yes."

"Be sincere and analyze your own problems. Your partner has studied psychology, so she can help you with self-diagnosis."

Angeli saluted energetically: "Yes."

**
Although there was an accident, it took only 73 hours for Bravery to clear all the debris, and then embarked on the journey to the Sun-Earth L2 Space Force Fortress again.

Although it was four days late, the ceremony for leaving the Earth's extreme high orbit was held normally.

In the past, this ceremony would throw an iron plate filled with the names of the members of the spaceship, but recently there is too much garbage in the orbit of the earth circle, so this tradition was abandoned, and instead, using augmented reality, a virtual slate was placed on the porthole to simulate its entry into the spaceship. process in space.

By the way, people who died in space will also be "cosmic burial" in this way. In fact, the corpse will be thrown into the jet stream of the tail nozzle, smashed instantly, and become the incremental speed of the spacecraft, which is delta .

The corpse of the deceased will physically become the driving force for the spacecraft to move forward. It can only be said that this is a strange romance that engineers and engineers have.

Another week after the ceremony, Qin Qiong woke up.

The first thing he said when he woke up was: "Damn it, I really can't do something like a scourge."

This sentence was written into the logbook by the director of the medical department.

On the third day after Qin Qiong woke up, the medical department thought that visits could be opened. Not long after the news spread, the ward was full of visiting astronauts.

Of course, Wang Ping'an and Angeli also went, and then Angeli complained fiercely: "During the time you were injured, no one came to visit you at all."

Wang Pingan scratched his cheeks with his hands that had returned to normal size, and said nonchalantly, "Everyone, you don't want to disturb the world of the two of us. The main reason is that you always feed me in those few days. If you don't feed me, you will be cruel and let me eat liquid food." , There must be many girls coming to visit me."

Angeli frowned: "Why are you so disdainful?"

"Oh, is this a new adjective you learned? Not bad, your mastery of Chinese has improved."

Angeli sighed helplessly, and then suddenly changed the topic: "You are very happy today, being a bitch is more active than usual, and the level of annoying has increased several times."

"Do I have it?"

"Absolutely. If you don't believe me, ask everyone."

Wang Pingan: "All eyes are on me! Let me tell you something, Second Lieutenant Angeli thinks I hate three times today than before, what do you think?"

"Guan Gong": "We think it is. Damn it, you are a man who is arrogant and arrogant. If you are honest and happy, it will be over. Come in!"

Speaking of which, Guan Gong came over and dragged Wang Ping'an by the shoulders, dragged him to the front of the queue, and threw him into the ward.

Wang Pingan grabbed the oncoming medical display screen, stopped his body, and then found that all the senior officers on the ship were there.

He vaguely heard the heroic laughter of "Guan Gong" outside, and everyone was laughing, looking very happy.

Captain Gu Changhe said, "Wang Ping'an, are you in such a hurry?"

Wang Pingan stood at attention and saluted: "He is my classmate of the Space Flight Academy, my deadly enemy, and I am anxious to confirm whether he can still fight with me."

Gu Changhe smiled: "It seems that you don't care about others as much as you said in the report. Okay, our side is mainly bureaucratic, let the propaganda officer take care of it and it's over, let's go."

After finishing speaking, Senior Colonel Gu gently pushed Qin Qiong's bed and floated towards the door of the ward.

Other officers followed closely behind.

Wang Pingan maintained his salute posture and watched them leave.

As soon as the chiefs left, Qin Qiong spoke first: "Did you come to ask me how it feels to use a mechanical heart?"

Wang Pingan: "You know me too well."

"That's not true. Even if you really miss it, you'll start it with this fucking question. Or ask me if I'll see the dancing villain if I take the inhibitor."

Wang Pingan: "So you will really see it, right?"

"I've never seen it, but to be honest, the hallucination of a mechanical heart is really uncomfortable. I don't know how to describe it to you. When we see a girl with a heartbeat, my heart beats faster and my breath becomes short of breath, right?"

Wang Pingan: "Yes, and my palms sweat."

Qin Qiong immediately sullenly said, "That's right, you still throw your partner out, right? Do you still want to know what the mechanical heart feels like?"

"Yes, you say."

"In short, human beings have many feelings, which are connected with the 'heart', although we know that it is the brain that thinks and produces feelings. Some psychoanalysts now believe that this is related to hormone secretion, and a considerable part of hormones is produced by the hypothalamus. But it works on every part of the body.

"That's why people are 'sad to heartache' and 'nervous to stomachache'. And I, now I don't have a heart. The hypothalamus will still secrete hormones, but one of the responding organs is missing, which is still the most important one, so there will be Many, many places feel different.

"As soon as I woke up, the ship opened a special communication channel for me to talk to the ground. I talked to my wife and two-year-old daughter. I... felt terribly indifferent, as if I had lost my feelings."

Wang Ping'an was speechless: "My partner—Angeli has studied psychology..."

"Come on, after the call, I reported the situation to our team's instructor, and he came to do the work with me himself. He has a master's degree in clinical psychology."

Wang Pingan: "This is not necessarily the case. The instructor can't cure me, but I always feel that Angeli can cure me."

"Your 'Zhi' is a cure, right? Damn, how could I think of saying these things to you. It must be the mechanical heart that drove me crazy." Qin Qiong covered her face with her hands.

Wang Ping'an put on a straight face: "Sorry, I thought this would make you relax a bit."

"Yeah, seeing that you are still the same as before, I regained a little bit of the old feeling, that is, I think you are really annoying. Thankfully, the mechanical heart has not changed this."

Qin Qiong calmed down and said to Wang Ping'an seriously, "I'm going to leave the front line and switch to administrative work."

Wang Ping'an was a little surprised: "You...don't fly anymore?"

"It might be hard for you to understand... No, you certainly can't understand. But the administrative work can stay on the ground, and I want to spend more time with my wife and daughter."

Wang Pingan: "What about the dream? In the first year of entering the flight academy, we were together on the back mountain of the academy, watching..."

Qin Qiong interrupted him: "Even if I finish my recovery, I won't be able to return to the front line. It's better to accept the reality. Of course, it may be because this mechanical heart has cooled my dream.

"But you are different. I sincerely hope that you can join the Centaur Project. I hope that my grandson and great-grandson will one day live in the interstellar federation established by humans.

"So if I have a son, I'll call him Qin Keke, Qinspark..."

Wang Pingan: "Then he has to take care of mushroom heads."

"Why do you always interrupt at such a time!"

"But it's miserable for a child to only cut mushroom hair for the rest of his life, unless he wants to play rock and roll at the entrance of a bar with a guitar on his back."

"That's enough! You bastard, I've seen it for a long time, you use this method to avoid serious things, especially things that touch your heartstrings. Others don't understand, but I understand, because I What the hell is your nemesis!"

Wang Pingan stopped and looked at Qin Qiong with a straight face.

The two were deadlocked for a while, and Wang Pingan asked, "Can I talk?"

"Go ahead."

"You may have changed the heart of steel so I don't remember, just before you were injured, you said that you thought I was playing tricks when I mentioned Xiao Fang to protect myself, but later found out that I was really heartless. This contradicts what you just said."

"You're so proud, aren't you? Shut up! Listen to me! I don't have any enthusiasm, but you still have it. You can stay in the front line for three years, and the first line is the easiest to get gold stars Yeah, it's not only hard to get medals when you're off the front line, it's also going to slow down promotions, unless you get to a command post, commanding a Torch Cruiser. You know what?

"I sincerely hope that you can join the Centaur Project and continue the dream... the dream of all of us. I still remember that night, we were on the back mountain of the college, looking at the vast starry sky, one song after another Sing songs that get us excited.

"The glorious guide, the green grass next to the house, the motherland will never forget... Many of us have changed in these years, because space is too boring, boring and dangerous. Now we toast, all are the voices of broken dreams. Only You and only you are still chasing the original dream, our dream.

"I hope you can make your dreams come true, and if you do, go to Centaur, we can spend the rest of our fucking lives bragging about our buddy, who's on his way to Centaur now, and when he comes back On that day, I can see my 80th generation descendants!
"He can also serve as a representative of the old era and ask the people of the new era: Hey, you have realized the ultimate dream of mankind, right? Are you still singing 'listen to the noise of the wind and snow, watch the flying stars'..."

"My heart is calling to me, to the turbulent distance."

"Don't sing, listen to me!"

Wang Pingan: "It's true what you said is good, but it's also possible that when I return, the earth will be in darkness, and everyone will be in despair, thinking that human beings are finally doomed."

Qin Qiong: "Then the fucking ground started to have lights, and the lights made up the four words Welcome back, right?"

"Didn't you still remember your dreams? You borrowed my hard drive back then, and I returned it to the instructor!"

"Don't worry about these trivial matters anymore! In short, I will name my son Qin Keke and my grandson Qin Xiepo. You fucking start the Galactic Federation for me! Galactic Federation understand!

"Or do you think this can't be done? That's right, with your ass personality, you can only join the Centaur project with a gold star."

"I don't want to listen to you saying that. Isn't it Venus, I'll show you!"

After Wang Pingan finished speaking, he realized that he had been tricked, such a simple trick.

Qin Qiong was delighted: "I didn't expect you to be able to eat the aggressive method. According to my understanding of you, you would never eat this. It seems that not only I was changed by the mechanical heart, but some people have also changed in the past five weeks ah."

Wang Pingan scolded, "You fart", then stood up and said, "Come on, seeing how energetic you are, I'm relieved. There are others waiting. See you later."

Qin Qiong laughed.

Floating to the door, Wang Pingan supported the door frame with his hands, turned to Qin Qiong and said, "By the way, I don't think your enthusiasm has faded at all. When you just talked about the future, you had a lion in your eyes!"

"Grass, why don't you bury me with the poem I wrote for Sun Lili!"

"Hahaha, although I'm burying you, I'm serious. If a person stops dreaming, he is sick."

After speaking, Wang Ping'an turned around in satisfaction and opened the door.The strange thing is that the door doesn't seem to be closed tightly, and it opens when you pull it.

He went out of the room and found that everyone was looking at him.

Wang Pingan: "What's wrong with you?"

Angeli: "Just now, I don't know if the instructor did it on purpose. He didn't close the hatch completely. We heard you yelling inside. Ah, someone blushed."

"It was refreshed!"

"I'll answer this, why is the back yellow again?" Angeli said excitedly.

"It's not yellow, it's still glowing!"

(End of this chapter)