Black Sky

When the five people returned to the base, Joel and Guy were removing the ugly pot from the dual-purpose electric stove in the so-called living room. Guy’s hands were still holding a bowl like something, probably from the boiling Something was scooped out from the pot, and it was steaming.

"Hey came back just right, the nutrient decoction just cooked through, how is the situation?" Guy rushed to the most advanced door and raised the bowl in his hand. "We suddenly received another warning before, but we haven't reacted yet. Well, it is automatically released. I guess Joel and I guess what you did over there."

Tang shook his head and nodded again: "Yes, that's right, but it wasn't the three of us."

After he entered the door, he gave way to the side and made way for the people behind him.

"Is it the chief's help? That's normal," Guy said naturally.

Tang Gan said: "Half is the chief, and the other half... it is a long story."

While he was talking, Le Pen and Liu had already stood in the room, then Chus, and...

Guy and Joel froze for a moment, and looked at the last strange man who entered the house. The man was handsome and tall. He even lowered his head when he entered the door. The muscles of his exposed arm were very beautiful and looked very beautiful. Refined.

The eyes are too light, so light that it feels cold and dangerous.

He looked a little lazy, he didn't intend to introduce himself after entering the house, he just scanned the house furnishings casually.When their eyes slipped past Joel and Guy, they unconsciously stood up straight, a little nervous.

Joel put the pot on the side table, pinched the earlobe with his hot fingers, and asked, "Uh, this one?"

Tang Qing cleared his throat, "Ah, you may have heard of..."

Truth had already reported his name altogether: "His name is Sae Young. Come and borrow a place to sleep."

Don them: "..."

Joel shook his earlobe's hand, pulling the earlobe with a tearing pain, so that the baby face twitched, which looked a little funny, he asked in a daze, "Who?"

He wanted to say: Isn't it that Sae Young?Same name and last name, right?Maybe the middle name is different?

However, in the next second, he noticed the black gold armband.

Damn--

The bowl in Guy's hand accidentally fell to the floor, and the hot soup spilled over his feet.

Sae Young?

Why is Sae Young here?

Damn it, shouldn't he be in the space prison?!

Sue Young, who had not spoken all the time, finally spoke. He looked at Joel and Guy and commented: "The battle you welcomed was very special. I can see that I should be happy."

Guy: "..." Is this person shameless?

Tang finally laughed and said, "Then what, the warning that has been annoying us for a long time is Sa...well, Mr. Yang and Chief Chu solved it together."

After saying this, Joel and Guy looked even stranger.

After all, they couldn't imagine that Sae Young would help them one day. To be precise, they never thought that they would have an intersection with someone like Sae Young in this life.

Sae Young looked at them very calmly, and they looked back very stiffly.

After the two sides watched each other in silence for more than ten seconds, Sae Young raised an eyebrow.

Joel suddenly opened his arms and tried to speak: "...thank you?"

Sae Young's raised eyebrows dropped again.

Only then did the other people react and cleared their throats awkwardly, adding: "Thank you."

Although they never thought that one day they would say this word to Sae Young, but they are still very willing to say it. After all, although this is a legendary demon leader, he did help a lot. It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved their lives.

Mr. Yang, who is stinky and shameless, has never cared about other people's ideas, just whether he is in a good mood.He was in a good mood at this time, so he was still very at ease in this kind of non-embarrassed or awkward atmosphere. He chuckled vaguely and replied: "You are much more obedient than your Chief Chu, Chief Chu often People say thank you after they get so angry or blow someone up."

Truss glanced at him, did not refute, only calmly said: "To each other."

Everyone's faces became more paralyzed: "..."

"Okay." Chus bounced out two words and forcibly ended the suffocating welcome step. He waved his hands at a few people, "What should I do? Guy, you still plan to let your feet How long is it marinated in the nutritious soup?"

Hearing this, Guy yelled like a dream, and shrank his feet and jumped toward the room, "Joel, help clean up, I'll apply some medicine."

Le Pen and Liu piled up all the discarded materials they brought back in the corner. "Get up to sleep and melt them all. Let's get two more rooms out. Obviously they can't live now."

"Okay, let's put it first. The modular printer is in my room, but it has to be cooled for a while, and it will burn if used too frequently." Joel said as he hugged a pile of containers on the table that could barely serve as cups and bowls. , While sharing the nutrient decoction, turned his head and asked, "Sir? Do you need something?"

"Come on." Le Pen added, "When the day is not bright, it would be better if you don't stop running. Once you sit down and nest for a while, it will start to get cold. If you don't drink this, it won't work. To sleep."

This nutrient decoction can be regarded as an enhanced version of the concentrated nutrient tablets previously found by Chu Si. A small piece can be boiled in a pot, but it takes more time, and it takes patience to cook it thoroughly.It’s no problem to drink a bowl to live for two months.

In addition to the nutrients needed to maintain life, this thing is better than ordinary food in that it can keep out the cold for a long time.

The disadvantage is that it also has some side effects.

Similar to concentrated nutritional tablets, there is a small probability that people may experience stomach pain, headache, and low-grade fever within 8 hours, and gradually get better after 8 hours.

Generally speaking, people with weaker physical fitness are prone to these side effects. As for the training camp of Chu Si and the others, they have no response in most cases after eating.

Truss took two bowls of soup from Joel and handed one to Sae Young.

There were not many people in the living room, and Chus sat down in a concave chair nearby.Saer Young looked like he was too lazy to move, and instead of looking for a new chair, he simply leaned back on the arm of Trus's chair.

Truss: "...you are really saving." So many empty chairs don't sit.

It is rare that Sae Young did not block the words again, but said lazily "Um".

Truth glanced at him.

Maybe it's because there is no bright light like the center fort, and the light is dim. Maybe it's because Saer's eyes are hanging down. He actually looks a little sleepy.

The drowsiness appears too few times in Sae Young. In the eyes of people who know him, he has never seemed to be tired, but always looks like a lazy but brave, and never sleeps a day. That's right, it's still the same without sleeping for days and nights.

It seems that he can stay awake for as long as he needs to stay awake, and it seems that he is in a mood to sleep.

So when Sue Young suddenly said that he needed a night's sleep in the Central Fort, Truth thought he had other plans, and just used sleep as an excuse.Now it seems that it’s not the case...

Chus felt weird in his heart, but his face didn't show up. He glanced at Sae Young again while drinking the soup.

But Saer Young didn't notice it at all. He only drank the bowl of nutritious soup in two or three sips, then frowned and said "tsk", "The taste is really hard to describe."

Once there was an expression on his face, the faintly revealed sleepiness was concealed.

Joel and Le Pen dared not come to sit in the chairs, but stood in a row leaning against the table, with an overwhelming attitude of eight bowls, raised their heads and dulled their share, rubbing the corners of their mouths. Gan smiled and said, "Yes, the manufacturing company hasn't thought of improving the taste for so many years, so just take medicine."

After finishing talking, Joel took two more bowls of soup and slid into the room: "I will leave two copies for the little braid and the little girl."

"Huh? What happened to them?" Truth remembered that he hadn't seen Jin and Little Mop before entering the door.

"Most of the medicines we brought with us were used to heal big wounds. They were quite effective. After applying them, he couldn't resist the stamina. He fainted on the bed with his buttocks, and the little girl fell asleep on the side of the bed. , I guess I haven't slept for a few days before and get a good night's sleep." Joel said, he rushed into the house and never came out again.

Tang hurriedly ran into the equipment room, not knowing if he was really going to do something famous or just not to stay in the living room.

It took less than ten seconds to go back and forth, only Le Pen was left in the living room without an excuse.

Le Pen moved his lips and cursed silently, intending to look back to find a chance to shave those hiding bastards, and then suddenly raised his head at Chus with a smirk, and said in a seemingly inadvertent tone: "That's right. As you know, sir, there are only five rooms in total here. We have calculated for a long time and haven't been able to vacate one completely, so we can only wrong you and Mr. Yang. I am very sorry for your tolerance."

She didn't breathe in a breath. After saying this quickly, she was afraid that the two would react, and quickly rubbed her head: "Oh, my head hurts because of sleepiness. Sir, Mr. Yang, I will go back to the room first. "

After speaking, she almost ran back to the room.

After being in the equipment room for less than a minute, he tiptoed out through the small door to the outside, walked around in the yard, and entered the room where Joel was sleeping through the small door.

The clicks of the doors closed one after another, and the bedrooms closed the doors almost in the blink of an eye.

Truth: "..."

He was stunned for a second, then laughed irritably, still leaning on the concave chair, drinking the last sip of the soup, and then said: "Fortune to Mr. Toyang, I have become a beast just like you. Up."

Saer Young stood up and threw the bowl in his hand, which was not like a cup or a cup, back to the table. While moving his neck and bones, he lowered his eyes and said: "You should be used to this situation a long time ago. Is it? Or...Need I apologize to you to reassure you?"

Truth unceremoniously stuffed him with the empty bowl in his hand, "No need to apologize."

Saer glanced at the empty bowl stuffed in his hand, then glanced at Truss, raised his eyebrows, and without saying anything, threw the empty bowl back to the table.

Truth stood up and walked over to the bedroom to take a look. Several connected bedroom doors were closed. Only the bedroom closest to the living room was still vacant, which was obviously reserved for them.

After all, the materials are limited, and the structure of the bedroom is extremely simple. There is only one bed against the wall. It is not too small and can sleep two people.This room was originally supposed to be living in Tang, with backpacks stacked in the corner, and some equipment and materials that I didn't know where it was removed from, maybe I wanted to try to assemble something.

The backpack is very familiar to Chus or Saer. You don’t need to open it to know what it will look like. It must be equipped with all kinds of things necessary for survival and emergency in the wild, and it is indispensable for various tasks. Handy tool.

Truss used to have this habit once. This kind of bag would never be opened when he was out, and the contents would still be put back in place when it was used up, just to carry it away in case of emergencies.

Almost everyone who has stayed in the training camp will develop this habit, which can be regarded as a behavioral reflection of staying vigilant at all times.

Except for Sae Young.

When he is in a good mood and interested, he will pack out a backpack and honestly carry all kinds of things in case of emergency.More often, he is too lazy to carry such burdens.

Just like when he landed in the black cedar forest before, Sae Young always carries only a handful of things—

For example, the single jump cabin that came out of the prison with the sheep, whether it was thrown away by him when it was used up, or it was destroyed and abandoned, Truss didn't know.Another example is an oxygen mask, a communicator that he throws in his pocket, some portable weapons... just such things, he can still throw away while walking.

When there is a lack of tools, you can easily pull a little usable thing from the surroundings to transform it.

This can also be regarded as taking the laziness to the extreme, too lazy to die.

But his life is very hard, no matter how difficult the environment to survive, no matter how dangerous the situation, he can finally get out of it, and even in many cases unharmed, it is incomprehensible.

Therefore, whether it was in the nursing home to follow the field courses of the White Eagle Military Academy, or to simulate extreme missions in the training camp, everyone who was assigned to Sue Young was always mixed.

They are afraid of the dangers of Sae Young and trust him infinitely.

Saer also came after Chus, leaning against the door, blocking the bedroom door tightly.

He glanced roughly at the layout, and his gaze fell on the corner of the bed, where there was a round chair on which was cushioned with cotton material, which could barely be used as a single sofa.

"Whose house is this?" Sae Young raised his index finger, and passed on his unopened backpack, messy equipment, and round chairs one by one, and said lazily: "High vigilance, frizzy, lazy, enjoyable... Ah, I see, that little fool who stepped on the empty stairs and knelt before me."

Truth was not surprised by his guess, after all, it was not the first time he had seen it.He stepped aside, and the punch shop lifted his chin and said, "If you guessed it, no one will give you a prize. The bed is here. If you want to sleep, go to bed."

Sae Young raised his eyebrows: "What? Are you going to give me the bed?"

Truth originally wanted to stop him, but when he spoke, he suddenly thought of the sleepiness that flashed across Saer's face when he was in the living room just now. He swallowed the words back in a ghostly manner, and said indifferently: "I was in the space prison. I slept for a while, not too sleepy now, you..."

Maybe it’s because Saer’s expression was a bit weird for a moment, and Chus said, thinking about it, and adding: "You'd better hurry up. When I'm really sleepy, I can't guarantee you can still lie down in bed. ."

After speaking, he wiped Sae Young's shoulder and walked out of the bedroom. After two steps, he remembered how he turned his head and knocked on the door frame.

Saer walked to the bed and turned to look at him, "Regret it again?"

Chu Si said: "I'm not going to regret it so quickly, but did you miss something, Mr. Yang who is very polite?"

Sae Young was taken aback, and then he let out a long "Oh": "Thank you?"

Chu Stanran accepted: "You're welcome."

Saer's eyes were bent, with a joking smile, he touched his waist, and threw the core of the sky eye toward Chus: "Connect it to the device here."

Truss knocked on the door frame again as an answer, and then walked through the living room without looking back, and into the equipment room.

The door of Saer Young's room remained open. When Truth sat down in a chair in the equipment room, he could still hear a faint movement over there, but it didn't take long for the movement to disappear.

Although the base house was built with a mini-module printer, it is a quick emergency house, but the quality is not bad, at least the sound insulation is good.Once Sae Young was quiet, the entire base was quiet, only the oxygen port embedded in the corner was still working, making a low buzzing sound.

Zus glanced at the core disk in his hand and connected it to the central port of the equipment room console.

Ding--

Sky Eye: "I finally thought of me."

Electronic sound is not too big, after all, this is not a space prison, there are not so many microphones.But in this quiet environment, it's still a bit abrupt.Chus frowned slightly, and after thinking about it, he stood up and closed the door of the equipment room.

"Can you still receive voice commands normally?" Chus sat down in the chair again, his elbow resting on the armrest to support his chin, and the other hand knocked on the sky.

He said he was not sleepy, but in fact, he didn't sleep long in the space prison. After such a toss, he also felt fatigued.

Ding--

"If you can't accept the voice command, are you talking to a ghost now?"

Once he sat down, Chu Si was a bit lazy, and even when the eyes of the sky said such things that owe him to clean up, he just raised his eyebrows and didn't care about it.

This kind of laziness has been a long time missing for Chus, because he is a person who can’t stop. Whether it’s a task in the training camp before, or a job later, he likes to put himself under pressure. The edge of the load.

It is said that Sae Young is an unrelated person, but Truth is also the same in a sense.

Before he was 8 years old, he had a rope on his body, and the only reason to support him to live well was that rope-he had to leave the orphanage, stay far away, until the orphanage could no longer bind him, and could never find him again. To him.

Then he met Jiang Qi, left the orphanage, and the original rope broke.

Later, Jiang Qi teased him and said, "What can I do if my son is so dull and not talkative when he becomes an adult and after work, it will be fine if I have a time booster. I have to wait 50 or 60 years to see if you will What's going on? Learn something from me anyway." So Chu Si took a new rope around him, thinking that he would live safely for at least fifty or sixty years, so that Jiang Qi could see.

As a result, Jiang Qi died.

For a long time, Chu Si never believed that Jiang Qi was really dead, because he did not see the bones.As long as he didn't see the bones with his own eyes, he would not believe that Jiang Qi was dead.So the rope holding him lingered for many years.

The changes in his ten years in the nursing home were the biggest. When he first entered the nursing home, he was gloomy and self-enclosed. By the time he left the nursing home, the thorns all over his body had been gathered, and a layer of hard bones was covered. Bladder.

Once you have this layer of skin, subsequent changes are much easier.Entering the training camp, leaving the training camp, becoming the chief training officer, entering the safety building... He wrapped himself into what he is now, and that rope is indispensable.

It was just that as more and more things became known later, Jiang Qi's death was directly or indirectly confirmed countless times, especially when he watched the last hope be blown to ashes.

He learned to open his eyes and talk nonsense to play word games with others, but he could never fool himself.

So the rope was also quietly broken.

He can only keep himself busy, because once he stops, he will find that he is already empty.

Therefore, he himself is a little surprised and inexplicable at this lazy but not empty state.

Maybe it's because "tracking the imposter" has become a string that implicates him, and the tracking has a clue again, he doesn't need to spend a lot of time and just sit and wait?Maybe it was the faces in the base that he hadn't seen for many years that brought him back to the state he was in training camp?Maybe... Sae Young, who has been opposed for many years, is temporarily on the same line with him?

do not know……

Truth didn't want to think about it now, he propped his chin, intending to enjoy this laziness.

Ding--

"Remote synchronization is complete."

The eyes of the sky made a sound again, and Chu Si hooked the corner of his mouth, and he praised it with dignity: "Yes, the voice command hasn't been sent yet, you can already predict it first."

Ding--

"After all, my body is very smart."

Truth said "Um", "Unfortunately you are disabled now."

Sky Eye: "..."

In fact, this is quite strange, and I don't know if it is an illusion, the Sky Eye seems to...become less and less like a disabled body.

The moment the synchronization was completed, the screen of the device facing Chuss suddenly switched, switching from the surveillance image around the base to the giant star map of the center fort.Of course, it is a reduced version.

The spots of light representing the location of the fragments of the planet are still full of them, quiet but grand.

Because these points of light are not just a simple point on the image, they represent a piece of land. There may be mountains and forests, lakes, cities and towns, military, and civilians.

Sae Young is right. This is a whole world.

So staring at such a star map, even if its changes are so subtle that the naked eye can't distinguish it, you won't feel bored and boring.

If it were in the past, Chu Si would almost like to make a cup of coffee and sit and enjoy it.

But before he took a few minutes, the small door of the equipment room facing the courtyard was pushed open.

For a moment, Chu Si saw Tang and Le Pen standing outside the door, saying: "Sir? Why are you here? Didn't go to sleep?"

Chus changed his position, resting his elbows on the armrests, squeezing his fingers in front of him, looking at them angrily, and did not answer.

But the answer is obvious: You bastards put me and Sae Young into the same room, hoping that I can sleep?

Tang and the others quickly understood, smiled, rubbing their hands into the equipment room.

"You haven't had a good night's sleep for a long time? You haven't exhausted your energy after two months of tossing? What are you doing here?" Chu Si asked.

Tang glanced at the screen, "It's really synchronized? So what, sir, I just remembered something suddenly, I want to come over and try if it works, and then go back to sleep after the trial."

Le Pen and the others nodded: "Yes, right, right, try, and go back later."

Chu Si was a little curious: "What are you so excited about that you can't stay one by one?"

Tang pointed to the screen and said, "Then Mr. Yang said, "Fort Barney can be remotely controlled here? The signal range of Fort Barney is far beyond what we usually use. This means that it can be used to give some places. Send a signal, but we won't be chased by us, right?"

Truss nodded. This method is a bit similar to the one who pretended to be him, but it is not the same. After all, the signal sent directly from here has not been edited at the end. It can only be a signal. At best, do some testing. , Unable to release specific instruction information.

"You know our situation, since we entered the training camp, as long as the deadline has not expired, we can't have any contact with family and friends. It's no different from... a dead person." Le Pen scratched the scattered strands of bangs to his ears. Later, he said: "The communicators we use are all processed. We can’t send messages to our homes, and sneaky ones will not work. I have... I haven’t been able to go home for 20 years, so I want Tang to try and give us some Send a signal over there."

Truth understood what they were going to do, "Where did it go?"

"Civilian frozen capsules are registered when they are released. You must know this. Every household in each place has a unique code. Once it is operated, the core part of it is equivalent to a signal reflector in disguise." Tang explained.

So if they send the signal, as long as the frozen capsule at home is working, the signal will be automatically reflected back.

"Even so, all you can receive is just a reflected signal, without any other content." Chu Si said again.

Le Pen and the others waved their hands, "It's okay, we just have to take a look, it's enough to see the signal."

Truth stood up and stepped aside, leaned on the console, and gave them some places.

Tang squeezed his fingers nervously, then stared at the screen and crackled on the console to input a command, while still not forgetting to rest his mouth, "Tianyan? It's called Tianyan? Excuse me, please help me trace this signal."

The number of years they have been unable to go home is longer than one, either more than ten or twenty years, but they know the code of their own frozen capsules very well, and obviously they have been secretly paying attention to them before.

Maybe they would look inward through the window while the task was passing by the door of the house, maybe they would pass by a family or friend by crossing the street.

After all, being alone for more than ten or twenty years is not something ordinary people can bear.

"And this." Le Pen also lost two strings of codes.

Then came Liu, Joel, and Guy.

When the signal is sent, it is not possible to receive a response immediately, there must be a time difference.

A few people didn't dare to breathe, standing in front of the screen with nervous expressions, and the most disturbing task was nothing more than that.

Tang even said anxiously: "My grandmother is a bit old, just in case..."

Before I finished speaking, I heard a ding sound.

Tianyan said in a calm electronic voice: "98163527 received a signal reflection."

Tang took a sigh of relief in an instant, and laughed: "It's great."

Ding--

"81727846 received signal reflection."

"61637291 received signal reflection."

...

As several notifications sounded in succession, they all relaxed.Anyway, he has been a man of adulthood for a long time, and he is as excited as a kid who cheated on candy, hustling with joy.

"Then...we're going back to the sir." Liu first greeted Chus, rubbing his neck and walking outside the equipment room.

Then Le Pen, Don, Joel...

When Guy went out, he suddenly remembered what it was like, and smiled back and said to Chus: "By the way, sir, you can also try to send a signal to the house."

Truth was in a daze for a moment, and he flicked an end line with his finger casually.

What are you sending?To whom?The only person who can count his family is long gone.

No one can post and no one will respond.

Chus frowned, and when he raised his eyes to look at them, his complexion had returned to normal, "I don't need it."

All of them were taken aback for a moment, their footsteps stopped in place, and they looked at Chus with some embarrassment.

They said little about Chus, and not much, and they basically stayed at the amount of information they heard from the training camp.Truth himself is not a person who likes to talk to people, and he does not talk to people about private matters for no reason, so they don't know that Truth's life experience is normal.

The few people were looking guilty and embarrassed and didn't know what to say. Truth had waved at them and laughed: "Let's go, go to bed, it's too noisy for you."

"Sorry sir..." After Guy finished speaking, he glanced at him and confirmed that there was nothing unpleasant on his face, and then walked around the courtyard with a few others to the small doors of their respective rooms.

As soon as the door of the equipment room was closed, those footsteps and whispers were shut outside, and the entire space was instantly quiet.

Chus lowered his eyes and leaned on the edge of the stage to be silent for a long time.

Ding--

"No new signal is detected within three minutes, and the signal transmitter will be closed soon."

Ding--

"Count down 10 seconds, 10——9——8——"

Truth moved his finger suddenly, moved to the number keypad, and typed a series of numbers one by one.

That string of numbers is not a code for the frozen capsule. After all, in the years when Jiang Qi was still alive, the frozen capsule had not been designed and produced.That was the communication code of Jiang Qi as a lieutenant general of the military, his personal light mech.

After he moved from the mecha warhead to the research department, although the mecha was not taken back, he never used it seriously. Instead, he was buckled on his wrist as a bracelet and always forgot to wear it.

But he remembered to bring it the day of the accident, so the bracelet was blown to ashes with him.

Truss saw the video of the time in a classified document later, and it was really...totally broken.

That string of communication codes was not used a few times after memorizing it back then. After all, you can use the communicator when you find Jiang Qi.Decades have passed, but he still remembers that string of numbers.

He thought he had forgotten.

Ding--

"Received a new signal, ready to launch."

When the voice of Skyeye reappeared, Truss had already sat back in the chair. He stared at the screen and waited for a while, until five minutes later, Skyeye opened his mouth again.

Ding--

"No response was found, do you want to continue trying?"

Chus raised his eyes and said, "Forget it, don't try it, so be it."

Ding--

"You seem to be in a low mood, and the smart Sky Eye system is here to serve you sincerely."

Chu Si laughed: "If you talk too much, you will be taken apart. I am a little sleepy. I close my eyes and rest for a while. You monitor and stare. If there is a situation, remember to raise the alarm. The louder the better."

Ding--

"Received instructions."

Chus leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes.

As a result, God probably loves him and can't get along with him. When he was dazed and still not completely asleep, a terrible headache swept over him, and he frowned suddenly.If it's just a headache, it happens that even the stomach starts to burn.

He opened his eyes, feeling dry and hot.

Chuss: "..." I haven't suffered a few side effects after drinking the nutrient for so many years, but it happened this time, so hell pick the time.

Eight hours of side effects, nesting here is simply asking for torture.

Chu Si thought about it, and stood up with a cold face, and walked toward the bedroom with a painful feeling.

When he walked across the living room to the bed, he was already very top-heavy.

Saer, who was lying on his side, didn't move, probably not awake.Chus didn't care too much, pushed him in, and said vaguely: "Saë, Saë, you get out of it."