Veteran Cadre and Bug Chief [Interstellar]

"How about it?"

"..."

"Another failure?"

"……Do not."

Zuo Ming, who was watching the program running results by the instrument, did not turn his head, and answered Ozzie's question with his eyes fixed on the screen: "On the contrary, I can finally bring you good news again. This time the link building It was so successful that I couldn't believe it just now, and was taken aback for a while."

Ozzie immediately put down the data pad in his hand, and quickly walked to Zuo Ming's side: "It really succeeded?"

This was purely a subconscious question, knowing that his friend never lied when it was related to the experiment, Ozzie showed joy on his face, and walked to his friend's side in three steps.

Zuo Ming didn't care about the rhetorical question, he hurriedly operated on the operation screen, reimported the data captured just now into the instrument, and replayed the successful link process that lasted only for a moment.

"The teleportation link was established successfully, but the duration is too short to support the formation of the space aperture." Zuo Ming seemed to be talking to Ozzie, and seemed to be talking to himself, his eyes were like a natural autoscanner , lingering on the program numbers that filled the entire screen in front of me, quickly browsed all the data at a glance, and the brain connected to the "worm eye scanner" was running fast, accurately capturing the key items in the data, "Three lines and The six-line formula needs to be modified, and the last two values ​​need to be strengthened... The impact index here is to be determined, and it is temporarily included in the observation item, and..."

Without interrupting Zuo Ming's chatter, Ozzie quietly browsed the data with his friends.

When his eyes fell on a certain data, he paused, and the joy he had just shown faded away.

After the data review was completed and the points that needed to be revised were listed in the experiment memo in an orderly manner, Zuo Mingjiao finally looked away from the screen and gave Ozzie a look.

With the tacit understanding accumulated over the years, he immediately read something from Ozzie's face: "Have you discovered anything new?"

As he spoke, he cast his eyes towards the direction that Ozzie was looking at, and Zuo Ming found that his blond friend was staring at the response signal captured by the instrument when the link was successfully established.

"Have you checked the historical response records of the response signal?" Ozzie stared at the sign of the strength and weakness of the response signal.

Before Zuo Ming called up the historical data, his brain memory bank searched by itself first, and took out a table of incremental values ​​that was automatically converted into a table in his brain. He closed his eyes for a few seconds, and quickly reviewed the table in his mind. Table: "Since the successful orientation and positioning of the energy light spot and the start of the construction experiment, the specific value of the response signal has been slowly increasing, and it is in a state of steady increase, because the increase is very subtle every time, and the response signal itself With instability, we initially interpreted its fluctuations as normal fixed interval deviations."

But it now appears that they may have been wrong.

Ozzie's voice was about to fall, and Zuo Ming had retrieved all the historical response records, arranged them in descending order, and analyzed their single increase law.

The energy response signal from G13 six years ago is indeed increasing steadily, and each increase is a fixed value.

"According to this increase..." Zuo Ming stared at the calculated value, his thoughts kept up with Ozzie's, thoughtfully, "If this increase remains constant and the signal strength continues to increase, it will Reaching the optimal value for link building, if we perfect the program within seven cycle days, make the link stable enough to support the space aperture, and leave enough time for Qi Fei to pass through, then Qi Fei may be able to be sent back next week."

"That's right." Ozzie agreed with his friend's idea, and his thoughts were basically the same as Zuo Ming's.

There is only a slight difference - Ozzie noticed that Zuo Ming has not yet realized the problem of day length.

Counting from the day Qi Fei was accidentally teleported away to the estimated return date calculated now, Qi Fei stayed on G13 six years ago for exactly one cycle month, which is exactly in line with the statement that he was trapped on that desolate planet. duration.

He doesn't think it's a coincidence.

Zuo Ming was still vaguely worried that they would not be able to establish a stable link within a week, and the time limit suddenly dropped to the top of his head brought him a little pressure, but his blond friend suddenly reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and for some reason his tone was very firm Said: "Don't worry."

Zuo Ming's first reaction was to look at the transparent edge of the floating screen. He used that one-inch transparent screen as a mirror to see if he could not hold back and fully expressed his worries on his face.

Ozzie didn't point out Zuo Ming's little trick, just smiled with an unclear meaning, and continued: "We will definitely be able to complete the link building within a week and create a perfect space aperture."

"You are optimistic."

Zuo Ming patted Ozzie back in a non-heavy way, but his expression relaxed a little bit.

The optimist Ozzie seems to be born with the power to inspire the hearts of insects. He himself is a source of energy that is constantly glowing and glowing. The energy continuously radiates energy to the surroundings, driving and infecting all objects around him.

The rehabilitated Chief Model Worker was about to turn around and return to the operating table, ready to continue his experiments all night. Before he had turned halfway, he had an extra hand on his shoulder. The talent level of his blood was only one level higher than his. , but the guy who was more than ten times stronger relied on his physical strength to help him turn around.

"You have been in front of the operating table for twelve consecutive cycles, now go to rest." Ozzie pushed Zuo Ming into the lounge next to the laboratory, and said firmly, "We have achieved New progress breakthroughs, you need to sleep well and rest to maintain high efficiency."

Strength is not as good as a bug, and what the other party said is indeed true, Zuo Ming twisted his shoulders symbolically, struggled a little, and followed Ozzie's pushing force into the lounge.

It is 03:30 in the morning, and after another two cycles, the city system that entered the low-energy mode at night will resume normal operation, and the sky will begin to turn white.

Zuo Ming lay down on the single bed, and Ozzie sat on the resting sofa beside him.

Seeing the person who persuaded him to rest with reason and evidence, but still had no intention of falling asleep, he sat down on the sofa and took out the terminal, brought up the floating screen, as if he wanted to continue browsing the web for a while, Zuo Ming turned his head and glanced at the same It was Ozzie who was staying up late. He stretched out his arms and touched the remote control from the storage table, and pressed the assembly button on the sofa.

Originally, there was only a small single-seater sofa that received a remote command, and the indicator light on the outside of its right armrest instantly lit up, and then began to deform.

While keeping the area where the male was sitting, the small sofa stretched out as a whole, and it didn't take long to become a comfortable sofa bed.

Ozzie is also very good at "sitting power". He felt the change of the sofa below, but he remained motionless like a pinnacle of the sea. He only focused on the floating screen and moved his hands on the keyboard, as if he was sending some message.

"I have to wait a little longer." Knowing that his friend was staring at him, Ozzie freed up one hand, switched to typing with one paw, and waved at Zuo Ming with his free hand, "I'm also looking forward to it The 'comrade-in-arms' who came back quickly sent a notice, but he has asked us more than once, let us tell him as soon as we have the latest news-you rest first, I will sleep after sending the message."

Zuo Ming understood, and nodded from a distance, he finally lay flat on the bed, almost fell asleep with his eyes closed.

This "comrade-in-arms" who is also eagerly looking forward to Qi Fei's return as soon as possible is naturally referring to Chief Chong who sleeps alone in the big bed in the master bedroom every day.

Ozzie and Qi Fei had just met again, and they always wanted to spend more time with each other, as if to make up for the absence of each other in their past lives. It happened that Ozzie's independent real estate would take some time to settle down, so he moved in. Qi Fei's family lives in the guest bedroom next to the master bedroom.

Qi Fei not only prepared a room for his father, but also reserved a room for his uncle Zuo Ming. Before he was suddenly teleported back to G13 six years ago, Ozzie and Zuo Ming had lived in their new home for a while. Every night is a gathering of five insects, and Zuo En's family next door also come to visit from time to time, it is very lively.And after Qi Fei temporarily left this time point, and temporarily lost the owner of the small villa, Ozzie found a reasonable reason that night and lived outside together with Zuo Ming.

He can coil up a mutated sand snake as a pillow, and can assemble scraps of copper and iron into a body to drive on the flight path. Ozzie looks positive and optimistic, and he seems a bit too relieved, but he is actually very good at helping others. Those who think about it can pay attention to certain details in time and avoid them before they lead to bad consequences.

Although the wedding has not been officially held yet, it can be said that Qi Fei and Qi Fei have already concluded a legally binding marriage contract. A female who has a marriage contract lives in the same room with other males when the fiancé is not at home. Those who want to catch it and spread it will only harm Qi Fei and his words.

After receiving the news from Ozzie, both the Aozie and Zuo families had prepared comfortable bedrooms for the two veteran elders in their mansion, but Ozzie and Zuo Ming only slept in these two comfortable bedrooms. On odd-numbered nights, they spend most of their time directly using the laboratory as their home. Washing and washing are done in the bathroom, and they sleep in the lounge at night.

With a "beep", the terminal vibrated on the bed.

The flashing indicator light illuminated the small area, and a hand with strong bones stretched out immediately, and brought up the floating screen to check the information he had just received.

At 45:[-] in the morning, Ozzie, who finished sending the message, also lay flat on the sofa and closed his eyes, and Yan who accepted the message immediately was still awake.

When Qi Fei is around, he always sleeps more, and the only person who makes him want to lie in bed every day, wanting to lie down and spend more time with each other, is not there, so his work and rest will be different. It was changed quietly, and it returned to the previous state where I felt that I could fight again even when the shaft rotated 72 cycles.

In the spacious master bedroom, there is only one word sleeping now, and he no longer needs to worry about who will be disturbed by the ringing ringing in the middle of the night. The ringing and vibration reminders of the terminal are all turned on, and occasionally a message is received. Add a little new sound.

From opening the terminal to bringing up the floating screen, although his movements were not slow, they seemed a little careless. He was sorting out his latest memory completion just now, and most of his thoughts were still stuck in the newly restored memory.

After questioning his ability to act six years ago, and enjoying a lot of treatment that he hadn't experienced before, he managed to "know and know" six years ago. After hearing Qi Fei say "Yes You found me first." After that, I sincerely admired myself six years later.

It is rare for Chief Chong to receive admiration from himself six years ago. He first inexplicably felt that his heart that had been repeatedly frustrated before was comforted, and then after thinking about it, he realized once again that he was "fighting" with himself. The sense of comfort disappeared, and it all turned into dumbfounding.

It's so late, who will send the message?

While reviewing his memory, Yan thought about this question with a small part of his mind. He guessed that the news reminder probably came from his official account, because it had been more than half a month since Qi Fei posted the marriage certificate on that day. They did not say anything about Qi Fei's temporary inability to show up. What they claimed was that Qi Fei had participated in a recent internship program and needed to keep a secret training cycle for a month. The worms have taken care of everything properly, but some worms are still skeptical about it. There are many worms staring at this crash plan, and there are even new gossips on the public Internet, saying that the secret plan is non-existent, Qi Fei is The freedom of the insect body was illegally restricted.

Under the various speculations, users who couldn't find Qi Fei could only "check in" on Yan's existing official account and private account, actively confirming the truth of those rumors.

"...!"

The moment the page was fully loaded, Yan realized that the news came from Ozzie. He had an instinctive awe for the love-loving elders, so he adjusted his sitting posture immediately, dragging most of the thoughts that were still immersed in memories. After coming out, he opened the mailbox with a straight posture and browsed the details of the message.

Ozzie never disturbs the worms' dreams at will. He only sends messages during special hours like midnight when he has important discoveries or important news that must be conveyed in time.

Yan first scanned the content of the message in general. After catching a few key words, he unconsciously held his breath, then jumped back to the beginning, and silently read the entire message word by word.

Ozzie: [The experiment has made a new breakthrough, and the cub is expected to come back next week. 】

In fact, the whole message was just such a short sentence, but Mr. Chong seemed to have suddenly suffered from sudden dyslexia. He read it back and forth three or four times, and his eyes finally fell on the "return", and he was so dazed. After watching for a while.

It's finally time to come back.he thinks.

Taking a deep breath, and slowly exhaling the indescribable emotions with the breath, Yan sat quietly for a while, got up from the bed, and walked straight to the hidden wardrobe embedded in a wall.

Qi Fei didn't have too many clothes. Some of the wardrobes were casual clothes brought back from the earth. Yan picked carefully for a while, and finally unearthed one that hadn't been "touched" by him. With a strong mood, he took it out and carried it back to the big bed.

Chief Worm carefully put the pure cotton fabric on the pillow—the one that belonged to Qi Fei. Then, he wrapped the pillow in his arms, pulled the terminal over, and read the message from Ozzie again.

Qi Fei is coming back.

He recited this sentence silently in his heart again, holding Qi Fei's pillow covered with Qi Fei's clothes in his arms, he suddenly felt that he was extraordinarily energetic, and he only slept for a short time before dawn, and woke up again just after dawn , remote control started working.

Before Qi Fei returns, he hopes to deal with as many complicated and trivial matters as possible, so that his lover can be at ease after returning.

Just as Ozzie and Zuo Ming were working hard for Qi Fei's return, on G13 six years ago, the young brown-haired female's voice recovered better day by day after her eyes fully recovered.

The eyes can no longer see anything, which means that the range of autonomous actions has expanded a lot. Yan can finally make a move on those things that were difficult to get at because of blindness and could not rely on past experience. His strength allows his eyes and hands to work together. Although his voice has not recovered to the point where he can speak completely freely, his daily short-term vocal awareness is completely fine, and he can freely speak short sentences that promote communication.

Rao knows Qi Fei's nature of "the real thing does not match the packaging", and understands that the black-haired male with the "I'm not easy to provoke" face is actually gentle and considerate, but the truth-telling skills six years ago are not as good as those six years later Mr. Worm, when he occasionally looked up and saw Qi Fei's face, he would still be taken aback subconsciously. The whole worm immediately swayed on the boundary between "obsessed with masculinity" and "afraid of aura", and then unconsciously froze. in place.

Qi Fei was very puzzled when he saw the female worm suddenly froze like this at the beginning, thinking that Yan thought of something again, or something happened, but when he found that the other party was just in a daze, there were still some strange things going on in his mind from time to time. After not thinking about it, when he noticed Yan's stupefaction later, he had a fixed way to deal with it-knocking on the head.

Qi Fei's knock on the insect's head was neither light nor heavy, just enough to shake the words of a living insect sculpture back to his senses. Every time he was hit by Qi Fei's head knock attack, he would blink his pair of eyes in a daze. With blue eyes, he realized what happened later, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

It is strange to say that Qi Fei and Yan Ben are about the same size, and they can naturally look at each other when standing together. When he is with Chief Chong, he can clearly realize that they are similar in stature, but they are similar to Yan Zhan six years ago. Together, he always has the illusion that he is slightly higher than the other.

Qi Fei was puzzled by this illusion for several days, and he finally found the answer after a round of careful observation.

Unlike the chief worm who was able to communicate with him calmly six years later, the young female worm six years ago always assumed a submissive and respectful attitude when facing him. A little shorter, as if the female had always remembered not to be equal to him.

Young Yan's obedience and respect are not only shown in his communication with Qi Fei, but also in their decisions on certain daily affairs.

Before his eyesight and voice recovered, Qi Fei first regarded Yan's unconditional obedience as a self-protection performance when the opponent's mobility dropped to an extremely low level, because the opponent's self-survival ability was not high at that time, to some extent, It is necessary to rely on him to survive, to rely on him to resist foreign enemies, collect supplies, and take care of everything in the settlement.

When it is difficult for oneself to survive alone, it is the instinct of living things to obey the only person who can lend a helping hand in exchange for survival materials.

However, after Yan's eyesight and voice recovered, the female could already rely on herself to collect supplies and survive independently. He no longer needed to seek Qi Fei's protection, but he still showed complete obedience to Qi Fei, even more than before. very.

Six years ago, it seemed that Yan didn't have the ability to make independent decisions. Although he had tasted the control of the so-called "upper class" over ordinary people like them with no background to rely on, he hadn't thought about trying to climb to the top by himself. Go for that class.

He is more accustomed to obeying orders and strictly abiding by the rules of etiquette. He always feels that if he obediently abides by the rules and completes the tasks as required, he will definitely be rewarded-it's just a matter of time.

Innocent and simple, dull to the point of stubbornness and stupidity.

For Qi Fei at this time, he is the "superior" who does his part, and he can give him orders at will, and he will definitely accomplish his mission.

The last Yeti, who was found near the base by the rescue team, finally came near the base on another snowy night. Qi Fei sensed its arrival, and when it was about to reach the position in the data record, he got up and went out. Follow him.

After finally ushering in a fighting opportunity, the young female was eager to try, and stretched out her wings, not afraid of the wind and snow outside the base. He was in good condition at this time, and every cell in his body was preparing to attack. Fighting, it is good to show your usefulness and reliability in many ways in front of your lover.

It's a pity, when Yan Linran flapped his wings, before he could fly close to him, the tips of his wings were suddenly pulled.

The hand holding the tip of the wing is very familiar, knowing where to hold it to avoid being scratched by the sharp thorns.

Qi Fei pulled Yan down from the air, and ruthlessly extinguished the opponent's desire to fight: "I'll go."

Yan tried to argue with him: "But the previous battles were all... by you, please leave it to me this time."

Qi Fei saw that it was rare that he didn't directly obey his will, and obediently retreated to the side. He gently pinched the sensitive veins in the gaps in the bone spurs, and successfully made the female who recalled the embarrassment of taking a bath before tremble for a moment.

"No." Qi Fei said, "I have to go this time."

From Qi Fei's tone, he could hear the determination, but he finally folded his wings unwillingly, watching his future partner, who was astounding in combat power, go into battle with a knife and strike through the throat.

After getting along with Qi Fei these days, Yan is also used to looking at the snow beast corpse, and automatically converts it into various decomposed and packaged resources in his mind. He sees that Qi Fei has no intention of killing anyone, so he just puts away the light knife Walking back, he was about to remind the other party that the large pile of frozen meat seemed to be almost consumed, should they replenish the supplies, but before he could ask his question, Qi Fei seemed to know what he was going to ask.

"No need." Qi Fei pressed Yan's shoulder and signaled them to go back to the base. "This should be the last one, so let it stay there. We don't need so many supplies."

Yan subconsciously nodded along with Qi Fei's words. He walked into the base and suddenly realized that there was something wrong with this sentence.

Yan stopped abruptly: "You..."

Qi Fei stopped with him and stood in the corridor of the abandoned base and looked at him: "The rescue team will arrive here in about two days tomorrow, they should have located the abandoned return capsule and are already coming on the way."

The rescue team has finally found themselves and will be able to return to their home planet soon, which is undoubtedly good news.

Ke Yan found himself unhappy.

Because he knew that the arrival of the rescue team meant that Qi Fei had to leave.

The lover in his heart will return to the time and space that really belongs to the other party, instead of continuing to walk with him at this time point.

Zuo Ming stepped up the progress of the experiment and finally made another major breakthrough. Although he failed to establish a space aperture that could accommodate Qi Fei's return, he established a small short-term teleportation channel and tried to send Qi Fei a a message.

When Qi Fei was sitting in front of the workbench this morning, the special metal piece with the message engraved on it suddenly appeared by his hand.

Zuo Ming told Qi Fei that the response energy will increase to the strongest tomorrow, and he will leave here at the latest tomorrow night and successfully return to the world six years later.

On that piece of metal, Zuo Ming also told Qi Fei many precautions.

"I'm leaving tomorrow night at the latest." Qi Fei put his hand into Yan's hair, rubbed it twice, "I have to leave the base early tomorrow morning, and go to a place far away from here to wait for the space aperture to open."

"..." Yan didn't seem to know what to say, so he just stared at him in a daze, and then said in a low voice, "Then can I see you off?"

"When the space aperture is opened, there will be a certain degree of energy radiation, it's best not to go, I'm afraid you will be affected."

"..."

The female worm's head lowered a little, only showing the top of her hair to Qi Fei.

All traces that could reveal that the two worms lived here must be eliminated, and all devices that are not in the records must be destroyed and mixed into the original ruins of the base, leaving only those devices that seem to be able to be completed by Yan alone.

I personally arranged a comfortable settlement, and made it as warm as a small home, but for the sake of the "everyone" formed six years later, this warm place must be banned.

Qi Fei and Yan worked hard all night, Yan finally sat down, and quietly leaned beside Qi Fei.

Qi Fei took the initiative to cross the line and reached out to wrap his arms around him.

"Don't be sad." Qi Fei patted the back of the female, and said in a low voice, "After I leave tomorrow, you won't remember all of this, and you won't remember what it was like here until we meet again , I traveled through time and space to find you, and you will remember this memory again. At that time, we have been together again. Six years later, we will have a bigger home than this one. It is also comfortable and comfortable. You Definitely love him."

Yan nodded, but still didn't speak, just leaning against him quietly all the time.

"I really want to..." Qi Fei started, but didn't finish.

I don't know when he fell asleep like that, with his face on the side of his neck.

The unfinished sentence was swallowed by Qi Fei, he turned his head to look at the talking sleeping face, and closed his eyes when he couldn't resist the heavy drowsiness.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky outside was still covered by the wind and snow, and only a little bit of whiteness could be discerned, so Qi Fei got up quietly. He squatted in front of Yan, arranged the blanket for the female, and touched it carefully. After stroking the opponent's hair and looking at him for a moment, he straightened up and walked outside the base.