Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

"You're angry. Why?" Xue Yelai felt his emotions, wrapped his hands around Bai Yang's waist, and patted him like coaxing a child.

Bai Yang remained silent and did not let go.

"Are you complaining about my risk? I didn't fall on purpose, it was an accident."

"Accident?" Bai Yang pushed back coldly, "Compared to last time, your reaction today is really calm."

"Okay, okay, it's not entirely an accident." Xue Yelai didn't want to get entangled in this issue, and turned around to touch Bai Yang's face, "I was indeed too reckless. But it happened so suddenly that I didn't have time to think about it. "

Bai Yang's attitude softened a little, and he groped up and down his whole body to make sure that he was intact. "You're all soaked, you need to find a place to change out of your clothes."

"Now is not the time to care about this issue." Xue Yelai interrupted him, "You are not curious about this place at all?"

Bai Yang raised his eyes and looked around, his green pupils were somewhat indifferent, "It's just some underground passages."

"Where do you think they will lead? Will they lead to the outside of the imperial city?"

Bai Yang said in a nonchalant tone: "Who knows."

Xue Yelai was stunned for a moment.He could see that Bai Yang's indifference was a real reaction, not pretending to be indifferent to hide his emotions.

He tried again: "I was thinking, maybe one day, we can use these passages to escape. Will you walk with me?"

Bai Yang nodded and took Xue Yelai's hand.But his expression showed that he still didn't have much interest in these underground passages, just to satisfy Xue Yelai's request.

In an instant, Xue Yelai suddenly realized that there was a subtle distance between him and Bai Yang.This distance may have always existed, but it was not re-examined by him until this moment.He almost forgot one thing: Bai Yang has a strange indifference to life.Most people, including Xue Yelai himself, would undoubtedly put life first.But for Bai Yang, emotional connection may be more important than life, and "death together" may be more meaningful than "living separately".

"Bai Yang," Xue Yelai asked inquiringly as he walked, "Do you not believe that we can get out of here alive?"

Bai Yang's eyes flickered slightly, avoiding the question, "It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not."

"You weren't like that before. You told me you were going to run away when we slept in that little tent at night in the mountains."

"The situation is different now and then. When the war starts, many things will become difficult. What's more, you will not escape alone. You want to take your family with you, right?" Bai Yang turned his head Glancing at him, "the more people there are, the less likely it is to succeed. If you're alone, maybe you're [-]% sure. If two people run together, it's only [-]%. Get more people, and it's zero."

Xue Yelai was dumb.He had to admit that Bai Yang was right.On the matter of escaping, Bai Yang definitely has more experience than him.

"If we can't escape, will you stay with me till the end?"

"meeting."

"If you were the only one who could escape, would you go?"

"impossible."

"Then... what if I'm the only one who can escape?"

Bai Yang didn't answer and stopped walking.

Xue Yelai heard the sound of water.At first he got nervous, thinking the place was going to be flooded.But after careful identification, the sound of water was very slow, and it didn't seem to be pouring down from the ground rapidly.

"Dark River." Bai Yang answered for him, "We are probably going to an open place."

Going further, the man-made passage turns into a natural rock tunnel.Xue Yelai touched the stone wall. It was cold and rough, and it was an untreated ordinary rock.It seems that these artificially developed passages are very cleverly combined with the original terrain, making full use of natural resources.

Rocks don't naturally glow like artificial materials, but there is a small patch of bright light beating faintly in the distant darkness.

"What is that?" Xue Yelai narrowed his eyes and asked Bai Yang.In the dark, Bai Yang's vision is much better than ordinary people.

"It seems to be the light reflected by the water surface, and the sound of the water flow is also coming from there. There may be an exit there, and we have to get closer to confirm."

"Is there an exit in this kind of place? There won't be any mechanism?" Xue Yelai hesitated.Theoretically speaking, the function of these underground passages is to shield cosmic rays, not to defend against enemies, so there is no need to set up organs or the like.But now these passages may have been modified by people, the situation is not easy to determine.

Bai Yang thought for a while, "Then I'll go over and have a look first, and come pick you up if there's no danger."

"Let's stay together." Xue Yelai looked at the spot of light and estimated the distance, "It's too far away, and it's too dark. I don't know if there is a pothole on the road. If you stumble and fall into it, the two of you can take care of each other."

"Take care of each other in the pit?"

"No. I mean, if one falls into a pit, the other can pull the other out."

"Then let's go." Bai Yang let go of Xue Yelai's hand and walked in front of him, "Follow me well, but don't follow too closely."

Xue Yelai turned on the lighting mode of the communicator, "The battery is low, and the lighting mode can only last for half an hour. If we haven't reached there after 15 minutes, we will turn back."

Bai Yang led the way, and Xue Yelai followed behind him step by step, with a small ball of light.

The farther you go from the artificial passage, the darker the surrounding darkness becomes.There was a chill in the rocks, and an uncomfortably wet one.

In the stagnant darkness, time and space seem to have lost their coordinates.Xue Yelai gradually developed fear, which was an almost instinctive fear of nature for people who grew up in an artificial environment.He couldn't help imagining this scenario: He escaped from this planet in an aircraft, facing a space billions of times darker and vaster than the one in front of him, drifting endlessly among the stars, and he didn't know when he would set foot on the ground again.

——Can he really bear this kind of loneliness away from the world?

No wonder interstellar pioneers would rather go underground than re-enter space.The fact is as an old proverb says: Man-made light will make people lose the courage to return to darkness.

Xue Yelai began to dispel his fear with words: "Do you know that there is a fish in the deep sea? I forgot the name. It is round, with a fishing rod on its head and a lamp."

"I don't know.—Pay attention to your feet." Bai Yang walked quickly, but would stop from time to time, waiting for Xue Ye to catch up.

"Oh." Xue Yelai carefully walked around the stone at his feet, "I saw the picture in the literacy textbook when I was a child. After I go out, I will find it out and show it to you."

"Are you afraid? We can go back at any time." Bai Yang stopped and turned his head, "When you are afraid, you will talk more."

"I'm not afraid." Xue Yelai retorted, and then fell silent.