fleet citizen

It is neither the top class nor the base class, does not belong to a specific country, and the space station may not be in the orbit of the planet... Mint racked his brains and suddenly thought of a rumor he had heard before. In addition to the more than [-] countries in the alliance, there is also a "country" that is not rooted on the planet.

"Oh, I see!" Mint grasped this thought that seemed to be fleeting, but failed to grasp the specific name of the "country", "You belong to that... that what - the army?"

"Yes, almost, you can think that I belong to that thing." Yuan Yu smiled and nodded.

"What... is it called?" Mint asked hastily.It was the first time he had seen someone really come from that "country". The guide at the tourist station also mentioned the rumor, but many people thought it was fabricated by some anti|government elements.

"Actually, I don't know what the specific name is." Yuan Yu touched his chin and thought for a while, and said, "According to the informal name of some of your country leaders, it was originally called the 'socialist camp', It's an old name, though. We adopted it, and because it was too long, we shortened it to 'Fleet.'"

Mint really doesn't understand what strange abbreviation method can shorten the "socialist camp" to "fleet", but this doesn't seem to be the point.

"So you belong to an army?" Mint asked curiously.

"No, no, 'Fleet' is just a title." Yuan Yu thought for a while, and then said, "This title may be a reference to a science fiction novel in the era of the home planet (that is, the fleet in "Three-Body Problem"). I think the history of it needs to be checked carefully.”

Sounds really interesting.It must feel good to be able to leave the colonized planet and go into space, Mint thought.And he also thought that these people belonging to the "fleet" must be very rich. They may often go on interstellar travel, so they may be much richer than those ordinary top class.

But Yuan Yu didn't have the airs of a rich man at all.In fact, when Mint took her to visit the famous color-changing opal geological park in the Pearl and Jade Capital and had lunch at the modern genetically engineered restaurant outside the park, he even almost forgot that Yuan Yu was not a wealthy base class A girls.

As they left the restaurant, Yuan Yu bought him a bouquet of light purple crystal roses (genetically engineered so that the petal edges of perfume roses secrete silica crystals).The young A male waiter in the restaurant also said enviously to him: "Your girlfriend treats you so well."

Walking out of the restaurant, Mint looked at the sparkling crystal rose in her hand, but felt a little uneasy.Maggie once said that she couldn't "solicit customers" at a tourist station, and he didn't know what Yuan Yu meant to him.Although such a bouquet of flowers is not considered any remuneration, it is enough for him to earn two days' wages.

Yuan Yu noticed that he had been staring at the flower and didn't know what he was thinking, and quickly explained: "Don't mind, the money here is useless with us, so why not buy you some small gifts if it is idle."

It turned out to be like this.Mint was a little disappointed, thinking she was really interested in him, but she didn't expect it was just to spend money.Then deliberately complained in a low voice: "Then you might as well call me directly, this flower can't be eaten."

Unexpectedly, Yuan Yu smiled and said: "Okay, if I have any money left when I leave, I will call you."

She said this so generously that Mint couldn't help but feel happy.However, when she thinks that she will leave Zhuyu tomorrow, she feels a sense of loss that cannot be ignored.Not only because he didn't want to say goodbye to her, but also because he saw that she was about to return to the sea of ​​stars, but he was still trapped on this planet and would never even think about leaving for the rest of his life. He suddenly felt that life was really meaningless.

When she didn't know there was a fleet before, Mint didn't feel that life was meaningless at all.His previous goal was to work hard so that his parents could live a better life and he could marry better.However, now that he knew that there was still such a life in the fleet, compared with his own life, he suddenly felt that his life was too restrictive and boring, and he would be like this for the rest of his life, with no future for development.

However, he also thought that in fact, the life in the fleet and the life in the top class are the same to him, extremely beautiful but out of reach.That is not the life that can belong to him, Mint thought, the fate of a person is doomed from birth, just like ants on the ground cannot enjoy the life of people belonging to the base class.Those people were born to the top class, Yuan Yu was born to the fleet citizen, and he was born to the base class, and this is the source of their different destinies.

Thinking of this, Mint's mood recovered a little, but it was still shrouded in gloom.

Listening to Yuan Yu's praise of the special sea god fruit on Zhuyu, and commenting on the orbit of Zhuyu's capital, Mint is not proud of her own planet.He always thought of Yuan Yu living in the space station of the fleet. She had been to many, many colonized planets, but he had never even gone out to this continent, so he felt very disappointed.

He lived here not because he loved the planet, but simply because he couldn't get out.He has never seen what other colonized planets are like, and because the colonized planets are far apart, it takes more than ten years or even decades to send even the simplest email, so he is not qualified to say I am really proud of the gem.

Yuan Yu is very interested in the characteristics of Zhuyu, but Mint wants to know about other planets.Compared with the fleet so far away from him, he is now more curious about the lives of those base classes like him on other planets.

Yuan Yu noticed his curiosity, so he said, "To be honest, I haven't been to a few colonized planets—or, more strictly speaking, I haven't been to a few in my life."

Mint was amused by her "this life" statement.He actually doesn't believe in the reincarnation of generations, but "next life" is always a term commonly used by the elderly in settlements. They hope that in the next life they may be reborn into a top-class family and experience the life of a top-class upper class.

"Don't laugh, in fact, the citizens of the fleet don't like to travel very much." Yuan Yu sat next to Mint on the self-cleaning bench by the street, "Most people don't like to travel to colonized planets either. I sometimes go to colonized planets Going, it’s actually related to my profession.”

"What occupation?" Mint asked with interest.

"Generally speaking, I am a curvature drive scientist." Yuan Yu replied, "Subdivided down, I am mainly responsible for the engine and navigation of the curvature spacecraft, that is to say, I design engines for different purposes of the spacecraft, And plan the routes they can navigate in the universe."