nebula story

"If you're really tired, I'll find you a bed to sleep for a few hours before you go home." Bi Rong's former boss, the director of the Military Intelligence Division, Yuan Bihai, had blue eye circles on his fair face, which was obvious. Also did not sleep all night.

Bi Rong shook his head and smiled bitterly: "No, boss. I want to go back to the laboratory."

The war has completely entered the Cold War period, and Fisher's planet is peaceful. Although the formalities for his formal transfer from MI[-] have already been completed, he still retains his habitual address when he meets this former boss with a very obvious personal style. .

Nodding her head, Yuan Bihai didn't want to keep her anymore.

When walking past him, Bi Rong suddenly stopped: "Boss, thank you."

Raising his eyebrows, Yuan Bihai was obviously surprised: "Thank me for what?"

Bi Rong sighed softly: "If there is no video chip brought by Battalion Commander Nan Zhuo, the emperor of the empire would not believe it no matter how eloquent it is. Chesu survived thanks to the military situation. What about audiovisual materials?"

Stamping out the cigarette butt under his feet, Yuan Bihai said vaguely: "Fortunately, there is no real leak. The question about Nansu star has been erased."

Bi Rong smiled: "I visited Battalion Commander Nan Zhuo in the prison a while ago, the video chip he risked his life to bring to the empire, you gave it to him privately in violation of discipline, right?"

Yuan Bihai glanced at him indifferently: "You can't talk nonsense like this."

Nodding quickly in embarrassment, Bi Rong looked at his former boss with something warm in his eyes.Although Nan Zhuo's confession on the surface was that he stole the video data, anyone with a little common sense would know that even the best spy would have difficulty in stealing from the archives of the MI[-] headquarters.

After returning from the empire, the stubborn flying battalion commander took all the troubles on his shoulders, but it has to be said that, in fact, the sentence given by the federal military court is still too light - the retired spy Che'an was exempted from criminal responsibility , and Nan Zhuo stole state secrets, shot and seriously wounded the emperor himself, almost sparking an interstellar war again. Such a serious incident was only sentenced to two years in prison.

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Carrying the luggage, Bi Rong didn't go home to wake up his newlywed wife who should be still asleep, but went back to the Academy of Sciences first.

The trees are lush, and the flowers and plants on the roadside have begun to sprout and turn green. The small hibiscus flowers that first felt the spring have begun to bud, and there is a light yellow in the small flower bed of the Institute of Biochemistry, which is quite gratifying.

Facing the rising sun, he opened the door of his research room.Colleagues haven't come to work yet, and the neat laboratory is quiet.

Yawning, he sat alone in front of the test bench.Looking blankly across the corner, he suddenly frowned.

In the iron cages where the dozen or so mice were originally placed, another batch was replaced.Obviously, the coat color is shiny, the expression is lively, and the figure is much more flexible than those before.Running around in the cage alive and kicking, his little black eyes are full of cunning.

After observing for a while in confusion, Bi Rong finally confirmed that this was definitely not those idiot little white mice from before.But... where did those go?

It wasn't until working hours that colleagues pushed the door open one after another, and he found Xiao Cui, who was in charge of the experimental animals.

"Oh, are you asking about those demented mice?" Xiao Cui, an assistant experimenter who just graduated for less than a year, picked up some mouse food and threw it into the cage while arranging the test tube racks, "They were taken away humanely. .”

"What?" Bi Rong was taken aback, "I'm still observing this group of mice, why did you deal with them without my consent?"

Xiao Cui hurriedly asked: "What? Isn't the observation period already over? I checked the observation log and asked the director, but he didn't say to keep it special!"

Staring at him speechlessly, Bi Rong became a little annoyed: "This is my private project, and the project period is of course up to me—I didn't say the project is over, why are you so casual?"

Seeing his unhappy expression, Xiao Cui was taken aback, with a young expression on his face that was about to cry: "I'm sorry, sorry, I shouldn't be so self-assertive, at least I should wait for you to come back and ask - I thought everyone It’s the same procedure, last week it happened that the entire laboratory concentrated on these animals, so…”

After staring at him angrily for a while, Bi Rong let out a long and helpless sigh.

In fact, this project has really lost the meaning of continuing to observe. The mice whose brains have been damaged by biological agents have been in a stable state. They have changed several batches in the past few years, but they are all the same results. Day after day observation and sampling Analysis, there is nothing new.

It's just that he himself has always had unrealistic hopes and unwillingness, and he always vaguely expects some miracle to happen in his heart.

Seeing him start his own research in frustration and silence, the experimenter Xiao Cui breathed a sigh of relief.Fortunately, researcher Bi did not continue to pursue it. It was because he was really careless. Next time, he must remember to check each one before doing anything.

But... Those little white mice really wasted too much food, and it was very annoying to manage. It is really a happy thing to deal with it according to the regulations this time.Thinking of how he took care of these little white mice a few days ago, Xiao Cui secretly sighed with a headache.

——I don't know what happened, he clearly remembered that he had closed the latch outside the iron cage when he got off work, but when he got up early in the morning for a few days, he found that there were a few mice running around in the laboratory, not only Knocked over some test tubes and nearly knocked over some dangerous reagents!

God knows how these little white mice escaped from the cage for no reason, could they open the door of the cage by themselves? ...

A day in the research institute passed quietly, but quickly.

The researchers left work one after another, and the building gradually became quiet.In the corridor, except for the flashing green emergency lights, it was dark.

It was night, and the boundless silence permeated the surroundings.Suddenly, some weak sounds rang out in the corridor.A few pairs of eyes that were as bright as little black beans gleamed slyly in the night. They hid beside the trash can in the corner, looked around for a while, and then cautiously jumped out.

Soon, those bright little eyes rushed to the stairs, whizzed along the fire hydrant and climbed up the window sill of the vent.Neatly and orderly, their chubby bodies filed down the air-conditioning water pipes outside the floor, and disappeared silently into the empty night.

... Spring and summer alternate, and the days pass by.

There is the same star shift on Gotha and Lensell, and in the blink of an eye, more than two years have passed quietly.

The shadow of the interstellar war has been completely eliminated, and the pre-war prosperity has been restored everywhere.The battlefield is not on the mainland. Even though countless blood and soldiers' lives were left on Fisher Star far away in the sky, Rencel in the rear has not received much actual impact after all. Not only can't see the devastation, but some special Industries necessary for post-war reconstruction received even more unprecedented orders and opportunities.The newly enthroned young emperor completely showed a governing style that was not similar to the gentle and open-minded previous emperor. Taking advantage of the opportunity of post-war reconstruction, some vigorous and vigorous reform measures began to be implemented in the empire without compromise.

I have seen with my own eyes the iron-blooded style of the new emperor, who is only less than 30 years old, on the front line. These reform measures unexpectedly did not meet much resistance among the imperial elite.At present, as long as the entire wealth and family interests are not completely taken away by the New Deal, who is stupid enough to directly confront His Majesty the new emperor at this time?

What's more, His Majesty the Emperor, who has just been enthroned for a few years, is not a blindly reckless person. Even if some of the new policies implemented are not perfect, after several years of verification, they will eventually be evaluated as more good than harm.Under the surging undercurrent, the smooth transition of the regime was finally completed without any risk, and many post-war affairs were truly on the right track.

The new emperor of this generation of the empire is indeed a person who has been sincerely supported by the vast majority of his subjects.Although sometimes aggressive and violent, but most of the time, His Majesty Fern is able to listen to all the really beneficial suggestions from the court, and he can also be said to know how to use people and make good use of them, wise and shrewd.

Except for some minor glitches, of course.

Well, those are all secret affairs in the palace, harmless, and they can't even talk about hurting the foundation of the empire. Even if their wise, arrogant and handsome emperor is still unmarried and has always kept a beautiful enemy spy in the palace, What's the big deal? ...

In the beginning, there were some ignorant courtiers who made side attacks here and there, but no matter how wise their emperor was, he behaved in a muddled and even stupid way in this matter. Treat the reminder as a vacuum, ignore the first question, and ignore the second question, and if you ask again, you will encounter extremely cold weather-oh!We don't have any deep-rooted hatred with that enemy spy. Since their emperor can forget all the past events that slapped him, who would dare to go against Longlin and force his majesty to give up this little weird obsession? fan?

Besides, according to the palace news from well-informed sources, that boy from the Federation with a strange identity and doubtful origins is nothing more than an idiot after all.A handsome, ignorant mentally handicapped young man was imprisoned in the deep palace as a doll... Maybe it was a way for the emperor to vent his anger on purpose?