Camouflage Alpha

On the eve of the summit, the poisonous and harmful investigation team received a notification of a suspected fourth-level infectious disease epidemic, and cooperated with multiple departments to conduct a comprehensive investigation to investigate the source and trajectory. Xiang Shaoyang did not go home for two consecutive days.

Shen Yaochuan packed the suitcase and sent a message to Xiang Shaoyang: See you in four days.

Also attending the summit were three other colleagues from the Institute.

The research institute applied for this group of "high IQ elites" to use the flying car newly tested by Taiwan Empire, and it only takes two hours to fly from Miada City to Queen Ella City.

After getting on the flying car, the terminal received a new message.

Xiang Shaoyang: O

After these few days of communication, Shen Yaochuan has already mastered the meaning of his symbols proficiently. Most of them saw it and didn't have time to type, so first respond to something casually to express it.

The flying car drove smoothly onto the preset track, and a bottle of water and a rice bag were handed over from the opposite side: "Dr. Shen."

This is Al, a colleague from the administrative office of the institute, who is responsible for leading the team and providing logistical support.

Al distributed water and meal packs to everyone, and distributed tickets to them one by one: "This time we will take a regular round-trip small starship to the docking station of the Noah, and the interstellar voyage will last about 20 hours. It's randomly selected, everyone take it well, without a ticket, you can't open your own rest cabin."

As the name suggests, the small starship is an interstellar starship with a small capacity. It is mostly used for passenger transportation under special circumstances. It can carry up to 30-50 people. It also requires a special application.

The content of the meal pack is very simple. Since the departure is at night, this is probably an extra dinner provided by the Institute.

There is a cream sandwich bread, a ham sausage, a hard-boiled egg and an energy bar.

The flying car is very silent, and they are not very friendly with each other. Perhaps there are more or less disciplinary or professional overlaps between the projects they are responsible for, but most of the people who spend time in the laboratory have very few personal relationships. .

Shen Yaochuan was looking at the terminal, helping Bai Yuan correct the experimental data.

As for the other two colleagues, one has already recorded something quickly, and the other has put on headphones.

Al was perhaps the most out of place person in this car. She silently turned her gaze out of the window, looking at the whole picture of Miyada City.

Area B has basically been built, perhaps out of the mayor's own freedom of thought, some of the post-war ruins have been permanently preserved as a commemoration of this "unilateral bombing".

The overall tone of this steel city is black, echoing the dark dome at this time, and there are countless gorgeous neon lights.

Noisy and lonely.

Halfway through the voyage, Shen Yaochuan received a video call from Xiang Shaoyang.

"baby!"

Xiang Shaoyang had some sparse stubble on his chin, his face was tired, but his eyes were bright.

Shen Yaochuan blinked at him: "Is everything going well?"

"All the close contacts have been transferred to the isolation area of ​​the hospital." Xiang Shaoyang let out a sigh of relief. "Patient 0 was also found. He was a lawyer who came back from the asteroid Ferry. He carried it but did not get sick. We sent Ferry a The email confirmed that the current epidemic situation over there has reached the predicted peak, and the local government blocked the news, but some people ran out before the traffic control.”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help cursing: "Damn it, it's a good thing that Miyada City closed the area quickly, otherwise I don't know how many people will die of pulmonary blood disease."

Pneumonia virus is carried by wild cattle and sheep, spread by blood, and deteriorates very quickly. It usually takes less than 24 hours from infection to onset, and only 3-7 days from onset to death.

Because it has a fatality rate as high as 85% and there is no specific drug treatment, it has always been regarded as one of the fourth-level infectious diseases that are important to prevent and control.

Shen Yaochuan nodded: "You have to pay attention to your body."

Xiang Shaoyang leaned back in the chair: "I know, No. 0 has been found, and the work of the Investigation Bureau has also come to an end. After the quarantine ends the day after tomorrow, I can go home and spend a day off."

A smile appeared on Shen Yaochuan's lips: "I want to eat Brussels sprouts."

Xiang Shaoyang immediately agreed: "I can eat it when you come back."

An hour later, Shen Yaochuan boarded the small starship in Queen Ella City.

People from the Academy of High Technology had already arrived, and Shen Yaochuan was looking for a capsule cabin with a ticket. When passing by one of them, a person opened the folding door and greeted him: "Yaochuan!"

Shen Yaochuan turned around in response, and saw a very familiar face.

"You're here too," he nodded, "Ye Sheng."

Ye Sheng was a classmate of him and Song Zhicheng when they were in the Academy of High Technology. After graduation, he stayed in the school to teach, and his development was no worse than boarding the Noah ship.

Shen Yaochuan was actually very popular when he was in school. He was good-looking and outstanding, and he attracted the attention of a lot of top students in the college entrance examination who were once the treasures of their parents and teachers.

However, because he was too indifferent towards others, except for Song Zhicheng, no one else could have more development with him.

Ye Sheng and Shen Yaochuan had completed the final homework in a practical group, so they still had a little friendship.

"It seems that young people are selected from various places this year," Ye Sheng said with a smile, "Although other than you, the others have not yet had any research results recognized by the Star Alliance, but the future can be expected."

Shen Yaochuan responded: "I hope the theory of strategic development."

"I haven't seen you for a few years, you're still like this..." Ye Sheng looked him up and down, "Charming."

Shen Yaochuan finally exchanged glances with him, and slightly parted her thin lips: "Sorry, I have marked A."

Ye Sheng: "Yes, yes, I knew you would always refuse... Wait, what did you say?"

"I've got an A marked."

Ye Sheng's expression suddenly became very exaggerated, his eyes widened as if he saw the king of an empire, his mouth grew into a big O shape, and his chin appeared three layers in shock.

"You you you you you you..." He seemed to have stepped on the switch, trembling "you" for a long time, and finally evolved into a Homo sapiens and regained his language ability: "Grass! What do you mean? Said you have a companion?"

Shen Yaochuan felt that the word "companion" was too ambiguous, and sexual partner could also be described as "companion", but it was clear that he and Xiang Shaoyang were not in a pure sex relationship.

He lowered his brow slightly and corrected, "It's my lover."

"Lover" is a very formal word, even the word love is very important, this kind of more old-fashioned word is not commonly used by others, but when it comes out of Shen Yaochuan's mouth, it has a special feeling.

"You fucking..." Ye Sheng had just started a prelude to swearing, but he couldn't stop now, "The word you use is too sexy."

Shen Yaochuan just stepped forward politely: "Thank you for the compliment, I'm going to rest."

Ye Sheng sat blankly in his rest cabin and looked at Shen Yaochuan's back, until the thin figure wrapped in a light gray coat disappeared into a rest cabin, he scratched his head with both hands belatedly.

Then he slammed the folding door shut and hung the lock like a guilty conscience.

Then he pulled out the projection screen of the terminal, and with trembling fingertips, he pulled out an apparently inactive group from a large number of contacts—the 11th session communication group.

Ye Sheng sent an incoherent message: The school beauty has a man!

As if it was not enough, I added another sentence: It is said that it is an A, and it has been marked!

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the group of classmates who hadn't spoken for a long time suddenly became lively.

"what??"

"There is really someone who can win the school belle?"

"You should ask the school beauty is really willing to be taken down?"

"Wait, wait, what's your point?"

"Isn't the school belle A? How could A be marked by A? He turned out to be gay?"

"Isn't he and Song Zhicheng a couple?"

……

Seeing the group news that exploded, Ye Sheng suddenly became dazed.

He did remember that Shen Yaochuan was an A, or an S rank, but just now...it's really sweet.

Ye Sheng carefully considered various possibilities, and expressed his opinion in the group: Is it because the school belle loves her so much that she has undergone gland replacement surgery? ? ?He called each other "lover", my God!

"Oh my god!"

"spouse!"

"I also want to be the lover of the school belle QAQ"

Shen Yaochuan got into the rest cabin and lay down on the bed.

The rest cabin of the small starship is similar to a capsule hotel. There is only one bed inside, which is high enough for people to sit up, but cannot stand.

There is a foldable small table on the wall, and a round glass, which can see the scene of space while driving.

Perhaps it was because of sitting on the flying car for three hours, his lower back was sore, which made him feel a little tired.

He turned sideways and rubbed his side.

Usually, there are times when he suffers from severe back pain, but Xiang Shaoyang is always by his side, not to mention his professional massage techniques, even the pheromone marked Alpha can make Shen Yaochuan relax a lot.

Shen Yaochuan sighed lightly.

The soreness slowly spread from the lower back, and even the lower abdomen was slightly swollen.

Without Xiang Shaoyang, this body is really difficult.

His fingertips moved from his waist to his lower abdomen, and rubbed them gently twice.

Perhaps because Xiang Shaoyang has been taking care of him, the quality of the three meals has improved a lot. Almost half a year has passed since the operation, and Shen Yaochuan has finally grown some flesh.

The looming outline of the skeleton is still there, but it is not as skinny and frightening as it was before the operation, and the body is much softer.

Especially in the lower abdomen, there is even some standard fat content.

Shen Yaochuan certainly knows that every Omega will have a small belly, no matter how thin it is.

But in his opinion, a small belly is different from a small belly. For example, some Omega's small belly can give birth to a lovely child with a lover.

The terminal vibrated suddenly.

He raised his wrist, and on the connected family health app, Xiang Shaoyang's body temperature rose sharply.

℃.

Shen Yaochuan's heart sank.

Recalling the phone call he had with Xiang Shaoyang an hour ago, the other party was fine except for a little fatigue.

After hesitating for a moment, he called Xiang Shaoyang.

But no one answered.

The lights suddenly turned off, which represented the official start of the voyage of the small starship, and it automatically entered the night rest mode.

In the darkness, Shen Yaochuan curled up and dialed the familiar number again.

The author has something to say:

Chuan Chuan: The only one in Alpha Star who didn't know that he had a cub Omega

The beginning of this chapter will be a bit long, you can choose to block or take a look as needed

This section begins with the last big plot point of the story. I will explain some related settings or concepts used in this article without spoilers. Some concepts that have matured in society, such as cyber Punk or Cthulhu, I actually didn’t put it in the story to explain in detail, because this story contains more elements, once it is really explained or unfolded, it will be a bit like science fiction and not interesting enough, but in fact the story The current social situation and other lines are based on these elements, combined with Wikipedia, I will briefly talk about it, hoping to help you better understand the plot points

The relationship between this article and the concept of cyberpunk will be explained after science popularization:

【Cyberpunk】

Cyberpunk (English: Cyberpunk) is a combination of cybernetics, neuromechanics and punk.The more well-known cyberpunk works are actually Cyberpunk 2077 (game), Blade Runner (movie), copy (Netflix series + original), Detroit: Become Human (game), the more famous Cyberpunk Representative works of punk also include "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and the painting circle also has a cyberpunk style, that is, high-saturation colors, mostly neon lights, etc. It is very obvious in the picture of the movie) + high-development machinery + artificial intelligence, but in fact the core of cyberpunk is not on bionic people and colored neon lights.

Most of the cyberpunk story backgrounds are depicted in the future, based on the combination of low-end life and high technology, with advanced science and technology, and compared with a certain degree of collapsed social structure. 】The main line of cyberpunk style is to reflect the strong contrast between the highly developed human civilization and the fragile and small human individuals. At the same time, the contradictions between the outside world and the inside, steel and sex, past and future, reality and fantasy Which interweaves.Cyberpunk literature has a strong dystopian and pessimistic color.

The home of this article, Miada City, is the strongest cyberpunk place in the Alpha Empire. The first one is that Miata City is almost the only city with a dungeon at present (the auction plot can see the capital Queen Ella City It is an ordinary aboveground city), and at the same time, Miyada City has the title of Iron and Steel City, which can be controlled in different regions, has artificial suns, and buildings like the Investigation Bureau also have an aboveground city. The result of highly developed technology and economy.

The second one is everything in the story at the same time. Yunyun and Zhonglian are almost monopoly business representatives. The technology of the Alpha Empire and even the entire Star Alliance mainly relies on the two major enterprises of Yunyun and Zhonglian. What is their most famous industry? : Cloud network system (representative of big data), Zhonglian bionic man (representative of artificial intelligence), and the working mode of the bionic man itself relies on its ability to connect to the cloud system anytime, anywhere for big data analysis and learning from it.But this is not the most prominent problem. The most prominent problem is that the bionics have taken away most of the employment opportunities of the bottom people.Everyone should be able to imagine the characteristics of bionic people. Relatively speaking, bionic people greatly reduce the cost of social labor, and are highly mechanical and obedient. Bionic people do not have human rights, which means that they can fully realize 24 hours*365 days of overtime.

And another point of imbalance in this society lies in food and housing. Although Xiang Shaoyang and Shen Yaochuan seem to eat well, in fact, most people's food is processed food such as "nutritional food blocks" , the price is very low.

The concept of the residential area "Honeycomb" was inspired by the drama "The Vast Sky" (also translated as "The Expanse of Space"), which may not be obvious to everyone from the description in this article.As mentioned at the beginning of the story, the real ground of Miyada City has a high concentration of radiation so far, which is not suitable for human habitation. Therefore, an underground city has been developed. The real soil goes down to the underground "dome" and the artificial sun. The city has planned its vertical development to the extreme.The feeling of vertical development can refer to terraced fields, which are like stairs from bottom to top, but the vertical planning of Miyada City is much steeper.So what will happen in this way? The bottom layer of the "hive" in the residential area is where the poor live. You can imagine the first floor of the high-rise community, the light is not very good, and the vertical buildings in Miyada City are quite Exaggerated high-level, what does the bottom of the hive look like: the deepest part of the dark abyss, and the bottom of the well of the frog in the bottom of the well.

Another aspect of society is reflected in: Shen Yaochuan's colleague, Chu Huai.Chu Huai's mother has no money to see a doctor, and Chu Huai lives at the bottom of the worst hive.But what is Chu Huai's job? Although his rank is low, he and Shen Yaochuan work in the same research institute - the Supreme Life Science Research Institute. Shen Yaochuan was assigned to work in the research institute because he failed to board the Noah ship , then the status of the Supreme Life Research Institute in the empire is actually second only to the Noah ship.But in such a working environment, Chu Huai's mother still couldn't afford to eat, and she couldn't get the "subsistence allowance".

So in fact, Shen Yaochuan, although he seems to be treated as an "improper person" by the empire, in fact he has a life that many "people" in the empire have never even enjoyed.

I just said that they are not cruel at all! ! !