When the location of the ship that Ge Xiu was driving suddenly disappeared from the star map, Lu Lai was in a routine tactical meeting.
His eyes swept across his private brain inadvertently, but his retina was scalded by the bright red alarm on it, which almost immediately grabbed Lu Lai's entire attention, causing him to lose his mind for a few seconds.
Richard had just finished his regular report at the moment, and was standing at the table waiting for Lu Lai's instructions.
Lu Lai came back to his senses, and nodded calmly as usual, indicating that he was doing well - his few seconds of gaffe were fleeting, and almost no one noticed except Hall, who was standing behind him on standby.
When the meeting was over, the officers dispersed.
Hall stared at Lu Lai's straight back, but there was an uneasy look in his eyes.
Lou Lei Sivir - his name can make the enemy on the battlefield frightened, no one in the alliance dares to challenge his authority, the noble family in the alliance parliament is vying to win the object, almost the hottest dignitaries in the past century, but in the Betrayed at the height of his prestige, and instantly went from being a Marshal of the God of War praised by everyone to a fugitive sought by the entire alliance.
Nobody knows why.
Not even Hall dared to make an arbitrary assertion.
He has been with Lu Lai since before he was given the title of God of War, and he was also the first loyal follower to follow Lu Lai after he defected from the alliance. Even so, he never dared to say that he was in front of him. What a deep understanding of this unpredictable man.
Ever since Hall had an impression, Lu Lai always seemed to be indifferent to his anger and anger, as if he was in control of everything. As long as Lu Lai is there, it seems that any situation can be reversed, and his existence itself is a reassurance.
It was the first time Hall saw Lu Lai's discoloration in such a long time.
This gave him an ominous premonition.
Lu Lai didn't look back, but calmly asked, "How many maneuverable warships are there in the main ship now?"
Hall: "Throw away the battleships and reconnaissance ships responsible for defending the main ship and reconnaissance of the enemy. There are four medium-sized ships and thirteen light-sized ships."
"it is good."
Lu Lai turned his head, his silver-blue eyes were like the cold and hazy sky above the snow-capped mountains.
"You take all the mobile fleet and search with all your strength along this positioning route."
Hall looked down at the positioning line displayed on his brain, and couldn't help but startled a little - isn't this, Ge Xiu's route
Did something happen
Although he did not have much affection for this dead child, he still highly recognized Ge Xiu's ability level. With Lu Lai's order, Hall did not dare to neglect, gave a military salute, and then hurriedly left the conference room. Before closing behind him, a vague question flashed in Hall's mind—
Why is Ge Xiu's accident, the captain is so nervous...
Before he could understand, the cabin closed behind him.
Once again, only Lu Lai was left in the conference room.
He turned around calmly, and lowered his eyes to look at the enlarged virtual star map on the desktop.
Lu Lai also asked himself this question in his heart.
Why was he so nervous when he got the news
Lu Lai put his hand into his pocket, and his fingertips touched a hard sphere wrapped in wrapping paper. He was slightly taken aback and pulled it out.
a candy.
Citrus.
Lu Lai lowered his eyes, his eyes were quiet and deep.
— Since when did he habitually carry some candy in his pocket
On Junk Star.
Gosho deftly peeled off the candy wrapper.
The strong sweet fragrance emanating from the inferior candy instantly occupied his nose, nose and senses, almost dispelling the stench that lingered around him.
Ge Xiu felt the amount of candy left in his pocket.
There are only five left.
He licked the round sugar ball in his mouth cautiously and cherishly with the tip of his tongue, raised his eyes and looked around at the environment around him.
The sky was as grey and gloomy as ever, and the piles of garbage seemed to stretch to the end of the world.
Ge Xiu retracted his gaze and sighed lightly.
It's a fantasy to find sugar in this kind of place.
The terrain here has calmed down visibly to the naked eye, and there are traces of life on the ground. The other crew members have been sent out by him. In the huge world, only him and the little one or two are left to walk in tandem. on.
Although Ge Xiu was still rummaging through the rubbish on the side of the road as he walked forward, his movements had become lazy, and he could even be regarded as losing interest.
His eyes wandered, and he casually kicked the empty cans on the ground as he walked, and his thoughts drifted to nowhere.
The hollow tin can was kicked by Ge Xiu and made a clanging sound on the ground, and rolled into the garbage pile beside it.
Xiao Yi followed behind him hesitantly. He stared at Ge Xiu's back and seemed to want to say something, but he always swallowed the words back at critical moments.
Ge Xiu didn't look back, but he seemed to have eyes in the back of his head:
"What's up?"
Xiao Yi was taken aback by his sudden opening, and finally summoned up the courage to say:
"That, Xiao Qi, let's... Can we go back to the shed before? It won't take long, I promise! We'll be back soon!"
Where did he first wake up
Ge Xiu was refreshed, and the lack of interest just now was swept away in an instant.
He turned around, nodded happily, and smiled with two little tiger teeth:
"Yeah."
Xiao Yi's face immediately lit up.
In the next second, Ge Xiu's deliberately elongated voice sounded again: "But..."
Xiao Yi's face froze, looking at him nervously.
Ge Xiu watched with interest Xiao Yi's face changing at a very fast speed, without the slightest sense of guilt for his bad taste.
"...you have to tell me why."
Xiao Yi's heart was relieved, but he began to twitch. He avoided Ge Xiu's line of sight, his ears were red, and he whispered in a low voice:
"In the past, you will know in the past."
"Row!"
Ge Xiu was intrigued by his hesitation, his big round eyes flashed with extreme excitement, and he said impatiently:
"Walk around! Hurry up!"
There are not many places for humans to live on the garbage star, and almost all of them are gathered in the same area. In this relatively thin garbage cover, in some places, you can even see the exposed soil layer sporadically, and even excavate pollution. The low level of groundwater makes the sparse population on the entire planet gather in this only habitable place, barely surviving with difficulty.
And the broken shed where they once lived is on the edge of this gathering area, and it takes at least half an hour to walk.
But it was shortened to ten minutes under Ge Xiu's rush.
Xiao Yi didn't have time to take a breath, and the moment he saw the shed, he stumbled straight to a small open space not far from the shed, half squatting on the ground, not knowing what he was looking for.
Gexiu stood in front of the broken shed, sent his position to the brains of the crew members who were out on the mission, and then looked up at this strange and familiar place.
There is almost no difference between here and when he just woke up. The turbid atmosphere is filled with bursts of stench, and the layers of garbage are piled up into high hills. The traces of life that were originally very rare have basically disappeared completely. Only half a dilapidated taupe shed remains.
He turned and got in.
Obviously, all the useful utensils in the shed had already been scavenged after they left, and even the blanket that Ge Xiu once lay on had disappeared, and there was only half of the shed that was useless and strong. standing on the ground.
Under such a thorough sweep, there is basically nothing left.
Ge Xiu retracted his gaze and yawned with interest, the excitement of returning to the starting point disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived.
He found a fairly clean seat in the shed and sat cross-legged, found his tools in the supplies bag that Junior One was carrying, and began to fiddle with the junk he picked up from the road.
The virtual image transformed by the intellectual brain was suspended in mid-air, and Yingying's blue light illuminated Ge Xiu's face.
He was so absorbed that he hardly noticed that Xiao Yi, who was not far away, let out a surprised low-pitched cry, and then ran towards the shed with a tin box covered in dirty dirt.
Xiao Yi stumbled into the broken shed, startling Ge Xiu.
He quickly moved the metal parts in front of him into his arms, just avoiding Xiao Yi's indiscriminate attack.
The little pair of Ge Xiu was unaware of Ge Xiu's small movements. With bright eyes, he carefully lifted the metal lid that was curled around the edge of the can, and a small metal block fell out with a clang: "Great! I found it! It's still there!"
Ge Xiu blinked and probed over.
Xiaoyi wiped off the dirt on the surface of the metal block with his sleeves, and then handed it to Ge Xiu a little embarrassedly:
"This... for you."
Ge Xiu was stunned, and took it in surprise: "For me?"
Xiao Xiao nodded, a thin layer of embarrassed red on his cheeks, and said hesitantly, "I, I have always wanted to tell you, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have wronged you in the selection field, it was too much. Not enough friends. But, after that, I haven't found the opportunity to sincerely apologize to you...and thank you."
Ge Xiu looked at the piece of metal that was handed to him.
It was a red-black round card with a rounded surface, reflecting a shallow silver light in the light. The text on it was deformed and blurred, and it seemed that it was not the general text of the alliance.
Xiao Yi noticed Ge Xiu's scrutiny eyes, and explained in a hasty manner: "Everything after getting on the boat, clothes, food, etc., were given to me by others, only this, it was me. I picked it up when I was scavenging before. I thought it would bring me good luck, so I kept secretly hiding it. No one ever told me about it. Only this one belongs to me, so…”
Ge Xiu touched its shiny surface with his fingertips, raised his head and looked at Xiao Yi:
"thanks."
His eyes were pitch-black, and the clarity could almost clearly reflect the figure, and there was an extremely rare serious look at the bottom of his eyes.
Under such a sight, Xiao Yi's face turned red, he raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, shyly turning his head to look at the dirty tent door:
"No, no thanks..."
Ge Xiu lowered his head again and looked at the text on the metal plate. Suddenly, he was stunned. He seemed to have thought of something, and scanned it with his brain.
After one minute, the brain analysis was over.
Ge Xiu glanced at the content above, his eyes gradually brightened.
He had new inspiration for the completion of this mission.
At this time, the crew had completed their tasks one after another. According to Ge Xiu's instructions, after the rumors that "the next selection is about to start, and the qualification assessment will be carried out from house to house" spread, they passed the intellectual positioning. Gathered outside the shed, everyone's faces were gloomy, and they looked preoccupied.
Ge Xiu got out of the shed with a cat waist, looked at the crew members who were in low morale, and asked calmly:
"ended?"
Everyone nodded solemnly and began to report to Ge Xiu one by one their harvest.
The door-to-door visit made them discover a terrifying thing—the residents had no doubts about the authenticity of the selection.
So they asked a few more questions and found that in the short months since they left, two selections have been held. The previous selection was held every seven years, so that these planets whose population resources had been plundered had time to replenish their populations in a sustainable manner, but now... the Alliance seems to have no concern about the future development of these planets, and is almost going to empty them out!
And... Even more terrifying, those who had escaped from the Libert were all gone.
After inquiring carefully, I found out that just a few days after those people escaped, the Alliance sent troops to capture them all in the name of desertion, in order to prevent them from leaking and to affect the continued exploitation of the Alliance afterward. .
The more Xiao Yi listened, the more frightened he became, and he turned his head to look at Ge Xiu subconsciously.
The young man standing beside him was much shorter than himself, his shoulders protruded from under the fabric, and his body was as thin as a cicada's wings, as if it could be easily broken. But there was no unexpected expression on that pale little face, which calmly made people panic.
Xiaoyi was stunned for a while, and suddenly remembered what Ge Xiu said before - "It's not that they have no ability to perceive the difference, they just chose not to see, not listen, and not believe."
It turned out to be so.
He only now finally understood the meaning of Ge Xiu's words.
It is impossible for the alliance to sit still and wait for their defection, so there must be some action, which is tantamount to destroying the existing model.
—Then the seeds of doubt will inevitably be planted in the hearts of the residents, and there is the possibility of overthrowing the deeply ingrained superstition.
After all the crew members reported, one of them asked:
"Captain, what should we do next?"
Ge Xiu pursed his lips and shrugged casually: "Wait."
His unexpected answer made everyone stunned for a moment—wait? What are you waiting for
Before they could react, Ge Xiu burrowed into the broken shed once again, leaving a group of blank-faced crew members standing in the open space outside the shed.
Xiao Yi had long been accustomed to Ge Xiu's freewheeling attitude, he sighed, shrugged helplessly at the crowd, then turned around and followed him into the shed.
Ge Xiu was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with the mechanical parts scattered aside. He had already opened his brain at this moment, his thin fingertips were beating flexibly on the screen, and the dark eyes reflected a blue shimmer, in a relatively dim shed. It looks very eye-catching.
Xiao Yi seemed to have figured out something, and his eyes lit up instantly:
"Xiao Qi, do you... have a plan!"
Ge Xiu looked up at him with a pleasant smile on the corner of his lips. He raised a finger to his lower lip and made a silent gesture:
"I just thought, as the hosts, how could we not entertain our guests well?"
Although Xiao Yi didn't know what Ge Xiu was talking about, he still shivered involuntarily.
He was all too familiar with the look of a bad stomach.
—During the week they were out together, every time the other side made that look, someone was definitely going to suffer.
Xiao Yi shrank his shoulders, not knowing who to mourn for.
Four hours later.
A squad of the Union Army walked towards the residential area. They stepped deep and shallow in the garbage heap. Everyone's faces were blue and white, and the stench in the air was from the moment they set foot on this planet. They started tormenting them from the beginning, and many of them seemed to have vomited several times. Only the adjutant walking at the head of the team looked strong.
Because the objects this time are extremely dangerous, the weapons they wear are all high-lethal light energy quantum weapons, and they are cautiously advancing towards the gathering area.
The adjutant walked to one of the crooked houses that looked extremely dilapidated, and tried to knock on the door with the butt of a gun, but before he could knock down, the door opened ahead of schedule.
A scrawny man stood in the dark door frame, watching them with a look of extreme eagerness.
The adjutant couldn't help swallowing the words of questioning and searching, and shuddered subconsciously.
This look...
how to say
It was as if someone who had been hungry for a month suddenly saw a table of steaming food, the hair on the back was uncontrollable.