123 days, 12 hours, 07 minutes, 21 seconds;
20 seconds;
19 seconds;
18 seconds;
…
This countdown looks tense, but it's really just a reminder of how long he has to live "for now".
If proper maintenance is done before the countdown ends, the number will be reset to the initial value and the countdown will start again.
If the countdown cannot be saved in time within 24 hours after the countdown is cleared, then the word "temporary" should be removed forever, and the moment of clearing will become Chu Si's real end of life.
The device had been in Chus's body for many years.
The two-week vacation at the Black Cedar Forest Villa every year is to do normal maintenance for this device, so as to ensure that Chu Si can still exist in this world in good spirits for the next six months.
When it was first embedded in this thing, Chu Si also protested with the technical doctor and asked, "Can this thing be made a little more human? You're working on a human bomb, and when you open the door, it's still beeping non-stop, do you listen to this nonsense?"
The technical doctor was named Shao Dun, and he belonged to the highest-ranking Baiying Military Hospital.
Dr. Shao has always implemented the "three disparities" policy for patients like Chief Chu who are good-looking and talk nonsense all day long—
Don't show your power, don't give a good face, don't let coercion, and all dismissed.
At that time, the left half of Chief Chu's body still had a serious rejection reaction to the intelligent machine. Hemorrhage, allergies and high fever were alternated. Pick four.
Dr. Shao had a coffin face, and while instructing the little nurse next to him to give Chu Si an injection, he stared at the various data on the meter and said: "To deal with a bastard like you who is busy and does not ask day and night, and is crazy if you become mad. For things, you should use a countdown to see the world to stimulate you, so as not to forget to maintain it at the time. If you don’t say anything, you will waste a piece of equipment.”
"You have to take good care of it. There are only 20 machines in the entire planet. Once the interface has a memory of your DNA, it can't be used by others. If it is scrapped, there is nowhere to use it again." Shao Lao was training. As he spoke, he used his gloved fingertips to poke the connection between Chus's wound and the intelligent machine.
The poking made Chu Si lose his temper completely and could only accept his fate.
This ticking countdown is usually inaudible at all. But Chu Si could feel it from time to time, it was sticking to the seam of his own bones, counting his life limit for himself. Even after nearly ten years, even an hour before the planet exploded, he was still doing a new round of maintenance on this thing in the villa.
Ten years, anyone is used to it.
So Chu Si just glanced down and down to confirm that the device had not failed obviously during the fifty years of freezing, and then closed the skin again.
The days to live are still in the three digits, enough for him to find another place that can provide maintenance.
As long as the countdown doesn't turn into single digits, Chief Chu, who is not naturally nervous, can still remain calm.
Chu Si re-pressed the piece of skin and entered the shower room. The heat was instantly dense, and the glass door was covered in mist.
In the continuous sound of water, the built-in microphone on the top of the head suddenly rustled twice, and Chu Si's hand that held out the towel immediately froze.
The microphone is connected to the entire prison's alarm and communication system, and is often used for emergency notifications. The people in the security building, who don't know how many emergencies they have to deal with each year, are extremely sensitive to this kind of stuff.
Chu Si was stunned for less than a second, slapped the shower switch with a slap, and immediately brushed his wet short hair behind his head, wiped his body indiscriminately, and put on his clothes and walked out of the shower.
Just as he was buttoning his shirt with one hand and was about to unlock the door and go out, someone in the microphone suddenly cleared his throat with a cough, and said in a timid tone, "Sir, there is no hot water in my room."
Chus: "..."
With a quick stop, he turned his finger on the electronic lock halfway, pressed the call button on the wall directly, and asked, "Sae Young, are you ill?"
The microphone rustled and replied, "Yes."
Chu Si: "...you fucking live next door, do you still need someone to teach you such a mentally retarded thing?"
Sae: "The door I knocked on will probably not be opened directly, so let me communicate first."
Chu Si opened his mouth and wanted to scold, when he heard another rustling sound from the microphone, and the sound of the mop came out: "What are you two doing? It scared me to death..."
Chus: "..."
Confused by the madman surnamed Yang, he forgot that the microphone was a public release.
Chu Si rolled his eyes, looked down at the wet shirt on his body, walked to the bed and sat down with a blank face, pressed 3 on the communicator embedded at the head of the bed, and directly connected to Sae next door. Pick the No. 3 duty room.
"Don't you know how to use the internal one-line communication?" Chu Si asked casually.
This time, Sae's voice finally didn't come from the microphone. "It can be used, but I guess you are taking a shower. The sound of single-line communication can't be transmitted into the shower."
OK, you are right.
Chu Si's expression remained unchanged, and he hung up mercilessly.
Two seconds later, the bedside communicator dinged again and automatically connected: "Sir, it's not polite to hang up the phone before you finish speaking."
Chu stan said: "I have never been so unreasonable."
Sae smiled: "So, can the shower room be borrowed?"
Chu Si wiped the water off his hair twice and replied, "I have to remind you that I was looking for food in the No. 3 duty room. I tried it when I checked the drinking water, and there was no shortage of hot water. Well, I'm going to sleep for a while and wish you a nightmare."
After speaking, he completely cut off the communication, and turned on the night-free bypass mode, and then dragged the communication code of the No. 3 duty room to the blacklist.
Anyone who knows a little about Sae Yang knows that he is a very extreme and eccentric person. To be precise, most people in this world are simply air in his eyes. He is not interested and naturally cannot see.
There were only two kinds of people who could arouse his interest.
One is someone who is more dangerous and uncontrollable than him. The more dangerous it was, the more interesting he felt. But in fact, such people hardly exist.
The other kind of person has what he needs, he has a purpose, so he can see you.
Chu Si believes that it is not the first, so it can only be the second.
As for Sae's purpose, he can actually guess seventy-eighty-eighty. It is nothing more than hoping to unload the black gold controller through him.
To be honest, even the planets don't exist anymore, and it's not impossible to remove the controller.
But it is really impossible to rely on Chu Si's authority alone.
It's just that it's useless to tell Sae this. He didn't say it, did he believe it
No.
It's no wonder that the great Chief Chu talked too much, and his experience in this regard is simply bad. Even if he occasionally opened his heart and said two sincere words, no one believed him.
Chu Siwei wiped his hair half-dry, then closed his clothes and lay down on the single bed.
The fifty years in the frozen capsule belonged to physiological suspension, not a normal rest, so Chu Si, who had experienced a lot of bad things, was extremely sleepy at this time, and fell asleep almost as soon as he closed his eyes.
Then, he dreamed of the winter of 5702 again.
That winter was really cold, and even Nanton State had a full month of heavy snow, not to mention the famous Mia Mountains.
The huge wreckage of the aircraft fell between the steepest cliffs of the Mia Mountains.
Literally "between".
Its damaged left emergency landing wing was placed on the east cliff, and its charred right emergency landing wing was placed on the west cliff, and the fuselage in the middle was so dangerously suspended in the air. Chu Si's situation in the dream is the same as the reality of the year, and it has not changed at all.
The left half of his body is still in the safety gate, but the whole safety gate has changed beyond recognition, the whole shape is deformed, almost crushing half of his body to the point that he can no longer feel the pain.
On the other hand, the right half of his body dangled dangerously out of the aircraft door, his outstretched hands tightly tugging at a three-year-old child, and the abyss was under the child's feet. As soon as he let go, the child would disappear into this world before he even had time to cry.
In fact, a three-year-old child is not too heavy for him.
But in that kind of extremely cold mountain, in the whistling snow and wind, one hand dragged such a child without any support, and if he dragged it for an hour, his hand would lose his strength.
And Chu Si has been dragging for thirteen hours.
Even he himself can only be supported by the little willpower left.
Fortunately, most of the experimental team were ejected along with the safety cabin during the forced landing of the aircraft. Only the child who tripped over the nerve wire and slipped out of the cabin door, and Chu Si, who took him, missed the most. Jia escaped, caught in the constantly exploding aircraft door and crashed into the Mia Mountains.
It's thirteen hours to hang up.
Even in the dream, Chu Si can clearly feel the cold that can make people lose consciousness and will.
There is also the unbearable pain in the eyes when the blinding cannon pierces the eyes of the aircraft when the weapon bay is blown up.
He eventually lost consciousness in that torment, and when he woke up again, he was already lying in the special care unit of Baiying Military Hospital. Doctor Shao said to him with his iconic coffin face: " Nine deaths, 70% of the left half of the body is highly damaged, and intelligent machinery has to be used..."
The second half of Mr. Shao's words seemed vague in the dream, but was interrupted by an alarm.
Two seconds later, Chu Si suddenly realized that the alarm was not a dream!
In the No. 2 prison guard's duty room, Chu Si suddenly sat up from the bed.
In the microphone above his head, the piercing alarm continued. He picked up the communicator on the bedside table, threw it into his pocket, and strode out the door, "Heaven's Eye?! What's going on—"