Chapter 2 Two at the Mars Space Station

First of all, I want to say that things always happen naturally, just like a dream, that is, I don't need to arrange it in advance, and I don't need to push it. I just watch the process of things.Perhaps, things had already begun to emerge from the beginning, and I should have been aware of this. It happened during my month-long sabbatical between missions.In the Milky Way Police Department, it is a normal work order to go to work for one month and take one month off.I arrived at the Mars Space Station for the usual three-day stopover before my short trip to Earth. Usually, Hilda, God bless her—will be there waiting for me, she is really the best in the universe, perfect wife, and I will have a sweet and quiet vacation—it means one to us both. Happy, but short interlude.However, the fly in the ointment is that the Mars space station is a very crowded and chaotic place in the whole galaxy, so strictly speaking, it is not suitable for our wonderful rendezvous.How could this be explained to Hilda?

Unfortunately, just two days before I arrived at the Mars space station, my mother-in-law fell ill - God bless her. The night before landing, I received a cosmic telegram from Hilda, telling me that she would stay on Earth to protect her mother, and that she would not be able to wait for me at the Mars space station this time. I called her back immediately, expressing my deep apologies for my mother-in-law's illness and my deepest concern.But when I land, I'll be in oh!God!I'm going to stay on the Mars space station where Hilda isn't. All the joy was in vain. You must understand my mood at that time. Only Hilda's beautiful figure and elegant demeanor stood in my hallucination for a long time, but what I needed was a real hug with her.So I greeted Fofina, my infrequent lover, by videophone.Despite the high cost, I still want to go to her.

I thought to myself, one in ten chances that Fofina is not at home, or busy answering the phone, maybe she is dead. Fortunately, Fofina happened to be at home, and she received a TV call.God!I was relieved that she wasn't dead at all.She appeared to be more beautiful than ever, and age had not aged her, nor custom, as some have said, had marred her grace. Does she like seeing me?She was heard screaming on the TV call: "Max, long time no see." "Yes, Forfina. Now's your chance, if you will. Guess what happened? I'm on the Mars space station now, and Hilda can't come."

She called out again: "Very well, come on!" I pondered for a moment.It went smoothly unexpectedly, but it made me a little uneasy. "So, would you like to go on a date with me?" Fofina is not the kind of woman who can fascinate people just by looking at her, but she has an inner charm that makes people irresistible to her passionate demeanor. She put on airs, "Well, I have a little date that doesn't matter, but Max, I like you better, come on." "Great." I was overjoyed. Forfina was one of those girls—let me tell you all about it.Her residence is under the gravity of Mars, which is only 0.4 Earth's standard gravity, and she has a new device to escape from the false gravitational field of Mars, which is of course very expensive.If you've ever had the experience of holding a girl in your arms at a mere 0.4 Earth's standard gravity, then you don't have to ask me why I would do that.If you don’t have that kind of experience, unfortunately, no amount of explanations will help, and I can’t explain the feeling of lightness like floating clouds anyway.

When I hung up the TV call, the only thing on my mind was the femininity of Forfina.She was so desirable that it drove all wild fantasies out of my mind.I walked out of the TV and telephone room slowly. At the same time, exactly at the same moment and at the same second, a huge and serious disaster quietly approached me for the first time. This time the blow was delivered by a loathsome bald man, Mars officer Roger Clinton. Roger flashed a pair of strange blue eyes that were so big that they almost occupied the entire cheekbones, and he had a brown beard on his sallow face. My vacation life begins the moment I leave the spaceship, so I can endure a full four hours of forehead-to-cabin and ground-collision torture.Because of this, I just asked Roger with normal courtesy: "What are you doing, I'm busy and I have something important to do."

Roger said indifferently: "You have been put under my command, and I am waiting for your arrival at the unloading duty workbench." I was at a loss, "I don't understand..." He replied, "Of course you don't know anything." After a while, I felt that Roger had a point. If he was on the unloading duty table, he must have been spinning, and I would pass by there like Halley's Comet.I had to say, "Okay, what's your mission?" "I have a small matter to bother you." "I'm on vacation, man." I laughed. He said solemnly: "The Space Police is on alert, my friend."

The language of the state of alert meant that any leave of absence was cancelled. I didn't believe it was happening, and said anxiously: "You're crazy, Roger, to tell the truth, I hope it's not true!" "One hundred and twenty thousand is sure." "Roger," I cried in despair, "you can't appoint someone else? Is there no one else in the world but me?" "You are the only first-level detective at the Mars Space Station." "It has something to do with the Earth. In the Space Police Headquarters, there are piles of idle detectives."

"This task must be completed by eleven o'clock in the evening. This is the crux of the matter. Don't you know that there are only three hours left?" I yank at my hair, and the idiot has no idea what's going on in my mind.I begged, "Can I make a phone call?" So I stepped back into the TV room, fixed my eyes on him, and said, "This is my business! Please..." Once again Fofina appeared on the TV screen in all her splendor and beauty, looking as distant as a mirage on an asteroid.Puzzled, she asked, "What's going on? Max! Don't change your mind. I've already canceled the other appointment."

I said anxiously: "Foffina, my dear. I will definitely come someday, but something unexpected is holding me back." She asked the reason for the delay in a very polite tone. I comforted her: "Don't be sad, I don't have any other girls going out with me. Among the girls in the same city as you, there is no other woman in my eyes. Absolutely not. Honey, my baby!" At this time , I can only hug the TV screen tightly with a crazy impulse in vain. "I'm doing a special job, and of course it won't be long." She said dejectedly, "Okay!" But the skepticism with which she said it made me shudder.

I walked out of the TV phone room and asked, "Roger, now you have to tell me, what kind of drudgery did you recruit for me?" We came to the space station and walked into a soundproof room."At eight o'clock in the evening local time, within half an hour to be precise, Antares Colossus flew from Sirius to us," he said. "Ok." "Three of them will stay here, waiting for the Space Eater to fly from the earth at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. After the spaceship stays for a while, it will fly to the Cape Milky Way. They will take this spaceship to escape from our jurisdiction. area."

"clear." "So, between eight and eleven, they are parked in a special waiting room, and you have to stay with them. I have a 3D photo of each of them here, and you can identify them one by one. They. During the period from eight o'clock to eleven o'clock, you must see who is carrying dangerous goods among the three." "What kind of dangerous goods?" "The scariest kind—transgender space spirits." "Transgender space spirit?" Roger's words shocked me. I'm familiar with space spirits, and if you've been in spaceflight, you know what it's like.If you have never escaped the gravity of the earth, you will have to take Astrospirit when you take the space travel for the first time.This is common scientific knowledge that everyone knows.Almost everyone who goes on a space voyage for the first time can't live without it, and takes a lot of it every trip.Without the spaceship spirit, when the spaceship lands freely, it will make people feel a kind of nausea and dizziness that they have never experienced before, and at the same time, they will make horrible screams and fall into a long-term psychosis.If you take Yuhangling, everything will be normal, and you don't have to worry about any reactions.Yuhangling will not make people addicted to food, and will not cause side effects that are harmful to people's health.It is so ideal that cosmic travel is absolutely indispensable, because nothing can replace it.People have no doubts about the special effects of the astronaut spirit. Roger replied thoughtfully: "Yes, it is the transgender astronaut. This drug can change its chemical composition through a simple chemical reaction and become an addictive drug. When you first come into contact with it, you will To discover that it has such a strong grip on man that he can never get rid of it is as daunting and shocking as the most dangerous alkaloid we have ever known. "We just found it?" "No, the Cosmic Police Department has discovered this drug for several years, but in order to prevent others from knowing the truth, it was destroyed immediately after each discovery. It is too late to remedy it now." "Then what should we do?" "One of the three people who will stay at the Mars space station is carrying some transgender space spirits with him. Chemists from the Kepler galaxy outside the alliance will analyze this drug and then make a comprehensive treatment method. When all of this is done, a fight over the most heinous drug terror that we have ever seen and extinguished is essentially over." "You want to wipe out transgender astros." "Of course, if we eliminate this scourge, we will eliminate all dangerous factors in space travel." "I want to focus all my attention on what's at stake, so which of the three is carrying this drug?" Roger laughed, uncomfortably.He said, "If we knew what would you do? You'd have to pick the criminal out of the three." "You give me a job that I can't finish and is so clueless." "If you make a mistake, you risk your head. All three are giants on their own planets. One is Edward Harpster; the other is Yorkwin Lesci; the third is Andermond Van Luzzi. Do you understand?" Everything Rogge said is true. I have heard of their famous names for a long time, and you will have the opportunity to meet them below.You know, you can't touch them without good evidence. I asked again: "Is there only one of them doing this dirty deal, and it's kind of big like..." "There are hundreds of trillions involved in this transaction," said Roger. "Three men are suspicious, but there is only one man involved in such criminal activities. It is very terrible, because Mr. Jack Bink This important information was obtained before being killed..." "Jack Bink is dead?" For a moment, I forgot the great drug horror hanging over my heart, and I forgot all about Fofina. "Shameless! A man dared to commit an assassination. It is the criminal you are investigating now, and you have until eleven o'clock to correctly identify him. If you can catch him, we can double his punishment, for poor Jack." Mr. Guest avenges blood hatred and ensures the safety of the galaxy. However, if you admit the wrong person, it will cause great turmoil in the entire interstellar situation. You must not take it lightly, otherwise everything will be recorded on the blacklist, and you will be removed from here Send it to the heart: the Giant, and get revenge." I weighed it up and asked, "What if the investigation fails?" "The consequences will be as serious as getting the wrong person, and it will directly affect the future status of the Space Police Bureau." "I am determined to complete the task, otherwise I will hold my head to see you." "Not only holding the head, but also smashing the body into pieces! Max, you are just beginning to understand what I mean." In decades of life, I have never seen anyone uglier than Rogge.As I gazed at him, the only thought I had was that he was married.He and his wife live on the Mars space station all year round, and he deserves this unique happiness. Working for his happiness, he has every right to enjoy everything. As soon as Roger walked away, I hurriedly called Fofina.She asked: "What's the matter?" I replied: "Honey, I can't tell you these things, but I have an obligation to do it, you know? Wait patiently, even if I will go to the five oceans to catch turtles, and go to the moon for nine days, even if I have to tear my body into pieces, I also want to complete this sacred mission, will you forgive me?..." "Come on," she said contemptuously, "if I think I have to go..." I twitched when I heard her words, and said anxiously: "Fofina, please wait for me. I rarely have the chance to be with you. Listen, I will try my best to repay your kindness." I am very distressed, but not worried.When I calculated exactly how to quickly get the criminal out of the three, I saw no reason for Rogge to keep me any longer.It's an easy case, and I'm going to call Roger and tell him it's always a big deal, and it's easy, and I'll get it all over in five minutes.Then I rushed to Fofina's house to live for a while, and if I could get a promotion and salary increase, the Cosmic Police Department would be very grateful to me. The thing is, big industrialists don't do frequent spaceflights, they use television broadcasts to receive information and carry out their work.When the highest interstellar conference needs to be held, if the three planet kings want to come, they will take the space spirit.First, because they don't go on spaceflights very often, they must eat Astro Spirits, and second, Astro Spirits are expensive.Great industrialists like to spend a lot of money every time they do things to show their wealth and nobility. I have mastered the mental state of taking Astrospirit. Now, two of them who take this drug will show that mental state. And the person carrying the contraband would not take the risk of taking Astrospirit anyway—even to overcome space sickness.Because under the influence of the space spirit, he will throw away contraband, ignore it, or talk about it endlessly.Then the person has to exercise self-restraint.Things are so simple and clear, so I waited with confidence. The Antares Giant arrived on time, and I was ready to go.When I caught the murderer, the drug courier, I quickly left and quickly sent the drugs to two outstanding industrialists for research. Lesci was brought in first.He has thick, blood-red lips, round jawbones, thick black eyebrows, and gray hair.He stared at me blankly and sat down slowly.Everything is fine, apparently he ate the Neptune. I greeted him and said, "Good evening, sir." He answered me incoherently in a dreamy voice: "Mr. has a heart for a quarter of an hour and speaks with a cup of coffee." This is the way everyone who has eaten Neptune speaks, because the human brain is in a state of confusion where each syllable is automatically combined with the same syllable.Therefore, talking to each other is as ridiculous as an interface command. Next came Andrmond Velucci, with a long, hard black beard, and an olive, scarred face.He sat on the other chair with his blank face turned to me.I said to him, "Have you had a good trip?" He answered me: "Happy, clock bird." Leszy went on to say, "Everyone in the Bird Books." I laughed happily. With only Harpster left, I nimbly picked up the new bump-action pistol, secretly in the palm of my hand, and prepared to coil him. After a while, Harpster walked in.He is slender, strong, with a few thinning hairs, and looks younger and more handsome than the three-dimensional photos. It seems that he has eaten a lot of space spirits! I said to him, "Damn it!" Harpster replied, "Death last time I saw trees you said so." Van Luzzi followed up: "Such a seed territory road nightingale." Leszy went on to say: "Noble nightingale ball". When they were performing incomprehensible interface commands with faster and faster gibberish, I silently saw one person from another, and I was like falling into a cloud of smoke, and then there was silence. My judgment is not wrong, one of them must be a fake, and after serious consideration and careful arrangements in advance, I know that the only way to escape this level is not to eat Yuhangling.Perhaps he had avoided the narcotic effects of the Neptune by an officer injecting him with saline or by some other ingenious means, no doubt one of the three was a disguise and it would not be difficult to pretend so.You may have heard of comedians who are under anesthesia and still perform farces like those who ate astro-spirit. I watched them, feeling uneasy for the first time.I couldn't help asking myself, what if I caught the wrong one? It was past eight-thirty, my work was still in jeopardy, my reputation was at stake, and what was worse, my life was increasingly threatened.Then, very quickly, I redeemed everything, thanks to the timely memory of Forfenna.She will not wait for me long, and of course I will not delay her for more than half an hour. I suddenly thought pleasantly, if I unknowingly lead my speech into the danger of terror, and pretend to be calm, can I carry out smooth interface commands like normal? I deliberately said: "There are books, magazines, newspapers and other reading materials here." And I emphasized the word "reading materials" because "reading materials" has the same pronunciation as "poison". Leszy replied: "The poison is poisonous, it comes from below, and the soul needs to be saved." "Barber blades to be rescued shine," Van Luzzi continued. Harpster went on to say: "Show the wind and shake the snow." Leszy answered, "Shake the old clothes." "Clothes act," says Van Luzzi. "Action," said Harperst, and they went on to say a lot of whining. I tried again, carefully of course, and every word I said had to be perfect.So I said, "That's a good space spirit." Fan Luqi replied: "The civet cat, the tiger, and the prairie dog howled." I interrupted him, looked at Harpster and said, "That's a good space-spirit." "Smart bed for a good day with clothes." I interrupted him again, looked at Leszy and said, "This is a very good space spirit." "Flexible Chocolate Stakes Double the Potato Heels." Someone else chimed in and said, "Heel writing disease." "Sick mealtime." "It's time for me." "I come to English." "English seal." "Leopard." I tried several more times, to no avail. I think whoever of these three people is pretending, he must have a good skill, or a natural ability to learn the natural interface.His nerves are like those of a person who has eaten the space spirit, breaking away from the normal thinking track, allowing words to be blurted out in an endless stream of interface commands, and he must have accurately guessed my intentions and dealt with me with full confidence.Just now the word "poison" did not reveal their true nature, so the three times repeated "space spirit" should also reveal their true colors.However, neither found out who the real criminal was.It seems that the criminal must know all the truth - probably he is playing tricks on me!All three spoke naturally the language that might reveal the sordidness of the criminal's heart ("soul to be saved", "poison is poisonous from below", etc.).Two said it was involuntary, perfectly natural, while the third was self-performing. The question is how to identify criminals now?Being clueless annoys me more and more, and I resent the rat for making the whole galaxy roil.He also killed my good friend - Czech Bingke, and even now prevents me from spending happy times with Forfenna. Although I can approach everyone and conduct a body search.Two people who have actually taken Astrospirit will not stop me because they feel numb, fearless, scrupleless, hateful, passionless, and have no desire to defend themselves.If a man puts up the slightest resistance, I can catch him. However, these people who temporarily lost their minds will recall this experience afterwards, and they will remember the personal insults they suffered under the anesthesia of Yuhangling.I am extremely troubled.In doing so, of course I could catch the real criminal, but then I would be as soon abandoned and alone as any man who has ever done it.Such a big notoriety spread widely in the Milky Way will shake the authority of the Cosmic Police Department and cause unimaginable turmoil.In this situation, the secret of the transgender space spirit will be revealed.The hard truth is that the man I'm going to arrest should be the first person I need to check.Only then can all commotion be avoided, and in one-third chances, I'll take a hit.Regrettably, only God is sure of this matter. Just when I was talking to myself and planning, troubles came again, just like Yu Hangling had been anesthetized for a long time, and I fell into a trance again.cough!How to do it?I was a little desperate, and I stared at the watch blankly, focusing on nine fifty.Is the time devil planning to destroy me? Omg I was so stupid.what!Forfenna.I went into the TV telephone room again and quickly hung up on Forfenna. Fortunately, it was this momentary impulsiveness that turned the case around. Just now, it was "there is no way out", but now it is "another village". I said anxiously to myself that she probably wouldn't talk to me anymore.I tried to prepare everything, and if she ignored me, I would go find another girl, a better one than her... But this is a dream, because there is no other girl for me to choose. If Hilda comes to the Mars space station, I will never miss Fufenna so much, and it will save me a lot of trouble.However, in fact, I was the only one at the Mars space station, and Hilda was not there.Besides, I already have a date with Forfenna. The signal flashed and flashed one after another, and I lacked the courage to hang up, "Come on, Faulfenna, I beg you." She came and asked coldly, "It's you!" "Yes! My baby, who else is it?" "There are still many people, some people are coming..." "Don't be mad, honey, I'm doing something special." "What the hell? You gave the pectoral to another woman again?" I groaned just a little about the pectorals, and barely had time to correct her grammatical errors.After a while, I finally remembered that I had told her that I was a corsage salesperson, and that during that sweet flirtation I had put a corsage on her nightgown. I begged her to forgive: "Honey, wait for me for another half an hour, I will definitely..." Her eyes were moist: "I'm sitting here alone waiting for you." "I don't know how to repay you." I couldn't contain my excitement at this time, and I decided to think about how to get precious jewelry. Even if I ran out of bank deposits and risked Hilda's severe reprimand, I I don't hesitate.You know, to me, this risk seems to cover the entire galaxy? She said, "You know, I had a great date and I had to give it up for you." I argued, "Didn't you say it was a no-nonsense date!" "I called another guy, and he promised me a fortune on earth, and I just..." She went on to talk about wealth on earth.Every girl on the Mars space station is trying to plan to get a fortune on Earth. You can imagine that six out of five girls have this idea. I tried to stop her nagging and whining, but to no avail, and finally she said, "How lonely and helpless I am now." Then she hung up. She is not at fault.Because my status in the galaxy is nothing more than the most ordinary little person. I returned to the anteroom, where a servant in livery saluted me. I stared at the three industrialists and wondered what to do?If I receive an order to execute them, how should I arrange the sequence and kill them one by one.Hapster can be executed first, because he has a neck as thick as a thread, which can be tightly grasped with a few fingers, and a thumb can kill him. Such fantasies do not cheer me up, but, with the absolute will of my heart, I call out: "Partners!" The call is not the people I desire. This triggered another series of nonsense from them. "Two small silver coins of our God's Savior, my friends," replied Van Luzzi. The slender-necked Harpster continued: "Nephew Silver Coin doesn't like cats." Leszy said: "The cat hides the cow and goes down to the drunkard." "The ghost aunt's passage." "Road Livestock Prayer." "Prayer leads to growth." "Grow up right of way." "Let's see." "Look." "Can." It was silent again, and we looked at each other.These people didn't respond, and I, too, had been terrified, waiting for time to pass. As I stared at them hopelessly for a long time, I couldn't help but feel sad, and I thought about Forfenna again.Now my mission, my honor, my appointments are all gone, I have nothing to gain, I no longer have to worry about gain and loss, I can talk about Forfena without thinking. I said to them with sincere affection: "Gentlemen, there is a girl in this town above, please excuse me, I will not mention her name, because I fear that by doing so, I will damage her reputation, let me have a good time." Talk to her!" I was talking to myself eloquently.In the last two hours, I seemed to be immersed in the sometimes turbulent and sometimes calm ocean, using poetic language and poetic artistic conception to describe my Faucina.This impulse comes from a deeply buried subconscious mind, a source of emotion. Those three people sat stiffly, as if they were listening to something, and none of them spoke. People who had taken the Space Spirit were very polite and would not interrupt others' speeches, so they did not perform the interrogation show. Until the excited voice on the loudspeaker announced the arrival of the Cosmic Eater, I narrated Faulfena in gut-wrenchingly sad tones. When the play was over, I announced loudly, "Please, gentlemen." "You villain, butcher!" Before Van Luzzi made his second fight, my magnetic coil was wrapped around his waist, preventing him from escaping. At this moment, Fan Luqi struggled to break free like a powerful demon. He was fully aware that he was not under the control of Yuhangling at all. My co-worker discovered that the transgender astro-spirit turned out to be hiding in a thin, flesh-colored, visible spacer that was barely attached to his inner thigh.Ordinary people can't see this gasket anyway, they can only feel its existence by touch, and even need a knife to prove its existence. After the completion of the work, Roger Krington was relieved, smiled, and grabbed my collar half-crazily, desperately: "What kind of magic elixir was used to catch that criminal?..." I got out of his iron grip and replied briefly: "One of the three people is pretending to be numb after taking the space spirit. I saw this key point and said to them' "Well, it's about the girl, understand?" ? ’ Two of them couldn’t have reacted because they were actually taking Astrospirit, and Vanluzi’s breathing was getting more and more rapid, and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.I directed a fairly successful theatrical performance, and he couldn't help but respond, so I can tell he's not taking Neptune.It's over, can you let me go? " Roger let go, and I almost fell backwards.I was allowed to leave, and I was afraid that he would find another reason to stay with me.However, I still switch back. "Hey, Roger," I asked, "will you promise me a thousand-dollar credit card, off the record—for my work with the Space Police." I felt that this was a golden opportunity, and that Roger, who was almost insane from the horror of the impending doom, was grateful to me. Sure enough, he said bluntly: "Yes, Max, what does that matter, even if you need a credit card of ten thousand dollars, I will give it to you." "It's a deal," I said, grabbing him so he wouldn't change his mind in remorse. "I'll give it to me." He filled out a ten-thousand-dollar Space Police credit card, which could be cashed anywhere in the galaxy.He smiled and handed it to me, As you can imagine, when I took the credit card, I couldn't restrain my excitement. As for how Rogue tries to explain this system-defying trade, that's none of my business.The point was that I didn't have to explain to Hilda what the money was. I went into the TV room and called Forfena, and it was late.I didn't dare to tell her my secret until I walked into her room.If she was still alone at this point, the extra half hour might be prompting her to find another man. Waiting for her reply, I had to resign myself to my fate and wait patiently for her. She was on the TV screen, but she was already dressed to go out, she was just going out, and I obviously stopped her in the last two minutes. "I was going out," she said dryly, "some men put on airs, and from now on I don't want to see you anymore, I don't even want to let my eyes rest on you. Although you have fascinated me, But sir, that's absolutely impossible, absolutely..." I was speechless, and stood there with my mouth open, holding the 10,000-dollar credit note in my hand, and just stood there motionless, maintaining this posture all the time.It's not fake at all. When she said the words "absolutely impossible", she couldn't help but carefully check the credit coupon in my hand.She doesn't have a high level of education, but she recognizes $10,000 faster than any college graduate in the solar system.She exclaimed in surprise: "Ah, Max, is that for me?  …" "Of course, my darling," I answered her. "Didn't I tell you to do a little thing, I want to surprise you." "Great, Max, how cute you are. I don't care about the delay, I was just joking with you, now, you come here immediately." She took off her coat. "What about your date?" I asked. "Just kidding." She replied nonchalantly. "Then I'll come." After finishing speaking, I hung up the phone and walked out of the TV room. Finally I was let go, let go... Suddenly someone called me: "Max, Max!" A person is running towards me. "Mr. Roger Clinton told me you're here. Mother's all right, so I've got a special passenger ticket from the Cosmic Eater. What are you doing with a ten-thousand-dollar credit?" I didn't turn around, just said hello, "Hello, Hilda," and then I turned to meet Hilda's eyes. I smiled awkwardly.