Chapter 12 star

As Sha flew by, Luo Ying didn't dare to raise her head. The rock is not too steep, and there is a place for her feet to step on. She knows that she can still support it for a long time, but she is not sure when the gust of wind will pass.She knows the power of sandstorms, as all children born and raised on Mars know.She looked sideways at Anka, who nodded to her.His blue eyes were the color of a dark sea in the twilight, still calm.Luo Ying turned off the vibration of the wings with one finger, and lay quietly on her stomach, waiting for the wind to clear. "Can you hear it?" Anka's voice came from the headset.

Luo Ying nodded to him, and wanted to answer, but found that her throat was dry and she couldn't speak. "Look up and to the right," Anka said, "for a large raised rock. Can you go up it?" Luo Ying followed the directions and visually measured the distance. It was only about 20 to 30 meters, but it had to cross the slope.She clenched her fingers a little nervously, tried her best to smile at Anka, and replied, "It should be fine." So Anka got up first, then helped her stand up, and moved diagonally upwards.Every step they take is careful and slow.Luo Ying moved sideways to the right, not daring to straighten her body, and kept using both hands and feet, first grasping the stable stone with both hands, and then pushing the center of gravity over with her feet.Anka followed her on the left side, did not support her, but carefully protected her, and if she saw a violent falling sand, she would press her down.They stopped at every step, and walked for a long time on a short slope.Anka climbed up the stone platform first, then stretched out his arms, and pulled Luo Ying up as well.

Luo Ying was still in shock, she sat quietly for a while, then cleared her throat, and asked in a low voice: "We can't go down now, can we?" Anka pointed to the swirling sand grains and said, "It's too late, the wind direction has changed. Flying down now is courting death." "Then what to do?" "Let me discuss it with Longge later." Luo Ying poked her neck and looked down the mountain.The mining ship was still at the bottom of the valley, but they had been caught by the wind and landed on the east side closer to the entrance of the valley.From a distance, the mining ship looked more like a bulky turtle, slowly crawling towards them on the ground.The wind and sand were still sweeping in front of us like an orange curtain, and the temperature dropped rapidly.They were about 30 to 40 meters above the ground, and the rock wall was so steep that it was impossible to jump directly.Anka kept shouting into the communication microphone, wondering if the people in the boat could see them.The wireless communicator is very simple, and the communication distance is only tens of meters.At first there was no answer, and it was not until the mine ship drove to their feet that Longe's voice came out of the earphones.

"How are you? Are you okay?" "I'm afraid we won't be able to go down today." Anka told Longe clearly. "Is there enough oxygen?" Anka looked down at the indicator on the oxygen cylinder: "Enough. It will be no problem until noon tomorrow." "Where are you staying? Is it safe?" "It's okay. I just took a look when I came up. It's an abandoned small cave, and there is still room inside." "That's how it is," Longe said, "You guys make do with the night up there, and we'll find a way to pick you up tomorrow morning."

"Actually, we're fine." Anka said, "You can go back and find someone to pick us up tomorrow morning." "Do you not trust me?" Long Ge smiled. From the earphones, Luo Ying could imagine him grinning. "How come?" Anka also smiled slightly. "Then don't talk nonsense, we will wait below you, call us if you need anything." "Okay." Anka also agreed straightforwardly. "That's embarrassing." Luo Ying said softly, "It makes you unable to go home." "I don't want to go back." This time it was Mira's voice, "It's hard to come out to play once."

"Mila? Is that you?" Luo Ying asked quickly, "Did you get back to the boat safely?" "It's me." Mira's voice also revealed a smile, "It's back, but it's not safe." "What's wrong?" "Twisted foot." "Just now he and Ren almost rolled down," Longe explained for him, "Fortunately, they didn't break their legs." "Have you been rescued?" Luo Ying asked anxiously. "It's packed." Mira still looked nonchalant and full of smiles, "It's all right." "Tell me," Anka interjected suddenly teasingly, "when did you go out without any pretense? Do you still remember the hot air balloon in Barcelona?"

"Haha," Mira laughed happily, "Can I be blamed for that? Who can be blamed for the sudden heavy rain! It's unlucky." "We fell to the ground together, why did you break your leg?" "Didn't you break your bone that time in Tokyo?" "Would that be the same? Try an airport earthquake when you take off." "Another day." Mira said, "Let's fly to Mount Olympus another day, and I will definitely be able to fly higher than you." "You just put it lightly." Anka responded, "The highest peak in the entire solar system, that's no joke."

"You underestimate me. I've thought about it a long time ago. I want to go all over Mars. Haven't you been to Sailor's Valley? There is also the Great Horace Basin, which is estimated to be a hundred times the size of this basin." "Okay." Anka said with a smile, "I will go if you dare." Night fell.Luo Ying sat on the ground of the small platform, listening to what Anka and Mira said to each other, and watched the sun fade its last ray behind the west mountain.She hugged her knees and gently rubbed her calves. Her legs and knees, which were sore when she fell just now, began to ache. As soon as her nerves relaxed, fatigue and pain came to her heart.She looked at Anka, and Anka was smiling when she spoke, but she never stopped working nervously.He planed away the broken stones blocking the entrance of the cave one by one, moving the small ones around until there was a cave that could allow people to come in and out.

This is probably a wind-eroded cave, closer to the entrance of the valley than where they flew in the afternoon.The mountain wall turns here, the wind path is narrow, the airflow draws a strong and sharp curve for a long time, and a smooth cavity is formed between the huge rocks.Luo Ying followed Anka into the cave, it was pitch black, and the dim starlight only penetrated into a hazy trace, completely unable to illuminate the cave.Luo Ying groped along the wall, and could find traces of man-made work, such as grids on the wall, a pool surrounding the wall, and collapsed and damaged tables and chairs.The walls are much more detailed than ordinary rocks. Although they are not as smooth as urban buildings, they have obviously been polished.

Anka no longer communicated with the big ship, temporarily shut down the remote communication to save power, and began to prepare for the coming night.He unfolded a pair of wings that had just been folded and fixed them at the hole for the simplest protection, then sat down and began to modify the equipment. "It's too dark," he tried his best to point the flying motor at the starlight, "what can I do..." "what are you going to do?" "I want to disassemble a wing and connect it to both ends of the battery. The veins of the wings are good wires, which can be used as thermal resistance and keep warm at night."

"Can you modify the circuit?" "Not really. But fortunately, we built this aircraft together, so we know a little bit about it." "Then can you think of a way to change this?" As Luo Ying said, she took off the dance skirt outside the flight protective suit and handed it to Anka so that he could distinguish its appearance.The dance skirt was originally as light as nothing in the hand, but now it feels like holding a cloud of clouds in the dark night. "I think," she explained, "it's some kind of luminous material. I don't know if it will light up." Anka touched the corner and nodded in the dark: "I think it's okay. Wait for me for a while." After he finished speaking, he stepped out of the cave, carrying a battery and Luo Ying's skirt, and leaned over to try under the moonlight.Looking out from the hole, Anka squatted on the ground with one knee, his black body was sharp and distinct, with only a slight silver light edge on the top of his head. Luo Ying suddenly felt very cold, and shivered uncontrollably.The air temperature had already dropped below zero, but she had been nervous just now and had no time to take care of it, only then did she realize that the cold had already sneaked in.They all wore only tight-fitting space suits without any special warmth.She guessed that it must be colder outside the cave, and Anka's figure remained still for a long time, and she began to worry, for fear that he would freeze into a black ice sculpture. Just when she was about to get up to check, Anka finally went back to the cave again. "Okay." He smiled at her. He held her skirt, it was shining in his hand, the light and soft halo was hemispherical, like a luminous shell.Its color will still change, and it flows slightly in his hands. With his cautious steps, it rises and falls, and the gorgeous and stunning stage turns into soft singing in the dark, and the color becomes more clear. Anka placed the temporary solitary lamp in the center of the room, and the two of them looked at the whole room with its faint light.This is obviously a living room. On the side near the inner wall, there is a table that is only half of the sandstone polished, and the wall that has been peeled off to only half of it still has nails for hanging coats and hats.The decadent desolation outlines the past recuperation. "Fortunately, it's here." Anka patted the wall and observed carefully from the fault, "the wall still has a layer of insulation and a radiation protection layer. If it really fell into the wild, I don't know if I can survive the night." past." "Then do we still need to keep warm?" "Are you cold now?" "A little." "It will be much colder at night." Anka said and began to flap his wings, "Come and help me." He spread out the two wings, the wings were too big to fit in the narrow space, and spread crookedly.Luo Ying got up to help, and the two of them carefully bent the two wings into an arc, supported them on top of their heads, and supported the two ends on the ground, like a shed made of leaves on an isolated island.Anka carried another accumulator, sat cross-legged on the side of the wing root, rearranged the complicated circuit connectors, removed two strands of wires from the wing veins, and connected them into a simple circulation.After a while, the greenhouse began to heat up slightly, and some light escaped through the translucent film and veins, illuminating the dark night together with the solitary lamp. Anka looked around to see that there was no problem, and finally sat down with a sigh of relief.They sat side by side on the ground, Anka asked Luo Ying if she was still cold, and put one hand on her shoulder. "We used up all the electricity, can we still fly tomorrow?" Luo Ying asked Anka. "Forget about tonight," Anka said, "it's a big deal to hang the wings out in the sun tomorrow morning." In the interdependence of the two people, the small cave becomes warm and pleasant, with a thin-winged warm cover and a transparent curtain.The gravel also lost its austere appearance and became gentle and gentle.The moonlight illuminates the edge of the cave, which is as clear as water.The protective clothing is tightly surrounded from head to toe, so that the two people cannot even touch each other's fingers through several layers of clothing, but the special pressure sensors added to their bodies can amplify all touch sensations, not only amplifying the roughness of the ground stones, but also Enlarge the support and collision of each other, so that there is a very strange and keen feeling of mutual dependence.Luo Ying rested her head on Anka's shoulder. "Longge and the others are very righteous." Luo Ying said softly. Anka nodded and said, "Yes. They are worried about leaving us behind, and it will be very dangerous if they can't find us when they come back." "Mira is also very affectionate. I think he's the happiest of us." "Yeah." Anka smiled slightly, "He is so happy that he can only be described as heartless." "Chenia is different. She has been unhappy." "I don't know her. But I think Thorin's right, she's a little bit of a stickler." Luo Ying turned her head to the side and asked: "Do you see that Sorin and Chenia are a little ambiguous?" "A little bit." Anka smiled. "But it seems that Sorin doesn't agree with Chenia's claim." "Probably the only one who fully agrees with Longge." "Longge is also very extreme. Recently, he has been saying that people are utilitarian. I don't think I agree." "There is a very oppressive old man in Longge's laboratory. It seems that his character is not very good. He has been suppressed several times within a few days after he came back because he mastered a project. But everyone else in their laboratory The old man is very flattering." "Really? I really don't know." "Well, it seems that Longge doesn't plan to work there any longer." Luo Ying sighed: "I can't explain why, it seems that many of us find it difficult to integrate back." "Yes." Anka smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's all a little... too high." "Do you agree with their revolution?" "I don't quite agree." "why?" "It's useless." "Are you, like Mira, distrustful of the revolution?" "It's not the same." Anka thought for a while, "I'm not talking about the revolution itself. I just think it's useless." "What does it mean?" "Well. They say that all problems are problems, but no matter how the system is changed, the problems are still there. It's useless." "This... I didn't think about it." "Then what do you think?" "I still hope to take some action. Although I don't know what way is better." "yes?" "Didn't there be a director in the Earth delegation last time? He wrote to me later, saying that he felt that the way of Mars could change the crux of the Earth, and he was going to work hard to implement this way. I think his sense of firmness is very good. No matter what the result is, his sense of idealism makes people feel directional. I also hope that I observe and act according to a certain belief. That makes me feel very solid." "Then you agree with their proposal?" "No." Luo Ying thought for a while and said, "What they said is too vague. There is only a kind of burning enthusiasm, but what should I do, I feel like I haven't said anything." Anka stared at the tiny bonfire-like skirt lights, and said, "Don't you think it's very subtle? A person on Earth wants to save the earth in the way of Mars, and a group of Martians want to save Mars in the way of Earth." "Well." Luo Ying nodded, "Actually, this is the most confusing part. What is the relationship between these two worlds? We have heard since childhood that the earth will transition to Mars sooner or later, saying that once the earth is rich in knowledge to a certain extent, They will definitely ask for a summary and exchange spontaneously, just like on Mars. But on the earth, it seems to be the opposite, saying that Mars is just a city too primitive, and when it becomes complicated, it will definitely become the earth. Who is the primitive stage of who, I am now Completely confused." "I think these are the words of theorists. No matter what kind." "Does that mean no one is good and no one is bad?" "It's about the same. The war was fought like this at the beginning, and it developed like this. There is no difference between good and bad." Luo Ying also looked at the faint light that was as light as a sunburst, and seemed to see a phantom through the night, and said softly: "This is also an important reason why I cannot easily agree with Longe and the others. Whether it is good or not, in history, my Grandpa and his friends have worked so hard for this system. I don't want to simply oppose them." "I've heard. People were still very idealistic back then." "Yes. I read some speeches by Grandpa Garcia and articles by Grandpa Lang Ning. At that time, they didn't consider binding people together. They just said that the database is an ideal of justice and communication. Human knowledge is Common wealth, everyone should have the right to approach and choose, just like the right to freedom and survival. He also said that only communication can ensure that different beliefs can survive, and there is no need to kill each other, and the database is the best pair of beliefs The guarantee of freedom allows people to truly express their opinions without being bribed by life, and their opinions on politics can indeed be heard by everyone.” "They probably didn't realize at the time that there are still so many people who speak falsely." "They might be able to, but there's still hope. It's really idealistic." "Yeah." Anka was silent for a while, then said calmly, "I don't have this kind of idealism." Luo Ying looked at his side face behind the mask, not knowing what to say.Anka's calm made her feel unexpectedly sad. She wanted to say some words of comfort, but when she said it, it became: "I don't know if the wind will blow or not." Anka looked at the entrance of the cave, stood up, stretched out her hand to pull Luo Ying to stand up too, and said, "Go and have a look." When they came to the entrance of the cave, the wind seemed to have stopped outside the cave, and the wind and sand that had been raging for the entire evening had gradually settled.The night seemed very peaceful.Runge's ship had shifted slightly, closer to the col next to the rock face, but it was still in view. Anka surrounded Luo Ying from behind, and they leaned against the mountain wall and looked up.The moonlight shines from one side, drawing silver borders on the sides of the two people's bodies.The dark night sky above the head is full of stars like a sea, the stars do not flicker, and are bright and eternal.The prosperous landscape smoothes out the identity, and apart from the Milky Way, there is not much difference in other celestial structures.Whether it is the accreting black hole hundreds of millions of light-years away or the Magellanic Cloud that is close at hand, they are all equally subtle and shining, with no violence, history, or birth and death of stars.Only the dense and brilliant silk screen is laid out quietly above the heads of the two people, calmly but warmly soothing the bewildered looking up on the ground. "Do you know those constellations?" Luo Ying asked Anka. Anka shook her head. "Then can you find Earth?" Anka shook her head again. Luo Ying smiled regretfully: "It would be great if Zeta was here." "It is estimated that he will not know him when he comes here." Anka said, "He is studying cosmology, and it is said that he does not know a single star." Luo Ying suddenly wanted to hum softly the song she sang before.When the storm and dust settled, the longing for stability returned to my side.Starlight is the same as singing, erratic but calming.The air couldn't carry the sound, she sang in her heart. "I quite like those ancient sayings." Anka said suddenly. "Huh? What's the saying?" "It is said that when a person dies, he becomes a star in the sky." "I like this too. Those people in the past, those people who died and disappeared, I always think they are stars. It is said that there are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way, which is almost exactly the number of human beings who have lived." Anka smiled: "This kind of statement is troublesome. There are more and more people, but the number of stars is not the same." "But it's fun to think about it that way." "Yes. Indeed." Anka nodded, "If a person just throws himself into the world, completes a mission and then returns to heaven, life will be much easier." "Yes. It will be much easier." Looking at the valley at night, they remembered the future journey they had talked about with Mira in the evening, and began to plan for the future involuntarily.Anka said he was really looking forward to seeing Mount Olympus, and wondered what it would be like to fly and look up at that height.The places Luoying most wanted to visit were the river network on the northern plains and the Ravi Strait south of the equator.My brother said that if the water from Ceres were to be brought down, it would be most appropriate to drop it into these ancient river channels.She wondered what those river channels looked like, and whether they would be like real rivers if they were filled with water. "Maybe we can go to other stars one day, like the people in Gushen Town." She said softly. "How is Gu Shen doing?" "It has left the solar system safely, and everything is going well." "The next batch of voyagers is about to start selection?" "It's probably not very likely." Luo Ying shook her head, "And the next few batches will be senior astronauts and experts. If it's our turn, it may take ten or twenty years." "That's all right. Where there is possibility, there is hope." They began to concoct plans in their discourse, reciting distant names as if they were reciting ordinary streets.How many kilometers, how much time is not very clear, just let the words gallop to the hopeless hope.In the distant sky, strange planets lit up one after another, dangling above their heads with stick figure-like abstractions. The deep and swaying night gave Luo Ying the feeling of flowing thoughts that she hadn't found for a long time.During those days when she was convalescing in the hospital, when she was reading alone on the rooftop at night, she had been immersed in this calm water power many times, it was a sea tide lurking and flowing under the dark skin, He gave her courage and led her to find the direction. The starlight above her head was like a diamond of time, suddenly awakening the memory buried in her heart.She recited a passage she liked so much that she read from the book very smoothly—smoother than she imagined—: The soft and clear voice floated in the earphones, like an inner monologue, Luo Ying slowly recited it, and Anka listened carefully.The night was ethereal and silent, and they were silent for a long time, unwilling to break the simple determination that arose in the two of them at the same time.They don't want to speak, all language is superfluous.The valleys of hundreds of millions of years and the abandoned past spread quietly under their feet, which is their best and best support at that moment. Back in the cave, it took them a long time to actually fall asleep.The bodies rely on each other, and the movements transmit each other.As long as one person moves a little, the person leaning on him can't help but laugh, and the smile will be transmitted back, and it will be even more unstoppable.They were about to fall asleep and wake up several times. After tossing and tossing for a long time, they were so tired from laughing that they all fell asleep somehow.