Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

The medicine in his body was still taking effect, and the traction of Skynet made him even more exhausted.He didn't know what to do, so he fell asleep on the bed again.The door was still locked when he woke up.He got up and walked into the bathroom, only to find that the camera on the ceiling monitor followed behind him like a shadow.Hoping for news about Captain Brunn and the spacecraft, he tried to dial the videophone again, and a documentary was playing on the display. The narrator is simulated by computer, and he claims to be the "God of Skynet" Silin.Slim was blond, athletic, and thin, with sun marks on his face that shone like yellow diamonds.This short documentary is about mining on the moon that captures asteroids and comets and sends the ore back to Earth along the gravitational line.

"We are risking our lives for the happiness of the entire human race." Sling said with a smile, spreading his golden hands.In one hand he held an ingot of gold, and with the other he touched lightning. "We are the subjects of the earth, the contributors of metals, the contributors of energy, and the contributors of life." The image of Slim disappeared from the screen. "The following is the news about the Sun Fleet." Another news announcer with a hoarse voice appeared on the screen. "The Saturn station received a message from Admiral Jason on the Solar Kovan, which has been missing for several months. Previously, everyone speculated that the ship had been lost in the circle of light.

"It was mentioned in the news that they encountered a group of space aliens who had established a huge base on the inner edge of the aperture. This base once sent a powerful force to block our first expedition to the aperture. The expedition returned without success in 79 solar year, and our side suffered heavy losses. The Spica spacecraft was severely damaged, and the captain Bella Za and the entire crew were captured. "Admiral Jason said he would do whatever he could to rescue the survivors of these heroes of space exploration. Through the mouths of the captives who turned to the enemy, the alien enemies said that the two sides would not fight each other again, but would live together in peace, and promised that we would benefit greatly from their strange civilization.A hypocritical promise.Admiral Kirwan discovered almost too late that this was a trap to lure him into their base.

"Fortunately, Captain Bella has a good conscience and is still loyal to mankind. He managed to escape, sent a warning signal, and Admiral Jason escaped from the siege. Since then, he has been hiding by day and night Manhunt. Admiral Jason also mentioned another space battle, this time he shot down the same enemy ship that attacked him. Now he is flying across the orbit of Saturn, flying back to Cordobosi." "We are now using the sun Gifts in return for you.” Sunzi Slin suddenly appeared on the screen again, sitting in an ore bucket and sliding down the sky grid, his golden hands were full of various gifts, ready to be thrown to those anxious people waiting at the terminal of the Sun Empire.Quinn heard the lock click and the door opened, and Mindy was standing in the doorway.

"It's time for dinner, are you ready?" When she stared at him, those purple-blue eyes were full of warmth.She was wearing a golden dress with a green shirt over it, which made her more radiant, charming and delusional.However, the person he misses is Baraka's lover, who is always out of reach. "You should change your clothes." She brought him a baraka tuxedo.He put on his evening dress, which felt a little small and stiff, and was decorated with arrows and ribbons he didn't understand.When he came out of the dressing room, Mindy told him that the gold ribbon was the sun, and the green ribbon was the earth.She stretched out her hand to tie the ribbon for him, her eyes twinkling with joy.She was very close to him, her green bodice brushing against his chest.She is so cute and close at hand.She is the eternal pain in his heart.The fragrance of ancient wood emanating from her fascinated him.He couldn't help himself, and put his arms around her slender waist.

"No!" she screamed suddenly, as if hurt. "Do not touch me." "Mindy," he sighed, "how I wish—" She took advantage of the situation and broke free from his embrace. "This is not Jannot." Her voice sounded trembling, and there were tears in her eyes. "We're not who we used to be." "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry." He dropped his hands for her to fasten the ribbon. "Let's go," she said, "the guests will be arriving soon." But she stopped at the door for a while. "Be careful, Quinn!" she said, grabbing his shoulders with a trembling hand. "This is a serious test. People will do everything they can to get you to say things you don't want to say. The Cowans will use you." Go deal with the Chen family, and the Chen family will use you to deal with the Kewan family. I don't think Benito will welcome you," she said, biting her lips, reaching out to straighten the green ribbon , "I have this hunch."

She took him to a magnificent hall.The hall appeared larger than it really was because of the glass walls behind which were pictures of landscapes on Earth.He was immediately attracted by these landscape paintings.There are exotic flowers and trees growing on the vast and infinite green land, while the distant mountains are like clusters of peaks, straight into the sky. "Mount Kilimanjaro," she said, seeing him staring at the painting on the wall with fascination, "is in Kenya, Africa." He saw a water hole in the painting, and many animals came down here and waded into it. cave drinking water.He knew some of these animals from the picture books his mother gave him about Jannot, warthogs, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes by the woods, black lions dozing by the rocks.

Mindy pulled him away from the painting to meet the guests. Guests are dressed in different styles.Some had sun-marks on their faces, some wore insignia like his own, some wore uniforms adorned with medals of every kind, and some were bound with glittering silk threads and ribbons.The guests came from different races and countries, and he heard people's conversations like heavenly language. "His name is Quinn, from Aperture." That's how Mindy introduced him. People turned to look at him with interest, eager to talk to him.A man dressed in glittering gold came over, held his hand tightly, and shouted to the servant to bring wine, and wanted to have a drink with him.It was only later that Quinn knew that the man was General Chen.

After drinking, Mindy hurriedly pulled him in front of another group of people.After some introductions, he probably couldn't remember other people's names.Among these guests were envoys from all over the world, scholars, journalists, and artists.Hearing his name, they all showed a little surprise without exception, and then secretly looked at him curiously. Mindy looked surprisingly calm.She greeted each guest by name.Accept their compliments and kisses with grace and grace.He envied her and still longed to have her.This long-cherished wish, together with the desire to become a member of the sun world, pierced his heart.

Benito greeted him in bright black, green and yellow, and his white teeth stood out under his thick black beard.Quinn tilted her head to the side as he squeezed Mindy's hand and kissed it. When greeting him, Benito's tone was obviously more teasing: "Are you happy, Quinn? I wish you a happy life!" Benito and Mindy went together to welcome the seven new guests.Quinn stood there alone, feeling sad for a while. General Chen came over again and asked for a glass of wine for him.He couldn't bear to disobey the general's kindness, so he reluctantly caught it.Admiral Chen did not walk away immediately, but stopped to ask him about life in Jannot, and asked him how he thought human beings could survive in the aperture.Can all the elements of life be produced there?Or has the colony established in the Aperture always been dependent on ships from Earth for assistance?None of the Admiral's questions addressed the aliens in the aperture, nor did he mention the rebels, and he seemed particularly sensitive to the implications of his words.After Quinn answered a few words nervously, he began to ask how the Sun Empire ruled the earth.

"You're wrong." The general was amused by his veiled answer.Quinn wondered why the General's nose was so similar to Romanov's. "We never intended to rule the earth, rule would lead to rebellion. We don't even tax, tax would lead to hatred. "The so-called saints accuse us of totalitarian rule, but in fact we have filled the earth with freedom. More than 100 independent countries have the freedom to choose their language, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of legislation and justice. And we All that is done is trade." He suddenly pointed to Benito and said, "In space, the Baraka Brokerage Company is more useful to us than missiles. They trade in energy, our main export." His tone suddenly became hard. "Energy is vital to people on Earth. Without energy, they would all die, with their so-called enlighteners!" He snorted contemptuously. "We brought them the peace they dreamed of. Even if they wanted to fight, they could only use sticks as weapons. The reason is that we cut off their energy and ore supplies, so they couldn't make heavy weapons. Of course, although The Solar Fleet has everything we need, but we rely heavily on more sophisticated instruments. Therefore, trade is paramount. Without metal and energy, they will die." "As for diplomacy," he said, waving his hand towards Baraka's guests, "Our Sun Empire has envoys all over the earth, and we also welcome envoys from other countries to come to us. As for education, our enemies slander it for propaganda purposes, but in fact we invest in the best schools with top-notch teachers.In short, our company is an extremely efficient solar political machine.As for the aperture of your life, Quinn—" When the general said "Quinn", he emphasized it coldly. He stared at the part of Quinn's face where there was no sun mark and said, "We don't have the luxury What is obtained in the aperture, we are not afraid of the threat from the aperture. " Quinn deliberately pretended not to understand the general's loud provocation, and shifted his gaze to a white woman with plump breasts, fat buttocks and light black hair.This woman was dressed like the others, all topless, with gold-plated nipples. Sun Son Quinn, I heard you talk about solar politics. Her voice was as piercing as the admiral's. "I'm the editor in charge of the Solar Politics edition of the Pan Planetary Nebula magazine. I've been eager to have the opportunity to talk to you. I'm not asking you to write a paper. If you want to contribute, we welcome it." " He was never used to being around naked people.Despite his best efforts to control himself, her towering twin peaks dangled before his eyes.Seeing his fidgeting expression, she became more excited, grabbed her breasts and touched him. She asked him if he had actually seen a space monster that could swallow a spaceship?When he asked who told it, she went on to ask questions about his mother's death that even he didn't know about.Was the real intention of the bomb attack to kill Skyfish?Has he ever witnessed Tianyu imprisoned in the laboratory?Did he think someone had ordered the lab to be destroyed?In order to avoid the editor's barrage of questions, Quinn hastily joined the heated argument between two black youths without sun marks.They originally used a language he didn't understand, but when they saw his puzzled face, they switched to English.One person introduced himself as a journalist from Azteca, and the other person claimed to be a sales agent of Sun Empire San Feel.They ordered a drink for him and asked if he would mind a sun-mark. "Full elite consciousness!" The news reporter said fiercely, "Countless of us are genetically better than the giants, and we are fully qualified to have the sun mark. Who knows that they no longer issue it, except for those whose parents are both sun marks." The lucky few of the race. Totally racist." "Nonsense!" A professor of biochemistry interjected angrily.His sun-mark glowed red beneath his bushy beard. "If you look back in history, you'll see that the first sun-clans came from various peoples, that's true, but now the real problem is ecology. Like San Phil, we're using energy from space to regenerate feces. processing, thus creating a new ecological position that did not exist when people could rely on growing crops, hunting and fishing. However, the number of people that a new ecological position can accommodate is always limited, but the earth The population of the world has greatly exceeded this limit and has reached 60 billion, so it is bound to cause turmoil." He gave the reporter a cold look, and then said: "Sir, look at the Skynet cafes around you! If you happen to inherit the sun mark, of course you have a seat, but this is a situation without considering the ecological effect. Skynet Isn't it also full? No matter in the city in space or in the Sun Village, people are crowded everywhere." His chubby index finger poked the three people sitting one by one. "Friends, why you don't have sun marks, it's not the result of ecological effects." Quinn didn't listen any more, got up and left to look at the pictures on the wall again.Unexpectedly, when he turned his head, the woman with gold-plated nipples was slowly approaching him. Fortunately, before she approached him, Mindy greeted the guests loudly. There seemed to be countless dining tables in the hall.The banquet seemed to go on forever, with countless waiters, countless plates, countless knives and forks, and countless toasts to the sun giant. Next to him sits a curious Aztecan girl who says she makes documentaries.Sitting next to him was a sharp-tongued, diminutive man who claimed to be a solar prehistorian.The little girl kept asking him about his life in the aperture, and she said that she was looking for material for a film called "Island of Long Night". When she continued to question the unfortunate exile if he was afraid of unknown monsters in the dark space, he could bear it no longer, and turned to chat with the historian next to him.The historian said his research direction is the history of the rise and fall of the prehistory of the sun.He said that the extreme worship of democracy and freedom in this great country led them to embark on a suicide path. "Right!" He said the words as if cursing obscene words. "When all the people are in a frantic pursuit of what they call their rights, they often forget their duties. The foolish rights demanded by selfish and short-sighted people grow like cancers and corrode the healthy body of this country. Once the people lose their souls, the country will collapse, like Athens during the Peleponnesian War, like the Roman Empire." After hearing these words, Quinn felt even more baffled.You can't drink any more wine, and you have to be careful with your words, he reminded himself secretly, then turned sideways to see which fork the Azteca girl was using.Most of the words he overheard he didn't understand the language.He moved his gaze to the picture on the wall again, as if he saw that his long-cherished wish of becoming a member of the Sun Empire had now turned into a nightmare. Suddenly the hall full of voices fell silent.He turned his eyes and saw that General Chen covered one ear, stood up tremblingly, apologized to Baraka, and strode out of the hall. The stunned people whispered.It turned out to be information about the Martin Kirwan spacecraft.According to the information sent back by Captain Brunn, a UFO departed from the Trojan asteroid group to intercept the Martin Cowan. Both Mindy and Baraka rose to accept apologies from the rest of the distraught guests.Quinn also walked over and begged them to let him go. "Stay, Quinn! Stay!" Baraka said sarcastically, "Have a good time." Then Mindy took him back to the room without a word, locking the door again as he went.He didn't sleep well at first and had nightmares.He dreamed that his father fled to a planet in a spaceship.He went to look for it in a spaceship, and the lava from the volcano behind him hit him like a flood. In the middle of the night, he woke up once, vaguely remembering the string of phone numbers written behind his mother's photo. Thinking that he might be able to help him find his father, he fell asleep again, sleeping soundly, and didn't wake up until Mindy opened the door.His first reaction after waking up was to ask Mindy to allow him to make a phone call. "Go ahead." Her eye circles were a little dark.Quinn thought to herself, she might as well have slept soundly last night. "I'm afraid it won't help much." The videophone is equipped with a speech recognition system.Mindy spoke the phone number into the microphone. Quinn looked at the screen and waited beside him.He seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and the screen was just a silent blank.He was taken aback when the last voice spoke. "Who are you, please?" The screen lit up, a little golden spark, without forming an image.It was a man's voice, confused and a little impatient. "I'm Quinn." "Quinn?" The man's voice became hurried. "How did you know that phone number?" "I found it behind a picture of my mother that was taken a long time ago at a beach on Earth. She told me that Dad took it for her." "Who is your mother?" "It's Dr. Naya." There was a long silence. "Twenty years—" The voice from the microphone sounded very old. "More than twenty years—where are you?" "At Jannot's Aperture Station." "Now? Where are you now?" "In the house of Benito Baraka in Cordobosi." "Baraka?" The voice suddenly became sharp. "How did he treat you?" "He's not my friend, but he bailed me out from the security department." "What are you calling for?" "Because I hope—" he trembled with excitement, his voice became hoarse, "I hope to find my father." He took a deep breath and asked, "Who are you?" There was another long silence. He saw the golden spark on the screen flickering slightly, gradually turning pale. "You'll know later," the man said in a commanding tone, "Stay where you are." The screen went black. Snow Grey, Sparks and Greenweeney set off from Newmarch to raid the Seeker's Lair.They plan to take a break at the nuclear star monitoring station to replenish some energy. They were riding a small exploration ship, and the narrow hull became their world isolated from the universe. When they finally entered the beacon-fired area of ​​the monitoring station, she stepped on the brakes and prepared to enter the port.She called several times, but no one answered.Sparks and Greenweeney reluctantly slid into their respective cockpits to help dock the ship.When they went ashore, they found that the monitoring station had already been turned into a pile of ruins. "The queen came here." Sparks looked through the binoculars and said in horror, "No one was left alive." "Only the queen, who is as poisonous as a snake, is still alive." Greenweeney flicked her provocatively with his tail. "We were extremely lucky to get here one step late." They looked around, but found no one alive, and found nothing of use.Everything is so well disguised that it is impossible to see who turned the place into ruins.The energy storage jars were also blown up, and the liquefied energy had already vaporized.Snow Gray's two partners asked to fly home immediately. "We did run into trouble," Snow Gray admitted. "But we have enough energy to get us to our destination—" Sparks objected, "But we don't have enough energy to attack the Seeker's lair, and worse, how are we going to get out unscathed if our plans fail." "If we succeed, backup will come naturally." Snow Gray replied, "If the plan fails, we don't need to retreat completely." Spark was speechless, but her face was flushed with fear, and Greenweeney slipped into her cockpit to comfort her.Snow Gray started the spaceship, and in order to save energy as much as possible, she threw all the extra things in the cabin into space. They sped up again, heading for the asteroid where the Seekers were haunted. Sky Building: The sky residence of the Kovan family and the official residence of the Sun Giant, built at the same time and place as the quarter-G plane Kodobasi Pasi Skynet, is a skysite with a secret port, and it is said that there is a secret passage to enter .