Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen

He obeyed the order of the mysterious man and continued to live in Benito's house, waiting for news.Mindy told him that the Solar Fleet was on standby, but nothing about the UFO.They never heard from Captain Brunn again from the Martin Cowan, nor did the monitoring station on Neptune. Benito Baraka had gone to the mansion early in the morning and they had breakfast together. "It's all natural," she said lightly, as if unwilling to touch her heart. "I'm starting to like man-made nutritional supplements, but Benito doesn't like them." Orange juice, ham, salted eggs, and cookies with jam. After he tasted these man-made foods one by one, he understood why they took so much effort to adapt the pigs and chickens to the environment here.During dinner, she asked him how he had left old friends like Clay and Jomo.

"I worry about them—" Then the phone rang. "Mindy!" A loud voice came from the computer. "Mindy! Calling from Sky Tower." She picked up the phone suspiciously, bit her lip tightly, and said nothing.She turned and said to him in awe, "Will you go upstairs for a while?" Sky Building!He suddenly felt trembling all over, and all his hopes and dreams radiated light again at this moment. "Who's calling?" "People from the Sun Empire, they will still call, and things will be arranged immediately." He fell into waiting again.He didn't dare to think about what would happen immediately, let alone whether his hope could be realized.The phone rang again, telling them to leave.

"Quinn, be careful!" Mindy involuntarily stopped at the door for a while, grabbed his hand and said, "Whoever it is, you have to be careful. Maybe this time is a godsend for you, but —You have to remember: everyone here is playing a dangerous game!" "But it's my idea, why?" Quinn muttered. Sky Tower has its own docking port for spaceships far above the grid.On the pier, they met a guard wearing a turban, and the guard saluted Mindy neatly.Mindy told him they were invited guests. "If you're—" He stared at Quinn closely, took out a laser counterfeit detector to take photos on their badges, and took a photo of their earlobes with a blood type scanner, and let them register.He said a few more words in a language Quinn didn't understand before letting them pass through a transparent barricade to meet another bearded guard.

"Quinn?" His black eyes sized him up, and there was no sarcasm in his words, "Come with me." He turned to Mindy and said, "Don't worry." "Thank you, Captain." She looked at Quinn and said, "Be careful!" "Quinn, come with me." The captain led him to a deserted house to wait.This room is not as magnificent as the hall of Baraka's house, but he still has an ominous premonition of being watched when he stands alone in it.One high wall is a computer-simulated window facing space, looking down on Earth from Skynet.The earth looks very realistic, half of which is the hazy shadow illuminated by the moonlight, and the other half is the bright light of the bright sun, and the earth stands out more beautifully against the boundless dark space around it.

Skynet is exaggeratedly simulated as a glittering golden net extending infinitely from the Earth's equator into space.The yellow diamond beads on the skynet represent cities in space, and each city is anchored by a spacecraft of the Solar Empire, and the ship is marked with where on earth it came from. On the opposite side of this wall hangs a large computer simulation head.The portraits are all generations of the Kewan family and the Chen family.Quinn found that these people had some common physical characteristics: a Romanov-like nose and slightly hanging eagle-like eyes.When he walked into this room, they seemed to turn their heads sideways, and their gazes fell on him like hawks.

There was a small table surrounded by chairs.He was so upset that he didn't dare to sit down. Standing in a corner of the room, he was almost overwhelmed by the haughty giants on the wall. He turned around uneasily, looking enviously at the glorious map of the empire they had created with computer simulations. "Quinn?" A harsh voice startled him. "You are Quinn?" A tall old man came out of a door beyond the desk.His sun mark has turned into a pale yellow moon, looming in the sparse and messy beard, Quinn can clearly see the Romanov-like nose on his face, and those eagle-like eyes are looking at him up and down, and he can't help it He gasped.

Ferlando Cowan!He already knew the face from the portraits on coins and historical films.Sun giant! "You belong to Naya—" His old voice sounded uncertain. "Naya's child?" "Sir—" His voice was a little hoarse.He took a sharp breath. "Naya is my mother. I was born on the ship Alder Barron. I arrived at the Aperture Station three weeks after I was born." "Then you are my son." The sun giant shook his body and looked him carefully. "Good boy," he said in a dignified tone, "come here." Quinn felt that he walked lightly.He walked over to the old man and hugged the old man gently, and smelled a strong medicinal smell emanating from the old man, as if his skinny bones had already decayed.

"Come with me," the old man's voice was hoarse, but still very dignified, "Let's sit down and talk." Quinn followed him, through the door on the other side of the desk, and came to an office that was slightly smaller than the previous one. Maps, video screens, spaceship models, ancient paintings, and bookshelves hung on the walls of the office. Wearing an old thread bound book.Quinn felt that everything was weird, as if it had long been out of place. "Old, old!" gasped the giant, lying in an equally ancient chair. "Everything is old. This room, this company, even this chair." He paused, motioning with his pale eyes to the aged, scarred elm chair resting on his trembling hands. "Ivan Kirwan bought it in Hong Kong."

He gasped again. "You sit." He pointed to the chair next to him. "I have arranged for the two of us to meet alone." Quinn sat down, his heart pounding. "I never knew I had a child like you." Quinn seemed to see a tear in the old man's eyes. "How I wish your mother would tell me." "She never told me who my dad was either," Quinn said. "I found this photo in the lab where she was killed." He handed over a photo of his mother. "There's a phone number on the back." The old man took the photo with a trembling hand, looked at it over and over for a long time, then blinked his pale eyes, and returned the photo to him.

"You are my child." His thin face was twisted. "I wish your mother would have told me while she was alive." For a long while he didn't speak again, and Quinn felt a tinge of genuine pity in his silence, tempering the sudden sympathy and sadness for his mother. "But maybe this—this is better." He shook his head, gritted his teeth, and said grimly. "I can't recognize you. I can't recognize you now." The aged giant seemed to sigh. "Maybe even if your mother is still alive, we can't be called father and son." "Sir, as you please!"

"You don't have to call me Mr.." The old man smiled haggardly, and continued, "My wife's name is Chen Meiling. We married early.I didn't meet your mother until many years after marriage.My wife was still beautiful then, but we were not united by love.My parents' plan is to marry the Chen family to help them regain the power position of the Sun Empire.This is definitely a sad mistake, because the Chen family never let her forget that she is the daughter of the Chen family. "For Jason, we quarreled for the first time." He nodded towards a small alcove beyond the wooden bench.In an alcove enshrined a handsome bronze statue of Jason, with a haughty smile that Quinn knew so well.His half-brother—the thought shook him, and it was very unpleasant. "She hates me because I took Jason to space and went to the aperture adventure together. She wanted to keep her son by her side and become a true member of the Chen family. When I sent him back, he was already It was branded with our Kirwan family. For that, she never forgave me." He shrugged and said, "But I didn't care at the time." He took a deep breath, and continued: "I was young and energetic at that time, and I only wanted to wander around the earth. I was fascinated by mountains, seas, forests, and deserts. These magnificent landscapes are rarely seen in space. , I even fell in love with the people on Earth and enjoyed dealing with them. I was good at this. I used to visit my friends on Earth, talk to humans on Earth, and fight to the death with the Revelation. "That's how I met Naya. I was infected with a virus from the earth. The earth is overpopulated, so various viruses are rampant. The doctor called Naya in - she is a researcher on mutant viruses. An expert, she is engaged in this research mainly because she found that her genes are not suitable for surviving in space. "During my recovery, we fell in love." The light in his eyes gradually softened. "I had intended to keep her with me as my personal physician, intending to—" He shook his thinning head regretfully. "At that time, I just came to power and didn't know how to exercise power." His two thin lips twisted even more and tightened. "People from the Chen family jumped out to criticize me. My wife humiliated me publicly. Despite the bitch - and because of the bitch - I need Naya.I beg your mother to help me muddle through this.But she is so proud, so proud. " He heaved a long sigh. "She disappeared, took a rescue spacecraft to the aperture, and never heard from her again. I only found out about this later." His voice sounded trembling. "She didn't say a word about what happened after that, even when she got tired of living there and brought back a celestial fish to raise it; even when we went to Zurich to spend a wonderful night together, she didn't mention it. You, didn't even let me guess, until that day you called the secret phone number I left her." "Thank you, Dad!" He was so excited when he called out the word "Dad" softly. "I've been dying to know who dad is, I've been guessing - but it never occurred to me that you were my dad." "Child!" The old man's sharp eyes were filled with tears. "In you, I see the shadow of your mother. You are more like your mother." A sad smile flashed across his face. "How much I want—how much I want to recognize your son." He reached out his hand as if to touch Quinn, but the trembling hand finally fell limply on his knee. "I'm old, kid, I can't fight the Chen family any longer, I'm too old to do anything—" He shook slightly and took another breath. "My wife died two years ago, and she still hated me when she died. And Jason—" He felt as if he had been hit hard. "As soon as I came back from the aperture, I was eager to grab the class and seize power." "Daddy—" Quinn called out loudly this time. "I think there's still something you can do, he's incoherent with excitement. We need your help to re-power the Aperture Station—" "Everyone who got there has turned traitor," the giant interrupted sharply. "We are ready to evacuate the Aperture. The Solar Fleet is being ordered to evacuate the residents. Those who ask to stay there will undoubtedly have a dead end." "They still want to live there," Quinn pleaded bitterly. "They are all my friends, there are about a hundred of them, and they are all the hardcore members of our aperture. Clay is still there—Clay McLean, he's my stepfather." "Did your mother marry him?" His voice was less harsh, and began to soften, as if caught in a memory of the past. "I know Clay, but he married Naya. " "He loved my mum," Quinn said, "and when she decided to leave Aperture, he was sad. He's always been good to me. I love him too. Now they're dangerous, made by old machines. The energy is just getting by, and those machines break down a lot. I hope I can help them find new engines." "Unfortunately, it's too late," said the giant, frowning, "everything is too late." "Sir—Daddy—" Quinn weighed his words in order to keep Jannot. "I've heard the warnings of the Apocalypse, the silence of Station Neptune, and UFOs. If there's danger in the Aperture, don't we really need this outward-growing outpost? " "We have decided to evacuate from there," the old man said displeasedly, "the reason is that the connection line in the middle is not smooth, Jason Cowan has encountered alien enemies, and now you have brought another panicky news, that the unknown monster swallowed Eating the wreckage of the long-serving spaceship Spica—" His pale eyes looked directly at Quinn. "Did you actually see that monster?" "Yes, that monster is very scary." He struggled to find the words to describe the monster vividly. "Looks like a scorpion with wings—I don't know why scorpions in space have wings. I saw it first melt the Spica spacecraft, and then suck the hot metal liquid into it." "It's true what I said—" "I'm not the suspicious Chen family." The old man stared at him and said coldly. "I have been to the aperture. Now I have also seen the information sent back by Captain Brunn last night, saying that a mysterious spaceflight is flying towards the Neptune station. photo of it." "Is that the monster I saw?" "You can take a look." He motioned him to look at the big screen on the wall. "The monitoring system found a UFO departing from the Trojan asteroid group. They sent out a signal, but no one paid attention to it, so they took a risky attack and intercepted it halfway. This is the picture captured by the camera." The screen was initially pitch black.Suddenly a faintly visible red dot broke in.The red dots gradually brightened and took shape, vaguely resembling the round hull of a ship.The monster's eyes are like towering towers, lavender in color, and its wide open mouth is vaguely reflected. Suddenly countless fiery white dots flashed on the screen. "They're blocking it with lasers," the old man exclaimed. "At such a short distance, the heat emitted by the lasers is enough to melt a cruiser like the Kirwan. But the monster is still flying forward." The image is continuously enlarged, and under the irradiation of the laser, it can be seen more clearly.The motionless wings are only half-open.The limbs are like a giant python, with triangular sharp claws.Its tail is like a snake, dragging a blue jet thing. "It's still flying forward." The old man exclaimed again. The image becomes brighter and brighter.Lasers pierced the shiplike body clad in black armor, crystalline wings and golden claws, but the monster didn't seem to be hurt at all. The display suddenly went black. "The information sent back from the monitoring station has been interrupted." Quinn didn't hear the words.He stared at the black screen, thinking that Metsoud and Raina Ladino would never sleep together again, and Vera Bruen carried her lost dreams , Turn all the planets into a new utopia for human beings - sleep forever! "What I saw," he remained silent, "it must be true." "And I hope it's just a fantasy." "What are you thinking now?" Quinn secretly looked into the giant's stern eyes. "Do you think the Earth is under threat?" The giant shrugged and said nothing. "Can the Solar Fleet—" "Fleet?" His voice suddenly became sharp, and he said helplessly, "Having a fleet is useless." The old man lay heavily on the chair again. "If the revealer knows this, it may be more terrifying than an unknown monster." "I have heard his warning." "So we have to keep this a secret." He nodded towards the monitor. "Do everything you can to keep it secret, not to anyone in the security service. If the secret ever gets out—and the Chen family might poke it out—the Revelator will kill us." He shook his head and smiled sadly at Quinn. "My child, you were the only bright spot in the darkest days of my life." "Daddy—" Quinn said excitedly, "thank you!" "We have to stop with silence, don't startle the snake, I will try my best to help you—" He shifted on the creaky chair. "But I won't keep you by my side. I'll ask the guards to help you with the sun sign. " He narrowed his pale eyes and asked, "Do you want a sun mark?" "Of course I would." "Son, you should think about it again." He frowned slightly. "If things come to light, those lunatics will definitely kill us." "Are you—" Quinn asked, "are you afraid too?" "They outnumber us ten thousand to one. We used to divide them by taking advantage of national, racial and religious differences. We bribed the elite among them to join us. Direct strikes. But we are in the same boat as them, symbiotic. If Skynet does fall, none of us will survive." "I still want the sun marker anyway," Quinn said. The giant stood up. "I think you will." His dark eyes lit up again. "Your mother's husband—what's his name?—is your real father. You leave his name here first. I'll send someone to help you make the sun mark." "But what I need most," said Quinn, "is for help with the aperture station—" "You'd better forget about the people who stay there." The giant waved his bony hand. "Quinn, there is one more thing," he said in a deep voice, "stay away from Baraka." The giant reached out and patted his shoulder with a trembling hand. "Son, you have to take care." He sighed. "Remember my number, keep in touch—" Suddenly the door behind the giant was pulled open, and Benito Baraka galloped in with a gleaming white dagger in his hand. "Be careful!" Quinn reminded the giant in shock.The giant grabbed the seat, turned around abruptly, and drew out a black pistol. boom!boom!Two shots were fired. However, at this time Baraka had already thrown himself on him, and the dagger stabbed frantically. The white knife was suddenly blood red.The dazzling red pattern slowly wet the giant's coat, his fragile body fell to the ground suddenly, and the pistol fell to the side. "Go to hell, old dog!" Baraka looked at the dead body on the ground with a grin. "God bless your sons." Quinn was about to pounce on him with his bare hands. "Take it—" Baraka was also shot.He coughed violently for a while, with bright red blood flowing from his mouth, he threw the dagger at Quinn and said, "Go to your Mindy!" After speaking, he ran towards the way he came. Quinn's mind was in a turmoil. At this moment, he heard someone screaming, and then a piercing alarm sounded. He looked down and found that he was holding the dagger tightly in his hand. Her heart ached for the newborn Seeker, a tiny child not a third the size of her dead prince.She licked off the last bits of the little thing's crust with her fiery tongue, regretting all its shortcomings. It has no sexual capacity, can never fall in love and bear children.It has no mind and will never know the glorious deeds created by its ancestors.It is dumb and will never learn to sing those old heroic hymns.And the most pitiful thing is that because of its natural frailty, it has to go out to find food for the later brothers and sisters. Yet it is her first child, and it is so vital to the family. She watched the little guy's delicate body move, and her heart was filled with sympathy and pride.She leaned down and murmured softly to awaken the little guy's instinct. "You are a seeker," she told it, "and it is your duty to find metals for delicacy. The heat you feel will take you to nearby planets in search of metals in abundance. You will taste to see if it tastes delicious. In your On your way, you need to find some hot metal to fill your little belly, and find some cooled energy to keep you flying. You need to bring home to me those delicious metals, and bring some sparkle Take the metal back to your prince-like brother and princess-like sister, and they will grow stronger and more beautiful after eating it." It didn't make a sound, as if it didn't understand that it was shouldering the important mission she entrusted.But she noticed that its little eyes were getting redder, and it understood her love.She watched it straighten up and flap its tiny wings, feeling ecstasy inside. "Son, these wings will be very useful to you when you grow up to attack alien planets, but you don't need them just yet." She stroked its tail to ignite what looked like a fledgling jet. It learned to fly, but bumped its head against the wall, sending up dust all over the sky.When she finally saw it fly away from the nest, her heart warmed. But it flew back quickly, with its mouth open, showing a very terrified look.It doesn't talk, it doesn't say what frightened it.She hid it deep in the nest, and slowly poked her head out to see what danger there was.It turned out to be a mosquito. No, it should be a swarm of very tiny mosquitoes flying from where she devoured their equatorial stronghold.The animals are pretty much harmless, and maybe they haven't realized that this asteroid has her lair.She then tried to coax her terrified Seeker into flying again. "You gotta catch them," she encouraged it, "just as a practice. They're not very good food, but these clever little flying insects can make good companions when you're out hunting. " The little guy whimpered and wrapped his poor little tail tightly around her leg.She felt it trembling all over. "Child, child!" She stroked the faint flame in its belly. "They won't hurt you. They won't hurt anything. Go beat 'em, boy, beat 'em hard!" Red sparks illuminated its eyes again.The jet-set thing on its tail sent hot breath on her face again.It took off, and after weeks of circling restlessly in the air, it finally made its way toward the mosquito swarm. She was amused by the cocky swarm.Poor thing, who wanted to protect their planet with a fortress she had built, and now dared to challenge her brave little darling. As she watched the encounter, the passion in her heart rose one wave after another. Her little one wobbled when the swarm's toy lasers went off, but only for a moment before they came straight to intercept.She saw her baby's little tail pressed down, and a few sparks spewed out.Mosquitoes were instantly wiped out. A small victory, but enough to fill it with confidence.It looks stronger and braver.It continued to fly towards the nearby mosquito-infested planet. It became a brave hero in her mind! Her chest was filled with infinite pride.She crawls back into the delivery room to continue hatching those large eggs that will soon become princes and princesses.They will make the lair she builds more alive, more beautiful and more splendid.They would light up the future with the passion she had felt.But her first child will live forever in a lonely heroic age.She's going to sing this heroic hymn to her siblings, and she's going to sing it even after a climactic twist. Solar Politics: A set of power philosophies put forth by the heads of the Kirvan family to promote and strengthen their long-term dominance in the solar system.Sunpolitics is a complete departure from the path of democracy, relying on economic dominance, power politics and space missiles to defend the privileged position of the sun-marked elite over the masses.