Chapter 16 Chapter fifteen

Quinn was terrified and stood there in a daze, watching the giant's dead body slowly slide down from the chair and fell into a pool of blood. He stretched out his hand to support the fallen dead body when he suddenly found the bloody The dagger was still gripped in trembling hands. He hastily dropped the dagger.The dagger slammed into the wall with a bang, and then bounced into the blood stains at his feet.He took a sharp breath, the air filled with the smell of blood.The alarm sounded suddenly again.He heard the sound of footsteps running towards the hall where the giant received him. The door beyond the desk was tightly shut.He swooped in and pulled it away, only to find it was a bedroom.The bedroom was small, solemn, and as quaintly decorated as the office.There is a narrow bed, an old wooden chair, and bookshelves on both walls.He finds a trail of blood on the floor, which disappears behind a screen on a high wall.

The screen turned out to be a movable secret door.He pulled the screen away, and a dark passage appeared behind him. The faint light shone on the metal floor of the dark passage, and bloodstains could still be seen. The blood of Benito Baraka! With sticky hands, he closed the big screen behind him again, and then jumped into the dark passage.He had just turned a corner when he saw Baraka staggering ahead.After walking a few steps, Baraka fell down. Seeing Quinn chasing him, he simply sat on the ground slowly, with his back against the wall, showing a sneering grimace. "Long live—" He gasped, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. "Long live Santessimo—"

Baraka leaned his back against the wall, coughing harder. Quinn paused for a while, when the alarm sounded again, louder, and the cries of people were getting closer. He didn't care much, and panicked, and turned towards another bend. There seemed to be no sign on the black metal wall of the tunnel. Finally, he found a place that protruded upwards. It was a door that could be opened. There was something pressing on the door. with. He pushed the door open with all his strength, and jumped up.He closed the door again and turned to find himself jumping into a small square.He saw six upholstered seats inside and understood it was a space sedan.

He was shaking and could hardly breathe.He leaned against the window and found a row of illuminated buttons with instructions written on them: Port, Skylab, Sky Tower, Kodo, Security.He marks "Spacelab" with his stiff, blood-stained fingers The lettering button was poked. "Passengers be careful, speed up the car, pay attention to safety." A cold voice came from the indicator. He picked up what was pressed against the door and threw it on the seat next to him.The car flew sharply into the air.He looked at the thing on the seat next to him. It was in the shape of a small flat box, brown and elastic, with two gold letters "BB" printed on it, and it exuded a fragrance that he liked very much.Maybe it was leather, he couldn't be sure, because leather was rare in Jannot.There was nothing in it but a case, perhaps for a baraka dagger, Quinn guessed.

When the car flew up, the pressure inside the car was so great that he felt like his whole body was falling apart.Perhaps it was because of the pain caused by the killing of the father who had spent his whole life looking for him, just half an hour after he met him.His father was fierce, calculating, ruthless to his enemies, Quinn thought, but there was a sympathetic side to him, too.He is old, forced by current events, facing the collapse of the space empire that he has worked so hard to do, but he is powerless, not to mention the tenderness he shows to his mother, and he is also full of infinite concern for himself.

But he died. Quinn clutched the armrest of the seat tightly, feeling so helpless and confused, there were too many things he couldn't understand, what was the motive of Benito Baraka's murder?And how did he arrive at the secret tunnel of the Sky Tower in his private car, and sneaked in just when the giant ordered no one to enter?Is he a saint terrorist who worked for the Revelator?Is it an accomplice of the Chen family who is at odds with the Kewan family?Or a tool of a coup d'état, a vanguard for Jason to seize power?Where's Mindy?Did she know that the giant would be stabbed to death?He didn't dare to think about it.

What should he do now?Quinn felt hits like never before, too many, too soon.His long-cherished wish unexpectedly came true.He found his father, he will soon have the sun mark, and maybe there is a glimmer of hope to rescue his friends in the circle of light, but now all these are smashed by Baraka.His father's blood was still wet on his hands, and he became the target of public criticism. This car is also a mystery. Is it the car that the giant is traveling secretly?Maybe he used it for a tryst with his mother a long time ago?Maybe the giant himself didn't know that it was secretly placed here by the people from Sun's security department?The car continued to fly upwards and finally reached a corner.Skynet's pulling force became weaker, the car turned over and flew in another direction with him full of doubts.

How far will it take him?Going to port?That's too dangerous, go back to Kodo?He couldn't help but want to meet Mindy.But she was—Baraka's lover?agent?He shivered. He was a wretched stranger in the space city, for his face was less conspicuous than the sun-mark, and he would be betrayed and hunted wherever he went. What about the space lab?At least there was still a chance of escape.Until the committee appointed by the dead giant makes a ruling on Tianyu, it will be sealed there, maybe he can hide there for a while.The car stopped, and the door slid open silently, revealing a flat door.He listened for a while, holding his breath, but heard nothing.He pushed and the door opened.Inside the door was pitch black, reeking of pungent chemicals and smoke.As soon as he stepped into the room, the car door automatically snapped shut.The car sped away.

He stood alone in the darkness, he couldn't see anything at first, and after a while, he noticed a dim light above his head, and his eyes slowly adjusted to it.Through the dim light, he noticed that there were high partitions all around, and some rotten tables and broken chairs were leaning against the partitions in disorder.This is Thorson's laboratory! He turned around in this dark laboratory, and finally found a sink to wash off the blood on his hands.His clothes were also splattered with blood—no, Baraka's—and he breathed a sigh of relief. Not far from the laboratory was the blurred shadow of the unfinished spaceship.He stepped into the shadow cast by the spaceship, listened and looked carefully, but there was no movement around him, so he walked boldly towards his mother's laboratory.

Tianyu is still imprisoned there.It was a flat, dusty mass, dead—but the last time he was with Mindy it had moved a little bit.He didn't see Tianyu's face last time, this time he found it facing the door.He couldn't help taking a few steps back.However, he kept reminding himself that maybe Tianyu didn't notice him coming. Skyfish never breathes, so it doesn't need a nose, and it never eats - according to his mother's observations - so it doesn't have a mouth either.Because it lives in space without air, it has no vocal organs and no ears.They use the spectrum they emit to communicate, and the wavelengths of the spectrum range from infrared to visible light. His mother believes that Tianyu uses complex changes in the wavelength of the spectrum to transmit and receive information.

Tianyu's face aroused his interest.The eyes were slightly larger than a human eye, with gray lids and closed vertically.The gray face was graceful and rope-like, tapering from top to bottom to a single point, like a man's jaw.There are three weak and boneless fingers growing under the chin. He wondered what Tianyu would think.Is it a human being who swims out of the aperture to invade space for some purpose or on impulse.He wanted to know why Tianyu was so stubborn, whether it was being tortured cruelly and mercilessly by others, or being coaxed by his mother's tenderness, it still kept its mouth shut.His initial shock at seeing Tianyu was slowly overwhelmed by the sympathy welling up in his heart.Now he is also a lonely fugitive, sharing the same illness as Tianyu. The cage holding Tianyu was locked.He followed the wires to the switch on the wall. The switch is several meters away from Skyfish, so it cannot reach it.On the floor below the switch was a pile of books, a notebook full of data, and a small microphone.These things must have been put there by his mother during her lifetime. He flipped the switch, and the lock of the cage snapped open.He walked nervously into the cage.Tianyu didn't move.He walked over and knelt beside Tianyu, feeling a little scared in his heart.He smelled it again, faint, mysterious, pleasant. He stretched out his trembling hands and touched the sky fish.Tianyu's gray skin was as smooth as silk, neither hot nor cold.He touched its drooping wings and felt elastic.He didn't feel Tianyu's pulse.Tianyu didn't even shake, and didn't respond at all. "Hi—" he said in a husky voice, "my name is Quinn. Dr. Naya is my mother—you know my mother. I think she's trying to help you. I'm trying to help you too, As long as you tell me what you need—” He felt no reaction. "Do you hear what I'm saying? Can you give me a hint?" Nothing happened. "People must have been cruel to you," he leaned down, getting closer to Tianyu's strange face, "The people from the fleet, the people from the Sun Company's security department. But I'm not from the security department. The security department People are after me because they suspect that I killed the sun giant. If we were friends, maybe—maybe we could help each other." He touched the thin gray wing with his hand, still dead silent. "I'm from Aperture, too." Could it not hear what he said?Quinn thought, and he let go of his throat. "There I saw a terrible thing, terrible, much larger than any spaceship. I saw it eat the Spica. The Spica is our space exploration ship, hijacked by aliens in space After dismantling, it first melted the Spica, and then sucked the solution into the body. "Did you hear me?" No response at all. "Now this monster is flying here. It first attacked the equatorial transfer station connected to the aperture, and then destroyed a cruiser that was going to intercept it. You know—" he asked louder, " Do you know what that monster is? What does it want to do?" Still no response. "I need your help!" he growled now. "You need help too. If we help each other—" He knelt on the ground and waited for a long time, but Tianyu's eyes were still tightly closed, and the eyelids that stood in a line did not move. Its graceful body lay lazily on the ground, and its slender fingers were gently held together.Quinn withdrew his hand from the sky fish's weakly drooping wings. "You don't believe me," he murmured, "but you have no reason not to believe me." He returned to the pile of books.In the dim light, he picked up the book titles one by one.There are science books, one of which is his mother's monograph on starbirds; there are geography books; there are astronomy books; there are biology books; there are history books.He found a book about Sun Corporation in the history books, the cover was already tattered, the title was "Hell Overhead: New Discovery". He moved all these books into the cage and put them within Tianyu's reach.But Tianyu didn't move his fingers. He brought the microphone back and set it beside the book—and suddenly there was a jingle. He froze on the ground in horror.The echoes from the four walls reverberated in the dark hall for a long time before slowly fading away.The outside door didn't open, no lasers flashed, no one broke in, and everything returned to silence.He breathed a long sigh of relief and recovered himself. "I thought it was my hunters coming," he said to Tianyu, "but I think they haven't found me yet. It must be the sound from the wall, the expansion and contraction of heat." Skyfish still didn't respond. "I'll stay here," he said to Tianyu, "until someone finds him." His captors are following him, how long can he hide here?The blood his father had spilled on Baraka's garment—a ray of hope suddenly lit up in Quinn's mind.Could anyone have mistook Baraka's dead body for his?If no one finds an exit, this possibility still exists. He shrugged, thinking to make the most of the time.So he didn't even close the door of the cage, and walked towards Thorson's laboratory.The spaceship was still on the ledge, stretching its wings into space.The hatch of the spacecraft is located in the cylinder and is installed under the folded wings. He climbed into the spaceship and turned on the lights.He only took one look at the cabin and felt dizzy.The cabin is more than ten meters long, with the kitchen bar on one side and the bedrooms covered by curtains on the other.The cabin was lavishly furnished to Benito Baraka's request. He climbed into the cockpit big enough for two pilots.All instruments are already functioning normally.An image of the entire earth appeared on the monitor, and Skynet terminals were marked in various countries on the earth, and one of the terminals was flashing green, which was Aztec. Is the spaceship ready for takeoff?He suddenly seemed to have been struck by lightning, and his confidence in escape began to waver.Can he start the spaceship?Can it be manipulated?Can the spaceship-can it carry him out of the space laboratory and away from the pursuit of the enemy?Could it fly straight back to Jannot?With these questions in mind, he walked down the gangway shaft, across the guest deck, and into a strangely shaped warehouse.There are many large-looking energy storage tanks in the warehouse.Here he found the propulsion device. Is the propulsion still functional?His heart was beating wildly as he checked.The oil pump and oil filter are basically equipped.The magnetic motor is also there.But where is the main magnet?There is no main magnet! Thorsen must have taken it with him.Without the main magnet, the spaceship would not be able to fly.The dream of escaping by boat was shattered at this moment. He stared at the propulsion device for a long time, still unwilling to reconcile, and continued to check the auxiliary system. He left the cargo bay and disembarked the ship to return to the laboratory, shaking with rage.It was cold and dark in the laboratory, and he found the switch above his head.As soon as the light was turned on, he found that the house was in a mess, and he could see that the master had left in a hurry. There must be engine parts in the abandoned model ship, Quinn thought.These spaceship models are mainly provided by Baraka Brokerage Company, Sudada Baraka and Mexico America.There is a stool in the room, and on the stool is a book with curled pages.A table is piled high with mechanical reference books and computer graphics. Maybe some clues to perfecting the propulsion can be found. With renewed hope, he set out to search for what he had learned.Although he doesn't know anything about the data recorded in the book with curled margins, he can understand computer graphics, but unfortunately none of them are related to the main magnetic field.Thorsen and his friends must have taken the most critical information with them when they fled. He found another small pile of covered objects in the corner of the laboratory, an open box, on a shelf above the sink.In this box he found a map of the distribution of the fleet's forces.He hid the picture on his body and continued to look for what he wanted. Time flies.He fell asleep leaning against the wall for a while, and was suddenly awakened by a clicking sound from the wall.He was too scared to make a sound, but luckily no enemies came.He felt relieved and went to see Tianyu.The sky fish in the cage was still lying quietly on the ground, but he knew that the sky fish had turned its head in a different direction. He brought the computer graphics to the ship and studied them carefully.He checked the oil filter and timer again as shown in the picture, reinstalled the small oil pump attached to the large oil tank, and after carefully studying the circuit table, he reconnected all the circuits.He started the computer, corrected the errors, made the appropriate adjustments, and finally the test showed that everything was normal.Now everything is ready.The most important thing is missing - the main magnet. Notice!A red warning signal appeared on the monitor.Main propulsion failed! He frowned blankly at the monitor.The computer has been programmed to fly to the Aztecs.There may be enough fuel in the tank for the entire voyage.With luck, the auxiliary propulsion unit could launch the little ship, but the fleet on high alert would surely spot him and intercept him at any point where he was about to land.He thought to himself, if this spaceship is equipped with the main magnet, if the fuel tank is filled, if he has interstellar beacons and space flight technology, then it is also possible to fly to Jannot.Without all that—he staggered out of the cockpit.The long hours of toil had left him exhausted and insane, and the bitter cold had made his feet cold and his movements sluggish.He wandered aimlessly in the empty hall, and then returned to his mother's dark laboratory.He couldn't think of anything else to do but sit and wait. He sat on the ground trembling, and finally fell asleep with his clothes on, and his sleep was extremely restless.He dreamed that he was driving a spaceship and flew to the place of hope—the Aperture Station.Jason Kirwan was closing in on him, firing a lasgun at him.In front of him, the nameless monster was devouring Jannot.The monster was getting closer and closer to him.It opened its blood-red eyes, raised its black claws and roared. The monster's roar turned into a gong-like bang. "Security department be careful!" He vaguely saw the red light flashing on the wall display, and a cold voice came. "Emergency Zero Red!" Another gong sounded. "Alpha!" Yellow, green, and dark red appeared on the display in sequence. "Security department beware! Emergency zero—" The sound stopped abruptly, the display went dark, and a completely different image slowly emerged.Skyfish! Skyfish wandered in the dark.It spread its wings, shining with silver light, full of vitality.It stared at him with bright eyes.Tianyu's straight eyes looked very mysterious. "Hello, Quinn." Tianyu's voice didn't frighten him.He remembered a voice much like his mother's.For a moment he wondered if this was another dream. "Quin, we speak to you, on the one hand, because you are a child born in the halo." Tianyu slowly retracted the silver light on his wings, and said softly, "On the other hand, because you have the Elder magic. "I have never spoken to you, not even to your mother, and I am speaking to you because you are facing a disaster that is more terrible than any disaster we have ever experienced." This little Seeker, her first child, is immensely proud and proud of her. Its younger siblings are about to be born.They may become far-reaching seekers, skilled laborers, nurses, or fearsome warriors.Some of them will be blessed by nature, more princes and princesses who inherit the good qualities of their ancestors. Although she will embrace the arrival of each child with a hundredfold enthusiasm, she will be more sincerely proud of her little hero, after all, it is Her first child was the first shock of life in her womb. "Be careful, child!" She told the figure of the child. "Watch out for your flying suit. Watch out for the gravity well that's too deep for you. Find us food and come home safe." The little guy patted his immature wings, as if answering.It flew towards the interstellar space, flying very fast. "Be careful, child! Be careful!" she reminded again loudly. "Don't waste energy. Don't take risks. You have to know your strengths and weaknesses." The immature wings flapped happily again.It continued to fly forward, still so fast.She didn't stop her child because she couldn't fly.No help can be given to it, no protection can be given to it. She could only watch it fly away.As she crawled back into the delivery room to hatch the other babies, her mind was still on the star-flying Seeker.She can be sure that although her child has never received any training, it can avoid the harm of mosquitoes and retrieve enough metal food to feed its soon-to-be-born siblings just by instinct.It's time for the child to return home, but she still hasn't caught a hint of it, eager to see through it.She began to feel restless, and finally, she simply dropped the red-glowing egg, crawled to the mouth of the nest and looked around, but she still couldn't see the child. She was shocked, and looked towards the asteroid group, but there was no trace of it there. She looked farther away, and a planet full of mosquitoes was making noise, and her heart trembled. She saw her heroic child. It is rushing desperately towards the nets woven by mosquitoes around the planet.Fear gripped her heart.Although the mosquitoes can hardly hurt it, it is not easy to escape from the net with the child's ability.It shouldn't be heading down, the gravity well is too deep and too dangerous.It should at least learn how to store energy in its body with skill, or at least learn to charge it in the vast glaciers of the polar regions. Maybe—perhaps it had learned to cope with it, because its talent and courage had impressed her.The mosquito swarm sent circles of extremely small moons into space in advance, and used these small moons moving at high speed to hang the sky net in the sky.Many small moons are luminous bodies, small in size but rich in food. It's headed for the little moon! It rushed deeper, closer to dangers that its tiny head could not imagine.It was cutting the wires connecting the little moon to the planet's equator.She had never seen it so nimble before, cutting each thread with just the right timing, just enough to use the inertia to throw the little moon back to its lair. What a feat!A feat worthy of celebration by all generations to come!There has never been a hero in any era in history who is braver and has made greater contributions to the family than the fledgling. Overwhelmed with pride, she began to forget her loss and pain, and she couldn't wait to begin to picture this new heroic deed in her mind.The story begins with the heroic death of her father, and the narrative traces her lonely flight from planet to planet, with the current hero being just a magical spark in her belly. She puts aside the sadness brought by its weak life, and the skit is heading for a climax.In a slightly comedic interlude, she laughs at the ignorance of mosquitoes.To the tune of the old hero's hymn, she looks for a fitting metaphor to praise her first Seeker's victory! The annoying buzzing of mosquitoes gradually died down.A lot of mosquitos fell through the idiotic skynet.And her little hero chased her all the way.Her own efforts were not in vain—fear extinguished the flames of her honor like a rainstorm.Her brave little hero flew too low and stayed there too long.The jet at its tail began to oscillate gently.It fell into the gravitational well. But she still hopes that the little guy can save herself.It should keep its immature wings away to prevent a swift blow from the enemy.It should continue to glide safely toward the polar glaciers, where it would use new energy to ignite its dying jets. It was still flying happily, unaware of the danger ahead.She watched as it was still flying around the planet, busily cutting the invisible wires.And those moon-like things broke free from the traction of the network cable and were flying towards her freely. She whistled terribly to wake her child, but it was too far away to hear it.She watched it fall, perhaps caught in an invisible net.She saw its delicate wings twisted, squeezed, and finally cremated. Its petite body rolled several times in the air, and finally carried a beam of flame through the dead atmosphere, falling towards the bright planet wrapped in boundless darkness. She knew that it would melt into a wisp of green smoke and rise slowly in an instant.She would look sadly at the wisp of smoke and think of this scene, which was not without irony.In search of the energy needed to fly, her poor little hero fell into a sea of ​​liquid and died without a drop of water. Her brave darling is dead - but it's not dead forever.She wants to turn her grief into laughter and laugh at those mosquitoes.They will definitely become more arrogant because the idiot Skynet has captured her innocent little hero, and they will be negligent in guarding against it, thus leaving her a chance to take revenge.Immediately, the indelible pride and pride of a mother was ignited in her heart. Survival philosophy: In the pre-technical era of human evolution, people often only survived by unrestrained reproduction or aggressive expansion.However, with the advancement of technology, this is tantamount to a road of self-destruction. Only after this problem is reasonably solved, can human beings continue to survive in the post-technical era.