A slum in a mountainous area in West Asia
A one-armed young man wearing a dust jacket stood on the mountain. He held a telescope and looked at the horizon covered by sandstorms in the distance. Finally, a transport helicopter flew in his direction through the unformed sandstorm. The young man showed joy and shouted to the slums at the foot of the mountain: "The alliance's relief supplies have arrived before the sandstorm hits! All men who can move are ready to help move the supplies!"
The young man nimbly slid down the hill, put away the telescope skillfully with one hand, took out the walkie-talkie, and asked: "Uncle, have you repaired the truck? We have to get the relief supplies and the elderly and sick before the sandstorm." Get out of here!"
It can be seen that although the young man is young and disabled, he is already the backbone of this slum. At this moment, an old man came forward. When the young man saw the old man, he turned off the intercom and asked, "Uncle, I am still busy repairing the car. Are you in a hurry?"
The uncle took out the old-fashioned handheld solar satellite TV with an antenna in his hand, pointed at the news on the screen and said, "Hassan, it's Lin Ao! He's on TV again!"
The young man was Lin Ao who made his friend Hassan in the slums. He took the TV from the uncle in surprise.
"The scene just now came from the colonial satellite Mycenae. Second Lieutenant Lin Ao of their defense force almost single-handedly killed the remnant HER party with two battleships. Mycenae hopes to use this to warn those space pirates who want to invade them. And the remnants of HER..."
"It's really Lin Ao! The last time he was on TV was months ago! Has his scene passed?!"
Hassan switched through more than a dozen channels and finally found the news that was still showing footage of Lin Ao's battle. Seeing Lin Ao's activity, Hassan first showed a slight expression of relief, and then frowned.
"Lin Ao, this guy has become so great. But...I don't know why I suddenly feel worried about him..."
…
In the hangar of the Osiris, the members of the humanoid weapon teams A, B, and Z lined up neatly. Lieutenant Anton stood in front of them, holding a brocade box in his hand, and shouted: "Lin Ao, come out!"
Hearing Lieutenant Anton call him, Lin Ao took a few steps forward. Anton walked up to him and opened the brocade box in his hand. Inside were two exquisitely crafted Covenant second lieutenant rank epaulettes.
"In order to reward your outstanding performance in the last battle, your military rank is now promoted to second lieutenant. Congratulations!"
Anton personally took off Lin Ao's military uniform with the original rank of warrant officer and put it on that of second lieutenant, and then took the lead in applauding Lin Ao. After the simple honoring ceremony, Edward stepped forward and put his arm around Lin Ao's shoulders and joked: "Brother, second lieutenant, can you get an extra large bucket of ice cream and a bottle of brandy every week? Remember to give it to me if you can't eat it!"
Natasha said: "Give him food! Let him eat until he is too fat to fit in the cockpit, so I don't have to go on an attack with him."
"Tsk! You bitch, why are you so kind and always give me the ice cream!"
Edward and Natasha were still arguing, but they both saw about dozens of strangers getting on the boat with their luggage.
"What's going on? Are there so many people here to travel on this ship?"
Lin Ao shook his head solemnly and said to them: "They should be newly recruited volunteers. They will stay on the Osiris and be responsible for logistics. The number of crew members should also be expanded in the past few days."
"How did you know?"
"Although Li Youde and the others haven't said anything yet, I can get some inside information from AI Toth. There are only seven or eight days left before the one-month deadline given by 'H', and the alliance seems to want to take the initiative to start a war before then, Maixi Ni and other independent colonial satellites will participate in the war as the Covenant's external forces. Although they cannot catch up with the first wave of battles, they must seize the time to prepare."
"Is it finally this time..." Natasha said.
Edward looked a little excited: "Ha! If the AI is destroyed, the war will be completely over."
"In about two days, the alliance will send a batch of plutonium-42. We drivers can also take these few days to have a good rest... So, let's have some fun in the city these days, how about it? I Go and apply with Lieutenant Anton."
Natasha nodded: "I have no objection. Let's finally have a good time with you two brats. To tell you the truth, Sergeant Bart has already proposed to me. I will retire and get married to him when the war is over!"
"ha?!"
Neither Lin Ao nor Edward expected that Natasha would suddenly announce their marriage, and they were so shocked that they had no time to congratulate her first. Edward opened his mouth wide and clapped his hands hesitantly and said: "Congratulations...that's not right!! It's too early to get married! And what do you mean, we two brats? You are only one year older than us. It's too early to get married." ! At least we need to date for a few years first!"
Natasha said with an attitude that you don't understand: "What do you know? Going to the battlefield together, experiencing life and death, can verify a person far more than ordinary interactions. Lin Ao can understand it, right? Didn't you also have sex with Elizabeth before? Married?"
Lin Ao nodded, and Edward looked at him sharply, then remembered that his brother was already a widower.
"It always feels like you joined the army just to find a marriage partner..."
"What are you talking about! I heard that you didn't want to board the Osiris, but you changed your mind when you saw Sima Qian, right? You're here just to pick up girls, right?"
Edward scratched his head and said awkwardly, "Who knew that Sima Qian fell in love with Lieutenant Anton... Let me tell you, when the war is over, I will leave the Osiris and return to New York, where there is still a nuclear war. I have to rebuild my hometown from the ruins of radiation pollution."
Edward and Natasha looked at Lin Ao at the same time. Lin Ao looked at the "window" showing the bright sea of stars. There seemed to be a thousand words in his eyes. In just a short moment, the light of hope flashed several times but disappeared in an instant. In this way, Then he said:
"I originally agreed with Elizabeth to go to New Rome with her after the war to protect her, witness and help her rebuild a peaceful country. If possible, I will return to West Asia to pick up the refugees who lived with me and go to New Rome to live together. But now Elizabeth and New Rome are gone... But I still have something to do. Elizabeth's sister is missing. I must find her and protect her on Elizabeth's behalf! Of course, it will also wait until H is eliminated. In the life and death of mankind, In front of me, I can put aside my revenge and search for Mary for a while."
Edward and Natasha fell into silence after hearing Lin Ao's words. Finally, Edward broke the silence. He rubbed his nose and said, "I heard that Lieutenant Anton will work as a reporter with Miss Sima Qian after the war. It seems that None of us in Team Z will stay on the Osiris after the war. Well, if it weren't for the war, none of us would be soldiers, right? I might be doing nothing on the streets of New York every day, and Natasha will become an excellent is a figure skater and Lin Ao is a pretty good cook, right?"
Natasha hugged her shoulders and said: "I will never give up on figure skating. I will represent Mycenae in the Olympics and win the gold medal. When the time comes, my overbearing queen sister will see the news reporting that her sister is for other people." When the country wins the gold medal, it must look ugly, right?"
"Wow...women are so scary."
…
That night, when AI Toth was browsing the vast and heavenly documents of the legendary era stored in his body "Spider Cat", he suddenly noticed that Lin Ao's heart rate had become strange while he was asleep. To be on the safe side, it crawled to Lin Ao's body. In front of the pillow, gently shake his head with one leg to wake him up. After shaking it for a few times, Lin Ao woke up with shortness of breath and found that it was Tote who had woken him up before he felt at ease.
Thoth asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I must be having a nightmare...Why did you wake me up?"
"Your heart rate gets weird."
"Have I never had nightmares before? By the way, this chip in my ear actually monitors my sleep?"
"No, it's just monitoring your heart rate. But your heart rate just now didn't look like you were having a nightmare. It was completely out of order. I thought you were about to die, so I woke you up."
Lin Ao rubbed his brow and said, "Thank you, but it's too exaggerated. It was just a nightmare."
"I'm curious what you were dreaming about."
"Does AI care what humans dream about? Electric sheep?"
"I don't want to hear your cold jokes. I'm just curious about what you dreamed about that caused your heart rate to become so chaotic."
Lin Ao thought for a while, and recalled the scene in the dream before saying: "Well... it is indeed a bit of a strange nightmare, no, it can't be called a nightmare. I dreamed that many galaxies, including the Milky Way, seemed to be swallowed up by flames, and all kinds of Weird things were fighting each other, and planets and stars like the sun could be destroyed casually. Then one...no, many...I can't remember what they looked like entered various galaxies. Then slowly Earth, all galaxies including the Milky Way became calm."
"You've watched too many science fiction movies."
"I haven't watched it recently! Now that I think about it, it's just a weird dream. Ah... I'm sleepy. I'm going to sleep. Good night."
The room became quiet again, Lin Ao returned to sleep, and the scene in the dream became blurry and confusing. When he woke up the next day, he only remembered that someone seemed to be arguing in his dream and mentioned "selfishness" and "necessity".
Just a meaningless dream. Lin Ao thought so, got up and walked to the sink.
