rx2188, at night, in a cave in a mountainous area in Tajikistan, a family of three cuddled together around a bonfire, trying to survive the cold night. The young children fell asleep in their mother's arms, while the parents looked tiredly at the weak bonfire and could not fall asleep. The family spent the night huddled in a cave, not because they were nearby herdsmen or poor people in distress. Their clothes were not flashy, but it was obvious that they were not cheap, and they must be middle class after all. But now they are disgraced and living here like refugees.
The mother looked at the child in her arms, sighed, and advised her husband: "Let's not run away and go back to China."
The husband said, "Go back? We are conducting human experiments, and the subjects of the experiments are still our children. Let alone going back to China, we will go to jail in any country we go to."
The mother said angrily: "It would be better for us to go to jail than for our children to starve and freeze now! It's not all your fault. You insist on using your son for experiments. The photons used for experiments were obtained from the black market without telling me." , causing us to be hunted down here! Why did I marry you in the first place? If you hadn't acted recklessly, we would still be researchers now, not much rich, but at least our children would not be controlled."
The husband knew that he was ashamed of his wife, so he spoke much less aggressively, but he was still justifying his behavior: "It was you who said you would support me in this research, and you were no less when I experimented with children. Can you help me? We worked together to successfully translate the text of the "Legendary Era", which clearly mentioned that photons can mutate human evolution. You kept saying that you would support me in this research! Didn't you say that you wanted to leave your name with me in history? ?"
"I was coaxed into helping you with your sweet words, but you didn't tell me that your photons were obtained from the black market!"
"You didn't ask! Don't you know how difficult this thing is? Don't you just take chances? What kind of rhetoric, I don't know you yet, just for the sake of fame!"
"Isn't it the same for you?? It's all because of you that we ended up in this situation! I'm going to marry you right now!"
The two of them quarreled several times in a low voice. Such quarrels had happened countless times during this period, and each time they ended in silence. After a while, the husband said:
"It's my fault...I was...too pushy. The field of photons is still an unknown area, and human experiments are still needed. My superiors will definitely not approve my research."
He looked at his son in his wife's arms and said: Let's go further west, to West Asia, where my friend Bashar is. He will help us solve the identity problem. We can find a village there to be teachers. It will be hard, but better than now. "
"What about your experiment?"
"Sigh... let's not do it for now. I decided not to interfere with anyone until Lin Ao grows up. I will wear a necklace containing photons on him. I hope that if I don't do anything, the photons will affect Lin Ao and let He evolves. When he reaches adulthood, we will see if he is willing to cooperate with us to continue the experiment. If it succeeds, we can leave a name in history."
"What if it's all in vain?" asked my wife.
"At least, at least we have contributed to the development of science. Today's human beings are still too weak to enter the universe, and evolution is necessary. Others may say that we are crazy or crazy, but we know clearly that we are Pioneer.”
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"Recently, the colonial satellite city-state "Xinloulan" was attacked by H. The number of victims reached tens of millions..."
"According to the Global News Network, refugee protests broke out in the "New Earth" of the More Chamber of Commerce*** because the More Chamber of Commerce did not give each of their families enough living space as promised. The following is an interview from the scene :
"Because they advertised that every family can get a separate apartment before coming here, I didn't choose the moon city to come here, but now we have to set up tents on the street! This steel earth obviously still has many residential areas, but they But they refused to let us live temporarily! On the contrary, the families of the rich and powerful were given a separate apartment! "
At present, Ms. Helena, a spokesperson for the More Chamber of Commerce, said that more residential areas will be opened as soon as possible to meet the requirements of the refugees. "
"According to Lux News Agency, the lunar cities of Verne, Armstrong and Wanhu are in urgent need of granaries due to the increase in refugees. There are also indigenous people on the streets.
Massacre broke out among civilians and refugees. "
In the lounge, Lin Ao put on his headphones and chose to ignore the news on TV that only made people worried, and concentrated on writing articles on his personal terminal. This was a new hobby he had just started recently. As for the opportunity, it was Lieutenant Anton's words that warned him earlier on "Moon City Verne": It is more important to let the world know the truth than revenge.
Lin Ao wanted to write down the story of how he met and fell in love with Elizabeth, and made Zhuge Daozi's conspiracy public. But to be honest, the only skills Lin Ao has mastered are cooking and fighting. He wrote articles on a whim, and naturally it was not smooth. From the beginning, he has been writing and deleting articles repeatedly.
"Well, my mother is on the new earth." The two crew members sitting near Lin Ao started chatting.
"Is she okay there?"
"I heard that she shares a 100-square-meter apartment with five other people, which is better than the people who live on the street as mentioned in the news. But she is old and still alone, and I am worried..."
"You can call her often."
"She has bad ears and always refuses to answer. By the way, didn't your daughter and wife go to "Wanhu" to seek refuge? How about that?"
"I talk to them on the phone at eight o'clock every night, and they say that the food each person gets every day is only one-third of what it was before. But my daughter is in good spirits, but I don't know how long she can last."
Lin Ao couldn't help but be attracted by their conversation, and began to wonder if he also had someone he could miss. But after thinking about it, I remembered that both of my parents were dead and my lover was killed. I really had no one to worry about. No, there is also Hassan. After the death of his parents, he and Hassan depended on each other in a refugee camp in West Asia. They were both friends and brothers.
Lin Ao began to scold himself for being stupid. Why didn't he leave a way for him to contact Hassan when he parted ways? Now he couldn't contact Hassan. In turn, Hassan definitely wanted to contact him, but he probably didn't even If you don't even know the unit number, how can you find yourself?
At this time, emergency news was broadcast on the TV: "Latest news, h actively attacked the defense line of the Second Alliance Fleet."
The lounge became noisy, and everyone gathered in front of the TV or used their own personal terminals to learn about the battle situation. But Lin Ao shook his head. He was not interested in this. Anyway, the Third Alliance Fleet would arrive at the front line in less than a week, and he had no time to care about others now.
He stood up to leave, but a hand forced him down.
"Hey, Lin, look at it! They didn't choose the photo I asked for, and chose this one which is the stupidest. How can I show it off to others?"
It was Edward who was holding Lin Ao down. He was holding the photo taken by the Moore Chamber of Commerce for Team Z for publicity. Lin Ao remembered that everyone took photos in military uniforms as required that day, but Edward brought some clothes of his own and forced the photographer to take some photos for him. There is no doubt that the photos Edward requested were not selected.
"Edward, I told you they won't choose the ones you want."
"Ah, but! But this photo makes me look too stupid, right? No, I have to complain!"
Lin Ao stopped him and said, "Slow down, please slow down. I'm sure they didn't keep the few pictures you asked me to take before. Even if your complaint is successful, the Moore Chamber of Commerce will not come to the front line to take additional pictures for you."
"Damn it!! I plan to use this photo to chat with girls in the future. What should I do with such silly photos?"
Lin Ao smiled bitterly. He admired Edward very much. The Osiris was about to participate in a battle of unprecedented scale. Tension and fear were inevitable. This could be seen from the expressions of the crew watching the battle. Lin Ao himself can also feel fear, and he will even worry about not sleeping well at night. But Edward, as usual, didn't look nervous at all. This kind of tolerance was rare in the world.
"Yo, you guys are here."
Luke floated over to greet them, and Edward asked: "How are you getting used to living on the Osiris? Isn't it worse than your European ships?"
"It's not the first time I've been on this ship... I heard that some people from the "Liangshan" in the same fleet will come to the Osiris to visit and study today. It seems that they have arrived now. Are you interested in taking a look?"
Edward waved his hand and said, "If you don't go, the people coming must be a bunch of big men, right? It's boring, I won't go."
Luke looked at Lin Ao again
, Lin Ao wanted to refuse, but then he thought that he couldn't write here now, so he might as well just go with Luke and treat it as a relaxation.
Seeing Lin Ao nodding, Edward immediately regretted and said, "Eh? Lin Ao, you want to go? Well... I'm free anyway, so let's go and have a look."
The three of them left the noisy lounge and drifted through several corridors. They happened to meet Natasha and Sergeant Bart. Natasha saw the three of them moving together and asked, "Hey, where are you going?"
Luke replied: "Didn't someone come from the Liangshan? Let's go and join in the fun."
Natasha shook her head: "They arrived a long time ago. They are no longer in the hangar. They may have been taken to visit somewhere. You can't find them."
"Tch~ disappointing."
Edward complained and turned to leave, but he met a group of people at the corner of the corridor. It was Armstrong, the chief technician, who was leading the "Liangshan" visiting group. Armstrong ignored Edward and the others because he was leading the tour. Most of the group He didn't care about Edward and his group either. However, when the visiting group was about to leave, Lin Ao saw a bearded Asian face whose eyes widened after seeing him, showing an incredible expression. He kept staring at him before the group was about to disappear.
"Well, this counts as us visiting them, I'm leaving first!" Edward said.
The people dispersed. Lin Ao wanted to go back to his room and drifted through several corridors to his door. Just as he was about to open the door, a pair of big hands grabbed Lin Ao and pulled him to a corner of the corridor not far away with brute force. Lin Ao was stunned by the sudden attack and was questioned several times by the attacker before It was clear that the other person was actually the bearded man with an unusual expression from the visiting group just now.
The bearded man had a ferocious expression, spraying saliva from his mouth, and asked Lin Ao: "My surname is Lin! I'm asking you a question, I'm so lucky to find you! Where have you stolen my photon necklace for more than ten years?"
Lin Ao was confused when asked.
"What did you say?"
"Where's the photon necklace!!!"
Lin Ao couldn't understand what the bearded man was talking about, so he decided to get rid of the situation of being controlled by others first. He confidently followed the counter-grabbing technique taught by Old Jack to deal with Beard, but he found that the opponent was too strong and was not at the same level as himself, so counter-grabbing was of no use at all.
Seeing that Lin Ao wanted to resist, Lu Hu was rude. He pressed his elbow against Lin Ao's throat, making him breathless and painful.
"I ask you one last time, where is the photon necklace? Where is the necklace containing photons worth 20 million! If you don't answer, I will search you to death!"
"Ahem...what...are you talking about?"
Lin Ao knew that the other party was not scary, and the bearded man died when he exerted force. But he really didn't know what Luo Xi was talking about. Seeing that Lin Ao still didn't say anything, Beard began to slowly press hard on the airway on his elbow. Lin Ao's breathing became more and more difficult. In a daze, he remembered the necklace his parents had given him when he was a child.
Suddenly, the bearded man let go of Lin Ao for some unknown reason. He saw Lin Ao lying on the ground in discomfort, coughing and saying to himself: "That's wrong... Why doesn't he look older after more than ten years, and he doesn't wear glasses anymore? You, Are you the son named Lin?"
Beard was about to lift Lin Ao up again, but he felt someone hit him hard on the back of his head, and then he was thrown to the ground with his feet off the ground by someone over his shoulder. It turned out that it was Edward who heard what was going on here. He had beaten a group of people down with his bare hands in order to grab the Ten Swords No. 3 machine before, so it was no problem to deal with a strong man like Beard. He didn't give Lu Xihu any chance to resist, and pinned him firmly to the ground with lightning speed.
"Asshole! Who are you? Why did you attack Lin Ao?"
"Lin Ao?" The bearded man was stunned for a moment and said, "He is indeed that man's son. No wonder he looks so similar."
"Answer me!" Edward punched the back of Beard's head again, and Beard quickly begged for mercy: "Don't fight, don't fight! I admit defeat! I am a technician on the "Liangshan", and I have been engaged in smuggling before joining the army. Ten A few years ago, his father lied to me and said he could find a better seller and kidnapped a necklace containing photons from me, causing me to lose tens of millions! I have been chasing his father for a long time, and I just saw what he thought he It’s me.”
"Huh? A person like you can still sneak into the army with a clear conscience, don't lie to me!"
"I didn't lie to you! After her invasion of the territory of the Chang'an Cooperation Organization, she relaxed the recruitment conditions, so I just
It’s in, it’s true! "
Edward turned around and asked Lin Ao if he was okay. Lin Ao rubbed his neck and coughed, nodding to indicate that he was fine. Others heard the noise Edward made and ran over, and together they took Beard away. To make a long story short, Beard's concealment of his criminal past before joining the army and this attack certainly didn't make him happy.
At night, Lin Ao lay in bed with many thoughts. He has been staying in West Asia with his parents since he can remember. His parents said that they took the initiative to come to poor places to help locals study, so Lin Ao has admired his parents since he was a child. But now he knows that the reason why his parents ran from China to West Asia was to avoid being hunted.
Memories from his childhood emerged before his eyes like melted icebergs and snow. He recalled that his father had done various experiments when he was younger, many of which were extremely painful memories: He remembered that he had been pressed by his father. Struggling underwater was just because his father wanted to test whether photons would affect humans more easily underwater; he was also forced to wear a helmet that produced electric shocks. No matter how much he cried, his father just silently observed the data. His mother Although he would comfort himself, he did not do anything to stop him. After the experiment, his parents said that he would be the first person to awaken after being affected by photons. How great and amazing it was... But his young self did not understand at all and only wanted to see his parents. Stop these weird experiments. Later, when the family arrived in West Asia, the parents stopped experimenting. Perhaps to protect himself, Lin Ao unknowingly froze these unbearable memories.
Tears quietly fell from the corners of Lin Ao's eyes, and he realized that his destiny had long been bound to the wheel of this absurd era. When he was young, his parents used him to do photon experiments, and when he grew up, he became the pilot of a machine equipped with photon technology by chance. It was all too coincidental. Could his awakening subjective time-stop ability be the awakening and evolution mentioned by his parents? Have your parents really succeeded? Why did I have to go through all this?
Lin Ao had to start confiding these unfrozen memories to the AI Tot beside his pillow. He needed someone to talk to. Although Toth was not a living person, Lin Ao felt much relieved after telling everything.
Toth said: "I see, I understand why you awakened the strange ability. Maybe it is because you have been in contact with photons since you were a child, and you have been in contact with them longer than others. Then, what the attacker said contained photons? Where's the necklace? I've never seen you wearing it."
Lin Ao was silent for a moment and said: "After my parents were killed by her soldiers, the necklace was also taken away. Presumably those soldiers didn't know that there were photons hidden in it, and they didn't know where they were sold. Also, I don't know I feel that my awakening is related to exposure to photons since childhood, and I don’t want anyone to follow suit. If anyone thinks so, they are likely to blindly persecute other children. So, don’t mention this to anyone, Toth.”
Toth said: "Don't worry, although I am curious about the evolution of human beings, as long as I am immortal, I will definitely be able to see it. I am not in a hurry and will not tell anyone."
"What you said is so strange... Anyway, thank you for keeping it secret."
"But I still want to say that your parents are really bastards for letting you come into contact with such dangerous things since you were a child. You must know that photons are energy bodies. Although you don't know the triggering conditions, they will explode!"
"Oh, they don't know, I can't think of anything else..."
Lin Ao closed his eyes and decided never to mention this matter to anyone or think about it again.
(End of chapter)
