"Speaking of which, this is our first dinner."

In the airport restaurant of the Moore Chamber of Commerce, the members of Team Z sat together, and various dishes with Mexican cuisine were set up on the table.

Sergeant Anton saw that everyone was not eating, so he said, "Hey, it's rare for me to have a treat, why are you all so bored?" Eat, eat! ”

Sergeant Anton himself forked a piece of meat with a fork, and before he could put the meat in his mouth, Natasha asked, "Sergeant, is it appropriate for us to have dinner now?" ”

"How is it not suitable? The Osiris is being refitted, and our mission is only training, so it's time to relax. ”

"In the past few days, the RC army that fought with us before has been provoking outside the commercial port. But you told us to do nothing, and now we eat as if nothing happened? ”

Lin Ao and Edward wanted to get the food, but when Natasha said this, they were embarrassed to take their hands back. Edward said with some disgruntled sarcasm: "I said Comrade Natasha, if you want revenge. Are you going to do it yourself? Didn't you attack on your own last time anyway? ”

Natasha choked back, "Don't you know how many of us died because of the RC gang?" Don't you want revenge?! ”

Seeing that he was about to quarrel, Anton had no choice but to cough and say, "Edward! I haven't forgotten that you left the team to go to Chicago without permission. Natasha, there are some things you don't know, the RC troops who fought with us have been clamoring outside these days to want us to hand over the prisoner Francisco. If we hand over the captives, they will use them as puppets to seize Mexico City and instigate the RC civil war, so we can't pay attention to them, they don't dare to do anything. ”

"Then don't you take revenge?!" Natasha yelled.

Anton didn't dare to scold Natasha because of his identity, but Natasha saw Sergeant Anton's eyes become stern, so she twisted her head to the side and didn't say a word.

Seeing that Natasha stopped talking, Edward said with a sermon: "Hehe, sergeant, don't worry, Natasha's boyfriend died not long ago, and now I am impulsive when I think of the word revenge, we have to understand." ”

"Edward!" Lin Ao reminded him not to go too far, and Edward began to eat like no one else. Anton couldn't sit still, and said dissatisfiedly: "Enough! I arranged this meal today in the hope that our team will be more united! But how did you do it? Edward, have you forgotten the priest who was killed in New York? ”

Hearing Anton mention the priest, Edward's eyes widened and he asked, "What are you doing with this?!" Does it have anything to do with what we're talking about now? ”

"How not! Didn't you also want to avenge the priest at that time? Why are you making fun of others now? ”

"I..."

Edward was momentarily speechless.

"Excuse me Sergeant, thank you for your lunch. But I wasn't feeling well, so I went back to my room to rest. ”

Natasha got up to leave, everyone present was confused, Edward knew that he had gone too far, and bowed his head in embarrassment.

Lin Ao asked, "Sergeant Anton, how long is Natasha going to be on the Osiris?" She's the princess of the new Muscovy (TPM), so she won't stay in our squad forever, right? ”

"I talked to her about this, and she said she didn't want to go back to TPM, but she didn't know where to go. Before changing their minds, they will fight against HER with us. ”

Anton sighed, and then said, "Lin Ao, Edward, you are all orphans, and you have nothing to do with other forces. But Natasha is different. She chose to leave TPM to stay with her family and needed a reason. She wants to avenge the sacrifice of her crew, but she also wants to blend in with us. Edward, send Natasha this to her after eating, and apologize by the way. ”

Edward didn't play tricks this time, and made an "OK" gesture.

…

Although there were not many employees left in the commercial port due to the war, after the arrival of the Osiris, more and more employees of the Moore Chamber of Commerce came to Earth by shuttle to join the work of preparing the Osiris, and the enthusiasm of the Moore Chamber of Commerce surprised the crew.

The rearmament work was divided into different parts, with the crew of the Osiris responsible for repairing previously destroyed humanoid weapons and fighter jets. The people of the Moore Chamber of Commerce made a series of modifications to get the Osiris into space, ranging from installing boosters on the hull of the ship to installing buffers on the deck that weave tires together with iron cables. When the Osiris is in space, such a buffer device can prevent the humanoid weapon from hitting the deck and causing unnecessary damage to the body when it descends in weightlessness.

More than 20 days later, the Osiris was refitted, and the already huge hull was fitted with six large boosters. At this time, everyone should drive this large and heavy ship to the vicinity of the launch stand, and with the help of special equipment, make its bow face the sky, and then install it on the launch stand. The work was not easy, the bulky hull could not be lifted in one step, and it took 3 days to complete this job alone.

It's only a few days since the day of returning to the universe, and the crew is excited, they are born in the universe and prefer the dark and silent universe to the human Mother Earth. During their few months on Earth, they adapted to storms, scorching heat, thunder and lightning, and other harsh natural phenomena that they had never experienced on a colonial satellite, as well as great natural landscapes and human heritage. But no matter how magnificent the earth is, everyone still cares about their relatives and friends in the universe.

The day before departure, when all the crew had gathered in an empty ship in the commercial port, Captain Shepard stood up with the help of others and gave a pre-departure speech:

"Everyone, in 24 hours, we will end our exile journey on Earth! Along the way, thank you for your dedication and sacrifice, the Osiris is not a one-man ship, and without everyone's efforts, I can't imagine that one day we can return to the universe! With that, Shepard gave everyone a military salute, and everyone applauded.

He continued: "This journey to Earth has been very difficult, and we started like headless flies, taking one step at a time, and so on until now. From Europe to North America, we have saved many cities and civilians. This gave me confidence, and now I declare that our next step will be to liberate our homeland, Mycenae! Drive out the HER army there and those who betrayed our homeland! ”

Hearing Shepard say this, everyone present cheered.

"Great! I've wanted to go back for a long time! ”

"Go home! Chase away the robbers! ”

Shepard stretched out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said, "This is not an easy task, and it is difficult to do it in one step, I don't know what kind of means the cunning enemy will come up with to stop us!" But that's all for the future, and within 24 hours from now, everyone will rest and work according to the assignment of their respective commanders, and be ready to go! Adjournment"

Shepard's tired wheelchair was pushed away, and unlike the rejoicing others, Lynd, who was born on Earth, became nervous. During this time, although he received a course to adapt to the cosmic environment, he became more and more uneasy as the departure time got closer and closer.

"I'm in the universe, what if Aragami makes a mistake and the body loses balance? What if I am accidentally exposed to the cosmic environment and the air in the driving suit leaks? If I..."

"Lin Ao? Lin Ao? ”

Lin Ao was thinking wildly, completely forgetting that he was already in the restaurant and still cooking. The cook saw that he was distracted, and a spoon hit his plate, and Lin Ao came back to his senses.

"Oh, sorry, please give me a fries and two burgers."

Fiona said unhappily, "Didn't you eat the burger yesterday?" Fried food is not good for health, and if I were the head chef, I would have crossed out the burger from the menu! Anyway, regardless of whether Lin Ao agreed or not, he directly poured a spoonful of mashed potatoes into Lin Ao's plate. Lin Ao stuck out his tongue and looked for a seat to eat.

Seeing him like this, Sima Qian took the initiative to sit next to him and asked, "Hey, are you afraid of going to the universe?" ”

"No, no." Seeing that Sima Qian saw her difficulties, Lin Ao felt embarrassed.

"Don't lie to me! As a journalist, I interviewed many soldiers who were going to go to the universe to fight HER in the early days of the war, and most of them were terrified of the cosmic environment. ”

"You... Aren't you afraid? The universe is like the deep sea, cold, dead and unknown. One wrong step, without equipment to sustain life, people can't live for a few seconds in the universe. ”

Sima Qian said: "I understand what you are afraid of. But human beings have colonized the universe for 200 years, and they dare not say outside the earth's circle, at least within the earth's circle, even the cold universe has now become the home of human beings. If you think about it, don't you feel better? ”

Facing Sima Qian's comfort, Lin Ao smiled bitterly.

"Yo, isn't this the big sister x Xiao Zhengtai?" Sergeant Bart and Miaohaus saw that the two were together again and deliberately joked.

Sima Qian glared at them and said, "Don't be serious, I'm enlightening Lin Ao, Lin Ao has 'cosmic phobia'!" ”

Miao Haus yawned and said, "What should I do, it's very common, isn't it?" It's okay! ”

"Huh? Why is it all right? You cosmic people are easy to say! ”

Bart and Miaohaus looked at each other and said, "It's really nothing, you know, we were worried about the gravity of the earth and we fell to death before we came to Earth." You must know that the gravity created in the colonial satellites we grew up in is not as great as on the earth, and our parents will scare us with thunder and tornadoes, saying that the earth's environment is very scary, and it is easy to be killed by lightning, buried by avalanches, and swept away by the sea, and there are many more ways to die than in the universe! Now that I think about it, I just hope that we don't travel to the earth, which costs a lot of money. ”

"Go, go! After talking for a long time, I can't help at all! ”

Sima Qian said that the two of them blew away, perhaps because of the empathy effect, and learned that the cosmic people were also afraid of the earth's environment, but Lin Ao was not so afraid.

…

A few hours later, the Osiris was in the final stages of its pre-departure preparations, and the entire crew was in place. Lin Ao also sat in a crowded row similar to a passenger plane, and double-checked that his seat belts were properly fastened. He was looking forward to taking off as soon as possible, and now that the whole hull was vertically upright, it was difficult for everyone to move. A man in the front row almost fell down while taking his seat, thanks to the others who pulled him back.

Sergeant Anton reminded: "Check your seat belts, don't stay on Earth for a few months without being killed by gravity, and fall to your death before returning to the universe!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter as the radio sounded.

"The Osiris is about to take off, everyone is ready."

Lin Ao took a deep breath, and with the end of the countdown on the radio, only a loud noise was heard, and his body felt a huge vibration, and the pressure was constantly exerted on Lin Ao's limbs and internal organs.

The Osiris took off, and as the altitude continued to increase, Lin Ao felt that the resonance and shaking of the hull were getting bigger and bigger, and the temperature was getting colder a little.

"Having reached the stratosphere... middle layer..."

During the takeoff, Lin Ao closed his eyes and endured. Suddenly, he heard something touch his helmet, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a french fry floating in front of him from nowhere.

"Have you already reached the universe?"

At this point, the Osiris began to remove the external thrusters, which disintegrated on their own and were then burned up by the atmosphere. At the same time, the closed window slowly opened, and the scenery outside the window was no longer the green mountains and blue sky of the earth, but the dark universe. Before Lin Ao could get used to the scene, a burst of bright light pierced his eyes, Lin Ao hurriedly reached out to block it, squinted his eyes, and it turned out that the sunlight appeared on the horizon.

"The sun..."

Lin Ao spoke softly, and then he saw a sphere shadow and a hemispherical shadow also appear on the horizon, blocking out some of the sunlight.

"It's the moon and the artificial earth... It turns out that in the universe they look like this. ”

Lin Ao turned his head in the direction of the earth, although he could not see anything because of the seat problem, but he still said to himself:

"Goodbye, Earth."