Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (22)

In the vast space of space, in the Earth's high-altitude synchronous orbit, there is a metal artifact composed of countless obebelis matrices and many huge annular docks. This thing is a testimony to the progress and efforts of the Alliance for more than 100 years, a miracle called the Ark, and the last hope of the pioneers.

After more than 40 years of uninterrupted construction, this human mothership has a preliminary prototype of a space city, which can not only be responsible for the maintenance and supply of some space warships that are inconvenient to land directly on the earth, but also equipped with a complete space acquisition system, which can directly collect the metals and minerals needed from asteroids and meteorites in space (although the efficiency is very average), coupled with the ecological circulation system in the mothership, it has the ability to allow humans to live on it for a long time.

The only regret is that so far, due to the shackles of materials science and energy science, human beings have not made any breakthroughs in the engine, and the entire Ark has only been assembled in space with people's efforts, and the existing nuclear fusion engine is simply unable to push such a massive object out of the earth's gravity and soar into space.

A ship with multiple dents in its body came from a distance, apparently having been in space for months, and the massive transport ship slowly drove into one of the Ark's numerous circular docks with flashing signal lights, extending its own barge and locking it up after properly connecting to the entrance to the dock.

In the space shuttle connection area of the ark, the green light lit up at the shuttle channel interface whose state had been automatically corrected, and the pressure relief gate was opened with a pop, and the instantaneous high pressure discharged the nearby air waves, and soon dissolved in the air pressure density similar to the earth's atmosphere, and several men and women wearing astronautical suits passed through the gate and came to the mothership.

A young girl who had been waiting in the waiting hall for a long time couldn't wait to run to the vast standby deck and hugged a black-haired young man who had just come from the transport ship:

"Brother Feng, how long have you been on Earth this time?"

Lin Feng, who had been in space for a long time, was much whiter than before, and he was much calmer, he first smiled and pushed away the little sister of the Li family who was hanging on him:

"I'm still like a child when I'm so old, and I'm not afraid of other people's jokes......"

Li Xinyi, who was pushed away by Lin Feng, pouted dissatisfiedly:

"I'd love to! Who laughed at me? Who!"

Seeing that the innocent Li Xinyi was entangled with Lin Feng, several people who were traveling with Lin Feng began to cover their mouths and snicker, and each found an excuse to slip away.

Li Xinyi unceremoniously grabbed one of Lin Feng's arms and dragged him to another passage:

"You have to accompany me this time, my eldest brother and father are not seen after the battle, you don't know how boring I am during this time?"

"Yi Feng and your father haven't come back yet?"

"Not only my brother and my dad, but not many of my friends have returned, and during this time we have been constantly fighting with the xenos, and most of them are still stranded on various battlefields. However, I heard that my idol has left the battlefield, and recently appeared near Kunlun Harbor with another person, and had a big fight with the Nangong family, and beat them up!"

"Your idol?"

In fact, what made Lin Feng interested in Li Xinyi's idol was that there were people in Area C besides him who dared to blatantly fight against the Nangong family, and listening to Li Xinyi's tone, he had not suffered a loss, which had to surprise him. You must know that in order to prevent him from impulsively going to trouble the Nangong family, his father directly sent him to outer space to carry out a mission, which shows that his father has a deep taboo against the Nangong family's forces, but there are really warriors in the world who dare to pluck the feathers on the tiger's head.

Li Xinyi raised her little face triumphantly:

"It's that Liu Yuxin from Tiandu Academy! He organized someone to save you last time! This time, he taught the people of the Nangong family a ruthless lesson, and directly destroyed the elites of their two teams, I heard that the people of the Nangong family now hate him!"

"Liu Yuxin......"

Lin Feng's pace slowed down, and a beautiful and refined face appeared in his mind again, and the interval of several months did not let him forget his voice and smile in the busyness.

Could it be that his father recalled him from deep space this time and had something to do with Liu Yuxin?

Li Xinyi kept chattering in Lin Feng's ear about the changes and interesting stories on the surface in the past few months, and Lin Feng listened with a smile all the time, but the thoughts in his heart no longer knew where they were going. After a few months of not being in touch with each other, Lin Feng didn't know how to face Liu Yuxin again.

The office set up by the Lin family on the ark was very close to the port, and in less than a half Lin Feng, he arrived at his destination by taking the suspended maglev train that passed through the transparent pipe.

After motioning for Li Xinyi to wait outside for a while, Lin Feng activated the access control to Lin Shenglong's office, and the access control system opened the door after scanning his face and pupils.

"Coming back? Are you still used to it in space? ”

Lin Shenglong, who was sitting at the desk working on documents, looked up at the young man in front of him who was growing rapidly, his most outstanding family.

Lin Feng sat on a chair in Lin Shenglong's office and lit a cigarette for himself:

"There's nothing you don't get used to, people always have to change."

Lin Shenglong nodded approvingly, and also lit a cigarette for himself:

"As for the purpose of my calling you back, you may have guessed it. A few days ago, before Fred led his troops to encircle and suppress those alien species in Central Asia, he specially talked to me for a while, Liu Yuxin, you are very familiar with it, right? He recently suddenly appeared in the Kunlun Security Zone area, and now he is like an active volcano that has not yet erupted, any eruption will bring unknown impact and destruction, and he has just wiped out the two pairs of elites of the Nangong family not long ago. And Fred thinks that the recent riot of the Central Asian xenomorphs is a deliberate plan provoked by the Nangong family to divert the tiger from the mountain, in order to distract him from dealing with Liu Yuxin, who has made them lose face, if they let the two sides collide violently in Kunlun Port, it is likely to pose a threat to the safety of the entire security zone! He asked me to find a way to prevent the forces of the two sides from having a direct confrontation in the Kunlun Port area......"

Fred already had the intention of asking their Lin family to delay the Nangong family's actions, and promised to do their best to support the Nangong family in terms of manpower and material resources, which was actually equivalent to declaring war head-on with the Nangong family.

The powerful power of the god-killing armor made others re-evaluate Liu Yuxin's value, and at this stage, no force was willing to see the Nangong family regain control of the complete 521 base and restart a series of plans.

And as the best pioneer against the Nangong family, it is naturally the Lin family, which has already had several conflicts with the Nangong family, that is the most suitable.

While listening to his father's explanation, Lin Feng was also studying the information sent to his terminal, and soon he was attracted by the person who showed Liu Yuxin's companion on the information.

Gong Liang, the former engineering and technical officer of the refining center, who was skilled in the use and maintenance of various equipment, disappeared after the fall of the refining center, and on the same day, Gong Liang's family disappeared.

With so many coincidences, Lin Feng quickly thought of something, but he couldn't jump to conclusions yet. Although the relationship between the Nangong family and Liu Yuxin is not close, it has not yet reached the level of killing each other, could he be the trigger for the inexplicable conflict between the two sides and causing a large number of casualties?

"I'll meet with them first and talk about it before I make plans"

Lin Feng extinguished the cigarette in the ashtray in front of him, stood up and walked out.

According to the information, things are very confusing. Liu Yuxin is a person who attaches great importance to his friends, because of Nangong Qian, he has been merciful in several encounters with the Nangong family, not only that, Liu Yuxin has also hindered himself several times from being heavy on the people of the Nangong family, like this time the practice of destroying dozens of people in the Nangong family is really not like his usual style.

"We've lost their whereabouts in the past few days, but they've been moving west for the past few days, and they should probably be in the western desert now, and you can go to the Tarim Basin to search for their whereabouts."

Lin Shenglong paused slightly after explaining Lin Feng's task, and then his words changed:

"If you have time, go back to your home, Yu Yan and Xiao Tian will remember you very much."

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In addition to the sand, there is still sand in the field of vision, and the sand dunes are one after another, and there is no end in sight. This is the forbidden area of life, the Tagrama Desert in the Tarim Basin, in today's world, when even camels have mutated into murderous beasts, there are countless killing machines in the desert.

Gong Liang and Liu Yuxin had already entered the area three days earlier, and although Gong Liang had modified the truck to adapt to the desert area, the harsh environment still caused the truck to break down several times, delaying their scheduled plans for several times.

"It's getting dark! We had to find a safe place to spend the night. ”

The car broke down again, preventing them from reaching their intended safety point before dark, and they had to find a hard ground where predators would not suddenly emerge from the ground before the temperature cooled.

Gong Liang took out his map, studied it carefully for a while, and then said:

"There's an abandoned human city not far ahead, and hopefully there won't be those troublesome sandfolks anywhere."

Gong Liang refers to the human beings who have been living in the desert, and the extremely harsh living environment has created their superb survival skills and skilled hunting skills, and the most terrible thing is that those people eat everything - including their foreign kind! The natives who have abandoned the comfort of living in the safe zone, and at the same time the moral standards of humanity, have become a group of beasts who have only survived, and these beasts have the same wisdom as you! The predators who can set all kinds of traps and traps are definitely more deadly than the other creatures in the desert!

Gong Liang drove a dozen kilometers east in a freshly repaired truck, and finally saw the ruins of the city, and at the end of their vision, a heavily weathered city was hidden in the darkening sky.

"Pay attention to your surroundings!"

Gong Liang told Liu Yuxin a word and then climbed on the roof of the car, standing at the front of the car and using binoculars to carefully check the situation in the city, if there were too many traces of biological activity in it, they would decisively give up the settlement and risk finding another place to spend the night.

"Help! Please don't kill me! Please don't ...... like that."

A cool breeze blew, and there was a faint sound of pleading, Gong Liang and Liu Yuxin glanced at each other, their eyes full of horror.

Where did that sound come from?