crossed the barrier of water, allowing civilization to leave the edge of the land and shuttle through rivers, lakes and seas; crossed the air barrier, allowing civilizations to escape the planet's surface and sail between intercontinental planets; Passed through the space barrier, allowing civilization to break through the blockade of galaxies and haunt the star system. If space is compared to water, then distorted space flight is navigation, gravitational field anomalies are vortices in the sea, meteorites, flying stars, and asteroids are reefs in the sea, lone stars are small islands, galaxies are continents, and the universe is the entire ocean.

No one can paint the whole picture of this ocean: which reef has what minerals, which island has what life, or which continent has whose civilization. Not to mention, where there are whirlpools, where there are reefs, where the currents are fast, where there is a high density.

For civilization, the unknown is always full of dangers, and only by turning the unknown into the known can we solve the anxiety in our hearts. As a result, the two civilizations invariably gave birth to the same industry - pioneers. Exploring and mapping billions of galaxies is a huge undertaking, and thanks to the development of the star map sharing system, all the pioneers in the Blue Domain have joined the ranks of star mapping and testing. This greatly reduces the consumption of computing resources of the supercomputer during the voyage of the spacecraft and ensures the safety of navigation. At the same time, it will also allow all pioneers to avoid detours, leaving more energy and time to explore unexplored galaxies.

This is a complicated job, so it has also cultivated the taciturn character of navigator Zhang Heng. At this time, he was concentrating on calibrating this galaxy that his predecessors had explored many years ago.

"Are there so many mistakes? Doesn't your system have an automatic calibration function? "As the captain of a ship, Dewey always finds the right time to care about his teammates. Although he never expressed concern in his words, and the timing of this "concern" may not have been chosen appropriately.

Zhang Heng took care of his calibration, and did not mean to answer at all.

"We're already wanted by two civilizations, and you don't know when the calibrated data will be uploaded, and it's likely that your efforts will be in vain." Dewey spoke again, and he also didn't really express his willingness to let Zhang Heng stop and rest, drink a glass and regain his mood.

"Captain." Zhang Heng suddenly spoke, and Dewey couldn't remember the last time he heard Zhang Heng speak a few days ago, so he looked directly and listened sideways.

"Are you going to eat meat tonight?"

"Is your head messed with by the stars? I've never eaten meat, have you forgotten that? Holding back such a sentence for a long time made Dewey really feel inexplicable.

"I haven't forgotten, I just want to tell you that in terms of not eating meat, the entire Blue Domain can be divided into three kinds of people: the first type of people, the first kind of people don't eat meat themselves, and they also don't let others eat meat, although he knows that he can't exterminate all the meat eaters in the world, but as long as someone eats meat in front of him, he will stop it, curse at the lightest, and kill it at the worst."

"What about the last two?"

"The second is that I know that eating meat can damage the ecology, so I resolutely don't eat it, but I never care whether others eat meat or not. The third group of people also does not eat meat, simply because no one else eats meat, or because the Allies forbade it. The reason why the members of our ship can get together is because everyone is a second kind of people. ”

"Hahahaha" Two people came in from the bridge at some point, leaning back and laughing after hearing Zhang Heng's "meat eating theory".

"Haha, fourth brother, do you understand? The boss asked the fifth child to rest, and the fifth said, get out of the way, I don't care about you, you don't care about me. The third man laughed as he picked up the air-dried meat slices in his hand and stuffed them into his mouth, and wiped the tears from his laughter with his licked fingers.

"Hahaha, third brother, I have always said that our fifth brother is the best in philosophy among all navigators." Lao Si said, while walking in front of Lao Wu, he casually pulled a chair and sat down, patted Zhang Heng's back with wine in one hand across the back of the chair, lifted his shirt with the other hand and stroked his belly that was spread out into four pieces, and said in Mandarin that tried his best to eliminate dialects, "Lao Wu's theory of eating meat has taught us all a lesson, but my brother thinks that you still have a kind of person: you just don't eat meat, because you have never seen meat." Hahahaha. ”

"No, fourth brother, haven't you seen meat, haven't you seen your own meat? I guess I've never eaten meat. The third added.

"Third brother, if you even count human flesh, then it's not right for you to say this, I'll ask you if gnawing on your wife counts as eating meat."

"Count, count, it's okay to gnaw on other people's wives, it's still the fourth brother, the fifth brother, your meat-eating theory is full of loopholes."

As soon as these words came out, even the taciturn old five laughed.

"Why are you here, not sleeping so late?" If the fourth child is trying his best to cover up the dialect, the second child is trying his best to cover up Mandarin.

"What are you laughing at, have you thought about where to go next? We are the only people wanted by two civilizations. "The second child always plans for the future in advance, not as heartless as the third or fourth, nor as silent as the fifth.

The fourth child retold the plot just now with a dialect and affection, and the second child laughed even more heartily after hearing it. However, the joyful atmosphere did not last long, and the correspondent Lao Liu hurriedly ran to the bridge.

"Big brother, General Hyde has an appointment!"

This sentence shocked everyone present, and the joyful atmosphere was swept away, the third child fell off, and the fourth child sobered up.

"All the signals of the starship are all turned off, how can the Allies contact us?"

"The Allies have not contacted us, and General Hyde speculates that we will be waiting for us in this galaxy and landing on a planet in outer orbit. I have observed, no troops are coming. ”

"Notify all personnel and prepare for landing."

The planet where Hyde landed, is located on the outskirts of this nameless galaxy. Along the way, everyone said goodbye to the relaxed activity just now, and turned to analyze the purpose of Hyde's trip and the real reason why they were wanted by the two civilizations.

The first to speak was Lao Wu, as the person in charge of the ship's star map system and computing system, he was silent and rarely took the initiative to speak.

"Is the Allies going to war with Carmon? In this case, the eldest brother must be the best candidate, 12 years ago, with his excellent command ability, he resisted and eliminated the entire Carmon mining formation, and perfectly protected the mining area. ”

Hearing this, the fourth child angrily put down the bottle, got up and sat next to Dewey, and said: "If this is the case, we are not happy, at that time, the eldest brother was not because he was bent on the main battle, but he could not convince the stubborn Hyde, so he gave up the qualification of the candidate for military governor." Sole proprietorship bought the Origin, far away from the Blue Domain. ”

Before he could finish speaking, he returned to his seat just now, picked up the bottle and poured another sip of wine, and continued: "Strictly speaking, there is no clear distinction between pioneers and interstellar bandits, and there is no team of pioneer ships that are not equipped with combat effectiveness. Who can prove which mining area was discovered first by which civilization? Fighting is inevitable, and not fighting is the beginning of destruction. Why didn't the other starships catch us, but listed us as wanted criminals? ”

"Fourth, I don't think the allies wanted us because of our robbery, after all, we have been in this business for more than ten years. Besides, how many mining areas and how many people the Carmons robbed us, how many people we killed, we robbed a few of their starships, and killed a few creatures that were not fully evolved, there should be no need to cause interstellar strife, there must be other reasons. "When the second child speaks seriously, the dialect is completely excluded, and the pronunciation is more standard than the fourth.

"Yes, snatching the starship and killing Carmon, the allies should have acquiesced. This will constantly drain their combat power. "Lao Sanqian Yihang is the strategic commander of the Origin, and he always likes to analyze problems from a strategic point of view" As for looting, the allies only stipulate that they cannot loot Carmon's starships, but they do not stipulate what punishment will be imposed if they rob, so the cause of the problem may not be our looting behavior, but the object of our looting. ”

"What's so special? A starship that has nothing but fast sailing. In response to the analysis of the third child, Dewey refuted, and everyone knew which one he was talking about "either special resources, special characters, or some terrible information." Did you find anything special? ”

"Special? After so many years of experience in the industry, is there anything special that we haven't discovered at a glance? There are no other mineral reserves except for the engine, and there is nothing in the information base except the star map, but the star map indicates that it is going to the 1804 mining area, and we have just finished robbing here, and 1804 has been robbed, which is quite strange. "The fourth child always speaks in a hurry.

Speaking of his experience, Dewey thought about one thing: "Have you found any 'bugs'?" Years of experience have taught him that the "bugs" are the highest creatures of Carmon, and each starship has at least one, often at the captain level, which is particularly difficult to deal with!

"Nope." The crowd replied in unison.

Dewey suddenly realized something, "Oh no, we didn't know if we found a treasure." Send the airship back and tow that starship back. ”

This time, it was Lao Wu's turn to feel inexplicable, but he still quickly followed the order to import the coordinates of the starship that caused them to hide everywhere.

"Second brother, you lead the team over, pick a few good ones, remember, as soon as you encounter that ship, immediately seal it with all your might, only tow it, don't occupy it, we will meet on an exoplanet."

"Don't worry, big brother." The plundered starship was abandoned only after hearing about Hyde's arrival, not far away, and Lao Erjiang Skyrim only set off with 30 airships.

At this point in the discussion, Dewey had a general understanding of the reason for being wanted and the purpose of Hyde's trip: "There must be something we have overlooked on that ship, there may be an important Carmon man hidden on the ship, and we have not yet discovered that Hyde is likely to come to negotiate with dignitaries." ”

The crowd agreed.

The planets interviewed were not so much planets as huge blocks of ice suspended at the edge of galaxies. The light of the stars has been scattered so far that it is already weak. After the water leaves the sun, it is not much different from the stones, some of them are layered to form high mountains, some are crooked and bent to form valleys, and some of them are like monoliths that cover the sky. But whether it is a mountain, a valley or a rock, it is a relative concept here, a mountain top may be the bottom of a larger deep valley, and a boulder may be a mountain top of a plateau. However, the location of the interview was absolutely low-lying, and the starship landed and converged after passing through countless cascading mountain tops and deep valleys, which made people feel the magic of the universe, and how difficult it was to mark the location of the "reef" on this side of such a developed blue domain civilization, not to mention the terrain and overall picture of the "reef".

Unlike other natural terrains, the meeting point is a huge crater that looks like it has been man-made, large enough to hold the huge Starship Origin, but not half of it. Hyde came secretly on a starship slightly larger than a small airship, and compared to the Origin, he could see an elephant for ants.

The huge starship landed, although the fourth drank a lot of wine, but the superb operation skills and rich driving experience allowed the entire starship to effectively use the force field, air flow, and energy release three kinds of power during the landing process. On the other hand, Hyde's small ship, half frozen below the ice, really gave the interviewer a disadvantage.

As a courtesy, the Origin chose to put the gangway and the crew disembarked on foot. The huge hatch opened, and a gust of cold air blew, causing the handles, paper, and glass near the door to quickly freeze.

"Tell the kitchen to start cooking and use more raw ingredients!" Dewey gave the final order, and the leader disembarked on foot.

All of them put on the standard uniforms of the ship in advance, with a dark space gray background, fuchsia checks, neat epaulettes, and the same pace, Dewey took the lead, followed by the third and fourth, the fifth and sixth, and then the deputies of various departments, the third and fourth officers, as well as explorers and scientists, but the largest number is still the "security team", which is not an exaggeration to describe it as an army. Everyone walked down the gangway in turn and formed a neat phalanx.

Hyde is a pragmatic man who never plays tricks. At the same time as the "Origin" gangway was lowered, he also put on his military uniform and walked down the gangway with Hanes.

The personnel of both sides deliberately controlled their pace, and they happened to converge in the open space in the center of the two starships.

Dewey put his legs together and gave a neat military salute: Dewey, the captain of the pioneer ship "Origin", greeted General Hyde with all the crew. ”

"Greetings to General Hyde." The entire crew shouted in unison.

"Hyde, the Allied commander-in-chief in Gaia, greetings to the crew of the Origin on behalf of the Allied and Gaia, you have suffered!" After Hyde finished speaking, he gave a neat military salute.

"For the continuation of the race!" All the crew replied in unison.

"The entire crew of the Origin has been completed, and I also ask the general to instruct the mission." Dewey continued to report.

"The mission is clear, but the specific details need to be discussed with Captain Dewey, and the rest of the personnel can be disbanded on the spot."

Dewey motioned for the third child to follow him, and walked with Hyde and Hanes to the depths of the frozen world.

The invisible force field protection allows these uniformed people to maintain a comfortable body temperature, but the barren scene as far as the eye can see makes everyone shudder. The group walked without words, the interviewer did not know how to speak, the interviewee did not dare to answer without permission, only Hyde broke the silence first.

"More than 100 years ago, before Gaia's discovery, our previous generation visited this planet. The purpose is to take the ice and transport it back to the home planet to restore the ecology. In the end, it was discovered that despite the elimination of radiation and the addition of various elements that matched the water quality of the home star, all the animals and plants still died as soon as they were put in. Do you know why? ”

Everyone shook their heads in unison.

"Because, there is no life! Even if you take a little bit of Gaia's water and give it the right environment and time, it can breed algae and fish, because that water, which seems to be pure, has countless bacteria, fish eggs, and plant seeds, and the elements are complete and the conditions are suitable. And the stave water taken from the planet, no matter how hard scientists try, cannot create these subtle conditions. So, we are still far, far away from the creator God and the Creator. ”

After Hyde finished speaking, everyone was thoughtful, but they couldn't think of a single sentence that could open the subject.