"Please come in." In front of the clean and tidy conference table, Eric was checking some documents, when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, walked over to open the door, and said with a slight smile: "You can count it, please come in and sit down." ”

He respectfully stretched out his hand and sincerely invited the old man standing in front of the door. He was accompanied by two bodyguards in suits and leather shoes.

The old man paced in. It's a conference room, with a rectangular brown wooden table with rounded corners in the center, and a few pots of flowers in the four corners of the room, which adds a bit of life.

The old man was wearing a white shirt, black trousers, and black leather shoes, and looked like an old scientist. If you look closely at his clothes, you will see that they are not new, like they are carefully washed and dried and then ironed.

"Erik, you should know what I'm here for, but of course, it's not just that." The old man was a professor at Eric's university, and the two had discussed many issues, and the teacher and student had a deep relationship.

"You mean the routine inspection of contraband? I know this, what is the other thing? Eric asked.

"In addition to routine check-ups, there is another thing that can be important. Just yesterday evening, Terry discovered an unknown cabin 74.6 million kilometers away from Mars, but just as Terry was about to launch a drone to intercept it, it disappeared inexplicably, as if it had been taken away by something. Your Centenary was the closest to it at the time, I wonder if you know about it? ”

"Ah...... This! I really don't know, but if you don't look into the logbook, you might find something. Eric pondered, not saying anything about his tenure, he probably understood what Rod had left for Fang Chenxi.

"You...... Well, I'll do the inspection in the afternoon and check the voyage records later. ”

"Oh, by the way, can you explain who gave the order?"

"Minister of Safety of the Astronautical Council - He Chuan."

Fang Chenxi opened the door and saw that it was dark in the ward, with only a few flashes of instruments. I thought that the people in the room were sleeping, but when I turned on the light, my heart immediately became nervous - Bai Fengyi was gone! She immediately searched around the ward, but found no one, and she panicked.

Where will a good person go?

"Excuse me, have you seen a tall, golden-haired, blue-eyed, good-looking boy?" Fang Chenxi gestured, describing Bai Fengyi's appearance, and asked a question to a nurse passing by.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't see it." The nurse shook her head and walked away.

"Thank you." Fang Chenxi's face was full of urgency, she couldn't think of where Bai Fengyi could go, and at the same time complained in her heart: Rhodes, this rag man! Always push the mess on me, see if I'm a bully, right?

She endured her anger and asked people who passed by over and over again, and her hard work paid off, and a bespectacled dispenser told Fang Chenxi that he had seen this person.

He told Fang Chenxi that a patient who was very similar to her dictation was in the branch cafeteria, and it was impossible to know how he got there.

Fang Chenxi hurriedly thanked him, and when the others had just left for a second, he went to the branch cafeteria with a gloomy face. It's not far, about three minutes walked. Passing through the door of the canteen, Fang Chenxi immediately glanced inside, because most of the people eating in the branch canteen were grassroots personnel, and Bai Fengyi was wearing a white striped hospital gown, it was a little difficult to find it in a large area.

After repeated searches, he was found next to a familiar figure. Fang Chenxi fixed her eyes and saw that the girl in yellow overalls should be her college roommate, Wang Nan. The patient sitting on the left was undoubtedly white, as could be seen by the clothes alone. Earlier, she had heard that Wang Nan worked on this starship and was a director of the health department, and it seemed that she was right.

Fang Chenxi walked over quietly, startling Wang Nan, this may be the best way to say hello, and it used to be the same. Bai Fengyi on the side looked stupidly, the two of them exchanged a few words, and returned to the topic after a few minutes.

Fang Chenxi sat in front of them with a plate of dinner, his hands on his cheeks, his eyes looked at Bai Fengyi, he coughed softly, and said with emotion: "Fortunately, she brought you here, I'm really afraid that you will be missing." ”

Bai Fengyi said: "I'm just hungry, this sister happened to pass by, so she took me to eat." He looked at Fang Chenxi, and then at Wang Nan.

Wang Nan put down his chopsticks and immediately added: "I saw that he came out alone, and he happened to be your patient, but I didn't expect to meet you here." Wang Nan pushed down her frame and looked at Bai Fengyi with a smile.

Fang Chen bowed his head and said, "I will have to do experiments later, and I may see you in the evening." But if you're bored, let Wang Nan have time to accompany you. ”

Wang Nan was very happy to hear this, and his eyes lit up: "Okay, I have nothing to do today." ”

"That's good, let's eat quickly, the dishes are going to be cold." Fang Chenxi couldn't be happy, she was really afraid that Bai Fengyi would get lost.

"He Chuan, heh, he really has the ability." Eric was alone in the smoking room, he didn't like to smoke, he just wanted to be alone. With a can of Coke in his hand, he used to be upset.

He Chuan, the Minister of Security of the Astronautical Council, is responsible for the basic security of various starships and the protection of the transportation of space resources, similar to the police on the ground. Eric looks down on him very much, although his family conditions are very good, but because of the rudeness of Fang Chenxi in the school year, he hates him very much.

Eric gripped the can of Coke tightly, his tendons bursting, and he was drinking Coke as if he were drinking. After drinking it in one gulp, he didn't feel much weight, just like drinking water. Fall back in your seat and think: Why am I angry? What does this He Chuan have to do with the Peace Tie Project? What kind of thing is he?

"But he did, hahaha...... It's a pity that the position is not my boss, and I wasted such good family conditions. ”

Eric throws the can into the trash, after which the can is transported to the recycling department, where the useful parts are extracted and the rest are sent back to Earth. From this, he was reminded of the conversation just now, the "zero element" mentioned by Professor Huo. It has been called the great discovery of the 21st century, solving a puzzle that has puzzled humanity for thousands of years: Why magic?

Literally, it is a more reduced element of the first element, hydrogen, because hydrogen has only one proton, so element zero is very easy to explain, it has no protons, and neutrons naturally do not exist. However, the word element also indicates that it is not pure energy, and can be recycled to form a spirit under special circumstances, in fact, there is a more official explanation. In layman's terms: Element Zero is the energy that a person must use to use magic. And the official explanation for magic is: zero force.

Eric still remembers Professor Huo teasing: "Eric, how is your magic?" I guess it's not going to stop at the basics. The smile on his face was as amiable as it is now.

"No, I'm not fit to be a zero-force person, and since I was a child, the quality of my zero-element (short for element zero) has been very poor. Now it's hard to release even second-level skills, like the Light Shield Square Matrix, this kind of zero power I can't reach. Eric recalls his words, he had wanted to be a decent Zero Force during his school years, but was no longer interested in the power, even though most humans were fascinated by it.

"Knock knock......" There was a knock outside the door, and Eric guessed that she was coming.

"Please come in, you're not late." Eric was sitting up when Fang Chenxi walked in through the door, she glanced around, and there was no alcohol on the table.

"You're right here? You...... Just say anything, I'm short on time. Fang Chenxi stood, his gaze looking up.

"I ask you." Eric spoke sternly, crossed his fingers with his hands and stared straight at her, "What was the thing that Rhodes gave you yesterday?" How much do you know about what happened yesterday? ”

Fang Chenxi was stunned, and after about five seconds, he replied calmly: "I'm a doctor, and I'm also a doctor here, Rhodes just hopes that I can have time to see him, that's all." But what happened yesterday, you haven't made it clear to me why, how do I know what you want to ask? ”

"I can't say, after all, not many people know about it, but it probably has something to do with the Pioneer Project ten years ago. It is known to be an escape pod that passed through Earth last night and was captured, and today the people from the Terry came to investigate the matter. ”

"Oh, I don't know, but what does this have to do with the Terry? Do they have the right to interfere? Fang Chenxi pretended not to know, and continued to ask him.

"Of course not, it's a directive from a higher department. Do you know? That escape pod dodged all the micro-wave anti-missile instruments set up by humans in the solar system. It should have crossed Saturn's gravitational field last month and used the gravitational slingshot effect to fly directly towards the Earth, which was very fast, while the micro-oscillating wave anti-missile instrument arranged nearby at that time was on the other side, that is, outside the ring, which Professor Huo speculated. Where were the Earth and Mars then? Just into the blind zone of the sun, it is not observable. Not to mention Jupiter, which is very far away from Saturn right now, this is what I speculated. ”

"Oh...... What do you mean? Could it be artificial? Did it use the asteroid belt to avoid the Airito space station, then use the gravitational pull of Venus to change its orbit, escape the coronal layer of the Sun, and finally accelerate to Earth through the gravitational pull of Mercury? Fang Chenxi is not good at astronomy, but this translation has been agreed by Eric.

"What you said is pretty much the same, but it uses Mercury to slow down, otherwise it will hit the earth directly if it is too fast, it is estimated that He Chuan would have activated the solute bomb to intercept it at that time."

"Slow down? No, it's ...... What's the matter with Guan Hechuan? Fang Chenxi was surprised, she still remembered that beast vividly.

"You can check the Internet yourself, I'll go first." Eric got up and left, Fang Chenxi didn't wait for him to go far, he turned on the room cleaning mode and left in a hurry.