Chapter 12: At That Time
After a long breath, Hoffman woke up, and she looked around and saw that in her room, everywhere was very quiet.
"He actually calculated it! How is this possible? Hoffman pressed one hand to his temple, a little unconvinced of what had happened.
Ever since her ability was developed, she had never failed with full preparation, and even a five-star hunter in the organization couldn't compete with her ability.
But in the face of Kungo, her abilities are completely ineffective.
Hoffman knew what the fate of her defeat would be, she turned over and sat up, her face was a little ugly, and she sighed: "At least he still has my life!" ”
She smiled self-deprecatingly, then got up and changed her clothes, and opened the door to leave.
No matter what the situation is, she will eventually go back and report. After all, her life was given by the organization, so where could she go when she was homeless?
But when Hoffman pushed open the door of the room, her pupils shrank suddenly, and before she could react, her consciousness blurred for a while, as if something important had been quickly forgotten by her.
After a brief moment of dizziness, Hoffman was shocked to find himself back in that terrible place.
404 floating platform.
The era of interstellar wilderness lasted for one hundred and fifty years, and in the first hundred years or so, humanity devoted most of its energy to land reclamation and population growth.
In the space of a hundred years, the population has grown much faster than the rate of land reclamation.
At that time, human technology, not to mention planetary fortresses, even spacestars could not be large enough.
Even the modification of natural planets that are not suitable for living is not comprehensive.
It was at that time that the floating platform came into being. The universal model is a two-kilometer square platform.
Using the simplest biome technology, the lower level is equipped with all the ecometic maintenance systems and shield generators, and the upper level is the dwelling. A floating platform is usually designed to accommodate 10,000 people, but in fact there are often at least 30,000 people living in it.
In that period, mass-produced suspended platforms solved the demographic crisis.
Later, with the perfection of Battlestar technology and planetary modification technology, hovering platforms became a thing of the past.
But that doesn't mean it's lost forever.
In poor places or where pirates gather, hovering platforms are still the best and cheapest thing to use.
Hoffman was born on the 404 suspension platform.
It was a floating platform controlled by pirates, inhabited by struggling laborers under the control of pirates.
They help the pirates exploit the mineral resources of the surrounding asteroid belt, and they are also the goods that the pirates trade in human beings.
Hoffman was beautiful and intelligent, which doomed her childhood to pain.
It wasn't until a man named Shen Yu adopted her that life was a little better.
It was a kind man who didn't have much ability. He adopted many children like Hoffman, hoping to give them a warm home.
But in fact, Shen Yu often needs the older children he adopts to help work together to ensure that those younger children have a bite to eat.
But even so, Hoffman is still very grateful to Shen You.
Hoffman walked down the familiar street, she was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly she ran wildly.
Soon she was in the same place where she had lived.
Everything is still there.
The hut had not yet been destroyed by the fire that followed, and everyone who lived here was still content and happy.
The days are hard, but all snuggling is happiness.
With a throbbing in his mind, Hoffman walked to the hut and knocked on the door.
The door opened, and a girl with sharp eyes showed half her face behind the door: "Who are you looking for?" ”
Hoffman looked at his young self in a daze, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"Who are you looking for?" The younger version of Hoffman did not have his own name at all, and Shen Yu was not a knowledgeable person, he was called Hoffman Boss at that time. Because Hoffman was the eldest of all the children at that time.
"I, I'm looking for Shen You!" Hoffman found herself a little afraid to look directly into the gaze of her other self, and she avoided the other's gaze.
"You're looking for the wrong person, there's no such person here!" Hoffman Jr. slammed the door shut.
Hoffman stared at the closed door in a daze, smiled self-deprecatingly, and turned to leave.
When she left the corner of the street, she was picked up by two gangsters dressed as gangsters, and the other left in a hurry, not even thinking to look at her.
Hoffman stood up and continued to take a few steps forward before she stopped.
Memories of the past slowly revived in my mind.
I saw the outfit I was wearing before, and I only wore it once.
That was the first and last gift that Shen Yu gave to him on his birthday.
It was precisely because of that new set of clothes that I didn't go out on weekdays for the first time, but hid at home and smelly.
And after that, after that......
Hoffman turned and ran back to the hut.
The flames are blazing.
The thug who had bumped into him earlier was dropping the ignition in his hand and yelling at the people in the room arrogantly, and then preparing to run away.
Hoffman screamed and rushed forward to knock the thugs to the ground, but by the time she tried to save someone, the dilapidated hut had collapsed in flames.
Hoffman shouted Shen You's name, and shouted the names of those younger brothers and sisters.
But no one responded to her.
Just moments later, a vague figure slowly emerged from the flames.
Hoffman rushed forward overjoyed, hoping to save the man.
When she got closer, she realized that it was herself.
The whole body was full of fire, and he moved in front of him step by step.
"You, you're ......" Hoffman suddenly realized something was wrong.
I went out that day when the fire was burning, and I happened to miss the fire, and it was my younger siblings and Shen You who were burned to death in the house.
Yourself shouldn't be in the fire, you shouldn't be in this place.
"Who are you?" Hoffman pointed to his flaming self.
The girl in the flames raised her head suddenly, it was little Hoffman, but at this moment she was extremely terrifying, her skin and muscles were burned and melted by the flames, and her raised face was already as terrifying as a skeleton.
"No!" Hoffman let out a scream and strode back.
Then she seemed to stumble over something and fell on her back.
Click!
The sound of glass breaking sounded, and everything in front of me shattered and disappeared like a fantasy in a mirror.