After a brief trial, Malvin agreed to travel with him, and the bloated carrier pilot only slightly said 'reluctantly', and then sighed in Lucas's silence in agreement.

"Who told Steven and I to be buddies?" Malvin told Lucas. "Those tantalus cigarettes he gave me on those damn return trips helped me a lot, and I had to do something about his disappearance, I've been thinking so all year long."

In the base's vehicle parking garage, Malvin pointed to one of the brand-new movers, entered through the open back door, and climbed over a row of seats to sit in the passenger seat.

"These treasures are shipped directly from tomorrow's better warehouse, and no one has opened them in two years, except for routine maintenance." He confessed to Luka, who had no choice but to climb into the driver's seat. "I can't be bothered by any vehicle flying in the sky, but I can't drive a dirt sweeper, and I'm not entirely to blame for that, who let that damn Jensenbach never teach vehicle driving lessons."

So Lucas had to drive himself, he worked on the farm all the year round, and drove no less than a dozen agricultural vehicles and vehicles.

After driving along the main metal road for a while, he reached the force field gate, and a middle-aged man wearing the blue uniform of the base police department walked out of the guardhouse on the side.

"Where are you going to go with this?" He tilted his head and asked Lucas, who was sticking his head out of the car window.

"Sightseeing." Lucas told him briefly.

"No one can get out of this door without permission from the base command center." The man shook his head and gestured for Lucas to drive back.

"Tell this Butler, just say that Gibson agreed, how old is he to hold back?" Marvin, who was sitting on the side, whispered at this time.

"You come on." Lucas said when he heard this.

"I can't talk to him." There was an embarrassment in Malvin's voice. "Because of my alcoholism, my relationship with the guards here is in a mess, and this kid was beaten up by me, which is a disadvantage for me."

Seeing that Lucas was still hesitating, Marvin said again: "Mention the name of the barmaid Lenny to him, they secretly got together, and Lenny is a good friend of his top boss." ”

Lucas was apparently still indifferent to this, and he sat in the car in a daze, while the guard outside the window gestured impatiently to him.

"Do you still want to know the truth about Steven's disappearance?" Marvin raised his voice, and the remark had an effect, and Lucas reluctantly gathered his words like a babbling child.

"Lenny...... And you...... You ......" he hesitated to face the gate guard, but he couldn't say the next words, so he made a dirty gesture with his hand.

"!" The guard, Butler, was so surprised that he rushed to the door of the car to silence Lucas, and then looked around with a look of guilt.

"How do you know? Who else knows? Oh my God, Gibson is going to kill me! Butler had a look of horror on his face, thinking that he was very afraid of his boss.

"Nobody knows." Lucas told him with a blank face. "Let me go." He pointed to the force field separator in front of him.

Butler understood what Lucas meant, and he stared at him with complicated eyes, and it took a long time before he lowered his head and sighed.

"Your life is your own, and I can't stop it if you want to die." He had no choice but to say. "Let people know that I let you go without permission, and my job may be gone, but I'm still betting on you than being ruined behind Gibson's ......back," he walked into the guard booth to turn on the separator, and the black mechanical arm hanging above it immediately opened an exit for the force field.

"This is your document, you can re-sign it, I don't see Gibson's signature." Butler climbed onto the mob pedal and passed a memory pad through the window for Lucas to sign.

"I don't know what you think, newcomer, it's dangerous to drive away from the base alone, I saw someone talking and laughing and driving out, but never came back." He still wanted Lucas to stop traveling.

"I know." Lucas looked at him coldly.

"That's my brother." He turned his head around, started the vehicle, and slowly entered the gap in the force field in front of him, leaving only the stunned gate guards stunned behind the closed force field.

The force field was separated, and Yin and Yang were divided, and Butler watched in a daze as the groundsweeper outside accelerated away, and soon became a black dot in the distant wasteland.

He shook his head, shook his head and smiled bitterly and raised the memory tablet in his hand, and then suddenly his smile froze completely, because at the bottom of this base standard release form, there was no signature at this time, but a line of words was written:

Inform Gibson that there is a clue from Steven after three standard hours to the old base!

……

There is no direction in the vast wasteland, there is silence in the identification radar in the ground-grabbing vehicle, from a geological point of view, Cadmus is simply smooth as a mirror, there are few mountains, no basins and canyons, and the whole planet is like a rough polished stone ball, which is inconspicuous in the uncomplicated galaxy ecology of the Rocky Galaxy.

It's no surprise to Lucas that Malvin has shown the way in the direction and seems familiar. Since he can take the initiative to ask Ying, he naturally knows something, and the only thing he has to do is to cooperate all the way to see what he sells in the gourd in the end.

The Sweeper drove through the wasteland at full speed, arriving at the fabled old base in a few standard hours.

The blinding light of the star Dionysus faded below the horizon, making the five-colored rings of Calypso above his head even clearer.

"Heisenberg spent a lot of money here, so it was huge." Marvin pointed to the growing complex of buildings in front of him, and following his direction, Lucas saw that the top of a towering tower had slanted and seemed to be about to collapse.

"Blind choice can often lead to disaster, and whether it's a coincidence or not, Heisenberg's well-paid geological analysts are undoubtedly to blame." A grin appeared on Malvin's lips, and Lucas glanced at him, only to feel a hint of coldness pass through his heart for no reason.

"How?" He asked.

"There's a massive Ascendant ruin down there, and they've built the base on the only entrance." Malvern said lightly.

"How are you ......?" Lucas's heart was beating wildly.

"How do I know?" Marven laughed. "I just know." He laughed out loud.

"Turn right here." He pointed at Lucas, and the mower made its way through the gloomy old buildings.

Steven...... Did you go to the ruins? Lucas couldn't help but finally ask the question in his mind.

"Where else could it be?" Marven laughed.

"Then why are you ......?"

"Why didn't you go and save him sooner?" Marvin scrambled again.

"Because I'm waiting for you." He turned his head to stare at Lucas, who was furious at the sight of his eyes.

"Stop." Malvin shouted suddenly, and Lucas slammed on the brakes, causing the sweeper to slide sideways along the broken metal and then come to a halt.

"Here we are." Forced by Lucas's puzzled eyes, Marvin was still unhurried, his eyes almost narrowed into a slit at this time, and the fat on his face was piled up with a bright smile.

After putting away the seat and putting on the spacesuit, although Lucas had received the standard training for long-distance voyage survival when he came, his extremely unskilled operation still made him spend a lot of time making the tiny smart device in the suit light green on the air density and air connection. But when he was busy, he found that Marven stayed in the passenger seat and watched him all the time.

"I promised to come with you, but I didn't promise to go with you." Malvenpi said with a smile. "When you get out of the car, you're going to go, I can assure you." He added.

Lucas had to leave the mounder alone, feeling like a lamb about to be slaughtered. The sky was full of light, but the black earth was like a complete stubborn stone, the gravity on the surface was even smaller than he imagined, and he clung to the handrails around the ground-skimming car, for fear that he would rise off the ground.

"Relax, you won't float away, this planet is small, but the gravitational pull is not much worse than Chilian." Malvin apparently saw his embarrassment in the car and comforted him on the communicator.

"Go forward, silent one, don't worry, the truth is at hand."

At this point, he could not repent, and following Marvin's instructions, Lucas walked to the side of the sweeper with trepidation.

"Right at your feet." Marvin told him, but Lucas couldn't find a crack in the black, hard ground in front of him.

A botched prank? He began to question all of this, and Malvin's smile, and the strange things he kept saying, he probably didn't mean much. Remote and exotic lands, heavy pressures, cramped living spaces, and years of colonization can drive people crazy.

But as soon as he turned the thought around, the ground around him began to shake, and then he felt the hard black stone roadbed beneath his feet begin to soften.

He hurriedly backed away, his rapid gasps casting a fog over the transparent visor.

The sky shook, the ground in front of him was like boiling quicksand, and the swirling black soil disappeared like flowing water, forming a deep hole in front of his eyes without warning, and Lucas sat unsteady on his feet, and sat on the ground with his ass, and in his helmet at the right time sounded Marvin's laughter.

"Well, I didn't lie to you, did I?" The fat carrier pilot waved at Lucas in the movers.

"Go in, what's the problem? Your brother may still be alive. The voice in the helmet urged.

"Nope." Lucas said. "Wait." He stood up with his hands on the ground, and cautiously stepped forward to inspect the deep hole.

The strange cave was like the mouth of a giant beast, and the black hole was bottomless, and the ground had already stopped shaking, and everything seemed quiet, and he could only hear his heavy breathing inside the mask.

An eerie laugh broke the silence in his ears, with a hint of sarcasm and madness, not from the communicator in his helmet, but in his cochlea, which was Malvin, who seemed to be right next to him, who seemed to be in his spacesuit.

"Brother, it doesn't seem like it's too late to say now." Malvin whispered in his ear.

The ground suddenly began to shake again, which made Lucas, who was already unsettled, even more frightened, he fell forward with an unsteady foot, and then plunged headlong into the deep hole without any power to return to the sky, and he finally couldn't help but scream in his helmet, and the fear of death made all the restraint and dogma in his life completely collapse.

He felt his body plummet in a vacuum, a 'danger' warning began to flash frequently in front of the mask, and various signs on the smart screen had also warned of failure.

He struggled under the pull and tear of gravity, his hands fluttering and instinctively trying to grasp something, and then he only felt a bang in his head, and he had already fainted.