Chapter Twenty-Four: The Vast Starry Sky

Early the next morning, Long Xingyi put on his uniform, picked up his luggage, and walked out of the room in good spirits. At this time, Yin Yuting also happened to come to the door of his room, followed by a large automatic suitcase.

"What age are you, and you still carry your own bag like a revolutionary veteran?" Yin Yuting looked at the big bag and small bag in Long Xingyi's hand, and asked in surprise, "Also, where did you pick up this broken bag?" ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Yes? I saw a bag in the cabinet and took it out and used it. Do you still have this kind of automatic luggage? Long Xingyi was stunned when asked.

Yin Yuting smiled and said, "Of course! The automatic following of the suitcase must have been in the beginning of your time, right? ”

Long Xingyi seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly asked, "That...... Why did you let me carry my bag yesterday? Wouldn't it be nice to get an auto-follow? ”

"You have to carry the things you buy one by one to have the feeling of 'returning with a full load'!" Yin Yuting said angrily. Long Xingyi couldn't help but roll his eyes, "You really take me as a second fool!" ”

Yin Yuting quickly diverted the topic, "Hurry up, let's go!" The spacecraft is scheduled to take off at 10 o'clock, and it's almost too late, so don't bother. Honestly carry your bag, good! With that, she trotted away, followed by her automatic suitcase. Long Xingyi was really a little crying and laughing.

The two arrived at the hangar of the moon base one after another, and the spacecraft was ready to go. Stygian and the rest of the officers were chatting outside the spaceship, and the staff were busy coming and going. Long Xingyi looked around and took a deep breath, not knowing what the journey was about to begin.

Seeing the two of them walking towards him, Shenchenhai gently raised his gray eyebrows, "Two officers, ready to go?" ”

Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting stepped forward and saluted the commander-in-chief tacitly, and Long Haoqian and the others behind Shenchenhai silently cast envious glances.

"It's still a clichΓ©." Shenchen Hai returned the salute and said: "Pay attention to safety, keep in mind the mission, complete the task, and return victorious." ”

"Yes, yes!" A person's speech suddenly came from a distance, and everyone looked at it, it turned out to be General Neville of the United States, only to see him walking over with a relaxed step and a smile, "You must return smoothly, but don't make any mess and embarrass the earthlings!" ”

Saying such things in front of the Styx Sea, the Styx Sea's face was obviously a little unhappy, "Don't worry, Jackson, my soldiers I know, there will be no problems!" ”

"I hope so!" General Neville stared at Long Xingyi for a long time, said a meaningful word, and then saluted as well, turned and walked away.

"Yin and Yang weird!" Shenchen Hai glanced at him, said very dissatisfied, and then turned his head again, and said to Long Xingyi like a father: "You go to the Interstellar Alliance for the first time, if you don't understand anything, you can ask Long Haoqian, he has been to the Light Tower Star with me before, and you can contact me at any time if he can't solve the problem." Stay safe! ”

Long Xingyi looked at the elderly commander, and suddenly felt an unknown emotion, and involuntarily stepped forward and hugged the sea of the underworld. Shenchen Hai patted him on the shoulder and said in a sonorous voice, "Let's go!" Go early and come back early! ”

A few people were just about to board the spaceship, when suddenly a shout came from behind them.

"Wait a minute!"

A few people turned around, and it turned out to be Lei Ling running towards them from a distance.

Long Xingyi thought that Lei Ling must have come to see him off, so he turned around and walked off the spaceship, ready to say a few words to him, but saw Lei Ling with a panicked look.

"What's wrong? Reckless. Shenchen Hai also saw that his student's expression was wrong, and asked curiously.

Lei Ling looked around and said to the Underworld, "Commander-in-chief, there is something I will report to you later." Then he immediately said to Long Xingyi: "I have something for you." Without saying a word, he grabbed Long Xingyi's arm and dragged him into the cabin of the spaceship.

"What's wrong? Such a mysterious ......" As soon as he entered the cabin, Long Xingyi couldn't help but ask.

Lei Ling was silent for a few seconds, as if he was constantly thinking about how to speak, and finally said: "I will give you two things, and I must make good use of them." With that, he pulled out what looked like a tablet from his backpack.

"This is China's unique encrypted radio station, which does not rely on international carrier communication and exists independently. If there is an emergency, you can use it to contact the Commander-in-Chief, or contact our intelligence services on the Light Tower. I've set up your biometric code, and only your genetic code can use it. ”

Long Xingyi looked at the thin encrypted radio station, and then looked at Lei Ling's panicked expression, "Do you know something?" ”

Lei Ling shook his head, "I don't know, I'm not sure." You take it first! Be prepared. And ......," he said, pulling out a metal box the size of a matchbox from his backpack, "Inside, it's a small engineering robot that can repair most mechanical damage, including spaceships. Do you understand? ”

Seeing Lei Ling staring at his eyes, Long Xingyi nodded hesitantly. Lying down, this is knowing that something is going to happen, and you want to send me to be generous and righteous? He wanted to retreat a little, but looking at Lei Ling's eyes, he knew that Lei Ling also had a hard time, and maybe at present, the information he had was only suspicious. If the invitation of the Star Alliance is canceled or postponed simply because of one person's suspicion, there may be serious consequences.

Lei Ling patted Long Xingyi on the shoulder, and simply said "return safely" and stepped out of the cabin. After a while, Yin Yuting and the others entered the spaceship in a daze. There was a broadcast outside that the spaceship was about to take off, and Shenchenhai hurriedly saluted the spaceship under the spaceship, and then walked to the side with Lei Ling to listen to what Lei Ling reported to him.

It was a massive starship, at least large enough for the small transport ship they had used to travel from Earth to the space station. Long Xingyi looked out through the porthole, only to see the Underworld Sea and Lei Ling and the others on the ground quickly becoming smaller and far away. The last picture Long Xingyi saw seemed to be the Underworld Sea jumping like thunder, pointing at Lei Ling and roaring something. His heart became more and more nervous, and he didn't know what Lei Ling was hiding.

"The ship is about to turn on the warp engine, please get ready." The spaceship announced on the radio.

"What, can't you give up?" Yin Yuting saw Long Xingyi looking through the porthole in a daze, looking at the eyes behind the spaceship, and walked up and said.

"No, it's okay......" Long Xingyi didn't want to share the doubts in his heart with Yin Yuting for the time being, so he had to say perfunctorily.

Yin Yuting thought that Long Xingyi was really homesick, so she comforted him and said: "This journey is very fast, we will drive at warp speed, and then pass through a few wormholes, and we will be able to reach the Dawn Galaxy in a few days." By the time you get there, you'll be less homesick. ”

"Hey, hey." Long Xingyi turned his head and smiled awkwardly.

The next few days were really boring, except for the busy crew, the five-person team that sent the light tower star gathered in Long Xingyi's room to play cards and chat on weekdays, and several people quickly became familiar with each other, and gradually had nothing to talk about.

"Did anyone tell you that you resemble a star of our time?" This day was idle and boring, and Long Xingyi finally brought out the questions that had been hidden in his heart for a long time.

Yin Yuting glanced at him, and Long Xingyi also felt that it was a bit rude to ask such a question, so he couldn't help but lower his eyes. Unexpectedly, Yin Yuting suddenly smiled slightly, "Like Yang Mi?" ”

"Ah, yes, yes, yes!" Long Xingyi couldn't help but raise his head again, waiting curiously for Yin Yuting to continue.

"That's right, in our era, due to genetic modification projects, many parents of rich families will use their children's appearance genes to make their children more handsome, beautiful, or simply look like a certain star. My mother thought that it would be more low-key to change me to look like a star more than 100 years ago, but I didn't expect ......" Yin Yuting glanced at Long Xingyi, and then said: "There is really someone who traveled over 100 years ago and saw through this. ”

After hearing this, Long Xingyi laughed a few times and said jokingly: "Your age is so good!" It would be nice if I could also change it to Xue Zhiqian, Wu Yanzu or something. ”

Yin Yuting gently raised her tail eyebrows, and said meaningfully: "People, you still have to live your own life, don't live yourself as someone else." You're pretty handsome! Why envy others? ”

Before he could finish speaking, the spacecraft suddenly shook violently, and then slowed down suddenly. The sudden deceleration made Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting both unstable in their center of gravity, and fell towards the front of the spaceship, and Yin Yuting almost threw herself into Long Xingyi's arms, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing for a while.

"What's going on?" In order to break the embarrassment, Long Xingyi quickly diverted the topic.

Yin Yuting also quickly got up and straightened her messy hair, "No, I don't know...... Check it out! ”

Walking out of the room, red light flashed in the hallway, and alarms sounded everywhere. The crew came and went in the corridors, running in a panic. Luo Bing, Pei Xiling and Long Haoqian also ran out of the room one after another to observe the situation.

Yin Yuting grabbed a cabin crew member who ran in front of her and asked what was going on.

"Warp engine damaged, main power lost!" The staff left a sentence and hurried to the end of the hallway.

"Let's go, let's go to the bridge." Long Haoqian proposed.

A few people walked along the side of the corridor, avoiding the hurried crowd, and came to the bridge to observe the situation.

The captain was leading the crew to check the fault on the bridge, and when he saw Long Xingyi and others coming, he stepped forward to salute Long Xingyi.

Long Xingyi replied, "Captain, what's going on?" ”

"Alas, strange to say, the warp engine was suddenly damaged, and a foreign object got inside the turbine, and it got stuck and couldn't move. And the maintenance robot equipped on the spaceship was transferred by the superiors yesterday, and I was not notified, and none of them were left. The captain was busy and complained: "The temperature in the engine room is extremely high now, ordinary people can't get in, even if they wear protective clothing, there is great danger." ”

"Where are we now? Contact HQ, or the Dawn System, and ask for help! Pei Xiling made a plan.

"It's not that simple!" The captain continued: "The second officer has just checked the communication equipment on the ship, and we have not had much contact with the headquarters in the past few days, and the communication system at this time was overloaded and burned out. Now we have completely lost contact with the outside world. ”

Long Xingyi glanced back at Yin Yuting, and the two of them thought of 24K's sentence at the same time: "Life is on the line." ”

Luo Bing asked timidly at this time, "Then ...... Are you going to be trapped here? He looked very desperate, as if he was going to cry at any moment.

Pei Xiling stretched out his hand, put his arm around Luo Bing's shoulders and said, "It's okay, there will be a way to solve it." ”

This action frightened Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting. It's only been a few days, and the two of them can already hook up and back? Long Xingyi's eyes widened, and he made a lip gesture at Pei Xiling: It's developing rapidly!

Pei Xiling secretly smiled at Long Xingyi, raised his chin playfully, squeezed his eyes again, and then turned his head to continue to comfort Luo Bing.

Long Xingyi turned around, looked at the vast starry sky outside the window, couldn't see the edge at a glance, and couldn't help but say to himself: "Fortunately, I have you." ”

Yin Yuting and Long Haoqian both came up curiously and asked, "What?" ”

Long Xingyi took out his pocket, took out the small metal box that Lei Ling gave him from his pocket, turned around and said to the captain: "Captain, this is a small engineering robot, a friend of mine gave it to me, can you try to repair the warp engine with him?" ”

As if grasping at a life-saving straw, the captain's eyes lit up and he nodded vigorously, "Hmm! Try it out! With that, he handed the robot to the chief engineer, who took it to the main engine room on the ground floor of the engine room. The rest of the crowd were still watching the scene from the bridge through the ship's internal communications.

Through the video, Long Xingyi saw that a small thing crawled out of the box and climbed in through a small opening next to the electronic door of the main engine room. The chief engineer observes the interior through the glass door and reports to the captain and others.

"The robot has found a foreign object, in the middle of the turbine fan blades. It seems to be an internal part of the engine...... It seems that it was not installed firmly and fell by itself. The chief engineer speculated as he described.

It's not an accident, it's a man-made failure! Long Xingyi thought to himself and continued to listen to the chief engineer's report.

"The parts are too big, the robot is too small, and the foreign objects need to be cut piece by piece with a laser, and then taken out one by one. The robot is working, and it doesn't look like there's much of a problem. The chief engineer's tone gradually filled with hope.

I'm afraid it's not that simple! Long Xingyi frowned and looked at the screen without saying a word.

Time passed minute by minute, and finally, after more than two hours, the chief engineer gave a long cheer: "All right! All foreign bodies have been removed! ”

Seeing this scene, everyone just began to be happy, but the first mate stepped forward with a gloomy face, "Captain, things are not good. ”

The captain was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The ship's system seems to be infected with a virus, and our fuel was automatically discharged just now, and now the spacecraft only has a very small amount of fuel, which is not enough to turn on the warp engine." The first mate reported angrily.

"What's going on!" The captain slammed his fist on the console and cursed with a flushed face: "What did you all check before you set sail!" ”

The first mate looked very aggrieved: "These problems are not reflected in the maintenance log at all!" We were unprepared. ”

Long Haoqian stepped forward and glanced at the coordinate instrument, his face suddenly turned pale, "We have to find a way to transfer quickly, this place belongs to the public star field, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Interstellar Alliance, and there are often cosmic pirates haunting." ”

"How to transfer?" Pei Xiling also panicked, "The communication is out of order, and the fuel is gone, so we can't go down and push the cart, right?" ”

Everyone was in a hurry and was about to quarrel. Long Xingyi hurriedly interrupted the two of them and asked the captain, "Captain, is this the highest rank on this spaceship?" Make your decision! ”

The captain smiled bitterly, "No, Comrade Long Xingyi, although this spaceship is mine, in terms of military rank, you have one more honorary title than me, and you are still the biggest." Otherwise, you can figure it out? ”

In an instant, all the eyes on the bridge looked at Long Xingyi in unison, and even he himself was stunned for a moment. The most important thing is to solve the current problems first, communications, fuel, viruses...... Long Xingyi pondered, and suddenly, a word flashed through his mind.

Independent Carrier!

"Guys, wait for me!" Long Xingyi asked Yin Yuting and the captain to wait here, and he quickly walked out of the wheelhouse, returned to his room, found the safe in the room, and groped in it.

Everyone waited curiously, and it didn't take long for Long Xingyi to appear on the bridge again with a small tablet in his hand.

"What is this?" Long Haoqian asked curiously.

"The domestic encrypted radio station was given to me by Lei Ling before leaving." Long Xingyi said excitedly and pressed the power supply.

"Please enter the genetic code." The crypto radio prompted that a fingerprint appeared in the lower right corner of the screen. Long Xingyi hesitated for a moment and pressed his thumb up.

"The genetic code has been identified successfully, and the user: Long Xingyi has obtained the permission to use it." The encrypted radio station opens the control panel.

"In terms of communication, you are more proficient, so let's do it!" Long Xingyi said, and handed the encrypted radio station to Long Haoqian beside him.

Long Haoqian took over the encrypted radio station and suddenly laughed, "Hahaha! Three of us communications officers are here, and we even need a commander to find a way to contact headquarters. ”

"I don't see it, you still have a bit of a sense of humor." Long Xingyi looked at Long Haoqian and laughed easily, knowing that things should have taken a turn for the better, and his mood had improved greatly.

Long Hao smiled innocently, "Wasn't it unfamiliar before!" After saying that, he lowered his head and seriously operated on the encrypted radio station.

"That's it!" Within a few seconds, Long Haoqian let out a long exhalation, and Long Xingyi's familiar face appeared on the radio screen.

It was the Underworld Sea, and from his anxious expression, it could be seen that he seemed to have been waiting for this moment for a long time, as if he did not want to wait for this moment to come, but he was extremely anxious to be ready at all times.

"Meow a mi! Who said that domestic products are not good?! Seeing the face of the Underworld, Long Xingyi suddenly sighed, and Yin Yuting smiled awkwardly beside him.

"Alas! Or did it happen, where are you now? Shenchen Hai asked with a sigh.

Long Haoqian accurately reported his coordinates and reported the problems he was currently encountering.

Shenchenhai's eyes were confused for a moment, and he immediately spoke: "I'm too far away from you here, I'll give you a number, and immediately contact our country's intelligence department on the Light Tower Star, it's urgent!" ”

A string of garbled characters appeared at the bottom of the screen, and Long Haoqian replied, "Yes!" Then he skillfully copied the long string of codes, then hung up the phone and said to the encrypted radio station: "Dial the number you just copied." ”

"Voice recognition is incorrect, please reissue the instruction." Crypto radio feedback.

Shame! This crypto radio station is quite picky. Long Xingyi leaned in and said again: "Dial the number you just copied." ”

The long code was dialed out in the communication bar, and a few seconds later, a strange Chinese person appeared on the screen.

"The commander-in-chief told me a few days ago, tell me, what help do you need?" The other party asked succinctly.

Long Xingyi looked up at the captain and asked for advice. The captain looked at the first mate again, and the first mate replied sensibly: "The system has been restarted, and the virus has been cleared." It's just that...... The communication system was formatted. The captain then turned back to Long Xingyi and said, "Fuel is needed." ”

Long Xingyi bowed his head and said to the other party, "We are trapped in the public star field, and now the spacecraft is in urgent need of fuel. My communications officer will tell you the coordinates. Immediately, Long Haoqian clicked a few times on the screen and said, "The coordinates have been sent, be quick!" ”

The other party hung up the phone without saying a word, and then everyone began to wait for a long time. Long Xingyi and the other five sat in the corner of the cab and tacitly started the discussion.

"Someone is going to kill you, Lei Ling knows." Yin Yuting said her inference.

Long Xingyi nodded and did not say anything.

"Why didn't he just point out that it was a conspiracy?" Yin Yuting asked.

"There's only one explanation." Long Haoqian suddenly interjected. The other four looked at him in unison, waiting for him to continue.

Long Haoqian looked around, lowered his voice and said, "The mastermind of this conspiracy is a person with a higher rank than him. Falsely accusing a senior general is a felony and must be court-martialed, and he cannot afford to bear this responsibility until he has sufficient evidence. ”

"So I can only help you secretly." Pei Xiling continued to speculate.

Thinking about it carefully, several people couldn't help but shudder. Lei Ling, as the commander of the Southern Theater of Operations, is already a lieutenant general, and there is only a figure at the level of the Underworld Sea who is higher than him, so it can't be the head of state, right?

At this time, the second mate suddenly reported in a loud voice, breaking their silence, "Report to the captain!" There are several shipless ships heading towards us from nearby planets. ”

Needless to say, everyone knows that they must have been targeted by pirates. This kind of spaceship, which has lost power, is a great temptation for them.

"Why haven't you come yet...... the captain walked anxiously up and down the bridge, suddenly stood still as if he had made up his mind, and said to the first mate: "All ready for battle!" ”

The first mate stayed in place for a moment, and replied, "Yes!" Then the ship's announcement was turned on, "All personnel listen, the whole ship has entered a state of first-level alert!" Now all hands are in combat mode! ”

The personnel in the cab also took out the laser gun from the cabinet at their feet, pinned it to their waists, and continued to sit in their seats to debug the system.

The atmosphere was tense throughout the ship, and everyone was silent, so much so that the sound of everyone's heartbeats could be heard in the air.

Suddenly, a blue light lit up in front of the ship, and a giant spaceship appeared in front of them. In front of the spaceship, a line of Chinese characters is displayed on the huge light board: This is Star Rescue No. 3, we will assist you in starting the ship immediately, please cooperate.

I saw a small spaceship coming out from under the giant spaceship, with a long oil pipeline tied to the back. The captain was so happy that he shouted to the first mate, "Quick! Open the tank, cooperate with them to complete the refueling, and let's get out of this hellish place! ”

The first mate ran out before he could finish listening to the captain, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's alive......" Long Haoqian said, slumped and sat on the chair on the side.

"Do you think ...... 'Destiny' event has passed?" Yin Yuting asked Long Xingyi, but she seemed to already know the answer.

"Nope." Long Xingyi put his hands in his pockets and looked at the rescue No. 3 spaceship in front of him, "The spaceship is malfunctioning, and there is no need for a camouflage collar." 24K was talking about something else. ”

Long Xingyi turned his head and glanced at Yin Yuting in tacit understanding.