Lu An and Su Ruyu sat back to back on their sleeping bags.

The patrol boat of the anti-smuggling team is heading towards asteroid 273 at the highest cruising speed, chasing a warship of the anti-smuggling team behind it, and the distance between the two has shrunk smaller and smaller as time passes.

When Lu An and Su Ruyu had just deceived this patrol boat, in fact, the patrol boat's cruising speed was as high as 50 kilometers per hour, which was far inferior to the warship behind them with a maximum speed of only 400,000 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, for a warship, if the maximum speed is maintained for a long time, the burden on the engine will be greatly increased, and the service life of the warship is a relatively serious loss, so this kind of warship with a maximum speed of only 400,000 kilometers per hour has a normal cruising speed of only about 300,000 kilometers per hour.

If this situation were to be put in place, Lu An and Su Ruyu would have been able to escape by taking a patrol boat for more than four hours before leaving this suspended warship in space. The warship of the Third Border Inspection Brigade of the Anti-Smuggling Team behind him had no choice but to stare at the back and had no choice but to let the two of them go.

Unfortunately, things are always impermanent.

When they encountered the edge of the DX-32 area earlier, the two men who were caught off guard were also shot while relying on the high mobility of the patrol boat to escape from the gunfire of the warship.

It was precisely because of this passing cannon that the structural compartment of the patrol boat was damaged, and because during the stalemate between Lu An, Tanaka Hyamoe and Kobayashi Masashi, the patrol boat continued to maneuver and change lines to avoid shelling, so that its engine was already overwhelmed. After escaping, the patrol boat's cruising speed had plummeted to 300,000 kilometers per hour.

If it weren't for the cooperation of Tanaka Baie and Lu An, who overshadowed Kobayashi Masashi, and at the moment when the "Heart of Shadows" was closed, he gave up the competition between the weapon system and the command system, and took advantage of the gap between the refresh of authority to directly lock the power system of the warship, so that the warship stayed in place for more than four hours in vain, then the two of them would have no chance to escape at all.

What's even worse is that I don't know if the people on the warship behind are annoyed and angry, or if they have received some death order, and they actually chase after them at a maximum speed of 400,000 kilometers per hour, without any scruples about the loss of the warship itself.

Before, it was only more than ten hours since Lu An and Su Ruyu fled, and the warship behind them caught up, closing the distance between the two to less than 100,000 kilometers, which was only a gap that could be caught up in an hour.

Fortunately, Lu An and Su Ruyu did not delay for too long, and directly changed their course, changing their course from running to Mars to facing away from Mars, trying to pass through the 273 asteroid to Earth.

However, the warship that was biting the two of them like a mad dog soon changed course and chased after it again, this time it was only more than six hours, and it approached Lu An and Su Ruyu's patrol boat again.

In this empty space, the overall distance between the two spacecraft is always shrinking, and changing the course again and flying against the direction of gravity will only make the patrol boat's speed drop even more, and the unaffected warship will be easier to catch up.

Lu An and Su Ruyu, who knew this, had no choice but to give up the struggle, sit back to back in the cockpit, and let the spacecraft fly towards the established course.

Leave it to fate!

At this time, this thought invariably rose in the hearts of the two.

In this vast space, there are two spaceships flying alone, and the two of them are bare-handed, there are really not too many ways to do it, and now they have exhausted all methods.

It is said that it is left to fate, but in fact, it is more accurate to say - waiting for death.

What else can you do but wait for death?

It's just that it's different from what Lu An thought when he stood in front of the porthole not long ago, and it's not the same as his mood when he faced Su Ruyu just now, Lu An, who was facing Su Ruyu with his back to him, pinched his fist and found that the palm of his hand was already a ****.

"It turns out that I'm really not as brave as I imagined, and I'm still so timid that I'm afraid of death......"

Listening to the even breathing sound behind him, as well as the low snoring sound, Lu An couldn't help grinning and smiling bitterly.

It turned out that his courage and sorrow in the past were just hypocrisy.

I used to think that I was going to die, many times more painful than death, so I was always so sad that I even ran into the great lake and plunged into the depths of the water to relieve my sorrows.

At that time, I thought that I was brave enough to face death, and I was not even afraid of death at all. Because suffering for a long time will make people crazy, and crazy people are close to superman, enough to transcend the nature of fear of life and death.

At that time, the fear of death and the desire to live were nothing more than the feeling of longing for oxygen when the mind was dizzy and the chest seemed to explode in the water.

All human feelings depend on the human body, and the desire for oxygen is not the desire for survival?!

However, now when he really wants to face death, he realizes that his guts are really only enough to face the lack of oxygen.

Man may live only on the flesh, but man has more than the flesh.

Suffocation is indeed painful, but what can make people forget the feeling of suffocation is the complete cutting off of the source of oxygen, just like Lu An plunged into the water and isolated the air in the deep water, he can forget the constant suffocation feeling in life.

However, once compared to death, the feeling of suffocation is far from the same, and the two are completely different.

Relieving suffocation can keep the air out, as long as you breathe again before the body reaches its limit. But how can death do that? Can anyone come back from the dead? To alleviate death, you can't die and then come back to life, right?

Ah——, is this what my sister has experienced in the past? I see......

At this time, Lu An, whose palms were completely ****, once again deeply experienced the state of mind of her sister in the past, and she was facing her current feeling all the time.

I used to boast that I could empathize with my sister, thinking that the suffocating feeling in my life was the embodiment of sharing weal and woe with my sister.

Now that I think about it, it's really stinky and shameless!

Thinking about my sister who used to smile at herself from time to time, if it were herself, I was afraid that she would cry every day!

"This kind of hateful feeling, it turned out that it really haunted my sister for ten years, and I thought I was smart, thinking that my sister's crying after illness was because of pain, because of the torture of illness, and because of my own dependence."

Where's that?

This is clearly Lu An's own feelings in the face of death at this moment, Lu An himself clearly wanted to cry, but Su Ruyu, who was relying on him, made Lu An have no choice but to smile silently and bitterly, which is much more uncomfortable than crying.

It's a mixture of regret, frustration, longing, depression, unwillingness, and entanglement...... All kinds of things, and so on, mixed with a lot of painful emotions.

At this time, Lu An's feeling was as if every inch of skin, every inch of viscera and even every cell in his body was tightly grasped, and he wanted to squeeze out all his vitality and life, cut off all hope for people, and let people decay and rot dryly, turn into dust, and disperse with the wind.

Regret and unwillingness, constantly tormenting Lu An.

I didn't have time to say goodbye to my sister, regret; I'll probably never see my sister again in the future, and I'm not willing to ......

Then, Lu An suddenly had an idea.

"Is there really some fate? My sister has just been cured, but I haven't even had time to say goodbye to her, so I have to die like this? Perhaps, is it because God wants me to give my life to my sister? In this way, it can be considered a fair trade. ”

Lu Anxin comforted himself so much, but the sound of Su Ruyu's breathing came from behind him, and he couldn't help but think about it in a daze.

"But how innocent is this woman behind her? Being brought to such a situation by yourself, you want to accompany yourself to death? ”

However, she was as sleepy as ever, just like her usual impression of her, which was an inexplicable happiness, right? I didn't know that death was coming, so I ...... peacefully in my sleep.

However, Su Ruyu, who was breathing calmly, had never heard Lu An's heart, and if she did, maybe she might not really agree with Lu An's opinion.

Time just ticked by.

"Huh? Why is there no movement again, it shouldn't be, calculate the time, and it should catch up. ”

Lu An's eyes squinted upwards and looked at the screen on the bridge.

From the time I found out that the warship had caught up, it turned out that two hours had passed until now!

Lu An stared down at his wrist again, and pointed his finger at the wisdom brain.

That's right, two hours have really passed, that is, at least half an hour ago, this broken patrol boat should have entered the range of the warship, and this is still calculated based on the shortest range of the warship of 5,000 kilometers.

Lu An leaned back slightly, leaned his head close to Su Ruyu's ear, turned his head slightly and said, "It seems that the situation is not right." ”

"Huh?"

"It's been two hours, and there's no movement behind it......"

"Haven't you caught up yet?"

Su Ruyu rubbed her eyes, straightened up and asked.

Lu An leaned back and almost fell on her back.

"I'll take a look."

Su Ruyu said, got up, and sat back in front of the driver's seat.

A few minutes later, she turned around in surprise and said to Lu An: "The warship behind has actually stopped......"

"Huh? Stopped, stopped? ”

"Hmm."

Lu An's eyes widened and he asked, "Could it be that they have been maintaining a high speed of sailing, so the ship's engine has failed?" ”

"But, didn't you say before, 10,000 kilometers has already entered their range, I look at the navigation record just now, they obviously ......"

The two men looked at each other, not knowing how to explain.

After a while, Lu An said with a wry smile: "It's finally worth celebrating, isn't it?" Survive ......"

Su Ruyu was silent and sighed, but she didn't have any sense of happiness for the rest of her life after the catastrophe, and then returned to the sleeping bag, sat down gently, and leaned on Lu An's back, soft.

Lu An also rubbed back, let her lean on, and didn't say anything more.

An hour later, the spacecraft heard a tinkling sound.

On the screen of the cockpit, an image of an unfamiliar asteroid appeared.

"Here we are."

"Hmm."

Lu An raised his head and looked at the asteroid on the bridge screen, asteroid 273.

Asteroid 273, Atropos, the god of scissors, is the name of the goddess of fate who is responsible for cutting the lifeline in prehistoric legends.

At the same time, for some reason, such a sentence suddenly popped into his heart.

"When I first arrived in your place, I would like to bear with me."