Cui Zhihao paid with his identity card, watched the expressionless bionic courier pull his luggage away, and said to his wife Walnut next to him a little wistfully: "This kind of service was not charged in the past. ”

Walnut smiled slightly bitterly and said, "It's been eighteen years since you always said such things. ”

Cui Zhihao patted his thigh with a little emotion and sighed: "Eighteen years? Time flies, and no one mentions that name anymore. It's like our children, from birth, will only think that Starlink has only one head. ”

Walnut tugged at his sleeve and said, "Don't say more." ”

Cui Zhihao looked at Walnut's worried look, nodded and stopped talking. He knew that it would not be easy for him to breathe a breath of fresh air now. The name that can't be mentioned has become taboo in Starlink. No matter how many years have passed, as long as Xiao Yu is still sitting in the position of the head of state, no one will remember the head of state who has never obtained legal status in the Star Alliance Charter.

From this point of view, Starlink has indeed only had one head, and that is Xiao Yu.

Cui Zhihao cherishes his life now, after the Enslaver War, Starlink fell into the Righteous Name War again, but Cui Zhihao did not participate in the war. This was something he was glad to have in every thought of it, because his hands were not stained with the blood of his compatriots.

Because he had a senior relationship with the person he couldn't mention, Cui Zhihao was almost killed. But in the end, the military had lost patience with Xiao Yu's purge and began to oppose it passively, and even the Star Alliance itself fell into a state of loss of vitality, and Xiao Yu stopped the inhumane persecution. But since that time, few soldiers in the early days of the establishment of the Space Army have remained in the army.

Xiao Yu promoted some wall grass and recruited a group of new people. In particular, the Star Alliance has leveled many civilizations and received the power of the original three major enslavers, and many new citizens of the Star Alliance who are not from Earth have joined the Star Alliance. Of course, Xiao Yu's most trusted is the growing android army, now called the Jinwu Army.

Cui Zhihao and Walnut both retired at that time, because of the changes in Star Alliance, they were not even assigned a job, they only received a monthly basic income, or decreased.

The Star Federation is rapidly becoming an Iridium aristocratic, and the society that was originally built by the people with the concept of GC doctrine on Earth has begun to divide into classes again. A group of people who took refuge in Xiao Yu made their fortunes and began to become a privileged class of civilization. Just like the free express delivery that originally belonged to the national welfare, it was distributed to some families by the Starlink government under the banner of improving efficiency and became their private property.

Earthlings seem to have returned to the familiar times before, and quite a few former vested interests have become vested interests again, and it seems that the Star Alliance has become more stable.

It can't be said that the lives of the citizens of the Star Federation have become worse, in fact, there is still a certain degree of improvement. Moreover, the current citizens of the Star Alliance have become more accustomed to the life of such an interstellar civilization, and on the planets such as the earth, which were originally in the old era, people have now mastered the latest scientific and technological knowledge and pursued higher fields.

But this still can't be changed, many people like Cui Zhihao always have a sense of disillusionment in their hearts that is difficult to dissipate.

Because they know that the Star Alliance, which they fought and defended eighteen years ago, has left them.

Fortunately for Cui Zhihao, he met Walnut, and the two had met in the martyrs' cemetery a long time ago, and they also met and fell in love by coincidence after being discharged from the army. Building a family and having children is the biggest motivation for Cui Zhihao to persist in living, but he still inevitably feels that living on the earth is becoming more and more depressing.

Cui Zhihao and Walnut are going to take their families to move to Wanbo Star, a habitable planet more than 1,700 light-years away from Earth, which is the new territory of the Star Alliance. There is no intelligent life on the entire planet, and a colonial city has just been built, with a population of only one or two hundred thousand, from various planets of the Star Alliance, not only primates.

In Star Alliance, the more newly developed and sparsely populated the planet, the more open the atmosphere becomes, and in places like Earth, it always feels like there is a huge layer of black clouds pressing on people's heads.

The family sat in the waiting room, waiting for the passenger ship to Wanboxing, which, like the courier service, now collects money. Moreover, a spaceship ticket that flies thousands of light-years like this is not something that ordinary people can afford. That is, because of colonial considerations, the ferry tickets are discounted to a certain extent, and Cui Zhihao has some savings.

At this time, Cui Zhihao suddenly saw a somewhat familiar face.

"Colonel Tashvi?" Cui Zhihao shouted.

The middle-aged man with a scruffy beard and a somewhat decadent look back, a little surprised, and asked, "Are you?" ”

Cui Zhihao wanted to give a military salute, but halfway through, his hand fell by himself. He shook his head and said, "Cui Zhihao, I originally served on the Aquarius and have been retired for more than ten years. ”

Tashvi suddenly realized, and then his expression became a little warmer. Those who retired more than ten years ago, he thinks are his real comrades-in-arms.

"It's really fate, I didn't expect to meet old comrades-in-arms in this place, are you going to travel?"

Cui Zhihao smiled helplessly: "Immigrate, go to Wanboxing." ”

Tashvi sighed slightly, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "It's okay to leave." ”

The two sat down, and Tashvi said, "I moved out six years ago, and I wasn't even under the rule of the Star Federation, a neutral commercial planet on the other side of the Flywheel Star Field. ”

Saying that, he smiled again, looked at a young girl over there who was a little similar to him, full of affection, he said: "This time I came back to pick up my daughter, and living here is always a little uncomfortable." ”

Cui Zhihao glanced at him a few times and said in a low voice: "I heard that some of the old comrades-in-arms of the original Space Army, after being discharged from the army, many went to neutral territories, and it seems that they want to plan an action against Xiao Yu. ”

Tashvi's expression stiffened visibly, then he waved his hand and did not answer him. Seeing his daughter come over with a dog, he smiled and said, "Okay, I'm going to take my daughter on the boat." It's a pleasure to meet you, old comrade-in-arms. Now, there are benefits, if you get on the boat more than ten years ago, there will be a lot of security checks to do, and this old brother in our family may not be able to withstand it, this dog is already twenty years old. Haha, now that we're moving, we're going to take him away too. Hopefully, it will get used to extraterrestrial life. ”

Cui Zhihao could feel Tashvi's caution, and he also smiled and said goodbye to him.

Tashvi pulled her daughter, who smiled and took her father's arm, and their old dog followed slowly. On boarding, the old dog looked back very humanly and glanced at the earth of the earth.

There was a hint of excitement in his eyes.