In the slightly dimly lit room, a rather thin figure sat at the table, looking at something with both hands.

This is a pale man with no blood on his face, not because of nutrition, but because of the unhealthy whiteness created by long-term indoors.

He stared intently at a photograph in his hand, and could still see the exact appearance of the photograph under the deliberately darkened aperture.

It was a family portrait of a man with a straight face, looking very young, and it was the same middle-aged man holding the photo. Next to the man, on the other hand, is a smiling woman. The woman wore glasses and had a very sweet smile, an intellectual beauty of an oriental woman.

And in the middle of the two, there stood a cute little girl, each with her hands pulled by two adults, and her two little paws looked fleshy, and her sleepy eyes were very cute.

The man's eyes stared at the photo, without saying a word, and after a long time, he sighed deeply, as if he had suddenly aged dozens of years. In fact, he has a lot of hair and does look very old.

"Ding Dong~"

"Ding Dong~"

And at this time, the doorbell rang.

"There's a guest coming! There are guests! Then a dull electronic prompt sounded.

Who could it be? Could it be that the editor came to urge the manuscript again? Or are those colleagues who came to visit him?

The middle-aged man was a little stunned, his legs were crippled, and his body was still sick, so even if he had a job with a barely earning income, he was still a little poor.

"There's a guest coming! There are guests! At this time, the dull tone sounded again.

The middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head, he was no longer in a daze, and instead pressed a few buttons around him.

"Smack~ Woo? Drop out of the widow and the emblem of the weapon? Glutinous? Loyalty? Poor? Hoof? What is the salary? Senior? Malaria? The electronic door of the "pop ~ squeak" > was opened by him, but the middle-aged man couldn't help but be stunned directly after seeing the face of the person outside the door.

"Dad, I'm back." The girl lowered her head, looked at her father, and whispered.

The father's temples were already gray, and the daughter could only see his face when she looked down.

"Xiaoyu ......" The middle-aged man trembled, and he couldn't believe what he saw.

"Dad......" Zhen Wuyu couldn't hold back any longer, she bent down, stepped forward gently, and hugged her father tightly.

Tears welled up in her eyes, sliding down her cheeks and dripping onto her father's shoulders, soaking through the gray tunics.

When father and daughter meet again, they don't need to say anything, everything is silent.

Ike watched in silence, his face blank as he played with a silver-white revolver, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Alright, come in, you kid." Gently pushing his daughter away, the father shook his head and smiled, "It's good to go home." ”

He pressed the button of the wheelchair, and the wheelchair began to turn to make room for Zhen Wuyu to enter the house.

So Zhen Wuyu and Ike entered the house one after another, and her father turned on the light in the room, and the room became completely bright.

When Ike entered the room, Zhen Wuyu's father was obviously full of surprise, so he looked at the poker-faced boy with some special eyes, but he didn't say much.

"Father, how is your illness, is it still serious?" Zhen Wuyu sat next to his father and asked with concern first.

"It's still the same." The middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head, "The condition is still like that, and there is no progress." As he spoke, he looked down at his crippled legs, his face a little pale.

Her father had been exposed to intense cosmic radiation, and as a result, he developed a serious illness that was incurable with current technology, and could only delay the disease but not cure it at all.

Although Zoomlion's social welfare is still good, it is powerless to deal with such long-term patients.

"Don't worry, it can be cured, let's work together!" Zhen Wuyu bit her lip tightly and said to her father.

"You kid is stubborn, I don't have any hope for a long time." The middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head and touched his daughter's head, "I had to go to the East Point Military Academy secretly, but it really scared your father." ”

"Whoa~" Zhen Wuyu couldn't help but burst into laughter, looking stupid, and her face that had just cried was still full of tears, so it looked a little ugly.

"Look at you~" The middle-aged man couldn't help but smile dumbly, "How is your life in the military academy?" ”

Her father began to care about her life in the army.

"It's fine." Zhen Wuyu raised her head, she deliberately concealed the various dangers such as the experience of the war season, as well as the shocking death rate, obviously not wanting her father to worry.

"What do you mean it's okay?" The middle-aged man was a little reluctant, "Tell me about life in the military academy." ”

"Hmm." Zhen Wuyu couldn't help but nod and began to talk about the training they had conducted during the East Point Military Academy's course month.

"It's really bitter, it's really bitter for you, daughter!"

"It's not bitter at all, there's something fully automatic and integrated in it." Since he couldn't divulge military secrets, Zhen Wuyu simply told his father about some of the equipment and military equipment inside. But it was this rough description that made Zhen Wuyu's father amazed.

"Then be your soldier, Xiaoyu, and work hard for the country." The middle-aged man touched her head again, then he turned his head, looked at Ike, who had been standing at the door, standing against the door, and pouted slightly, "Then daughter, can you tell me, who is this?" ”

"Uh...... What are you talking about, Dad......" Zhen Wuyu asked in a low voice, she was afraid of mentioning this because her father was afraid of mentioning this, so she pretended not to hear.

"Who is that handsome young man, how can he follow you?" However, the middle-aged man smiled and pointed to Ike by the door, "Did you meet at the East Point Military Academy?" ”

The legal age of marriage in the 24th Century is 18 for both men and women, so it is normal to have a boyfriend and girlfriend at the age of 16.

"Uh...... This, this, this! Zhen Wuyu's face became completely unnatural, and she was a little incoherent for a while.

"Isn't it... Yours... Better half? However, the middle-aged man didn't let her go at all, and then asked.

"Hmm~count...... Calculate...... Well! Zhen Wuyu's face was flushed, and she stammered incoherently, but finally nodded slightly, although Ike himself did not admit it.

"Haha......" His father couldn't help laughing, his voice was slightly louder, and then he turned his head and looked at the Chinese boy with a scrutinizing gaze.

At this moment, Ike walked towards them.

He looked at Zhen Wuyu's father and daughter expressionlessly, as if he didn't care about the somewhat sharp oppressive eyes of the middle-aged man.

"Hello, uncle." Out of politeness, Ike still showed a smile and greeted the middle-aged man.

This can be regarded as a boss visiting the relatives of subordinate employees.

"Hello, young man, what's your name!" Looking at Ike's polite behavior, and thinking back to his previous calm expression, the middle-aged man couldn't help but nod secretly in his heart.

"My name is Ike, uncle." Ike continued to smile at Zhen Wuyu's father, and then the two began to talk.

Because Zhen Wuyu's father wrote articles on politics and economics, and he also made a detailed discussion about things 300 years ago, the two of them still talked quite well.

Zhen Wuyu sat next to the two of them, looking at the two of them discussing harmoniously, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

What's going on with this kind of sense of immediacy where the son-in-law and the father-in-law talk happily!

After some time.

"I'm sorry, uncle, we have to go." Ike stood up, and then said slightly apologetically, "Zhen Wuyu actually only came to visit you temporarily, and now she and I are leaving here." ”

"Leave?" The middle-aged man couldn't help but be slightly stunned, then understood, and said with some regret, "East Point Military Academy, it's difficult to have a holiday!" ”

"Dad, let's go, please pay attention to your body!" Trembling all over, Zhen Wuyu looked at his father a little uncomfortably, hugged him fiercely again, and then followed behind Ike, and walked out of the door without looking back.

"Take care!"

The "click" electronic door closed, but the bright room lost its temperature.

Zhen Wuyu's father lowered his head, picked up the photo on the table again, and gently wiped it on it.

"Alright, let's start this mission." Walking out of the alley 246, Ike said to Zhen Wuyu with an expressionless face, "We are going to trade with interstellar pirates this time, and it is very chaotic there, very chaotic. So next, it's another round of life and death tests. ”

"Understood." The blush and shame on his face disappeared, and Zhen Wuyu nodded vigorously, looking determined.

The two got into a cloud car again and rushed to the boarding site of the transport ship.

This time, the cloud car flew a little high, almost 100 meters high.

There are many high-rise buildings around, and you can hardly see the edge when you look up, and it is simply straight into the sky.

"Don't let Daddy down." Ike looked out the window and whispered to himself.

When Zhen Wuyu proposed to visit his father, he didn't think about going over to visit Zakaev, but after thinking about it carefully, this decision was still vetoed by him.

PS: Well, there is no one to give me a bounty for book reviews, so I can only give myself a bounty every time.