Chapter 13: The Lurker (Part II)
After spending some time in the training room, and when he had fully recovered from his exhaustion, he put on his clothes and prepared to go to Colin to talk to him about where to defend during the ship's battle.
But at this time, the order for Robin to go to the bridge suddenly sounded on the ship's radio.
"Bridge?" Robin, who was walking in the aisle, stopped, was stunned, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Cecilia, that girl, I don't think I'm in trouble enough......"
Although he was complaining, Robin was still quite proud in his heart. After two years of no contact, Cecilia still cares so much about him, which can definitely make any man proud.
Straightening up his somewhat messy collar, Robin quickly ran into the ship's elevator and headed for the bridge.
However, when he entered the bow area of the transport, he found that almost all of the cockpit crew were standing outside the bridge door, except for Cecilia, even the conscientious middle-aged navigator Borg.
"This ...... Why are you all standing here? Stepping forward with some hesitation, Robin asked with a blank look.
"It's the captain's order."
Robin is answered by Navigator Borg, whose name means iceberg in the Gremanic language, and whose surname, like his name, is indeed very rigid and stubborn at many times.
Regarding the Borg, Robin had asked Andy about it during small talk, and knew that the Borg was the oldest person on the ship, and that he had been in charge of guiding Cecilia until he was promoted to captain. So, he can even be said to be Cecilia's teacher, and he himself obviously thinks so.
"So, can I go in now?" Robin asked, looking at Borg.
"You can go in, but it's only fifteen minutes." Borg lit a cigar for himself and looked at Robin coldly: "I know that you are the one Cecilia cares about, so in order for her to solve this problem, I agreed to her unreasonable request." However, I will only allow her to have her last name once, and I will never allow her to appear again. I hope you understand your responsibilities too, after all, for a spaceship, having a captain who is always calm is more important than anything else, isn't it? ”
"Yes, I think so too." Robin's bow respectfully.
Seeing that Robin did not arrogantly refuse his suggestion, Borg's tense expression finally eased, and he took a deep puff of his cigarette: "Then you can go in, remember, my cigar will be finished in fifteen minutes." ”
Robin smiled, and under the curious gaze of many, stepped into the cockpit where Cecilia was alone.
Stepping into the cockpit, Robin was greeted by a curved bench and a transparent dome that was so clear that you could even touch the starry sky. And Cecilia was like a fairy under the stars, sitting quietly in the center of the stage.
Since Cecilia had her back to Robin, Robin couldn't see the expression on Cecilia's face at the moment, but Robin noticed that the moment she walked into the cockpit, Cecilia's shoulders shook unconsciously, and it seemed that her heart was not as calm as she tried to show at the moment.
"Cecilia ......" Robin stood a short distance behind Cecilia and softly called out Cecilia's name.
Perhaps it was this familiar voice that reminded Cecilia of the wonderful times in the academy, she snorted hard like a sob, and forced the grievance in her heart to ask, "Why didn't you contact me in the past two years, didn't we say yes?" Have you forgotten? ”
"How could you forget ......" Robin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There is a reason why I didn't contact you, because my training camp doesn't allow contact with the outside world, so I can't send you a video message at all." ”
"But I've sent you more than 300 videos!"
"More than three hundred?" Robin was stunned: "You sent it to me directly?" ”
"yes?" Robin's tone confused Cecilia, and she finally couldn't help but look back at Robin.
"But I didn't receive any of them. Damn ......" Robin suddenly shouted, "It must be that damn old madman who monitored our personal information, damn, that immoral old bastard, he actually spied on our **!" ”
"Old madman?" The way Cecilia had never seen Robin look so angry had never seen her before, and it made her begin to realize that things didn't seem to be what she had imagined.
"Yes, that blind and lame old madman." Robin muttered curses in his mouth for a while, then suddenly raised his head and looked at Cecilia in fear: "What did you send in the video?" ”
“……”
Hearing Robin's question, Cecilia's cheeks suddenly turned crimson, and she was speechless.
"It won't be ......" Realizing that the truth seemed to be what he thought, countless black lines suddenly appeared on Robin's forehead.
In this space age, it has become a luxury dream to stay together, and lovers who have stepped into the stars have become accustomed to the long and distant distance between each other, so it has become a fashion trend to use special videos to simulate spiritual needs when they are lonely, and Cecilia, who misses Robin, has obviously done the same.
"Whoever that old bastard is, he really damn it!"
Thinking of an old madman with a simulator helmet in a dark room, happily making out with herself in the spirit world, and making out more than three hundred times, Cecilia felt so ashamed that she almost felt the urge to commit suicide.
"When I have the opportunity to go back to training camp in the future, I will definitely turn the other half of his body into a machine." Robin gritted his teeth and cursed a few words before sitting down beside Cecilia, and suddenly stared curiously at Cecilia's shy eyes: "You really 'miss' me so much?" There are more than 300 of them? That's an average of one ...... every two days."
“……”
If just now she was so ashamed that she wanted to commit suicide, then now, Cecilia can't wait to drive the transport ship directly to hit the meteorite.
Sensing the storm that was about to brew in Cecilia's eyes, Robin immediately stopped discussing this topic with interest, and reached out to scrape the tip of Cecilia's nose: "Now that we are really on the same ship, is this the arrangement of fate?" ”
"Your words are always so sweet! ~" Cecilia glared at Robin coquettishly, her words full of sweetness.
"It's a gift from God, don't you like it?" Robin leaned back in his chair proudly, turned around, and said, "When I was in the training camp, I was expecting to have a few beautiful women, but it turned out that there was only one woman in the entire training camp, and I was stared at by a strong outrageous guy." You don't know, I've lived almost an ascetic life for the past two years. ”
"Really?" Hearing Robin's words, Cecilia was overjoyed.
"Of course it's true, even when I came to the Charon Star battlefield later, the whole team was full of men." Robin spread his hands, "Poor my sweet words don't use it at all. ”
"Hmph, that's God punishing you." Cecilia pursed her lips coquettishly, and unconsciously, Robin's few words dispelled the knot that had been accumulated in her heart for two years, and the attachment to Robin once again occupied all of her heart.
"He's jealous of me."
Robin continued to cheekily flirt with Cecilia, but as he was restlessly spinning in circles in the swivel chair, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw the star map on Cecilia's stage.
Seeing that the ten points of light representing the fleet were gradually approaching the edge of a gray strip, Robin suddenly sat up straight, pointed to the strip and asked, "This is a meteorite belt?" ”
"yes." Cecilia looked back at Robin curiously, wondering how Robin could suddenly become interested in interstellar travel.
"So we're almost done with the first leg of our journey?" Robin rubbed his chin and recalled the contents of the previous captain's battle notes and asked, "I remember that after completing the first flight, there will be a safe passage without any meteorites, and then I will enter the next meteorite belt, right?" ”
"That's right." Cecilia nodded.
"How long is that safe passage?"
"It's only 3,000 kilometers, and it's gone in the blink of an eye." Cecilia didn't understand why Robin cared so much about this passage.
"3000 km! ~”
To Cecilia's surprise, when Robin heard this number, he suddenly jumped up from his chair in surprise, grabbed the communication channel in the ship, and shouted anxiously: "Navigator Borg, Marine Colin, and all the cockpit crew, all assemble on the bridge, quick!" ~”