For the journey he is about to embark on, Lu Yan's heart is like a volcanic eruption, he often asks himself how much he has the ability to achieve and how much he can achieve, but the final result of thinking is that he is just an ordinary person to the extreme, one should squeeze the bus to work, go home from work to eat instant noodles, work overtime on weekends, occasionally get together with friends, wait for the opportunity to be promoted in the company, and then buy a house and a car, get married and have children, and retire. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info This is Lu Yan's plan for his life, quiet as water, but also tranquil and carefree, but now he has stepped into another road, a road that he has never thought of, never dared to think, he doesn't know if he can do it, in his opinion, maybe failure is inevitable.

"Can't you sleep?" Link walked in and asked when he saw that the light in Lu Yan's room was still on.

Lu Yan sat up, saw that Link was still wearing a combat uniform, and asked, "Were you scared when you first went on a mission?" ”

Link smiled, he found a chair and sat down, "That was a long time ago, and now it seems that it should be considered a trivial task." I can't remember the content of the mission, but I still haven't forgotten the feeling I had at that time, the first time I went on the mission, I was younger than you are now, before the mission started, I had insomnia all night, I made hundreds of action plans for myself, imagined countless consequences, and almost had the mentality of seeing death as home. But when I really started the mission, all the fears and worries disappeared, because I found that I could complete the task smoothly, and I could deal with unexpected situations with ease, not because I was skilled, but because I believed that I could, sometimes what we lacked was not skills, but self-confidence, as long as you were willing to believe in yourself, you must be worthy of your trust. ”

"Besides, you still have Li Li's helper, he can be stronger than the two of us." Takeda also appeared at the door, holding a glass of red wine in his hand, "Do you want to try my 'Phoenix Nirvana', it's no worse than the club's." Takeda sent the prepared cup of "Phoenix Nirvana" to Lu Yan, Lu Yan took the wine and took a sip, this is his second attempt "Phoenix Nirvana", but it is different from the first time, this time he tasted a faint aroma in the wine, and he could feel a vanilla-like sweetness while flowing down the esophagus.

"Does it feel different?"

Lu Yan nodded slightly.

"Different people can taste different tastes in 'Phoenix Nirvana', if you can taste the sweetness now, it means that you are beginning to be able to truly understand this glass of wine, which means that you have begun to recognize yourself, there is nothing more difficult in the world than knowing yourself." Takeda also took a sip, frowning slightly.

That night, the three of them drank a lot more, and even Cheng Cheng joined them. Takeda has put his bartending skills to good use, and each wine has a strange name: Gifted, Waves Turning Back, Ghost of the Deep Sea, and Chidori ......Returning to the Nest, each with its own complex taste.

"Do you remember the first time I took you to taste 'Phoenix Nirvana'?" Takeda asked.

"I didn't taste it at all that time, and Luo Yi also complained that you shouldn't let me drink this."

"It's her favorite wine, and her 'Phoenix Nirvana' is incomparable, the flavor in it is like a star, and when you just get used to it, there will be new flavors to hit your taste buds." 'Phoenix Nirvana' is a wine that will make you obsessed, and once you like it, you will always rely on it and will always be with it. ”

"How did she learn it?"

"Ha, she can make more wine than this, and you will slowly find out in the future, you are not as simple as you think." Link said with a smile on the side.

"So, Lu Yan." Takeda suddenly grabbed Lu Yan's shoulders and looked at Lu Yan with a firm but pleading look, "Please be sure to bring her back!" ”

It was the first time Lu Yan saw Takeda's serious appearance, and he nodded vigorously involuntarily.

The next day, Lu Yan, Cheng Cheng and Li Li packed their bags and counted the equipment they carried. Link handed the three shuttles to the three of them: "Your shuttle has been recalibrated and checked, you must protect it intact, without the shuttle, you will not be able to come back." After the three put on the shuttle, Li Li and Cheng Cheng completed the certification process one after another.

Then Link handed a headset the size of a soybean to Lu Yan and Cheng Cheng: "This is a communication device, which can penetrate the dimensional space to talk, and Li Li's I have directly installed it in his mechanical body." This is a project that Lao Ya has been working on, but it is still in the experimental stage, and we can only initiate calls from our side, and the effect is not very stable, so we will not contact you until the last resort, and you will have to rely on yourself over there. ”

Putting on the headphones, Takeda handed two sets of "Hunter" first-class combat uniforms to the three of them.

"Are we going to wear combat uniforms this time?" Cheng Cheng exclaimed excitedly.

"This is just as a precaution, you must hide your identity when you go to investigate, so you can only wear combat uniforms inside." Takeda handed out the combat uniforms to the three and solemnly announced, "Welcome to the space agency, you are the real 'hunter' from now on." ”

Lu Yan took the combat uniform, and for the first time he carefully felt the weight of the combat uniform, although it was very light, but the real energy contained in it could only be felt by himself.

Everything was ready, and the three of them stood in the hall of Link's secret base, adjusted the target coordinates of the shuttle, and watched the clock in front of them start counting down. Lu Yan felt his heart beat violently again, hitting his sternum again and again with the countdown of the second hand. He had never felt such a strong sense of sacredness, in the last second of the countdown, Lu Yan's eyes appeared in front of the Great Wall that he had been to, Mount Everest, which he had traveled many times in his dreams, and the small blue planet that he had seen countless times in the album, he felt that he was standing in the middle of the solar system, the middle of the Milky Way, and the middle of the universe, he was the singularity before the explosion of the universe, the origin of everything began with himself, and the destination of everything ended with himself.

At that moment, the space where the three of them were originally standing produced a trace of fluctuations, and a trace of light that was so short that it was imperceptible pierced into the eyes of Link and Takeda, through that fluctuating space, they saw that Link and Takeda were putting the three fingers of their right hand on their left shoulder, and watched the three of them embark on their journey with a standard "hunter" salute.

Through a web intertwined with time, the trio set foot on a strange land. "What is this, why is the ground so cold?" Cheng Cheng felt that the ground was cold and hard.

"How so?" Li Li was surprised.

"What's wrong?"

"Isn't this the mantle zone before I go back?"

"Isn't that what we're supposed to do?" Cheng Cheng asked puzzled.

"There's nothing wrong with the location." Li Li walked to the side, where a silver bullet-shaped carriage was parked, with many scratches and dents on the surface, Li Li touched the scars, "These scars are hot. ”

At the same time as Li Li spoke, there was a violent shaking of the ground, and Cheng Cheng stumbled and almost fell.

"This is where we are targeting, but the time now is connected to the time since I disappeared from here, and the time when I went back did not exist for this place."

"You're saying you disappeared from here and came back a moment later?"

Li Li nodded, and he looked in the direction of the exit: "Now is not the time to investigate the reason, we can understand it when we go out and take a look." ”

The three of them ran out along the passageway, and within a hundred steps they reached the mouth of the dragon's mouth, when the crowd at the entrance was chaotic, running in all directions, mixed with screams and shouts of different accents. Although he only ran a hundred steps, Lu Yan felt that his legs were slightly sore, and he was a little short of breath.

"It's the golden rule at work, your body has changed, can you still hold it?" Li Li asked with concern.

Lu Yan straightened his breathing, nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine, I won't fall if I don't find Luo Yi." ”

"Am I already middle-aged?" Cheng Cheng knocked on his body, kicked his legs, and said to himself.

"Strictly speaking, but you're still young and don't feel the changes in your body very much."

"Does your mechanical body get old?"

"Machines are not life, they don't grow old, but my physical part still follows the golden rule, and although my brain has become a little sluggish, I'm not old enough to answer your idiotic questions all the time here, so let's go." Li Li knocked on Cheng Cheng's head with a mechanical finger, and he screamed in pain.

The changes in the earth's mantle have led to a surge in the flow of people here, with various special wind paddle planes patrolling and circling in the air, and many uniformed personnel on the ground carrying out the classification of the injured and the aftermath of the accident. The three of them quietly made their way through the crowd and stepped on an unguarded paddle machine and headed down the mountain.

"We searched for a needle in a haystack without any clues." Cheng Cheng said worriedly.

"Based on Lu Yan's previous experience on the training plane, I think there must be clues in that building." Li Li said.

"You mean M.B.T.X technologies?" Cheng Cheng asked.

"You know that, too?" Lu Yan was slightly surprised that Cheng Cheng could accurately say the name of the company.

"I did my homework before I came, and Master Takeda gave me a lot of materials." Cheng Cheng said proudly.

Li Li, who chose to avoid the crowded area, headed for one of the city's grandest buildings.