On the third day after the mission, Lin Youde and the others went to the Big Horn space station to receive their medals.

Lin Youde has already experienced the award ceremony too many times, so he began to feel bored, Xia Yongzhi also looked like he was lacking in interest, and Freya was very excited.

Lilibelle looked ashamed, as if she didn't think she deserved the medal.

After the ceremony, Lily Belle looked relieved.

"A lot of people in the Belle family sent congratulations," Lily said in the tactical link, "and I really don't feel right when I see this." I obviously just mixed up a medal, what is there to brag about? ”

Everyone just looked at each other and laughed at Lily's complaints.

"Laughing at something, really. Why do you go after that? Lily pouted and asked in an unhappy voice, while rubbing her shoulder with her hand - yesterday's Golden Rooster independence made her suffer enough, and in the end she could only obediently follow Lin Youde's instructions to start from the basics.

Lin Youde confirmed with Noah that she couldn't enter the award ceremony, so she was waiting outside the headquarters.

Then he looked back at the girls behind him and said, "The sacrificial spy gave us this in addition to the intelligence information. ”

Lin Youde showed the photo of Noah sketching with a pencil to everyone - in fact, humans can do this kind of thing with a pencil, but Lin Youde always thought it was more cute to let Noah write it.

The two humans immediately recognized the man in the photo as the waiter, and Freya hesitated for a moment, her eyes purring around, confirming the expressions of several humans, and then asked suspiciously, "Is that...... The one who died on the Joka station? ”

"Yes, the woman next to me should be his ex-girlfriend or something, I think he gave me this photo because he wanted me to visit his ex-girlfriend."

Xia Yongzhi asked with some hesitation: "He has been lurking for a while, right?" His ex-girlfriend should have a life of her own now, shouldn't she? Is it okay to rush over? ”

"But what if that girl is thinking about him all the time?" Freya argued, "Maybe she's been waiting for news from him for so many years?" ”

Lily, for her part, kept her mouth shut, and it looked like she was now in the position of the whole team's recruits. So it was decided not to intervene in the arguments of the two "veterans".

Lin Youde decided to exercise his authority as the captain: "I have already investigated her carefully, she is on the Big Horn space station, and she is not married yet, but she has a boyfriend. I've located where she is now. And she's being tracked, and we're going to find her and tell her the truth. If bringing the truth to her was the last wish of the heroic informant, we should carry it out, and not let the hero's last wish be frustrated. Isn't it? ”

Xia Yongzhi hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Well, you're right. ”

"Then let's go, Noah has already stopped a taxi and is waiting for us at the entrance of the headquarters."

**

Fifteen minutes later, Lin Youde saw the face of the woman in the photo from a distance in the window of the speeding car.

"We're here." As he spoke, Xia Yongzhi steered the flying car out of the main traffic space in the space station and landed towards the edge of the commercial street that simulated an open space.

"It's against the law for me to do that, no, it's a violation to hack into the car's computer system and do it manually. Why don't we use the Space Army's flying car or your Lin family's transportation boat? Xia Yongzhi complained again and again while operating.

Lin Youde shrugged his shoulders: "These vehicles have signs, and they are too conspicuous to sit here." ”

As she spoke, the car stopped steadily on the sidewalk of the shopping street, and the air currents that landed caused a small commotion, and the lady in the photo who was directly blocked from the way stood in surprise and the person who looked like her boyfriend immediately blocked her.

Lin Youde opened the door and came down, first signaling the two of them not to worry, then he cleared his throat, and waited for the sound of the car door opening and closing behind him to disappear before he asked loudly: "Is it Miss Zhao Yazhi?" ”

"Yes, I am." The woman's voice was full of doubt.

At this time, the man who was protecting her suddenly pointed at Lin Youde and said, "I remember you!" You are that Lin Youde. The Lin Youde who cuckolded Princess Ilarai! ”

- Wait, why did the rumors turn out to be like this?

[This kind of rumor has always been there, and the information flow I bombarded into your mind includes these.] 】

Is that so?

[That's it.] 】

Lin Youde shook his head secretly, pretending not to hear the unknown man's words ("Why are Princess Ilalai and the third party behind you?"). You're not going to do both, are you? ”）。 He showed the portrait in his hand and asked, "Ms. Zhao, do you know the person in the painting?" ”

Ms. Zhao was stunned for a moment, looking dazed, but that dazed face gradually turned into surprise.

"I ...... I do know him, but he ...... He's dead in a spaceship accident, I remember it was a Space Force cruiser. That was more than a decade ago. I've been seeing a psychiatrist all these years, why do you ask this? ”

"It's nothing, it's just to confirm if you are really Miss Zhao Yazhi. His last wish is to let you know that he is still alive all these years. ”

"Last wish? Are you still alive all these years? Ms. Zhao repeated Lin Youde's words, "This means ......"

"I can't tell you any details, it's the rule, I can only say that he died generously as a human being."

Ms. Zhao covered her mouth, and tears welled up in her eyes at once.

"Come to think of it," she whispered, "before he's 'accident', I went to KTV with him for a retro time, he ordered a lot of songs that made me feel unlucky, you are a soldier you should know, what "bloodstained style", "we will be found under the ruins", I was angry and didn't let him sing, but he ordered "White Birch Forest" again, I got angry, slammed the door and ran, I thought he would come to chase me, but he didn't, so I was so angry that I ignored him until he set sail ......"

Ms. Zhao couldn't cry anymore, Lin Youde and the others looked at each other, and found that their expressions were very solemn. Lily Belle simply turned her face away - knowing that nanomachines can kill all tears in her eyes, there would never be a situation where she couldn't control her tears if she didn't want to shed them, but she turned her face away.

Finally, Ms. Zhao turned from crying to sobbing under the comfort of her current boyfriend, and Lin Youde also seized the opportunity to take the pencil drawing back into his arms, and said goodbye: "Then, Ms. Zhao, we won't continue to bother you......

"Can't you give me the painting?"

"Sorry, no." Lin Youde hesitated for a moment, and didn't say that the painting was painted by himself, so Ms. Zhao continued to mistakenly think that it was the handwriting of the person who had gone away in her memory.

Xia Yongzhi stepped forward and said, "If you want to pay your respects to him, you can go to the Cosmos Army Martyrs Cemetery in the No. 11 Circle, where there is a monument to the Unknown Hero. ”

"I'll go."

Immediately afterwards, Lin Youde and the others took a step back and saluted Ms. Zhao together.

**

After bidding farewell to Ms. Zhao, Lin Youde and his entourage drove a flying car to the Cosmos Army Martyrs Cemetery - also known as the Cosmos Army Invalides.

There is no separate tombstone here, because there are so many sacrifices in the two hundred years that the universe has been pioneered that there is simply no room for each of them to have a tombstone. Their names were engraved on the wall, which spirals around the main building of the cemetery for a total length of several kilometres, and is constantly expanding its outer ring.

Entering the innermost part of the cemetery along the spiral passage formed by the name wall, you can see the monument without an inscription, the top of the monument burns with a torch that will never be extinguished, and on the pedestal of the monument is written a line of small words: "You died generously as human beings, your names are unknown, and your deeds live on forever." ”

Behind the monument, there is a huge screen showing the number of unsung heroes who have died so far on the front lines to protect humanity: nine thousand seven million five hundred and fifty-one people.

Presumably, that 1 only appeared in the past two days.

"One day, will we be part of that number too?" Xia Yongzhi asked softly.

"Yes, maybe when that day will come." Lin Youde replied calmly.

At the same time, he muttered in his heart: My parents are probably already inside.

Freya suddenly said, "Then if I also hang up, will this number be rewritten to nine thousand seven million five hundred and fifty thousand and one plus one?" I mean, put a plus sign after the number in front of it, '+1' like that......"

Lin Youde smiled and shook his head: "No, of course not." ”

"But will you humans treat me as one of your own?"

"I don't know," Lin Youde replied honestly, "but I must have completely trusted you as my own." ”

"This own person should be replaced with 'my person', right?" Xia Yongzhi was also dignified just now, and joined the conversation easily.

"Don't you think it's rude to be in such a solemn place?" Lily said angrily, "That's enough, I'm leaving, I don't care about you." ”

With that, Lily walked out on her own.

At this time, Xia Yongzhi touched Lin Youde's skin with his hand and said: "I was just in the headquarters, just finished painting and waiting for the start of the award ceremony, I wandered around the headquarters for a while, and I ran into a few blue shirts who looked like a ship design institute, and they were excitedly discussing the design plan of the next level of large cruisers, and the new cruiser seemed to have been finalized and was about to start." ”

"But now you're unlikely to drive them." Lin Youde responded with some regret.

"Not necessarily, maybe if we are more active and make more achievements, the Space Force will hand over one of the new ships to you as an 'official car'."

Lin Youde shook his head, indicating that he didn't think that far. (To be continued.) )