CHAPTER XXXVI

There is a very important space station in the outer space of the Bone Dragon Cloud Galaxy, and if you lose this space station, the entire Hack Star will become chaotic. The name of this space station is - Wanluo Federation Bone Dragon Cloud System Horror Star Sanitation Department.

At this time, a large container of 10 cubic kilometers was floating next to the space station. A small spaceship was slowly flying in front of the large container, then reversing and connecting the hook behind the spacecraft to the large container before stopping.

A controller in the space station wearing a blue uniform with a triangular armband on his right arm and the words "Department of Environmental Hygiene" written on the armband heard the horn come again: "The connection is complete." Immediately after pressing a button, the computer immediately sounded: "Make a final scan...... b…… The garbage bin found no signs of life and was ready to go. ”

The spaceship with a large container outside started its engine as soon as the sound fell, dragging the huge container and speeding into the distance.

The controller inside the space station saw the ship departing and shouted into the microphone: "Get the new garbage cabinet ready, the garbage ship behind is waiting impatiently!" ”

As he spoke, the space station stretched out countless giant manipulators, each holding a large metal plate, which quickly welded the metal plate together. In a few moments, a huge metal cabinet was floating in space.

After the giant metal cabinet was completed, the spaceships lined up behind the space station immediately flew up. These ships are very different from the usual ones, in addition to spraying a huge triangular mark on the hull of the ship with the Department of Sanitation written in green, they also have a particularly large belly. The ships came to the only unsealed top of the metal cabinet, opened the bottom gate of the ship, poured the contents into it, and flew back to the Horror.

In a cosmic region of the Bone Dragon Cloud Galaxy, the small spaceship dragging a huge metal cabinet is slowly flying. There were only two crew members in the spacecraft, both men in blue uniforms. A middle-aged man in his forties, biting a cigarette, sat in a chair, his legs crossed on the console in front of him, while holding a pen in his hand and writing something in a notebook.

The other is a young man in his 20s, wearing a holographic helmet, humming a tune under his head, while shaking his head in the driver's seat, he doesn't hold the lever because he has set up autopilot. The faint sound of music came from his helmet, and it was known that he was enjoying the music.

I don't know how long it took, a reddish-brown planet finally appeared on the screen, and at a glance at the color of this planet, I knew that it was an unstable planet, not suitable for any life at all. But the strange thing is that in addition to this spaceship dragging huge containers, there are three or four other spaceships in the distance that are also dragging huge containers towards the planet.

The middle-aged man saw the images of the spaceships, put his feet down, picked up the notebook in his hand, and knocked the young man next to him on the head. The young man who was knocked seemed to be used to such things, so he just muttered, turned off the music, and expertly pressed the buttons on the console.

"Hey, old man, where are you going to soak after work today?" The middle-aged man said to the slowly emerging figure after the young man made an OK gesture.

The person on the screen is also a middle-aged man, also wearing a blue uniform. When he heard this, he smiled and said, "Where else can I go to soak, old place." yes, why is your trash cabinet so big this time? It stands to reason that you have become a military star there, and there is no civilian garbage. ”

Before the middle-aged man could speak, the young man interjected and said: "When it didn't become a military star, the entire Hacker Star was just one cubic kilometer of garbage a month, and within a few months of becoming a Hacker Star, the amount of garbage rose month by month, and now it is 10 cubic kilometers." ”

The man was a little surprised when he heard this and asked, "Why?" ”

The middle-aged man glared at the young man who was just about to reply dissatisfiedly, and said to his friend first: "Is there any way, Shocking Star has been on alert for the past few months, and the materials consumed are simply uncountable." No, this time there are several warships that were damaged during training in the garbage. Now it's 10 cubic kilometers, and I'm afraid that 100 cubic kilometers of wartime garbage can't fit it. ”

The middle-aged man of the other ship pouted and said: "The military department is really a waste, and the warship that was damaged in training was lost without repairing it." ”

The young man couldn't help but interject again: "Uncle, they have money, and it is more convenient for them to buy a new warship than to waste time repairing it." And those officers can also make a big kickback. ”

The middle-aged man next to the young man waved his hand and said: "What do children know, now is the battle alert, and directly buying a new ship will not reduce the combat effectiveness, and now Namha's collusion with arms dealers to supply fake and shoddy military supplies is in an uproar, how dare those officers withdraw the buckle at this time?" Besides, wouldn't it be better to just blow up the warship, so why spend a huge amount of money on metal garbage disposal? ”

The young man pouted and said, "Uncle, you don't know it, if the warship explodes, the reporter will notice it, and they will stab it out?" A friend of mine was on an errand at the Quartermaster of the Horrors, and he told me that when these warships were still intact, new warships numbered in their place had arrived, and that these were not damaged during training at all, but were dragged to the junkyard with a few random holes in the hull of the ship with a laser, and he also said that the quartermaster in charge had been eating, drinking, and having fun in the high-end restaurant for the past few days. ”

The two middle-aged people sighed when they heard this, and the middle-aged man sitting next to the young man sighed: "Now the military department and political axe of the federation are like this, first the four-star general embezzled the hero's exploits for his son, and then there was the former president colluding with the arms dealer. Will such a federation be able to withstand the invasion of the Silver Eagle Empire? ”

Another middle-aged man also sighed and said: "We can't take care of the high-level [***], we ordinary people, just be able to get a meal and settle down." Besides, what if the Empire invades? Anyway, we ordinary people are ordinary people no matter where we are, as long as we don't become slaves. Speaking of this, he seemed to have discovered something, and said with a smile: "My spaceship is almost here, see you at the old place after work." With that, he turned off the communication.

At this time, the young man checked the data and said to the middle-aged man: "Our abandonment point is almost there." The middle-aged man nodded: "Well, throw away this garbage and go have a drink after work." ”

"Great!" The young man nodded excitedly, switched the spaceship's autopilot to manual control, and cautiously drove towards the reddish-brown planet on the screen. When the spacecraft was about to enter the planet's gravitational zone, it made a big turn and turned around, and then took advantage of the situation to untie the connection, allowing the large container to fly towards the planet according to its usual surname. The spaceship stopped and flew towards its base.

After a while, under the attraction of the planet's gravity, the huge container that entered the atmosphere fell towards the planet's ground while sparking.

In this way, there is one for each galaxy of the planet that receives garbage from various planets, which is called a garbage star. This kind of garbage star usually picks the planet with an atmosphere and is not stable, for no other reason, because the perennial volcanic eruption of the planet becomes a melting pot in disguise, and the atmosphere ensures that the discarded garbage does not run back into the universe. Although there are ordinary melting furnaces on each planet, some huge metal garbage is not to mention that it is difficult to melt, and even if it can be melted, it will consume a huge amount of energy. Who called the metal minerals in this cosmic era are abundant and easy to find, instead of melting and refining metal garbage, it is better to make new ones.

Although it is expensive to sort out the garbage once a month and transport it to the garbage star for disposal, it is an expense that the government and the public are willing to accept in order to maintain the beautiful environment of the place of residence and keep the space route open. In the current era of the universe, no one will throw garbage into space, just as they will not throw away a lot of garbage on the road. Because there are many planets in the universe, such garbage stars are very easy to find, and for planets that are uninhabitable and have little value, what else can they do if they are not used as garbage stars? This is the consciousness that is recognized by all the population.

This 10-cubic-kilometer garbage cabinet has long been consumed by the atmosphere, and the garbage inside has fallen to the ground like a goddess scattering flowers. No way, these garbage cabinets are all consumables, all of them are shoddy and worthless, and it is impossible to withstand the heat generated by atmospheric friction. Of course, when these garbage cabinets disappear, the power of the atmosphere can no longer cause any harm to the metal waste in the garbage cabinets.

So the ground of this junk star is covered with mountains of all kinds of metal garbage, and of course none of them are intact. Some of them were melted by the spurt, others were condensed into a single piece of metal at high temperatures, but more often they were piled up in their original state. The public would not be surprised to see that the entire planet has almost become a metal star, but they must be surprised to know that this planet has only been in use for more than 10 years, which also shows how much metal garbage is discarded every month in the entire galaxy.

Among the new garbage that has not yet come into contact with the garbage mountain on the ground, there are four particularly large objects, and the shape of them can be confirmed to be warships, warships with large holes all over their bodies. However, these warships are not dilapidated, and judging from the paint on the hulls, they can even be said to be ninety percent new. Such warships are not uncommon in the entire Junk Star, and there are dozens of warships of various sizes lying on the garbage heaps all over the surface of the planet. Of course, these are definitely scrap metal that has been deformed.

The new batch of metal garbage came into close contact with the garbage mountain on the ground, and countless loud noises and metal fragments kept jumping on the surface of the planet. And the free fall of the huge warship was even more earth-shattering, but this earth-shattering loud noise was only 3 times. The four scrapped warships did not have a collective landing ceremony, and one of the smallest warships, that is, a warship belonging to the cruiser type, suddenly stopped its freefall action and rose sharply before landing. Although it still couldn't break free from the attraction of the planet and continued to fall, the struggle just now allowed it to avoid the violent transformation like the other brothers.

The warship splashed countless pieces of metal and stopped on a mountain of garbage as if it were anchored in a spaceport. By the time the metal shards fell, the planet had regained its calm. But it was not a dead silence, a faint metal knocking sound slowly came from the undeformed warship.

There was an unpleasant squeak, and the sharp iron piece in a hole in the warship was slowly pulled open. Then slowly walked out of the hole a tall and strong bald man wearing sunglasses and a black trench coat.

Anyone who sees this human emerge from a warship full of holes will not believe their eyes. Because no human being can fly on a warship that has lost its protective effect without wearing a spacesuit, and appear on this planet where ultraviolet rays are extremely violent.

The bald man took off his sunglasses, revealing that he did not have normal human eyes, but instead had two electronic eyes that glowed green, and his slightly open mouth could also see the metal structure of the mouth inside. There is no doubt that this bald man is a robot! This would explain why he doesn't have to wear a cosmic suit.

Seeing the vast metal world in front of him, this robot in human skin couldn't help but open his mouth and smile: "Hehe, it seems that I made the right decision after knowing that humans will regularly discard metal, not only did I have good luck to pick up this functional warship, but also got this metal world!" Hmph, humans, soon you will be able to enjoy the horrors of the metal world! After speaking, the robot looked up at the red sky that could block the starry sky, and the green light of its electronic eyes became brighter.

"Whew, this is Area K, well, the scenery is not bad." Tang Long, who got off the transport plane, looked at the blue sky and sighed. But when his gaze moved from the sky, he froze, and beneath his feet was a wide but empty concrete floor, and in the distance was an endless green meadow!

Tang Long, who had nothing but a military uniform, ran around the small transport plane, shouting as he ran: "Isn't it? How come there is nothing? What about highways? What about the shuttle bus? What about the barracks? What about fighter jets?! ”

While Tang Long was shouting there, he suddenly noticed a floating car speeding in the distance, and the strong wind that blew the grass to the ground when it passed by. Tang Long, who saw the floating car, was originally happy to run towards the floating car, but he immediately shouted, "Stop!" He ran back, because the floating car was chasing him without slowing down.

I don't know if Tang Long is stupid or the driver of the floating car is an idiot, in short, one person and one car just circled around the transport ship. I don't know how many times it turned, but the floating car hit the wheels of the transport ship in a daze, and finally stopped. And Tang Long also squatted on the ground like a dog, sticking out his tongue and panting.

Tang Long, who was still out of breath, stood up with difficulty and walked towards the floating car with great momentum, he decided that he would not be surnamed Tang if he didn't beat this idiot driver! However, Tang Long's angry expression disappeared all of a sudden, and he was replaced by a stunned look. There was no other reason, because the driver who stumbled out of the floating car while banging his head and groaning was actually a woman wearing the uniform of an officer with a female surname.

Why is it specifically mentioned here that they are wearing the uniforms of officers with female surnames? Because only female officers are allowed to wear skirts, while female soldiers are allowed to wear trousers. This is a female officer who should be very young and tall in shape. The first thing people who saw her looked down, because the standard skirt that originally reached the knee, I don't know if it was because her feet were more slender or what, it actually became 10 cm from the knee, so that the white skin was exposed a lot. She has short bright red hair, but it's a pity that she has her head down and can't see her clearly.

Tang Long was stunned for a moment, and then recovered. He walked forward, although he knew that he could no longer belittle this woman, but how could his anger disappear without scolding her? Tang Long came to the female officer who was still patting her head, first glanced at her rank, found that it was a second lieutenant, breathed a sigh of relief, opened his mouth and posed to scold.

Tang Long had just said the word you, and the female ensign straightened up suddenly, snapped her legs together, and gave a beautiful military salute, and her crisp and sweet voice rang out: "Second Lieutenant Ling Li of the SK23 Flight Company came to greet the commander!" At this time, you can see her appearance, slender willow eyebrows, melon seed face, delicate nose, red lips, especially those watery eyes, exuding an inexplicable light. Needless to say, she's definitely a beauty, and she's a very nice beauty.

Tang Long was stunned for a moment when he saw this woman's appearance, and then he returned the salute, when he hesitated to say something. The beautiful woman showed an expression of a little shy and guilty, but she forced herself to suppress it, and said with great difficulty: "Sir, please...... Please get in the car and leave the luggage to me. As he spoke, he opened the car door a little stiffly.

"Uh, I don't have any luggage." Tang Long got into the car in a daze, because he was now distressed that he didn't have a chance to scold this woman, seeing that people were so flustered and guilty, can you scold?

"Oh, well, let's ...... Let's go back to camp. The beauty froze for a moment, then smiled uncomfortably and entered the float. The car started, but Tang Long waited for a while and didn't see the car leave here, so he couldn't help but turn his head to look and find that the beautiful woman was looking at him intently.

Tang Long secretly looked at himself and found that there was nothing wrong, so he couldn't help but look at the beautiful woman and wanted to ask her what she was doing with her all the time. But before she could speak, the beautiful woman also found that it seemed a little rude to stare at people, and hurriedly turned her head away. I felt the car jerk back and turn, hitting the other side of the ship again.

Tang Long, who finally managed to get his heartbeat back to normal, couldn't hold back anymore, and scolded the beautiful woman while rubbing his forehead that was hurt by the collision: "You can't drive!" ”

The beautiful woman named Ling Li was also grinning and rubbing her forehead, she heard Tang Long's words, spit out her lovely tongue, her eyes were a little red, her tone was very aggrieved and said with a crying voice: "I don't know how to drive, I just heard that the chief is coming, for the sake of ...... In order to be able to pick you up earlier, I ...... I just came by car. ”

Can't drive? Are there still people in the army who can't drive? Tang Long shouted angrily: "You don't know how to use the autopilot function? How did you get there? Speaking of this, Tang Long remembered that he was chased around the spaceship for the first time and ran around the spaceship for an unknown number of laps, so he hurriedly asked: "Why did the car suddenly lose control just now?" I ran like a dog for several laps! ”

Ling Li, who was originally crying, suddenly blushed when she heard this, and lowered her head and whispered, "I...... I was nervous when I saw you, and I accidentally turned off the automatic system, so I ...... it, and ...... And just crashed the automatic system. ”

Hearing this, Tang Long weakly opened the car door and walked down to change positions with Ling Li, Ling Li thought that Tang Long was angry, so she ran down in a panic and shouted: "Sir, sir, I'm sorry, I'm just so stupid, but please don't ignore me, I'm your adjutant!" ”

Tang Long couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, he dug his ears and said, "What are you talking about?" Whose lieutenant do you say you are? ”

Ling Limei was a little scared and cringed a little and said, "I said...... I'm your lieutenant. After speaking, as if he remembered something, he took out a card from the tight pocket on his chest, and then held it in both hands and respectfully handed it to Tang Long. Seeing her like this is like the expression of a little girl who has done something bad and is found out by an adult she is afraid of.

Tang Long was stunned when he heard this, he is a pilot, and he can actually have an adjutant? What does a pilot do with an adjutant? Although his head was cranky, he still took the card that still carried his body temperature, pressed the button under the card, and a line of three-dimensional text appeared: "Second Lieutenant Ling Li, who has military number xxxx, is hereby appointed as the direct adjutant of Captain Tang Long with military number xxxxx, and the appointment will be effective immediately after it is issued." Wanluo Federation Bone Dragon Cloud System Command. ”

Tang Long was stunned again when he saw the years and months displayed on the back, because this date was the same as when he was promoted to captain. What does it mean to be able to issue a new appointment in such a timely manner? And was this woman sent by the command for no reason, or did the woman ask for it herself? If that's the case, it means that this Ling Li is very skilled in the upper echelons of the army. Even if you don't care about this, what is this person becoming his own lieutenant for?

Tang Long immediately had two thoughts in his mind: Should he wag his tail and stammer this woman? Or did she coldly ask her what tricks she had?

Seeing the woman looking at him with pitiful eyes, Tang Long frowned, he couldn't stand this kind of look the most. Being looked at by such a look, the two thoughts in Tang Long's heart didn't know where to fly. Now he can only rely on his instinct to speak: "How? I'm a pilot, do pilots have adjutants? ”

Ling Limei blinked her long eyelashes, glared at an innocent look and said a little scared, "I...... I don't know, but sir, I ...... I'm really happy to be your aide-de-camp. Seeing Tang Long scratching his head at a loss, she lowered her head and secretly stuck out her tongue.

Tang Long didn't believe her words, but he had no choice but to give the card back to the beauty, otherwise what else could he do? If you want to refuse, you can only use the communicator to make a request when you go to the base, but if the headquarters makes such an appointment at once, your request will definitely be rejected 100%.

Tang Long, who didn't want to waste time, turned around and walked towards the floating car, although he didn't know that this woman became his lieutenant under that circumstances, but this may be a starting point for him to gain power. Although Tang Long had secretly decided to make good use of this woman, who knew if he could keep this decision?

Ling Li saw Tang Long walking towards the floating car with a cold face, his eyes showed a confused light, and she secretly said in her heart: "So handsome!" That's cool. Of course, she immediately shook her head to get back to normal, and took a few quick steps to catch up.

"I'll drive, you show the way." Tang Long sat in the cab after saying coldly. Ling Li was stunned for a moment, but immediately sat in the assistant's position with a happy face.

Tang Long, who was wearing a seat belt, saw the steering wheel and electronic instrument, and couldn't help but rejoice in his heart: "Wow, the control system that I have never seen before is definitely new!" "Although this is a new driving system, for Tang Long, who has played almost all the speeding games, is it not familiar with it just by touching it?

Tang Long hung up the gear and was about to remind Ling Li to sit down, when he suddenly found that Ling Li was looking at him blankly as just now. He frowned and touched his face and thought, "What is this guy doing?" I've been staring at me like this since just now, is there something on my face? Tang Long thought as he cautiously started the floating car.

When the car had just entered the grass, Ling Li, who had been staring at Tang Long, gritted her teeth and whispered, as if she had made a decision, "Sir...... I have a request...... I hope you can say yes. As he spoke, he lowered his head with a flushed face.

Glancing at Ling Li, Tang Long secretly thought to himself: "Finally show your feet, see what tricks you have." So Tang Long said, "Let's hear it." ”

"I ...... I ......" Ling Li stammered for a while, and finally mustered up the courage to hold a piece of cardboard and said, "Please sign for me!" ”

The float braked sharply and spun in place twice at the same time. Tang Long leaned on the steering wheel to catch his breath, turned his head to Ling Li, who was already dizzy but still holding the signature pad, and asked in surprise, "Signature?" What is the name to sign? ”

"Woo......" Ling Li shook her head and said with difficulty: "Please be sure to write: Give it to my adjutant Second Lieutenant Ling Li." As he spoke, he leaned against the car door and handed over the signature pad again.

"Uh......" Tang Long originally thought that he was going to sign some treaty, but after discovering that it was just a simple signature, he could only look at Ling Li in amazement. Being stared at by Ling Li's glowing eyes all the time, Tang Long didn't know how to feel a hair in his heart. After seeing that Ling Li's eyes began to turn red and there was a mist, Tang Long was so frightened that he hurriedly took the signature pad, pulled out the electronic pen on the signature pad, quickly wrote down the words that Ling Li had just requested, and then handed it back to Ling Li suddenly.

Ling Li took the signature board and looked at it, hugged it tightly in her arms, closed her eyes and said happily: "Thank you, I will cherish it forever!" ”

Tang Long sighed and shook his head helplessly, started the floating car, and started slowly. At this time, Tang Long glanced at Ling Li, who was looking down and wiping his eyes, and asked, "Second Lieutenant, is my signature so valuable?" I'm not a star. ”

When Ling Li heard this, she blushed and glanced at Tang Long, but quickly lowered her head and said in an ant-like voice: "Maybe the chief's signature is not important to others, but it is an irreplaceable treasure to Ling Li!" ”

"I don't seem to have met you, how could you be willing to be my adjutant?" Tang Long asked as he drove slowly. Although the second lieutenant's whispering voice was heard to him just now, he didn't want to ask the question.

The lieutenant was silent, but her head hung lower, and her ears were as red as her bright hair.

Tang Long sighed helplessly, how could he meet such a strange second lieutenant as soon as he came here? Suddenly, Tang Long remembered that he didn't know the direction of how to get to the camp, and hurriedly asked, "Which direction are we going to drive?" ”

Hearing Tang Long's words, Ling Li raised her head, glanced at Tang Long shyly, and after entering a number on the computer of the console, a bright spot appeared on the windshield.

Knowing the goal, Tang Long suddenly increased his speed in order to leave this strange woman as soon as possible, and of course Ling Li screamed in fright and fastened his seat belt in a panic. Tang Long, who was intoxicated with speed, didn't see Ling Li, who had a very flustered expression, and there was a look in his eyes that didn't match his expression, which was a kind of look that only had when he saw something fun.

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