Unlike the inferior cigarettes smoked, the pot is a rare and excellent wine, and it has been treated by Lafite with special ability, and the taste is mellow and sweet, which is completely comparable to the treasures of the old era that have been treasured for more than 100 years. Curtis drank half of the jug in one gulp, closed his eyes and savored it for a moment, then exhaled a long breath of admiration, glanced at the flask in his hand again, and reluctantly handed it back to Rafite. I didn't know that Rafi didn't reply, and said, "Don't want it, give it all to you!" ”

Curtis was stunned, he knew that this bottle had been treasured by Raffi for many years, and he did not want to drink it even when he was seriously injured and dying in Scarlet Twilight. It can be said that the significance of this bottle of things to Lafite is probably second only to Helen. It was unexpected to be able to give Curtis a big sip, but to give it all to him? If he hadn't taken a sip and was sure it was genuine, Cortis would have thought that Raffi had given him a fake. The captain looked at Lafite carefully and asked slowly, "Rafite, are you alright?" ”

Raffi looked into the distance under the cover of night, smiled self-deprecatingly, and did not answer the question, but asked rhetorically: "I wanted to kill you yesterday, so you don't hate me?" ”

Curtis smiled similarly and asked, "Did you do it?" ”

"Just a little bit." Raffi admits it calmly.

Curtis laughed and said, "I already knew that you were a guy who was heavy on sex and light on friends, forget it, this pot of wine will be flattened." With that, he immediately put the small silver flask into his arms, and his movements were so fast and swift that he did not look like he had just climbed off the operating table.

Rafi turned his head and stared at Kotis with eyes as bright as burning stars. Under his penetrating gaze, Curtis simply grinned silently, revealing a mouthful of shiny white fangs that dazzled in the night.

After looking at it for a full minute, Lafite turned his head and said casually, "When the wine is finished, the flask will leave you a souvenir." ”

Curtis moved to Raffi's side, stood side by side with him, looked at the endless night, and after a moment sighed, he said, "If you have anything to say, just say it!" If you don't talk about it now, maybe you won't have a chance in the future. ”

Raffi looked straight into the distance and said in a deep voice, "So, you feel it too?" Still, since I can feel it, you should be able to do it too. To be honest, what I want to do most now is to go to Helen, whether she wants it or not. If I hadn't had an experience with her, I wouldn't be willing to die! ”

"Then do it!" Curtis replied without hesitation.

"Stepping on your corpse?"

"Yes."

Raffi nodded and said, "I know that's the case." But if I really want to, I'm not going to be soft on you. ”

Curtis patted the flask through his clothes and smiled, "If I let me finish this jug of wine before I do it, I won't blame you." Just remember to kill my share in the future. ”

When Rafite heard this, he was stunned, and suddenly slammed his head on the cement railing a few times. He smashed it so hard that blood splattered on the cement guardrail in an instant! If Raffi had been willing, the concrete fence would have been shattered and his head unscathed, not the other way around.

A piece of blood splashed on Curtis's hand, he wiped the bandage on his body casually, and said unceremoniously: "The wound on the body can't replace the pain in the heart, but will add to it." Self-harm is not what smart people do! Don't expect me to sympathize with you! ”

"Clever? I'm not a smart guy in the first place! Raffi turned his head, looked at Curtis, and suddenly asked, "Do you regret it?" ”

"Of course!" Curtis replied, "The thing I regret the most is that I didn't know how to be flexible, and my temper stinked to death, and I was demoted from colonel to captain." And I always have a dead brain, so I was disheartened for the next ten years, I didn't want to do anything, and I wasted a lot of time to get to the point where I am now. ”

"And what would you do if you had to do it all over again?" Raffi asked.

Curtis replied as unthinking, as always: "I'll bow my head, it's not a big deal anyway." Then get the resources you deserve, and the same combat training as when you were younger, then I should be able to beat you to the ground now! ”

Raffi smiled, let out a long breath, and said, "I regret it too." Back then, you shouldn't have gone to prison for a breath, where you slept for more than ten years in vain. Otherwise, I'm not afraid of Morgan. As soon as he finished speaking, Raffi immediately added: "Of course, now I'm not afraid of Josh. Morgan! ”

Curtis smiled and kindly showed understanding. Rafi shook his head, sighed again, and said, "I can't beat him, but that doesn't mean I'm afraid of him, it's two different things." It's like ...... Just as I saved Helen's life, it doesn't mean I have the right to sleep with her. ”

"I understand." Curtis was still smiling and his teeth were baring.

There was silence on the rooftop.

After a long time, Curtis broke the silence and asked, "Silver Hair, what are you thinking?" ”

"I wondered, what if we added a zero to the number of mechanical bugs we encountered?"

"Me too."

In the private hospital, Helen only had one light screen turned on, and was meditating. The light screen displays holographic diagrams of various mechanical bugs, slowly rotating. Helen's face was very ugly, and her usually expressionless face showed a rare solemnity. The snow was lying in the corner, trying to gnaw at pieces of metal. These alloys with different properties are specially formulated by Helen for snow training. In fact, it is said that it is a tooth training, and every time Xue eats an alloy, he will write down the ingredients, so as to form the corresponding formula in the body. Later, when it encounters a similar metal, it can be dissolved by specially secreted bodily fluids. Moreover, the more special alloys you dissolve, the harder your body will be, and the faster your strength will increase. It's just that it is very uncomfortable for snow to eat these alloys, so in the past, it was able to hide as much as possible. Sometimes even Raffi pressed it and shoved it hard into its mouth. But after coming back this time, without Helen's urging, Snow turned out all the remaining alloys and gnawed them silently piece by piece.

What the snow meant, Helen naturally understood very well, she just shook her head secretly, and did not stop it. She just stared at the hologram of the mechanical bug, and the more she looked at it, the more ugly her face became.

Xue bit a mouthful of alloy, quietly walked behind Helen, floated in the air, looked at the hologram on the light screen, and passed a thought to Helen after a while: "Mom, are these guys very powerful, you seem to be very embarrassed." They're not very powerful, they just seem to be able to conjure up a lot of them. But it doesn't matter how many of them there are, we can run first and then slowly solve them. ”

Helen was much more open about the snow, rubbing her temples and responding with the same awareness: "I'm not afraid of their numbers, and I'm not afraid of the masters behind them. It's just ......" Helen carefully considered the wording, which was a rare thing. After a few seconds, she said, "They give me a very familiar feeling, I should have seen them, but I am sure that I have never met them." That's exactly what confuses me, even...... Still a little scared. ”

Snow whined twice, understanding what Helen was saying, but equally confused. Helen couldn't have made a mistake, let alone remembered things, she hadn't seen a mechanical bug or hadn't seen it. But where does the familiarity come from? Helen's thinking can be done with absolute precision, there is almost no ambiguity, and such logical paradoxes are impossible.

Snow tried to think about it, but to no avail. It couldn't help but hate its own intelligence, and decided to use all its newly acquired energy to upgrade the thinking center, so that it could generate seven second-level thinking centers in its body, which was equivalent to the ability of seven more minicomputers by human standards. Of course, it can't be compared to Helen, but at least it can get out of the current state of confusion. But on the other hand, it is in dire need of strong force. Although the mechanical bug has a simple structure, a single attack method, and the power of the individual is not very strong. But the scariest thing about them is that they can be mass-produced! When thousands, not tens of hundreds, of mechanical bugs appear, the war is qualitatively different. One Raffi can kill hundreds of mechanical bugs, but tens of thousands of mechanical bugs can kill ten Raffi in seconds. That's the difference. And when different types of mechanical insects can cooperate with each other, the power will increase exponentially. With the civilization embodied by mechanical insects, if the resources are sufficient, then the number can be in millions, or even tens of millions!

In the face of such an overwhelming mechanical army, the powerful force of the individual has once again become insignificant. The relationship between quantity and quality is always dialectical.

Snow returned to her own turf, gnawing on the alloy block, wrestling with the question of whether to increase the center of her mind or strengthen her individual force first. Although it looks different from a human, it thinks like a child. In fact, Xue instinctively knew that he had another way of thinking, which was accurate, efficient, and cold, which was completely different from the complex, chaotic and ambiguous human thinking. If it switches to that mode of thinking, it knows that it will know the answer right away. However, Snow has a gut feeling that Helen doesn't like it to switch over, and only in human mode can it feel warmth from Helen. So it simply gave up the instinctive mode of thinking, because with Helen anyway, she would plan for it, even including evolution. At least so far, Xue, who was born and improved under Helen, has a body that is very different from the choices given by instinct, and the individual combat power is very different.

Now the snow, of course, does not understand what this means.

Xue suddenly felt Helen's heartbeat increase a little, and the flow of blood also accelerated, but the body temperature dropped slightly. In humans, this reaction is called fear.

Helen would also be afraid? What was she afraid of? Snow doesn't know. It just knows that at some point, it will definitely know the answer. A