"It's hot, let's eat."

"Thank you." Receiving the rice ball handed by Ah Ling, Yang Yi nodded gratefully.

At the end of the day, not to mention that Yang Yi has not fully recovered, even the iron body can't bear it. The job is not complicated, first scan the waste that needs to be disposed of, most of which are abandoned spaceships, remove expensive rare materials, and then drive the air cushion engineering vehicle to throw the waste into the lava sea. The intensity of the work is not too great, and what makes people unbearable is the high temperature. Especially when driving an air cushion engineering vehicle over the magma sea, even if there is a high-power air conditioner on the engineering vehicle, the temperature inside the protective suit is as high as 50 degrees Celsius. No matter how strong a person is, he can only work for half an hour in such an extreme environment, and he must replenish water in time, otherwise he will faint due to dehydration.

Yang Yi made eight trips and sent eight scrapped small cargo spaceships into the magma sea. The first three times I walked with Ah Ling, and the last five times I worked alone.

"In less than three days, you'll be able to work alone tomorrow."

"I just said that I could learn it in a day." Yang Yi was a little proud, although his ability in other aspects was not very good, but his learning ability was still very good.

"Okay, today's work is done, let's go back."

Because of Yang Yi's help, the two rotated their work, and people did not stop, so the work went smoothly, saving about an hour compared to Ah Ling working alone.

"Where did you find me?" After glancing at Ah Ling, Yang Yi stood up.

"Ah Yi, let the past pass, you have come here and been recognized by everyone......"

"I understand, I just want to go over and have a look." Yang Yi smiled reluctantly and said, "Like you said, I need to make a break with the past." ”

Ah Ling sighed secretly and said, "Since you insist, I'll take you over." I hope you can do what you say and don't carry the baggage of thoughts. ”

Yang Yi nodded and agreed, and then went to put on the protective suit.

Half an hour later, the two men drove their hoverbikes to the other end of the garbage disposal site and stopped next to a small, badly damaged cargo ship.

It is an F-class cargo spacecraft with a standard payload of 10,000 tons and no space jumping ability, suitable for regional routes connecting planets within the star system. Such ships are common, and the Human Federation has blessed millions of them, with millions of them in the home system alone.

The ship's bow has two large letters on it: Moose.

This is the name of the ship, a very common name.

"Here?"

Ah Ling nodded and walked into the spaceship with Yang Yi.

Previously, Ah Ling had already told Yang Yi that when she went to receive supplies as usual, she found Yang Yi in the spaceship that was delivered to her. The ship that delivers the sustenance comes once a month, but instead of landing on Lava Star, it puts the sustenance into a scrapped ship and drops it onto Lava Star. There was a radiolocation device on the container where the supplies were placed, and Ah Ling and the others relied on the positioning signals to find the provisions.

The spacecraft was huge, and the two walked for more than ten minutes before entering the crew compartment.

"This is it, that's the container carrying provisions." Ling pointed to an open incubator, then to a chair next to her. "At the time, you were sitting there, wearing an E-class suit. When I found you, you were still unconscious. ”

Yang Yi didn't say much and walked towards the chair.

The leather used to make the chair has been burned to powder, leaving only the metal skeleton. However, this should have happened after Ah Ling came in, during the landing process, the spacecraft was in a closed state, and the hot air outside could not come in, otherwise the E-level protective suit would not be able to withstand the thousands of degrees Celsius caused by the friction between the spacecraft and the atmosphere during landing, and even the containers for transporting supplies would be burned, and there would be nothing left.

"The verdict is in the container, as before." Ah Ling said again.

Yang Yi glanced back at her, his mood was heavy, and he didn't know what to say.

"Actually, the situation of the people who were sent here is similar. It was only after I woke up that I found that I had fallen into a hell of fire from which I could never recover......"

"You're not like me."

Ah Ling was slightly stunned, and looked at Yang Yi incomprehensibly.

"Brother Li said, you are the only innocent among us." Yang Yi smiled reluctantly and said, "Okay, let's go back." ”

Ah Ling bit her lip and wanted to say something, but Yang Yi had already walked out of the cabin, so she hurriedly followed.

Can you say you're innocent?

Looking at the red sky outside, Yang Yi felt that this was a very ridiculous question.

When the "Bun" was hit, Yang Yi was really scared, so when Lin Jia knocked Zhong Lili unconscious and asked him to take Zhong Lili to escape, he did not hesitate. Although he said that he would wait for Lin Jia to come over, he did not do so, and instead got into the escape pod before the ship was destroyed. If he hadn't started the escape ejection procedure because he was afraid of getting into the escape pod, he wouldn't be in the situation he is in now.

When his right hand was held by Ah Ling, Yang Yi came back to his senses.

"Hey!" Looking up at the sky as if it had been ignited, Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh. "Ah Ling, haven't you ever thought about leaving here?"

"Ah Yi ......"

"I'm just asking." Yang Yi knew that Ah Ling cared about him very much and was afraid that he would be cranky.

"I thought about it, but no one can get out of here."

"Why?"

"Brother Li has been here for thirty-five years, and he has never landed a spaceship, whether it is supplies or exiled soldiers, they are all directly airdropped by scrapped spaceships."

"There are so many abandoned ships here, can't you put together a spaceship that can fly out of the atmosphere?"

"Yes, but there's a critical piece of equipment missing."

Yang Yi was slightly stunned and said, "Origin Converter? ”

Ah Ling nodded and said, "The spaceship will dismantle the Origin Converter before it is scrapped, not to mention a good Origin Converter, even the parts will not be scrapped with the spaceship." Without the Primal Energy Converter, even if you have a ship, you can't leave Lava Star. ”

"So, as long as you have an Origin Converter, you can leave Lava Star?"

"It's not that simple." Ah Ling bit her lip and pointed at the sky above her head. "There are three Judge Advocate General's satellites in synchronous orbit, constantly monitoring the islands near the equator. These satellites, in addition to assessing the progress of our work, are also monitoring us. There are also high-powered laser cannons on the satellite, which will immediately fire and shoot down a ship that flies out of the lava star's atmosphere. ”

Yang Yi looked at Ah Ling in disbelief.

"Before I arrived, Brother Li and the others used a scorching storm to send a spacecraft to the top of the atmosphere, which looked like it was about to fly out of the atmosphere, but before it could fly out of the atmosphere, the spacecraft was hit by a satellite's high-energy laser cannon and fell into the lava sea and burned up."

So ruthless!? Yang Yi gasped, falling into the sea of lava was no joke.

"Brother Li said, don't expect to get out of here alive."

"Do you just live like this, endure the torment of life is worse than death?"

"We're family, don't you think it's no worse here than outside? Although the environment is harsh and the work is very hard, we care for each other, take care of each other, and rely on each other. Here, there is no intrigue, no mutual calculation, and no suspicion and vigilance. No matter how hard and tired it is, it's just the bitterness and tiredness on the **. I don't know what you think, I don't think it's bad here, at least life has become a simple thing. ”

"Where's hope?"

Ah Ling let out a long breath and said, "Brother Li said that one day, we will leave here." ”

"After all?"

"We are all soldiers who have made mistakes, and now is peacetime, so naturally there is no use value. As long as the Sixth Greenwich War broke out, those high-ranking generals would think of us and find our value, even if it was just to go to the front line as cannon fodder. At that time, we will be able to get out of here, and we will even be able to resume our military status and put on our uniforms again to take our own honor on the battlefield. ”

Yang Yi was silent, this is Ah Ling's hope.

"Don't worry, Brother Li said that the Sixth Greenwich War will break out soon, at least we are expected to leave here in our lifetimes."

"Why did he say that, there was inside information?"

Ah Ling was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "Brother Li has been here for thirty-five years, what inside information can he have?" Peace has lasted for a thousand years, and the previous four peaces were less than 500 years. The contradictions between us and the Silicon Alliance cannot be resolved at all, the war is like a game that will never end, and peace is only an intermission. In a peaceful and prosperous world, there will be an end to the day. ”

Yang Yi was slightly stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, this is indeed the case.

"Let's go, it's not too early. If we go back late, the monkeys and handsome guys will definitely destroy all the delicious food, and they will never leave us a single star. ”

Yang Yi rubbed his shriveled belly and walked towards the airbike parked not far away.

The rice balls have long been digested, and there are only two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, and there is no lunch, so you can only get hungry rice balls when you go to work.

An airbike is a flying bike that can seat up to two people.

Although Yang Yi has not officially started work, Brother Li has prepared an air hoverbike for him.

Riding on the air cushion bike, Yang Yi pulled down the goggles of the protective suit. The light on Lava Star is very strong, and the light in the open area is so strong that you can't open your eyes. Even if the mask of the protective suit is coated with a metal film, it still cannot block the bright light, so you have to wear protective glasses.

What is that!?

Just as Yang Yi pulled down his goggles, a blue light that pierced the sky caught his eyes.

Yang Yi immediately pushed away the protective glasses, but the blue light disappeared. Yang Yi was very puzzled, pulled down the goggles again, and a blue light appeared.

What's going on?

The light on the Lava Star is dominated by red light, the color of the Magma Sea, so the metal film on the goggles can only block visible light of this color.

It must be the case that the goggles do not block blue light.

Is that a meteor, or a spaceship?

Judging from the trajectory of the light, it really looks like a meteor, but is it blue light emitted by the meteor falling into the atmosphere?

Yang Yi didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately started the air cushion bike.

"Ah Yi, where are you going?"

"I'll take a look over there, and you go back first."

"Ah Yi ......"

When Ah Ling shouted again, Yang Yi had already driven the air cushion bicycle away.