Chapter 14: Rescuing Alice
For this cooperation with Cass to resist the meteorite rain, Xia Long has a variety of plans, and can take advantage of the opportunity of cooperation between the two sides to bring together his grandfather Xia Yun, the robot Tulip, and the No. 1 and No. 2 clones who built the sub-ship.
An hour after ending the correspondence with Cass, Xia Long once again gathered Bane and Li Hu and other representative figures together and began to establish his prestige: "I just got the news from Cass that New Blue Star is about to face a once-in-a-millennium meteorite rain in a year, and I have decided to drive the Life Freedom to support in a month, and have reached an effective settlement with Cass, and he will announce in front of the people of the seven major city-states that he will not be hostile to us in the next year."
The personnel of the two battleships captured alive by Xia Long immediately fell into discussions, and Bane asked, "Xia Long, aren't you afraid that this is Cass taking the opportunity to capture you?" This is obviously a trap. ”
Xia Long continued: "Anyway, I used to be a member of the New Blue Star City-State, whether it is out of respect for Life, or because the Lifeship is the most advanced spaceship at present, I have to go!"
These words made people at least comfortable to listen to, and Li Hu asked tentatively: "Aren't you afraid that after you leave, we will betray you?" Build a new ship to sail and destroy your base? ”
Xia Long smiled slightly: "If I were alone, it would be enough for me to have the Life Freedom, in the vast universe, if I leave this star system, will it be so easy for Cass to chase me." But after having you, I decided to build this base, and for more than a month, you are also devoting yourself to building the base, otherwise it would not be so fast, and you are also building your own home. ”
Seeing Xia Long answer like this, Bane, Li Hu and the others were a little excited, and they were silent for a while. These people, starting with the agreement to dismantle their own warships, did carry quite a few ideas for building homes.
Xia Long continued: "If you have the idea of rebellion, you can go to New Zealand Star with me, and I will release you when the time comes, so that there will be no risk and no unpleasantness." But if there is also a betrayal, I will not be polite. Those who choose to stay at the base, I will ask Keton to hurry up and build some barrier areas, you guys will be embarrassed first! ”
Mutiny? Xia Long is not worried, without the barrier of Life Freedom, these people will immediately be in a state of weightlessness again, humans and clones will have strange diseases under the frequent change of this important factor, and there are a large number of robots, just the current power generation system of the base will definitely not be able to guarantee the replenishment of energy.
As for whether Cass will secretly launch an attack without admitting it after leaving the base with the Life Freedom, Xia Long does not dare to guarantee that he is building such a big movement in the base, and there is no way to create enough anti-detection materials to cover the inside of the "Farm" meteorite.
Xia Long could only pin his hopes on his geographical location, being on the back side of Star E for a long time, coupled with the huge size and magnetic field effect of Star E, Cass's detection equipment could not scan here. It was found that the long distance, coupled with the imminent meteorite shower, made it difficult for Cass to send a fleet over again, and his target was more of his own data box.
Putting aside these concerns, Xia Long devoted himself to the construction of the base, took the initiative to drive the sub-ship into the combined No. 2 humanoid state, completed some difficult and dangerous construction work, and took the opportunity to improve his image among his personnel.
A month later, only a small number of people chose to "mutiny" and go to New Blue Star with Xia Long, they are still more optimistic about Cass, Xia Long can not resist the joint attack of various city-states, and reconcile within a year, but what about after the meteorite rain is resolved? Maybe as soon as he arrives at New Zealand Star, Xia Long will be defeated.
More people choose to stay in the "Farm" meteorite, assist Xia Long to build a miracle together, leave New Blue Star, leave the 7 major city-states, you can live the same, and even live better!
Sharon piloted the Mothership Life Freedom, gradually moving away from the orbit of E-star, heading for New Blue, which will be a journey of several months. The subship can be linked to refresh the F2 event record and throw the other participating ships far away, and the speed of the mothership is not as terrifying as the subship, but it can also be much faster than the current large warships.
Now that the agricultural products are not yet ripe, in order to avoid the extravagant hunger of talents, Xia Long tries to use ideology as much as possible. The current route has been changed, as the two builders of the sub-ship, Robot 3 and 4, have been contacted, and Xia Long wants to take them to the mothership.
Xia Long is now worried that there are too few helpers, and since he was pulled on the thief ship by Dr. Mel, there are not many people who are really always on the same front as him. After seeing the two, Xia Long said: "You have risked your life to join me, you have worked hard along the way, and we will take care of the Life Freedom together in the future!"
Since the two of them were robots, they said coldly: "The master, Dr. Mel, is no longer here, you have passed his test, you are our new master, we will try our best to help you."
Xia Long hurriedly waved his hand: "Just call it like that, you don't need it, everyone is life." I used to be just a farmer, and I didn't have any agreement with you, but I just picked up Dr. Mel's cheap handy, and I'll just call me Xia Long in the future! ”
These words made it difficult for the two of them to react for a while, and it took Xia Long a lot of effort to let the two of them accept it, and finally put into the work of maintaining and managing the Life Freedom, such a huge spaceship, it is not easy to rely on Xia Long alone.
A few days later, Xia Long received a faint distress signal: "I am Alice, a human space victim, please rescue!" My ship was destroyed in the pursuit of Life Freedom, and my current lifeguard pod is running out of energy, unable to maintain my ideology, and I ask for help! ”
For Alice, Xia Long was more impressed, when he was driving the sub-ship, he was pursued, and he received a threat from this person, what to give up resistance, and the rhetoric of being tied up is quite methodical, it seems that this person is really pitiful, staying in the lifeguard cabin and drifting in space for so long.
Xia Long followed the distress signal to pick up Alice to his spaceship, due to a long time in weightlessness, Alice looked very weak, as if she had a serious illness, from the current situation, her previous appearance was not bad, long blond hair and well-proportioned figure, the age is about the same as Xia Long, about 20.
Xia Long said: "This eldest sister, poor space victim, Cass did not send personnel to search and rescue you, if you continue to drift like this, sooner or later you will be sucked into the E star, fortunately, I followed the signal and did not hesitate to change the course to rescue you." Welcome, I'm Sharon, owner of the Freedom of Life. ”
When she learned that she was rescued by the former pursuing target, Alice was a little excited, and instead of immediately thanking her, she dragged her weak body and grabbed Xia Long and shook it with all her might, and shouted: "You paid my 'Earth Circle Man 6 Series' spaceship, I caused an effective attack on your spaceship before and shot down a little debris, but you damaged my spaceship, there is no dash cam, how can I prove it to Cass?" The Dirt Circle 6 Series' spaceship! ”
Xia Long was a little embarrassed, he thought that Alice would at least thank herself, but she didn't expect that this person would ask for compensation in turn, maybe it was because the drifting time was too long, and a little inert gas in her head affected her IQ!
As soon as Alice finished roaring, she fell into Xia Long's arms and let out a miserable scream: "Oops, my left leg seems to be broken, it seems that my hand is also a little uncomfortable, the inside of this spaceship is a bit strange, there shouldn't be such a large space, and how can it have the same effect as the city-state staying in the barrier?"
Looking at the soft Alice in his arms, Xia Long's heartache accelerated, and he hurriedly explained: "To be exact, we are now on the mothership of the Life Freedom, which is much larger than the large warship, there is a barrier system here, you are in a weightless state for too long, and you can't replenish the nutrient solution normally, and suddenly come to the earth's standard gravity environment, it is easy to hurt your bones!" My family started with medicine, can I check it out for you? ”
Seeing that Alice didn't make a sound, through the close-fitting protective suit, Xia Long pinched it near her left ankle. The breathing of both sides became a little heavy, especially Xia Long, who even swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, after all, Xia Long hadn't seen a human female for a long time before, especially one who was about the same age as himself!
Alice only felt that her body was softer, and gently pushed Xia Long and said, "Hooligan! Have you pinched enough? How are my bones doing? ”
After hearing this, Xia Long quickly stopped his hand that should have stopped a long time ago, cleared his throat and said: "Don't worry, it's not as serious as you said, it's not broken, it's just that you didn't adapt to the change of the environment just now and were too excited.
Alice breathed a sigh of relief, but after a "snap", followed by a miserable scream, the unbearable pain made her scratch at Xia Long's ears indiscriminately, and let her weak body shout as loudly as possible: "You dead Xia Long, didn't you say that it was just a tragedy?" And your hand, won't you let go? ”
The two of them had been in an ambiguous posture just now, and Xia Long hurriedly got up and said, "When it reaches a certain level, the bones are misplaced, so I helped you recover while you weren't paying attention!" I've helped you twice, and if you don't thank you, you should at least give you a sweet smile, right? ”
Alice's face showed two deep dimples, and she still said angrily: "Say, what are you going to do to me, I have nothing now, I have no relatives and no hanging, you won't save me for no reason, right?" I'm your captive now, but I'll die to show you if you want to mess around! ”
Xia Long's expression was a little serious and said: "My spaceship is called 'Life Freedom', it is not easy for us to meet twice in the vast universe, out of respect for life, I will naturally save you!"
After giving Alice a general idea of the performance of the Life Freedom, Charon mentioned his current problem, Cass has been smearing himself now, leaving a bad impression on the people of the major city-states, and urgently needs a secretary, a diplomatic spokesman, to deal with some things, to make himself easier.
Thinking that the Life Freedom has a barrier, it will be very comfortable to live in, and there is no need to risk mining in the universe, Alice was a little moved: "With my sister's ability, it's no problem to be your diplomatic spokesperson, but it's impossible to expect me to serve you with tea and water, and you just said that you respect life." Is there any reward system? ”
"Before, we said that we would give you some cabbage leaves every year?" Seeing that Alice was a little annoyed, Xia Long continued, "Joke, enjoy the barrier for free, don't worry about strange diseases, if you do a good job, I will reward you with a spaceship like the Life Freedom ship, how about it?" ”
Alice showed a natural smile at this time: "Don't worry, sooner or later I will take my actual actions and get a spaceship like the subship, compared to this, the Earth Circle 6 series is too backward." Also, I heard that there is a coconut or papaya thing that is very beautiful, can you grow it? ”