Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 182 Want to cover up

Zhu Min put down his toes, straightened his crooked body, stared at the man's back with his fingers clasped, then turned his eyes to look at Ji Yao.Ji Yao stepped on the heel of his shoes with his finger on his back, and moved his gaze to Zhu Min's corner.This little action of his caught Ji Songlin's attention, he turned his head to look at Zhu Min, the coat wrapped his body, as if to seal him off.

"Is he your army doctor?" Ji Songlin looked at Zhu Min and asked, he was asking Ji Yao.Zhu Min fiddled with a fountain pen in his hand, making a clicking sound, and he didn't take his eyes off Ji Songlin's face.

Ji Yao moved his eyelashes. His eyelashes and eyes, like Ji Songlin's, can contain many emotions. Those words that cannot be expressed in his heart can be expressed through a pair of amorous eyes.He dusted off the paper, even though the paper had just been taken out of the sealed bag a few minutes ago: "He has been with me for a long time, and he has done much more than the military doctor. You may know each other. Who knows, I don't know anything about you."

Ji Songlin looked down at his fingers, as if he was considering something.Ji Yao tidied up the papers on the table, took out some waste paper, crumpled it up and threw it into the recycling channel.His expression was washed away by the lights and coldness of the office, and this kind of pale sternness had been entrenched on his face for a long time after he learned that Fu Zhong was missing.The ring on the finger was shining quietly, appearing and disappearing with Ji Yao's movements, and like the moon, it was suddenly overwhelmed by the drifting clouds.

"You're right, I do know him." Ji Songlin said, he stood where he was, neither stepped forward nor backed up, but his posture was obviously noble, and Ji Yao was different, "He It's Zhu Shili's son. Zhu Min, we met when you were about seven years old."

"Oh." Zhu Min rubbed his fingers that were red and blue from the cold, and agreed briefly, then raised his eyebrows and looked away, "It's hard for you to remember such a long time ago, but I have long forgotten it I don't care who you are, but you'd better be honest."

Ji Songlin lowered his eyes to look at the toes of his shoes and smiled.He ignored Zhu Min's words, and said to Ji Yao: "Look, you don't know nothing about me. In your casual 'guess', you have hit the nail on the head."

"Are you in a hurry to prove yourself, sir? You haven't been standing in front of me for three minutes, and you want to impress me with the way you deal with other people? Here, I am the commander, and you just It's just the captain of the Belloberger whose origin is unknown. You are not part of our staff, and you are still potentially dangerous. It stands to reason that you are not qualified to face the commander, but should be locked in the interrogation room and tortured. Strict interrogation. As for why you are standing here now, I hope you have a little self-awareness. Rules are rules, you don’t have to rush to prove yourself, things have to be resolved one by one, and now we have more important things.”

Ji Yao raised his eyelids and glanced at Ji Songlin, then picked up the pen, pressed the tape recorder next to him, and asked, "Name."

"Ji Songlin."

Ji Yao's fingers paused for a moment, he turned the pen, and then filled in the name in the blank column of the form.It's been a long time since he wrote the name, ten years?Or 20 years?He couldn't remember.When was the last time you wrote this name?He wrote it in the palm of Fu Zhong's hand when he was sheltering from the rain in a cliff cave by the sea.They exchanged their father's names, as if that way someone could witness their love.

"Position." After Ji Yao finished speaking, he briefly added, "Now."

"Oh, well, that's hard to say. Let's write about the captain of the Bellberg, after all, Bellberg is a good name, full of hope and light."

"What are you doing here?"

"The submarine is running out of fuel. You know, even a nuclear reactor will burn out one day. Of course I can't let myself sink in the cold water for nothing, so I found you. By the way, I want to tell you that the person named Fu Zhong is here. In my hand, he is very good, but there is a little trouble that I can't solve. But I know that you must be much better than me, after all, the technological strength is too far behind, right? You must be in a hurry these days, that is an excellent If he never comes back, someone will be sad."

"You know a lot about us, but it's not a good habit to speculate on other people's minds." Ji Yao said, he recorded Ji Songlin's words on the form verbatim, and never looked up, "You are time People from the bureau? Don’t rush to deny me, the coat on your body has betrayed you. So you’d better answer me honestly, how did you come here, what are you doing here, and how many of your people are there.”

Ji Songlin didn't answer Ji Yao's question. He stroked his little finger and twirled it habitually, just like Ji Yao's movement of turning a ring.Before Ji Yao asked sharply for the second time, Ji Songlin stretched out his finger and said, "It's hard to explain."

"Oh, yes, it's hard to explain. It seems that you don't intend to continue this topic, which is surprising. Is there something you don't want to say? I can't figure it out. Tell me submarine."

Zhu Min stroked the pen slowly. On the left half of the draft paper, there was a sketch of the nervous system of the human body, but the right half was completely occupied by messy lines.If Dawn were here now, he would definitely be heartbroken because of Zhu Min's inattention in academic research.

"My submarine?" Ji Songlin always thought for a long time when answering questions, and his gentle tone paused from time to time, which became a characteristic of his speech, "There are too many stories on the submarine, and they are all good stories, but I can't guarantee that you'll be interested in these stories."

Ji Yao flipped over a piece of paper, took a look at Ji Songlin with the pen in his hand, and met his gaze.Ji Yao raised the corner of his mouth with a half-smile, leaned back on the chair back, leaned on the armrest and fiddled with his earlobe, and said, "I'm not interested in your story now, I want to hear about your crew. Our computer Scanned and measured your sub, and reported that you are the only one on board. You know, your sub needs 120 people to operate. One last time, where are the others?"

"Probably not human, maybe. You sent someone into my submarine to inspect, and they will send you an inspection report. Before I met you, I was the only human on this planet, absolutely true. "

"The only one?" Ji Yao looked into Ji Songlin's eyes. Ji Songlin's age had accumulated wrinkles at the end of his eyes, but it didn't affect his desolate and calm temperament. On the contrary, he became the most handsome man in the room. A figure stood out, "That was really lonely."

Ji Songlin's gaze stayed on Ji Yao's face for a moment, searching for some long-lost emotions, as if he wanted to spy something that should exist from the young man in front of him.He finally lowered his eyelashes, the three tear moles under his eyes were hidden in the shadow of his eye sockets, and his broken eyebrows were submissively pressed on top. His expression when he drooped his eyes and lowered his eyebrows can overlap with Ji Yao surprisingly, and this expression The melancholy emanating from the novel also seems to come from the same painter.

"Yes, indeed." Ji Song expressed his affirmation with two words, and the faint loneliness like pearls escaped from this affirmation, and fell on the jade plate with a ding ding dong dong, "Although this vibrant planet is All to myself, but no one is lonelier than me."

The cold in the office was defeated by Ji Songlin's soft complaint, Zhu Min didn't dare to stamp his feet too much, but his heels were already sore from the cold.Ji Yao understood where Ji Songlin's desolation came from, probably from every starry night and cold winter.If everything is as he said, then Ji Yao can't believe that a person who has experienced vast loneliness can use such a calm voice to complain about his past life jokingly.

He still has a lot of questions to ask, he wants to pick up the flowers in the morning, to pick up those missed stories again, and let the time discarded in the twilight hobble back into his arms.But he didn't know where to start, until now his mind was still in a trance, as if he was dreaming.

The phone next to him suddenly rang, and Ji Yao glanced at it, picked up the microphone and put it to his ear: "Colonel Yue, have you completed all your inspection tasks?"

"The whole boat has been inspected, there is no attack, no firefight. The submarine has been integrated into our weapon system and is directly controlled by the command post. Some parts of the submarine have been damaged. I think it is best to let the mechanic repair it. As for the others Something, Commander, you'd better come down and see for yourself, it's astonishing, I can't describe it."

"Received. You can leave the submarine and send a mechanic down for maintenance." After Ji Yao replied, he connected to the base broadcast, "The combat status is released, and the weapon system is on standby. Repeat it, the combat status is released."

The red light in the weapon system in the bilge finally went out, and the executive's skin finally returned to its original color under the red light, and a low sound of relief floated under the low ceiling of the bilge.The executor let go of the hand holding the railing of the outer wall, wiped off a layer of frost on the glove, left the launch port, walked to the inner cabin and sat down.The interior cabin was a little warmer. The officer above probably didn't expect that a large group of people could enjoy the rare warmth by relying on the heat dissipation of the running machine.

The light-eyed executive took out the watch from his pocket, cut off the timer, stared at the watch for a while, and then carefully put it back into the inner pocket, saying: "Thank God, no fire was fired, I hope the submarine has been subdued. Ah , a submarine, where did it come from?"

"Who knows where it came from, we can't figure it out after thinking about it for three to five years." The executive next to him took out a poker card and spread it out on the chest of drawers. You might be able to figure it out when you wait for the soldiers."

"Why do some people become commanders in their twenties, but we are huddled in this narrow and low hold waiting for the order to fire? Damn, why?"

"There is a reason why you can become a commander at a young age. Apart from those rigid requirements, do you have a large and strong family background? Do you have parents involved in military affairs? Do you have an inexhaustible family fortune? Nothing, this is the ordinary us."

"But this commander surnamed Ji, I've never heard that he has a huge family background, and he doesn't look like a rich second-generation or third-generation rich man, let alone a simple military policy. I can't figure it out. But he is indeed a man. Good sir, at least I think."

"It's enough to be a good officer, at least we people at the bottom can live a little better. Don't be sour here, the feats he has made are real. The war on terrorism, from the beginning of the war to the end, he led How many hostages did the Vanguard rescue? How many planes did he shoot down with his squadron? And how many planes did he kill in the jungle by himself? You gotta go and see. Blackjack? Come on, don't look so sad .”

After Ji Yao put down the microphone, he didn't speak. He flipped the document paper on the table, making a rattling sound, and finally the sound ended when the pen was put down.He knocked on the table uncomfortably, and Ji Songlin suddenly said, "Do you want me to take you to the submarine?"

Colonel Yue stood on the deck, and the mechanics coming down from the base were carrying boxes into the front hall one after another. Even though the snow had already covered their ankles, the railing outside the blocked door was still full of people standing on the sidelines.Ji Yao looked around at these people and walked down the ladder.

Two executives followed Ji Songlin and handcuffed him - considering the commander's safety.When Ji Yao's leather boots stepped on the submarine deck, the remaining water stains on the deck had frozen into solid ice, and the bitter sea breeze was blowing the white paint on the forecastle, and the ventilation pipes were covered with fluffy frost.The rusty smell of metal exudes in the air, and the rotten smell floating up from the seawater indicates that the bacteria are corroding the corpse day and night, and the sulfurous water mist is a little gift from the volcano to people.

Ji Songlin was handcuffed with both hands, and could only grab the edge of the ladder with one hand and descend into the submarine.Ji Yao carried the gun on his back, his injured right leg made it difficult for him to walk, but he tried his best not to look weak.Zhu Min followed behind him, wearing an executive's coat and a magazine strapped to his waist. At this time, he finally made himself no longer like a weak doctor who sat in the laboratory all day long and researched special medicines.Lin Cheng entered the submarine at Ji Yao's request, coughing in the cold wind.

"It's safe inside, Commander, don't be too nervous." Ji Songlin stood beside the dashboard in the control room and said, he reached out and pressed a light in the aisle, "This is the control room, I sit here during the day Stare at these dials, or look out."

He pointed to the central periscope, and Ji Yao followed his fingers to look over. The reconnaissance and attack periscopes were all put into the cabin at this time.The control room was clean, and there were signs of breakage in the metal poles in a few places, but they were all connected, and these marks indicated that the submarine had been attacked.

"What are these things?" Ji Yao pointed a gun at the six humanoid machines standing next to the dashboard. They obviously gathered together following a certain procedure, arranged in an orderly manner, funny and serious.

Ji Songlin reached out and patted the robot's chest, and then said: "They are my crew. I made these robots, and then took them on board to serve as pilots, torpedo soldiers, mechanics, chefs, etc. They are obedient , precise, tireless."

Colonel Yue next to him said to Ji Yao: "That's why we encountered some things that are difficult to explain during our inspection. They are all robots, lined up, standing aside, motionless. Commander, you really should come down and take a look."

Ji Yao took a step closer to the robot, and Ji Songlin nodded his finger and pointed to Ji Yao: "This is the first duty officer, this is the second duty officer, and this is the chief engineer. These three are in charge of driving. They He can still talk, and spent a lot of boring time with me."

"No wonder Xinghe said that you are the only one on the boat." Ji Yao said, "Your crew is really eye-opening. Will they not be in disorder? What if they don't listen to the control?"

"No, it hasn't happened once since I brought them on board. I programmed them perfectly, and they all listen to my control. I don't have to worry about the torpedo not launching, and I don't have to worry about it. Chinese food was not delivered on time."

Ji Songlin entered the other side through the round hatch, and Ji Yao could only step in with the help of Zhu Min.The lights in the cabin are all on, and the narrow bathroom is on the left, and the door is tightly closed at this time.There was a square table in the dining room, photographs hung on the opposite wall, and hard leather was sewn on the seats.The dining room was empty, even the smell of food was almost insignificant, there was no yellow disgusting grease stain on the square table, and the hard leather seats remained as they were.

"The captain's lounge, there are some books in the cabinet. At night in Taiping, I let the submarine dive 50 meters underwater, and then sit in the lounge to read or write something. If necessary, I will let the The radio monitor played an album by Eminem, he is my favorite rapper." Ji Songlin casually took out a disc from the shelf, turned it over and gestured to Ji Yao, "The Eminem Show, first version of .

Ji Yao didn't speak. He seldom spoke since he boarded the boat, but paid attention to the layout and details in the submarine.He went up to take the disc from Ji Songlin, the disc was very old, as could be seen from the blurred letters on its surface, Ji Yao guessed that the disc should be at least 20 years old.When he turned it over, there was a design in the corner with black marker, dried ink about the same age as the disc.With a hasty glance, Ji Yao recognized that the marker was a fox, squinting his eyes, half smiling.

The disc was taken away by Ji Songlin, put it back on the shelf, and then talked about the books in his collection.Remembering the smiling fox, Ji Yao pursed his lips and watched Ji Songlin spread out a few books.Among them was "Slavic Mythology", and Ji Yao recognized at a glance that the black and white engraving drawn on the book cover was the god of war Sventovite.He reached out and took out the book. It was also an old book, even older than the disc just now. The pages were curled up, which was evidence that they were often flipped.

"This is a Slavic myth, you know, Commander, reading this kind of storybook is the best way to relieve loneliness when you are alone." Ji Songlin said, he stuffed the other thread-bound books into the cabinet, and Ji Yao glanced at the lock in the cabinet with a stack of notebooks.

"Have you always carried this book with you?" Ji Yao asked. He turned the pages of the book and checked the edition information of the book with dim light. "The first edition was first printed in 1990. More than 30 years ago Old book, I can't believe you have one in your hand."

"I take good care of everything, especially some important things, because I can remember the old people through these things. For example, this book." The shackles on Ji Songlin's hands clattered with the movement, " After all, I'm the only one here."

"Yeah." Ji Yao refused to comment, he returned the book, raised the gun again and looked around the lounge.Nailed to the side wainscots were maps with curved pencil marks linking the many fixed points.Several sheets of paper, large and small, were spread out on the dark green camp mattress, and a pencil with only the nib left was pitifully sandwiched between the papers. It was probably dying, waiting to be thrown into the sea on a fine day.

Lin Cheng walked to the map to check, covered his mouth and coughed softly. Apart from the sound of Ji Songlin's handcuffs on the submarine, it was Lin Cheng's disturbing cough.He rubbed his finger against the pencil marks on the map and read: "Orion...NGC7635 Bubble Nebula...the Bridge..."

"This is not a map, this is a star map." Lin Cheng said, "Commander, this is a star map. I think it should be peeled off and sent to the observatory for them to study it carefully."

Ji Yao walked to the side of Lin Cheng, glanced at the star map that almost occupied the entire wall, then lowered his head and picked up a few pieces of paper on the mattress, flipped through them and handed them to Zhu Min who was next to him, and turned to Ji Songlin Said: "When you dive 50 meters underwater, I'm afraid you are not reading boring fairy tales, but sitting on this mattress and calculating the orbits and speeds of stars? What are you doing? I dare say that your ship There must be a telescope on the submarine to support your astronomy research."

"Of course, Commander, I don't object to your words." Ji Songlin walked between Ji Yao and Lin Cheng, and Lin Cheng coughed a few times at this moment, "When I'm troubled by a statistic that I can't calculate Sometimes, I will read some boring stories to pass the time, this is not a conflict. I also have to thank this book of mythology, it has given me endless inspiration, so that I can survive every difficult night. Commander , I just wanted to say that your executive has been coughing and he is sick."

"I'm fine." Lin Cheng replied before Ji Yao could speak, "I just caught a cold, isn't it normal to have a cough? I'll feel better after a while."

Ji Songlin looked at Lin Cheng's red cheeks and ears, as well as his thin and sunken cheeks, then glanced at Ji Yao who was beside him who was silent, nodded, and then turned around: "Okay, maybe It will get better soon."

Ji Yao ordered people to collect all the star maps on the wall and the drafts on the mattress, put them in a transparent evidence bag, label them, and send them to the observatory.Ji Songlin stood outside the lounge, looked sideways at the person carrying the evidence bag, and said to everyone: "We should go and see the telescope. It's in the front auxiliary engine room, where the crew are resting. Of course, I didn't have a crew to rest, so I took a couple of bedsteads off and put a telescope in here. It's a big guy."

He opened the top cover above the front auxiliary engine room, and then raised the telescope located in the cabin. After lifting the heavy lens tube, it aimed at the western half of the sky.Ji Yao walked under the binoculars, looked up at the frozen blue sky, and said, "Unbelievable."

"I just made some modifications to the submarine to make it meet my daily needs. For example, with this telescope, as long as the weather is clear enough, I can sit in front of the eyepiece for three days in a row to detect deep-sky objects."

"Is there no limit?"

"Of course. For example, in case of storms or other dangers, I have to stay at the bottom of the sea. The bottom of the sea is a very safe place, so far." Ji Songlin put the telescope into the cabin and closed the top cover, "still The only thing is that this telescope has limited capabilities, you know, and that's out of my hands."

"What are the other dangers?"

Ji Songlin habitually twitched the root of his little finger—he might not have noticed his movements—and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "For example, lightning strikes, and meteorite rain, meteorite fragments are fatal... ...and so on."

"Oh, nature seems to be very irritable. Fortunately, we haven't encountered meteorite rain yet. When was the last time there was a meteorite rain?" Ji Yao asked, walking along the computer next to the telescope, with a low voice He lowered his eyebrows and couldn't see his expression clearly.

"It was a long time ago, and I don't remember the exact time. That day was my first submarine trial, and I encountered a meteorite rain. I dived to 2550 meters underwater and barely escaped. It was a disaster." Ji Song Lin paused, "I'm probably so lucky because this submarine has a good name."

Ji Yao looked up at Ji Songlin when he was narrating, and the rest of the people were also silent.Standing under the light, Ji Songlin stretched his eyebrows, and described his past experience lightly with a calm demeanor and tone of voice, without pretentious arrogance or slumped sadness in his words.Everything is calm, like a breeze blowing through the ears, sitting in the shade of summer trees with friends, watching the vermilion sunset in the sky.

That kind of calm suddenly hit Ji Yao's heart, he hadn't felt such a peaceful mood for a long time.He is always irritable, anxious, and restless. The last time he really felt peaceful was when he woke up in the morning after being drunk, and when he walked out of the room, he smelled the sour plum soup made for him by Fu Zhong.

At that time, he knew that Fu Zhong was behind him, he was by his side, he could smell the fragrance of sea salt on his body without turning his head, and the sun shone on his front and back without turning his head.Just like the peach forest under the snow-capped mountains, it can always shine the pure morning sun without impurities.

In the forward auxiliary engine room, several mechanics were opening the panels of the bulkhead, exposing the pipelines inside.Ji Yao glanced at it, and there was a large area of ​​scorched black inside, and the metal plate showed white spots after burning.

"The air regenerator was burned out and it looked like this. I fixed it and it never worked so well and now it looks really bad."

Ji Songlin didn't stay under the telescope for too long, and he didn't continue to talk about the burning of the air regeneration device. He led the people into the kitchen and the mechanical power cabin.There was a robot in the kitchen. Ji Songlin said it was a chef who could cook some simple soups and side dishes. Sometimes when fish were caught, a dish of braised sole in white wine sauce would be added to the dinner table.Below the gas cooktop is a freezer for storing food. There are half a box of potatoes, two moldy carrots, bundled strange green leaves, and several mackerel and eagle pomfret lying on the ice.

"Where did you get the potatoes and carrots?"

"I grow it myself. I have a base on the seabed. I told you." Ji Songlin said, and he closed the freezer. "I can grow some vegetables there. Tomatoes and potatoes are the most common ones, but tomatoes Already finished."

"Your undersea base is amazing."

"Indeed, I lived by it."

"Why not live on land? Also, what's up with that complex? Don't play dumb, you know what I'm talking about."

"The climate on land is not as stable as in the sea, and there are often some damages, earthquakes, tsunamis or meteorite rain, you don't know what will happen in the next second. And I spend most of my time in the submarine, traveling around the world, the ocean It's vast."

Ji Songlin entered the mechanical power cabin, passed sideways through the narrow passage in the middle, and said: "The draft adjustment valve, the auxiliary buoyancy cabin, as well as the air shock and differential pressure valves, gyroscopes, etc. here. This is my mechanic and Torpedo crews, they fired a total of eight torpedoes."

Ji Yao walked through the cramped corridors, scanning the labels on the pipes up and down.The mechanical power cabin was unbearably hot, and there was an unpleasant metallic smell. Zhu Min had to pull up his scarf to cover his nose, while Lin Cheng stayed outside.

"Eight torpedoes? How many battleships were blown up?" Ji Yao asked casually, stepping over a bilge handle, "Who are you fighting?"

"Sometimes you don't even know what you are fighting with, so you start fighting suddenly. Isn't that what war is like? You are attacked for no reason, and then you open fire for no reason. The eight torpedoes are just the beginning, and there will be more in the future." There are more."

Ji Songlin's answer to this question was ambiguous, and seemed to mean something.Ji Yao followed him through several doors, the back of the man in front of him was faintly illuminated by the light.The machine exuded terribly hot air, and Ji Yao felt sweat on his forehead after staying there for a while. He loosened the scarf, and the cold air inside escaped from the gap.There was a conversation coming from the front, Ji Songlin looked down from the escalator, the voice came from the reactor compartment, and the mechanics sent by Ji Yao were talking around the main circulation pump.

"Commander." The mechanic stood below and saluted Ji Yao.

"Any questions?"

"There is something wrong with the cooling unit of the reactor, we are discussing the solution. Some people are checking the refrigeration unit in the aft auxiliary engine room. There is also a part in the forward auxiliary engine room. The air regeneration unit is not in good condition, it is too damaged. "

Ji Yao stood up straight, the pain in his right leg was getting worse, he knew he had to go back to the base for treatment.He raised his hand to support the wall, looked at the mechanic for a while, then turned to Ji Songlin and said, "Did you survive to this day because of this submarine full of problems?"

"Yes, Commander, otherwise I wouldn't be standing here today. I don't think I can survive to this day because of my intelligence, but because of my luck. I admit that I am very lucky."

"Oh, yes, your luck is really too good. Share your luck with those executives who died in battle, maybe I won't be so sad now." Ji Yao turned around, "We also don't have to live in fear every day."

After he finished speaking, he ordered coldly to the accompanying executive: "Take the captain to the base and arrange him in a separate room, where he will take turns guarding him. Don't leave the guard until my order to release the prison is issued. Execute immediately."

Ji Songlin was taken away, and Ji Yao returned along the same road under Zhu Min's care. When he passed the captain's lounge, he opened the door and entered, only to find that the bookcase was locked.He raised his hand to take off "The Eminem Show" and looked at the smiling fox with a marker on the back.

Zhu Min helped Ji Yao take down the photo frame hanging on the wall of the dining room, Ji Yao removed the outer frame and threw it on the leather seat, took out all the photos and stacked them together, frowning and flipping through them quickly under the light of the dining room photo.

"Is there a problem?" Zhu Min asked.

"Asshole, this isn't the Bellenberg at all."