Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 194

Ji Yao said plainly, a beam of light adorned his shoulders, pierced through his hair, and at the end was a circle of light like a candle.He seldom looked at Ji Songlin when he was talking, and his attention was all on the food. The yellow croaker meat was so tender that when he touched it with his chopsticks, it shaved off the fish bone.

"Is Fu Zhong so important to you?" Ji Songlin suddenly asked an irrelevant question. He was sitting opposite Ji Yao, holding a piece of lettuce, but there was no entrance. "You can only see him when he is safe." rest assured?"

"Of course, he is important. Every executive is important to me, let alone Fu Yangxia's son. I'm just an executive commander, and I can't afford the accountability and revenge of the Vice Chairman of the Military Commission,' Backtracking programs 'can't be afforded by anyone."

Ji Songlin swallowed his throat, pinched the chopsticks, but didn't do much.He glanced around the food, and then looked at Ji Yao's face: "Will you be in court-martial?"

Ji Yao's chopsticks paused for a moment, and soon he continued to eat with his head down as if nothing had happened.Ji Songlin could only see his lowered eyebrows clearly in the dim light, Jinghong hid under the crescent moon, his sharpness was concealed.Ji Yao shaved off the fish bones, and the white and tender fish was soaked in thick sauce, just like the way Fu Zhong dripped red wine on Ji Yao's thighs when they made love.Ji Yao didn't touch the fish, but moved the plate in front of Ji Songlin, replacing the bowl of leafy vegetables in front of him.

"Well, of course the court will go to court." He said, the spoon stirred the thick soup on the plate, the taro rose and fell in the soup, and finally was scooped up by Ji Yao and put into the mouth, "I can already imagine what will happen when I go back If things go wrong, he will be imprisoned for three years, and then sent to be shot.”

He talked about his not-so-bright future, but it was like chatting, without showing any worries or fears.It seems that everything in the future has nothing to do with him. He has no way of imagining what the future will look like, and he has no time to care about it.After trekking over mountains and mountains for [-] miles, he just wanted to get rid of the shackles and burdens on his body, find a small tree, next to the stream, and sit down by the root of the tree to rest.He may be so tired that he falls asleep all of a sudden, sees Chisongzi playing chess in his dream, and wakes up suddenly, the tree has towered to the sky, and the stars are moving.

Ji Songlin's chopsticks touched the wall of the bowl, making the sound of pearls falling into the plate, he looked at the plate of fish that Ji Yao moved over, pressed the line of his lower lip, and said, "Why are you so sure that you will be imprisoned? "

"You used to be the head of the executive department. There are some things you should know better than me. There are so many people on a mission, and they will be investigated after returning. As long as someone says something disgraceful, I will be the first to suffer. .Walk into a room with walls on all sides, go home or go to jail, it doesn't matter. Because of you, I ordered all surveillance to be turned off. This is a serious violation, and the Directorate General has already written this into the memo , I will be held accountable for this matter sooner or later."

"Didn't you stay behind? It shouldn't be, Commander, you should think of a solution in advance, instead of waiting in vain to go to prison." Ji Songlin said.

Ji Yao put down the spoon, and he only took three mouthfuls of a plate of soup, and the remaining taro was soaked in the oily starch paste, which was slowly cooling down.He wiped his lips with a handkerchief, folded his legs, propped himself on the table and said, "Even if I have left behind, I have to rely on myself, everything depends on myself. No matter how reliable others are, they have to maintain 30% suspicion. I know the matter myself, do you think I will just wait for the prison guards to arrest me? Ten years have passed, Ji Songlin, you really underestimated a commander."

"Oh, so ten years have passed."

Then there was a silence.Ji Songlin put his chopsticks aside and wiped his fingers.Ji Yao asked, "Are you done eating?"

"Ah."

In fact, the food has not been touched much, the whole shaved fish is still soaked in the sauce, and a plate of salt-baked pork ribs has hardly been touched.Ji Yao looked down at the table and said, "Isn't it delicious?"

"No, it's just that I suddenly don't want to eat much." Ji Songlin replied. He clasped his hands. He only had a shirt on his body, which was a little wrinkled. Two buttons were unbuttoned under the collar.The temperature in the confinement room was not low, and a doctor had just come to inject him with antifreeze.

Ji Yao was silent for a while, he didn't say anything, took away the plate and handed it to the guard outside the door, and then handed the clean clothes to Ji Songlin: "Put on, it's cold outside. Get dressed and come out, I'll take you Go to the rest cabin."

The daylight continued outside the porthole, and the glass covered with frost and ice crystals reflected snow particles one by one, and these snow particles reflected a silent North Pole.Ji Yao leaned against the pillar, the light was a bit dazzling, he lowered his head, put on his hat, smoked a cigarette, and asked the executive on duty next to him for a light.The executive lit the lighter for him, and the tongue of flame jumped up, illuminating half of Ji Yao's face.The executive watched as the commander leaned over his head, biting a cigarette, and lit a little on the fire, a wisp of smoke unfolded like silk.

"How long have you been in the time bureau?" Ji Yao asked, he was wearing a coat, and his armed belt was pulled off his shoulders and locked into his belt.He held the cigarette, pulled his lips away, and let out a puff of smoke with his chin raised, squinting to watch the iceberg and sea water crumble apart before his eyes.

The executive put away the lighter, hung the gun on his shoulder, and replied: "More than two years. At first, he stayed in the army for a year, and then he was transferred to the Time Bureau."

Ji Yao hummed lightly, nodded, glanced at the little freckles on the executive's face, and turned to look at the scenery outside the window.He raised his hand to wipe away the frost that blocked his vision, took a breath of smoke, let it swirl in his mouth, and then floated out: "Which is better, the army or the time bureau?"

The executive looked at Ji Yao smoking with his elbows, and he was a little fascinated. Although the executive didn't have any other ideas, he was just surprised that there is a man in the world who can interpret smoking so artistically, and this man is Just standing in front of myself.Those rumors about the commander that were brought up in jokes on weekdays seem to have lost their meaning at this time.The executive officer suddenly didn't know how to answer the commander's question, he stopped there, not daring to look into Ji Yao's eyes.

"Huh? Tell me about it." Ji Yao asked again, and turned his eyes to look at the restless executive, his brows like spring swallows could fly into Du Shaoling's poems with a single stroke, "Don't be afraid, say you Whatever you think is fine, I just want to hear it."

The executive hesitated for a while, then touched the heel of his shoe and said, "Army."

Ji Yao smiled, he didn't express any emotion, and asked with a cigarette in his mouth, "Why do you say that?"

"The time is too hard." The executive replied, the freckles on his face kept dangling in front of Ji Yao's eyes, and Ji Yao looked at him through a layer of smoke, calm and calm, "We fight without knowing the enemy What will be, we seem to be against the whole of nature. Tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes... I can never predict what will be next. We also carry the hope of all mankind - to solve the void crisis, This hope is too expensive and too heavy. . . . too bitter."

His eyes flickered, and he turned his head to look at other places. After a pause, he apologized to Ji Yao, straightened his belt and continued to stand guard with his back straight.Ji Yao didn't continue talking to him, he just stood silently not far away, with his back against the entire North Pole, a cigarette slowly burning in his hand.The smoke was like vines, weaving into a net, entangled his limbs, unable to move.Prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer.The Buddha said that all living beings are suffering, but in fact it is not limited to all living beings. Heaven is suffering, and hell is also suffering.

Ji Songlin came out of the door. He changed into the same uniform as an ordinary executive. Now, he may no longer need a hat with black and white wings.Just after Ji Yao finished smoking a cigarette, he dispersed the smoke lingering in the air, and signaled Ji Songlin to follow him.

"Who is the new head of the executive department?" Ji Songlin asked behind Ji Yao. They walked through the corridor, and the people after dinner were coming out of the dining room. They all stopped to salute when they saw Ji Yao.The wind became stronger, and Ji Songlin heard the whimpering sea breeze outside, indicating that a storm was coming.

Ji Yao didn't look back, he walked in front with his pockets in his pockets, his eyes always calm, always looking forward: "Tang Lin, you really don't want to hear this name, right? But the truth is like this. Just received the news, Tang Lin from the deputy minister I was promoted to minister and became the second in command of the Time Bureau. Well, this is really big news, and all my applications and reports from now on will be sent to him for review."

"Tang Lin is a member of the Lulang family, the head of the Tang family. Although he has been lying on my blacklist, I have forgotten what he looks like now. What I remember most clearly is that he was once bitten by a dragon tooth, and the back of his hand There is a scar from the chopsticks on it."

"Dragon Tooth?"

"Yes, when we killed the Dragon King together, he was injured by the dragon's teeth," Ji Songlin said, and he followed Ji Yao down a flight of stairs, "there was a scar left. It should still be there now? I don't know, I have to ask you that."

Ji Yao looked back at him: "The scar is still there, don't worry. It seems that you remember some things very clearly. I thought you only remembered Fu Yangxia. What does the Dragon King look like? Describe it."

"Oh, it's hard to describe, it's too embarrassing for me. But it does look like the nine-headed dragon on the Nine-Dragon Wall, so we call it 'Dragon King'. You can imagine for yourself, some things are just spoken It's an understatement."

After passing through a narrow connecting corridor, a piece of blue glass is inlaid at the end. After the light shines/enters, it is divided into countless planes, reflecting the face of the sky on the walls on both sides.Ji Yao likes this corridor very much, because here he can feel the junction of darkness and light.When he walked towards that piece of glass, it was like walking into an empty place, walking under the skirt of God, walking into the center of the Milky Way, seeing clearly the appearance of every grain of dust, listening to the layers of fine wind in the wind. Breathing in the rain.

Ji Songlin's rest cabin is next to the blue glass. Ji Yao swiped open the door, changed the identification code, entered Ji Songlin's fingerprint and voiceprint, and handed him the key.Ji Songlin stood in the cabin and looked at it for a while, and Ji Yao stood by the door and said, "From now on, you don't have to spend your days in the submarine anymore, we will provide you with supplies and shelter. Everything in the base as long as the authority allows, you All can be used, and my medical team will come to give you a full physical examination on a regular basis. But please cooperate with our work and familiarize yourself with our rules.”

"I haven't lived in a room that can be called a 'house' for a long time." Ji Songlin said, he came out and stood under the glass.This piece of glass spanned between the observation deck of the base and the second deck. Ji Songlin stood there with the light behind him, leaving only a silhouette.Above his head, the sky was wrapped in a puddle of water, sloping and round, and the thin, silky clouds were noisily being driven away by the gray haze.The wind was blowing from the top of the arc-shaped iceberg in the distance, and the top of the mountain was glowing with a cold, wet light, and the sun had probably faded.

Ji Yao helped him close the door, then locked it, and said, "Even in the astronomical station next to the radio telescope, haven't you ever slept in the room?"

"Never. I usually go ashore in summer, because the weather in winter is always bad. Winter is the time for the earth to rest, and I don't want to disturb it. In summer, the sun is strong and the heat is hot. I let Carl Bo turned on the refrigeration system, and he could stay in the observatory for three days. In the evening, after the sun went down, there was still a long period of light. I set up the balcony and lay on it to listen to Eminem's album. Noisy night. I'll stay overnight on the verandah until I'm back in the submarine again."

"It sounds like you're living an idyllic life. You know what? You're living the life most of us want to live."

Ji Yao said that he was walking in front of Ji Songlin, and the two wiped the glass together and walked to the other side. The smooth floor was like ice, reflecting their elongated shadows.The window vibrated suddenly, and the sound of the wind passed through the closed door to Ji Yao's ears. When he turned his head to look outside, a large group of snowflakes mixed with the gust of wind swept past in front of him, and a bleak and cold arctic blizzard was about to descend on the base It's sky high.

Ji Songlin pinched the root of his little finger, looked down at his palm, counted the lines on it, and said, "This life sounds wonderful, but it's also very lonely. Especially when you start to miss someone, this kind of loneliness is especially What's more, it can drive people crazy."

"Who are you missing?"

Ji Songlin didn't answer this question.When Ji Yao looked back at him, Ji Songlin just raised his eyes and smiled at him, the wrinkles on his forehead and at the end of his eyes showed that he had experienced many difficult times.Ji Songlin trimmed his eyebrows and sideburns neatly, shaved his beard cleanly, and had a sharp jaw line with sharp edges and corners.He was always well-dressed, and even in the brig he kept his shirts neat and pressed.It's as if you can put on a suit to a wedding at any time, or sit down and chat with an old friend at any time.

"You tidy yourself up so clean, are you waiting for someone to come to see you?" Ji Yao asked, he smiled, pulled his hair back, and took off his hat and put it on his elbow.

"Yes, although I'm not sure whether the person I'm waiting for will come back, but I can always greet him with the best attitude. Maybe he will come back tomorrow, maybe he will never come back. If one day he unexpectedly appears in In your field of vision, at that time you should be thankful that you wore the best clothes, combed the most tidy hair, and had the most handsome face, as if the whole morning of waiting has just passed."

"Including me?"

Ji Songlin smiled and said, "You are one of them."

The wind is a little less, but the snow is getting bigger.The sky turned overcast almost instantly, and the watery sky and blue sea water turned gray at this time.Seagulls landed on the base deck in groups of three, looking for food in the leeward area, and bear roars could be heard from afar.

The two executives braved the wind and snow to collect the flag on the deck. Frosts formed on their bodies quickly, but they still carefully folded the flag into a triangle, put it in a box, and sent it to the main control station.Xinghe put down the flagpole to prevent it from being damaged in the storm, and Ji Yao saw that the base of the flagpole had been covered with a thin layer of snow.A warning light was lit outside the blockade door, and the meteorological station issued several red warnings one after another. Xinghe reminded people that the blockade door was about to close on the radio.

The executors of the external patrol entered the base after being notified, a few lights on the observation deck were lit, the telescope was closed, and Xinghe turned on the electronic reconnaissance and monitoring.Ji Yao watched the storm getting closer and closer. He was more worried than any of the executives at this time, but he tried to relax himself, so he lowered his head and rubbed his eyes, asking: "What experience do you have in waiting?" How can I keep myself from losing hope while waiting?"

"I have no experience at all. I just cherish my life more than others, and I don't want to die. I want to go home, so I have been looking for a way to go home. Traveling around the ocean and exploring deep space are all time-consuming jobs. When With a longing for a beautiful moment, and then devoting ourselves to a great cause, we will find that time is so fast, and 1000 years have passed between pitching and pitching.”

After finishing speaking, Ji Songlin paused for a while, and asked again: "Who are you waiting for?"

Ji Yao also didn't answer him.Ji Songlin didn't ask any more questions, he just smiled faintly, brushed the dust off his sleeves, and walked into an open door.Ji Yao thought about what Ji Songlin said in his heart, but he still didn't quite understand it at that time.However, one night when he was in his 40s, in the dead of night, a nightingale could be heard outside the window, and he lay alone in the room with the lights off. When he was doing nothing, he thought of the past, and he suddenly understood the truth of Ji Song Lin’s life 20 years ago. meaning of these words.

Zhu Min stood next to Dawn and pointed at the slides projected on the opposite screen with him. The door of the laboratory suddenly rang, and Ji Yao walked in, followed by Ji Songlin.Zhu Min stood up, and Dawn also turned his attention to Ji Songlin.

"Commander." Zhu Min greeted, he took off his coat, revealing the patterned sweater under the white coat, looking beaming, "It's just in time, Doctor Dawn has a new achievement, he is Going to tell you."

Dawn patted Zhu Min's arm to make him not speak so fast.Ji Yao laughed when he heard the words, and he shook hands with Dawn——since Fu Zhong withdrew, Ji Yao suddenly became less resistant to Dawn.

"What kind of achievement? To hear such good news at this time, Dr. Dawn, you must be the one who brought us good luck."

Dawn straightened his sideburns, took off his glasses with a smile, took out a stapled document paper and handed it to Ji Yao, saying: "A new data has been calculated, and with this data, an equation can be established. I have also located a short distance Special DNA, this piece of DNA may be related to the source of neurosis, besides, I can further study the content related to genetics. Commander, I am so happy, I feel that I am blessed by God.... ..I don't know how to express..."

As he spoke, his eyes became red, and while he was laughing, he burst into tears suddenly, and hurriedly raised his hand to wipe it off.Zhu Min supported his shoulders, Dawn's eye sockets and temples turned watery red, and a strand of blond hair hung down and stuck to his cheeks, looking so beautiful.

"This is a good thing, Dawn, this is a good thing, why are you crying? You see, a new field has opened up to you, and you will be remembered forever as the first pioneer. You are still young and have a bright future , the future is bright. Don't cry, honey, don't cry."

Zhu Min has always called Dawn "dear". It used to be out of politeness, but later he got used to it. Maybe he didn't realize that he often blurted out.Dawn clasped Zhu Min's fingers, sniffed his nose, wiped away his tears with a handkerchief, his red blue eyes were embedded in the eye sockets, moistened by the water, even Ji Yao couldn't help but marvel at the boy's beauty.

Dawn clutched the veil and threw it aside, his expression finally became more relaxed, he shifted the topic to Ji Yao: "Is the commander here for something?"

"I asked Dr. Zhu to arrange a task, and it happened that you had such a happy event." Ji Yao said, his expression was not as cold as Dawn's impression, "I'm really glad I came this time. We Interrupting your research? If so, I think I'd better go away."

"No, Commander, just now I just discussed with Dr. Zhu about the progress of the 'backtracking plan' mission. Doctor Zhu felt that the 'backtracking plan' would be completed soon, but I didn't think so, so we made another bet. "

"The bet is this floral sweater on me." Zhu Min said, "Doctor Dawn thinks my dress looks good, and he said he likes it very much."

"Fart, I never said that I like it very much, I just think it looks good."

"Doctor Dawn, I don't teach you Chinese to say dirty words."

Ji Yao was lowering his head to deal with the notifications sent on the tablet. He glanced at the two of them, raised his mouth and smiled, and interrupted their dispute: "Be quiet, gentlemen, there are more urgent things to do now. About teaching Chinese is It's not about swearing, it doesn't matter."

Zhu Min stopped talking, he leaned on the table next to Dawn, stretched his legs and said, "Can we just talk about things here? What's the matter with the captain behind you? Why is he wearing our uniform? Not handcuffed yet?"

Ji Songlin looked up at Zhu Min, but said nothing.Ji Yao turned his hands over, frowned and typed on the tablet, and answered briefly: "I took off the handcuffs for him, and I asked him to put on the clothes. Now he is not a prisoner, he is an experimenter."

"Oh, I see, Commander, you must be looking for me because of that strange disease." Zhu Min separated his clasped hands, and he always used the honorific title of Ji Yao in front of others, very politely, "It seems that I am receiving Some days are busy."

Ji Yao turned around and walked to the central console of the laboratory, placed the tablet on the side flow sensing table, and transferred the data in the tablet directly to the central screen.He printed a stack of documents, turned to the last page, took out a fountain pen, signed his name, and pressed his fingerprints.

He handed the document to Zhu Min: "I have already handed over the authority certificate for the temporary development of the experimental project to you, and it will take effect from now on. The experimental personnel have already been found, and a Xiao Zhuoming is named, and she will be here in 46 billion years. contacted you."

Zhu Min flipped through the attachment, there was a list of experimenters printed, and he found Xiao Zhuoming's name at the bottom.Finger scratched the word "Xiao Zhuoming", Zhu Min closed the document calmly, put it in his backpack, and said: "The base may not have enough experimental instruments, so I have to find a way to get some. After dinner I went to Lab Two and listed all the machines I need, here."

He handed over the paper with a string of names written on it in pencil.Ji Yao read it while holding the paper, and made records on the tablet, and then retrieved another document: "These have to be shipped from the coordinate system, and it may take some time. Zhu Min, there is a machine that does not have a coordinate system. , I have to report it to the General Administration, and I don’t know how long it will take. Is this machine necessary?”

"Of course, Commander, what I write is indispensable. Which machine coordinates are not on it?" Zhu Min asked, and he stood in front of the central console, and Ji Yao pointed him to the longest name, which was the name There are twenty characters for the attributive.

"In vitro translation and hybridization system, Zhu Min, the equipment you want is in the 'Sky One' laboratory, it cannot be shipped. There is also one in Greenland, and one in the cold fusion nuclear weapons laboratory in Siberia , and the other in Oklahoma."

Zhu Min stared at the central screen with his thumb lingering on his lips.Obviously, he is now in a state of anxiety, and he has even thought about the tone of his predicament in the letter sent to Greenland, Siberia or Oklahoma.

Ji Songlin walked to Zhu Min's side, moved the paper with the name of the machine in front of him, bent down to proofread it carefully.Zhu Min propped up his hands, looked down at Ji Songlin's side face, and saw his fingers slide down a row of pencil marks, and finally stopped on the words "in vitro translation".Ji Songlin stayed on the name for a while, straightened his waist, and said to Ji Yao: "I think you should open the Kalber system and look up Kalber's database. If I remember correctly, there are with a device like this."

"Xinghe, connect to the Kalber system, execute the code KEB-69537-0172-5-TCAM. Search Kalber's database at the MSC submarine base, the target search items are 'RNA isolation and purification and Northern hybridization system', 'RNA in vitro translation system' .”

"The Kalber system is connected. The search is complete. The target search object is located in the underground laboratory of the MSC submarine base, numbered MSC-011, and the full name is the Temporary Research Institute of Hybrid New Species. The location is clear, no interference, is it an attack?"

"Calm down, Xinghe, you are a goodboy, you can't turn on the battle mode as soon as you come." Ji Yao glanced at the side, but found that the switch representing the battle mode was not turned on.

Xinghe's head has been hanging in the projection pool composed of light. At this time, he turned on the adaptive logic system and answered: "It is not Xinghe who has turned on the combat mode, it is Kalber. Kalber only has a combat state, he will not be like Xinghe empathetic."

Ji Yao turned his head to look at Ji Songlin, who nodded and said, "Kalber was created for war, it only has a combat mode, and it was born for fighting. In the memory of Kalber's host, as long as the location If a target is identified, then the next step is to destroy the target. This is a memory formed by the computer, just like a human conditioned reflex."

After listening to Ji Songlin's words, Xinghe said after some calculations simulating the nervous system in its quantum mainframe, "Look at how you have tortured others."

"Who did you learn this from, Xinghe?"

"I do not know."

"You really love to eavesdrop."

"Eavesdropping is also a way of learning."

"Fart, I advise you not to be too smart."

"Fart, Dr. Zhu."

Zhu Min raised his fist and punched Xinghe's head: "I'll fucking beat you!"

The light in the projection pool fluctuated, and Xinghe's head was scattered by Zhu Min's punch, and it was reassembled in a few seconds.Ji Yao raised his voice and scolded them, and the laboratory fell silent.

"There are only four devices of these two systems in the world, why do you have them here?" Ji Yao asked, he retrieved the information of MSC-011 from Kalber, and glanced at Ji Songlin, "And the model is also the same Same as the one in Sky One?"

Ji Songlin spread his hands: "Because this is our invention, it's just someone else plagiarized the idea. You go to Professor Yang Qihua, he participated in the programming of the machine and did many experiments with it."

"It seems that these equipment were transferred to the seabed later? After all, Professor Yang didn't even know that there was a seabed base."

"Yes, after they evacuated, we transferred all these precious instruments to the base for storage."

Ji Yao looked at the full name of the MSC-011 laboratory, nodded his fingers, and said, "Are you using those equipment to do unethical biological experiments? Its name is uncomfortable, 'hybrid new species', this What is the laboratory for?"

"... some scientific research tasks that must be done."

"Oh." Ji Yao nodded, no more words, raised his finger and pointed at the bottom of the submarine base, where the MSC-011 laboratory is located, "Look, Zhu Min, what you want is here, right under our feet The principle of proximity, it seems that we have to go down."

"If you go down, you won't be able to get back up." Zhu Min shrugged, turned to look at Dawn, only to find that Dawn was also looking at him, "I'm going to be trapped in a laboratory under the sea doing research. It's too bad. Dear Doctor Dawn."