Earth Era

An Liya, Cruise, and Zhou Xiaoming have all expressed their opinions. Now, only Zhao Lan remains silent. So the three people looked at Zhao Lan together.

Zhao Lan woke up from his meditation and smiled softly at the three of them: "In that case, what else is there to say? Let's start accelerating. We can use a spaceship as our coffin and a large-yield hydrogen bomb. The explosion serves as the fireworks at our funeral, and the infinite sea of ​​stars serves as our graveyard after death. What else can we find fault with?"

The atmosphere in the maintenance cabin immediately became relaxed. An Liya and the three of them looked at each other and smiled. Zhou Xiaoming took the lead in extending his hand, followed closely by Cruise, An Liya was third, and Zhao Lan also extended his hand without any hesitation. So the four palms were tightly held together.

"With your company, I won't be lonely on this road to Huangquan." Zhou Xiaoming sighed. An Liya said with a smile: "Not only is it not lonely, if there really is a netherworld, the name of our adventurer team will definitely be spread in the netherworld."

"Count me in." Zhao Lan also said with a smile, "If I have a chance, I would like to ask your boss for instructions and see if your adventurer team is willing to accept new members."

"The three of us can decide this." Cruise said extremely seriously, "We have decided to accept you as the fifth member of our adventurer team. As for the boss... I am sure that the boss will be very happy. Your participation.”

"Zhao Lan, welcome to join us." Zhou Xiaoming and An Liya said in unison.

"Well, from now on, we are teammates." Zhao Lan said, "Unfortunately, there is no wine here, so we can't celebrate."

Zhao Lan is a good girl in the usual sense. She has never drank wine since she was born, and she doesn't know what wine tastes like. But now for some unknown reason, Zhao Lan suddenly felt a strong desire in his heart. He wanted to get a glass of wine and take a deep sip. Feel the legendary sensation of a knife across your throat.

"Who said there's no wine?" Cruise said mysteriously, then groped around in his arms with his hands. When the hand came out, there was a flat steel wine bottle in it. Cruise put the wine bottle to his ear and shook it, then said: "There is more than half left, enough to drink."

An Liya immediately raised her eyebrows: "Bald! You guy, how many times have I told you that you are not allowed to bring alcohol when performing missions! Tell me! How much did you secretly drink during this mission?!"

Cruise looked a little embarrassed, and the top of his head seemed to have turned red: "Just drank a little... just a little. You know. If you don't have wine when you are working, you will always lose your energy."

"There's so much nonsense." Zhou Xiaoming said, snatching the jug from Cruise's hand, unscrewing the lid, raising his head, taking a big sip, then wiping his mouth and shouting: "Cool!"

"Leave some for me!" Cruise shouted, and then snatched the wine bottle away. He also took a big sip. Before the wine bottle was put down, An Liya snatched it into her hand and took a big drink. Then he said: "Come on, I'll break the rules again today."

After An Liya finished drinking. He handed the wine bottle to Zhao Lan very naturally. Zhao Lan took it without hesitation, then raised his head and poured the remaining half of the wine bottle into his mouth. Then Zhao Lan felt as if there was a flame running from his mouth to his stomach, and it seemed that his whole body began to burn.

Then Zhao Lan started coughing violently. While coughing, he shouted in an unladylike manner: "Good wine, really good wine. It turns out that wine tastes so good."

Seeing Zhao Lan's appearance, An Liya and the other three laughed together, and Zhao Lan patted his chest. He also started laughing.

After a while, the laughter stopped, and it was still the same four people. But the feeling for Zhao Lan was completely different. Zhao Lan lost his parents when he was a child. Since then, he has been living alone without many friends. He has long been accustomed to the feeling of loneliness, but now Zhao Lan feels very warm in his heart. For the first time, Zhao Lan felt that he was not alone.

"Okay, let's start working. Before the pursuers catch up, let's get to that space node quickly..."

In the vast universe, with the huge blue planet as the background, the tail of this small spacecraft sprayed bright blue flames and began to move towards the infinite sea of ​​stars in front of it.

That space node is two million kilometers away from the earth. Of course, this distance is a straight line distance, and it is obviously impossible for the spacecraft to travel in a straight line when sailing. Zhao Lan had already calculated the waterway in advance, and the final conclusion was that the spacecraft needed to sail a distance of 2.3 million kilometers to reach that space node. And with the power system of this spacecraft, it will take at least another three hours of sailing to arrive.

The maximum speed of the current combat spacecraft of the human government military is about 200 kilometers per second. Counting the time required for acceleration and deceleration, it will take at least four hours for it to catch up with this hydrogen bomb spacecraft. This means that, in theory, those pursuers will not affect the hydrogen bomb spacecraft. The only thing that needs to be considered is that the spacecraft originally near the space node receives an interception order to intercept itself. However, although human civilization has entered the interstellar era, the total number of spacecraft is still very small. It is basically impossible for a combat spacecraft with interception capabilities to exist there.

But the speed of radio signals is the speed of light. So, when the hydrogen bomb spacecraft began to accelerate under Zhao Lan's command, the signal receiving equipment received information from the military. The wording in the message was harsh and the attitude was tough.

"Zhao Lan! An Liya! Cruise! Zhou Xiaoming! You four, listen! The spaceship chasing you has set off. It only takes a few hours to catch up with you. There is no possibility of you escaping! Stop this nonsense immediately. If you resist and attempt to escape, surrender immediately. We promise that the court will judge your crimes fairly and justly!"

"If you try to resist, we will take coercive measures and may even directly use ship-based weapons to destroy your spaceship! Give up resistance, give up resistance, surrender immediately, surrender immediately!"

Zhao Lan glanced at the communication device that was constantly sending out words, shrugged, and reached out to turn it off, so the maintenance cabin became quiet again.

"Don't worry, they will never attack this spaceship unless absolutely necessary. I have dealt with them many times and I know their behavior very well," Zhao Lan said.

"Are you saying they are just sitting around with nothing to do... They know we won't surrender, but they still waste their time, and they don't mind wasting their saliva." An Liya snorted coldly.

"Who knows? Maybe it's habit." Zhou Xiaoming interjected.

All navigation parameters have been set, the spacecraft has entered the automatic navigation mode, and everyone is idle. So except for the navigation information that Zhou Xiaoming would report every once in a while, the maintenance cabin became quiet again.

It would be okay if you were busy all the time, at least you wouldn't have time to think about other things, but it would be different once you are free. Perhaps because of the influence of the big gulp of wine just now, Zhao Lan felt that his thoughts were very confused at the moment.

Zhao Lan has no doubt about the firmness of his heart, but... dying with this spaceship and being destroyed together in this sea of ​​stars is just a last resort choice. If you can live, who would want to die?

But...even if you don’t want to die, what can you do?

Zhao Lan came to the porthole and began to stare at the dark galaxy outside the porthole in a daze. At this moment, Zhao Lan remembered many things, including the warm scenes of being with his parents when he was a child, the scene of being bullied in school and crying alone in a corner, the high spirits of getting his ideal job after graduation. There are times when you are unjustly accused or molested by scum...

These many pictures kept flashing in Zhao Lan's mind. Only now did Zhao Lan realize that there seemed to be many things that he had not experienced in this life, and he had not even been in love.

Zhao Lan wanted to make a list of these things and take stock of what he had not experienced one by one, but after only trying for a while, Zhao Lan gave up the idea. Because there are so many things that he has never experienced, Zhao Lan has no way of counting them clearly.

Zhao Lan suddenly remembered something that seemed a little irrelevant, that is... the beautiful dress that he liked a long time ago had not yet been bought. At first, I had thought about buying it when I got my salary and had some spare money. Like most women, I had imagined how beautiful I would look in that dress, but then a series of things happened. Things that caused me to fail to own it in the end. Originally, this matter had been forgotten by Zhao Lan, but now it appeared in his mind again for some reason.

"What a pity...I will never have the chance to wear it in my life." Zhao Lan sighed silently in his heart.

"There is still an hour left before arriving at the scheduled location." At this moment, Zhou Xiaoming's voice came over, interrupting Zhao Lan's thoughts, "According to the current speed, the pursuers will sail in an hour and a half. To this space node. Well, they can't catch up with us. By the time they arrive, our spaceship will have already exploded."

"Is there a time difference of half an hour..." Zhao Lan thought silently. Suddenly, a thought flashed in Zhao Lan's mind. Zhao Lan turned around immediately. Zhao Lan's face turned red because he was so excited.

"Maybe... we don't have to die. I think I have a way..." (To be continued ~^~)