After everyone left, Wang Ping'an and Angeli were left looking at each other.
Wang Pingan blinked, raised his big hand, and rubbed his cheek.
Angele: "Don't make me laugh, you're talking about something!"
Wang Ping'an: "I have to work hard, what if I get fooled?"
Angeli crossed her arms and stared at Wang Pingan with her lips pursed, her glasses reflecting the light from the construction machinery deck.
Wang Ping'an shrugged and spread his hands: "Well, actually, I had a partner before, and she died. It's over."
"This is too simple!"
"Oh, it's probably enough if you know it. I'll tell you the name of my partner again. Her name is Fang Manmei, okay? If you have this name, you can just check the files. It's all public."
After saying that, Wang Pingan was about to run away, but Angeli grabbed his shoulder. The girl climbed on the shelf next to her and kicked him, using the kinetic energy gained to push Wang Pingan up to the ceiling: "Don't try to fool him."
Wang Ping'an looked at the girl's clenched fist. Because the girl was still wearing a spacesuit, the fist looked particularly big - after all, the gloves of the spacesuit were very thick and had a radiation-proof interlayer and an insulation layer.
Wang Ping'an: "Okay, I surrender, and I'll tell you the name of her soul!"
"The name of the soul?" It was Angeli's turn to be confused, "What the hell?"
"It's the name of the inner superego, that's how she explained it. Listen up, the name of her soul is Strafen Kay! Isn't it shocking?"
Angele maintained her one-handed wall-dong Wang Ping An posture: "Are you fooling me?"
As soon as they finished speaking, the engineer who had been looking at them shouted: "Hey, it's time to take off the spacesuit. We are waiting to recover the spacesuit for maintenance!"
Angele sighed: "I'll continue to settle the score with you later. We'll meet at the officers' club later, don't even think about running away!"
**
After taking off her spacesuit and taking a shower, Angeli put on a military uniform that had been cleaned by an automatic dry cleaning machine.
The image of her in the full-length mirror changed from the embarrassed heavy manual worker just now to a beautiful second lieutenant officer.
Her hair, which is very wavy due to being braided for a long time, is hanging behind her shoulders. A computer-controlled robot is tying the braids into braids.
Angele put on her glasses and waited for the robot to finish weaving the braid before handing the blue bow to the robot.
The regulations of the Space Force are very strange. Flat glasses and the like are considered decorations and are not allowed to be worn, but bows on braids are fine as long as they do not exceed the prescribed size.
Male soldiers of the Space Force, both soldiers and officers, must have short hair and have their hair cut into a straight hairstyle before going on combat missions. It is said that this is to facilitate rescue operations.
However, female soldiers in the Space Force can have long hair, but it is not allowed to exceed the prescribed length, nor is it allowed to be loose, and must be tied into braids.
Dreadlocks are also not allowed.
Angeli felt that the military regulations of the Space Force still took care of women to some extent, unlike the armed mercenaries controlled by Western capital, which equated women with men and bathed in public bathhouses.
However, the Space Force does not allow the use of perfume because the volatile mixture may affect the equipment on the ship - the doctrine says so.
Angele has always liked to wear citrus-flavored perfume, because her name evolved from the French citrus, which is a relatively rare name.
So Angele grabbed the perfume bottle out of habit, and then she remembered that it had been stored as a personal item in the dedicated storage center at the launch site.
After her three-year service is over, she can collect these deposited items when she returns to the ground.
Or if she encounters an accident in space and dies without a complete body - space accidents usually result in death without a complete body - then these deposits will be sent to Angele's parents together with a blue death notice.
Angele closed the door of the locker, took her tablet, opened the door and left the bathroom.
He glanced at the men's locker room and didn't see Wang Ping'an coming out.
Men change clothes faster, so Wang Ping'an should go to the officers' club and wait first - Angele thought, gently pushing the wall and floating along the passage.
Several technical sergeants she met on the road saluted her with serious faces, while the military police standing guard at the duty station at the corner stopped her: "Wait a minute, you are not allowed to wear plain glasses!"
Angele sighed, grabbed the handle on the wall, stopped, and explained to the gendarme that she was a natural person and short-sighted.
After struggling for a long time, she finally arrived at the officers' club.
A group of unfamiliar officers gathered in front of the space pinball table in the club, discussing something animatedly.
Angele didn't care about this and focused on looking for Wang Ping'an.
Then she heard the group of officers discussing: "How was this maneuver accomplished?"
"It's unbelievable. I heard that the guy took off the gloves and helmet of his space suit in order to complete these operations. It was said that it would affect his judgment and reaction."
Angele looked over in surprise, and she saw a holographic player surrounded by a group of officers. The player projected a piece of wreckage, and then a light spot shuttled through the wreckage.
Angele couldn't help but said: "What is that?"
The officers looked over together.
"Hey, Silver Hair, is this guy's partner?"
"I also have glasses, I guess. Damn, she's even more beautiful than the legend says. I'm so envious!"
Angele: "That guy?"
A captain replied: "Ah, we are discussing Lieutenant Wang Ping'an's rescue operation. This was restored by the engineering department based on the data recovered from the wreckage of the aircraft's computer. Now everyone is discussing this stuff."
Angele: "Oh...can I take a look?"
"Please!" Several astronauts stepped out of the way and stood upright next to the space pinball table, as if waiting for review.
Angele floated over, stopped by the edge of the pinball table, and picked up the projector.
Because the spacecraft is not accelerating now, the floating things will not slowly fall back to the ground. Angele just floats in the air and starts watching.
The light spot representing iron barrel No. 1 is like a fairy walking through the dense debris.
Angele always felt that what she was watching was not the reproduction of the flight path, but the dance of the fairies during the phone call.
At this time, the captain who just spoke said: "Like the dance of elves, I feel like I am in a fantasy world."
Angele shook her head: "If you were in that body, you wouldn't feel this way. I almost collapsed from vomiting. I don't know how he kept himself from vomiting."
"Maybe this is the power of will." the captain replied.
Angele suddenly remembered what she was here for, and asked quickly: "Have you seen Lieutenant Wang?"
Several astronauts shook their heads like rattles.
Angele bit her lip angrily: "I knew he ran away!"
"Don't say that." Wang Ping'an floated in with his own voice, "You have to worry about how fast an injured person like me takes a shower. I can no longer do fine movements with my hands. I should have let you, my partner, do it just now.
Help me wash it!"
The astronauts at the space billiard table cheered together: "Oh oh oh oh!"
This is a club where the most serious people can turn into age-appropriate boys.
Angele: "We have something important to talk about. Can you give us some private time?"
Captain: "Of course, we can still guard the door outside, brothers."
All the unfamiliar astronauts left, leaving only Angeli and Wang Ping'an in the club.
Wang Ping'an: "Computer, play some songs suitable for talking about things."
The next moment, the loudspeaker began to play the sound of running water from the faucet turned on to the maximum: rushing...
It is said that people on the ground in the pre-aerospace era would turn on taps to make noise in order to prevent their conversations from being overheard.
Wang Ping'an cursed and shouted: "Computer, turn off the humor module. Understand my orders again."
The next moment, the soothing piano sound came from the loudspeaker.
Angele: "Moonlight Sonata, not bad, tell me."
"Where did I say it?" Wang Ping'an asked.
Angele: "Speaking of the name of the soul, Stephen Kay."
"Oh, yes, that's it. She came up with this one afternoon, and then she came over excitedly and asked me if it was cool..."
Angele floated next to the pinball table, listening quietly.
Wang Ping'an stopped himself: "Why don't you insist on hearing the key points?"
"I studied psychology and I know the importance of listening."
Wang Ping'an was speechless: "I hate psychologists. Every time I face them, I feel like they are looking into my heart."
"That's because psychologists' clinics are deliberately designed to feel this way. This is the combined effect of various factors, giving you an illusion. They will first study your past experiences and what you like.
"If you like occultism, there will be some occult items in the room, such as a smoking incense burner or something, which actually releases biological hormones that have a calming effect."
Angeli said.
Wang Ping'an said in astonishment: "Is that so? How cunning!"
"Now there are computers to help analyze, robots to help quickly switch scenery, or simply use holographic projection to create scenery, which is very fast."
Wang Pingan shrugged.
"Okay, I surrender. Actually, if you think about it carefully, there's nothing bad to say. It's just that the people around me thought that this was my problem, and then carefully walked around the minefield without touching mines. It's not necessary.
"Fang Manmei is my classmate at the Space Flight Academy. He is a very energetic little man, just the opposite of you."
Angele: "What's the opposite? Personality?"
"Everything. You are tall and have a good figure, and she is a little girl with no flesh. You can fit three of her in your chest!"
Angele subconsciously raised her hand.
"She has a unique skill, which is to slide her hands forward in a weightless space with air, just like this."
Wang Ping'an rotated his hands in opposite directions and used the windmill. This action made his body rotate.
"What's strange about her is that she can keep herself from spinning and still move forward."
Angele's mouth opened slightly: "I've seen the clowns in the space acrobatic troupe move like this..."
"Really? That suits her quite well. Our acrobatic troupe doesn't have such funny clowns, and we think it demeans their personality. Fang Manmei and I were best friends at school, and we always played together whenever we had private time.
kind.
"After graduation, she and I teamed up and flew to Mars once. The journey took 28 weeks and the return journey took 31 weeks. Then on the return trip, we encountered a shipwreck.
"The Space Regulatory Commission thought there were no survivors, but as a general rule, let's stop by to make sure. We had 500 tons of extra water at the time, and the deceleration was almost complete, and we had enough delta to go and see what was going on.
"
Delta is a slang term for incremental speed, which is common in space. For those who are not familiar with aerospace, it can be roughly understood as "range".
"We went there. As a result, we found that there were still people surviving on the wrecked ship. We don't know what methods they used to survive in the wreckage for five weeks, until we arrived.
"We immediately prepared for rescue, but the accident ship had disintegrated due to solar wind and meteorites, and there were many fragments. But generally speaking, it was not as dangerous as this time, because the ship disintegrated naturally and did not explode.
"At that time, we did not have a motorized cabin for outside work. After all, we were just a cargo ship. We only had small maintenance machinery, the kind that could only crawl on the surface of the ship's hull.
"But Xiaofang and I are both confident and fearless. We used the maintenance machinery to build a simple rescue boat."
Angele: "Xiao Fang?"
"Oh, it's her nickname." Wang Ping'an suddenly sang, "There is a girl in the village named Xiaofang. She is good-looking and kind. She has a pair of beautiful big eyes and thick and long braids~"
Angele did not interrupt.
After singing, Wang Ping'an touched his face in embarrassment: "Well, I often tease her with this song. When I sing the chorus 'Thank you for the love you gave me,' she will cover her ears and shout, 'It's disgusting, stop now.'"
Sing it'."
A smile appeared on Angele's lips, her dimples were faint.
Wang Ping'an: "Xiao Fang and I gathered a rescue boat and rushed to the rescue with great interest. I was at the helm, and she was responsible for operating the mechanical arm to deflect small debris.
"It went smoothly at first, but because I was wearing a space suit and my senses were slow, I didn't notice a piece of debris in time, and the accident happened."
"Wait a minute," Angele finally interrupted Wang Ping'an, "Is this the conclusion of the accident investigation report? Are you wearing a spacesuit causing slowness?"
Wang Ping'an: "Of course not. I wrote this in the report, but it was not accepted. Not only that, the Space Management Committee told us that there was actually a Torch Cruiser undergoing L2 maintenance at the time. The crew had just taken a vacation and had not returned to the ground yet. They could
Set sail immediately.
"The actions we took were meaningless and blind. In short, we hit the debris, and Xiaofang shattered instantly. The relative speed at that time was several times the speed of sound, so we definitely couldn't feel anything.
"I was also thrown out of space, but miraculously my spacesuit was not damaged at all. When I was about to run out of oxygen, the rescuers on the crashed spacecraft found me through a brave spacewalk and dragged me back inside the spacecraft.
Their little refuge.
"At this time, because the computer of the spacecraft we were flying could not detect any moving objects on the spacecraft for a long time, it judged an accident and reported it to the management committee. Then the Torch Cruiser I just mentioned came.
"The two people on board the shipwrecked were awarded the Gold Star for their tenacious survival actions and their bold rescue of me."
Angele muttered: "The Medal of Praise for Humanity..."
The Medal of Gold Star is just a common name, the full name is the Medal of Hymn to Humanity.
Wang Ping'an was silent for a long time, and then said quietly: "Xiao Fang has always wanted Venus because of his handsome name. The Medal of Hymn to Humanity, she always likes to shout, the hymn of humanity is the hymn of courage!"
"She is not an official fan and doesn't care about the potential value of the Gold Star Medal at all. She just likes the name. When we were building the rescue boat, she said happily, 'Now we will definitely have a Gold Star Medal.'
"But in the end, not to mention the medal, she didn't even receive the two-level upgrade that would normally come with a heroic death, because she was judged to have caused her own death through recklessness and negligence.
"I fought against this for a long time, and now I write to the pension committee every month. I said that her intentions were good and she should be rewarded. But all the letters were rejected."
Wang Ping'an sighed: "Obviously it was me who was at fault, but in the end I survived and she died. Sometimes when I watch those ancient Gundam animations, I think it would be nice to have telepathy, so maybe I can see the little ones.
That's fine, I want to ask her if she forgives me."
Angele suddenly noticed tears rolling down her cheeks.
Wang Ping'an took out a handkerchief and threw it to her: "Why are you crying? Look at me, I'm not even crying!"
Angele: "You...I think you should cry."
"Ah, really? Then lend me your breasts. I think it might be nice to lie on them and cry." Wang Ping'an changed his tune.
"I can't understand. You were obviously very sad when you stated it..."
"Of course you are a girl, so you can't understand it. My father participated in that war, that's the one. Many of his good friends died in the war. Every year during Qingming Festival, my father would bring a dozen Erguotou with him.
I smoked in the woods next to the Martyrs Cemetery. While smoking, I opened bottles of wine and slowly sprinkled them on the soil of the pine forest.
"My dad never cried, he just smoked and poured bottles of wine.
"My biological mother died when I was four years old, so after coming out of the Martyrs Cemetery, he would go straight to an ordinary cemetery, take out my mother's urn, wipe it carefully, and then place it under the pine trees in the cemetery.
Basking in the sun, I squatted in front of the urn and smoked.
"My father is a smoker, and he smokes particularly hard on Tomb Sweeping Day. He can smoke two packs of Daqianmen.
"But I have never seen him cry. His tear ducts seem to have become necrotic. Although I have adjusted them, the blade before the adjustment still has my father's genes. My tear ducts may have become necrotic as well."
Wang Pingan spoke calmly, like an iron man without blood or tears, with no change in his expression.
As a result, Angelie cried even harder.
Then the heartless Wang Ping'an continued to complain: "Oh my god, the pear blossoms are raining with rain. Are you planning to cry on my behalf too? Then I'm so grateful to you!"
Angele grabbed the long pole on the pinball table that was used to fiddle with stuck pinballs, and threw it at him like a gun, but he dodged it with a tilt of his head.
Wang Ping'an: "Be careful. These are public properties. If they are damaged, you will be punished."
Angele gritted her teeth and squeezed out a few words: "If I can't make amends, it will be over!"
Then she began to wipe her tears, took a deep breath after wiping them away, and finally calmed down, then asked: "So, you are like this just because of your girlfriend's death?"
Wang Ping'an: "What are you talking about? I don't like what you say. This is tarnishing our friendship. This situation is very common in the Space Force. In space, we are partners who cooperate with each other tacitly. When we get to the ground, we have our own families.
I also helped Xiao Fang consult with her father about choosing a blind date for her."
Angele:?
Wang Ping'an: "You're so surprised. I said you were a computer-matched wife, so I was trying to coax my dad. Remember the mother and son we met on the bus to the launch site? No, I stopped you from helping to check her husband's partner.
, just to prevent this situation.
"Space is not a romantic place. We are comrades facing a cruel environment together. Don't tarnish this sacred relationship."