This time, Wang Ping'an didn't act weird or mean. He just nodded calmly: "Yes, I shouldn't have made such remarks. I will review and confine myself."
Instructor: "You can tell the difference between right and wrong. Why can't you always tell the difference between right and wrong? Why do you have to...forget it, your friends are here, so I can't say you are too heavy-handed."
Just at this time, the "in operation" light went out, and then the door opened, and the director of the ship's medical department floated out while wiping his hands.
All the astronauts waiting outside fell silent, even the instructor who was about to continue lecturing Wang Pingan fell silent.
All eyes are on the director.
Director: "Don't worry. With current medical technology, as long as the brain is not dead, it can usually be brought back. It was brought back this time, but the heartbeat stopped for a long time, causing the brain to be a little hypoxic."
Wang Pingan asked anxiously: "What should we do? Can it be replaced with bionic nerves?"
The doctor shook his head: "Now we can replace all human body parts, except the brain.
"At present, he is not awake and cannot undergo standard psychological evaluation. We don't know what kind of impact his mind will have. However, we can say with certainty that his reaction speed, thinking speed and other physiological indicators will be affected to varying degrees.
Impact.
"Of course, these can all be recovered through restorative training, but he can no longer work on the front line of the Space Force for the time being. After recovery and evaluation by a higher-level committee, there is still the possibility of returning to the front line, but... it may take a long time
time.
"In principle, the Space Force will not let anyone stay on the front line for more than ten years. He has been on the front line for seven years, so he will probably be transferred to personnel, equipment or other departments."
Wang Pingan took a deep breath.
Several people held him down together, and the instructor silently moved to a position where he could stop him from jumping towards the doctor.
Wang Ping'an: "Thank you, comrade military doctor. When will he wake up?"
"That's not clear. We used a mechanical heart on him. Our ship doesn't have the ability to grow a new heart with extracted DNA. In order to suppress the body's resistance to the mechanical heart, we injected a considerable dose of Type A inhibitor.
"But this won't last long. The brain and nervous system cannot recognize the mechanical heart, and will cause hallucinations and confusion. If you just replace the hands and feet, it will only produce some phantom pain, but the heart is too important.
"The inhibitor itself will also affect his temperament and cause dependence. To cure this problem, a heart grown in a pig using his DNA must be transplanted.
"This will take a long time. Before that, he must take inhibitors regularly and receive psychological treatment. He will no longer be able to perform Space Force missions until the treatment is completed."
Wang Ping'an's expression was very gloomy, and he turned to the instructor: "I remember this situation..."
"You remember correctly, the Space Force will bear all the treatment and recovery costs. After all, he was injured because of his heroic rescue of his comrades. In addition, although this behavior is not worthy of a Silver Star, it is still enough to issue a Solidarity Medal, too
The Air Force will not abandon its meritorious personnel."
Many people showed expressions of relief. Only Wang Ping'an still had a gloomy face, but he didn't say anything else.
The second lieutenant who made the mistake looked very scared. He seemed to be really worried that Wang Ping'an would do something extraordinary. After all, Wang Ping'an's reputation was too loud.
The instructor clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention and then said: "Okay, the matter is over. Let's disperse. The nurses will take care of him."
The astronauts began to disperse in twos and threes, but Wang Pingan did not move. He said to the instructor: "Which confinement room am I in?"
The instructor looked at Wang Ping'an's hand: "You are also considered a wounded person, so you have to come for regular check-ups, right? This time you admit your mistake with a good attitude. Please write a review of 10,000 words."
Wang Ping'an: "Yes."
"Be sincere and analyze your own problems. Your partner has studied psychology and you can ask her to help you with self-diagnosis."
Angeli saluted energetically: "Yes."
**
Although the accident occurred, it took only 73 hours for the Brave to clear all the debris, and then resumed its journey to the Sun-Earth L2 Space Force Fortress.
Although it was four days late, the ceremony to leave the Earth's extreme high orbit was still held normally.
In the past, this ceremony would involve throwing an iron plate with the names of the members on the spacecraft, but recently there has been too much garbage in the Earth's orbit, so this tradition has been abandoned. Instead, augmented reality is used to put a virtual stone plate on the porthole to simulate its submersion.
The process of space.
By the way, people who die in space are now "cosmic buried" in this way. In fact, the corpse will be thrown into the jet stream of the tail nozzle, shattered instantly, and become the incremental velocity of the spacecraft, which is delta
.
The corpse of the deceased will physically become the driving force for the spacecraft to move forward. It can only be said that this is a strange romance that only scientists can have.
Another week passed after the ceremony, and Qin Qiong woke up.
The first thing he said when he woke up was: "Damn it, I really can't do anything like that."
This sentence was written into the voyage log by the director of the medical department.
On the third day after Qin Qiong woke up, the medical department believed that visits could be opened. Not long after the news spread, the ward was filled with visiting astronauts.
Of course Wang Ping'an and Angeli also went, and then Angeli complained harshly: "During the time you were injured, no one came to visit you at all."
Wang Ping'an scratched his cheeks with his hands that had returned to normal size, and said nonchalantly: "You don't want to disturb our world, mainly because you always fed me in those days. If you don't feed me, you will make me eat liquid food."
, there must be many girls coming to visit me.”
Angele frowned: "Why are you so disdainful?"
"Oh, are these the new adjectives you have learned? Not bad, your mastery of Chinese has improved to a higher level."
Angele sighed helplessly, and then suddenly changed the topic: "You are very happy today. You are more active than usual when you commit crimes, and your level of annoyingness has increased several times."
"Did I?"
"Absolutely, if you don't believe it, ask everyone."
Wang Ping'an: "Everyone's eyes are on me! Let me tell you something, Second Lieutenant Angele thinks I am three times more annoying today than before. What do you think?"
"Guan Gong": "We think so. Damn it, why are you a arrogant man? If you're just happy, you're done. Go in!"
After saying that, Guan Gong came over and dragged Wang Ping'an by the shoulders, dragged him to the front of the queue, and threw him into the ward.
Wang Ping'an grabbed the oncoming medical display screen, stopped his body, and then discovered that all the senior officers on the ship were there.
He vaguely heard the heroic laughter of "Guan Gong" outside, and everyone was laughing and looking very happy.
The captain, Colonel Gu Changhe, spoke: "Wang Pingan, are you in such a hurry?"
Wang Ping'an stood at attention and saluted: "He is my classmate at the Space Flight Academy and my mortal enemy. I am anxious to confirm whether he can still compete with me in the ring."
Gu Changhe smiled: "It seems that you don't care about others as much as the report said. Okay, what we have here is mainly red tape, leave it to the propaganda officer to handle it, let's go."
After saying that, Colonel Gu gently pushed the edge of Qin Qiong's bed and floated towards the door of the ward.
Other officers followed closely behind.
Wang Pingan maintained his saluting posture and watched them leave.
As soon as the leaders left, Qin Qiong was the first to speak: "Are you here to ask me how it feels to use a mechanical heart?"
Wang Ping'an: "You know me very well."
"That's not the case. Even if you were really concerned, you would still fucking start with this question. Or you would ask me if I would see the little dancing figure after taking the inhibitor."
Wang Ping'an: "So you can really see it, right?"
"I've never seen it, but to be honest, the hallucination of a mechanical heart is really uncomfortable. I don't know how to describe it to you. When we see a girl with a beating heart, her heart beats faster and she breathes faster, right?"
Wang Ping'an: "Yes, my palms will also become sweaty."
Qin Qiong immediately frowned: "Yes, you will throw your dance partner out, right? Do you still want to know what the mechanical heart feels like?"
"Think, tell me."
"In short, humans have many feelings, which are related to the 'heart', although we know that it is the brain that thinks and produces feelings. Now some psychoanalysts believe that this is related to hormone secretion, and a considerable part of the hormones are produced by the hypothalamus.
But it works in every part of the body.
"That's why people feel 'sad to the point of heartache' and 'nervous to the point of stomachache'. But I don't have a heart now. The hypothalamus will still secrete hormones, but the responding organ is missing, and it's still the most important one, so there will be
Many, many places feel different.
"As soon as I woke up, the ship opened a special communication channel for me to communicate with the ground. I talked to my wife and two-year-old daughter. I... felt horribly indifferent, as if I had lost my feelings."
Wang Ping'an was speechless: "My partner - Angeli studied psychology..."
"Come on, after the call, I reported the situation to our team's instructor, and he came to do the work for me personally. He has a master's degree in clinical psychology."
Wang Ping'an: "This is not certain. The instructor cannot cure me, but I always feel that Angeli can cure me."
"Your 'treatment' means treatment, right? Damn it, how could I even think of saying these things to you? It must be the mechanical heart that's driving me crazy." Qin Qiong covered her face with her hands.
Wang Ping'an made a serious face: "Sorry, I thought this would make you relax a little."
"Yes, when I see you, you are still the same as before. I have regained some of my past feelings, which is that you are really annoying. Thank God the mechanical heart has not changed this."
Qin Qiong calmed down her breathing, and then said seriously to Wang Ping'an: "I am planning to leave the front line and switch to administrative work."
Wang Ping'an was a little surprised: "You... don't fly anymore?"
"It may be difficult for you to understand... No, you certainly can't understand it. But the administrative work can be left on the ground. I want to spend more time with my wife and daughter."
Wang Ping'an: "What about the dream? In the first year of entering the flight academy, we were together on the mountain behind the academy, watching..."
Qin Qiong interrupted him: "Even if I complete my recovery, I won't be able to return to the front line. It's better to accept the reality. Of course, it may be because this mechanical heart has cooled down my dreams.
"But you are different. I sincerely hope that you can join the Centaur Project. I hope that my grandson and great-grandson can one day live in the interstellar federation established by mankind.
"So if I have a son, I will call him Qin Keke and Qin Siback..."
Wang Ping'an: "Then he has to take care of his mushroom head."
"Why the hell do you always interrupt at times like this!"
"But it would be very miserable for a child to have to grow his hair all his life, unless he wants to carry a guitar and pretend to be a rock n' roll in front of the bar."
"That's enough! You bastard, I have long seen that you will use this method to avoid serious things, especially those things that will touch your heartstrings. Others don't understand, but I understand, because I
He is your mortal enemy!"
Wang Pingan stopped and looked at Qin Qiong with a straight face.
The two were in a stalemate for a while, and Wang Pingan asked: "Can I speak?"
"Say it."
"You may have had a steel heart so you don't remember it. Just before you were injured, you said that you originally thought I was playing tricks when talking about Xiao Fang for self-protection, but later you found out that I was really heartless.
This contradicts what you just said."
"You're so proud, aren't you? Shut up! Listen to me! I have... lost my enthusiasm, but you still have it. You can still stay on the front line for three years. The first line is the easiest place to get gold stars.
Yes, after leaving the front line, not only is it difficult to get medals, but promotion will also be slower, unless you can be promoted to a command position and command the Torch Cruiser. Do you understand?
"I sincerely hope that you can join the Centaur Project and continue the dream...to continue the dream of all of us. I still remember that night, we were on the mountain behind the college, looking at the vast starry sky, singing one song after another
to sing songs that excite us.
"The glorious guide, the green grass beside the house, the motherland will never forget... Many of us have changed over the years, because space is too boring, boring and dangerous. Now when we raise a glass, it is all the sound of broken dreams. Only
You, only you are still chasing the original dream, our dream.
"I hope your dream comes true. As long as you do it and go to Centauri, we can fucking brag to people for the rest of our lives that we have a buddy who is flying to Centauri now. When he comes back
On that day, I can see my 80th generation descendants!
"As a representative of the old era, he can also ask people of the new era: Hey, you have realized the ultimate dream of mankind, right? Are you still singing 'Listen to the noise of the wind and snow, watch the shooting stars fly'..."
"My heart is calling me to go to the turbulent distance."
"Don't sing, listen to me!"
Wang Ping'an: "Of course what you said is wonderful, but it is also possible that when I come back, the earth will be dark, and everyone will be in despair, thinking that mankind has finally perished."
Qin Qiong: "Then lights started to appear on the fucking ground, and the lights formed the words "Welcome back, right?"
"Don't you still remember your damn dream? You borrowed my hard drive to read it, and the instructor took it back!"
"Stop worrying about these trivial things! In short, I will name my son Qin Keke and my grandson Qin Slope. Can you go and create the Galactic Federation for me! Does the Galactic Federation understand?
"Or do you think this can't be done? That's right, with your ass personality, you can only join the Centaur Project if you get Venus."
"I won't be happy to hear what you say. It's just Venus, I'll show it to you!"
After Wang Pingan said this, he realized that he had been tricked, such a simple trick.
Qin Qiong was delighted: "I didn't expect that you could also eat Jijiangfa. Based on what I know about you, you would never eat this. It seems that not only I have been changed by the mechanical heart, but some people have also changed in the past five weeks.
ah."
Wang Ping'an cursed "You fart", then stood up and said: "Come on, seeing that you are so energetic, I feel relieved, there are others waiting. See you later."
Qin Qiong laughed.
Floating to the door, Wang Ping'an held the door frame with his hands, turned around and said to Qin Qiong: "By the way, I don't think your enthusiasm has faded at all. When you just talked about the future, you had a lion in your eyes!"
"Fuck, don't bury me with the poem I wrote for Sun Lili!"
"Hahaha, even though I'm burying you, I'm serious. If a person stops dreaming, he's sick."
After saying that, Wang Ping'an turned around with satisfaction and opened the door. The strange thing was that the door didn't seem to be closed tightly and opened as soon as he pulled it.
He left the room and found everyone looking at him.
Wang Ping'an: "What's wrong with you?"
Angele: "I don't know if the instructor did it on purpose. He didn't close the cabin door completely. We all heard you yelling inside. Ah, someone blushed."
“It’s refreshing!”
"I know this well, but why did it get so bad later?" Angele said excitedly.