At the gendarmerie management station near Yayuan Restaurant, the gendarmerie leader who arrested Wang Ping'an and his party walked slowly around the three of them.
"Okay, suddenly I won't cause trouble anymore, and I will become a volunteer instead?" the leader said angrily.
Wang Ping'an said with a smile: "We should treat each other with admiration after three days apart. People change. Now I am completely transformed. I even got a Silver Star, which will be given to me tomorrow."
"Computer, is this a problem?"
Computer: "Lieutenant Wang's comprehensive diagnosis report has not been updated, so his so-called rebirth cannot be confirmed."
"I'm asking about the Silver Star. Did he get the Silver Star? You have a wooden head."
Wang Ping'an: "I have a silicon brain."
"you shut up!"
At this time, the computer spoke: "Confirmed. Lieutenant Wang's Silver Star Medal has been approved and should be awarded tomorrow. Also approved is Second Lieutenant Angele de Lyon's Silver Star Medal."
The head of the military police looked surprised: "Oh, this is really happening. Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Wang Ping'an smiled and said: "That's right, my psychological diagnosis was red, so the super computer gave me a prescription. Look, this is my antidote!"
Wang Ping'an made a "please look here" gesture with both hands and pointed at Angeli.
The gendarme looked at Angele again: "I don't believe it. If a woman could change you, you should have changed long ago."
"Computers use big data to perform matching, and there is a lot of psychological research as the basis behind it. You should believe in science."
Angel opened her mouth to speak, but Lu Yingying grabbed the opportunity and said: "This does not mean that they have become a couple! There is no such thing! The computer only made them partner with each other, not a couple!"
The military policeman looked at Lu Yingying: "You haven't been fooled by him enough. What's so charming about this guy? Isn't he just able to play the guitar?"
This is also one of the mainstream views of Wang Pingan in the army. Some men can feel the idealistic atmosphere in Wang Pingan, while others cannot feel it at all. The former is generally concentrated among astronauts, while the latter is widely distributed among Military police, personnel agencies and other departments.
This military police captain was obviously the type of person who completely regarded Wang Ping'an as a human being.
Lu Yingying was immediately unconvinced and wanted to refute, but her stomach roared with anger.
She immediately blushed: "It...it's dinner time after all! You can't blame me!"
Military Police: "Well, you did act bravely this time. Your dictation has been recorded. Just sign it electronically."
After speaking, a military police sergeant came forward with a hair collection machine. Now everyone's DNA is a signature, and one hair will be collected every time they sign.
Of course, beards are also allowed, but soldiers are required to shave according to regulations, otherwise they will be caught and points will be deducted.
Wang Ping'an and his party left their hair, and the military police captain said, "Okay, see you later."
After leaving the Military Police Management Station, Wang Ping'an looked at the time on his phone and said, "It's too late to go back to that restaurant to eat Cantonese food, and we'll miss the concert. Let's eat in Shaxian on the roadside."
Lu Yingying immediately frowned: "Shaxian... Eating too much food from Shaxian is bad for your throat."
"You can eat something light. What do you think, Angele?"
Angele spread her hands: "These are all things I have never eaten before. A few days ago I was drinking bouillabaisse and eating Provence stew."
"Okay, let's try it out." Wang Ping'an said, pushing Angeli's back with one hand, and pulling the reluctant Lu Yingying with the other, towards the Shaxian snack bar with the sign "A Hymn of Loyalty" hanging on the roadside.
After taking two steps, a voice stopped the three of them.
"Wang Pingan, and... uh, what are the names of the two girls?"
Wang Pingan turned around and found that it was Dr. Chen who he had saved. He did not speak. Angele saluted first: "I am Second Lieutenant Angele de Leon, comrade doctor."
"Lu Yingying, the art soldier of the cultural team." Lu Yingying glanced at Angeli and added, "Comrade doctor."
"Hello, I am Major Chen Yuanyuan from the Mental Health Department, but I don't salute because I am not wearing a military uniform. You have done me a big favor and allowed me to end a hopeless relationship. I should treat you to a meal."
Lu Yingying immediately became alert and arched her back and raised her tail towards the cat who felt threatened.
Angeli was very generous: "Of course, I think it would be fine if we go to Shaxian County."
Doctor Chen was stunned: "Going to...Shaxian County? Uh..."
Wang Ping'an acted as the commentator: "Angeli, if you usually treat guests to high-end food in order to thank others, inviting people to Shaxian will make people suspect that you are insulting others and saying, 'Your kindness is worth a meal in Shaxian.'"
Angele: "Ah? But I see that the store sign says 'A Hymn of Loyalty'. It seems to be quite high-end."
"This is a slogan that has been passed down in Shaxian County since ancient times. It is the same as the Golden Arches' 'I just like it'."
Angele said "Oh" and then said to Dr. Chen: "But we have to watch a concert tonight. We are looking forward to this very much. We probably won't be able to do it tonight."
Lu Yingying: "Yes, yes, we can't do it tonight!"
Dr. Chen: "That's it. Let's go to Shaxian County for a meal together. I'll find time to thank you tomorrow. I heard that you are going to receive the Silver Star Medal tomorrow? It's just a celebration."
Lu Yingying had a sad face. When Dr. Chen saw this, she immediately said: "I'm inviting you three, so you can come too."
Lu Yingying's expression immediately relaxed: "Then...then there is nothing we can do..."
She looked at Wang Pingan.
Wang Ping'an: "Then it's better to obey orders than to be respectful. Let's go to Shaxian County tonight."
**
After eating in Shaxian County, Wang Ping'an and his party parted ways with Dr. Chen and rushed to the soldiers' home by car.
On the way, Lu Yingying muttered to herself: "That Dr. Chen must have set his sights on disaster. It's disgusting for an old cow to eat young grass."
Wang Ping'an: "Don't be like this, I don't attract bees and butterflies like this."
Angele: "Research shows that if the girls around a boy are of high quality, it will affect other girls' impressions of the boy."
Wang Ping'an: "Isn't this the research result you just made up?"
Lu Yingying immediately said: "Huh, what do you say about my sister? Don't think that everyone is just like you."
"But, she is the partner assigned to me by the supercomputer. Maybe we will have some commonalities in these aspects."
Angele: "Do you want me to find the papers in The Lancet for you?"
"Uh, no, no need. I trust you. After all, you are my partner!" Wang Pingan patted his chest, "You must have unwavering trust in your partner."
Angeli smiled, but Lu Yingying decided to stick to the trouble: "Then what if you are full of lies? I don't believe you can't fool Angeli at all!"
Wang Ping'an: "I will definitely not lie about important content, and other content will be handled as appropriate."
Lu Yingying: "You actually admitted directly that you have flexible standards. Forget it, let's not talk about it. Today is the first time I have seen a person with a psychological breakdown. You won't be like this, right?"
"Maybe," Wang Ping'an sneered, "So don't get too close to me. Maybe one day I will shout, 'There are obviously roses,' and strangle you by the neck!"
Lu Yingying snorted, and then asked curiously: "Is it really so scary to run a long voyage?"
"How should I put it, I am relatively slow." Wang Ping'an looked at the road ahead. At this time, the holographic projection of the space station had switched to night scene mode, and the colorful neon lights outside looked like a metropolis on the ground.
Looking at such a scene, he continued: "On the long-distance spaceship, I spent most of my time watching old movies and novels, and playing games. I didn't feel particularly lonely. But people are different.
, some people will gradually become irritable even if they walk around on the spacecraft every day."
Angeli said: "Everyone is different. Among private companies and mercenaries, there are also people who have been flying in space for twenty years without returning to the ground but have no psychological problems."
Wang Ping'an seemed to suddenly recall something: "By the way, on the way back to Mars for the first time, there was a shipwreck."
"Wrong ship?" Lu Yingying asked curiously, "What the hell?"
Wang Ping'an: "Different spacecraft have different propulsion power, so the orbits are also very different. Even if it is the same trip from Sun to Mars from L2 to Mars, and is launched in the same window, the Space Force cargo ship and the civilian cargo ship may also take different orbits and arrive at different times.
.
"In addition, private spacecraft do not have a fixed launch window like ours. After all, they are not directly managed by the Space Administration Commission and do not need the Space Administration to approve the voyage plan. They sometimes launch from the earth's low-Earth orbit to the orbit of Deimos.
track.
"So although such situations are relatively rare, it is possible for two ships to briefly sail side by side in the vast space between Earth and Mars.
"Of course, sometimes the intersection of orbits only takes a moment, but we will deliberately match the relative speeds of both sides and perform some courtesy activities. For example, throwing some small gifts to each other when the ship is on the wrong ship. Very rarely, the two spaceships will
The relative speed is almost zero, and docking will occur at this time.
"On my first way back from Mars, we docked with a very old-fashioned spacecraft. That spacecraft actually used lithium as propellant. The jet ejected from the back of the spacecraft was looked through a spectroscope. In the red zone
There are two very obvious lines..."
Lu Yingying: "Wait a minute, I don't understand! Is using lithium as a propellant powerful or not?"
Wang Ping'an's words were concise and to the point: "Lithium is a metal, the lightest metal in the periodic table of elements. The spacecraft allowed the lithium vapor to pass through the core of the reactor, and then it was fully accelerated and then ejected.
"After seeing the ship, Xiao Fang became very excited because she thought it was too romantic. Our tritium reflection engine is not romantic at all."
Lu Yingying: "Who is Xiaofang?"
"You want to chase me but you don't know who Xiao Fang is?" Wang Ping'an looked shocked.
Lu Yingying: "You didn't tell me!"
"This is something you should investigate. Otherwise, how can I see your sincerity?"
"Oh, this needs to be investigated. Okay, I'll check it out. You go on."
Seeing Lu Yingying's naive look, Angeli couldn't help but laugh.
"Xiao Fang was very excited. She always felt that the machines of the old era had a shocking beauty, so when the computer calculated that we could temporarily run parallel to the ship, she immediately decided to send a docking application to the ship.
"The other party didn't agree at first, but I said, 'We have the latest coffee and cigarettes,' and the other party agreed.
"The docking went very smoothly. When we got to the other party's ship, we immediately understood why they couldn't resist coffee and cigarettes. There was a very strong sour smell in the cabin of that ship. It was obvious that the spacecraft had not been docked and had complete air for a long time.
The space station has fresh facilities.
"And the people on the ship also have a very strong smell, which is the smell of people who have lived on space stations and spaceships with limited supplies for a long time. The Space Force's life is better now and will ensure that everyone can take a shower. That is because of the use of
The spaceship has been replaced.
"When we used old spaceships, because there wasn't that much payload to ensure a shower, the Space Force soldiers also smelled like sweat. And these people have been living on dilapidated old spaceships.
"In addition, there are quite a lot of people on that ship. A Space Force spacecraft of tens of thousands of tons can be driven by two people. Computer-controlled robots and drones will handle most problems. But on ships that don't have that much money to purchase automated systems, just
Will bring more people.
"Anyway, the automated system cannot completely replace manpower. We might as well use all manpower - that is a spaceship configured based on this idea."
Angeli immediately raised questions: "This is unreasonable. It costs more to raise a person in space than to raise an automatic machine."
Wang Ping'an: "That is under the condition that human rights are guaranteed. As long as human rights are ignored, people can still be very cheap. In addition, many foreign space development companies will use financial tools to turn people into debtors, so that they can be used like slaves.
They don't need to pay at all, just share a piece of bread.
"Anyway, we boarded a ship like this. The people in it who had lived in space for the shortest time had been working for five years. Everyone's muscles were severely atrophied and their skin was wrinkled. Everyone was a little nervous. I saw it with my own eyes.
I saw how their repairman repaired the main reactor: he actually set up a shrine next to it. Do you understand shrines?
"And the captain of that ship, the commander, has been in space for twenty years, and he looks like a snowman in the Himalayas.
"Xiao Fang was very curious and asked the captain if there was anything unusual about him. The captain laughed loudly, patted his chest and said: 'The so-called soul bound by gravity is simply a lie made up by the space force to ensure the earth's control of the space colony.
.'
"Sounds very convincing, doesn't it? Then the bell rang. Xiao Fang and I were both startled and had no idea what was happening. Xiao Fang even put on a weightless fighting posture.
"Then, in full view of us, the captain and the crew began to pray to the 'darkness that dominates everything'. The prayers were all pieced together. I could only hear the sentences from the Book of Revelation. The following
Spliced together Mao Lai's sentences from "Pulp Fiction"..."
Lu Yingying: "What is it? Apocalypse? Pulp novels?"
Angele: "I only know that the Book of Revelation is part of the Bible, but I haven't read it. My father won't let me read it. He said that the space force is atheist and does not accept Christians."
Wang Ping'an: "It's a mess anyway. Xiaofang and I were frightened by this scene. We left our coffee and cigarettes behind and fled back to our spacecraft. After undocking, we gave the computer an order to disinfect the entire ship.
At the same time, the engine sprayed at full speed, achieving an acceleration of one liter and consuming a lot of redundant water.
"The ship was just abandoned by us.
"After seeing that ship, Xiaofang and I have never doubted the necessity of taking regular vacations on the ground.
"Human beings are a species born on the ground. Even the night on the earth can make people feel scared. We can only get some comfort at night by relying on light sources such as torches.
"We are used to having light diffusely reflected by the atmosphere around us, and we are used to sunlight during the day. But in space, even if there is sunlight, there is no air for diffuse reflection. Even if there is starlight, it will not help.
"Human beings born and raised on Earth will definitely go crazy if they stay in this environment for a long time. Those who have stayed in space for twenty years may not seem crazy, but they have not made any moves that would threaten others. In fact, they have already
crazy.
"Only the second generation of humans whose parents were born and raised in space, and who themselves were born and raised in space, can overcome these problems."
After Wang Pingan finished speaking, Lu Yingying and Angeli fell silent.
Suddenly, Angele said: "In other words, if you stay in space for a long time, you may become like the person you knocked down?"
"I don't know." Wang Ping'an shook his head, "Although I believe I won't be like this, who can be sure?"
At this time, the computer stopped the car and announced: "The Soldiers' Home has arrived."
Looking out the window, a large number of people watching the show have gathered and are waiting to check in.