He came from the bell tonight

Chapter 14 Fei Lian

Rachel Young, the new history teacher at Imperial College, zoomed in on a nebula with her fingertips and was talking.

"...the universe is still expanding. Its boundary is expanding infinitely, and it will be farther and farther away from us....Why is it necessary to find the boundary? It is a good question, because it is said that the distant star sea is at the edge of the real universe .”

Su Ling was lying on the white tabletop, the tips of his ears moved, and he caught the words "Xinghai in the distance".He opened his eyes slightly, and saw Xiao Huaiyan's profile.The light outlines the bored eyes, high nose bridge, thin lips, distinct jaw line, and slightly moving hair ends.

The history teacher paused for a moment when he glanced at Su Ling: "It is said that the humanoid weapons come from a place very close to the distant star sea, or maybe they are the product of the distant star sea, so they have some power from the depths of the universe. Of course, the most important thing is that there are secrets about time in the distant sea of ​​stars with unknown coordinates."

"Time is the eternal problem of human life - tens of thousands of years have passed, no matter how advanced our technology is, we can only delay the aging of cells, but cannot really prevent death and achieve eternal life," said the tall woman Maintaining a habitual smile, "From the perspective of biological historians, death is a gift from the universe, a protection mechanism for human beings as a whole, avoiding the uniformity of genes, so that human beings can continue to survive in the sense of race. "

Ou Chuchu tapped the speech button: "Teacher, everything in the universe is gradually dying, even in the third universe. What about the mimics? Do they also have birth, old age, sickness and death?"

"Our current understanding of mimics is that mimics have the instinct to devour and reproduce, and their metabolism is very slow, so their lifespan is quite long-but their reproduction refers to self-replication after finding a host, and swallowing the host at the same time DNA."

Someone asked: "Then how can we defeat the mimics?"

Rachel smiled easily: "Long-range heavy weapons were effective against them 100 years ago, and even more so now. Of course, if you encounter close combat, perhaps only humanoid weapons are the most suitable."

Countless pairs of eyes turned to the back row, and Su Ling slept unconsciously with his arms pillowed on his head.

"What do you think, student Xiao?"

Sitting next to Su Ling, Xiao Huaiyan curled his lips lazily, and the microphone embedded in the table amplified his slightly cool voice: "That's not okay, what if I fell asleep halfway through."

Suddenly burst into laughter.

Rachel managed to control the scene, and signaled to be quiet: "Students who are interested in mimetic insects may wish to consider the holographic simulation competition that will start soon, including round-robin knockout rounds and group arenas, and melees throughout the grades. Maybe it will let you know more about mimetic insects." Have real awareness."

……

The mailbox at No. 12 in District N was filled with leaflets for the holographic simulation competition.

Xiao Huaiyan was sitting on the sofa, with a black vest casually put on on his upper body, a white bath towel was draped over his neck, and the water droplets from the tips of his hair sank into his collarbone along his collarbone.

He just turned on the news, and when he looked up, he found that Su Ling had quietly walked to his side, and sat down naturally.

Suspicion appeared in Taohua's eyes.

The book "The End of the World, Rabbit, and Me" is in front of me.

Su Ling nodded seriously and waited patiently.

Xiao Huaiyan leaned on the sofa cushion, always feeling that Su Ling came to torture him on purpose.

He tried to repay the price: "Let's agree first, just read today—"

"Here." Su Ling turned to the page where he left off yesterday, and pointed it out to him.

Xiao Huaiyan had a headache for a while.

Su Ling looked at him: "Are you going to break your promise?"

His tone was flat, as if it was not a big deal even if Xiao Huaiyan broke his promise, it was expected.

To Xiao Huaiyan's ears, it could be said to be a great insult.

He couldn't help but tore through the poetry collection, twirling the corner of the page with his slender fingers, and read it casually.

After turning over more than ten pages, Xiao Huaiyan drank most of the glass of water in one gulp.

A window popped up on the communication terminal, and Xiao Huaiyan, who couldn't bear it anymore, sent a brief message to Xi Zidu: "The book is on the steps at the door, come and pick it up by yourself after 12 o'clock, it's a signed version."

Xizi replied in seconds: "Really? I knew the boss hadn't forgotten me! Kowtow to you."

Xiao Huaiyan rubbed his brows, and was about to close the book when he noticed Su Ling's gaze.He seemed sleepy, but opened his eyes when the sound died away.

……Fine.

Xiao Huaiyan added a message on the terminal: "Take a new one in exchange."

In the dead of night, when a small voice sounded, Su Ling had turned over and stood beside the sofa.On the single sofa at the other end, Xiao Huaiyan was still sleeping soundly, and the collection of poems was thrown on the coffee table.

But it seems to be different from the previous one-the title page is blank, and the autograph is missing.

In the dark room, a metallic luster flashed by the legs of the sofa, and Su Lingti picked it up.

Four eyes facing each other.

Staring at the grinning orange cat and the pure black metal lower limb, Su Ling thought for a while and said softly, "I'm sorry for hurting you."

As if understanding what he said, the orange cat patted the back of his hand with its front paws, neither light nor heavy, as if comforting.

Su Ling hugged it and smoothed its hair, and opened the door a crack.The orange cat that jumped back to the ground turned its head to look at him and gave a "meow", then kicked its legs, its metal hind legs coordinated with the movements sensitively, and disappeared in a flash.

It was so quiet that even the sound of the wind was faint.

Suddenly, there was a harsh "didi" sound from the direction of the sofa.

The silver button fell into the gap of the sofa cushion and was hooked out by the slender fingers.

This thing was too noisy, Su Ling frowned slightly, thinking about whether it could be destroyed.Almost in defiance, the buttons clicked harder.

He closed his palms, and as soon as his index finger touched it, a holographic dialog box suddenly appeared in front of him.

Xiao Huaiyan just opened his eyes at this moment, subconsciously sat up with his back straightened.It was almost impossible for him to fall asleep in such a state that there was another person in the same space.

Before he was fully awake, he heard an old and thick voice crying: "Nephew, alas, I have a premonition that I'm going to die—"

Central galaxy, planet Sirius IX, Shakespeare city.

In the luxuriously decorated mansion, the family doctor was explaining the situation to Xiao Huaiyan who had just arrived.Su Ling followed behind him, and looked at Xiao Shiyue who was moaning on the three-meter wide bed.

"My greatest ideal is to leave without any pain in my dream. Why should I suffer this crime?"

The doctor pushed his glasses, and said to Xiao Huaiyan: "...Don't worry, Minister Xiao was caught by a fishbone, and he's fine now."

After the doctor left, Xiao Shiyue touched his gray temples, forced a few coughs but couldn't stop his flushed face: "Oh, this man is walking on thin ice when he is old, he might go there someday, even if he gets a fishbone It’s been a few days——Huaiyan, why don’t you look like you’ve had a good rest? It’s about ten standard hours from Feilianxing, but the port of Sirius Nine is indeed far away. Where is your sports car parked?”

Xiao Huaiyan revealed it lightly: "The car is broken down. Since you are fine, I will leave first."

"What are you in a hurry for? It's hard to come here and stay here for two days. Fang Jian and Xiao Mo have a lot of things to do, and they went to the northern galaxy again these days, so I didn't tell them. Cough, cough, cough," Xiao Shiyue said. Putting on a sad face, he complained endlessly, "Your parents are happy and happy in Jiuxing, and it's not all because Xiaomo and I are here to support the whole family."

He took a look at the young man who was getting taller and taller, and he couldn't help but feel relieved: "I can rest assured when you come to the military headquarters in the future. Anyway, I taught it myself, so we can't embarrass our Xiao family. How many pairs of eyes are watching outside? If you don’t pay attention, you will get burned.”

"But you have to hurry up," Xiao Shiyue changed the subject, "I'm over 200 years old, and I might be gone anytime soon. I dreamed about my father yesterday, and I always felt that he was implying that I was It's time."

"You are healthy, don't think too much."

These high-sounding words were meaningless to Xiao Huaiyan.He is used to it.

The outside world spoke highly of Xiao Shiyue and regarded him as the real pillar of the Xiao family.Xiao Shiyue joined the army when he was young, conquered everywhere during the empire period, wiped out the mimics remaining in the real universe in the far north, and became famous in one battle.Since then, the title of God of War has followed him from the fall of the empire to the founding of new alliances.

It has been more than a hundred years, and the description of him by the outside world still stays in the image of a general who is unsmiling, calm and arrogant, brave and resolute.

It has nothing to do with Xiao Huaiyan's cognition of the fat old man who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

"...Eldest nephew, where's that little beauty of yours? Why don't you bring it to have a look?" Xiao Shiyue stretched his neck.

Xiao Huaiyan frowned slightly, the door was empty.

The fine embroidered blanket is spread from the foot to the window, and the melodious singing becomes clearer with the opening of the thick wooden door.

Su Ling saw a woman singing on a small stage. She seemed to be immersed in it. The wide-sleeved gown made of tulle fell with her raised hand, and the vermilion code was branded on the elbow.

S02.

The beautiful woman had a pair of extremely quiet eyes, and when her fingertips touched the mirror beside her, it shattered to the ground with a "crash".

Su Ling suddenly realized that she was also a humanoid weapon.