He came from the bell tonight

Chapter 54

The imminent situation was obviously beyond Lian Xiao's control.So he could only persuade Su Ling with kind words: "Why don't we all use weapons?"

Scarface sneered disdainfully: "It's just you, come on, you can choose a knife that is convenient for you. I won't use it, so as not to say that I am bullying people."

Dirty Braid also echoed twice, moved the table and made a space.

Another pirate brought an iron bowl from nowhere, threw a few silver coins into it, and yelled loudly in front of the crowd: "Come, come, place your bet——"

The crisp coins hit the bottom of the bowl, and they piled up like mountains in no time.

Xi Zidu and Ou Chuchu looked at each other among a group of pirates, half sober from the wine.

Ou Chuchu is sure: "The business opportunity is here."

A pirate who was drinking with them just now kindly reminded: "Scarface is a mercenary, and he is one of the best. You are right to cheer your companions, and the money you should earn is not less."

Xizi nodded seriously, and tossed a hundred silver coins: "I'll buy Suling to win."

The pirate looked at them one more time, feeling hopeless.Sure enough, you are still young, naive!

...But within 5 minutes, he felt regret for his ten silver coins.

That extremely handsome young man seemed to have deliberately slowed down, even learning his attacking moves from his opponent.Even so, within two or three strokes, the onlookers can confirm his victory.

"...Are you still fighting?" Su Ling turned sideways, looking calmly at the defeated opponents.

Xiao Huaiyan, who was standing in the corner, watched and knew that he was in a good mood.

Dirty Braid sat on the ground with nothing to love, and almost cried: "Wow, wow, wow, where do I put my face, or I will hang around with you from now on, wow, wow, wow."

Scarface looked even happier, and generously took a glass of dark beer for Su Ling: "Don't pay attention to them, come and have a taste."

Su Ling hesitated for a second, then took it.

The pirates shouted one after another, clasping their shoulders together and wanting to toast.At this time, someone yelled, "Hey, isn't this the humanoid weapon in the Toyota Star report some time ago—"

The victory of the Toyota Star battle became a monumental battle for the Alliance against the Mimics.Those precious images during the war have also been circulated recently.The external news tried to focus on the outstanding contribution and effective coordination of the Union Army in this battle, and most of them mentioned how the Imperial College located in Feilian star provided timely support.

For the protection of privacy, the faces and voices of the students who appeared on the screen were blurred, and there were only a few short shots taken from the surveillance video.The four humanoid weapons involved are also mentioned, including how they protected the local humans.

Even the pirates wandering the universe have heard about it.

Dirty Braid's face turned pale before she wiped away her tears: "It's you!"

He looked at Yun Qing again: "And you too!"

Someone scolded: "Damn, idol."

For a while, the pirates were in high spirits, insisting on paying the highest salute to two special friends—that is, dancing in circles with their arms around each other, singing some lyrics that no one could understand.

Even Lian Xiao's godfather, the sleek big black dog, would blew twice to show his respect.

Holding the wine glass, Su Ling took a sip.Compared with sorghum wine, beer is obviously more bland.

He prefers things that don't have a particular smell.

"You don't know yet," Dirty Braid took the initiative to strike up a conversation, "As soon as your news spread to the west, the residents of several asteroids began to parade, arguing over the "Regulations on the Protection of Humanoid Weapons" , almost got into a fight."

Su Ling asked suspiciously, "Why?"

"Why else, don't worry about being few, but about unevenness. But don't worry, most people still like you very much. They just follow the rules too much and need a little time to get used to all of this."

Su Ling is not worried.It didn't matter whether humans liked them or not - what mattered was that his pack would not be harmed.

He thought of Yu Bing, Qiu Ci, and Fei Ran again.If they could predict their own destiny, would they still choose to be weapons in the hands of human beings?

...Or rather, they had no choice in the first place.

And the root of all this lies in the contract.

Great power is lost without contract, and freedom is lost with contract.To a certain extent, this is a check and balance for unknown creatures in the universe like them.Everything happens for a reason, without exception.

——But is it reasonable to exist?

This kind of subtle thought was like a seed, suddenly born in Su Ling's mind.It was very familiar, as if he had thought of it a thousand times before.

But when he thought of the contract between himself and Xiao Huaiyan, he was instantly overwhelmed by profound confusion.

He stayed in the lively cabin for a while, then walked to the quiet back cabin.The aisle next to the porthole was long and narrow, and the outside was a pitch-black universe.They have now left the five major galaxies, passed the last transition point, and started a wandering search.

"Suling!" Someone chased after him.

It was one of the pirates who just fought with him. He looked very young, probably about the same age as Xiao Huaiyan and the others.

The little pirate who liked to curse at first seemed a little embarrassed at the moment, and held out a white conch.

"This is... for you," said the little pirate.

"Give it to me?"

The little pirate hardly dared to look directly at him, so he simply closed his eyes: "If you want, you can go to the north with me, where there are many beautiful seas, the weather is very good, and the food is also very good. You must Would love it. You deserve better than those stinky blokes."

no respond.

"You, are you acquiescing?" The little pirate opened one eye.

However, the person in front of him was not Su Ling at all.

Xiao Huaiyan looked down at him with a cold face, his voice was colder than ice: "Get lost."

After speaking, he pushed open a narrow door on the side.The little pirate saw half of Suling's clothes corner hidden in the light.

The little pirate couldn't help but sneer: "What's so great, isn't it just relying on the role of the contract."

The door was slammed shut without mercy.

It was a spacious storage room, lit only by overhead lights.Xiao Huaiyan stopped Su Ling at the corner, and smelled a faint smell of alcohol.

"...Did those guys drink you?"

The close pale eyes blinked.The tails of the eyes are slightly red, and the tips of the ears are also red.When the drunkenness came up, the blinking speed was extremely slow, revealing an indescribable innocence and cuteness.

So much so that Xiao Huaiyan's original remarks were forgotten.

"I want to drink." Su Ling replied slowly.He seemed to spit out bubbles, bubbling out word by word.

This was his first time drinking, and he had a different experience than before.It seemed that the whole world was much lighter and slowed down.

Xiao Huaiyan was silent for a moment, and asked back: "Isn't it enough to have two people for you to choose, how many people do you want to compete with?"

Su Ling raised his head in confusion.Xiao Huaiyan was too close, and he had to maintain a slightly raised posture.And Xiao Huaiyan's hands were propped against the wall, he had nowhere to go.

After drinking, all the senses are dulled, but the tiny emotions are amplified.

This cramped corner was unbearable.

Xiao Huaiyan stared straight at him, and his light-colored eyes looked a little moist.A kind of grievance that he had never read about Su Ling surfaced.

... makes people want to bully him even more.

"That's right." Xiao Huaiyan didn't know what to think of, and he was even more unhappy. He lowered his voice, "You have lived for 200 years, and no one has seen it. Maybe several of your contractors have died."

What's more, there will be many people who have seen him like this, and some people have kissed the corner of his lips like Xiao Huaiyan, or he has been close to other people's arms like he was in the sea god's couch last night.

Thinking of this, Xiao Huaiyan pursed his lips expressionlessly and clenched his fists.

Su Ling seemed to wake up a little bit, and replied firmly, "No."

Xiao Huaiyan felt a needle being poked into his heart, and the place where he was originally sullen was empty.He knew that Su Ling couldn't lie to him, and he also realized that his thoughts were very stupid.

But he didn't stop there, a cunning flashed in his eyes.Thin lips curled slightly, and asked: "How can you be sure, you don't remember anything."

"I know." Su Ling said stubbornly.

"How can I trust you?"

They were very close, Xiao Huaiyan lowered his head slightly, his breath approached Su Ling's earlobe, and gently brushed past.

But the next moment, Su Ling slowly slid down the corner of the wall until he curled up into a ball.His mind was dizzy and he didn't want to argue at this moment.

Xiao Huaiyan was startled by him, and immediately squatted down: "What's wrong with you, what's wrong?"

Su Ling buried in his arms and shook his head.

A hand covered his back, rubbing it like soothing a kitten.

"I believe what you say," the voice on the top of the head scratched very itchy, but Su Ling didn't know where it came from, "Su Ling, I won't scare you anymore."

Su Ling remained silent and did not move.

"Say something to me, huh?"

A rough voice sounded from the other side of the room, sleepily: "What is so sour?"

Xiao Huaiyan blocked Su Ling vigilantly, and turned on all the lights.

I saw the bearded Francis sitting up from a single bed against the wall, staring at Xiao Huaiyan very suspiciously: "Who wants to talk to you, pervert!"

Although Voyager has a large area, because pirates live here all year round, more training and entertainment venues are planned.As for basic needs, such as sleep, it can only be called make do.Except that Francis, who is the captain, has a single bed for napping, here is a double bunk with portholes on the entire second floor.

Put the single mattress on the floor and throw the quilt, and you can sleep until the sky is dark.

Xizi was very surprised, pulled Lian Xiao to ask this and that, and finally said: "Is this the minimum living area for a single person?"

Yun Qing smiled and pulled off the quilt.

Xiao Huaiyan found a corner by the window, and carefully put down Su Ling who was in a drowsy sleep.He sat by himself and couldn't sleep for a long time.

...According to his request, there is no way to sleep in such a ghostly place.

After an unknown amount of time, the lights on the top went out, and the breathing around him gradually stabilized, and the snoring sounded like thunder, one after another.

Xiao Huaiyan became more sober.

When he lowered his head, Su Ling just woke up.Seeing that he wasn't sleepy, Su Ling used the terminal to dial a text to him.

It's the electronic version of "The Garden the Liberty Ship Passed by".

"Want to hear this?"

Su Ling nodded.He had just dreamed of the depths of the universe, which was vast and boundless, very similar to the description in this book.

After a while, Xiao Huaiyan lowered his voice.

"When I came from far away, the first time I saw you

Neptune's spray and rain,

Nothing compares to the catkins that can't be patted off your head.

I said, I have heard the sound of the moon turning over a thousand times. "

Francis sat down not far from them. He took a big sip of wine, looked at the deep black outside the porthole, and opened his mouth.

He answered the last sentence slowly: "—Tell me, did it forget to cover the quilt?"

At the end, he scolded with a smile: "Boundless Fallen Trees... Bah, this bastard Xiao Xia is really out of line."

"You know him?" Xiao Huaiyan raised his eyes.

"That's right, he and I are close friends. Hey, are you that, that...?" Francis rolled his brown eyes and finally remembered.

Those peach blossom eyes are exactly like a certain person.

Not only that, but when he passed by a certain planet, he had rescued a kidnapped milk doll, and his temper was exactly the same as that of the young man in front of him.

"It's me, let uncle." Xiao Huaiyan nodded slightly.

Jean-Francis Tallier was stunned for a while, then shook the flagon: "Tsk, it's been so many years since the interstellar kidnapping case. Hahahaha I didn't expect to see you again here, but you... long It’s a lot older. But, meeting is fate, existence is reasonable, and even Xiao Xiao can be regarded as inheriting a part of Lao Tzu.”

At this moment, Su Ling asked, "...existence, is it reasonable?"

Xiao Huaiyan didn't know what he was referring to, but subconsciously replied: "Of course not."

Francis curled his lips: "If you ask him, it's a waste of time. Their family is genetic, and they are born to like to make trouble for themselves. There is no way out."

As soon as the words fell, Francis stared in the direction of the porthole, and threw the empty wine bottle aside.

"It looks like we're almost there."

Outside the porthole, stardust is like waves, rising one after another.