Little Cold Star (6)

Being so close, Shi Jianxia could almost feel Gongye Jiwang's breath on the tips of her hair, gentle and long, like a breeze in spring, passing without a trace.

But the heartbeat in my ears, again and again, was like a secret drumbeat, playing an indescribable melody.

Shi Jianxia wanted to look up at Gongye Jiwang's expression at the moment, but she felt that this idea was a bit strange. She pursed her lips and prepared to step back, but her heels touched the hard wall.

Obviously, in this narrow space, she had nowhere to retreat and could only maintain a face-to-face posture, leaning against Gongye Jiwang's chest, taking in all the disordered heartbeats in her ears.

Dongdong——dong——

The sound of hammers hitting the wall rang out again, occasionally mixed with the sizzling sound of metal corroding. In this quiet, damp and cold underground, it was undoubtedly very strange.

Who is it...or rather, what is it?

Shi Jianxia tilted her head slightly and looked in the direction of the sound, but the place where the two people were hiding seemed too tricky. From this direction, she could only see the light coming through from behind the wall, but could not observe the place that was being chiseled.

She was just about to move away when she felt a furry tail brushing across her forehead. She subconsciously looked up and unexpectedly met Gongye Jiwang's lowered gaze.

His eyes are particularly beautiful, like the night sky filled with stars, deep and mysterious yet bright, making people unconsciously want to explore the secrets hidden deep inside.

Shi Jianxia didn't dare to look at him any longer and was about to look away, but she saw him raise his hand and make a shushing gesture.

Then, a layer of light something was draped over her shoulders, flowing down like water, straight to the ground.

His cool fingertips lifted her hair, and Gongye Jiwang leaned forward slightly, his collarbone so close that it almost touched her nose. A cool fragrance wafted across her face, like pine and bamboo, frost and snow, and like the morning breeze in the mountains on a winter day, sweet and refreshing.

Before Shi Jianxia could react, a thin hood covered her head.

The person in front of her stepped back slightly, forcing her gaze downwards. She saw a pair of bony fingers coming around, gently pinching the two transparent straps, and calmly and elegantly tying them into a beautiful bow against her chin.

After a brief pause, the hand made an OK gesture and waved left and right in front of her eyes, adding a bit of unusual cuteness.

Shi Jianxia subconsciously touched the cloak draped over her body, and the familiar touch made her stunned for a moment.

It's an invisibility cloak.

When the colorful jade waist appeared in the high-risk insect-infested area of ​​Nan Teng Star, she went with her classmates majoring in anatomy to help dissect the insects.

Because she had an agenda, she secretly hid a lot of the phosphorus powder of the colorful jade waist, and encouraged Zhu Yan to learn martial arts. Zhu Yan lived up to her expectations and made an invisibility cloak.

After that, she went to the Linhai Quarantine Station to hunt Zerg, and the invisibility cloak helped a lot.

There are many types of invisibility cloaks, some are made from materials produced by the Zerg, and some are made from rare minerals and materials originally found in this universe.

The two have equivalent effects, allowing the person or object wearing the cloak to completely blend into the environment, confusing vision and perception, and making it difficult for advanced equipment such as heat source detectors to detect.

The familiar touch and material made Shi Jianxia realize that the invisibility cloak that Gongye Jiwang put on her was also made of the phosphorus powder of the colorful jade waist as the main material.

Now was not the time to speak, so she quietly stepped aside, ignoring the cold fragrance lingering at the tip of her nose, and focused her attention on the wall where a basketball-sized hole had been chiseled out.

The light coming through the wall was flickering, as if someone was chiseling the wall with a searchlight or something.

In the dim light, Shi Jianxia saw a pickaxe coming in, making the opening in the wall bigger with a clanging sound.

She turned her head to look beside her, but saw nothing. She immediately realized that Gongye Jiwang had also put on an invisibility cloak. She could not see him now and could not communicate with him verbally.

Shi Jianxia withdrew her gaze and prepared to go over to see the situation under the cover of the invisibility cloak, but just as she took a step, her hand hanging under the cloak was suddenly held, and the warm touch made her bend her fingers reflexively.

But before she could dodge, she felt an itch in her palm as if she was tracing the characters.

It's a human.

Shi Jianxia looked at the place where Gongye Jiwang was. It was empty, with only energy cables covered with a thin layer of dust hanging down to the ground.

If she walked out at this time, Gongye Jiwang would lose her position and it would be difficult to communicate afterwards.

She wanted to tell him that she was going to let Meng Ji go check out the situation over there, but she felt it was too weird for them to write on each other's palms.

So, Meng Ji, who should have been released directly, was summoned by her and held in her palm. She also sent it in the direction of Gongye Ji Wang. After making sure that he touched Meng Ji, she released it from under the cloak.

You should understand what she means, right?

Meng Ji has a natural talent for stealth, and unless one is much higher in level than him, or has a reconnaissance mimicry, it is difficult to detect his presence.

It trotted a few steps and, using the instrument as a cover, came right in front of the person who was chiseling the wall. Shi Jianxia saw a shriveled and skinny hand in its field of vision.

One hand was holding a pickaxe to chisel the wall, while the other hand was pouring some unknown liquid on the wall. The hard metal defense wall was "gnawed" bit by bit by TA, leaving big holes.

Finally, the hole was hollowed out large enough for a person to crawl in, and the sound of chiseling the wall stopped.

Shi Jianxia held his breath and saw a thin, dark head poking out. The hair that reached the ears was messy, and it was obvious that it had been cut off casually with a sharp tool and had not been carefully trimmed. There was a piece of glowing mineral on the forehead, and the swaying light was emitted by the mineral.

"Brother, it's so big in here!" A small and hoarse voice exclaimed, half falling into the central control room.

"Be careful." Another voice sounded from behind the wall, equally hoarse and unpleasant.

The girl hummed twice and said happily, "This place is so big and clean, there must be food and supplies. We can seal this hole later and we won't have to worry about being found by those monsters."

She was skinny and had a sallow complexion. Her clothes were dirty and old, and the original style could not be seen. However, she was wrapped in thick layers to keep out the cold.

The girl took off the glowing mineral on her head and gently brushed off the dust stuck on it. The light shone on her face, and she could barely be seen to be thirteen or fourteen years old, perhaps a little older, but she was too thin and her frame was too slender to make an accurate judgment.

The man she called brother leaned in, glanced at the huge dormant machines around him, and looked accurately at the open gate in front.

The young man frowned slightly, as if wondering why the gate was open.

But he knew that one could not enter this place without permission, and there was no sign of violent damage to the gate. He just thought that when the Zerg Investigation Department retreated, they did not have time to close the gate, and no one has come here since then, and the situation has remained until now.

He crawled out of the hole, looking no better than the girl, even weaker. After coming in, he squatted against the corner of the wall, breathing softly, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, as if the action of crawling in had consumed a lot of his strength.

The girl was very excited and stood up to look around, but she didn't recognize the machines here and didn't see anything edible or useful, so her excitement soon died down.

She pointed at the open gate and said, "Brother, can we get to the twin towers upstairs from here?"

They tried to enter the Twin Towers from the ground, but the Zerg had keen perception. If they stayed on the ground for too long, they would be discovered and their lives would be in danger. They had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and try to enter from below by digging.

They spent three whole months digging this underground tunnel, and their hard work paid off as they finally dug it through.

The thin young man stood up with the help of a tool, his eyes fixed on several virtual screens floating in the central control room, and slowly moved forward.

Only then did Shi Jianxia realize that his left leg was tilted and he walked with a limp, like a broken compass.

They are all human beings, with clear thinking, no signs of mutation, and may not even be people with special abilities.

Meng Ji had quietly circled behind them.

Shi Jianxia confirmed that the brother and sister posed no threat, took off his invisibility cloak, and stepped out of the shadows. "Who are you?"

The sudden sound startled the two of them. The young man instinctively grabbed his sister and stuffed her into the hole behind him, but he saw that a big white leopard with its long tail sticking up had been blocking the hole.

The big leopard was more than one meter long, with a wisp of blue hair hanging from its forehead. It bared its teeth slightly to warn them not to get close.

The girl let out a low cry and quickly opened her hands to shield her brother behind her. She stared in horror and disbelief at Shi Jianxia, ​​who was wearing the uniform of the Zerg Investigation Bureau, and Gongye Jiwang, who walked out from behind her.

"Are you from here?" She raised her voice, her tone full of anger.

This was a question with a clear meaning, because the logo on the two men's uniforms was exactly the same as the logo on the roof of the Twin Towers covered with ice and snow.

Shi Jianxia probably guessed why she was angry, and took the initiative to explain: "We just got here."

The girl was stunned for a moment, but the young man she was protecting took two seconds to react and asked in surprise, "The crashed interstellar spaceship?"

Shi Jianxia raised an eyebrow, "Did you see it?"

The young man answered irrelevantly, his tone rising slightly, "You are not dead, you are a mimicry ability user!"

As he uttered the word "mimic", a blush welled up on his cheeks and his eyes became extremely excited. "You are investigators from the Zerg Investigation Department! Can you take us away from here?"

At the end of his words, his voice trembled a little and he swallowed nervously.

The long-awaited life-saving straw was right in front of him. His brain felt a lack of oxygen and his whole body began to tremble.

Someone from outside!

This is someone from outside!

Is the Federation going to retake Xiaohan Star?

Shi Jianxia noticed his overly excited reaction and lowered her tone, "Of course."

But she quickly added, strictly, "If we can leave."

The young man was stunned for a moment before realizing the hidden meaning in her words.

It's not that the Federation wants to retake Xiaohan Star. These two overly young investigators have also suffered misfortune and ended up here. It is unknown whether they can leave.

His eyes dimmed quickly, then lit up again after a few seconds. He said impatiently, "I can make a space shuttle! As long as we find the right materials, we can take it and leave!"

They didn't die even with the huge noise of the interstellar spaceship explosion, so they were definitely not ordinary people with special abilities. He recognized that Gongye Jiwang was wearing the uniform of a senior investigator of the Zerg Investigation Department.

If I remember correctly, senior investigators are required to have at least level seven abilities.

This was an unexpected answer.

Gongye Jiwang had previously proposed going to the military base to look for a space shuttle, but after the large-scale evacuation, neither of them was sure whether there was any space shuttle left.

If not, they can only wait for Zhuang Mingyue to find out that they are in trouble and come to rescue them.

The counterfeit dared to leave her on this planet, so he would definitely not let Zhuang Mingyue find her easily, or he would have other means to stop the search.

Therefore, we cannot pin all our hopes on external rescue.

It is such a pleasant surprise to meet someone who can build a space shuttle.

Shi Jianxia turned his head to look at Gongye Jiwang beside him, and the latter nodded slightly.

It can be confirmed that the brother and sister in front of us do not have mimicry and are not people with special abilities.

Shi Jianxia took out two bottles of nutrient solution from the space bracelet and threw them to the two of them. The girl caught them in a hurry, but when she saw the label of high-grade nutrient solution, her eyes suddenly widened and she looked at the young man helplessly.

After surviving in this hellhole for more than ten years, she has forgotten what it feels like to fill her stomach, and she hasn't seen nutrient solution in several years.

Food is consumed faster after winter, so they can only dry the dried fruits they collected in the summer. If they had not broken into the central control room, they would have starved to death even if they were not parasitized by the Zerg.

The young man's breathing quickened a bit, his Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed unconsciously.

He endured the sudden increase in hunger in his stomach, patted his sister's shoulder gently, and said to Shi Jianxia in a hoarse voice: "Thank you."

The girl put one of the nutrient solutions into her pocket, carefully opened the other one, drank a small half of it herself, and then handed it to the young man, and they drank the whole bottle of nutrient solution together.

The stomach, which had been in a hungry state for a long time, was replenished with nutrients and moved rapidly to absorb the energy in the nutrient solution. The cold limbs seemed to warm up.

The girl couldn't help but say, "Brother, it's so sweet and delicious!"

Instead of chewing sour dried fruits or hard-to-swallow grass roots, she looked at the empty nutrient solution tube reluctantly, carefully put it in her pocket, and thought of filling it with water later to drink the remaining nutrients into her stomach.

Shi Jianxia saw it and said nothing.

For people who have been hungry for a long time, it is difficult for them to eat to their heart's content when the food source is not absolutely guaranteed. In addition, in the eyes of the brother and sister, Shi Jianxia and Gongye Jiwang have no obligation to take care of and protect them, and the province cannot be extravagant.

After they finished drinking, Shi Jianxia said, "Could you please tell us how you managed to survive until now?"

The Federation's decision to abandon the planet must be because the situation has developed to a point where it is difficult for the military and the Zerg Investigation Bureau to control it.

During this period, the people on the planet will be sent out one after another and migrate to other planets.

Of course, this process will produce various uncontrollable factors, causing some of the living people to be unable to contact the federal government and be forced to stay on the planet.

Shi Jianxia and Gongye Jiwang never thought that they would meet ordinary people who were still alive here... ordinary people.

The young man had a complicated expression. After a long moment, he exhaled and whispered, "My name is Yan Qing, my sister is Yan Ya, and this planet is called Xiaohan Star."

"Thirteen years ago, a massive insect plague broke out on Xiaohan Star. In just one month, over two-thirds of the land area was occupied by Zerg and parasites. The ocean was the hardest hit area. The Federation urgently announced the evacuation plan from Xiaohan Star."

"I'm an engineer repairing military space shuttles. When I was retreating with my sister, we were attacked by a swarm of insects. The small group of soldiers protecting us barely managed to kill the swarm, but due to equipment failure, we lost contact with the main force and also lost our way."

"We were lucky enough to find a military base, but we missed the opportunity to leave Xiaohan Star. Over the past decade, we've been killed and injured, and only my sister and I are left."

The Zerg expanded on a large scale and completely occupied Xiaohan Star. For a period of time at first, they did not dare to come out at all and lived on the supplies that they were unable to take away when they retreated from the base.

However, supplies were limited, especially weapons, which were basically all deployed on the battlefield. When the Federation issued the retreat order, all the space shuttles were transferred to civilian interstellar ports. What remained in the base were some unimportant ordinary equipment.

After the Zerg's most frantic expansion period passed, their supplies were almost consumed. They could not hide in the base forever, so they went out one after another.

Several soldiers taught the brother and sister fighting skills, but they were ordinary people without mimicry. To be honest, they could only barely fight against the first or second level Zerg, and they had to be careful not to get injured in the battle to avoid being parasitized by the Zerg.

Yan Ya was too young at the time and had basically no combat capability, and Yan Qing was the only engineer in the team who could build a space shuttle, so the brother and sister spent most of their time in the base, protected by others.

But no matter how careful they were, they could not avoid the danger. During the years of hiding and struggling to survive, their team became smaller and smaller, and only four people were left half a year ago.

It was at that time that the Zerg discovered their tracks and began to besiege the base.

"I'm almost done building the space shuttle." Yan Qing laughed bitterly.

"But the accident happened so suddenly. Sister Wen and Brother Yan were seriously injured while trying to protect us and escaped. They eventually died. I lost a leg and barely managed to stay alive."

The space shuttle that he had built by finding materials at the cost of several lives was gone. He knew that he and his sister would soon face death, and he even thought about not resisting and just dying.

But I'm unwilling to give up. I've endured more than ten years of fear and despair. How can I give up so easily?

The others died, and the hope of leaving fell on him and his sister. They couldn't die, they had to leave.

So, he gritted his teeth and lived with his sister until now.

Finally, he waited for a glimmer of hope.

Shi Jianxia listened silently, looked at the brother and sister who were crying, and whispered: "We will definitely be able to leave here."

Because of the cubs' ability to devour insect vortexes, Zhuang Mingyue would come looking for her even if she turned into ashes.

To take a step back, she is the rope that the Doctor uses to restrain his father. Putting aside other purposes, the Doctor will not let go of her disappearance.

If they are really useless enough to be fooled by the counterfeit, she still has the amazing cheat "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

She can let her cubs devour all the insect vortexes on Xiaohan Star. With the cooperation of Gongye Jiwang, the god of death, the remaining Zerg will be cleared out by them sooner or later.

Hmm, can Federation planets be privatized?

How should her contribution be calculated?