Speaking of her daughter, Jiang Ling also became interested. She found a stainless steel cup from her luggage, poured half a cup of instant milk tea into it, and handed it to him. Then she asked curiously, "Didn't you say before that you run about four passenger and freight shifts every day? How do you have time to see them so often?"
Gu Chen took a sip and replied, "That's right. The four trains I mentioned are two outbound trips and two return trips. The outbound trip is from Yuehai Station to Nanyang Station on Earth, mainly transporting people, while the return trip is the other way around, but the cargo is now cargo. On the return trip, there's less time to exchange pleasantries with strangers, so I usually spend that time logging into the internet so that I can often see my daughters who live in Xing'an City (on Mars)."
"Oh—that's what I knew!" Jiang Ling once again reinforced her empiricism in her understanding of contemporary society. As if relieved of a burden, she guzzled half a cup of tea, then lifted the cooling teapot high to refill it. "I thought your daughters would be like baby birds in a nest, waiting with their throats wide open every day for you to come back and feed them worms. Now it seems I don't need to rush you back!"
"Haha." Gu Chen laughed bitterly, covering half of his face with the cup reflecting the firelight. "There shouldn't be any birds on Earth now, right? Maybe you won't be able to make others laugh when you make this joke in the future. They won't understand."
"Maybe. Even if birds become extinct, there will be other creatures that don't look like birds but resemble them in spirit to fill the vacant ecological niches. Life will find a way out. Changes in the external environment can only destroy the original ecological relationship, but will not destroy the ecology itself." Jiang Ling did not comment.
"Huh? What kind of tea is this? It's so sweet that it makes me choke!" Gu Chen forcedly changed the subject by talking about industrially synthesized beverages.
"It's lemon black tea, and I added rock sugar." Jiang Ling was a little unhappy that he interrupted her thoughts, so she made a joke that only she could understand.
"Where did you get the rock sugar? I remember that handmade rock sugar was a luxury item. I only tasted it when I was very young." Gu Chen said.
Jiang Ling narrowed her eyes and said, "That was when you were a kid. In my time, granulated sugar was much more valuable than rock sugar. It's not like now. They were practically free, and you could pick up enough of them to last you several lifetimes."
"What? You really picked it up?"
"Yeah, I picked it up."
"Where did you pick it up? Why didn't I see it? Why didn't you ask me to help pick up more?"
"Remember what happened yesterday afternoon? You were all busy looking at the body. I picked it up nearby."
"Huh?" He widened his eyes in disbelief, and the woman opposite nodded at him seriously.
"Do you really believe it?" Jiang Ling stopped his "William Scream" before he exploded, then continued with a shake of his head, "Don't disbelieve me, I really did pick up something, and just now."
"Huh - I'm not young anymore, I can't stand being scared by you..." Gu Chen learned his lesson this time.
"We have a car." She shifted her position as she spoke. "A group of people, three cars, coming from the front. A modified jeep, an open-top bus, and a tow truck."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Gu Chen immediately stood up and shouted when he heard this.
"Stop it!" Jiang Ling frowned and said seriously and in a low voice, "You're just causing trouble for me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the crackling sound of old-fashioned assault rifles firing could be heard outside the inflatable tent, causing the two people lying in their sleeping bags to turn over.
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