Schrödinger of the Cat [Interstellar]

Chapter 15 Departure

A large patrol ship slowly sailed out of the port of Brahma Star 37 Fortress. Its huge body was pushed out of the docking port. While leaving the bridge, several nozzles around it began to spray outwards at the same time. The patrol ship picked up speed and rushed towards The dark space outside the fortress.Xue Yi was held in the arms of the major general, and he stood firmly in front of the window to watch the whole process of the battleship leaving the port in a state where the whole ship should be weightless.

The officer in the cockpit couldn't help looking at the major general from the corner of his eyes, guessing the identity of the cub in his heart, and let the meticulous major general use his privilege to stand at the porthole, and he was willing to use his ability to provide gravity for it.Although the officer hadn't heard of the major general's wedding, the cub was most likely the major general's eldest son.

The officer was amazed in his heart. They even made a secret bet against the major general who didn’t know how to be romantic until he was 50 years old. He didn’t expect that he even had cubs now. Must be a real warrior.

Having not experienced weightlessness and watched a grand sailing, Xue Yi was in a good mood, reluctantly forgave the Major General's refusal to bring His Highness along, and nestled obediently in his arms.

After the patrol ship moved away from the orbit of the fortress, the gravity system was turned on, and the officers and soldiers in the cockpit and living quarters could finally move freely.Captain Qi Jun is a young officer who was a comrade in arms with Ares who joined the army at the same time. Although he has long snow-white hair, he does not look old because of his delicate face.

What surprised Xue Yi was that it was the first time in this world that he met a person whose surname was listed in front of his name—he didn’t know the full names of Amin and Concubine—but this person with a Chinese name There is a pair of strange blue and green eyes.

Qi Jun briefly reported various information about the battleship to the major general, felt the eyes of the cub in the major general's arms, and finally couldn't hold back his eyes and looked over.

"The cub is very cute." He laughed. "This time, are you going to bring it back to 55?" 55 refers to Fort 55 on Kerr, where the major general used to be on the front line.But it is a military fortress after all, and the material conditions are much worse than the living fortress. Qi Jun doesn't understand why Ares took the cub there from the recognized beautiful environment of Fanxing 37.

Ares shook his head: "In recent years, large troops will be stationed in the adjacent Fourteenth Fortress, and part of the garrison of 55 has been notified to relocate. There will also be some people on the mainland of Kerr, although its orientation has not yet completely turned to the front line. But after all, it is a natural planet, so we need to be more cautious."

"Indeed, the natural planet is more suitable for cubs to grow up." Qi Jun suddenly realized, and then approached Ares, curiously asked: "Is the cub's mother also on the ship?"

Ares laughed, stroked the re-dyed cub in his arms and said, "No, I will take it myself." Since he must take the cub to the front line, Ares does not trust others, only by his side. the safest.He arranged for the three war envoys to follow the fleet in the spaceship and arrive at the fortress after the patrol ship.

Qi Jun nodded knowingly, and reached out to touch the cub's soft-looking ears, but he didn't expect to be stared back by the cub: "How dare you!"

He was taken aback, quickly withdrew his fingers, looked at the cub dumbfounded, and then raised his eyes to Ares: "My God, I really deserve to be your kind, how old is this enlightenment? I'm sure before that time You don't have any cubs yet, so this... is less than a year old?"

"...Three years old." Ares felt a little helpless towards his old comrade-in-arms.

"That was before?" Qi Jun had a look of disbelief, "Before the encounter you...you actually kept it from us! If Kano and the others knew..."

Ares said with a smile: "Even if they know, they can't do anything to me now."

Qi Jun knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and was a little embarrassing.The three or five best friends with Ares back then basically belonged to the same patrol team as him. At that time, he was recuperating due to injury and missed the encounter that could be recorded in the annals of history—so he was the only one among the group of friends who survived. He survived, and now he can still stand beside this major general who has become a legend.

"Sorry." Qi Jun sighed and said with a wry smile, "I always feel that they are still there."

Ares smiled and shook his head and didn't care.The scene of his comrades dying in front of his eyes was once his deepest nightmare, but after several years of living as a domestic cat, the piercing anger and heartache have subsided, and now he thinks of the situation at that time, and his emotions Already very calm.Qi Jun didn't know about his adventures, so he probably felt that he had just woken up from a coma for less than a year and hadn't adjusted his mood yet.

Ares looked down at the extremely well-behaved cub in his arms, and stroked its jaw with one finger, feeling tender in his heart.

"I heard that your spiritual power has been upgraded, Super A?" Qi Jun asked in a low voice.

Ares was surprised: "This news should still be a royal secret. How did you know it?"

"My old man asked me about it, but I said I didn't know." Qi Jun curled his lips, "Who knows where he got the news, it seems that he can't be sure. The old man has always lamented that the military department in his era was one-hearted, and there was no intrigue or anything. , and now I don’t fall into it myself.”

"At that time, the empire had been the boss for a long time. It was ambitious, and no one would accept it. If the ghosts dared to invade, they would definitely fight back. In addition, the two marshals of the Li Pei clan and the Heishao clan are strong enough, so they can naturally work together." Ah Reiss sneered, "Now some people are afraid of being beaten, and they know that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack in the origin galaxy, so they cover their eyes as if they can't see the crisis outside. The old Marshal Heishao went at the wrong time, leaving behind Li Pei It's hard to sing alone."

Qi Jun sighed: "My old man was originally a tough guy, if it wasn't for my little uncle..."

Qi Jun's little uncle was once a man of the generation, but unfortunately he was a little too conceited, and was accidentally parasitized by a ghost.The ghost sneaked back to the Qi family through his body, assassinated several tribesmen, and was defeated by his old father, the then General Qi.After all, Mr. Qi didn't have the heart to kill his youngest son, whom he had always loved and loved so much, so he gave the ghost a chance to escape.

Mr. Qi knew that his misjudgment had led to bad results, so he took the blame and resigned and stayed away from the military decision-making center. He is currently working as an instructor in the training department of the military department and concentrates on training younger generations.But Mr. Qi almost became the marshal after all. Until now, there are still many people secretly contacting him, trying to draw him into their camp.

Ares knew the old man Qi's past, and it was difficult to answer, so he lowered his head and focused on grooming the cub in his arms.

Xue Yi felt a little drowsy listening to the conversation between the two. He had been in a peaceful world for a long time. Although he experienced a chase after coming to this world, his comfortable life later made him feel that that time was just an accident. He passively regards everything related to military and politics as something that a small citizen like himself does not need to participate in.

War is still a word imprinted on the screen in Xue Yi's mind. He knows that there will be bloodshed and sacrifices, and that there will be all kinds of tragedies, but he can't empathize with them at all.

Besides...he's just a kitten now.

Qi Jun looked at Ares's expression, then looked at the squinting cub in his arms who seemed to be asleep, and his voice softened a little: "This time, there seems to be something shady about urging you to go back to the front line, are you sure you Is your body okay?"

"It's nothing serious." Ares didn't take it seriously, "And Vincent deliberately arranged some tasks for me to delay the schedule. When I return to the orbit of Kerr, my physical fitness should be able to return to its peak."

"Physical fitness is good, but ability?" Qi Jun was not at ease, because ability is closely related to mental power. If Ares can't fully grasp the newly upgraded mental power, his ability will be limited to a certain extent. Using it, there is still the possibility of being able to use it.The front line is no better than the rear, where things change rapidly, and once there is a slight mistake in the ability you are used to, it may be the difference between life and death.

Ares also had some headaches: "It's a little bit close, but I just can't catch it."

He couldn't say much, but in fact he already had some guesses in his heart that his inability to fully grasp the spiritual power might be related to the ghost royal family dormant in his body, even though the royal family seemed to be dying, leaving only a trace of instinct or obsession remaining over there.

When using the in-situ form, Ares can perfectly suppress the obsession of the ghost, but once he returns to the high-level form, the faint trace is always disturbing him, as if in his spiritual power A soft and transparent film is inserted between the resonance with the ability.He was still able to use his powers, but he always felt that they were not in his full control.

"What's wrong with your ability?" A mental message appeared in Ares's mind. He lowered his head and saw that the cub had opened his eyes and was looking at him curiously with his small face up.

Ares quickly replied: "Nothing."

"Liar." Xue Yi curled his lips, thinking that he had already noticed the occasional noise.Later, he observed carefully and found that the sound would appear whenever the major general practiced using his ability, and the strength of the sound was closely related to the ability the major general mobilized.In order to confirm his judgment, he secretly went to watch the training of the war envoys. That kind of noise did not appear when Ke Ke, Amin, and Wei Yi used their abilities, so there must be something wrong with the major general.

Ares looked at the distrustful cub, but couldn't explain anything to it.

"If you have problems with your mental strength, go back and recuperate quickly. Why are you still wasting time here?" Xue Yi complained.

Since he had accepted this man as his adoptive father, he couldn't help caring about him. Besides, the major general treated him very well. After learning spiritual communication, Xue Yi discovered that the major general's requests to him were basically obedient.Xue Yi didn't want the major general to be in any danger from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't help him. He could only urge him to train more and restore his mental strength as soon as possible.

Ares laughed, looked up to see Qi Jun's inquiring eyes, and explained: "The little guy urged me to go back to meditate, so please keep an eye on me first."

Qi Jun rolled his eyes, and waved his hand to tell the major general, who has no friends if he has a cub, to leave quickly.

The dormitory conditions of the patrol ship are much worse than those of Ares's private warship. Even as a major general, he does not have a single dormitory, but shares a room with Qi Jun and two other officers.There was no one in the dormitory right now, so Xue Yi looked around curiously.

The structure of the dormitory is somewhat similar to that of Xue Yi's university days, but the four loft beds are not placed outside, but rather embedded in the wall, with beds and tables, and a wardrobe is compactly designed.Perhaps in order to prevent the danger caused by sudden battles, the planes of the space inside the bed are all made of soft materials, and there is a safety belt on the bed frame.There are shutters on the wall outside the loft bed, and once opened, a private space with an area of ​​less than three square meters will be formed.In the corner of the dormitory, there is also a compound bathroom the size of a telephone booth, which contains the vacuum-pumped toilet and washbasin that Xue Yi once saw on His Highness’s battleship, but there is no bathtub here, and a shower is installed on the top of the bathroom. Can shower.

"It won't be as comfortable as at home, but I hope you learn to adapt." Ares' words were a little harsh, but there was a hint of comfort in his emotions.

Xue Yi flicked his ears: "I'm not that delicate, but your roommate is not allergic to cat fur, right?" He himself had encountered it before, when he was in college, he couldn't secretly adopt one in the dormitory because of his roommate's allergies. Stray cats, I felt very sorry at the time.

Ares smiled and said, "No."

Xue Yi was noncommittal, and after wandering around the palm-sized dormitory for a while, he lost interest, so he urged the major general to carry him to the bed, and started the routine spiritual training.

Ares looked at the cub in front of him who was earnestly trying to become stronger, and his mood was a bit complicated: on the one hand, he still did not want the cub to wake up too soon, but on the other hand, he hoped that he could become stronger as soon as possible, which was so sad that others could not see the slightest bit .