Chapter 484 MEI

"Checking the integrity of the peripheral energy shield... The peripheral energy shield is intact and has no gaps."

"The waterproofing measures of each pipeline are being checked...the filling of water belts in each pipeline has been completed as planned."

"The ability of the Hyperion's outer armor to withstand water pressure is being evaluated... The assessment has passed, and the Hyperion's outer armor can withstand water pressure at a depth of 10,000 meters below sea level."

"The possibility of underwater operation of each weapon system is being evaluated...The assessment has passed, and all weapon systems of the Hyperion can operate normally at a depth of eight thousand meters below sea level."

"The overall assessment is completed. Conclusion: The environment of Haiyuan City poses no threat to the modified Hyperion MKIV ProMax version, and you can dive with confidence."

A large number of characters flashed on the console. The ant-sized characters were connected together as many as a dozen screens, but it only took less than a minute for them all to flash. Then Aiyi submitted Final conclusion.

"In that case - prepare to dive immediately!"

Theresa calmly gave the order. Even standing on the bridge, she could still feel the vibration and roar from the Moonlight Throne engine when it changed its output mode. However, Theresa still stood firmly at the front of the bridge, without any need for safety. There is no need for armrests or seats. The whole figure seems to be nailed directly to the spot without any wavering.

"What will the principal be thinking at this time?"

Bronya looked at the figure who was almost as thin as herself, and the light in her eyes trembled slightly.

But there seemed to be no work for her to do here, so she turned around and prepared to walk back to her dormitory.

This is the sea surface at 11 degrees 20.9 north latitude and 142 degrees 11.5 minutes east longitude. From here to dive to 6152 meters below the sea level, a professional submersible needs five years. In about minutes, in the same time, ordinary military submarines can only dive about fifty meters. However, they are very large and are not designed specifically for diving. It is just that the temporarily modified Hyperion has to complete this more than 6,000 meters. According to Aiyi's calculations, the dive distance would take about twelve hours.

But, in fact, it won’t be that long – it won’t be that long before the battle begins.

After all, Cocolia is not the type to just sit back and let enemies come knocking on their door...

Bronya walked alone in the empty tunnel. Since the battle at the Destiny Headquarters, the shortage of personnel on the Hyperion has become more serious. Some instructors and Valkyrie students of the Far East Branch refused to go to the hospital to protect a Herrscher. War, the same is true for some members of Anti-Entropy. This These people were temporarily sent to the Anti-Entropy headquarters in North America on the Helios transport ship. According to Dr. Tesla, there would be dedicated personnel there to provide them with "ideological education," but no matter how many stayed in the end, at least this A battle in Haiyuan City will be useless...

The combat effectiveness of the Hyperion was not affected much. First, with the tacit approval of China, they carried out a wave of battle-damaged emergency repairs in Macau, a free port under the sovereignty of China. Then, during the process of coming to Haiyuan City, a group of "anti-entropy external personnel" boarded the ship in Macau. As the leader, the artificial intelligence of Aiyi The Hui Program and the Moonlight Throne engine have been upgraded. Now Aiyi no longer needs to spend a lot of computing power to keep the engine running. It has also been optimized, so even though there are fewer people on the Hyperion, the operation efficiency may still be Will be higher.

but……

Some problems cannot be solved by the computing power of artificial intelligence.

Just like the echo that keeps circulating in the tunnel - if a few people walk together, the chaotic and complicated footsteps will be enough to suppress its own echo.

Of course, there are also some idiots who are yelling. As long as she is around, it is always difficult to enjoy silence...

Bronya thinks she likes silence.

Whether it’s making a plan before executing a mission or doing the lurking sniping that you’re best at, you all need a quiet environment. Noisy sounds like that will only make people unable to concentrate, unable to concentrate on making plans, and unable to concentrate on observing goals. but……

The echo of her own footsteps echoed endlessly in her ears. At least at this moment, Bronya hated the silence.

Perhaps most of the preferences in this world do not come from a specific emotional preference, but are just habits.

The idiot Kiana is gone, sister Mei is gone, of course, she was the first to leave...

In fact, separation doesn't matter, right? She has been experiencing life, separation, and death from the moment she was born. How many months has passed since she was fourteen years old? In short, in such a long time, she has witnessed the death of too many "teammates", right in front of her, no, the earliest one, wasn't her mother?

Those three people are, at most, just partners who have been with him for a long time. Whether it is six years or three years, it is too short compared to the decades that may be spent in the future, so Bronya will not feel so sad because of this separation.

My feelings have long since become numb...but my mood is still not very good.

That's probably it. It can probably be described like this.

In any case, Bronya finally got the peace she had been dreaming of for a long time, but like most of the things she had gotten in her short life and might get in the future, when she got it, she would rather she never got it. Not obtained.

Suddenly, the girl's footsteps stopped in place. She looked at the intersection in front of her. She stood at attention with her feet together, then slowly took a step forward with her left foot, and then... suddenly turned right.

She turned into the tunnel that did not lead to her dormitory.

The hollow footsteps woven into a dense and invisible net behind her. Obviously, things that are disliked and unwanted will not disappear because of subjective dislike and unwantedness. Although everyone hopes to have such an ability, a certain ability will never be possessed just because a person wants it.

Bronya can only speed up her pace. As long as she walks far enough, each thread of the net behind her will gradually collapse under the infiltration of time, although... with every step she takes, there will be new threads to fill the decayed ones in the past.

Escape? There is nowhere to escape after all.

However, it is a pity that this is just a hunt imagined in the mind of a fourteen-year-old girl because of a difference in thought, and it has no practical significance.

But the next moment, a noise sounded behind her, interrupting this meaningless rhapsody.

"Bronya Zajcek, is that her name?"

The door behind her was gently opened, and the light poured down from behind her head, casting the shadow of that person next to Bronya.

"Da-da!"

Bronya stopped, and the woman stretched out the rubber band with her five fingers on her right hand, deftly and skillfully tied her purple hair into a high ponytail, while her left hand naturally hung down, but that was not because the woman wanted to be lazy, but because that hand was holding a purple broken knife barehanded.

Any normal person's first reaction to this scene would be - although there is a knife arrowhead, although it is a broken knife full of gaps, is it too dangerous to hold it barehanded?

"There is no way, after all, this knife has never had a sheath since its birth. And the original owner of this knife... also died because of my order. If this knife wants to avenge her, then just scratch me."

Bronya remembered the response she got when she first met this woman a few days ago because she stared at her left hand and the broken purple long knife for a long time.

But... the woman in front of her should also understand...

Bronya slowly raised her head and looked at the face that she was so familiar with:

"Who are you?"

The reason why she placed her eyes on the woman's left hand was simply because her face looked too similar to another person.

The woman raised her right hand, which had just dropped, again and adjusted her glasses that seemed not to slip off at all.

Taking off the colorful contact lenses she wore when they first met, the woman revealed her original dark purple eyes, but in this way, she was more similar to the person in Bronya's memory.

But as her eyes moved down exactly an inch, she finally found something that could be said to be different between the two.

However, this kind of thing will also be made up with the passage of time.

Too much time passed in silence. Bronya came back to her senses and apologized without any apology:

"Sorry, I was distracted just now. Are you calling me?"

"Well, that should be right, Bronya Zaychek."

Her silver eyebrows frowned beautifully, and Bronya asked back with some displeasure:

"Let's not talk about what you want to tell me, why... do you have to call me by my full name."

Natasha once said that in normal human social etiquette, calling a person by his full name is a basic courtesy, or it may be a deliberate alienation.

But it doesn't matter to Bronya. Her name is too long for people who can speak Russian, and it is long and difficult to pronounce for people who can't speak Russian. If it's just normal communication, it's fine, but on the battlefield where every second counts, such a long list of names is really inappropriate.

So just call her "Silver Wolf", she has always said this to her partner.

Even after entering a peaceful life, she would still use the name Bronya more often. It had nothing to do with politeness or intimacy. It was just a long-standing habit that made her hate the long and difficult name.

And for those who need to call her name, being able to omit the "Zaichik" after her name is also a great blessing.

But the woman in front of her called out her full name twice, no, three times, including the first time she met in Macau.

Why?

Bronya couldn't think of any reason except for some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder or mental disorder.

It's just that she can't get used to her full name, not only because she doesn't like it out of habit, but also because...

Just like Natasha said, calling her full name, whether it's polite or distant, always gives people a feeling that the next sentence will be very important.

"Zaichik? Well, the reason is actually very simple. Zaichik is more important to me than the name Bronya."

"Why?"

"It's very simple."

This seems to be a woman's habit of speaking. Looking at her eyes, there is always a sense of ease that most things that humans can do are extremely simple for her.

"From a time point of view, human beings, like most creatures in the world, are creatures that live in the present moment. But from a soul point of view, we live in the past all the time. Facing a brand-new For questions, I will instinctively look for methods and answers from the sea of ​​questions I have done in the past - oh, just like the question I have done before, like this, like this, and then like this, I have never seen it before. People who have experienced this will unconsciously associate them with people they knew in the past. An acquaintance connected him - ah, this guy is just as impulsive as someone I met before. This is because... time is now divided into the past and the future, and the present is a certain point that changes all the time. What cannot be truly grasped is just like the saying in books, 'One cannot step into the same river twice', so the only thing that humans can truly grasp is the past... Sorry, I like to make long remarks as soon as I open my mouth. You must feel bored."

"No, I'm used to it going in one ear and out the other."

Bronya shook her head mechanically. She had forgotten when she acquired this ability. It was in the orphanage in Cocolia, because she always liked to take a few children to tell fairy tales before going to bed, but she was not interested in it at all and could not resist, while Natasha would only tell the story from the sidelines. Did you develop it while drinking and desperate? Or is it because of some verbose idiot...

But relatively speaking, she has another ability, or talent. For example, she can quickly extract the meaning of the other party's words even though she doesn't listen very carefully.

"However, I roughly understand what you are trying to say. The surname Zaicek is related to your past, right? In other words, you know a person named Zaicek, right?"

"Um."

The woman nodded heavily.

"You are very similar to him, in every sense of the word. You look similar, and you are similar in not liking others to call you by your last name - although it is for completely different reasons."

"boring."

Bronya left a brief comment and started walking again.

"Actually, isn't it the same for you? Every time you see me, the first thing that comes to mind is that 'Sister Mei'. The same is true for me, regardless of the differences in gender and age. , your facial features and hair color are very similar. If you stand together, people might think you are brother and sister. Although your names are completely different, unlike me and Mei's pronunciation in Jidong, the last name is the same, so I saw you. , I will always think of him unconsciously.”

Bronya was walking well, but suddenly she lost her balance, stumbled on her back foot and almost fell flat on her front foot.

She didn't realize it until now - the facial features and hair color are very similar, and they look exactly like siblings. That's not...

"Yes, it's Mikael."

The woman's voice sounded in her ears at the right time, gentle and calm, as if she could see through everything she was thinking.

"Keep walking, don't you want to see her?"

"she……"

The memory of the recent past came to mind again, and the words she heard in the illusion she had fallen into in New Zealand, which she judged as "the past", became clear again.

Bronya's already fair face had a tendency to turn pale. She pursed her lips twice and asked softly:

"Um...Dr. Mei, you also know Xi'er, right?" (End of Chapter)