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LastShadow, Lu Ting remembered its name, and had a strong interest in it since childhood.

I also remember that in the battle more than 20 years ago, it was sunk on the edge of the capital as the flagship of the rebel army.Experts from all walks of life came to the conclusion that its wreckage was most likely to fall in the fourth district. Since then, it has become a key search target. The government, chaebols, and civilians are all watching, but it is really like the "last phantom", and there has been no news about it until now.

But Lu Ting did not expect that it would sink to the bottom of the sea—under the surface of the sea where he was floating at the moment.

They came by boat.A speedboat remodeled by Deng Mochi himself, with its outdated and unaesthetic appearance and unexpectedly stable performance, was comparable to the long-armed mechanical puppy in the fourth district.Lu Ting left all the equipment with positioning functions before departure, and the voyage can only be estimated based on the speed of the ship. After more than 70 minutes on the sea, the final berthing point is probably more than [-] nautical miles away from the nearest coastline.

This is a piece of sea that has not been touched by industrial waste water.Lu Ting passed through the sea dyed gray, the sea dyed red, and also passed through the tide of bacteria and algae composed of a large number of mutated microorganisms. When he finally arrived here, the sea seemed to return to its own appearance. After all, radiation pollution is invisible. Yes, the blue and deep ocean should have, as well as the white froth on the top of the waves, are all stably recorded here, retaining the appearance of many years ago.

There are clouds in the sky, the wind is calm, and the surroundings are silent and boundless, but Lu Ting always recalls the scene in the VR documentary, which makes him have the illusion that birds will appear at any time, and their shadows will be reflected on the sea.

He thought, compared to the vastness of nature, human beings are really easy to be swallowed, including the evil consequences they caused.

Deng Mochi suddenly pulled the engine, and the ship circled around due to inertia, and stopped at a point.He threw a remote-controlled distance-measuring ball into the water, and the ball sank quickly, and quickly bounced back with a feedback signal.

"It's here." He glanced at Lu Ting.Obviously there is no map or compass, but he is so sure.

And it's true, there's something underwater.

"Boss, are you relying on your feelings? Or do you remember the coordinates?" Lu Ting couldn't help being curious.

Deng Mochi pointed to the not far away - looking at the angle of the sun, it was probably in the northeast direction. Lu Ting turned up the magnification of the eyepiece to see clearly. There was a shadow standing in the reflection of the water surface, which was a reef island.

"I moved here last time." Deng Mochi said, "The water next to the island is shallow, so it's safer."

"Move the spaceship? Can it still move, or is it amphibious?" Lu Ting's eyes widened.

He seemed to be asking nonsense, but Dun Mo was too lazy to answer, silently pawing at the edge of the deck and reaching for it.Lu Ting thought that he was going to go directly into the water, and thought that this was too violent, and was about to stop someone, and stuffed the old anti-radiation diving suit he had carried on his back, when Deng Mochi turned a valve on the side of the hull , then sat down on the spot, and Lu Ting sat with him. Four fan blades were raised around the original open-air deck, with electromagnet sealing strips on the edges, and they were tightly attached together to form a conical airtight cabin.

Deng Mochi turned on the flashlight.

The entire speedboat began to sink rapidly.

In the sudden short-term weightlessness, Lu Ting looked up and saw that the sealed space was very narrow, and he could barely move when he sat down. The pressure was building up, and he always thought they were going to crack and leak, but they just didn't, and even the internal pressure gauge hanging above his head was always green.Deng Mochi lowered his head and pressed the handle, and the auxiliary image was displayed on the light screen in front of him, but he was already proficient enough that he didn't need to keep an eye on it all the time. He simply adjusted the tilt of the ship twice, and suddenly, the ship trembled , the words "Docking successful, pressure stable" are displayed on the light screen.

If the flagship is a sunken reef, then this small boat should be the sea anemone or coral attached to it.

Lu Ting was thinking about those things that had long since disappeared.

"Let's go." Dun Mochi unscrewed the round cover in the center of the deck, which looked like a well.

He jumped down, still holding a high-power flashlight, illuminating the road ahead, and Lu Ting followed him.

He has seen a lot of warships, and Lu Ting judged that the position he was in at this time was the tail compartment, which is mainly used to store weapons. There are indeed weapons, but they are all in a shape that he has never seen before.After walking a few steps and stepping on two pipes, he really realized that he had come in, LastShadow, he was inside the legend.

The various facilities of the battleship are well preserved and look almost brand new, not at all like the things from more than 20 years ago. Lu Ting touched the walls and some parts. The professional instinct of the police made him subconsciously want to remember valid information. Not to mention the material.

Maybe it's because the seal is too good, there is no stale smell in the air as expected, there is very little dust, and even the rust smell is not much, and it probably comes from the person in front of him.Time seems to be frozen, so deep into the bottom of the sea, the surroundings are completely silent, Lu Ting breathes lightly, as if afraid of disturbing anything, but Deng Mochi's behavior is as ordinary as walking at home, "The whole ship The structure is an inverted triangle, divided into two floors, and the effective area is about one-sixth of Aldebaran," he introduced to Lu Ting, leading people to climb on the hanging ladder, and the beam of light from the flashlight swept across different compact grids. Room, such as the pressurized cabin, telephoto observation corridor, oxygen balance room, etc., "This is the power cabin." He said again, and then turned on the overhead light.

A few light strips illuminated the shadowless environment, causing Lu Ting to squint his eyes. After recovering his sight, the first thing that caught his eye was a place of parts.

They are divided into several piles, put together similarly, and packed in latte baskets.Each one is tagged with a number.

Lu Ting squatted down, picked up a gear and looked at it.He also noticed that there were still a few blueprints pressed under the basket, and he pulled them out to see the familiar handwriting, dense calculation process... Some of the blueprints were printed, and they also had the coordinate axes of the modeling software, but most of them Most are hand drawn.

"You did it all yourself?" Lu Ting raised his eyes and looked at Deng Mochi in a daze.

Dun Mochi nodded, squatted beside him, crossed his hands, "Can you measure radiation now?"

"Ah? Yes, I brought that." Lu Ting quickly rummaged through his satchel and took out a measuring pen.Ten seconds later, the results showed that the exposure here was only 1.5 mSv/year, which was already close to the habitable value before the nuclear war.

"Both the hull and the shell of the nuclear-powered engine are made of special materials, a technology I don't understand," Deng Mochi frowned, and explained, "It can reflect most of the emitted particles, block a few, and create a green environment in the activity area." .And the external rigidity is very strong, and the internal buffer facilities are perfect. I have checked that after the accident, the ship is basically not deformed."

"But it still crashed, or was it just parked?"

"It crashed. The driver died."

Lu Ting sat cross-legged, put the measuring pen on the gear sleeve, held it in his hand, and turned it slowly. He asked again, "Boss, where did you find it in the first place?"

"K2-98 port, after a tsunami."

Lu Ting searched for this number in his mind, "Isn't that the radiation peak area! Humans are not recommended to enter!"

"It doesn't affect me much."

"Oh," Lu Ting knew that he had made this person repeat the words again, he was a little embarrassed, pulled Deng Mochi's wrist, and asked him to sit down like himself, "How old were you at that time?"

"Seventeen." Deng Mochi really sat beside him obediently.

"Then you start designing these." Lu Ting looked down at the parts, big and small, there were at least a hundred of them, "Is it made of materials picked up from the fourth district?"

Deng Mochi let out a "huh" and said slowly: "The anti-radar system can still be used, but it is still easy to be seen in the shallows. At first it was still moving, but when I moved more than 100 meters offshore, it broke down. "

"Broken?" Lu Ting pinched his face so that he would not smirk out of nowhere.He thought of the 17-year-old Deng Mochi, who was driving such a mysterious ultra-high-tech behemoth, and suddenly saw it go on strike, so he was helpless.It looked a little pitiful, but also kind of cute.

"There are two reasons. One is that the power is insufficient, so I am saving electricity. The reactor is about to reach the end of its life and must be discarded on time," Deng Mochi was still explaining seriously. "The second is the problem with the engine running. Several key parts may have been directly vaporized at high temperature during the accident, or they may have been damaged due to improper operation when I moved the location."

"So you haven't actually seen what the missing pieces look like." Lu Ting couldn't believe it.

"That's why I designed these." Deng Mochi looked at those parts and drawings with a dull expression, just like looking at the garbage he created.

"But they still helped you move the little shadow here, and no one can find it," Lu Ting leaned on his shoulder, "Although it is abolished now, it has worked anyway."

Dun Mochi didn't make a sound for a while, he felt strange, because the name "Little Shadow" is more natural for Lu Ting at the moment, at this power, it is enough to support a city's operation for five years, and it is also enough to destroy a city in five microseconds Beside the reactor on the flat ground, Lu Ting actually, it seemed, just wanted to touch his shoulders and stretch his legs, like a roadside picnic.

But he did feel relieved by it himself.

Every cabin here, for him, would have been a little suffocating.

"A few days ago, I said I had something to do, so I came here." Deng Mochi tried to tilt his head, and got closer to Lu Ting. The earlobe touched the tip of the hair, which was a little prickly, but very soft.

"I guessed it." Lu Ting and him pressed their noses together, with eyebrows and eyes curved, and clapped their fingers to state their point of view, "I think those few things we lacked were vaporized when they fell, otherwise if you did not operate them properly, What you did later can’t be kept, and boss, you are already too strong. Who can imagine these pictures out of thin air with so many details, and you are the only one. For the advanced equipment, you have been the only one to get it for so many years, and you have been improving it all the time, if I had given up already."

Dun Mochi didn't refute, because I was too bored and needed to do something, which I thought I should do.It seems inappropriate to say this now, and it will make Lu Ting show that kind of bewildered expression.

So he quietly looked forward, behind those baskets, the power reactor emits a blue-green light, forming a circle like a cloud, where countless incident neutrons are directly colliding with a certain nucleus in the target nucleus, generating energy At the same time, the heat was high. Although the rays were blocked, the heat could be transmitted through the air, and he was already sweating.

"Let's go, go to the main control room." He stood up and turned off the lights.

Lu Ting almost jumped up and followed him closely, reminding him inexplicably of the puppy last night, the flashlight in his hand was like the leash.Or maybe the flashlight wasn't, and something else was pulling.Deng Mochi was only impressed by Lu Ting's night blindness, so he turned on all the lights in the main control room.

The structural layout of this area is little different from ordinary warships, which makes Lu Ting feel kind.He saw those gauges, buttons and switches, as well as the blacked-out screen and projection hole, and even thought he could operate it—he had won the fighter pilot gold epaulet for two years in a row in school, and only the trial competition No.1 only.But of course he knew that he couldn't move around, he just stepped on the silver-gray non-slip floor and approached lightly.

On the front windshield, near a recess on the console below, is a rose.It was the one he printed. The milky white flower stem was fixed in the groove by several layers of adhesive tape, and it was neatly pasted.

Sitting in the driver's seat, you can see it when you look up.

If you are standing and operating, it is also within the range of your eyes.

On the co-pilot's seat next to the console, there was a dead body.He was placed upright, his hands were on the armrests, and his unbroken neck was leaned against the back of the chair. It had been completely dried into dry bones, and his skin seemed to be shattered into slag at the touch of a finger.

He was supposed to be an officer, still wearing a helmet and uniform.Although they were all dirty and old, Lu Ting still recognized the logo of the rebels on it, a long sword with a tongue of fire inserted into a black ring.

This pattern has long been a taboo topic, but Lu Zhijiao once said that the circle represents the earth where the two poles have frozen and expanded, leaving only the equatorial region inhabitable.

Roses brought surprises, but dead bodies did not bring shock. Lu Ting turned his head, and Deng Mochi was behind him. He walked closer and took a small metal badge from the officer's chest.The two of them seemed to be old friends, and the square card was placed in Lu Ting's hand.

Black background, golden edge, except for a long string of pentagrams indicating military rank, only three large characters are plated and engraved on it.It was those three words.The sharpness of the pen cuts gold and jade, piercing people's eyes:

Deng Mochi.

"I borrowed his name." Dun Mochi said calmly.

Lu Ting had a momentary heart palpitations, he stared at the palm of his hand, the rebel leader who lived in the legend was originally called this name?I see the three words in my eyes and in my heart every day.In fact, to a certain extent, this seems appropriate, they are all mysterious people, and Lu Ting only cares about the living one.

He still finds the name unlucky.

"He should be the driver," Lu Ting said.

"It was originally in the driver's seat." Deng Mochi had already turned on the host, and quickly entered the system that he had already cracked. "The cause of death is unknown. Fingerprint and facial recognition can't be used. It's very troublesome."

"Just leave him here all the time?" Lu Ting put the famous brand in his trouser pocket, thinking to himself, come here to work every now and then, and devote himself wholeheartedly to it for many days. People from many years ago.

And the person concerned didn't seem to care at all. He just nodded slightly for the question, and his eyes were still focused on the screen and the code.

This is indeed something Deng Mochi can do.

"Do you want to retrieve the black box?" Lu Ting also let go of his entanglement and looked at the screen, he could still understand part of it.

"Well, take a look." Dun Mochi lowered his head, looked at the keyboard and hesitated for two seconds, then immediately continued his rapid typing, "I may have claustrophobia, slightly." He said suddenly.

Lu Ting's heart tightened, until the last minute, he didn't see it at all, he didn't even see it, "Because the window is full of deep sea?"

"Maybe." Deng Mochi browsed the access path, "He will be nervous, physically weak, and slow-minded. One more person will feel better."

"...He." Lu Ting almost pressed his body against Deng Mochi's side. He wanted to eliminate those distances, so that the man could feel at ease in the endless sea water and tranquility because of his own existence, even if it was just a moment. little bit.He didn't dare to think about how Deng Mochi came here a few years ago, subconsciously, he pointed at the withered bones.

Because the truth is, it lasts longer.

Deng Mochi lowered his eyelashes and looked at him strangely: "It's you now."

"I... will be me in the future," Lu Ting said softly, helping to deal with a few paths, and then said, "Boss, I think you don't care about yourself sometimes. You have been coming here for so many years, obviously reluctantly. Own."

"It's what I have to do."

"why?"

"Connection," Deng Mochi took a breath, and pressed the Enter key for the last time. He said something that Lu Ting could not understand, "I feel connection."

At this time, the screen suddenly became brighter, and the video of the black box was finally retrieved. This warship, which was dormant below the sea level, was streaming frame by frame during the last few minutes in the sky.

Lu Ting opened his eyes wide, reflecting the raging fire.