escape the moon

Coming out of the nursing home, Shen Yizhen's head was still buzzing.

What Yang Shaoqing saw was the best side of Xiaoshan, but what Shen Yizhen saw was the worst side of Xiaoshan.Which of the "two" Xiaoshan is the real Xiaoshan?

Shen Yizhen understands that he can't define a person by his worst side, nor can he define a person by his best side. People are multi-faceted, and most of the time he is neither the best self nor the worst self.

At the time of parting at No. 4 Cassini Street, Alice howled hoarsely, and tightly grabbed Shen Yizhen's sleeve to prevent her from being taken away.The nanny tried hard to persuade, scolded and coaxed, but she still cried, her collar was wet with tears, and her voice was hoarse, as if she was trying desperately.Shen Yizhen was so distressed that she finally agreed to stay for dinner.Alice didn't want to leave him for a second, and even changed her clothes and asked him to stand at the door of the dressing room and talk to her, so as to ensure that her brother Shen would not take the opportunity to escape.

Shen Yizhen could tell that the child was extremely helpless.If no one gives her confidence, she will gradually collapse.

Halfway through dinner, a servant came in to report that General Xiao had returned.Alice became nervous again, deeply afraid that Shen Yizhen would leave because of Xiaoshan's return.She grabbed Shen Yizhen's hand, Shen Yizhen hesitated and did not dare to speak, only to see Xiaoshan walking in from the outside.

The scene of two big and one small was very embarrassing, Xiaoshan took a look at the children and left, "You guys eat first."

Shen Yizhen blurted out: "Let's go together."

It was too late to regret, so I turned my head away from looking at people, and just said silently in my heart: he is for the child.

The servant brought an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks.The hardest one was Alice, who racked her brains to get the two adults to talk.

"Uncle, grandpa gave us a gift today." She was referring to Shen Yizhen's scores.

Shen Yizhen was afraid that Xiaoshan would feel that she was accepting the gift privately, so she took out the things: "I wanted to go back to the office and report it. Although it is just a few scores, it is still a valuable thing."

Xiaoshan took it over and flipped through it: "A few pieces of paper, no need. You can keep it for yourself."

"Let's report it, just in case..."

"He gave it to you in private, and it's not something valuable. I've seen it too. If someone asks, just say I agree."

Shen Yizhen frowned, not knowing how to return this favor.

Xiaoshan thought he was angry again, so he could only lower his stance: "I'll say hello to the office later and ask them to fill out a form to complete the formalities. You keep the things. If you don't tell them, they won't know. "

Shen Yizhen was even more sorry, he accepted the gift, and then asked Xiaoshan to cover for him, isn't this selfish?He should have thought that going to see Yang Shaoqing would be a big pitfall, and he couldn't afford this favor at all.Just because Xiaoshan said that he had already made an appointment and he couldn't let the pigeons go, he didn't think much about it, he just wanted to see his idol, so he went.The current situation is all his own making.

Secretary Shen still had to leave after dinner.

Xiaoshan attaches great importance to kindness and kindness, Alice dare not throw a fit in front of him, but her eyes are still red when she is told to leave Shen Yizhen.Shen Yizhen also had a sore nose, and couldn't help but say, "Don't be too fierce to her."

Xiaoshan complained: "You bring it yourself, I want to take care of her."

Shen Yizhen glared at him.Opposite was Alice's teary little face, he sighed, and finally carried the child over.Alice wrapped her arms around his neck, crying loudly.She was too nervous all day long, her little heart was hanging in the air, she was afraid that Shen Yizhen would not choose her, so she could only watch him go, she couldn't stand it.Shen Yizhen took her over, she finally let go of all the pressure, he still chose her, she did not misunderstand the person, finally there was someone who loved her from the bottom of his heart and would stand by her side no matter what.

Shen Yizhen's eyes were also slightly moist.Xiao Shan loosened his brows and smiled, casting a grateful look.

When only the two adults were left to talk alone, Xiaoshan was still in a daze.

He said: "I know you are for the children, and I still want to thank you."

Shen Yizhen is not sure whether it is for repaying favors or for children. He also learned a lesson-things in the world are complicated, and the result of an event is often not one-way causal logic, but the influence of many factors, and there are various coincidences The accident came to the end.

Xiaoshan didn't talk nonsense: "The child's biological parents are already known. I think you should also know about it."

Shen Yizhen frowned: "There will be a result so soon?"

In fact, it is not fast, and it is not difficult to find out.It's just that no one has checked before.

Jiang Pei took people to Zhihai Space Center, and soon got the list of personnel.There are no official records of missing persons, but between 615 and 620 27 employees died in the line of duty.Among these 27 people, there is a couple, surnamed Marino, who were registered as sacrifices in 620.Before his death, his husband was an instructor at the Astronaut Training Center, and his wife was a tester.The space center stated that the couple unfortunately died while performing official duties, and their remains have been cremated and sent back to their hometown.

Xiaoshan explained: "Jiang Pei thinks it's wrong. An instructor and an inspector are not high-risk positions, and they don't need to go on space missions. Even if there is an accident, they will not die in two different positions at the same time. The space center just said yes. accident. Jiang Pei went to their hometown, and Mrs. Marino’s sister revealed that in the spring of 620, representatives from the space center did return the ashes and relics, and the family received a large amount of compensation. But she had no idea about the pair Couples have children."

"So are these couples Alice's biological parents? Have you done a genetic comparison?" Shen Yizhen asked.

Xiaoshan took out the test report.Jiang Pei took Alice's hair to test the backup gene left by Mr. Marino, and the result showed a similarity of 99.99%, which supports that Mr. Marino is Alice's biological father.

A photo of the couple is attached to the report.Mr. Marino wears a pair of old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses. He is like a diligent and low-key scientific researcher who stays in his post all his life. Even if he is not promoted and raises salary, he dare not complain.There are as many such people as there are in the national scientific research team, and they are inconspicuous.On the contrary, his wife, Mrs. Marino, is an iconic beauty.Without genetic comparison at all, nine out of ten people can tell that Alice is her daughter.They looked so much alike, Alice's narrow eyebrows and big eyes were exactly the same as her mother's.

Shen Yizhen still has many questions: "Sacrificed?"

How did you sacrifice?Why sacrifice?Where was it sacrificed?

Xiaoshan replied: "They didn't leave many things, and there are few written records, so there is no first-hand evidence to reflect what happened to them. According to the memories of Marino's sister, the couple also appeared at a family dinner in the New Year in 620. Mrs. Nuo revealed to her younger sister that she has been under a lot of pressure recently and her sleep quality is not very good. The younger sister thought she was just complaining about work casually and didn't take it seriously. As a result, the couple lost contact shortly after the New Year, and the family called the unit to ask , The space center said it was closing the office. It was not until spring that the news was sent back that the couple died on duty."

"It disappeared in 620? Didn't the family members fail to contact them for a long time?"

"This couple works in the fourth district, but their hometown is in the first district. Because they are engaged in heavy scientific research work in a confidential unit all the year round, they often cannot be contacted for several months, and they cannot even go home for reunion during the holidays. The family is also very used to it. They would send messages to the family regularly, and in the two years from 618 to 619, Mrs. Marino would send messages to the family every month. So the family didn’t notice it.”

Messages can be programmed in advance and sent at regular intervals, and can even be sent under her identity.It's not difficult.

Shen Yizhen was shocked by the space center's reaction.The Marinos didn't disappear until 620. They should have gone to Earth in 618 and returned to the moon in the winter of 619.That is to say, in 618 the space center must have known that they were missing, but there was no response. By the New Year in 620, both of them came back, and the family also saw them. The space center even admitted that they were working in the unit!

This is against common sense.The two employees did not ask for leave and did not come to work at the unit for a long time. At first, the unit would never have thought that they had escaped from the planet, maybe they were sick, or something happened at home.The unit will contact the family members to find someone as soon as possible, at least to ask if they have returned home.If you leave your post without authorization for more than a week, the unit can regard it as a voluntary resignation, and you can even call the police.

The space center neither found the family members nor called the police.If they tell the family that the couple is in a "closed office", it means that they knew from the beginning that the couple had fled the planet and didn't want people to know that they were "missing".

The crux of the problem is, why did the space center know that the couple had escaped from the planet?

One possibility is that the Marinos were discovered at the beginning of the defection and still managed to escape.Escaping from the planet without permission is a felony, and the space center should bear the responsibility. The person in charge of the unit concealed it in order to avoid responsibility; the second possibility is that the space center was also involved in the escape from the moon, and they were responsible for sending the couple out of the moon.

Shen Yizhen couldn't help shivering at the thought.He had an intuition that the space center could not have been involved in the escape from the moon.This is ridiculous. A national scientific research institution participated in and planned to defect to the planet. Where did the high-level officials go?Is the whole establishment treasonous?Since they have all been sent to the moon, why are they still coming back?

If the space center concealed the actual situation in order not to take responsibility, how did the Marinos escape smoothly?Still ventured back a year and a half later with the baby.Even if the space center concealed its fault, there should be remedial measures in private, right?For example, sending people to the earth to find the defectors and escort them back. Not only did they fail to find them, but they also sneaked back from under their noses?

Many of the facts here are illogical.

Shen Yizhen began to sort out the existing investigation results: "It is now certain that the Marinos are Alice's parents. They are both moon species and work in the Zhihai Space Center in District 618. They defected to Earth in the spring of 619 and gave birth to Alice. We will see them again in the winter of [-], and they brought their children to the grocery store on Crock Street in the second district."

Xiaoshan nodded: "The child should have been entrusted to the workers and couples of the Waste Recycling Plant in District 619 in the winter of 627, and then the Marinos "sacrificed". The team rescued them. The spaceship they were on has not been found yet. It is certain that Zhihai Aviation Center still had mishandled spaceships before 618. For example, the spaceship that crashed at the central peak of the Lyman Pit in 615 was the registered spaceship of this space center. .”

Shen Yizhen put down the report with a solemn expression: "It's not the first time? How does the Aviation Center explain it?"

"They said that the crashed spacecraft failed to perform a confidential mission and has been scrapped and recycled." It's probably hard to believe it.

Shen Yizhen's eyes lit up: "Secret mission? Is it possible that the Marinos are not defecting, but carrying out a mission?"

If these mysterious "space missions" were carried out under the orders of the space center, then a lot of things would make sense.

The Marinos can openly drive the spacecraft of the space center to the earth, and then give birth there (of course, the baby may not be the original plan of the mission), and then complete the mission and return from the moon.The spacecraft is recovered in the space center, and no one will find any abnormalities.In this way, they are not "defecting" at all, they are "traveling".

From the beginning, Xiaoshan and Shen Yizhen always felt that this was a "defection" incident, because Alice, a child born on earth, made it hard not to think about things in this way.Before the Marinos' trip to Earth, there should have been more than one mission attempt, such as the spacecraft that crashed in the Lyman Crater, which failed.Until 619, the Marinos successfully returned to the moon.

But they didn't tell the space center that during the year and a half on the earth, they also conceived a life, an unplanned life-their precious daughter Alice.This child should have been conceived by Mrs. Marino on Earth. They went in the spring and came back in the next winter. They stayed on Earth for more than 10 months.

They decided to hide the baby.If this special child is discovered, they will commit a crime and violate the biological research law.So the worker couple in the second district, who had been unable to have children all year round, became the target of the offer.

What accident happened after the child was sent away, which caused the Marinos to "sacrifice", it may be difficult to find out.What is certain is that the space center is inseparable from "sacrifice".

"Maybe it is a secret mission arranged by the space center. It is not appropriate to announce it to the public until it is not successful or effective results are obtained. Therefore, as long as the family members of the employees can be deceived." Shen Yizhen said: "The country is in a special period. If there is a secret mission, it cannot be announced to the public. , is a very normal thing. Because the success rate cannot be guaranteed, and if the mission fails, it is easy to shake the hearts of the people."

Xiaoshan frowned.So far this seems to be the only argument that makes sense.

"If that's the case, then the application for an investigation can be made public," he said.

Shen Yizhen took a deep breath: "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Xiaoshan doesn't want him to participate for the time being: "Don't rush in, I don't know how deep the water is." He stretched out his hand and said, "Anyway, thank you for staying. Even if it is for the children, I am very grateful. I know that you have sacrificed a lot. I made mistakes in the past, and I apologize to you again. I hope we can cooperate happily."

He had a good manner and a thoroughly businesslike air.

Shen Yizhen was rather embarrassed, if Xiaoshan could really maintain a working relationship with him, there should be some good memories between them.