Chapter 24
The variable stars
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“What is this?”
The sliding speed of the tramcar slowed down gradually, the like forging iron “Dang Dang” sound got gentle gradually, that made the tremble of Sheilor’s voice particularly obvious. The youngster’s always stable hands were also shaking, he touched on the smooth bracelet on his left wrist, guessed faintly what it was, but he just couldn’t believe it.
Fengyu didn’t answer him.
Suddenly, the zero point seven CM thick metal bracelet slid like the flowing mercury along with the touch of Sheilor’s finger!
There were some very fine lines showed on the surface of the metal, and then burst out along the lines, exposed the very complex and delicate internal structure of the bracelet. Inside the empty cavity of the bracelet, there were countless slightly bright metal pellets stranded on three as thin as hair metal strings.
Just like the starlight was depicted on a surreal oil painting, stringed all those brilliant stars together.
Through the dim light in the mine tunnel, Sheilor that pair of not-so-big eyes stared open widely and roundly, he stared at his own wrist without a blink, seemed like that he saw the not existing in the world immortal or monster. Those metal strings were too thin, the vibration of the tramcar was too big, Sheilor worried about that these metal strings would be shocked to break. Those lunar metal pellets were too small, they were so small as if they did not have any weight, would be blown away by the faint wind in the mine tunnel, and never could find any trace again.
In the eyes of the normal people, these metal strings and the lunar metal pellets or maybe were just some very delicate and fragile handicrafts, but Sheilor had already learnt four years machine maintenance in the wake of Fengyu, he had the born sensitive to all the human machine culture products, he could tell on these couldn’t be seen clearly metal surface by one glance, had something which could make himself moved.
Those as pretty as handicraft flowing lines, that was the chip core array arranged and combined with a kind of extremely marvelous way, although Sheilor didn’t know how these things were assembled on this small area at all, and how they would give play to the function, but he still would simply connect it with that secret which Fengyu told earlier.
The disguise chips? The could pass through the detection of all monitoring in the splendor of the First Charter disguise chips!
Sheilor got his nape cold once again, because he knew in the deep side of his cervical vertebra, there was a similar chip hid over there as well, it had already accompanied with him for seventeen years. To say it more accurate, every citizen of the Federation had a chip like this in the body… And in the countless years, no one could counterfeit this kind of chip, or even no one dared to try to take the chip out, unless he decided to flee to other places, and never returned to the Federation in life.
But at this moment, in the bracelet on the youngster’s wrist… There were chips which could disguise perfectly hid inside! What kind of meaning this represented? In the impact of the strong emotion, Sheilor couldn’t control himself clearly, but he only knew one point, one chip would represent a whole new life. He also thought of that sentence which his boss said at the beginning, the people who could study out the disguise chip and put it to work, would win the highest honor of the federal science, the Nebula Award.
Of course, if there were really the scientist who could study this kind of thing out in the Federation, before he could win the Nebula Award, he would certainly be sentenced imprisonment for life by the federal government. But no matter what, Sheilor was still shocked, what kind of powerful knowledge it needs, then it could contend against the most powerful Charter splendor of the federal civilization?
He was stunned to look back at Fengyu that somewhat tired and old face, opened his mouth for a long time, but couldn’t say a word out. He had never been shocked like this in his life, or maybe besides that loud bang twelve years ago.
And also because of this kind of shock, it let Sheilor to ignore another convincing fabrication processing of this bracelet, the fingerprint authentication and the switch-on was finished in a moment. This was not an especially difficult thing itself, but it could be done quickly on such a thin metal bracelet, this also explained a lot of things.
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“I said, this is my gift for you.” Fengyu seemed like that he didn’t know the bracelet which he threw to Sheilor casually, would cause what kind of uproar if it appeared in the federal society, he said, “if you don’t want to be put into the jail for years because of the relationship with me, find some time, find some room, take that chip which is in your neck out, and change it with one of those in the bracelet. The ID information and the operation way, are all in the screen, you can learn it yourself… With your talent, it shouldn’t be a difficult thing.”
At this time, the tramcar had already stopped at an intersection of the roadway in the mine tunnel, Sheilor gently put the bracelet back to the normal position with the trembling fingers, he wanted to throw the bracelet away in terror subconsciously, or returned it back to Fengyu, but then he found out, he couldn’t throw the bracelet away anymore, it had been around on his wrist as a whole, couldn’t find any crevice to pull it off, it seemed like that he had been wearing it since the childhood.
“You… You… You use it, otherwise… You would… Be dead, you could… Use it.” Sheilor looked at boss Fengyu that grey hair, he just knew what kind of mysterious and bottomless character his boss was, he couldn’t help to have some stammers, “I… at most would be just put in jail for years… You would be dead.”
“Stupid guy, I have already told the reason why.” Fengyu looked at the youngster that young face without any expression on his face, he said, “and this thing could only be used by one people, don’t ask me why, you also shouldn’t try to use these chips to save other people’s lives in the future. Go… Change another identity, go to the Capital Planet Circle, to live for a whole new life, with another way to achieve your worldly ideal.”
Another identity? Another life? Sheilor was slow-witted suddenly, his boss’s words and the true cold metal tactility on his wrist reminded him, the thought to be driven to the last ditch life, suddenly opened another door for him, but behind that another door… Really was the ideal life for him?
And, what about his boss?
“Give you the small gift, I also want to give you a few words.” Fengyu stare at his eyes with no expression on his face and said, “after you go to the Capital Planet Circle in the future, perhaps these few words would be useful for you.”
Sheilor was still frustrated, he listened subconsciously.
“Your two eyebrows are like the knives, too straight and too upright, this is not very good, they would press on your vision, it will overtax your nerves, if you could change it, then have it changed.”
“There is no creator among the stars, there is no splendor needed to be worshiped, the most dangerous place is the safest place, but this words you just can believe in for three times.”
“Forget me after today, all the things of the past four years needed to be dropped and buried, don’t have the extravagant hopes to find what fair and reward, and don’t even try to play revenge this kind of boring thing, I am not your father, I don’t have too much goodwill on you… Just pay attention to stay away from those people in life, those well-doers who are eating your flesh but claim to eat vegetable.”
“I know that you are really curious about that explosion of that war in those days and my charge, you want to believe that I am innocent, but I can’t say that I am innocent. But I can tell you, in a not very long time, you could probably know what that explosion looked like.”
“My words are finished.” Fengyu that hoary hair was dazzling up suddenly in the dark mine, his real age finally was exposed, he took out the cigarette from the pocket and lit it up, enjoyed to have a mouthful absorption,
blew a mouthful smoke on Sheilor’s face and went on to say, “the time is coming, they are almost here too, you can also get out of here.”
Sheilor had been listening to him in a daze, he just felt a stream of sadness emitted from the bottom of his heart, it stabbed his head incomparable pain, he said like praying with the hoarse voice, “you must live on.”
“Of course I will survive, I will live forever.” Fengyu suddenly had the extremely great expression on his face, he looked at the bracelet on Sheilor’s wrist and said, “do I still need you to tell me?”
After he finished this sentence, the most wanted traitor of the Federation, the ordinary mechanic of the East Forest Region Fengyu had a foot kicked on Sheilor, kicked that silly youngster into the sewer next to the underground tunnel.