Zheng Wenguang's works: Flying to sagittarius , A snowstorm twilight

The phone rang urgently.

Yue Lan swept the red button. A frightened young man's face appeared on the screen of the TV phone, and he gasped for breath: "I want Shao Zong, quick!" ”

"Shaw-Bo-Bo!" The girl screamed. Chief Engineer Shao Zi'an came out of the study.

"What's going on?"

"The base has found enemy intelligence!" As soon as the young man on the phone finished speaking, he immediately grabbed a glass and grunted down a large glass of water, his hands trembling so badly that at least half of the water flowed from his chin to his chest and shirt.

"What about Engineer Huo?" Shao Zi'an asked sternly.

"Participating in a search." The young man turned his head back and shouted suddenly, "Commissar Qi of the public security forces has come." ”

The phone "snapped" off.

"Quick, Yue Lan, help me get my car ready."

Yue Lan ran out like a whirlwind. Shao Zi'an's two thick eyebrows were tightly held together, looking so severe and cold. He was not a scholar in the study. As a result of years of working in the hot sun and windswept sand, his contoured face appeared dark and thick, and several gully-like wrinkles had been deeply rooted in the broad forehead and on both sides of the wings of the nose and on the temples. In fact, he is only forty-eight years old this year.

He went into the bedroom, took a live-fire pistol from the drawer on the bedside table, and then, after a moment's hesitation, took out a laser pistol, put on a leather coat, and carried the two pistols in the left and right coat pockets. Yue Lan, the girl with fast hands and feet, broke in like a whirlwind, and she also put on a work coat with duck down and nylon face, and the turban was tightly wrapped, revealing only a pair of shiny eyes.

Shao Zi'an glanced at her sternly.

"I'll go too." The girl said pleadingly.

Shao Zi'an did not make a sound and left in front of him.

Yue Lan followed close behind.

"Uncle Shaw!" Her voice became stubborn. "This is war!"

Shao Zi'an turned around and stuffed a pistol in her palm.

"This is a laser pistol. Watch out! When you encounter an enemy, you are only allowed to hit your legs! ”

The two men entered the driverless car one after another. Shao Zi'an gave instructions to the invisible electric yu driver in a hoarse voice: "1271, drive to the 2004 base, full speed!" ”

Snowflakes that have been fluttering on the ground since the morning have developed into a heavy snowstorm. Fine, crystalline salt-like particles of ice swirled, roared, and rushed in the northwest wind, drowning the wide road, along with the buildings on either side of it, the poplar trees, and the tower cranes still under construction, all in a strange white whirlpool, and it was already dusk. Although the street lights are all perfect, they look like only dots of light in the hazy snow fog. Sometimes it flashes with a rainbow-like color.

A car is like a motorboat in a stormy sea, like a shell or a torpedo. It sometimes jolts, is tossed, falls, and moves forward in spite of itself. The invisible electronic driver fought the snow and wind brilliantly, and soon drove out of the cosmonaut city, speeding along the highway that led to the 2004 base, sandwiched by four rows of tall poplar trees.

Yue Lan collapsed on the seat and pressed his two hands tightly against his sharply beating heart. Her mind was churning with a storm worse than the blizzard outside the car window! She clearly remembered that four years ago, when she was just a fourteen-year-old girl, it was also on a cold winter day, although it was not snowing, and it was this uncle Shao with his eyebrows locked tightly, who took her on this highway. Her father, Yue Yue, a nuclear power engineer at the base in 2004, was killed in an explosion. In the car, Uncle Shao did not say a word, and constantly stroked the shoulders of the little girl with his rough hands that were trembling very badly from the violent sobs.

After that, Yue Lan and her mother lived in a building next to Shao Zi'an's house. The pain of losing dad is enormous. It was like a sore that was difficult to heal and often opened, which often made Xiao Yuelan feel the pain of drilling his heart. Shao Zi'an is a tough iron man. For him, Yue Yue was not only a colleague and comrade-in-arms, but also a classmate in middle school, a brother who was closer than his brother; Yue Yue's daughter was also his daughter. However, he did not have time to give the little girl warmth. Oh my God, how many things are there for this chief engineer to worry about at the space base! The air lab, the flight to Mars, the flight to Jupiter, the flight to Titan, and then this huge plan to build a Mars laboratory... He also took his own daughter to his mother-in-law in Shanghai, taking only one son with him. This son. Shao Ji'en, although only three months older than Yue Lan, often took the place of his father's duties, and the eldest brother followed Yue Lan's growth.

At this moment, Yue Lan felt a pain in his heart again. She didn't dare to face Shao Zi'an's face, and only stole a few glances at him from the corner of her eye. That's enough. Shao Zi'an sat motionless, still with his eyebrows furrowed, his eyes as sharp as two awls, as if he wanted to pierce the swirling snow mist. Yue Lan could even see the reflection of the snow from his dark pupils. Ah, how harsh life is! Isn't it? Exactly twenty-four hours ago, yesterday evening, the same Uncle Shao was immersed in great joy. His youngest daughter, fifteen-year-old Shao Jilai, was on winter vacation and had just stepped off the plane from Shanghai to visit her relatives. Yesterday's warm dusk and evening, Yue Lan spent it at shao's house. Aunt Shao pulled Ji Lai with one hand and Yue Lan with the other, sitting on the sofa, patiently listening to Xiao Ji Lai's words that he could not finish. Uncle Shao, on the other hand, bit his pipe and leaned against the window, looking at them with a smile.

Oh, twenty-four hours! The Earth only rotates in a circle...

"Yue... Lan," she suddenly heard Shao Zi'an's hoarse, hesitant voice. "What are you doing this morning?"

"I went to the doctor with my mother — she had a heartache last night." Yue Lan replied mechanically.

"Then why aren't you with her now?" Shao Zi'an seemed annoyed.

"After taking the medicine, she'll be fine in the morning—she'll go to work in the afternoon."

Shao Zian sighed heavily and stopped speaking.

Yue Lan is a smart girl. She understood why Uncle Shaw had asked a question that seemed out of place at such a moment. What a spicy pinch of salt sprinkled on Shao Zi'an's bare heart! At noon, Yue Lan went to Shao's house. Looking for Xiao Jilai, Aunt Shao said that Ji Lai, as well as Ji En and his classmate Zhong Yabing, all went to the space base with Engineer Huo.

And now, the space base has found the enemy situation!

The space base was threatened, as was Uncle Shaw's beloved little daughter. The battle may have begun. A fifteen-year-old girl is caught up in a battle under a snowstorm. For Ji En and Ya Bing, there is nothing, they are the young people who grew up in Cosmona City and have been trained. But then it was completely different, she was a Shanghai girl who was accustomed to seeing the ships on the Huangpu River, the neon lights on Nanjing Road, she was a weak grass growing in Jiangnan...

Shao Zi'an spoke again, still in a hoarse voice, full of anxiety.

"Yue Lan, you see, what kind of hostility might there be?"

Yue Lan shook his head.

"I can't imagine that the man didn't make it clear at all."

"Of course he didn't have time to say much." Shao Zian said understandingly. "Besides, he's just giving me a message." Yue Lan, do you think the enemy is coming against the 'Dongfang'? ”

Yue Lan didn't squeak, she was thinking. She had just put her mind completely on Ji Lai. However, the wood-carved man sitting next to her was not thinking about her own children, but the spaceship "Orient", which was closer to her children and was waiting to depart.

Why didn't she come in the morning? If she had come, she would have arrived at the 2004 base with her brothers and sisters, and she had already been involved in the battle to defend the space base and defend the Vostok. What kind of battle? She didn't know. But she had a pistol in her arms, a laser pistol, and no enemy could withstand a laser bullet. She will never be soft.00.

Outside the car window, the snowstorm was still raging, ravaging the earth with all its might. Although it is a highway, although it is an electronic driver, it has to slow down. On the road, snow is rolling, and the car wheels are often skidding. Where the headlights shine. It is a strange shape of lines and figures, as if thousands of armies and horses are fighting, and it is like a gushing flood that breaks through the embankment, and it is like turning the whole universe upside down.

Shao Zi'an looked uneasily out the car window. He grabbed Yue Lan's hand violently.

"What a snowstorm!" His voice was a little strange. "I've lived in Cosmonautics for sixteen years and have never seen..."

Yue Lan had never experienced such a snowstorm in his memory. But she didn't understand what was strange about this, it was already a waxing moon, and it was very cold on the Gobi Desert in the waxing moon. And, in recent years, the climate has always been a bit abnormal...

"The blizzard, the hostility, the plan of the 'Orient'..." Shao Zian said slowly. Is this a coincidence? ”

"'Vostok'? plan? Yue Lan's two big eyes flickered.

"Oh, I forgot, you don't know yet, Vostok is scheduled to leave for Mars next week." ’

"Didn't the 'Construction' set off just last week?"

"This time it was for the astronauts on the Construction to deliver supplies, equipment and equipment. Oh, Yue Lan, we're going to build a semi-permanent laboratory on Mars..."

That's right! ...... Half a year ago, Yue Lan once visited the base. She was surprised to find that the Vostok was much larger than any previous spacecraft. It was a real giant: a four-stage rocket towered over the firing range, and on a clear day, its cannon-like tip could be seen from the space city forty-two kilometers away, just as it could see a distant snowy mountain peak.

"Uncle Shaw!" Yue Lan lost his voice and shouted. "What kind of enemy would sabotage this beautiful plan in a frenzy?"

Shao Zi'an was silent, and only pointed his right hand to the north.

Yes, the enemy is always mad. If we want to build gardens on the earth, they must build walls and prisons on the earth; we must gallop in space, so that the tentacles of science can reach the depths of the infinite universe, but they must equip themselves in space with laser cannons pointed at the earth, and they must destroy human civilization and wisdom. A bear is not a man, its ambition and desire is to trample on all the good things of others, and thus take everything for itself.

Although Yue Lan was still very young. This sharp truth she had known for a long time.

Shao Zi'an was thinking about something else. He personally deployed: hundreds of anti-ballistic missiles, a laser network covering a radius of thirty kilometers from the launch base, dozens of electronic vehicles patrolling automatically guarding the 20O4 base. What enemies can sneak in? Of course, he understood that the enemy also had a strong scientific arm, no less than ours. War is no longer entirely face-to-face shooting, but also a decisive battle of science and technology. If enemies can come in from a well-defended base, it means that we still have loopholes in technology...

As the chief engineer, Shao Zi'an deeply felt how heavy the burden on his shoulders was. He certainly understood that in the 1970s, the continent was a full quarter of a century behind the scientifically advanced countries. Relying on a correct leadership line, a carefully cultivated army of science and technology, a team that is industrious, brave and able to fight hard battles, after decades of hard work, we have caught up with it, and even surpassed the design and construction of his team "Dongfang". Newspapers all over the world have published pictures of the spaceship taken from satellites, calling it "the miracle of human civilization" and "the pride of modern science and technology." The Mars Laboratory's plan also caused a sensation throughout the planet, with many foreign scientists flying to the General Headquarters of Astronautics like snowflakes, asking to participate in the scientific research of "opening up new territories in the solar system". The polar bear roared, "Chinese're going to take Mars!" "Yes, they are always eyeing every new step we take.

Since I was a middle school student and saw the mainland launch the first manned lunar spacecraft on TV, how many years have passed! ......

The blizzard weakened a little. Close to 2004 base. Shao Zian turned on the TV phone in the car, grabbing the number, one after another, and no one answered. Finally, in the duty room, the young man who called the police appeared, still as he had just done, holding a glass of water in his hand, squinting his eyes suspiciously and asking:

"Who?"

Shao Zian remembered that there was no light in the car, so he turned the light on. The young man on the phone said happily: "Ah, Mr. Shao! Grab it! ...... Uh-huh! ”

The glass "when beep" landed on the ground. Following, the lad on the phone was gone. At about the same time, the front of the windshield suddenly shined, as if an explosion had occurred, the thick cloud expanded sharply, and it was clearly seen in the firelight that the unusually tall spaceship "Orient", as if the good family had broken free of the shackles of the launcher, shook and rose. At this time, I just heard the explosion, not very loud, like thunder, heavy, and depressing.

Shao Zi'an collapsed on the sofa, and the red flames illuminated his pair of burning eyes full of surprise and anger.

"Uncle Shao, Uncle Shao, Uncle Shao!" Yue Lan screamed.

At the beginning of the explosion, the car braked immediately – this is the sharp reaction of the electronic driver: it is judging. After being convinced that the explosion was not dangerous to the car itself, the car moved on again.

Dust, snow flakes, split heads smashed around the car. The flames had disappeared. Powerful searchlight columns from the base illuminated the snowflake-flapping launch site. The automatic electronic doorman recognized the car and its owner from thirty meters away, so the door opened silently, and several chaotic footsteps ran to the car.

A tall man in his thirties pulled the car door and pounced on Shao Zi'an, who was still, in tears like a child, his hair disheveled, and blood dripping from his left forehead. His body was drenched in snow and water, and it emitted the smell of smoke and fire.

Yue Lan asked anxiously, "Engineer Huo, what's wrong?" ”

Outside the car window, a calm voice said, "Xiao Yang, Xiao Ling, support Engineer Huo and invite General Shao out." Go to the lounge. ”

Inside the car, Shao Zi'an asked lowly and slowly:

"What about the kids?"

Engineer Huo picked up his sadly twisted face and silently looked at the windy and snowy night sky with a pair of lost eyes. There, a spaceship with the words DONG FANG written on it was burrowing into quiet space above the blizzard and above the Earth's atmosphere.