Chapter 62 The Mermaid Who Treats You

During this time, things were not peaceful on the inconspicuous garbage planet EC580.

After the second volume of "Reborn Star Soldier King" was officially released, the very generous reader An directly waved his hand and sent a box of physical books to the Dwarf Tavern with a starship.

Some mercenaries and star pirates who originally could not read learned cultural lessons for the first time in their lives in order to read first-hand books.

After all, the feeling of not knowing how to read is really uncomfortable. Although

you can wait for the dwarf boss Fus to read, it is too unpleasant not to be able to read your favorite paragraphs anytime and anywhere.

The dwarf tavern has become a library on a deserted planet. At first glance, you would think that everyone in it is in college.

Of course, there are always people drinking and chatting together.

"Boss, look, this is the new alien I caught. It's a little smaller this time. It must be very convenient for Yu to keep it at home."

One of the star thieves grabbed a snowball beast in his hand and asked the boss for advice seriously.

The small white furry one, like a dandelion, is now held in the star thief's palm. The little guy looks innocent with his eyes wide open.

"Isn't this too small? And it looks like the kind of pets that noble ladies like to keep, right? Our YU is a tough guy, how can he keep this?"

Before the boss could reply, another one also took out what he had caught.

"You should see this one!"

This time, the beast caught looked like a Tibetan mastiff, barking several times with its teeth bared, trying to run out of the cage.

"This... Uh, it's majestic, but it doesn't look good."

The people around quickly started to discuss, trying to think about how to make friends with the author YU and let her accept this gift from everyone.

However, just as the pirates were discussing heatedly, the door of the tavern was suddenly opened.

A very modern old lady was standing at the door with a cane, pushing up her sunglasses.

"Sure enough, you stole my little Mi."

When Delanqi saw that this group of thieves actually caught a room full of alien beasts, he was almost certain that it was this group of guys who stole his little Mi!

?

"Why are you here, Granny Delanqi?"

When the dwarf Fox saw this person coming, he immediately jumped down from behind the counter and tried to pour Granny Delanqi a cup of tea.

"It's unfair, but we don't know what little Mi is..."

Just the next second, a thief screamed and was lifted high in the air by Delanqi's claws.

"Is this the little Mi you're talking about? We'll give it back to you."

Another pirate quickly picked up the white plush dandelion monster and tried to hand it to Delanchi.

After all, Delanchi's name is well-known in this lawless galaxy.

No one dares to mess with this evil god.

"Oh, although this one is also cute, it's a pity that it's not my little Mi."

Delanchi looked at the dandelion and his expression softened a bit, but he quickly looked around all the monsters in the tavern.

A group of pirates immediately pulled them out one by one for Delanchi to inspect.

However, as Delanchi kept denying, this terrifying atmosphere almost dominated the entire dwarf tavern, so much so that the owner, Fox, almost cried.

"Can't you just tell the truth!?"

"But we really haven't caught any little cats - the first one we caught was also a big lion!!"

"Yes, this is my little cat."

However, just as the pirates raised the photo in their hands in despair, Delanchi suddenly expressed his affirmation excitedly, and even threw the pirate in his hand aside.

?

You call this a little cat? ?

The pirates looked at this huge and fierce beast, and they were speechless for a while.

"So where is Xiao Mi now?"

"...We sent it to the Central Star as a gift, but we swear it's fine, not injured at all! It's just anesthetized."

A star pirate explained with tears in his eyes.

Who knew that this thing was not a wild beast, but a domestic one! ?

Soon, Granny Delanqi clapped her hands slowly, picked up the unopened "Reborn Star Soldier King", and walked out of the tavern from a room full of star pirates who were repaired into piles of Arhats.

"The Central Star of the Federation... It's really an old place, and it makes people feel nostalgic."

Delanqi adjusted his sunglasses with his hand full of gemstone rings and looked at the star in front of him.

A huge luxury private airship landed directly and slowly.

"Swoosh~"

The white dandelion monster actually squatted on Granny Delanchi's gemstone cane and set off with it.

After all, Granny Delanchi keeps pets, and appearance is always a key factor.

"Was it given to this author...? There is also a giant beast in the book that looks very similar to Xiao Mi?"

When Delanchi, sitting on the sofa of the starship, casually opened "Reborn Star Soldier King", he was simply thinking about the information clues he heard from the star thieves at the end

. Delanchi couldn't help but feel a little curious about this work that led to the abduction of his three-month-old Xiao Mi.

But Yu Mian naturally didn't know that a rather strange guest was about to go to the Federation Star to look for the "cat" that he had kept outside the window for the past few days.

Because at this moment, Yu Mian was rubbing his legs that had turned back from a fish tail, warming up for the upcoming mission.

"It's really itchy..."

The light golden scales on the white ankles became lighter in color, and it would feel itchy if you touched them slightly.

Even applying moisturizing essence is useless.

[A species of scales will eventually become scales when they grow up. You should quickly complete your mission and don't run around during this period. 】

The small system skillfully pulled a pair of black slippers for Yu Mian and placed them at Yu Mian's feet.

"The slippers are a bit big and don't fit my feet."

Yu Mian stretched his feet into them, tried to stand up and walked a few steps, but always felt like he had stolen a pair of slippers that didn't fit.

[But are you sure that Huo Ting won't open his eyes? What if he breaks his promise and secretly opens his eyes? ]

The small system is still a little worried about Yu Mian's way of using a small note to discuss with Huo Ting to complete the task directly.

"Huo Ting has never broken his promise to others."

Yu Mian glanced at the small note on the table, recalled that he had known Huo Ting for such a long time, and felt that he still had some understanding of Huo Ting's character.

Maybe this is a sense of trust that comes from habit?

[That being said... I think we should be more cautious! ]

As the system finished speaking, a light blue wide ribbon suddenly appeared in Yu Mian's hand.

[So I think it's more reliable to blindfold that guy. ]

"Uh... It's weird."

Yu Mian grabbed the ribbon in his hand, always feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't seem to tell exactly what was wrong.

Will Huo Ting blindfold himself obediently?

In fact, when Huo Ting, who was sitting in a chair with his eyes closed according to the instructions on the small note, heard the sound of the living room door handle turning slightly, his five senses, which were already restless during the radiation period, were almost uncontrollably focused.

It was as if he could imagine the door being gently pushed open in his mind.

Yu Mian nervously pushed open the door, and after quietly sticking half of his head out, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Huo Ting sitting quietly with his eyes closed.

"He did it as agreed!"

[But we can't take it lightly either!!!]

In his heart, Yu Mian quietly talked to the small system.

It was the first time to complete the task so simply and roughly, and he didn't dare to believe that it would be so smooth.

Although if it weren't for the small note to contact and discuss the task process, Yu Mian felt that he might only be able to complete it secretly while Huo Ting was sleeping at night.

Soon the door was closed again, and the sound of slippers walking on the carpet came, which made Huo Ting's spirit subtly tense.

If I could describe it, it would probably be like the little bird that occasionally comes to the window of the military office to look for food, as if it would immediately flap its wings and fly away and disappear if you make the slightest movement.

The footsteps are very light, and the weight should not be heavy, maybe even a little thin.

And the slippers don't seem to fit well?

Are they the spare slippers taken from the study?

Just as Huo Ting was subconsciously analyzing the body shape of this resident, something was gently placed in his hand the next second.

"... Ribbon?"

The touch of the soft and silky silk fabric instantly made Huo Ting realize what it was.

Yu Mian was about to answer, but instantly realized that he couldn't make a sound.

Huo Ting has good hearing and memory. If he talks too much, he might be discovered to be the intern.

He can’t talk, but he has to let him know that he has to tie up his eyes and blindfold himself.

At the moment when Yu Mian was frantically struggling, Huo Ting directly raised the ribbon and tied it up in silence.

"Is that so?"

Yu Mian's eyes lit up instantly. This guy is really cooperative.

[Okay, this way you don't have to worry about being seen.]

The small system was relieved that Huo Ting was so smart and sensible.

"It feels a bit fun..."

Yu Mian felt a sense of security when he saw Huo Ting was blindfolded.

Although when he thought about the mission, he still planned to finish it early.

So after pausing for a few seconds, Yu Mian tentatively reached out and grabbed Huo Ting's left hand according to the next step.

In fact, this was agreed upon in advance on the small note.

So when Huo Ting was held by the other party for the first time, he did not fight back subconsciously, but tried to relax his body's defensive reaction and let the other party hold him.

[Perfect, we succeeded in catching him! ]

"Don't worry, let me try..."

In his mind, Yu Mian also carefully confirmed the steps with the small system.

In the mental power control guide reward unlocked in the initial mission, there was an explanation on how to conduct mental power channeling.

Yu Mian held Huo Ting's hand, and also closed his eyes and tried hard to control his mental power to touch Huo Ting's spiritual sea.

A warm golden spiritual force lightly surrounded the dark blue deep spiritual sea in front of him, wanting to run in to see what was going on inside.

There was always a feeling that a maintenance worker was knocking on the door.

"..."

Just as Yu Mian was concentrating on controlling his spiritual power to prepare for maintenance work, he did not realize that Huo Ting's originally relaxed hand suddenly clenched uncontrollably.

! ?

This interrupted Yu Mian's attempt, causing Yu Mian to open his eyes and directly end the spiritual power link, looking at Huo Ting in front of him blankly.

What did this guy suddenly do by grabbing his hand?

"... Sorry, I didn't expect it to be this way."

After realizing that his actions seemed to have startled the other party, Huo Ting was silent for a moment and then explained again.

But he didn't know where to start the reason.

Huo Ting originally thought that the other party might be using some kind of medium to achieve the effect of channeling his spiritual power, and he never thought that he would directly let the spiritual power enter his spiritual sea...

In a sense, letting the spiritual power directly enter the spiritual sea of ​​a stranger can be said to be a very risky act.

This young guest is almost lacking in interstellar common sense in all senses?

Although Huo Ting was also very confused about the fact that his spiritual sea did not show any rejection reaction when touched by this spiritual power.

Yu Mian could only look at Huo Ting in confusion, wanting to ask something but not knowing how to start.

Oh, right!

You can write in this guy's palm?

The next second, Huo Ting realized that the other party had actually held his hand again and started writing strokes in his palm with his fingertips.

After Huo Ting closed his eyes to identify it, he suddenly found that it was a sentence "Is it okay now?"

"..."

After a while, Huo Ting could only nod with a subtle expression.

After Yu Mian confirmed that Huo Ting was ready, he tried to restore the mental connection again.

The second "maintenance" work went unexpectedly smoothly.

[The mental radiation period is like a storm in the mental sea, the feeling of a typhoon. 】

The small system followed Yu Mian to observe, and immediately found that the spiritual sea of ​​the interstellar era was indeed very mysterious.

However, Yu Mian's golden spiritual power seemed thin, but it could easily surround the red polluted spiritual power in the spiritual sea.

No matter how those reddish spiritual powers struggled, they were finally eaten into the stomach by the golden spiritual power balls without any resistance, and even felt like a warm and full burp.

"I feel like I got rich overnight!"

These red spiritual powers seem to be very bad things for interstellar people.

But for me who is not afraid of these, it is simply recyclable energy.

Although the amount that can be absorbed seems to be limited, after Yu Mian combed the surface layer, he found that his golden spiritual power quickly became lazy.

It just circled around the remaining red spiritual power, but stopped absorbing it.

Is it saturated?

However, as the red spiritual power devoured the top layer, the originally chaotic spiritual sea gradually calmed down, just like the weather slowly clearing up.

Just when Yu Mian opened his eyes and wrote "seems to be better" on Huo Ting's palm with his finger, there was a "knock knock" sound outside the door -

Yu Mian looked over in shock, and even Huo Ting sat up a little straighter.

"Young Master, are you there? Military Commissioner Maxell has something urgent to contact you and asks you to go to the military department."

Secretary Hals, who was waiting outside the door, waited for a long time and found that this time the Young Master did not reply to him. Instead, there was a strange collision and... groaning sound coming from the living room?

Strange, what was going on?

It didn't even sound like the sound that the Young Master would make.

But without the order, Hals did not dare to go in privately, and could only look at the door with great suspicion.

After a long while, Huo Ting's calm voice came from the study again.

"Got it, I'll go down right away and prepare the car first."

"Okay, got it."

After receiving the order, Hals paused and turned to go downstairs.

How strange...

What Hals didn't know was that just a few minutes after he went downstairs, the door of the living room was suddenly pushed open, and a figure ran out quickly.

As for Huo Ting, who was sitting quietly on the chair, he took off the ribbon delicately with a rare expression, and looked down at his palm.

Just now, he seemed to have supported the guest who was so scared that he almost fell down?

The first feeling was probably that it was so light.

"..."

Huo Ting took another look at the box on the table that was knocked over and fell to the ground. The small notes collected during this time were directly scattered all over the floor.

It seems that he was seen by the other party?

In the study, Yu Mian still felt that what had just happened was a bit too exciting.

"Why did Secretary Hals suddenly come over at this time? Fortunately, I wasn't caught..."

When I heard the knock on the door, I stood up and tried to hide. Unexpectedly, the slippers that didn't fit me almost tripped me.

Just as I was about to fall on the carpet, Huo Ting realized something and caught me by the sound.

Yu Mian stood up instantly, tried to help pick up the things that fell on the ground, and ran away.

What I didn't expect was that the small note on the ground looked very familiar.

It was all the "chat records" between me and Huo Ting! ?

This guy saved all of them without missing a single one?

[Why did you keep all of them? So weird! 】

So, when Huo Ting got the latest note, he thought the other party was going to tell him the ultimate "goal" or the "reward" he needed, but he didn't expect it to be such a note that seemed to have completely wrong key points.

Although the content was not specified, it was obvious that it was referring to the notes he had kept in the box.

[Can't I keep them? ]

As a result, Huo Ting rarely gave a direct answer, but instead asked a question in return, throwing the question back.

And when Yu Mian took the note this time, he suddenly found that there was a new pair of white plush slippers placed at the door of the study.

The size was obviously a few inches smaller.

After he put them on, it was almost the same.

"...This can't cover up this guy's very strange behavior!"

Yu Mian felt as if everything was left out, and there was a sense of crisis that he would be asked about his dark history at any time.

Although I don’t seem to have any dark history.

But it’s really strange...

[Maybe I just have the habit of strictly filing documents? Not everyone will throw notes around casually.]

The small system can’t really understand this kind of emotion that humans would have.

"Meow~"

Outside the window, the "cat" appeared at the right time.

Although it is not always willing to enter the study to let Yu Mian touch it, this little guy seems to have an impression of Yu Mian, and comes over every day to peek at Yu Mian. If

you can't figure it out, maybe... just stop thinking about it?

Yu Mian silently picked up the paper and pen beside him.

However, Huo Ting could not see Yu Mian's new reply for the time being, because a very unexpected guest came to the military department.

"Delachi, what brings you here? We haven't seen each other for decades, right?"

Military Commissioner Maxell held the tea in his hand and looked at Granny Delanchi in front of him with a rather unexpected and awkward expression.

"I came to Central Star for something, and I came to see you, an old acquaintance. Maxell, you are still as boring as you were back then."

Delanchi looked at the paintings and furnishings in the office, without any sense of restraint.

"Hey, Huo Ting, this is the Delanchi I mentioned to you before, who was with me and your father... Huo Ting?"

Military Commissioner Maxell sighed and found it strange that Huo Ting was not in a good state today?

Rarely absent-minded?

"Hey, you are reading this book too!"

As for Delanchi, who was standing aside, he was suddenly surprised when he saw the book "Reborn Star Soldier King" that Military Commissioner Maxell placed on the coffee table.

"You are reading it too?"

Military Commissioner Maxell looked up at the word "also" in Grandma Delanchi's words.

Grandma Delanchi opened the book "Reborn Star Soldier King" in her hand on the airship when she came here, and read all the contents of the two volumes in her hand. So much

so that they developed a strong curiosity about this amazing author YU who caused the star pirate to kidnap their little Mi.

"How about this book, isn't it good? Do you feel refreshed and excited when you read it occasionally?"

Military Commissioner Michaelsell boasted proudly.

After all, this was also a commissioned work by the military. If even Delanchi was fascinated by it, it means that this book is really well written.

"Is this a commissioned work by your military? Then why is there no third volume?"

Delanchi looked at Michaelsell's proud expression and immediately asked.