Lu Rankong sat next to Lan Yu, recalling and talking, picking and choosing what happened.

Lan Yu asked with interest: "What happened next?"

"Later, we played together every day, catching fish, shrimp, birds, etc. The child's parents were gone, so he lived with his old and frail grandfather. Life was not easy for the grandfather and grandson."

After saying this, he looked a little dazed.

"Last time you said that a friend ate Zikang vegetables with you. Are you talking about him?" Lan Yu suddenly remembered this incident.

Lu Rankong said: "Yes, that's him. When we were picking vegetables in the vegetable garden, we found that Zikang vegetables were particularly delicious."

It turned out to be just a little playmate, not any other friend. Lan Yu felt secretly happy, but then she remembered Lu Rankong's sudden low mood when she mentioned this matter that day. Could it be related to this little playmate?

He couldn't help but ask, "Do you still have any contact with that kid?"

Lu Rankong was silent for a few seconds, then said, "Later, my mother suddenly passed away, and my father took me back to the main planet."

Lan Yu stopped asking questions and just leaned against his chest to look at the starry sky ahead. The two didn't say anything else. They just hugged each other quietly, in silence under the starlight.

The interior of the starship was quiet and stable, without any vibration. Lan Yu listened to his steady heartbeat and fell asleep in a daze.

I didn’t know how long I slept. When I woke up, I found myself lying on a soft bed, covered with a blanket. He stared at the ceiling for a few seconds before he remembered that he was on a starship.

There was light all around. He sat up, squinted his eyes and looked out of the porthole. He found that the starship had landed. Outside was a huge military landing pad with several starships parked and others taking off and landing.

He was just about to call Lu Rankong when the events of last night flooded into his mind.

Those scenes seemed to happen in a dream, with dazzling starlight, so unreal.

Lu Rankong kissed him.

The two hugged each other and kissed each other more than once.

He touched his lips, and now he felt nothing, but it had definitely happened.

They kissed.

Lan Yu put down her hands, sat on the bed and began to recall the past, her heart beating violently.

Am I in love? It should be. Although he didn't explicitly say let's date like in the movies, he asked me to be his alpha, and I agreed.

Besides, he said he planted himself in the garden, so how could he dig it up the next day after planting it?

These stupid words seemed a little funny when he thought about them now, but they made him think about them over and over again, without him noticing that there was a smile on his face.

When I came to my senses, I found that it was quiet outside the suite and I didn't know if there was anyone there. He lifted the blanket, put on his slippers, quietly opened the door, and stuck his head out to look out.

He now wanted to see Lu Rankong, but was also a little afraid to see Lu Rankong. The relationship between the two suddenly changed, and I didn't know how to face him calmly. I felt a little embarrassed.

There was no one in the living room and no sound in the bathroom. Lan Yu left the bedroom and looked around, but Lu Rankong was not in the room.

Knock knock knock, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in..." Lan Yu said.

The door was pushed open, and the previous staff member walked in and asked respectfully: "Colonel K, are you awake?"

"Yeah, I'm awake."

The staff member said: "The starship has arrived at Zata for more than an hour. Colonel Lu said not to disturb you and wait for you to wake up, so I waited outside the door. I heard some noise and knocked on the door."

Seeing how terrified he was, Lan Yu said, "It's okay. I woke up a long time ago."

Just as I was about to ask if he knew where Lu Rankong had gone, he continued, "Colonel Lu asked me to tell you before he left the ship that he had to go to his father's house for something and would be home in about five or six days, so don't worry."

"He got off the ship?"

"Yes, Colonel Lu is going to transfer the ship to Sasu Main Planet."

When Lan Yu heard that he had already disembarked from the ship, she suddenly felt disappointed.

"He said he left a message on your terminal. Please check it." The staff member pushed in a dining cart with various breakfasts and said, "Colonel K, please have breakfast before leaving the ship."

Lan Yu was feeling depressed and nodded casually.

"Beside the plate, there is something Colonel Lu left for you. Please check it."

"What item?" Lan Yu asked excitedly.

"I don't know, it's a small bag." After the staff member said this, seeing that Lan Yu had no other instructions, he politely said goodbye and left the room.

Lan Yu saw a sealed file bag next to the dinner plate, so she picked it up and placed it on the coffee table, then sat back on the sofa, and couldn't wait to open the terminal in her hand.

He wanted to see what message Lu Rankong left for him.

After clicking it, I found a small red dot in the communication software, and there was an additional friend request.

He really couldn't think of anyone else besides Lu Rankong who wanted to add K as a friend, so he agreed to the request.

A three-dimensional virtual screen as tall as a person popped up, and Lu Rankong's figure appeared in front of Lan Yu.

His heart skipped a beat and he instinctively wanted to touch his hair to see if it was messy from sleeping, but he found that the background opposite him was the sofa under him.

It turned out to be a video, not a live call.

Lu Rankong was sitting in his current position, having changed into his military uniform. He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and looked extremely handsome.

Lan Yu suddenly blushed and her heart started beating fast. She wanted to look away but couldn't help but look more closely.

In the video, Lu Rankong was sitting upright, and suddenly he spoke in a not very skillful manner: "K, ah, baby... ah, dear... little... little K."

Then he cleared his throat, turned his head silently to look to the side, stretched out his right hand and pretended to adjust the position of his tie in his military uniform, his ears slightly red.

Seeing how nervous he was, Lan Yu was no longer nervous. She leaned back on the sofa leisurely, crossed her legs and continued watching.

Lu Rankong quickly adjusted his mentality, turned around and continued, "Because I have some things to deal with, I have to go to my father's house once. The time will not be long, and I will be back in two or three days at most. I saw that you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't want to wake you up. Eat some breakfast when you wake up, don't be hungry, eat a full stomach before getting off the ship, the military will have a car to take you back to the camp."

He paused after saying this, his eyes began to wander, "I asked someone to give you my room card and salary card. The room card is a backup, and you will be in charge of the salary from now on. You know the meaning of this. When you fell asleep just now, I had already decrypted the card on your terminal, so you can swipe it directly."

After saying this, his ears turned red as if they were about to bleed.

Lan Yu found it funny that he was so shameless last night and wanted to have sex all the time, and now he was so shy in the video.

I want to pause and slowly appreciate his expression.

Lu Rankong explained a few more things and finally said, "Jiang Zhi is urging me, so I'll leave and will be back soon."

After saying this, he did not move, just looked ahead.

Lan Yu also kept staring at the screen.

No...

Lu Rankong made a kissing gesture to the air, quickly turned off the recording, and the screen disappeared.

Only after she was sure that there would be no more videos did Lan Yu open the file bag and find that there were indeed two cards inside.

One is a room card of the same style as in the military barracks dormitory, and the other is a salary card.

He picked up the dark black salary card and looked at it over and over again, feeling a little happy. He had too much money before and didn't care about the amount of money in the card, but when someone handed him the card like this, it satisfied a certain yearning in his heart.

Despite this, he still smiled and picked up the card and swiped it on the terminal, wanting to see how much Lu Rankong had in his savings.

The terminal beeped and a row of numbers popped up.

Balance: 375 credits 375 credits? Just 375 credits?

Lan Yu suspected that she had seen it wrong and wanted to rub her eyes.

Both of them are colonels, so their salaries should be the same. He has more than 400,000 credit points in his terminal, and there will be a fixed amount of tens of thousands more every month, which is the monthly salary that arrives on time.

But how could Lu Rankong be so poor that he only had a few hundred credit points left? This month is only halfway through.

Lan Yu suspected that there was a problem with the reading, so she refreshed the file twice.

The result is still 375 credits each time.

It is confirmed that Lu Rankong is so poor.

He put the card away expressionlessly, thinking to himself, no wonder this guy's ears turned red, he thought he was shy, but is he actually embarrassed?

Lan Yu ate breakfast leisurely, changed into a military uniform, opened the door, and followed the staff off the ship.

As he walked through a long corridor, he looked at the suites on both sides and couldn't help asking, "Have all the others disembarked?"

"Others?" The staff was a little stunned.

Lan Yu said: "They are the researchers you picked up along the way."

Lu Rankong told him last night that all the other rooms were occupied by scientific researchers who were picked up along the way, and everyone was squeezed into one room with two people.

The staff member replied respectfully: "Colonel K, this starship is specifically going to pick up you and Colonel Lu, and it did not pick up other scientific researchers along the way."

"Then these rooms..." Lan Yu pointed to the suites on both sides.

"They are all empty..."

Lan Yu didn't say anything else, just sneered in her heart.

The car sent by the military was waiting outside the parking lot. As soon as Lan Yu got in, the off-road vehicle drove towards the military camp.

After a while, a beep came from the terminal.

[Lu Rankong]: Baby, are you awake?

When Lan Yu saw this name, her face turned red, and she felt her whole body numb and trembling. Her scalp started to tighten from the top of her head, but she was secretly happy in her heart.

He glanced at the sergeant driving in front of him, and seeing that he was not paying attention to him, he replied.

【K】：Wake up.

[Lu Rankong]: Baby, I will be arriving at the main planet soon. I will be busy for a while when I arrive. I will contact you when I am free in the evening.

Lan Yu felt a surge of electricity running through her body again.

【K】: Don’t call me that anymore.

【Lu Rankong】：Which one?

【K】: Baby or something.

[Lu Rankong]: Why not call it this? This is what people call love, and we must do the same.

Falling in love...Lan Yu smiled and continued to reply.

【K】: I’m still a little uncomfortable with it, so let’s not call you that for now.

The message "input in progress" kept appearing on the screen, so Lan Yu waited patiently, feeling a little excited. After a moment, a long message came over.

[Lu Rankong]: Actually, I’m not used to it either, but we have to stick to the habit, and couples have to call each other that. Or you can just pick one that you like among them, my dear, and baby, and we can get used to it. It's just a title anyway, don't take it too seriously.

Lan Yu's face suddenly fell.

【K】: Then you should just call me K. I’m not sincere in calling you baby. I’m just forcing myself to use this title. I’m not anyone’s real baby.

After sending the message, he added another sentence without waiting for Lu Rankong's reply.

【K】：Besides, I don’t like it either.

Then I closed the terminal and turned off the computer.

Lan Yu raised her head and saw the sergeant driving the car peeking at her in the rearview mirror. She frowned and asked, "Do you need me to drive so you can have some time to watch?"

The sergeant hastily turned his eyes away and looked straight ahead, without even glancing to the side.

After driving the military off-road vehicle for more than half an hour, we finally returned to the military camp. Lan Yu got off the car and stood in front of the familiar dormitory building. Listening to the shouts from the training ground in the distance, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

I used to think that life in the military camp was hard, but after a trip to prison, I found that life in the military camp was simply wonderful.

He went upstairs quickly, took out the room card and was about to open the door when he heard the sound of a door opening behind him.

"K, you're back?" It was Chen Yuqin's voice.

Lan Yu turned around and saw Chen Yuqin standing at the door of Room 304, as if he was about to go out.

"Yeah, I'm back." Lan Yu nodded to him.

"How did the mission go?"

"good……"

Chen Yuqin smiled, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "Thank you for your hard work. I'm going to the restaurant to eat now. Do you want to join me?"

Lan Yu was not hungry yet, and she did not like to eat with people she was not familiar with, so she shook her head and said, "No, I'm a little tired and want to rest."

"Okay, then you take a rest." Chen Yuqin took two steps towards the stairs, then stopped and asked, "Where's Rankong? Didn't he go on the mission with you?"

Lan Yu felt warm inside when she heard the name, but she remained calm as she replied, "He has something else to do..."

Chen Yuqin smiled and asked, "Do you need me to bring you some food?"

"No, thank you." Lan Yu said politely.

Lan Yu opened the door only after Chen Yuqin came downstairs. After closing the door, he fell on the bed.

He hugged the tightly wrapped stuffed bear, touched its black nose through the plastic bag, and whispered, "Gu Gu, I'm in love. You may know that person. It's Lu Rankong next door. Do you think it's too fast? I think it's a bit fast too."

Lan Yu turned over in bed, looked at the ceiling, and continued in a voice that only she could hear: "I never thought about having a relationship here. You know, I concealed my omega identity, and I don't know if I will change back to being an omega someday. What should I do then?"

He turned his head to look at the stuffed bear, but couldn't see its eyes clearly, so he sat up, hugged it, and tore off all the packaging bags on it, revealing the entire bear.

"Let me smell it. Do you smell anything?" Lan Yu sniffed the stuffed bear. "Fortunately, there is no smell of dust or mold. Gu Gu, you are so clean."

He stopped sniffing and said sadly, "How should I tell him that I'm actually an omega? How should I explain this? Even I don't understand why I'm in the army..."

"Hey, I really didn't expect to fall in love, but he moved too fast." Lan Yu buried her head and laughed again, "He kissed me, and as soon as he kissed me, I forgot to refuse."

Lan Yu and Gu Gu chatted for a while, and then they felt a little hungry. He didn't want to go to the restaurant, so he asked Kong Fei to bring some ingredients. He made a bowl of egg noodles in the kitchen and ate it, then started cleaning.

He changed into comfortable home clothes, took off the sheets and threw them into the small washing machine built under the sink.

This washing machine was installed uniformly by the military. It is very small and can only wash two or three pieces of clothing or a bed sheet at a time. It cannot fit more.

But these soldiers don't have that many clothes, so this washing machine is more than enough.

After Lan Yu put the sheets into the washing machine, she squatted down and pressed the start button. Just as she was about to stand up, her eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of something in the gap between the washing machine and the wall.

He squatted down again and took a closer look, and found that it was a card with the black side facing outwards, so it was not easy to find. It was just that I happened to see the golden back side at a certain angle just now.

Lan Yu reached in to take it out, but couldn't reach it. She looked around, took a clothes hanger, and slowly reached out to take out the card.

He took it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

This card looks like a consumption card for a certain place, and it took a lot of effort to make it. The card is of high-quality texture, black on the back and gold on the front, with a flying black bird printed on it, and four words on the lower left: Black Crow Bar.

This should be something left behind by the previous K. It might have accidentally fallen out of the washing machine while washing clothes.

"The Black Crow Bar... The Black Crow Bar..."

Lan Yu remembered that Liu Zhao said the bar where Xu worked before his death was called the Black Crow Bar.