The sunlight shines through the windows, coating the interior with a layer of gold, and time seems to slow down.

Lan Yu took out the salary cards of two people and started to calculate the accounts, writing down the numbers in her hands and muttering them to herself.

Lu Rankong listened for a while and asked, "What are you calculating?"

Lan Yu said, "I'm calculating how much money we have."

Lu Rankong still had a towel over his eyes: "Have you figured it out?"

"I think I figured it out."

Lan Yu recited a number and asked, "We still have so many credit points. If we add my retirement money, we can buy a house."

"What are you buying a house for?" Lu Rankong asked curiously.

Lan Yu continued to calculate, saying, "Why do you want to buy a house? Are we going to live in the barracks forever? Besides, I'm going to retire, and I'll have to have a house to live in after retirement, although it doesn't matter where I live—"

He held back from saying, "But the baby needs a stable home."

Lu Rankong listened to him mumbling, took off the towel from his eyes, and seemed to find it very interesting. He just lay there and looked at him with interest.

Then he reached out to touch Lan Yu's face, but he slapped his hand away.

"Don't block my eyes, we're settling the accounts." Lan Yu said.

Lu Rankong said: "Forget it, we don't need to buy a house."

Lan Yu ignored him and continued to settle the accounts.

"I have a lot of houses, so I really don't need to buy one." Lu Rankong said.

Lan Yu pushed aside the floating screen in front of her and asked, "A lot of houses?"

"Yes, a lot." Lu Rankong said.

Seeing Lan Yu looking at him doubtfully, he sat up and said, "After you retire, you can live wherever you want, and you can settle on any planet you want."

"Is it a real house that belongs to you and can be lived in?" Lan Yu asked.

Lu Rankong thought for a moment and said, "It should be enough for people to live in."

"should?"

"I haven't seen it, and I don't know if I can live there. In addition to the property, there are other things, some of which were left to me by my mother, and some of which were allocated to me by my family." Lu Rankong lay down again, resting his head on Lan Yu's legs and said, "What's mine is yours, so there's no need to buy a house."

The last time Lu Rankong went home, Lan Yu had a video chat with him and saw that his family was well off, but she didn't expect that they had properties on every planet.

Lan Yu used to be a movie star, so he was not sensitive to how much money he made, nor did he care who earned more or less. When he heard Lu Rankong say that he had a house, he naturally stopped worrying about it, and he breathed a sigh of relief that he no longer had to calculate the house purchase money every day, and he put away the terminal with peace of mind.

"Is there any on Zatar?" he asked.

Lu Rankong said: "I think so, I'm not sure."

"If I retire and you still stay on Zata, then I will live here too," said Lan Yu.

Hearing this, Lu Rankong stood up again, opened the terminal in his hand, and said, "Let me see if there is any on Zata."

He searched on the virtual screen for a while, then hugged Lan Yu and gave her a kiss. "The nearest one is in Bell City."

"Will you continue to stay in the army after I retire?" Lan Yu asked him.

Lu Rankong should have thought about this question, and replied without thinking: "If you have any plans after retirement that require my participation, I will retire. If not, I will continue to stay in the army until the end of my term."

Lan Yu thought for a moment and said, "I don't have any idea what to do after I retire. We'll talk about it when the time comes."

He is not sure whether he wants to continue acting. If not, it would be fine to just open a coffee shop or something.

The two stayed in the house for the whole afternoon, talking and kissing, and before they knew it, it was dark. After being praised for cooking lunch, Lu Rankong wanted to continue cooking dinner, but was politely rejected by Lan Yu.

"We've been staying in the house all day, so we should go out for a walk and have dinner in the restaurant."

Lu Rankong thought about it and decided it was okay, so they left the house.

After entering the restaurant, Lan Yu saw that several officers were already sitting in the window seat reserved for him. She thought that since he had been coming less frequently recently, someone was finally willing to sit there. However, the moment they saw him come in, several officers picked up their plates and went to another empty table.

"Look, look, you were like this before." Lu Rankong whispered in his ear.

He looked up at Lan Yu's expression and added, "Of course, I now know that it was all an illusion."

Lan Yu thought that was not an illusion, K used to be so unreasonable. But he didn't say anything and just sat down at the table.

The officers in the dining hall had to pick up their own food, so Lu Rankong naturally took two plates from the window, put some of Lan Yu's favorite dishes on them, and after bringing them back, he went to get a plate for his dessert.

The officers were all very quiet. No one spoke. Their eyes wandered between him and Lan Yu. The atmosphere in the entire restaurant was extremely strange.

Lan Yu saw that Lu Rankong obviously didn't notice these things, or even if he noticed them, he didn't care. He was frowning and looking at the cakes intently. After thinking seriously, he picked up a piece of chestnut cake.

Lu Rankong came back and put the cake in front of Lan Yu, saying, "There are strawberry cakes and mango cakes. I chose this chestnut cake for you."

After saying that, she sat opposite him.

The two began to eat. Lan Yu bit off the lean meat, and the remaining half of fat was naturally picked up by Lu Rankong and fed into his mouth in one gulp.

There was the sound of a chair falling over in the restaurant, and an officer got up from the ground with a red face.

"You don't want to eat this either? There's no fat on it." Lu Rankong couldn't help but ask when he saw him push a piece of chicken to the edge of the plate.

"This part is too old, I don't like it." Lan Yu wrinkled her nose.

Lu Rankong put the piece of chicken on his plate and said, "You are so squeamish and picky." Then he pushed his plate over and said, "I didn't put enough vegetables in your plate. Take mine."

The two exchanged dishes, not noticing that everyone had stopped eating and their eyes were focused on them. It was not until Lan Yu noticed that the restaurant was unusually quiet and turned around in surprise that everyone lowered their heads to eat again.

After finishing the meal, Lu Rankong walked out of the restaurant and complained in a low voice that the food was not tasty and not as delicious as the one he cooked. As he was speaking, Lan Yu's terminal rang. It was the special sound of an urgent order from the military.

After the two looked at each other, Lu Rankong stopped talking and said with a gloomy face, "Click and take a look..."

Lan Yu opened the terminal, and Lu Rankong came over to watch it together, and then sighed, "I fucking knew that Liu Deng, that old fox, would not let you retire peacefully, and would find ways to squeeze you for a while. You were just on vacation, and he's already assigned you a new task."

Lan Yu looked down at the terminal without saying anything. There was only one line of words on it: Urgent mission, go to the command room immediately.

He turned off the terminal and said, "You go back first. I'll go to the command room."

"I'll go with you." Lu Rankong said.

He took two steps forward and found that Lan Yu didn't follow him, so he turned around and raised his eyebrows.

"I can go by myself, you go back." Lan Yu said.

"It's okay for me to stay with you. I'll just listen next to you."

Seeing that he insisted on going, Lan Yu hesitated and said, "Then don't quarrel when you go."

"I won't make a fuss. At most I'll smash his command room." Lu Rankong said.

Seeing that Lan Yu still didn't move, he sighed and said, "No, don't worry, I'm a soldier, and soldiers know how to obey orders."

When the door of the command room was pushed open, Lan Yu was surprised to find that there was not only Liu Deng inside, but also two men in suits sitting on the sofa.

Everyone he saw in the barracks was in military uniform, and he felt a little uncomfortable seeing this kind of attire out of the blue.

"This must be Colonel K." The person on the far left of the sofa stood up immediately after seeing him and extended his hand cautiously.

He was a short, fat middle-aged man, and he did not look like a soldier, either in terms of his build or temperament. The young man with him was also different. He wore a pair of glasses, his face was pale as if he was always indoors, and he was also very frail.

Lan Yu maintained her usual indifferent personality, staring at the hand with half-closed eyes. Just when the middle-aged man was about to collapse, she reluctantly reached out and touched him.

The man quickly withdrew his hand, looked at Lu Rankong behind him, and said with a smile: "This is..."

Liu Deng looked at Lu Rankong who followed him into the command room. He showed no surprise on his face. He just smiled and introduced him, "This is our Colonel Lu Rankong."

"Colonel Lu..." The middle-aged man said in surprise and delight, "General Liu said that you had just completed your mission and might not be in the barracks. I didn't expect to meet you so soon."

After saying that, he extended his hand to Lu Rankong again.

Lu Rankong was somewhat angry at this person for disturbing Lan Yu's vacation, so he ignored the hand with a sullen face, walked straight to the single sofa next to the coffee table, sat down, leaned against the back of the sofa, and put his legs on the coffee table.

Then he pointed to the sofa opposite and said to Lan Yu, "Sit down, don't stand."

Lan Yu walked over and sat down opposite him.

The middle-aged man withdrew his hand awkwardly and sat back on the sofa. Liu Deng said to him, "Director Wang, everyone is here now. Please explain the situation to Colonel K and Colonel Lu."

Lu Rankong was leaning back in the sofa with his eyes closed. When he heard Liu Deng mention him naturally, he raised his eyelids and glanced at him.

Liu Deng asked, "Where should you put your feet? Is this the command room or your dormitory?"

Lu Rankong slowly put down his legs that were resting on the coffee table.

Lan Yu sat on the sofa without moving. Although she had an expressionless face and lowered eyes, she looked fine.

Director Wang originally thought that Colonel K was difficult to get along with and that Colonel Lu would be much more friendly. Unexpectedly, after this observation, it turned out that Colonel K, who was rumored to have a fickle temperament, was a little more approachable.

He slightly turned towards Lan Yu and introduced himself, "Colonel K, my name is Wang Yu, and I am the director of a research institute in Sasu Star. Our institute is a subordinate institution of the military. We usually develop some military medicines and are a first-class confidential institution."

He paused, and seeing that Lan Yu had no intention of asking, he turned to look at Lu Rankong.

Lu Rankong was still slumped on the sofa, his head resting on the chair back, and seemed about to fall asleep.

He looked at the young man beside him and said, "Xiao Liu, tell Colonel K and Colonel Lu about that."

This Xiao Liu should be his assistant. He was well-mannered and wore a pair of glasses. Seeing that Lan Yu and Lu Rankong didn't look at him, he opened his mouth and closed it again, then looked at Director Wang for help.

"That's what you said. They are both listening, but they are just used to thinking in this posture." Liu Deng said, sitting behind his desk.

Xiao Liu responded and said stiffly, "There is a research and development team leader in our institute named Kabul. Last Wednesday night, October 13, he was checking data in the data room in the middle of the night and was discovered by the security guards."

Director Wang added: "Kabul entered the institute at 2 a.m. and was discovered by a patrolling security guard. Although he was the head of the R&D team, it was too unusual for him to enter the laboratory building in the middle of the night. In addition, the confidentiality level of our institute is very high, and everyone is very vigilant. So when he just started to read the data, several security guards rushed in."

When Lan Yu heard this, she raised her eyes and glanced at him indifferently.

Director Wang continued, "Kabul said he didn't know what was going on, and then he passed out. When I arrived at the institute, he had already been sent to the hospital and had just woken up."

"The weird thing is that the doctor said he was taking a kind of anesthetic that suppresses mental power. Such drugs are usually used for minor surgeries. It is impossible for Kabul to be awake during this time to go to the laboratory and open the safe to read the information."

Lu Rankong had been closing his eyes, leaning on the sofa with his arms folded. When he heard this, his expression moved and he opened his eyes.

Lan Yu and he exchanged glances quickly, and both of them had more guesses in their minds.

Director Wang said: "Because Kabul kept saying he didn't know why he was in the laboratory, and the doctor could prove he was in a coma, we retrieved the surveillance footage from that time."

Director Wang stopped here, clicked on the terminal on his wrist, and a surveillance video appeared in the air.

"The surveillance cameras in the laboratory and outside were all turned off. This surveillance camera was the only one hidden behind the fire extinguisher, so it was not discovered and this video was recorded."

Lan Yu and Lu Rankong were both staring at the video, which showed an empty corridor. Although it was night, it was still clear to see.

"Someone will be there soon, soon." Director Wang was obviously worried that they would be impatient, so he explained while fast forwarding.

When the time in the lower right corner showed 03:05, he stopped fast forwarding, and just over ten seconds later, a man walked over from the other end of the passage.

"This is Kabul," Director Wang introduced.

Lan Yu watched the video intently and saw Kabul passing by those doors and stopping at the door of one of the laboratories. After scanning the information lock, he looked left and right and pushed the door open to enter the room.

He had just closed the door when another person appeared at the end of the passage, leaned over and looked this way. He looked like a security guard.

The security guard just took a look and left the passage, probably to call for help.

Sure enough, after a while, several security guards came. They tiptoed to the door, pushed it open and rushed in.

All that remained in the picture was the empty corridor and the wide-open laboratory door.

However, Lan Yu knew that an unusual scene would appear next, so she watched it without blinking.

At the same time, Director Wang and Xiao Liu both looked nervous.

About half a minute later, a green figure flashed out from the open door, with a shadow, and quickly reached the entrance of the passage, turned, and disappeared from the screen.

Director Wang turned off the terminal without saying anything. Xiao Liu rubbed his hands on his knees and glanced at Lan Yu and Lu Rankong from time to time.

"So, a Longte alien has sneaked into your research institute?" Lu Rankong asked calmly.

Director Wang replied: "It's not like he sneaked in. He just borrowed Kabul's body temporarily."

"Then why did he run away?" Lu Rankong suddenly asked, "The Longte people can control their bodies and are good at disguise. They can still fool a few security guards. Why did he run away? Also, why did you use drugs to anesthetize his original spiritual body before invading his spiritual domain? It shouldn't be so troublesome for the Longte people to seize the body of a researcher."

"I'm not sure, and I've never seen a real Longte person." Director Wang said vaguely.

Lan Yu suddenly asked: "What exactly is your research institute studying?"

Director Wang said: "They are just some common and commonly used medicines, such as pheromone repair agents and mental strength supplements supplied to the military--"

"Director Wang, if you want to hide something, then we can also refuse to accept this mission." Lu Rankong suddenly spoke, interrupting him coldly.

"this……"

Director Wang looked at Liu Deng a little embarrassedly, hoping that he could say a few words for him. Liu Deng didn't even look at him, but just stared at the teacup in his hand, as if he wanted to count how many square patterns were printed on it.

Lu Rankong stood up and said to Lan Yu, "Let's go back to the dormitory."

Lan Yu also stood up and went to take the military cap on the coffee table.

Director Wang added: "After I reported the news to the military, the military sent me to Zhata Star to report the situation directly to Colonel K and Colonel Lu. They said that you two have a lot of experience in capturing the people of Longte Star."

Lu Rankong said coldly: "You didn't provide us with the real situation, so there is no need for us to capture the Longte people. If you have any opinions, go to the military yourself."

Seeing that the two men walked towards the gate without hesitation, Director Wang turned to look at Liu Deng.

Liu Deng continued to look at his teacup, as if he didn't hear the conversation here.

"Our institute is developing a mental stabilizer that can be mass-produced. In order to ensure that there are no mistakes in the research process, several key personnel who have access to the data have taken the stabilizer. Therefore, the Longte people can only anesthetize Kabul's mental body and escape after being discovered." Director Wang suddenly said loudly.

Mental stabilizer? Lan Yu had never heard of it, but he turned his head to look at the people around him and found that Lu Rankong's expression changed and his steps stopped, so he stood still too.

"A mental stabilizer that can be mass-produced?" he asked.