Chapter 72
Perhaps because the exhibition itself is professional, there are not many people at the venue. The two of them walked slowly forward. Shi Yu followed Loren and listened to his explanation carefully.
"Gravity Series A102, used for industrial lifting, but this isn't the latest version. Many of the exhibits here haven't kept up with market updates."
Shigure looked at the mechanical claw and nodded.
Seeing that she had no questions, Loren pushed his glasses up and led her to the next exhibition hall with steady steps.
He walked in front of Shi Yu, his chin slightly tucked in, his shoulders straight and stiff, and he looked obviously tense and unable to relax. Shi Yu looked at his tall and thin back and sighed.
Rona was still following them.
Half an hour... is that really that long? Shi Yu thought, Loren had already taken her through four or five exhibition halls, so why was Mr. Rona still here?
——She definitely didn’t mean to hate Rona, she just felt that it was weird that she finally had some private time to spend time with her friends and talk and chat, but now someone was following her and monitoring her.
Because of Rona's warning at the beginning, Loren and her consciously kept a distance. Now it seemed that rather than being a romantic date between an Alpha and an Omega—
"The latest model in the Speed series, used for road construction, but now it is gradually being replaced by Belga's new technology."
Shi Yu looked at the large equipment in the exhibition hall and nodded again like a ruthless like machine.
…Loren was more like her tour guide!
They walked cautiously through two or three exhibition halls. When they passed a large machine used to recycle contaminated garbage, Shi Yu stopped and stared at the machine with shining eyes.
It’s nothing, this machine looks so much like a Gundam!
Since leaving the nursing home and enjoying unlimited internet access, Shigure, besides chatting with friends, has often watched mecha battle videos on Starnet. This is one of the few things Shigure hasn't found so bad since arriving in this other world. The various cool mechas perfectly satisfy her tastes and fantasies. She's always wanted to try out the controls of these mechas herself.
"This one..." The young man was about to explain calmly and emotionlessly when his dark eyes behind the lenses noticed Shi Yu's longing gaze staring at the machine.
Loren: ...
Loren brainstormed and quickly analyzed the girl's desire from her expression. He pushed his glasses and spoke.
"This machine bears a certain resemblance to military mechas, and its defensive capabilities are exceptional. It's now mostly used for simulated combat."
"Speaking of mechas, I understand that at this exhibition, Belga Industries has opened a holographic cabin of its new mechas for you to experience," Loren tentatively suggested. "Wait a moment, we can go find the exhibition hall where the holographic cabin is placed."
"Huh, really?" Shi Yu asked happily and surprised.
Loren nodded. "In Hall 14, but you might have to queue."
Just at this moment, Rona said goodbye to them and told them to be careful because there were surveillance cameras everywhere in the venue. He looked at Loren seriously and warningly when he said this. Loren said coldly that she understood and he would take good care of her.
Before leaving, Rona pressed the terminal on his watch, as if he had answered a call with someone. He hurriedly glanced back at Shi Yu as he walked away. Shi Yu vaguely heard his voice sighing and drifting away: "I really can't extend this any longer. I think you can rest assured. ... Officer, it's not that I don't want to, but I have to abide by the rules."
…I don’t know what he’s talking about, but Mr. Rona looks like he’s having a hard time.
Shi Yu secretly felt pity for him.
After Rona left, she and Loren went around in circles and found the exhibition hall where the holographic cabin was placed. As Loren had said, there was a long queue here. It seemed that the sparse flow of people at the exhibition had gathered here. It would take about an hour to wait before they could play.
With Loren by her side, Shi Yu didn't feel bored. He just bought a drink at the exhibition and handed it to Shi Yu. Shi Yu held the cup and drank the drink while talking happily with Loren.
There were a lot of people queuing at this time, and Loren had to be alert. The Alpha boy in military uniform carefully used his body to shield the petite girl, occasionally lowering his head, slightly relaxing his cold brows and talking to her, attracting a lot of attention from the surroundings.
Loren and Shigure were quite close to each other, but Shigure didn't notice anything. He killed some time and waited for the first group of tourists to come out of the holographic cabin. The team immediately moved forward in a noisy manner.
Loren stretched out his arm, carefully protecting Shi Yu, but his attention was focused on the surrounding environment, and when he stretched out his arm, he accidentally touched the drink in Shi Yu's hand.
Shi Yu hurriedly used her hands to steady the lid, but it was still knocked off. She opened her eyes wide and watched as the sweet grapefruit juice spilled a little on Loren's military uniform.
"Ah, Loren... wipe it with a tissue first," Shi Yu quickly took out a tissue from his bag, "The clothes are dirty. It's my fault."
The boy lowered his head to glance at his chest, then took the tissue handed to him by Shi Yu and wiped it, saying calmly and helplessly: "It's my mistake, you don't have to mind it."
The surroundings were too crowded, and Shi Yu and Loren got closer and closer. Loren was much taller than her, and now Shi Yu's face was almost touching the boy's thin chest.
Shi Yu blushed and tilted her head back slightly. She could faintly smell the sweet grapefruit scent coming from the boy. This scent lingered on Loren's body and did not dissipate even after she finished her drink.
It had been a long time since the drink spilled on his clothes, so the smell couldn't have lingered for so long. It was most likely Loren's smell.
...Hey, does Loren's pheromone smell like sweet grapefruit?
She was also very close to Loren just now. Shi Yu tried to recall, but she found that she had no impression of the pheromones on Loren.
Logically speaking, one can almost smell the other person's pheromones within one meter. Did she not notice, or does Loren... have no smell?
Shi Yu put his doubts aside for the moment. They were now at the beginning of the line. The staff saw that they came as a group, so they smiled and arranged a double experience cabin for them.
As soon as the staff helped them open the hatch, Shi Yu excitedly got into the holographic cabin and patted the seat next to him: "Loren, come here!"
Loren: ...
The inviting gesture made the boy's glasses reflect light, the corners of his lips tightened, and he couldn't help but push up his glasses.
Loren followed her and lay down, and the hatch closed. Shi Yu closed his eyes following the guidance of the mechanical sound in his ears. A fluorescent green circuit seemed to appear vaguely in front of his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, Shi Yu found himself inside the mecha.
She sat in the driver's seat and Loren in the passenger seat. Shi Yu touched the buttons and control panel curiously. Following Loren's calm guidance, she tried to press the go button.
The control panel vibrated twice, and the huge mecha moved forward a distance. Shi Yu looked left and right at the row of keys, turned around happily, raised his hand and said to Loren, "Want to play more?"
Loren: "...You can try pressing the arm-raising button next to it."
"Where?" Shi Yu's hand moved around and placed on the key to change attack form. Loren immediately stopped her: "Be careful, don't touch the red button."
"See the green rectangular button at the bottom?"
Shigure almost hit the morph button again.
A second before she pressed the wrong key, Loren grabbed her wrist in time, his rough and slender knuckles firmly covering the girl's soft hand, guiding her to press the correct key.
"Take it one step at a time. This is your first time handling a mecha, and some keystrokes will cause the cockpit to deform, which might scare you." The uniformed Alpha calmly and naturally explained his actions. "It'll be very difficult for me to handle."
Shigure: “…Yeah, that’s it.”
She nodded obediently, then looked at their clasped hands and couldn't help but shrink her fingertips.
As if for her safety, Loren did not let go.
Shi Yu awkwardly tried some common key positions under his guidance. After being mentally prepared, Loren led her to press the deformation key. As the external machinery twisted and reassembled, her seat suddenly rose. Shi Yu was startled and held the boy's hand in surprise.
"Lo, Loren!"
The boy clasped the back of her hand in response and whispered, "Yeah."
Fingers intertwined, the cockpit was silent.
Shi Yu shyly looked away and took a deep breath, trying to ease her nervousness. She no longer focused on the mecha. Shi Yu raised her head and mustered up the courage to look Loren in the eye.
Loren leaned slightly to the side, her eyelashes drooping, and Shi Yu happened to meet his equally focused gaze.
In Shi Yu's impression, Loren has always been taciturn and silent, and his presence is slightly weaker than those young men she knows. But to be fair, Loren looks like a classical British scholar, with a monocle with a gentle thin chain, and his hair is neatly combed back, revealing a full forehead and deep and sharp eyebrows. His temperament is cold and meticulous.
Shi Yu looked at Loren and couldn't help but think of the photos of Western historical celebrities in his memory. Most of them used deep eye sockets to fix these monocles without frames in their eye sockets. Only Europeans with strong facial features can do this.
"Loren..." Shi Yu looked at him for a long time, then stammered with a red face, "Have you changed your glasses?"
Shi Yu remembered that Loren's glasses didn't have a thin chain before.
"Well," Loren said, "the previous one was damaged, and when I repaired it, I changed the style a bit."
——In fact, it was just remodeled yesterday. Loren made a lot of preparations for today's date with Shigure, including purchasing hairspray, researching styling, and memorizing the "One Hundred Rules of Dating".
Hearing Loren say this, Shi Yu guiltily recalled what happened before. In the accident during the training camp, Loren's glasses were damaged in order to protect her, and a lot of blood flowed from his eyes.
She pursed her lips, carefully extended her other hand and touched the corner of Loren's eyes, like a butterfly's kiss.
"The injury has healed, don't worry."
Loren probably understood what she was thinking. Although he was not used to such contact, he did not avoid it. He just comforted her in this way.
"I know..." Shi Yu said dejectedly, "I know."
"Thank you for protecting me back then, Loren."
After meeting this time, I don’t know when we will meet again. They have been through a lot together and are such good friends. Shi Yu suddenly felt a little sad.
When she came to her senses, she had already walked over and gave the boy a helpless hug. The boy was obviously stunned and surprised, causing his body to be a little stiff.
"You have always taken care of me and are willing to help me with many things."
Shigure said softly and slightly nasally, "Thank you, Loren."
After leaving the holographic cabin, Shi Yu went somewhere else side by side with Loren. The sweet scent of pomelo could still be faintly smelled from him.
Perhaps his pheromones really did smell like sweet pomelo, Shigure no longer had any doubts about it.
But before heading to the next exhibition hall, Loren raised his arm, sniffed lightly, and then frowned.
"What's wrong?" Shi Yu looked at him puzzledly.
"I smell a little bit. I need to buy a bottle of deodorant later. I'll go to the store later."
Smell? Shigure was even more confused. Isn't this the smell of Loren's pheromones?
Although it was a bit rude, Loren was a good friend, so she hesitantly asked: "Loren, your pheromone... doesn't it smell like grapefruit?"
"Let's not even talk about the possibility that Alphas have fruit-scented pheromones," Loren pushed his glasses and said calmly, "Artificial humans like us are born without pheromones."
…? !
Shi Yu looked at him in shock: "Y-Really??"
No wonder Loren's tone of voice and appearance have a mechanical feel. In the interstellar age, the appearance of artificial humans is not particularly strange. This explains why there is a hint of weirdness in Loren!
Shi Yu felt that he had found the answer! With a trace of admiration for the high-tech life form, Shi Yu was about to speak respectfully when he was interrupted by Loren.
"Do you believe it?" Loren paused and looked at her thoughtfully: "I'm just kidding."
"My pheromones are light and unfixed, so they are very easy to pick up other scents."
"You can think of my pheromones as air, which will make it easier to accept."
Shi Yu had just recovered from the shock of Loren lying when he heard his additional explanation.
…For some reason, Shigure still felt that Loren was lying to her.
The author has something to say:
Loren is not an artificial person, he is really teasing me 2333
Who doesn’t want to play with a kitten?
Loren's appearance is based on Planck's profile photo when he was young. Note that it's the photo of him when he was young!! The one with the monocle, handsome and good-looking! Not the photo of him with a Mediterranean face after decades of physics training. TVT
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