When Qi Yan woke up, his senses also began to recover. The soreness spread around his waist, and the sensitive nerve endings under his skin had not yet completely calmed down after being stimulated.
He closed his eyes and judged from the touch that he was lying on the sofa in the command room, with his cheek resting on the lining of Lu Fenghan's military jacket, which was softer than the other side.
The space was very quiet. Apart from the white noise of the starship's operation, there was no movement or breathing around.
Lu Fenghan was not in the command room.
After having this knowledge, Qi Yan suddenly lost interest and did not want to open his eyes.
He curled up his legs and rubbed the coat that Lu Fenghan had used as a pillow, absorbing the familiar scent left on it, and buried his face deeper into it, feeling drowsy.
In addition to the fact that he was still a little sore, he should have been washed by Lu Fenghan, and the clothes he was wearing were also washed and had a faint smell of detergent.
Qi Yan was still a little sleepy, and his thoughts were confused. One moment he was solving the Mortensen constant formula, and the next moment he was carving the apple rabbit that Lu Fenghan had cut. After the loud sound of the rebels rushing towards him falling to the ground, the scene of snow falling when Leto listened to the New Year's bell emerged from the depths of his memory again.
Until the sound of the metal door sliding open came in the silence.
Qi Yan keenly caught the footsteps.
The person who came here made very little movement, but Qi Yan still recognized him immediately .
He stood up, leaning on the sofa: "General?" He
realized his voice was hoarse when he said it.
When Lu Fenghan approached, he saw Qi Yan sitting up from the sofa. His shirt was loose, and there were still marks on his neck and exposed arms.
Putting down the cooked star mushroom porridge, Lu Fenghan skillfully held the person on his lap and sat him down: "When did you wake up? You didn't eat anything at night, and I was afraid that you would be hungry when you woke up, so I went to the kitchen to cook some porridge. Do you want to eat now?"
After hearing what Lu Fenghan said, Qi Yan felt hungry a little bit dully. The aroma of porridge wafted over, and he nodded. He leaned on Lu Fenghan tiredly, half-closed his eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Is it already evening?" It
was always pitch black outside the porthole, and it was impossible to tell the time by the light of day.
After blowing a spoonful of porridge until it was half cool, Lu Fenghan fed it to Qi Yan's mouth and answered, "Well, it was past nine o'clock in the evening."
"So late?" Qi Yan recalled while eating, "We... it was only past three in the afternoon."
Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows and whispered with a smile, "Who pestered me twice and didn't let me stop?"
Looking away, Qi Yan bit the spoon and stopped talking.
Because of the repeated sucking and kissing before, his lips were a shade redder than usual, and his black and white eyes seemed to be soaked in water. Lu Fenghan couldn't take his eyes off him when he saw it. In the posture of holding someone, he lowered his head to Qi Yan's neck and kept sniffing, like a beast in the jungle checking whether the prey was already covered with its own scent.
Undisguised possessiveness.
Qi Yan was itchy, and instinctively raised his shoulders, and reminded: "The porridge is going to spill on the general..."
"No." Lu Fenghan's tone was half anxious and half hoarse. He couldn't suppress the thirst in his heart, and kissed Qi Yan's earlobe and neck one after another.
But at least he was still rational, knowing that Qi Yan couldn't stand such a frequency, Lu Fenghan stopped kissing for a while and continued to feed Qi Yan porridge.
Qi Yan drank the porridge quietly, and he didn't dare to remind him that you hit me. When the one-way video from the technical department came in, Lu Fenghan started to listen to the report, and he moved slightly.
The person reporting was Lorenz.
"Commander, drive from the asteroid belt to the habitable planet you marked. There is a huge vortex a few hundred stars away. The force field is very strong. If you are not careful, both people and ships will be sucked in. The exploration team has taken some samples for research and determined that the vortex should have been formed in the past hundred years."
This can also explain why Lu Ke can smoothly travel back and forth between the asteroid belt and the habitable planet in the Great Voyage Plan.
After working together for many years, Lu Fenghan knew very well that if only a vortex was discovered and the time to reach the habitable planet would be delayed, Lorenz would not be so cautious to personally find him to report the situation.
"What else did you find?"
"This discovery is quite bizarre." Lorenz took a sip of coffee. "The robots sent out by the exploration team not only brought back research samples, but also some junk."
"Junk?" Lu Fenghan's eyes narrowed.
Hearing this, Qi Yan also looked over immediately.
With the continuous expansion of human activities, it is not surprising to pick up floating junk in space. But in this star field connected by the natural wormhole, according to records, except for Lu Ke who accidentally entered it more than 200 years ago, only they have set foot in it so far.
Lorenz seemed to know what Lu Fenghan was thinking, and he stated first: "It is not the wreckage of Lu Ke's spaceship, nor is it something she left behind. Judging from the craftsmanship and materials, it can be determined that it is a product of the past thirty years. Commander, there are only two possibilities."
The three people knew in their hearts that one possibility was that this vortex connected to another area, and some garbage and waste were "sucked" from that area, and they happened to be discovered and picked up.
Another possibility is that there are human activities in this star field. It was
just because of the obstruction of the vortex that those humans failed to discover this asteroid belt, nor did they discover this natural wormhole, and they didn't know that the exploration team had arrived in this star field.
With the intuition he had developed over the years on the battlefield, Lu Fenghan immediately thought of a possibility and ordered in a stern voice: "Stop all exploration projects, tighten the team, enter a wartime state, and be careful not to reveal any traces."
Lorenz frowned: "Commander, what do you think--"
Lu Fenghan did not answer immediately.
He had no actual evidence to support his judgment, and he made a judgment based on his intuition.
Without further questioning, Lorenz believed in Lu Fenghan's intuition: "I understand."
Lu Fenghan tapped the sofa with his fingers: "Don't cross the vortex for now, just stop at the edge of the vortex and try to pick up more garbage. At the same time, rule out the possibility that the vortex connects to another area." Lorenz nodded
: "Yes!"
As soon as the call was hung up, Lu Fenghan immediately ordered Pojun: "Let Weiyin and others come to the meeting."
After that, he reached out and buttoned up the torn buttons of Qi Yan's shirt one by one, covering the eye-catching marks without revealing anything.
Soon, several captains walked in. Mei Jie Lin couldn't help talking: "Commander, have you been in the command room all the time? Why did I hear several people say that they came to the command room to look for you, but Po Jun said you were not there and refused to open the door."
Lu Fenghan didn't respond to her and just asked Po Jun to light up the star map.
Seeing this, Mei Jielin quickly put away her smile and became serious: "What happened? Did the rebels take the initiative to attack?"
She immediately denied her guess, "It's impossible. They hid in the Divine Court and no one could find them. They shrank for 20 years and then popped out again. They are good guys again."
This is also a common guess within the Alliance.
At the front line of the Southern Cross Region, the twelve rebel corps were beaten to pieces, and only the third and sixth corps were left to defend the Divine Court. As for the Central Administrative Region, the remaining rebels and interstellar pirates have retreated to Leto and dared not to challenge the Alliance.
If the wise men of the rebel army were ruthless enough to cut off their own arms, not provide any assistance, and allow Leto to be taken back by the Alliance, although they would completely lose all the remaining troops in the central administrative district, it would still be a way to protect themselves -
as long as the rebel army did not take the initiative to expose the coordinates of the Divine Court, then no one would be able to find them. In another ten or twenty years, a new generation would be fully grown, and the starships and ammunition reserves would be sufficient, and the rebel army would be able to fight the Alliance again.
The wise men of the rebel army today are decisive and will most likely choose to hide in secret, recuperate, and find a new opportunity in the future before taking action.
Du Shang, who came in a step later than her, thought of another thing: "The rebels are so lucky that they have come up with new technology that can crush the alliance and roam across space, or they are so desperate that they can't wait to fight us?"
He snapped his fingers, "It just so happens that I've been resting for a few days and my muscles are too lazy to fight. It's good that they come to fight. Otherwise, I'm always worried that they will suddenly attack me when I sleep."
Hearing the eagerness in Du Shang's words, and scanning the bright-eyed Mei Jielin and Wei Yin, Lu Fenghan realized again that the people under his command are indeed war maniacs with nowhere to vent their energy.
If they were not sent to the front line, they might all be street bullies or restless gang leaders.
"The exploration team in the new star field sent back a message saying that on the way to explore habitable planets, they encountered a vortex, and the waste picked up from it was produced in recent years. I suspect that there is human activity in that star field."
Lu Fenghan said it concisely. Before Mei Jielin could react, he changed the subject and said, "Everyone can prepare for battle."
The seven words fluttered in shock, and Mei Jielin's hair stood on the back. It was like a missile in his arms, and he didn't have time to throw it out, and it exploded directly!
A few hours later, the technical department sent another message saying that the exploration team ahead had picked up a finger bone. After testing and analysis by instruments, it was found that it did not belong to an alliance citizen.
Lu Fenghan stood in front of the star map, with his shoulders straight, and asked, "What is the basis for your judgment?"
Lorenz replied, "The rebels have a militarized society, and there is a god standing above everyone, so they use a lot of genetic adjustments that are strictly prohibited by the Alliance."
Genetic adjustments, as the name suggests, are artificial interference and changes to genes, including appearance, genetics, etc. As early as the Earth era, genetic adjustments were listed as illegal and prohibited because they violated ethics and human nature.
"The result of the instrument analysis is that the original body of the finger bone had undergone a lot of genetic adjustments, but it only lived to the age of 47 because of a genetic disease that caused the gene chain to collapse and then died. Inferring that, there is an 80% chance that the original body was an experiment."
Lorenz held the coffee cup without drinking. "In summary, we guess that if there are really human activities in the new star field, then this vortex should be their secret 'garbage dump'."
He emphasized the word "human".
There was no definite evidence, and for the sake of caution, neither of them specified it during the conversation.
"However, we haven't collected enough detection data, so we can't rule out the possibility that the vortex is connected to another star field."
Lu Fenghan said calmly, "Continue to investigate, and be careful."
Lorenz: "Yes."
Although the command ship has entered a state of readiness, there is not much difference between the command ship and the usual situation. The intensity of daily training for all soldiers has been raised to the maximum and cannot be raised any higher.
The only difference is that the meeting time in the command room has become longer.
After a remote meeting with Nie Huai Ting who was far away in Odin, Mei Jie Lin, who had been sitting straight, immediately lost her temper and slumped over the conference table. She raised her eyelids and looked at Lu Feng Han: "Commander, the meeting is only one hour and fifty-three minutes long. Why can't you sit still? Do you know what you look like now? Like an office worker who is always thinking about going home to hug his wife after work! Hahaha!"
Lu Feng Han stood up, slowly straightened his cuffs, and hit back mercilessly: "There are people in my house, what do you have in your house?"
Too cruel.
After cursing, Mei Jie Lin blushed and thought, what is in my house? Not only is there no one in my house, I don't even have a fucking home!
After Lu Fenghan left, Weiyin patted Mei Jielin's shoulder sympathetically and said, "Brother, don't rush to seek abuse in the future. Haven't you noticed that after having Qi Yan, the commander has become a standard winner in life?" After
thinking carefully for a few seconds, Mei Jielin raised his middle finger - fuck, there was no way to refute it!
Stepping out of the command room, Lu Fenghan went to the equipment room to pick up Qi Yan. When he thought of this person, his internal organs seemed to be warmed up, and he was filled with joy.
When he arrived, the metal door of the equipment room was closed. Under the not-so-bright light, a person stood quietly in the shadow, staring out the porthole in a daze.
The difference in light outlined the elegant lines of the other person's profile, soft and thick eyelashes, and slender figure, so that Lu Fenghan could not help but lighten his steps, afraid of disturbing the moment.
"General?" Qi Yan turned around, and a radiance appeared in the depths of his pupils.
It seemed that he knew it was him without seeing the person.
Lu Fenghan took a big step again with his long legs to make up for the hesitation of the previous moment.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"
Qi Yan always answered Lu Fenghan's questions seriously: "This time, the processing model of the central control system was added, and the speed was faster than I originally thought, but it was only a little faster, so I didn't have to wait long. I just counted to seven hundred and twelve, and the general came."
At this moment, Lu Fenghan felt "needed" from Qi Yan.
He was needed.
Qi Yan's urgent need for him.
Lu Fenghan lowered his eyes and stared at the person in front of him, his eyes flickered slightly, and he thought: There is a person who will quietly count and wait for me to pick him up.