In the morning, Lu Fenghan was doing weight training. When he saw Vincent calling him, he directly allowed the connection: "What's the matter?"

Unexpectedly, Vincent hesitated and asked hesitantly: "Commander, did I disturb you?"

"No."

"Huh? Aren't you communicating with your closest five-fingered friend? Then why are you a little out of breath when you talk?"

Lu Fenghan knew that there must be nothing good to say. The garbage in his head was indeed stuffed into his head by the people under him.

He asked casually: "Why aren't there other possibilities?"

"Not with Five Fingers?" Vincent was surprised, "Commander, what misunderstanding do you have about yourself? In the Expeditionary Force election, you have won the title of 'the most difficult single player on the front line' for five consecutive times. We all bet that you will never fire the first shot before you are thirty years old!"

Can't fire the first shot?

Lu Fenghan said indifferently: "It seems that we should sort out our military discipline. It turns out that you have this kind of idle bird voting in private."

"No, Commander, isn't it because floating around in the universe is too boring that we have developed entertainment projects? Do you have the heart to deprive us of the little entertainment we have left?" Vincent regretted his quick words. Perhaps, he could hope that Lu Fenghan would completely forget about this when he returned to the front line?

"Of course..." After taking Vincent's breath, Lu Fenghan slowly said the second half of the sentence, "How could you bear it?"

Not ready to listen to Vincent's nonsense about the mental health maintenance of frontline combatants, he got straight to the point: "What happened?"

Vincent's tone became serious: "It's worth it that we have waited patiently for fifty or sixty days, and finally there is movement."

He was a little excited: "I found out that the front line has finally started formal personnel transfers. Acting Commander-in-Chief Weiss asked the Central Army Corps for permission to promote a group of ranks as appropriate to facilitate the command and deployment of troops, on the grounds that the expeditionary force suffered a great defeat on the front line and suffered heavy losses. I got the list, and promoted fifty people in one go."

"Are you finally convinced that I'm dead?" Lu Fenghan leaned against the wall with his hands in his pockets, "Have you checked everything?"

"We have checked everything, but it seems that there are no major problems with the information of these fifty people. They come from different backgrounds, but their resumes are all acceptable, their family relationships are not complicated, and their abilities are also..."

Lu Fenghan interrupted him: "Speak human language."

Vincent had to skip the process: "There are seven people I feel are not right. Two of them were put into reconnaissance by Weiss, two went to logistics, and three went to technology."

Lu Fenghan's eyes narrowed slightly: "Three went to technology?"

"Yes, if Weiss is the one who has something to do with the rebels, then it can be seen that his first move is to target the central control system."

The Alliance starship central control system has only been developed and put into use for three years, but its effectiveness is extremely amazing. As the commander-in-chief, Lu Fenghan has the deepest experience: compared with this current system, what is the central control system used before?

It is probably about the distance between the First Military Academy and Turan.

This is also the reason why the main designer of the central control system, Y, landed at the top of the blacklist three years ago -

all the hatred points accumulated by Lu Fenghan when he led the starships equipped with the new central control system and chased the expeditionary forces all over the border of the Southern Cross Region are probably clearly shown in this ranking.

"You can't see anything even if you go to the technical department. The things made by Y are as complicated as the heavenly books. Whenever the technical people encounter any small problems, they will immediately turn to the manual given by Y and follow the same instructions."

Lu Fenghan was not nervous, he slowly twirled his fingers, "At the same time, the command ship is still It was Erich's territory that was firmly in his hands. Wise, the acting commander-in-chief, couldn't get involved, so he had to settle for the next best thing and arrange people here and there. "

Erich was his deputy. Lu Fenghan had speculated that after his "death", Erich didn't compete with Wise and got the acting command, probably to avoid the spotlight.

It now seemed that no matter how high Weiss jumped, Eric had guarded the command ship well and had secured everything he needed.

"Keep watching and see what Weiss does next." Lu Fenghan thought again, "By the way, according to the regulations, as long as I am not confirmed dead, the Wage Union will pay, but now, my old account cannot be moved, what about that?"

Vincent understood what Lu Fenghan asked, "When you were in trouble, we didn't dare to bet whether you could survive, so I discussed with a few others and saved money every month to send money to those families to get through the difficulties. When they were alive, they were brothers who went to the battlefield together. After they died, who could bear to ignore their families?"

Although the Union will issue a one-time pension to the military dependents, it is not small. But the reality is that different families have their own difficulties, and those who can help always want to help.

In the past, everyone on the front line joked that Lu Fenghan, the commander-in-chief, was the poorest officer in the expeditionary force, but everyone knew where Lu Fenghan's money went.

Vincent remembered that Lu Fenghan once said, "I don't have family, but they do. Anyway, I'm single, why should I save money? Maybe one day, I will be blown to ashes and float in the universe."

At that time, he was still Lu Fenghan's adjutant, and he laughed and joked, "Commander, why are you cursing yourself like that?

" Lu Fenghan, wearing a military jacket and sitting in front of the command ship's operating table with his legs crossed, replied casually, "I'm a soldier, soldiers will die, what's so strange about that."

When Qi Yan went downstairs, Lu Fenghan was watching the news. He stopped where he was and looked at the time displayed in the news.

He was not mistaken.

Handing the bread to Qi Yan, Lu Fenghan noticed: "Did you stay up late again last night?"

"Yeah." Qi Yan did stay up late to build the model all night. There was a problem with a detail, and all the results of the night were thrown away. He was ready to start over.

He had no appetite, "How did you know?"

"You look pale and listless, with your chin propped up and your eyes are about to close in the next second. If this is not staying up late, then what is it?" Seeing that he didn't eat a bite of the bread, Lu Fenghan turned around and took out a tube of nutritional supplements, "If you really don't want to eat, drink this." Qi

Yan took it, drank it in one gulp, and felt full.

"Does your hand still hurt?"

Qi Yan moved his fingers: "It doesn't hurt anymore."

"Well, let's go to school."

As soon as Qi Yan entered Turan, he felt the eyes of people around him looking at him. He was a little surprised and asked Lu Fenghan: "Why are they looking at me?"

Lu Fenghan listened carefully to the discussions around him and answered Qi Yan's question: "Yesterday, you performed any major, any model, and built an accelerator on the spot in the Academic Management Office. It became popular in the communication area of ​​your Turan intranet. They all think you are amazing, so they look at you."

Qi Yan nodded: "Is that so."

Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows: "Are you unhappy? Everyone has acknowledged your ability. It is estimated that the bad things like yesterday will not happen again in the future."

Qi Yan: "Why should I be happy? Many people think I am very powerful."

The implication is, isn't this natural? I have long been used to it.

Seeing Qi Yan's pale face stretched and looking at him in confusion, Lu Fenghan couldn't help itching his hands - tsk, he wanted to poke his face again.

Lu Fenghan was right. In the next few days, almost no one mentioned academic fraud or hiring a "tutor" at home. Even Laurent only had a cold face and seldom spoke when he met him.

However, on the way to the laboratory, I would often meet people standing on the side of the road and sighing loudly: "Ah, why is the data mining speed of my GT913 Xunlong model so slow?"

"Alas, in order to run the data, I have been guarding next to the optical computer for three days and three nights! If only it could be faster!"

Later, everyone found that Qi Yan had no interest in models such as GT913 Xunlong, and he didn't even bother to pay attention to him, so he gradually disappeared.

Pushing the door and entering the laboratory, Qi Yan saw Professor Fu standing in the center of the laboratory. He blinked and paused for a moment: "Hello, Professor Fu."

"Another one!" Professor Fu was quite satisfied, "Qi Yan, you are the second person who can tell that I am a real person and not a holographic projection in three seconds. It's really sad. More than half of the people in the research team have entered, but only you and Mondrian can tell. Ye Pei is even more outrageous. He even poked me to see if his finger could pass through."

Ye Pei hugged the back of the chair and complained: "Professor, I can only say that my Alliance holographic projection technology is too realistic! And weren't you in the Messier region two days ago? Who knew you would suddenly come to Leto?"

"Of course you have something to do in Leto." Professor Fu saw the last two people from the research group come in, he clapped his hands, "Students, let me tell you something. Tomorrow I will go to the floating space fortress outside the capital star, and they allow me to bring a few students. So if you don't have classes scheduled during that time tomorrow, you can go with me." He called out the names, "Mondrian, Ye Pei, Xu Min, Qi Yan, we will stay there for another night tomorrow, you guys should get ready."

Laurent's metal pen accidentally fell to the ground.

Everyone else was envious of Qi Yan and the others for being able to go to the space fortress with Professor Fu, no one noticed his momentary loss of composure.

He and Qi Yan were in the same class, and neither of them had classes scheduled, but Professor Fu chose Qi Yan instead of him.

A boy next to him saw Laurent lowering his head, "Hey, don't be upset, I'm the same as you, Mondrian and I are in the same class, but the quota is limited, so we can't be taken together. Next time, we will definitely go together." He sighed, "But I'm also quite convinced that I was not chosen. I don't know what Mondrian's brain is like."

After he finished speaking, seeing that Laurent didn't even raise his head, he stopped making trouble for himself.

The space fortress floats outside the capital star Leto. Compared with the capital star, it looks like dust and flying catkins floating in the universe. The exterior is made of high-density mixed materials, and the overall color is gray and black, but it has a very beautiful name - Maple Dan No. 1.

From Leto to Maple Dan No. 1, you need to take a special small starship at the star port. As the starship took off, the ground kept shrinking. The moment they entered space, everyone's ears were slightly silent.

Ye Pei leaned on the porthole and looked out, excitedly: "Are we about to enter Maple Dan No. 1?"

Professor Fu understood the students' feelings of entering the space fortress for the first time, and patiently explained: "Yes, when the starship enters the capture range of Maple Dan No. 1, we will be swallowed by it, just like a whale shark swallowing a small fish in the ocean."

Xu Min was a taciturn boy, silently looking at the scenery outside the porthole, while Mondrian was discussing the capture method of Maple Dan No. 1 with Professor Fu.

Lu Fenghan stared out the window, he really couldn't muster any interest - no matter who drifted in space for nine or ten years, there would be no emotional fluctuations.

But the moment the starship escaped the gravity of the capital star, the familiar feeling made him instantly think that he was back to the front line of the Southern Cross Region.

Under his feet was the bridge of the command ship, and behind him was a fleet of ships charging in formation.

Qi Yan's performance was even more dull than Lu Fenghan's - he leaned on Lu Fenghan's shoulder and fell asleep.

Ye Pei even laughed and said that Qi Yan might have been too excited last night and couldn't sleep, so he dozed off.

Half an hour later, the starship entered the capture range of Maple Dan No. 1. As the view outside the porthole was gradually filled with a huge gray-black metal object, the cabin shook slightly. Then, a mechanical prompt sounded: "Docking successful, please get ready, people inside."

Qi Yan also woke up at this time.

He rubbed his eyes and asked Lu Fenghan: "Are we there?"

"We're here, we're here," Ye Pei replied excitedly, "It's a pity that you just fell asleep. It's really spectacular to see Maple Stage One from a close distance. No wonder the Leto Daily once said that Maple Stage One is a black crystal floating in space. The metal material of the outer shell has a beauty bestowed by technology!"

Professor Fu heard it in the front and laughed: "It seems that classmate Ye Pei is very interested in aerospace materials?"

Ye Pei quickly expressed his loyalty: "No, my love will always be artificial intelligence!"

Everyone in the group laughed.

The hatch opened, and a staff member in a blue uniform came in. "Hello, Professor Fu, hello everyone from Turan Academy, welcome to Maple Dan No. 1! My name is Lin Jia, and I am your tour guide this time." Her long light golden hair was tied into a high ponytail, and she lowered her voice and smiled, "Ten years ago, I also studied in Turan."

Ye Pei said happily, "So it's you, senior! Thank you for taking us on a tour!"

Lin Jia: "This time we are just visiting, and we may even be colleagues next time we meet. Many people in the fortress are from Turan."

After Professor Fu came out of the starship, he was taken away for a meeting, and Qi Yan and his party followed Lin Jia and entered the open area of ​​the fortress.

On the right side of the corridor is a transparent glass wall, which can see the flickering light of distant stars and various equipment floating near the fortress.

Lin Jia held a cup of coffee in her hand and introduced: "In peacetime, the fortress is mainly used for scientific research, space experiments and various monitoring. In wartime, it will become a movable turret. However, the front line and the rebels have been in confrontation until now, and the war has never affected the capital planet, so Maple Dan No. 1 naturally has no chance to go to the battlefield."

She looked at the dark universe outside the fortress, "Of course it is best not to be affected by the war. Fortunately, the Alliance has the Expeditionary Force."

Lu Fenghan didn't feel anything when he heard this.

This is just the bottom line that all successive commanders of the Expeditionary Force have adhered to-keep the smoke of war outside the Alliance stars.

Qi Yan stared at the faint light outside the glass wall, and Lin Jia's description of "movable turret" evoked some memories: "Near Maple Dan No. 1--"

He stopped.

There is a deactivated military long-distance jump relocation point near Maple Stage One. The Alliance originally located Maple Stage One here, partly for security reasons -

to prevent anyone from using this jump relocation point to threaten Leto's safety.

However, this is not something he should know now.

The rest of the people were listening to Lin Jia, only Lu Fenghan focused on Qi Yan, "What's going on nearby?"

Qi Yan shook his head, "Nothing."

"Okay, then it's free time. Your personal terminals will receive a map of Maple Stage One. The white areas on it are open to the public, and the red areas are not allowed. If you go there," Lin Jia continued with a smile, "it will be considered stealing Alliance secrets, understand?"

Several students were startled and quickly promised that they would never step into the red zone.

Lin Jia was very satisfied with the intimidation effect: "The other issue is accommodation. Professor Fu will stay in the fortress for one night, so you can't go back to Leto. But I forgot to ask the specific person, so the current situation is that there are five of you. I only reported in advance and vacated four single rooms."

The extra person was of course the accompanying person Lu Fenghan.

Qi Yan replied: "He will sleep in the same room with me."

Lu Fenghan couldn't help but look at Qi Yan.

Whether it is a starship or a fortress, every inch of land is valuable, and they wish they could fold the space and use one square meter as ten square meters. In such a situation, the room they live in is often planned to be very small, not to mention the bed, which is so narrow that it can barely fit one person.

If he and Qi Yan sleep in the same room...

Lin Jia nodded: "Okay, then there is no problem. The location of the room is also marked on the map. You are free to arrange your time in the future."

After Lin Jia left, Ye Pei, who was the team leader, asked for everyone's opinions. Mondrian and the others all wanted to look around, and Qi Yan stayed up all night again last night and felt sleepy, so he simply went to the room to sleep first .

According to the instructions on the map, Qi Yan opened a door with his personal terminal, and Lu Fenghan stepped in with him.

The room is fully equipped with a small table, a single bed, and a particle cleaner.

Water is not easy to store in space, and the same is true for the fortress. It is not luxurious to configure a water shower. The shower uses this kind of particle cleaner, which is referred to as "dry washing".

The "wash" is very clean, but it lacks the sense of ceremony and comfort.

The room was small, and the moment the door was closed, Qi Yan had the illusion that the whole room was filled with Lu Fenghan's extremely aggressive aura, and there was no way to avoid it.

Qi Yan found the bed and lay down on it. After a few seconds, he sat up again.

Lu Fenghan was surprised: "What's wrong?"

Qi Yan replied: "The bed is too hard and it's very noisy."

Various machines in the fortress continued to operate. People who stayed in it for a long time might be accustomed to subconsciously ignoring them, but for newcomers like Qi Yan, it was no less than noise.

He knew it.

Lu Fenghan took out a pair of silent earplugs like a magic trick and stuffed them into Qi Yan's ears.

The next second, Qi Yan's eyes lit up and he said: "I really can't hear anything."

Lu Fenghan sat on the narrow single bed, patted his thigh, and motioned Qi Yan to lie down.

Qi Yan looked at his legs, hesitating a bit, but after a few seconds, he succumbed to sleepiness.

He slowly lay down on the bed with his hands, resting his head on Lu Fenghan's thighs, and instantly felt his burning body temperature through the barrier of fabric.

Qi Yan took a deep breath.

Being wrapped in Lu Fenghan's strong aura made him feel as comfortable as if he was soaking in warm water.

The bed still didn't become soft, but perhaps it was because this man's aura made him too at ease, and soon, Qi Yan closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Lu Fenghan closed his eyes and rested his mind in the familiar white noise until he was awakened by the personal terminal prompt.

At this moment, he mistakenly thought that he was in a starship on the front line. But the next second, the heavy feeling on his thigh brought him back to his senses.

Vincent sent a voice message, "I finally remembered, I'm commanding you, do you have money now? The prices in Leto are so high, do you want me to support you a little?"

Money?

Lu Fenghan lowered his head subconsciously.

Qi Yan had fallen asleep on his legs, his right hand still loosely grasping a corner of his clothes, as if this could offset the uneasiness brought by the unfamiliar environment. After

carefully recalling it, Lu Fenghan found that he really had no chance to spend a star coin during this period of time - the house he lived in was Qi Yan's, the car he drove was Qi Yan's, and the clothes and food he wore were all bought by Qi Yan.

So he replied truthfully with three words: "Someone is supporting me."