It’s not like Lu Fenghan hasn’t slept with other people before. When he was on the front line, if the fighting was fierce, he had to stare at the star map for days and nights without relaxing. The floor of the command ship was his bed, and dozens of people took turns sleeping. No one cared who was lying next to them. It was good enough to get some shut-eye. It

’s not like he hadn’t slept so close to someone before.

At that time, he hadn’t become the commander-in-chief of the front line. Once, he was on a mission and encountered an ambush by the rebels. He and Erich were forced to land on a remote planet. The escape capsule was blown to pieces as soon as it landed.

Erich was seriously injured at the time, and the bleeding could not be stopped. His body temperature dropped very quickly. Not to mention the treatment capsule and medical robots, there was not even a pill or a bandage. That planet was uninhabited, and the temperature difference between day and night was extremely large. By midnight, the temperature dropped to below zero. He could only try his best to use his own body temperature as a heat source, so that his brother would not live long enough for rescue.

However, these situations seemed to be a little different from now.

The noise of the fortress's operation was continuous, and once noticed, it would be disturbing. But at this moment, it was nothing compared to the gentle breathing reaching his ears.

Lu Fenghan thought, it might be because Qi Yan always had a cold expression on weekdays, rarely smiled, and didn't talk much, which often made people feel alienated and difficult to approach -

it was very different from the way he was snuggling tightly in his arms at this moment.

Or maybe it was because the person in his arms was too thin, too soft, and too fragile, that Lu Fenghan dared not move, and even breathed lightly for fear of waking the person up.

How could he sleep like this?

Lu Fenghan tilted his head slightly, lowered his eyes to look at Qi Yan's sleeping face, his eyes surveyed Qi Yan's straight and dense eyelashes, straight and narrow nose bridge, and silently asked in his heart: Qi Yan, do you know that you will be so clingy when you fall asleep? Huh?

Of course no one answered him.

The little clingy spirit was sleeping soundly, and he didn't even know that he was a little clingy spirit.

In the darkness, Lu Fenghan looked at the metal plate above, trying his best to adapt to the feeling of having a person squeezed in his arms, and slowly closed his eyes in the familiar noise.

After a long time, he raised his arm that was hanging at his side and placed it loosely on Qiyan's waist, without moving it away.

When Qiyan woke up, he was the only one lying on the narrow single bed.

His sleep quality has always been poor, and he can only tell the difference by the length of time, but this time he slept extremely comfortably and didn't even dream.

"What time is it?" His voice was still a little hoarse.

"It's still early, half past eight." Seeing Qiyan's sleepy eyes and dazed look, Lu Fenghan couldn't help but smile, "Don't stay in bed anymore, didn't your team leader say yesterday that we had to gather at nine o'clock?"

Sitting up slowly, the soft fabric fit his body, Qiyan rinsed his mouth with the mouthwash that was uniformly configured for Fengdan No. 1, then took the water handed to him by Lu Fenghan and took the medicine.

Knowing that he would not feel good after taking the medicine, Lu Fenghan asked him: "Take a rest before gathering?" Qi Yan

said "hmm" without objection.

With his back against the metal wall, Lu Fenghan thought for a while: "Do you know that when you sleep at night-"

Forget it, Lu Fenghan didn't want to talk about this for some reason. It was a bit like... a secret, a secret that only he knew.

So in Qi Yan's puzzled eyes, he changed his words: "Don't sleep in the same bed with anyone except me in the future."

Qi Yan was very averse to physical contact with others, and naturally didn't like to sleep in the same bed, but Lu Fenghan was an exception.

But he still asked, "Why?"

Lu Fenghan lied with his eyes open, "You will make a fuss when you have a dream at night, and only I can control it." Qi Yan

knew that he didn't have a dream last night, and he always slept very well at night. Many times, even the sheets or the quilt covering him would not be messed up.

He didn't understand why Lu Fenghan said that, but he would never sleep in the same bed with others, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay."

Lu Fenghan's secret emotions were satisfied.

When they gathered, Mondrian and the others were not in good spirits and kept yawning. Ye Pei was swaying a little while standing and complained softly, "I should have brought noise-canceling earplugs earlier. I didn't feel it during the day, but when I went to bed, the buzzing sound of the engine was too noisy. I probably only slept for three or four hours last night, and I kept having dreams. I dreamed that I was captured by interstellar pirates."

Qi Yan suddenly realized that although Lu Fenghan had prepared noise-canceling earplugs for him, he didn't use them at all last night and still slept well.

Not long after, Professor Fu came over with a staff member, "Okay, students, make sure you have everything packed, we should go back to the ground."

Ye Pei asked, "Professor, will we have another chance to come here in the future?"

Professor Fu joked, "Didn't you almost cry yesterday because of the attack? Now that you're not scared anymore, do you still want to come?"

Ye Pei wrinkled her nose, "The attack was an emergency, and it doesn't affect my yearning and attachment to Maple Dan No. 1!"

The group boarded the small starship, and the hatch of the Maple Dan No. 1 capture cabin slowly opened, and the vast space appeared in the field of vision.

The entire starship slid out, like a fish falling back into the ocean.

Ye Pei leaned on the porthole, looking at the Maple Dan No. 1 that was gradually moving away, and couldn't help but sigh: "When I was inside the fortress, I felt that the internal space was very large and could accommodate many people, but now, Maple Dan No. 1 is so small

." "So, don't you think it's great?" Professor Fu also looked at the scene outside the porthole, "The starship we are in now, Maple Dan No. 1, and even Leto, are just a drop in the ocean compared to the scale of the universe. But we have successfully escaped the constraints of the earth and reached space. When the alliance's territory was at its largest, it even had nine administrative regions and brought countless planets under the rule of mankind."

"Humans are insignificant, but they never allow themselves to remain insignificant."

Mondrian, looking out the window quietly, continued: "This is why I chose scientific research. My father once said that the human race needs people to face the earth and people to look at the stars."

"Yes, your father is right." Professor Fu nodded, and after a moment of distraction, he didn't know what he thought of, and his expression became complicated. He sighed, "But now, 'looking at the stars' has caused fear in many people."

Ye Pei asked in a low voice: "Because of the great destruction of technology, right?"

"You have all learned in history textbooks that the beginning of the third technological explosion was due to the fact that humans mastered a new substance - space sources. After the discovery of space sources, we easily obtained various scientific and technological achievements, even scientific and technological achievements that we dared not even think about."

Mondrian: "But those scientific and technological achievements have no theoretical support."

"Yes," Professor Fu seemed to move the discussion from Turan to the starship, "You see, it's like a lamp is on, but we don't understand why the lamp is on. This is what space sources are to humans.

However, when we first entered the space, we were like a floating boat entering the sea, with the risk of drowning at any time, and the space source was the driftwood that appeared at our hands.

Therefore, we ignored its instability and various unresolved problems about it, and put it into use directly. In the end -"

Everyone is aware of this extremely tragic "great destruction".

The space source underwent a superposition collapse, and the diffuse force field caused large-scale destruction: countless planets exploded, three-quarters of the human race died, the nine administrative regions shrank to four administrative regions, and the territory once conquered by humans sank back into eternal darkness. , except for the central administrative district, the remaining three regions can only retain the core areas, and the marginal locations are forced to be abandoned and gradually desolate.

In the devastation, the Alliance officially launched the "Technology Renaissance Plan". After

losing the space source, the Alliance seemed to have returned to the Earth era overnight, and only one tenth of the results of the third technological explosion remained. A large number of laboratories and scientific researchers died, and data were lost. In many fields, there was even a situation of interruption.

"After the Great Destruction, the rebels used the border of the Southern Cross Region as a base, openly opposed the Alliance and the "Human Interstellar Covenant", and attempted to replace "human rights" with "divine power".

It was still the 145th year of the star calendar, and the Alliance was in ruins and had no time to take the rebels seriously.

But facts have proved that the Alliance has ignored the stimulation that technological destruction has brought to the entire human race. How great is the stimulation? The rapid growth of the rebels and their continued existence is one of the proofs. "

Professor Fu recalled the wreckage of the destroyer floating in space after the sudden attack yesterday, "As long as there is one person who does not trust humans, technology, and the future, then the rebels will never disappear."

Lu Fenghan listened and thought that Professor Fu should know that the attack yesterday was not caused by interstellar pirates accidentally entering, but was the work of the rebels.

Professor Fu looked at the people present with a sincere look: "You are all excellent students of Turan Academy, and in the future, you will also become excellent scientific workers. You still have a very long life ahead of you, but no matter what happens, you must never give up your trust in your tribe and your hope for the future. "

Ye Pei and Mondrian felt the heaviness of Professor Fu's words and nodded in agreement.

Qi Yan looked out the window, remembering that his mother had once told him, "You have a talent that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, but this talent will also bring you pain. You will often feel lonely because of the misunderstanding of others, and you will feel afraid because you realize how small you are, but Yanyan, even if it's dark, remember to look at the stars."

He thought, he did it, he never gave up easily.

When he arrived in Turan, the afternoon class was over, and several people went directly back to the laboratory.

The news that "Maple Dan No. 1 was unexpectedly attacked by interstellar pirates" was on the front page of the "Leto Daily" yesterday. As a result, as soon as they came back, they attracted everyone's attention.

Ye Pei had to tell the story from beginning to end to satisfy everyone's curiosity. Qi Yan

sat down at his seat, took out the optical storage device and connected it, preparing to make up for the progress left over from the past two days.

While inputting the characters, he remembered that before going to bed last night, Lu Fenghan said that the reason why the rebels suddenly attacked was because the source structure of the starship's central control system was in the fortress at the time, and the destination was Leto.

He speculated that the source structure It should have been sent to debug the new information processing model jointly developed by the military and Turan. The military may have the idea of ​​adapting this system to civilian starships and land.

Realizing that he was thinking too far, Qiyan collected his thoughts, focused on the things in front of him, and prepared to finish his work and go home early.

He's a little hungry.

Laurent's position is at the oblique corner of the prayer.

Qi Yan said that during the two days when they were away from the laboratory, if anyone encountered a problem that they couldn't solve, they would come to him for advice. Although he was a little impatient, he would not refuse.

But now, as soon as Qiyan came back, he said before, "Laurent, I never thought of this method!" "You are so awesome! ", all the people who were thinking about it, were at Qi Yan's place in a blink of an eye.

And he was like

an invisible man, invisible to everyone. No, it should be said that he was completely invisible now, wasn't he?

Professor Fu would not take him with him to the Space Fortress, and everyone took it for granted that the quota that originally belonged to him was Qi Yan's. Every teacher was praising the PVC93 model and the R9-03 accelerator that Qi Yan had made...

Everyone was Qi Yan, Qi Yan, Qi Yan -

why should this person exist in the world?

At this moment, his personal terminal received a message.

"What do you think? The price can be discussed later."

Laurent originally wanted to delete the message directly, but stopped before the operation.

Glancing in the direction of Qi Yan, Laurent lowered his head and stared at the line of words on the personal terminal.

Half a minute later, he replied: "The price will be 40% higher. "

The other side replied very quickly: "Okay."

Laurent's eyes were filled with excitement, but he quickly concealed it: "Tell me the time and place of the transaction."

Qi Yan helped other people in the team solve several problems, and then continued to do the tasks assigned to him. After saving the final analysis results and putting the optical storage device aside, Qi Yan got up and went to find Lu Fenghan: "Let's go home, I'm hungry. "

Walking out, Qi Yan brushed past Laurent, took two steps, and felt something strange.

In the laboratory, except for him who was equally flexible with both hands and there was no left-handed or right-handed person, so he always placed the personal terminal on his right hand, everyone else placed the personal terminal on their left hand for convenience, including Laurent.

But just now, he inadvertently glanced and saw that Laurent had changed his personal terminal to his right wrist at some point.

Lu Fenghan, who was standing aside, was suggesting: "What do you want to eat tonight? Let me cook it?"

After hearing this, Qi Yan refused without hesitation: "No, I'll have set meal A. "

So, you would rather eat the bland A set meal than eat the food I cook?

This realization made Lu Fenghan, who was very good at learning anything, wonder, could it be that the penetrating wound on his waist last time did not affect his ability in that area, but affected his cooking performance?