Before going to bed, Qi Yan read a few pages of the epic poem, his fingers pinching the thin pages, and he was unconsciously absent-minded.

A little confused?

Qi Yan curled up and lay on his side, with the book aside, his fingers unconsciously stroking the rough cloth cover.

The surroundings were very quiet, and he couldn't help but start to wonder what the person living in the room opposite him was doing now, but he couldn't figure it out.

He knew that Lu Fenghan would get up early every day to do physical training, but he didn't see it very often, because when he got up, Lu Fenghan had basically finished training. Only a few times did he run into him sweating and about to go back to the room to take a shower.

Qi Yan has a bit of a cleanliness obsession, but Lu Fenghan is a rare person who doesn't make him feel dirty when sweating, and there is no strange smell on his body. He once accidentally touched Lu Fenghan's arm, and the wet and hot feeling left a deep impression on him.

As for other things, he knew that Lu Fenghan liked to read the news, and would look through the information in his personal terminal when he had nothing to do. Sometimes he would talk to Vincent, and usually when he was talking on the phone, his aura would become stern, like a knife hidden in a hard sheath. It

was very rare for Qi Yan to think of a person in this way, so much so that because he was too focused, he didn't hear the communication reminder on the personal terminal for a while.

He did not move, and after allowing the connection, he spoke: "Eliza?"

"It's me," Eliza went straight to the point, "August discovered a few hours ago that someone was checking your real information, but he was blocked because he did not have enough authority. He asked me to ask you."

"Nothing happened. It was the people from the Security Department's Special Intelligence Department who were checking." Qi Yan summarized what happened today in a few sentences. When he mentioned the "Mantis" who was looking for Laurent to buy information, he asked, "Have the rebels been making a lot of moves recently?"

"Yes, the impact of the defeat on the front line is much greater than what is revealed on the surface. In the past, the rebels were always suppressed by the expeditionary force, so they naturally couldn't concentrate and made small moves in secret. Now that they have turned the tables, all their tentacles have become active."

Eliza smiled again, "But you are safe. The rebels would never have thought that you would be a sophomore in Turan, and you are a good student who goes to class every day and hands in homework on time, except for dozing off in class."

Hearing the joke in the other party's words, Qi Yan called out, "Eliza."

"I know, I won't say anything more," Eliza said with a smile, and then said, "It seems that the arrangement this time is correct. When your condition worsened, the news of the great defeat on the front line also came. No matter where you were sent, there might be a risk of being discovered by the rebels. Going back to Leto and entering Turan is safer."

Qi Yan knew about it. At that time, there was a long debate about where to send him to recuperate. Later, Eliza, who had been his attending physician for eight years, suggested that he be sent back to Leto.

"You have never had anyone of your age since you were a child. Maybe you can make friends with this opportunity and experience what daily life is like at your age." Eliza asked with concern, "Qi Yan, are you happy during this time?"

Happy?

Qi Yan thought, he was happy.

He had lived in one place since he was a child and rarely went out. After arriving in Leto, he saw many things he had never seen before and met many people. Each of these people was different. They would say many things he had never heard of, have many different opinions, and have all kinds of happiness and unhappiness.

And there was Lu Fenghan.

Thinking of this person, Qi Yan couldn't help rubbing his fingers on the cloth cover twice.

When Qiyan didn't answer, Eliza asked, "You're happy, right?"

Qiyan finally said, "Yeah."

"You've never liked to talk since you were little, just like an insecure little animal, quietly observing the surroundings." Eliza seemed to be very emotional, and after a while she asked again, "Now, how often do you confuse reality?"

"There's no pattern, sometimes once a day, sometimes several times," Qiyan said here, and then overturned his own conclusion, "No, I'm not sure, I don't know which specific memories are confused."

When he said this, strangely, Qiyan didn't have any unnecessary negative emotions and uneasiness in his heart. It was like there was a clear point between ups and downs, allowing him to anchor.

It was unknown when the communication ended. The fluorescent light on the personal terminal gradually went out. Qi Yan placed his finger on the cover of the book and closed his eyes.

Lu Fenghan had just finished taking a shower and was leaning against the head of the bed, talking to Vincent intermittently.

"Special Intelligence Department 5 is really embarrassed this time. They found the wrong person in Turan, and everyone knew about it. It is said that their deputy director was very angry after taking the person back. The people in Department 5 who have nothing to do are rushing to find things to do. Field work is even more popular. Anyway, they are determined not to show up in front of their deputy director to avoid being implicated. I think it will be difficult for Solo and Paris to move up in the future!"

"When did you become so gossipy?" Lu Fenghan closed the window and noticed that the sky was dark and overcast with dark clouds, and it had begun to thunder.

Vincent defended himself, "Commander, this is not gossip, this is professionalism!" He said seriously, "By the way, you just asked me to pay attention to the Maple Dan No. 1 leak yesterday, and today the news was delivered to me."

Lu Fenghan paused while tapping his fingers on the bed: "Mantis?"

"It's that 'Mantis'! Feng Zhen from the Fifth Special Intelligence Department personally took action and investigated 'Mantis' to death. He really found out a lot of things. 'Mantis' has been hiding in Leto for ten years. His favorite thing is to hook up with those first-year students in Turan." Vincent sighed, "You know, those students who have just come of age and have just arrived in Leto are short of money, and they are not like Commander you, who are lucky to have someone to support them. So after a while, there are really many people who can be hooked by 'Mantis'."

Lu Fenghan temporarily ignored the evaluation of "lucky to have someone to support him", and thought of what Lin Jia said when he went to Maple Dan No. 1 before, "The Turan student that 'Mantis' hooked up, entered Maple Dan No. 1 after graduation?"

"Yes, Mantis is very resourceful. He spent a lot of money to buy basic information from the student, which was worthless, three times, just like throwing a stone to test the waters. When the student was about to graduate, he suddenly didn't want to do it anymore. Mantis demanded the student's past few years' experience. If he dared to quit, he would expose everything he had done. Once the theft of information was exposed, the student's future would be in jeopardy. They are not sure whether they can save it, so they have to continue to cooperate with Mantis, and they will make mistakes one by one. "

Vincent sighed, but he didn't have any sympathy. "This time, the student was working on Maple Dan No. 1, and Mantis got the news from him. He learned that the scientists there were taking the starship's central control system to Leto, and would rest on Maple Dan No. 1. "

That's why there was a sudden attack.

Lu Fenghan thought to himself, he didn't expect that he would pull out a lot of things with the Laurent incident.

Vincent gloated: "After the leak, Huo Yan must be worried sick. I think he has been enjoying the good life for so long since he retired from the front line and managed Maple Dan No. 1 like a fishing net. He should have moved his hands a long time ago. By the way, Commander, what was his reaction when he saw you last time?"

When Lu Fenghan thinks about it now, his eardrums still hurt slightly: "How can you react? You thought you saw a ghost."

Vincent couldn't stop laughing, and he looked forward to it: "When we return to the front, Eric and the others will see you, and they will inevitably howl a few more times, 'There's a ghost!'"

Lu Fenghan didn't know what he was thinking about. The smile on the corners of his lips faded, and his eyes froze for a moment, without answering Vincent's words.

After hanging up the call, he leaned against the head of the bed and looked out the window.

It was late at night in Leto, and a thunderstorm began to fall. The double moons that usually hung in the sky were firmly blocked by the clouds, and not a trace of moonlight could be seen.

To be honest, he spent more time in Leto than on the front. Before joining the Expedition, he spent every day in Leto, but in comparison, he preferred to be on the front.

Although there were only hard beds and greasy canned nutritional creams, and looking out the porthole, there was only the dark universe and distant stars, and occasionally falling to the ground, and most of the planets were desolate. In addition, there were occasional enemy attacks and irregular cosmic storms...

But Lu Fenghan still liked it there.

He now understood why his father Lu Jun drifted on the starship for a year or two without going home, and when chasing pirates, he occasionally communicated, never looked tired, but his eyes were full of spirit.

It turned out that he and his father were both jungle animals.

But if he wanted to leave,

he could be easily taken away, but looking at his coquettish behavior, if he really went to the front line with him, not to mention whether he could get used to the food, he would definitely pull him away and say that he was in pain all over his body after sleeping on the hard bed for a night.

Thinking of this, Lu Fenghan was shocked. He, an honorary graduate of the First Military Academy and the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary army, was actually thinking about how to take someone away in public? There

was a knock on the door.

Not too light or too heavy, just three knocks.

There were only two people in this house. Lu Fenghan knew without guessing that the one knocking on the door must be the one he wanted to take away just now.

Getting out of bed and opening the door, Lu Fenghan saw Qi Yan standing at the door and raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

He asked, but took a step aside to let Qi Yan in.

Qi Yan was wrapped in a black nightgown, holding a pillow he was used to sleeping on, and answered Lu Fenghan's question: "I can't sleep."

His eyes flickered across his thin and white ankles, and Lu Fenghan took over the conversation: "So you want to sleep with me?"

"Yeah."

"Come on." Lu Fenghan reached out and took his pillow, and it felt soft under his fingers. He thought, even touching the pillow feels like pinching a cloud.

He put the pillow on the bed and asked again: "Can you fall asleep if you sleep with me?"

When he asked this question, the first thing that came to his mind was the first time he met Qi Yan. He pretended to be asleep while being cautious. Not long after, Qi Yan curled up beside him and fell asleep in a moment.

The pillow was taken away, and Qi Yan was empty-handed, not knowing how to answer this question.

Fortunately, Lu Fenghan did not ask any more questions. He lay back on the bed and pointed to the empty half next to him with his chin: "Don't you want to come up?"

Qi Yan got on the bed as he was told.

The lights were turned off, the room was dark, and the sound of wind and rain outside the window showed no signs of stopping.

Unlike the single bed on Maple Dan No. 1, the bed that two people slept in now, one occupied one side, and there was still half a space in the middle for one person.

Qi Yan sniffed Lu Fenghan's breath, and the emotions aroused by the memory finally calmed down.

Lu Fenghan closed his eyes and habitually sorted out the news he read today in his mind. At this time, there was another thunder outside the window, and the boom made the window shake.

At the same time, he sensitively noticed that Qi Yan's breathing was tense, and it relaxed only after the thunder disappeared.

In the middle of the night, he came to him with a pillow, and Lu Fenghan guessed, is this... afraid of thunder? So he came to knock on the door and sleep with him?

Just like a little animal, when it encounters something it is afraid of, it will immediately hide in a place it thinks is safe.

Lu Fenghan had excellent night vision and could see Qi Yan's hands loosely grasping the bed sheet. There was a faint sound of thunder in the sky, so he tightened his five fingers and wrinkled the bed sheet.

At the same time as the next thunder, Lu Fenghan turned sideways, covered Qi Yan's ears with his warm palms, and whispered helplessly: "Okay, I'm here, don't be afraid."