The temporary communication channel with several captains was strangely quiet for a long time.

Until Du Shang said: "No wonder, no wonder!"

Long Xiyun also said: "No wonder."

Wei Yin was a little confused. A guess came to his mind, but he was not sure in fear: "No wonder what? No wonder what?"

He spoke cautiously, as if he was afraid of puncturing his beautiful dream, "By the way, the commander's movements are a bit strange... It's not what I thought!"

Du Shang's tone was leisurely and meaningful: "It should be what you think."

Anyone who is not blind can clearly see that the commander is holding Qi Yan, and he is so eager to hold him close to him, and he is like a boneless person when his chin is placed on someone's body after only one fight. It's too eye-catching!

Weiyin was hit like a tsunami, and his words stuttered: "But, but I... I threw away three years' salary on betting! My road to wealth is broken?"

Meijielin, who had been quietly eavesdropping on the conversation, felt secretly happy in her heart - your road to wealth was broken into pieces, and it became my stepping stone!

Alas, I don't need to thank you for your kindness.

After a moment of confusion, Wei Yin still refused to believe: "But what does Qi Yan like about the commander? Although he is the commander, there are actually people who are willing to have a romance with the commander! Those who can have a romance must be very skillful, good at coaxing people, and very romantic, right?"

As for Lu Fenghan, during non-wartime, he spends most of his time in the training room and the command room every day, never takes a vacation for many years, and never leaves the starship unless there is something to do. As for romance? How can a person who would rather take nutritional supplements than heat up a can of mashed potatoes have any romance?

However, it seems that the commander has cooked for Qi Yan?

Mei Jielin heard Wei Yin's jealousy and resentment, and touched his chin: "Maybe it's because of his good-looking face."

Wei Yin was silent because this point could not be refuted.

He admitted that in terms of appearance, the commander was indeed one of the best in the expeditionary force, but because of his status and his usual imposing aura, few people would notice him.

After this semi-public fight, a lot of true and false news began to be transmitted back from the fleets patrolling the star regions. As the adjutant, Vincent did his best to collect and summarize the news.

"One popular theory is that, back in Leto, Qiyan agreed to save the seriously injured and dying commander on the condition that the commander must marry him." Vincent read out the notes, "But most people think that Qiyan was the one who suffered the loss of 'marrying him'."

Glancing at Lu Fenghan's expression, Vincent cleared his throat and continued reading: "The second theory is that Qiyan was forced. The commander monitored him 24 hours a day and controlled Qiyan's personal freedom. Qiyan had no choice but to submit."

Lu Fenghan reviewed the documents while listening, and paused with his metal pen: "Didn't it say that Qiyan and I were in love with each other?" "

Report to the commander!" Vincent tightened his abdomen and chest, looking straight ahead, "No."

Lu Fenghan listened, and the drama of coercion, threats and imprisonment all came out? It seems that the people under him are involved in a wide range of fields.

But their brains are not very smart.

Seeing that Lu Fenghan did not speak, Vincent was frightened and quickly changed the subject: "Commander, why don't you see the chief?"

Although he belongs to the expeditionary force, out of respect, he will not call Qi Yan's name directly when there is no one around.

"He was called away by Lorenz again." The tip of the metal pen tapped the table, and Lu Fenghan gave the answer, and habitually glanced at the sofa dedicated to Qi Yan.

There was no one there, and it always felt that the whole command room was empty.

Vincent thought to himself that it was not good - how could he poke Lu Fenghan's trachea so accurately?

In fact, he couldn't quite see clearly whether Qi Yan was sticking to their commander, or their commander was sticking to Qi Yan.

On the other side, Lorenz also heard the news. He fully recognized Lu Fenghan's ability as the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary army, but falling in love? He really couldn't imagine it.

With a spirit of academic inquiry, Lorenz rarely brought up topics other than his profession: "Why do you like such a commander?"

Qi Yan did not hesitate: "The general is good, everything about him is good."

"Is that so." Lorenz silently took a sip of coffee and thought, this is indeed an area that he can't understand at all!

Ten minutes later, "The problem is solved." Qi Yan stood up and moved his sore fingers, "I'll make a data processing model for you later, which should improve efficiency a lot."

When he walked out of the technical department, the basic structure of the model had already taken shape in his mind. At this time, Ye Pei hurried over and stood beside him: "I'll take you out!"

He winked at Qi Yan.

Qi Yan received the hint and glanced at Lorenz. Seeing that the other party was tacitly agreeing, he nodded: "Okay."

As soon as he left the technical department, Ye Pei put on an angry expression: "I'm so mad, I'm so mad!"

Qi Yan was puzzled: "Who made you mad? Mondrian?"

"Mondrian stayed up late and was half dead. It wasn't him," Ye Pei waved his hand and frowned, "It was Fantov!"

Qi Yan immediately remembered that Fantov, the scientific researcher who boarded the ship with the new recruits, was the one who input the wrong data, causing the self-checking program of the central control system to slow down.

"A few days ago, he kept coming to chat with me under various pretexts, asking me this and that. At first, I thought he was unfamiliar with the place and kept asking me questions because I was young. Later, I found out that he came to me because he heard from somewhere that we were classmates!"

Qi Yan understood the key point: "He came to you to ask about me?"

"That's right! He came to me to verify whether you were in the same grade and major as me. After confirming it, he started to slander me behind my back, saying that you were just a sophomore at Turan and you hadn't even finished your classes, so how much could you understand? He also talked about the central control system. Obviously the system can be repaired automatically, but the boss called you over. It must have been planned in advance to target him. The character commands you entered were just random."

Ye Pei rolled his eyes, "Targeting him? Are you too self-conscious? Are you so self-centered in your heart? My level is not up to par!"

To calm down, Ye Pei couldn't help but clenched his fists: "You actually said that you were just pressing it casually, so what if you are young? This person is really a frog in the well! Sitting in the well and looking at the sky! His vision is as small as a bean! A cicada doesn't know the snow! Ah, why can't I learn to curse?"

Qi Yan thought, I can do this, he said: "Maybe his brain fell into a wormhole during the interstellar jump and he forgot to bring it with him."

Ye Pei stopped and was surprised: "You are so good at it!"

Qi Yan was very honest: "I learned it from the general."

Learned it from the commander?

Always feeling that the conductor beside Qi Yan was different from the conductor in his impression, Ye Pei did not continue to dwell on this matter. "I followed you out to quietly remind you that Fantov is a narrow-minded villain. When he came here, he wanted to shock everyone with his voice, and it would be best if he could get a position of a person in charge. Unexpectedly, he made a joke and was severely suppressed by you. Maybe he will hold a grudge and cause trouble for you."

Seeing Qi Yan nod, Ye Pei was relieved and a little sarcastic at the same time, "It's obviously his own incompetence and poor level, and he blames you."

"I'll pay attention," Qi Yan saw that Ye Pei had obvious dark circles under his eyes, "If you can sleep an extra hour, sleep an extra hour and get more rest."

Touching his eyes, Ye Pei smiled, "Mondrian and I were taken to repair the power system of Dingyuan. Dingyuan was in such a bad state, it was really destroyed by the rebels. Mondrian and I want to do our best to repair Dingyuan inside and out!"

She smiled a little embarrassed, but her eyes were bright, "Those who are fighting in the front are spears and swords, so we can be a solid backing!"

Looking at Ye Pei's smile, Qi Yan thought, everyone has found what they want to do.

At this time, in the command room, after Vincent left, Lu Fenghan laid his chair flat and prepared to rest for fifteen minutes.

Po Jun was very considerate and dimmed the lights in the command room.

Last night, Lu Fenghan brought out the same excuse as before - I was a little afraid of the dark temporarily, and successfully stayed in Qi Yan's room.

The two of them slept in the same bed, and Lu Fenghan was very restrained, so as not to the point of accidentally firing a gun. However, Qi Yan nestled in his arms, causing Lu Fenghan's heart rate and the temperature of a certain part of his body to not drop for most of the night. It was hard to say whether it was torture or not.

Thinking of that little coquettish girl who would cling to people even when sleeping, Lu Fenghan's lips relaxed and he closed his eyes.

"...You happen to be nearby, I'll send you the detailed location..."

It seemed like someone was talking in his ear.

Judging from Lu Fenghan's experience, the voice came through the communicator, with the unique subtle noise of the signal stream.

There was a residential area nearby, with lush shrubs in the flower beds. Lu Fenghan felt that he was walking towards a certain coordinate point, while asking: "How are your injuries?"

He gradually determined at this time that the person he was talking to was Nie Waiting. And at the time, Nie Waiting should have been assassinated and seriously injured. He hurried back to Leto with the worst thought.

However, Nie Waiting was lucky and survived, so he prepared to return to the front line after a short stay.

But before leaving, he accepted a temporary mission.

Lu Fenghan couldn't tell whether he was dreaming or awake. His consciousness floated up and down on the water. The picture in front of him was fragmented and blurred, like a maze made up of fragments.

Until a door opened in front of him -

Lu Fenghan suddenly opened his eyes.

A sharp pain came from his temples, making his breathing suddenly heavy. The back of his head was also swollen and painful. The white noise produced by the operation of the starship was infinitely amplified, making him irritated for a while, but the pulling pain in his heart calmed him down.

Po Jun said: "General, it is detected that your heart rate has increased by 20% in a short period of time, and it has exceeded 100 times. It is tachycardia. Do you need a medical robot or a treatment cabin?"

"No." After a long time, in the dimly lit command room, Lu Fenghan answered with a hoarse voice.

Without getting up, he lay flat on his back and took out the spare white bandage he had brought with him. He was absent-minded for a few seconds as he stared at it.

He suddenly remembered that in Leto's house, not long after the contract was signed, Qi Yan was peeling fruit in the kitchen and came to him after injuring his finger, saying that he needed a bandage.

After he wrapped the bandage around the wound and tied a bow, what was Qi Yan's reaction at the time?

He looked at it over and over again and said, "It looks good." Even after the wound had completely healed, he still stubbornly wrapped it around his finger for three days and was unwilling to untie it.

At first, he thought that tying bandages and bows was Qi Yan's unique hobby, but later he thought that Qi Yan was sensitive to pain, and no matter how small the wound was, it would be as painful as a stroke for him.

But at this moment, he suddenly realized that it was not the case.

The memories suppressed in his subconsciousness came back one after another, and the surging emotions impacted countless nerve endings, even making his ears ring.

He also remembered the explosion of the starship in the jump tunnel, and when they fell on the planet where it always rained with the escape pod, Qi Yan talked about the death of his mother Lin Zhi in the sound of the rain.

"It was also raining like this on the day my mother committed suicide."

"I walked through that door and there was a strong smell of blood... I knew what happened. When she left quietly without telling anyone, I guessed what she was going to do."

"I shouldn't have acted so smart, right? A little clumsy, a little timid, and always needing her care - but she would still leave."

Lu Fenghan didn't ask "later" at that time.

At this moment, Lu Fenghan got the answer.

The door of the command room closed behind him. Qi Yan walked a few steps inside, stopped subconsciously, and shouted, "General?"

"I'm here." In the dim light, Lu Fenghan reached out to Qi Yan.

Qi Yan quickened his pace, shook Lu Fenghan's hand, and looked at the chair to make sure it could bear the weight of two adult men. Then he nestled into Lu Fenghan's arms and found a comfortable position.

He was keenly aware that Lu Fenghan's emotions seemed very heavy, like the thick mist on a summer morning, and a bit like salty sea water.

"At that time... before I opened that door, were you very sad and scared?"

Lu Fenghan's voice was very light, like a dust belt flowing between nebulae.

This question was inexplicable and abrupt, but Qi Yan's eyes slightly squinted, and he even forgot to blink. He propped up his arms and half stood up, surprised: "General, you--"

What met his eyes were Lu Fenghan's emotional eyes.

Qi Yan stopped talking and rested his head on Lu Fenghan's chest again. After recalling, he replied: "I didn't feel anything at that time. I was very... numb, just like the numbness after the wound hurts to the extreme. I was also very sad, but my eyes were very dry and I couldn't cry. I just felt that my stomach was cramping, I wanted to vomit, and my chest was stuffy."

Lu Fenghan remembered that after he opened the tightly closed door, he saw darkness and only the pungent smell of blood.

Eliza once said that after Lin Zhi committed suicide, Qi Yan stayed by Lin Zhi's side for a long time, until he took the initiative to contact the outside world, and was taken back to the White Tower.

And only now did he know that the person who sent Qi Yan back to the White Tower was him.

Lu Fenghan's rough palms were placed on Qiyan's thin back through a thin layer of clothing, stroking along his spine, and rubbing his chin against the top of Qiyan's head: "So you like bows made of bandages so much?"

Qiyan nodded slightly: "Yeah."

At that time, he didn't know how long he had been in the darkness of the room. He felt cold all over, and even the touch of his fingertips became dull.

After Lu Fenghan opened the door, he was worried that his eyes would be burned by the sudden exposure to the light, so he thought of a way - he

wrapped the white gauze he brought with him around his eyes, and then carried him out of the room. It

was not until they were on the way to the star port that he was allowed to take off the gauze covering his eyes after confirming that there would be no problems.

After returning to the White Tower, in his increasingly confused memory, he didn't know how many times he had recalled these scenes over and over again, day and night,

as well as the temperature, breathing, breath, and appearance of this person.

Lu Fenghan placed his palm against Qi Yan's shoulder blade and was silent for a few seconds: "But before that, I forgot all this."

"Not 'forgot'." Qi Yan retorted, "On the way to the star port, the general told me that because this mission involves the core personnel of the White Tower, and your rank was too low at the time, you would be given hints and this memory would fade. And this kind of 'forgetting' is irreversible, and there is only a very low probability that you will break through the hint and remember it again.

But I remember, I have always remembered it."

Lu Fenghan kissed his forehead and asked in a low voice: "That's why you saved me in Leto, signed the contract with me, and quietly lay down next to me after I fell asleep on the sofa?"

Qi Yan was surprised: "You were not asleep at that time?"

"Silly," Lu Fenghan pinched Qi Yan's nose, "If I could fall asleep under the circumstances, I would have died countless times."

"Isn't it the same for the general?" Qi Yan looked up at Lu Fenghan, "Although he forgot, he still recognized me subconsciously."

Qi Yan used Lu Fenghan's words to refute, "If the general trusted someone he had just met and known for a short time as easily as he trusted me, he would have died countless times."

Lu Fenghan was helpless.

Because what Qi Yan said was indeed true.

Even if there was the reason of the Type VI treatment cabin, Lu Fenghan had to admit that facing Qi Yan, in the brief trial after waking up, he subconsciously chose "trust" first.

He repeated his prayers, his eyes clear: "Even if he doesn't remember me, the general still chose to trust me."

"I'm very happy."