In the history of the earth, there was a saying called "Pongalai regression", which means that after a long time, a particle will inevitably return to a state infinitely close to the initial state.

Some people argue that after a long enough period of time, the world will return to its current state, and the intersecting destiny tracks will intersect again.

Qi Yan recalled the first day he arrived in Daleto. When he saw Lu Fenghan, who was seriously injured and unconscious, in the downstairs of the residential area under the dim light, he was shocked-

is this the case that people who have met will eventually meet again in another way?

Pinching a button on Lu Fenghan's clothes, Qi Yan asked: "Why did the general appear under that residential building at that time?"

"I sneaked into a transport ship from the front line and returned to Leto, and then took their packaging transport vehicle to leave the starport. I got off the vehicle before reaching the terminal and narrowly escaped being discovered.

I was no longer mentally clear at that time. It might be because the surrounding environment was unfamiliar, but I felt familiar with that place in my subconscious."

Lu Fenghan did not ask Qi Yan why he was there at that time, and he could guess it without guessing.

Feeling distressed again, Lu Fenghan kissed Qi Yan's hair, then kissed his eyelids, as if he was across irreversible time and space to comfort Qi Yan, who was standing alone downstairs of a residential building after returning to Leto, swept by a wave of memories and emotions.

With the successive victories of the expeditionary force, the star regions that were included in the alliance's territory continued to expand, and the patrol and defense fleet took two or three days longer than before to return to the new station.

Looking out from the porthole, under the black curtain dotted with stars, a large number of star ships gathered into a gray torrent, surging and merging like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

The metal door of the command room slid open to the sides. Mei Jielin was wearing a combat uniform. She was tall and slender. She strode forward with her tight long legs, and her military boots made noises on the ground: "Wein and the others are not on duty, so there's no one nagging in my ears. Why are my ears still quiet and not used to it?"

She had obviously come directly from the recruit training ground. She casually threw the wrist guard made of special material on the conference table with a "pop" and touched her chin: "Am I a masochist? No, I didn't realize I had this potential!"

Lu Fenghan raised his eyelids and looked at her. Seeing that she could no longer hide her smug expression, he didn't say a word.

At this time, Wei Yin and Long Xiyun, who had just returned, walked in. Mei Jie Lin immediately said, "Hey, the source of loneliness is probably that my happiness of becoming the richest man in the Expedition Army must be doubled by the poor ghosts!"

She also deliberately squeezed her eyes at Wei Yin, "Are you right, Captain Wei Yin?"

Wei Yin paused, feeling sad and angry, and repeatedly asked himself, why did I come back? Isn't it good to patrol outside? Isn't it good not to meet Mei Jie Lin?

Look, when I came back, I was immediately attacked by Mei Jie Lin!

Is it great that you want to become the richest man in the Expedition Army?

Huh?

Well, it is indeed great.

In view of the fact that he might have to eat charity in the days ahead without three years' salary, Weiyin decided to endure it, so he pulled out a chair and sat down silently.

In order to prevent infighting among the top leaders of the expeditionary force, Lu Fenghan spoke at the right time: "What was the result of the inspection?"

Du Shang spoke first: "Nothing unexpected happened. I took people to stroll around the garrisons of several rebel legions and wiped out the remaining soldiers. We bombed what should be bombed, and bombed what should be bombed, and absolutely did not leave any living forces for them. I kept 20% of the seized supplies, and the rest have been registered and stored in the logistics department."

Weiyin spoke second "It was a smooth journey. The defense map has been sent back. We encountered dozens of deserters on the way and dealt with them. We also encountered two groups of pirates who were like orphans and beat them up."

He asked, "Commander, what is the attitude of the rebels towards interstellar pirates? It doesn't seem like cooperation, and it's unclear whether they became wolves and wolves in the end, but it doesn't seem like they have completely torn their faces apart. Are the rebels prepared to deal with the alliance and then eliminate the pirates?"

"No. The rebels will not eliminate the interstellar pirates, but will keep them." Lu Fenghan sat in a chair, his sitting posture had nothing to do with the word "proper". He spoke at a steady pace, "If the alliance is gone in the future, and the rebels unify the star field, it will take at least several decades for "gods" and "brainwashing" alone to quickly win everyone's hearts and minds."

Long Xiyun understood immediately: "So they will keep the interstellar pirates?"

"Not only will they keep them, but they will also support them secretly to allow the interstellar pirates to grow. Just think about it, when civilians are harassed and attacked by interstellar pirates--"

Weiyin immediately replied: "The rebels will be the umbrella and support for civilians!"

"That's right. It's the same for the rich. When their merchant ships may be attacked by interstellar pirates at any time, then the rebels with powerful military force will be their support. By then, even if they can't accept it emotionally, the day of acceptance will not be far away."

Lu Fenghan's eyebrows were sparse, "At that time, interstellar pirates will be the glue."

Mei Jielin tapped the ground with her toes, "Just like the current significance of the expeditionary force to the alliance?"

She waved her hand again, "I was just imagining what you said. My specialty is only fighting. Let I can tell you where to use laser cannons and send destroyers, but I don't need to analyze the situation."

Lu Fenghan nodded: "More or less. The Alliance was humiliated on its founding day, with many disloyalties and doubts about the regime, but the expeditionary force is not destroyed, and victory will come tomorrow. From this perspective, the expeditionary force is indeed the glue of the current Alliance, ensuring that the people's hearts, territory and hope are not scattered."

Mei Jielin: "So the Alliance is now generous like anything, with new recruits, starships, supplies, ammunition, and transport ships one after another transporting to the front line?"

"Yes." Lu Fenghan affirmed, "This is to use the full strength of the alliance to regain the dignity, confidence, and cohesion that were trampled into pieces by the rebels on the day of its founding."

There was a moment of silence in the command room.

This burden is certainly heavy, but the people present have been shouldering the victory and defeat and the lives and deaths of countless people for years, so they don't feel that they can't bear it.

Mei Jielin continued to report: "I trained the new recruits and made them less weak. After all, when the enemy bombards them, they will no longer be so scared that their hands and feet tremble, and they can't even turn the joystick to make an emergency turn. Their survival rate has increased, and the rest can only rely on their own training and accumulation."

He switched his legs and said, "My deputy captain's patrol and deployment are also very smooth. The basic experience is similar to that of the Pingning. The only special thing is that natural wormhole."

Lu Fenghan has a good memory: "The natural wormhole hidden in the asteroid belt that you discovered when you crippled Princess Cut?"

"Commander, we don't need to mention the Princess Cut's lameness anymore!" Mei Jie Lin said in a bad mood, but answered the question seriously, "Yes, that's the one. Before I left last time, I took the usual measures and put a recorder and a marker inside. The vice-captain took a look when he passed by this time and said that based on the data, the wormhole is very stable, but he doesn't know where it leads to."

After tapping his fingers twice on the table, Lu Fenghan thought for a while and ordered: "Continue to record the data and contact the technical department at any time."

Mei Jielin raised her eyebrows: "No problem!"

The leap channels currently used by the Alliance Channel are divided into two types. One is a natural wormhole that has undergone artificial intervention, and its stability is maintained by technology. The other is an artificial wormhole that was opened up before the great technological destruction using a space source that is so powerful that it exceeds the Alliance's technological level.

Of course, since the space source collapsed, humans have lost this weapon, and the number of artificial wormholes has never increased. The new channels added by the Alliance in recent years are all natural wormholes that the exploration team has found one by one while wandering around the universe.

Lu Fenghan's idea was very practical - if this natural wormhole was confirmed to be stable, he could send someone to verify where the exit on the other side was, and perhaps open up a new route for the Alliance.

After the captains took turns reporting, Vincent displayed the front page of the Leto Daily on the virtual screen: "There's a lot of information, but I know you're too lazy to read it, so I'll give you a brief summary."

"First, we captured a lot of spies sent by the rebels. After interrogating a few of them, we uncovered a large group of people and dug out an intelligence network. In the process, we encountered fanatics who believed in God, and there were cases of suicide or self-explosion, but nothing serious happened.

Second, Odin's side used wind catcher, mirage, and mobile jump on the battlefield. Each rebel army placed a small half of its fleet in the central administrative district, but they were all destroyed. General Nie has successively recaptured Tiamat, Anu, Ea, Macedonia, as well as three space stations, two space fortresses, and thirteen mineral stars."

Metierin The disdain was obvious in his words: "The rebels' operation is a bit confusing. Why do they have to decompose their combat power and withdraw half of the troops from the front line to the central administrative district?"

Lu Fenghan answered simply: "They want to get the benefits of both sides. They can't let go of the front line and the central administrative district. There is no trust between the various legions and they are afraid of being hurt."

Vincent continued: "Third, Hodgkin, who has been acting as a spokesman for the rebels in Leto, is the old man. He was assassinated during a public speech. He was seriously injured and immediately entered the treatment cabin."

Lu Fenghan frowned: "Who was the assassin?"

"A young student was almost killed, but was rescued and sent away by the Alliance's people hiding in Leto. He didn't die."

Vincent sighed, "But this has led to stricter control in Leto. For example, at Turan College, the theology course load has doubled, and it's useless for students to walk out of class. It is said that the most popular topic in the Turan College intranet exchange area is how to sleep in theology class without being discovered. Every time there is an exam, there will be a god who will provide the key points of the exam to ensure that everyone passes the exam after a night of preparation. "You can pass the exams and won't be embarrassed."

At this point, Vincent paused, his tone complicated: "The intelligence department received a secret message from Turan students, saying that there is no need to worry too much. They will learn what they should learn at night when the surveillance is slightly relaxed."

Long Xiyun took over, and every word was pronounced clearly: "The faith in your heart cannot be abandoned, and the pursuit of truth cannot be stopped halfway."

This is what the three professors who were shot at Turan Academy said.

Now, their students have implemented this sentence very well.

The air was slightly heavy.

Mei Jielin didn't even make a sound when she was hit by the light particle gun, but after Long Xiyun repeated this sentence, she felt a slight pain in her throat and cursed softly, "What a fucking piece of shit."

Vincent adjusted his tone and said, "At the First Military Academy across the river, when the Secretary-General and General Nie left Leto, the school held a temporary graduation ceremony. After the oath, almost all the students followed General Nie. The army left.

Before rushing to the battlefield, it is said that because of the worry about the lack of military supplies on the front line, the students almost emptied the school. There was not even a bullet in the shooting practice field, and there was not a drop of nutritional supplements left. They really practiced the virtue of "diligence and thrift."

His tone of the first few words was still relaxed, but when he spoke the latter part, his heart sank as if a huge rock was pressing on him.

If it were not for the situation, how could the students take off their school uniforms and put on military uniforms?

Even the students of the military academy.

They should have a complete campus life as a memory, just like me and most people, and pass the graduation exam with great effort at graduation, and then swear together at the graduation ceremony to use bones as blades and blood as shields, and move forward as an alliance.

Lu Fenghan interrupted the atmosphere that was about to stagnate: "When they return to school for classes, according to the temperament of professors and instructors, they will make them return all the things they moved away, even if only bullet shells are left. After all, the school is poor and has no extra food."

The atmosphere suddenly eased.

After the meeting, Lu Fenghan leaned back in his chair, relaxed his tense spirit, and asked Pojun: "Is Qi Yan still in the equipment room?" Pojun

immediately replied: "Yes, the chief believes that the self-repair ability of the central control system is not comprehensive enough, so he is adjusting the starship central control system."

"Well," Lu Fenghan grabbed the coat beside him and prepared to wait for Qi Yan outside the equipment room.

Along the way, Pojun kept telling Lu Fenghan about his thoughts after reading a book: "The book says that the human body sheds 25,000 skin cells every minute. Can this be understood as humans turning into dust every moment? This idea is sentimental and romantic!"

Lu Fenghan responded perfunctorily: "Yes."

"Humans are really an amazing race. Compared with gorillas, which are also primates, humans have three more muscles in their thumbs. Because of these three muscles, humans can use tools and have embarked on a different evolutionary process from gorillas."

Lu Fenghan thought so in his heart and said so: "Pojun, why do you talk so much?"

"General, I have to remind you that this is your choice. The chief once asked you whether you prefer an AI that talks a lot or one that talks less, and your answer was 'one that talks a lot.'" Po Jun thought for a moment, "This is called, you will suffer for your own sins."

Lu Fenghan thought, you may not be very clear about what "a little" means. In addition, the self-description is quite accurate.

When Lu Fenghan arrived outside the equipment room, he only waited for a few minutes before the door opened.

Qi Yan, who stepped out of the door, pinched his eyebrows, as if he had sensed something, and suddenly looked in one direction. A figure came into view, his eyes lit up slightly, and his steps quickened: "General?"

Lu Fenghan shook the hand of the person who came, and as expected, there was a hint of coolness in his voice. He replied: "I'm here to pick you up after work."

If space is replaced by planets and command ships are replaced by the ground, then they really seem like the two most ordinary people in a corner of the alliance.

"I looked at the central control system and have a plan. It should be repaired in two or three days." Under the not-so-bright light of the passage, Qi Yan's facial features were clear and elegant, like strands of light ink shining through rice paper, which made people unable to help but stop their gazes after taking a look.

Lu Fenghan tightened his clenched hand: "My nails are getting long."

Qi Yan expectedly: "General, will you cut them for me?"

Lu Fenghan never said no to these little things: "Well, I'll cut it for you."

Just as he thought when he was in Leto, cutting Qiyan's nails became a long-term business.

After taking a shower, Qiyan sat on Lu Fenghan's lap in a black bathrobe, with his hands held in his hands.

Lu Fenghan looked lazy, with his chin resting on Qiyan's shoulder, cutting very delicately.

Every time he saw Qiyan's hands, he always felt that it was a work of art, with precise lines and even joints, which made people unable to help but play with it in their palms.

Qi Yan lowered his eyes to look at his fingertips and saw that the curve was smooth: "My nails grow a little too fast. The general just cut them three days ago."

Lu Fenghan corrected him without moving his eyes: "I remembered it wrong. The last time I cut my nails was six days ago."

Qi Yan nodded, thinking that he was confused, and asked again: "Why is the general so sure? Am I wrong, not you? My memory is better than yours."

"Because I am your general." Lu Fenghan said indifferently, but unwaveringly.

Qi Yan insisted, "Why?"

Lu Fenghan stopped what he was doing and held Qi Yan's fingers together in his palm: "Why are there so many whys?"

Facing the clear eyes of the person in his arms, he explained helplessly, "Every day before going to bed, I will recall all the things that happened to you that day and classify them. Relatively speaking, I have a good memory for these little things about you. I may have set aside an area in my brain to store them."

He thought carefully and wanted to summarize his memory method, but soon found that "I remembered everything unconsciously."

There is no method.

This "unconscious" memory has been integrated into his instinct.

Lu Fenghan is not a person who cares about details. He leads the fleet to and fro every day, and there are always piles of documents and affairs on his desk.

However, he is the brigadier general of the alliance and the general of Qi Yan.

After cutting his nails, Lu Fenghan worked overtime to review the documents temporarily delivered by the logistics department.

Odin sent a military transport ship full of supplies, and also sent a brand new battleship. Nie Huai Ting gave the naming rights to Lu Fenghan.

The metal pen was hanging on the virtual screen. Lu Fenghan immediately asked Qi Yan, who was reading quietly beside him: "A new main ship has been delivered. What should it be called?"

"Should I name it?" Qi Yan thought about it seriously. "Ishtar? In the ancient Earth era, she is the god of war in Babylonian mythology. When Ishtar returns, spring will also come."

Lu Fenghan was well aware of Qi Yan's shortcomings in naming, and was a little surprised to hear this name. Enter it into the system "Then use this name."

After reviewing the documents and making sure there were no omissions, Lu Fenghan closed the virtual screen and saw Qi Yan was still reading: "What are you reading?"

"A linguistics paper that studies the language expression patterns of humans in the Earth era. When it comes to implicit expressions, it gives an example that in the Earth era, when two people were walking at night, one wanted to express love and might say, 'The moonlight is beautiful tonight.' This research is very interesting."

Qi Yan looked up curiously, "General, if it is the same scene, would you say that?"

"No." Lu Fenghan gave the answer without hesitation, and his words were firm, "Because the moonlight is in my arms."