Chapter 4 (revised)
Before heading to a place called the dock where interstellar travel vehicles were parked, the fathers took Zhu Fu and a group of friends to have a meal as a farewell dinner.
The flying car stopped in front of a tree.
Yes, literally, a tree.
The rough texture on the trunk, the clawed roots buried deep underground, and the leaves falling from time to time all told Zhu Fu that this was a real tree, not a simulated model building or projection.
But this tree was much taller than any other tree Zhu Fu had ever seen in her hundreds of years of life. It was at least three hundred meters tall, reaching into the sky.
There is an elevator at the bottom of the tree. Several aliens are already waiting there. They all look strange, with tentacles, horns, colorful skin, and everything else. It looks like a children's painting exhibition.
Of course, humans are the real aliens on this planet that is not their own.
When they saw Si Yin and his family get out of the car, they were very excited and rushed over.
The red-skinned one shook hands with Si Yin and looked relatively normal.
But there was something wrong with the one spitting out the snake's tongue.
He twisted his waist like a snake, and came to Zhu Xiyuan in a thousand twists and turns. Then, under Zhu Fu's horrified gaze, he held up his mother's face and was about to kiss her!
Zhu Xiyuan frowned and his body stiffened a little, but he did not avoid it.
Just as the man was about to kiss her, someone blocked his way behind him.
"I've told you before, humans don't like Saint Helier's custom of greeting." Si Yin held his son in one hand, smiling with a star-like grace. "Please stay away from my wife, or I'll tear your arm off and stuff it in your pants."
His smile was impeccable, as if to say that the weather was nice today, and his voice was as gentle as a cold blade flashing with a cold light.
Si Yin probably had an extraordinary status. Not only did that person immediately admit his mistake, but others also rushed over with smiles on their faces to help him out.
Fortunately, Zhu Xiyuan did not blame her, and Si Yin stopped pursuing her. This little incident that almost scared Zhu Fu to death was passed smoothly.
They took the elevator to the top of the tree and entered the pristine box where some other people were waiting.
The word "human" may not be so appropriate, considering that among the dozen or so living beings moving around in the room, only their family of three are human.
Zhu Fu thought of her cat ears and cat tail, and she was still unsure whether she was one of them.
These... you could barely call them this group of people. They are all friends of my fathers. They were very reluctant to see them go back to the Mother Quadrant after hearing that they were leaving here. In addition to this farewell banquet, each of them brought gifts, some of which looked like biological weapons.
Zhu Fu was sure she heard his father whisper to his mother that he might not be able to pass the starship security check at all.
They were also very friendly to Zhu Fu. After all, humans and human cubs were completely different creatures and were really mysterious.
After Si Yin firmly rejected the traditional kiss on the lips greeting, these guys just touched the child's soft and tender face to show their friendliness.
Zhu Fu really, really didn't like the feeling of those sticky tentacles sliding across her face, but Zhu Xiyuan whispered that she couldn't wipe them off. The custom of the tribe with long tentacles was that the more they loved someone, the more mucus they would secrete.
"We were born in the sea of stars. We are children of the stars. We must respect every star." His mother said.
That's why when the snake man spit out his tongue and wanted to kiss him just now, Zhu Xiyuan, although he was very resistant, did not really refuse.
If it were his mother in his previous life, anyone who dared to be so disrespectful would have had his arm broken without his father having to intervene.
Sure enough, this is a whole new world.
Fu Fu slowly picked at the food in front of her, which looked no different from dead leaves, and listened with her cat ears to the conversation between her fathers and others.
He pieced together useful information from the fragments and gained some understanding of the dimension he was currently in.
Now is the era of the big universe. Planets and ethnic groups that were once separated by billions of light years are now connected. The majority of people who yearn for peace, led by humans, have established an interstellar alliance to promote peaceful development and prosperous coexistence in the universe.
The reason why it is called an "alliance" rather than a "federation" is because it is just a communication and cooperation organization, not a political party.
According to the demarcation of the Interstellar Alliance, the universe is divided into four quadrants, and the "mother planet" mentioned by the fathers is located in the Alpha Quadrant.
Humanity, with its vast numbers and superior technology, had long since "occupied" most of the planets in the First Quadrant. The chaos was simply due to the lack of a unified leader.
Twenty-seven years ago, the current Emperor ended the chaos and the Human Empire was officially established.
His Majesty the Emperor was a tough man. During his reign, the empire grew rapidly and absorbed almost all non-human-inhabited planets in this quadrant.
There are only two choices left for the aliens: surrender or leave.
As a result, the Alpha Quadrant is almost synonymous with human habitation.
As for where Zhu Fu lives now, it is an M-class planet called St. Helier, which is a famous tourist resort in the Beta Quadrant.
His fathers left their hometown and came here five years ago, and he was born three years ago.
The reason why the fathers moved to the outer quadrant was not mentioned in the conversation, but Zhu Fu heard the reason for the decision to return to the Alpha Quadrant: his grandfather, Zhu Xiyuan's father, whom he had never met, was old and in poor health, and Zhu Xiyuan wanted to go back to take care of him and show his filial piety.
In addition, Fu Fu is already three years old and is old enough to go to kindergarten. Although each planet has a different educational style, the two still hope that he can receive traditional human education.
In addition to understanding the benchmark setting, Zhu Fu also took the time to observe how the fathers get along with each other.
No matter who Si Yin was talking to, he always held Zhu Xiyuan's hand in his palm and pinched his slender and beautiful fingers.
Zhu Xiyuan, who was always reserved in front of others, did not mind other people's gazes. He smiled at Si Yin from time to time, looking very gentle.
They are deeply in love, inseparable, and a perfect couple.
The child sat in a high baby chair, crunching leaves while secretly observing the fathers who were passing food to each other.
He felt relieved to know that the fathers in this life also had such a good relationship.
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After the farewell banquet, everyone took the elevator in groups to leave the high point of the tree trunk.
Zhu Xiyuan was pulled by several people to say goodbye reluctantly, chattering on and on in a more complicated and difficult alien language. Si Yin went down first with a bunch of gifts in one hand and Zhu Fu in the other. The complaining driver must have been waiting impatiently.
Originally, there were only a father and his son in the elevator. Before the elevator door was about to close, someone squeezed in.
Before seeing the other person's face, Zhu Fu smelled a scent of perfume.
It was very sweet, making one dizzy. The boy wrinkled his nose, not liking it.
Even from a human aesthetic point of view, she is a very stunning female...
A long, thin black tail followed her as she walked in charmingly. She first greeted the little boy who was staring at her warily: "Hello, sweetheart. I was too far away just now and didn't get a good look at you."
Fu Fu didn't answer her immediately, but raised her head and looked at her father helplessly and ignorantly.
Si Yin raised the corner of his mouth: "Look, he is so shocked by your beauty that he is speechless. He is only three years old."
The pleasing effect of these words was obvious, and the woman smiled coquettishly: "You are still so good at complimenting, Si."
Si Yin stood a little further inside, leaving enough space for her and her tail.
The woman's tail, like a living thing with self-awareness, flexibly pressed the first floor.
Zhu Fu subconsciously moved her tail, and realized with dismay that hers was too fluffy and could not have the same effect.
As the elevator descended, the adults chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.
Fu Fu hugged her father's neck, not wanting to see much, and stared blankly out the window.
But the sound of talking and laughing still couldn't help but enter my ears.
Of course, he knew how eloquent Si Yin was, especially when facing beautiful women, he could always make others particularly happy.
Before meeting Zhu Xiyuan, he was an out-and-out playboy.
Just as no one could have imagined that the "hard-hearted" Zhu Xiyuan could be moved by Si Yin, no one thought that Zhu Xiyuan could win over the romantic Si Yin.
But they did it.
Destined to be together.
After the two of them were together in their previous life, Si Yin restrained his temper, resolutely abandoned all his romantic interests, and devoted himself to one person.
Zhu Fu thought, there shouldn’t be any problems with his father in this life, right?
Sure enough, no matter how much Si Yin and the woman laughed and talked, they always kept a very distant distance.
However, the woman's affection for Si Yin was also very clear, and the increasingly strong fragrance filled the entire small sedan.
Zhu Fu felt dizzy and wanted to vomit. The short one-minute descent seemed extremely long. The boy held his breath until his face turned red.
Si Yin noticed his little expression, touched the child's hair, and the smile on his face faded a little.
The elevator doors reopened and they left the "big tree".
The woman was in no hurry to leave, and accompanied Si Yin to the flying car that had been waiting for a long time, helping him put more things into the already overwhelmed trunk, which in return earned her more complaints from the driver's two heads.
After Fu Fu was stuffed into the child seat in the back row, Zhu Xiyuan arrived.
The woman nodded to Mrs. Hezhengsi and said goodbye to Zhu Fu.
When it was Si Yin's turn, the woman suddenly moved closer, so close that her tail almost wrapped around his arm.
Her movements were too fast. Si Yin frowned, but before he could step back, the woman stuffed something into his palm.
She took a few steps back and made a phone call gesture to him, her lips moving in a way that probably conveyed the same meaning.
If you change the perspective, their actions look so intimate, as if they are a pair of lovers who have to part.
When the woman passed by Zhu Xiyuan, she smiled sweetly at him.
There was a hint of provocation in his smile.
It was as if... everything that just happened was deliberately done for Zhu Xiyuan to see.
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