Xiaoxiao's room seemed to have never been lived in.

- It was almost exactly the same as the lounge he had in the city defense post.

As for why Anzhe knew what Xiaoxiao's room looked like, it was because when the elevator door opened, he felt that the surroundings were too cold.

- Turning his head again, he met Lu Xun's eyes.

Xiaoxiao leaned against the door frame with his arms folded: "Come back."

Anzhe pouted.

In fact, he and Seran were not familiar with each other. When he pressed the elevator button, he even thought about the embarrassing scene that if Seran was not at home or was embarrassed by his request, he could only turn around and seek Colin's help. He

looked back at Lu Xun and suddenly felt a little sad - he felt a little wronged. This person knew that he had no friends in the base.

Lu Xun also noticed that something was wrong with him and asked, "What's wrong?"

An Zhe lowered his eyes, but he didn't know what to say. He actually wanted to ask Lu Xun to stay in his room, but he was afraid that he would be rejected by the principal.

He heard Lu Xun chuckle softly.

"Just kidding." Lu Xun came over and pulled him into the elevator, "Let's go eat first, and sleep with you at night."

Dinner was eaten in the public cafeteria. The dinner was not delicious, and Lu Xun, who was sitting opposite, ordered a mushroom soup.

However, if he slept with Lu Xun... Of course it would be better than sleeping with Seran, and much better than sleeping with Ke Lin. An Zhe attributed this to the fact that he was only familiar with Lu Xun after all, and he had stayed with this person twice before.

After taking a shower in the school's bathroom, he dried himself, then wrapped himself in a large white towel and quickly got into bed, hugging the quilt and sitting at the innermost part of the bed - he had no pajamas.

The school's room seemed to have more complete facilities than his room, which might be a special treatment given to him by the military.

However, no matter how special the treatment was, there would not be an extra quilt, nor an extra pillow. He moved the pillow from the center of the bed to the side.

At this time, his eyes were attracted by a cluster of red at the head of the bed.

- There was a simple glass bottle there, with three bright red flowers in the bottle, the stems were thorny, the branches and leaves were dark green, two of them were already in full bloom, and the other was still a full bud.

This was the first time that An Zhe saw plants in a human base. This city made of steel seemed to not allow any creatures other than humans to exist.

The fragrance of flowers floated faintly in the air. At this moment, Lu Xun, who was originally in the living room listening to his subordinates reporting on the work situation, ended the call and returned to the bedroom.

At this time, Lu Xun noticed his gaze towards the bouquet.

"My mother's." He said.

An Zhe: "Mrs. Lu?"

"Yes." Lu Xun said lightly.

His eyes also stayed on the three flowers. After a long time, he looked back.

The night outside the window was deep, with dark shadows. The hexagonal Garden of Eden stood far away next to the artificial magnetic pole.

An Zhe followed his gaze and looked over. The Garden of Eden did look like a honeycomb. His thoughts suddenly moved, and he looked back at the three bright red flowers at the head of the bed. This color and shape were a little familiar to him. It came from An Ze's memory of a picture book long ago. It was a plant that was common when human civilization was still prosperous.

"Rose..." he murmured.

"It's a rose." Lu Xun said lightly.

When the children in his class were free, they would play some house-playing and simulated flower-planting games, using different colored paper as flowers. However, it seemed that there were real roses in the Garden of Eden.

"Will roses be planted in the Garden of Eden?" he asked.

Lu Xun's answer was very brief: "No."

Just when An Zhe thought that his answer was over, Lu Xun spoke again.

"She likes plants, but there are none at the base." He said calmly, "When she was sixteen, she was training in the wild and collected some seeds. The Lighthouse gave them to her after it was determined to be safe."

"And then Madam grew them?" An Zhe said.

Lu Xun said, "Yes."

An Zhe suddenly remembered the sealed plant seeds he saw in Lu Xun's office cabinet a month ago. He thought that Lu Xun must have valued his mother very much. At the Lighthouse that day, Madam Lu had to submit some reports. She looked like a scientific researcher. So he asked, "Is Mrs. Lu a scientist?"

Lu Xun answered him after a while, "Yes."

At this time, Lu Xun suddenly said, "You know the girl in the Garden of Eden."

An Zhe nodded. Lu Xun had already met Lily, so he had nothing to hide.

"How much do you know?"

An Zhe guessed that the schoolmaster was asking him how much he knew about the Garden of Eden. He recalled what Lily had said and said, "I know about the Rose Declaration."

Then he saw Lu Xun looking out the window, as if he was recalling the past.

He said, "It is said that when she was twelve years old, because of her intellectual talent... the base believed that she would make a greater contribution to mankind by devoting herself to scientific research than giving birth, so she was sent to the Lighthouse to study."

An Zhe: "Amazing."

He was always curious about humans with superior IQs.

"But later she took the initiative to apply to be transferred back to Eden, assuming the responsibility of reproduction and at the same time researching improved techniques for in vitro embryo culture."

An Zhe: "Then what?"

"No then," Lu Xun said, "It still is now."

An Zhe recalled the appearance of Mrs. Lu. Even though she wore a mask every day, just a pair of eyes left a deep impression on him. He said, "She is very beautiful."

Lu Xun said, "Thank you."

Recalling the situation during the day, An Zhe asked again, "Do you have a bad relationship with her?"

Lu Xun: "No."

An Zhe blinked: "Why?"

He felt that Lu Xun obviously cared about his mother.

"She always thought she was at the United Front Work Center, but in fact she chose to go to the court in the end." Lu Xun said calmly: "Maybe she has killed too many people."

An Zhe: "Can't she accept it?"

"It's because she doesn't want to maintain her relationship with her anymore." Lu Xun picked up the pillow and threw it to An Zhe.

An Zhe hugged the pillow and looked at Lu Xun. Strangely, he understood what he was saying.

In order to be always right, always sober, and always indifferent, the judge must completely exile himself - exile, this word suddenly appeared in An Zhe's mind.

"The Garden of Eden and the Tribunal are doing the opposite," he said, "Is it because you can't move?"

"Shut up." Lu Xun leaned over and pulled the pillow out of An Zhe's arms, then lifted An Zhe up and put the pillow under his head: "You can't even open your eyes."

An Zhe sank into the soft pillow, his consciousness gradually blurred. He was really sleepy. He had been trying to stay awake all night.

Before he fell asleep completely, he saw Lu Xun pick up a silver-white box. This was given to Lu Xun by a worker when they left the lighthouse. An Zhe didn't know what it was, and he felt that he didn't need to know. The principal always had his reasons for doing things.

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An put the folded clothes aside, with some gray dust on the collar. There was no such thing in either the training ground or the lighthouse, but Lu Xun knew that there was a small-scale chaos in the surveillance of the Garden of Eden during that period, so An Zhe could not be traced.

Lu Xun withdrew his gaze from the surface and pressed the button of the suitcase with his finger. The silver suitcase opened, and white cold air escaped. In the frozen layer was a thin and long injection needle, emerald green.

His gun was placed next to the suitcase.

After his eyes lingered on these two items for a while, he turned to look at An Zhe, his fingers clasped on the gun handle.

At this moment.

An Zhe turned over and leaned gently beside him.

He fell asleep.

Like a small animal in the snow-white quilt, revealing a smooth milky white neck and shoulders, his brows were relaxed, his eyelashes were slightly curled, and his breathing was even and calm.

One section of his fingers was exposed under the quilt, and he curled up lightly, but in a very relaxed posture, without a single nerve tense. He slept here, without any vigilance or alertness, just like sleeping in a... safe place where he trusted wholeheartedly. He believed that no one here would hurt him.

Lu Xun suddenly remembered a day two months ago.

That day was the first time they met. An Zhe looked into his eyes and said to him, "He is not injured."

He was already accustomed to arguments and denials. Questioning and anger were things he encountered countless times every day.

But it was the first time he saw a pair of eyes like that. He didn't question or feel puzzled, but just felt sad. In his sadness, there was an innocent calmness, as if he would accept and forgive everything as long as he opened his mouth to give a reason.

He had never paid attention to anyone's protest before, but that time, he lifted the white cloth covering the corpse and exposed the man's wounds.

The shaking of a person begins when his heart softens for the first time.