Chapter 45 Date
"Next," he ruffled her hair and said softly, "see what else I have prepared for you."
The quantum clock ticked, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. In the constant flow of time inside the spiritual connection capsule, there were still 31 minutes to reach the wormhole material ejection safe point B measured by Kress.
Those are the coordinates of temporary farewell in time and space.
Fitzgerald gave her his space button, which contained five capsules of military supplies for survival in the wild. He opened one of them and told her how to access it and the key points in its use.
Su Xi took a look and found that in addition to basic survival supplies and weapons and protection, there were also energy supplements, drinking water generators, positioning signal devices, multi-purpose nanorobots... well, there was also a light board with games to kill time and a manual for the current stage of spiritual power training...
Then he turned around to look at the AI mini mech that was being charged and maintained. In the originally tidy docking cabin, there was a pile of unused mech materials in a corner. If he was just waiting at the static coordinates, a supply capsule would be enough, and the mini mech would not be needed at all.
Then he lowered his eyes to look at the liquid silver armor that was still and fitting on his wrist. This wasn't a must-have item.
Su Xi blinked, and her thoughts suddenly drifted to the day when her adoptive mother carefully packed her luggage for her first time when she went to college in another city on her own.
Yeah. Same endless meticulousness. Same pile of unnecessary stuff.
This man——
He is very attentive.
Fitzgerald raised his head and saw the amber eyes in front of him slowly filling with tiny bits of light.
The omega rested his chin on one hand, his upper body bent over the platform where he was organizing his weapons, and looked at him with great concentration, the light and sweet scent of magnolia wafting in the air.
The green top note of omeg dissipates into an alluring and rich middle note, while the base note is permeated with a kind of distant sadness.
His fingers moved slightly, and he couldn't help but walk over and hold her in his arms. She was very obedient and let him hold her, so obedient that he wanted to rub her harder. The faint alpha scent in the air gradually began to become hot and thick. He couldn't help but hold her tighter, lowered his head and rubbed his lips on her soft hair twice.
However, the quantum clock beside him was ticking and reminding him, so he restrained himself and kept a distance.
"This is for you," he stroked her eyebrows with his fingers and reminded her carefully: "Make sure you wear it well."
Then he put it on her slender neck.
The myelin material removed from the Dark Flame's neural connection system was woven into several extremely fine silver chains intertwined together. The pendant was a transparent mini air bubble, which was made of the same material as the defensive air bubble they used to avoid space storms.
This beautiful silver chain pendant is worn to rest just below the collarbone.
Inside the crystal-like mini air bubble, there is a tiny piece of matter that keeps changing between the color of extreme red flame and extreme icy blue.
Reflected in her eyes was a cluster of flickering light.
Su Xi couldn't help but ask: "What is this?"
"This is... me." He looked at her intently and answered honestly.
"Hmm?" Su Xi was confused and signaled him with her eyes to explain in more detail.
Fitzgerald accurately understood what she meant from her subtle look. He smiled gently and stroked her lips repeatedly with his fingers, but he did not explain in depth, but instead gave her detailed instructions again.
"This is what I'm going to use to find you."
"Wear it."
"It will help you advance. Once your mental power threshold is raised by three more levels, you can slowly digest it."
"Okay, I believe you." Su Xi grabbed his messy fingers and bit them. Her sharp teeth rubbed them twice, but she was not very successful and only left a very shallow mark.
"Then I won't ask any more questions."
"I'll wear it."
Looking at her solemn answer on her delicate face, a feeling of great satisfaction filled his chest! Fitzgerald finally could no longer suppress his emotions, and the Alph secrets filled with possessiveness exploded in the air! It was an extremely arrogant and pleased public declaration!
He lowered his eyes to half-cover his lustful expression, and his fingers with the small teeth marks once again fiercely stroked her lips. Before she could react, he lowered his head and kissed her lips again quickly, fiercely and accurately.
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Tick-tick - the quantum clock shows the different speeds of time flowing.
The two people in the wormhole experienced a long space storm together, prepared various materials for landing, and even Su Xi smoothly completed the upgrade in this small mecha cabin. The two people also began to open their hearts and start talking.
However, in the First Fortress, the passage of time was no longer than that of a meeting which lasted half an afternoon.
Zerg core defense fortifications, mental connection repair cabin. Special surveillance room outside.
The atmosphere, which had just relaxed, became tense and solemn again.
"Answer me, little Albert."
Nader chuckled and repeated the sentence again. His white-gloved hand slowly withdrew the gemstone scepter that was against the last isolation door, and tapped it lightly with his hand.
Click-tap-tap——extremely subtle friction sounds were heard one after another.
The guards on both sides drew their guns and loaded them again. The alpha molecules with a stronger smell of gunpowder collided in the air like carbon explosions, becoming more and more fierce and arrogant!
In the increasingly solemn atmosphere, this blonde Beta appears even more elegant and calm.
In this situation, Albert froze for a while, then forced a smile on his face, "Of course it's His Highness himself inside, and as for where Chris is? You can ask His Highness in person."
"Although I am half a level higher than Chris, her work has always been independent. Without your Highness's warrant, I have no way of knowing the specific details. Your Excellency the Duke, you overestimate me."
"Please!" he said helplessly and could only move aside.
Nadel smiled, stepped over the protective doors again, and came to the last transparent barrier door again.
However, the scene before him made his eyes freeze slightly.
The red-haired alpha was sitting naked in front of the medical cabin, looking at him with raised eyebrows, a little impatient.
The staff of the Medical Department were testing the body data. One of them, a short-haired beta holding a light board and recording, was advising: "Your Highness, you need to lie down for another three hours for this recovery course. You came out too early this time, which will affect the effect of the subsequent courses."
Then the other staff members glanced vaguely at the "uninvited guests" brought in by Albert.
Albert shrugged his shoulders, but Nader continued to smile, unaffected.
"Duke, is there anything else you can advise me?" he asked calmly.
"I'm sorry to bother you," Nader said with a polite and graceful nod. "Since I've been away for a long time, I'll be back in the capital soon. His Majesty has an invitation to the New Year's Day celebration, and he has asked me to bring it in person. You've been absent for ten consecutive years, and His Majesty hopes that you can come and celebrate the New Year this year."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I will attend the New Year's Day ceremony." The red-haired alpha stood up and cooperated with the medical staff's examination, nodding slightly in the direction of Nadel in response.
There seemed to be no conversation between the two. Nader narrowed his eyes. He still felt something was wrong, but -
"Haha! Little Nana, long time no see! You came to visit Fitz too!"
A familiar burst of hearty laughter was heard, and Nadel turned his head helplessly, and saw Holdman Payne with a silver-colored crew cut striding towards him.
An extremely strong alpha scent dispelled the tense atmosphere between the guards of both sides.
The alpha warriors on both sides put away their weapons and returned to their original positions with expressionless faces.
Holderman came over, patted Nader on the shoulder, and then ruffled his hair.
"It's been about 30 years since we last met?" Holderman raised his head and exclaimed in an exaggerated tone, "I watched you grow up, and now you are all doing great!"
"Master, nice to meet you." Nadel smiled bitterly, his smooth blond hair had been ruffled. Having experienced three generations of imperial power, Holderman was an extremely special existence, but he was also a duke after all. Being called 'Little Nana' again was really an unpleasant experience.
After saying hello, Holdman didn't bother with his tangle anymore. He just turned around and carefully checked the recovery status of the red-haired alpha.
"How do you feel, Fitz?" Squinting his eyes, Holdman looked at the red-haired alpha who was being carefully examined by medical staff. He frowned slightly and said, "You are too reckless! Introducing the insect core spirit into your own brain to strangle it. It is so impulsive and thoughtless!"
The red-haired alpha turned his head and glanced at Holdman, then replied calmly, "Thank you for your concern."
Very good! This is very Fitzgerald style!
Nader smiled, his barely perceptible eyes scanning both sides of the conversation.
Holdman's face turned red with anger, and the furious alpha signal exploded in the air without a doubt. The alpha warriors on both sides tensed their backs in response!
The angry 'old man' grabbed Nader and walked out, "Let's go! Leave this boring and uninteresting guy alone! Dead face! No fun!"
"Come on, little Nana, let's go have a drink! Tell me what interesting things have happened in Yindu over the past hundred years!"
"That old peacock Antonio has his eyes on that omega again?"
"Has the 'precious seed' issue been resolved?"
Only then were they pulled away one after another.
納德爾無奈的聲音遠遠飄來，“Master，您随意怎麽稱呼我都好，可是陛下的真名還請您帶上尊號……”
醫療署的工作人員放下手上的工作，椅子上接受檢查的高大身影随着3D投影的關閉緩緩散去。
工作人員向艾伯特點了點頭，重新關上了門。
艾伯特輕笑，慢悠悠的跟了上去。
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在機甲黯炎靜默守護的心髒部位。接駁艙。
這個突如其來的吻，持續的時間并不長。紅發alpha一陣野蠻熱情的吞噬咬吸，揉弄紅了懷裏這個omega原本顏色淺淡的唇。
蘇熙還沒太反應過來，菲茨傑拉德略微滿足後便克制的放開了她。只有空氣中殘留的alph息素仍霸道勾纏的圍着他的omega不放。
蘇熙眨眨眼，突然揪住他的衣領，阻止他的離去。
認真的望着他的眼睛，她說：“我好像……”
看着她帶着點遲疑的神色，菲茨傑拉德再次微微俯身，這是一個認真傾聽的姿勢。
“嗯？”他略挑眉，催促她繼續說。
“我好像對你動心了。”
猝不及防聽見告白，菲茨傑拉德呼吸一窒，就這麽呆住了。
“這樣的情況，我們應該算是在談戀愛了吧！”
還未等他感受到那股翻湧的喜悅席卷完全身，這個蜜棕色短發的omega噼噼啪啪的繼續往下說出了自己的想法，明明應該是含羞帶怯的告白，她卻帶着一股嚴肅和認真，來講明自己的立場和态度。
“你也應該知道，我不太适應現在的社會規範。我做不到常規意義上要求一個omega做到的職責标準……”
“就算是‘談戀愛’，我也希望現在只是‘談戀愛’而已。”
“我給不了太遠的承諾……”
“抱歉你好像已經确定自己的心意，但我——”
她看了看眼前這個臉色漸漸沉凝下來的alpha，高等級的信息素壓制不由自主的從他身上彌漫出來，仿佛炙熱的陽光還尚未發揮它的餘熱就被黑沉沉的烏雲給席卷籠罩。
“我并不太确定自己的心意，我們是否能走到最後。”
頂着這股幾乎稱得上信息素風暴的壓力，她斟字酌句的、把盤旋在心裏已久的話說了出來：“如果後面的接觸過程中，有覺得不合适的地方，我希望提出分手的時候，我們能好好商量。”
一陣讓人窒息的沉默。
菲茨傑拉德感到一陣荒謬的不真實感，從未有過的情緒沖擊襲向了他。他第一次覺得自己的自制力可以不存在。
被激怒挑釁的alph息素，漸漸在空氣中凝結起風暴。
蘇熙現在有點生理性的眩暈反應，那是被高等級的alph息素壓制下的身體反應，她的內心倒沒有覺得有任何不自在的地方。
正因為觀念相差太大，她只能盡量表明态度。
“好。”緊抿的唇克制的吐出一個字。
“咦？”
“我說好！”這是克制壓抑中帶着點怒氣翻騰了。再克制，再翻騰。透露出一種糟糕情緒的alph息素幾乎已經濃烈得肉眼可見具象化了。
蘇熙後頸往左兩寸的地方，omega腺體感應器在如此反複的alph息素的壓力，又冰又涼的開始散發出戰栗的味道。
嬌小的身體輕顫着，臉色不可抑制的蒼白起來，那是omega身體的本能。
蘇熙垂眸，右手緊捏盡量克制着身體的戰栗，心裏卻淡漠的想，以這個ABO時代omega的身體性質，一旦被标記就是被套牢了吧！
從淺層的标記服從開始，到最後的成結标記，一步一步的、不管是情緒反應也好，身體的本能依戀也好，還是精神上的依戀與服從也好，裏裏外外的都要對标記的那個alpha産生絕對服從的意識。
想一想就覺得這樣的關系非常畸形可怕。
但一味的跟自己身體的本能反應較勁兒，一味的硬抗也不是她蘇熙為人的風格，她從來不是自虐的人。
何況。
她擡眼看了一下，這個明明已經瀕臨爆炸邊緣卻還完美克制自己不要爆發的男人。
如果他一直是這樣溫柔講道理的一面，到也可以接觸看看。
想起曾經的好友說過的話，優秀的男朋友都是要靠聰明的女朋友調教出來的。調教什麽的，她沒有興趣，只不過倒可以試試磨合一下。
更何況她的身體情況特殊，細胞崩潰和重生的規律異于這個時代的常人。自從當時在吞日號上毫不猶豫的選擇了第二個方案，選擇依靠提高‘精神力閥值’的方法來挽救随時走到盡頭的壽命。
每闖一關、既是生，又是死。
前兩次的進階是她自己扛過了，而這次進階是運氣好有他的小心庇護，下次呢？在這個時代非親非故的她，如果下次進階沒有闖過……
所以，有這麽一個有時候脾氣比較壞但并不糟糕的人，願意陪她談一場人生短暫的戀愛。
也是很好的，很賺。
最主要是，她對他，并不是沒有感覺。
這些紛紛擾擾的念頭，在她腦海裏閃過，看着面前這個沉凝着臉色一言不發的alpha，
她心裏微微泛起了一點抱歉的情緒。
蘇熙試着利用自己從娜亞記憶裏獲得的ABO社會常識，轉化立場去體驗這個alpha現在的感受……唔。好像确實會被氣炸。
至于是否對他虧欠。那是不存在的情況，這個時代的alpha平均壽命都比其他兩個性別長很多，一個alpha一生中往往會經歷過三個omega，特別是他這樣優秀的進化者。所以她多活一二十年或者一兩百年，對他而言都沒什麽區別。
“我并不是有意冒犯。只不過現在不說出來的話，對你也不公平。”略微帶點抱歉的嗓音，微微顫抖。
而在菲茨傑拉德看來，身形嬌小的omega蒼白着一張小臉，微微顫抖着，卻膽敢說出這麽鋒利的、割人心肺的話！
而他還要克制自己不能生氣！他跟她之間精神等級懸殊過大，alph息素對omega的天生壓制，她即特殊又脆弱的身體承受不了！
菲茨傑拉德深吸一口氣，他極慢的說：“我明白你對‘被标記’的抗拒和恐懼，我查閱過你在幽浮的資料。所以——”
“我理解你！”
“我會有足夠的耐心。”
高大的身影俯視她，紅發alpha的臉色冰寒，極為輕易的就籠罩住了她上方所有的光亮。
“但我不希望你考慮的時間過長。”
她只沉默了一瞬。
“你……真的理解我嗎？”
被籠罩在一團陰影裏的蘇熙，毫不示弱的仰頭問道。
兩人對視，但四周的氣氛卻陷入暗夜一般的沉默。
嘀——
就在這樣的時候，克裏斯的量子通訊撥打過來了。
菲茨傑拉德深吸一口氣，走過去接通了克裏斯的通訊請求。
“殿下，一切準備工作就緒！A點您需要的勘測器材已經做好投放準備！”
“B點我将親自帶隊前往接應娜亞小姐，然後在三個星際日之內等候與您彙合。”
“飛梭形态的吞日號也已在指定坐标就緒。”
克裏斯幹脆利落的按工作流程彙報完畢。
菲茨傑拉德：“B點的時間流速差是多少？”
克裏斯說：“B點的時間投放誤差為8個小時到5.2個星際日之間，誤差概率不會超過10%。”
“好，盡量做到精确。”
“是！”
挂掉克裏斯通訊後，菲茨傑拉德也完美的收斂了之前暴怒得幾乎失控的信息素，又回到了那個慣常冷漠的帝國王儲的完美形象。
量子時鐘被掐掉，然後開始重新計時。
嘀嘀嗒嗒的聲音沉默的響着。
他展開了立體的全息星域圖，小小的精神接泊艙內燈光漸漸暗淡下來，萬千的星光便閃耀在他們之中。随着菲茨傑拉德對目的星團的搜尋，無數的恒星團像游魚一樣穿梭在兩人之間被大大拉開的縫隙。
“這是‘大荒星域’的星圖，你将在這個地方降落。”
他隔着兩個星系的光圖指點給她看，或明或暗的光襯得他的表情晦暗不明。
“過來一點。”
“哦。”
蘇熙靠近，她本能的感到危險，不敢不聽，也不敢亂動。然後再次被圈禁到某人的懷裏。
他閉口不提剛才的事情，只是規規矩矩的抱着她，另一只手給她演示降落時會面臨的細節，以及如果有萬一該怎麽應對。
“十五分鐘後我們将經過這個地點，會利用蟲洞與大荒星域本身的空間能量碰撞所造成的暫時的平衡，會讓你在這個最安全的區域自然降落。
“但是物質在出蟲洞時，會被重新組合，而你在蟲洞中……經歷的一切，會被損失掉……”
蘇熙突然抓住了‘損失’這個關鍵詞，翻略了一下腦海裏關于這個時代的常識，她以一種極慢的語氣，開口向他尋求确認：
"That is to say, after I get out of this wormhole, I will be different from who I am now? After the matter is reorganized, I should be more similar to who I was before I fell into the wormhole?"
"Well." The man looked down at her in a very cold tone and said slowly: "Material loss will result in errors and residues."
"Then I...can I still remember you?"
"I don't know." An extremely cold tone.
Su Xi glanced at his unhappy face and asked very carefully, "Then will you remember everything that happened?"
"I will," Fitzgerald softened his tone at her pitiful look and explained to her objectively, "Because of the different levels of your mental power, you can't keep your scattered memory at the moment."
"oh."
She just said 'oh'?
Fitzgerald narrowed his eyes and suddenly felt that he was crazy for being angry with her.
"I have saved the data in Xiguang's memory and processed it specially. Even if you don't remember it, you won't lose the data from this period."
"Don't worry."
"Is there any other solution?"
"Deep link with me and level up immediately with my help," Fitzgerald asked her in an ambiguous tone, "Are you...willing?"
"What do you mean?"
"The good thing is that within the maximum range of what your body can bear, you will reach the highest spiritual level that your genetic potential can reach in a short period of time."
"The downside is that you lose the possibility of free advancement."
Su Xi was silent. Is that so? So this man didn't tell her about this possibility from the beginning.
She laughed: "You know me so well?"
"I really don't want to."
"Don't worry, it doesn't matter if I'm the only one who remembers you. I will remember you." He took her hand and opened it to look at it carefully, playing with her slender white fingers, and said calmly: "No matter where you are, I can find you."
Su Xi looked at his expression and was speechless.
"I'm going to forget everything here soon. Aren't you happy?"
There was no expression on the usually cold face of this red-haired alpha, and there seemed to be a hint of anger in his cold eyes.
But it was that unspeakable meaning that made Su Xi feel as if something had grabbed her heart.
She suddenly wanted to give him a farewell hug, and so she did.
"Thank you." She said into his chest.
In response to her, she was embraced even more passionately. However, the throbbing Alph Xisu was extremely restrained and did not make any further moves.
The quantum clock ticks. Time is passing faster and faster.
The last half minute. A long, requested kiss.
He held her face in his hands and rubbed it tentatively with the tip of his nose. He lowered his eyes, and his long eyelashes half hid his expression.
"Is it okay?"
Su Xi accepted it with a clear mind. Unlike the previous ambiguous relationship between the two, one was always entangled and unconscious, while the other was always wild and overbearing. This kiss seemed gentle and affectionate.
Like a gentle breeze blowing across a tender rose, or like stardust scattered over a gurgling stream under the moonlight.
The dark and cold mecha Anyan spread out its six wings of light, and the light blade formed by pure energy in the void forcefully broke through the wormhole.
From the 3D sandbox simulated by AI Xingyue, Chris saw that the artificial wormhole that was originally twisted into a knot on the space surface was flattened by a powerful force.
The strange fluctuations in time and space gradually dissipated.
The man in the Dark Flame mecha control cabin had a soft and fragrant scent between his lips and tongue a second ago.
The next second, at the precisely calculated time for the safe material to be thrown away, the soft and fragrant body collapsed like fine sand as the space rippled slightly, until the ripples subsided——
My arms are empty.
The illusion from the worm's dream came back, and the small escape capsule once again floated away from his fingertips.
It didn't matter, he could tell it was just an illusion.
Beep beep - the quantum communication that Chris called was connected again, and An Yan had already driven out of the sub-type III wormhole space. In the normal three-dimensional space and time, everything returned to normal.
The holographic video signal also restores perfect three-dimensional communication imaging.
To Chris, who was on the other side of the quantum three-dimensional communication, everything was the same as usual. The first heir to the throne of the empire, with a cold and indifferent expression, was still resolute and decisive, and his orders were clear.
Chris: "Your Highness?"
However, he opened his lips, paused for two seconds almost imperceptibly, and then acted as decisively as always -
"Chris, give me the coordinates of point A."
"yes!"
Everything was as usual, receiving orders and carrying out tasks. Chris did not notice that Fitzgerald was any different from usual.
The newly modified antimatter engine of Dark Flame started up, roaring silently in the silent universe. The flames ignited by the material reaction of the energy pile swept across the fuselage. The dark and cold appearance of the mecha revealed the extremely arrogant flame totem that Chris was proud of.
The six wings of light are folded, and as always, they move forward firmly towards the predetermined coordinates.
Outside the mecha cabin, the universe is lonely and thousands of stars are drifting.