After Jiang Zhi shook hands with Lan Yu, she hooked her finger behind her and a staff member handed her two bags.
Lan Yu took one of them, opened the bag and found that it was the personal belongings she had taken from the starship when she went to Quyu Star.
He took out the terminal and put it on. The sergeant walked forward again and said, "Colonel K, please follow me to your room to rest."
"Go and have a rest. We can talk about anything after you have rested." Jiang Zhi said considerately, "We have found the Kaleng crystals on the transport ship and will take them back to the military for safekeeping. Don't worry, the mine has been sealed off and the collection team will arrive soon. All the Kaleng crystals will not be lost."
Seeing her staring at Lu Rankong, Lan Yu knew that the two siblings had something to say, so she followed the non-commissioned officer into the ship.
"Wait..." Lu Rankong suddenly spoke.
Lan Yu stopped and turned around. Lu Rankong walked up to him but didn't say anything. He just glanced at the sergeant next to him.
The sergeant quickly took a few steps to the side and stopped when he was far enough away that he could no longer hear the conversation.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that he was about to say something important, Lan Yu asked in a low voice.
Lu Rankong leaned forward and whispered in his ear, "The toiletries on the warship are not very good, not much better than those in prison. Jiang Zhi is very particular, she must have good ones, I'll have someone secretly send them to you later. Have a good sleep, I'll report to her what happened these days and then come back."
Lu Rankong finished the call with a serious face. Before Lan Yu could react, he turned to Jiang Zhi and said, "Let's go..."
Lan Yu also turned around with a smile on her face. The sergeant was a little surprised. When he noticed it, he immediately restrained his expression and said, "Lead the way..."
Passing through the long corridor inside the ship, the petty officer brought him to a cabin door, pushed it open, and stood respectfully beside it.
After he entered the room, she considerately closed the door and left.
This is a very large suite with a living room and a bedroom. Lan Yu looked at each room and found that there was actually a small kitchen.
He bounced on the soft and wide sofa in the reception room, and thinking of the big iron cage and the dim bottom cabin when he came here, he couldn't help feeling as if he was in another world.
The warship roared, and it could be heard even through the well-soundproofed ship walls. He knew that this was the warm-up start and that it was about to set sail.
A few minutes later, the sofa began to vibrate. Feeling the sensation of being in the air at the moment of takeoff, he looked toward the porthole on the right, stood up and walked over.
The warship slowly rose, and the entire panoramic view of Quye Prison appeared in sight.
Lan Yu pressed her face against the porthole, looking at the gray-black prison that looked like a fortress, silently identifying in her mind which building was the prison building and which building was the cafeteria.
He felt particularly uncomfortable when he thought that the people in the cell were also looking up at the sky and watching the starship.
——Is there any way to clear or reduce the false accusations and fraudulent charges against them, so that they can leave the prison and sit on the starship with a free heart?
He had said nothing when he said goodbye just now, but now he waved towards the porthole, "Goodbye, my fellow inmates."
Lan Yu put his hands down and was lost in thought. A pool of blue appeared in his field of vision again, a blue as pure as a gem. It is right behind the prison, separated only by a mountain wall.
"Pelican Lake, the blue gem of Qu Yuxing..." he murmured.
The sunlight blends into the lake, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds. The sky and water are the same color, vast and boundless.
Pelican Lake once disappeared from the surface and sank underground, but now it has reappeared on Qu Yu in this way.
A small black dot broke through the water in the middle of the lake, flew in the air for a while, and then dived into the water.
Lan Yu recognized it as the crystal-eating beast.
The military starship rose to a certain altitude and paused briefly in the air. Then, the scenery in his vision quickly disappeared and turned into a bunch of colorful lines.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, it was dark outside the porthole. Far away in the distance, there was a lonely, brown planet hanging. It was only the size of a basketball and was shrinking rapidly.
That is Qu Yuxing.
The starship has entered space, and although it is moving at an incredible speed, it is as stable as if it is on the ground.
Knock knock knock, someone is knocking on the door.
Lan Yu quickly left the porthole and sat back on the sofa, saying, "Come in..."
The door was pushed open, and a staff member of the starship pushed in a small cart with a large fruit plate on it, filled with a variety of fruits arranged in a gorgeous manner.
"Colonel K, these are the most famous specialty fruits from each planet. Please try them." The staff member said with a nervous smile.
Lan Yu nodded slightly.
The staff placed the fruit plate on the coffee table in front of the sofa and said carefully, "Colonel K, Colonel Lu said that it's good to just try it. Don't eat too much. There will be something better at noon."
Lan Yu raised her eyelids and glanced at him, then nodded lightly.
He felt that this glance was very ordinary and had no meaning, but the staff member was still stiff and had a forced smile on his face.
"Anything else?" Lan Yu asked when she saw that he was not leaving yet.
The staff member gritted his teeth and continued, "Colonel Lu also said that the pink fruit with white spots is delicious, fragrant and soft, but eating too much will cause internal heat. If you are afraid of acne, just eat one. The green one is said to be good for the skin, you should like it..."
The staff member's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally his voice was barely audible.
Lan Yu interrupted: "I know, you can go out now."
"OK……"
The staff pushed the cart and fled out of the room.
Lan Yu looked at the plate of fruit, picked up the pink piece with white spots with a small fork and put it into her mouth. It was indeed fragrant, soft and delicious. After eating one, I remembered what Lu Rankong said about eating too much would cause acne, so I chose the one with green flesh that was said to be good for the skin.
He hadn't eaten any fruit during this time in prison, but he ate several pieces in a row. While still chewing, his fork reached out for another piece.
Just try it, don’t eat too much, there will be better food at noon… Lu Rankong’s words floated into his mind at the right time, causing his little fork to pause in the air.
Lan Yu put down her fork reluctantly, stood up from the sofa and prepared to take a shower. Just then, there was another knock on the door.
"Come in..." He quickly buttoned up his shirt that he had just unbuttoned.
The door opened, and the same staff member who had delivered the fruit appeared again, with a bag in his hand.
"Hello, Colonel K. Colonel Lu asked me to bring you some toiletries." He put the bag on the coffee table and walked out.
Lan Yu walked over, opened the bag and looked inside. There were shampoo, shower gel, facial mask, cream, essence lotion and everything in between. They were all brands he had never seen before in this world. Just from the packaging, one could tell they were very high-end.
Except for shampoo and shower gel, other skin care products have not been opened.
Lan Yu smiled pleasantly and went into the bathroom carrying the bag of toiletries.
In another luxury suite on the same floor as Lan Yu, Lu Rankong was sitting lazily on the large sofa, his eyes slightly closed, his body leaning back, his arms resting behind his head.
Jiang Zhi sat on the sofa on the right, picked up the teacup in front of him and sipped gently.
"That is to say, there were people from the Lunt star system here before the interstellar passage between the Lunt Galaxy and the Sasu Galaxy was opened?" she asked.
Lu Rankong said: "Yes, Liu Zhao's lover was killed half a year ago."
"How is that possible? The interstellar channel was only opened half a year ago." Jiang Yi looked confused.
Lu Rankong shook his head left and right, "This is not something I can understand clearly."
Jiang Zhi said seriously: "I have to report this discovery to the higher-ups."
Lu Rankong sniffed the air, stood up, picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup. After taking a sip, he exclaimed: "Linxue from Pule Star, good tea."
Jiang Zhi rolled his eyes at him and said, "Are you making fun of me? What kind of tea have you not drunk? How can you praise a cup of ordinary Linxue?"
Lu Rankong sighed exaggeratedly and said, "I only drank boiled water in the military camp. This ordinary snow you mentioned is something I haven't seen in a long time."
As soon as he finished speaking, he shouted to the outside of the door: "Xiao Lin..."
"In..." The door was pushed open, and the staff member who was delivering something to Lan Yu poked his head in.
Lu Rankong raised the teacup in his right hand and said, "Xiao Lin, send a pot of this tea to Colonel K as well."
"Yes..." Xiaolin stepped out again and closed the door.
Lu Rankong took another sip and looked up to find Jiang Zhi looking at him with a meaningful look.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" He touched his face.
Jiang Zhi did not answer, but asked an irrelevant question: "Are you on good terms with K?"
Lu Rankong was stunned and said, "It's okay..."
"I remember that you two didn't seem to get along well in the past. I was worried that something might go wrong in this mission, but your relationship has become so good?" Jiang Zhi asked with narrowed eyes.
"Is there any? Not a good one, just an ordinary friend." Lu Rankong said.
Jiang Zhi sneered and said, "Ordinary? He sent me a piece of fruit, a cup of tea, and even my toiletries, as if he was afraid that there were some good things he hadn't given him. If this isn't good, then what is? Your brother-in-law is not as caring to me as you are to K."
Seeing that Lu Rankong didn't reply and just drank tea, Jiang Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I see, in fact, they don't even look like friends. Could it be... that kind of relationship between you and him?"
"What kind of relationship?" Lu Rankong asked blankly. Seeing Jiang Zhi's teasing expression, he immediately reacted and almost spit out a mouthful of tea. He quickly said, "What nonsense are you talking about? He is just very delicate and picky, so I take care of him a little to avoid making him unhappy. You have heard of his temper."
Jiang Yi looked unconvinced and said with a half-smile, "There are so many omegas for you to choose from, but have you ever been so concerned about any of them? I just thought you hadn't figured it out yet, but it turns out you like alphas... But I'm not such an old-fashioned person. I can accept that you don't like omegas or betas, but insist on liking alphas."
"Don't talk nonsense, it's not true." Lu Rankong waved his hand and said, "Besides, why do you want your brother-in-law to be caring to you? You are always on business trips, how much time do you have to spend with him? You don't take good care of an omega, and you want him to take care of you in return?"
"Okay, okay, I was wrong." Jiang Zhi quickly raised his hands in surrender, "Don't blame me, I was really wrong."
"Really wrong?"
Jiang Zhi said frankly: "I was originally planning to take a long vacation and take your brother-in-law on a trip to visit all the planets with beautiful scenery."
Lu Rankong put the teacup back on the coffee table, crossed his long legs and placed them on the stools in front of him. He sighed comfortably, "Finally, I can have a good rest for a few days. After completing this mission, the military must give me at least a week's vacation."
Jiang Zhi looked at him, hesitant to speak, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "Since you want to rest, why don't you go home and take a look?"
Lu Rankong remained in the same posture without moving, but the smile on his face slowly disappeared.
Jiang Zhi added, "You didn't go home just to see your uncle. Isn't there Uncle Chen who has been taking care of you? He misses you very much. He keeps talking about you every time he sees me. The last time you went home was last year, right? He has been talking about you for almost a year."
When mentioning Uncle Chen, Lu Rankong's cold eyes softened a bit.
"Let's talk about it later. I will find a chance to see Uncle Chen, even if it's just meeting outside." He said.
Jiang Zhi hesitated for a moment and then said, "Xiao Fan..."
"My name is Lu Rankong now, which is my mother's surname. Don't call me wrong." Lu Rankong interrupted.
Jiang Zhi pursed his lips and said, "Ran Kong, he is your father after all, and he has always cared about you. Because of your attitude, he can only care about you silently behind your back."
Lu Rankong said nothing, just lowered his eyes and looked at his collar.
"He also secretly reminded Liu Deng, otherwise do you think you would be promoted to colonel in the army so quickly?" Jiang Zhi said.
As soon as these words were spoken, the air in the room instantly froze and dropped to freezing point.
Lu Rankong slowly turned his head and looked at Jiang Zhi, his eyes cold and hard.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Zhi asked hesitantly.
Lu Rankong stood up and moved the stools at his feet away.
After staring at Jiang Zhi for a few seconds, he lifted up the prison uniform he was still wearing, pointed to a certain spot around his waist, and said calmly, "Here are the bullet scars from my battle with the pirates. During that mission, I shot and killed more than a dozen desperadoes and captured their leader. The scars were only repaired by the healing device, so they are not visible."
He lifted his prison uniform up again, revealing a small area of strong chest muscles. He pointed to the area below his chest and said, "There was a gunshot wound here, too. It was caused during a starship rescue operation. I was unconscious for half a month and was on the verge of life and death. During that mission, I rescued all the hijacked passengers and shot several hijackers dead."
"If I didn't have the treatment device, there would be countless scars of all sizes on my back."
There was no expression on his face as he counted the scars. Only after he put down his collar did he grit his teeth and say, "Everything I have is something I have built by myself. It has nothing to do with him."
Jiang Zhi took a deep breath, his voice trembling a little, and said repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Rankong, I'm sorry."
She raised her hands to cover her face again, "Why didn't you tell me these things, and no one else reported them to me."
Lu Rankong said: "It was me who didn't let Major General Liu tell you these things, and few people know my identity."
"You don't have to hide your identity deliberately." Jiang Zhi put down his hand and looked at him.
Lu Rankong lowered his eyes and said, "I don't want to rely on others, I only want to rely on myself."
Jiang Zhi lowered his head and thought for a while, then said sincerely: "Ran Kong, in fact, your uncle is not at fault. He is too busy, so he can't take care of you and your son. It is understandable that he occasionally neglects you. He once chatted with me, and although he didn't say it explicitly, the implication was that he felt very sorry for you."
"He has nothing to be sorry for." Lu Rankong said lightly: "The only person he is sorry for is my mother."
Seeing that Jiang Zhi was about to speak, he raised his hand to stop him and said, "You suddenly said all this today. Was it actually because he asked you to say it?"
Jiang Zhi said: "That's what he meant, and that's what I wanted to say too."
After a moment of silence, Lu Rankong said, "I will go back. Don't worry. I will go back as soon as the warship arrives."
Lan Yu was soaking in the bathtub, feeling drowsy, and didn't get up until the water had grown cold.
He chose from the bag that Lu Rankong had brought him, applied body lotion all over his body, and after completing the entire set of skin care procedures with great skill, he felt satisfied that his skin had regained its moisture and radiance.
He took out a white bathrobe from the closet and put it on, tying the belt loosely so that most of his chest was exposed. She wrapped her hair in a dry towel, picked up a glass of water from the small cabinet, drank it and walked out.
The bedroom was opposite the bathroom, with the living room in between. He walked towards the bedroom with a flush on his face from the heat.
But when his eyes swept across the wine cabinet on the left, he paused with the glass of water in his hand.
A figure was reflected on the glass door. Lu Rankong was sitting on the sofa behind him, staring at him intently.
Lan Yu turned around suddenly and asked, "When did you come in?"
Lu Rankong then turned his gaze away and said, "I've been in for a while."
"Then why didn't you say anything when you came in?"
"You're taking a shower, how could I make a sound?" Lu Rankong said.
Lan Yu put the water glass on top of the wine cabinet, went into the bedroom, closed the door, and opened the wardrobe against the wall.
In the closet hung a brand new military uniform and shirt, as well as a comfortable cotton sports suit. He took off his bathrobe and put on the sports suit.
Lu Rankong sat quietly on the sofa, seemingly staring at the carpet in front of him, but in fact the scene just now kept appearing in front of his eyes.
K walked out of the bathroom, her face and eyes were flushed, and under her loose bathrobe, her fair chest was also pink, with a few small water drops hanging on it...
His mouth felt dry and he tried hard to get the image out of his mind. But this scene was so shocking that I couldn’t think of anything else.
Under the yukata, there are long legs, pale skin, and...
He picked up the pot of tea that he had asked the staff to bring, poured himself a cup, tilted his head back and gulped it down. Feeling that it didn't work, he poured himself another cup.
After Lan Yu got dressed and came out, she saw Lu Rankong holding a teapot in his left hand and a teacup in his right hand, drinking tea one cup after another with his head tilted back, and he just stood there without moving.
Lu Rankong caught a glimpse of his figure and quickly put down the teacup. After standing for a few seconds, he reacted and asked while holding the teapot: "This tea is delicious. I brought it specially for you. Do you want to try it?"
Lan Yu nodded.
He was very thirsty after taking a shower, and even a glass of water was not enough.
Lu Rankong reached out to grab another cup, and in his panic he almost knocked it over. He quickly held it in place, explaining, "My hands are a little slippery..."
Lan Yu walked over while wiping her hair with a towel and stood beside the coffee table.
A faint fragrance with warm water vapor drifted into Lu Rankong's nostrils.
He calmed his mind and began to pour tea. After a few drops dripped from the spout of the teapot, there was no more tea.
He looked at Lan Yu, who was also looking at him, and asked calmly, "Is it specially sent to me?"
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