The old man squinted his eyes and drank a sip of tea, then leaned back in the recliner and asked, "Xiao Yu, have you drunk the soup?"
"Drank..." the child answered loudly in the house.
The door opened and a thin little boy ran out.
Lan Yu recognized it immediately as her childhood self. It was exactly the same as in the photo taken at the welfare home, except that she looked a little younger.
He stared intently at the scene before him, unwilling to blink.
Shu Yu ran to the recliner, put his hands next to the old man's ears, leaned in and said loudly: "Drink it, drink it all without leaving a drop."
The old man reached out and patted him, "Why are you so loud? Are you trying to make me deaf?"
Shu Yu laughed: "Grandpa, you are actually deaf."
"Bullshit, I have very sharp ears." The old man couldn't help laughing.
"Remember this, you have to keep drinking that soup. Even if grandpa is gone, you still have to drink it."
"I know, I know." Shu Yu curled his lips.
"Remember the recipe, too. You'll need to give it to your children in the future," Grandpa said loudly.
"I drink it every month and remember the recipe very well. I will make soup for your great-grandchildren in the future."
Lan Yu saw Shu Yu smiling sweetly, a smile like that of every loved child, without any caution or flattery, but only the freedom of being tolerated.
Grandpa opened his toothless mouth and patted his head gently: "Shameless..."
"You were the one who said you would give it to my child. Isn't that your great-grandson?" Shu Yu retorted, with a clever and cunning light in his eyes.
He asked again: "Grandpa, can I go out and play?"
The old man seemed not to hear and just picked up the tea on the table and drank it.
Shu Yu began to shake the old man's arm and begged, "Grandpa, can I go out and play?"
The old man continued to drink his tea and ignored him.
"Since you're silent, that means you agree." Shu Yu walked backwards towards the gate, "Then I'll go find Xiao Fan."
The old man put down his teacup and said, "Looking for that naked guy again? It might rain today, so don't go out."
Shu Yu turned around and ran out of the courtyard like a gust of wind. A voice came from afar: "I'm deaf too. I can't hear."
Lan Yu stood outside the courtyard, covering her face with her hands, tears flowing through her fingers. Some vague fragments gradually emerged in my mind.
The old man's wrinkled but warm hands stroked his head; his eyes seemed to be forever closed, but full of warmth; he stood in front of the door tremblingly holding the medicine soup: Xiaoyu, it's time to take the medicine...
Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu...
The old man closed his eyes and fell asleep in the chair. Lan Yu slowly walked to the gate of the courtyard, stepped in, squatted beside him, and looked up at him quietly.
"Grandpa..." he called hoarsely.
Suddenly, ripples like water appeared around me, and the whole scene gradually faded and blurred. Lan Yu reached out to grab him in panic, but her hand passed through his arm and she only grabbed something empty.
He stood up and reached out his hand forward again and again until the old man, the ginkgo tree, and the courtyard disappeared from his sight.
With tears in his eyes, he stared blankly at the surroundings which had turned into the military dormitory. He was standing in the middle of the dormitory, with his hand stretched out in front of him.
"Why do the people from Longte have to invade our planet Sasu?" Lu Rankong was still asking Luo Yang.
Lan Yu slowly walked to the bedside and sat down, burying his face in his hands. Hot tears flowed out from between his fingers. He took deep breaths, trying his best to calm his turbulent emotions.
Luo Yang's voice came in: "I don't know about this either. My tribe is just a small tribe. I have already told you everything I can."
He continued, "I just want to survive and live a peaceful life with Yunjie. I don't want to steal any stabilizer materials, nor will I hurt any Sasu people. But there is no way, I can't escape..."
Yun Jie cried out in tears: "Luo Yang..."
Lu Rankong asked: "Then do you know when K invaded my spiritual realm?"
"I don't know. When I first met you, you were K, and you never talked about your own affairs."
"Xiaoyu..." Lu Rankong suddenly called Lan Yu.
"I'm here..." Lan Yu replied in a hoarse voice.
Lu Rankong was silent for a few seconds and then said, "I can roughly guess when K invaded your spiritual realm."
Lan Yu asked: "Before I entered the orphanage?"
Lu Rankong said, "You were there on the day my mother died. You both lay motionless on the beach. When I heard the news and rushed over, I saw that scene... My memory is very confused after that, and I don't know how you were dragged away by the servants."
"What kind of scene was that?" Lan Yu knew it was cruel to ask this, but she had to ask.
Lu Rankong took a deep breath and said, "There is a cliff by the sea, and below is sea water and huge rocks. Mother——"
"Just talk about me, don't mention anything else." Lan Yu interrupted quickly.
"You were lying on a rock at the time, and I thought you had jumped off the cliff as well. Then I was sent back to the main planet. Later I sent someone to inquire about it, and the news we got was that you were indeed dead." Lu Rankong said.
He said in a hoarse voice: "For a long time, I didn't dare to go to Cha Yaxing again. A few years later, I mustered up the courage to go there once. I also came to your yard. The neighbors said...your grandfather also passed away. I wanted to go to the cemetery to take a look, but I really didn't dare to face it."
After a moment of silence, Lu Rankong said in a dry voice: "I have always wondered why you and mother died together. I was even afraid that when my mother was depressed and committed suicide, she happened to meet you and dragged you along with her--"
"No..." Lan Yu interrupted him, "It won't be like that."
Lu Rankong murmured, "Yes, because you are not dead at all, and your body is occupied by a Longte star. Therefore, my mother's death is also likely related to K, and it is not entirely my father's responsibility..."
Lan Yu hugged her head anxiously: "But apart from remembering him when I saw grandpa, I still can't remember anything else. What happened that day..."
Lu Rankong quickly comforted him, "Don't worry, you can think about it slowly. Even if you can never remember it, it doesn't matter. We can still find K. You were probably just unconscious at the time, and he entered your body at that time."
Lan Yu raised her head and said, "Yes, we need to find K. We also need to check previous information and figure out his life trajectory over the years."
"Yes..." Lu Rankong said.
"What kind of person is K usually in front of you?" Lu Rankong continued to ask Luo Yang.
Luo Yang said: "He is very calm, doesn't like to talk much, and is a bit gloomy, which makes people afraid to get close to him."
"Does he usually behave excessively and do things that seem a little crazy?" Lu Rankong asked.
Luo Yang was stunned and quickly shook his head: "No, if you say it's Noah, it's almost right, after all, Noah is like a madman, but K is not like that."
Lan Yu has now recovered his mood. The K he heard from Luo Yang and the K he knew were like two different people.
Lu Rankong obviously also thought of this question, so he asked in his heart: "Xiaoyu, what do you think is going on?"
Lan Yu replied blankly: "I don't know either..."
Lu Rankong placed his hands on his knees and leaned forward slightly. "Luo Yang, I have one last question for you."
"What?" Luo Yang sat up straight after hearing the last question, and Yun Jie started to get nervous again.
"You drugged me and put me into estrus. Do you have any plans?" Lu Rankong's eyes were cold, but the corners of his mouth curled up into a smile. This smile frightened Luo Yang. He stood up and explained quickly: "No, no, in fact, no matter what happens later, I will inject you with inhibitors and won't let anything happen to you."
Yunjie also nodded quickly.
Lu Rankong raised a hand to stop him from saying the rest and asked, "How did you find out that K is an omega?"
Luo Yang stammered, "I once saw the inhibitor he carried with him."
"Then why did he go to the barracks?"
Luo Yang hesitated and said, "Maybe it's for Colonel Lu."
As soon as these words came out, Lu Rankong sat up straight, and Lan Yu in the spiritual realm was also stunned.
"K mentioned him twice and seemed to be very concerned about him. Of course, this is just my guess."
Lu Rankong tilted his head in thought, tapping the armrest of the ebony chair with his fingers. After a moment, he stood up and said, "Okay, go ahead and leave your body to me."
When Yun Jie heard this, he stood up and excitedly threw himself onto the transparent wall.
Lu Rankong said: "I will ask Colonel Lu to get you a new identity and a starship ticket. It will be done in a few days. You just need to wait patiently. But as you promised, give me the activation right of the chip."
"Sure..." Luo Yang nodded hurriedly, "I want a ship ticket to Gositi Star."
"Brother Xiti, the healing planet?" Lu Rankong asked.
"Yes, the scenery there is beautiful. Yunjie and I will go to the recuperation planet to live and find a job."
"no problem……"
Luo Yang and Yun Jie looked at each other excitedly.
Lu Rankong added: "Although you have obtained a new identity and have to live in hiding on our Sasu Star, you cannot completely escape surveillance, so I have to report your affairs."
The joy on Luo Yang and Yun Jie's faces immediately disappeared and they looked at him nervously.
"But don't worry, as long as you behave yourself, I can guarantee that the military will not take any action and you can get the greatest freedom." Lu Rankong said.
Luo Yang thought about it and felt that this result was already very good. It was impossible to live completely unmonitored, so he nodded happily and said, "I will abide by my promise, live a good life with Yun Jie, and not do anything that is detrimental to Sasu Star."
He opened the terminal in his hand, quickly entered the information, and then pointed the floating screen towards Lu Rankong, saying solemnly: "This is my chip activation password and method."
After Lu Rankong read it, he deleted the input content.
Lu Rankong didn't say anything. He walked to the vase and reached out to open the door of the dark room.
As the door opened, Luo Yang walked out quickly and hugged Yun Jie tightly.
Lu Rankong coughed and said, "Alright, go back to Yunjie's body first."
Luo Yang looked at Yun Jie awkwardly and said, "I can't go out now."
"Can't get out? Why can't I get out?" Lu Rankong remembered that he had asked this question at the beginning, but Luo Yang did not answer at that time.
Lan Yu also looked at Luo Yang from the spiritual realm through Lu Rankong's sight.
Luo Yang explained: "It's like this. When we, the Longte people, enter the spiritual realm of others, we have to rely on some power to leave our original bodies. We call this power telekinesis."
"The original owner's spiritual body will instinctively resist the invader. This is telekinesis. If we want to leave the body, we can follow this telekinesis. Even if we devour the original owner's spiritual body, the telekinesis will still exist in our own spiritual body. If we want to get out, we can release it and be pushed out of the original owner's body."
Lu Rankong narrowed his eyes slightly, "You mean, Colonel Lu's entire spiritual body is not in his body now, so you can't get the telekinesis to push you out?"
"Yes..." Luo Yang said a little nervously: "Because he took stabilizers, the moment I entered his spiritual realm just now, his spiritual body was completely separated, so now I can only wait for him to come back and squeeze me out. Don't worry, he will be back in a few hours."
Lu Rankong didn't say anything else, just lowered his head and looked at the floor. Yun Jie slowly approached Luo Yang and looked at him nervously.
"How about this, you two go to the guest bedroom and rest for a while, and then leave after your bodies have recovered." Lu Rankong said.
Yun Jie and Luo Yang nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay."
The two walked towards the room Lu Rankong pointed to. As soon as they opened the door, Lu Rankong reminded them loudly: "You two are not allowed to have any intimate behavior, and you can't stand close to each other and do something affectionate."
"I understand, I understand, this is not my body now." Luo Yang quickly separated from Yun Jie.
"I'll come and check at any time." Lu Rankong said again.
"Don't worry, we will keep our distance and sit far away." Luo Yang assured again and again.
Lu Rankong also walked back to the master bedroom and talked to Lan Yu as he walked.
"I know why K has been staying in your body." Lu Rankong took out a bottle of ice water from the small refrigerator. He unscrewed the cap and raised it to his lips, but then he thought of something and stopped. He put the water back in the refrigerator and went to the water dispenser next to him to get a cup of hot water.
"You've just gone through the estrus period, so don't drink ice water now. Remember to drink hot water after you get your body back." He said to Lan Yu.
Lan Yu responded sullenly.
Lu Rankong took a sip of water and said, "Because your spiritual body is completely separated, he can't get out even if he wants to. He is trapped in your body. And he has to join the military department, so he has to pretend to be an alpha to achieve his goal."
Lan Yu withdrew her gaze from Lu Rankong, lay down on the bed in the dormitory, and covered her face with the quilt. Then he lifted the quilt, hugged Gu Gu beside him, and buried his face in its soft belly.
"So Xiaoyu, you really are Shu Yu." Lu Rankong said affirmatively.
He didn't know yet that Lan Yu had already seen Shu Yu and his grandfather in the spiritual realm, and had already accepted in his heart the fact that he was Shu Yu, so he was still explaining it to him.
"When K invaded your spiritual realm, he squeezed out your spiritual body... But you shouldn't have drunk the stabilizer, right? Why could this happen?" Lu Rankong asked puzzledly.
"I've drunk it..." Lan Yu suddenly spoke.
"Have you ever drunk it?"
Lan Yu raised her head and turned over, holding Gu Gu against her chest and looking at the ceiling, she said faintly: "My grandfather gave me a kind of medicine to drink since I was a child. I drink a bowl of it every month. He also said that everyone in our family must drink it to avoid disasters. I think what he gave me to drink should be a stabilizer."
"Can your grandfather make his own stabilizer?" Lu Rankong asked.
Lan Yu vaguely remembered some fragments about his grandfather. He said in a dry voice: "He didn't call the medicine soup a stabilizer, but a soup to exorcise evil spirits. He said that drinking it can ward off evil spirits."
Lu Rankong's voice was a little unstable and trembling: "The medicine soup is very bitter. I have to drink it once a month. I want to pour it out secretly, but he will stand by and watch me drink it. Every time after I finish drinking it, he will take a candy from the iron can in the cabinet and feed it to me..."
Lan Yu stared at the ceiling and blinked her eyes continuously, trying to blink away the moisture.
After a moment of silence, Lu Rankong asked, "Do you remember everything?"
"I can only remember some things about my grandfather." Lan Yu's tears slid down the corners of her eyes.
Lu Rankong did not say anything to disturb him and remained quiet. After a moment, Lan Yu calmed down and asked, "What are you doing now?"
"I didn't do anything. I just stared blankly at the water cup."
"So what are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking that Luo Yang was really abominable. He occupied my body and prevented me from hugging you and comforting you."
Lan Yu sniffed and said, "I'm fine. Over the years, whenever something happens, I just need to cry for a while, and everything will be fine after crying."
"Really?" Lu Rankong murmured softly, "I really wish I was always by your side. Whenever you feel sad, I will use the ponymon to comfort you and you won't cry anymore."
Listening to his gentle voice, Lan Yu suddenly felt that all her strength and self-comfort had lost their effect. They could not support her own fragility. Only Lu Rankong's embrace could do that.
"Lu Rankong, I miss you so much, please hug me." He started crying again.
After whimpering twice, he felt quite embarrassed and buried his face in Gu Gu's belly.
Lu Rankong didn't say anything. Lan Yu knew that he was giving herself time to cry. She felt a little embarrassed, but she thought it was good this way.
While crying, she looked up at Gu Gu's belly, twisted off a thread that was left on it, then leaned over and continued sobbing.
Suddenly someone touched my shoulder, and Gu Gu was slowly pulled away.
Lan Yu suddenly looked up and turned around. Through her tearful eyes, she saw Lu Rankong standing behind her. He was still pulling Gu Gu with his hands and then threw her next to the pillow.
"How did you get in?" Lan Yu was so shocked that she forgot to cry for a moment.
"I lay on the sofa and came in after giving up my body rights."
Lu Rankong bent down to wipe the tears from his face. His hands moved gently, his breathing was shallow, and his eyes were focused and serious.
Then he held him in his arms and said gently, "Don't cry, let Brother Leopard hold you."
Lan Yu pressed her face against his firm abdomen. She took a deep breath, letting the familiar, reassuring smell linger around her nose, and slowly put her arms around his waist.
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