Chapter 57
On the capital planet shrouded in power, the Alliance Academy of Sciences is a unique existence.
It cannot do without the nourishment of power, but it is as far away from the center of power as possible.
Three years ago, with Jiang Yun's strong support, Fu Mingqian was promoted to the position of president of the Academy of Sciences.
Since then, the academic atmosphere of the Academy of Sciences has been growing day by day, and various research projects have made good progress, especially in the fields of new energy and interstellar aliens.
Jiang Yun and Lu Huai followed Fu Mingqian. The three of them walked down the bright and clean corridor, passing through laboratories with obscure names:
Space folding, global causal prediction algorithm, prokaryotic reactor, biological fusion, memory encoding and de-encoding...
Not to mention Lu Huai, who has been out of touch with society for seventeen years, there are some concepts that even Jiang Yun, the foreign minister who often pays attention to scientific news, has not had a deep understanding of.
Lu Huai suddenly said, "Strange."
Jiang Yun said: "It's not surprising, it's normal that you don't understand these concepts."
Lu Huai said: "The concept is not difficult to understand. I am just wondering why Dean Fu, who is so handsome and talented, is still not married in his forties?"
The young couple relied on their good relationship with Fu Mingqian and gossiped openly in front of the parties involved.
"I'm not sure. I haven't had much contact with Dean Fu over the years." Jiang Yun said, "Maybe Dean Fu is not interested in Omegas. Scientific research is his Omega?"
Fu Mingqian glanced back at Jiang Yun and said, "It's only been a few days since Colonel Lu returned, and Foreign Minister Jiang has already become a bit of his former self. Colonel Lu is indeed still the same as before, so easily influencing others' mindsets."
Jiang Yun was slightly startled: "Really?"
He himself was completely unaware of this.
"Foreign Minister Jiang never gossips when Colonel Lu is away. Besides, I'm not that old-fashioned," Fu Mingqian said. "The reason I insist on not getting married and having children is because of your two children."
The twins at home had just separated, and Lu Huai's vigilance as a father was at its peak. He rejected Gu Xingzhou's request to visit his home without hesitation.
Lu Huai smiled slightly and said, "I treat you as a brother, so please don't tell me that you are waiting for my son to grow up."
Fu Mingqian remained calm and said, "Lu Chao has made me deeply understand the diversity of genes. Even if I marry an Omega with an IQ comparable to mine, there's still a chance I'll have a child who's a poor student."
Jiang Yun and Lu Huai: ...That's not necessary.
"Because of Lu Chao, I choose to remain single and childless for life." Fu Mingqian stopped at the entrance of the alien biology laboratory. "—We're here."
The Academy of Sciences has confirmed that under certain conditions, interstellar aliens have the probability of experiencing DNA chain breakage, recombination, and self-repair.
Lu Huai's seventeen-year-long sleep is obviously related to this phenomenon.
Unlike humans, interstellar aliens are half carbon-based and half silicon-based. Because they are half silicon-based, they do not need traditional energy intake, relying solely on cosmic radiation to survive for long periods of time and achieve symbiosis with pure carbon-based organisms.
They also possess a high degree of collective consciousness and parasitic consciousness. Not only can they use cosmic radiation to complete instantaneous information sharing, but they will also serve the same "mother" during their survival.
The Academy of Sciences named this "mother" [Sleeping Queen].
Seventeen years ago, the [mission target] brought into the escape pod by Lu Huai was precisely this [Queen].
"I didn't expect you to fail to bring the Queen back to the Alliance in the end," Fu Mingqian pointed out unceremoniously, "In a sense, your mission has failed."
Jiang Yun said, "Colonel Lu's mission back then was simply to bring the Queen back to his battleship, the Final Battleship. He did it, and his mission was not a failure."
"That's right." Lu Huai and Jiang Yun echoed, "It was the Alliance that failed to find my escape pod in time, which led to Olin finding the Queen first. What does this have to do with me?"
Jiang Yun said: "That's right."
After Lu Huai regained consciousness, they and Gu Xingzhou sneaked into Aolin's research institute on the Ice Wasteland Planet and tried to steal the Queen. Unfortunately, Aolin had already transported the Queen to another place before that.
Fu Mingqian said solemnly, "The Queen's research on interstellar aliens is extremely important. I suggest that you two put aside other matters and focus on retrieving the Queen."
Jiang Yun was well aware of the importance of the Queen. After reuniting with Lu Huai, he had been collecting clues about the Queen, but had yet to find any useful information.
"Okay," Lu Huai nodded, "but one of the prerequisites is that others don't cause us any extra trouble."
Jiang Yun echoed Lu Huai: "The second prerequisite is that someone is willing to help us take care of the child during our mission."
Fu Mingqian: “…”
"Please give Colonel Lu a comprehensive examination first, Dean Fu," Jiang Yun said. "Heart, brain, mind... I want to know everything about his body."
Fu Mingqian, like other Alphas in the same camp, mostly obeyed Jiang Yun's orders, but sometimes he would be "venomous" to Jiang Yun, for example -
"Everything?" Fu Mingqian asked Jiang Yun seriously, "That should also include sexual ability, right?"
Jiang Yun pretended not to hear and calmly walked away from the scene: "I'll go to the lounge and wait for the results."
Lu Huai watched Jiang Yun leave the laboratory, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, almost saying "so cute".
Fu Mingqian looked at Colonel Lu's worthless appearance and shook his head silently.
"First, let's measure your brain age." Fu Mingqian pressed a button, and a device popped out from the ceiling. "Go sit down under the device."
Lu Huai still looked towards the lounge and said calmly, "I need you to do me a favor."
Lu Huai said something, and Fu Mingqian's calm pupils suddenly dilated.
Fu Mingqian believed in science and facts, but he couldn't believe the result before his eyes. His voice was trembling: "If this is true, how...how did you manage not to go crazy until now?"
Lu Huai shrugged: "I don't know. I just kept thinking about him, so I got through it."
Fu Mingqian rested his hands on the lab table, his face pale as he murmured, "But how is this possible? No one can do this... Not even you, Lu Huai, no matter how strong your mental strength is, it's impossible..."
Lu Huai smiled nonchalantly: "Maybe I'm better?"
Lu Huai may lie and make mistakes in judgment, but instruments and numbers will not.
Fu Mingqian was silent for a long time, then smiled sarcastically. "I originally thought that Jiang Yun, who had been left behind for seventeen years, was the one who suffered more. I didn't expect... Lu Huai, what kind of winner in life are you? No wonder, no wonder you suddenly have a pair of sixteen-year-old children and a thirty-seven-year-old wife, and you don't even feel awkward - you've thought about it a long time ago, right? You thought that Jiang Yun might be pregnant, and that when you wake up, you might already be the father of a sixteen-year-old child."
Lu Huai patted Fu Mingqian's shoulder and said nothing: "So, considering that Jiang Yun and I are in such a miserable state, you should come to our house more often to play with Lu Chao in the future, okay?"
Fu Mingqian's body stiffened and he sighed heavily: "How did you two... survive this?"
The examination results showed that Lu Huai was in good health, with both his physical and mental age maintained at the standard of 24 years old, and his sexual ability could be a few years younger.
The test results were delivered to Jiang Yun immediately, but when Lu Huai found Jiang Yun in the lounge, Jiang Yun's face was still a little cold.
"What's with that expression on your face?" Lu Huai made a ridiculous joke. "Did I find out about some terminal illness and you're going to be a widow again?"
"I won't be a widow, but I might have to bring the children to visit you in prison in the future." Jiang Yun slapped an invitation letter from the Military Law General Bureau on Lu Huai's chest and said casually, "I just received it - you will be judged in court-martial, Colonel Lu."
The Military Law Enforcement Office and the Military Headquarters belong to two different institutions. The Military Law Enforcement Office's responsibility is to supervise and inspect the Military Headquarters, and it is also one of the few institutions that Jiang Yun is unwilling to interfere with.
Just as Fu Mingqian said, Colonel Lu returned in glory, but he did not bring his mission target, the [Queen], back to the Alliance. Instead, he let the [Queen] fall into the hands of the Austrian side.
From this perspective, Lu Huai's mission can be considered a failure.
Furthermore, there were too many suspicious points in Lu Huai's life, from his awakening on Ice Desolate Planet to his appearance on Jinmastu Island. The Military Court would not allow him to get away with just a simple "amnesia" statement.
Of course, the Military Law Department was concerned about the power of Jiang Yun and the Lu family and did not dare to say that this was a trial.
The invitation stated that the General Administration wanted to understand the circumstances of the incident and hoped that Colonel Lu would cooperate with their investigation, but the location of the investigation was clearly stated to be the military court. The investigation team was led by the Chief Judge of the Military Court, Rachel.
Anyone could see that this was a trial in name only. Yet, Lu Huai accepted the "invitation" from the Military Law Enforcement Department.
After returning home, Jiang Yun relieved Lu Huai from the task of tutoring Lu Chao in the evening and held a small meeting with her husband in the bedroom about the matter.
Jiang Yun originally wanted to discuss this with Lu Huai in the study, but Lu Huai insisted on discussing it in the bedroom, saying, "Seventeen years ago, we never worked together in the bedroom. Now is a great opportunity to make up for our regrets."
So, Jiang Yun said, "But I have never regretted this matter," while being carried to the bed by Lu Huai and forced to finish his speech half-lying on the bed.
"If the trial results in a guilty verdict, the presidential office will naturally have a legitimate reason not to promote you."
"If the trial results in not guilty, you will become a true hero of the Alliance. The Presidential Office could easily offer you an olive branch far beyond your qualifications—for example, the rank of 'Admiral of the Land Forces,' allowing you to take on the highest military position after the Marshal."
"But even if you're forty-one this year, you'd still be the youngest admiral in Alliance history. Furthermore, the Academy of Sciences can prove that both your physical and mental age are only twenty-four."
"Suppose you accept the promotion, what will the military brass think, and what will the public think?"
"I don't need to explain the word 'praise to death'; Colonel Lu should understand it."
“…”
When Jiang Yun was giving a long speech, even Lu Huai was not allowed to interrupt him.
Lu Huai stood aside holding a water cup, waiting obediently for Jiang Yun to finish speaking. He immediately handed over the water cup and pretended to be humble: "Pass the tea to Foreign Minister Jiang."
Jiang Yun took the cup, took a big sip of water, and said, "If you have any questions, you can ask me now."
"Yes, I do." Lu Huai sat down on the bed, grabbed Jiang Yun's hand, and looked at the hormone level curve displayed on Jiang Yun's watch. He wondered, "Why hasn't Foreign Minister Jiang's estrus period arrived yet?"
Jiang Yun: “…”
Jiang Yun's hormone level is very close to the critical value, and his body has also shown symptoms such as mild fever. He may enter estrus at any time.
Jiang Yun repeatedly rejected her young husband's frequent and excessive requests for sex, using the excuse that she wanted to "save her energy for the estrus period."
So much so that these past few days, whenever the two of them were alone, Lu Huai was like a large pet waiting to be fed, always looking at his...watch with expectant eyes.
When the two of them were lying in bed at night, Lu Huai couldn't wait to stare at his hormone curve all the time, repeatedly asking "Why hasn't it come yet?" "It's obviously just a little bit away"...
Hearing Lu Huai ask this again, Jiang Yun knew that this Alpha's mind was not on the trial at all, so they should turn off the lights and go to bed early.
But even after turning off the lights, Lu Huai still didn't give up, and from time to time he would ask, "Baby, how do you feel now?"
"Do you need me to bite you again?"
"Come here and give me a hug. Let me check if your temperature has risen..."
Jiang Yun closed his eyes and thought that sometimes it was nice to sleep alone.
"No need. I'm about to enter the estrus period, not the due date. Please don't be so nervous." Jiang Yun couldn't help but touch his gland that was slightly painful from being bitten. "You've been bitten enough in the past two days. Go to sleep quickly."
Jiang Yun could guess why his estrus period was delayed.
His glands had long been accustomed to the pain of not getting what he wanted before estrus.
For seventeen years, no matter how loudly the glands clamored or how terrifyingly the pheromones erupted, all that was waiting was one powerful inhibitor after another.
This time, before his glands started to stir, Alpha's pheromones were injected continuously, in such large quantities that he was completely satisfied. Before he could digest one wave, another wave came.
The glands were probably so confused by the feeding that they forgot for a moment that they were entering the estrus period.
Lu Huai said: "But what if I fall asleep and you are in heat?"
Jiang Yun promised perfunctorily: "I'll wake you up when we get there, okay?"
Lu Huai said: "It's hard to wake me up after I fall asleep."
Jiang Yun said calmly: "It doesn't matter, as long as your House of Commons is easy to wake up."
"..." Lu Huai didn't know what scene he was thinking of, and laughed softly: "If you say that, I can't sleep even more."
Jiang Yun turned on the light, got up from the bed, and poured Lu Huai a glass of water. In front of Lu Huai, he added some synthetic vitamins that help with sleep into the glass.
Jiang Yun handed the cup of water to Lu Huai and ordered without hesitation: "Drink it and go to sleep."
Lu Huai laughed: "You wouldn't do that."
"Colonel Lu is only focused on my estrus, and doesn't care about anything else. So why did you agree to stand trial?" Jiang Yun stood by the bed, arms folded, and grumbled, "You know this trial is meaningless. They just want to keep your rank fixed at [Colonel]."
Jiang Yun was sure that he knew Lu Huai very well, but in this matter, he still couldn't see Lu Huai's motive for agreeing to this trial.
It would be understandable if he said it was to comply with military discipline, but Colonel Lu was not a person who followed the rules.
Lu Huai looked surprised: "What? I can choose not to stand trial?"
"Of course, you are my husband." Jiang Yun said condescendingly, "If you don't want to go, just tell me and I will do my best to make it right for you."
Lu Huai smiled. "That's impressive. But I have a military rank after all. As long as I'm still a colonel, I can't refuse the 'invitation' from the Military Law Enforcement Office—that's what my grandfather taught me."
So it was because of Marshal Lu’s teachings.
Jiang Yun frowned: "That being said, I still feel unhappy when I think about you having to face so many questions from people who are not as good as you."
Lu Huai thought for a moment and said, "Then why don't you go to the courtroom and wait for me at home?"
Jiang Yun said: "Impossible."
Given his current physical condition, he really shouldn't go to a military setting where most of the people there are Alphas.
But he had never skipped similar occasions before because of official business.
He was not afraid when Lu Huai was not around, and now that Lu Huai is back, he has nothing to worry about.
"Okay, okay, we really should go to bed." Lu Huai pulled Jiang Yun onto the bed, helped Jiang Yun lie flat, covered him with the quilt, and finally kissed him on the forehead: "Good night Jiang Yun, love you."
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