After Ge Xiu left, the other adjutants also left with their own orders, and the hatch of the captain's room closed automatically behind them.
The huge captain's room was instantly silent, and the metal walls shone with a cold brilliance.
The young general who was driving a light warship to pick up Ge Xiu stepped forward and reported everything he had seen on the Raibert, including the rhetoric of Ge Xiu's attempt to blackmail.
Lu Lai walked to the command table and was looking at the huge star map floating in front of him. He suddenly opened his mouth and corrected:
"The Leviathan."
His voice was low and calm, and the officer was stunned for two seconds before realizing that the other party was correcting his name for the ship. His heart froze, and he nodded slightly:
"Yes."
Therefore, in the following reports, he referred to the ship not far from the Leviathan whose skin had been damaged by more than 40%.
After the report was over, Lu Lai turned to look at him, the faint blue light of the star map was printed on the bottom of his eyes, more and more like a frozen Kawasawa:
"His request is as good as possible."
The general looked up at Lu Lai in surprise: "But..."
As soon as he came into contact with Lu Lai's undisturbed gaze, he couldn't help but look stunned, his back straightened, and he lowered his head again: "My subordinate is sloppy."
Lu Lai lowered his eyes and looked unpredictable:
"Hall, how do you think he won?"
Hall hesitated for a while, and then slowly answered carefully: "Because the Alliance army is too underestimated by the enemy, and did not complete the due steps when detecting the enemy's situation, the commander made a mistake in judgment."
Lureiro shook his head: "This is why the alliance failed, not why he won."
Hall pondered for a while, and finally answered somewhat frustratedly: "... subordinates are incompetent."
Lu Lai turned to look at the metal debris floating outside the porthole, and slowly narrowed his eyes:
"He's a master at manipulating the enemy's emotions."
At this time, it was the first time he gave such a high evaluation, Hall couldn't help but looked up in surprise.
"From the provocation at the beginning, to the layout in the later stage, to lure the enemy, counterattack, and finally to the fatal blow that jumps out of the frame, everything is carefully manipulated. The enemy's emotions are his weapons. An interlocking set of traps that lure the enemy into the trap until a victory was already within reach."
Lu Lai said unpleasantly, but Hall's back couldn't help provoking a cold sweat.
But he was still a little unconvinced: "However, once the commander suddenly recovers from it, or abides by the established regulations, then he will only be wiped out."
"If it were you, would you dare to bring such a crew and equipment to face the elites of the Alliance?"
"… "
Hall was silent.
Lu Lai said unhurriedly: "There is nothing more terrifying than a scheming and crazy gambler."
He looked at Hall meaningfully:
"So, why do you think he said that in front of you?"
Hall's face was no longer scornful and casual, and after careful consideration, he carefully told Lu Lai his answer: "He wants me to tell you this sentence, and by doing this, he shows that he has no more threats. "
Lu Lai was noncommittal, but turned his head again to look at the huge star map floating in front of him.
Hall raised his head boldly: "Then... what are you going to do with this person next?"
Before he knew it, he couldn't help but use the honorific title on Ge Xiu.
Lu Lai stood in front of the porthole with his hands behind his back, the faint light reflected by the galaxy outside the window was printed on his stern profile face, revealing a sense of oppression that had been precipitated after killing:
"If it can be used by me, of course it is the best."
His silver-blue eyes didn't have the slightest emotional ups and downs, it was as calm and unpredictable as the sea, and his voice was low and indifferent: "If it doesn't work, there's no need to keep more troubles."
Hall shuddered and lowered his head even lower.
Lu Lai turned around:
"Come on, go see him."
Ge Xiu was led into a separate cabin. The lines here were obviously not as cold and hard as those in the captain's room. The decoration was retro and softer.
There are a wide variety of food on the table with fine workmanship, and the whole room is filled with a rich and attractive fragrance.
Now, nutrient solution has become the main energy supplement method. It is cheap and easy to carry. It has become the hard currency on warships. However, fresh dishes with higher prices and the same strict cooking and storage conditions are probably only businessmen with higher social status. Or only nobles have the conditions to enjoy them on ships.
The food was carefully divided into small doses to prevent Ge Xiu, who was starving, from eating too fast and hurt his body instead.
But what the people who arranged the food didn't expect was that Ge Xiu only moved a few things, stopped after he was half full, pushed the bowl aside, and began to observe the facilities in the entire cabin with interest.
At this moment, the hatch door slid open silently, and a pair of long legs wrapped in dark military trousers stepped in.
Lu Lai's eyes swept around the table, and finally settled on Ge Xiu, who was sitting at the table, with a pair of silver-blue eyes that were bottomless: "What? Is it unappetizing?"
Ge Xiu swayed his thin legs on the high chair and shrugged indifferently:
"No, it's all good."
Lu Lai stopped by the table, his slender and pale fingers picked up a stack of delicate pastries from the end of the table, and then gently placed it in front of Ge Xiu, the silver plate knocked on the table with a crisp sound: " Try this."
Ge Xiu raised his eyebrows in surprise, but still picked up the silver spoon, dug a corner of the soft pastry covered with thick cream, tasted it, and praised politely:
"It was delicious."
Immediately afterwards, he put down the spoon indifferently.
The silver spoon hit the edge of the bone china plate, making a "ding" sound.
Lu Lai's pale golden eyelashes drooped down, carefully scrutinizing his expression:
"Why, don't you like sweets?"
Although it is an interrogative sentence, the tone is firm.
Ge Xiu tilted his head slightly, his brows furrowed, as if he was thinking about an extremely profound philosophical question, and after a while he replied:
"nor."
He lowered his eyes and picked up the edge of the silver spoon, and gently caressed the cold and smooth surface of the metal with the pulp of his fingers. Isn’t eating food just an energy intake process to ensure physical fitness? What does it have to do with the quality of food?”
The young man's voice was light and fluttering, as if he didn't care about the extreme, and it didn't matter to the extreme.
Lu Lai's brows subconsciously wrinkled slightly.
He looked at Ge Xiu inquiringly, the eyeballs under the eyelashes were like flowing sterling silver, and after a long time, he finally retracted his gaze.
Ge Xiu originally thought that he was finally about to start talking about business. He just cleaned up his attitude, but he didn't expect that after Lu Lai withdrew his hand, he took it out of his pocket like a magic trick, and when he pulled it out again, his smooth and slender palm was in the heart. One more thing.
a candy.
A high-quality candy wrapped in sparkling foil is completely different from the inferior distribution candy that Ge Xiu had dug out from the former Lepot.
Ge Xiu's eyes lit up instantly.
He raised his hand, and it was only halfway through that he remembered and asked:
"For me?"
Louie nodded.
Ge Xiu smiled suddenly. He took the candy, skillfully peeled off the candy wrapper, and then stuffed the sweet and fragrant candy ball into his mouth.
His cheeks were swollen and round, which looked rather funny, his eyes narrowed slightly, like a satisfied cat, and even his thin little face, which was almost invisible, seemed to be three-pointed cute.
Lu Lai's fingertips moved slightly, and then he put away his back without a trace, and he said calmly:
"I thought you had no particular preference for sweets."
Ge Xiu explained plausibly: "Sweet food is sweet food, sugar is sugar, it's different."
Lu Lai raised his eyebrows: "What's the difference?"
Ge Xiu was stunned for a moment, he thought for a while, then lowered his eyes, his accent was a little vague because of the candy: "...I can't tell."
He shrugged confidently: "It's different anyway."
Lu Lai was almost amused by his rambunctious scoundrel.
He curled the corners of his lips, and the suppressed killing and sharpness on his body almost faded a little because of this: "If you like it, wait a minute and I will let Hall send you the inventory on the ship."
Ge Xiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he raised a sincere and bright smile: "Okay! Thank you sir!"
Lu Lai felt his fingertips itch a little again.
So, he turned his eyes, pulled out the chair beside the table and sat down, and changed the subject very naturally:
"Why do you call me sir? Do you know who I am?"
From the moment they met, the child addressed himself as "Sir".
Other refugees from the barren planet may not know, but Lu Lai doesn't believe that the skinny boy in front of him will not know that Lu Lai Sivir left the alliance three years ago, and all his honors and duties were thrown away. Until now, he has become the most wanted criminal that the entire alliance wants to catch, and even the biggest threat and enemy. This honorific title for alliance officials is really inappropriate for him.
The corners of Ge Xiu's lips twitched even more, and his dark eyes were fixed on the tall and dangerous man in front of him. The childish and innocent elements on his face seemed to disappear in an instant, like a cold and beautiful snake hunting and spitting out letters. , with a poisonous coldness and treacherousness.
He licked the sugar ball in his mouth and said lightly.
"Yes, it depends on whether you want it or not."
Lu Lai looked back at him calmly, his deep silver-blue eyes calm and unpredictable: "Oh?"
"If you don't want to, relying on your fleet strength, is enough to be a happy free man in this vast star field, then the word "Sir" is my mistake, and I apologize to you."
Ge Xiu still had a sweet smile on his lips, and he gently poked the silver spoon inside the bone china plate with his fingertips, making a clinking sound: "But... if you want it, it must be."
Lu Lai's expression did not change, and there was an unpredictable and unpredictable emotion on his hard-line face:
"Do you think I want to?"
Ge Xiu didn't turn around this time. He put his elbows on the table, dragged his bulging cheeks stuffed with sugar balls, and pouted:
"Then why don't you let the Marshal of the God of War, who is above ten thousand people in the alliance, not do it?"
Ge Xiu winked slyly at Lu Lai, his voice soft and low, like a sinful whisper on the pillow: "How can you not add me to such a fun thing?"
Lu Lai stared at him fixedly, with an indifferent calm in his expression.
Ge Xiu looked back without dodging.
The next second, the tall man suddenly leaned over, put his hand on the back of his head, and rubbed his head vigorously.
Ge Xiu really did not expect this time.
He was stunned by the rubbing, with his hair twisted everywhere, his face blank and dazed: "... huh huh?"