Lin Yi didn't know what was going on outside. When he got out of the car, it was peaceful outside. Fred and Chen Qiaoxu behind him both came out with full stomachs and burping.
Fred was still a bit reserved before he went in, but once he ate the food inside, he immediately forgot about his face and manners.
But I felt a little worried when he got out. I couldn't expect people to treat me to dinner every day. But when I thought about not being able to eat these meals in the future, I felt lost and uncomfortable.
Lin Yi noticed that the looks these people outside gave him were extremely friendly, even a little flattering
Before Lin Yi could think about it carefully, Xiao D came up to him and said, "Sir, are you satisfied with the taste of lunch?"
Everyone was watching the ferocious little D from a distance. Especially Li Xingzhou, who felt his legs go weak when he saw little D.
Seeing Xiao D speaking to Lin Yi in such a soft voice, it felt like a dream.
Lin Yi felt that Little D was quite like a child, and particularly liked the recognition and encouragement of others. He bent down and patted its head several times. "The taste is very good, worthy of Little D. It is improving rapidly and will definitely become a great chef in the near future."
Little D was very satisfied and laughed again.
Lin Yi turned around and told Fred that if there was nothing else, he would leave the crew first.
While he was talking to Fred, Chen Qiaoxu, who was standing next to him, saw that the little D who was patting Lin Yi on the head was very obedient, and he thought that he had also eaten little D's meals twice, so maybe he should give it some encouragement as well.
Thinking of this, Chen Qiaoxu was about to reach out and touch Xiao D's head. Unexpectedly, Xiao D, who was originally facing Lin Yi, suddenly turned around and looked at Chen Qiaoxu silently.
Chen Qiaoxu was stuck in mid-air awkwardly, because he felt that Xiao D's eyes clearly said: You can touch me, but you have to leave your hand alone.
To Xiao D, most people have lost the basis for his trust. When he was doubting himself and thinking he was useless, one person after another came to add fuel to the fire and made him feel self-abandoned. Only Lin Yi saved him from the water and fire and gave him the most important encouragement and support. Others were nothing.
People who were secretly watching from a distance noticed this scene and all cast sympathetic and empathetic glances at Chen Qiaoxu.
Lin Yi got Fred's approval and got on the mecha vehicle with Xiao D.
Before getting in the car, Lin Yi still noticed the strange looks from the people around him, so he turned around and asked Xiao D: "Xiao D, did you say anything to them before?"
"No." Xiao D said, "Oh, maybe it's because I said we can open up meal orders in the future so that they can buy lunch from the military cafeteria."
Lin Yi looked puzzled.
Although Little D's lying ability was limited, it could selectively tell some facts. It said, "It's a taste evaluation project in the military cafeteria. I think the participation of these samples from different planets may be more conducive to the authenticity and accuracy of the data. In addition, I also charged them double the money. When the time comes, I can save the extra money to buy things."
Lin Yi nodded, agreeing with this reason.
An independent AI like Xiao D can indeed shop on its own, and can even automatically purchase software upgrades within a reasonable range. However, for an AI with an owner like Xiao A, most of its activities require the owner's permission.
Lin Yi looked at the military uniform on Xiao D and wondered if he should buy a few sets for Xiao A when he returned to the capital planet. One or two sets might not be enough for Xiao A to show off.
I don’t know what others think, but in Lin Yi’s opinion, using a smart computer at home is no different from raising a small pet.
Xiao D asked Lin Yi: "Sir, where do you want to go now? If you go back to the military cafeteria with me, it will be crowded there, but it would be great if you are willing to stay in the kitchen with me."
Lin Yi shook his head: "I'll go over during dinner time. Now just take me to the entrance of the primeval forest."
It takes about twenty minutes to drive from here to the primeval forest.
This time it was Little D's turn to feel strange: "Sir, why are you going to the primeval forest alone? It's a dangerous area."
"I'm not alone. The Marshal is going with me." Lin Yi said, "So don't worry."
Hearing Qin Nuo's address, Xiao D relaxed a little, but then asked curiously: "Why did you and the marshal go to that kind of place? Is it to carry out a mission?"
Lin Yi smiled and said, "For a date."
Little D was surprised and said, "Dating, is the Marshal pursuing you?"
"No, I'm pursuing him." Lin Yi said calmly.
However, Xiao D was stunned for a moment, but then he turned his gaze to Lin Yi with even more admiration and enthusiasm, "As expected of Master Lin Yi!"
All these actions were like thunder coming out of the blue, causing Xiao D to wave his glow stick for him crazily.
The mecha car moved forward, and the scenery on both sides of the road was rapidly moving backwards, so fast that it almost disappeared in front of Lin Yi's eyes. He opened his personal terminal and sent a message to Qin Nuo to confirm the time.
Lin Yi: Marshal, I’m on my way to the primeval forest. Do you have time now
Qin Nuo finished most of his work in the morning, and some of the content that was originally supposed to be done in the afternoon was pushed back to tomorrow morning. Thinking about it, he felt a little strange about his mood.
This inexplicable feeling of restlessness lasted until the lunch break, but Lin Yi didn't move at all. During this time, Qin Nuo even clicked on the emoticons that Lin Yi had sent him before, and repeated them several times until a table full of red hearts fell.
Just when he was about to frown and get back to work, Lin Yi's message finally came.
Qin Nuo's hands trembled, and he immediately planned to reply him, but after typing the words he paused, and it was a few seconds before he pressed the send button.
Qin Nuo: Okay, see you later.
After sending the message, Qin Nuo looked at what he had sent and what Lin Yi had sent a few more times, and couldn't help but feel that the content he had sent might be too bland. He was worried that Lin Yi might misunderstand his emotions. Just when he was trying to find an opportunity to send a sentence to make up for it, Lin Yi's reply had already come over.
It was still an emoticon, but it was more direct than the one in the morning. A child who looked like an angel flew out of Qin Nuo's personal terminal, took the small bow and arrow on his back, pointed it at Qin Nuo's heart, and said in a baby voice: "I'll hit your heart with one shot!"
The small arrow shot out with a whoosh and pierced Qin Nuo's chest. It stayed there for four or five seconds before the illusion disappeared.
Qin Nuo touched his heart uncomfortably, thinking that he had obviously been worrying too much.
There is an entrance to the primeval forest, but there are no guards, so Xiao D insisted on waiting for Qin Nuo to arrive before leaving.
Looking inside from the entrance, almost every tree inside was as thick as six or seven people could hug, and the height was soaring into the sky, almost endless. The various flowers and trees inside were much larger than the ones Lin Yi was familiar with, and any small flower was as big as Lin Yi's face.
After Qin Nuo's aircraft circled down from mid-air, Xiao D got in the car and left quickly.
Lin Yi came directly, without removing her makeup from the morning, and sat on the edge of a huge tree stump. After Qin Nuo got off the aircraft, Lin Yi jumped down from the tree stump and walked towards Qin Nuo with a bright face.
"Good afternoon, Marshal." Lin Yi said as he looked down from Qin Nuo's tightly buttoned collar.
Qin Nuo didn't know if it was his illusion, but when the four words "Marshal" came out of Lin Yi's mouth, there was always some special ending tone that distracted him.
"Good afternoon." Qin Nuo said seriously, his expression as meticulous as his clothes.
Lin Yi looked up at the sky, his tone somewhat regretful: "But it doesn't look like it will rain today."
There was not a cloud in the sky, and there was no sign of rain at all.
"The weather in the primeval forest changes suddenly. It's hard to say whether it will rain or not," said Qin Nuo.
"Actually, it's not that big of a deal. If it doesn't rain, I can find time to come again. Can I invite you again then?" Lin Yi smiled slightly, his tone jumping between reserved and unrestrained, making it difficult for people to figure out his true thoughts.
Lin Yi's eyes were clear and bright, which made every word he said sound more sincere, making people feel that they had misunderstood him.
Qin Nuo didn’t have as deep a foundation as Lin Yi after all, so he turned his face away uncomfortably, “We’ll discuss it when the time comes.”
"Okay, I'll do as you say." Lin Yi replied with a smile.
He picked up the umbrella that Xiao D had left for him just in case, used it as a crutch, and started walking inside side by side with Qin Nuo.
The breeze in the forest was mixed with the scent of trees and flowers. Lin Yi used his umbrella to push aside the green grass, and after walking for a while, he suddenly said, "If it rains, the whole primeval forest will be filled with the scent of your pheromones."
Qin Nuo, who finally regained his composure and walked gracefully beside Lin Yi, kicked a stone. The stone, which was originally half buried in the soil, was kicked out of the ground in an instant, and the upper part shattered all over the ground.
Lin Yi turned around when he heard the voice and asked Qin Nuo enthusiastically: "Marshal?"
Qin Nuo: "It's okay." Then he simply walked in front of Lin Yi.
If the whole forest is filled with his pheromones, Qin Nuo, who is in his forties but has never dated an omega, would be lying if he said his mood remained calm when he met Lin Yi, who was so generous, direct and naked.
He walked a few steps in front of Lin Yi and felt a few rapid heartbeats. Qin Nuo's five senses were much better than those of ordinary people, and at that moment he only felt those heartbeats were deafening.
At this moment, Lin Yi suddenly said behind him: "Did you hear that?"
Qin Nuo was too guilty to look back and covered his chest with his hands, thinking that Lin Yi had just heard his heartbeat: "What?"
"The sound of rain." Lin Yi said.
Qin Nuo turned around and saw Lin Yi looking up at the sky. He also looked in the direction Lin Yi was looking. A few drops of rain fell on his forehead, feeling a little cold. Soon the raindrops became denser.
Qin Nuo's mood also relaxed at this moment. A trace of pheromone leaked out without Qin Nuo's control, and the wind brought by the raindrops blew to Lin Yi's nose.
Lin Yi curled the corners of his lips, raised the umbrella in his hand, opened it with a swish, and held it over himself and Qin Nuo's heads.
The transparent umbrella was soon covered with raindrops, and the two stood between the giant trees.
There was a height difference between the two, so Qin Nuo took the umbrella after a while. He looked up at the sky and was somewhat surprised to find no sign of artificial rainfall.
Lin Yi held up the screen of his personal terminal, which showed the afternoon weather in the primeval forest. "Sure enough, the weather here changes so quickly. It has already started to rain."
Qin Nuo hummed and raised his hand to inform the intelligent computer to cancel the artificial rainfall. However, he couldn't do it in front of Lin Yi, so he could only hold back for the time being.
The rain gradually got heavier, and the pressure falling on the umbrella was a force that could not be ignored.
Lin Yi and Qin Nuo stood on a tree stump, watching the rain water slowly gather into small streams and rush towards the low-lying areas.
"Is it normal to have such rain in the primeval forest?" Lin Yi looked up and asked Qin Nuo.
Qin Nuo nodded: "It's normal."
Lin Yi took another look at their umbrella and felt that it was sturdy and could hold up, and Qin Nuo's grip was strong enough to keep the umbrella still.
He stretched his hand out of the umbrella, and soon his palm was covered with raindrops. "I like rain very much," Lin Yi said, "because the sound of rain can make me feel very peaceful, and the earth has a very nice smell after the rain."
Lin Yi looked at Qin Nuo, never forgetting to tease the marshal, "Just like your pheromones."
In the moment when Qin Nuo was at a loss as to how to respond, the intelligent computer that had received the order for artificial rainfall took action. Even though it was already raining in the primeval forest, the marshal's order could not be disobeyed, so it still operated some data in the background.
After a while, several aircraft flew over the primeval forest together, especially locking onto Qin Nuo's location, and started moving three, two, one, one. In an instant, a literal downpour of rain poured down from the sky.
It hit the umbrella that Qin Nuo was holding with almost a clang. The umbrella couldn't withstand such a huge pressure and it collapsed directly. Both Lin Yi and Qin Nuo were poured with a basin of water.
…
"Puff." Lin Yi spat out a raindrop that accidentally ran into his mouth, and while brushing his hair back, he asked Qin Nuo, "Is this rain normal?"
Qin Nuo: “…”
How could he say that he was the one who arranged the rain
After a moment of silence, Qin Nuo nodded for the first time in his life, "It's still normal."
As expected, both of them were soaked like drowned rats. Even Qin Nuo's meticulous hair was wet, making him look docile.
Lin Yi stared at him, and thought it was a little funny that the two of them talked so indifferently for five or six seconds in the rain, so he suddenly reached out and grabbed Qin Nuo's wrist: "Run."
Qin Nuo staggered two steps when he was pulled by him, but he quickly came to his senses and followed Lin Yi to run quickly towards the aircraft at the entrance.
When several artificial rainmaking aircraft saw Qin Nuo running away, they continued to rain after him without getting discouraged. The water flow formed by the rain under their feet was broken by their footsteps, creating small puddles.
The wind in the rain blew against their backs, mixed with the sound of raindrops falling on various vegetation, like a piece of music in the rain.
Lin Yi's mood jumped, and countless emotions poured into his mind like raindrops. The raindrops were cold, and at this moment, only Qin Nuo's wrist, which he was holding, was warm.
It was not until Lin Yi and Qin Nuo both boarded Qin Nuo's aircraft that they escaped.
The two water men rushed onto the aircraft together, and immediately dyed the cabin wet, and the carpet in the cabin was soaked. The intelligent brain of Qin Nuo's aircraft soon appeared, looking at Qin Nuo and Lin Yi in surprise, not understanding what happened in a short while.
"Why are you so wet?" It asked curiously. How could the rain in the primeval forest be so heavy? However, it was more important to clean and tidy up for its owner. It quickly started the water extraction mode and sucked away the excess water from Lin Yi and Qin Nuo, making their clothes and hair dry again.
Even though they did it, both of them had different hairstyles. Lin Yi was fine, as his hair was usually left alone without much care. Qin Nuo was different, as his hair, which was originally combed back, now hung down obediently, making him look less sharp and softer.
Under the question of the intelligent brain, the two looked at each other, probably thinking of the embarrassing rush just now. Or maybe it was the first time that Qin Nuo could ignore the various things about his identity and gender that were overemphasized on him because of such a small matter. Just because being caught in the rain seemed a little stupid, it made him want to laugh, and Qin Nuo's mood soared.
He and Lin Yi looked into each other's eyes, saw themselves in each other's pupils, and then laughed heartily together without any burden.