Interrogation room, half an hour ago.
"Entering the Solitia Forest to clear the Originium is a matter of great importance and requires the permission of His Majesty. It is not something I can decide on my own. But Your Excellency, I assure you that day will come soon. In return, I can give you a new identity to temporarily settle on the main planet."
Admiral Safir was very honest. He did not make any random promises to Lu Yuan in order to obtain information about the dense forest. He even gave Lu Yuan what he needed most.
Lu Yuan frowned when he heard this: "Will it take a long time?"
The average lifespan of the Zerg is as long as two hundred years. It is questionable whether a social beast like him, who stays up late and drinks every day, can live to be sixty. What if they go to the Soridian jungle after several decades? Wouldn't he have died long ago
Admiral Safir walked to the only window in the interrogation room and pushed it open with a creak. He looked at the sky outside, which was leaden gray due to heavy pollution. His eyes were solemn, but his tone was sincere: "That day will not be long. We love this land under our feet, far more than our own glory and life."
"Salilanfa has lived in this sick environment for too long, and we want her to recover more than any insect."
Lu Yuan discovered something unusual from the first day he stepped onto the main planet. Although the city was prosperous and beautiful, it was filled with a heavy atmosphere of death. There was no clear blue sky, no fresh and clean air, and not even the sound of birds. There were only steel products created with high technology, shuttling endlessly in the sky like giant beasts.
Lu Yuan asked curiously: "Are these all caused by Originium radiation?"
Admiral Safir nodded: "In a few hundred years, this pollution may spread to us, repeating the history of the past."
Justu got in the driver's seat and tapped his fingertips on the steering wheel for a moment. "Let's just find an apartment first. The gate of the academy is closed now, so there's no way to go back to the dormitory."
"I… "
He didn't say that the apartment was his home.
When Lu Yuan heard Yusitu's words, he subconsciously opened his eyes. His black eyes were mysterious and deep, just like the unpolluted starry sky millions of years ago:
Lu Yuan discovered that Yusitu was always like this no matter who he was, always hating every bug equally: "Do you hate him?"
Lu Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and was immediately shocked: "What? I am a male insect?!"
Lu Yuan was silent for a moment. He and Yusitu had reached a high degree of consensus on this matter. Wenger was indeed a nasty bug. He opened the door of the aircraft and sat in the co-pilot seat: "Where do you want to take me to spend the night?"
Justu asked back, "Do you think he is very popular with insects?"
Lu Yuan opened his mouth, wanting to explain that he was not a female insect, but the words just wouldn't come out, as he felt something was wrong.
Lu Yuan remembered what the fat boy Red had said: "But haven't the 500 enrollment quotas for female insects been taken by the nobles?"
Lu Yuan didn't have a clear idea of the distance between males and females in this era. In addition, he hadn't eaten anything today and had fought twice, so he was already dizzy and swollen with hunger. He didn't refuse when he heard it. He closed his eyes and said weakly, "As long as there is food there, it's fine."
It was getting dark outside, but there was no splendor of the sunset. At seven o'clock, the whole city fell into endless darkness, dead and dull.
Hotel or guesthouse
Yusitu started the flying machine and took a bag of compressed biscuits from the side and threw it to him: "Do you think you are a 'precious' male insect? A bunch of female servants are waiting in line at home to cook for you. We can't enjoy that kind of treatment. Female insects only need to eat compressed biscuits and nutrient solution."
He is neither a female insect nor a male insect, he is a human male, and he has no way of admitting that he is a bug.
Lu Yuan was silent for a moment after hearing this, not knowing what he was thinking. After a moment, he finally compromised: "Okay, then please give me an identity to temporarily settle on the main planet until I can enter the dense forest for exploration."
Pulling back his thoughts, when Lu Yuan came to his senses, he found that he had followed Yusitu out of the interrogation room. Because he really didn't know where he should go tonight, Admiral Safir was in a hurry to deploy the plan to clear the source stone, and now he seemed to have no time to care about him.
Justu's aircraft was parked at the door. He put his hands in his pockets and walked down the stairs slowly, reminding Lu Yuan: "You'd better not act alone in the near future. That idiot Wenger will definitely not let you go when he wakes up. Thank you for knocking him out before he submitted the registration form. Otherwise, I'm afraid I will have to face his disgusting face every day in the academy."
He is a human being.
Admiral Safir looked at him in surprise: "Female insect? But you are a male insect."
Admiral Safir remembered that he had met Lu Yuan in the registration hall today. He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "How about this, I will arrange for you to study at Badler College. The dormitories and teaching environment there are second to none in the empire, and it is under my jurisdiction. If you don't mind, you can live there temporarily for a while."
Lu Yuan has already gone far away from the land where he once depended on for survival. If he admits that he is a bug, it would be like betraying his last remaining belief and giving up his human identity. The feeling of emptiness scares him.
Lu Yuan felt that it was extremely difficult for him to say this. He tried several times but couldn't say it. Finally, he could only frown and give up. Anyway, even if he didn't say it, Yusitu would know it himself when he went to school tomorrow. He picked up the bag of compressed biscuits and was about to eat something to calm down. However, as soon as he tore open the package and took a bite, his face turned green: "What is this?"
Justu said without even turning his head: "Compressed biscuit, can't you read?"
Lu Yuan was surprised and asked, "Is this compressed biscuit?"
He just felt like he had eaten a lump of country mud, the kind that had been soaked in gutter oil for seven days and seven nights and then mixed with a bunch of smelly seafood.
Lu Yuan wanted to spit it out, but he felt that it was not very elegant, so he could only swallow it down: "Did you let it expire?"
Justu raised his eyebrows: "The shelf life of military compressed biscuits is eighty years, and you actually think it's expired?" Even if Lu Yuan died, this pack of biscuits might not expire.
Lu Yuan: “…”
No wonder it tastes so bad, it's full of preservatives when you take a bite.
Lu Yuan couldn't swallow the fishy-smelling dirt, even if he was starving to death. He threw the biscuits aside, frowned, and leaned back in his chair to take a nap, but before he could even close his eyes, he felt the aircraft descending at high speed.
Justu piloted the aircraft and stopped it in front of a building that looked like an apartment. He unbuckled his seat belt and said to Lu Yuan, "We're here. Come on down."
He usually lives in the college dormitory most of the time, or goes back to the palace. He only comes to this apartment occasionally when he wants to be quiet during vacation. Justu got off the aircraft and walked straight to the door. The electronic lock recognized his iris data and opened the door automatically with a click.
Lu Yuan followed from behind and couldn't help but pause when he saw this: "This isn't your home, is it?"
Justu changed his shoes at the door and brought a new pair to Lu Yuan. He shrugged and said, "If you think that a place where you can eat and sleep is a home, then it can be considered a home... Don't stand outside, come in."
I don’t know if it’s because of his appearance, but Justu’s expression is always a bit sarcastic and lazy, like an indifferent nobleman in the world of fame and fortune, who is tired of seeing too much vanity and thus watches everything around him with a cold eye.
On Earth, people with this kind of personality have nothing except wealth and power.
Lu Yuan stood by the door, hesitating whether to go in, but thought that it shouldn't be a problem to stay for one night. He changed his shoes and went into the house. He looked around the house calmly and found that although the decoration was exquisite and luxurious, there was no atmosphere of life. "Your family... I mean, where are your relatives and friends?"
Yusitu unbuttoned his military jacket, took it off and casually hung it on the hanger. He only wore a shirt on his upper body, and the hem was tucked into the black military belt. He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and his figure was smooth and beautiful like a leopard. Hearing this, he said nonchalantly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you. I only have comrades."
It was difficult for Lu Yuan to tell whether Yusitu's expression was happy or unhappy, so he simply changed the subject: "I'm hungry, do you have any vegetables in your refrigerator?"
"Perhaps."
Justu was not sure. He walked to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, and took out a few sealed cans of meat. He looked down at the expiration date and said, "You are lucky. They are not expired yet."
Lu Yuan was standing behind Youstu. He tried to find a few fresh or wilted vegetable leaves from the refrigerator, even a bunch of green onions would do, but all that was neatly stacked inside were canned food. He couldn't help but frowned, "Don't you have any fresh vegetables at home?"
Justu looked at him like an idiot: "Fresh food? Even the flowers on the planet Salilanfa are fake. Do you think there will be fresh food?"
The country's uncontaminated arable land is extremely scarce, barely enough to grow crops, not enough to plant flowers.
Next to Lu Yuan was a cocktail table with an antique porcelain vase on it. Although Justu had not been back for half a month, the flowers in the vase were still beautiful and fragrant.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan reached out and touched the petals, only to find that they had a strange plastic texture. Even the fragrance became unusually sweet after smelling it for a long time. It was obviously a product of high technology.
Lu Yuan took his hand back and said, "It's true."
Yusitu was very generous: "If you like it, take a closer look."
Lu Yuan refused: "I have no interest in fake things."
Justu was stunned when he heard this, and then he couldn't help laughing. He was not angry. On the contrary, he thought Lu Yuan was very interesting and just what he wanted. "Indeed, fake things are always lifeless, just like this flower. It still looks the same after ten years, and even the color doesn't change. It's really boring."
Lu Yuan thought that this kind of flower should be very popular on Earth. Human beings always like to find reality in the false world and create falsehood in the real world.
He checked the cans in the refrigerator one by one and found that they were all unknown animals. After opening them, they smelled almost the same, almost like ham. He finally found a box of canned vegetables, but it was soaked with a kind of vine plant, which tasted bitter and astringent.
Lu Yuan's face twitched: "It's really disgusting."
Yusitu raised his eyebrows and said, "Sir, it seems that you must be a prince in distress from some country. It is really unfair for you to live here."
"You're too kind," Lu Yuan thought to himself that he was just a poor Chinese idiot. "Can I use the pot here?"
Justu thought seriously for a moment and said, "Hmm... it should be possible."
He always ate canned food at home and never cooked. The kitchen utensils were brand new and had never been used once.
Lu Yuan directly pulled out a kitchen knife and washed it in the sink, then wiped it clean and started to cut canned meat, saying meaningfully: "It's really not easy for you to survive until now."
Justu's wild behavior was obviously inconsistent with his delicate appearance. He stretched like a cat, turned around and walked towards the bathroom, tore off his shirt and threw it on the sofa: "Whatever you say, female insects live like this, I'm going to take a shower first, you'd better not blow up my kitchen."
Lu Yuan was cooking. When he heard this, his knife trembled and he almost cut himself: "..."
What? Justu is going to stay here overnight too?!
(End of this chapter)