Lu Jun's sculpture is based on the holographic image left by Lu Jun himself. The height is accurate to one millimeter, and even the curvature of the nails is extremely precise.
He was dressed in military uniform, holding a long spear in his left hand, and looking into the distance. On the base of the sculpture, there was written his epitaph, with only four words in iron and silver: "Only for the Alliance."
Just for the alliance, move forward.
Lu Fenghan couldn't count how many times he had sat in front of this sculpture, so much so that every stroke of these words was clearly reflected in his mind.
He had even thought about it before: if he died on the front line one day, regardless of whether he could have a sculpture in the Sky Diamond Square, he would definitely use these four words as his epitaph.
For alliances only.
Just half a sentence, the meaning is very profound and particularly impressive.
He tilted his head and asked Qi Yan: "When you die, what will be written on your tombstone?"
Qi Yan looked at the sculpture in front of him and replied, "I thought about it before. I wanted to write, 'In the darkness, I chased a firefly.'"
"It sounds a bit... sad?" Lu Fenghan put his hands in his trouser pockets. "You are only nineteen years old now. Why are you thinking about epitaphs and death? The average age of humans in the Alliance is over a hundred years old. You still have a long way to go."
I completely forgot that a few seconds ago, he was the one who took the initiative to ask Qi Yan what epitaph he wanted to write.
Qi Yan whispered back, “Not necessarily.”
Lu Fenghan had sharp ears: "What do you mean not sure?"
Qi Yan was not ready to answer. Coincidentally, a young man walked over. The projection function of his personal terminal was turned on, and it was full of densely packed words. He came over and said, "Although the average age of humans in the alliance is now over a hundred, it was not the case during the technological destruction! At that time, people were dying on every planet in the alliance. Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, an entire planet would be wiped out!
However, even with such a tragic lesson, it is not enough. The Alliance still does not repent, and advocates vigorously developing science and technology, and still invests countless funds and manpower every year! "
Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows: "Do you support the rebels?"
The young man smiled and said, "I don't support anyone. I just oppose the alliance's continued development of technology and its own destruction!"
Lu Fenghan tapped the personal terminal on the young man's wrist: "If the alliance does not develop technology, where does your personal terminal come from? What you eat every day is the food grown from seeds cultivated in the laboratory and concentratedly planted. The reason you can stand here safely and talk to me about these illogical things is that the entire capital planet is covered by a defense network developed by scientists, and not a single shell can hit it. Moreover,"
He pointed to the sculpture of Lu Jun behind him.
"He and his starship disappeared under the muzzle of the rebels' artillery. How dare you stand here and tell us that you are against the Alliance's development of technology? If the protection level of Lu Jun's starship was the same as it is now, the rebels' artillery would not have been able to kill him."
Lu Fenghan's tone was exceptionally calm, but he seemed to be born with a fierce aura, like a sword that had drunk blood and could point directly into people's hearts.
"you-"
The young man unconsciously took a half step back and wanted to say something else, but Lu Fenghan interrupted him with a hint of contempt: "Besides, you believe whatever the rebels say. Do you know what they are planning in secret? Perhaps your brain fell into the wormhole during the interstellar jump and you forgot to bring it back?"
This wonderful description made Qi Yan couldn't help but glance at Lu Fenghan.
And he kept it in mind silently - this was his shortcoming, if he wrote it down, maybe he could use it directly in the future.
The young man did not dare to stay any longer, and turned around and walked away quickly, looking for the next target of "preaching".
After arguing with the man, Lu Fenghan felt refreshed. He turned around to look at Lu Jun's eyes looking into the distance and thought to himself, you are still useful - you can be used as an example with excellent effect.
After walking half a circle around the Sky Diamond Square, it was getting dark, two moons appeared in the sky, and the crowd began to gather in the center of the square.
Qi Yan didn’t understand: “What are they looking at?”
"The famous fountain show in the central area is about to begin. It is said that the design was inspired by the shadow play of the Earth era. Water is used to form characters, and the water curtain and holographic projection form the background. There are 360 days a year, and the performance is different every day. Let's go and have a look?"
The closer they got to the center of the square, the more people there were. Lu Fenghan protected the people by his side and, relying on his aura, forced Qi Yan to the front row.
The fountain had already begun to change, and there was still a trace of moisture in the air. While waiting, Qi Yan asked Lu Fenghan, "Have you seen this before?"
"I haven't seen it. When I was a kid, my parents were busy and had no time to bring me here. Later, they died, and no one brought me here. After that, I went to school. I was in my rebellious period at that time and looked down on things that amused children."
Later, he left Leto and went to the front line in the Southern Cross Region and never returned.
This was the first time the two talked about their past and family.
Qi Yan nodded: "I haven't seen it either, I'll accompany you."
Someone was pushing forward from behind, so Lu Fenghan took a half step away, half of him standing behind Qi Yan to protect her. He lowered his eyes and asked, "Are you comforting me?"
When he was closer, he discovered that there was a very light-colored mole on Qi Yan's earlobe, like a pen tip that had been washed in water, with just a little residual ink dotted on rice paper, so it was not easy to find.
Inexplicably, Lu Fenghan felt happy because of this small discovery.
At this moment, the crowd exclaimed, the light in front of them began to change, and a transparent and dreamy world appeared in front of everyone.
Lu Fenghan looked for half a minute, and his gaze turned to Qi Yan again.
Qi Yan watched very seriously, as if he wanted to memorize this scene. The brilliant light and shadow reflected in his pupils made Lu Fenghan inexplicably think of the distant and beautiful nebula in the universe.
He shifted his gaze, looking past the peaceful and happy faces of countless people in the direction of the sculptures, and thought, "Only for the Alliance." Thousands of light years away, the expeditionary forces' guns were pointed at perhaps for the purpose of - protecting and defending this simple stability.
Returning home from Sky Diamond Plaza, Lu Fenghan held the joystick loosely and asked Qi Yan, "What are you thinking about? You've been in a daze, and your eyes haven't moved."
Maybe because he is good-looking, Qi Yan looks a bit like a beautiful 3D-printed mannequin.
Qi Yan came back to his senses: "I'm recalling the fountain show just now."
"You like it so much? You can come back next time."
“No need,” Qi Yan shook his head, “I’ve memorized it. When I want to read it later, I can just recall it.”
Lu Fenghan had met many people with strong memories, so he was not surprised to hear Qi Yan say this. He just asked casually, "Can you remember everything you have seen?"
"Yes, as long as you have seen it, it's fine."
Lu Fenghan thought, it turns out that at home, every time Qi Yan flipped through the pages quickly with the e-reader, he was not practicing turning pages.
"What if it's something very sad and you want to forget it but can't, wouldn't that make you sad?"
Without answering the question directly, after a while, Qi Yan said softly: "So, forgetting is a gift from fate."
Tulane College's first semester is scheduled for September 2nd.
The day before school started, Xia Zhiyang and Chen Mingxuan gathered at Qi Yan's house. Chen Mingxuan was playing games with a game terminal, while Xia Zhiyang was feeling miserable because of his unfinished homework.
"Have you noticed that there are more people outside recently? Many students who live outside Leto come here early, especially those from remote planets in the Messier and Kepler regions. They are said to come a week or half a month early to avoid accidents."
Xia Zhiyang was typing and talking at the same time, a perfect example of multitasking.
Qi Yan was sitting aside reading a book and asked casually, "Rebels?"
"That's not the case. The chance of encountering the rebels is still small. The rebels are a bit too far away from here."
After finishing one page of questions, Xia Zhiyang clicked submit, then quickly opened another page and continued, "It's a waterway problem. Most of the civil waterways connecting the central area and other large areas of the alliance were built before the great technological destruction. Later, in the blink of an eye, most of the waterways were destroyed. Therefore, the waterways used now are all patched up and barely maintained, and small problems will occur from time to time.
Three years ago, a few sophomores took a starship to Leto, and when they were making a wormhole jump, something went wrong with the route. They said they were only trapped in the wormhole for eight hours, but when they came out, they found that they had already finished half of the Turan course.
Chen Mingxuan continued, "Then in the second half of the semester, they were always catching up on course progress and homework for various subjects. They had dark circles under their eyes every day as if they were about to die. They finally managed to get a C at the end of the semester."
"Yes, yes, it's really miserable!" Xia Zhiyang explained to Qi Yan, "Although you can pay to get into Turan, if you get a few Ds in a row at the end of the semester, you will have to pack up and leave."
He advised Qi Yan: "If you take a few classes after school starts and feel that you can't keep up, you must apply for a demotion! Although being demoted is embarrassing, it is better than being expelled!"
Qi Yan nodded: "Okay, I understand. But I won't be unable to keep up."
He just looked at Xia Zhiyang's homework, and the knowledge points were all the basics of the basics.
No difficulty.
"Okay," Xia Zhiyang rubbed his sore hands and sighed, "When I think about how I'll often run into Jiang Qi at school after school starts, I feel so bad!"
Chen Mingxuan continued, "He's also studying artificial intelligence, the same major, so maybe he'll be taking classes in the same building. If he's taking a public class—"
"Will we still be in the same classroom?" Xia Zhiyang was completely in no mood to do his homework. He said seriously, "I think it is urgent for the alliance to promote distance education!"
The next day, the school sent all the textbooks to everyone's personal terminal through the registration information. Qi Yan read through all of them, put them aside, and continued to work on the modeling that he had not completed in the past two days.
The hovercraft stopped outside the gate of Turan College, the doors slid open to both sides, and Qi Yan got out.
Because it was the first day of school, there was a lot of noise at the school gate due to the hustle and bustle of people and cars. But after Qi Yan got off the car, the voices nearby became a few degrees lower and many eyes were cast over.
Lu Fenghan turned on the automatic driving system and let the hovercraft find a parking space by itself. He strode to the side of Qi Yan to block most of the sight of people watching him.
He was like a wild beast in the jungle, guarding a rare flower, and was vaguely displeased by the prying eyes of others.
When I stepped through the gate, the ground was wet and there were water droplets hanging on the tips of the leaves. It was obvious that it had just rained.
Qi Yan looked back and compared the dry ground outside the school gate.
"Do you think you're hallucinating? Hahaha, it just rained all over the school, and the rainfall was precisely controlled within the range of Turan."
Xia Zhiyang hurriedly caught up from behind, "You guys came too fast, didn't we go out together? I'm obviously much closer than you!"
Qi Yan looked at Lu Fenghan silently.
Someone drives a hover car, and every time he drives it too fast, the car system alarm is triggered.
When Lu Fenghan heard that Turan occupied such a large area that it even rained all at once for the sake of management, he sighed for the umpteenth time.
He is rich indeed!
In comparison, the First Military Academy's so-called "unpredictable weather conditions are to train your on-the-spot reaction and response capabilities. Alliance soldiers must be able to fight bravely regardless of the scorching sun, rain or snow!"
In fact, the bottom line is that we don’t have enough money to buy a climate monitoring and control system.
There is only a river between us, but the rich and the poor are separated by a distance like the Milky Way!
The three of them walked in together. Xia Zhiyang was familiar with the place and led the way in front, while introducing the distribution of the school buildings to Qi Yan.
"Turan Academy is the first school established after humans settled in Leto. It is said that there were only a few buildings at the beginning, and then they were continuously expanded and expanded to form the current scale. Because any sculpture on the roadside is an antique and very valuable, our school is also known as 'the first wealthy family in Leto'!"
Lu Fenghan lazily replied: "Isn't it 'Leto's most corrupt', 'the strongest loser in the alliance'?"
Xia Zhiyang looked as if he had been stabbed in the foot. His baby face turned red with anger. "This is a derogatory term! It was deliberately made up by the First Military Academy across the river! I, Turan, cannot coexist with the First Military Academy!"
He was surprised again, "But how do you know?"
Lu Fenghan was very perfunctory: "I heard it from others."
At this moment, he noticed from the corner of his eye that Qi Yan's brows were slightly frowned, and he stopped moving.
"What's wrong?"
Qi Yan replied: "My shoelaces are undone."
Only then did Lu Fenghan notice that Qi Yan's white shoelaces were dragging on the ground and had become dirty - the ground was wet because it had just rained heavily, and there were a lot of dead leaves and mud spots.
After a month of getting along, Lu Fenghan discovered that his employer was not only a little squeamish, but also extremely picky. Not only picky, but also had a small problem of mysophobia.
Also, life skills are infinitely close to zero.
He handed the cup in his hand to Qi Yan: "Here."
Pray and take it in your hand.
Then he saw Lu Fenghan squatting in front of him, preparing to tie his shoelaces.
Qi Yan held the warm cup of water and lowered her head to ask, "Is that kind of bow okay?"
That’s a lot to ask for.
After swearing in his heart for the first time, Lu Fenghan nimbly tied a bow for Qi Yan with his fingers.