When Qi Yan woke up, his senses also began to revive. A soreness spread around his waist, and the sensitive nerve endings under his skin had not yet completely calmed down after being aroused.
He closed his eyes and judged from the touch that he was lying on the sofa in the command room, with his cheek resting on the lining of Lu Fenghan's military jacket, which was softer than the other side.
The space was very quiet. Apart from the white noise of the starship's operation, there was no movement or breathing around.
Lu Fenghan was not in the command room.
After realizing this, Qi Yan suddenly lost interest and didn't want to open his eyes.
He curled up his legs and rubbed the coat that Lu Fenghan used as a pillow, breathing in the familiar scent that remained on it, and buried his face deeper into it, falling asleep.
Apart from still feeling a little sore, he should have been carried by Lu Fenghan to be washed, and the clothes he was wearing were also washed, with a faint smell of detergent.
Qi Yan was still a little sleepy, his thoughts were in a mess. One moment he was solving Mortensen's constant formula, and the next moment he was thinking about the apple rabbit that Lu Fenghan had peeled. After the loud thud of the rebel assassin who rushed towards him falling to the ground, the scene of snow falling when Leto listened to the New Year's bell emerged from the depths of his memory again.
Until the sound of a metal door sliding open was heard in the silence.
Qi Yan keenly caught the sound of footsteps.
The person who came here made very little noise, but Qi Yan still recognized it immediately.
He stood up by supporting himself on the sofa: "General?"
I realized my voice was hoarse after I said it.
When Lu Fenghan approached, he saw Qi Yan sitting up from the sofa. His shirt was loose, and there were traces of scars on his neck and exposed arms that had not yet disappeared.
Putting down the cooked star mushroom porridge, Lu Fenghan skillfully held the person on his lap and sat him down: "When did you wake up? You didn't eat anything at night, and I was afraid that you would be hungry when you woke up, so I went to the kitchen to cook some porridge. Do you want to eat now?"
After hearing what Lu Fenghan said, Qi Yan felt hungry a little slowly. The aroma of porridge drifted over, and he nodded. He leaned on Lu Fenghan tiredly, half-closed his eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Is it already evening?"
It is always pitch black outside the porthole, and it is impossible to tell the time by the light of the sky.
After scooping a spoonful of porridge and blowing it until it was half cool, Lu Fenghan fed it to Qi Yan's mouth and replied, "Well, it's past nine o'clock in the evening."
"It's so late?" Qi Yan thought while eating, "We... it was just after three in the afternoon."
Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Who pestered me twice and wouldn't let me stop?"
Looking away, Qi Yan bit the spoon and stopped talking.
Because of the repeated kissing before, his lips were a shade redder than usual, and his black and white eyes seemed to be soaked in water. Lu Fenghan couldn't take his eyes off him when he saw it. With the posture of hugging him, he lowered his head to Qi Yan's neck and kept sniffing, like a beast in the jungle checking whether the prey was already covered with its own scent.
Undisguised possessiveness.
Qi Yan was tickled and instinctively raised his shoulders, reminding: "The porridge is going to spill, General..."
"I can't spill it." Lu Fenghan's tone was half anxious and half hoarse. Unable to suppress the thirst in his heart, he kissed Qi Yan's earlobe and neck one after another.
But at least he was still rational, knowing that Qi Yan couldn't stand this frequency, Lu Fenghan stopped kissing after a while and continued to feed Qi Yan porridge.
He drank the porridge quietly. Qi Yan did not dare to remind him that he was pushing against him. When the one-way video call from the technical department came in and Lu Fenghan started listening to the report, he moved slightly.
The person reporting was Lorenz.
"Commander, drive from the asteroid belt towards the habitable planet you marked. There is a huge vortex a few hundred miles away. The force field is very strong. If you are not careful, both the people and the ship will be sucked in. The exploration team has fished out some samples for research and determined that the vortex should have been formed within the past hundred years."
This also explains why Lu Ke was able to travel smoothly between the asteroid belt and habitable planets in the Great Voyage Program.
After working together for many years, Lu Fenghan knew very well that if only one vortex was discovered and the time to reach a habitable planet would be delayed, Lorenz would not be so cautious to come to him in person to report the situation.
"Anything else you found?"
"This discovery is quite bizarre." Lorenz took a sip of coffee. "The robot sent out by the exploration team not only retrieved research samples, but also some junk."
"Broken pieces?" Lu Fenghan's eyes narrowed.
Hearing this, Qi Yan also looked over immediately.
As human activities continue to expand, it is not uncommon to pick up floating debris in space. However, according to records, this star field connected by the natural wormhole has only been visited by them, except for Lu Ke who accidentally entered it more than 200 years ago.
As if he knew what Lu Fenghan was thinking, Lorenz stated first: "It's not the wreckage of Lu Ke's spaceship, nor is it something she left behind. Judging from the craftsmanship and materials, it can be confirmed that it is a product of the past thirty years. Command, there are only two possibilities."
The three people all knew that one possibility was that the vortex was connected to another area, and it "sucked" some garbage and waste from that area, which they happened to discover and pick up.
Another possibility is that there is human activity in this star region.
It was only because of the vortex that those humans failed to discover this asteroid belt, nor did they discover this natural wormhole, and they didn't know that the exploration team had arrived in this star field.
With the intuition he had developed over the years on the battlefield, Lu Fenghan immediately thought of a possibility and ordered in a solemn voice: "Stop all exploration projects, tighten the team, enter a wartime state, and be careful not to reveal any traces."
Lorenz frowned: "Commander, do you think-"
Lu Fenghan did not answer immediately.
He made his judgment based on intuition without any actual evidence.
Without further questioning, Lorenz believed in Lu Fenghan's intuition: "I know."
Lu Fenghan tapped the sofa with his fingers: "Don't cross the vortex yet, just stop at the edge of the vortex and try to catch more garbage. At the same time, eliminate the possibility that the vortex connects to another area."
Lorenz nodded: "Yes!"
As soon as the call was hung up, Lu Fenghan immediately ordered Pojun: "Let Weiyin and the others come to the meeting."
After saying that, he reached out and fastened the buttons of Qi Yan's shirt one by one, covering the eye-catching marks without revealing anything.
Soon, several captains walked in. Mei Jielin couldn't help talking: "Commander, have you been in the command room all this time? I heard several people say they came to the command room to look for you, but Po Jun said you were not there and refused to open the door."
Lu Fenghan didn't respond to her words, but asked Pojun to turn on the star map.
Seeing this, Mei Jielin quickly stopped smiling and became serious: "What happened? Did the rebels attack us?"
She immediately denied her guess, "That's impossible. They hid in the Divine Court, and no one could find them. They hid for twenty years and then popped out again. They are heroes again."
This is also a common speculation within the alliance.
At the current frontline of the Southern Cross Region, the twelve rebel armies were beaten to pieces, with only the third and sixth armies left to defend the Divine Court. As for the Central Administrative Region, the remaining rebels and space pirates had retreated to Leto and dared not challenge the Alliance.
If the wise men of the rebel army were ruthless enough to cut off their own arms and not provide assistance, allowing Leto to be recaptured by the Alliance, although they would completely lose all the remaining troops in the central/central political area, it would still be a way to protect themselves.
As long as the rebels do not take the initiative to reveal the coordinates of the Divine Court, then no one will be able to find them. In another ten or twenty years, the new generation will have grown up, the starships and ammunition reserves will be sufficient, and the rebels will be able to fight the Alliance again.
The rebels are now wise and decisive, and they are likely to choose to hide in secret places, recuperate, and find a new opportunity to take action in the future.
Dushan, who came in a step later than her, thought of another thing: "The rebels are extremely lucky and have developed a new technology that can crush the Alliance and dominate space, or are they desperate and can't wait to come and fight us?"
He snapped his fingers and said, "It just so happens that I've been resting for the past few days and I'm too lazy to do anything. It's good that they called me. Otherwise, I'd always be worried that they would suddenly attack me while I'm sleeping."
Hearing the eagerness in Dushan's words, and glancing at the bright-eyed Mejielin and Weiyin, Lu Fenghan realized once again that every one of the people under his command were indeed war maniacs who had no place to vent their energy.
If they were not sent to the front line, they might all be street bullies or restless gang leaders.
"The exploration team in the new star field sent back news that they encountered a vortex on the way to explore habitable planets. The waste they fished out was produced in recent years. I suspect there is human activity in that star field."
Lu Fenghan spoke very concisely. Before Mei Jielin and the others could react, he changed the subject and said, "Everyone can prepare for battle."
These seven light words made Mei Jie Lin's hair stand on end. It was as if she had a missile in her arms, and it exploded before she could throw it out!
A few hours later, the technical department sent another message saying that the exploration team ahead had fished out a piece of finger bone, and after instrument testing and analysis, it was found that it did not belong to an Alliance citizen.
Lu Fenghan stood in front of the star map, his shoulders straight, and asked, "What is the basis for your judgment?"
Lorenz replied: "The rebels have a fully militarized society, and there is a god standing above everyone's head. Therefore, they use a lot of genetic adjustments that are strictly prohibited by the Alliance."
Genetic modification, as the name implies, is the artificial interference and modification of genes, including appearance, genetics, etc. As early as the Earth era, genetic modification was listed as illegal and prohibited because it violated ethics and humanity.
"The results of the instrument analysis show that the original owner of the finger bone had undergone a lot of genetic adjustments, but he only lived to the age of 47 before his gene chain collapsed due to a genetic disease, and then he died. From the inference, there is an 80% chance that the original owner was an experimental subject."
Lorenz held the coffee cup in his hand and did not drink. "To sum up, we speculate that if there is really human activity in the new star field, then this vortex should be their secret 'garbage dump'."
He put emphasis on the word "human".
There was no definite evidence, and out of caution, neither of them specified it during the conversation.
"However, we haven't collected enough detection data, so we can't rule out the possibility that the vortex connects to another star region for the time being."
Lu Fenghan said calmly: "Continue to investigate, and be careful."
Lorenz: “Yes.”
Although they have entered a state of combat readiness, the situation on the command ship is not much different from usual. The intensity of daily training for all soldiers has reached its maximum and cannot be increased any further.
The only difference is probably that meetings in the command room last longer.
After finishing a remote meeting with Nie Huaiting who was far away in Odin, Mei Jielin, who had been sitting with her back straight, immediately lost her temper and slumped over the conference table. She raised her eyelids and looked at Lu Fenghan: "Commander, the meeting is only one hour and fifty-three minutes at most. Why can't you sit still? Do you know what you look like now? Like an office worker who just wants to get home to hug his wife after get off work! Hahaha!"
Lu Fenghan stood up, slowly straightened his sleeves, and hit back mercilessly: "I have someone at home, what do you have at home?"
Too cruel.
After cursing, Mei Jie Lin's face turned red. She thought, what do I have at home? Not only is there no one at home, I don't even have a home!
After Lu Fenghan left, Wei Yin patted Mei Jie Lin's shoulder sympathetically and said, "Brother, don't rush to seek abuse in the future. Haven't you noticed that after having Qi Yan, the commander has become a standard winner in life?"
After thinking carefully for a few seconds, Mei Jielin raised her middle finger - fuck, she couldn't even refute it!
Stepping out of the command room, Lu Fenghan went to the equipment room to pick up Qi Yan. When he thought of this person, his internal organs seemed to be warmed up, and he was filled with joy.
When he arrived, the metal door of the equipment room was closed. In the dim light, a man was standing quietly in the shadows, staring out the porthole in a daze.
The difference in light outlined the elegant lines of the other person's profile, her thick and soft eyelashes, and her slender figure, so much so that Lu Fenghan couldn't help but lighten his steps for fear of disturbing the moment.
"General?" Qi Yan turned around, with a light shining in the depths of his eyes.
It seemed that I knew it was him even before I saw him.
Lu Fenghan took another big step with his long legs to make up for the hesitation from the previous moment.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"
Qi Yan always answered Lu Fenghan's questions seriously: "This time, the processing model of the central control system was increased, and the speed was faster than I originally thought, but only slightly faster, so I didn't have to wait long. I just counted to 712 and the general came."
At this moment, Lu Fenghan felt "need" from Qi Yan.
He was needed.
Pray for his urgent need.
Lu Fenghan lowered his eyes and looked at the person in front of him, his eyes flickering slightly, and thought to himself: There is a person who will count quietly and wait for me to pick him up.
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