Letting go of Qi Yan's hand, Lu Fenghan lowered his eyes and asked him, "Are the fireworks beautiful?"
The tone was so relaxed as if just a firework display had just taken place.
Qi Yan's eyes were still on the surveillance screen that had returned to stillness. He was a few seconds late before answering, "It looks great."
There were a few tiny glimmers in his eyes, and he was obviously happy.
Lu Fenghan: "In the future—"
He wanted to say, I’ll blow it up for you to see later.
But the words stopped suddenly when they came to his lips.
When he returns to the front, even if the bomb explodes ten or a hundred times, Leto's prayers will no longer be seen because they are countless light years apart.
There is no need to make such a promise that cannot be fulfilled.
Lu Fenghan couldn't tell what kind of emotion was rising in his heart, but the current situation obviously didn't allow him to think too much.
Qi Yan asked Lu Fenghan: "Do you still need vision?"
"No, long-distance jump points need frequent maintenance. They have been out of service for so long that they must be unstable inside and cannot accommodate any heavier objects. The rebels are taking a risk by sending three starships."
Lu Fenghan thought that the starship central control system developed for Y was as persistent as a venomous snake stalking someone.
At the same time, the previously disconnected signal was finally restored, and Lu Fenghan successfully connected with Huo Yan.
"Can you imagine that such a large fortress doesn't even have a technical soldier? The only available civilian was on leave and returned to the ground. In the end, I, who was driving a destroyer, was forced to take over and repair the signal path!"
After listening to Huo Yan's complaints, Lu Fenghan attacked him mercilessly: "No wonder the signal recovery was so slow." He mentioned the situation just now, "Just a few minutes ago, the third micro-starship from the jump point took advantage of the fierce fighting in front and went around to the back of the fortress's capture cabin. It has been resolved."
Lu Fenghan said it simply, but Huo Yan understood it immediately and broke out in a cold sweat.
On the battlefield, only the result matters. He did not ask how Lu Fenghan stopped him. He just blamed himself: "I was too lazy on Fontaine No. 1. I was not alert at all."
Although Huo Yan was an old subordinate of his, he was now the chief of defense of Fontaine No. 1. Lu Fenghan understood the situation and said without further ado, "There shouldn't be a fourth ship."
So, in the dark universe, seeing a few bright lights suddenly is not a good thing. Either a starship has jumped nearby, or a shell is approaching.
Either one is fatal.
"We have successfully controlled the situation, and we just need to finish it off. The destroyer pilots stationed at Fontaine 1 have never seen blood, but it's four against two. If there are still mistakes, we can take off the uniforms we are wearing and throw them into space."
This was a matter concerning Fontaine No. 1. After listening to it, Lu Fenghan just said "hmm" and didn't interrupt.
Before hanging up the call, Huo Yan said gratefully: "Thanks, Commander. I'll have a drink with you when you come back to life someday."
Lu Fenghan leaned against the metal wall, the smoke on his body dissipated, and he only replied: "Only for the alliance."
There seemed to be some special tacit understanding between the two. After a few seconds, Huo Yan took a deep breath and smiled, "Only for the alliance!"
Just for the alliance, move forward.
When Lu Fenghan hung up the phone, Qi Yan had already returned the operating rights of the G11-3-25 turret to the main control room. After turning off the surveillance, he exited the fortress's main control system and erased all traces.
The entire fortress shook heavily again. Lu Fenghan brought Qi Yan to his side and chatted, "Can you lip read?"
"Not really," Qi Yan imitated Lu Fenghan, standing with his back against the metal wall. It was a bit cold, but he could barely adapt. He recalled, "I didn't learn it deliberately, and I don't know when I learned it. When I listen to people talking, I can remember their lip shapes and what they say. If I want, I can separate each lip shape and the corresponding words and remember them separately."
Lu Fenghan tried to understand: "It's similar to that there is a correspondence table stored in your brain, and each word corresponds to a lip shape. When you want to distinguish a person's lip reading, you just need to quickly look through the correspondence table and find them one by one?"
"That's probably it." Qi Yan looked at Lu Fenghan, "I didn't read your lips intentionally. I didn't even read what you said before. I just noticed that you suddenly became nervous, so I subconsciously read your lips."
"Well, I don't mind."
Lu Fenghan really didn't mind.
To be honest, it's hard to say who has more secrets between him and Qi Yan.
And just now, although he should have acted according to the law in a critical moment, he arbitrarily invaded the main control system of Fontaine No. 1, checked the surveillance, took away the control of the artillery, and fired without the order of the fortress defense chief.
Any one of them would be enough to be charged with "illegally invading the military system, stealing alliance secrets, and betraying the alliance." Even Lu Fenghan himself would be accused of "exceeding his authority."
But Qi Yan seemed to have never thought about this.
He said so, and Qi Yan did it.
Lu Fenghan could always sense that Qi Yan seemed to have an extremely strong trust in him.
Including the first time they met, his hands were on Qi Yan's neck, but Qi Yan's breathing frequency did not even change.
But Lu Fenghan didn’t understand where this “trust” that almost surpassed the human instinct for survival came from and what it was based on
Only until the red light above their heads went out completely did Lu Fenghan and Qi Yan continue to move forward and arrive at the place where they had first separated from the others.
Lin Jia was comforting Ye Pei, with Mondrian and Xu Min standing beside him.
Seeing Qi Yan approaching with Lu Fenghan, Mondrian and Ye Pei hurried over. Ye Pei looked Qi Yan up and down twice: "Qi Yan, are you okay?"
Although Qi Yan had always behaved calmly and rationally, Ye Pei always felt that Qi Yan carried a sense of...fragility.
Qi Yan shook his head: "I'm fine."
Ye Pei patted his chest and said, "When we were attacked, we were all here except you. You were the only one who wasn't here. We were so worried!"
Mondrian also said: "It's good that everything is alright."
Lu Fenghan spoke at the right time: "What happened? After Qi Yan and I heard the broadcast in the fortress, we stayed where we were, fearing that we would cause trouble."
It was Lin Jia who answered: "It's not a big deal. The fortress defense just reported that this incident was caused by a group of interstellar pirates who mistakenly entered a deactivated long-distance jump point and accidentally arrived near Leto. Now, the two enemy ships have been destroyed."
Ye Pei has been living in Leto. This is the first time that he has been so close to the so-called interstellar pirates and the "war" in the real sense. Hearing that the pirates had strayed in and had been eliminated, he was completely relieved. "Great, then we can still stay in Fontaine No. 1 for one night, right? I was worried that we would be sent back to the ground early because of this incident!"
Lin Jia smiled and said, "It has been resolved. Of course, we can stay for one night as planned."
However, Lu Fenghan knew that the content of the defense bulletin to the entire fortress would also be a unified statement to the outside world.
Compared to the rebels' planned and premeditated crossing of the jump point to the vicinity of the capital star Leto and trying to seize the starship's central control system, only the crippled interstellar pirates accidentally entered and the two enemy ships were easily destroyed, which minimized the panic of ordinary people.
Why the rebels were able to find this deactivated jump channel and where they got the information about the central control system is another matter.
I remembered what Xia Zhiyang said when I first went out to eat with Qi Yan: all the regions have become sieves.
Lu Fenghan's eyes were a little cold - it might not be the case in each region, but it seemed like the alliance's military was really about to become a sieve.
Dinner is the same pasta for the whole fortress, with several kinds of sauces to choose from, and juice is also provided.
Ye Pei and Mondrian all had their eyes filtered and thought it was delicious. Lu Fenghan, however, had been addicted to canned pasta at the front for a long time, so he could only reluctantly say that it tasted okay.
Seeing that Qi Yan didn't even take a bite, he knew that the little jiaoqi was rejecting the plate of pasta with practical actions.
However, because of the sudden attack today, many people were frightened and had no appetite, so Qi Yan's performance was not very outstanding.
After dinner, several people followed Lin Jia to the space test site of Fontaine 1. One third of the researchers on site were from Turan, and they welcomed their arrival. After staying there for more than three hours, when they returned to their rooms, it was almost time to go to bed.
The first problem is taking a bath.
Knowing Qi Yan's little habits, Lu Fenghan took the initiative to ask: "I'll wait for you outside?"
Qi Yan put his hands on the buttons of his clothes and nodded: "Okay."
Lu Fenghan closed the door.
He leaned against the metal wall beside the door, his hands in his pockets, standing lazily. He was originally preparing to review today's sudden attack as usual, but his thoughts inexplicably split and turned to Qi Yan.
He hasn't eaten a bite of dinner. After he finishes washing, I will remember to remind him to take a tube of nutritional supplement. The one I brought this time seems to have some fruit flavor. I wonder if it will suit this picky little guy's taste.
She was already so thin, with a waist so thin that he could hold it with one hand. When he pressed the launch button before, he stood behind Qi Yan and could faintly feel the shape of her shoulder blades against his chest.
This is not a good way to eat.
After thinking aimlessly for a while, the door behind him opened and Qi Yan said, "I'm done."
Lu Fenghan stood up and walked in.
When it was his turn to take a shower, Qi Yan didn't prepare to go out, but shrank back on the bed: "I won't watch."
Lu Fenghan didn't care. He crossed his hands, pulled up the corner of his shirt, and casually put it into the clean clothes box next to the bathroom.
He has a well-proportioned body, with tight and sturdy muscles, as if he has extremely powerful explosive power. Because he has been in space for many years, his skin has a pale feeling from not seeing the sun, but this paleness does not affect his own aura. Instead, he looks like a classical sculpture from the Earth era. Whether it is his drooping arms or tight legs, they are very consistent with the aesthetics of strength.
Caught off guard by the lines of Lu Fenghan's muscles, Qi Yan blinked helplessly.
It's not like he hasn't seen Lu Fenghan like this before.
For example, when Lu Fenghan woke up from the treatment cabin and they clamped his neck and pressed him against the wall, he was in a similar state to now.
But for some reason, this time was a little different from before. He just took a quick glance and then looked away very quickly.
But in fact, for him, there is no essential difference between one glance and several glances.
As long as he has seen it, he can remember it.
So, when he lowered his head to look at his personal terminal, Qi Yan couldn't help but recall the scene he had just seen.
He attributed this anomaly to people's curiosity about people who are different from themselves.
The bed in the room was just as Lu Fenghan had imagined, incredibly narrow. If he chose to lie flat, there would be no room for Qi Yan. So he lay sideways on the single bed, barely leaving a space against the wall, and patted it: "You sleep here."
After Qi Yan finished a tube of peach-flavored nutritional supplement, he regretted his suggestion that "he should sleep in the same room with me" - the bed was too narrow, and he had already estimated that once he lay down on it, there would be no space between him and Lu Fenghan.
But what was said could not be taken back, so Qi Yan put on a loose and soft shirt, stepped over Lu Fenghan, and lay down in the reserved space.
He subconsciously held his breath.
Lu Fenghan soon discovered it and chuckled, "Are you so nervous about sleeping in the same bed with me? Well, I'm not going to eat you, just breathe."
Qi Yan realized that he was holding his breath, and as soon as he relaxed, he took a deep breath.
All the aura belonging to Lu Fenghan rushed into his nose and entered his body.
He was somewhat unable to describe what Lu Fenghan's aura was like. It was very cold, hard, and sharp, with the lingering smell of gunpowder, and it was as bright as a fierce blade.
For most people, this kind of smell is too invasive, making people subconsciously afraid and stay away.
Qi Yan, however, likes it very much, and even cannot control himself, and can easily become addicted.
Lu Fenghan was ready to ease Qi Yan's tension by chatting, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of any topic, so he had to start with the attack that happened today: "Do you know why those three starships attacked the fortress?"
Qi Yan didn't dare look at him, he just shook his head: "I don't know."
"The source architecture of the Alliance starship's central control system was in the fortress at the time. The rebels were targeting this. But now, it should have been delivered to Leto."
"Central control system?" Qi Yan said with certainty, "Even if they steal it, they can't use it."
Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows: "Why?"
Qi Yan replied: "The central control system has a very complicated 'lock'. Without the 'key', it cannot be opened and cannot be used."
Lu Fenghan wanted to ask you why you knew that, but in the end, as usual, he didn’t ask.
After only telling the beginning, Lu Fenghan realized that it was not that he had no talent for storytelling, but that Qi Yan was a participant in the follow-up.
There is no point in continuing.
Having stayed up late for several nights in a row and not getting enough sleep, Qi Yan felt sleepy as soon as he got next to Lu Fenghan.
While Lu Fenghan was wondering whether he should think of something else, he noticed from the corner of his eye that Qi Yan's dense and straight eyelashes slowly drooped and finally closed his eyes.
When I looked again, his breathing was normal and he had fallen asleep.
Lu Fenghan turned off the lights and closed his eyes.
However, Lu Fenghan woke up in the second half of the night.
Just as he lay down on the bed, Qi Yan, who was lying flat on his back with a neat sleeping posture, had snuggled into his arms at some point, with the tip of her nose pressed against the side of his neck. Every breath he took made his heart itch.