"What are you doing?"
Ryan, who was sitting cross-legged next to the planting cabin, turned his head and looked at the door. Seeing people who should be busy appearing here, his eyes were full of surprises, "I found a kind of wild strawberry in U167, and I dug a few plants and brought them back. I got off the spacecraft, and the inspection room just informed me that the inspection passed, and it was sent over by robot.”
If the team members of the ground operation find something they are interested in on the planet they are exploring and want it very much, they can pick the sample and send it to the inspection room. The sample can then be owned by an individual.
Ryan moved a stool for Oston to sit next to him. He had to plant the wild plants into the planting cabin as soon as possible. After picking them, the plants had been out of the soil for nearly 20 hours. The phenomenon of curling the edges looks like a puppy taken away from its mother.
"The fruit was picked and tested. I dug it from a plant with a lot of fruit, but I didn't expect any of it to be left. It doesn't look like a strawberry, it's more like a raspberry. The fruit is small and smells a little sour. It melts in the mouth, is creamy and silky, and has a sweet aftertaste. I believe that after several generations of breeding and domestication, excellent strawberry varieties can be bred."
According to the regulations, it is not allowed to eat animals and plants on strange planets during ground operations, so as to avoid poisoning and so on.
How did Ryan know the taste of wild strawberries? It was a complete accident.
"Probably the first plant I improved was strawberries. I am very interested in strawberries, and I have to study them when I see them." Ryan said while doing the movements of his hands without pausing at all. "When I lifted it up to study, a strawberry fell. Into the mouth..." It disappeared very quickly, and it was too late for him to spit it out.
For this reason, the team activated the emergency mechanism and stayed in place for half an hour to make sure that he was in good health before taking any further action.
Auston looked at the busy young man with his head bowed in front of him. The pain in his body and the troubles in his heart were instantly far away from him. Hearing his rambling and aimless gossip, a feeling of laziness emerged from the bottom of his heart. . He pushed the stool away, imitated Ryan's movements and sat cross-legged beside him, trying to put his head on Ryan's shoulders.
"Be careful when operating on the ground."
Ryan stopped digging, his body movements became smaller, and his hands became more detailed. He smiled and said, "Well, I will definitely be more careful in the future. You, don't worry."
Not getting a response made Ryan a little disappointed, but not getting a response made him slightly happy. Not denying is the greatest affirmation.
"I don't have a professional inspection machine at hand, so I can't determine the plant activity of wild strawberries. I can only try to cultivate them, hoping to cultivate strawberries suitable for import. Wild strawberries are still too sour in the mouth, and the characteristics of ripening and polarization are not very good. And the fruit is very small, you know, that fruit is like a soybean, if I hadn’t been dealing with strawberries all the time, I would have missed it.”
The intersection of two people's lives is too little, and it is definitely not a good way to find topics from it. After finally getting together again, Ryan didn't want to be quiet and silent, and simply talked in a random manner, without any purpose, and it didn't completely revolve around anything.
"I have a pony, which is bred by crossbreeding the pony from the planet M and the mother planet of the earth. It is smaller than a golden retriever and has the same temperament as a puppy. I named him Chestnut because he I like to eat chestnuts the most, raw ones, and all kinds of small desserts made of chestnuts.” Ryan talked about the situation at home and the trivial things in life, “Auntie Peggy can make chestnut muffins. Chestnuts are my favorite, when I am happy to eat it, it will squint its eyes and make a yo-yo cry, and its tail will flick around."
Alston chuckled, and had already imagined in his mind a little brown pony eating chestnut-flavored muffins, and after eating, he raised his head and let out a yo-yo cry, revealing a mouthful of white die teeth, long, The tassel-like tail flicked back and forth, and a pair of bright black eyes stared at the owner, as if saying: Give me another one, give me another one.
"My parents planted many plants according to the different seasons, water and soil conditions of the planting stars. There are tall banana trees. After cutting down the hard outer shell, the edible inner core is as big as a small carrot. It tastes the best when fried with the little black pork raised at home. Little black pigs grow slowly and are not suitable for large-scale breeding and cannot be promoted in the market, so they are raised at home to eat." After finishing speaking, Ryan said embarrassedly: "I Talking about these things is boring.”
"No, it's very interesting, I like it very much." Alston adjusted his posture and indulged himself in Ryan's tenderness, "My life is very boring and boring, and it can be summarized in a few words monotonously, learning, Train and pass the test."
Ryan was a little distressed. Behind the success was hard work and sweat. The color of Auston's childhood was not colorful at all.
"Not those, let me tell you, although the planting star in our house is not big and the geological conditions are not the best, but the scenery is good. There is an inland sea in the northern hemisphere. In autumn, the leaves of the trees growing in the shallow sea will fade and become beautiful. Reddish brown, white big birds will stay in the woods, and at sunset, the sun shines on the sea, just like a dream." Ryan desperately thought about the scenery of his home, hoping to take Auston home to see those beautiful Scenery, "Ice crystal flowers grow on the ice sheet of Antarctica. This kind of flower is edible, and the ice is cold. It is best used to make salad with lettuce leaves and lobster meat. The taste is a very light lemongrass.
It grows in patches on the ice, and when the sun shines, it will reflect colorful rays of light. If the angle is good, a rainbow will appear. "
Ryan paused and continued: "There is an ocean vortex in the sea near the equator. If you drive a small submarine and go deep into it, you can find fluorescent shrimps within a hundred meters. They are transparent, and the luminous ones are the brains of the shrimp. After washing them Marinated with wine for a while to make choked shrimp very tender and smooth... ”
"Auston, when we have no more responsibilities and the empire doesn't need us to defend our country, are you willing to settle with me in Planet Plantation?" Ryan asked nervously after talking a lot.
Auston nodded gently, thinking that his movements were too small for Ryan to see, he whispered, "Well, Planting Star is beautiful, quiet and peaceful, I like it very much."
The smile on Ryan's face became bright, and the corners of his mouth almost reached the back of his ears, "You will definitely like it, but I'm afraid that you will feel that planting stars is too ordinary, the sunrise rises and the sunset rests, day by day It goes by so fast, and we are old in a blink of an eye. Our children will…”
When it comes to children, Ryan's eyes are restrained and shy, "In the future, our children will drive a spaceship to plant stars to see us, and we will have grandchildren. Haha, I think too far, don't we have no children? Why are you thinking about your grandson first?"
Oston is a quiet person, and when two people get along, Ryan often talks non-stop, as if talking to himself, but he will get some responses after his voice falls. Speaking of the future child, Ryan waited for a while, but did not wait for Auston's answer. He fell silent, hearing Auston's long and gentle breathing, and fell asleep like this.
Ryan bent the corner of his mouth, took the towel in front of him to wipe his hands clean, took the book and began to read, keeping his upper body still, if it wasn't for fear of affecting Oston's rest by moving, he would definitely carry him to the bed.
He looked at the closed planting cabin. The leaves and stems of the newly settled wild strawberries had stood upright, obviously very suitable for the planting environment inside.
Using the personal terminal to adjust the brightness of the lights in the dormitory, Ryan devoted himself to studying, and the exam is less than ten days away.
Whether you can become a mecha restorer is up to you.
The exam qualification for a mecha restorer is only three times in a person's life, and they need to be strictly recommended by the school they graduated from. The procedure is very strict to prevent all messes in the first place.
If it fails once, the second exam will be postponed until three years later.
Ryan doesn't want to miss the opportunity, let alone waste time. It is his goal to go further and get closer to Auston.
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In a blink of an eye, it’s time for the mech restorer’s exam. The exam is divided into morning and afternoon. The morning theory exam starts on time at 8:00 a.m. Central Star Time of the Empire, which is 5:00 a.m. of Ryan today, far away from the edge of the empire. If the time is wrong, it will be wronged.
Fortunately, the ship attaches great importance to this test, and there is a special person in charge of checking it at the time to ensure that it is accurate.
Ryan, who was well prepared, walked out of the dormitory. With a ding, his personal terminal received a message from Auston.
"Can't send you to the exam, sorry. Good luck!"
Ryan's eyes stayed on each word for a while, and said softly: "With your blessing, I think I will succeed."
At the door of the elevator, team member Amy ran over in a hurry, still wearing pajamas, with messy hair piled on her head, and said out of breath, "It's okay, luckily I didn't miss it. Come on Ryan, you worked hard If it takes that long, it will be successful."
Finally, he rushed over and hugged Ryan hard, "Come on, come on, you are the best in my mind."
Amy is slightly shorter than Ryan and has a slender frame, but the force of the rush is still not small. Ryan was knocked back two steps, and subconsciously grabbed the opponent's waist to stabilize his figure.
"Thank you Amy, let me go, the elevator is coming."
Amy nodded like a chick pecking at rice, kissed Ryan on the face suddenly, and let go of Ryan with a flushed face, "This, this is a ceremony of blessing, don't get me wrong."
Behind, the elevator door opened, and Auston's figure slowly appeared.
Amy was facing the elevator door, and saw the general first, pushed Ryan, stood at attention and saluted, "Good morning, general."
Ryan's eyes darkened, and his steady figure said clearly: "Amy, thank you for your blessings. We are good brothers and we don't need to do this. Such an intimate ceremony should be given to a lover. I'm very sorry, I haven't said it all the time, I already married."
The blush on Amy's face gradually faded, and she became pale under the bleak morning light of Xing Tian Ship.
The author has something to say: The staff in the laboratory looked at the wild strawberries under their hands and realized that they had eaten the strawberries...