A knock on the door broke the silence in the room.
"Commander? There seems to be a problem with the internal communicator. I can't get in. Are you inside?" someone said outside the door.
Adrian glanced at the communicator that had been honorably killed on the ground, and raised his voice and asked, "What's the matter?"
"We have entered the atmosphere and are expected to land on the White Shield landing pad within ten minutes."
"understood."
Zhong Yan gently pushed Adrian's chest, and this time, the other side followed his strength and took a step back.
Sure enough, Adrian had completely lost interest in him—whether as a friend or as an enemy. Zhong Yan thought to himself mockingly, and jumped off the desk. After sitting for a long time, his legs were already a little numb. When he landed, he couldn't stand firmly, so Adrian helped him.
"Thank you." Zhong Yan stared down at the space between the toes of the two of them and said, "By the way, I haven't bothered to ask, where are my people?"
This person has not dared to look at him since he finished speaking. Adrian pressed his anger and asked, "Why didn't you talk about this kind of thing... these things earlier?"
"I asked you and my people in the Star Thief..."
"I'm not talking about that!"
Zhong Yan raised his head and smiled at him, there was bitterness in that smile.
"You don't want such a friend, I know. You like Sister, who is just like you, a person who is passionate and willing to give his life to change the world. If you said it earlier, you would have wanted me a long time ago Oh, how can I wait until graduation? I earned three years anyway. You should hate me, I didn't think about that... that is, when we graduated, the possibility of that kind of thing happening, I thought about it, but I still do it Did. You really should hate me."
Adrian gritted his teeth and said, "I don't like Finn like that. You idiot, you don't know anything at all."
"Don't you like him enough? From the first day you two met, I knew that you liked him very much. You kept mentioning him that day, and within a month you called him your good brother." Zhong Yan didn't quite agree. He happily reminded him, "You didn't even say that I was your brother. We were nicknamed Twin Stars at the time, but when we mentioned the chief brother of the Military Academy, everyone's first reaction was Finn Sister. "
Who wants to be your brother? ! I was thinking...
"What you said to me is not the same at all..."
The hull shook slightly, interrupting Adrian's blurted words, and brought them back to reality from the entanglements of their school days in an instant.
Adrian cleared his throat and said, "Your people have already settled in White Shield Star before us."
Zhong Yan also realized that with their current identities, there are more important things than breaking the relationship between the two of them.
"Thanks. Then we'll go..."
"Don't be in a hurry, I haven't finished yet - your people are on White Shield, but I don't intend to let you see them."
To Adrian's surprise, Zhong Yan nodded without changing his expression, as if he just said "I have prepared a welcome banquet for you", and asked calmly: "So, what is your next step?" What is the arrangement?"
"Get off the spaceship first," Adrian said.
Adrian went to deal with the star thief prisoners brought back, and assigned two silent guards to escort Zhong Yan to the temporary stop.
To put it nicely, it is an escort, but in fact it is almost the same as an escort.
Ever since he casually asked "Where are we going" and got nothing but silence, he understood the attitude of the Na'vi military region towards him—or in other words, it was the same as that of others. This was Adrian's attitude towards his visit this time.
In fact, it was better than he expected.
Zhong Yan sat in the car, but he wasn't bored. This was his first visit to the White Shield Star. Although he had seen some video materials when the issue of the ownership of the White Shield Star was raging two years ago, he was not shocked by seeing it with his own eyes.
White Shield is an undeveloped planet. The geographical location here is really bad. In the corner of the Lobo star area, the signal is not good all the year round, and there are almost no routes to reach here. It is very difficult for the spacecraft to even land, because even the landing pad is the In order to investigate the geology, the higher authorities allocated funds to build it.
There are continuous mountains in the distance, Zhong Yan has never seen such a large area of natural forest with his own eyes. The greening of Xuefu Star is also famous, but it is the artificial beauty of order, carefully designed by human beings, far inferior to nature's unpretentious workmanship.
It wasn't until the car stopped that Zhong Yan realized that his temporary settlement was actually the district council of Star White Shield.
Even the regional council of the small fourth-tier planet where Zhong Yan was born is much, much more magnificent than the one in front of him. If they hadn't come close, Zhong Yan could clearly see the sign hanging above the gate, and he would never have thought that this small building with only three floors that looked like a residential house was the district council.
It was early morning local time, and the gate of the small building was closed. A guard tried to push it, and it was locked.
"Hey, are you looking for someone from the House?"
An uncle passed by here on a rusted one-person electric scooter, and he looked curiously at this strange trio—two soldiers in the uniform of the Na'vi Military Region and a man in an oversized sports coat and suit pants .
"It's not time for work yet, you guys are too early."
Zhong Yan asked: "Sir, when will they open the door?"
"Oh, I'm not a gentleman." The uncle quickly waved his hand, "Someone will go to work after lunch, but if you have something important, there are a few congressmen who live nearby..."
"It's okay, we have nothing important to do."
Saying goodbye to the passer-by uncle, Zhong Yan turned to leave, but was stopped by two guards raising their hands. Zhong Yan said: "I can't get in here now, Ai... he probably won't come over for a while. I'll go shopping around."
The two guards looked at each other, and one of them hesitated: "Mr. Zhong, we need to ask the higher-ups for instructions first, please wait a moment..."
Zhong Yan called Adrian before him.
The two guards stared wide-eyed, looking in amazement at the terminal in the hand of this man who could not mention his name in the Na'vi sector, and Adrian's voice was coming from it.
"Don't tell me what trouble you caused in such a short time." Adrian said, "Also, I haven't had time to block you after I got off the star pirate ship, it doesn't mean you can harass me freely .”
Zhong Yan automatically ignored the second half of the sentence, and said dissatisfiedly, "Why did I cause trouble? The parliament here only opens in the afternoon, so it would be my fault if you didn't do the investigation in advance."
Both guards gasped. Ever since the marriage proposal that the entire Federation knew about was issued, Adrian has been in an extremely bad mood, and the entire military department has accompanied him carefully, but recently there have been too many matters related to the Supreme Council in military affairs, and there are always people who are careless. If the sentence is wrong, it touches the commander's bad head, and he is scolded on the spot.
The person who can't mention his name now is actually talking to the commander in such a rude manner, I'm afraid... the two guards were waiting there and furious, never expected that Adrian's tone is indeed unhappy, but it seems that the mood is compared with before Nothing has changed.
"That's it? Can't you just find a place to stay? Aren't you here to assess whether the environment is suitable or not? Your House of Representatives has detected this planet a few years ago, so you can review it."
"I don't have any equipment on my body that can detect it." Zhong Yan reminded him, "I'm even wearing your clothes."
What? ! The two guards looked at Zhong Yan's sports jacket that obviously didn't match his personal style with weird expressions. Is this the commander's clothes? No wonder I saw the commander wearing only a T-shirt just now.
"That's really reassuring. Please evaluate it casually. No one cares about you if you fall off the mountain. If you get blocked, don't contact me again."
As soon as the voice fell, the other side hung up.
"...the real murderer." Zhong Yan looked at the darkened terminal screen and whispered.
Is this fierce? ?
The two guards thought silently, I heard that once the commander gets angry, he often beats people to the hospital for a disagreement. Cursed and cried.
They hadn't recovered from the series of surprises, and both of them received an order on their terminals at the same time.
"Take care of him, don't allow him to climb the mountain."
Zhong Yan's original intention was to find a random store and buy a piece of clothing for himself. The sports jacket was really too big, and he rolled up the cuffs to barely expose his hands. His figure was much thinner than Adrian's, not to mention that he was shorter than Adrian. The hem of this loose coat directly covered his buttocks, and it was empty, making him uncomfortable to wear.
There were no people on the street in the early morning. Zhong Yan walked aimlessly through two streets. There were only a handful of shops open, but none of them sold clothes.
For some reason, the two guards were much more nervous than before, and they followed him closely, Zhong Yan was puzzled. Don't talk about force, he didn't eat much nutrition when he was a child, and he sat in an office for a few years after leaving school. His current physical fitness and physique are terrible, otherwise he wouldn't have blown at school for two or three hours before. The wind gave birth to an emergency. Now, after walking slowly for such a long distance, he already felt that he was not doing well, and there happened to be a small circular square in front of him, and he was going to sit on a bench in the square to rest for a while.
When I sat down, I realized that there was a small stall next to the bench, and a white-haired old woman sat behind it.
It's also good to ask where there is a clothes shop.
Zhong Yan thought so, walked over and bowed and asked, "Grandma, hello, I want to..."
Before he finished speaking, he was suddenly attracted by a silver light from the booth.
It turned out that this small stall sold handmade crystal jewelry. Zhong Yan didn't have much research on jewelry, but he could tell that these were not expensive crystals, but relatively cheap processed artificial crystals. Among all kinds of colorful spar, there is a crystal clear silver crystal.
The words in his mouth became involuntarily: "...I want to ask, how do you sell this?"
"This is a cufflink." The old woman said kindly, "It's a pair, wait a minute, there's another one that hasn't been displayed yet."
As she spoke, she rummaged through the big pocket next to her, and Zhong Yan asked, "Can I pick it up and have a look?"
"I found it, here it is. This color is rare, it looks good with dark clothes."
The grandma put both pairs in Zhong Yan's hands, and Zhong Yan picked up one and held it up to look at the sun.
The clear silver shone brightly.
"It's very pretty." Zhong Yan put it back in his hand cherishingly, "I bought it."