"It's you," said the student.
Adrian looked at him incomprehensibly, "What am I?"
"That..." The student paused in embarrassment, not having the guts to repeat what Adrian said just now, omitting the previous attributive, "The person who is the best marriage partner with Mr. Zhong Yan is...you."
Adrian: "…"
Finn's eyes widened. He no longer cared about respecting the school. He directly opened his own terminal virtual screen and began to check the newly released marriage proposal form.
Half the people in the room were doing the same thing as him.
Fein carefully checked the federal citizenship identification number under the name "Adrian Yate", and said speechlessly, "I'm really convinced, did you two have a conflict with the graduation ceremony? After two graduation ceremonies, the principal may ban you from going back to school."
Adrian ignored him, looked up in the direction of the School of Social Sciences, and saw that Zhong Yan was also looking at him.
Halfway across the noisy auditorium, they stared at each other expressionlessly for two seconds, neither of them able to see what the other was thinking. Then, Zhong Yan said two words silently.
If there is a lip language expert present, it can be interpreted that his mouth shape is "above". In fact, within a few minutes, these two words were deciphered by the audience watching the live broadcast, and everyone was at a loss, above? on what
Many years later, there was a saying that was recognized by most people in the virtual community. They believed that Zhong Yan knew that Adrian had learned lip language, so he used lip language to demonstrate to Adrian, meaning that he wanted to be the one above. . Of course, this is something for later.
The school has begun to maintain order, and the riots have subsided slowly.
Adrian has no memory of how this graduation ceremony ended. In fact, most people at the ceremony were absent-minded, still digesting the shocking news just now, wishing that the ceremony would end soon so that the two The parties freed up their hands to deal with the matter.
Adrian didn't disappoint them. After the principal announced that the graduation ceremony was over, before he even walked out of the auditorium, he immediately used his personal terminal to log in to the marriage system and chose to refuse.
"Back to Navi." Adrian said calmly.
He didn't lose his temper, but everyone on the military ship could see that he was in a terrible mood, and everyone dispersed wisely to go about their business.
The liaison officer walked over with a look of death on his face. He didn't graduate from the highest institution, and he stayed in the spaceship just now, and didn't participate in any school activities.
"Commander...we can't go back for now."
"why?"
The tone of the liaison officer was clearly calm, but the liaison officer shuddered. He thought it was unlucky, bumped into the muzzle of the gun, and explained carefully: "I haven't got the list yet... The herbarium shop contacted me just now and told me about a small problem. There will be a delay of several hours."
"When can I get it?"
"It will be after midnight at the earliest—midnight local time."
Adrian looked at the time, it was at least three hours to wait.
"Specimen" is an anti-artificial intelligence underground intelligence organization. It has risen in recent years and has infiltrated various important institutions to varying degrees. It has a lot of contact with the Na'vi military region and has cooperated several times. The impression of each other is not bad.
This time, Adrian came to their branch of the highest institution to share a list—a list of the faculty and staff of the highest institution who were in the same camp as them. They have always been cautious in transmitting information, and only passed it offline. Adrian wanted to let the liaison officer stay and go first. Unfortunately, the liaison officer did not graduate from the highest school. This time, he logged in as an entourage. If he stayed alone Down, it's too eye-catching.
"Order the whole team to postpone the return time." Adrian said irritably, "I'm going out for a walk, don't follow me."
It's almost midnight.
Zhong Yan looked up at the starry sky a little stiffly. He was still wearing the suit that couldn't block the wind at all, and he had stood on the rooftop for three hours.
This is the corner of the tower roof in the west wing of the Academy of Art, one of the few blind spots for night surveillance in the school, and it is also the "top" in his and Adrian's codebook.
He and Adrian have a code book.
In the second year of the school, the military academy held closed training for a month at every turn. During the closed training period, they were not allowed to leave the training center, and unrelated students were not allowed to go in to visit. They secretly ran to meet in the dead corner of the surveillance system in the middle of the night when there was no one around. Because there are always people or cameras around, it is not convenient to say the location, so they created a password book.
"At the beginning, I'll be waiting for you up there." - This means midnight, meet at the rooftop of the West Wing Tower of the Academy of Arts.
"Two and a half hours after the start, I'll see you later." —At 2:30 in the morning, at No. 208, the underground warehouse of the School of Mechanical Engineering.
"I will go outside an hour before the start, and remember to prepare the control group in the laboratory." - At eleven o'clock in the evening, in the antique pavilion on the east side of the school, go over the wall and turn right, remember to go to the freshly squeezed juice shop to buy juice with you, Ask for my favorite flavor.
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He remembered all their passwords, very clearly, but maybe... Adrian didn't remember. Or it is more likely that Adrian's memory is not that bad. Of course, he also remembers where "above" is, but he is no longer willing to go to the appointment.
It's no use remembering clearly, some codes have been lost forever, such as "laboratory"-the juice shop is no longer there.
Zhong Yan hugged his arms in vain, trying to keep some heat in his body. Adrian met him twice today, and he has already clearly expressed his attitude—Adrian hates him, he hates him so much that he doesn’t want to hear him call his name again, he hates him so much that he can use the relationship between the two of them in front of outsiders. Between secrets make weapons against him.
It's midnight.
He shouldn't be delusional. Zhong Yan covered half of his face with one hand. For a few seconds, he showed an extremely painful expression, but in the next instant, that flawless face returned to its usual indifference.
He put down his hands, straightened his collar that was not messed up, and walked towards the stairs going down to the rooftop.
In the corridor, a man was climbing up the stairs, and they met on a narrow road.
Adrian had already changed back to his casual clothes, apparently returning to Na'vi's warship. With one hand in his pocket, he looked up at Zhong Yan who was a few steps taller than him. There was no expression in his silver eyes, but there was definitely no smile.
There was an awkward silence in the narrow, dark corridor.
After a long time, Adrian said: "I have already refused."
"Oh."
"I'm here to explain to you about the fine."
The marriage system is a special system because it involves the wishes of two people. If both of them agree, they will be declared as legal partners by "Butterfly" immediately; if only one person refuses, that person needs to pay five times the fine; if both of them refuse, the two will pay a fine That's it. In addition, if the best match partner wants to divorce after marriage, it is also considered to be detrimental to society and needs to pay a fine.
The amount of the fine also varies from person to person. Because following the optimal arrangement is considered to be a choice that benefits society, "Butterfly" will evaluate it based on the identity of the rejecter and the size of the rejected item. The greater the negative impact on society, the higher the fine.
"I just got the evaluation result, and the fine is more than 81,000."
Zhong Yan was a little puzzled, but he still answered, "Oh. It's quite tall."
Actually quite high. Divorce fines for ordinary citizens of third-tier planets are generally around 5,000 federal coins, rarely exceeding 10,000, and exceeding 50,000 is extremely rare.
Adrian said: "I checked the regulations. They can't be paid separately. They must be paid from one account. You can transfer 40,000 yuan to my account, and a fraction is fine. My account number has not changed."
Zhong Yan looked at him inexplicably, as if he didn't understand what he was saying at all.
"What's the matter?" Seeing that he was silent, Adrian sneered, "Mr. Congressman's trading address book is too full, have you deleted my account?"
"Ai..." Zhong Yan raised his head, suddenly remembered what Adrian had said during the day, and swallowed back the last word, "You seem to have misunderstood something."
"Misunderstand?"
"Only when both parties refuse to marry, both of them will pay one fine, otherwise, the refusing party will pay five fines alone."
"Thank you for your popular science, I understand the law."
"Then why do you think we apply to the former and not to the latter?"
"Because of course you will refuse!"
Zhong Yan showed an incredulous look, and said, "Of course I won't."
Adrian also looked at him in disbelief, "Are you crazy?!"
"You are crazy." Zhong Yan said slowly, "I am a member of the Supreme Council, a direct subordinate of 'Die'. What good does it do me to reject my immediate superior? I should have taken the lead in supporting 'Die''s judgment , if I refuse, what will the entire Federation think of me?"
Adrian laughed angrily, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, of course you will not refuse any proposal from 'Butterfly'. You are going to use—let me do the math, five times 80,000 is 400,000, minus four Ten thousand is 360,000. Ha, such a calculation is quite a bargain, 360,000 can save your political career."
Zhong Yan shook his head, a strand of his originally unruly hair fell down and hung softly at the end of his eyebrows, softening his overly cold expression at the moment.
By the way... Adrian stared at the strand of hair, and suddenly thought inappropriately that he almost forgot that Zhong Yan's hair was always very soft.
This overly warm memory was shattered by the person in front of him in the next second.
"I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe I didn't make it clear. Then I'll say it again: I will not refuse this marriage proposal, nor will I pay for it. After all, you are the one who refuses, right?"
"So you asked me to come here to tell me that while you want to preserve your reputation, you don't want to pay for it. It means that you want me to pay 400,000 yuan to preserve your reputation. Is that what you mean?"
Adrian sneered, "It's a beautiful idea, do you think it's possible? Do you still think it was seven years ago?"
I don't know if it was because of this argument that Zhong Yan's breathing became a little short. After a whole day of spinning and turning, he stood in the cold wind for another three hours. He felt that his physical strength had finally reached the end of his strength. He held onto the handrail of the stairs to prevent himself from showing weakness, and said, "Whatever you want. I'm going back. "
As he spoke, he was about to pass Adrian and go down. When he passed by, suddenly the world spun—the furious man grabbed his wrist and pushed him against the wall.