Zou Yu gently rubbed the bright red flowers with her fingertips and left in the military vehicle with a smile, leaving the young couple strolling in the Linyuan in the rain.
The black and white cliff at the end of the lawn in front of them was like an ink painting, which was particularly hazy in the spring rain. The drizzle made this ordinary spring day a touch of moisture, as if countless small water droplets had accumulated into powder, which instantly dispersed when they hit the face, making it very refreshing.
Nan Xiangmei was wearing a very well-tailored blue windbreaker, and the belt around her waist was completely plain without any jewelry embellishments. It must be the masterpiece of a handmade clothing shop in Gangdu. It was not luxurious or dazzling, but was just as beautiful and quiet as her person, and also like the gentle rain between heaven and earth.
Not knowing what to say, the girl slightly lowered her head and obediently followed Xu Le's footsteps along the beautiful Linyuan scenery. Her two small fists were clenched tightly beside her, and the rain splashed on her slightly hot cheeks, but it couldn't make them feel cooler.
"I …" Nan Xiangmei suddenly stopped and gathered her courage to look at Xu Le's side face, and nervously asked, "You … did you receive my letter?"
"Yes," Xu Le stopped, nodded and replied, "I should have received all the letters."
Nan Xiangmei smiled gently, but then a trace of uneasiness appeared in her bright eyes, and asked, "Then … why didn't you reply?"
Xu Le knew how to answer.
For him, Nan Xiangmei taking the initiative to express her love in the Wood Valley Manor last time was really the biggest surprise and the pinnacle of vanity in his life. Even … sometimes when he recalled Nan Xiangmei's shy expression at that time, he felt that this kind of satisfaction was more than the success of the MX development.
However, surprise and vanity pointed to a sense of absurdity. Until today, Xu Le still didn't realize how outstanding he was. He didn't cultivate the correct and arrogant psychological foundation of Du Shaoqing. He couldn't understand how an ordinary guy like him, who was interesting when he was young, but now he was getting more and more boring. What qualifications did he have to receive the admiration of this young lady? Therefore, he was somewhat at a loss about the feelings hidden in Nan Xiangmei's letter, and he didn't know how to respond.
Probably as Zou Yu said, he was used to associating feelings with marriage and family, so he had been unknowingly avoiding it. Shang Qiu was his ideal work partner and charming figure, and Jian Shui'er was his adolescent idol or dream lover, so he could still try to get close to her, but when he met a beautiful girl who was not really familiar with him, he would escape very quickly.
Not getting an answer from him, Nan Xiangmei lowered her head again in disappointment. Droplets of sparkling and translucent black hair rested peacefully on her jade-like cheek.
At the end of the lawn, there was a pond gently swaying with countless small circles in the drizzle. The two people stood by the pond, silently watching.
"I just came back from S2. I wrote in the letter that I am now doing volunteer work in the foundation."
"That's good." Xu Le replied somewhat clumsily.
"What a pity." Nan Xiangmei lowered her head and looked at the broken grass on the tip of her lambskin boots, and said softly, "I have watched every episode of that documentary many times, but I have never found a positive image of you."
"What a pity." She sighed softly, quietly like raindrops falling into the pond. She cutely tilted her head, bravely looked at Xu Le again, and said, "I was supposed to go to S1 on the day of the award ceremony, but I didn't expect to encounter a ray storm, which delayed my time. Otherwise, maybe I would have run to the George Carlin Center and crazily shouted like those fanatical admirers of yours."
Listening to the words that gradually revealed her true feelings, Xu Le's big heart beat faster. His voice was slightly hoarse as he changed the topic. He scratched his wet hair and said, "Did you come back on Li Laoqi's ship?"
"Li Laoqi?"
Nan Xiangmei silently repeated in her heart. She felt that this man's tone was really interesting. Li Xiaotong, this gloomy man, in his mouth, was like a street vendor selling bread … What a cute man. Thinking about this, she couldn't help but embarrassedly cover her cheeks, trying to block the heat there.
Love makes people blind. In the eyes of a girl who has fallen in love, even if the man's joke is boring, it is still the most humorous. No matter how ordinary the man's action is, they can find some deep meaning or hint or factor that makes them more fond of him.
Xu Le stubbornly maintained the image of a gentleman, and maintained the posture of looking straight ahead. But from the corner of his eyes, he saw Nan Xiangmei shyly lowering her head. Under the gentle wind and drizzle, her beautiful cheeks were like a lotus flower. His heart moved again, and subconsciously he wanted to take out a silk handkerchief from the military bag to wipe the water droplets on her face. But his brain quickly woke up and stopped the movement of his hand in time, because that silk handkerchief was Jian Shui 'er's …
"The rain seems to be getting heavier." Xu Le wiped the rain on his face, looked at the girl beside him and said with concern, "Let's go back."
"I'll go home soon." Nan Xiangmei's voice was a little disappointed. She said softly, "We don't need this kind of arranged coincidence in the future. Are you willing to eat with me and chat with me?"
Xu Le continued to scratch his worried, wet hair. After a long time, he said, "Of course, let's exchange numbers."
Nan Xiangmei raised her head in surprise. The crystal clear pearl-like raindrops on her beautiful cheeks were full of joy. She quickly told him her phone number, and then lowered her head and said shyly, "I have your phone number. I asked for it from … Li Laoqi."
Mimicking Xu Le's tone of voice, Nan Xiangmei felt even more embarrassed. She buried her head and murmured, "Maybe you will think that I'm a little out of line, but … I'm not like this usually. I don't know why, but every time I talk to you, I'm very nervous."
Xu Le wanted to tell her that it was because every time they met, she expressed some kind of emotion with an unimaginable courage. She didn't care how many times they met. However, he couldn't say these words. He just stood in front of her, blocking the rain that was blown by the wind. He said in a dry voice, "Actually, I'm more nervous than you."
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Far away Left Sky Star Region 435.22. Near coordinate 89, there was a large area of stars that looked like Aquarius. In this place, which was called the Aquarius Galaxy by the people of the Empire, there was a giant planet. No human could survive on this giant planet because of its gravity. However, on the dark side of this giant planet, there was a satellite that would always accompany it. For thousands of years, countless silent warships used the shadow of the giant planet as cover to quietly enter and leave.
Because this was the most important and most secret first-class base in the periphery of the Empire.
In a corner of the base, two thin and small Empire mechanical soldiers were operating a robot to move equipment into a small warship. One of the mechanical soldiers spoke in his heavily accented language to his quiet companion beside him, "The other teams are preparing for the maneuver, but we have to move these hundreds of tons of equipment in before the warship takes off."
"Mechanical soldiers will always be mechanical soldiers. Huai Caoshi, even if you are lucky and have the greatest surname in the Empire, you still can't change your fate," this mechanical soldier said indignantly. "Join the expeditionary army? That's possible. Under the premise that the main force is wiped out, we can go to the battlefield to gain some military merits and hope to get rid of the identity of a commoner and become a small noble … but the problem is, for so many years, the expeditionary army rarely comes back. Who dares to take this risk? "
He suddenly lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Right, have you heard? Recently, there has been a rumor in the military camp that those bastards of the Federation have started their counterattack. Our expeditionary army has suffered heavy casualties, and even old General Ambury … died over there."
Huai Caoshi listened silently and didn't give any emotional or verbal response. Under the direct arrangement of the Empire's military headquarters, he quietly came to the frontline and became the most common mechanical soldier. However, it didn't mean that he had enough patience and tolerance to discuss the important matters of the Empire with these lower-class people. When he heard the three words' Ambury ', for the first time, his face showed emotion, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
Three hours later, a maneuver personally led by the Empire's County King Caton started from this most secretive military base without any observers or media reports. Regarding this maneuver, the members of the Royal Intelligence Agency hidden in the military excitedly and coldly sent one report after another to their superiors, but they didn't get any response. Those confused and angry military observers were directly put under house arrest by the fleet until they knew the truth.
Dozens of night wolf-class light warships slowly rose into the sky and followed the monster-class black mothership that was 17 kilometers long into space. Under the shadow of the giant planet, the fleet of warships that covered the sky looked so shocking.
The fleet left the thin atmosphere and used the gravitational difference between the distant star and the nearby giant planet to slowly change direction like ghosts and head into the dark depths of the universe.
However, out of all the soldiers' expectations, that monster-class black mothership left the fleet after 17 standard hours and stopped at the entrance of Biping Corridor. Like a giant father, it quietly and kindly watched the entire fleet leave.
From the generals to the soldiers of the Empire's fleet, they all smelled something different.
Their fleet was temporarily formed on the surface, but in reality, they had received almost two years of special training. The fleet was all light warships, and they had all received major modifications in the base. Other than the necessary concealment equipment for high-speed cross-tunnel navigation, the warships had all the protective equipment removed. They tried their best to leave the energy output and position to those extremely sharp weapon systems …
The extreme modification of the warships, all external communications were forcibly blocked before departure, and the fleet was in a silent state of the night. There was no way to contact the base or the military headquarters. Maybe even the military headquarters didn't know where this inconspicuous medium-sized fleet disappeared to.
All kinds of facts and speculations made the relaxed and casual expression on the soldiers' faces replaced by caution and doubt. They vaguely guessed that this was definitely not a normal drill. Could it be that the hot-tempered and murderous County King Caton was really like what the rumors said, and he had some outrageous thoughts in his mind? But what could these light warships do?
The answer to all these questions was answered three days later. County King Caton, who everyone thought was left on the giant mothership, unexpectedly appeared in the internal communication system of the fleet.
"This is the most important military operation since the founding of the Empire." On the light screen, the general of the Empire coldly said to everyone in this secret mission, "We, will be recorded in the history books."
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(This chapter is well named.
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