Duan Hengye thought that he was being very serious when he spoke to Meng Jinhuai. However, after seeing Meng Jinhuai's reaction, he felt like Meng Jinhuai was teasing a child. However, even though he thought so in his heart, Duan Hangye, who had always thought that he was in the wrong, still swallowed back the words he wanted to say.
Forget it, I'll talk about it another day.
After seeing Duan Hengye's reaction, Meng Jinhuai smiled and shook his head. "Okay, let's go back to the starship and rest for a while. We'll return when the weather conditions are good."
Even though the starship could withstand the largest storm on the test flight planet, according to the rules of interstellar travel, they still had to continue waiting on this planet.
After that, Meng Jinhuai turned around and walked away. Duan Hengye looked at his back and suddenly had a strange thought in his mind. Does Meng Jinhuai really not want to divorce me?
However, the moment this thought popped up in Duan Hengye's mind, a word flashed across his mind. That word was "fake".
Duan Hengye, who was walking back to the starship, never thought that one day, he would actually use the word "fake" to describe himself. Professor Duan couldn't help but have some goosebumps on his arms. He threw away the strange thought and quickly walked behind Meng Jinhuai.
The Ye Tian Empire people had always had 100% trust in Duan Hengye. However, when the news of the "Nanzhu" mecha's first successful test flight came out, the entire empire was in an uproar for a while.
This news finally diluted the panic caused by the Amro attack. For a time, the entire empire was discussing this new mecha.
While the investigation of the Amro incident was still ongoing, the students could finally leave Planet Duguang.
In the interstellar era, each planet's speed and orbital period were different. Therefore, there were now as many habitable planets as there were different "years." In fact, when Duan Hengye had first transmigrated into this book, he had discovered that in this world, the commemorative festivals were all calculated according to the natural year of the capital star of the country. On the other hand, almost all of the festivals based on the astronomical calendar had disappeared.
Even though Duan Hengye was not a person who liked festivities, nor was he keen on holidays and anniversaries. However, Duan Hengye was a little disappointed when he found out that there was no such thing as Chinese New Year in this world.
But even so, there was still a very important festival in the Galaxy that didn't differentiate between nationalities and countries — and that was the Galactic Day. This festival was mainly to celebrate the long-gone era of interstellar discovery. During the festival, the entire galaxy would enter a state of public holiday.
In the seven days after Interstellar Day, not only were schools and companies on vacation, but even the research institute was also on vacation. Even though everyone usually lived on the same planet as the research institute, just like how Duan Hengye's ID was "Nan zhuxing", the staff of the research institute also came from different planets in the Empire.
Once the holiday began, other than the staff on duty, everyone else would leave the research institute and return to their original home.
Due to the fact that he didn't have a deep understanding of the local customs and customs after transmigrating, the entire research institute began to get busy. Only then did Duan Hangye finally react. He had ushered in the grandest festival in the universe.
Due to the special nature of the festival, the military didn't have holidays like other organizations. However, as Interstellar Day approached, the festive atmosphere gradually became stronger.
For example, the beige House of the Marshal's residential area became extremely gaudy overnight. Because the "Interstellar Day" commemorated the era of interstellar discovery, star elements also filled the entire festival.
After waking up, Duan Hengye wanted to continue working in the study room. However, as soon as he opened the door, he found that the ceiling of the corridor was covered with fine silver diamonds.
It was only now that Duan Hengye found out that the ceiling of the House of the Marshal's corridor could be adjusted. Duan Hengye slowly closed the bedroom door, then turned around and looked at the ceiling.
At this time, the ceiling was blue with a little purple, just like the sky at the intersection of day and night. And under the bluish-purple ceiling, there were countless tiny diamonds that were trembling slightly.
Duan Hengye found that these suspended silver diamonds would move with the flow of air, just like duckweed on water. Duan Hengye couldn't help but slow down the rhythm of his breathing, afraid to disturb the "stars" in the corridor.
However, perhaps because he stood here for a long time, the fine diamonds in the corridor slowly floated down and lay on top of Duan Hengye's soft hair and thick eyelashes.
When Meng Jinhuai arrived, this was the scene he saw.
Duan Hengye was wearing a gray sweater and was looking up at the interstellar day decorations in the corridor. Fine silver diamonds floated down from the top of his head and fell on Duan Hengye's face. As the famous "Flower of High Mountains" in the Galaxy, Duan Hengye usually had a slightly cold temperament. But now, he was like ice that had turned into fine snow, unbelievably gentle.
Meng Jinhuai didn't want to disturb Duan Hengye, but Duan Hengye's perception of the surroundings was too obvious. Almost as soon as Meng Jinhuai appeared at the end of the corridor, he turned around.
"Good morning," Duan Hengye said.
This morning, it was rare for Meng Jinhuai to not wear a military uniform. Under a background that was like stars and snow, he and the coffee-colored knitted shirt on his body made Duan Hangye feel warm. After hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Jinhuai also said, "Good morning." Then he walked to Duan Hengye's side.
After seeing Meng Jinhuai's appearance, Duan Hengye originally wanted to ask him why he didn't go to the military headquarters today. Could it be that he was also on vacation? But before he could ask, Duan Hengye suddenly remembered that his schedule for today was "Interstellar Day related activities". It seemed like this activity was related to Meng Jinhuai.
Sure enough, after Meng Jinhuai walked over, he said to Duan Hengye, "There's an Interstellar Day activity in a bit, it might take up your entire morning. You're not busy today, right?"
There were only a few small experiments left to do in the past few days. Generally speaking, the entire research institute was in a relatively relaxed state, and Duan Hengye was the same. After hearing Meng Jinhuai's words, Duan Hengye shook his head and said, "I'm not busy." Then he asked, "Where are we going to participate in the activity now?"
Meng Jinhuai shook his head and said, "Just here, just take a photo."
After hearing Meng Jinhuai's words, Duan Hengye finally remembered. Every Interstellar Day, the upper echelons of the Empire would take a photo similar to the "New Year's Pictorial" on Earth and add their own blessings. During Interstellar Day last year, the original owner took a photo with Meng Jinhuai. So this was the Interstellar Day activity that Meng Jinhuai talked about …
The residential area of the House of the Marshal was very large, and the two walked to the first floor while talking. No one lived here, and Duan Hengye didn't even come here a few times. When he reached this floor, he discovered that even this place, which was usually not visited by people, had been redecorated for this Galactic Day event.
Duan Hengye remembered that last year, the original owner and Meng Jinhuai took a photo at the entrance of the banquet hall of the House of the Marshal. And this year … it seemed like they were going to take a photo inside the residential area.
Sure enough, after Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai went downstairs, a few staff members walked up to them. Because he often attended banquets and other public events after transmigrating to [Toppling Stars], Duan Hengye was very familiar with the staff members in charge of styling.
After they arrived, they greeted the two of them first, and then Duan Hangye was brought to a changing room on this floor.
After entering the room, Duan Hengye saw a lone beige shirt hanging in the middle of the dressing room. Nan zhuxing's staff had always been very professional, but when Duan Hengye saw the shirt, he couldn't help but turn around and confirm with them, "… This shirt?"
Seeing that Duan Hengye asked, a very familiar staff member nodded and said, "Yes, Professor Duan, you just need to change into this shirt today." Although there were a lot of designer pants in the wardrobe, Duan Hengye couldn't accept them, so he still wore a pair of ordinary black trousers when he went out this morning.
But the trousers weren't the main point, the main point was the shirt — it was too different from last year's outfit.
During last year's shoot, the original host wore a very formal suit. Nan zhuxing's temperature wasn't high, but he was sweating a little during the shoot. But this year, the formal suit was gone, and a beige shirt was hanging here alone.
Especially when Duan Hengye walked closer, he saw that this shirt was made of silk.
Although Duan Hengye had doubts about the outfit, he never cared much about what to wear. Therefore, when he once again looked at the staff member with a puzzled expression and received an affirmative nod from the other party, Duan Hangye still walked into the inner room of the lounge and changed his clothes.
After putting it on, Duan Hengye found that the shirt's cut was very retro. In his opinion, it looked like a retro outfit from a certain era in Western countries. But compared to the portraits left behind at that time, it was a little simpler.
After Duan Hengye changed, the robot came out with a box. After the lid was opened, Duan Hengye found that there was a silver brooch with some long tassels lying quietly in the box. Compared to the previous gems, this brooch was really simple and elegant.
Because the outfit for today's shoot was too simple, after the staff member tidied up Duan Hengye's hair, he walked out of the room.
As soon as Duan Hengye went out, he saw that Meng Jinhuai was already standing in the corridor.
Just like he didn't wear formal clothes, today Meng Jinhuai didn't wear a black military uniform like last year. As the marshal of the military, whenever he appeared in public, Meng Jinhuai always neatly combed his hair behind his head and exposed his forehead.
But today was different. His hairstyle was very natural and part of his forehead was covered by his bangs. Coupled with the light gray cotton shirt on his body, Duan Hengye couldn't associate Meng Jinhuai with the previous marshal of the military.
After seeing Meng Jinhuai, Duan Hengye couldn't help but be stunned. It wasn't until Meng Jinhuai walked towards him that he finally realized that it was time to go to work.
Now, Duan Hengye had gradually adapted to his identity as a "public figure". In the past year, he had participated in a lot of events and became a frequent guest of the media. But unlike the live news coverage, today was Duan Hengye's first time taking photos.
The photos that would be released on Interstellar Day were still photos, so the overall shooting process wasn't much different from the Earth era. Now, the entire floor was covered in silver. In just a few minutes, Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai's hair and eyelashes were covered with fine diamonds just like before.
Although the overall shooting process was similar to Earth, because the shooting equipment was more advanced and there was no need for lighting, the entire shoot only took ten minutes. Unlike the awkward scene Duan Hengye imagined, the entire process was very natural. But even so, after hearing the staff say that the shoot was over, Duan Hengye couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, Duan Hangye, who found that there were fine diamonds on his shoulder during the shoot, finally couldn't help but be curious. He reached out and rubbed the fine diamonds accumulated in the wrinkles of his shirt shoulder, then rubbed them with his fingers.
What is this? After Duan Hengye felt the cold touch between his fingers, he searched for the answer in the original host's memory. But unfortunately, ever since the accident when he was a child, the original host had never celebrated Interstellar Day. So, Duan Hengye obviously couldn't find the answer that Duan Hengye wanted from his memory.
Meng Jinhuai seemed to know what Duan Hengye was thinking. He reached out his hand and slowly pinched a bit of the diamond in the air. Then, he walked up to Duan Hengye and said, "This is a kind of metal. After it reacts with certain substances in the air, it will automatically float to the top."
When the staff members heard Meng Jinhuai's words, they couldn't help but be surprised. They looked over. After all, this kind of metal diamond decoration was very common in the Interstellar. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that they had gotten the answer from their parents when they were in elementary school.
They didn't expect that the seemingly omniscient Professor Duan didn't know about this kind of metal.
Duan Hengye also saw the staff members' surprised expressions. He immediately realized that he seemed to have accidentally exposed his lack of common sense …
"So that's how it is." He gently loosened his fingers. Then, he saw that the silver-white thin diamonds had indeed floated back to the roof. Even though Duan Hangye told himself in his heart that he couldn't do anything that would make him look ignorant. But when the diamond floated up, his eyes couldn't help but show a hint of surprise.
Meng Jinhuai, who was standing on the side, remembered something.
When Duan Hengye's parents passed away because of an accident, he was only a child. Now that so many years had passed, Duan Hengye had probably forgotten the lively atmosphere of Interstellar Day.
Meng Jinhuai, who originally wanted to ask Duan Hengye if he was going to work, suddenly changed his mind. He walked up to Duan Hengye and asked, "Can you lend me some time in the afternoon?"
"Hmm?" After hearing Meng Jinhuai's question, Duan Hengye didn't immediately understand what he meant by lending him some time. However, Duan Hengye's work these past few days had been relatively easy, so when he heard Meng Jinhuai's question, even though he didn't know what the Marshal wanted to do, he still nodded and said, "… In the afternoon? Okay. "
It was probably because the Marshal's serious image was too deeply ingrained in people's hearts, so in Duan Hangye's expectation, Meng Jinhuai might want to use the afternoon to communicate with him about the design of the new top-level mecha. Or maybe there were some problems with the investigation of the Amro incident, so Meng Jinhuai wanted to consult him about the situation at the time.
After the two of them boarded the hovercraft, Meng Jinhuai handed a black coat and a cap of the same color to Duan Hengye. After seeing these things, Duan Hengye finally felt that something wasn't right.
He put on the coat and asked, "Where are we going now?"
After hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Jinhuai glanced at the outline of the city that was gradually appearing outside the hovercraft window. Then, he calmly said to Duan Hengye, "We're going to celebrate the festival."
Celebrate the festival. These three words were really simple, but when they came out of Meng Jinhuai's mouth, Duan Hengye felt that it was extremely surreal.
As a famous workaholic in the Galaxy, Meng Jinhuai actually told him that he wanted to borrow his afternoon to celebrate the festival?
Even though Duan Hengye really wanted to ask Meng Jinhuai if he was joking, or ask himself if he was dreaming right now, Duan Hengye stopped himself. But reason still made Duan Hangye take back those questions. He glanced at Meng Jinhuai and asked, "Then, just the two of us?"
"That's right." Meng Jinhuai had a natural expression on his face.
Wait … After seeing Meng Jinhuai's reaction, Duan Hengye realized that he asked the wrong question. He didn't want to know if Meng Jinhuai was going to celebrate the festival with just the two of them. He wanted to know if there would be any security personnel accompanying them.
"What about security?" He added in the end.
In fact, if it was in the past, Duan Hengye would never care about security. But in the short span of a few months, he experienced two consecutive attacks, so security was now something that Duan Hengye was very concerned about.
Even though Duan Hengye knew that no one would know about this in advance, the person beside him was Meng Jinhuai. The Marshal's identity was special, so he had to pay more attention to his safety than himself.
After hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Jinhuai casually smiled at him and said, "Don't worry, we're in Nan zhuxing right now."
After saying that, the hovercraft slowly approached a huge silver building that was more than 300 stories high, and then went through the door of the indoor parking space in the middle of the building.
"This is the largest city on the Southern Star," Meng Jinhuai said to Duan Hangye the moment he stepped through the door. "This is the largest city on the Southern Star, and it's also a planet directly under the military's jurisdiction." As soon as he said that, the hovercraft came to a steady stop. Then the hatch opened, and Meng Jinhuai also put on his cap and walked down.
Looking at Duan Hengye, who was still holding his cap in his hand, Meng Jinhuai half-jokingly said to him, "You're not wearing your cap? Nan zhuxing's security is fine, but if you go out without a cap, it's still a bit dangerous. "
After hearing Meng Jinhuai's words, Duan Hengye finally put on his cap and walked down from the silver hovercraft. In front of the hovercraft was a device similar to an elevator, which could be used to walk to the inside of the building.
After accepting that he was going to appear in public with Meng Jinhuai, Duan Hengye finally asked a question he should have asked earlier. He followed Meng Jinhuai into the "elevator" and asked, "What are we going to do later?"
Probably because he couldn't be more exposed, Duan Hengye didn't want to hide the fact that he lacked common sense in front of Meng Jinhuai. As a newcomer to the Interstellar Era, he really didn't know how this era celebrated Interstellar Day.
As expected, Meng Jinhuai wasn't surprised at all after hearing Duan Hengye's question.
"Many planets will hold carnivals during this holiday, but because Nan zhuxing's nature is a bit special, there won't be any carnivals here. However, compared to normal days, once Interstellar Day arrives, the shopping mall will be a lot more lively than usual. "Meng Jinhuai explained.
As he said that, the wooden door in front of him opened, and an extremely loud noise instantly traveled into Duan Hengye's ears. After taking a look, he realized that he was already standing in the shopping mall.
In his previous life, Duan Hengye was an otaku, but because he liked to watch movies, he often went to shopping malls. Perhaps it was related to the setting of the novel, but even though this huge building looked extremely high-tech from the outside, it didn't look much different from the shopping malls on Earth.
Duan Hengye couldn't help but lower the brim of his cap. Even though the environment was very noisy, his mood was inexplicably happy along with the crowd.
At this time, Meng Jinhuai directly grabbed Duan Hengye's hand and said, "Come, let's go watch a movie."
In fact, Duan Hengye was already used to holding hands with Meng Jinhuai from time to time, but when he remembered that they were in a shopping mall, he reflexively became nervous. However, after seeing from the corner of his eye that the people around him were not paying attention to him at all, Duan Hangye realized that he was now in the Interstellar Era. Holding hands in the mall would not be scrutinized by others like on Earth.
"Okay." Duan Hengye gently shook Meng Jinhuai's hand in the slightly crowded shopping mall. His tone was slightly raised, and there was a faint smile that couldn't be ignored.
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