Since Planet Duguang was one of the Marshal's planets, Meng Jinhuai's sudden visit didn't alert anyone. Other than Duan Hengye, no one else on the planet knew that the Marshal was at Amro University.
Meng Jinhuai knew that if he suddenly appeared, it would probably cause a lot of trouble for the organizers of the event, which was Amro University. Therefore, Meng Jinhuai didn't choose to attend the event with Duan Hengye. Instead, he stayed at his residence and continued to work.
The news that Duan Hengye would be attending the School History Exhibition had already spread throughout Amro University. However, because there weren't many guests today and only a few volunteers were participating, the event wasn't very exciting. By the time Duan Hengye arrived, there wasn't much of a commotion.
However, not long after, Duan Hengye was disappointed to find that his parents didn't seem to have much interaction with his classmates back then. The Yetian Empire and Amro University back then were much more chaotic than they were now. The Mecha Studies program involved the foundation of the Empire. Other than a group of students who relied on their own abilities to get in, there were also many who were "sponsored" by various Empire families.
Because of the complicated environment around them, there was always a sense of politeness and alienation when interacting with their classmates. Duan Hengye's parents weren't sponsored students. After seeing their talents, there were quite a few aristocratic families in the Empire who wanted to rope them in. However, in the end, the two of them didn't choose to get close to anyone. Instead, they immersed themselves in research.
If he had to say who he was familiar with … it would probably be the former vice principal of Amro University who spoke on stage yesterday.
When he found out that the lady wasn't present today, Duan Hengye couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. After attending a few public events for the School History Exhibition, he prepared to head back to his residence. However, at that moment, a familiar face from the Mecha Department suddenly appeared in front of Duan Hengye.
The person who had come was the head of the Mecha Department. Duan Hengye saw him almost every week during class.
"Hello, Professor Duan. I'm sorry to disturb you." His voice was a little soft, obviously not wanting the people around him to hear. Duan Hengye nodded and lowered his voice, "It's fine, please go ahead."
"It's like this. I don't know if you remember Ms. Zhu who gave a speech on stage yesterday. She used to be the vice-principal of Amro." The teacher said in Duan Hengye's ear. "She wants to see you." After hearing the staff's words, Duan Hengye couldn't help but be a little surprised. Unexpectedly, that lady also wanted to see him.
Duan Hengye nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course, but … where should we meet?"
"That's up to you," the staff member said.
Although Duan Hengye came to Amro almost every week, his area of activity was limited to the Mecha Department and his own residence. After such a long time, Duan Hengye still wasn't familiar with the other places on planet Duguang. He didn't even need to think to know that Amro University was holding a celebration recently. It was very lively. Not only on Amro's campus, but every corner of planet Duguang was probably filled with guests, reporters, and tourists from all over the world.
Although he didn't know why Ms. Zhu wanted to see him, Duan Hengye knew that it wasn't a good idea to appear in public.
Duan Hengye hesitated for a moment before saying to the Mecha Department teacher, "There are a lot of people on Amro and planet Duguang today. Why don't … we meet at my house?"
After hearing Duan Hengye's words, the teacher immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I'll let Ms. Zhu know."
As the former vice-principal of Amro University, Ms. Zhu still lived in the house the university gave her many years ago even though she had already retired. Speaking of which, Ms. Zhu's house wasn't far from Duan Hengye's residence.
After talking to the teacher, Duan Hengye directly boarded the hover device and flew towards his residence.
As the marshal, Meng Jinhuai had a lot of bodyguards around him. However, because they didn't want to disturb the people nearby, the bodyguards all stayed in a secluded place. Looking down from the floating device, he couldn't see anything special at all.
Duan Hengye returned home. The moment he opened the door, he saw Meng Jinhuai sitting in the living room working on some documents. Seeing Duan Hengye come back so quickly, Meng Jinhuai was slightly surprised. He put down his work and asked Duan Hengye, "Why are you back so soon?"
Duan Hengye couldn't help but look at the time on his photon computer. He took off his coat and sat on the other side of the sofa. "My parents were classmates back then and I wasn't familiar with them, so I wanted to find Ms. Zhu. She was their teacher back then, but she didn't participate in today's event."
"Okay." Meng Jinhuai nodded silently.
Duan Hengye continued, "Just as I was about to leave, a familiar teacher from Amro's Mecha Department told me that Ms. Zhu wanted to meet with me in private. Because Planet Duguang has been too lively recently, I invited Ms. Zhu to come directly to my house. "
Before Duan Hengye could finish his sentence, the photon computer floating beside him rang with a notification — Ms. Zhu had arrived at Duan Hengye's door.
Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai stood up from the sofa. At this time, Duan Hangye had already clicked on the optical computer to confirm the opening of the door, so just as they walked to the door, the wooden door slowly opened, and a lady in a dark green dress appeared there.
"Professor Duan …" As soon as the door opened, Ms. Zhu smiled at Duan Hengye and prepared to greet him. But before she could finish her sentence, she saw Meng Jinhuai standing beside Duan Hengye.
Meng Jinhuai's appearance clearly surprised Madam Zhu. She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Then, she raised her voice slightly and called out, "Marshal? Uh … good morning. "
"Hello, Ms. Zhu," Meng Jinhuai smiled and nodded at her. He shook her hand and said, "Please have a seat."
Only then did Madam Zhu recover from her shock. She smiled at Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai and said, "I didn't expect Marshal to be here too. If I knew, I would've informed the military beforehand."
Meng Jinhuai shook his head and said, "You're welcome. My arrival at Planet Duguang was rather sudden. I didn't inform anyone."
"I see …" Ms. Zhu gently took the cup of coffee from the robot. She exchanged a few pleasantries with Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai. After a while, she finally got to the main topic of the day.
Duan Hengye was sitting diagonally across from Ms. Zhu. After she put down the cup of coffee in her hand, she turned to Duan Hengye and said, "Actually, I came here today to talk to Professor Duan about something serious." After hearing this, Duan Hengye also put down the things in his hand and looked at Ms. Zhu seriously.
"It's like this …" Ms. Zhu looked out the window and said while recalling, "When your parents were young, Amro was quite chaotic, so they rarely socialized with their classmates. Instead, they spent all their time on research." Duan Hengye already knew about this a long time ago, so he wasn't surprised to hear it from Madam Zhu's mouth.
The woman continued to recall, "I was teaching them at the time, and I was one of the few people in the faculty who didn't have any special connections with the major forces in the Galaxy. Therefore, they often came back to ask me questions. After a while, we became familiar with each other."
Duan Hengye nodded while listening.
"Later on, I found out that they had been researching the issue of Flaming Scale and related weapon assembly." Without any warning, Duan Hengye heard the familiar fuel from Ms. Zhu's mouth.
Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai looked at each other. Ms. Zhu frowned slightly and continued, "But even though I was their instructor, I couldn't tell exactly how far the research had progressed. I could only feel that their research in this area was more in-depth than any other research in the Galaxy. "
Although Duan Hengye knew that the assembly of photon weapons wasn't a simple matter, he didn't expect this research to have started during their university years and to have taken such a long time.
After seeing Duan Hengye's reaction, Ms. Zhu guessed that he probably already knew about this research. Duan Hengye saw Ms. Zhu turn her gaze back to him and said, "Although I don't know if the old data from decades ago is still useful … but since it's something your parents left behind, it's better to hand it over to you."
After saying this, Ms. Zhu took her photon computer from the side and logged into a system that Duan Hengye had never seen before.
Seeing Duan Hengye's curious expression, Ms. Zhu smiled and explained, "This is a data recording system that was popular in the mecha research field back in the day, but not many people know about it now."
Just like Ms. Zhu said, the internal structure of this system looked a bit old and had a very obvious style difference from the various websites in the Galaxy.
"The data from their experiments back then was recorded in this system." Ms. Zhu said as she entered Duan Hengye's parents' account. Then she sighed as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders and said to Duan Hengye, "Because they passed away more than ten years ago, according to the system's internal inheritance procedure, you can directly transfer the data to yourself."
Although Duan Hengye had received related training before and had a deep impression of this system in his mind, it wasn't as simple as the data recorded in the system. However, these impressions were not as detailed as data records. After hearing Madam Zhu's words, Duan Hangye immediately thanked the other party gratefully. Ms. Zhu waved her hand at Duan Hengye and said, "Okay, I didn't do anything. It's only right that this data is in your hands. "
After saying that, Ms. Zhu opened the system's data transfer function and taught Duan Hengye how to register his data bit by bit. A few minutes later, Ms. Zhu's photon computer screen suddenly flashed with a light green light. At the same time, Duan Hengye's photon computer showed a notification.
Ms. Zhu clapped her hands in satisfaction and said to Duan Hengye, "Okay, Professor Duan, you can look at the experiment records now." Although she had a good relationship with Duan Hengye's parents back in the day, it had been more than ten years after all. After the sadness of the memories dissipated, Ms. Zhu's eyes were filled with longing for the future.
On this day, Duan Hengye, Meng Jinhuai, and Ms. Zhu chatted for a long time. During the conversation, Duan Hengye discovered that Ms. Zhu was indeed a very outgoing and straightforward person. It was easy to imagine how rare this personality was in Amro back in the day.
When they finally left, they also took a group photo with Ms. Zhu. A few hours later, Duan Hangye boarded the returning starship again. Only then did Ms. Zhu post the photo along with the other photos on her social media account.
As a former vice-principal who had worked at Amro University for most of her life, Ms. Zhu had a large group of students who came to participate in the school's anniversary celebration. Thus, she posted more than ten group photos with them. Although she had been retired for many years, as someone whose name often appeared in teaching materials related to mecha, Ms. Zhu still had a lot of fans on the Star Web.
Especially after retirement, she couldn't stay idle and would occasionally open popular science posts on the Star Web to interact with the netizens. Thus, the moment Ms. Zhu posted the photo, she received a lot of comments and likes. After a while, when everyone saw who the person in the photo was, the comment section was filled with screams.
"X floor:
Am I seeing things?! You actually took a group photo with Professor Duan and the Marshal! Is Professor Duan also your student? "
This earlier message was pushed to the top, and before Madam Zhu could reply, everyone started to explain to him that Duan Hangye did not receive any interstellar education. For people who knew Duan Hengye better, seeing a group photo of him and Ms. Zhu on the Star Web was expected … But why was Meng Jinhuai also in the photo?
According to Nan zhuxing's previously announced schedule, Meng Jinhuai shouldn't be at Crossing Light now. After discovering this, some people began to ask when Ms. Zhu, Duan Hengye, and Meng Jinhuai took the photo.
Because Su Mingge had been paying attention to his teacher, he also saw the group photo of Ms. Zhu and Duan Hengye.
Like the other netizens, Su Mingge couldn't help but ask, "Is the Marshal also participating in the event? Why don't I see him? "
After a while, Su Mingge received a reply from his teacher. Ms. Zhu wrote in the comment section, "He's on Crossing Light, but he didn't participate in the school anniversary celebration. It's a private trip."
Ms. Zhu's tone was very calm, but when the netizens saw this, they suddenly felt like they were being fed dog food … So, Meng Jinhuai also changed his schedule at the last minute and came to visit Duan Hengye …
Ms. Zhu and Duan Hengye's group photo quickly spread throughout the Star Web. At this time, Duan Hengye was about to arrive in Nan zhuxing.
Recently, Duan Hengye returned to the House of the Marshal in Nan zhuxing more frequently than before because he had to learn how to pilot a mecha. Recently, the identity of the female lead, Shang Mengzhen, was officially announced — she was a member of the Duan family who was stranded in the Star Web because of the war. This story was simple and melodramatic. As a member of this ancient family, Shang Mengzhen also had her own residence in Nan zhuxing. However, as a movie queen, she was busy with work. Even though her identity had been restored, she still rarely appeared here.
The House of the Marshal was very large and almost all of the rooms were empty. Walking along the corridor, Duan Hengye, who had read some Star Web and Ye Tian history, couldn't help but feel lonely when he heard his own lonely footsteps.
But today, everything seemed a little different.
After arriving in Nan zhuxing, Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai went back to their respective offices. But before Duan Hengye walked to the door, he heard a noise from the other side of the corridor. Duan Hengye couldn't help but be a little curious. He stopped walking into the office and walked in the direction of the noise.
Although he heard the noise, in fact, the source of the noise was not far from where Duan Hengye was now. But after taking a few steps, Duan Hengye felt that there was a person there … No, there was another creature besides him.
Duan Hengye couldn't help but slow down his footsteps. After a while, he finally saw a little boy in a blue sweater standing at the end of the corridor, and … a dog?
Seeing this, Duan Hengye finally remembered that in addition to himself and Meng Jinhuai, Meng Jinhuai's nephew, Meng Hexi, also lived in the House of the Marshal. Because his class time was often different from Duan Hengye's days here, and because he liked to play around, Duan Hengye hadn't seen Meng Hexi for a long time.
At this time, Meng Hexi finally noticed Duan Hengye.
Children always changed a lot. Maybe it was because he was educated, but compared to the first time Duan Hengye saw Meng Hexi, he was much less arrogant. After seeing Duan Hengye, Meng Hexi couldn't help but bite his lips, then he stopped moving.
At the same time, Duan Hengye saw that the little guy that was trapped by Meng Hexi at the end of the corridor was finally free. It didn't stop for a second, and it quickly slipped away from Meng Hexi. Although the little dog's legs weren't long, it was very agile. It quickly ran from Meng Hexi to Duan Hengye.
Seeing that the dog was about to run away, Meng Hexi finally couldn't help but yell in Duan Hengye's direction, "Ah ah ah! Professor Duan, help me catch it! "
"What?" In his two lifetimes, Duan Hengye had never met anyone who asked him to catch a dog. Although he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, Duan Hangye's movements didn't hesitate at all. He slowly squatted down, and a few seconds later, the little dog ran into Duan Hengye's arms.
Although its body wasn't big, it was quite strong. After being hit by it, Duan Hengye's body couldn't help but tilt back a little. However, he quickly stabilized his body and carried the little guy who was still dizzy.
Duan Hengye saw that the little dog in his arms looked like the Shih Tzu from Earth. The little guy's fur was very long, and there was a small braid on top of its head. It looked very cute. At this time, Meng Hexi also ran to Duan Hengye's side. When he saw the little dog in Duan Hengye's arms that didn't dare to move, he couldn't help but pout and say, "Why is it suddenly so obedient?"
Duan Hengye never had a pet before, so the way he held the dog was a little awkward. Seeing that its little owner was here, Duan Hengye slowly bent down and was about to return the dog to Meng Hexi.
However, at this time, the little guy turned around and looked at Meng Hexi, then suddenly turned its head and tried to crawl into Duan Hengye's arms. The braid on top of its head rubbed against Duan Hengye's neck. Because it was a little ticklish, Duan Hengye finally put the little guy on the ground.
Unexpectedly, it didn't run away. Instead, it wagged its tail and started to circle around Duan Hengye. Seeing this, Meng Hexi pouted even higher. He reached out and patted the puppy's head not very gently, then said to Duan Hangye in a fit of pique, "This was given to me by the marshal, but I don't want it now."
After hearing Meng Hexi's words, Duan Hengye couldn't help but be a little surprised. After all, in his impression, Meng Jinhuai didn't seem like someone who would give a child a pet at all. It seemed that after the previous incident, Meng Jinhuai had also slowly tried to care for this child that he had carelessly neglected for a long time …
Actually, Duan Hengye wanted to see what was going on before going to work. However, after seeing Meng Hexi's awkward expression, he changed his mind.
Duan Hengye picked up the little dog again, then squatted down and said to Meng Hexi, "Touch it slowly, don't use too much strength."
Perhaps because it was being carried by Duan Hengye, the little guy finally stopped running away. After hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Hexi finally reached out his hand and touched the little dog's back.
This time, it finally stopped running away.
For the rest of the afternoon, Duan Hengye and Meng Hexi spent the rest of the afternoon with his little dog. Actually, at the beginning, Duan Hengye also thought about leaving to work. However, after seeing the obvious change in Meng Hexi's expression compared to last time, he rarely left.
Meng Hexi reminded Duan Hengye of his younger brother, Duan Hengxing. For a moment, his emotions became a little complicated — — mixed with emotions and a little bit of self-blame. Involuntarily, Duan Hengye's attitude towards Meng Hexi became gentler.
When the sunlight outside the window turned warm orange, the tension between Meng Hexi and his pet finally eased. At some point, Meng Jinhuai also appeared here. He looked at Duan Hengye with a smile, then slowly walked over and picked up the little dog under Meng Hexi's admiring gaze.
Seeing this scene, Duan Hengye's heart once again had the desire to stop time. However, as someone who knew the progress of mecha research, he knew better than anyone else in this world that perhaps this peaceful life had already entered the countdown.
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