Love at Second Sight [Interstellar]

"The alien beast has retreated?"

"Temporarily retired, and I probably won't come back within ten hours."

Zhuang Yan looked at the time and found that he had only slept for four or ten minutes, but he still planned to get up and said, "I woke up, go to sleep."

"The secret service said you only slept for less than an hour." Zhou Yuchen stopped him from getting out of bed, "How is it enough? There is a shortage of supplies, and there are no empty tents outside."

Zhuang Yan was indeed still very tired, and his head still hurt a little. He couldn't help even if he went to the ship in such a state, but he couldn't occupy Zhou Yuchen's resting place, and said, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"No. There will be a meeting in four or ten minutes." Zhou Yuchen rubbed his fingers between his brows, opened his eyes to look at Zhuang Yan, and said with a smile, "Why don't we squeeze?"

He knew that Zhuang Yan didn't like to get too close to people, not to mention that their relationship wasn't that close, but Zhuang Yan only paused for a moment and said, "If you can't sleep." He lifted the quilt and put his feet on the tunnel : "You sleep in it."

Zhou Yuchen was a little surprised, Zhuang Yan was already standing by the bed waiting for him, his white shirt was a little wrinkled from sleep, and there was still a look of sleepiness on his face.

He couldn't help smiling, so he took off his military boots and jacket, and slept on his side.

Zhuang Yan then sat on the bed, stretched out his hand to turn off the small light, and glanced at Zhou Yuchen before turning off the light, and found that when his eyes were closed, a little tiredness appeared on his face.

Zhuang Yan lay down again.The small tent became quiet again, only white noise sounded softly and evenly.The width of the camp bed was limited, and it was too much for two big men. Zhuang Yan didn't want to squeeze Zhou Yuchen, so he moved his body outside.

Just when he moved half of his body in the air, and was about to fall asleep like this, an arm suddenly circled behind him, wrapping around his waist, and a deep voice rang beside his ears, vibrating and drilled into his ears: "What are you doing?"

Zhuang Yan's body stiffened: "I... go a little closer, so I won't squeeze you."

"If you go any further, you'll go under the bed." Zhou Yuchen's mouth hit Zhuang Yan's ears with steam, "It's okay to squeeze a little." He pulled Zhuang Yan back with his arm, and patted his arm like coaxing a child, "Okay That's it, go to sleep."

Zhuang Yan lay on his back stiffly, the two of them were close to each other, the temperature of the place where they touched almost melted together.And Zhou Yuchen turned his body sideways, without retracting his arms, facing him, and his breathing quickly became even.

Didn't it mean that Sentry's five senses are very keen, and the sleeping environment is very demanding!How could Zhou Yuchen fall asleep in less than ten seconds!

However, he was really too tired. After roaring in his heart for a while, his consciousness gradually became blurred and he fell asleep.

The alarm clock rang on time, and he woke up. There was no one in the tent. Zhuang Yan sat up, was stunned for two seconds, then got up, put on his coat and rushed to the ship.

Sure enough, as Zhou Yuchen said, when Zhuang Yan arrived on the medical ship, there were no more wounded.In addition to the sentinels sent to him, Zhuang Yan also helped two female guides with weak mental strength to share part of the work, so he was busy for nearly nine hours, and went back for a rest in the middle. The wounded who were sent to Area C were basically dealt with. It's done.

For two meals a day, Zhuang Yan asked the orderly to send half of them to the two children.There were no wounded for the time being, so Zhuang Yan went back to rest in the tent. After sleeping for a long time, he felt someone coming into the tent again.

Zhuang Yan opened his eyes, and a palm fell to cover his eyes: "Don't look at it, go to sleep."

The palm was dry and warm, and it was comfortable to press against Zhuang Yan's eye sockets, which were sore and swollen due to fatigue. Zhuang Yan knew who it was, so he fell asleep again.

When he woke up again, Zhou Yuchen was still beside the bed, sitting on a stool. Seeing him wake up, he said, "Are you awake? I turned off your alarm clock."

Zhuang Yan quickly checked the time, he actually slept for four hours! "The alien beast didn't come?"

"No." Zhou Yuchen said, "They have stopped attacking and are retreating to the south of the planet. Let's not pursue them for now, and send the civilians away first."

Zhuang Yan slept for four hours, not only did not dispel the drowsiness, but the exhaustion accumulated in the past few days was like a flood.Zhou Yuchen said, "Sleep if you want to."

Zhuang Yan was lying on the bed, blinking and blinking, struggling between sleeping and not sleeping. Zhou Yuchen couldn't help laughing when he saw him, moved his eyes to the side, and picked up something from his pillow: "What is this?"

Zhuang Yan glanced at it and said, "The amulet...was given by someone else."

Zhou Yuchen said: "Those two children who were rescued by you?"

Knowing that the orderly should have told him, Zhuang Yan said, "Yes."

Zhou Yuchen was playing with the small amulet, which was a small cloth bag similar to a purse, with patterns embroidered with colored threads, and it was a cat-like animal.

"What is this embroidered?"

Zhuang Yan paused, and said, "It's Nebrosa."

"Nebrosa?"

Zhuang Yan reached out to take the small purse and said, "Nebrosa is a beast of the Baitan tribe. Do you know the Baitan tribe?"

"I've heard of it." Zhou Yuchen said, "It's said that they believe in gods."

"In the belief of the Baitan people, Nebrosa is the incarnation of the gods, who rescue them when they are in trouble and guide them when they are lost. The Baitan people are a wandering family, but when they have a premonition of their own death , will go back to their hometown." Zhuang Yan looked at the cat on the purse, "Nebrosa, in Baitan language, means 'go home'."

"... There used to be a group of Baitan people on Ceres. My family and I visited them and lived with them for a while."

Zhou Yuchen also looked at the animal on the purse: "This should be some kind of leopard with a very special pattern." The body color is golden yellow, covered with large dark cloud-like markings.

"It's already extinct." Zhuang Yan said. "The scientific name is Clouded Leopard."

He sat up, put the purse into the pocket of his coat, looked at Zhou Yuchen, and Zhou Yuchen looked at him, obviously guessing that he had more to say.

Zhuang Yan opened his mouth, stroking the embroidery thread pattern on the purse in his pocket with his fingers: "My brother's quantum beast is the clouded leopard."

He said this and nothing else.

Zhou Yuchen raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you still want to sleep? Let's squeeze together like yesterday."

Zhuang Yan raised his eyelids, and immediately said: "No, I still..."

"That's it." Zhou Yuchen sat directly on the edge of the bed, stretched his long legs, blocking Zhuang Yan's way out of bed, "Yesterday you slept outside, today it's my turn."

After speaking, he lay down majestically and closed his eyes.With his back against the tent, Zhuang Yan sat cross-legged, staring at Zhou Yuchen at first, but after staring, his expression suddenly changed, showing a slight strangeness.

He refused to lie down for a long time, so Zhou Yuchen opened his eyes and said, "What's wrong? Aren't you still sleepy?"

Zhuang Yan looked at him and frowned, "You're not asleep at all, are you?"

Zhou Yuchen said, "What?"

"You didn't fall asleep at all." Zhuang Yan said in a determined tone, "Last night."

Yesterday he thought Zhou Yuchen had really fallen asleep, because not only was Zhou Yuchen breathing evenly, but his consciousness cloud was also calm.

But at that time, he was obviously too tired, and he couldn't tell the difference between being calm and not having the slightest fluctuation.

The Sentinel who came down from the battlefield has experienced the "sharpening" of the five senses, the weakened sensory barrier, the mental load is too heavy, and the consciousness cloud is restless, just like the dark clouds that are constantly churning when the storm is about to come, and lightning will appear from time to time.This requires a guide to guide them and build a barrier to calm the restlessness.

But Zhou Yuchen's consciousness cloud was too quiet. This was not the calmness after the counseling, but he used a wall to forcibly block himself from the outside world.

While it's amazing what a Sentinel can do, it's certainly a way of quenching thirst with poison.

"Didn't you ask a guide to guide you?" Zhuang Yan asked.

Zhou Yuchen opened his eyes and looked at him: "No. You know, I can't do that kind of counseling."

He had said long ago that he could not accept a guide entering his brain. Zhuang Yan knew that when the two of them piloted the mech together for training, although there was a brief spiritual exchange, it was only to the point and did not penetrate into each other's spirit. field to go.

Zhuang Yan remained silent, but after a while he asked, "Would you like to give it a try?"

Zhou Yuchen paused, and Zhuang Yan said, "Didn't I enter your 'small world' before?"

Zhou Yuchen looked at him again, sighed helplessly and said, "I will hurt you."

Zhuang Yan said: "You have to try to know."

"I don't want any possibility of hurting you." Zhou Yuchen said, "You are also very tired, rest, there will be many people who need you, don't worry about me."

"Oh." Zhuang Yan stopped talking.

Instead, Zhou Yuchen sat up and said in a low voice, "Why, did I say something wrong?"

Zhuang Yan raised his head and looked at him, frowned and said, "General Zhou, you are really not sincere. 'Don't worry about you'? You can care about my feelings, whether I go to the battlefield or not, but don't care about me." Allow me to take care of you?"

Zhou Yuchen was taken aback for a moment, then laughed.Zhuang Yan said seriously: "Why are you laughing? Your self-enclosed behavior will add a burden to yourself and increase risks for your troops. How can you not take it seriously?"

Zhou Yuchen laughed even more.However, looking at Zhuang Yan, understanding his persistence, he said, "You don't understand, if because of this attempt, I hurt you..."

Zhuang Yan met his gaze: "But I can't leave you alone, Yu Gong, you are the sentinel and I am the guide, you fight with strange beasts, we guarantee your spiritual safety, Yu private, we are friends." He After a pause, "I can't watch my friend hurt himself."

After he finished speaking, but he didn't get an answer for a long time, Zhuang Yan glanced at Zhou Yuchen again: "What do you think?"

"It's nothing, I just thought about it." Zhou Yuchen kept watching him, blinked his eyes dotted with tears and moles, and said softly, "It should be a very happy thing to be your family."