The Name of the Rose [Interstellar]

〖Your big blue eyes/Your pointy little nose/Suddenly you stand still/How beautiful your flaming fur is/But what are you talking about/It will always be a mystery. --"Fox howl"〗

The door of the confinement room suddenly opened, and the light was like water, pouring down on the head.

Luo Suo raised his hand to cover his eyes that were used to the darkness.

"Your superior has signed, you can go," said the watchman.

Rosso moved his stiff neck a little sluggishly, and walked out of the place where he had stayed for 72 hours with his head down.The bright spotlights on the ceiling seemed to be staring too sharply from others, making him just want to shrink back into his shell as soon as possible.

A figure in uniform appeared in the field of vision, and the golden rose on the collar emblem shone brightly.Rosso looked up in surprise and saw Joey's face.

"You seem disappointed to see it's me." Joey's voice was devoid of emotion.

"..." Luo Suo moved his lips, but did not make a sound.

Joey approached him and lowered his voice: "You should think he won't come. He doesn't know your identity yet."

Luo Suo smiled wryly: "Sir, do you believe it? Even if he knew who I am, he wouldn't come to bail me out. He would only feel ashamed."

Joey's eyes flickered, "You think too much. I will give you a day off today, go back and rest."

Luo Suo nodded, took two steps and then turned around, "Sir, I often feel that you are more like an older brother than him. He..."

"Shh." Joey put his index finger on his lips, and said softly, "There's just over a month left. If you have anything to say, you can tell him yourself after that. Of course, I mean—" he gestured Look at the direction of the invisible wall, "If we haven't been played to death by those friendly high-dimensional intelligent creatures in a few months, and we haven't been scorched by the sun."

The Federal Fleet has a rule: for all cases in the Earth Age, the statute of limitations is six years.

No matter who has done anything wrong on Earth, let it go from the seventh year of the fleet's sailing.Xue Yu will not be held accountable for boarding the ship under another name.

Now it is the end of the sixth year, and the statute of limitations is about to expire.Next year will be the year of repentance.All those who harbor secrets in their hearts can unburden and confide them.

But now it seems that there may not be another next year.

There was a complex bitterness in Joey's eyes.

Is it true that, as those doomsdayists insist, this invisible wall is the final judgment of the gods?

brother, brother.

What an attractive word for young children.

Especially when you have an older brother to be proud of.

In his young heart, his elder brother Xue Yuan was undoubtedly the proud son of heaven.Just like the meaning of his Russian name "Ivan", he is favored by God.

My brother is better than him in everything.His skin is fairer than his, his hair color is more dazzling than his, he has more ideas, his mouth is more eloquent than his, and his JJ is bigger than his.

People around him said that Ivan is beautiful and smart, and he will definitely be a person who will do great things in the future.As for him as the younger brother... People struggled to see him from head to toe, and finally had to say: "Misha is very cute and kind."

He used to think that his father liked him more than his elder brother, because whenever the two of them did bad things, his father would always catch his elder brother and beat him up, and he would frown and reprimand him.When I was a little older and read "A Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Zheng beat Jia Baoyu violently, but he was very tolerant of Jia Huan.Because there is no expectation, so I will not be harsh.

For a while, my elder brother was obsessed with his father's library, and repeatedly sneaked in through the window and picked the lock to steal books when his father was not at home.

One time, he followed his elder brother's example and took a copy. It was an old tome, the paper was yellowed, densely packed with double-column miniature prints, and the cover was all off. I don't know what it was called.The first few pages of chronology that looked like a history book made him lose interest and was about to give up when a paragraph of description caught his attention:

"This is a handsome young man, with blond hair against a white oval face, straight and handsome bridge of nose and lips like the works of art by a master sculptor in ancient times, a pair of ice-blue eyes that are sharp and spirited, blooming like a cold sword light."

He ran to present a treasure to Xue Yuan as if he had discovered a major secret: "Brother, this man named Reinhardt is very similar to you. Let's use this book when we play next time, you will be Reinhardt!" special."

Unexpectedly, my brother rolled his eyes: "No."

"But he seems to be very powerful!"

"What do you know! He only lived to be 25 years old before he died." Xue Yuan shook his dazzling blond hair, "I'm so beautiful, I can't die."

"........."

Reunited more than ten years later, he was not surprised to see that his brother had turned into a handsome man like Emperor Reinhardt.

It's just that the emperor didn't recognize him anymore.

He didn't blame Xue Yuan for his forgetfulness.My brother has mild face blindness, which he has known since childhood.He was only ten years old when we parted, and the time span of more than ten years was enough to polish his immature face until it became blurred.What's more, he deliberately changed his image and dyed his hair red for the sake of impersonation.

It should be said that as a senior brother, he is a good person.Although he has an arrogant personality, he never embarrasses his subordinates and takes good care of him.

He thought happily, even if he was accepted by his brother as Luo Suo, it would be good.

However, this illusion was quickly shattered into soap bubbles.

Once at the technical officer club, he was dressed in casual clothes and a cool cowboy hat to play handsome, and happened to meet Xue Yuan across from him.

He ran over to greet him affectionately, but unexpectedly the other party showed a puzzled expression, not knowing who he was.

Only then did he truly realize that in Xue Yuan's eyes, he was nothing more than an event uniform with a head of red hair.When the two characteristics of red hair + uniform disappeared, he was a complete passerby in his eyes.

brother, brother.

Is my presence in your heart really that weak?You don't remember your younger brother Misha who regarded you as a god 14 years ago, and you don't remember this colleague Luo Suo who is looking forward to you now.

What exactly do I need to do so that you will really see me in your eyes and engrave me in your memory?

When you left home, I chased you crying and begged you to stay.You made a promise with me that you would come back to pick me up one day in the future.

This casual agreement, you must have already left it behind.For more than ten years, you have never contacted me once.I didn't wait for a word from you until the fleet was about to leave Earth forever.

If it wasn't for the chance given by God, I was able to pretend to be a young Italian-born Rosso who died unexpectedly and got into the fleet. I would have already become one of the billions of undead on the earth, and I would never see you again until I died.

So I named my mecha Calèn de Greche, Greek sun.

There is no new day in the Greek calendar.In Italian, this is an idiom, meaning impossible days.

The Greek sun is endless.

Even in such an increasingly solemn period, the routine reception is still held as scheduled.If this is not the case, I am afraid that people will become more and more panicked.

It was very different from the previous scenes of drinking wine, chatting and laughing. Although the clothes were as bright as before, everyone's faces were full of burnout and anxiety about the future.

Even if Qi Lian was specially invited to attend to increase the atmosphere, it would not be able to lift too many people's emotions.The current situation where both the science officer and the technical officer are helpless, what can this ignorant young man who looks like a big child change?

However, there are always people who can temporarily put aside their troubles and focus on the beautiful scenery in front of them.

"You have a pretty face."

"If I could have such a perfect body, I would accept it if I was swallowed by the sun. Genetically modified people are different."

Such whispers abound.

Qi Lian was allowed to wear a uniform, tall and straight like a jade tree.But he had no rank, and his epaulets and collar insignia were empty, except for a decorative golden ribbon hanging diagonally.He was not used to the boots, and he was so cramped that he didn't know how to walk.

As a female companion, Anna held his arm and tried her best to calm his nervousness: "Just walk as usual, and it doesn't matter if you take a little more step."

Xue Yuan was far away from them, and his female companion was still Chi Caifan.When moving around the court, he always stood on the outside intimately, preventing her from seeing Qi Lian.She also understood his good intentions, accepted the kindness, and did not cast her eyes on where Qi Lian was.The reason is that the uniform worn by Qi Lian originally belonged to his "father".

He already resembled his "father" in appearance, wearing the same clothes, almost a living replica.

Xue Yuan was used to seeing Qi Lian naked, and when he first saw his appearance today, he couldn't help but blurted out: "My God."

Even if he is like this, let alone Chi Caifan.No matter how you forget and let go of emotional matters, it is impossible to delete everything cleanly like formatting a hard disk.

The concubine's heart is water from the ancient well, so if I don't meet each other.

In addition, Xue Yuan also hid a little selfishness.In case Qi Lian suddenly ran over to kiss him in public, no matter how he thought about it, Chi Caifan might explode in silence, causing Xue Yuan to perish in silence.

Qi Lian has no interest in gossip, wine, food, or beauties, her eyes are fixed on one person without blinking, and she concentrates on catching his jokes with others.

"Can you hear it from such a distance?" Anna asked with a smile.

Qi Lian nodded: "Yes." His expression turned a little puzzled again, "But I don't understand what they mean. Why do so many people ask him, 'So what does the fox call'?"

Anna burst out laughing: "Why is this meme still not out of date!" She explained to Qi Lian, "There was a video network called Youtube in the last century, and there was a song on it that was once very popular, "The Fox Calls". The previous day For a while, the retro style was popular in the fleet, and many people played this song again.”

Qi Lian was still puzzled: ""The Fox Calls"?"

"Well, 'Whatdoesthefoxsay', the lyrics are about a man who meets a fox and tries to learn all the sounds to communicate with it, trying to figure out what it's saying, but there's no way."

Anna took out her phone, found out the lyrics and showed it to Qi Lian: "Here, this is it. For a while, everyone who saw Ivan would ask, 'So what's the name of the fox?' I bet, his heart must be broken. "

Xue Yuan is dealing with Miss Jiao Didi.He said a few words, and Miss Jiao Didi laughed so hard that she slapped him lightly with her pink fist.

This guy is still so stubborn.Anna thought a little helplessly.

Suddenly, Qi Lian who was beside him said out of nowhere: "I think the person who wrote this song likes that fox very much, and he is also very lonely."

The social tricks were almost done, Xue Yuan got away and turned back, only to see Anna alone, Qi Lian was gone.

"Where's that guy?" Xue Yuan looked around.

"Say you don't like it here and go back."

"He left first?" Xue Yuan was startled.It was the first time for Qi Lian to act without saying hello to himself.

Could it be that you are not feeling well?

He casually put the wine glass into the passing waiter's tray, "I'll go and see him."

Xue Yuan's application for Qi Lian's residence has been taken care of in the past two days, not far from Xue Yuan's room.Qi Lian liked it very much, and was very happy when he moved in.

Xue Yuan pushed the door and it was closed tightly.The "At Home" light on the panel was green, but there was also a red "Do Not Disturb" light.

"Killian?" He knocked lightly on the door, "Let me in."

The door clicked and opened automatically, but no one greeted it.

The lights in the house were not turned on, only a few computer monitors glowing faintly.

Not to mention, all kinds of strange animal sounds came from the speakers.There are yells like coquettishness, there are yells like frightened and maddened, and there are wailing sounds full of sadness.

Qi Lian sat in the corner of the room with her legs curled up, her chin resting on her knees, quietly motionless.

"What are you doing?" Xue Yuan walked towards him, "What are these sounds?"

Qi Lian didn't look up: "It's the fox's cry. I want to know what the fox is talking about."

Xue Yuan put his hand on his forehead speechlessly, "Are you also brainwashed by the Divine Comedy?"

There was no smile on Qi Lian's face, and he was a little too serious.

"Are you angry?" Xue Yuan was quite surprised, "Is it because of what happened at the banquet just now?"

no respond.In the video, a fox was whining, Xue Yuan frowned: "Can't you close these first?"

For the first time, Qi Lian refused to carry out his instructions and remained steadfast.Xue Yuan had no choice but to sit down next to him: "Killian, did Anna tell you that I am an acting personality? This is indeed my problem. I need to be noticed by others, which makes me feel that I am needed and missed. Yes. The eyes of others are the nourishment of my life. If no one is watching me, I don’t know how to live well.”

"..."

"The girl I was talking to just now, I couldn't remember her name and appearance, so I gave her the code name 'Miss Jiao Didi'. She also has her problem: she needs a fantasy idol as a pillar of life. She and I are like the relationship between an actor and an audience, I perform, she watches, everyone gets what they want, and everyone is happy. This is a transaction, nothing to do with feelings.”

"..."

"Can you say something?"

"..."

Just when Xue Yuan was considering whether to slap him and bring him back to normal, all kinds of fox calls stopped.Qi Lian finally opened his mouth: "I'm not angry."

"Then you are?"

Qi Lian leaned his head against the wall, sighed, and said to himself: "The little prince can't tame a fox. Because, from the very beginning, he couldn't understand what the fox was saying."

A pair of arms supported his back and knees, his body rose into the air, and was hugged horizontally.In the next second, he was placed firmly on the edge of the bed.

He was a little surprised to see that beautiful fox knelt down on one knee in front of him.The skin that came into contact with the air cooled slightly, followed by a warm touch.

Qi Lian instinctively reacted to dodge, but her back was pressed against the head of the bed, and her body had no room to move.A strange feeling invaded the brain inch by inch.He couldn't help asking: "You... What are you doing...?"

Xue Yuan said a word, "Go and find out what it means." His voice was vague.

The mouse on the monitor moved again and again, crawled towards the search box, and typed a word tremblingly.However, the second word was not successfully typed.The mouse struggled and jumped a few times with the last bit of self-awareness that had not yet fallen, and fell weakly towards the bottom of the screen.

With a bang, the computer went to sleep with a black screen.

Without the fluorescence of the monitor, the room was dark.

In the daze, there was a charming whisper in my ear: "You don't need to understand what the fox is saying. You just need to know that there are some things that the fox will only do for you alone, and only for you forever."

The door was gently closed, and a gentle silence enveloped the room again.

Xue Yuan wandered in the deserted corridor.

The wonderful emotions at this moment seem to be dispelled only by walking around unconsciously.

Melville once said: I have written a wicked book, but my heart is as pure as a lamb.

Xue Yuan wanted to say: I did something erotic, but my heart is as pure as gorse.

Qi Lian's touch and taste still clearly remained on the tongue and in the mouth.My former self couldn't even kiss someone.

A long time ago, he and a friend played chess to pass the time.The opponent asked casually while playing chess: "There are so many people who confess their love to you, but none of you like it? What kind of person do you want?"

One of Xue Yuan's pawns reached the opponent's bottom line and was promoted to queen.He picked up the chess piece: "What I want is this kind of queen. It's not a queen from the beginning, but a step by step from a soldier."

"Does it make a difference?"

Xue Yuan put the queen on the chessboard, "For me, there is. This queen will only appear in the endgame. It appears for the purpose of turning the situation around and has no other purpose. Only such a person will let me this The king relies on it with all his heart."

Although he has not yet got a queen, he has got a little prince: a little prince who is still ignorant, but has tied the safety of mankind to his body.

Just as I thought of this, the light suddenly dimmed, and there seemed to be two sinister visions coming from somewhere.Xue Yuan suddenly came back to his senses, only to see a phantom at the end of the corridor.

Despite the opponent's quick movements, he could still see the technical officer's uniform and red hair clearly.

... Rosso?

For a moment, he subconsciously wanted to run after him, but suddenly another thought flashed through his mind.

"I'm Italian, and my Italian name is Rosso, which means someone with red hair..." Rosso once said to him.

Xue Yuan's eyes froze slightly, and he stopped in his tracks.

The author has something to say:

☆、Fox language

At work, Xue Yuan received an encrypted email.

The email stated that the radio monitoring department received a microwave signal from the invisible wall, and someone sent a message to humans: "Don't stop."

At the end, it is particularly emphasized that the content of this email is at the highest level of confidentiality and must not be disclosed to the outside world without permission.

Xue Yuan read it several times calmly, and then deleted the email.

Listening to the radio was originally the job of the technical department, but this time, the high-level executives were allowed to do it for them, and even he, the acting chief technology officer, didn't know about it.This is obviously an attempt to bypass the technical department.

Are you covering up something?

Xue Yuan turned off the computer, and asked Joey: "I'm going to see Qi Lian. Do you want to watch today?"

Joey pondered for a while, "I won't go today." After a pause, he added, "Your training method is very effective, and he has improved rapidly."

Xue Yuan snorted coldly in his heart, do you still need to say that?

He wrote a strict self-training program for Qi Lian, and asked Qi Lian to exercise his physical fitness and responsiveness step by step.

However, Qi Lian's progress is so fast, there is another dark secret - Xue Yuan has a set of reward mechanisms:

Complete the training of the basic level, kiss one;

Complete higher level training and bite once.

After doing that erotic thing last time, for Qi Lian, the door to a new world has opened.

People found that Technical Officer Xue had a very serious expression every day when he went to work, but no one could guess the reason: sore cheeks.

Qi Lian is looking forward to meeting at night every day, that is the Garden of Eden that belongs only to the two of them.

Every time before going to Qi Lian's place, Xue Yuan would go back to his room first.This is the homework he must do.

Just as rose essential oil was being poured into the incense lamp, someone rang the doorbell.

Joey's voice came from the intercom: "It's me, Joey. Are you free now?"

The movements of Xue Yuan's hands froze, and he immediately put the rose essential oil back to its original place and replaced it with another bottle.

Joey looked around unceremoniously as soon as he entered the door.The layout of every room is the same, Xue Yuan's is no exception, there is nothing special about it.Xue Yuan sat in front of the table with his legs crossed, and had no intention of getting up to entertain guests at all.

Joey didn't need his entertainment, and sat down opposite him, like a patient who came to a doctor's office for consultation: "I have suffered from insomnia recently. I heard that you know aromatherapy, and I want to ask if there is any therapy."

Xue Yuan was amused: "Can you find a worse excuse? For this kind of thing, go to a professional doctor. I learn aromatherapy to entertain myself, not to help the world."

"No." Joey looked serious, "My insomnia is because I have a secret in my heart, and only those who also have a secret in my heart can cure it."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stared at the side of Xue Yuan's neck, and there was a trace of neither embarrassment nor embarrassment in his eyes.

Xue Yuan's little soul groaned secretly.This is a good thing Qi Lian did. Last night when they were making out, he hugged Xue Yuan's neck and planted some strawberries.

He wore a tie at work, and the stand-up collar of his shirt perfectly concealed the incrimination.But just now Xue Yuan loosened his tie after returning home, so he opened a strawberry shop under Joey's nose.

Xue Yuan unhurriedly brushed a strand of blond hair beside his ear to cover the side of his neck: "I've been under a lot of pressure recently, so I tried some ways to reduce stress." He used this to test whether Joey was interested in his relationship with Qi Lian. The relationship is perceived.

Joey replied: "Just don't be too happy."

Judging from his tone, it seemed that Qi Lian was not suspected.

Xue Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that "the object of the relationship is a man" is shameful. The Federal Fleet allows same-sex marriage, and there are many legal couples in the Technical Department.If Qi Lian was an ordinary person, there would be no problem in communicating publicly.

But the problem is that Qi Lian is not an ordinary person.He is not even considered a "person" at all, but a key research project of the technical department.It's always not good for a technical officer to have trouble with the project he is responsible for.In case some people who are eyeing Qi Lian ask Xue Yuan to avoid him using this as an excuse, it will be more difficult.

The essential oils in the incense lamp begin to emit a rich fragrance.

Joey moved his attention away from the strawberry shop, and turned to look at the delicately carved little lamp: "Today's taste is a bit special." He fluttered his nose to identify it carefully, "This is sandalwood, it seems to have meat. Cardamom? It smells very pleasant and makes you feel good. I heard that the essential oils you use are all made by yourself, what is the recipe?"

Xue Yuan smiled: "I have to remind you that this question is inappropriate. The perfumer's formula is the same as the programmer's source code, and it is usually not made public."

"I noticed you said a 'usually'."

"There are exceptions to everything, and you have to leave room for yourself when you speak." Xue Yuan pointedly pointed out, "You can't be like some people who have made it clear that they hate me very early. I appreciate this kind of straightforwardness, but this is what I said For the sake of it, there will be no room for maneuver in the future."

Joey also remembered what he had said to Xue Yuan, and smiled self-mockingly: "You are very vengeful. I admit that I didn't know the severity of what I said, so I offended many people." The subject changed suddenly, "That confidential email, You have also received it. The Invisible Wall sent us a message." He deliberately did not mention the content of the message.

"Hmm." Xue Yuan was noncommittal.

"I can't figure this out." Joey's eyes showed a hint of confusion and anxiety, "Since the 'they' on the other side of the wall have the ability to contact us, why don't they make it clear? What does this riddle mean? ?”

"What do you want to say?"

"It's nothing, I just want to hear your opinion."

Xue Yuan changed to a more comfortable sitting position, "Maybe their communication technology is not enough to send us too much information. Although we are higher than ants, if you want to send information to ants, it is not so easy to do. "

Joey nodded, "I think so too. I have a hunch that 'they' are here with no evil intentions, maybe they intend to help us, but they don't have much patience. If we can find an effective way to contact 'them' as soon as possible... ..."

He took off his military cap and put it on his lap, raking his black hair with his fingers, and his tone became a little tired: "In more than a month, the statute of limitations is established, and the 'Year of Repentance' is coming."

Xue Yuan didn't answer the words, and the quiet sandalwood lingered between the two of them.

Joey turned the military cap around, stared at the sea-blue oval globe badge above the brim, and muttered to himself: "I want to hear a person's confession, that's the motivation for me to climb up so hard all the time. Work hard After so long, I will soon see the result, and I don't want to fall short at this time. So, I can't just do it anyway..."

Speaking of this, he seemed to wake up suddenly from a dream, and stopped talking: "Sorry, I said some inexplicable words. It seems that I have been under a lot of pressure recently. Since you refuse to help me, I will ask someone else."

He stood up to go out.

"Hey!" Xue Yuan called him, and threw a bottle over, "Sage, lavender and benzoin compound essential oils, add a drop or two to the bath water every time, it can relieve insomnia."

Joey looked at it and put it in his pocket: "Thanks."

Xue Yuan's eyes were burning: "Remember, don't add too much. For things that have a relaxing effect, if the dose is too large, it will become a stimulant instead."

After going out the door, the air outside made Joey suddenly sober.He originally wanted to catch Xue Yuan by surprise with this sudden visit and reveal a little bit of his secret.

Unexpectedly, not only did I almost regard the other party as the object of confidance, but I accidentally made a very low-level mistake-if he had never been to Xue Yuan's room, how would he know that "today's incense smells very good?" special"?

Inside the room, Xue Yuan turned off the incense lamp.

Sandalwood, nutmeg, geranium, supplemented with a little osmanthus and clove fairy, have a hypnotic and calming effect, which will relax the nerves and relax the defense unconsciously.

What Joey said just now should be true.There are more people who pay attention to the timeliness than imagined.

Xue Yuan sighed softly.Yes, just over a month left.

He could guess what Joey hadn't finished saying: I can't just let human beings be destroyed like this anyway.

This is not what Xue Yuan wanted to say.

In just over a month, Misha will be free.Although it can't make up for the mistakes I made because of selfishness, it can at least give that child a stable future.

How can at such a time, let mankind go to the end of destruction?

Joey seems to think that Xue Yuan knows some way to contact "them".As long as Xue Yuan is willing to tell that secret, the fleet can hope to be saved.

But he was only half right.Xue Yuan did know more than him, but he was also full of anxiety and confusion.

He deciphered the pages of encrypted data left by his father, but the result puzzled him even more: it was an ordinary plane equation.

After thinking about it, he couldn't understand why a plane equation should be concealed, and it's not the activation code of nuclear weapons.

The second half of the story of "Dawn Never Comes" is as follows:

By coincidence, the Thrall star radiated his thinking field to a human on Earth.This person's brain is just at the focus of the "lens" of the thinking field, and the Thrall star's thought pulse is magnified hundreds of times, and can be received by this person's brain.

Unfortunately, this person is a frustrated rocket engineer who is being blamed by the military and facing personal crisis, so he has to drink too much.

When he heard a voice in his head begin to speak, telling him that the sun was about to burst, he thought it was a hallucination caused by his insanity.

So, after receiving this message about the life and death of human beings, he chose to close his mind to the outside world, as well as the voice in his head.

Then, there is no more. After 74 hours, dawn never came again.

After reading this story, what Xue Yuan immediately thought of was: a long time ago, his father also said that it seemed that someone was speaking in his head.

No one took it seriously—certainly no one took it seriously.

Even his father in the early years didn't take it seriously, but he still recorded something based on what the voice said, and the plane equation was part of it.

In retrospect, my father's total mental breakdown was not long after the news that "the sun will explode in a few years" was confirmed and released.

Was it at that time that my father suddenly realized something?

Has he ever missed the hope of saving mankind like the rocket engineer in the story?

Doomsayers may not have been born after the fleets sailed, but have existed since the time of the earth.These people live among the crowd, but hate human beings, praying for disasters from heaven to destroy the world.

And they still exist in the fleet today, waiting for the opportunity to move.

Xue Yuan shuddered.

I hold something that may be a key in my hand, but I don't know where the keyhole is, and I don't know who to trust and whom to give it to.Even himself seems to be doubtful.

This feeling really makes me want to go crazy.

Every day, every day is spent in anxiety.I am really afraid that one day I will collapse like my father.

Only when he gets along with Qi Lian can he forget all this for a while.

"I just did 10 sets of hanging leg raises, and I can last for 1 minute each time." Qi Lianxi reported to Xue Yuan diligently.

This is a difficult exercise that exercises the abdominal muscles and forearms: grab the rings with both arms to suspend the body, straighten the legs and lift them, and hold them with the strength of the abdominal muscles.Even with Xue Yuan's physical strength, the best time is only 10 seconds.

"Got it, got it." Xue Yuan took the towel and wiped the sweat off his body for him.Intentionally or unintentionally, the fingertips brushed the clear mermaid lines on both sides of the lower abdomen, and the several abdominal muscles tensed immediately, showing more and more sculptural outlines.

What a perfect body.

But the expression on the face of the owner of the body is really not like what a person with eight-pack abs should have:

"...(*￣︶￣*)"

Xue Yuan sighed helplessly: "You don't need to put on such a face, I understand what you mean. Go and wash yourself whiter."

Compared with the process, Xue Yuan prefers the aftermath.

Because his physique is different from ordinary people, Qi Lian's aftertaste also lasts longer than ordinary people.Xue Yuan likes to hold him, feeling that he is softening bit by bit in his mouth or hands, like an unruly animal slowly showing a gesture of submission.

Qi Lian doesn't have the concept of shyness, so she doesn't have a coy attitude, and her every move is delicate and natural.

Because of this, every time he unconsciously hugs Xue Yuan tightly and nibbles on Xue Yuan's body in nervousness, it looks extra fun and cute.That kind of intimacy and trust comes entirely from animal instincts, without any pretentiousness or deceit.

But Xue Yuan has a principle: he will only serve Qi Lian unilaterally, and will not ask Qi Lian to do anything for him.

Subconsciously, he always equated Qi Lian's fate with Laika.

——If the time together is destined to be short, let Qi Lian enjoy every kind of happiness in this world as much as possible before leaving.

Deep down in my heart, I have probably always considered this way, right?

In the dream, there was a tingling feeling invading the ignorant consciousness.Not dangerous, like a fluffy and harmless claw, but a sure sign of intrusion.

Xue Yuan woke up suddenly.The scene in front of him made him stunned: his clothes were stripped off at some point, and Qi Lian was lying in front of him, pinching here and biting there.

"What are you doing?!" Almost without hesitation, Xue Yuan scolded.

Qi Lian probably didn't expect his reaction to be like this, she was really startled, and didn't speak in a daze.

Xue Yuan sat up.Usually he would go back to his room to sleep, but today because he was extremely tired, he hugged Qi Lian and fell asleep, but this guy took advantage of the maneuver to move his legs.

"I..." Qi Lian only said one word, then stood there again in a daze.He didn't know what he did wrong.Didn't Xue Yuan treat him like this?That feeling was very comfortable, and he wanted to learn it secretly to make Xue Yuan feel comfortable too.

But why is the other party so angry?

He watched Xue Yuan tidy up his clothes, said "I'll come back tomorrow", and left his room in a hurry.

damn it.

damn it.

Xue Yuan grabbed his hair, full of frustration.

A guy like that kid, why are you so angry?Even with his knees, he could figure out that that guy was just trying to reciprocate.

I don't know how to explain my intimacy phobia to Qi Lian.

I used to think that Qi Lian was different, he healed him.

However, the reality finally laughed viciously: the deepest barrier in my heart still exists, and this body still does not accept any touch from others, even if it is full of love.

Xue Yuan hurriedly took a few steps in front of the porthole, and slammed open the sunshade.

In the distance, the light curtain in front of the invisible wall is faint, like a silent call.

My father once said: Cryptography is a lonely discipline.You have to imagine yourself as a wall and imagine from which direction the enemy will attack.

Just like his name "Yuan", the meaning is wall.

I heard from my mother that my younger brother's name was "Yong".Later, my father said that it is not good if both brothers are walls.