I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

"The second floor is flooded, and there is no room for people." Lin Xu stuffed the quilt into Heinrich's arms, and pushed the leather sofa facing the window halfway forward, leaving a space where the mattresses were spread out. A section of the back of the sofa just blocked the view from the window.

Heinrich hugged the quilt and asked, "Will the construction team come to repair it later?"

"No, I'll do it myself." Lin Xu has already placed an order for solid wood flooring, new tiles and paint on the star network. In the interstellar era, the price of solid wood flooring is ten times higher than that of conventional flooring building materials. "They are not familiar with the operation .”

"I'll help you."

Lin Xu put the pillow on the mattress and glanced at Heinrich, "Is Marshal Chu not working?"

"The Emperor asked the Abyss Fleet to rest for a month." Heinrich said, "...I still have some follow-up work to do, but I'm not too busy, so I can stay in the New Moon Special Zone."

Lin Xu asked Heinrich to press the main light switch in the living room, and the room was plunged into darkness for a moment, but soon, Lin Xu turned on the nearby desk lamp, and the faint light softened his pale and sharp facial features. And the eyelashes are black and thick, but the eyes are like a distant floating mist.

He reached out and pulled Heinrich closer to him, and they sat down together.

Xiao Bai silently jumped into the light from the darkness, grabbing Lin Xu's arms before Heinrich. Lin Xu scratched Xiao Bai's ears, suddenly felt that the touch was not right, and looked down. , It turned out that what he touched was Xiao Hei's hind leg.

The light was too weak, and Xiao Hei almost melted into the shadows, and he couldn't even notice its existence if he wasn't careful.

Another great advantage of laying the floor in the living room is that it is convenient for Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai to rush to Lin Xu's bed at any time, and Xiao Hei rolls in Lin Xu's arms and touches them too.

The Blue Squirrel family was placed in another room by Lin Xu to free them from the fear of being dominated by the two rabbits and cats. Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai whimpered softly in Lin Xu's arms, not feeling sorry for their previous kidnapping of the Blue Squirrel. Half ashamed.

When Lin Xu changed hands and went to scratch Xiao Hei's back again, Xiao Bai propped up his front body on his hind legs, stretched out a cat's paw in the direction of Heinrich, pressed it on his chest, and then added another cat claw.

Xiaobai's eyes are like transparent blue glass beads, and at this moment they are opened round by a magical touch.

Heinrich frowned and looked down at it, Xiaobai felt a sharp gaze, raised his head innocently, and moved his paw again confidently.

"Cough." Lin Xu cleared his throat to break the strange atmosphere, then pulled Xiao Bai off Heinrich's body, and stuffed him and Xiao Hei onto the pillow.

He moved the topic away from the mischievous Tutumao, "Is your vacation enough for us to go to Telus?"

"If the jump is continuous, the round trip will only take a week, but the imperial spacecraft can only wander outside the god-falling enchantment of Thales and cannot enter."

"I know, but I want to try it." Lin Xu said.

The surviving ancient earth humans in the last days were divided into three groups. The fate of the base and the Ark Fleet was a foregone conclusion, but he still didn't know the story of the mermaids with the same gene as him on Thales.

"Okay, you choose a time, and I will arrange a private voyage." After Heinrich spoke, he suddenly remembered an unfinished business, stood up and walked to the hanger where the military uniform was hung, and fumbled for the pocket of the military uniform in the dark .

Listening to the noise over there, Lin Xu felt that Heinrich had grabbed a lot of things from his pocket. Just as he was wondering, Heinrich returned to the range of the light and handed Lin Xu a royal blue velvet small bag. The square box was still holding a pile of colorful crystal stones in his hand. When he sat back beside Lin Xu again, a few fine gemstones gleamed and slipped from between his fingers.

After Heinrich disembarked from the Victoria, he kept these crystals in his military uniform pocket, even facing the honored emperor, right?

Lin Xu took the small square box, picked a piece of green spar from Heinrich's hand, chewed it up, kissed Heinrich's lips, and transferred half of the energy to him.

The kiss was not over yet, Heinrich slightly staggered the corners of his mouth, but his lips were still on Lin Xu's cheek, and whispered, "Take a look inside the box."

Lin Xu lowered his head, opened the small square box after blinking, and his eyelashes swept Heinrich's orbital bone, causing the other party's gaze to flicker.

Inside the box is a brooch. The gray spar exuding an attractive fragrance is polished into a square shape and embedded in platinum laurel branches and leaves. The spar is translucent and crystal clear, and the cut surface reflects the warm light into a dazzling color.

"At first I thought you liked beautiful gemstones, so I had someone design it." Heinrich said, "Now...you can wear a brooch as a food reserve."

"Is it a reserve, or is it to seduce me to chew it up and swallow it in my stomach at any time?" Who can bear a piece of sweet little cake made into a decoration and hung on his chest.

Heinrich looked straight at Lin Xu, and suddenly he didn't know who was going to chew whom.

……

Heinrich was silent for a while, Lin Xu was keenly aware of something wrong, the smell of vetiver became thicker and thicker from being washed by the water.

After reacting, he froze for a moment, and then bit Heinrich's shoulder, his voice muffled: "...Heinrich, you are really energetic."

Early the next morning, Lin Xu was woken up by a message. He found his optical brain to check the message from the chaos, and then lay back on the pillow lazily. Heinrich had already got up and left it to Lin Xu There is a lot of emotional space, allowing him to occupy all the territory diagonally.

But the aroma from the kitchen made him unable to hold on to the cage feeling. He dragged his sore legs to get up, and when he stood up straight, he felt his thighs were still trembling due to exertion.

When he regained his strength after washing, Heinrich was already surrounded by Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, trying to add cat food and change water to Tutumao's rice bowl.

On the dining table by the window, the cooked breakfast is steaming. The contents of the two dinner plates are the same, both are fried eggs and mushroom and ham sandwiches, with a glass of juice.

Lin Xu glanced into the kitchen, and Heinrich who walked up to him coughed softly and said, "I will clean up the kitchen later."

The takeaway box on the cooking table used to hold raw eggs has eight compartments, and now there is only one solitary egg standing in the box, and the sliced ​​bread slices of different thicknesses are still left in a mess on the cutting board.

Although the crime scene was messy, Lin Xu sat down and took a bite of the Jianhe sandwich, which tasted pretty good.

The Kakalamo Plain was sunny after the rain, and the sun was mild, and the mountains at the end of the horizon showed their original blue color.

Heinrich said: "I will go to the main star in a while and report to the parliament on the situation of the Abyss Fleet."

"Ask the council for money?" Lin Xu guessed.

"Correct."

The emperor and the military said that the Abyss Fleet could stay in the airport for repairs, but no one allocated funds to Heinrich.This has led to the addition of an unconventional costing element to the routine process of reporting to parliament.

For a moment, Lin Xu couldn't figure out what it would be like for Heinrich's cold and solemn face to ask for money.

Marshal Chu probably wouldn't take the miserable route, but he couldn't show off his achievements either.

Marshal Chu's external image has always been invincible and indestructible, whether it is the majestic star fleet or a group of well-trained soldiers.

The Abyss Fleet he is in charge of seems to have all the power and glory, and the concept that the Abyss Fleet will also lose money in battle has never entered the minds of the people.

Then how to steal money from the parliament?

It's a pity that Lin Xu couldn't go and see the scene of the quarrel in the Imperial Parliament with his own eyes.

"I'm also going to the Museum of Ancient Earth in a while."

"work?"

"Well, Director Zhao sent me a message to urge me to go back." Lin Xu ate the fried egg and sandwich, and slowly drank the juice, "I also made an appointment with people from the Purse Group today to find out the details of the mining plan for star G398, and get off work Then go to the main star."

"I'll wait for you on the main star after I'm done here."

Lin Xu nodded. After the two had breakfast in the rare sunshine of the Kakalamo Plain, Heinrich took the plate and went to clean up the mess in the kitchen. Exchange cat litter with Xiaobai.

If the whole house is equipped with smart home, humans will not have to worry about all the housework. Lin Xu experienced the convenience of technology when he lived in the dormitory of Capital Star University, but he never got used to that kind of life.

——Find a place where no one is around, build a wooden house, raise dogs, cats, and fish.

If even the trivial things of life are handed over to machines, this kind of life will be more dead than a pool of stagnant water.

When Lin Xu was shoveling cat litter, someone knocked on the door. He wiped his hands and walked over, "Who?"

"Mr. Lin, it's me, Arnold."

Lin Xu opened the door, and Arnold greeted him with a smile, holding a set of brand new military uniforms in his hand, "Morning, Mr. Lin, I'll pick up the Marshal."

"He's in there."

Lin Xu turned his body sideways. From this perspective, Arnold could just see Heinrich who was washing dishes in the kitchen with his shirt on. "Ah, ah..."

There were bite marks and scratches on Heinrich's shoulder, which made Arnold feel for a moment that he had come at the wrong time. Fortunately, Lin Xu was still wearing loose and casual clothes, so that Arnold would not be so stimulated that he closed his eyes and left, leaving space for the two of them.

"What's the matter?" Heinrich put the washed dishes on the drain rack and came out while wiping his hands with a towel.

Lin Xu said lightly, "Colonel Arnold is here."

Looking at the people who kept coming in, the expression was still the cold and silent Marshal Chu familiar to Arnold, but the contrast in this scene was too great, and Arnold was at a loss for a while.

Unaware of the adjutant's broken mood, Heinrich took the military uniform with his own hands, and then closed the door, leaving Arnold outside.

He changed into a military uniform and took off a few military medals from the military uniform to wear on his chest. Lin Xu also dug out a suit that he hadn't worn for a long time from the closet, packed his suitcase, and went to the garage behind the house to pick up the car. .

Lin Xu has a car that only has the function of land travel, and its shape is similar to that of an ancient earth car. In the empire, only extremely fanatical retro enthusiasts would choose this kind of transportation that cannot enter the airway.

When he drove out, Arnold's jaw dropped from the shock of the antique land car. After Lin Xu drove away along the main road of the Kakalamo Plain, Heinrich closed the door of his house and boarded the car that Arnold drove. The aircraft headed towards the direction of the space elevator shaft.

The aircraft pierced through the morning breeze, like an eagle spreading its wings, chasing the land vehicle on the ground in mid-air, Heinrich looked sideways out of the porthole, and the land vehicle drove into the city from the road surrounded by green grass waves Buildings.

The altitude of the aircraft continued to rise, and finally disappeared into the clouds.

In the six months since the delegation left, the Marion Empire's enthusiasm for the history of the ancient earth has only increased. The ancient earth museum, which was originally sparsely populated, quickly received funding and design plans within half a year, and the expansion has more than doubled.

When Lin Xu arrived at the museum, there was still a hanging tower under construction in the distance. Director Zhao told him that the newly built part would be used to display the cultural relics brought back from the inspection.

Curator Zhao first asked Lin Xu warmly, and then asked him if he had any unique experience when he went back to the ancient earth to investigate, and whether he planned to write some new articles, or hold some public lectures at the museum?

Lin Xu refused the lecture, and new articles would be written depending on the situation. Curator Zhao thought it was normal, but he was inevitably a little disappointed.

He asked about Ryan again.

Recently, the museum is short of people. After the recruitment announcement was issued, the resumes flew like snowflakes. However, paleoearth science has been unpopular and quiet in the past. Lin Xu called back to work, and it was time for Ryan to come back and continue his internship.

Lin Xu said that he had assigned a task to Ryan alone, and that he hadn't come back recently, so he escaped from Director Zhao's long-winded talk on the pretext of going back to tidy up the office.

When passing by the cultural relics management area, he met many strange faces. These new museum staff saw the surname plate hanging on Lin Xu's chest, and their eyes lit up. Dr. Lin Xu talked.

I don't know if it was the dark wooden structure of the Ancient Earth Museum or the unnecessary social interaction that made Lin Xu look indifferent again. He nodded, avoiding eye contact, and put the ancient book "Phaedo" in the suitcase back After stabilizing the chamber with constant temperature and humidity, he turned around and locked himself in the office, leaving a thin and indifferent back to the busy people.

Some people whispered that Dr. Lin Xu was as eccentric as the rumors said, unapproachable.

Colleagues couldn't help interjecting, but the rumors never said that Dr. Lin Xu was actually so good-looking...

The thick wooden door isolated all the buzzing noises. Lin Xu put the suitcase on the desk, opened another stable box with a combination lock in the house, put the three original notebooks brought out from the Snow Mountain base in it, and then used the Yi The modifier given to him by the card encrypted the password five times.

Next, Lin Xu left the office and went to the tool room to get a broom, mop, and handkerchief, and cleaned the office by himself.

One of the new staff looked at Lin Xu, opened his mouth in shock and said at the same time, "I always thought that those antique cleaning tools were misplaced museum artifacts?"

Colleague: "...Have you ever thought that cleaning tools are just for cleaning?"

An intelligent housekeeping robot captured the cleaning keywords in the conversation between the two, and slid the scroll wheel to come to the front, "May I help you?"

The two looked at each other, "No, no, go back and charge."

In the office, after Lin Xu quickly cleaned up, he lifted his heavy desk with his bare hands, and changed the position of it so that his seat was facing the door, and the floor-to-ceiling glass window was on the right side of the desk.

Instead of working with his back to the floor-to-ceiling windows, losing his vision, and facing the possibility of being shot from a distance at any time, Lin Xu can now confirm the situation at the door and outside the window just by looking up.

He took a breath, sat down and started checking his work emails.

The e-mail box is almost full, and most of them are scholars related to ancient earth asking him for advice on ancient text translation, or hoping that he can talk about several past papers in detail.

Before the rediscovery of the ancient earth, the arguments in some of Lin Xu's papers were regarded by academics as unconscionable at best, but unreasonable at worst, but now new discoveries continue to prove his correctness .

Some people sent resumes to him, thinking of him as an intern, and some people sent him invitations to attend academic conferences and salons.

Lin Xuxian rejected social invitations and application requests one by one. When he started to read the sincere academic exchange emails, there was a knock on the office door.

Lin Xu patted the center of his brows, got up and opened the door a little irritably. The person who knocked on the door was an intern with a fresh face. He trembled in front of him, as if he was about to pass out the next moment.

"Lina, what do you want from me?" He glanced at the intern's nameplate.

Lina trembled when her name was called, and said with difficulty, "Dr. Lin Xu, yes, a visitor is looking for you."

"Looking for me? Do you know who it is?"

"I don't know, but they seem to be important people. The curator personally entertained them in the reception room, and they asked you to go by name."

"Understood, you go back to work."

Lina was not embarrassed, and found that Dr. Lin Xu was not so unsympathetic, so she was relieved and ran back to her station.

Who would come to see him in such a hurry?

The important people who were entertained by the curator... They didn't contact Lin Xu directly, which at least meant that they were not familiar with Lin Xu, or even met him.

On the way to the reception room, many thoughts arose in Lin Xu's mind, but they were rejected one by one.

After finally arriving at the destination, Curator Zhao stepped forward quickly and introduced to him: "Xiao Lin, this is the Grand Duke of the Chu family and Councilor Chu Xiu. They have come to see you specially."

He tugged on Lin Xu's arm, hoping that Lin Xu, for the sake of the other party's aristocratic status, would have a better temper and take the initiative to say hello.

But Grand Duke Chu spoke before Lin Xu, and the target of the order was Director Zhao: "Director Zhao, thank you for your hospitality. Next, I want to have a private talk with Dr. Lin Xu."

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