Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 6: First Friend (1)

in! It was still in full view of everyone! The face she had just regained was lost again!

Zi Yan this b***h is really "do not fix people will die star people"!

However, thinking that last night's "ice-breaking battle" was a success, she was in a much better mood.

She got up with a heavy head and was about to go wash up, but she felt that something was wrong and looked around, finally realizing that this was not her room at all.

"Kiyoshi!" Loran let out a yell.

Kiyoshi rushed in and Loran asked in confusion, "Where is this? Why did you change rooms?"

"It's Duke Tatsusa's house, I originally said that I would wait for the princess to wake up before moving, but both Duke Fenglin and Chief Steward Anda insisted that newlyweds cannot be separated and must live together."

Loran immediately asked nervously, "Last night, Tatsuha did he ...... did he ......"

Kiyoshi's eyes reddened with watering eyes.

Couldn't be? Loran was also about to cry, could it be that he just finished rolling in bed in a blur?

"The Duke, he's gone too far! Refusing to share a room with the princess, clearly it should be the princess who dislikes him, who is he to dislike the princess?" Qing Yue's voice was filled with aggrieved sadness.

Luo Lan patted her heart, all of a sudden relaxed, dislike is good, the more dislike the better!

She smiled broadly and said with conviction, "Maybe it's not dislike, just want to cultivate feelings first, after all, we are in a special situation, we just met and got married, and we don't understand each other at all, it's better to take it slow."

Qing Yue saw that the princess was happy and didn't care at all, so she could only put this down for the time being, "Princess, Duke Feng Lin said that he would send someone to pick you up today to visit her institute."

What an impatient Frankenstein! But, just in time, she also wanted to know what exactly they wanted from her, after all, what they asked for determined what she got.

Feng Lin's research institute was inside a large military base.

To facilitate Loran's visit, she purposely drove a dual-purpose open-topped flying car and introduced it while strolling around.

Because the institute majored in human genetic research, it had to collect a lot of data and needed the long-term cooperation of a large number of soldiers, so the director of that year simply built the institute's building in the military base, which was both safe and convenient.

Loran curiously looked at the soldiers walking by on the road in twos and threes, except for their physical appearance which was occasionally a bit different from the norm, they didn't seem to be any different from the soldiers of Al.

However, in just a few hundred years, they had shaken the entire interstellar world, making countless armies that hated to dismantle the Odin Federation into pieces return in defeat.

After visiting the military zone that was open to the public, the flying car stopped in front of a three-story flat-shaped building that at first glance looked a bit like an open book.

Feng Lin stood in front of the scanner and after verifying her identity, the thick metal door opened.

She reached out and made an inviting gesture, "Welcome to the Alicata Life Research Institute of the Odin Federation."

Loran smiled and walked in, looking around curiously.

In the hall, people coming and going were wearing white overalls, and when they opened their mouths, they all used specialized vocabulary that Loran couldn't understand, appearing to have a very strong academic atmosphere.

Feng Lin took her to the elevator and went directly to the third floor: "There are three floors in the above-ground part of the building, most of which can be visited, and there are also three floors underground, which belong to the scientific research area and is not open to the public, so let's look at it from the top down ......"

Suddenly, her communicator rang, Feng Lin glanced at the incoming display, said "sorry" and immediately connected.

"...... What? The data is abnormal? What's the reason? ......"

Her tone was very anxious as if an important experiment had gone wrong, Loran kindly said, "Go ahead and get busy, I don't have much to do anyway, I can wait a while before visiting."

Feng Lin looked around, but there was no one.

She said hurriedly, "There's a lounge a little further along the corridor, you can get a drink and I'll have my assistant pick you up."

After Feng Lin left, Loran wandered forward slowly.

When she passed the lounge, she thought about it and decided to keep wandering forward and come back later.

After turning a corner, it suddenly became extraordinarily quiet, the winding corridor seemed to have no end in sight, on both sides there was a single airtight room, and not a single person could be seen around the front and back.

I don't know if it was because the cold air was turned on too much, or the surroundings were too quiet, Loran- felt chills all over her body, secretly nervous and scared. She laughed to herself and thought, "With this kind of guts, she is not the material to be a spy. The Al Empire must have wronged her!

Just as she was about to return the way she came, there suddenly came a tinkling sound, which seemed particularly frightening in the silence, Loran was startled and her legs went weak.

However, after calming down, it felt like the sound was like something falling to the ground, not a scary sound.

Loran hesitated for a split second and tiptoed over in the direction the sound came from.

Through a hidden door, she saw a man sprawled on the floor in the dimly lit room, surrounded by scattered bottles and cans, presumably when he was trying to reach for something, he suddenly fell.

Loran immediately pushed open the door and saw that he was struggling hard to crawl forward, trying to grab a small medicine bottle that had rolled to the corner, but his body was completely out of control due to the pain, and no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't move a bit.

Loran hurried over and picked up the pill bottle, "Is this it?"

"Get out!" His voice was hoarse and low, an almost broken whimper like it was squeezed out of his chest.

Supposedly he didn't want to be seen in such a sorry state by strangers, quite understandable for Loran who was often in a state of embarrassment lately. She placed the bottle of medicine gently into his hand and backed away from the door.

Loran stood with his back against the wall of the hallway and said, not quite reassuringly, "You can call me if you need me."

, After a few moments, a weak, feeble voice came, "Come in."

Loran gently pushed open the door, the room had been cleaned up, bottles and jars were all neatly placed, and no trace of disorder could be seen anymore.

The blackout curtain blocked the natural light from outside, and a table lamp was turned on in the room.

In the orange light, the man sat on the couch at the end of the room with a camel's blanket on his lap.

Soft black hair, a little damp with sweat, was slightly plastered to his forehead, lining his face miserably, without a trace of blood, but he sat straight, his eyes clear, the corners of his mouth smiling, exuding peace and serenity, as if the pain and helplessness of just now did not have the slightest relationship with him.

Loran remembered the extinct snowdrop flower, the legend grows on the top of snowy mountains, facing the wind and snow bloom, both tough and beautiful, but also fragile and perishable. She couldn't help but even lighten her breathing and stammered, "Can ...... I come in?"

"Of course. Thank you just now." His voice was soft and low, as pleasant as the chiming of a cello.

Loran's nose suddenly turned a little sour, and he didn't speak for a moment.

The man was very perceptive: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just ......" Loran scratched his head in embarrassment, "Suddenly I realized that you're the first person to say 'thank you' to me. "

From the time she had her memories until now, she had thanked Dr. Mu, she had thanked Zi Yan, she had thanked Feng Lin, she had even Anda, but no one had ever thanked her, as if her existence or non-existence didn't have any significance to anyone else, it was quite useless.

The man froze for a moment and smiled, "I'm honored."

Loran tried to shake the inexplicable vulnerability out of her and said with a grin, "I'm honored to have you do that."

He said, "Haven't seen you before."

"My first time." Loran couldn't help but ask curiously, "You're the ...... here."

"Experimental body." He seemed to be afraid that Loran would think wrongly, and added gently, "Voluntarily."

Experimental body?

Loran's eyes lit up, there was no doubt that she would also become a "voluntary test subject", and she didn't expect to meet her peers. She couldn't help but feel close, "What's your name?"

"Qian Xu."

It was the first friend she had met yet! Loran repeated his name silently in her mind, happy for no apparent reason.

"And you? What's your name?" Chisuk asked.

"My name is Luo ......" The words already on the tip of her tongue suddenly couldn't be said, at this moment, she didn't want to be Princess Luo Lan's double, she only wanted to be herself, but who was she?

She had a blank expression and looked at Qian Xu in a daze.

Qian Xu said softly, ''What's wrong? You don't have to say if it's inconvenient to say."

Luo Lan shook her head, her eyes falling on Qian Xu's camel's wool blanket, "Luo, Luo ...... Luo Xun." She looked around, not finding anything suitable, and asked eagerly, "Can I borrow your hand for a moment?"

Chixu was confused but smiled and extended her hand.

Loran bent down and used her forefinger to write "Locke Seeker" on his palm, one stroke at a time with reverence.

She didn't know what had happened to make her lose everything and be all alone; she also didn't know what kind of fate the exchanged identity would bring to her, but even if her fate was a thousand-mile desert, she hoped that she could be like the resilient camel, step by step, and slowly search for a piece of oasis that belonged to her.

"Locke, the camel of camel; Seek, the search of search. My name is Locke Seek!" Loran solemnly explained, not knowing if he was hoping that the God of Fate in the underworld would hear it, or that the person in front of him would remember it.

While Qian Xu's palm was cold, Luo Lan's face was a little hot, "My friend is still waiting for me, see you next time."

Without waiting for him to respond, Loran hurriedly turned around and ran out of the room.

Loran ran along the corridor, turned a corner, and before she reached the lounge, she saw a middle-aged woman in white overalls looking around as she walked.

Luo Lan quickly stepped forward: ''Are you Feng Lin's assistant? I'm sorry, I was a little bored by myself and looked around."

"No relation. My name is Anna, the dean still has some business to attend to and asked me to show you around first."

Loran subconsciously glanced back at the empty corridor before following her forward.

As the two of them walked and chatted, Loran pretended to say as if nothing had happened, "Just now I saw a person over there, he seemed to be very weak and didn't look like a staff member."

"It should be a test subject who volunteered for the potion test."

"A test subject? Test for what?"

Anna patiently explained, "Many of us in the Odin Federation carry xenobiotic genes, and the probability of suddenly getting a genetic disease is high. Although we try our best, not every patient has the chance to receive treatment, especially those rare genetic diseases, the treatment cost is very expensive, and to get the chance to be treated, many people voluntarily sign up to be test subjects."

Loran felt as if the tip of his heart was gently stabbed by something, not very painful, but full of sourness. "So is there much hope for him ...... them ...... to be cured?"

"It varies from person to person." Anna was silent for a moment and added, "Our institute is not only the best in the Odin Federation, but also one of the best in all of Interstellar, everyone will do their best!"

Loran smiled reluctantly, wishing with all his heart that Chisoku would make a successful recovery.