Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 39： Don't be afraid, I'm here (3)

Loran returned to her room and leaned back on her bed, sipping her drink while browsing through the latest published genetic research papers.

She had just submitted a paper before she came to the Great Twin Planet, and if she could successfully pass the publication, it would help her apply for the license of a genetic restorer.

"...... In the distant era of ancient Earth, humans had already proposed that species formation, also known as speciation, was a process of biological evolution. Species of organisms would split in two during evolution, forming alienated communities. The evolutionary forces of speciation include Divine Selection, s****l Selection, Mutation, Genetic Recombination, Genetic Drift, and Gene Editing ......"

Luo Lan's heart thumped, subconsciously checking the author's name, and found that it was an anonymous article, with only an "s" letter code.

Loran remembered Qian Xu's illness and her mood became heavy.

She silently drank the blue and green, and without realizing it, half of the cup was gone.

Luo Lan's head was dizzy, but her body was light as if she was about to fly. In a trance, she felt relaxed and free, with no constraints whatsoever, and she could do whatever she wanted.

She opened her address book and wanted to speak to Qian Xu.

She wants to tell him that the original electric current passing through her body felt half numb and half painful, much like how she feels when she misses him.

She wants to tell him that lying in her vomit is the hardest thing in the world, but it's not as hard as when he doesn't respond to her messages.

She was going to tell him that she was scared of him after the mutation, but she was even more scared of losing him.

She had to tell him that the thought of his illness made her sad, but she didn't dare to let him know and could only pretend it didn't matter ......

The beeping beeps went on and on, and there had been no answer.

Loran refused to give up and continued to dial Qian Xu's terminal while drinking Yui Blue and Green.

Over and over and over and over ......

By the end of the day, she was getting more and more confused, treating the beeps as a response from Qian Xu and rambling on until she fell into a deep sleep.

In the morning, Loran slowly opened her eyes.

It seemed that she had a very good dream, pouring out all the negative emotions that had accumulated in her heart, and her whole body, from the inside out, was very refreshing and uplifting.

She stretched her back while walking into the bathroom.

Loran was closing her eyes, letting the personal cleanser spray white mist to help her wash her face, suddenly, remembering last night's dream, she kept dialing Qian Xu's terminal, chattering and complaining and pouring ......

In the misty mist, Loran's eyes snapped open, it must be a dream! It must be a dream!

She prayed devoutly several times before timidly checking her terminal.

"Oh my god!"

She had dialed Chisoku's comm number hundreds of times.

Loran picked up the cleanser and kept whacking her head while screaming in depression. What a way to die, die! How did you do such a shameless thing?

What would Qian Xu think when he saw the hundreds of dialing records?

The cleaning meter didn't know where it hit and suddenly switched modes and started spraying massaging splashes of water, Loran was drenched all over her head and face.

She stood dumbfounded, her eyes filled with sadness, and water droplets kept rolling down her cheeks.

Even after she was so shameless, even after she dialed his terminal hundreds of times, Qian Xu didn't reply to a single message from her.

After throwing up for five days in a row, Loran finally adapted to the various changes within the simulation chamber.

The daily training time was gradually extended to four hours, and she began to follow Su Qi's requirements to complete various movements.

In the morning, it was exhausting physical training, and in the afternoon, it was all kinds of skill training, firearms use, airship piloting, escape and hiding, anti-tracking ......

Sometimes Tatsuha would come and watch her train, sometimes he went to his own business and let another teacher take her.

The man who gave Loran firearms lessons was called Sukuiji.

He was dark-skinned and always had a goofy smile on his face, and when he wore his goggles, he looked kind, once he took them off and saw his strange eyes, he immediately looked evil with his smile.

Su Er's eyes had undergone a natural mutation, each eye consisted of six thousand compound eyes, possessing vision powers that could effectively calculate the orientation and distance of an object, make quick judgments and reactions, and was especially adept at locating objects moving at high speeds.

Loran felt too much pressure to take classes with such a genius person. Comparing genes was the most immoral thing in the world, completely losing at the starting line. How could she compare her two eyes to someone else's twelve thousand eyes?

Su Er encouragingly patted her shoulder and kindly consoled her, "Commander and Officer are both my disciples, but both shoot better than me."

Tatsuya and Zokubai ......

Loran looked at Suuji speechlessly, he and Suqi grew up learning "how to sincerely turn consolation into stabbing".

In the afternoon, in the shooting training room.

Su Er is explaining to Luo Lan the advantages and shortcomings of each type of firearm: "Always remember, there is no best weapon, only the best choice in different situations, the right choice is life, the wrong choice is death ......".

With a bang, the door suddenly opened and the consul stood in the doorway.

Still in black hooded robes and, silver masks, the whole body covered not a trace of exposure, but, vaguely through a few points of eagerness, without the previous air of calmness, calm and unhurried.

Su Er froze for a moment, legs together, stood straight, and saluted, "Consul."

Loran also reacted, putting down the gun he was assembling, standing up on his hands and knees, and curtsying.

The Consul swept Loran a glance and said to Cebu Two, "I'm looking for Tatsusa."

"The Commander is not here."

"You may continue." The consul turned and walked away.

Loran and Sukuiji looked at each other.

Loran asked tentatively, "That's blood on the consul's boots, isn't it?"

Cebu Two said affirmatively, "It's blood. He should have just gone out to do a mission and rushed back before he had time to change his boots."

Loran suddenly remembered that she had seen the Consul once in her vision when she first came to Alicata.

He was wearing a black combat suit, and with a wave of his hand, he disemboweled a Sharp-toothed Bird, sending the entire world flying with blood and flesh.

Loran asked Suuji, "You've met the Consul, his old man ......"

"Old man?" Su Er was full of astonishment, "The consul became consul in his forties, the youngest consul in the history of the Federation, where is he old?"

Loran embarrassedly said, "I heard Baili Cang call the consul this way and saw that they all seemed to be a bit afraid of the consul, so I assumed that ...... you have seen His Excellency the consul before he got sick and without a mask?"

"Seen."

Loran asked curiously, "What look?"

Su Er's naive face showed a hint of awe, "When the consul was a general, he was notoriously handsome and good-looking in the army, and also notoriously cold and bloody, you guys think that he looks cold and unpopular now, but I would think that he's only popular after he puts on the mask."

Loran didn't believe it, "A masked face with no expression forever is also called popular? What did he have to look like before?"

"The very best on earth, the face of an angel, the heart of a devil, and the body of a beast!"

Loran let out a giggle and laughed so hard that he slapped the table.

Su Er said awkwardly, "It wasn't me who said that it was the former duchess, Tatsuza's mom, who said that."

Loran's spirit of gossip immediately blazed, thinking that a woman who could say such things was also the best on earth. She flashed her big eyes with a "keep talking, don't stop" face.

"After the battle of Morgana star, madam commented that General Nan Zhao didn't take the enemy as a human being, and didn't take himself as a human being; to the enemy is ruthless, the corpse bones don't stay, not an inch of grass; to himself is even more ruthless, to extract the tendons and skin, and to extract the marrow from the bones. The lady lamented, I don t know what happened to him when he was a slave, and he was so young ......"

Su Er noticed that he had spoken out of turn and hastily closed his voice.

Loran asked in astonishment, "Slave? The Consul was a slave? How is that possible?"

Sooji hesitated and said, "The Consul, like you, wasn't born in the Odin Federation, he was a slave that Professor An bought back when he traveled to another planet. Only sixteen years old, not yet an adult, but because he was a fae, he suffered a lot of abuse, I heard that when he was first brought back he was bruised and dying, and it was not easy to save him."

Loran listened mesmerized, that teenager came alone to a world of total strangers, would he be both lonely and helpless and nervous and wary like she was back then?

"What happened afterward?"

Suuji, however, refused to speak any further, not knowing what came to mind, and sighed grimly, picking up his firearms and signaling Loran to continue the lesson.

After the firearms class was over, Loran walked out of the shooting training room, only to realize that Chisoku had contacted her.

When she was undergoing training and attending classes, she would follow the requirements and turn off her communication signal, not realizing that she had missed hearing from Qian Xu.

Loran couldn't even bother to change her training clothes and immediately dialed back.

After a long time, Qian Xu accepted the call invitation.

Loran eagerly asked, "You looked for me? What is it?"

"Nothing, I just saw that you contacted me many times and thought you ran into trouble."

Loraine was very ashamed, "I'm fine. That day, I got drunk on Phantom Blue Phantom Green. Why are you ...... replying to me now?"

She waited with bated breath for an answer.

Qian Xu's voice slowly came out from the personal terminal, "Anna suggested that I undergo a closed psychotherapy session, and the personal terminal shut down."

Loran was instantly relieved and knocked herself on the forehead, next time, she couldn't be imagining things, grieving for half a day and the reason turned out to be so simple.

Loran smiled and said, "After a while, when I return to Alicata, there is a surprise for you."

"Good."

Loran realized that Qian Xu wasn't as cold as before, it seemed that the psychological treatment that Anna had suggested had worked some, so she decided to give Anna a big gift when she returned.

The two chatted for a while longer before Loran reluctantly ended the call.