Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 28: Life has its variables (2)

The Everest Restaurant was far from the business center and residential area, on a hill by the river, with a very quiet and serene surrounding.

Loran sat on the log-built terrace, enjoying the surrounding scenery.

Below the terrace was a lush forest, and where the wind passed, the shadows of the trees rustled. In the distance were layers of mountains and a large river meandering and rushing. The river is sparkling, and two moons hanging in the sky, one east and one west, reflecting each other, are the famous twin satellites of Alicata.

Loran withdrew his gaze and opened StarNet, brushing the base forum while waiting for Qian Xu.

The hot post on the front page of the forum was surprisingly a photo of Feng Lin and Chu Mo shaking hands and looking at each other, with the caption: male god + goddess, begging to be together!

Loran was dumbfounded and clicked in to spectate, and found that it was a video, starting from the end of the meeting, when Chu Mo came over to greet Feng Lin, to the end of Feng Lin's confidently flying retort.

The person who put the video should be a researcher or doctor attending the meeting, in order not to violate the confidentiality regulations, blurring the time and place, replacing the background with a brightly lit, traffic-laden city night scene, but even more highlighting the two people's confidence and dominance, and seems to vaguely imply that their conversations are affecting countless people.

The people who replied to the post at the bottom cried various ghosts and wails.

"Without a doubt, Duke Feng Lin is the domineering attack!"

"For the sake of the Federation, please continue to love each other!"

"Suddenly I want to go into genetic research, is it too late to change careers?"

............

Loran was so happy to watch that when she looked up, she realized that Qian Xu had already sat across the room and was quietly looking at her with a smile on her face.

Luo Lan was busy shutting down StarNet, "Why didn't you call me when you came?"

"Seeing you laughing happily, didn't want to disturb you."

Loran clicked on the desktop and a menu of 3d images appeared, "What do you want to eat?"

"What do you want to eat?"

Loran said shyly, "The signature dish. I want to see if it's my cooking or the chef's."

"It happens to be what I love to eat as well." Qian Xu ordered the Winter Melon Eight Treasure Cup and the Dunked Soup Xiao Long Bao, and asked for the chef's recommended herbal tea, so he could drink the tea while waiting for the dishes.

Luo Lan picks up the tea and sincerely honors Qian Xu, "Thank you!"

Qian Xu smiled and sipped the tea, "You said you have the answer?"

"Uh-huh. For ten years, you haven't asked me again, I thought you had forgotten, I didn't expect you to know what I was talking about when I mentioned it today."

"You've been trying to find the answer, how could I forget?"

True! She hadn't dared to waste a single day in ten years because she wanted to find her future.

Ten years ago, she had planned to go far away and leave Odin forever, like the real Princess Loran, once she had learned what she could do to settle down. However, ten years later, she already can settle down there are many opportunities to quietly escape, but because of the warmth of Qian Xu, friendly Feng Lin, and hardworking and intelligent colleagues ...... gave up the initial intention.

Loran placed his hands on his knees and sat upright, "It took ten years, and now I can finally answer the question you asked in the first place."

Qian Xu asked, "Do you like Alicata?"

Loran said without hesitation, "Love it!" Ten years and too many good memories had made her go from a stranger to a deep love for this planet.

Qian Xu was quiet for a moment and continued, "Are you willing to settle here?"

"I am willing!" In the vast sea of stars, she had finally found the place where her heart was pleased, the corners of Loran's lips slowly curved up, and a smile blossomed on her face, like a flower blooming against the spring breeze.

Qian Xu cautiously said, "When doing research, one must have sufficient observation samples to draw conclusions, don't you need to go to another planet to take a look?"

Loran tilted her head and looked at the twinkling stars in the sky, "Other planets may be more beautiful but without you." She tilted her head and looked at Qian Xu with a smile, pointing to her heart, "My heart tells me it wants to stay here, to continue doing what it likes, to continue being with the people it likes."

"As a scientist, you should understand that the human heart doesn't have a mind."

"But it has feelings and very loyal ones at that. Otherwise, why would there be rejection reactions to allogeneic organ transplants?"

Chisoku was helpless, "Does your goddess boss know you're so good at talking nonsense?"

"Oh - she appreciates that about me!" Loran raised his head in smugness, "For scientists, a divergent imagination is very important."

Qian Xu shook his head and laughed, raising his teacup and saying solemnly, "Welcome to settling in Alicata!"

Loran clinked his cup with him, "Thank you!"

The two finished their meal and went to the parking building to pick up their cars.

Loran commented as he inserted his parking card into the server, "It's expensive, but with real people leading the seats and serving the food, the service is attentive and the flavors live up to their name, it's expensive for a reason."

After the server confirmed their identities, with the conveyor belt, Chisuk's flying car and Loran's flying car appeared in the driveway at the same time.

Chisoku said, "Send me your address and I'll escort you back."

"No, no. I can just go back by myself, it's quite late now, how troublesome to send you back and forth."

Luo Lan was very vain, fortunately, Qian Xu did not insist.

He accompanied Luo Lan to the side of her car, "Autopilot is not 100% safe, learn manual driving when you have time."

Luo Lan stood by the open car door, smiled turned her head back, and was about to speak, when suddenly, Qian Xu wrapped one hand around Luo Lan's waist and one hand to protect Luo Lan's head and lunged forward.

The two collapsed onto the car seat, one on top of the other, stacked together, body against body, cheek against cheek. Loran's eyes widened with confusion, "You ......"

A bullet flew against the top of Qian Xu's head and shot into the carriage.

Loran came back to his senses and immediately yelled, "Take off!"

The brain received the master's order, and the car door swished shut automatically, the rest of the bullets were blocked from the outside, hitting the flying car with a thud.

The flying car shakily just lifted off the ground, and a black flying car came flying across the sky, the Thinking Brain's setting was always safety first, sending out a command to immediately dodge, the flying car dropped downwards, but the black flying car continued to crash into Loran's flying car without slowing down.

"Sit tight!"

Chisoku rolled over and sat up, turning on the manual pilot, manually maneuvering the speeder, and lifting it sharply, the speeder flipped sideways and stood upright, brushing against the black speeder and rising into the sky.

Chisoku glanced at Loran to see that she had buckled her seatbelt, "Ever driven over the speed limit?"

"No."

Chisoku smiled, "Congratulations, there's a first time."

Qian Xu turned on all four engines, and the speed was raised to the extreme at once, the flying car was like a light flying forward, however, the black flying car was modified, and all kinds of performance was comparable to the military flying car, it had been biting tightly behind Luo Lan's flying car, squeezing and crashing Luo Lan's car constantly.

For a while, the danger was so great that it seemed that the car would be destroyed at any time.

I don't know whether it was too nervous or too bumpy, but Loran's stomach cramped and she felt like she was about to vomit.

Qian Xu took a look at Loran, "I was also like this when I participated in my first battle with a starship."

"What? Aren't you a civilian who studies tactics? How did you participate in interstellar battles?" Loran was so surprised that he forgot to try to vomit.

"Even in the Odin Federation, it's impossible to casually waste an A-ranked physical soldier to work as a civilian. I used to be a special combat soldier on a starfighter before I got sick and switched to civilian."

Loran was immediately convinced, as he drove the speeder like a fighter jet. Winding through the gunfire, dodging left and right, and chatting with her in a calm and collected manner, as if they were just driving around in the speeder right now, and not at all in danger.

"How did you get over it when you were scared?"

"Being viciously humiliated and made fun of by the veterans, and having to tough it out for fear of losing face, and then ...... "The speeder flipped up violently and flew sideways, and Loraine looked at the side of his face from the bottom up, the curved bridge of the nose and the jaw, as resolute as the mountains that had stood for eternity. "There's nothing but sadness and anger when you see veterans who make fun of us get blown up."

The speeder flipped back over, and Chisoku's face went white, his hands trembling lightly as he gripped the steering wheel, and fished a small syringe out of his coat pocket.

An ear-piercing siren sounded and a police car sped by.

Loran sighed in relief, "Always late, but better than not showing up."

"Driving violation, please stop immediately for inspection!" Two gun barrels rose on either side of the police car's body, aiming at Loran's speeder.

Chisoku stared at the police car, "Fake police! That's a PK320, Alicata's current police car equipment should be a PK420."

"What?" Loran was shocked.

With the black speeder in the back and the fake police car in the front, they were blocked in the middle and there was no way to escape.

"What to do?"

"Take the trick into account." Qian Xu smiled at Luo Lan, calmly, and Luo Lan calmed down.

Chisoku followed the police car's instructions and parked the speeder on an open slope.

Loran bent over and looked around in the car, hoping to find a handy weapon, Qian Xu put a gun into Loran's hand, "I've already notified Feng Lin and Anna, they'll arrive as soon as possible. No matter what happens later, hide in the car and don't go out."

"What about you?"

"No matter if anyone threatens your life, shoot immediately. Remember! Regardless of anyone! Don't hesitate!" Qian Xu's eyes were dark and bright, cold and hot, like the light of a star shooting out of a black hole that was supposed to devour everything, translucent and eerie.

Only then did Loran notice that his face was unusually pale, and his fingers were a little different, his nails seemed to be becoming sharp. She was creeped out and was about to take a closer look when Qian Xu had already pulled his hand away and pushed open the door to get out of the car.

The car door quickly closed and locked.

Loran tapped on the car window and called, "Qian Xu! Qian Xu ......"