Pheromone Attraction [Holographic]

"I remember...you mentioned to me that you wandered in Yaobei District a long time ago."

Yaobei District, near the "Great Frozen Land of the North District".

With climate change, after the "Great Freeze", the world gradually thawed, and the permafrost ice retreated to the areas around the poles, which were divided into "Northern Great Freeze" and "Southern Great Freeze".Some of the surviving humans thrived on the thawed land.

Then developed into this century, the Union government is committed to allowing citizens to live and work in peace and contentment, dividing "urban areas" in livable places, and building "climate domes" on them to keep extreme weather from the wasteland outside the city.The wasteland area has an extreme climate, a harsh environment, and few people.The Yaobei District is the wasteland area connecting the northernmost end of the city and the permafrost ice in the North District.

There is a world of ice and snow all year round, except for scientific researchers and lunatic artists, probably no one will go there specially. Unfortunately, Ding Jianshuang is the latter.

It is said that she had a quarrel with her family back then, and she went to Yaobei District to wander alone, "looking for artistic inspiration", and she couldn't come back for a long time after going there.However, a barren land with an extreme climate is indeed much more interesting than a peaceful and slow-paced "city". She came back with a mind full of inspiration and a box of unfinished works. After many years, she mentioned it to her son and said naturally Full of pride.

When Su Xingyi was a child, he often heard stories about her homelessness.

Ding Jianshuang didn't understand why he suddenly mentioned this, and stared at him quietly.

"At that time, you seemed to have mentioned..." Su Xingyi frowned slightly, "You said that you were not used to it when you first went there?"

Ding Jianshuang was stunned, and nodded: "Yes. Actually, when I went, my brain got hot, and I regretted it as soon as I got out of the northern border, but I was young and vigorous, and I held my breath and didn't look back. You know, I'm an Omega, Going to that kind of place is just asking for trouble for myself... It's not like I haven't met hooligans before, but fortunately I survived in the end." She smiled when she said this, her eyes faintly showing nostalgia.

"I want to ask, at that time, would you feel..." Su Xingyi considered his words, "Lonely?"

"Yes, why not." Ding Jianshuang said, "There are not many people in Yaobei District, and the soldiers who come to go on missions are the ones who see the most. When it comes to people, others don’t understand why I, an Omega, would go to such a place to ‘seek inspiration’. Sometimes it’s not the most painful thing to feel that no one is talking. Myself...but I also had many wonderful experiences, for example, I met your dad at that time—but why are you asking this?"

"It's nothing." Su Xingyi lowered his eyes, "I'm a little sleepy."

Ding Jianshuang messed up his hair: "Poor gourd! If I hadn't made you so good-looking, no one would have liked you." She turned off the overhead light, and replaced Su Xingyi with a soft sleep lamp, "Okay , go to sleep, Mom will go back after sitting down for a while."

Su Xingyi closed his eyes.

Ding Jianshuang seemed to be very interested in those pears, so she cut off the flesh into pieces by the light of a small lamp, packed them and sent them to the food preservation refrigerator in the ward, and then used the remaining cores to slow down the pears. Slowly carved a flower out.

After carving, she glanced at Su Xingyi who seemed to be asleep, threw away the core, and left the ward.

Ten seconds after the door closed, Su Xingyi who was "asleep" opened his eyes suddenly.

His body still hurts, and his bad mother refused to clean it up for him. He always felt that everything was sticky, and there was still a smell of Ji Mian in his nasal cavity.

If it wasn't for fainting, who would be able to sleep.

He sighed silently, reached out to touch the knob at the head of the bed, and raised half of the bed.

Considering his previous injuries, it was too much to forcefully save Ji Mian.

Su Xingyi doesn't feel regretful, but now he really can't move, and he can only bear it if he wants to take a bath.

Bored, he connected to the terminal.

That’s the thing that’s been repeated over and over on the Internet—a certain celebrity’s suspected derailment; a certain laboratory’s successful recovery of X crops; a certain new type of synthetic material coming off the production line… He watched the news for a while, feeling bored, and his thoughts were on the contact list After hesitating for a moment, he clicked on the social networking site instead.

This homepage has been handed over to a dedicated assistant for a long time, and sometimes Su Xingyi himself doesn't know what they post on it.

He clicked on his homepage and scrolled down one by one.

Two holographic images in the hospital, expressing that he is fine-well, the images seem to be synthesized, probably from his father's instructions, and it is true, the Special Combat Academy goes out for exercises every month, and such a big incident is not conducive to follow-up work Advancing and whitewashing peace will at least not cause panic among the people.

Then there are photos of starting exercises, photos of reading books in the study, photos of exams, and photos of writing reports...

Su Xingyi wanted to read the comments from netizens, but when he flipped through them, he found that the replies below each one were almost the same. Those people were either calling "husband" or "I can". They were as lively as a group of simulated robots. kind of.

It was still boring to read these same comments, but he had nothing to do, so he turned all the way down.

Half an hour later, he found several status messages he had personally posted many years ago.

When I first started playing on social networking sites, I didn’t go to the Special Combat Academy. At that time, Su Xingyi had a lot of time. For a while, he took pleasure in pissing off netizens, and made some explosive declarations every three days. Now it seems quite interesting, such as the famous " Three major statements".

"First," he murmured in a low voice, looking at his old status where his reading volume was exploding, "I'm not a weak chicken; second, I want to work. To sum up, it's impossible for me to find a partner."

He repeated, "No way."

The incident this time is very simple to say, the Earth Alliance believes that the defense level of the stronghold is high enough, so the team responsible for the 17th star was sent out to explore the new area, and the students who stayed for "internship" did some simple chores in the stronghold , such as sorting out exploration logs, maintaining equipment, etc., never thought that the other party took advantage of this time to invade the stronghold.

Su Xingyi flipped through his old news, and said to himself: "At least it proves that there is indeed intelligent life on the 17th planet, and most of my previous conjectures are correct. The question now is whether those people Where did it come from... I need to trace the source and find out the strength... so much work, who am I looking for..."

A hint of sweetness lingers around the nasal cavity.The personal terminal beeped.

The next second after seeing the word "Ji Mian", Su Xingyi turned off the social networking site, clicked on the message, and was startled.

Before he read the content, he was silent for five seconds because of his conditioned reflex.

Five seconds later, he paid attention to what Ji Mian said.

Probably because he didn't know when Su Xingyi would get better, Ji Mian sent him a message "Are you awake?" every night for the past two days, just one message, no more, it seemed like he was just asking about the situation.

Su Xingyi pondered for a moment and chose to reply.

Su Xingyi: Wake up.

Ji Mian:! ! !

Ji Mian: Are you feeling better?

Su Xingyi: Yes.

Ji Mian: I heard from the doctor that the second tear may be more serious than before.You just need to wake up, otherwise I am so sorry for you... I will definitely wear inhibitors when I go out in the future!

Su Xingyi: Don't feel guilty, I'm fine.

Su Xingyi: However, inhibitors must be taken.

The air at night seemed to be still. In order for him to recuperate, the entire 13th floor of the hospital was as quiet as an empty box.

This makes it easy for people to imagine the daytime scenes, such as how the visiting people stand, sit, talk and smile in the ward.

Su Xingyi thought for a while, then immersed his nerves into the terminal screen again, and looked at the holographic image sent back by Ji Mian - he said that he made a special small bag for the inhibitor, so that he could carry it with him in the future.

The pouch looks decent, with a synthetic lining under the fleece surface that fits seamlessly on the body and can withstand a certain amount of impact.

Practical and beautiful, but the stitches are a little crooked.

Ji Mian: I thought I could get used to doing things by hand after playing games for so long, but I didn't expect that I was too naive... This thing is too difficult to make.

Su Xingyi closed his eyes, smiled slightly, and then sent what he had thought up.

Su Xingyi: In fact, we did a pretty good job.

Su Xingyi: Ji Mian.

Ji Mian: Huh?

Su Xingyi: Have you had a second interview?

Ji Mian: Passed, passed this afternoon.

Ji Mian: You're right, there are always traces to follow in exams. As expected, teachers don't really want to hear the truth, what they want to hear is the truth in their own imagination.

Su Xingyi: How did you answer?

Ji Mian: Just slightly changed the answer of the brother who wanted to make money. Anyway, I am in the same situation as him.

Su Xingyi: Very lonely, right?

Ji Mian: Huh?

Ji Mian: ...uh.

The other side didn't reply for a long time, Su Xingyi waited for a while, feeling a little tired, disconnected his consciousness briefly, and looked towards the open space at the end of the bed.

There was an elongated moonlight in the clearing.

Ji Mian was sitting there that day, talking to him word by word about the problems he encountered during the interview.

Although Su Xingyi hadn't enlisted in the army yet, he encountered this problem before he left when he went to the front line ahead of schedule with his family relationship.

many times.

For him, it seemed natural to defend this piece of land where he grew up, but at that time he suddenly realized that although Ji Mian was also born on this land, this land is roughly the same as the one in Ji Mian's cognition. Not the same.

A person will not find himself in a strange place, just like his mother did back then.

Without a sense of belonging, the past cannot be spelled out.

If you can't spell the past, you can't see the way forward.

He thought for a while, and felt that he had a little strength before reconnecting the nerves.

Ji Mian: I'm lonely... there's nothing I can do about it.

Ji Mian: I don't have Tinker Bell's time machine, so I just live like this.

Su Xingyi: What is Tinker Bell?

Ji Mian: Ah, it's just a cartoon, an ancient one...you may not be interested.

Su Xingyi directly dialed a communication and replied in a low voice: "How do you know I'm not interested if you don't tell me?"

"Ah, just, isn't the current animation technology better? I saw Milo watching that... "Love of the Lost Thousand Years"? It seems to be the name, and the production and playback technology is much more advanced than the era I lived in. " Ji Mian smiled softly on the other end of the communication, "Miss Katie is not even interested in this kind of thing, she would just ask me what species there were and what the climate was like."

"She's doing life science research, so it's normal that she's not interested in ancient culture, but that doesn't mean I'm not interested." Su Xingyi thought for a while and said, "Haven't you heard that my personal hobby is visiting museums?"

Ji Mian was dumbfounded: "No..." He paused, then asked curiously, "Why do you have such a unique hobby?"

"Probably because of yearning for the ancient society?" Su Xingyi said, "There was no pheromone at that time."

His three major remarks are too famous, Ji Mian laughed when he heard this: "Why do you hate pheromones so much?"

"The difference between humans and animals lies in reason, emotion, culture, and art derived from it..." Su Xingyi said indifferently, "You have seen Alpha who was driven crazy by the fusion fever, don't you think that is ugly? ?”

Ji Mian was taken aback.

"I think." Su Xingyi said, "I think that almost beastly look is ugly."

"...I want to tell you that they are ugly because they are ugly. If you say so," Ji Mian paused and his voice became softer, "Although I can't imagine how you lose control, it shouldn't be ugly. , have some confidence in yourself."

Su Xingyi: "..."

The air was silent for a while, and then Su Xingyi laughed sullenly.

His voice was very low, and his indistinct laughter was mixed with a painful light cough.

Ji Mian's voice became more cautious: "Injury, does the wound hurt?"

Su Xingyi kept pinching his palms, and waited for his breathing to calm down before speaking: "It's okay, I'm fine."

"sorry……"

"I said don't feel guilty." Su Xingyi said, "It's not your fault."

"It's my fault for not taking the inhibitor, otherwise...do you want anything?" Ji Mian thought for a while and said, "I can promise you anything, or things, as long as I can do it." .”

"Not now." Su Xingyi smiled, "I owe you."

"...Then don't forget."

"Yeah. Ji Mian." He called out to him.

"Ok?"

"You may not be able to go back to the past, but there are also interesting things in this era, try to accept it, maybe you will like it. If you really miss the past days, you can tell me what you think of... just right I don't have much time to read the new papers of those archaeologists recently."

In the silent night, the deep voice is transmitted tens of kilometers away through the neural connection, lingering around the mind like stereo.

Ji Mian turned his head sideways, looked at the extinguished lights at the opposite door, and the dark night outside the window, and suddenly put away the smile on his face.

No one would be very happy if they encountered such a thing as sleeping for hundreds of years.

Ji Mian works hard to live because of his personality, but——

It's always nice to have someone who understands him.

After a long while, he laughed again: "Don't you think it's a bit unconvincing for a person from the ancient culture to say this?"

"I thought I was a good soldier who loved and worked hard." Su Xingyi said, "This is based on my love for the Earth Alliance."

"I should ask you my interview questions." Ji Mian said "hehe" twice, and whispered, "Su Xingyi, we are friends, right?"

"……Um."

"Then let me tell you the truth."

"Ah."

"When we first met, I hated you for a while, because although you didn't talk much, you had that 'no one looks down on' temperament in your eyes."

"..." Su Xingyi paused, "And then?"

"Oh, then I... thought you were doing pretty well, and then found out... that you were serious when you were playing games, and we had a good understanding, anyway..." Ji Mian raised his eyes to the sky, "I was I liked you for a while."

Su Xingyi: "..."

"Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't like it anymore, I'm not a member of your support group, I won't harass you if I have nothing to do." Ji Mian said with a smile, "Well, in my impression, the most popular internet celebrities are That kind of person is very inflated and pompous, but I recently discovered that you are actually very careful and helpful, and you are a very nice person... So, hey, let's be friends."

Su Xingyi took a deep breath, and suddenly felt that the sweet fragrance was a bit pungent.

"My words seem to be a bit of a jerk." Ji Mian suddenly paused, and thought about the speech for a while, "You have helped me so much, theoretically we should have been friends a long time ago... Well, okay, blame me, It's me who always wants to keep a distance from you, so as not to be assassinated by your support group...but it's not fair to you...uh..."

Those mutterings stirred up Su Xingyi's fragile nerves after injury, his forehead twitched, and he interrupted the other party unbearably: "Ji Mian."

"……what?"

"Do you have time tomorrow? Come and see me."

"..." Ji Mian paused, "Tomorrow will be a round-robin match."

"The day after tomorrow?"

"There will be a round-robin match the day after tomorrow...the round-robin match will take a long time." Ji Mian whispered, "You don't know, do you?"

"It's been a long time, and I finished it in a week." Su Xingyi said, "What about the weekend?"

"I'm going on a blind date this weekend?"

"..." Su Xingyi paused, "What?"

For a moment he thought he had heard wrong.

"Oh, it's just a social activity." Ji Mian said, "Miss Katie told me that the inhibitors she gave me were different from the common inhibitors on the market, and mixed use could easily lead to menstrual cycle disorders, so I went to find I set up a 'Longing for Free Marriage Mutual Aid Group', the members of that group are all celibates, but because of pheromones, I have to find someone to solve the marking problem, I think I can find an Alpha who helps each other in case just in case?"

"..."

"what happened?"

"I..." Su Xingyi felt that he shouldn't be dialing this communication tonight, because he was so angry that the wound on his chest was hurting, "I said, have you read the 'Internet Fraud Case Report' regularly issued by the Public Security Management Department? '? Probably 90% of it is flagging scams."

Ji Mian: "...ah."

"You should come over tomorrow."

"What, what are you doing?"

"I'll give you a lecture." Su Xingyi said angrily, "Some misunderstandings about Beta's differentiation into Omega."

After finishing speaking, he interrupted the communication, and coughed earth-shatteringly the second the communication prompt tone became longer.

Lesson [-] of this exercise: Even in a "seemingly safe" stronghold, because you are on an unknown planet, it is still necessary to wear light armor to avoid a frontal explosion.

Lesson [-] from this exercise: When you are seriously injured, don't talk to Ji Mian, you will be easily pissed off.

He coughed for a full 5 minutes before barely stopping, his chest hurting all the way to his back.

But Su Xingyi was used to enduring the pain and not making a sound, even though he was paralyzed by the pain, he still had that poker face on his face.

He reconnected to the terminal, temporarily ignoring the anxious "Are you angry" from Ji Mian, and connected to the social networking site instead, scrolling all the way down.

Until I turned to my famous manifesto.

In the next second, click Delete.

Just as he was about to quit, he felt that this was too abrupt. He returned to the menu interface and found the batch processing function, and it took him 2 minutes to clear his social networking site.

Afterwards, he replied four words to Ji Mian.

--"Not angry".

He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"But you must be angry." The next afternoon, Ji Mian came to the hospital in a hurry, "Today, the headlines all over the Internet are about you clearing your social networking site—did I say something wrong?"

"No." Su Xingyi said, "I emptied because I wanted to, not because of anything else." He raised his chin, "Sit."

Ji Mian blinked: "Can you help me find a chair?"

Su Xingyi raised his eyes.

"Oh, I'm so stupid." Ji Mian sighed, ran to the side and pulled up a chair to sit down, "If you didn't open the wound to protect me that day, I really didn't expect you Sitting on the bed in this posture is not because I am too lazy to move, but because I can’t move. Did you eat the pears last time? I brought a few more today.”

No, the ones from last time are still in the freezer.

Su Xingyi looked at him: "You don't need to bring these next time."

"I don't know the rules of modern people. The habit of our ancient people is that we can't visit the sick with empty hands. Why don't I buy anything." Ji Mian murmured softly, "Why are you so angry? I, I found something The physiological knowledge that Omega needs, prepare to read it carefully. I also searched for the "Internet Fraud Case Report" you mentioned, but I may not have time to read it carefully today, but I will take a good look at it before going to the fellowship! You... Although I don't know exactly what you are angry about, but you should stop being angry, right?"

"..." Su Xingyi lowered his eyes.

He sighed almost silently, then raised his eyelids, and said half helplessly and half speechlessly: "You have to go?"

Ji Mian blinked: "Although the possibility of menstrual period disorder is unlikely, once it happens, it's 100%. Shouldn't I..." Be prepared?

He didn't finish, because Su Xingyi kept staring at him.

The calm lake blue under his eyes makes people feel pressured.

"Do you want to find Alphas? Is there not enough in the school? For example—" He paused, "When you are admitted to the Special Combat Academy, 99% of them are Alphas. You can find anyone you want."