Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"Of course it's related." He Xiao crossed his fingers on his chin, narrowed his eyes with a smile, "You haven't had time to talk to him, so he can only come to talk to me, and let me relieve him of the distress in his heart."

"He came to talk to you?" Fu Yunlan's sense of crisis exploded like a landmine.

"Are you jealous?" He Xiao said with a faint smile, "When a 'competitor' appears in your relationship, your way of dealing with it is really amazing—all you want to do is to defeat your rival in a virtual war , but don’t know to worry about his feelings at all, is Celeste an item that you don’t need to treat with your heart and doesn’t matter?”

"How is that possible!" Fu Yunlan retorted, "I'm just... I just have too much burden, and I'm different from you. Even if human beings are extinct, you can pat your ass and go to other planets, but for me Said it was a war I couldn't afford to lose, and I had to focus on it, so I cared less about him."

"Quite a noble excuse, but it's a pity that you are not only a bad lover, but also a bad commander." He Xiao said mercilessly, "When you face the real Celeste, what is in your mind? It is the important task of saving mankind. But when you are facing the battlefield, you only think about how to keep your lover, and you have completely lost sight of the overall situation. As a result, the goal of every devourer--'destroy the vitality of human beings as much as possible' All can be successfully achieved. Even if you successfully delay the time for Celeste to be killed, so what? The Devourer doesn’t care about Celeste’s life and death, and the early extinction of human beings is his goal. I thought you had already You can see that I am just using the action of attacking Celeste as a bait to lure you to throw all your troops in and use them up."

"I can see it, but what can I do?" Fu Yunlan said distressedly, "As long as Celeste is killed, this simulated war will be lost, just like playing chess, I have been checked. Of course, I can only abandon the car to save the handsome."

"The battlefield is not as simple as playing chess. You are just trapped by your own thinking mode. If you continue like this, you will always be surrounded and beaten to death. I will not analyze and evaluate this battle for you. Although you lasted longer than before, the mistakes you made are still the same as before." He Xiao said, "It's past meal time, you go to eat first, take a break and prepare for the theoretical class in the afternoon."

The holographic simulation was over. Fu Yunlan took off the helmet of the simulation cabin, rubbed her temples tiredly, and walked towards the dining room next to the laboratory.

Before he arrived, the robot had already delivered his portion of food to the table in the restaurant, even the napkins were laid out for him. This meal was also a combination of meat and vegetables, with comprehensive nutrition, carefully prepared by a skilled human chef. Cooking to ensure that the food conforms to human taste as much as possible, but Fu Yunlan feels a little tasteless after eating.

From the window where he was dining, he could see a flagpole with the flag of the Federal Republic of the Earth hanging on it, which was also designed by Case. There are five stars surrounding the top, and I don't know what meaning is inside.

Now, not only the national flag hangs on the flagpole, but also Beethoven.

Fu Yunlan heard He Xiao say outside: "Beethoven, come down quickly, I won't hurt you."

"I don't want it. I have a psychological shadow as big as a mountain in the laboratory. You can't trick me into being a guinea pig!" Beethoven climbed on the top of the flagpole and pulled the flag like a hemp rope.

"It's just a blood draw, it won't hurt, come down quickly." He Xiao coaxed.

"It's nice to say, who knows whether you want to draw blood or inject some weird things into my body. If I am tied to the operating table, then I can only be cut into pieces like fish on a knife board. The piece is still diced, and if I don’t come down, I won’t come down to die!” Beethoven resolutely refused.

So He Xiao threatened: "If you really don't come down, your earphones will be confiscated."

"Woo..." Beethoven bit his lips hesitantly.

"There are no more snacks."

"I want to tell the master!" Beethoven complained angrily.

"Your dear master is sharpening his knife in the laboratory and waiting for you. A good pet should not keep the master waiting." He Xiao said, "If you insist on not coming down, Case, launch an infrasound wave in ten seconds. "

Before he finished speaking, Beethoven slid down from the flagpole and disappeared from Fu Yunlan's sight.

Fu Yunlan put down the tableware, picked up the napkin and wiped her mouth, and a robot came to clean up the mess immediately.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the short break to talk to Celeste, but Celeste was busy studying Beethoven, a reluctant "white mouse" with He Xiao, so he had no time to pay attention to him, Fu Yun Lan stood like a roadblock for a while, and had no choice but to leave.

At night, Fu Yunlan sat on the bed and waited silently for more than half an hour, but Celeste did not come back. Fu Yunlan sighed and called out in the empty room: "Case."

"Please order." Case also manages the automated service equipment of the entire base, and anyone who calls will respond.

"Wake me up if Celeste comes back."

"The alarm has been set to trigger an event." Case replied without ups and downs.

Celeste didn't come back until 1:[-] in the morning. In order not to wake Fu Yunlan, he took a shower next door, put on his pajamas, went back to the room and climbed onto the bed, only to hear the music alarm ringing. .

Fu Yunlan woke up. He turned over and looked at Celeste, still in a daze for a moment: "Well...you're back."

"Are you waiting for me?" Celeste looked at him and said without any ups and downs, "I can ask Case to convey something, there is no need to interrupt sleep."

Fu Yunlan sat up, rubbed her face vigorously, and said still a little sleepy: "It's actually nothing, it just feels like I haven't talked to you for a long time, and I want to talk to you."

"Speak." Celeste said sitting on the edge of the bed.

Fu Yunlan felt that Celeste was sitting a little far away from him, so she moved over to get closer to him, and when she got closer, she wanted to put his shoulders on his shoulders, and when she reached out, she naturally held Celeste In my arms.

"I can't talk to you properly when you're like this." Celeste felt Fu Yunlan's scorching breath on his neck, and twisted his body awkwardly, trying to push him away.

"Then we'll talk about it later." Fu Yunlan reached out to take off his clothes.

When I was still in Hummingbird Town, considering that Celeste was still young after all, Fu Yunlan had always been more restrained, but Celeste was very clingy to him, and he had to make out with him almost every night before he would go to sleep. But since the two came to the Blue Shield Base, the environment has changed.The mentality has changed, and the time can't always get together. It's true that they haven't had a good relationship for a long time.

Fu Yunlan felt a little guilty and thought that he must make up for it tonight, but Celeste pushed him away.

"...What's wrong?" Fu Yunlan was rejected by Celeste for the first time, and uneasy emotions quickly spread in his heart, "Don't you want to do it?"

"I don't want to." Celeste wrapped himself in a quilt and lay down with his back to Fu Yunlan.

"Why?" Fu Yunlan looked at the stubborn quilt, feeling uneasy and helpless, "Are you angry with me?"

"Hmm." Celeste, with only half of his head exposed, said sullenly under the quilt.

"It's my fault, I have neglected you these days." Fu Yun leaned on the quilt, trying to coax him clumsily, "Don't be angry with me, okay?"

"Just get angry." Celeste said stubbornly.

Fu Yunlan felt that he liked Celeste even when he was angry, but it was unbearably hard to step down. Now he really wanted to dig out the person under the quilt and eat him, but he couldn't do it by force, so he had to continue. She coaxed her kindly: "Okay, don't you feel bored? Put your face out and let me kiss you."

"No." Celeste rolled around and struggled non-stop, Fu Yunlan had nothing to do with him: "Stop making trouble, I'm so cold, give me some quilt."

"Just ask Case to turn up the temperature." Celeste continued to huddle stubbornly.

Of course, Fu Yunlan wasn't really cold, she just wanted to coax Celeste out, but Case said without any ups and downs: "It's adjusted to 28 degrees Celsius."

Even the artificial intelligence system came to dismantle his platform, Fu Yunlan lost his temper, but after a while, Celeste himself felt hot, and Fu Yunlan found a chance to pull him out of the thick shell. Peeled out.

There was a thin layer of sweat on Celeste's head, and his cheeks were also red. Fu Yunlan kissed him: "Are you still angry?"

"Ah."

"How long will you be angry?"

"It's been a long time... um..." The vitals were squeezed by a warm and powerful hand, and Celeste's voice couldn't help changing the tone.

His honest reaction brought a smile on Fu Yunlan's face: "Why don't you make out with me first, and then get angry?"

"……it is good."

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The next morning, Celeste was woken up by some slight movements. He turned his head and saw Fu Yunlan was dressing with his back facing him. The white shirt covered his broad shoulders and tight muscles. , I don't know why, but the scene in front of him made Celeste suddenly feel a little inexplicably sad.

He sat up and hugged Fu Yunlan from behind.

"Woke you up?" Fu Yunlan turned her head and kissed him.

"Don't go." Celeste felt sore in his heart, and he didn't know how to deal with this sudden emotion, so he pestered Fu Yunlan.

"I should go to training."

"Let's go later." Celeste didn't let go.

"...Okay." Fu Yunlan sighed, and decided to put the life and death of human beings aside. He lay down again, looked at Celeste, "Don't be angry with me anymore?"

"Hmm." Celeste played with the buttons of his shirt on his chest, "What did you want to say to me last night?"

"About He Xiao..." Fu Yunlan asked carefully, "What do you think of him?"