Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"That's unreasonable. Bloodlines don't affect a person's ability to learn a language." Celeste refuted this sentence solemnly.

Fu Yunlan smiled: "Of course it was just a joke."

"Are they joking with you?"

"Of course, people can joke."

"But you never joke with me."

After he said this, Fu Yunlan realized this problem that he had never thought about in the past. He tried to explain: "That's because... at that time, my father had just been killed. Great, no joking mood."

Celeste didn't respond to this, but lowered his head in thought, distracted by other things.

After being awkwardly silent for a while, Fu Yunlan couldn't help but said, "Celester, why do you suddenly want to go back to the wasteland?"

"There's no particular reason," Thelister said, "I just want to go out and hang around."

"Really?" Fu Yunlan had just won the first battle of his official military command career, and he should have been full of vigor and confidence, but now facing this situation, he could barely see any emotion on his face. The Celeste, but he felt even more stressed than when he was facing the Devourer.

"What exactly do you want to say?" Celeste was not very good at discerning the other person's mind, so he asked directly. Anyway, Fu Yunlan liked his straightforward style.

"I'm wondering... Is it because I have neglected you again during this period of time and made you unhappy that I want to leave the base."

"I'm not that unreasonable," Thurlist said. "You're busy with training, I understand, and you've made time for me as much as you can."

Fu Yunlan breathed a sigh of relief. Since Celeste said he wasn't angry about it, he really wasn't.

"Why are you worried about this?" Celeste was a little puzzled, "I always feel that you are different from before."

Fu Yunlan's heart skipped a beat. It turned out that he wasn't the only one who felt this way. Celeste also realized that the atmosphere between the two of them was quietly changing. Maybe things would inevitably develop in the direction he least wanted to see after all. Go on, but right now, Fu Yunlan tried her best to hide her ups and downs: "What's different?"

"In the past, you also cared about my feelings, but you won't be as careful as you are now." Celeste felt a little disappointed, "Is it because of the change of status?"

Fu Yunlan didn't know how to answer for a while. At this time, the rescuers on the ground had already pulled Fang Jingyu up and put down the sling again.

Fu Yunlan touched Celeste's cut hair like in the past: "Let's go, the most urgent thing is to deal with your injury first."

Celeste didn't say anything more, and stood up silently.

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In the chariot at the base, a military doctor was treating Fang Jingyu's wound, while another military doctor slowly removed the bandage on Celeste's arm with ten times more care.

Although compared with Fang Jingyu, who was almost killed by mutants, Celeste was only scratched, and it was an old injury many days ago, but the medical team was facing a big enemy, as if the sky was about to collapse. .

"It's impossible to recover your medical robots, we lack the 'equipment' necessary to repair them." He Xiao told Celeste, "So in the future, you must pay special attention to your own safety, although there are relatively human beings in the base. It is advanced medical equipment in terms of technological level, but it cannot cope with particularly urgent and critical injuries."

"Yeah." Celeste replied absent-mindedly.

Based on the conditions of the shelter, it doesn't take much to know that Celeste hasn't had a good meal in the past few days, maybe he won't even be able to eat a full meal, so even though it's not time for meals, He Xiao thoughtfully ordered someone to send him On the march meal.

In this so-called "marching meal for one person", Fang Jingyu saw chicken legs, fish, fried eggs, two peeled shrimps and at least four kinds of vegetables. There are fruit salads, drinks such as milk, juice and beer are optional, and these foods are seasoned enough. After being heated in the microwave, the aroma is tangy. Although he has several fractures all over his body and feels embarrassed by what is happening in front of him, he is still delicious. The food gets all the attention.

Seeing broccoli on the plate, Thelister said displeasedly, "I don't want to eat broccoli."

While on base, his diet was custom-made, and if there was something he didn't want to eat, he could just tell Max and Case, and it would never end up on his plate again.

However, Fang Jingyu didn't know that Celeste was talking to his artificial intelligence system, so when he heard this, he stretched out his fork very naturally, and forked the broccoli on his plate.

The military doctors and staff around looked at Fang Jingyu who was grabbing food from His Majesty's plate with shocked eyes.

It was only after Fang Jingyu finished this action that he realized that the current situation was completely different from before: "I'm sorry, I seem...to be too rude."

Many people in the refuge can only eat half full, so they never waste food. Celeste is a bit picky eater because of the emperor's life, and Fang Jingyu has no pretensions. Often Celeste eats whatever he doesn't want to eat It was Fang Jingyu, so he didn't change this habit for a while.

"It's okay, help me eat this too." Celeste forked another broccoli onto Fang Jingyu's plate.

It happened that Fu Yunlan got into the compartment of the chariot and saw this scene.

Fang Jingyu was a little embarrassed. He had seen the reaction of Celeste and Fu Yunlan when they first met, and he understood why Celeste had a natural intimacy and dependence on him, and he also understood the point of his newfound love. The idea of ​​a sprout is just an inappropriate delusion, so I completely cut off my thoughts on this aspect.

I don't know if the action just now will cause misunderstanding between them.

Fu Yunlan didn't say anything, but sat down opposite Celeste and Fang Jingyu: "Let me introduce formally, I am Fu Yunlan, and I am currently the military commander of the Earth Federation Republic."

"...Hello." Facing this younger version of himself, Fang Jingyu had mixed feelings.

"You are injured now, I should have let you and Celeste go back to the base to recuperate, but before that, I hope you can help us find the entrances and exits of other underground shelters, the sooner we can and other shelters The less leaders the Devourer can inflict, the less casualties the Devourer can inflict."

"Okay, I will."

"One more thing." After finishing business, Fu Yunlan wanted to talk about some personal matters, "We look so much alike, I don't think it's a coincidence. You said you were also an orphan, so what about your own Do you know anything about your life experience? Any news is fine."

"My adoptive mother fled to another shelter with the refugees. After I meet her, maybe I can ask about it."

"Actually, it doesn't need to be so troublesome." Celeste interrupted suddenly, "My artificial intelligence system can directly distinguish the blood relationship between two people based on DNA. If you want to know if you are related, just ask it. Mars ?”

He yelled, but Marth responded after a few seconds of silence: "From a genetic point of view, they are identical twin brothers."

Fu Yunlan said in surprise: "How is this possible? We are obviously different ages, I am only 26 years old."

"I'm 34." Fang Jingyu said.

They looked at each other, and they both saw incredible expressions in each other's eyes. Even if they got the wrong age when they were adopted, or the growth environment was different, which made one of them look older, the difference could not be that big.

"Why is this happening, Mars?" Thurliste asked.

"Sorry master, I don't have the authority to answer this question."

No matter how superior Marth's performance is, it is impossible to know all the things that have happened on the entire earth in the past few decades. The very familiar "no authority".

This made Celeste very confused: "What do you mean, why is their matter also a forbidden topic? Could it be...they are also related to my secret?"

"Sorry, I don't have permission to..."

"I'm going to find He Xiao." Before it could finish speaking, Celeste put down the half-eaten army meal and stood up and went out.

Fang Jingyu could only look at Fu Yunlan at a loss: "This...can it be true?"

Fu Yunlan frowned and said, "Although I don't know what's going on, Mars never lies."

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"Mass can't answer, but you can, can you tell me what's going on?" Celeste pestered He Xiao to ask.

"Is this important?" He Xiao looked at Celeste's reaction with a half-smile, "If I tell you that Fu Yunlan is not a fetus developed from a normal fertilized egg, but a clone, it will affect you What do you think of him?"

"It doesn't matter how he was born, but I hate the feeling of being manipulated by others." Celeste looked at He Xiao expressionlessly, "I always thought that Lan was just an ordinary person among all living beings. The 'secret' that you have to hide from me is related to life and death, so whether my encounter with him was accidental or the result of someone's careful arrangement, and my feelings for him really came out of my free will and naturally Is it?"

The more Celeste thought about it, the more he felt that it was very possible. This was not a story about a young man who gained supernatural powers after experiencing a special event, and then got the help of an expert, and then reached the pinnacle of his life. Everything he experienced may have happened beforehand Arranged, maybe even his emotions, those joys, sorrows, fears, and warmths are just pre-written programs.

"Don't think too much, no one can control other people's 'emotions', not even an existence as powerful as the Devourer." He Xiao seemed to know what kind of brain hole Celeste was thinking, "As for Fu Yunlan , your encounter is just a coincidence, I don’t know why the earth is so big, and there are so many human beings who survived, but you just ran into one of the by-products of our experiments, and it’s okay to run into one, and now you’ve run into another one .”