Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Fu Yunlan discussed some details with He Xiao again. At night, he returned to the most luxurious room in this military base, and was about to take a shower before going to bed. Before the faucet was turned off, he heard the guard outside the door salute to His Majesty the Emperor. the sound of.

Fu Yunlan was not used to the sudden sharpness of her senses.

When he came out wrapped in a towel, Celeste was taking off his uniform in front of the mirror. Fu Yunlan watched him undo the buttons one by one, and with some difficulty moved his eyes away from the small section of collarbone exposed by his collar: " Celeste, you... do you have anything to do with me?"

"I didn't come to see you, this is my room." Celeste said flatly.

"Uh, is that so..." Fu Yunlan suddenly hesitated.

"Why do you look nervous?" Thelister leaned forward, wearing only a shirt.

Fu Yunlan wanted to say that he wasn't nervous, but he couldn't help swallowing when he just wanted to speak. They haven't been together for a while, Fu Yunlan always felt that the distance between them was getting bigger and bigger, but There was nothing he could do, and now, Celeste, who was always clinging to him in the past, seemed to be back...but there seemed to be something different.

Celeste clung to Fu Yunlan's body, kissed his neck and chest, and reached out to caress the scar on his abdomen. The once obvious scar now only left a faint mark. After a while, probably even The mark will also disappear.

I don't know if it's because of the recent transformation of his body, but Fu Yunlan's whole body is much more sensitive than before, and his mood is even more excited. He really wants to hug Celeste tightly, and he really wants to rub her into her In the flesh and blood, but rationality made him only put his hands gently on the opponent's body, not daring to use force at all.

"Why don't you take the initiative at all?" Celeste was already riding on him, and his half-opened shirt looked very attractive, "Don't you want it?"

"No..." Fu Yunlan swallowed with some difficulty, "I can't control my body right now."

"Afraid of hurting me?" Celeste tilted his head to look at him, "Are you going to hurt me?"

"I'm not scaremongering, just now I accidentally crushed a water glass." Fu Yunlan said in a negotiating tone, "How about...you tie me up."

"Okay." Celeste tied Fu Yunlan's hands to the head of the bed with a tie without any hesitation.

"I know you won't be able to tie you with a tie." Thelister said with a deadpan expression as his fingers slowly brushed across his chest, "but if you break it, I'll be angry."

Fu Yunlan couldn't help swallowing again.

Was this really the Celeste he knew?

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This affair completely dominated by the other party made Fu Yunlan feel novel and exciting. The transformed body was not only more sensitive, but also full of energy, as if it didn't even know what fatigue was.

After a frenzied half of the night, he woke up within a few hours of a nap, and was completely free from the fatigue and discomfort of overindulgence.

Celeste was still asleep leaning against his chest, and the steady airflow in his breath gently scratched his skin. Fu Yunlan waited patiently, and enjoyed this rare leisure by the way, until he fell asleep in his arms. The man rubbed his eyes and sat up.

Fu Yunlan kissed him as gently as possible: "Good morning, dear."

"Morning." Celeste hugged his neck like a kitten and bit him, then climbed out of bed and began to get dressed.

Fu Yunlan touched the place where she was bitten, and looked at Celeste with a smile: "... I always feel that you have changed a lot."

"You've changed a lot too." Celeste said flatly as he adjusted his tie in front of the mirror, "People change, otherwise, what else do you need to learn?"

"You're right." Fu Yunlan hugged him from behind. Celeste was already about the same height as him, but his figure was still thin like a young man's, not as strong as him.

Celeste just continued to straighten his tie expressionlessly, without pushing him away, Fu Yunlan smelled Celeste's body with a much sharper sense of smell: "You said earlier that you had a question that you didn't think clearly about. , what about now, have you figured it out?"

"Thinking about it clearly, the things I was struggling with before are meaningless, and it doesn't matter how it all started." Celeste looked back into Fu Yunlan's eyes, "The important thing is that you have to live well and stay in the By my side, I don't want to watch you being seriously injured and dying again and again, but powerless, that feeling...is really bad."

"It won't happen in the future." Fu Yunlan patted him reassuringly, "I'm strong now, aren't I, harder than Beethoven, don't worry."

"But it's not enough." Celeste looked at himself in the mirror and said, "...not enough."

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Fang Jingyu felt refreshed after sleeping for fourteen hours at a stretch, and received a summons from Celeste just after breakfast.

"Surley... No, Your Majesty the Emperor." Fang Jingyu changed his words awkwardly.

"It's been hard work for you during this time." Sitting behind a desk that looked more like a design workbench than a desk, Celeste asked without raising his head, "Do you know why I asked you here?"

"I have an unshirkable responsibility for the attack on His Majesty this time." Fang Jingyu lowered his head and said, "It was I who violated the rules and allowed Zhang Lin to serve in the garrison. I was blinded by my past friendship and did not notice that he has been I don’t even know when the Devourer got in touch with him, where he got the button bomb, and why he did such a thing.”

"He Xiao found some clues from the remaining brain tissue at the explosion site. The Devourer told him that as long as he completes this task, he can live lovingly with his fiancée in a new world."

"How could he believe such words?" Fang Jingyu said in disbelief.

"Maybe he didn't want to live long ago," Thelister said, "and just from the way he treated me when we first met, you should realize that he is not the kind of person who cares about the life and death of innocent people." , maybe he used to be, but people change."

"I know, it's just that I have always been too short of manpower, and he is an experienced veteran, so I have tolerated his extremes again and again, and I have not dealt with him severely or guarded against him. This is entirely my responsibility." Fang Jingyu stood up straight, "I have already made mental preparations. When Fu Yunlan returns from injury, I will accept punishment, no matter what kind of punishment it is."

"Case has already drawn up your punishment, but I vetoed his decision. It is obviously a waste of talent to send you to prison when you are in such a rush to employ people." Celeste covered the tablet and looked at Fang Jingyu said, "I have some work to do for you. If you do well, you can pay off your merits. If you fail, you may die. Are you willing to accept it?"

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"You know, no matter what decision you make, I will support you unconditionally." He Xiao looked at Celeste with a smile, "But I still want to ask, you asked Fang Jingyu to lead the vanguard to save people, are you really Can you trust his ability? After all, he has never been injected with the new type of T virus, and he is not a commander who is good at adapting to changes."

Celeste did not answer this question, but instead asked: "Will the Devourer listen to what we say here?"

"No." He Xiao said, "This area is still within my control."

"Are you sure?" Celeste tilted his head and looked at him.

He Xiao smiled grumpily: "The Devourer's technology is indeed more advanced than ours. Maybe it has many methods that we don't know, but at least the basic laws of physics cannot be violated, so I'm sure."

"That's good." Only then did Celeste feel relieved, "We have always believed that the purpose of the Devourer's tentacles on the earth is to destroy human civilization, and we have been working hard to fight against it in this regard, vying for the remaining Population, but now I think maybe we're going in the wrong direction."

"Why do you think like this?"

"This is the invasion of the solar system by interstellar pirates. Whether it is accidental or not, you must stop it, because this is your duty." Celeste said, "The Devourer is like an advanced computer that never makes mistakes. , with such an opportunity, it will inevitably take advantage of it, which is nothing surprising, right?"

"of course."

"In the past, the contest between you was like two supercomputers playing Go. The competition was only for computing power. Every move it made was within your calculations. Even if you use a dark game like new technology, unexpected situations will happen. It's still within your expected range, but this time, it suddenly doesn't play its cards according to common sense."

"Indeed, we all thought that he would take the opportunity to let his own body descend into the three-dimensional space, and try his best to destroy this unstable base. If it did this, Mars and Case would not be able to stop it at all. The more severely the base is damaged , the more the balance of victory tilted towards the True God Cult, but it did not do so. Instead, it chose a plan with more variables, and even completely gave up this great opportunity to attack the base, just to cover Zhang Lin's actions It's unreasonable to use unreliable humans to launch a suicide attack on you without being discovered by Mars."

Celeste said calmly: "Since the Devourer is a high-level computer that never makes mistakes, neither will it be impulsive nor foolish, can we think that its real goal—or in other words, is to destroy human beings? The more important goal above civilization is actually killing me."

"But it should know that even if it destroys your body, you will not die, unless..." He Xiao frowned and said, "It has invented a new method that can destroy you while destroying your body. "

"I need to prove this. I need to create an opportunity for it. It has a certain chance to kill me, and it has absolute certainty to kill the vanguard we sent to save people, but it can't do both. I want to see it The most important task is to destroy the vitality of human beings, or to destroy me."

"No." He Xiao rejected Celeste for the first time, "If the Devourer really has the possibility to kill you, I can't let you take such a risk."

"Why not?" Celeste looked at He Xiao and said, "Is it really that important for a person like me who can't even remember who I am?"