infinite loop

After shedding the halo of mecha pilot, Su Li didn't feel any earth-shaking changes in her life.

Alice had a decadent and difficult time at the beginning, but under the persuasion of Su Li and Yang Xi in turn, she soon came out and served as a "dangerous wanderer" at the Anchorage base in the Gulf of Alaska. As a non-staff system tester, getting along with Yang Xi day and night has a rapid relationship, and for her, it can be regarded as a fulfillment in a sense-after all, she has been admiring him since the day she entered the Hunter Academy.

Su Li stayed in Sydney, rented a small apartment in the city center, and did ordinary clerical work that had nothing to do with mechs.

In the past few years, the situation of monster wars has taken a turn for the worse. The "Anchorage" incident in early 2020 seems to have become a major turning point. The increasingly fierce offensive retreated steadily.In just a few years, the mechs and pilots suffered countless damages, and many coastal bases were destroyed one after another. PPDC even established a "forgotten cemetery" to store all the mechas destroyed in the war.

If they hadn't rescued Yanxi that day, the person lying there now would be a "dangerous homeless person."

This is an inevitable trend of historical development, and she is powerless to stop it.

It should be time for PPDC to re-appoint them soon—Su Li was thinking so while writing manuscripts for the newspaper.

"Hey, Catherine," Su Li's colleague from the newspaper office—Naomi* walked over in high heels, bent her fingers and tapped the clock in front of her, reminding her that it was already past the off-duty time, "Do you want to join me today?" Go out for a stroll?" She made a suggestion, and then pointed to the discount list in the mall in her hand.

"Oh...let me see." Su Li rubbed her neck, which was sore and swollen due to long-term desk work, and took a look at the calendar on the corner of the table, "Sorry, I have an appointment tonight."

"Going to meet your little boyfriend at the Sydney base again?" The other party regretfully stuffed the discount slip back into his handbag, then winked at her meaningfully, crossed his fingers and guessed, "I never knew him What the hell was he doing there... a mech repairman? An electronics technician?"

——No, it's the mech pilot.

Su Li, who has always been used to a low-key life, didn't say this, but nodded vaguely and perfunctorily, said goodbye to Naomi after cleaning up briefly, and took the bus to the Sydney base alone.

Naomi is different from her in that she is a reporter who specializes in dispatched interviews—in fact, Su Li had already met her in his memory when he communicated with Raleigh before*.

Because she was worried about the confidentiality agreement and many other reasons, Su Li deliberately obscured her private background and experience, so that Naomi knew nothing about her.She remembered that just a week after she came to the newspaper office, Naomi, who had read her manuscript, asked others about her desk. After work, she came here and chattered questions in her ears, obviously wanting to find out what she knew about her. The reason why mecha knowledge is so profound.

Of course Su Li would not tell her bluntly that she used to be a driver, otherwise she might get into some trouble.

But this deliberate concealment and ambiguity made Naomi, who is full of serious thirst for knowledge, more interested in her-they quickly became close friends, and Naomi would come to her almost every day in their spare time Chatting, talking about everything from mechas to monsters, and persistently changing many angles to try to catch the loopholes in her answers. Thanks to Su Li's tight-lipped words, every sentence after several conversations is tight. Naomi would lose patience after a long time, but she never expected that her professionalism as a reporter would make her more frustrated and courageous...

So the days when Su Li went to the Sydney base to visit Chuck every week became her rare quiet time.

The attacks of monsters are becoming more and more intensive and frequent. As the pilots of the most advanced fifth-generation mecha, Chuck and Heck have undertaken relatively heavy combat tasks, and the time he and she can meet will continue. Reduction - less than a year has passed since we could meet each other every day to meet briefly every Friday night.

It was another Friday, and Su Li took the bus for more than an hour to arrive at the station closest to the Sydney base. As soon as she got off the back door, she saw Chuck Hansen standing in front of a gray olive car waiting.

Chuck's stature has grown a lot in recent years. She could barely reach his ears in the Hunter Academy before, but now the top of her head can only reach his shoulders.As soon as Su Li passed by, he was grabbed by him and pressed into his arms. The car stopped in the middle of the road, and she also indulged in his righteous nonsense, quietly resting her chin on his shoulder.

For some reason, Su Li felt that the breath he exhaled on the back of his neck was scorching hot.

He seemed to be particularly lethargic, he bowed slightly and rubbed the corners of his mouth against her side face for a while, his fingers touched the corner of the clothes along the waistline, before he made any outrageous moves, he took a gentle slap on the sharp-edged chin fist.

This is already a unique mode of interaction between them—usually, Chuck would simply grab her fist and use his upper limbs to force her directly into the arms, but today he was caught by this soft The punch forced him to take a few steps back, almost losing his footing and falling into the weed pile behind him.

Su Li frowned, and stepped forward a few steps to touch his forehead, but her fingertips were scalded when they touched him.

Su Li felt that she was about to suffer from a migraine.

"...Go to the co-pilot and sit down. I'll drive." She said weakly.

He drooped his head, obediently followed her words, opened the car door and sat in.

"Seat belt." Su Li let go of the handbrake, and gave him a sidelong glance before stepping on the accelerator.

"I'm fine—you should let me drive."

Chuck fastened his seat belt groggyly as he said, the cooling system in the car made him a little more awake, and he immediately insisted on defending himself.

Su Li didn't answer.

This is not the first time she has encountered such a situation—since the increase in combat missions, their combat range has expanded from the coast of Australia to nearby seas thousands of nautical miles away. In order to adapt to different extreme environments, their training schedule has added many An incredibly difficult project.Several times when he came to pick her up, his face was covered with bruises, and he grinned his teeth in pain when he accidentally touched her when kissing, and even had plaster and bandages on one time.This was the first time I had a cold—it was probably because I soaked my body in ice cubes for several hours in order to adapt to bad weather such as a snowstorm.

He was just 19 years old.Su Li sometimes felt sorry for him to accept these trainings that were too harsh for ordinary people, but he always gritted his teeth and resisted while laughing at her for being verbose, and then intensified nonchalantly.

Until he arrived inside the base, he was still leaning on the back of the chair and snoring lightly, with a faint crow-blue shadow under his eyes, he looked extremely tired.Su Li looked at him and frowned, and didn't have the heart to wake him up, but she didn't have enough strength to get him to the dormitory by herself, so she had to lock the doors and windows and take the elevator to find Heck for help.

As a result, as soon as she stepped into the door of Hansen's father and son's room, Su Li saw the bulldog lying at the foot of the bed, curled up with four short legs, and sometimes groaning sickly.

"Both Max and Chuck are sick?" Su Li raised her eyebrows and looked away from Max who was panting heavily, and then looked at Heke who was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I'll take care of the dog." After a while, Heck said decisively.

Next, he spent a few minutes explaining to Su Li the importance of Max to the Hansen family, and sincerely told her that he had no extra time to take care of his son while taking care of the sick Max.

"Australia is fairly peaceful recently. I originally planned to ask that brat for two days off, but he never agreed to suspend training." Heck hugged Max, who was limp into a ball, and gently scratched his chin, At the same time, he turned around and asked Su Li, "Would you like to take him over to live for a few days?"

——Then Chuck, who was sleeping, opened his eyes again, and was already in an unfamiliar urban area.

"This is my home." Before he could ask a question, Su Li closed the driver's door and walked around to him, staring at his face full of protest, "Can you go by yourself? Or should I Do you have to go to the aunt across the door to borrow a wheelchair?"

Being stung by the last sentence, as if to prove his ability to act, Chuck pressed his twitching forehead and walked down from the front seat with a single stride. Slanted, Su Li looked at him helplessly, locked the car door and rushed to support him.

"Damn—" he cursed in a low voice, and finally gave up struggling and gave up part of his focus to her.

Su Li placed him in the bedroom, boiled water, applied towels and tucked in the quilt and worked all night. Finally, she just lay down on the head of the bed and took a nap. The next day, when it was dawn, she was woken up by the pre-set alarm clock. Before waking Chuck up, she pressed it off decisively. She took his body temperature with the back of her hand, and the dent between her brows sank even deeper. She sighed and changed the cold towel on his forehead for him.

When she rushed to the bathroom to wash, Chuck was awakened by the sound of water in a daze. Then she wiped her hands with a dry towel and walked into the bedroom. He stared at her with dark blue eyes without blinking. A smoky mist.

"I'm thirsty, Catherine," he said.

"……Wait a minute."

At this time, all his upside-down sharpness was put away, and he looked innocent and harmless under the thickened quilt. Su Li had no choice but to go into the kitchen, and made him a pot of tea that cleared heat and nourished his lungs. , Who knows that he looked at the teacup up and down with the eyes of a monster, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is this?"

"..."

Su Li explained with little patience left, "This is tea, Chinese tea."

Chuck looked away from the teacup: "I want coffee."

Su Li paused for half a second, then raised the tea in his hand, "Tea has a calming effect and can help you sleep well."

Chuck stubbornly resisted: "But I just want coffee."

"..."

Too lazy to talk to him, Su Li stuffed the teacup into his hand, and said concisely in an unquestionable tone, "Just shut up and drink it."

When he unhappily poured hot tea into his mouth and was so hot that he gasped, Su Li pulled out the thermometer and let him keep it in his mouth while he was still conscious, and took it out after half a minute , she looked at the alarmingly high reading above and resignedly decided to forego a day's salary.

Knocking the bedroom door back, she went to the living room and took out her mobile phone, and called a colleague who was close to her, "Naomi, please help me ask the editor-in-chief for a day off."

The other party agreed, and then asked very curiously, "Did something terrible happen? You have been working at full time for a whole year before."

Su Li randomly made an excuse, "An old classmate is sick, and I have to take care of him."

"He? No, no, I don't believe it's an old classmate."

Sensitively grasping the clues from her words, Naomi's tone became excited all of a sudden, and her pitch suddenly increased, "Is it your boyfriend who works at the Sydney base? I will take today's work to the You can also meet him at your place." She made a decision on her own.

"No, wait, you..." Before Su Li could politely refuse, the other party hung up the phone happily.

Half an hour later, Naomi stood upright at the door of Su Li's apartment, carrying a large bag of nutritional supplements in her hand.Su Li thought that she would never be able to drive her away, so she put away her embarrassment and walked over calmly to open the door for her.

"Where is he?" The other party looked around impatiently as soon as he entered the door.

"Stand up in the bedroom..." Su Li felt her nerves were twitching, and she couldn't help rubbing the throbbing eyebrows, "But promise me, Naomi, no matter what you see later, don't Ask me any questions—”

Before Su Li called her name, she had trotted all the way into the bedroom, and then only half a second later, there was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the bedroom.

Su Li walked in, and saw Naomi staring at Chuck, who was flushed with fever on the bed, stunned.

Seeing her come in, Naomi raised a hand decisively: "Wait, don't talk yet."

She put her hand back on her forehead and pointed to the edge of the bed with her other hand, "The person lying on your bed now is the pilot of the 'Eureka Raider', Chuck Hansen—or a twin who looks exactly like him brother?"

The author has something to say: *Naomi: In the comics, the sister who fought for the Beckett brothers in the tavern when they were in school is also the reporter who interviewed Chuck on the TV that Raleigh saw on the construction site in the movie (no show face)

Went to school today... Tired OTZ

This chapter and the next chapter are struggling to send sugar_(:з)∠)_I am so sweet XD There are little angels in the next chapter~

Speaking of which, why have there been fewer and fewer comments recently? 嘿嘤_(:з)∠)_Could it be that my writing is boring

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