Escape From the Library

【Deep Starry Sky-08】

Yue Xingwen was awakened by a strange dream.

The spaceship’s dormitory has no windows, and it’s pitch black after the lights are turned off. Yue Xingwen only feels that his clothes are soaked in sweat, and it’s as hot as sleeping in a steamer.

Yue Xingwen looked at the bracelet under the covers, it was only 6 o'clock in the morning.Turning his head and looking, Jiang Pingce in the next bed was still sleeping, breathing evenly, seeing the side face of the other party through the light of the bracelet, Yue Xingwen suddenly felt guilty.

He was too embarrassed to recall those indescribable fragments of the dream.

Yue Xingwen's whole face was so hot that he was about to burn, he quickly rolled over and got out of bed, groped into the bathroom lightly, took a shower with cold water indiscriminately, and drove away the messy thoughts in his head, before turning around and going out.

From 6 am to 8 am, Xin Yan and Ke Shaobin happened to be on duty.

When Yue Xingwen came to the command room, Ke Shaobin was playing a minesweeper game on his laptop, and Xin Yan was sitting in front of the command platform staring at the navigation map expressionlessly.

Seeing him coming in, the two raised their heads at the same time, showing puzzled expressions.

Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and asked, "Xing Wen, why are you up so early? It's only 6 o'clock."

Xin Yan calmly said, "What happened?"

Yue Xingwen's ears turned red, and he pretended to be calm and said: "It's nothing, I just woke up from a nightmare."

Ke Shaobin asked curiously, "What nightmare?"

Yue Xingwen: "..."

I dreamed that he and Jiang Pingce took a bath together, touched each other's bodies, and made many ambiguous actions.If he told the truth, Ke Shaobin's eyeballs would probably fall out.

Yue Xingwen looked away, and said casually, "I dreamed that I was eaten by a monster."

Ke Shaobin smiled and said, "I'm the opposite of you. After I fell asleep last night, I dreamed that I was eating a monster."

Xin Yan: "..."

Yue Xingwen walked to the console, glanced at the navigation map, and asked, "Is everything normal on the spaceship?"

Xin Yan said: "Well, the spacecraft has been moving forward according to the navigation route set before, and it has only gone 15% of the way so far, and there are still 6 days to arrive."

Yue Xingwen saw that all the functions of the spacecraft were normal, so he turned around and went out with relief: "Thank you for your hard work, I will go find something to eat."

He ate a lot of vegetables and dried fruits yesterday, which are easier to digest. At this time, he just feels very hungry.Yue Xingwen didn't expect that when he walked into the restaurant, he suddenly met a pair of familiar eyes.

——Jiang Pingce also happened to come to the restaurant.

Seeing Xing Wen, he asked in a low voice, "Why are you up?"

Almost at the same time, Yue Xingwen also asked, "Why are you up?"

Two people: "..."

The awkward silence lasted 3 seconds.Jiang Pingce raised his lips and said, "I'm a light sleeper. I woke up when I heard someone wash up in the bathroom. When I woke up, I found you weren't there, so I came out to have a look."

Yue Xingwen touched his nose: "I thought the movement was light enough, but I didn't expect to wake you up."

"It's okay." Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen's red ears suspiciously, and asked softly, "What's the matter? You don't need us to be on duty today, and you got up so early?"

Yue Xingwen dared not look him in the eyes with guilt, so he lowered his head and said, "I woke up from a nightmare."

Jiang Pingce asked, "Nightmare? What did you dream about?"

The blush on Yue Xingwen's ears quickly spread to his cheeks, and he whispered, "It's nothing, just some messy monsters, probably affected by canned food with strange flavors."

Jiang Pingce didn't ask any more questions. He went to the dining room and opened the freezer, took out some biscuits and milk and put them on the table: "Since you're awake, let's have breakfast first. After the other students wake up later, we'll change shifts, okay?" Let everyone eat."

Yue Xingwen let out a "hmm", sat at the dining table, lowered his head and gorged himself, eating to relieve the embarrassment.

After eating two packs of biscuits in a row, Yue Xingwen calmed down, and his face finally returned to normal.But he didn't know what to talk to Jiang Pingce, so he just sat there silently, staring at the biscuit packaging in a daze.

Jiang Pingce asked, "Why don't you talk today?"

Yue Xingwen said, "I don't know what to say."

Jiang Pingce chuckled: "It's extremely rare that you don't know what to say."

Yue Xingwen couldn't help but said: "Are you beating around the bush and thinking I talk too much?"

Jiang Pingce's voice was gentle: "It's good to talk a lot. At least, when you're there, you can always liven up the atmosphere."

Yue Xingwen thought to himself, as long as I am alone with you now, the atmosphere is really not active, and I always feel that something is weird.

The two fell silent at the same time.

Usually, as long as Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce are together, there will always be endless things to say, and others can't even interrupt.But today, the two were "relatively silent".

In the quiet restaurant, they could even hear each other's breathing, which made Yue Xingwen feel like sitting on pins and needles.He thought for a long time, and just wanted to find a topic to break the silence, but Jiang Pingce took the initiative to say: "I remember, I met your father once during the high school parent meeting. Does he have a good temper? He always smiles."

Yue Xingwen answered subconsciously: "Is it the parent meeting in the first semester of senior high school?"

Jiang Pingce nodded: "That's right."

Yue Xingwen remembered what happened back then, and couldn't help laughing: "I remember that parent meeting, you were No. 1 in the whole grade, and you were praised by the class teacher for a long time. My dad went back and said, Jiang Pingce in your class is really good, and the math papers are so good. It’s so difficult and he can still get 100 points. I told him that Jiang Pingce got 100 points in the test because the paper only has 100 points, and if there are ten more questions, he can still get 200 points.”

Jiang Pingce: "..."

Yue Xingwen coughed, and said: "I have been very naughty in the first half of my first year of high school. My dad always told me to let me learn more from No.1 Jiang Pingce. He has a good impression of you."

The corners of Jiang Pingce's lips lightly raised: "On the contrary. My mother asked me to learn more from you after the parent-teacher meeting. She said that Yue Xingwen is smart and cheerful, and he will definitely be promising in the future. It's better than me who just concentrate on solving problems like me." many."

Yue Xingwen was a little embarrassed: "Your mother praised me?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Well, I often praise you, saying that you not only have good grades, but also have a good personality."

At this moment, Ke Shaobin's voice suddenly sounded behind him: "It seems that the parents of both parties agree to your marriage! Anyway, you have already obtained the certificate from the Civil Affairs Bureau, and remember to make up the wedding candy after you go back."

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Can he catch Ke Shaobin and beat him up?

Although he knew that Ke Shaobin was joking, Yue Xingwen suddenly realized that they were all excellent people in the other's parents' hearts, so the parents would not have the idea of ​​"you have brought my son into trouble".

As the number one scholar in arts and sciences in the city back then, the two of them were always equal, no one was strong and the other was weak.If one day they come out to their family members and are determined to be together, the family members will not necessarily object because they have known each other for many years and are equally good... right?

Yue Xingwen's mind was suddenly in a mess.

For the first time, he considered these practical issues.If he is a girl, or Jiang Pingce is a girl, the two of them will definitely be blessed by all relatives and friends when they are together.But they are all boys. In the eyes of many people, boys and boys together are heterogeneous. Moreover, domestic marriage laws do not currently support same-sex marriage registration.

Yue Xingwen doesn't care about other people's opinions, but his parents' thoughts should be carefully considered.Jiang Pingce is the person he cherishes the most, and this is the fundamental reason why he dare not make a rash decision.

Seeing Yue Xingwen lowered his head and lost in thought, Ke Shaobin couldn't help being puzzled: "Xingwen, I was just joking. Are you angry?"

Yue Xingwen recovered, smiled and said, "I'm not angry, I didn't hear what you just said."

Ke Shaobin breathed a sigh of relief, took two packs of biscuits from the table, and said, "I'll get something to eat, you guys continue chatting, I'm going back to the command room."

After he left, Jiang Pingce gently held Yue Xingwen's hand on the table, and said softly at a volume that only two people could hear: "Xingwen, I know you are a very responsible person, consider The questions will be more comprehensive. I can assure you that my parents will not object to my decision. When I changed my application, I had already greeted them."

Yue Xingwen's heart trembled, and he wanted to withdraw his hand, but he held it tighter.

The body temperature belonging to the other party was transmitted along the parts touched by the fingers. It was warm and seemed to have a soothing power. The voice from the ear was low and gentle: "Didn't you dream of a monster last night?"

Yue Xingwen's ears turned red instantly, as if he had been electrocuted, he quickly withdrew his hand back.Thinking of those ambiguous parts in the dream, he wished he could drill a crack in the ground and bury himself.

Jiang Pingce continued to whisper in his ear, "You kept calling me by my name last night."

Yue Xingwen: "..."

What is a community death scene?Can you please stop talking?

Looking at Yue Xingwen's blush, Jiang Pingce's heart felt as if it had been lightly brushed by a feather, crisp and itchy.Isn't such a young Yue Xingwen the same as him when he first fell in love?However, when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he already realized that he fell in love with Xingwen, and often saw Xingwen in his dreams.

Xingwen's feelings came a little later, but they were equally pure and sincere.

Jiang Pingce put away the joke and didn't continue the topic.Sometimes there is no need to speak too bluntly, it is enough to wake up the other party, Xingwen has almost figured it out, he doesn't need to rush for a result every day.

Jiang Pingce stood up and said, "It's still early, since I had a nightmare last night and didn't sleep well, why don't I go back to sleep and get enough energy to deal with the next unexpected situation."

Yue Xingwen was right after thinking about it, so he got up and followed him back to the dormitory.

This time when I returned to the cage, I slept very soundly, and I didn't have any strange dreams.When he woke up, the classmates also got up, and everyone was having a lively meal in the restaurant. Yue Xingwen was in good spirits, and had another meal with everyone.

On the second day of the interstellar voyage, nothing happened, and the calm was a little too much.

The spaceship traveled all the way in the vast universe, and the starry sky landscape outside the window would be boring after a long time. Everyone spent the most boring day until it got dark, and everyone changed shifts again.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce rested last night, so tonight they chose the most difficult time between 4 and 6 in the morning.

At 3:[-] in the morning, Xiaotu who set the alarm clock woke them up on time.Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce quickly washed their faces, came to the command room on time, and replaced Zhuo Feng and Zhang Xiaonian.