can you stop thinking about it

study.

Gu Xiuhan read an improvement report on the energy coordination module of a certain military standard mecha in front of the light screen.

It is not Gu Xiuhan's job to deal with such trivial reports, not to mention that this report has been approved several months ago.

He just wants to keep his brain occupied.

Next to Lan Yingying's module diagram, explanatory texts flash across the retina quickly and densely, making people have to concentrate and have no time to think about other things.

But he didn't want to, couldn't stand that "other matter" and went here.

Outside the door, the sound of rolling wheels came from the quiet corridor.

After a while, there were several timid but clear knocks on the door.

It seemed like a timid person who was worried that he would disturb the room, but was too coquettish to enter the room, so he only tapped carefully with one knuckle.

Gu Xiuhan paused, knowing that there was no way to hide the door, and he couldn't pretend not to be there, so he walked slowly and opened the door.

"Brother Xiuhan," Ruan Yu raised his face, "good morning."

The fish's tail was pressed so comfortably last night, Ruan Yu fell asleep full of energy and blood, her plump jade cheeks were full of powder, and she was full of smiles.

"Morning." Gu Xiuhan stood at the door without moving, "Is there something wrong?"

It doesn't matter if he doesn't move, the scooter operated by Ruan Yu slid like a small fish, slipped through the gap between Gu Xiuhan and the door frame, and got into the study.

Gu Xiuhan: "..."

Ruan Yu hugged a soft blanket rolled into a tube, got off the scooter, flattened the soft blanket on the floor, and said as a matter of course, "I'm here to accompany you."

After finishing speaking, he lay down on the blanket, and placed a fist-sized portable silent humidifier beside him, stuffed in a few pieces of solid water, and adjusted the nozzle to the fish's tail.

The structure of the fish tail makes it difficult for mermaids to maintain a sitting position for a long time... After all, the "fish butt" does not really exist.

So Ruan Yu prefers to lie down or lie down when he is on the shore.

After fiddling with the humidifier, Ruan Yu took out the book that he planned to read today from the storage box of the scooter, turned his head, and saw Gu Xiuhan still standing at the door, staring at him, as if he would pick up the harpoon and throw it away at any time go outside.

Ruan Yu was stunned, stunned by the cool black pupils, and stammered, but said plausibly: "Shen, Aunt Shen asked me to come... She specifically told me to stay with you as long as I have nothing to do... ..."

Shen Jingya is Gu Xiuhan's mother, and she was also a senior researcher who strongly advocated applying to the military to place Ruan Yu in Gu's family.

Apart from the selfishness of planning for his son in this move, there was also some sympathy for Ruan Yu.With the heart of a mother, she hopes that the displaced mermaid cub will grow up in a relatively normal environment.Ruan Yu was grateful for this kindness, so Ruan Yu would listen carefully to Shen Jingya's casual chanting.

Including the phrase "stay with you, Brother Xiu Han".

That's what Shen Jingya told Ruan Yu at lunch just now.

She is no better than Ruan Yu in perceiving the spiritual body, but she knows that the child is like the mother, and Gu Xiuhan has not been quite right since he came back from the frontier star. She seems to have something on his mind, and she can faintly detect it.But she wasn't nervous, she just thought it was because Gu Xiuhan was too lonely at the border for a year, so she casually mentioned it to Ruan Yu, asking him to spend more time with Gu Xiuhan when he had time.

The mermaid royal family's spiritual power is too strong, even if they don't deliberately treat anything, just daily companionship and getting along with each other can still benefit the spirit of the organism.

As a result, Ruan Yu took chicken feathers as arrows, and wished he could be stationed beside Gu Xiuhan.

Due to the nature of a mermaid, Ruan Yu has been clingy since she was a child, and judging from a human point of view, she has severe separation anxiety.

After overcoming the fear of Gu Xiuhan, for a while, Ruan Yu had to be hugged by Gu Xiuhan wherever he went.

A boy with a strong figure, a black military uniform, and a stern expression, but on the forearm lying across his chest, there is always a ball of white and soft mermaid cubs like glutinous rice cakes.

Considering that Gu Xiuhan needs long-term and stable spiritual healing, and his daily interaction with the mermaid can also have a soothing effect, the military department acquiesced in this kind of behavior similar to "bringing children to work".

Ruan Yu was very shy of strangers at that time, and would bury his face on Gu Xiuhan's shoulder to hide when he met someone he didn't know well.The cub sleeps a lot, sometimes he hides and hides, and accidentally falls asleep with his arms around Gu Xiuhan's shoulders. When he wakes up a few hours later, the little round face is covered with stars and bars on Gu Xiuhan's shoulder straps.

When Gu Xiuhan was a teenager, he talked less than now, and it was impossible to remind him, and he would only glance at Ruan Yu from time to time with unclear meaning.Therefore, Ruan Yu often couldn't find out in time, and when he woke up and returned home, he would cock his tail and look pretty everywhere. It wasn't until Shen Jingya burst out laughing that Ruan Yu realized something was wrong, looked in the mirror, and then covered his small round face with red ears. , Going straight to Gu Xiuhan's arms.

This clingy habit was fine in childhood, but as Ruan Yu grew up, it became more and more inappropriate.

Therefore, Gu Xiuhan has been trying to change Ruan Yu's habit of relying too much on him.

Naturally... with little success.

"...I listened to what Aunt Shen said, so I came to accompany you." Ruan Yu knew that he was clingy, and he also knew that Gu Xiuhan always wanted to punish him.He was still stuttering with guilt at first, but when he thought of Shen Jingya escorting him, he spoke louder and louder, and finally, he cowardly and arrogantly turned against the general, "Why are you staring at me?"

Gu Xiuhan moved his gaze away from the two white soft spots on Ruan Yu's back: "I didn't stare."

——That’s really not called staring.

Ruan Yu understood that Gu Xiuhan's clothes had softened, so he put it away when he was in a hurry, turned around and flipped through the book, drew a line of key points with a marker, and pulled away.

Gu Xiuhan was silent for a moment: "I want to work."

— If looking at trivial reports from a few months ago counts as work.

Ruan Yu kept silent, and moved his head and the tip of his tail up and down synchronously to show that he was absolutely quiet.

Gu Xiuhan insisted on fishing: "Ruan Ruan..."

He wasn't sure that things like the spiritual dam were [-]% reliable. If it wasn't for worrying that Ruan Yu would encounter trouble during the important differentiation period, he wouldn't have returned to Capital Star so early.

He didn't want Ruan Yu to know any thoughts that he shouldn't have.

Don't want to work?

Why are you talking again so quickly?

Ruan Yu turned her head and stared at Gu Xiuhan with a condemning look like a vicious fish complaining first, beckoning him to be quiet.

"..."

After a moment of silence, Gu Xiuhan's face was so cold that it could drop icicles, and the veins on the back of his hands were slightly raised, as if he had made up his mind, he suddenly strode towards Ruan Yu.

Ruan Yu was so scared that his tail curled up.

Like a fresh sushi roll.

Ruan Yu was not really afraid of Gu Xiuhan beating Yu, let alone beating, Gu Xiuhan felt sorry for Yu before it was too late, and his mental body was clearly pale golden in joy, which showed that Ruan Yu was very happy to accompany him.

But Gu Xiuhan's aura of crushing the leaders of different races like ants is too domineering, and Ruan Yu can't get used to it no matter how many times he has seen it.

In the next second, Gu Xiuhan strode past Ruan Yu.

Immediately, he stood back in front of the light screen and continued to browse the pile of outdated reports.

Ruan Yu was as quiet as if she didn't exist, obediently flipping through the books.

It was a reference book for general education courses in high schools. This volume was about social science topics, involving knowledge in the fields of imperial economy and politics, and there were also some simulated questions for the entrance examinations for colleges and universities.

Ruan Yu tried a few, and the accuracy rate was not bad.

The Gu family has always treated Ruan Yu as their own child over the years. Ruan Yu has limited mobility and rare blood, so it is inevitable that others will covet him. In addition, he cannot live without Gu Xiuhan, so it is unrealistic to live like an ordinary child.So Shen Jingya specially hired tutors to teach Ruan language. The teaching progress was based on the human schoolchildren of his age. If they really don't understand, it doesn't hurt to slow down the progress.After all, Shen Jingya didn't do it for anything else, she just hoped that Ruan Yu could learn more about and integrate into the human civilization of the empire through learning.The civilization of the mermaid clan has long been overthrown, there are very few documents left, and there are not many surviving members of the same clan. Shen Jingya doesn't want Ruan Yu's spiritual world to have nowhere to go.

As for the suggestion of letting Ruan Yu enter higher education institutions, it was Gu Xiuhan who proposed it.

This is not a whimsical idea. When Ruan Yu was still young, he was offered an olive branch to Ruan Yu in the top three imperial comprehensive universities in the empire, inviting him to enter the spiritual healing major without examination.

The powerful spiritual healing ability is the innate ability of the mermaid royal family, so Ruan Yu has always relied on instinct and intuition to heal people - of course, the mermaid royal family can throw away the healers who have worked hard to learn theoretical knowledge simply by relying on instinct a galaxy.However, if the mermaid royal family has mastered a wealth of theoretical knowledge, will his healing ability be improved to a higher level and benefit more living beings?

At that time, Ruan Yu was too young, had poor self-care ability, couldn't leave home, and didn't have much interest in the grand vision drawn by the top scholars in the field of psychotherapy, so he decisively rejected the invitation.

As Ruan Yu became an adult and was about to split into human legs, this matter was brought up again by Gu Xiuhan. In the precious newsletter once a month, most of Gu Xiuhan's topics revolved around the Imperial University.Ruan Yu was used to being obedient to Gu Xiuhan, and he was reluctant at first, but seeing that Gu Xiuhan was so keen on sending fish to school, he nodded his tail and agreed.

Although it was a special invitation to enter without examination, Ruan Yu didn't want too many future elite students to fall behind in subjects other than majors after the start of school, exposing the slow-moving attributes of mermaid thinking, so she has been struggling to review the courses of high school during this time .

Gu Xiuhan focused on the report in front of him, magnified the energy transmission pipeline structure diagram on the light screen several times, and looked at it intently.

A few meters away, the tail of that pearly white gouache fish kept twitching out of the corner of his eye.

The hot air slowly rises, fumigates the thoughts into a fuzzy state.

Ruan Yu trusted and attached to Gu Xiuhan with all her heart... on the level of family affection.

Unlike human beings with subtle and complex minds, mermaids can read each other's brain signals, and their thinking is transparent. They are pure and sincere creatures, and they can easily entrust their trust to others.

If you encounter a caregiver with bad intentions, take good care of him and coax him patiently... It is not difficult to alienate him into a container of dirty desires.

Gu Xiuhan once met a Yu clan raised in the home of a high-ranking military official.

This kind of humanoid intelligent creature with wings on its back is similar to the experience of the mermaid family. Their homeland was destroyed and there were few survivors. They have an IQ and brain capacity similar to Homo sapiens.

It was a majestic male feather family, with wings as white as snow, with hazy radiance floating on each piece, and a light body made for flying, embellished with a large number of gaudy and heavy pearls, jade, and gold stones. The senior military officials were obedient and obedient, and their beautiful faces were filled with joy and satisfaction.

In fact, he is free.

A series of supplementary bills on the rights and interests of intelligent creatures introduced by the parliament many years ago ensured that these sparsely populated interstellar refugees enjoy all the rights of citizens of the empire.

Of course the Yu clan can leave.

But the real cage is cognition and emotion.

Because of the illusion of loving and being loved, he is willing to put the ground in prison and become a pet for people to tease.

His world shrunk down to a huge aquascape cage embossed with gold and jade.

What a selfish parent.

Unknowingly, Gu Xiuhan's sight shifted from the light screen to Ruan Yu again.

The mermaid, who is entering the mature stage, shows her body calmly to those she trusts. Behind the thin and tough waistline is a full and bulging arc. The plump fish tail is shallowly sunk into the thick and greasy soft blanket, and the scales reflect the Pearly pastels.

So beautiful and ignorant, it is indeed easy to evoke greed and evil thoughts in the dark places of human nature.

Thinking of something, Gu Xiuhan suddenly looked away.

An unbalanced heartbeat throbbed in the eardrum.

The next second after Gu Xiuhan retracted his gaze, Ruan Yu secretly glanced over the page, concentrating all the energy of the mental network on Gu Xiuhan, secretly observing his mental body.

Just a moment ago, Gu Xiuhan's pale golden mental body suddenly turned into a blazing white symbolizing excitement or mania.

A few meters away, Gu Xiuhan was standing in front of the light screen, with a strong and straight figure, as motionless as a mountain, and his eyes were fixed on the structural diagram of the energy transmission pipeline on the light screen.

Ruan Yu glanced at Gu Xiuhan's blazing mental body again to confirm that he was not mistaken.

Immediately, he aimed again at the light screen in front of Gu Xiuhan.

Gu Xiuhan didn't seem to notice Ruan Yu's observation, his expression was extremely focused, sometimes zooming in, zooming out, and rotating in 3D the energy transmission pipe on the light screen, and sometimes staring in thought, as if he couldn't get enough of this pipe no matter how much he looked at it.

"..."

Ruan Yu was dazed, afraid to make a sound, and slowly retracted behind the pages of the book.

The author has something to say:

Yuzai (quietly lying on her stomach): ...

Admiral (I don't know what to make up in my head, my spirit is very excited):! ! ! ! !

Yuzai: Brother Xiuhan is facing a section of energy pipeline... He is so strange, is he crazy... (Want to speak but counseled