Qingyan

It was quite late when Luo Jinxing got home, but Luo Wangshu was still awake. He was standing by the window to communicate with Luo Mianshan.

He hadn't changed his clothes yet, he just took off his suit jacket, unbuttoned his shirt two buttons, and tied the hem loosely in his belt, in a relaxed gesture.He was holding a cup of coffee, his waist was obvious, his shoulders were thin, and he was obviously thinner than before.When Luo Jinxing walked to the coffee table and sat down, Luo Wangshu made a "wait a moment" gesture to him and continued the conversation in a low voice.Looking at him like that, Luo Jinxing suddenly felt that he could no longer look at his younger brother with the eyes of a child. Before he knew it, he was able to support a small piece of sky.

Luo Wangshu didn't know Luo Jinxing's emotion at all, he quickly ended the call, turned and went into the kitchen.

Luo Jinxing yelled twice before Luo Wangshu came back and handed him a glass of warm milk.

Luo Jinxing rubbed his forehead and took it with a smile: "I forgot."

Luo Wangshu's eyes moved slightly: "When I was young, my father always warmed us a glass of milk before going to bed. He said this was my mother's habit before."

"Now it's you." Luo Jinxing took a sip of milk, feeling a little emotional, "Isn't it hard work at home during this time?"

Luo Wangshu sat beside him and said nothing.The living room was quiet except for the crackling of the stove.

"By the way, Zhou Yan..."

Luo Wangshu knew what he wanted to ask.

"It's a bit complicated to say." Luo Wangshu sighed, but he didn't know where to start talking to Luo Jinxing, "Brother, have you heard of the pheromone database?"

Luo Jinxing's brows twitched, and his eyes became a little different.

The two brothers grew up together since they were young, and Luo Wangshu's eyes couldn't escape the trivial expressions. He asked, "What do you know?"

Luo Jinxing quickly sorted it out in his mind, and slowly began to say: "Two years ago, when I brought Ji Bai back from the Gamma planet, he was still in a state of madness. I secretly asked someone to treat him, vaguely I remember, at the beginning of the treatment, the doctor said that Ji Bai's glands seemed to have been injured. Just in case, I wanted to take some pheromone samples from his gland blood for analysis. At that time, Ji Bai's reaction was very strong, When taking samples, I suddenly went crazy and said some nonsense in my mouth, and finally I had to give up."

"Later, his condition improved day by day. I tried to persuade him to take some pheromone samples again. He didn't go crazy like before, but he was still unwilling. During that time, he was always suspicious. When I came , he just stared at me suspiciously, and once asked me if I was from the research institute and why he took his pheromone samples. Although I was surprised, I went on and on. He didn’t believe me , asking me not to include his pheromones in the database."

The more Luo Wangshu listened, the more frightened he became, and he had more and more guesses.

"Did he say why?" Luo Wangshu asked dryly.

"I mentioned it when I was awake." Luo Jinxing nodded, took a sip of hot milk, feeling his stomach was being warmed, and continued, "Back then, Ji Bai was just an intern at the research institute. After being traumatized, he can't remember many things. But he still remembers the start of the project, which is to enter all the differentiated pheromones into the database and record them in the archives. At that time, he went to Baixing and planned to use this project. "

"...does the research have the right to do so?"

"I don't know." Luo Jinxing looked into Luo Wangshu's eyes calmly, "Maybe we should ask: Do those in power have the right to do this?"

Luo Wangshu lowered his head, and many words rolled on his lips.

"Ji Bai didn't have the right to know more things until he was in Bai Xing..."

Bai Xing, these two words are extremely sensitive.Luo Wangshu grabbed the coffee cup on the coffee table and drank the cold coffee.

Luo Jinxing took a deep breath: "It was Ye Yun who told him about the plan before he died when the war on White Star broke out."

Luo Wangshu's teeth trembled slightly: "Before you die, what do you mean?"

Luo Jinxing looked at him silently for two seconds: "Maybe Ji Bai thought she was dead at the time."

Luo Wangshu didn't speak.

"I know she is Ji Bai's mentor. But it took me two years to get Ji Bai to tell me this. How did you know?"

"It was sent to me by Lei Su, but I have deleted it. It should be something he found in the Eye of God."

"Maybe, they are also looking for Ji Bai." Luo Jinxing nodded, "He said that Ye Yun told him at the time that this pheromone entry is not just for filing, he can classify pheromones and also perform matching."

"What else did she say?" Luo Wangshu asked in a low voice.

"No more." Luo Jinxing shook his head, "Or maybe Ji Bai can't remember. But I think Ye Yun must have given him a hint in what he said back then. At least I shuddered when I heard it, because if all this True, then this project is a horrible tool...it can grade our entire society. It may not even require any access privileges, and it can do high-match surveys of pheromones.”

"Mating rights." Luo Wangshu sneered.

Luo Jinxing didn't speak, he rubbed his temples with a headache, he seemed to be very tired.

It wasn't until Luo Wangshu realized that he brought his elder brother home just to let him rest, but he talked about it again unconsciously.

He stood up, quietly walked behind Luo Jinxing, replaced his hand, and massaged his head silently to relieve his fatigue.

"Go to sleep, I will tell you the rest of the matter slowly." Luo Wangshu said.

"What about you? You also drank coffee."

"I still have things to deal with." Luo Wangshu said.

Luo Jinxing closed his eyes, leaned on the sofa, and lifted his legs in military boots to the coffee table: "You. I asked how you and Zhou Yan were doing, but you brought the topic here."

Luo Wangshu didn't answer, and after quietly kneading for a while, he called: "Brother?"

What answered him was Luo Jinxing's breathing became heavier and heavier.

The port of Pandora, the eye of God under the sea, there is darkness outside the window.Under the sea is like another sky, but when night comes, it is even darker and duller.

Zhou Yan walked out of the monitoring room, pinched the bridge of his nose hard, trying to keep his mind clear.He hadn't rested for nearly thirty hours.

Ye Yun is still in a meeting with the Eye of God and other people, probably finalizing some final details.Regarding whether they want to go to the space station, the final decision is that all video recordings and materials to be released need to be sorted out here, and the final announcement will be made at the space station.All of them had to leave this place in the early hours of the morning, when detection and military defenses were at their weakest.

Zhou Yan stood in front of the glass, and outside was the dark and deep sea. When he got close, he could see the tiny floats in the sea.

He took out the terminal and opened the photo album on the small screen.At the bottom, there is an album whose category name is Crescent Moon.

Zhou Yan silently looked at the photos in the album, which contained the details of the two walking step by step.

There is Luo Wangshu who is sleeping, Luo Wangshu who is smiling at the camera with his hands behind his back, there is Luo Wangshu who is thinking about things calmly, and there are some group photos of the two of them.

More photos are candid shots, and there are many partial pictures in the candid shots.

The white fingers holding the siphon pot; the ankles protruding from the bed; the vague leather shoes of the two walking; the arms holding the flowers; the back view of Zhou Yan's tie hanging on the shoulders; the wrist wearing Zhou Yan's watch; There are patterns of two people's names written on the glass window...a pink bath ball that is melting; a group of snow-white tree flowers blooming in the rain; a blurred scenery outside the car window.

Zhou Yan clicked away one by one, and his gaze stayed for a short time each time, and finally stopped on the blurred scenery outside the window that he took casually.

This photo looks messy, without words, without any content, but Zhou Yan looked at it for a long time.This is the message Luo Wangshu sent him when he was in Xuelong Port.

He stared at it for a moment, then smiled slightly.The tiredness on my body seems to have disappeared a lot.

The sound of high heels appeared behind Zhou Yan.

He put away the terminal and nodded to the visitor: "Ms. Ye."

Ye Yun just came out of the meeting, and her face was also full of tiredness.With an electronic cigarette between her fingers, she looked Zhou Yan up and down: "Your expression just now... are you sending messages to your wife?"

Zhou Yan hesitated to speak.

"What look?" Ye Yun took a sip of the e-cigarette and exhaled lightly, "If there is something important, please contact me immediately. After tonight, and in the early morning, all of us will have to keep going. By the way, I haven't had time to ask you yet. What happened to you and Luo Da last time? Do you know each other?"

"I know." Zhou Yan said.

"Why are you talking so dryly?" Ye Yun laughed at him, "Take it as a private chat, don't be nervous. Tell me, judging from the last time, it should not only be acquaintance, he also mentioned Luo Er."

Zhou Yan pulled his gaze away from the black sea water outside the window, and stared at Ye Yun again for a while, his eyes slowly changing.

Ye Yun obviously also read the hesitation in his eyes, and urged him to speak.

"I know now may not be the right time to say this." This feels too subtle, Ye Yun is his superior, and two minutes ago she was teasing him for sending a message to his wife, "Wang Shu is my... lover."

Time was silent for three seconds.

Ye Yun's position holding the electronic cigarette did not change, she exhaled a faint smoke.

"You are my son's husband." Ye Yun confirmed.

"...Boyfriend." Zhou Yan corrected.

"One meaning." Ye Yun took a deep puff of cigarette, scratched his eyes up and down, with suspicion, "If I remember correctly, Wang Shu is single so far, don't you want to chase him, you are lying to me?"

Zhou Yan looked at her silently.

Ye Yun turned her head and cursed silently: "Why did you say it until now?"

"I didn't know you were in the Eye of God before. Although you have been looking for me for more than ten years, we have only met for a few days. I haven't found the opportunity yet."

Ye Yun was concerned about other things: "You had to go back to Pandora Port last time, did you have something to do with him?"

Zhou Yan only admitted it, but it's hard to say too much.

Ye Yun's gaze on him has also completely changed, it is a gaze of scrutiny and investigation: "I need you to tell me in detail..."

Zhou Yan quickly sorted out his thoughts, briefly told Ye Yun about the status of the two of them, and finally said: "I didn't intend to hide it from you."

Ye Yun couldn't get used to Zhou Yan's well-behaved address, so she waved her hands a little confusedly, telling him to stop using honorifics, which was not used to it.

"You are Beta, if you are with him, the two of you will suffer more and more." Ye Yun said.

"I know."

"Have you ever regretted it?"

"No."

"What about him?"

"I won't make him regret it."

Ye Yun opened her mouth, the expression on her face became complicated, and finally she took a deep breath as if giving up: "I won't be prejudiced against you because of your Beta's gender, but when I think about how much hardship I will suffer..."

She turned her eyes to the deep sea in the distance, and the expression on her face seemed to recall something.

Zhou Yan knew that in terms of qualifications, experience, and even the experience of suffering, he couldn't stand in front of Ye Yun at all.He didn't know if Ye Yun remembered something, all he could do was not waver.

The two faced each other without speaking.The relationship has changed too quickly, the atmosphere is not right, and I am a little uncomfortable.

Ye Yunshen took a puff of cigarette: "Understood, let me digest slowly. Let's talk about this matter later, otherwise we won't be able to stop talking."

"You go to rest first, you are too tired." Before Zhou Yan could reply, she said again.

"My final impact review isn't done yet."

"Take an hour's rest and reintegrate. There won't be many mistakes. We have four hours to leave. Before that, you have to recharge your batteries."

Seeing her insistence, Zhou Yan said nothing more, nodded quietly, and prepared to leave.

"Zhou Yan." When he turned around and walked away a few steps, Ye Yun suddenly stopped him from behind.

Zhou Yan turned around, and he saw Ye Yun standing in front of the glass window, as if standing in the dark and deep sea.

"Take care of yourself, if you're his."

Zhou Yan touched his chest: "I will."