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Chapter 45: Past and Present (2)
Chapter 45: Past and Present (2)
On the second floor of Yin Beidou Fortress, two heroes who had just triumphed were sitting in Major General Xie Yuduo's office.
Jiang Jianming and Garcia each sat in a chair, the former politely took the tea from Adjutant Rita's hand and drank it with both hands; the latter squinted at the three-dimensional star map in the Major General's office with a cold face.
Xie Yuduo collapsed on the spot: "God, ancestor, why did you quarrel again!?"
"No quarrel."
The two spoke in unison.
Jiang Jianming said indifferently: "It's just a bit of a running-in problem."
Garcia also said coldly: "He gets angry too easily."
"..."
Xie Yuduo was even more desperate, collapsed on the table, all kinds of messy documents and chips flying around.
So Adjutant Rita was also desperate: "Major General!! Please lift up your honorable head, that is the information that the military will always use-"
In the office, chickens and dogs jumped for a while.
Under the coercion of the female adjutant, Xie Yuduo had to get up from the table as if he had no bones, looked at His Royal Highness the "Cold War" Prince and Lieutenant Jiang, and sighed again.
But... sigh after sigh.
The major general couldn't help but sigh: This is the first time that he can see such vivid childishness in these two young people who are far ahead of their peers in talent but also carry heavy burdens on their own.
In the end, they are still young people in their early twenties. In this interstellar era when the average life expectancy of human beings is approaching two hundred years old year by year, young people in their twenties can be called a child.
Over there, Garcia whispered: "...Don't be angry."
He broke the deadlock by speaking first, but did not look back.
On the contrary, Jiang Jianming sighed softly and sat back beside Garcia: "Your Highness, I'm not angry."
Garcia stopped talking, he turned his face and stared straight at Jiang Jianming, as if to say silently: You are obviously angry.
Jiang Jianming shook his head half helplessly and half indulgently, reached out and rubbed the long hair beside Garcia's ear, "...Okay, look, I'm really not angry now."
Xie Yuduo was even more dumbfounded, thinking: Dare you two, do you have a tacit division of labor even after a fight?
The major general suddenly felt that he had become a big light bulb, and quickly got up to see the guests: "Okay two, Your Highness and Your Excellency Jiang Xiao have worked hard this time, go back and rest. The fortress has been busy these days, what's wrong with it? Just hit my personal communication directly."
Jiang Jianming looked at Garcia: "Please go back first, I have something to say to the major general alone."
Garcia's expression turned cold again: "...either going out late at night or having a secret conversation between the two, it seems that there are many secrets between Major General Xie and Lieutenant Jiang."
Having said that, he stood up and walked out.
Xie Yuduo looked at a bit at a loss, Jiang Jianming slowly picked up the teacup: "It's okay, let him go, I'll go back and coax him."
Garcia's finger to open the door snapped. A second later, he seemed to snort lightly, but he didn't seem to have any, slammed the door and went out.
Xie Yuduo: "...Little Your Excellency, why do I feel that you two have no problem with running in at all?"
Jiang Jianming smiled without saying a word, and lowered his head to drink tea. Major Rita spoke with discernment, went to do the chores, and exited with the documents.
At this time, Jiang Jianming said, "Major General Xie, I want to ask you..."
He paused for a moment, as if he was organizing the language, but what he finally asked was an overly blunt sentence: "What on earth is His Royal Highness Garcia doing in the Yin Beidou Fortress?"
Jiang Jianming frowned, his words a little heavy: "Is he playing?"
"I have been with His Royal Highness Garcia for more than half a month. I feel that he is not fighting for Yin Beidou at all. He actually doesn't care about honor and empire, he is just playing."
Jiang Jianming tapped the table with the tip of his index finger: "Playing with mecha, playing with alien creatures - the problem is that he is now playing with me, Major General, can't you control this person?"
As early as when Jiang Jianming said the first sentence, the expression on Xie Yuduo's face changed obviously.
Now, the major general's face slowly solidified into a wry smile: "...Little Your Excellency, you've spoken so sharply, it's hard to be called a lower official."
"Actually, that's what happened."
Xie Yuduo touched the tip of his nose, "The relationship between His Royal Highness Garcia and the fortress is actually hard to say. He is willing to find excitement in the distant stars, and we need to eliminate alien creatures and defend against space thieves... Barely reaching the same goal."
"In fact, Yin Beidou can't move him at all. His Highness doesn't bother to care about the fortress most of the time. I'm thankful that he can occasionally save people."
Jiang Jianming pondered for a while, and said confusedly: "So he is really wild, I thought he was just stocked."
Xie Yuduo: "...if you have to use this metaphor, yes, it's very appropriate."
"Is there something the Major General is hiding from me? About His Royal Highness Garcia."
"It's gone, little lord! It's that His Highness refused to talk about the past. He really had this temper since he came to the fortress!"
"However," Xie Yuduo said suddenly, "Before he came, there was a big explosion at the Omega Alien... Black Shark Base, which caught fire and smoked."
"You know, that place is not an ordinary small research institute. This is a big event. Fortunately, the base is located in the far interstellar space. At that time, the Empire just suppressed the news."
Jiang Jianming didn't say anything anymore, and there were deep ripples in his eyes.
He looked down at the tea in the cup, and there was a small piece of tea leaf spinning around.
"...Okay, I understand." Jiang Jianming held the teacup in both hands, he bent his lips thoughtfully, and blew lightly.
...
By the time Jiang Jianming returned to his residence, it was already the time when the sun was setting.
Waiting for him in the bedroom was His Royal Highness Garcia.
and customary treatment cabins.
Jiang Jianming sighed with a headache, he fumbled with his fingers to open the buttons of his military uniform, took off his coat and put it in his arms and walked towards Garcia.
"His Royal Highness, we need to have a good talk about the use of the treatment cabin."
"Also," the young black-haired officer glanced at the wall of the room with a side door open, "even if our room is only separated by a door, it would be inappropriate for you to always enter my room in such a daze. At this rate, I really want to padlock."
Since moving to the second floor, Jiang Jianming's accommodation conditions have improved dramatically.
In the past, four people squeezed into a four-bed bedroom in the officer's dormitory during the adaptation period, but now he has one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom.
This room is very spacious and well-lit, and it is considered a one-on-one configuration in a high-end accommodation area.
The only strange thing is that its bedroom has a side door, which can be directly connected to the next door... Jiang Jianming guessed that maybe this used to be the room of a security guard of a big man, and the side door can be convenient to be on call.
And now, next door to him lives His Royal Highness Garcia.
His Highness would not ask him to be on call.
But when His Highness wanted to arrest him, he would open the door at any time.
For example, at the moment, Garcia is looking at him with displeased cold eyes: "You have been running around for six days, and today you drove the mecha at full speed for four hours in the high altitude with rich crystal particles."
Jiang Jianming: "The crystal particle isolation performance of Comet Slashing is very good. I have considered this when picking mechas."
"It's not as good as Xuejiu." Garcia said, "I said, you can use Xuejiu when you assist me in battle, and save Comet Slashing as a backup... You are disobedient."
After speaking, the prince was silent for himself. When he spoke again, he seemed to be angry, and his eyebrows lowered sharply: "The mecha master of the fortress is useless, and the M model of Xuejiu is just a few years old."
Jiang Jianming: "..."
What's the matter with you, wasn't it you who mocked Xue Jiu in Beta Alien only for escaping?
Besides, that kind of tasteless vase beauty machine, it would be good to have a small machine for people with special circumstances. Who is full and can study a larger model!
"Go in." Garcia gestured to the treatment cabin with his eyes. "Or, if you prefer me to put you in, you can."
He said, stood up and walked towards Jiang Jianming.
The setting sun outside the window reflected golden red flashes on the prince's long hair. His shadow was drawn huge and fell forward on Jiang Jianming.
Jiang Jianming sighed and hung up his coat: "Your Highness, please stop making trouble. If you continue to use the treatment cabin, my body will become dependent on it."
"Why not?"
Jiang Jianming laughed in anger, and he turned his head to look at Garcia: "Of course not, what do you ask me to do in a difficult environment in the future? What should I do when you are not by my side?"
Garcia frowned and said, "Why do you have to go to a difficult environment without me."
After a few words, he had already stood still in front of Jiang Jianming, his tone was cold, "It doesn't make sense, give me a reason."
"I……!"
Jiang Jianming wanted to refute subconsciously, but he was stunned when he opened his mouth.
Garcia held his shoulders, the prince tilted his head slightly, his graceful curly hair scattered: "Where are you going?"
Alien stars are rarely peaceful, and the afterglow of the sunset is like a colorful silk woven, flowing meekly around the two people.
Perhaps it was because of the slack after a battle was finally over, perhaps because the evening was too peaceful and the setting sun was too gentle.
Or maybe it's because the emerald eyes that are close at hand are too deep and intoxicating, like a glass of slightly drunk and sweet iced fruit wine.
Jiang Jianming was in a trance for a while, so dazed that he himself was at a loss.
He asked himself: Yes, where am I going?
Garcia leaned closer: "Your body is inherently fragile, not suitable for fatigue, injury, stimulation and high-intensity combat, don't you know?"
"You are weak and sick, you are easy to die, I have said many times."
"Even if it doesn't die immediately, it will at least damage the foundation of the body and shorten the lifespan... The average lifespan of the disabled human beings among the Empire's civilians is 30 years shorter than that of the new humans. This is still when the disabled humans live in peace and receive protection and care. data, don't you know this?"
Jiang Jianming was even more at a loss.
He thought confusedly: I know...but why does this person always like to talk so close together? Does he want to bite me?
"What makes you think that it is normal for you to have a fever, cough up blood, and endure the pain every day, just like when you were an officer during the adaptation period."
Garcia squinted, and the intoxicating emerald color rippled.
His fingers on the shoulders of the residual crystal human tightened, "What life did you live before you came to Yin Beidou... You don't want to say, I don't have to ask, but."
"Jiang Jianming, you've been following me for half a month—"
"The person who has no habit is you."
Jiang Jianming's body trembled unconsciously.
There seemed to be some rapids running through his limbs, bringing shudders.
Jiang Jianming lowered his head and gritted his teeth.
……no.
He felt a little bitter and said softly to himself: No, I just have a long way to go.
Although it is not yet clear what is on the road.
But this is not destined to be a smooth road.
So he can't slack off, he can't let down his guard. There are too many unknowns and secrets, no one around you can completely trust, no one can completely rely on——
But... Jiang Jianming fell into a brief daze again. He looked at Garcia in front of him and thought blankly:
In the final analysis, it was because of the death of His Highness that he fell into the situation of a helpless widow.
After all, he didn't need to suffer.
When the little Highness had no accident, didn't he also live in the prosperous Aslan Star City, study at the most dazzling Kaios Military Academy, and live an ordinary but comfortable life?
Not only that, because of Ryan's relationship, his conditions have always been very favorable.
Although he hardly asks the crown prince for anything in material terms.
But what kind of disabled person can be like him. Tonight, his lover found out his wish to go to the far interstellar space. Tomorrow, the most advanced treatment cabin and crystal particle tranquilizer are ready, and the three military fortresses are visited?
The Empire's strongest Jin Xiaozhi, even the commander-in-chief, Chen Hank, has never entered the cockpit. His Highness will let him play for an afternoon, and then carry him out with his own hands - who can get this treatment?
He was not born with such a hard life, and he had to squeeze himself out of his life to swim against the current every day and night.
If it weren't for the death of the little Highness...
But now, Garcia is clearly standing in front of him.
In the background is a huge sunset.
The past and present overlap, and it is like a dream.
wow.
Jiang Jianming felt a light on his waist.
He bowed his head and found that just as he was in a trance, Garcia had undid his belt and pulled it away smoothly.
"What are you doing."
Jiang Jianming's voice was a little hoarse.
Garcia: "You have to change and then lie down and rest."
Jiang Jianming's Adam's apple moved lightly: "Anyway... you shouldn't stuff a quilt into the treatment cabin, it's not a bed, it can't be used as a bed."
Garcia: "The heating in Yin Beidou Fortress is not enough, and it will be cold for you at night."
"..." Jiang Jianming pursed his lips and said nothing.
Alpha alien temperatures are frigid, especially at night. Although there are heating facilities in the fortress, after all, the sergeants cannot be kept squeamish, and the temperature is just like that.
For the new human beings, forbearance is enough to adapt. Only for Jiang Jianming, it was really cold enough to feel pain.
Garcia grabbed his wrist, took off his gloves expressionlessly, folded them on top of each other, and set them aside.
Jiang Jianming lowered his head, his eyes were like broken snow floating in the depths of his eyes, and said slowly, "If one day in the future, you leave my side..."
Garcia moved for a while, when the prince's slender and well-jointed fingers were landing on a button in front of the neckline of the residual crystal human.
"Don't make unfounded speculations."
He unbuttoned the button and said lightly: "According to your current state, no matter what you think, you will leave me first - fatigue, cold, illness, excessive patience and thinking, you are not me."
Jiang Jianming's silence lasted for a long time, until Garcia thought he was going to refuse again.
"That……"
Jiang Jianming suddenly raised his eyes, his eyelashes were trembling slightly, his usual calm and firm eyes were a little lost at this moment.
He said in a very soft voice, almost at a loss: "Then, the cost of the treatment cabin..."
Garcia responded quickly and said calmly, "Let Xie Yu take it."
Jiang Jianming lowered his eyes and pursed his lips.
His voice became even lighter: "Okay."
"But I have to take a shower first, and have dinner."
"...So please stop and don't take off my clothes again!"
...
This evening, the fortress was calm.
Jiang Jianming put hot water in the bathtub, washed it, and soaked in the bathtub naked.
The hot water bath after a tired battle seems to have magic power, and people are confused within ten minutes of entering.
He originally wanted to close his eyes and relax for a while, but soon even his consciousness was steamed into a mist, and he almost fell asleep in the water.
Fortunately, Garcia called him outside.
Dinner was eaten by two people, who ordered a few items of food from the trading area to be delivered by the robot.
The food was delicious and expensive, but Jiang Jianming couldn't eat much. Garcia's judgment is not wrong, he is indeed a little tired.
After washing hastily, Jiang Jianming changed into his pajamas and stepped into the treatment cabin with his bare feet under Garcia's gaze.
This time...
He wasn't forced into it.
But when the night swayed gently like water waves, he still fell asleep in the treatment cabin covered with several layers of quilts, just like a few days ago.
The author has something to say: Jiang OS: It turns out that he is wild, does he want to bite me (thinking about how to tame wild beasts Garcia OS: It’s really troublesome to take care of a disobedient crippled human (hands off other people’s clothes so this pairReally two-way feeding.