Yan Sichen was obviously stunned for a moment. He looked at Xian Qianhua and said, "What are you thinking? I can be a gentleman. Besides... I have someone I like... I will not allow myself to do anything to regret her."
Xian Qianhua couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed after hearing this. She knelt down and asked with a grin, "What's her name?"
"Shimizu Masato."
"Masato Shimizu? Japanese?"
"Um."
"Hey...it's so strange...you've been to the space station since you were in your early twenties, haven't you? How did you get the chance to meet a Japanese girl?"
"Have you forgotten that I am still a photographer? I used to take advantage of my holidays to travel to various places to take photos. The first meeting with Masato... was a wonderful encounter."
"Oh! It's so romantic. Can you tell me about it?" Xian Qianhua became interested.
But Yan Sichen smiled bitterly, as if he was not very willing to recall the past at this time.
Xian Qianhua also saw what he was thinking, and sighed softly: "If you don't want to say it, forget it. I'm a little tired. Let's go to sleep first." After saying that, Xian Qianhua lay down and wrapped herself in a thermal quilt.
Yan Sichen was still sitting there looking at the earth outside the window dreamily. He whispered: "I'm sorry... I just... don't want to recall the past at this time... make it seem like we... never..."
He didn't say any more.
Xian Qianhua, who had her back to Yan Sichen, closed her eyes and said softly: "I understand...you don't have to say you're sorry."
"Well..." Yan Sichen withdrew his gaze and took out the crystal plate.
The above data is still blank. He made a simple small program that can send a distress signal to the Earth headquarters every two seconds. At the same time, after receiving the response, it will immediately feed back their current status and location.
But now, this program has not received any response.
Yan Sichen, who had been sleeping for a long time and was not sleepy, asked softly: "Qian Hua?"
"Um?"
"Do you have anyone you like?"
"Yes."
"What's his name? May I have the pleasure of meeting him?"
"His name is... I won't tell you! Hehe!" Xian Qianhua deliberately teased Yan Sichen.
Yan Sichen laughed: "Okay, then when we go back, I'll ask you again."
‘Can I still go back?’ Xian Qianhua asked secretly in her heart. She was asking Yan Sichen and herself.
…
Soon, winter is over, and it is officially the time for spring flowers to bloom and enjoy cherry blossoms.
Although most of the Japanese island is now submerged in seawater, cherry blossoms are still blooming everywhere. There are many cherry blossom trees transplanted from China planted in the yard of Hanako's house.
These are gifts from Hanako's grandfather, and they bloom as scheduled every year.
When the flowers bloom, the entire yard seems to turn into a sea of pink. At this time, many people will gather in Hanako's yard.
But this year, there were far fewer people enjoying the cherry blossoms.
Not even Hanako's best friend Masato showed up.
Hanako, who was sitting in the yard drinking tea with her mother Liang Qiuru, looked up at the pink cherry blossoms on the tree and asked, "Mom... life is so unpredictable."
Ms. Liang, who was reading a book elegantly and stirring the coffee in her cup, was amused by her daughter's sudden words.
"Pfft...what's wrong with you today? Is your poetry booming?"
Hanako also laughed, but with a hint of bitterness.
"No... I just feel that everything happened so suddenly, which is a bit unacceptable."
Liang Qiuru's eyes rolled when she heard this: "You are referring to Hua Zi's boyfriend you have never met?"
"Well, it's been several months. The rescue work is in the final stages, and we haven't seen a single miraculous survivor."
Liang Qiuru adjusted her glasses frame without lenses and opened the next page of the book in her hand. While admiring the beautiful illustrations in the book, she said: "Space rescue is just a thought. It consumes so much manpower and material resources. It is nothing more than a thought."
Just to appease everyone’s fragile hearts.”
Hanako was stunned for a moment, then looked at her mother with disgust and said, "Hey! Mom, you are so cold-blooded!"
Liang Qiuru didn't mind what Hanako said about her. She took a deep breath, put down the book and looked at the sky and said: "This is not cold-blooded, this is a fact."
But Hanako doesn't think so. She can't treat all problems calmly like her mother, including life and death.
So Hanako asked: "So... no one should have saved dad when he died?"
Liang Qiuru looked away, and after a long silence, she picked up the book and read it again.
"sorry……"
"There's no need to comfort your mother, I'm very strong." Liang Qiuru was indeed a chic and enviable woman. She asked, "Ya Ren is not here during this time, so you are responsible for her cultivation area?"
"
"Uh...right."
"Well... one person manages two areas, and you can still be so free. It's really enviable."
Hanako rolled her eyes speechlessly and said, "I've been busy for a month and just have a rest today, can't I just take a day off! It's true!"
Liang Qiuru smiled slightly: "What I mean is... if you don't use this precious time to find your brother Natsume, how can you be here to enjoy flowers and drink tea with your mother?"
This reminder is in place.
Hanako seemed to have just realized that it was Natsume who sent her back yesterday, and he seemed to be resting.
"Yes! Why didn't you remind me earlier! Really!"
"Yes, yes, it's all my fault. It's only 10 o'clock in the morning. You still have a lot of time to use, so cherish it." Liang Qiuru said and handed her daughter a bottle of blue liquid.
"What's this?"
"You'll know it if you smell it."
Hanako took it carefully: "Perfume?"
"You smell it first."
After opening it and smelling it, a faint floral fragrance came out of the bottle, but obviously it was not charming enough.
"What is this?"
"Don't ask, just use this to wash your body and hair. I'm sure your brother Natsume will be more fond of you." Liang Qiuru said very ambiguously.
After hearing this, Hanako's face straightened, she twisted the bottle, handed it back to her mother and said, "The relationship between Natsume and I doesn't need the help of this kind of chemical plug-in! Thank you!"
Liang Qiuru didn't answer: "Why do you think your father was able to value me in the Oak Park where there are so many beauties?"
Hanako felt a little moved when she heard this. Although she really wanted to advance her relationship with Natsume, but... this kind of thing always made her feel repelled... It felt as if she had done some particularly dirty trick.
It's like cheating someone.
So Hanako still put the bottle of mysterious liquid on the table: "That's because Dad sees that you are different! Not because you smell special!"
Saying that, Hanako left "in a huff".
Liang Qiuru was a little surprised, but in the end she smiled slightly, put away the small bottle, and let her daughter work on her own.
…
Because she lived next door, after getting dressed up, Hanako easily found Natsume, who often stayed at home and painted.
Today, as usual, he was sitting alone on the balcony, looking at the scenery outside the window and sketching.
But Natsume was already asleep when Hanako knocked on the door.
Fortunately, Hanako is a frequent visitor to Natsume's house, and the smart housekeeper system did not shut her out.
Hanako, who entered the house like a cat, found Natsume asleep leaning on the window sill. The sunlight shined through the curtains on his almost perfect profile, which really made Hanako's little heart unbearable.
She originally thought about asking Natsume to go out to sea for a while, but now she just wants to quietly admire the sleeping face of her beloved.
But when she came to the window sill, Natsume woke up.
Natsume looked at Hanako who had entered his house like a thief. This beautiful girl was currently crawling forward.
His face turned cold: "What are you doing?"
Hanako froze. She was really influenced by the atmosphere to move forward with such a funny posture. Now it is really... too embarrassing...
"Um... um, I just lost my earring and I was looking for it, haha, ah! Here it is!" Fortunately, Hanako's adaptability was excellent, and she took advantage of the situation and took out an unknown object from her pocket that she forgot to take out when doing laundry.
passed.
Natsume looked at Hanako and didn't care much about her behavior. After all, it wasn't the first time.
He rubbed his eyes and glanced at the painting on the drawing board. Just as he was about to erase it, he suddenly stopped, with surprise and disbelief in his eyes.
When Hanako stood up and came to Natsume's side, she happened to see his expression and couldn't help but asked curiously: "What's wrong? Why do you have such an expression?"
Natsume ignored Hanako. He moved closer, carefully identified the things on the drawing board, and then asked Hanako: "Look here, what are these... words?"
Although Hanako usually gives people a silly impression, she actually has her own specialties, which are mystical glyphs and violin.
The unknown symbols that now appear on Natsume's drawing board look like a combination of some ancient mysterious writing and musical notation.
"This...I can't see it...Speaking of which, you ask me what you drew?"
Natsume shook her head: "No, I didn't draw this."
"Um..." Hanako looked around subconsciously, and then asked: "If it's not you... who else could it be? I just entered the house."
Natsume also felt that it was a bit abnormal. This crystal board specifically for painting was purchased by him specifically for the convenience of painting, and it could run independently without being connected to the Internet.
Because it was just a pastime, Natsume never connected the sketchpad to the Internet, thus eliminating the possibility of network intrusion.
And what’s even weirder is…
When Natsume and Hanako looked at those mysterious symbols at the same time, they slowly faded and then disappeared...
This scene makes people a little uneasy.
Fortunately, apart from these mysterious symbols, Hanako and Natsume found no other abnormal situations, and no mysterious intruder was found in the room.
After lunch, they all forgot about it.
…
But the next day, when Hanako took Natsume's ship to the breeding base, she discovered that a special ship with a monument mark was moored at the port of the breeding base.
Hanako and Natsume looked at each other, both curious as to why the person from the First Axis suddenly arrived.
But the base is very large, and the work areas here are divided very independently, so Hanako and Natsume did not encounter these "uninvited guests" immediately.
After entering her workspace, Hanako started working as usual.
She first checked the growth of marine plants in various cultivation areas during yesterday's break. After confirming that everything was normal, she changed into work clothes and entered the area that Masato was responsible for.
As a result, as soon as he arrived at the door of the area Masato was responsible for, he bumped into two tall guys who looked like special forces soldiers.
They blocked Hanako's path, and one of them explained: "Sorry, ma'am, please stop, the area has been blocked."
Hanako was stunned and looked at the tall man in front of him with a puzzled expression. What did he mean: "Why was it suddenly blocked?"
The tall man was quite intelligent, and he added: "There is abnormal activity in the seaweed in this area, please wait until the sampling is completed."
"What? Yuqiang got the goods?"
The tall man was not spiritual anymore: "Huh? What did you say?"
Hanako took off her mask and said, revealing a face flushed with boredom, "I said, what's the abnormal activity? I saw everything was normal before I got off work the day before yesterday?"
The tall man looked embarrassed when he heard this and said: "We don't know much about it, but please understand and cooperate with our work."
After hearing this, Hanako took a step back, looked at the height and body shape of the two people, and after confirming that they were the ones he couldn't beat, he turned around and said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."
Saying that, Hanako left.
But is Hanako really so abiding by the rules? But no.
Hanako's curiosity rivals that of a cat.
As long as she was interested, she would definitely find out...so...she decided to enter Masato's area through the connecting pipe in her area.
Only Hanako and Masato know this secret passage.
At that time, Hanako, who was like an explorer, quietly checked the work status of everyone else in the passage with Masato.
That was when Hanako discovered that Natsume liked to eat sweets when she was working alone, which made Hanako feel like a treasure. Unfortunately, after giving away the desserts she made by herself, she was thanked by her "good brother".
Now, Hanako started her own adventure again, but this time her heartbeat accelerated inexplicably.
After all, Hanako had only seen the people of the first central axis in various media before. Their mystery and power made people both curious and afraid.
So Hanako can't help but think: 'What if I get caught? Will they kill me and silence me?'
This idea was excellent, but it was immediately ridiculed by Hanako, who was even more outstanding.
This is not a movie, and the person in the first central axis is not the big bad guy, so how could it be possible?
…
"Are these algae... sending us a mysterious message?"
As soon as she entered the area where Masato was responsible, Hanako heard a man's voice.
The voice sounded very young, so the speaker must be young.
"But what can such low-level biological forms convey to us? Are they complaining that we have made a mess of the earth's ecology?" A somewhat unpleasant voice immediately mocked.
Hanako didn't see this person, but she had already classified him as a "bad guy".
"Haha, it's not impossible, but what I mean is...these algae may just be used, and there should be someone else who is transmitting information to us."
"Is there someone else?"
"Yes, this phenomenon appeared in many places around the world at the same time yesterday. Many people even saw it in their dreams. Do you think this is just a coincidence?"
"I didn't say that, but whatever, we are only responsible for recording and sampling, and the specific analysis must be completed by the people above."
"You're right, we shouldn't think wildly." As he said that, the man came over.
As the footsteps approached, Hanako, who was hiding near the vent, did not dare to come out.
"etc."
"What's wrong?"
"Something's wrong...are these algae...more gathered than just now?"
"More?" The man took a step back, and Hanako quietly took a breath.
"Well, I have already notified the disposal team outside. You should pay more attention and return it as soon as possible after sampling."
"Okay, it's almost done."
Hanako frowned secretly while listening to the conversation.
'Symbol? What symbol? Yesterday... Could it be?! Is it the one I saw at Natsume's yesterday?' Hanako suddenly remembered, but she had to see clearly the state of the seaweed that the man was collecting now, otherwise she had nothing to do
Connect two things together.
So she crawled forward again, and after a while she reached the other side. From here, she could clearly see the state of the seaweed in the cultivation area.
At this moment, the seaweed that should have been floating quietly in the seawater was actually all stuck to the glass of the cultivation area, and presented a strange symbolic form.
After a little recognition, Hanako couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Huh? What sound?"
Hanako immediately covered her mouth and hid aside.
The man she classified as a bad guy looked down and didn't see Hanako, but his expression was not good.
"Done?"
"Soon."
"Hurry up, I always feel that this place is a little uncomfortable."
"Okay, okay."
…
Half an hour later, the first central axis ship left.
But Masato's breeding area is still sealed off.
Hanako and the other breeders were also gathered together for a short meeting.
Several matters were mentioned in the meeting... One is not to mention to anyone that the First Central Axis came to the base today, and the other is not to enter the area that Masato is responsible for anymore.
Of course Hanako, a former good baby, would not follow these orders honestly.
When Natsume came to see her, she lied that she had work to do and was staying here tonight, and asked Natsume to go back first.
Natsume left without thinking much.
At night, the deserted marine animal and plant breeding base gives people an eerie feeling.
Hanako stayed alone in the studio, and from time to time she could hear the sounds of the marine animals in the base.
At around ten o'clock in the evening, after confirming that no one would come, Hanako entered the secret passage again.
This time she wanted to find out for herself.
…
Natsume returned to her residence and started cooking as usual.
But halfway through the meal, he froze.
What happened yesterday was still lingering in his mind, and today someone from the First Central Axis came to his door again. Natsume always felt that there was some mysterious connection between the two.
After much deliberation, Natsume and Hanako's ideas overlapped.
He decided to return to the base at night to find out.
But just when he made up his mind to continue cooking, there was a knock on the door.
When I opened the door, I saw Hanako standing outside.
She looked at Natsume with a smile and said: "My mother is not at home, so I want to come to your place to have a meal. Is that okay?"
Natsume looked back at the time. It was just past eight o'clock, so he didn't want to delay his plan.