Together With You, It’ll Be Alright
Early in the morning, Luo Lan slowly opened her eyes and looked at the empty cup on the bedside in a daze.
She contacted Qian Xu in the middle of the night. She couldn’t remember what she said later, but she remembered what she said earlier.
She even remembered that she was very nervous when she asked Qian Xu to elope, for fear that he would dismiss her with a careless, “You’re drunk”. Fortunately, Qian Xu listened attentively and didn’t dismiss her.
She sent a message to Qian Xu with her personal terminal, “I was drunk last night, but I was not talking nonsense. I am serious. ”
“I know.”
Qian Xu’s reply arrived in an instant as if he was guarding his personal terminal and was waiting for her.
Luo Lan’s spirit was lifted. She turned over and sat, nervously typing a few words before ultimately sending them, “Would you like to?”
“I have to think about it. Give me six months, I will give you the answer. ”
Luo Lan’s breath hitched. She rubbed her eyes and read it back and forth. Not a rejection! It’s not a rejection!
She let out a squeal and a backflip. She fell to the ground from the bed but happily continued to flip all the way into the bathroom.
When Luo Lan stood under the showerhead and washed her hair, all her negative emotions had been washed away. The whole person became vibrant. Sure enough, hope is the driving force for mankind to move forward!
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Luo Lan’s life has become extremely busy and fulfilling.
Every day, she would receive training from Su Er and Su Qi, then got beate— ehem, special training from Chen Sha.
Time flies by in the midst of abuse— ehem, special training. Luo Lan completed all the training courses. The last thing to do was the final promotion task.
If the training course was like clay practice, projecting and glazing it, making the pottery step by step. The promotion task was like the final high-temperature firing— forcing the body’s full potential with the pressure of death in an extremely cruel environment, integrating all previous efforts into exquisite pottery.
According to Su Er, many people have survived the special training, but few have survived the promotion task and successfully improved their physical ability. Moreover, the possibility of physical promotion was the greatest only for the first time, with a probability of 20%. If they failed on the first try, there wouldn’t even be a 5% possibility of advancing later.
Many people stay at the peak of level B all their lives and can’t break through to level A.
As professional physical ability promotion instructors, Su Er and Su Qi have more than 100 years of rich experience. After careful research and analysis, they formulated a promotion task for Luo Lan to go to Yanlin[1] to capture the Yanfeng[2] beast.
Following the usual regulation, Luo Lan must find a person with level A physical ability as her guide. This person must not only be able to protect Luo Lan’s safety and give her complete trust but also not allow Luo Lan to develop a mentality of dependence, which affects the promotion of physical ability. It could be said that one point more or one point less would not work.
Su Er and Su Qi had a headache searching for this candidate. Chen Sha’s physical ability was not suitable, and he had no guiding experience. The physical ability of the two of them was suitable, they also had abundant guidance experience, but their abilities were not suitable for Yanlin’s environment.
Luo Lan thought of Qian Xu and tentatively said, “I have a friend who has level A physical ability…”
“It’s not enough to only have level A physical ability!” Su Qi rejected it in one bite.
Su Er was more amiable, “What is that person’s job?”
“He used to serve on the Interstellar battleship as a special ops soldier. Now he is a tactical researcher on the Interstellar battleship at Alikarta Military Base. ”
Su Er and Su Qi shared a look. The special ops soldiers on the Interstellar battleship must have a good physique. The Interstellar battleship tactical researcher at Alikarta Military Base must have a good mind. One of these two jobs required him to be brave and the other required him to be strategic. It’s really not something that everyone could do.
Su Qi’s attitude changed, “What’s the name?”
“Qian Xu.”
Su Qi used her authority to call up Qian Xu’s file.
Su Er looked at it with surprise: “He has been an instructor, trained special forces, and has been a guide for physical ability promotion.”
Su Qi took her words back, “This person meets the requirements, but…”
“But what?”
“The file says he retired due to illness, but it doesn’t say what kind of illness it is. Do you know?”
Luo Lan calmly evaded it, “If it’s not written in the file, even if I know it, I can’t tell you.”
Su Qi rolled her eyes while Su Er asked with concern, “Does it affect his physical ability?”
“It doesn’t.”
Su Er and Su Qi carefully studied Qian Xu’s files again. Su Er said cautiously, “Princess, you should know that this time is your best chance to advance. If you fail this time, you may have a chance to advance in the future, but the probability of success will be very low. Are you sure you want him to be your guide?”
“I’m sure.” Luo Lan reluctantly said, “But I must ask for his opinion first. He may not be willing.”
Su Qi raised her eyebrows and immediately made a decision, “It’s decided. Ask him! Contact him immediately! If he dares to disagree, I’ll go directly to his boss!”
Unexpectedly, Su Qi turned out to be the aggressive type of “The more you are unwilling, the more I want it!” person. Luo Lan groaned but obediently opened her address book.
Now it came to this, her fear caught up to her.
Su Qi impatiently urged, “Contact him!”
Luo Lan couldn’t back out now and could only brace herself and send a message, “Are you free? There is something I want to talk about.”
“?”
“Would you like to be my guide for my promotion task?”
“What is the task?”
“Capturing the Yanfeng beast.”
“Alright.”
Qian Xu agreed at once. Luo Lan stared at Qian Xu’s reply foolishly and felt like she was dreaming.
There were still ten days to go before Qian Xu’s promise to give her an answer was due. Originally, she planned to rush back to Alikarta after the promotion task was completed, regardless of whether she succeeded or not. It never passed on her mind that Qian Xu would be willing to come to see her in advance. This should be a good sign for her, right?!
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-Conference Room–
Chen Sha and Consul were sitting in their chairs while Zi Yan was standing next to the screen. The zhi nao was displaying the information decoded from the Butterfly Corps’ information storage one by one.
The consul lowered his head and looked at his personal terminal. Obviously not interested in the densely packed information like tadpoles on the screen.
Chen Sha frowned, “Can you just get to the point?”
“With so many secrets uncovered, you people don’t even understand how to appreciate it!” Zi Yan looked regretful and clicked the screen.
The dense information disappeared and two lines of numbers appeared.
“This is the payment account for two operations of Butterfly Corps. It’s very interesting, you know. The payment account for the second operation comes from the Star Domain NGC7293, where the Dragon Blood Corps is located, but the payment account for the first operation comes from Odin Federation.”
“There is a traitor colluding with the Dragon Blood Corps.” Chen Sha was very calm. He had speculated about it before, only there was no evidence.
Zi Yan gave out a smile, “A traitor that I can’t even track. It shouldn’t be an ordinary traitor. I’m sure that person is among the seven of us.”
The consul finally raised his head with interest and motioned Zi Yan to continue.
Zi Yan cleared his throat and said solemnly, “I have a plan.”
Footnotes
岩林 – yánlín; lit. Rock Forest. The name of the place is Yanlin. The rock forest is a place in Yanlin↵
岩风 – yánfēng; lit. Rock Wind. ↵
Amoeba’s Corner
–ehem, special training. Definitely not a beating, or abuse.. or torturous training… Definitely not! wdym it is!
Zi Yan’s plan is never a good plan. Don’t trust a bastard plan!!
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Sneak-a-Peek
Luo Lan looked at the empty sky and realized that Qian Xu was nearby, but she couldn’t hear or see him yet.
Obligatory Closing
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Ah ah ah ah ah!!!
Luo Lan looked at the empty sky and realized that Qian Xu was nearby, but she couldn’t hear or see him yet.
Qian Xu?! Qian Xu?! My bae finally got screen time?! Ah!! Ah!!!!
Calm down la. Wait until Chapter 12, no doubt you immediately ascend to Heaven.
Just to get plunged to Hell, right?
Well, the next chapter is “From Heaven to Hell”, so… yeah…