Chapter 464: Chapter 71 Long-awaited!
(Add more for 15k monthly tickets)_3 Chapter 464: Chapter 71 Long-awaited!
(Add more for 15k monthly tickets)_3 “And what I really don’t get is…”
She rubbed her hands around the beverage cup, murmuring softly:
“For this mission where we boarded the Skyspace Aircraft to capture Space-Time Particles in space.
Even if I don’t understand much about it, I can tell it’s not an easy task.
You and Teacher Liu Feng have compelling reasons; you both want Space-Time Particles; Senior Gao Yang and I are your friends, and of course, we would come to help you because of our relationship.
But what about Elder Sister Huang Que?”
Chu Anqing looked up, blinking her eyes, as if soul-searchingly gazing at Lin Xian:
“Elder Sister Huang Que doesn’t want Space-Time Particles…
so what reason does she have to help you so wholeheartedly?]
Lin Xian was stunned.
He had never thought about this question!
All this time, he never truly appreciated Huang Que, instead always complaining that she was an enigma.
He had also never thought about this question.
It was always Huang Que “leading” him.
Huang Que would pave each step for him, remind him of Catch Me If You Can, warn him to watch out for Zheng Chenghe, tell him that what he wanted was in the Mirror, sorted out the Skyspace Aircraft for him in advance, waited for him at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and even made a special trip to Mi Country to save Chu Anqing who was there to cheer on-site.
Huang Que was simply spoiling him too much, much like a mother dotes on her son…
Although it might be an exaggeration to say so, Huang Que indeed did that, thoughtfully guiding him at every step.
He had taken it for granted, as if it should naturally be this way.
But Huang Que didn’t owe him anything.
Lin Xian fell silent.
He shifted his sitting position.
He thought over the question again.
Yet, he still couldn’t find a reasonable answer.
Chu Anqing was right.
Huang Que wasn’t targeted by the Seven Sins, nor was she locked onto by Kevin Walker, and she didn’t need the Space-Time Particle…
so why was she playing house so diligently with him, what was her goal?
Lin Xian’s watch made a soft sound.
He looked at his wrist, it was a reminder he had set; the time was already 10:30 PM.
“It’s time to go back.”
Lin Xian turned his wrist, showing Chu Anqing the time:
“Eh~~ so soon!” Chu Anqing seemed not to have had enough:
“Geez, Elder Sister Huang Que, too, why doesn’t she let us stay out to ring in the New Year and do the countdown before heading back.”
“Maybe it’s for safety reasons,” he suggested.
Lin Xian stood up, pointing outside:
“Let’s go, the car that brought us is waiting outside.”
This black sedan with a white license plate entered the Astronaut Secret Training Base, which had no doorplates hanging and wasn’t even marked on any map.
After parking, Lin Xian and Chu Anqing got out.
They found that, as always, Huang Que stood imposingly at the entrance steps of the lobby, arms crossed, watching them:
“Anqing, your father sent some things to the Space Agency for you.
Since this mission is top secret, we couldn’t tell him you’re here, so a colleague sent them from the Space Agency.
They’re at your dormitory door.”
Chu Anqing was delighted to receive a gift from her family at the last moment of New Year’s Eve, right at the turn of the old and new year.
She waved to Lin Xian:
“Then, Senior Lin Xian, I’m heading back first!
I’ll see what my father sent me…
If there’s something tasty, I’ll share some with everyone later!”
After speaking, she bounded away.
The black sedan with the white license plate also turned and left.
In this vast courtyard of the base, only Lin Xian and Huang Que remained.
If it had been earlier…
Lin Xian might have chided Huang Que a bit, whether it was about the curfew or her being an enigma.
After hearing Chu Anqing’s words.
He didn’t know what to say to Huang Que.
Huang Que still smiled in that proud and confident way, glancing at her watch:
February 9, 2024, 23:59:34
“You really have a knack for timing,” she said.
Lin Xian spread his hands:
“The roads were too congested, I really did take your advice and got on the car at 10:30.
we’re not kids, what does it matter if we’re late?
With me with Chu Anqing, nothing can go wrong.”
Fireworks densely packed.
Welcoming the New Year and bidding farewell to the old one.
In the sound of the wind, one could also hear the boisterous sound of firecrackers in the distance.
That the new year had arrived.
Right at the first second of the Lunar New Year, a WeChat notification popped up on Lin Xian’s phone.
He picked up the screen and saw it was a WeChat message from Zhao Yingjun.
He tapped the screen to see what the message was.
The voice of Huang Que came from ahead.
At the same time, the chat page with Zhao Yingjun on WeChat popped open, and Huang Que’s voice also came synchronously—
[Happy New Year.] “Happy New Year.”
It was as if watching a movie, Lin Xian heard the voice and saw the subtitles simultaneously.
At this moment, he received the same New Year greetings from two women.
Looking at Huang Que:
“Thank you, and I wish you…
a Happy New Year too!”
Huang Que tilted her head and smiled.
Hands in her coat pockets, she turned straight around and, with the click-clack-click-clack of her high heels on the floor, walked into the lobby.
Lin Xian chuckled lightly and typed a reply on his phone to Zhao Yingjun:
“Thank you, and I wish you…
a Happy New Year too!”
Spending a whole day shopping with Chu Anqing was truly exhausting.
It felt even more tiring than the daily training.
After washing up, he lay on the bed and checked the time.
He pulled the covers over himself and almost instantly fell asleep; Lin Xian entered dreamland.
The dry and scorching summer wind brushed against his face.
Before he went to sleep, he had felt a chill, but now, entering his dream, he was directly back in the hot summer of late August—an experience of both ice and fire.
In front of him, were still the dozens of armed soldiers tightly surrounding him.
Same as the script of the hundreds of times before.
The man dressed as the captain came forward, throwing out an electronic arrest warrant:
You are now being lawfully arrested on the charges of crimes against humanity, endangering Earth, and disrupting the space-time continuum!”
Lin Xian smiled indifferently, looking up at the sky—
Before him, the once countless times quiet sky!
Was dotted with more than a dozen huge zeppelin airships!
Each one enormously large!
Hovering over the city, they looked like an invading fleet!
Printed in the largest font on each of these vast zeppelin airships were the same shining advertisement words—
[The world’s finest Time Capsule!
Celebrating Tem Bank’s 600th Anniversary!]