ATL | Chapter 25

Gift?

If that forced gift of biomorphic flower also counted.

"It doesn't count as a gift," Ganlin said, "just a little token."

Cersei hurriedly asked, "Did you make it yourself?"

"Yes." Ganlin thought for a moment, on the day at the security guard's home, the heart of eternal frost he gave out was the first version, and it was actually different from the one sold today. Besides, because he was not used to it yet, the finished product was somewhat rough.

So he added a little shyly, "I didn't make it very well."

"How could that be?"

The stone in Cersei's heart finally fell away completely, and she could not help but smile, "Heta likes it a lot!"

Likes it...?

Ganlin thought for a moment, and seriously considered it.

That day at the security guard's home, after Hetawaisi took his flower, his face was awful. Today at the theater entrance, although he was willing to spend a high price to buy two bouquets, he did not buy them for the flowers, but for the sheep itself.

Perhaps so-called liking was only to go along with his mother's fondness for the heart of eternal frost, Heta was actually quite decent in this regard.

Ganlin also did not want to ruin Cersei's joy.

"It's good as long as the officer likes it." Ganlin drank up the dairy drink, handed the empty cup back to Cersei, "It's very good, thank you."

"Then have another cup." Cersei blinked her golden-brown eyes and asked gently, "Little Lamb, can you accompany Auntie for a walk on the beach?"

Andri's companion did not care much about the death incident that had happened below, he turned around and urged Andri, "Hurry up!"

Andri gave the elevator one last look, then followed him away.

The hibernation pods they needed to check had already been opened, their control screens lit up with a cold blue light, one row after another, looking just like a refrigerator with thick transparent glass, and its function was almost the same as a refrigerator too.

It would not be long before all of them lay down inside and fell into a kind of alternate suspended animation, until the spaceship's jump ended.

"You start from that side, I start from this side, meet here after the inspection is finished."

Andri's companion looked around and arranged the two people's work on his own, then reminded Andri, "Andri, don't slack off!"

"Okay."

Andri walked to the other side, first checking whether any hibernation pod had issued a function warning, then personally testing whether their wake-up function was normal.

After they finished checking, less than two minutes later, everyone on the spaceship received the notice that a jump was about to begin.

[Countdown seven minutes, all crew members please go to the stasis area immediately.]

Then a countdown sounded in everyone's ears.

Andri looked outside once. The hatch was fully opened, and the figures of Empire Soldiers appeared outside the door. They were not wearing protective suits, and their bodies had an extra layer of white-gold bio-armor.

He had heard that bio-armor was a new technology, part of its raw materials came from bug race shells, and the finished product could even deflect energy bullets. What were they guarding against, to be so heavily on guard?

Andri was still standing there in a daze, but he was usually taciturn, so his companion also noticed something was off about him.

"This time it's so fast?? Andri, get into your hibernation pod!"

Andri's companion had already run to the side and directly lay down in a hibernation pod.

"Countdown three minutes."

No more Empire Soldiers were entering at the door, and there were only some Auxiliary Soldiers hurrying over.

"Forty-two people, the number is wrong"

After Andri got into the hibernation pod, just as the mask was about to clamp onto his face, he directly reached out and pushed it away, then flipped over and came out of the hibernation pod.

He had to go out and take a look.

When the hatch of the stasis area was about to close, he ran out.

It was completely quiet outside, he froze for a moment, then heard a voice coming from behind.

"Hello, Andri. Please stay here."

Andri turned around and saw that behind him there was a holographic projection in the form of a man, the Main Control System Baiyin of this spaceship, now it was the Main Control System controlling the spaceship and carrying out automatic flight.

"Andri, why have you not entered the hibernation pod, you seem to have no special mission."

Andri: "Yes, but I discovered that those prisoners are a little abnormal, emergency checks are needed, I will submit a report later."

Baiyin did not express any confusion over his words, it said, "Then I wish you good luck. Charging complete, jump begins."

When the last word entered his ears, space outside the spaceship folded, his vision also distorted, and all the solid objects he saw in his eyes were covered with blurry halos, appearing and disappearing, as if they had all become false projections.

An abnormality appeared in his brain's perception, Andri was dizzy and disoriented, and an indescribable pain swept over him.

"The elevator is in front."

His steps were floating, clearly standing on a flat surface yet feeling a severe sense of weightlessness, as if artificial gravity had failed.

Andri felt that his body had tilted by at least thirty degrees, as if there were many different planes, many freely and randomly changing worlds.

He staggered to the elevator and activated it. If he had not heard the sound of the elevator operating below, he would have almost thought he had pressed it in the air.

The elevator went down to the next level, and after the doors opened, a strong sweet and bloody smell rushed into his nostrils.

"Blood?"

The scene here was also distorted and unclear, but some individual objects were exceptionally clear, things like people.

Andri was not quite sure whether they were people, because only part of their bodies was in a clear physical state, a single hand, a leg, or some other part. Apart from that part, the rest of their bodies were all blurry, still undergoing some changes that made him feel nauseous.

They looked extremely painful, and Andri felt thin cries of agony lingering by his ears.

"Andri."

Baiyin appeared in front of him again, clearly a projection, but the man's figure carried a bizarre physical sense, even his hair reflected a soft sheen.

"Andri, what did you see?"

"Andri, why don't you look at yourself?"

When Ganlin received Eliya's message, he was still sleeping.

Eliya was frantically sending messages in their public communication channel, telling them to come see him, he had good news to announce.

[Hiller: Aaaaaaaah Eliya is so annoying, what is the good news?? Tell me secretly first?]

[Hiller: People who keep others in suspense will gain weight!]

[Hiller: Fine, I'm leaving now.]

[Wang Yun: Coming.]

[Eliya: Where's Gan?]

[Eliya: Ganlin! Baby?]

"Baby, are you sleeping?"

Ganlin's head was still fuzzy, he gave an mm.

"Come and have a meeting first."

"Mm."

After hanging up Eliya's communication, Ganlin only then opened his eyes and sat up.

"Aividis, how long did I sleep?"

Aividis: "8 hours 21 minutes."

Ganlin frowned, he had actually slept for so long?

After quickly changing clothes, he prepared to leave, but before leaving, he did not forget to say to Aividis, "If there are no special circumstances, then stay in hibernation mode all day today."

"Okay."

After he got there, Eliya, Wang Yun, and Xier were already sitting in their chairs.

When Eliya saw him, his eyes immediately lit up, he stood up and pulled him over, then pressed him into a chair, and himself went to the other side.

"Today, I have good news."

His hands rested on the table, he bent slightly, a look of excitement spreading across his face, and said, "Andri has already passed the information to me."

The room was quiet for two seconds.

"Wow"

Xier started clapping directly, pa pa pa pa.

Seeing the two who had no reaction, Eliya raised his brows and asked, "That's all the reaction you have?"

Ganlin and Wang Yun looked at each other, and smiles also appeared on their faces, he said, "It really is good news."

"What did he say?" Wang Yun asked.

Eliya sat back down with a thump and repeated all the information Andri had sent him, "So the spaceship's landing point is at D102, we need to go there first."

"D102?"

A model of a planet floated up in front of Wang Yun, red-black in color, with very little water on the planet's surface, most of it black and gray mountains and garbage piles where the ground could not be seen.

This was the planet they were on.

After half a turn around her fingertip, it stopped, she enlarged a certain area on this planet, and enlarged it again, entering the red cloud layer, black mountain ranges flashed by, and finally stopped over a certain black-gray area.

"D102 dockyard, it's the largest dockyard on garbage star."

Xier said, "At its peak, it once simultaneously held more than two hundred transport ships~"

But now it had declined, this planet no longer had any value, aside from transporting prisoners, no transport ship would come here.

"Our luck is pretty good, the distance is not too far."

Ganlin: "When are we departing?"

Eliya's finger tapped on the table, his gaze turning to Wang Yun.

Wang Yun showed a bright smile, "I can leave anytime."

"Fine."

Eliya made the decision and said, "Then we leave the day after tomorrow!"

Xier let out a cheer, "Yay, exciting! Eliya, let's hold a gathering again and celebrate?"

Wang Yun looked at Xier and said, "Xier, let's determine the most suitable route, I have terrain data."

Xier

He pouted, then said, "Alright."

Ganlin sat down beside Eliya, and Eliya looked at his calm face and said, "Baby, you seem a little worried."

"You aren't worried?"

Eliya smiled faintly and said, "Of course I'm worried, but the thrill of fighting with everything on the line also makes me extremely excited."

"And I also think we won't fail."

Ganlin

"Very confident."

"Of course."

Eliya suddenly changed the topic and asked, "Aividis, have you found its problem yet?"

"I looked at its self-check report, the built-in energy source is damaged, its daily energy consumption also has problems it really is especially focused on me, with a strong protective desire, but the self-check report didn't show any especially serious abnormalities, it may need a manual inspection."

"I had it go into hibernation before I left today."

Eliya: "Good."

After learning about the spaceship's landing situation, everyone became busy.

Eliya gathered all the people who were going to leave, took stock of supplies, confirmed mission assignments, and with a whole string of actions, the atmosphere of the entire underground world changed.

Some people clung to Eliya, trying to pry into his plans, making him unbearably annoyed.

"Eliya, I can also work for you!"

"Eliya-sama"

"Eliya"

Ganlin glanced at the pained Eliya, then turned around and left without hesitation.

As a result, just as he was almost back to his own room, he was also called to a stop by several people.

"Gan!"

Ganlin turned his head and found three men who did not look friendly.

The three men all had sturdy builds, guns hanging at their waists, one person's hand had even turned into a huge launcher, they moved toward Ganlin, slightly spreading out into a surrounding formation.

The man in the middle bared his teeth, revealing two rows of yellowish teeth, and asked Ganlin, "Gan, what are you and Eliya planning? Tell us."

"Why are you leaving alone?"

Yet this had the opposite effect.

Cersei was the master of North Port, and here [Shouanren] had the highest priority, Little Jellyfish immediately spoke up to comfort him.

Yase frowned, "Has it lasted for a long time?"

Ganlin was busy figuring out how to respond to the questioning, and answered rather perfunctorily at this moment, "Mm, probably some illness left from malnutrition when I was little."

"Yase, thank you for worrying about me." After he stood still at the door, he smiled at the other person, "Let's stop here, I don't know how long the questioning will take, after this matter is over, I'll treat you to a meal another day."

Having said it to this point, it was basically clear that he had no mind to talk about feelings with Yase today, and he had his own arrangements afterward as well. But even after he came out, Yase was actually still waiting for him.

Ganlin suddenly felt his vision go black.

"It's over?" Yase came up to him and smiled at him, "Then come with me."

Ganlin said warily, "Where to?"

"I made you an appointment for a physical examination." Yase said seriously, "Hormonal imbalance is not a small problem, Dawn District Hospital has the most advanced technology in this area, if you adjust it early, you'll also suffer a lot fewer troubles."

"This is too much trouble for you, and too expensive."

"It doesn't cost extra contribution points." Yase lowered his eyes and loosely held his forearm, "I used my own annual physical examination quota. Lin Bai, come on."

"No."

Ganlin broke free from him and stepped back two paces.

"I'm not going, Yase."