Hungry dragon cubs come to the door

Beta quadrant, the jurisdiction of the Second Empire, satellite Liuli III.

As the territory of mankind, the alpha quadrant has a single race and system, while the beta quadrant has the most planets, species, and countries in the universe, and it is a rather complicated federation.

Among them, humans mainly gathered in the Second Empire.

The main star of the Second Empire, Liuli Star, is the most beautiful planet in the entire Beta Quadrant, bar none.

Unlike most planets, its crust is a chaotic cyan, the vegetation is less saturated, and all waters on the planet are a faint orange.

The composition of its atmosphere is also different from that of the parent star, it is thinner and more transparent, like silk wrapped around it.

Seen from a distance from the universe, it looks like a rare azure pearl with a dazzling glazed luster, which is extremely dazzling.

Because of this, the founding emperor named this beautiful planet, which has hardly been set foot by human beings, "Liu Li" at this time of the expedition, and moved the idea of ​​​​returning it to the empire in the future.

The current emperor has realized this vision.

Before His Majesty officially registered the name "Second Empire" in the Star Alliance, as the home planet, the First Empire and its jurisdiction in the Alpha Quadrant actually did not have the qualifying modifier "First".

Humans call it the "Empire", while other races simply call it the "Empire of Man".

The Second Empire was not an independent territory, but a subsidiary of the First Empire.

Because its location is closer to the inaccessible Gamma Quadrant, the unexplored deep space that humans have wanted to conquer for generations, the strategic deployment of the Second Empire will become more and more important in the future.

However, this planet is still very young as a place for human habitation, and the supporting facilities are not perfect, and the main population is still in the Alpha Quadrant.

Nowadays, besides the imperial garrison, the people living on Liuli Star and its companion star are mainly merchants who are good at trade, and adventurers who are willing to try a new life.

A few years ago, in the name of "improving the quality of life", His Majesty moved some old nobles who were alienated from the political center and gradually lost their voice, such as the notorious Bruce family.

Liuliwei [-] is used for scientific research and development, Wei [-] is a transit area for interstellar commerce, and Wei [-] is a military zone.

Weisan is different from the first two natural planets, it is completely man-made, and it does not inherit the chaotic glazed color of the main star or the beautiful transparent snowflake ball of Wei[-], and the universe looks dark.

If it is far away, it is even easy to be seen as a black hole.

Now, the spaceport has just berthed into one of the empire's most cutting-edge ships, the "Eternal Paradise".

A man in a black imperial uniform with epaulets representing the rank of major general came out of the gangway.

He still looks very young, in his thirties, handsome and elegant, but he has an aura that young people can't settle down, as if he has experienced decades of wind and rain.

Lieutenant Colonel Patton, the commander of Weisan Base, came up to him, raised his hand and saluted him with a standard military salute: "Major General Qiao, thank you for your hard work."

Qiao Cho smiled: "Don't be restrained, Lieutenant Colonel."

Although it was a smile, the smile was not easy, but rather heavy.

From recuperating star to Liuli star boat, he was old and retired, so he didn't need to work like this.

Of course, there are more important things than one's own health after taking such a long time to come here.

"Take me to see what's going on."

"Yes, Major General."

Ganymede is not big, except for the spaceport and the necessary life support areas, all of them are military bases.

The flying vehicle stopped them in front of the meeting room, and there were already several senior generals above the colonel, including the brigadier general, waiting there: "Major General Joe, Lieutenant Colonel Patton."

Qiao Jian nodded, and walked in under the leadership of Barton without much greeting.

After the lieutenant colonel told all the soldiers on duty to leave, he turned on the holographic screen.

Tens of thousands of light particles are sprayed out from the projection device, converging into a clear image.

What was displayed in front of the generals were many fragments of surveillance video:

His Majesty has just arrived in the Second Empire and stepped off the starship;

His Majesty visited the main star of Liuli in a flying car, and the crowd lined the road to welcome him;

His Majesty delivered a speech;

His Majesty inspects public welfare institutions;

……

In short, the protagonists are all the same - His Majesty the young and respected Emperor of the Human Empire.

Patton lowered the volume of the video and cleared his throat: "Commanders already know the basic situation, and I will introduce it to the major general. Your Majesty said eight months ago, on March [-] this year, that is, we On the day of the traditional festival of praying for good harvests throughout the year, the "Wheat God Festival", I came to the Second Empire on that day, and conducted a half-year investigation on the main star and companion star of Liuli. The original return date was early September."

His Majesty's itinerary is top-secret. Except for those authorized by him, no one knows where the next stop will be; it is normal to change the itinerary suddenly, and it is not impossible to not follow the plan.

The problem is, it's almost November now, and His Majesty still hasn't returned to his mother planet.

Not only did he not go back to his home planet, he was not even on Liuli Planet.

To put it bluntly, no one knew where he was.

One and a half months ago, His Majesty, who had been closely guarded by the special security department, suddenly... disappeared in full view.

The disappearance of the emperor was extremely shocking to the empire.

This not only means that the leader they admire may be attacked, but also means that there may be a major loophole in national security.

In order to avoid the spread of panic among the people, the Supreme Commander of the Second Empire asked anyone to disclose this matter strictly and conduct a private investigation.

But some ardent fans of His Majesty have been monitoring the royal family's every move through the dark web.

After stopping the update from a certain day, they found something was wrong.

All kinds of rumors and rumors spread, and the Star Domain Network Security Bureau dispatched senior experts to put them out with great effort.

But there are still relics that have not been cleaned up and spread to people with connections, such as Lin Rusong.

As for Qiao Cho, he has a close relationship with the emperor, and he is a retired major general in name, but in fact he is in charge of many major projects, many of which are related to the lifeblood of the country.

During the period when His Majesty was absent from the original plan, no one thought it was "disappearance". They thought it was just that he changed his mind and changed the route alone or with some cronies, more secretly, or went to a place with poor signal .

Until everyone around him didn't know where he went, and no one else disappeared.

The imperial law stipulates that unless relatives take the initiative to report the crime, one can be judged missing if one has disappeared for two months.

The two-month period has expired, and there is still no news from the emperor.

The commander really had no other choice but to ask Major General Qiao and his old man to come out of the mountain in person.

Now, here he is.

Sitting surrounded by a group of generals, the flickering shadows of the projection were printed on his side face and landed on the translucent prosthetic eye.

The old man who had assisted two generations of emperors said in a deep voice: "I know." He said, "Now, starting from the arrival of His Majesty on March 1, all the information, monitoring, and arrangements will be completed in one day, one hour, one day. Don't miss a minute, give it all to me."

Alpha quadrant, the jurisdiction of the First Empire, accompanied by Noah.

The man is tall, much taller than Huang Yangmin, who is usually burly enough.

He is tall and has big hands.

For the snow dumpling, Yu Yan needs to embrace it with both hands, but the man can easily support it with the palm of his hand.

Ning Ning changed her usual expression of being afraid of strangers, and obediently stayed in his palm, her eyes full of curiosity.

Golden hair, golden eyes.

A golden person.

Seems like I've seen...

Ning Ning looked down again and saw that his arms and legs were mottled and covered with some black things like unfaded scales.

The man squeezed it: "Why, don't you know me?"

Ning Ning focused her gaze on his face again.

To be precise, the forehead.

The velvet spirit beast closed its eyes, and the man's world was plunged into a brief, imperceptible darkness. In just a moment, it returned to its original state.

But this was enough for the Fluffy Spirit Beast to see the shiny mushroom imprint in his brain.

Ning Ning recognized it!

It hadn't seen the human form of its partner for a long time, and happily rubbed his palm: "Excuse me!"

"Why are you so excited today? It seems like you haven't seen me for a long time." Farami put it back on the bed, looked around, "Where is this..."

Clean room, neatly furnished, modern equipment.

No matter how you look at it, it is the dwelling place of human beings.

Why is he not in his own cave, but a guest at a human's house?

He doesn't like humans very much.

Too weak and noisy.

Every time I saw him, I would either cry, run away screaming, or pick up a gun and chug.

Those beams didn't hurt him, but they were itchy, which annoyed him.

If it wasn't for the fact that the humans on Noah were very good at growing sweet potatoes, and he couldn't, he would have really considered eating all these annoying two-legged beasts.

Still, Farami liked his human form quite a bit.

After all, how should I put it, it's just one word, handsome.

There are many benefits of switching forms, handsome is just one of them.

But there are also downsides.The biggest is that memory is easily fragmented.

For example, changing from the original body to the milk dragon form, not only becomes like a clingy squeamish child, but also forgets that the velvet spirit beast is his family's ancestral psychiatrist.

After turning into a human form, he didn't realize where he was for a while.

Fortunately, there was a velvet spirit beast, opened the channel of spiritual communication, and reminded: "Xiao, Yu!"

This name is a little strange.

Farami thought for a moment in bewilderment.

Ning Ning could read what he was thinking, and was afraid that he would really let the Two-legged beast go, so he quickly retrieved the file about Yu Yan from his memory, and played it to him at 32 times speed.

All kinds of memories whizzed one after another.

From the crashed spaceship to the two months of getting along with the dragon's nest;

Blood sickle, healing, fleeing;

Then a reunion in the forest;

Then after turning into a cub, he came to his door and stayed in the barracks confidently...

Farami's brain was like going through a sonic roller coaster, and he almost vomited.

Fortunately, it worked. After Ning Ning finished playing, he suddenly realized.

He remembered, this is his wife's room.

He doesn't like humans - except for Xiangxiang's wife.

After the memory was archived, Farami re-examined the room, and found that after transforming into a human form, the perspective seen by the milk dragon was completely different.

The house is not that big at all, and all the furniture seems to be scaled down, especially the bed, which is not high at all, so there is no need to "fly" to get out of bed.

even……

Farami looked down at the bed, which seemed a little too small for his height.

He lay down consciously and found that his feet were already in the air.

Looking at the size of the pillow and quilt, it's hard not to let people think... Isn't the wife holding it too small?

hiss.

I really want to try it now.

Farami put his hands behind his head and asked, "Where did he go?"

"Work." Ning Ning jumped to his side, "Xiao Yu, every day... work."

Although he doesn't know what work is, as every dog ​​will understand, the owner always has to go out during the day.

Farami thought about it, and in the memory of the dragon cub, he did often lie on the window and peek, no, it was to admire Yu Yan's heroic posture during training.

"When does he usually come back?"

"Evening." Xuetuanzi mentioned this, his eyes curled into two slits with a smile, "bring something delicious!"

This may be one of the few words it can speak extremely fluently.

Farami nodded, glanced at the replaced military caps and military uniforms in the closet, and imagined how they would look on humans.

"Maybe he's not ready for me like this," Farami said to himself. "Actually, we met like this once. But he probably thought he was dreaming."

Farami licked his lips, recalling the memory related to the smell of pomegranate fruit.

Wife not only smells good, but tastes... sweet too.

The velvet spirit beast naturally couldn't understand what he was talking about, anyway, Aowu would say things it didn't understand before, but this didn't affect their being good friends.

Farami lowered his head and saw the little guy's two tiny paws resting on his knees, looking at him intently, as pure and innocent as he could be.

Reminiscent of the mental journey I was retracing just now... There is always a subtle feeling of spoiling children.

cough cough.

He cleared his inappropriate thoughts and patted the little head of the fluffy spirit beast: "Did I bully you before?"

"'Before'?"

Weird timeline.Ningning didn't understand.

"It's the smaller one." Farami gestured, "about as tall as you."

"Brother, Brother!" Ning Ning still remembers their role setting, and likes this position very much, jumping and jumping around humans, as if seeking the attention of Big Brother, giggling, "Big Brother, Big Brother!"

Farami: "..."

What does it mean to be self-inflicted and unable to live?

Even if it is the same body, it seems to have three completely different souls because of the three different forms.

He has to clean up all the stupid things the dragon cubs do.

Farami pressed the fur ball that was bouncing higher and higher: "If it bullies you, I apologize to you on its behalf. You know, I respect you very much-our family is all."

The baby-like hairball in front of him is not only his psychiatrist, but also his parents, his grandparents, and grandparents' parents...

Each family of dragons will have one, in exchange for protection and peace.Passed down from generation to generation, it is an absolute family heirloom.

Even Farami didn't know how old Ningning was, maybe even older than the most respected elder in the family.

The velvet spirit beast is similar to the living mascot gods to every giant dragon family.

He was so arrogant and domineering in the milk dragon period, and even let the noble velvet spirit beast be his younger brother. If the family elders knew about this, it would be fine.

Fortunately, the little mascot obviously doesn't mind his lack of rules, and thinks it's fun, immersing himself in the interaction of role-playing.

Farami sighed inwardly, hoping that the elders would never know about it.

Ning Ning asked a question that had been puzzling for a long time: "Why... became smaller?"

Farami's eyes darkened: "Because he wants to capture the real me."

"'He'? Little, Yu?"

The man smiled slightly: "His name is so cute, isn't it? You will help me keep the secret, right? Don't tell Xiaoyu, I am the dragon he tried his best to hunt down. The one he keeps by his side, Da The smaller one is the same. Don't reveal my real identity, okay?"

Farami's wording was a bit messy, but fortunately, it didn't affect Ningning's unanimous agreement.

After all, what the elder brother said, the younger brother must follow.

Farami is not sure whether the little thing understands what he means, and he can only ask for luck in the future.

Just as he took Yu Yan's pillow and squeezed it, ready to hug and sleep for a while, he suddenly caught a conversation not far outside the house with his hearing far beyond human.

"Let me get it for you."

This rough voice is... the man he dislikes who is always standing next to Yu Yan.

"No, I can go by myself. You can wait for me here."

Of course it was my wife's voice.

One's footsteps stopped, while another's approached.

Ning Ning obviously also heard this conversation, and was very excited that the Twolegs came back early, jumping up and down to greet him at the door.

But its pals aren't scrambling to race him as usual.

Ning Ning felt strange and turned around.

But he saw the blond man standing there in a daze.

Xuetuanzi tilted his head: "Excuse me?"

The door has reached the step where the password verification is correct.

Farami frowned: "I can't let him see me."

Yu Yan couldn't tell the difference between the original body and the cub form for the time being, it's definitely not a good idea to show the human form in front of him now.

Especially, in case his memory of that day is awakened...

Although I haven't done anything excessive myself, humans are elusive creatures.

The flow rate of time is different for different individuals. From Bi Ningning's perspective, Yu Yan's process from opening the door to coming in is a slow process; but for Farami, it is only a short moment.

Seeing the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer to the bedroom, that handsome face was a little perplexed: "I don't seem to be able to change back."