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Chapter 70 – An Unspeakable Matter (1)

Ling Yi’s position was that of a staff officer beside the Marshal. In layman’s terms, it was akin to an assistant or secretary. 60

The affairs of Area 3, such as the handovers of various departments, approval of materials, and movement of personnel, all go through this organisation—as such, many people dubbed it “the Marshal’s cabinet”.

Naturally, it formed a faction of its own, made up of the Marshal’s most trusted confidants.61

Even though the personnel of Area 3 had changed a lot over the years, this “cabinet” seldom changed.

As such, they paid extra attention to this handsome young man with an elegant demeanour who had just begun to work with him.

The mister who occupied the same office as Ling Yi was named Silas. Currently, he was sending real-time messages to his colleagues while observing Ling Yi at the same time.

During break time at noon, Ling Yi received a call. The person projected by the 3D hologram was, surprisingly, Madam Chen.

Silas saw Madam Chen, one of the two leaders of the spaceship, ask Ling Yi about his physical condition with regard, then encourage him to work hard.

—Perhaps he was someone assigned from Area 2?

Silas was about to pull him aside when he saw another call arrive from the Marshal—the contents of the call was near-identical to Madam Chen’s.

The cabinet members: “…”

Where did this favoured person come from?

They began to frantically discuss in the small group. Everyone expressed that they had no impression of such a person. When they looked up his resume, it was completely blank, clean to the point of being scary.

—There was a reason for this; after all, they had very little interactions with “limitless”. After the base was established, they were all sent to the ground and had no opportunity to meet Ling Yi.

At this moment, the Marshal was showing concern for Ling Yi. “Have you adjusted well to this job?”

Ling Yi nodded. “Yes.”

“Then work hard,” the Marshal said. “When Lin Si is done with the virus, your merit evaluation and award will be done together with the others from ‘limitless’.”

”Yes, Mr Marshal.”

Well-behaved, natural, quiet, and without any impatience to rank.

The Marshal felt very satisfied.

—Thinking about Ling Yi’s countless achievements on the Expeditioner the past eight years, he felt even more satisfied.

He was an extremely good, tolerant, and patient junior. And very beautiful in particular.

When he put on the military uniform, he looked like the ideal son a man his age dreamed of. At night, when he changed into his furry pyjamas, with wet long hair draping down, he could also play the role of a daughter whom one could pamper and dote on endlessly.

The Marshal’s hardcore aesthetic perception had officially broken down.

At this time, he was thinking—why did he not hold firmly onto Ling Yi’s guardianship, and instead let that lunatic Lin Si snatch it away through Madam Chen?

Ling Yi was the son of Lin Si’s teacher, so everyone agreed that Lin Si was suitable for raising Ling Yi, but Ling Yi’s father was his old partner whom he went through thick and thin with! There was absolutely nothing wrong with him raising Ling Yi!

When this little thing was young, he even held him often. At that time, Ling Yi did not refer to him by the slightly unfamiliar “Mr Marshal”, but called him “Uncle Süss”.

A loss. What a loss.

Otherwise, Ling Yi would’ve belonged to his family now.

The Marshal coughed and explained some other matters before cutting off the call.

Silas: “…”

Although he could not see clearly because of the distance, he was certain that the typically stern and harsh Marshal wore an amiable and pleasant expression on his face.

He began to scrutinise Ling Yi.

His looks were stunning and he was elegant and quiet,62 like the son of a noble family. And yet his physique was tall and well-proportioned, and his standing and sitting posture were both impeccable with distinct traces of military training. At a glance, nobody could guess his origin.

As he was unable to figure out his origin, he treated Ling Yi with indifference, keeping a certain distance.

After all, Area 3 was a place that spoke on the basis of strength or seniority no matter what.

Ling Yi naturally sensed his colleagues’ cold attitude toward him, but he did not take it to heart.

Things like office politics were left for Lin Si and the others to play. After learning that he was arranged in such a place, Lin Si already said a lot to him, Adelaide also nagged quite a bit, and even Zheng Shu sent a message saying that he could come to him if he encountered any issues.

However, he had no intention of asking them for help. He felt that he could handle it himself.

Taking a thousand steps back, he did not need to deal with these relationships in the first place. He knew very well why the Marshal allocated himself here—until a vaccine for the purple virus was developed, large numbers would be frozen, leaving only those who were completely out of suspicion and vital to the spaceship’s operation.

As for why the Marshal believed in himself so much, and why he distrusted the other people in Area 3—Ling Yi felt that he could figure out the former, but he had no clue about the latter.

After all, he had no suspicion, and even resisted when the Expeditioner forcibly connected the Voyager, and moreover… he now felt that the Marshal was a little familiar, and it was a very distant kind of familiarity. According to what he heard intermittently from other people, his father was the Marshal’s friend, and he had followed his father for a long time, so there was a high possibility that he had met the Marshal when he was on Earth.

He did not know when he began to clearly recall things on Earth. But… it did not matter to him. Everything was good as long as he had Lin Si.

Thinking of Lin Si, his heart began to beat faster. He waited for it to calm down and then began his work.

—Speaking of which, he still preferred to stay in the front lines. After sitting here for a long time, he always felt restlessness and agitation that made him want to go out and be active.

It would be better if he went for a walk to the training area at night. He did not know if the “limitless” hall could still be used now—things in other training areas were not too suited for the physical fitness of modified bodies.

Time passed like flowing water; in the blink of an eye a month had gone by.

At this time, news of the successful research on the purple virus vaccine and antibody was finally sent from the Expeditioner. In addition, the over 200 people who were infected on the purple planet also began to receive treatment.

The entire spaceship let out a relieved breath, and another voyage was officially put on the agenda.

Lin Si finished his work and returned.

But Ling Yi was still in Area 3 at that time and could not leave!

He grinded his teeth together.

But he did not wait long, for Lin Si came to Area 3 on his own—

—to argue with the Marshal.

When he opened the door to deliver the materials to the Marshal, the two looked like they were ready to fight at any moment.

The Marshal condemned Lin Si for thinking that obtaining the licence for “limitless” phase three was still not enough—that he actually wanted to apply for more experimental subjects from Area 3.

Lin Si ridiculed the Marshal for having no concept of scientific research and believing that fifty experimental subjects was enough to dismiss an experimental project with such significant purpose.

Ling Yi blinked.

The Marshal’s gaze mellowed a little. “Yiyi.”

Lin Si softened his voice. “Lingling.”

Ling Yi cheerfully went to stand beside Lin Si.

The Marshal had recently been feeling great regret for missing out on Ling Yi’s guardianship. Now that he saw Ling Yi act so close with Lin Si, he was about to blow up in annoyance even more.

Lin Si raised his eyebrows. He did not expect Ling Yi to subdue the Marshal so quickly.

The dispute between the two temporarily came to an end—of course, they would still need a long wrangling to finally reach a mutual consensus.

Ling Yi handed over the materials to the Marshal and followed Lin Si out of the room.

The Marshal made an icy “hmph”.

“Are you going back to Area 3?” Ling YI asked Lin Si, holding his hand.

Since he was young, he often walked around with Lin Si holding his hand, so he performed this action very naturally—but now, it had a different meaning.

The moment he touched Lin Si’s hand, it felt as if a tiny electric current passed through the place where he made contact with him, making his heart skip a beat.

Lin Si held Ling Yi’s hand in return.

“I don’t have to. Su Ting is there looking over things, so they don’t need me for the moment,” he said. “I need to write some documents. Do you have a space I can use?”

Ling Yi pondered. “You can go to my office, or my room.”

—He said this, but he actually hoped that Lin Si would not return to his room and stay with himself.

“I’ll go with you,” said Lin Si.

Ling Yi cheerfully kissed his temple.

So, when Silas completed his other matters and returned back to the office, what he saw made him question his own existence.

—Who was the person sitting on the originally empty desk and writing materials with an expressionless face?

It was the legendary Lin Si!

The people of Area 3 all maintained a kind of reverence and fear towards Lin Si.

In terms of scientific research, they did not know much about Lin Si, but they knew about the relationship between Lin Si and the Marshal. Every once in a while, this Mr. Lin Si and the Marshal who no one dared to disobey would tear each other apart until it rained blood, and it would even always end with the Marshal making a compromise.

Not to mention the “limitless” project that created a group of people with physical fitness and reaction speed crazily strong—the nickname “warlock” was truly apt.

When Silas finally calmed down, he was taken aback once more by what happened next.

Lin Si got up to pour a cup of water.

Then put it in front of Ling Yi.

Ling Yi picked it up and drank half of it, then said guiltily, “I forgot.”

Lin Si said calmly, “Make sure to remember in the future.”

Silas: “???”

So who the hell is this Ling Yi?

How suffocating.

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The author has something to say:

Thursday is filled with classes, so I always have to write with the power of cultivation…This chapter was supposed to get to the [bleep—] part, but it’s too late now~

I hope my babies preparing for gaokao can be possessed by Lin Si or Tang Ning.

I have no classes tomorrow afternoon and night, so I arranged with my online friend to type together, just in time for an upcoming wave of plot development. I might have to recover from being a salted fish.

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