CH 9

Ge Xiu’s face was blank, his soft and messy hair got rubbed all around, two skinny hands were raised up to protect the back of his head, and a pair of bright eyes that appear bigger and darker on his thin face were stunned and looked a little pitiful.

Lulai calmly withdrew his evil hand, without any guilt on his face.

His posture relaxed slightly, leaning back on the back of the chair, staring down at Ge Xiu, half-truthfully asked:

”You are still young, what do you think so much about?”

Ge Xiu pouted. He flattened his messy hair and when he raised his head again, his expression had already returned to the previous level with ease.

Lulai couldn’t help feeling a little regretful.

He saw the boy shrug carelessly, and the arc of laughter that curled up on his lips was so stubborn that it seemed a little heartless: “All forced by life, sir.”

Lulai’s eyes were half drooping, and under the thick light golden eyelashes, there was a pair of silver-blue eyes that were waveless, like the unpredictable ocean on a windless day, the cold and stern breath restrained in his body.

Ge Xiu raised his eyes to meet his gaze, still with a no fear on his face, even with an innocent smile.

Their staring at each other only lasted for a few seconds.

Lulai hooked his lips: “That’s good.”

These words weren’t finished, but Ge Xiu already knew that he agreed to let him join the group.

He smiled and bent his eyes and stretched out the skinny hand to Lulai:

”Happy cooperation.”

Lulai also extended his hand to hold it and almost gathered Ge Xiu’s small cold fingers in his wide and slender palm.

”Happy cooperation.”

The simple ceremony ended, but Lulai’s palm was not loose, his fingers with well-knotted joints were steady and calm, and the power contained in them was powerful, like an iron hoop that could not be removed, and the quiet voice deliberately prolonged, the magnetic tone fell down at the end:

”But…”

Ge Xiu was a little surprised, he raised an eyebrow and waited for his next words.

”——That will be after you become an adult.”

Lulai added slowly.

He shook it lightly:

”The Alliance Constitution stipulates that the galaxy residents become adult at 22 years old. How old are you at most? Nineteen? Twenty?”

To be honest, Ge Xiu didn’t really know how old he was.

He was arrested with no memory, sentenced in confusion and then he was thrown into this world of punishment without any information.

But no matter what, he surely is an adult!

And he must’ve been one for a long time already!

Ge Xiu became angry from embarrassment. He crunched the remaining candies, gritted his teeth and said an arrogant attitude: “Aren’t you going to overthrow the Alliance? Why do you care about what the Alliance’s Constitution says?”

Lulai’s expression remained unchanged. He shook his head lightly:

”I just don’t agree with their way of governing, but I don’t object to the regulations in the constitution-for example in the area of ​​adulthood.”

”…”

Ge Xiu and him stared at each other.

Lulai finally let go of his thin and warm wrists that was covered by his palm at the moment, stood up, placed the chair under the table neatly again without a sound.

He looked at Ge Xiu:

”From today, I will be your guardian. Wait a moment. Hall will arrange a room for you and your crew. They can stay here until the Leviathan is repaired, and your treatment will be the same as my crew.”

Ge Xiu lied down on the table sullenly.

Looking at the young boy who was obviously irritated because of him Lulai finally had a real smile in his eyes: “Wait a moment, I’ll let someone deliver the candies to your room.”

Ge Xiu finally had a reaction.

He lifted his eyelids and said reluctantly:

”When you were nineteen, were you able to turn the world into chaos?”

Hall’s answer was a little lacking in confidence: “…no.”

He was very young and energetic at the time, his eyes all on justice. They all served under the commander of the army whom he blindly admired. Even if he did not hesitate to report his age, at that time, Lulai said that he would never go right if he was ordered to go to the left and he would probably commit suicide with a gun on the spot without blinking and hesitating.

”More than that, in addition to ambition, he also has the ability to stir up the situation.”

The leather army boots on the two people’s feet knocked on the hard metal floor with a regular sound, echoing in the long corridor.

”If mastered it properly, he will be the sharpest weapon. Otherwise, his hostility and danger will harm the holder.”

Hall nodded thoughtfully.

After all, the unstable factors in Ge Xiu are extremely dangerous and too difficult to control.

They came to the end.

The door of the war room slowly slid open in front of their eyes. One second before Lulai walked inside, he paused for a while, and turned to look at Hall who was following behind him:

”Arrange his room next to my room.”

Hall straightened up subconsciously: “Yes!”

In the next second, he digested the order Lulai had just given and looked at Lulai who was walked inside the warship room in daze: “… Huh?”

Hall’s voice seemed to remind Lulai.

He remembered something, turned around again, and ordered:

The author has something to say:

Ge Xiu: Hee hee

*originally hemp stalk, can also mean a stick

** 多劳多得，少劳少得，不劳不得 (idiom, meaning give more pay for more work, less pay for less work and no pay for those doing nothing)

Little Theater:

Ge Xiu: It was nice meeting ya, bye bye