V2/Chapter 5: Say no to tablets, starting with me
"You're quite late."
Seeing three people coming this way, Ai Yue waved his hand, nodded to Dr. Mei, and then took the initiative to greet them: "It seems that you don't dress up much?"
"A nun's wardrobe doesn't have anything special to wear." Aponia was still dressed in a simple nun outfit. She smiled and glanced to the side. "She spends most of her time on other things."
Kalpas, who was being looked at, crossed his arms, and the corners of his mask drooped downwards. He was obviously the guy who wasted time: "To be frank, what does this matter have to do with me?"
"The food is delicious, so I asked you to come and try it." Ai Yue patted his shoulder, "To be honest, children have no shortage of toys nowadays, so you might as well learn some cooking skills and show them off when you get back."
As Kalpas's half guardian, Ai Yue knew very well where the other party's "salary" was basically spent.
Kalpas was silent for a moment, but finally took the initiative to walk into the banquet hall and began to taste the desserts one by one in the dessert area.
"You still have a way." Aponia glanced at Hua who was a little embarrassed, and finally nodded to Ai Yue, "Well, I'll go say hello to my friends first, see you later."
'Friends? Is there anyone else besides Elysia?'
This thought flashed through Ai Yue's mind, but he put it aside for the time being and looked at Hua: "Don't be nervous, Hua, everyone is easy to get along with."
"I'm not worried about that, Dr. Ai Yue." Hua pursed her lips and looked past Ai Yue towards the banquet hall. "I just feel that this kind of occasion is not suitable for me. Besides, I haven't made any contribution to this plan, so you don't have to invite me."
Hua still feels that the experience of the past two days was like a dream. She was suddenly selected by Ai Yue as a member of the team to go out on a mission, but in fact she did nothing. She just followed him for a while and came back. After coming back, she went to the Fifth Academy of Sciences according to the other party's arrangement. After delivering the mental resistance drugs, she went to the battlefield with the first batch of soldiers. As a result, not long after, she heard that the Eighth Herrscher had died.
Then, she and a nun named Aponia sent the blood-thirsty Kalpas back to the Fire Moth base from the battlefield, and that was all that happened.
She didn't play any role in this. Any ordinary soldier could have done the same thing she did, so she didn't understand why Ai Yue invited her specifically.
"Because you really have great potential, Hua, you should be more confident." Ai Yue couldn't say it directly, so he could only pat her shoulder, "Besides, I have a little understanding of your situation."
"You know everything?" Hua was stunned for a moment, then realized what the other party was talking about, "Sorry, I didn't mean to hide it..."
Because she was the only one who survived the clutches of Himeko, the captain of the 5th squad who became a Herrscher, Hua was regarded as an ominous existence by other soldiers. Some even secretly called her a witch behind her back and deliberately distanced themselves from her.
Such things, coupled with Hua's own inferiority complex, made her question her own existence more and more, so she was surprised when Ai Yue specifically asked her to participate in the mission.
"It's not intentional or not, and it's not your fault." Ai Yue waved his hand and said, "I just want to ask you, are you willing to come work for me?"
"Huh?"
"My current plan is to update the equipment of the Fire Moth soldiers, and these new equipment need someone to test them during the experimental stage." Ai Yue said seriously, "At the same time, I may occasionally go out on field missions, and I also need an excellent soldier to protect my safety, so are you willing to help?"
"I..." Hua hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "I do."
"Very good." Ai Yue immediately took out a paper document from somewhere and placed it in front of her, and handed the pen to the girl, "Then sign your name here."
"Eh?" Hua's eyes widened again, "Are you in such a hurry?"
She thought that this kind of thing would have to wait until the end of the banquet, or simply sign the contract the next day, but she didn't expect Ai Yue to be so impatient.
"That won't work. What if you toss and turn all night and finally back down?" Ai Yue gave an encouraging smile. "You are the best candidate that I have considered over and over again. Of course, I can't let you run away."
Hua blinked, but finally signed her name on the contract obediently without even reading the contract carefully to see if there were any weird clauses in it.
Who was the last person who encouraged and affirmed herself in this way?
An elegant figure with red hair and black dress appeared in Hua's mind, and then the figure was engulfed by flames.
"There is still a long way to go in the future. Don't be bound by the past." Ai Yue seemed to have seen Hua's thoughts and patted her shoulder. "Come on, let me introduce you to your future new colleagues."
Looking at Ai Yue's back, Hua was stunned for a moment, then followed him.
She would probably never be able to forget that red figure, but Ai Yue was right, people cannot live in the past forever.
'I will keep going, Captain, and you will support me as you did before, right?'
Ai Yue quickly introduced Hua to everyone present. Unexpectedly, except for a few people, everyone else had some impression of Hua.
Although they were puzzled as to why an ordinary soldier could join the new project, everyone here had basically seen Ai Yue's abilities, so no one had any objection to his vision.
Of course, there was a little incident during this process.
"You're attracted to her too?"
Mobius, who arrived at the scene later than Aponia, frowned at the gray-haired girl beside Ai Yue. She pulled Ai Yue aside and showed an unhappy expression: "Obviously, I was here first!"
"What do you mean by you first and me first?" Ai Yue looked at her in confusion. "You don't want to use her as an experiment, do you?"
"Do you remember the first super-variable factor formula you made?" Mobius did not answer, but continued, "Garuda's super-variable factor, one of the people with the highest matching rate is her."
"No, absolutely not!" Ai Yue immediately realized what Mobius was thinking and immediately refused. "I am here to warn you very seriously, Mobius. Within three years... no, within five years, you are absolutely not allowed to perform fusion warrior surgery on Hua!"
What a joke, he spent so much effort to get along well with Hua, wasn't it just to see if the girl's future was bound by the super mutation factor?
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