The Everest restaurant was far from business center and residential areas. It was on a mountain near the river with quiet and beautiful surrounding environment.
Lorraine sat on the terrace made from log, enjoying the surrounding scenery.
Under the terrace was a lush green forest. The wind blew and the tree's shadows were whirling and made rustling noise. In the distance were ridges and mountains, and a large meandering river surging endlessly. The river was sparkling wave glister. Two bright moons hanged in the sky, one in the east and one in the west, each added radiance and beauty to each other. They were the famous two guarding planet of Alicata, the twin moon.
Lorraine withdrawn her gazes and opened the star network, scrolling through the base forum while waiting for Qian Xu.
The forum's homepage hottest post turned out to be the photo of Feng Lin and Chu Mo shaking hands and looking at each other. Title: God and Goddess, please be together!
Lorraine chuckled to herself. She clicked in and took a look to found that there was a part of video clip. Starting from after the meeting ended, when Chu Mo walked over to greet Feng Lin, till the end where Feng Lin finished her flying confident reply.
The person who released the video must be some researcher or doctor who participated in the meeting. In order not to violate the confidentiality regulations, the time and place were censored, and the background was replaced with brightly lit heavy traffic of the busy city night scene. Even so, it projected two people with self-confidence and domineering attitude likewise implying that their conversation implicitly affected countless people.
Below were people replied to the post with various pathetic cried like ghost wailing and wolf howl.
"There is no doubt that Duke Feng Lin is the dominant!"
"For the Federation, please continue to love and kill each other!"
"Suddenly want to do genetic research, is it too late to change careers now?"
...
Lorraine was overwhelmed with joy. When she looked up, Qian Xu was already sitting on the opposite side, quietly looking at her with a smile.
Lorraine quickly shut down the star network: "Why don't you tell me that you already here?"
"Seeing you smile that happy, I don't want to disturb."
Lorraine clicked on the desktop and three-dimensional images of the menu appeared: "What to eat?"
"What do you want to eat?"
Lorraine said embarrassedly: "The signature dish. I want to see whether I cook delicious or the chef cooks more delicious."
"It just happens to be my favorite." Qian Xu ordered the eight-treasure winter melon cup and soup dumplings. He also ordered the Chef-Recommended herbal tea which they could drink while waiting for the meal.
Lorraine picked up the tea and gave Qian Xu a sincere and meaningful respected: "Thank you!"
Qian Xu smiled and drank a sip of tea: "You said you have the answer now?"
"Umm. These past ten years, you didn't ask me again. I thought you had forgotten. I didn't expect you would know what I was talking about when I mentioned it today."
"You have been working hard to find the answer, how could I forget?"
That's true! She did not dare to waste even a day for the past ten years because she wanted to find her future.
Ten years ago, her intention was after she learnt skills enough to establish her own life, she would fly far away like the real Princess Lorraine and left Odin forever. However, ten years past, when she already had the ability to settle her life and obviously had many opportunities to escape quietly, because of the warm Qian Xu, the friendly Feng Lin, the diligent and smart colleagues... she had gave up the original plan.
Lorraine put her hands on her lap, sitting straight: "It took ten years, now I can finally answer your prior question."
Qian Xu asked: "Do you like Alicata?"
Lorraine said without hesitation: "I like it!" Time of ten years, so many beautiful memories had changed an unfamiliar planet to her dearly loved one.
Qian Xu was quiet for a moment, and then continued to ask: "Are you willing to settle here?"
"I'm willing!" In the vast sea of stars, she had finally found where her heart belonged. The corners of Lorraine's lips slowly curl up and a smile bloomed on her face, like a flower blooming in the spring breeze.
Qian Xu said cautiously: "When doing research, you must have sufficient observation samples to draw conclusions. Don't you need to see other planets?"
Lorraine looked up and gazed at the twinkling stars in the sky: "Other planets may be more beautiful, but there have none of you." She tilted her head, looked at Qian Xu with a smile, and pointed to her own heart: "My heart tells me that it wants to stay here, continue to do what it likes, and continue to stay with their loved ones."
"As a scientist, you might already know that human heart has no thoughts."
"But it has feelings, and it is very loyal to its feeling. Otherwise, why would allogeneic transplanted organ could be rejected?"
Qian Xu had no alternative: "Does your goddess boss know that you are so good at talking nonsense?"
"Oh, she really admires this point of mine!" Lorraine immensely proud, "For scientists, divergent imagination is very important."
Qian Xu shook his head and smiled. He raised his tea cup and said earnestly: "Welcome to settle down in Alicata!"
Lorraine clinked a cup with him: "Thank you!"