Stop Thinking Chapter 10: Sweet Scented Water

Chapter 10: Sweet Scented Water 

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

In the study, a huge light screen in front of Gu Rong emerged with a dense array of alien combat units and starship units in full formation, a dazzling series of values scrolling and changing around the edges of the screen.

This was a war simulation game, hardcore gameplay, sometimes used by major military schools as a means of examining the level of tactics.

It was also one of the entertainment items that Gu Rong could barely look at in times of peace.

The door to the study was closed, and there was a shadow moving around in the slit, watching him secretly.

Gu Rong glanced sideways, his imperious eyebrows wrinkled, and ordered in a deep voice, “Come in.”

The door opened slowly, Ruan Yu probed, looking at him with a pair of seemingly innocent round eyes, his left hand behind his back, like hiding something, “Uncle Gu, do you have time? I want to discuss something with you,  I just finished asking Aunt Shen’s side and she has agreed…”

It was clear that he was going to set up Gu Rong with full power.

Gu Rong glanced at him, almost angry, and said in a thick voice, “What is it? I’ll listen first.”

He was often used by this little fish baby as an innocent, often by the pampering attack to make his head dizzy, without any complaints. There is no harm in being defensive!

Ruan Yu heatedly smiled, bumbling over, left hand out, but only handed over a terminal.

“Take a look at this first.” Ruan Yu connected the terminal to the light screen.

Gu Rong stood like a javelin, parting his stingy eyes to look at the light screen cautiously.

In the light screen was the sound lab, cocooned in soundproof material.

Ruan Yu was sitting on a chair, wearing a pure white lab coat.

The size of the lab coat was too big for Ruan Yu to reach out, so he pulled the sleeves upward and folded them twice, extending a tender white and weak wrist from the wide cuffs. A head of silver satin soft hair was rubbed disorderly during the change of clothes. He did not know to look in the mirror to smooth the hair, and it stuck in different directions, like a fluffy messy fledgling, looking not one bit lethal. In the open space in front of him stood an alloy plate about ten centimeters thick, a new alloy that was widely used in weapons manufacturing.

“This is the sound resonance test I did at the research institute last month.” Ruan Yu introduced.

This was a new skill that Ruan Yu tapped two years ago.

Any material had its own vibration frequency, and Ruan Yu was able to achieve the effect of resonating with a specific material by adjusting the frequency of sound waves, causing its material structure to disintegrate.

Weapons, and even the human body, couldn’t resist such a sonic attack.

In the image, accompanied by a siren-like ethereal sharp whistling sound gradually exceeded the threshold of human hearing…

The alloy plate blossomed into streaks, and then fell apart into pieces.

“Ahem…” The originator shouted exhausted with a bitter face, raised his hand with fingertips rubbing his small Adam’s apple, picked up a glass of water to sip twice to moisten his throat with warm water.

Looking at him from all sides, he still did not look like a killer, more like a petulant child.

Gu Rong was not sure, he looked at Ruan Yu, who was standing at the side like a quail, “finished watching, what are you doing?”

“I’m not doing anything…” Ruan Yu could read Gu Rong’s caution, and his prepared speech was nullified, hesitating for a moment, he threw out a stiff sentence, “That, Uncle Gu… Am I strong?”

Ruan Yu asked, “Is it true that even a Star Pirate can’t do anything to me?”

[Great, yes, but when it comes to Star Pirates, all of them would be disarmed with a shout, and could be captured alive.]

Gu Rong thought in his heart, but his mouth hummed nonchalantly, “Delicate.”

How did Uncle Gu become like this…

No more truth.

Ruan Yu froze.

“Pfft…” Suddenly Shen Jingya walked in with a stifled laugh and gave Gu Rong a gentle shove on the shoulder, softly complaining, “What are you being stubborn about? This is more than three months before Ruan Ruan starts school, the differentiation period is also over, he wants Xiuhan to take him to the energy planet for a break. There is the ocean planet, Ruan Ruan likes the sea. But Xiuhan is not willing, and said the energy planet is not safe, so he came to you.”

Shen Jingya said, stroking the hair at his temples, “there is a military base to be built, so many engineers, transport ships and frigates come and go every day, there is nothing dangerous, so by not allowing him to go Xiuhan still treats Ruan Ruan like a child.”

“It’s just a little thing.” When he was asked to do something difficult, Gu Rong breathed a sigh of relief and approved without a second thought, “If you want to go, go.”

He was in favor of letting Ruan Yu go out before school to get in touch with society.

As a rare mermaid royalty, there were many people who secretly coveted Ruan Yu, and Gu Rong always set the highest level of escort for Ruan Yu. He and Shen Jingya would take Ruan Yu twice a year on short trips to the capital star, and wherever they went during the trip there was a group of guards secretly accompanying them. Not to mention the internal defense of the estate, the outside world couldn’t even let a bug to crawl in, and it must be said that Ruan Yu actually had little freedom for so many years.

Now Ruan Yu’s differentiation period had passed, it was more convenient to move, self-preservation was also not a problem, in addition, the guards would not be less, and other aspects should be given some leeway.

You can’t stop eating because you’re afraid of choking to death.

“Yes, I think Ruan Ruan accompanying Xiuhan on the trip is a good idea. Otherwise, Xiuhan would be too lonely.” Shen Jingya smiled faintly, “With Ruan Ruan around, Xiuhan can still have a few words with others.”

During his baby Ruan Yu period, Gu Xiuhan walked everywhere with him in his arms and those young female soldiers in the military usually looked at him in silence. After all, the handsome face could not withstand being seen daily, but in order to get a closer look at the soft little fish cub, they would still have the courage to talk to him a few times.

Ruan Yu was like a link between Gu Xiuhan and the world.

[Although it is unrealistic to ask Ruan Ruan to bring back a sister-in-law in three months, it can be more or less a catalyst…]

Shen Jingya thought to herself.

Ruan Yu’s little ears twitched slightly.

It might be an illusion, his ability to listen to heart sounds seemed to have increased a little bit after the successful differentiation.

Gu Rong and Shen Jingya also had S-grade genes, and their mental energy was stronger, so their usual heart sounds didn’t seem so loud and clear.

“But I also mentioned it to Xiuhan in the morning, and with his character you know…” Shen Jingya was helpless, “He said he would not change his mind.”

Gu Rong grunted unconcernedly, “Ruan Ruan does not need his permission. If the starship can carry so many engineers, it can add one more. I’ll give Ruan Ruan a boarding slot and send a team of guards, and Ruan Ruan will go to the energy planet on his own, without his approval.”

–Gu Rong, a descendant of ancient Earth’s Eastern bloodline, knew how to “End things before they start”.

When they run into each other on the starship, could Gu Xiuhan still throw him out?

…

“… At this time, through the viewing window, you will be able to witness the famous spiral nebula ‘Eye of God’, named after the ancient Earth…”

The leap ended and the starship entered a smooth sailing, and the mechanical voice of the AI guide introducing the scenery along the way rang out in the first class cabin.

The last time Ruan Yu experienced the interstellar leap was when he was two years old and was brought back to the capital planet from his home planet by Gu Xiuhan.

Ruan Yu was already pale, but now he has lost his color and his face was as white as a small grip of snow, hidden in his damp hair as he laid on his back with his legs curled up.

The leapfrog syndrome was similar to the ancient earth people’s seasickness and motion sickness, there was no substantial danger, but it was quite unpleasant.

The first class cabin was divided into several sized private cabins, Ruan Yu was in a large cabin and a team of guards sent to him by Gu Rong were tucked in. These guards were usually close to protect Gu Rong, each of them was a special force carefully selected top talent. The average genetic level reached S-class, less affected by the mermaid royalty spirit, but did not make any jokes.

One of the guards prepared the medicine and water to relieve the symptoms of the leap and walked next to Ruan Yu, with a slight bow, “Please, take the medicine.”

“… Thank you.” The natural warm and sweet smell of Ruan Yu’s body, warmed up by body heat and sweat, spread through the cabin, like a mouth-watering sugar cake.

After all, the guards were disciplined by Gu Rong, and all of them looked ahead and did not move a muscle, even breathing was quiet and restrained.

If they don’t open their eyes, they must think there was nobody in the cabin.

This drug contained hypnotic ingredients, Ruan Yu swallowed the pills, lying back down to take a nap, but within a few minutes after his head hit the pillow, he sat up with a small puffy face.

The guard who brought the medicine stood up quickly, carefully softened his voice and asked, “What can I do for you?”

Ruan Yu opened his mouth, it was difficult to brew a little anger, but was asked a kind question and then dissipated, and then spoke again, politely, “Nothing… It’s just that the sound is a little noisy and I can’t sleep.”

The guard was stunned, “Sound?”

[Where’s the noise?]

The cabin was quiet, and the guards were as disciplined as statues.

And yet…

[Why do you talk so softly even when you’re angry? So cute.]

[It’s not because of the noise in our heads… I heard that only below S rank can be read by a mermaid, he shouldn’t be able to hear what I’m thinking.]

[It smells good.]

[Fuck, who sprayed the sweet perfume?]

[Isn’t it a little male fish, why is he wearing such sweet perfume?]

…

A compartment of dense EEG signals, oozing.

Originally, the cabin was quiet, not a few thinking about the east and west, but after serving him medicine, the group of guards who were quiet and obedient suddenly became active.

Ruan Yu, “?”

You guys are the ones spraying sweet perfume.

Sub-male and female mermaids inherently emit different aromatic pheromones, and after differentiation, they become a bit more pronounced so that male mermaids with courtship intentions can track them. Perhaps because of the large range available in the ocean, this evolutionary trait contributed to the chances of successful reproduction of offspring.

Ruan Yu, who had clearly only used an unscented cleanser since he got up in the morning, squeezed his blanket angrily and tried to explain that he didn’t need to tell them to stop thinking about fragrance, but instinctively felt bad.

Gu Xiuhan was again tossing the holographic sphere that had been in service for more than two years.

He didn’t check on Ruan Yu when he left home early this morning.

For one thing, Ruan Yu loved to sleep, he didn’t want to wake up, and for another, to avoid upsetting Ruan Yu.

This holographic sphere was played over and over again numerous times.

He was not tired of watching it.

Gu Xiuhan got up and moved closer, and the warm water of the lake in the hologram spread over the surface of the boots, simulating the effect of water waves being stirred, and the surface of the lake floating in clear light.

In the image, Ruan Yu was hanging his head to sort out his fin veil, the flesh of his face fell, soft. Gu Xiuhan suddenly had a hot and stupid palm, wanting to raise his hand to close it, pinching two shallow dimples on the egg-white cheeks, forcing him to raise his head, and then…

He hadn’t done that before, it was a holographic ball that gave simple feedback based on various external stimuli, but he never just watched from a distance and in silence.

At that moment, the beep of a service robot requesting entry sounded at the door.

“Enter.” Gu Xiuhan withdrew his hand, which had reached midway.

He had indeed ordered the robot to bring the nutrient a few minutes ago. He had no appetite, but had to drink a little to keep his body going.

First came the mechanical voice of the service robot, “Hello, your supplements have been delivered…”

Then came Ruan Yu’s voice, muffled, and immediately after calling out, he admitted his mistake in a pleading manner, “Brother Xiuhan, I’m sorry, I’m afraid I missed you too much, but I followed you here secretly…”

Inside the cabin, Gu Xiuhan’s posture was straight, standing in front of Ruan Yu’s hologram, his thin, narrow military boots quietly stepping on a lake of azure water, giving him back a half line of austere side face.

The black eyes, which were always unperturbed, swept through a rare trace of dismay.

Ruan Yu saw the situation in the cabin, the facial expression paused, after two seconds, somehow stammered a little, the words became increasingly quiet, “you, you quite miss me…”