Stop Thinking Chapter 15: Glutinous Rice Cake

Chapter 15: Glutinous Rice Cake

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

The orange-red star slowly sank below sea level.

After nightfall, the open-air fighting arena on the east side of the living base soon gathered people, spotlights suspended over the ring, blazing white light baking hotly, the venue seemed to steam up a mist of hot sweat mixed with alcohol.

There were many entertainment facilities in the living base, holographic theater, multifunctional game pods … But these were just the icing on the cake. For the group of energetic young soldiers to overflow, adrenaline rush, fist to flesh fight to the red-eye fighting competition was necessary to relieve stress and release the natural frustrations.

There were ten rings in the fighting arena, with numbers one through five available to the natives without restriction on race.

The aborigines on this ocean planet were amphibious humanoid intelligent creatures, close to human in outline, but with different marine ancestral characteristics, swarthy, irritable and aggressive, all as fit as pylons, hired by the base before, most of them were sent to do underwater heavy machinery installation and maintenance of such work. The work efficiency of the aborigines underwater was much higher than that of humans, one could top ten, but because of their violent and brutal nature, they often fought and caused trouble, and had a bad reputation in the base, and most of the civilian staff and officers’ families would quietly walk around when they saw these aborigines.

Qin Yue lowered his military cap and took a seat under the third ring, his fingers absentmindedly grasping a can of cold beer, the tendons on the back of his hand floating shallowly and extending down the small arm into the cuffs that were pulled up in two folds.

He didn’t often come to the fighting arena, he felt it was noisy, but these days he was inexplicably depressed and couldn’t get motivated to do anything, so he thought he might be able to stimulate his passive nervous system here, so he came to check it out.

However there was little effect.

Qin Yue watched for a while, his interest was lacking, he tilted his head and poured down the small half of the remaining can of liquor, pursed his lips and was about to get up, when a commotion suddenly came from the audience near the sea, half excited and half suppressed, like he was afraid of disturbing someone.

Qin Yue glanced over there and choked on his alcohol as soon as he was lost in thought, “Cough, cough…”

There was a row of small heads lined up neatly on the stone edge of the shore – it was a kind of small animal that looked like a group of ancient earth seals, with a funny w-shaped mouth and eight-eyebrows, round and fat, white like glutinous rice patties, and was picking the edge of the shore with a pair of fat bun paws.

In the middle of this row of small heads, there was a small one, with a head of long, soft and fluffy silver hair, vertical gauzy ear fins… It’s Ruan Yu.

He was also holding the edge of the shore with his thin white fingers, looking at the ring with his round eyes wide open, feeling new and curious, but also a bit afraid, watching silently from afar.

Those little seals had high IQ and loved to imitate people, all of them learned from others, and when they met Ruan Yu, who could communicate with them, they became more aggressive, not only picking the shoreline to watch the game in the exact same posture as Ruan Yu, but also where Ruan Yu’s head turned, their round heads turned in unison.

[… F*ck.]

Qin Yue felt like he was going crazy with cuteness. The others on the shore had pretty much the same reaction.

A muffled bang came from the third ring, and the aborigine in the ring who was staring at Ruan Yu in a daze was knocked down, and did not fight back after falling to the ground, rubbing his cheeks and sitting up to continue looking towards the shore.

The mermaid royalty’s mental fluctuations were many times stronger than the ordinary mermaid, and these amphibious aborigines were half marine creatures, more susceptible to the influence of mermaid than terrestrial species. The influence can be imagined.

The kind of fluctuations that enables living beings to sense tranquility and joy attracts and pulls the attention of a group of aborigines like a magnetic field.

The heart seemed to melt a warm depression, a warm water slipping through, stimulating a kind of love and affection based on the desire for protection and closeness, and a variety of other positive emotions.

This was the reason why mermaid royalty was able to rule the ocean planet without bloodshed.

This lingering, delicate and soft emotion made the fierce and violent natives have a strange look – right now there was nothing to protect, they instinctively realized that the only “danger” for the little mermaid was probably them! Fierce face. But it was difficult to adjust the scaly-rimmed, fiercely aggressive faces to be friendly, and their facial muscles were going into spasm.

“You, you guys go on.” Ruan Yu reacted half a beat slower, the whole scene was frozen for three seconds before he noticed that the atmosphere was not right, the aborigines’ expressions were even more strange, he was stunned, a small face sank below the shore, and asked uneasily, “Here… Is it forbidden to look around?”

The little seals followed suit and shrank their necks in resignation.

“No, no!”

“You can watch.”

“You can come up, look ashore, find a seat, don’t be afraid.”

“…”

The aborigines, seeing the little mermaid scared to slip away, tried their best to soften their voices and spoke in raw imperial language to detain.

These amphibious intelligent beings belonged to the fringe, and had barriers to the mainstream Homo sapiens culture in the Empire, and they had almost no communication with Homo sapiens except in the fighting arena. The brave and courageous aborigines are indifferent to the fragile and delicate creature, and even secretly laugh at the homo sapiens who were charmed by the mermaid. Therefore, no aborigines went to watch the event, and this was the first time they saw Ruan Yu.

Mermaid… I can’t believe that he is such a pleasant being.

The majority of them were a warm light gold mixed with light pink, with a fluffy, soft and spacious form, like the kind of fondness and softness you feel when you see a kitten.

The noise of heart sounds came overwhelmingly, cute and sweet, boiling into a pot of porridge.

Ruan Yu was a little shy, but in the past few days in the base he often heard the mother and sister fans of the heart of the sound, exercise out some, self-conscious without stage fright, calmly asked, “Then how do I go up? Here it is too high, I can not climb up…”

The shy and fearful little mermaid, faced with an enthusiastic stranger, blushed nervously all the way to the collarbone, fish tail fan wind like waving a gas, clattering up a water splash.

He was the only one who felt calm and collected.

An extraordinarily large and sturdy aborigine pulled a clean towel from the service robot’s storage compartment and walked to the shore. He had ancestral characteristics similar to those of ancient Earth sharks, with light steel green skin, a height of two and a half meters, and gnarled muscles that resembled a small moving hill, the size of which could hold six or seven Ruan Yu’s.

The aborigines with shark ancestral characteristics were often the top warriors in the community, all untamed, cold-blooded and murderous.

He first tried to tug the corners of his mouth to imitate the smile of Homo sapiens, exposing two rows of hacksaw-like sharp teeth, and closed his mouth resentfully after reaping Ruan Yu’s frightened but polite smile.

“I’ll carry you and go ashore.” He explained and leaned down, wrapped Ruan Yu in a large towel with a gentle gesture that did not match his rugged appearance, and then gently picked up Ruan Yu, who was subconsciously flapping his tail, like an adult picking up a small goldfish, and placed him on his shoulder, and picked a seat with an elevated view to place Ruan Yu.

“Thank you.” Ruan Yu wrapped a large towel twisted to pull the right, warm voice to thank, his little red face because of the guilt.

I shouldn’t have fluttered my tail in fear just now, this aborigine is obviously very gentle.

Once he was seated, the group of young soldiers who had been dancing around a few moments ago and had nothing to hide suddenly became restrained, more like small quails than Ruan Yu, with cigarettes in their mouths, and bare shoulders grabbing a piece of clothing to cover their bodies, with their mouths open and shut to shield the words of the foul-mouthed players to close their mouths tightly… The ones sitting next to Ruan Yu were even more tormented, itching to say a word or turn their heads to look more, but embarrassed, plus afraid of losing their cool in front of the pretty little mermaid, they all sat with their chests tucked in and shoulders straight, each holding their faces and necks that were red.

“You do not need to be nervous, I will not bite…” Ruan Yu carefully reassured the soldiers in front of and behind him.

The surrounding spiritual beings suddenly tightened and doubled. They are simply in a state of war.

Ruan Yu, “?”

It’s really hard to understand you humans. Why do you think fish are cute and at the same time afraid of them?

After this little episode, the fight in the ring was doubly intense, and all of them were like a chicken, trying to perform in front of the little mermaid.

Ruan Yu also couldn’t care less about analyzing the soldiers’ psychology, with one hand on his cheek and his eyebrows slightly wrinkled, half-understanding but watching seriously.

The last time he was reminded by Gu Xiuhan that it was time to find a mate, Ruan Yu also thought deeply, but until now he could not figure it out.

He only vaguely felt that he wanted to find someone with a high genetic rank, but the genetic information was not engraved on his face, and there were so many factors affecting promotion and demotion in the military that simply looking at rank might not be accurate.

Luckily, by mistake, I found a fighting ring here.

The impact of gene level on men was half reflected in muscle strength, nerve reflexes, dynamic vision and other attributes that help in hunting and fighting, A level is a watershed in combat power, A level and above can form a training and skills of B to E level can not compensate for the crushing, so those who have the courage to compete on stage are of high gene level, in line with Ruan Yu’s requirements.

On the other side, Qin Yue, who was planning to leave the stage, was steadily nailed back to his chair.

He had not appeared in front of Ruan Yu after the last psychiatric treatment, and he picked the time when Ruan Yu was not there to report the progress of the project to Gu Xiuhan.

He did not want to admit that he was depressed because of the matter of social death in front of Ruan Yu, but in fact, since he saw Ruan Yu a few minutes ago, his heart, which had been dead in recent days, reacted violently, which made his tympanic membrane swell and his ears involuntarily dyed light red.

Ruan Yu’s round eyes were penetrating and he was watching with great interest the contest between the two officers in the seventh ring.

[Really watching, with unblinking eyes]

[He actually likes to watch fighting?]

Qin Yue was surprised and happy, feeling that there was a shortcut to win Ruan Yu’s favor.

He didn’t know that the little stupid fish was just wondering if he should find the best fighter as his spouse…

[If I win a few fights in a row in front of him, will he have a better impression of me?]

[These two in the seventh ring are not my opponents.]

Thinking about it, Qin Yue became more and more impassioned and solemnly analyzed the battle power of the group of people in the ring.

Before he was injured, he was a special soldier of the same formation as Gu Xiuhan, even if his attributes had slipped again, it was not a problem to clean up a few engineering troops, besides, his state had obviously improved after the last treatment.

After another match, Qin Yue had completely gotten on top of it and decided to make a clean break.

He got up, walked up to the seventh ring directly opposite to Ruan Yu, and tumbled in with one hand by wrenching the fence in style.

…

On the other hand, Gu Xiuhan had already received a report from the guard that Ruan Yu was watching the fight in the ring.

The guards were the same ones sent by Gu Rong. The base was very safe, and they were afraid of disturbing Ruan Yu, so they didn’t keep a close eye on him, and only reported to Gu Xiuhan when the situation was abnormal.

But Gu Xiuhan did not think there was anything abnormal about it.

Combined with the conversation some time ago, he only had to think in Ruan Yu’s brain circuit to guess what the little stupid fish was after to see the fight.

Gu Xiuhan heaved a breath and turned off the communication interface with the guard, his dark eyes cold and frightening under his brows.

He slowly moved his left wrist.

The joints were activated, emitting a light and brittle bone rubbing sound.

Does Ruan Yu know that at this base, or even the entire military… Who was the most capable fighter?

 

 

 

 

 

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