You Smelled Wrong Chapter 21: He wanted to touch Lin Xu’s eyelashes.

Chapter 21: He wanted to touch Lin Xu’s eyelashes.

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Heinrich resumed his steps, Lin Xu was half a step behind him, and the broad back of his shoulders was outlined by his regular military uniform. The tips of his bloodshot ears were particularly visible against his short, light silver hair.

Lin Xu raised his eyebrows and said nothing so that Heinrich’s ears would not get hot enough to smoke. He heard the soldiers’ conversation earlier. He didn’t know if Heinrich could get it up or not, but he hoped Heinrich wasn’t bothered by it, otherwise he would be a real sinner – poking the Lord Marshal’s sore spot through some donkey and horse stories, and maybe even hurting the alpha’s pride.

As for the special meaning of the soldiers’ whispers… For example, Heinrich and Lin Xu seemed to be in an intimate relationship that was beyond the norm. Lin Xu… was calm inside and couldn’t say what he thought. Heinrich was nice, Lin Xu thought. But whether someone was nice or not had little to do with whether Lin Xu had any idea of starting an intimate relationship.

In the blink of an eye, the two arrived at a room with three holographic pods. The intelligent sensor lights automatically came on, and the holographic pods under the lights looked like a silvery white egg lying flat. Heinrich used his authority to open the top lids of two of them and instructed Lin Xu, who had never used a holographic pod before, to lie down in them.

The soft and flexible artificial fiber cushion wrapped around Lin Xu’s body and limbs at once, but the feeling of his neck being bound made Lin Xu stiffen.

“The magnetic poles will connect to your brain waves.” Heinrich bent down to help Lin Xu adjust the metal connectors on the back of his head and forehead, still unsmiling, as if covered in a layer of frost, but the warmth of his fingers across the skin of his forehead was much warmer than the cold metal.

Lin Xu closed his eyes and waited. After the adjustment, Heinrich helped Lin Xu lift a loose strand of black hair behind his ear, his fingers touched the tip of Lin Xu’s unusually cold and smooth ear, and immediately withdrew it like an electric shock.

“I heard the intracerebral beep.”

Luckily Lin Xu’s eyes were closed, otherwise Heinrich would have felt even more overwhelmed.

“Okay, the hatch will close automatically after confirmation.”

After the words, the hatch slowly rose from one side, about to close in the shape of a ring, the white light inside the hatch fell on Lin Xu’s face like a feather. After accessing the holographic system, the eyeballs covered by the eyelids quickly turned, and the long and slender eyelashes illuminated by the light were almost transparent, fluttering like butterfly wings.

Heinrich’s golden eyes blinked very lightly, as if trying to synchronize with Lin Xu’s eyelashes, and his hand lifted again, his index finger vaguely curved near Lin Xu’s right eye.

Suddenly, the gray as mountain mist eyes reflected his fingertips. Heinrich’s heart almost stopped, and quickly withdrew his hand, even sheepishly back behind him.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Xu squinted his eyes to clear the moisture produced by his eyes when they were closed and replied as if nothing had happened, “The system has detected an obstacle object blocking the hatch from closing.”

Heinrich coughed, “There is nothing now, you continue.”

Lin Xu nodded and lowered his eyes again, hiding his pupils.

Heinrich stiffly turned around and walked to the other holographic module, and behind him there was a “beep” as the lid closed. As he lay back down in the holographic chamber, all Heinrich could think about was Lin Xu’s calm eyes. Has he found out? Or not?

Remembering the flash of itchy fuzz, he couldn’t tell if it was the sensitivity of being near another person’s skin or touching Lin Xu’s eyelashes.

Three seconds later, Heinrich entered the Star Ocean game interface, he set up a two-person account, and Lin Xu appeared in the entrance space with him. The entrance space was pure white, only the ground, up and down, no end in sight, no echo in the space. Lin Xu arrived a few seconds before him, and as soon as Heinrich turned around, he saw a humanoid with golden light. The humanoid with no facial features emitted a standard electronic voice, “Marshal?”

Presumably the scene was too bizarre, Heinrich hooked his lips slightly, leaving behind the tangle before entering the cabin, and explained, “Star Ocean players can choose their own appearance, this is the initial form. You can call out the menu to change, or you can scan your real appearance, but most players don’t do that.”

Under Heinrich’s guidance the golden light humanoid unskillfully summoned the menu, and after a flurry of operations finally changed back to normal human appearance.

Still black hair and gray eyes, but a little more robust than Lin Xu himself. His face was more mature, and he was wearing a black combat suit that was different from the Imperial military version. His black hair was combed back to reveal a clean forehead, and no longer cast a shadow in his eyes, looking somewhat like that of a Dr. Lin in a suit at the museum banquet.

But a little different, seemingly sharper, like a cheetah.

“This look is…”

“Hmm?” Lin Xu did not change his voice.

“It’s nice.”

Lin Xu gave Heinrich a sideways glance, a somewhat subtle expression appeared on his face, and hesitantly said, “…Well, thanks. It’s very vigorous.”

Heinrich froze for a moment, suddenly realizing that he was now looking up at Lin Xu, and then he looked down at his costume…

What the hell is this?

A metallic leather jacket over a striped T-shirt and jeans, and a pair of high-top sneakers, and he didn’t have to think about it to know that his hair looked terrible.

Heinrich quickly called up the interface to adjust his appearance and clothing, facial features changed almost phantom, and finally, his fingers fell on a button in the corner, reverting to Heinrich’s own face. Thin, cold lips and angular eyebrows reappeared before his eyes.

With a sigh of relief, he dropped his head slightly and ran into Lin Xu’s lightly smiling eyes. Heinrich tensed his spine again and explained, “I haven’t logged into this account for a long time, it was the one I used when I was… a boy.”

“Mn, very young.” Lin Xu held back a smile, the childish and a little arrogant little Heinrich was really somehow cute compared to this big Heinrich.

Heinrich wanted to say something, but finally added, “It’s been almost thirty years.”

“Sure.” Lin Xu curved his eyes and did not look deeper, “Marshal, do you want to change your face again? Otherwise, when you go out, everyone will recognize you immediately.”

Heinrich lowered his head again and operated for a while, during which he looked up a few times at Lin Xu, who stood there and let him look at him, and soon a new image appeared.

The height and size did not change, but the hair and pupil color changed to the same as Lin Xu, adding a bit of rigor and calmness, but the features were softened, the shadows cast by the brow bones in the eyes became lighter, obviously a cold face, but let people feel a gentle affection. He wore a white deep-space combat suit, smooth muscle lines lurked under the vigorous power.

Lin Xu took a step forward and patted Heinrich’s arm, “Let’s go.”

Heinrich operated the screen and they were transported into the game’s personal equipment room. Because Heinrich had connected their accounts together in advance, their equipment rooms were also linked. With Lin Xu’s empty initial equipment room on the left, with only a lone unpainted mecha, and Heinrich’s equipment room on the other side, with a similar interior style as on the Victoria, cold, simple, smooth, extremely rich in technology and industrial sense.

Inside the equipment room stood three tall mecha, painted in silver and white or black and white, silent and majestic.

In-game mecha damage could be restored by refreshing, and the three mechas were less scarred and weathered than Blizzard.

“A beginner mecha is attached to the initial account login system,” Heinrich said, “and is generally a military mass-produced mecha style. These three have been modified by me, but the SF307 mecha that is the base is very old and has been updated and replaced three times. Lin Xu, I suggest you use the latest initial mecha, it will be easier to adapt to the mecha in reality.”

According to the secrecy requirements, Star Ocean could only get part of the mecha data, and the high-end and sophisticated custom machine was a high-level military secret that could not be passed on.

Lin Xu nodded and split up with Heinrich to go up to their respective mechas. With the experience of removing the hatch with his bare hands, Lin Xu entered the cockpit with ease, and the system popped up a brief description of the LH798 mecha as he took his seat.

Large tonnage, strong defense, multiple turrets, less flexible. There was a long list of detailed weapons descriptions below. As Lin Xu glanced down, another message popped up from Heinrich requesting a shared view, and Lin Xu clicked yes. A subtle vision unfolded.

The holographic game was able to project and control information directly at the consciousness level, and the shared vision was completely different from the individual’s actual vision. As he only had one pair of eyes, he received two completely different images in his mind without feeling tired, and the focus of his vision could be switched at will.

Heinrich’s voice was also projected directly in the consciousness, “Lin Xu, Star Ocean’s game three manipulation methods can be used. The player’s real mental energy level pair will not directly react in the game, so do not worry about the problem of mental energy deficiency.”

This setting enabled many ordinary people with insufficient mental energy to control the mecha to experience the thrill of swimming in the stars, but it was undeniable that people with higher levels of real mental energy had an inherent advantage in terms of concentration, analysis speed, and arithmetic level. The top positions in Star Ocean game charts were always occupied by the top students of each region’s Military Academy students.

Lin Xu thought about it, “Use mental energy combined with pass control mode.”

The mecha console was complicated and slow to get started, so Lin Xu decided to give up on it, but his fighting and mental energy were not bad, and the combination of mental energy and control mode was the most suitable.

After the game system was confirmed, the cockpit ground opened, sending out the leg transmission component. The arm transmission component moved over from both sides to put on automatically, the mental energy control helmet descended at this point. Lin Xu pulled it over to put it on, and when the mental domain was connected, it was as if a hammer hit the brain, making people dizzy.

“Take a deep breath.” Heinrich cold and magnetic voice inside the brain, “the first time you put on the helmet may feel dizzy and discomfort, relax, imagine that you are floating in the sea, let the sea hold your limbs, you will feel at ease to give yourself to the sea, like this, also give your attention to the helmet signal, feel it flowing in the limbs. “

Heinrich spoke in a quiet voice, as if a low whisper, less cohesive, but made Lin Xu feel a spray of hot air in his ears, bringing up a tingle of electricity running through his spine.

 

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