Chapter 1
May Yue knows very well that you can't pick up people casually, especially men with unknown origins.
In the center of the fifteenth district of the MT planet, a completely white building stands tall.
The exterior walls are pure white, reflecting the dazzling sunlight. The entire building complex stretches for more than 300 kilometers and is very conspicuous on the burnt yellow land.
In the center of the building complex in District 15 is the ship docking center of the MT Planet Cargo Center.
The overall shape is like a chimney, a cylindrical building with a height of 5,000 meters.
The ship docks at the docking station at the top of the tower, and the goods will be transported by a chain, an automatic transmission facility, to the transfer factory at the bottom, where they will be sorted and retransported, and finally transported away from the MT planet by another cargo ship.
In May, he worked at the freight center in the 15th arrondissement. His workplace was a very inconspicuous one among the many factories.
The work is decent and not too tiring.
Thanks to the intelligent development of mechanization, employees only need to operate the machine on the translucent touch screen and confirm the shipment of the goods.
This job can be regarded as a "special post" specially set up for the MT planet.
A few years ago, Yuangguang Freight Company, a subsidiary of Guangchen Industrial Group, took over and prepared to develop the planet MT. Although the planet looked desolate, it was still inhabited by many aborigines.
Most of these indigenous people are the descendants of humans who stayed here when colonizing various planets during the interstellar pioneering period tens of thousands of years ago and have lived here for generations.
This group of people has lived here for a long time.
The planet had no one before, so it was not connected to the star network of any human country. The only contact with the outside world was the occasional small cargo ship that landed, so it still retained relatively primitive living habits.
Yuanguang Cargo expropriated and developed the land of the planet. In order to resettle the indigenous people, they registered the Nova Federation for the people of this planet, distributed a large amount of money per capita, and arranged idle jobs for all those who had the ability to work.
There are schools on the planet, but they are not comparable to those on other planets, and even less comparable to those in the main galaxy. Most young people on the planet stop going to school when they are 18 years old.
Yuanguang funded and established schools and introduced many advanced teaching equipment. In the future, outstanding students will have the opportunity to leave the MT planet and continue their studies in outer galaxies.
It was exactly 7 years ago when May traveled here, just in time for the census statistics of Yuangguang Freight.
She got in naturally and gained a legal account of Planet MT.
But she does not understand the interstellar lingua franca and is considered illiterate.
Between entering school to learn from scratch and directly arranging a part-time job, Mayyue chose to work, and finally gained a position as a transfer station employee.
The reason why I did not choose to study is also very simple.
She was not from this world, and her physique and lifespan were far different from theirs.
Long before the colonial pioneering period, human beings had achieved overall evolution through genetic medicine. The average life span of a person has reached more than 200 years, of which the prime period is as high as 180 years.
Even people living on the remote and isolated planet MT have the same long lifespan and strong physique.
May Yue is an earthling, a complete earthling.
She only has a lifespan of more than 80 years at most, and as expected, her health will gradually decline after the age of 40.
She doesn't have the energy to spend more than ten years or decades studying.
According to the sponsored learning plan of Yuangguang Freight, illiterate students will start studying in federal kindergartens in May and wait until they graduate from college. Regardless of further studies, they will be over 40 years old when they graduate, and their youth will be wasted.
So in contrast, she chose to work without hesitation.
Although she is illiterate, she can still understand some interstellar language after staying there for a long time. Other local colleagues only thought that she lived alone in a place far away from the crowd, forming a language barrier, and did not pay too much attention.
The company also very considerately installed full-pattern operation screens without text for employees such as May, and thoughtfully asked her if she would like a small head-mounted reading translator that can be hung on the side of the ear.
May accepted it, but she didn't use it often. She didn't want to rely too much on the machine.
Because she was very busy at work, in her spare time, she would watch some animations specially designed for young children in the electronic reading room in the library funded by Yuangguang Freight to learn the language. Gradually, she also understood most of the texts.
Originally, her life was supposed to continue like this, relying on her job at Yuangguang Freight to survive, and when she got old, she would enter a nursing home built by the company and spend her remaining years in peace.
But life always exceeds her expectations.
Three years ago, during an accidental outing, she encountered a crashed small escape capsule.
At that time, the escape cabin was smoking, and the hull of the ship smashed a huge deep hole in the ground.
Mayu plucked up the courage to step forward and pulled out a blood-covered and extremely embarrassed man from the half-open hatch.
Wu Yue, who has read novels for many years, knows very well that you cannot pick up people randomly, especially men with unknown origins.
So she immediately sent out an alarm signal and contacted the local police on Planet MT.
Not long after, several ground hover vehicles arrived, and more than a dozen fully equipped police officers disembarked.
They scanned the archives around the escape cabin, and after completing a simple investigation, they dragged the man onto the hovercar, seemingly to be pulled to the Yuangguang Central Hospital in District 13.
Before leaving, Mayu noticed that the man seemed to be more awake.
He half-opened his eyes, took a deep look at her, closed his eyes, and left here together with the hover car, leaving only a wave of excitement as the car drove away.
The choking smoke and dust.
May Yue's heart trembled at that time, fearing that the man would remember her face.
Fortunately, a month passed peacefully without any abnormal events, so she finally felt relieved.
Until one day after work, she met the man again in the small garden of the community center.
All the injuries on his body were healed, he was wearing neat clothes, his light blond hair was soft and hanging on his forehead, and he was looking down at a paper book.
Few people read paper books these days, so Del's behavior seemed a bit strange.
So she sat next to the man. The wooden seats are long and have some space.
The man raised his head and stared at her with his dark green eyes for a while, then the corners of his eyes curled up: "You must have saved me, thank you."
The man said his name was Del and his identity was an interstellar businessman.
In the current human society, 80% of trade is dominated by large companies such as Yuanguang Freight, and the rest are self-employed people. People generally call them interstellar merchants.
They mainly deal with small-volume goods transactions, and a small number of them involve gray products.
Del said that he deals in ores, mainly rare minerals.
Because the material was precious, he got into trouble with the Star Thieves.
He improperly defended himself for a while and was hit by a stray cannon while evading. He had to activate the safety procedure, forcibly eject the escape capsule and land on the nearest MT planet.
After saying this, he closed the book, shrugged his shoulders, and said casually: "The goods were all damaged, which can be considered a heavy loss. Fortunately, he hid in the escape cabin in time and everyone is fine."
Mayue was silent for a moment and patted his shoulder as comfort.
The man was startled by her move, and his body tilted unnaturally. Mayu retracted her hand, feeling a little embarrassed.
She has not yet adapted to the interstellar age, and she does not know how to get along with people here and the basic etiquette.
Most of the aborigines on the MT planet were carefree, and both men and women had their arms around each other, so she was assimilated, and she patted her unconsciously.
Fortunately, Del sat up straight again in the next second, and he took out a silver brooch from somewhere, inlaid with bright green gems.
He said this was a collection he bought by chance as a thank you gift for her saving his life.
May Yue hesitated for a moment, but finally accepted it under his expectant gaze.
When Del placed the brooch in her hand, he didn't know whether it was accidental or not, but his fingertips lightly brushed against her skin.
Mayue looked up and saw a faint blush at the base of his ears, so she unconsciously looked away.
After that, she and Del had more interactions. The two became optical friends and kept in contact on and off for a year.
Due to the nature of his work, Del always spends half of a month sailing, but when the deal is over, he always returns to the MT planet.
When Mayue asked her, he said he thought the environment here was good. It was secluded and the crime rate was low, so he decided to settle here temporarily.
May Yue nodded and expressed understanding. There is indeed almost no crime here, but the environment is good?
She raised her head and looked at the dazzling light.
The star of this planet is larger than that of the former homeland of the Earth. It is almost twice as large as the sun when viewed from the ground. The overall color is orange-yellow, and it hangs quite oppressively in the sky.
The revolution period of the MT planet is short, only 80 ephemeris days. Most of the time, the climate is also hot.
Automatic detection instruments in residential areas often report atmospheric data of the day. It seems that the carbon dioxide content of this planet is slightly higher than that of the earth.
Mayue was quite unaccustomed to it when she first traveled through time. Fortunately, her body has strong adaptability. After living for a long time, she has gradually integrated into it.
The planet's radiation is strong, and its ultraviolet rays are also high. The original aboriginal people tended to live a nocturnal life. After the arrival of the high-beam freight, giant radiation isolation covers were installed in the residential areas, which improved the living environment of the residents and employees.
This planet does not distinguish four seasons based on its revolution period like the Earth. Instead, it has its own calendar that distinguishes four seasons based on stellar flare activity.
Not to mention that the scenery is thousands of miles away from the vacation planet scenery I saw on StarNet in May. During the harsh storm season, high radiation and magnetic storms have seriously affected the survival of the indigenous people.
The only beautiful scenery on this planet is the occasional aurora, but no matter how beautiful the scenery is, you will get tired of it if you see it too much.
So his words successfully made Mayue frown.
But at that time, she only thought that Del had special preferences and liked to live on such an unsuitable planet.
Although it happened many times, Wu Yue didn't notice anything yet, but her colleagues felt something was wrong.
Lina, an aborigine who worked in the same factory as her, secretly pulled her into a corner after a pleasant chat with Del one May.
She leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Does he want to chase you?"
Mayue was shocked.
She first subconsciously wanted to deny Lina's words, but then she thought deeply about all her past experiences.
In the end, she had to admit that Del came to the MT planet too frequently, almost steadily every ephemeris month.
She also turned her head along with Lina's gaze and looked at Del.
He was still sitting on the bench reading, his back turned to them.
They couldn't see his face clearly, they could only see his light-colored hair reflecting the sunlight, which was very dazzling.
He is very good-looking. In all his years of life, May Yue has never seen such a good-looking person, whether before or after time travel.
It was star calendar year 35004. Humanity had already experienced the great integration of races, and there were no obvious racial differences. The so-called name was just a formal inheritance.
Although Del had blond hair and blue eyes and a high nose, his eyes were not as exaggeratedly sunken as the foreigners she had seen in her previous life, and his face still had a softness to it.
On the contrary, it was Mayyue's thoroughly oriental appearance that puzzled the aborigines for a long time.
But they didn't have any information to refer to, they just thought her appearance was very distinctive.
Being liked by such a super handsome guy, May Yue felt a little touched in her heart.
Del has a gentle and polite personality, which is completely her ideal type. Logically speaking, there is nothing to hesitate, but Mayu has a desire to escape.
She is not from this world, but from Earth.
Not only is their physical fitness much worse, but their life span is also several times different.
After staying on the MT star and aging, she can use the excuse that her actual age has reached 180 years old as an excuse, but if she is the person who sleeps with her day and night, how can she not notice her problem.
She raised her head and said hesitantly: "But I think Del and I..."
Her words stopped because Lina in front of her had long since disappeared, and there was no trace of the figure from before.
May Yue looked around in confusion, but his eyes met Del. Before he knew it, he had already walked in front of May Yue.
Del was very close to her, so close that she could smell the faint fragrance on his body. The smell seemed to belong to some kind of floral fragrance. It was not the smell of toiletries sold on the MT planet. Mayu had a very good nose.
Del stretched out the book in his hand in front of her and said, "A gift for you."
Wu Yue took the book, which was the one he had just read. She was about to ask: "Isn't this -"
Del interrupted her: "Open it and take a look."
May lowered her head.
I opened the book and found a leaf in the middle of the book. The leaves are blue-green and very beautiful. They seem to belong to some kind of plant, not from the MT planet.
Del said: "I found that you like to watch the landscape documentaries archived in the reading room. I picked them when I was doing business. They come from a tourist planet with strange vegetation. I put the leaves in the book and brought them back to you."
This book is a travel diary of the Sunan Galaxy, created by Jiang Ying, a famous interstellar adventurer from the Lyran Empire. Del put the leaves belonging to this galaxy in this book as a gift to her.
In fact, there are many preservation methods, such as nutrient solutions, vegetation maintenance cabins, or palm-sized bionic planters.
But this leaf that had dried and turned into something similar to a specimen still made Mayue stunned for a moment.
She raised her head and saw Del looking at her intently against the light.
He said: "So, would you like to go there with me one day and take a look at the scenery of the Southern Galaxy?"
Just now, May Yue thought of many reasonable reasons that prevented them from being together, such as life span and her identity.
But in that moment, I don't know if it was because the sun was too dazzling. In the blurred vision, Del's handsome face looked even more beautiful.
It was good to see that Mayu's mind was so messed up that she could hardly think, and then all the reasons she had just thought of were thrown away in an instant.
She heard herself reply, "Okay."
[The author has something to say]
The first book by a new author.
This article focuses on the emotional line. The interstellar theme is mostly privately designed. All "years", "months", "days", and ages in the text default to star calendar dates unless otherwise noted.
May Yue's lifespan will evolve to the standard interstellar level, the male protagonist's dual personality will not merge, and the ending will be HE.
