The Interstellar's Expert Plant Tamer

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Xie Sen’s craft flew all the way to the entrance of Star City, and then landed for inspection. There was a long line of inspection shuttles and craft in front of them.

Long Teng stuck his head out of the window, surprised. “There are so many people.”

The pilot said, “It’s been like this every day for the past few days. None of our company’s aircrafts are available. If you hadn’t booked in advance, you wouldn’t have been able to call for a flight at short notice.” He sighed. “The danger zone isn’t that easy to go to. Many people have been in trouble recently. You’re so young, are you sure you don’t want to think it over?”

“No,” Maine said shortly.

Xie Sen took a look at the speed of the craft, and estimated that it would be another ten minutes before they would be at the front of the line. He opened his bracelet to read the reports about the deep forest, but as soon as he opened the Starnet, he saw a headline about Maine.

[Cox Family announces that it has severed ties with Maine Cox!]

Xie Sen thought about it. This kind of information couldn’t be hidden, so he put his hand in front of Maine, and indicated to him to read the news.

Maine looked at the news, and grunted indifferently. “Just what I wanted.” He casually grabbed Xie Sen’s hand, and held it. He put it between their seats. “Don’t think too much. Rest first, there may be no rest in the forest.”

Xie Sen looked at the hand he was holding and moved his fingers. Maine leaned back in his seat with his eyes closed, as if he didn’t feel anything at all, and kept holding his hand without releasing it.

Xie Sen recalled the scene as they dressed that morning. The combat uniform cuffs and pants all had to be tied tightly. He was inexperienced, so Maine hand-dressed him. After the cuffs were tied, he took his hand and placed a kiss on the back of his hand.

He still remembered how fluid and natural Maine’s movements were, as if there was nothing wrong with him. Maine had become closer to him than before, and was always touching him from time to time.

Xie Sen tilted his head to look at Maine’s delicate face.

A thought suddenly popped into his head. I wonder if a bite would leave marks?

When Xie Sen realized what he was thinking, his face burned red and he looked away. He screamed in his heart, I sound like a pervert! Never, never let Maine know that I had such thoughts!

Ten minutes later, the four of them passed the inspection. The pilot reminded Long Teng to close the window, then continued the flight. A little over an hour later, at quarter past nine, the craft arrived at Maine’s destination, over the middle of the dangerous area in the deserted forest.

The pilot was a little uneasy. “The last vehicle we encountered was at least 100 kilometers away. Are you sure you want to land here?”

“Yes,” Maine said. “Hover.”

The pilot, doubtful, still followed Maine’s instructions, and hovered the plane.

Maine opened the window, took out the two unmanned detector probes, programmed them to enter the forest slowly and then opened his bracelet. He checked the information returned by the probes, expanded the virtual screen and projected the picture in front of them.

Xie Sen looked at the projection. The view of the probes became clearer and clearer, the closer they got to the forest. The taller trees appeared on the projection. As the probes descended, the view became dimmer and dimmer. This place was full of trees, so the forest below was hidden by trees and completely out of sight.