Chapter 212: Peeping into the Vicious Little Fish

Huo Yuan was reluctant to say more about his sister, and Lu Hang knew very little about it.

But Lu Hang was not blind. He was able to piece together some facts from the details of Huo Yuan's life and words - the black-winged kite was famous for its beauty and charm in the world of birds of prey, and the brother and sister came from a remote area and were financially strapped, so it was inevitable that they were being coveted.

There is not much the Army Aviation can do.

He knew that for an alpha, what he needed most was not help, but to stand out as quickly as possible.

So he lit a small lamp, borrowed some of his privileges as a committee member, found out Huo Yuan's transcripts for each subject, and analyzed them carefully.

The next morning, he put the training schedule he had worked on all night on the table on the lower bunk, next to the application details for the school scholarship that Huo Yuan had hidden. He said lightly to the tightly drawn curtain:

"Do well in the competition this semester and win a prize, or I will sleep on the lower bunk."

The lower bunk bed curtain was pulled open with a swish, and Huo Yuan's feathers stood on end: "You don't have to give in to me."

Lu Hang didn't say anything. Huo Yuan was stunned for a moment, and when he saw his red eyes, his chest skipped a beat. He pulled the curtain shut again in a panic. After a while, a voice came from inside:

"……Thanks."

The sound is muffled.

He was stubborn, but he finally let the feathers down.

Lu Hang suddenly wanted to reach his hand through the curtain and rub him to see if the hot feathers were really collapsed.

However, at this moment, the roommate on the opposite bed woke up, sat up and said earnestly:

"Wow, you brothers have such a good relationship and help each other with study. Can you teach me too, brothers?"

Lu Hang retracted his hand.

Huo Yuan pulled open the curtain, his brows knitted so tightly that they could kill a bee, "Who is his brother?"

Roommate: "You guys are sleeping in the same bed, aren't you good brothers?"

Huo Yuan: "These are upper and lower bunk beds."

The roommate was unmoved: "I don't care, it's the same bed if you round it up. If you shake it, Brother Lu will shake it too. Little brother, sit at the head of the bed~ Brother, go to the shore--"

The roommate tried to show off his singing skills, but unfortunately was choked by Huo Yuan.

“Save me, Brother Lu, save me, wuwuwu, ah, ah, it hurts, I’m going to die!” The roommate looked like he was about to cry.

Lu Hang was watching the fun and was not afraid of trouble. He stood outside the court and gave instructions: "Just like that, use your knee to press down on his thigh to prevent him from shooting out his tentacles."

In this way, the first and fifteenth place in the Command Department jointly subdued the second place in the Marine Department next door on the small bed board of one meter and two meters wide in the dormitory.

"I'm going to go AA with you two dogs!" With tears in his eyes, the roommate vowed to avenge the shame of the "seafood incident".

Dog AA turned a deaf ear and went downstairs to buy buns.

I bought a jellyfish tofu bun, a bamboo shoot and bamboo rat bun, and also brought one for my roommate. The two alphas sat by the flower bed outside the cafeteria, eating buns in silence.

Without a roommate to act as a mediator, the two of them were left speechless.

The frequency doesn't match up a bit.

Lu Hang made small talk: "How is the confinement environment? Are there any cockroaches? If there are, go back and bring the insecticide I bought."

Huo Yuan looked at him strangely: "You still have insecticide?"

"What's wrong?" Lu Hang took a bite of the jellyfish bun. Hmm, what a joke.

"Nothing." Huo Yuan finished his bamboo rat bun in two bites, crumpled the plastic bag into a ball, and threw it into the trash can ten meters away.

He said casually, "I thought you liked bugs. Last time I saw you squatting in the flower bed in the middle of the night, catching mosquitoes for spiders. I thought to myself, this person is really interesting and kind."

"Love?" Lu Hang smiled. "This is the first time someone has commented on me like this."

The two stood up and walked back. They didn't have classes in the first two periods of the morning, so on their way back they happened to encounter a huge crowd of students going to classes. When the crowd saw them, they automatically parted ways. The two of them walked against the tide openly, letting the eight o'clock sun burn the back of their heads.

"yes."

Huo Yuan thought about the white-fronted stilt spider that often appeared in their dormitory, "Size is a matter of life."

Perhaps it was because his tone was too firm, Lu Hang couldn't help but reflect seriously on whether he really had such kindness.

But unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have that kind of volatility. He caught mosquitoes for the spider to eat simply because pets were not allowed in the dormitory and he wanted to find something to do to relieve his boredom.

But Huo Yuan said that he liked insects.

Do I really like it?

Should I like it?

For the first time in his life, he discovered something he didn't understand from someone else's words. Lu Hang, who thought he knew himself well, began to quietly deviate from the track and observe himself.

·

Lu Hang pulled himself away from his memories, but not completely.

He looked at the opposite wall of the electric shock room. At the angle between the frosted glass and the ceiling, a black patterned spider with a thin waist and long legs was running cautiously.

There are many types of spiders, and different planets have different subspecies, but Lu Hang still recognized it at a distance of three meters. It was a white-fronted stilt spider.

Still only males.

The V-shaped pattern on the back clearly shows its gender.

This spider is very timid. It does not weave webs. It likes to hide on human roofs and windows, and then quietly comes out at night to look for food.

It generally likes to eat mosquitoes and cockroaches. If you see this kind of spider in the house, it means that there are already a large number of cockroaches here.

But the facility is actually very clean.

At least that's what the Army Aviation saw.

Unless, in a place that Lu Hang couldn't see, something was rotting in large quantities and breeding cockroaches, which attracted spiders that eat cockroaches.

At this time, a cold and ruthless voice rang out in the electric shock room:

"Number 8, do you think life here is bad?"

"No..." A weak voice came from the loudspeaker, intermittent, like the last gasps of an emphysema patient before death.

"Are you satisfied with life here?" The captain had no intention of stopping asking questions.

"satisfy."

This answer was given almost without thinking. I guess it was because I had trained countless times before, and a conditioned reflex had been formed between the brain nerves and the throat and tongue.

"Then you don't have to go out," said the captain.

As soon as he finished speaking, an uncontrollable sob burst out of his hoarse throat, which should have been followed by a desperate wailing, but the line had been cut off and they would hear nothing.

No negative feedback will be heard.

The nerves on Lu Hang's forehead spasmed.

The captain stretched and stood up, raising his thick eyebrows at his colleague, as if the fifteen electric shocks he had just pressed had nothing to do with him.

Like a friendly and generous elder brother, he patted everyone on the shoulder one by one and said, "Let's go, we have an event tonight. If you agreed to go drinking, then leave work ten minutes early and have fun."

After sitting for an entire afternoon, everyone's shoulders and necks felt a little sore. They kneaded their flesh and joked with each other as they filed out.

After going out, Lu Hang said that he had left something behind and had to go back.

The captain didn't think much about it and said "OK".

When we returned to the electric shock room, the ceiling lights had been turned off and it was pitch black around us. But this level of darkness does not cause visual difficulties for Luhang, a marine creature.

Before coming in, he took five seconds to find the electrical box and accurately turned off the surveillance. Now, he had about twenty seconds to exploit.

Lu Hang quickly went to station 8, picked up the intercom, tried to lower his voice and said in a gentle tone:

"Hello... I don't know who you are, but please believe that I am the only one here who has no ill will towards you... I know you are in a painful situation now, but please insist on living..."

Live, and then, and then, what about hope?

We must give No. 8 hope!

He said quickly, "Wait until Commander Bai and the others arrive, and someone from Yexing will come to rescue you... If you hear me, please reply, even if it's just a cough, and I will find a way to help you."

Twelve seconds left.

Twelve, eleven, ten...

Time passed by minute by minute, and there was no sound from the other side.

Lu Hang suddenly thought, maybe No. 8 had been taken away when the electric shock ended just now, and now there is only an empty room opposite, no way...

Ten, nine, eight...

No, he couldn't wait any longer. If he waited too long, the captain would become suspicious. Also, he wouldn't want to falsify the information later if the surveillance was interrupted for too long.

Otherwise, let’s go first?

Seven... "cough"

The speaker suddenly vibrated slightly, and Lu Hang retracted his foot in an instant. He almost fell to the intercom, his voice a little breathless, "Hello?"

The other side seemed to feel a little bit of the long-lost equality from this respectful title, and slowly recovered. Number 8 was full of fatigue, and asked cautiously and riskily with a trembling voice:

"Who are you...and why are you helping me?"

“…”

"Do you know me?"

"I don't know him." Lu Hang did not lie to him.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the other person’s breathing suddenly stopped and he started to become nervous for no reason.

Lu Hang immediately thought that maybe this group of people had disguised themselves as "good guys" before and did similar things through the intercom. Let No. 8 think that someone is coming to save him, and then finally break all his fantasies and make fun of him.

Lu Hang had to give a sincere, heartfelt reason to gain the other party's trust.

On the dark platform, a timid spider quietly crawled down from the ceiling, using its long arms and legs to try to eat a buzzing mosquito that was attracted by the heat from the intercom.

Lu Hang: "No matter how big or small, your life is a life. I don't want to see you die in front of me."

The simplest and most direct answer goes straight to a person's conscience.

"Understood...I will cooperate."

After hearing this, Lu Hang breathed a sigh of relief and closed the line.

He was about to turn around and leave when suddenly the overhead light flashed, and the cold light soaked him from head to toe. His back was instantly soaked with sweat, but his 98% mental stability rate forced him to calm his heart rate.

The captain stood at the door, his finger on the switch, looking at him suspiciously:

"Xiao Lu, what did you come back for? Can you find it without turning on the light?"

Lu Hang turned sideways and smiled sheepishly, "Actually, I'm catching this."

The captain watched him put his hand into his pocket and pull it out in a loose fist.

Lu Hang loosened his fingers slightly, and a spider stretched out its slender legs and stepped out from between his fingers.

The captain was surprised and amused and asked, "Why are you catching this thing?"

"That's too boring. I can catch it and put it in a jar and keep it as a pet." Lu Hang answered seriously, "It won't come out when you turn on the light. You can only catch it when you don't turn on the light."

For the captain, raising spiders is not a big quirk. All the spiders he has seen here are much weirder than Lu Hang.

"Can I raise it, Captain?" Lu Hang asked tentatively.

That careful yet polite tone subtly pleased the captain. He pretended to be tolerant and said:

"It's nothing. Take it back and play with it. But when you come with us later, you'll know what's so fun about a broken spider..."

Lu Hang followed them, and along the way, the decoration styles everywhere were changing.

If the area where they work daily is a common office style, then the current place is like a hospital. The walls and tiles from head to toe are white, so white that it almost gives people snow blindness.

The further you go inside, the more emphasis seems to be placed on neatness, cleanliness, and perfection.

It's like walking in heaven.

Until a door opened and Lu Hang stepped in, the heat that hit him in the face made him sweat. He looked over and saw that the decoration here was another color, red everywhere.

It was as if they had turned into people from Lilliput, crawling from the hospital bed into the stoma in the patient's abdomen and into the gastric tract in an instant. The smell of various foods is everywhere, mixed with the smell of fermented wine, which continues to decay with time and rising temperatures.

Hai Luo was pleasantly surprised to find: "Wow, there are a lot of delicious food left today, including lobsters and a box of wine."

The captain checked the year of the wine with a sophisticated look: "Well, it's from 2386, and each bottle is worth more than 100,000 star coins. We are in for a treat tonight!"

Lu Hang stood at the door and looked inside. There was a huge table, so long that the end was almost invisible. It was covered with all kinds of extravagant food, the kind of luxury he had never seen even in the state banquet reports on the News Broadcast.

There was too much food and it was so rich that it was piled up so full that it looked like something a giant had passed by and vomited up.

Lu Hang reacted.

This is the leftovers from the upper class nobility's meal.

After they have enjoyed themselves, these little nobles will clean up and enjoy themselves smugly.

He could even foresee that after this group of people finished eating, the remaining scraps would be given to the imprisoned people and fed to the "beasts".

For a moment he felt his stomach twisting and uncomfortable, as if he saw the phantom of a vast country far away through this room and this dining table.

He did not see any of the upper class nobles, nor did he see what they did, but he felt physically suffocated, oppressed, and uncomfortable.

authority.

It is invisible, yet it can do whatever it wants.

Lu Hang thought that this place was a microcosm of the old aristocratic system of the empire.

The upper males make the rules, the middle males enforce the rules, and the lower males obey the rules.

The omegas who were being used painfully were locked behind frosted glass and turned a blind eye.

·

"Put them in front, where I can see them. Yes, a little further forward."

After the order was issued, the officials in charge of taking photos and recording hurriedly complied and brought all fifty children to the front to show to the leader.

The Minister of Embryology and Fertility bowed beside him and said, "Your Majesty, is this position okay?"

"Okay," Yu Chen glanced at it, took the document handed over by the Minister of Transport and signed his name, "Let the females stand in front, so that it is easier to find them. They will all be important breeders in the future, and none of them can be lost during transportation."

"clear!"

"Give them new bracelets." Yu Chen instructed.

The Minister of Fertility quickly replied: "They have all been replaced. They are the latest models. If attacked, they will automatically record and shock the person."

Yu Chen took the cane beside him and stood up. The ministers lowered their heads and followed him in small steps:

"Has the milk been distributed? They came from the front line, and Commander Bai should have distributed food to them along the way. Don't slack off when they come to me."

"We are distributing them now. Their parents have gone to pick them up. I am sure these cubs will be able to follow their parents to the resettlement site with full stomachs."

To outsiders who don't know the truth, this seems to be just a transfer point in the rear, where a small group of responsible persons are checking the execution of the mission.

However, no one knew that this was actually the visit of the late Emperor of the Empire himself. The mermaid couldn't sit still behind the computer, worried that if too many things happened, there would be chaos, so she simply took the leadership team to the scene to check it out.

The Minister of Fertility thought to himself, in a way, His Majesty and Commander Bai are really a good match.

Although the two were in a political marriage.

But the monarch was stationed in the rear personally, and Commander Bai was also personally flying a reconnaissance plane to investigate the enemy at the front line.

Somehow, they seemed to be in sync.

However, the only drawback may be that we cannot see the monarch's true face - although the monarch comes out for activities, he wears a tight mask and a hooded helmet, with not even a strand of hair exposed, so we have no way of knowing the monarch's appearance, smell, pheromones and other information.

They were standing at the edge of the crowd. A group of children took photos and confirmed the information before walking over. Another group of children was called over.

A little girl ran too fast and bumped into him.

"Be careful!" The Minister of Fertility hurried to stop her, and when he saw that the little girl was about to bump into the monarch, he muttered to himself, "Oh no!" The monarch's health has not been good. If he is injured, they will have to die to atone for their sins.

However, the monarch reacted faster than they thought. He turned around and gently supported the child with his palm.

"How come you run so fast?"

The little girl looked up and was almost startled. The uncle wearing the mask was tall and big, but his voice sounded unexpectedly gentle, like the lines from a story they had heard in school.

“I, I…”

The monarch asked, "Can't you find the parents?"

The little girl lowered her head: "Well...I guess so..."

In fact, he ran away because he was angry with his mother.

The Minister of Fertility said at the right time: "Don't worry, I will ask someone to send the child to his parents."

"No hurry." The hand wearing a black calfskin glove waved, and the minister immediately fell silent.

The monarch turned to face the child, leaned down, and asked in a negotiating manner: "Let me take you to find your parents, okay? But there are too many people here, it's not convenient to lead you, I need to hold you in my arms, can I hold you in my arms?"

He also treated the children seriously and asked them questions without any contempt.

"Sure...thank you uncle!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the little girl was picked up. She sat in the arms of the big masked man and suddenly became very tall, taller than the crowd - so this is what the view from above is like. She looked around in amazement over the heads of the adults.

The child's mother was nearby. She saw the girl at a glance and hurriedly squeezed through the crowd to run over.

The little girl was put on the ground, still a little angry and didn't want to pay attention to her mother.

Her mother thanked him gratefully: "Thank you, sir, for sending her here. This child was angry with me..."

The little girl said angrily: "Mom! But today is my birthday. How can you give all the money to Dad and not buy me a birthday present?"

The mother held the child's hand in embarrassment: "No...Mom can't help it..."

At this time, Yu Chen suddenly asked: "What kind of birthday gift does the child want?"

My mother quickly said, "Sir, that's not necessary."

Yu Chen smiled and said, "I have a child at home too, and he gets angry sometimes, so I have to do what I promised him."

He lowered his voice and asked the child softly, "Child, tell me your birthday wish. Maybe I can help you realize it."

The Minister of Fertility thought to himself, you and your daughter have really run into each other, the person in front of you is the empire's wish-fulfilling machine. Come on, make a wish to the devil...oh no, the monarch.

The little girl frowned and thought about it carefully like a little adult. Finally, she said:

"My wish is to differentiate into an alpha!"

Yu Chen raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why?"

The little girl said innocently: "Because being an alpha is the best. My mom listens to me, and I have to listen to her too. My mom also has to lay eggs every day, and many of my brothers and sisters have been sold by my dad."

"I don't want to be a mother. I have to lay eggs when I grow up! Humph."

Minister of Fertility: “…”

The mother's face suddenly became very embarrassed. She held the child and kept bowing her head to apologize: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sir, don't listen to this child's nonsense."

He then pulled the child and dragged her away, "Hurry up, Dad must be waiting for us over there."

After they left, the Minister of Fertility suddenly felt the temperature around him drop by ten degrees. It was obvious that the monarch was not in a good mood.

The monarch said: "The demise of a country can be reflected in many aspects, one of which is that no one wants to be a child-bearer."

Whether it is birds or fish, the nature of living things is to seek benefits and avoid harm. Because she lives in that kind of family and environment, and knows that being a mother has no benefits, she prays to differentiate into an alpha.

The monarch looked over. He was tall and straight, and his posture was a bit condescending. "You see, the descendants of our country don't want to be omegas by nature."

This is a very serious problem.

If we still can’t see it now, then those in power must be playing dumb.

The Minister of Fertility is responsible for formulating and implementing the Homecoming Plan. No one knows better than him how much a child's growing environment will affect the development of society in the next 30 years.

Children are very smart. They can distinguish between good and bad and understand family relationships. A child who grows up in an abnormal family will not be happy. When they grow up, they have little desire to have children, which will directly affect the economy of the empire.

A prosperous, powerful and territorially vast interstellar power must be supported by a stable population base.

The monarch's ideas may seem radical, but they actually concern the future destiny of the entire country.

Minister of Fertility: "I just heard from that kid that his father sold his 'brothers and sisters'. That alpha must be trading his wife's eggs in private."

Monarch: "Old rules, get rid of it. Anyone involved, especially the buyer, will be shot and disposed of harmlessly."

In the old empire, buying and selling female eggs was a felony comparable to murder.

And buying and selling are equally guilty.

The Minister of Fertility immediately ordered his officials to do it.

They didn't pity a little girl who was about to lose her biological father because the child was about to be raised by her mother alone.

The omega who lost her husband will receive a sufficient amount of child support every month, and the state will also send the child to school for free.

She will have a great time and enough money to buy birthday presents.

Maybe in a few years, she will change her mind, and after serious consideration at a wish-sharing meeting, she will say that maybe it would be nice to be an omega like Commander Bai.

·

Lu Hang was taught to be an excellent alpha since he was young.

It’s just that this “excellence” is the standard spoken by relatives, friends and family. The best example of this gold standard is none other than his father.

As a child from a middle-class family, Lu Hang's life trajectory can be described as smooth sailing.

He has money and free time, his parents are still alive, he has a stable job in the military, and he will inherit a large inheritance in the future.

There is absolutely no need for him to be a double or even triple agent.

There is no need to risk your life for Ye Xing.

He should have lived like his father - familiar with the ways of the world, with good abilities and emotional intelligence. He must have three or four lovers, and omegas competing for him. In the end, he marries a good wife who is of equal status to him. It would be best if she is a general in the military and has financial and career value. After she comes back, she cooks for him and provides household services.

Everything is perfect and selfish.

From then on, he became the object of envy and praise of all males in society and some spiritual males.

Labelled as a success.

or.

It's just a life controlled by others and the male system.

Lu Hang once thought about that question: Does he really like spiders?

Deep down, a small voice told him, yes, you do, you have loved staring at spiders in the bushes covered with "gauze webs" since you were a child.

But raising spiders is undoubtedly a rebellious thing, and a normal family would never allow it.

Not to mention that his mother would be scared, his father would definitely say:

"It's a low-class thing. Who would do this to a decent person?"

Just as his father described him and Huo Yuan.

"A decent person wouldn't get involved in dirty stuff with an alpha!"

When Lu Hang retorted that the Empire actually allowed alphas to become partners, his father unceremoniously mocked his son's naivety:

"Indeed, alphas can be together, and even have children with assisted reproduction. But you have to know that existence is not necessarily reasonable - just like there are thieves everywhere on the street, is that right? AA relationships are legal, which only means that the authorities can't control them, so they give this group of people a reason to live shamelessly. A good alpha will not engage in such low-class things as AA relationships."

His father looked down upon him and said in a serious tone: "If he did it, it means he doesn't care about his family at all! Your social circle will not accept you, you will be excluded and become a loser!"

The scary thing is that Lu Hang at that time subconsciously thought that what his father said made sense.

It was as if there was a detailed table above his head, telling him what was right, what was wrong, what was good, and what was bad.

He should be proud of having such a family and parents, because he has learned the rules of this world early on and he lives more smoothly in the world than his peers. While others are still stumbling and bumping into invisible rules and getting hurt, he has already walked among them skillfully.

His parents' education made it easier for him to adapt to the environment.

That's good and there's nothing wrong with it.

What was wrong was that he fell in love with an alpha, from whom he had a different background and completely opposite values.

If two people of completely different identities and classes want to live together, they must have something in common.

At that time, he could not find any commonality with Huo Yuan.

By the time they graduate, they have even less in common. Not going to the cafeteria, not buying breakfast, and having nothing in common. It’s like many good friends in college who gradually lose contact after entering society.

His separation from Huo Yuan seemed destined.

Alpha and alpha are two parallel lines that do not intersect. Once they are missed, they will never meet again.

In the single dormitory, Lu Hang was looking at the parallel skirtings along the wall. A spider was moving slowly on one of the lines.

When he thought the spider was going to continue crawling like this, it suddenly turned in another direction and crawled towards another line.

And the calves walked very fast.

Lu Hang suddenly sat up.

He looked up at the ventilation duct, but there was no sound of wind, which meant that the ventilation system was not started. He quickly got up, found a chair, climbed up, removed the fence, and felt inside. His hands were covered in dust.

Haven't used it for a long time.

Lu Hang looked at the spider again, and suddenly he had a bold idea - use the spider to draw a map and figure out how to get out of here.

His work manual did not provide an escape route, and when he went out he had to stay under surveillance and walk side by side with his colleagues, which almost blocked his way to finding an escape door.

But if it's a tiny spider, chances are no one will care.

All he needed was to install a small electronic component on the spider's back that could send signals.

This thing is easy to get, he can remove it from the spare terminal.

However, it is easier said than done, but there are many difficulties in actual operation. The terminal was a highly integrated component board with several parts firmly glued together. It took him at least three hours just to determine the positions of the components.

While staying up all night to dismantle the boards, Lu Hang couldn't help but think.

If Huo Yuan were to do it, it would probably be much easier.

He was the one who taught Huo Yuan his shooting skills, but it was Huo Yuan who took his electronic engineering class.

Once, their roommate also exclaimed, "Yuanzi's skills are really good!"

Huo Yuan explained that there was a huge electronic waste dump next to his house, and people from all over the planet dumped piles of garbage there every week.

The kids there would pick out terminals from the garbage dump from a young age, repair them and then sell them second-hand.

He can also build his own system and is familiar with programming.

But he, an excellent hacker, uses the most broken optical computer.

Later, Huo Yuan saved up some money, but still didn't upgrade his equipment. He calculated carefully: "Our graduation trip will cost a lot of money, so let's save the money on the new optical computer. And you, you'd better become more proficient in disassembling and assembling precision machinery for me, because if the locator or something breaks down on the way, we don't have the budget to buy a new one."

Huo Yuan asked him to make all preparations for the trip.

Lu Hang learned some tricks from him.

Reinstalling the locator and using an ordinary terminal as a receiver was one of the things Huo Yuan taught him.

"Almost done..." Finally done, Lu Hang put the spider on the ventilation duct.

Man proposes, spider disposes.

Before leaving, Lu Hang caught a dozen mosquitoes for it to eat. I hope this guy can be sensible and give him a complete map the next day.

The next morning, he woke up in a daze and picked up the terminal to take a look.

He blinked and looked closer.

Curses broke out.

On the interface, his Spider-Agent walked in a straight line, turned a corner, and got stuck there.

It didn't move all night long!

Lu Hang suspected that someone turned on the air conditioner late at night and froze it to death.

He sighed and lay back down, but after turning over and thinking about it, he still felt unsafe. What if someone is cleaning the vents and finds a transmitter on a dead spider?

Better to recycle it.

Lu Hang looked at the time. It was 6:30 in the morning, still early for work. He walked out quietly, walked to the end of the straight corridor, which took about ten minutes, and then turned a corner.

It's like he's never been here.

The door opens with a push.

Inside is... tall shelves extending all the way to the ceiling. It's actually a library?

The door was unlocked, which meant he was allowed in. But strangely, no one had ever told him that there was a library here.

He thought that such a secret place for the amusement of the upper class would not be such a... leisurely and pleasant place.

Lu Hang felt something was wrong and casually flipped through the books on the shelf. Soon, he found the crux of the problem - all the books here were about the old empire, and he had never heard of 70% of the titles. They might be some information that had been banned long ago when the dynasty changed.

Among the more than 20,000 books in this room, half are related to Isupareso.

Obviously, the owner of this library cares very much about the old emperor.

"If you're interested, you can take it back and have a look... I'm happy to lend it to you, as long as you remember to return it on time."

An automatic wheelchair slid out from behind the rack. The person sitting on it looked haggard and paralyzed on one side. He was the most common type of old man in nursing homes who was difficult to care for.

He speaks in a halting manner and lacks energy.

It looks like the end of his life has come, but he has lived ten years beyond his age.

Judging from the age spots on the man's face, Lu Hang believed that he was at least eighty or ninety years old. But the old man pulled up his skin and smiled, as if he guessed what he was thinking:

"Don't think about it... I've lived much longer than you guessed."

Lu Hang: "You are..."

"I am an immortal." He smiled.

The old man doesn't seem afraid to introduce himself. He was amused by this young alpha who had intruded without permission, and he steered his electric wheelchair to the bookshelf he read most often, picked out a book himself, and wanted to hand it to Lu Hang.

Lu Hang took it and flipped through it. "History of the Empire's Immortal Species..."

The preface reads: As everyone knows, the highest-ranking immortal species in the Waterfowl Empire is none other than the rotten mermaids. Unfortunately, in the 20s of the 23rd century, the rotten mermaids had almost died out. By the middle of this century, there was only one mermaid left in the world...

After reading this, the old man glanced at him and sneered: "Everything else in this book is good, except that the preface is not rigorous enough."

Lu Hang closed the book and asked, "Are there any mistakes or omissions?"

The old man stared at his young face, his cloudy eyes slowly revealing a cunning light: "In fact, there is more than one mermaid left in the world. To be exact, there should be one and a half."

He never stops talking until he is shocked:

“I am that half.”

Lu Hang was slightly choked, unable to digest this information, and only subconsciously asked:

"And the other half?"

The old man used his withered hands to lift up the cloth covering his chest, revealing a huge scar on his chest, and said slowly in a tone as if he was sinking into a muddy river:

"I only have half of my heart left, young man. The other half...was eaten by Isuparaiso a long time ago."

But that vicious little fish would never have thought that he was still half alive.