Guan Yuxi obediently peeled it open and handed him four petals.
"Would you believe me if I said no one told me these things?"
Whether it was to avoid suspicion or because he was already in trouble, Secretary Song was caught in a dilemma.
She only saw Old Bai once, and he came out in less than ten minutes.
The old man slowly ate the orange and shook his head.
Guan Yuxi's information from birth to yesterday was all placed on his desk.
Judging from her past behavior, he didn't think she had that kind of insight.
As she herself said, she doesn't like reading or studying, so where did she learn these things from? And how could she tell him about them?
"Sigh, not only do you not believe it, but I don't believe it myself either."
Guan Yuxi tore at the orange peel in frustration, breaking it into small pieces and then crushing them into small cubes, filling the air with the aroma of oranges.
However, my hands felt sticky and uncomfortable.
Seeing some tissues on the cabinet, she tore off two more and carefully wiped her hands.
"I feel like I had a dream, a very long dream. In the dream, I went to the future... Despite the bustling traffic and towering buildings, the imperialists' desire to destroy our nation remains undiminished, and our sense of peace is still extremely fragile."
Those who are backward are directly suppressed by them, with artillery fire flying everywhere; as for us, we made them feel threatened, so they tried every means to instigate neighboring countries to oppose us, and never gave up their ambition to encroach on our territory.
The elder brother who once helped us but then tried to use us as pawns has now split into fifteen parts.
Our artificial satellites have been upgraded to the eighth generation, and our manned spacecraft have even been launched several times, successfully realizing the Chinese people's lunar landing plan..."
Guan Yuxi looked at him, her gaze seemingly fixed on the distant future.
The old man was captivated by the scene she described and couldn't help but ask, "What about those islands? Have they been taken back?"
Guan Yuxi's eyes dimmed, and she shook her head.
"The largest one hasn't made much progress because... its development lagged behind by ten years, leaving the son wealthy while the mother was poor. This mindset is deeply ingrained in some people's hearts; those unwilling to change were exploited by those with ulterior motives, and the problems left behind are still being worked out more than sixty years later..."
The initial attempts, which began in the 1950s, have continued for nearly a century without any progress.
"Who's in the way? Red and white invoices? We've been developing for seventy or eighty years and still haven't caught up with them? They're utterly useless!"
The old man lit a cigarette and threw the matchbox away with a snap.
An unparalleled aura was unleashed unintentionally.
With just a simple movement, Guan Yuxi felt as if she were facing a battlefield filled with gunfire.
Guan Yuxi smiled wryly, "We are developing, and others are developing too."
Besides, we started from scratch and went through many hardships. We were already late, how could we possibly catch up...?
Her words came to an abrupt halt under the old man's sharp gaze.
He looked at her reproachfully, as if she were a disappointing junior. "Our generation fought tooth and nail to get through it all, endured mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and after so many decades, we still can't catch up? Are we just going to fall behind forever?"
Guan Yuxi was under immense pressure, beads of cold sweat dripping down her face, but she dared not not answer: "Not really, what I see is that the gap is almost closed."
The old man looked pleased.
This is the spirit of their generation—daring to take risks and fight!
However, Guan Yuxi's next sentence shattered his dream.
"Biochemical toxins are rampant; nearly half of humanity on Earth has died, and the remaining half is struggling in agony, not far from destruction..."
If the whole world unites, we'll enter the apocalypse and be destroyed together.
Why bother with what's advanced or backward?
The old man's face immediately fell.
"Was this the work of the red and white invoices?"
Guan Yuxi: "...Well, I guess so."
She didn't dare tell the truth.
Anyway, there's always a scapegoat ready-made.
The old man took deep drags on his cigarette, his face flushed an unnatural red.
He paced back and forth in the room.
The echo of his footsteps was also very loud.
Guan Yuxi had run out of orange peels to pinch, so she could only twist the tissues bit by bit.
How do they view...?
The old man seemed to think for a moment before cautiously asking, "This period of time?"
His eyes were piercing and sharp, with an inescapable edge.
Guan Yuxi's face darkened slightly. She wanted to look away, but dared not. She only uttered three words softly, "Late spring chill."
How do you know?
Under his intense gaze, Guan Yuxi felt her very soul tremble.
She felt that soon, without the need for a time machine, her soul would be so frightened that it would travel back in time.
She looked at him blankly.
His mind grew increasingly muddled. "I don't understand. It was just a dream. In the dream, I was just a lowly policeman catching antique dealers..."
She couldn't say any more.
She feared that if she said something wrong, it would destroy this little world.
Finally, she fainted.
When she woke up again, she was already at home.
Leng Lie stood guard by her bedside, his stubble much darker than yesterday.
"Brother Lie."
As soon as she spoke, she realized her voice was terribly hoarse.
When Leng Lie saw that she was awake, he excitedly grabbed her hand and kissed it repeatedly, "Xi Xi, you're finally awake!"
"Do you know how scared you almost killed me?"
His eyes were red, and he looked like he was about to cry tears of joy.
Seeing that she was about to get up, he carefully helped her. "Do you want some water? Do you want something to eat? I'll go get you some porridge right away."
"No."
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