"Responsible? Compensation?"
Lu Taipan saw that the young man in front of him was suddenly stunned, his almond-shaped eyes wide open, looking a little dazed.
The head of the Lu family rubbed his fingertips unconsciously.
...want to poke the face.
"The three manors in the center of the Central Star Region and the No. 978 Resort Project Area in Zone 2 will all become your properties. In addition, you will have full control over the Quiet Garden inside the Snake Cave. At the same time, your internal authority will be adjusted to SS, the advanced mecha training ground will be fully open to you, and you will no longer be restricted by the confidentiality agreement. After that, you can directly enter and exit the Snake Cave, and you can also contact the outside world freely. If you want, you can let your sister Su Nuan and your family enter the Snake Cave..."
Lu Taipan spoke softly to Su Liang. He did not tell the other party that compared to the seemingly horrifying gift of property, the authority over the Snake Cave was the most coveted "wealth". It was an absolute right that was enough to drive outsiders completely crazy. At the same time, it was also a unique right of the second owner of the Snake Cave throughout the ages.
However, as his voice grew louder, Su Liang looked more and more stiff.
Lu Taipan's eyes darkened and he stopped talking at the right time.
Sure enough, the next second he heard the boy's extremely nervous response: "These compensations are too... too much."
Su Liang tried hard to maintain a natural appearance, but his voice was already a little dry.
"Many years ago, you provided me with shelter when I was in the most desperate situation, and this time... I calmed your mental power. I guess God asked me to repay your favor." Su Liang's smile was a little forced.
"I almost forcibly marked you, and twice." Lu Taipan said in a deep voice. The resistance shown by Su Liang made the man frown unconsciously. "This is far more than the help I gave you at that time."
"I'm just Beta."
Su Liang suddenly looked up and stared straight at Lu Taipan. He spoke every word very seriously.
It was as if the person in front of him didn't know his or her gender before.
As he spoke, Su Liang raised his hand and gently stroked the healed bite mark on the back of his neck.
He took a deep breath, and when he spoke again, his tone had become lighter: "We Betas are not like Omegas who will react to Alphas. No matter what, it is impossible for us to really mark them. Not to mention, you were in such a special situation at the time... In an emergency, artificial respiration also requires mouth-to-mouth. Strictly speaking, what happened before was a similar situation."
Su Liang said this, pulling up the corners of his mouth and revealing a faint smile: "It's just such a small thing, and you're giving me a house and giving me such high authority, it's too exaggerated."
The boy spoke briskly, but his words were full of wariness and distance.
Lu Taipan's eyes swept across Su Liang's pale face, and his eyes were a little dark.
After Su Liang finished speaking, the Lord of the Snake Cave seemed to be thinking about something and did not speak immediately.
The ward fell into silence.
Just when the atmosphere was becoming somewhat solemn, an artificial intelligence suddenly interrupted from the corner of the wall, unable to bear it any longer.
"Exaggerated? Where is it exaggerated? Do you know how much our medical officers earn in a year? That's what we call exaggerated? But all these troubles are just to stabilize the master's mental value to a state that is neither crazy nor insane. But you can not only stabilize his mental value, but also directly appease the frantic master! And every mecha he doesn't destroy is enough to buy several mountains in other star regions! Not to mention that the master has done so many things he shouldn't have done to you. According to the rules of our Snake Cave, anyone who has forced behavior on others must be exiled to an outer galaxy to sweep interstellar worm shit for twenty years. But someone is still sitting here, so he should convert his annual salary into equivalent compensation to you... Wait, it seems that you lost just now!"
"housekeeper--"
Lu Taipan took a deep breath.
"And Master Su Liang, don't always think that you are a Beta. In fact, your mental power this time can play such a strong soothing role, which usually means that you... sizzle..."
The butler, who had become particularly frivolous and talkative due to problems with the internal settings of the entertainment-type bionic man, was suddenly stuck in place after a puff of green smoke.
"housekeeper?"
Su Liang opened his eyes wide in astonishment.
Lu Taipan snapped his fingers, and several low-level cleaning robots immediately filed in, dragging their extremely heavy bionic bodies towards the door.
"Don't worry about it, it just shorted out."
Lu Taipan spoke to Su Liang in an unusually calm manner.
"Its program is too complex. It's easy to do this in the body of an entertainment-type android. You don't have to worry about it."
Su Liang was silent for a moment.
He felt that the housekeeper's short circuit was very abnormal, but he didn't dare to say it.
Without the housekeeper's interruption, the question of compensation was finally settled with Su Liang stammering and asking if it could be converted into a public welfare investment by the Snake Cave in District 48.
After receiving Lu Taipan's affirmative response, the young man was visibly relieved.
In fact, Lu Taipan did not take back the previous property transfer and authority enhancement to Su Liang. Of course, he did not intend to tell the other party this so quickly.
He left Su Liang's ward calmly as usual. When he pushed the door open, he saw the butler, who had changed into a new bionic body, leaning against the wall and looking at him quietly.
Even though it was a factory-set Volkswagen silicone face, for some reason, that face actually revealed a hint of resentment.
"That's my new body, you're too cruel!" The tone of the artificial intelligence was full of accusations, "I was creating opportunities for you and Master Su Liang! Master Su Liang is obviously worried about his Beta identity, but his mental power is so strong in comforting you, this kind of thing can only be done by a highly matched Omega! He is very likely to turn into an Omega during the development of his pheromone glands, he doesn't need to worry about so much. The medical department has already sent a message, and the results of his deep pheromone analysis will be out soon. You can actually point this out directly to reassure him——"
When Lu Taipan heard the butler calling the word "Omega" all the time, he couldn't help but frowned and his expression became a little colder.
He ignored the housekeeper's earnest advice and said abruptly, "Give me a report of all the information about Su Liang from childhood to adulthood."
The butler was stunned and expressed confusion: "Detailed information? But you didn't..."
"I want 'all' his information." Lu Taipan glanced at the butler coldly and repeated.
"OK."
This time the butler responded quickly.
When Lu Taipan returned to his office, he did get all the intelligence data about Su Liang from childhood to adulthood as he wished - his parents died when he was young, and he depended on his only relative, his sister, for life; his sister, who was differentiated into a high-level Omega, brought him into the Lu family and grew up under someone else's roof; he was coveted and harassed because of his beauty before differentiation, and was humiliated and bullied after being diagnosed with dysplasia of the information glands; his acquaintance and closeness with Lu Zhizhao, and the countless rumors and pressures that followed...
Most of this information has been briefly mentioned in previous intelligence. At that time, Lu Taipan just nonchalantly looked at the past that was not very happy for Beta, and there was no ripple in his heart.
But today, Lu Taipan looked very carefully.
Suddenly, his eyes paused on a report, which showed that Su Liang had encountered a minor harassment not long ago.
The Family Discipline Enforcement Department has its own set of criteria for judging violations within the family, ranging from extremely serious S standards, involving the leakage of family secrets, betrayal, murder, etc., to E standards, such as accidentally damaging flowers and plants in other people's courtyards.
This report was marked E.
It should have been a trivial matter not worthy of attention, but Lu Taipan somehow clicked on the report.
Then, Lu Taipan's pupils narrowed slightly.
The first thing that popped up was the evidence of fault of the party at fault, which was a video recording. As the chaotic scene appeared before his eyes, Lu Taipan heard several bursts of unbridled laughter.
The wild laughter came from the person filming the video and his companions beside him, while in the center of the screen were several tall Alphas with ferocious faces. They kept shouting and holding down the struggling boy on the ground.
The young man was Su Liang.
But unlike the Su Liang that Lu Taipan was familiar with, the Su Liang in the picture looked extremely pale, and his body and face were covered in blood.
The frantically struggling Beta was not as weak as he looked, and in order to control him, the Alphas resorted to violence.
This was a despicable act that the people of the Snake Cave absolutely despised, but the brutality of many people against one person apparently did not cause any psychological barriers to the group of Alphas. In the dim, dilapidated corner, the Alphas uttered impatient curses.
"Hold him down, damn it, I told you to hold him down!"
"Fuck, are Betas so tough these days? How come they're still so energetic—"
"Hahaha, you're so useless. It's just a soft little pussy that can't even be pressed!"
"Wait, stop hitting me. It's no fun if I faint!"
"He's not unconscious, he's alive! Forget it, forget it, how about giving him the medicine first?"
…
As he spoke, someone walked towards the boy who was pinned to the ground with a smile on his face, holding a syringe in his hand.
"You'd better let me go. This illegal Omega conversion agent is a strictly controlled illegal drug. You are forcing others to use it and directly violate the laws of the alliance."
At this point, Su Liang, who had been silent before, finally spoke.
Used in an extremely cold and disgusted tone.
Seeing that Su Liang finally spoke, the photographer and his companions became obviously more excited.
“Pfft… it’s against the law… hahahahahaha… it’s against the law…”
Some people started laughing.
"Finally you spoke up, little mute. Why do you still think that our Ning family is afraid of the alliance's laws? How funny..."
"Yes, this Omega conversion agent is indeed illegal, but the more so, shouldn't you be more grateful to us? Otherwise, where did you get this good stuff? You, a beta, follow Master Lu around every day, isn't it just to be an Omega? We have found you the drug with good intentions so that you can be an O properly, but why are you so ignorant and make such a bloody scene."
"Pfft, isn't it? Although after the injection you might become an idiot who can only spread his legs, but at least after becoming an Omega, your face won't be wasted, right?"
The person holding the syringe was already next to Su Liang.
As the needle approached, Su Liang gasped rapidly, and cold sweat trickled down from his forehead, mixing with the blood.
"You are a bunch of idiots, you will regret it."
The boy said coldly.
And his appearance once again caused the group of people to howl.
"Wow, look at this beta's attitude. He's quite arrogant! I'm telling you, you better thank us properly next time. If you don't become an omega, how can you have the nerve to stay by our Master Lu's side?"
"You don't even know you're about to die. Tsk, keep the rat shit in the rat hole, don't try to jump into the soup pot..."
"I'm so annoyed. So much nonsense. Hurry up and get the injection. I heard that Master Lu is already looking for him in school."
Someone said at this time.
The man holding the syringe in the picture showed a hint of nervousness when he heard the words "Young Master Lu".
"Fuck, I really don't know what kind of magic potion he was given. A Beta can make someone like this."
As he said that, Alpha raised his hand, twisted Su Liang's neck and was about to inject the medicine into his body.
“Crack—”
It was the sound of alloy breaking.
Although he knew that this was a video from the past, Lu Taipan still couldn't help but crush the armrest of the chair.
At the same time, in the video, Su Liang suddenly sneered.
He suddenly struggled to free one hand and threw a small metal device directly at the Alphas.
“Aaaaaaaaa——”
“It’s happening… It hurts… Ahhhh it hurts…”
"etc……"
At that moment, the picture suddenly shook, and the Alphas howled in pain after the metal device fell to the ground. Even the one who held on the longest did not last more than three seconds, and then they fell to the ground one after another, holding their heads and screaming.
The video screen was tilted, with weeds and gravel occupying most of the screen, apparently thrown aside by the person filming in pain.
"call……"
"call……"
Amid the endless wailing of the Alpha, Lu Taipan heard Su Liang's extremely rapid breathing, and it seemed that... there was also a hint of extremely fearful and nervous gasps that had been suppressed for a long time.
The Lord of the Snake Cave did not notice that his brows were tightly locked together at this moment.
Of course, the next moment, his expression became even worse.
Because soon, he heard footsteps and a somewhat familiar voice.
"Xiaoliang, are you okay?!"
That was the voice of a man named Lu Zhizhao.
Then came the voice of a weak and frightened boy.
"Brother Su Liang...Oh my God, what's going on..."
Lu Taipan narrowed his eyes.
This sound is...
Is it the Omega from the Ning family?
"It's so scary. What's wrong with these people? Are they crazy? Brother Su Liang, there's so much blood on your head. Are you injured?"
The boy screamed in fear.
"Aning, don't look at me. Come behind me," Lu Zhizhao said casually, "Xiaoliang, how are you..."
"I'm fine."
Su Liang's voice rang out, and the fragility and fear that Lu Taipan had heard before had completely disappeared.
He once again heard the boy's calm and gentle voice.
"I modified the psychotronic oscillator. It is particularly effective against Alpha at a certain distance. Just now, they wanted to inject me with illegal Omega conversion agents. I took the opportunity to activate that thing, and then these people couldn't bear it and fainted."
If you just listen to Su Liang's voice now, everyone would probably think that Su Liang only suffered some minor injuries, but he calmly modified a special small device and quickly dealt with the group of bastards who intended to attack him.
Only Lu Taipan, who had witnessed the whole process, knew that Su Liang had been trembling when he was suppressed by the group of Alphas.
"Omega Transformer? Are they crazy? That would kill people! Damn, these people..."
The footsteps were heavy, and Lu Taipan heard the muffled sound of being hit. It was Lu Zhizhao venting his rage.
"A Zhao, don't be like this, calm down, they all fainted!"
But soon, a gentle and soft Omega voice sounded, stopping Lu Zhizhao's violence.
"It's that damn rumor again!" Lu Zhizhao's voice was extremely angry. "One day I will kill all those who spread rumors outside!"
In response, Ning Jiayi seemed to be greatly frightened: "Brother Su Liang, I'm sorry. I have been explaining to everyone that Zhao and I are just ordinary friends, but they just keep... Regarding the Omega converter, I thought they were just joking. I really didn't expect them to do such a thing."
Ning Jiayi sounded like he was about to cry.
"Brother Su Liang, don't be angry..."
"Xiaoliang, are you really okay? Why don't you speak? Don't scare me!"
Su Liang was silent for a while, but when Lu Zhizhao was already getting anxious, the boy still spoke to comfort the frightened Alpha.
"I'm not angry, I just think that maybe Beta is really not suitable to hang out with Alpha."
It sounded like a joke.
However, there was still a slight tremor at the end of the words.
"You still say you're not angry!" Lu Zhizhao raised his voice, "I can swear to you that I will definitely take responsibility for this accident! I will never allow such a thing to happen again..."
"hateful!"
The picture disappeared with a crisp sound, as Lu Zhizhao stepped on the filming equipment and broke it.
…
Lu Taipan stared at the dark screen, and after a moment, he clicked on the report from the Family Discipline Execution Department.
The fact that this record has survived to this day can only mean one thing, that is, someone is not actually responsible for this matter as he said.
According to the records of the Executive Department, the people who did those things to Su Liang were all direct descendants of the Ning family, and what they used was indeed the Omega conversion agent circulated on the black market, but it was an extremely inferior version.
Once injected, it is likely to cause the person's body to completely collapse, turn into a vegetable, or die.
However, that group of people did not receive any serious punishment.
Two months of family service and one week of house arrest.
That's all.
Even though Su Liang was almost killed by the hot-headed troublemaker, it was just an insignificant matter to the Lu family.
How many times have similar things happened before?
The bullying and harm that happened in the dark and were not recorded.
Lu Taipan suddenly stood up from the desk.
A strong impulse urged him to rush directly to the ward.
If possible, he even wanted to hug the boy on the hospital bed.
It was as if he wanted to travel through time and space and appear directly in that dilapidated and deserted alley, and then tightly protect Su Liang, who was covered in blood and forced to smile, behind him.
But at this moment, a buzzing sound came from my waist.
Then, the butler's voice appeared in his headset.
"The medical department has received the in-depth test report of Master Su Liang."
Artificial intelligence seems particularly serious today.
"According to the report, Master Su Liang's information gland is almost mature."
It hesitated for a moment, and then finished the rest of the sentence.
"…But the instrument shows that Master Su Liang's final differentiation gender is still Beta."
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