Chapter 104, The Beginning of the Plan
After the meeting, Xie Chengzhi did not become the head of the fourth team as in the original novel.
Before leaving the conference room, Gu Yunqing greeted the two of them just as he had when he arrived, but this time, his tone was much lighter: "It's rare for us to meet again. Do you want to have lunch together?"
"Thank you, Captain Gu, for your kindness. We have something else to do later." Luo Rui declined graciously. "I won't bother Captain Gu and Captain Su."
Gu Yunqing was always polite: "Oh, then I wish you good luck."
The last sentence sounded ironic no matter how you listened to it. Luo Rui pursed her lips, maintaining a surface of calm, and said goodbye to Gu Yunqing.
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"Grandpa, cousin." When most of the people had left, Jiang Ran looked at his relatives and former teammates. "Cousin said he wanted to try my cooking. I think today is worse than tomorrow. Let's do it today."
Who is in the mood to have dinner with you today? You shameless... Shen Lang's inner curses hadn't ended yet. Beside him, Shen Yang smiled with some anticipation: "Okay, okay, Ranran, what do you need? I'll go buy it with you~"
"No need." Behind Jiang Ran, Si Xu directly refused, "No need."
Shen Yang: "..." His gaze fell on Si Xu, "Professor Si is coming too?"
"He's going to the lab." Jiang Ran patted the back of Si Xu's hand, "He's not coming with us."
"Hey." The disappeared smile reappeared, and Shen Yang made no secret of his dislike for Si Xu. "Then what are we waiting for? Ranran, let's go buy some groceries?"
Si Xu: “…” Before leaving the meeting room, he added something in his notebook, crossing out Shen Yang’s name with a big cross.
…
He had wanted to wait until the meeting was over to have a good talk with Xie Chengzhi and Luo Rui about the next plan, but Jiang Ran and Shen Yang interrupted him, so Shen Lang had no choice but to take them back to the Shen family.
In the living room, Shen Yao was playing a puzzle with Shen Youyou. When she saw Shen Lang coming back, the girl looked up, then lowered her head and continued to play with the puzzle.
"Have you lost your basic manners after staying in the lab for so long?" Shen Lang didn't have much affection for this little granddaughter and couldn't accept the younger generation's indifferent attitude. He tapped his cane and sneered, "Shen Yao, say hello to the guests."
"They are your guests, not mine." Shen Yao lowered her head and replied, "I don't know them... Hey, Youyou, this piece should be placed here, look."
White fingers pushed the puzzle piece into the empty space: "This is the right way."
The little girl with twin ponytails held a puzzle piece, tilted her head and thought carefully before putting it there.
Being completely ignored, Shen Lang snorted heavily and took the two of them upstairs: "Let's go to the study."
"yes."
When they arrived at the study, Luo Rui spoke first and said bluntly: "Shen Shuai, Professor Si did this on purpose today."
"Heh, that bastard just can't stand seeing our Shen family doing well." Speaking of Si Xu, the old man was left with only gritted teeth and anger.
This was the first time Si Xu had embarrassed him in front of so many people. If he wasn't taught a lesson, he would only become more and more unscrupulous.
"Actually, this is a good thing." Xie Chengzhi said, "Captain Min He just died in battle. If we reorganize the fourth team now, it will indeed give people an excuse to criticize us."
“…”
"However, I think Si Xu's proposal is not unreasonable." Xie Chengzhi looked at the old man and said lightly, "General Shen, why doesn't the Shen family try to cultivate its own power?"
"Your own power?" Shen Lang sat on the sofa and motioned for the two to sit across from him. "It's not like the Shen family doesn't have its own power—in this chaotic world, who wouldn't consider their own family?"
The second brigade of the superpower team led by Shen Yang is composed entirely of people from the Shen family. There are also superpowers who have not joined the superpower team and are only affiliated with the Shen family.
"Except for Team 2, all the other teams at the base, including Chu Yuan, Gu Yunqing, Su Qin, and Wei Ya Ge, are from the lab. If they really had a conflict with Si Xu, relying solely on Team 2, they would be unable to compete with him."
"You're right." Shen Lang stroked his gray beard. "You mean we should expand our influence?"
"Or, clip Si Xu's wings and replace him with our people."
Si Xu said the fourth team was not needed, but what about the first team? What about the third team? If Chu Yuan died, and Gu Yunqing died, would there be no need for a new captain?
Definitely not.
"Si Xu is so confident right now, but that's simply because the Special Ability Team is mostly under his control," Luo Rui said. "In that case, all we need to do is eliminate his forces."
"You're new here, so you probably don't know that those people who came out of the lab are on the same page with Si Xu and won't betray him easily."
"If they won't betray us, just make them disappear." Luo Rui hinted, "I wonder if Commander Shen noticed that during today's meeting, Vice Captain Guo Zhehao's mission report..."
Shen Lang was also a shrewd person, so he had naturally noticed Guo Zhehao's report a long time ago: "What do you mean..."
Luo Rui said, "Judging from the performance of Deputy Captain Guo, the people under Si Xu aren't as invincible as outsiders think."
Guo Zhehao deliberately brought up Si Xu and Jiang Ran in the report, wasn't it just to make things difficult for them?
It can be seen that the people under Captain Chu Yuan are not as loyal to Si Xu as Chu Yuan.
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The second time he went to the Shen family, this time with Shen Yao and Shen Bai there, Jiang Ran was not worried about being plotted against by Shen Lang again.
The girl instructed Shen Yang to put the vegetables bought from the market in the kitchen. She squatted in the living room and played puzzles with Shen Yao and Shen Youyou for a while before going into the kitchen at Shen Yang's urging.
"Shen Yang, help me cut the potatoes and shred them... Wash the fish. Huh? Why does this fish look so ugly? Could it be a mutant? Oh, wash the fungus..."
"Little cousin." Shen Yang stopped chopping vegetables and looked at her. "I have six hands, do you believe it?"
"Cousin, although you don't have six hands, I believe that your two hands are definitely comparable to other people's six hands."
Shen Yang: "...Now that you've said that, how else can I answer?"
The man resigned himself to his fate and went to wash and cut vegetables, muttering from time to time, "This is the first time I've been in the kitchen since I was a child."
"It will only take a few more times. Practice makes perfect."
"Who said that? I might have blown up the kitchen."
"No." Jiang Ran said without turning around, "Si Xu has never been in the kitchen before, but now he is doing it very well, isn't he?"
"Si Xu..." Shen Yang muttered, and asked curiously, "Does that guy listen to you so much?"
"Yeah." Jiang Ran turned around and looked at Shen Yang with a faint smile, "Si Xu is much cuter than some people who smile but hide a knife behind their smile."
Knowing who she was talking about, Shen Yang pretended not to understand and said with emotion: "To be able to win over Professor Si, she is worthy of being my Ranran."
The two people in the kitchen were more like a confrontation than a conversation.
Shen Youyou stopped at the kitchen door. Although she couldn't understand what the two were talking about, she quietly retreated to the living room based on her instinct.
"What's wrong?" Chen Yao yawned as she collapsed on the sofa. "Aren't you going to watch Ranran cook?"
The little girl shook her head and sat back down next to Shen Bai.
The aura of the two people in the kitchen was too strange, so she, as an outsider, had better not go in.
(End of this chapter)
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