Chapter 171 Earth's Leisure Time "So cute!" Sang...
"So cute!" Sang Lezhi hugged and kissed her little sister repeatedly.
"It's so wonderful to see Tao Tao as a child. She's truly my sister!" Sang Leping watched from the side, still holding her lover's hand tightly, her face full of nostalgia.
“Tao Tao looks more like Mom than I do.” Sang Lezhi let go of her younger sister, looked at Sang Zhitao’s face, and soon tears fell down her cheeks.
“It’s a pity… I don’t remember what my mother looks like.” Sang Zhitao’s eyes flashed with sadness.
Although she already knew her non-human identity, the more than twenty years she grew up as a human were the most important twenty years in her development of values and cognition, and they cannot be easily erased.
"Alright, you were just a little kid back then. Stop crying, you're making our two little beauties look ugly." Sang Leping sighed silently, feeling Zhang Su's gentle comfort on his hand. He looked up at her before walking over to his sisters and teasing them with a smile.
Both of them understood that he was trying to comfort them, so they wiped away their tears and stopped dwelling on the topic.
"Speaking of which, according to what you and Team Leader Sheng An discussed before, you should have returned to your original state. What's going on now?" Sang Lezhi took a few deep breaths to suppress the complex emotions in her heart before asking curiously.
Sang Zhitao quickly recounted her experiences in the game world, along with her own speculations.
"Really?" Sang Lezhi and the others looked at each other in disbelief. "So your previous guess was right, she's after you."
“Our mother gave birth to one child. I was guarding the door when I saw it. I never heard of twins. How could someone like you appear?” Sang Leping couldn’t help but scratch his head.
Sang Lezhi couldn't help but roll her eyes at her: "How could such an evil source of pollution be born from a mother!"
Zhang Su couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder.
Sang Leping touched his nose: "It's just subconscious."
"Although we are not siblings, I can feel from my limited memories that we were very close, and that we should be each other's other half."
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that she wants me dead, so I can only let her die."
"Perhaps it's not so pessimistic; things might change in the future." Seeing the sadness in her younger sister's eyes, Sang Lezhi couldn't help but hug her and gently comfort her.
"Oh right, I haven't asked yet, why are both my brother and sister here today?" Sang Zhitao nestled in her sister's arms and asked curiously.
Sang Lezhi blushed and was too embarrassed to speak.
Instead, Sang Leping couldn't help but laugh and explain, "Your brother-in-law passed the political review and was transferred to work at the base. Now you and your sister don't have to be separated by thousands of miles anymore, so I came over to invite the two of them to dinner. I didn't expect you to come back by chance."
"That's great!" Sang Zhitao quickly sat up from Sang Lezhi's lap and happily took her hand. "That's wonderful!"
Sang Lezhi blushed, her face beaming with uncontrollable happiness: "Okay, let's eat together in the cafeteria later."
"Huh? Aren't you going back?" Sang Zhitao asked, somewhat surprised.
“Your sister-in-law, your sister, your brother-in-law, and you are all from the base. Of course, it’s more convenient for me to stay at the base. Going home is too much trouble,” Sang Leping explained, holding his lover’s hand.
Hearing this, Sang Zhitao didn't say anything more and nodded in agreement.
With more and more worlds being connected, the base is getting busier and busier. This time when Sang Zhitao came back, many people didn't come to see her; they just made a phone call or sent a message.
Sang Zhitao didn't mind, after all, she wasn't a child anymore and didn't need everyone to always revolve around her.
As for the things in the game world, there are cameras that can record them, and then they can be handed over to the respective groups for research.
After a brief chat about the other world and confirming that they wouldn't be traveling there anytime soon, the family put everything else aside and happily talked about their experiences during this period.
It wasn't until dinner time that Liu Dayong finished his task, tidied up, and went to the canteen to meet with his wife's younger brother and sister-in-law.
When Chef Li from the cafeteria saw that Sang Zhitao was attending this family gathering, he used all his skills to create a delicious meal comparable to a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.
"Thanks to our Tao Tao, otherwise we wouldn't be able to eat such delicious food." Sang Leping took a bite of Lanling spicy chicken and couldn't help but sigh.
Chef Li chuckled and playfully scolded, "Tao Tao has only eaten a few meals from me. No matter how delicious the food I make for you bunch of brats, you don't even have time to taste it."
Chef Wang, who was carrying over a medicinal meal, couldn't help but chime in: "That's right, this dish tastes best when stir-fried. We are all Party members, and we can't be detached from the masses, only thinking about eating stir-fries and cooking for ourselves."
Before the young people could respond, he continued, "This is a medicinal diet specially made for Tao Tao to maintain her health. Try it. I know you don't like bitter tastes, so I specially made a sweet and sour soup."
Sang Zhitao clasped her hands together, making a cute and adorable gesture as she looked at Chef Wang and Chef Li: "Thank you, Master Chefs~"
The two men couldn't help but pat her head, and together they took out candy from their pockets and stuffed it into her hand: "Alright, we won't disturb your family reunion any longer, enjoy it."
After finishing their conversation, the two left the restaurant together without waiting for Sang Zhitao and the others to refuse, and went to the kitchen to pack up and leave.
Before leaving, he didn't forget to tell them, "After you finish eating, just clean up and put it on the sink."
This is a rule of the base: regardless of rank or status, if you are not eating during mealtimes, you must clean up your own tableware to prevent people from developing a spoiled and arrogant personality.
None of the members of Sang Zhitao's family were very old, nor were they spoiled to that extent, so they all nodded and waved goodbye to the chefs.
They enjoyed the meal and chatted until it was already past nine o'clock, so they quickly packed up their things.
The older sister and brother-in-law returned to their assigned dormitories at the base, Zhang Su went back to the villa with her brother, and Sang Zhitao obediently returned to her little observation room.
The room has been completely renovated into a lovely and delicate pink princess room. The varying shades of pink make the whole room both cute and cozy, without feeling gaudy at all.
Sang Zhitao lay on her comfortable bed, letting her mind drift off to sleep.
The next morning, Team Leader Sheng An brought the documents to Sang Zhitao's place.
“I read what you said yesterday. Now that it’s confirmed that I will really follow you to other worlds, you need to be careful from now on.”
"This is the data for the next world." With that, Team Leader Sheng An placed a folder in front of Sang Zhitao.
The information describes a peculiar world, a world where everyone can tell fortunes, and fortune-telling is paramount.
In this world, people's fortune-telling talent awakens on the day they turn eighteen and come of age. Some are so powerful that they can predict the fate of the world and even decide the future of a country, while others are so weak that they can only predict the trivial matters of their own lives.
From beggars to high-ranking officials, everyone idolizes fortune tellers.
However, in a world that believes in destiny, people naturally also believe in the existence of the Five Deficiencies and Three Shortcomings. Therefore, fortune tellers never get involved in politics, belonging to a group of people considered to be beyond worldly affairs, and thus are even more sought after.
Sang Zhitao's book was no longer about the stories of ordinary people climbing the social ladder. On the contrary, because the theory of bloodline was particularly popular at that time, although she disliked it very much, she still had to write this book to capitalize on the trend at the time.
A young lady from a prestigious family, a fortune teller with extraordinary talent, known as the Master of Heaven, who claims to be able to choose fate on behalf of Heaven and enforce the rules of Heaven, and is known as the spokesperson of Heaven and Earth.
Her family held almost all the duties of the imperial advisor throughout history, meaning that although they did not wield any real power, they held the fate of the world in their hands.
The story is simple: a privileged young woman is suddenly embroiled in a murder case and encounters a low-level police officer whose talent is so limited that he can only calculate the trivialities of future life for one minute.
Together, the two solved numerous cases and even captured an evil cultivator who wanted to overthrow the world.
Of course, such an outrageous plot, coupled with the love-struck romance of a princess marrying someone else, was enough to make this book sink to the bottom of the sea after it was finished, and it was only read by her friends besides herself.
"Okay, thank you, team leader. I will study it carefully." Sang Zhitao carefully put away the materials.
Team Leader Sheng An smiled and nodded: "We've calculated that this world should be triggered by successfully solving a case. There are only five cases in a book, which means you'll have five round trips."
Sang Zhitao pointed at the documents in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and said, "There should be ten cases. I like things to be perfect, so I probably cut five of them in half."
Team Leader Sheng An paused for a moment before hesitatingly saying, "However, we didn't find a single word about the other five cases in your files."
Sang Zhitao sighed and pointed to her brain: "It must be because I didn't write it down, but it's in my head."
"Do you still remember?"
Sang Zhitao shook her head: "It's taken too long."
Team Leader Sheng An scratched the back of his head awkwardly: "Then I'll have to trouble you..."
Sang Zhitao smiled optimistically and comforted him: "It's okay, I've already got God's perspective. Besides, it's not certain whether the next five cases will even happen."
Thinking back to the previous worlds, where Sang Zhitao had completed the plot of almost every world ahead of time, Sheng An couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "That's true, anyway, you know how the villains are captured, so we can just capture them ahead of time."
After a brief chat about the details of the fortune-telling world, Team Leader Sheng An took his leave, but didn't forget to continue reminding Sang Zhitao: "Take a close look at each case, especially the first one, and be careful."
After Sang Zhitao repeatedly agreed, she watched the other person leave, while she herself looked down and flipped through a thick book of documents.
She spent most of the day reading novels, watching movies, and eating snacks. In the afternoon, she even went to visit various laboratories. After dinner, Sang Zhitao went back to her room.
"Ding!" Sang Zhitao's special communicator rang.
Seeing the caller ID displayed as "brother," Sang Zhitao answered the phone without hesitation: "What's wrong, brother?"
"Tao Tao, do you have a friend named Ruo Yin?" Sang Leping seemed to be communicating with someone on the other end of the phone.
Sang Zhitao paused for a moment before saying, "Yes, speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've contacted her."
Sang Leping sighed helplessly: "Yes, your friend called the police."
As she spoke, Sang Zhitao heard her brother hand the phone to someone, and then a voice came from the other end: "Taozi!"
"Ruoyin!" The familiar voice made Sang Zhitao laugh and greet him loudly.
Then came the sound of footsteps, followed by a low voice asking, "Are you... really alright now? Was that person really your brother?"
Sang Zhitao gave a heavy "hmm," then awkwardly explained, "I found my family before, and I've been busy lately... so..."
"So you haven't contacted me for over a year?" Ruoyin couldn't help but complain. "Although we often go for long periods without contacting each other, it's been a year and a half for me, I thought you..."
Her voice choked as she spoke.
Sang Zhitao quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to. Something happened, so I changed my contact information, so..."
"Alright, since you're alright, I forgive you. When can we meet up?" Ruoyin knew her friend's personality all along; she was the type who would never greet someone unless absolutely necessary.
There was nothing she could do but accept it, after all, she, the headmistress, and her friends had spoiled her.
"The day after tomorrow, I'll contact you then. Please add my contact number," Sang Zhitao quickly said.
Because Earth has received a lot of extraterrestrial technology, we no longer use mobile phones, but instead use smart communicators that are locked for life, and the communication number on the communicator is also unique for life.
Ruoyin agreed before handing the phone back to Sang Leping.
After a brief discussion, Sang Leping and Ruoyin withdrew their police report and left.
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