Chapter 70 Beijing Ruins - 6 Anderson turned his head...
Anderson turned to look at Lu Yi. In the dim light, the orc boy slowly got up from his cot and walked to the window, where he pulled down a folding chair from the wall and sat down.
Anderson raised an eyebrow slightly and noticed a hint of hostility in Lu Yi's eyes. This immediately intrigued him, as Lu Yi had never looked at him with such eyes, even when they were fiercely fighting during his pursuit.
Anderson glanced thoughtfully at Tang Bufan, who was already asleep, and walked over to Lu Yi, sitting down opposite him across the small folding table.
He casually rested his elbow on the window and asked with a smile, "What do you think we talked about?"
Lu Yi remained calm and said gently, "I don't know. I only know that you two are hiding something from me."
Anderson looked into his eyes; the orc boy's gaze was straight, the look one gives when facing an opponent. Anderson smiled faintly, his eyes narrowing, and immediately understood.
“Oh, I see…” Anderson said maliciously, “You suspect both of us.”
Lu Yi frowned, but remained calm and denied it: "No, the teacher is not that kind of person."
"What kind of person?" Anderson deliberately provoked him. "How do you know he didn't try to please me? After all, he chased after me to knit me a sweater."
The knitting incident touched a nerve with Lu Yi. He pursed his lips and defended Tang Bufan, saying, "That was just a gift he gave you to thank you."
After he finished speaking, he asked Anderson again, "You were talking to the teacher in the car today, and he stopped talking as soon as I came back. I want to know what you were talking about."
The two orcs stared at each other across the table. Anderson was getting annoyed; both Lu Yi's and Tang Bufan's attitudes today had thoroughly displeased him.
In fact, he had been quite unhappy during this period.
Anderson then gave a cold laugh, leaned closer, and deliberately lied: "We were whispering sweet nothings..."
"Liar!" Lu Yi slammed his fist on the table, then glanced at the makeshift bed on the floor with concern. The man who had taken the medicine was fast asleep and hadn't been woken up. So he lowered his voice and looked at Anderson with a sinister gaze: "A teacher would never say sweet nothings to you."
"Why not?" Anderson glanced at Tang Bufan with disdain. "If he can seduce you, why can't he seduce me?"
"He didn't seduce me!" Lu Yi frowned and denied it: "I fell in love with him on my own!"
Anderson was puzzled and couldn't understand why Tang Bufan was so attractive to Lu Yi, so he asked, "Have you kissed him?"
Lu Yi was slightly taken aback, not understanding why Anderson asked this. He lowered his eyes, a subtle shyness appearing in them.
Anderson narrowed his eyes: "Did he take the initiative, or did you?"
"..." Lu Yi didn't answer. He recalled his first kiss with Tang Bufan. Tang Bufan suddenly hugged his head and kissed him. At the time, he was disgusted.
The newly grown orc couldn't completely hide the emotions in his eyes. Anderson clicked his tongue, already knowing the answer, and immediately became even more annoyed with Tang Bufan.
"I knew he seduced you," Anderson muttered angrily, then asked Lu Yi with a look of disappointment, "Is there no one else in our Western Federation? Why do you have to like someone like that?"
"The teacher is very good." Lu Yi affirmed Tang Bufan with a serious expression.
"He's a piece of cake!" Anderson couldn't help but curse, pointing at Tang Bufan on the ground: "He has no face, no physique, no family background, and he doesn't care about you! You must be blind to like him!"
Lu Yi's lips tightened even more. He could no longer tolerate Anderson's attitude towards Tang Bufan, so he looked at him coldly and gave him a stern order to leave: "I am very grateful for your help during this time. You can leave tomorrow."
Anderson was stunned. He hadn't expected Lu Yi to kick him out for Tang Bufan's sake. He laughed angrily and twitched his lips.
"Am I, Anderson, some kind of cheap person? To be used and dismissed like a tool by you two?" He finished speaking and looked at Tang Bufan with indignation: "Besides, I haven't even played with him yet. It's a wonder he went to such lengths to seduce me today..."
Lu Yi suddenly reached out and grabbed Anderson's clothes hard across the table, her eyes reddening: "You're not allowed to spread rumors about the teacher!"
"So you only have him in your heart now?!" Anderson snapped, forcefully shoving Lu Yi away, his eyes turning fierce. "Does he even love you? No! He only thinks about going back!"
He glared angrily at Lu Yi: "And you're still foolishly letting him use you! Do you even care about the Federation anymore? Absolutely not! You've even forgotten who you are!"
Anderson's face turned red with anger. He straightened his clothes, which Lu Yi had torn, and continued to berate the two of them: "You're both selfish! He's rotten, and you're rotten too!"
Lu Yi was pushed back several steps by Anderson. He was breathing rapidly and trying to control his emotions.
"I have no intention of inheriting the Federation," Lu Yi said in a deep voice. "Besides, what good would inheritance do? Right now, orcs and humans are harming and hostile to each other. What use would inheritance be?"
"Does running away even work?!" Anderson yelled. "If you leave, the Federation will fall into Luther's hands! Luther can't even command an army properly, how can you expect him to manage the Federation? He's an idiot! A madman with a temper just like mine!"
Anderson roared, "Even a lunatic like me understands this! You, Louis Smith, don't understand? You're just pretending! You're just running away! You're a fucking coward!"
Lu Yi's eyes reddened, his lips trembled, and after a long while, he said in a trembling voice, "I also have the right to choose my own life..."
"No! You didn't!" Anderson interrupted him loudly. "Your life was arranged from the moment you were born! You are the future leader of the Western Federation! Even if you wanted to abandon the name 'Louis,' the whole world would help you pick it up! It's your bloodline that dictates it!"
Lu Yi felt a chill run through his body, while Anderson's face was flushed and his breathing was rapid. He slowly sat back down in his chair.
The carriage fell into a brief silence, the atmosphere extremely oppressive. Kaige wasn't driving; he and Anthony were both silently listening to the two orcs arguing.
Looking at the stiff-faced orc boy, Anderson's heart softened slightly. He sat there and began to speak again, his voice heavy with emotion: "When I was 13, you were born... My father brought me to you the very next day, showed me you in your swaddling clothes, and said to me: 'Anderson, he is the future head of the Western Federation, and the person you will serve in the future.'..."
Anderson's eyes reddened slightly as he looked at the grown-up orc boy before him: "He told me to treat you like a younger brother, saying that Luther wouldn't be a good older brother, your mother didn't love you, and Hans only had eyes for Anna. At least I could be your older brother... I have a younger brother myself, Andy, who was only four years old then, but my father and I still focused our attention on you, so Andy wasn't very close to me. He didn't even visit me when I was in the mental hospital, but you come to visit me every year, which makes me quite happy. It's just that sometimes when I look at your face, which resembles Anna's, I can't help but feel resentment..."
Anderson couldn't help but cry as he spoke. He suddenly strode over and hugged Lu Yi's head, getting very close to him: "Little Louis... my brother... you shouldn't be like this... abandoning the Federation and the people... I regret teaching you to be gentle to humans when you were little... I don't know if it was Anna's influence on you or me... do you still care about orcs?"
Lu Yi, his eyes red, looked at Anderson: "Of course I care about the orcs... but my mother's death really made me realize that there's something wrong with this world, and continuing to be the leader is just perpetuating a mistake..."
“Maintaining the error… Hahahaha… Maintaining the error?” Anderson couldn’t help but laugh, crying as he looked at the orc boy in disbelief: “The Federation that our ancestors worked so hard to build is a mistake in your eyes?”
He roared, "So it's right for humans to enslave orcs?!"
After he finished speaking, he punched Lu Yi hard in the face.
He slammed hard, and Lu Yi crashed heavily into the back of the RV, causing it to shake. Tang Bufan, who was sleeping on the ground, also swayed slightly.
Lu Yi stood up in pain, touched his face, and gritted his teeth: "Anderson, I don't want to fight you."
“But now I want to kill you,” Anderson said grimly, his eyes bloodshot as he shouted, “I really want to show Father what kind of person he’s been waiting for!”
After he finished speaking, he suddenly pounced on Lu Yi. Lu Yi had no choice but to immediately transform into his beast form, his muscular hands grabbing Anderson's fist as it came at him.
"Are you crazy!" Lu Yi roared at Anderson, "You'll ruin the RV!"
"You're still thinking about taking care of that man!" Anderson was furious. Since Lu Yi was holding both of his fists, he slammed his forehead into Lu Yi's nose.
Lu felt a sharp pain in his nose and a warm liquid flowing down his throat. He immediately hugged Anderson tightly and shouted at Kai in the driver's seat, "The back door is open!"
With a "bang," the rear door of the unloading truck swung open, and the biting wind and snow instantly rushed into the truck. Lu Yi quickly turned around and forcefully threw Anderson out.
Anderson's body cut through the wind and snow, then flipped in the air and landed firmly on the ground, but slid a long way on the snow.
"Damn it." He cursed, his silver-gray eyes coldly staring at Lu Yi, who was still inside the car. The next second, he lunged out like a cheetah.
Lu Yi immediately jumped out of the RV and used his body to shield Anderson from the impact, while Kai quickly closed the back door to keep the interior warm.
It even drove the RV behind a tree to hide.
Two orcs engaged in a fierce battle on a dark street covered in pristine white snow.
"You don't deserve the Smith name!" Anderson slammed his fist into Lu Yi's parrying arm, roaring angrily, "You're not even worthy of my father's teachings!"
"Anderson!" Lu Yi slammed the silver-haired orc against the wall, and cracks immediately appeared in the old house.
"Give me some time! I'll find a way to break this deadlock!" Lu Yi growled at Anderson. "The peace treaty can't sustain the orcs' growth in the long run! Humans are constantly building up their anger!"
"Aren't we orcs angry?!" Anderson kicked him away. "They enslaved us back then! Now we enslave them! What's wrong with that?!"
As he spoke, he leaped up and stomped on Lu Yi, shouting, "The strong prey on the weak! That's the truth since ancient times!"
Lu Yi dodged the attack and then kicked Anderson, who had landed heavily, to the ground.
"Then what if humans are stronger than us in the future!" Lu Yi flipped over and pinned Anderson down, fiercely questioning him, "Humans have already secretly established bases on the ground! We orcs can't even build flying machines yet! What makes you think we'll definitely win in the future!"
Anderson tried to struggle, but found that Lu Yi was extremely strong, his hands holding him so tightly that he couldn't break free.
Tigers are inherently stronger than snow leopards.
Anderson could only lie on the ground and glare at him menacingly: "Are you admitting defeat without a fight?"
"Because there are no winners in war!" Lu Yi pressed down on him, growling, "Look at this Earth! It's been ruined by war!"
Not far away, the house that the two men had hit collapsed. The shockwave, carrying a lot of dust and dirt, hit the two men, who turned their heads and closed their eyes to avoid it.
When the dust settled, Lu Yi, panting, opened his eyes again, looked at the orc beneath him, sighed, and got up from him.
“Give me some time, Anderson,” Lu Yi said, looking down at him in the darkness, his eyes still slightly red. “I will find a way to break this deadlock, a way for orcs and humans to coexist. When that time comes… I think I will return to the Federation.”
As Lu Yi spoke, he reached out his hand to Anderson on the ground, but the enraged orc slapped it away forcefully.
"That sounds nice." Anderson wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice, "You're clearly being led around by that human right now."
“…No.” Lu Yi denied it: “I originally planned to go to Taicheng, so I headed east. Meeting the teacher was an accident.”
Anderson snorted coldly, clearly not believing him, while Lu Yi had no intention of continuing the fight, so he turned and walked towards the RV.
Anderson sat on the snow and watched him walk away slowly. His silver-gray beastly eyes glowed eerily in the night. After a moment, he gave a sinister smile and stood up from the ground.
Lu Yi returned to the RV. Tang Bufan still had his eyes closed, his face as pale as ever. Lu Yi sat wearily on the edge of the mattress, took off his shoes, lifted the blanket, and crawled inside.
He habitually reached out and touched Tang Bufan's chest to confirm his heartbeat, then hugged him tightly, pressing his face very close to Tang Bufan's.
So when Anderson got in the car, he saw the two of them snuggling together in bed.
He rolled his eyes in annoyance, walked to the camping chair, sat down, lazily raised his head, and let out a long sigh.
Kai didn't start the train, but he turned off the lights inside the carriage.
Anderson glanced at the back of the carriage in the darkness; he knew there was a hidden camera there.
He glanced at the makeshift bed on the floor, where Tang Bufan was sleeping soundly in Lu Yi's arms.
Anderson narrowed his eyes.
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