Chapter 97 Taicheng - 11 In the afternoon, Lu Yi followed...
In the afternoon, Lu Yi left with He Xing. Tang Bufan thought it over and decided not to go with them. Firstly, Pei Zhishu hadn't asked him to go, and secondly, he was afraid of giving himself away.
With nothing to do, he decided to go check out the RVs, but he remembered that he hadn't closed the windows before leaving, worried that the small animals in the park might run inside.
"Is Madam Tang going out?" He Yun, who was feeding the fish in the yard, turned her head and looked over.
"Let's wander around around," Tang Bufan said to him with a smile.
He Yun quickly threw all the fish food in her hand into the pond, walked briskly to Tang Bufan's side, and blinked her big eyes: "I'll stay with you."
Tang Bufan thought that he was not familiar with this huge garden and might not be able to find the place where Brother Kai parked his car easily, so he nodded.
The two then left the Green Bamboo Pavilion together.
There were many servants in the garden, and gardeners could be seen tending to the courtyard from time to time. Tang Bufan observed that the sub-beastmen made up 90% of them, and they were mostly older aunties and uncles. There were very few young people like He Xing and He Yun.
Knowing that early marriage and childbirth were common in the beastman world, Tang Bufan curiously asked the person next to him, "Are you married to your brother?"
"Not yet." He Yun lowered her eyes slightly: "Our parents had arranged marriages for us a long time ago, but my brother didn't want to. He said he wanted to marry someone he liked... If he didn't want to marry, neither would I, so he brought me to Mr. Pei's place."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Tang Bufan and smiled brightly: "Our family and Mr. Pei's family are distant relatives. Our great-grandmother and Mr. Pei's great-grandfather were cousins. Although the relationship is very distant, Mr. Pei still accepted us and let the two of us brothers work in the garden."
Tang Bufan understood, looking at his handsome face: "How old are you two again?"
“She’s a bit older than Mrs. Tang, she’s 25.”
“That’s younger than me. I’m 28,” Tang Bufan corrected.
"Wow!" He Yun looked at Tang Bufan with great surprise: "Mrs. Tang is 28? I thought you were only 20!"
"..." Tang Bufan scratched his face with his fingers, feeling a little embarrassed. In fact, he also felt like he had returned to his college days. After the mutation, his energy and spirit had improved a lot, and the effect of the major cell renewal in his body was very obvious.
Pei Zhishu looks young, around twenty-eight or twenty-nine, but he is actually over thirty, which explains why there was a mutation craze several hundred years ago.
The two quickly arrived at where the RV was parked. Tang Bufan was shocked to find that the RV had been cleaned. The black steel alloy exterior was free of stains. He was alarmed and quickly got into the RV. Kai Ge in the driver's seat turned the camera, which was flashing red light, towards him.
"Little Tang, welcome back." Kai called out to Tang Bufan.
Tang Bufan nervously scanned the RV and, finding that everything was still in its original state without any signs of being disturbed, slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Has anyone moved the RV?" Tang Bufan asked Kai Ge.
“A cleaner in the park,” Kai replied in a gentle electronic male voice. “A woman in her fifties who manages this carport. She wiped the car’s exterior with my permission, but she didn’t get in.”
A kind-hearted cleaner. Tang Bufan gradually felt relieved.
He Yun didn't get in the car, but sat on the stone bench next to him. Tang Bufan walked into the driver's seat, sat down, and turned on the RV's network system.
There are several networks in this area, most of which are locked, with only one public network, the garden's open Wi-Fi.
Although Kaige can connect to this public Wi-Fi, it is clear that all its data transmissions go through the Guo family's AI mainframe, so it cannot connect.
It was for this reason that Tang Bufan chose to read books instead of playing on the computer in his room; he didn't want to reveal any information.
Evelyn's network wasn't on Kai's list, either Lu Yi was far away from the RV or he was in a place where the signal was blocked.
Lu Yi is currently talking with Guo Wen and Pei Zhishu, or rather, the latter.
Tang Bufan sat there for a moment and then reached out to open the hidden box in the driver's cab. He took out the light screen glasses, which were connected to the RV's network at a distance of 1,000 meters, which should cover the area of his residence, Qingzhu Xiaoxuan.
"Brother Kai, Lu Yi and I will probably stay in this garden for about three days. If anything happens, contact me using your glasses." Tang Bufan raised his glasses to the camera above him.
"Okay, Xiao Tang."
Afterwards, Tang Bufan closed the windows of the RV, cleaned up the trash in the kitchen, and then took He Yun back.
Lu Yi didn't return until late afternoon. Tang Bufan was sitting on the sofa wearing light screen glasses, watching Lu Yi's signal appear and then watching him move.
This God's-eye view is really interesting, so Tang Bufan deliberately shouted "Hey!" to Lu Yi through Evelyn, startling Lu Yi on the road.
This also startled He Xing, who was following behind Lu Yi.
Lu Yi curled the corners of his lips, wanting to speak to Tang Bufan, but considering He Xing behind him, he ultimately held back and quickened his pace back.
Tang Bufan stopped teasing him and took off his glasses after Lu Yi pushed open his door.
"Did you go back to the RV?" Lu Yi asked him, glancing at the light screen glasses in his hand.
“Yes, I don’t dare use that computer.” Tang Bufan gestured with his chin toward the study.
"I'll implant Kai into it for you tonight," Lu Yi said. That way, the entire system of this room would be under Kai's control, and there would be no need to worry about information leaks.
Tang Bufan was somewhat surprised: "Is this okay?"
“Okay.” Lu Yi walked over to Tang Bufan and squeezed onto the sofa with him. “Just have Evelyn help modify and copy the system, and restore it before we leave.”
"...It's someone else's computer, isn't it?" Tang Bufan felt it wasn't quite right: "Let's forget it, we're leaving in a few days anyway."
"We can't leave now." Lu Yi said, feeling that the single sofa was still too small, so he picked up Tang Bufan and let him sit sideways on his lap.
Tang Bufan looked at him speechlessly. There was clearly another chair next to him, but he wouldn't sit down. He insisted on squeezing in with him. When he couldn't squeeze in, he would hug him onto his lap. How could there be such a person?
His straight-male mentality kicked in again. Tang Bufan shifted uncomfortably on Lu Yi's lap, but didn't get off. He asked him curiously, "Why can't you walk?"
“The Eastern Federation wants to talk to the Western Federation about cooperation, to exchange some technologies that neither of them has, and there’s also the matter of the Rebooters, which can’t be resolved in a short time,” Lu Yi said. “I told Guo Wen that I wanted to rent a place outside, but Guo Wen said that all the land in Taicheng belongs to him, so there’s no point in us moving out. It’s more convenient to stay here and talk business. I think he makes sense.”
"..." Tang Bufan was speechless. Since they would be dealing with Guo Wen and Pei Zhishu frequently later, it would indeed be troublesome to repeatedly drive the RV in and out of the garden.
"What about the Rebooters?" Tang Bufan then asked, "Do they have a place for them there?"
“No, the Rebooter base is indeed an island, but it’s not Penglai. Guo Shen has already gone to the island to investigate it thoroughly, and even sent fishmen to search the seabed in that area,” Lu Yi said. “Given that the Rebooters have highly advanced technology, they believe that the Rebooter base is transparent.”
Tang Bufan was slightly taken aback: "Transparent?"
“Humans cannot survive normally on the ground, so that base must be a completely enclosed ecological base with a protective shield on the surface.” Lu Yi explained to Tang Bufan, “And with a protective shield, complete invisibility can be achieved. This technology appeared as early as a thousand years ago, but it is extremely expensive. To hide on an island, theoretically, one would have to exhaust the wealth of an entire country.”
To put it in perspective, manufacturing a single stealth fighter jet requires billions of dollars, let alone a protective shield the size of an entire island. Lu Yi never imagined that organization possessed such vast financial resources.
“A transparent base…” Tang Bufan understood, and he let out a long sigh: “This will be hard to find.”
“Now it’s not just a matter of finding him.” Lu Yi’s expression was heavy. “Even if we find him, can we defeat him? And who is supporting him behind the scenes?”
Tang Bufan sat on his lap, frowning: "Isn't it the East District Underground City?"
“No, the humans in the Eastern District Underground City have long run out of funds,” Lu Yi denied. “The Eastern Federation is now funding the maintenance of the underground city.”
"...It wouldn't be your western region either?" Tang Bufan stared at him.
“…After my mother died, the resistance faction in the West District was basically dismantled by my father.” Lu Yi bit his lip: “My father ruthlessly purged the remnants.”
Therefore, the relationship between humans and beastmen is the most harmonious in the west now, because those who dare to resist have been killed by Lu Yi's father, who doesn't even give those humans a chance to marry beastmen and survive.
"..." Tang Bufan became even more fearful of Lu Yi's father. He continued to guess, "That's the North District?"
“No, the orcs in the North District also have strict control over the humans in the dungeons.” Lu Yi frowned, his expression deep: “…Guo Wen is right. The Rebooters did not come from the East District dungeons. They are a separate force that has existed for a long time, but they have been hiding in the shadows until now… In another two hundred years, the surface will be suitable for human habitation.”
After spending a hundred years clearing out the orcs and another hundred years building, the Rebooters felt it was time for humanity to "reboot."
Tang Bufan looked at him. It was the first time he had seen Lu Yi with such a serious expression. He was so serious that he didn't look like an 18-year-old boy. His hand couldn't help but touch his increasingly handsome face, and then slowly touch his brow.
Lu Yi suddenly grabbed Tang Bufan's hand, her cheeks slightly flushed as she looked at him: "...I'm thinking about something, teacher, please don't tease me."
"!" Tang Bufan was a little embarrassed and blushed: "Who teased you? I just saw your brows were furrowed so tightly..."
Tang Bufan fell silent as Lu Yi lowered his head and kissed him. Tang Bufan first opened his eyes slightly, then gradually relaxed his body as he smelled Lu Yi's scent.
"Teacher, can I stick my tongue out?"
"..."
Tang Bufan blushed and squinted, slowly opening his mouth and sticking out his tongue. Lu Yi immediately wrapped his tongue around it... This wet kiss made his body feel wet as well, radiating a damp heat, and his hand, still held by Lu Yi, was also sweating.
After a long while, Lu Yi reluctantly raised his head. He knew that Tang Bufan's body was not ready yet. Although Tang Bufan didn't say it, he knew that Tang Bufan held him while sleeping every day.
"Teacher..." Lu Yi called out softly to Tang Bufan.
"Hmm?" Tang Bufan looked up and examined him closely.
“Zero,” Lu Yi said, his golden-green eyes filled with a complex emotion. “The doctor you’re looking for, Professor, is named Zero.”
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