14.
"I have a strange feeling." Pei Ji said, pinching the photo, "Could this auction item be something my family produces and sells?"
The box belonging to Pei Ji, the letter to Ai Fan, and various collected fragments of letters written by Chen Lu himself.
"What do you think?" Shen Que put the letter away as it was and put it back into the box along with the photo.
Pei Ji pondered for a long time. "I quite like this box. I used to hide bird eggs in it when I was a child. If you want to destroy it, please leave the box to me."
Shen Que pinched Pei Ji's face and stuffed the box into his arms.
Pei Ji showed a puzzled expression.
"Since it's your box, the choice is yours." Shen Que looked at Pei Ji. For some reason, Pei Ji felt that his expression was particularly relaxed.
Pei Ji raised his eyebrows, "I have to bear the blame clearly, right?"
Shen Que smiled faintly: "It's very simple. Inside is proof that Shen Lu saved the empire, as well as photos that somehow escaped destruction. If I'm not mistaken, the things inside should have been collected by An. She tricked me here to let me choose."
He paused.
"To be more precise, it was An and Mom who tricked us into coming here together and asked us to make the choice together."
Pei Ji seemed to understand but not quite.
Shen Que: "Do you want my identity to be announced?"
Pei Ji looked at the box in his hand thoughtfully. "If I make it public, will the public opinion of those criminals affect you?"
Shen Que shook his head.
"Probably not now."
Ann Luya found a perfect and unexpected answer to this matter in her own way.
Shen accurate guess.
She must have discovered the reason why Shen Lu was interested in space-time turbulence when she was studying his manuscript on Baisha Star. She followed the clues and guessed from the letter left by Ai Fan that the first humanoid synapse sample collected by the School of Life Sciences that year was not accidental.
Before the first Zerg tide, the Empire failed to successfully create 3S mechas because human mental power had no form and was difficult to simulate.
The Empire cannot build a mecha that can truly connect with the driver, and all the technology is stuck at this critical point.
Chen Lu was the first to discover that deep in the Sea of Life there were physical neural synapses similar to human mental power.
Perhaps, even Chen Lu himself did not know whether he had successfully delivered the samples to the reach of the research team.
He just kept going to the location of the turbulence, sending out fragments of letters that no one knew who would receive them, as well as samples that might be useful to the empire.
Again and again.
He didn't know whether the missing samples were eaten by other living creatures or taken away by the Empire's research team.
No one could reach him.
No one knows why the samples grown deep inside appeared in front of the research team so coincidentally.
Apart from sending Shen Que out of the Sea of Life, the only time Shen Lu successfully contacted the outside world was when he contacted Pei Li and Ai Fan to get the neural synapse used to create the Eclipse Sky.
It was also that letter that left evidence of everything he had done.
An spent three years collecting the fragments that Chen Lu had sent out through the turbulence of time and space and scattered to every corner of the empire.
Finally, she found the most crucial key.
Now, she put the choice back in Shen Que's hands.
If Shen Que is willing, his identity will be made public along with everything about Shen Lu after the auction ends tomorrow.
If Shen Que hesitated, he could still take the box away. An Luya was willing to continue to bear the pressure of public opinion until the moment he was ready.
"The reason we chose the Kingdee Auction is because it's not under the empire's jurisdiction, and the 'secrets' revealed here are more real and more credible." Shen Que explained to Pei Ji.
If it was revealed directly from the royal court's channels, someone might spread all the rumors as achievements deliberately arranged by the royal court for Shen Lu in order to bring him back.
An and Ai Fan even thought of this.
Shen Que recalled Feng Shixu's various reactions on the day his sister delivered the letter to him.
——I guess this old fox has given An a lot of advice.
Pei Ji understood.
"She asked you to choose, and you let me choose." Pei Ji nodded at the box. "How on earth did this important task fall on me, Your Highness?"
Before he finished speaking, Shen Que pulled Pei Ji's tie and gave him a kiss.
"Because you have the right to choose, my princess."
…
15.
The next day.
As Kingdee Right Wing was severely flooded last night, it was closed for half a day today. The organizer gave all the guests valuable wine as an apology.
Fortunately, no auction items were damaged and the auction went on as usual in the evening.
Pei Ji ruined another of Shen Que's skirts.
Shen Que refused to wear a third pair of shoes no matter what.
"Aren't you going to see the heroic figure of the hidden auction item I bought for you?" Pei Ji asked in a feigned pity, "That's one hundred million."
"Kingdee only takes 30% commission, and 70% of the 100 million will return to you." Shen Que wrapped himself in the quilt and reminded him righteously.
"But the anonymous seller is my mom, not me!"
Pei Ji looked up to the sky and sighed.
"Look! What a huge scheme! In the end, the old emperor gained honor, His Royal Highness the Princess was free from the pressure of public opinion, His Royal Highness the Prince regained his status, and the Lord's wife got the star coins. Only poor A Pei lost his money."
Shen Que looked at him speechlessly.
Pei Ji blinked at Chen Que and said, "If His Royal Highness is willing to wear a pink dress again for poor Ah Pei, then Ah Pei will be satisfied."
Shen Que slapped him.
But in the end, Shen Que still sat in the buyer's seat numbered "N" with a sullen face and wearing a pink skirt.
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