Chapter 76
".I don't take a nap because I'm working."
Chu Zhao didn't know that her video had once again achieved the opposite effect. She was just arguing with Glass Hand, who had inexplicably become the supervisor: "Since it's for work, how can it be considered that I'm wasting my time!"
She is clearly working hard!
Glass Hand no longer tried to talk to her, but just pulled Yin Lang aside and watched her silently with him.
On the one hand, he chose Chu Zhao as the heir of the Glass Flower House because he thought she was also special and would not be influenced by this era and dragged into it against her will. On the other hand, Yin Lang really had no good way to get Glass Hand and Shen Hai to go back with him.
The best way is to help it persuade this disobedient "landlord".
So after the glass hand pulled him, he spoke in a gentle voice. Of course, he was speaking from the perspective of a former owner, and he politely advised: "Such abnormal situations rarely occur in the glass greenhouse. If you take the initiative to stop it, maybe your physical condition has indirectly affected the house itself."
This was a bolt from the blue for Chu Zhao: he finally traveled through the new era and no longer had to be a house slave, but it turned out that his own eating and sleeping would affect the life of the house? !
What’s the difference between this and being a house slave?
But Yin Lang, who knew that he had to give a sweet reward after a blow, quickly added: "But a good rest can also improve the stability of your mental strength, and indirectly improve the efficiency of editing."
Chu Zhao's eyes lit up, but he hesitated again.
Yin Lang offered a trick: "Since your time is precious, and I have a reason to stay here temporarily, why don't we supervise you during this time?"
He glanced at Glass Hand and said, "We will leave when you have formed a routine that does not require supervision."
The glass hand was halfway through clicking when he looked up in horror.
As for Chu Zhao, although she was a social phobic, she had to admit that this was a good idea. Although it was a bit awkward to be in the same room with a stranger, she didn't quite understand the previous protection system. The upside-down schedule and the glass case in recent days also made her realize that maybe, maybe, she needed an alarm clock when she was too obsessed with editing.
Well, since Mr. Alarm Clock has not shown any surprise expression from yesterday until now, and he also knows Boss Glass Hand, then...it's not impossible, right?
"Can I edit now?" Chu Zhao raised his first doubt after his suggestion. For a time traveler, even if Yin Lang didn't have an emotional center, he couldn't help but laugh at her sleepless nights.
"Okay." Yin Lang added, "It's daytime now."
Apart from the normal routine of night and three meals a day, he would not interfere with other things. From the perspective of flexibility, he was much easier to talk to than his spiritual power incarnation - the glass hand.
Chu Zhao also clenched his fist immediately: "Then I'll go now!"
The world is a huge granary. When she was knocking Ying Pei, she would pay attention to Wei Heng, and when she was knocking Wei Heng, she suddenly caught the spirit during the inspiration burst, and now she knocked another pair, not without reason.
However, I don’t know whether the person in charge of the common rail channel has been summoned for a talk.
When Chu Zhao won the first place in the first round of pk and was ranked first on the homepage recommendation position of the common track channel, the rules for the second round of pk were also announced.
However, this time, a hard target was set. The requirement of the topic was to catch up.
The explanation also strongly stipulates that catching up means that among ordinary soldiers, except for senior generals, during combat, they will also have similar feelings of yearning for and wanting to catch up with higher-ranking generals.
To put it bluntly, it's competition. A virtuous cycle.
If the video creation is out of this category, it will get zero points. In the end, it will not be included in the PK winning seat.
Those who came to the comment section early are already cursing:
[Except for the Marshal, I won’t say who this title is targeting:)]
[“The right of interpretation belongs to the Supreme Conference Court”, Conference Court, you are disgusting (smile)]
[SJB, SJB, we like to beat Pei Weiheng and eat your rice! ]
[What is a werewolf self-explosion? This is a werewolf self-explosion (amazing)]
But the rules have been issued, and the PK has begun. Even after this round of PK is over, it is likely that they will not be changed. Chu Zhao pondered over the question for a while, then put this requirement behind his mind and went to cut his new CP.
PK seat? She has a place in the hearts of fans. Whoever wants to take the first place can take it. Who cares whether it is passed by the court or not!
But it’s not impossible for her to make use of the video by watching the title first and then editing it. Chu Zhao thought about it while sinking into creation.
The editing door that can be connected to mental power is also becoming easier and easier to use with her hard work day after day. Chu Zhao can use it with ease. In just a few minutes, she has collected a lot of materials suitable for her videos.
She also sighed in her heart: Xingyun is still a holy place for creation! The efficiency of this film production is amazing!
Because the new CP is a new character, she also used some suspense techniques, which is flashback.
Just like a piece of heavy iron falling into a bottomless lake, a black wave suddenly exploded, and a voice burst out from it:
"You forgot that he is your—"
"Of course I haven't forgotten." The person who answered was firm in tone, without any intention of backing down. However, because of her tone, her half sentence seemed to have a strong meaning:
"He is my comrade-in-arms."
"I will never stand by and watch someone die."
After he finished speaking, the ripples caused by the heavy iron receded again, and what remained was a girl dressed as a military school student, covering her arms and dragging her legs, slowly moving step by step to the outside of the battleship's treatment cabin.
But she arrived at an inopportune moment. There was already someone inside. The doctor was saying, "Thanks to Chief of Staff Zhou's prompt decision, otherwise the child's hand would have been corroded by the Zerg's slime."
The so-called Staff Officer Zhou stood in front of the porthole from the girl's perspective. The treatment cabin was shrouded in darkness for concealment, but there was a ray of light on his nose, like a veil of moonlight, covering his eyebrows.
He was still young at that time, but he already had the aura of a mountain.
She called him Chief of Staff.
"How's her injury?"
The doctor was about to answer when the girl did something very bad: the sudden change of camera gave the audience this feeling. For a moment, they even felt that the bright and clear Chief of Staff Zhou was dragged into the quagmire by the girl.
She took this opportunity to knock on the door - interrupting the doctor's answer and also letting the injured girl get less attention. But she was also very young, and she was very tolerant of pain. Her voice was thin, but there was no fear: "Senior Brother."
Zhou Xingjian paused and turned his eyes.
Sheng Shu: "I'm injured."
Sheng Shu is indeed a very special student.
The camera turned and Zhou Xingjian was sitting in the chief of staff's independent rest cabin. In front of him was a long mechanical table. Sheng Shu was bored and looked around the world while covering his arm.
Her mentor was seriously ill and she was the first to be arrested. This junior sister was not easy to manage.
Zhou Xingjian decided to set some rules for her first: "Why did you push your classmate down?"
Sheng Shu's expression was full of nonchalance, as if she didn't care about being punished. But when the light shone on Zhou Xingjian's face again, making his military uniform look brand new and straight, she couldn't help but look at his epaulettes.
Tsk. Five stars at the age of 24. I'm afraid he will be promoted to marshal next year.
"No reason, just looking at her is annoying."
Zhou Xingjian was young and in a high position, and he was not prone to being easily angered, so when Sheng Shu refused to cooperate, he simply opened the video and replayed the scene where she saw him coming and suddenly pushed him down on purpose, three times, and then said:
"Explain. Why did you do this?"
The reason? The video does not reveal it through voice-over, but the audience can guess it through the close-up of Sheng Shu's expression and the atmosphere of the confrontation between the two. Not to mention the following conversation.
"The teacher is just unable to do it, he didn't leave you here on purpose, and you didn't end up in the rebellious galaxy because of someone else."
“Because it’s fun.”
Sheng Shu suddenly smiled playfully, hiding the fact that she didn't want to listen to this senior brother, the proud son of heaven, explaining to her in a condescending manner why they ignored her, let her grow up alone in a fringe galaxy, tried to compensate her with a famous teacher, and then used the same trick to find a reason to send her to a random front for a second time.
In her eyes they were all liars.
These dialogues may not have been so clear in Zhou Xingjian's mind at the time, and Sheng Shu's thoughts were not so easy to understand. But Chu Zhao played a combination of light and shadow like this.
The image of a rebellious girl is almost revealed: "Don't you think I'm too naughty to be used? Then I will be naughty to show you."
She didn't shy away from the fact that her murderous behavior was labeled as attracting their attention, and even curved her eyes: "Isn't it to attract your attention so that you can take care of me?"
The background sound was a man's vulgar and self-righteous urging, indicating that this was exactly what someone had instilled in Sheng Shu during the time she was abandoned. Hold on to the thigh of this young and promising senior brother, and then rise to the top in one step.
She clapped her palms together, her eyes teasing but burning with a bright fire: "That's it."
The background music suddenly dropped. The fans were inexplicably accelerated by the tense atmosphere, and the scene suddenly turned to ten years later. It seems that this is a double narrative.
They finally figured out who said "Of course I didn't forget" at the beginning, and it was Sheng Shu. But compared with before, she was completely transformed.
He took off the simulated machine weighing dozens of kilograms in a tight suit, turned his head and looked at the test result on the holographic screen, without moving his eyebrows. The adjutant came over and said, "Chief of Staff."
A 26-year-old chief of staff! He was another miracle that was no less than the two heroes of Xingyun. Others also quickly remembered who this person was based on this hint.
The Northern Territory did not have a marshal due to some historical reasons, so one of the two chiefs of staff working side by side was the newly appointed Sheng Shu, and the other was Zhou Xingjian.
"Did you send me the invitation?" Her voice didn't change much, but her tone and expression were no longer as frivolous as before. If it weren't for the fans' premonition that they had a psychological trauma from Chu Zhao's video, it could even be said that the calmness between her eyebrows was like the tempering of life.
He looks a bit like Zhou Xingjian back then.
"What did you say, brother?"
The adjutant looked embarrassed for a moment. It was obviously not because the new chief of staff's temperament was not good enough for him to cooperate perfectly, but because -
"Chief of Staff Zhou said that he has been busy with military affairs recently, so he has no time to attend. And then... you just took office, so you don't have to continue to call him brother."
Sheng Shu paused and took off the bracelet: "Got it."
She was indeed a headache back then: the scene cuts back to ten years ago.
She was rebellious by nature, and although she had a high talent for mental strength, she was not well guided. Zhou Xingjian took her back and spent half of the ten years taking care of her.
He was not the kind of person who didn't know how to reward or punish. Every time she made a mistake, he would force her to run a hundred or two hundred laps, and then throw her into the training room to teach her a lesson.
Sheng Shu was also a stubborn person. In the third year, she was still known as a tough person that "even Chief of Staff Zhou couldn't teach." They didn't see any turnaround in this clip. They just felt that Chief of Staff Zhou must have put a lot of effort into Sheng Shu becoming what she was later.
Cut back to ten years later and was hit hard:
"What if I say I like you?"
This shocking sentence appeared in the darkness. Those who have served in the military knew that this was the area of the confinement room, and it was not an ordinary confinement room: Sheng Shu had the medal of a three-star major general on his shoulder, and there were mental monitoring monitors all around.
Only the highest level of confinement could make it so difficult for a three-star major general to escape.
But Chief of Staff Zhou did not walk out of the darkness. His voice was cold and stern: "Do you know what you are talking about?"
Sheng Shu wanted to turn around and continue speaking, but the door of the confinement room was already closed.
From the video footage that Chu Zhao could collect, this was all that a high-level psychic could dig out from Sheng Shu and Zhou Xingjian. But she also had a very powerful ability.
She just knows how to find stories from the details.
Sheng Shu's confinement period was not long. When she came out, her rank dropped two levels but she was still a major general. She was in the stage of making up for her crime. The military sent her to train with Chief of Staff Yan Xun, who was on par with Zhou Xingjian at the time.
Chief of Staff Yan Xun was known to be the exact opposite of Chief of Staff Zhou Xingjian. He was unruly and capricious, and especially liked to ask his subordinates to do things that were impossible for them to do.
Sheng Shu was Zhou Xingjian's junior sister, and falling into her hands was like falling into a wolf's den. For a long time, she and Zhou Xingjian handled military affairs together, and the joke in their spare time was how badly Sheng Shu was injured and where she was being tossed.
Zhou Xingjian never asked.
Later, she made meritorious service and her rank was restored to three stars. The only thing in the footage was the cold look between Chief of Staff Zhou Xingjian and her. It was as if he knew that she would come back again and cause him countless troubles that he had to clean up because of the teacher's instructions before his death.
But what Chu Zhaojian saw was that Zhou Xingjian did not avert his gaze, and Sheng Shu covered his arm and stood in the same position as when he had just brought him back.
He is on the left and she is on the right.
He is in the light. She is in the darkness.
Then the rebellious girl bared her sharp fangs and deliberately provoked him. But Sheng Shu, who was 26 years old this year, already knew what rejection was.
She probably understood that she had been asking for a favor in return for all these years, even though this favor was not even from her to Zhou Xingjian, but from her father who abandoned his wife and children to Zhou Xingjian's mentor.
But she still backed off.
The beam slowly moved to the middle, but not yet to Sheng Shu's face. Sheng Shu, who was wearing a simple military uniform and covering his arm, said calmly, "I understand, Chief of Staff Zhou."
She restrained her impudence and casualness in front of him for so many years. Even her tone was full of respect and reverence: "I will repent sincerely."
Who could have expected that this regret would come after "I like you"?
Who could have expected that many people thought that Chief of Staff Sheng Shu had only changed his ways at that time, but in fact it meant that her thoughts of exploring the outside world were ruthlessly cut off. Her subordinate, junior sister, and orphan girl who had followed him for ten years now learned to understand the current situation and not to ask for things unreasonably.
"thank you."
The scene after these three words was heavy enough to make people tremble in their hearts even without Sheng Shu's turning around.
However, the saddest and most upsetting things are the daily ones.
Just a few days ago, General Sheng Shu stood out and became the Left Chief of Staff of the Northern Territory. However, Zhou Xingjian, who was expected to be promoted to Marshal, did not move and still served as the Right Chief of Staff, which he had done for many years.
Many years later she had grown to be on par with him.
However, she repented. She knew the overall situation and knew how to advance and retreat. In order to stabilize the situation, she changed her confrontation with Yan Xun and treated him politely. She even played a good show of mutual help to other generals because of their fellow disciples' friendship. However, he remained cold.
He was the first to get up and leave during a meeting. When they met on the road, she called him "senior brother" and then called him "right chief of staff". He just looked at her and nodded. Even when they were paying tribute to the teacher, she said "senior brother is more like my teacher", and he only said one sentence, "I am not worthy of it."
Many people in the Northern Territory felt sorry for Sheng Shu.
But when they were the supreme commanders of the Northern Territory and were in charge of selecting military academy students, someone was just as rebellious and eccentric as she was back then. She had already decided to eliminate her, but Zhou Xingjian suddenly asked, "What's your name?"
The narrative stops here.
What is left is like water entering a fish tank, with all sounds isolated from the waves, as if a person is in a desperate situation surrounded by the vast ocean.
In the vague and mute background sound of the waves, Sheng Shu sat alone, still turning around to ask him as he did during the cadet selection, but now he slowly looked away.
Her voice echoed amidst the sound of countless waves. It was Sheng Shu outside the fish tank who was speaking to this silent self: "I have thought countless times about why I pushed Su Jing that day. But rebellion, revenge, showing off my intelligence and boldness, no matter what the answer is, it will not be that I am jealous."
[But I was actually a little jealous of that cadet. ]
This sentence was actually said by Chief of Staff Zhou Xingjian. The camera was turned upside down again, as if the camera lens was twisted away, and was forced to unfold the same story from another angle.
The first time Zhou Xingjian saw Sheng Shu was not at the front line where she was temporarily placed. It was at the teacher's home. At that time, the teacher knew that her father had passed away and planned to keep her with him because of that kindness. But her foundation was not good and she behaved like an old human.
He walked out of the jump cabin, but Sheng Shu didn't see him. She was still staring at the teacher's mecha. The light in her eyes was so bright that it was scorching. The teacher and Zhou Xingjian said that Sheng Shu was a smart student.
Later, the teacher died unexpectedly due to an injury. He forced himself to gather his energy and go to see her, but she had completely changed into a different person, a wounded little beast that roared and hurt others and itself.
Zhou Xingjian didn't have time to deal with her stubbornness. But what she thought was rebellion might not be entirely true in his eyes.
Sheng Shu likes to get into trouble, but she is decisive and smart. She has saved her military academy classmates several times and retaliated against those who bullied her.
He punished her to run laps, and she would rather fall down than stand up and continue running. Also, when they went to pay respect to the teacher, she always fell behind and refused to walk. When he came back, he would always see her trying to drive a mecha in the black tower.
She didn't know that the black tower had a mental shield, so she just tried to lift the arm of the mecha. The arm weighed a thousand pounds, and it was impossible without mental power transmission, but she still tried again and again.
Zhou Xingjian was not a stone. He tried hard to teach her, and when she was injured on the front line, he just went to see her.
At the highest meeting of the conference court that day, he pressured the senior generals of other military domains to remain silent and not speak, in fact, just to get an attitude:
"Why was she sent to the third cave?"
The person who gave this order was Yan Xun. The third cave was the most dangerous border. They didn't dare to set foot in it.
The other generals wanted to mediate, but they were forced back by Zhou Xingjian's eyes. Yan Xun looked at him for a few times and suddenly smiled: "Chief of Staff Zhou."
She stretched out her voice. Although she was smiling, there was a warning in her eyes. It was the same cold and oppressive look that Xingyun had shown over the years of prejudice and old rules.
"You have forgotten who you are and who she is to you. What position are you in to talk to me now?"
Two domains cannot be united. The same is true for one domain. But this is not the worst thing.
The worst thing is that their teacher was the chief of staff when the Northern Territory Marshal died in battle. Supporting him to the position of chief of staff was originally suspected of nepotism.
If he and Sheng Shu protected each other, he knew without leaving this meeting room how many people would talk about how their sect was protecting each other and being xenophobic.
At the end of the meeting, Yan Xun said indifferently: "She asked to be thrown to the third cave, but do you know where she will be thrown if the fact that you like her is exposed?"
The teacher has passed away.
He alone could not protect an S-level psychic without the support of his family. His favoritism was not favoritism to her, but a trap.
Zhou Xingjian maintained his attitude towards Sheng Shu, and he never cared about Yan Xun's training. Sheng Shu, who was abandoned by both chiefs of staff, was indeed on a very smooth journey.
But later, because his follow-up troops failed to catch up, he was nearly killed in the third cave, where she was seriously injured. She disregarded military discipline and brought people to rescue him. She was stripped of her three-star rank and sentenced to one month of confinement in the highest level of confinement.
She actually told him that she liked him.
Perhaps she was too young at that time. She didn't know the dangers of the struggle between the forces in the Northern Territory. She also didn't expect that her desperate rescue of him might not be seen as repaying kindness with evil in the eyes of others.
It's that they, the senior brothers and sisters, have been pretending to form a clique for personal gain. Although they appear to be at odds with each other, they have secretly formed a closer relationship than senior brothers and sisters. Yes, they have actually been colluding with each other for a long time.
Or maybe he was too cautious at that time. He had been the right chief of staff for so many years that his mind was stagnant and he no longer had the courage to take risks.
Maybe he knew he couldn't match her courage.
He still didn't show his face in the darkness, and his tone was even cold and sharp with anger: "Do you know what you are talking about?"
In fact, in the long silence in the darkness, who knows whether he was angry at her or at himself.
They returned to their original relationship, neither close nor distant.
She repaid evil with kindness, respected her senior brother, and rose through the ranks. Even when she became the chief of staff, a position on par with him, she still called him senior brother.
But he had already walked on this path. If he didn't want to fail, he could only keep going until she no longer had any delusions.
When selecting military academy students, before someone who looked very similar to her came out, she first selected a young military academy student. He had a simple background, average mental talent, but sharp intuition, and most importantly, he became the student of her adjutant.
I can not only avoid being stopped by the secular world by not calling her teacher, but also stay by her side forever. What a ridiculous existence.
Now they are neighbors. They have the friendship of fellow students and professors. After becoming colleagues, they even saved each other's lives several times.
He didn't even have the chance to say "junior sister" to her.
Sheng Shu asked the cadet to train well. A few days later, when he saw a cadet who looked like her come in, he instinctively asked her name before he could react.
She left very early that day. When she left, she apologized to him, saying that she was foolish and frivolous when she was young, which caused a lot of trouble for Chief of Staff Zhou, and she also hoped that he could train military cadets who were much better than her.
He stood there for a long time, and when he turned back, his eyes were filled with starlight.
He remembered what she had said when she stood at the porthole of his command ship during their truce: "Actually, the stars here are quite beautiful."
In the picture, Chief of Staff Zhou raised his head slightly, his eyes swept across the stars, and he didn't seem to look at them carefully. But when the past days emerged, he was clearly standing in the same position after she said the stars were beautiful, and he looked at the stars of that day many times.
He no longer has the right identity.
I never think that the stars on any other day will be more beautiful than that day.
It seemed like someone was calling him from behind: "Senior Brother."
Maybe when he went to pick him up that day, he wanted to keep the news of Su Jing being parasitized by the Zerg a secret, so he didn't tell him right away that he believed her and knew she did that to protect Su Jing.
Maybe he was wrong when he told her at the beginning that he came to take her away because of the teacher's request. It was wrong from the beginning.
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