Chapter 89 Gao Siqi
Boy: “…”
The boy's face suddenly flushed red, his expression tinged with embarrassment and anger. His breath got stuck in his throat. He wanted to curse, but Mu Baixing's gaze pressured him, so he dared not do anything rash. His chest heaved a few times, and in the end, he could only say aggrievedly, "Gaoscheng."
"My brother, Gao Sili. And my sister, Gao Siqi." He said unhappily, "We're here on vacation."
As he spoke, he occasionally glanced at the man behind Mingyu who was walking towards them.
...I don't know who the other person is! Why is he so scary?
The three names of the Gao family, taken together, clearly indicate siblings. Without giving it much thought, Mingyu glanced back, following Gao Sicheng's gaze, and remained silent for a moment.
Mu Baixing's name during the Star Navigation Competition was his real name, and Mingyu was not comfortable sharing it with anyone else. The word "friend" was on the tip of his tongue, but Mingyu felt... a little inappropriate.
Under the sunlight, he and Mu Baixing exchanged glances. Under the man's gaze, Mingyu inexplicably changed his adjectives and, for the first time, seriously introduced Mu Baixing's new identity to the public: "My prospective boyfriend."
At that moment, Mingyu saw Mu Baixing was slightly stunned, and then smiled.
It was as if the ice and snow had just melted, and the wind in the air brought the warmth of spring.
There was a hint of teasing in the man's dark green eyes, and the corners of his lips were raised in an exceptionally gentle arc.
He nodded, his naturally cold voice tinged with a hint of a smile, and said solemnly, "Okay."
Gao Sicheng, Gao Sili, and Gao Siqi: "..."
"The sour smell of love." Gao Sicheng didn't dare to look at Mu Baixing. He stared at the ground, frowned and complained.
Mingyu felt a little embarrassed.
He coughed, ignored Gauss Cheng, walked around his classmate, pulled out the mobile ladder next to the starport, and climbed up to see the unicorn with black smoke coming out of the front of the starship cockpit and a piece of the tail side missing from the explosion.
"Hey, why are you climbing up there?" Gao Sicheng didn't care about complaining about whether they were in love or not, and was a little nervous because of Mingyu's actions.
He took two steps to the bottom of the ladder and saw Mingyu raising his hand to touch it. He quickly warned, "This thing is very valuable..."
Mingyu glanced down at him and said casually, "It's broken. If we want to fix it, we have to replace the entire device. It's useless whether we touch it or not."
Having said that, he listened to Gao Sicheng and did not reach out his hand, but just looked sideways carefully.
"The parts inside are burned." Mingyu looked at the flashlight on the communication bracelet and shone it into the horn. This was clearly caused by the energy flow inside the device being too strong to withstand the circuit.
But it shouldn't.
"Take down the device and take a look?" Gao Siqi said calmly.
She walked to the wall of the starport, pulled out the simple maintenance operation light screen, and operated the robotic arm to remove the animal horn.
Gao Sicheng glanced at her suspiciously and asked curiously, "Sister, why are you so enthusiastic all of a sudden?"
He had just been howling here for a long time, and the other party was just leaning outside to watch the scenery. Now that Mingyu came, the other party followed him in.
Mingyu then climbed down from the ladder and squatted next to the energy reflector. Before he could say anything, the mechanical arm operated by Gao Siqi pressed down with its fingers, violently prying the outer shell off from the damaged part of the energy reflector.
"Hey!!" Gao Sicheng yelled, "Sister——!"
The charred wires were exposed to the sunlight.
Gao Siqi: "See." She said, "This way my brother won't have to worry about you breaking it."
Gauss Cheng: “…”
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu squatted on the ground, frowned slightly, and looked at her in confusion.
Gao Sicheng looked even more confused, and turned to Gao Siqi and said, "What do you mean, sister? Why are you so nice to Mingyu? Are you tempted by his lust?!"
Mingyu: “…”
Mu Baixing: “…”
The four eyes of the two men fell on Gao Siqi. The corner of her mouth twitched, and she couldn't help but slap Gao Sicheng's head hard, saying unhappily: "He is more handsome and good-looking than you! He is also smarter than you!"
"What do you mean!" Gao Sicheng jumped up and down, "I accepted the first one! What do you mean by the second one? Do you think I'm stupid?!"
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu felt that Mu Baixing's air pressure beside him dropped slightly, and felt that he could not stay in this place of trouble for long, so he lowered his head and reached out to fiddle with the pile of burnt pipes, and after a moment he hummed softly.
"Gauss." He thought for a moment, then used a roundabout strategy, looking up and questioning, "Is this the energy rebound device you imitated LUCE's design? The pipes inside are all connected incorrectly! It's a direct short circuit."
"Impossible!" Gao Sicheng immediately stopped arguing with his siblings and loudly retorted, "This is the design that LUCE sold me! I've bought several designs from him! The quality is absolutely impeccable!"
"The engine of my starship was also designed by LUCE! The acceleration is ridiculously fast! What other starship on the market can do that!"
Mingyu nodded and said matter-of-factly, "That means there was a problem with the manufacturing process of the parts manufacturer. You can call and ask if they cut corners."
"For example, there are two lines that should be divided, but because the design drawings seem to have similar functions, we just combine the two into one to save materials." He met Gauss Cheng's distrustful gaze and shrugged.
"You don't know about the famous Abama starship accident?"
Gao Sicheng looked at him suspiciously: "...What Abama?"
"The Abama accident," Mingyu said patiently. "The starship designer nearly committed suicide after being accused of a facility failure that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. In reality, it was the starship manufacturer's sloppiness that caused the starship to have a hidden safety hazard."
"This is the accident we just covered in our starship design history class two weeks ago."
Mingyu: "Spend less time cursing and more time studying. It's right there on the courseware, look for it!"
Gao Sicheng was choked by him. He wanted to refute but couldn't say anything. He could only open the communication bracelet and start looking for the school's courseware.
"I don't know what sin I've committed." He muttered angrily as he searched, "I'm clearly out here to have fun, but I'm still watching the courseware... Don't tell me you're trying to frame me..."
He paused and curled his lips in dissatisfaction.
Gao Sicheng: "How come there really is..."
"Call the manufacturer and ask what happened." Mingyu found out the reason why the device burned out, confirmed that there was no problem with his design drawings, and stood up with his knees supported and prepared to leave.
Gao Siqi was watching from the side and suddenly said, "Hey, handsome boy."
"Shall I treat you and your future boyfriend to a couple of drinks?"
Gao Si and Cheng Yue paused in their reading. Ming Yu was about to refuse when he saw the other party's lips move again, silently uttering a word.
"LUCE."
As if she was afraid that her lip syncing was not standard enough, she smiled and raised her hand to make the number five.
Mingyu never thought that his identity would be suddenly exposed by a stranger, and his heart skipped a beat.
Because he was caught off guard, he was stunned for a moment. By the time he wanted to pretend that he didn't understand the other party's hint, he had already missed the best opportunity.
The smile in Gao Siqi's eyes became even more intense. He put his finger to his lips and made a hushing gesture.
Mingyu: “…”
She was standing behind her two younger brothers, so Gao Sicheng did not see her sister's lip movements.
Before Mingyu could say anything, this brainless classmate said in disbelief: "Sister?!"
"You're not really into her, are you?!"
"That's not how an old cow eats young grass, right?! And how come you...you ate two at once...Ouch! It hurts!"
Gao Sicheng was slapped hard on the back of his head again.
Gao Siqi was speechless. She expertly packed up her brother and walked towards Mingyu in her slender high heels. "Let's go. Not far ahead is Binghuoxing's Fire Viewing Bar. The food is pretty good."
Gao Sicheng covered his head and jumped up and down, shouting, "Hey! No! Sister!——"
"Call that lousy manufacturer of yours first!" Gao Sili was so overwhelmed by his demonic voice that he grabbed his brother's collar and complained, "I've been freezing here with you for a long time looking at your crappy starship! Hurry and fix it for me, I want to go back to my room and catch up on some sleep! It's just a drink with two handsome guys! Forget two, I can handle ten of them! Stay out of this."
Mingyu and Mu Baixing: "..."
Gao Siqi: "..."
She finally couldn't help it and rolled her eyes to the sky.
"Sorry, handsome guys." She then turned to Mingyu and Mu Baixing and explained naturally, "My two younger brothers are not suitable for mental work, so please bear with me."
Mingyu: “…definitely.”
He had never seen anyone curse so tactfully.
A few people walked along the path in the snowfield, and a snow bar built with imitation wood and solid metal, like a holiday cabin, appeared at the bottom of the hill.
They sat down in a private viewing booth on the bar's outer corridor. Mingyu looked at Gao Siqi and suddenly remembered where he had seen him before.
"You are the director of the third department of Star Navigation." Mingyu frowned slightly.
Among the three departments of the Star Navigation Department, the first department is mainly responsible for the security maintenance of the human star field, the second department is responsible for resource development, and the third department is more responsible for extraterrestrial exploration, rescue and other support tasks. It is a very important department in the Star Navigation Department, but it rarely appears in public.
Mingyu had only seen Gao Siqi at the press conference after the second qualifying match, so he didn't recognize him at first.
The Minister of Star Navigation in front of him smiled.
She casually ordered a glass of carrot ale, and then pushed the order screen to Mingyu with one hand: "I'm glad you know my name, LUCE."
"I didn't expect it," Gao Siqi said with interest. "The Star Navigation Department, the military, the civilian exploration team... so many people want to know about you. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have thought that you would be the 'waste' that the Ming family claims to be."
Mu Baixing frowned and looked up at her.
"I have no ill intentions." Gao Siqi met his cold gaze and quickly clarified, "It's just that since I met you, I don't want to miss the opportunity."
She spoke frankly, stating her position: "I will not reveal your identities to anyone, and I will not tell the Ming family about this. Like you, I don't have a good relationship with the Ming family. Or rather, my relationship with the Ming family is very bad."
She could see that if Ming Yu had a close relationship with the Ming family... the Third Legion would not be like it is now. Due to the lack of excellent designers, the equipment and performance of the starships have gradually fallen behind the Second Legion led by the Mu family in recent years.
If Mingyu had a close relationship with the Ming family, he would have given Lieyang some leeway in the Star Navigation Competition and would not have beaten Lieyang so badly time and time again, which was simply embarrassing for Mingyan and Feren!
Gao Siqi felt really happy when watching the live broadcast!
She had a great eye for colorful things, so she didn't hide anything and said sincerely, "I just want to make a deal with you on behalf of the Third Department of Star Navigation. I guarantee you'll make a lot of money."
"I will act as a guarantor for the transaction and go through the special certification process." She stretched out her hand and made a zipper-like motion on her mouth. "Your true identity will not be known to the Space Navigation Department."
"This secret will only rot in my stomach until you are willing to reveal it."
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu ordered a strawberry milkshake and sat up straight to look at her.
The young man frowned slightly, but Gao Siqi's assurance didn't completely lower his guard. He didn't respond to the other party's question about the transaction, but repeated thoughtfully, "'I saw it.'"
"You didn't recognize me because you saw me checking Gauss Cheng's energy reflector." Ming Yu said, "Before that, you knew my identity the first time you saw me."
"You recognized me as Luce because...what did you see?"
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