There was a small accident in the research institute this morning. The second generation of the security robot made by Situ was made. Several researchers took it to test its performance. Before they entered the test room for a few minutes, the little white ball sprayed a hypnotic gas, which directly knocked down three researchers who were close to it.
The remaining two were so sleepy that they could not recognize their parents. They forced themselves to say, "It's a work injury, pay me."
After that, you look again, and they have already gone to boxing with Zhou Gong.
Situ was completely exhausted and rushed into his small laboratory to close the door for adjustment. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Bai Li lying paralyzed on the single sofa in the small laboratory.
Situ was startled: "I thought you weren't coming today! Hey, can you stop coming to my lab? There are so many sofas and soft chairs in the rest area, can you just stay there and grow old?"
In the past, Bai Li would have to say a few more words to Situ, but today, half a minute had passed since Situ finished speaking before he heard the weak reply from Master Bai: "The rest area is too noisy, there's no one here."
"I'm not a human? Do you think I can't hear you cursing?" Situ took the little white ball and walked to his workbench, "If you want to be quiet, you might as well go home."
Who said no? Bai Li paralyzed on the single sofa with his eyes closed. He also wanted to stay at home. He used to be the only one in the apartment, it was very quiet, it was his sanctuary.
It's different now. Now there's Lu Zhao, and he feels that Lu Zhao's shadow is everywhere.
Especially the few words Lu Zhao said before he left this morning, it seemed to squeeze Bai Li into a corner. When he went downstairs and got into the suspension car, he felt that he was as helpless as a defeated fighter who fled in panic.
Situ looked at him and felt that Bai Li was not in a good state, so he asked: "What's the matter, Master Bai, you don't look energetic enough."
Bai Li said "hmm": "I didn't sleep well."
Of course he didn't sleep well, he tossed and turned all night, and Lu Zhao's words kept repeating in his mind.
Whenever he sits down now, he can feel the weight of Lu Zhao on his legs, and the warmth of his body temperature on his left leg.
"What did Lao Zheng say the last time you went to the hospital? He told you to worry less, eat and sleep well, and rest your legs," Situ felt that being a military advisor was very tiring, but he still had to patiently tell his boss, "I don't think you have anything to worry about recently, it's just that the Tang family dinner was a bit annoying."
Bai Li closed his eyes for two seconds, then he remembered that he forgot to tell Lu Zhao about the specific arrangements for the dinner.
He grabbed his messy hair and sighed, thinking what the hell is this: "Is the Tang family a big deal? Who cares about them? Just treat it as a trip. The Tang family's old house is not open to anyone. The last time I went in was when our grandfather was still alive."
In the original novel, the Tang family's dinner was set in the old house, mainly to pave the way for the return of the male protagonist in the future. At this dinner, Bai Li and Lu Zhao from the original novel attended together. The little things between Bai Li and the Tang family in the original novel were brought up again, which made him feel very embarrassed. He got angry in public and almost ruined the dinner.
This plot was inserted inexplicably at the time. It seemed that it was just to establish the image of Bai Li in the original novel as violent and narrow-minded, and also made the male protagonist's face slap more loudly later.
"Old house? You remembered it wrongly," Situ said with a puzzled voice, "Isn't it held on a cruise ship?"
Bai Li came back to his senses: "Huh?"
Situ took out his personal terminal, clicked on the invitation letter from Tang's family, and pushed it to Bai Li to see: "See, cruise ship! What old house? What's so good about the old house of the Tang family?"
Projected on the virtual screen in the air, the invitation letter sent by Tang's family clearly stated in the address column that a dinner will be held on the Emerald Star cruise ship at 7 pm next Friday, and rooms have been arranged for the guests to have a good night's sleep while sailing in the universe.
Bai Li was a little confused.
He read Situ's invitation letter several times, and then retrieved the one he received. The address column was exactly the same as Situ's, both of which were located on a luxury cruise ship that sailed overnight around the outer periphery of the main star.
He didn't know what went wrong. This time, the Tang family did not use the old house as the venue for the dinner party as in the original novel.
Situ turned off the personal terminal and chuckled a few times: "Don't think you can just say 'go to the bathroom' and then run away this time."
Those snorts and chuckles reached Bai Li's mind, making it buzz. Bai
Li didn't have time to deal with Situ. He looked at the address on the invitation letter that was different from the address in his memory, and suddenly realized that he had to spend a night on this cruise ship with Lu Zhao.
Lu Zhao had said before that when Bai Li needed to pee, he should call him to join him.
This time, they were on a boat together. Not to mention peeing, they went to the toilet hand in hand, and finally came back hand in hand.
Bai Li punched the armrest of the sofa several times.
Situ laughed so hard that he thought Bai Li was holding his breath because he couldn't pee. He laughed so hard that his stomach hurt: "Good brother, let's drink a few more glasses at the banquet."
Bai Li looked at Situ laughing and felt again that people's sorrows and joys are not the same. He said lonely, "I really envy you. You can find brothers at the banquet, unlike me, who can only find a partner."
Situ stopped laughing suddenly as if someone had pinched his neck. After a while, he squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Damn it."
The address on the invitation letter has changed, but Bai Li couldn't figure out why for a while, and didn't know what the impact would be. Recently, he found that many details began to deviate from the original work. Bai Li couldn't say what the results of these minor deviations would be.
He didn't dare to think too much.
"Is there any news about the person I asked you to help investigate last time?" Bai Li forwarded a copy of the invitation letter to Lu Zhao, and asked Situ without looking up.
Situ was still angry, and glared at Bai Li for a few times, but it was useless, so he said: "I checked, but I couldn't find it. I asked someone at the Imperial Research Institute, and there is no omega you mentioned."
Another thing that doesn't match.
Bai Li frowned.
"Why are you checking this person? Who is this person?" Situ put the little white ball on the workbench, turned his head and taught Bai Li, "Tell me, is it one of your old lovers? I tell you, Bai Li, if you dare to make a mess, you don't need to ask Major General Lu, I will be the first to beat your head!"
After all, Situ also knew that Bai Li was not that kind of person.
It was only later that the optical computer matched this grandson with Lu Zhao, otherwise it is estimated that Bai Li would still be living with Ni Zhan.
"Can you just investigate? Stop slandering me." Bai Li felt weak. His head had been numb since last night.
Situ felt that Bai Li was particularly abnormal today, and looked at him twice more: "Why don't you ask Major General Lu to help you check, he has a wide network of contacts in the military, if the person you are looking for is not in the Imperial Research Institute, he may have gone to the Logistics Department, where sometimes people have to participate in mecha maintenance and so on, and they have more contact with the Research Institute."
The young master Bai on the sofa did not say a word, and was motionless as if he was dead.
Situ figured it out: "Did you have a quarrel with Lu Zhao? Did you have a fight?"
Bai Li thought, how could he quarrel? He was forced into this state, and he still dared to run with his tail between his legs.
On the way to the Research Institute, Bai Li couldn't come back to his senses all the way. Sometimes he felt that Lu Zhao's character of pushing forward desperately once he was determined to do something made him a little helpless and unable to resist.
What does Lu Zhao know? He has no idea what Bai Li is thinking or struggling for. That's why he can press Bai Li down on the sofa and insist on getting a satisfactory answer. He
forced Bai Li into a dead end because he knows nothing.
There was a moment last night when Bai Li wanted to push away Lu Zhao who was lying on his legs. He knew that as long as he pushed him away, the escape route would always be there.
But he didn't.
The personal terminal sounded a reminder. Bai Li came back to his senses and picked it up to see that Lu Zhao had received the forwarded invitation and replied with a message: Yeah.
After a while, Lu Zhao sent another message: We haven't finished talking about yesterday, let's continue tonight.
Bai Li felt that Lu Zhao had driven a mecha and rushed directly towards him, wanting to crush him to pieces.
Situ talked to himself for a long time, but didn't hear Bai Li's reply. Just when he felt strange, he turned around and saw Master Bai curled up on the sofa with a personal terminal in his hand.
A muffled voice came from the ball: "Teacher Si, can you lend me your place for one night?"
Lu Zhao was standing in the corner of the training ground drinking water. He had just finished the morning training. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and took a look at the personal terminal.
The whole morning passed, and Bai Li didn't reply.
Not even the dog head emoticon that he always liked to send.
Lu Zhao flipped through the chat history. In addition to the invitation letter forwarded today, Bai Li's last text message to him was the dog head emoticon with the "OK" gesture and the words "waiting for you".
Today, there are no such two words in Baili.
Huo Cun beside him shouted loudly: "Hey, Major General Han, can you still drink water with this mouth? It really won't leak out?"
"Get out!" Han Miao had just left the training ground and took a bottle of water from the constant temperature cabinet next to Lu Zhao. While squeezing it, he turned back and sneered at Huo Cun, "You are the only one who talks too much nonsense!"
After saying that, he pressed his lips again, pulling the wound and frowning in pain.
Han Miao drank more than Lu Zhao yesterday, and he blurted out everything, which made Chen Nan angry enough, and he punched Han Miao several times in front of Huo Cun and Lu Zhao.
When Han Miao appeared in the training ground again this morning, there was a gap on his lower lip.傷口一看就是剛弄的，他一說話就扯得疼，一疼就舔，邊舔臉上還邊露出讓霍存牙酸的微笑。
“沒見過這樣兒的人！”霍存也練完了要休息，走過來一屁股坐在椅子上，嘴上還一直叭叭，“您就直說吧，是不是讓回家讓陳楠給揍了？大家都是兄弟，說出來讓兄弟高興高興。”
韓渺不樂意說，被霍存問得急了，才又抽了一瓶水往霍存嘴上怼：“問問問！回頭你自己談戀愛了，讓你對象親你的時候也用牙來一家夥你就知道了！”
這話一說完，陸召跟霍存都愣了好幾秒，繼而才反應過來韓渺嘴上這傷口是怎麽來的了。
話都說到這份兒上了，韓渺也懶得再遮掩。 He said that he drank too much last night and made Chen Nan angry, and he was still angry this morning. Before leaving, Han Miao wanted to be intimate with him as usual, but he got hit and came to work with a gaping mouth. Han Miao
's appearance is quite standard alpha features, tall and strong. At this moment, he whispered about this matter to Lu Zhao and Huo Cun, with a look of grievance on his face, but there was also a little pride in his grievance, and there was also a secret joy of getting something sweet in his pride, which was completely inconsistent with his strong appearance, and Lu Zhao wanted to laugh when he heard it.
"I really didn't see that," Huo Cun drank water, choked with laughter, and kept coughing, and he was still talking intermittently, "Chen Nan, cough cough cough, Chen Nan is quite powerful!"
Han Miao was also embarrassed, rubbing his face to hide his emotions: "I have to drink more slowly in the future. I was really angry with him yesterday. If he gets really angry, I'll be finished."
In the past, he just listened to this. Lu Zhao had known Han Miao and Chen Nan for so many years, and had heard enough of the two showing their affection. Basically, it went in one ear and out the other, and never took it to heart.
But today, Han Miao's sentence "He got really angry when he got really angry" somehow stuck into Lu Zhao's ears like a nail.
Lu Zhao recalled that Bai Li covered her face last night to prevent him from pulling her hand away. He felt that Bai Li was actually a little angry at that time.
But Lu Zhao wanted to see Bai Li's face at that time. He admitted that he was forcing Bai Li to let go.
Just like he forced Bai Li not to evade the problem this morning.
Han Miao and Huo Cun were arguing with each other when they heard Lu Zhao say, "What if you really force me?"
Han Miao and Huo Cun were stunned. They didn't understand and looked at each other.
Major General Lu asked again in a calm tone, as if he was really curious: "What should we do if we are really forced into a corner?"
"What can we do?" Han Miao answered Lu Zhao's question for the first time and was not used to it. "Just, coax him."
Huo Cun laughed: "Major General Han, can you coax people?"
Han Miao stomped on Huo Cun's foot: "I can't coax people, but can I admit my mistakes?" He
stomped on Huo Cun's foot and ran away while laughing.
At noon, most people on the training ground came down to rest. Han Miao didn't speak loudly. He just turned his head and looked at Lu Zhao twice before asking quietly: "Did Bai Li say something to you because you drank last night?"
Most omegas rarely go out to dinner alone until late at night after getting married, especially for Lu Zhao, who is surrounded by alphas and betas. When he goes home, he is more or less stained with other smells. If he meets an alpha with a bad temper, he may get into trouble.
Han Miao thought of the day when Bai Li pushed Gao Ye's head to the ground, and felt that Master Bai must have a bad temper.
Lu Zhao shook his head: "No."
Bai Li didn't say anything, but he said a lot. Bai Li was speechless and dared to cover his face.
"That's fine. I thought you two were having a fight." Han Miao and Chen Nan had a small fight every three days, but never a big fight. "I've never seen you ask such a thing. It scared me."
Lu Zhao smiled and said nothing.
There was still no message in the text message box between him and Bai Li on the personal terminal.
He and Bai Li did not have a fight. They could not have a fight at all.
Until the end of a whole day of training, Lu Zhao processed some necessary documents that Huo Cun had transferred to him, but Bai Li did not reply.
When Lu Zhao was drunk before, he wanted to see Bai Li angry. Now that he was sober, the force that pushed him forward evaporated with the alcohol. He suddenly realized that if Bai Li really got angry after he forced him like that, he didn't know how to end it.
How to comfort someone if he is angry?
Lu Zhao thought about it but couldn't figure it out. Coaxing people is too gentle, and it's not something that Major General Lu can do.
He has never coaxed anyone, and no one has ever coaxed him before.
Lu Zhao wanted to find an example to imitate. After thinking for a long time, he found that the only person he could imitate was Bai Li.
Bai Li was all the interpretations of the word "gentle" in Lu Zhao's cognition.
As soon as these words popped into his mind, Lu Zhao felt that he was being pretentious. He couldn't learn Han Miao's submissive and submissive operation. After leaving the First Corps, he drove back while thinking that he had to explain it to Bai Li first. He didn't want to force Bai Li to do anything, he just wanted to ask Bai Li if they could get closer if Bai Li was willing.
In Bai Li's words, "the revolutionary friendship has been further sublimated."
When Lu Zhao thought about this, he found that he had been assimilated by Bai Li to a great extent, and he wanted to laugh.
The car drove all the way to the apartment building, and it was already evening when it stopped. The weather has been bad in the past two days, and it was already gray at this time, which made people feel unhappy. Lu Zhao parked the car back in the garage, sorted out the things in his mind, and then stepped into the apartment building.
He hesitated for two seconds before opening the door, thinking that since he had to blow up Bai Li's retreat anyway, he had to do it in one go.
Lu Zhao opened the door, and there was no light on in the room. He walked in and looked around in the light outside the window that had not yet completely dimmed.
Bai Li did not come back.
He waited until the darkness was shrouded, and the night lights of the empire outside the window shone into the apartment, but Bai Li did not come back.
Lu Zhao stood in the dark room and suddenly realized that the apartment was really big. It was big and empty, making him look very small. He hadn't felt so small in many years.
The small house he lived in with his father on the satellite star was very small, and the dormitory assigned by the army was also very small. He could fill it up by himself.
Here, without Bai Li's noise, Lu Zhao couldn't fill this place.
Lu Zhao walked around the room, picked up the nutrient solution and put it down again, and finally sat back on the sofa, picked up the box of chocolates he had bought from the supermarket from the coffee table, tore open the package, broke a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.
While chewing the chocolate, he thought, damn, I was careless, it turns out that this could happen.
It turns out that when he pushed Bai Li to a corner, Bai Li could still jump over the wall and run away.
That's right, Bai Li has always been good.
Lu Zhao thought, maybe I can't.
Maybe I have to admit defeat.
The hovercraft drove around the main city of the main star for several circles before Bai Li returned to the downstairs of the apartment building in the early morning night.
He sat in the car for a long time, and then it started to rain, but it was not heavy. Fine and dense soft raindrops fell on the car window. Bai Li sat in the driver's seat and opened the personal terminal, and looked at the last text message sent by Lu Zhao two hours ago.
Lu Zhao: Where?
Bai Li did not reply, and Lu Zhao did not ask again.
Bai Li did not dare to reply, because he was afraid that Lu Zhao would look for him if he told the location.
He would definitely look for him. Lu Zhao was such a person. He did whatever he wanted, without any worries, and without any fear. The Imperial Eagle is an Imperial Eagle after all, and will never refuse to fly for fear of falling on the mud. He
moved forward relentlessly, chasing Bai Li and making him flee in panic.
Bai Li originally wanted to stay in the institute for one night, and this was his first reaction. He was afraid that Lu Zhao would say something, and he was also afraid that he would not be able to refuse.
The development of the matter took a 180-degree turn from the direction he had originally planned, and Bai Li broke the steering wheel. When he wanted to turn around, it was too late.
Bai Li wanted to jump out of the car.
But after driving around for a whole day, he realized that he had driven back to the apartment.
Bai Li knew that Lu Zhao was stubborn, and he was afraid that Lu Zhao was still waiting for him.
Forget it. Bai Li thought in despair, what's the big deal? There are only a few days left anyway.
Thinking of this, Master Bai took several deep breaths before he opened the car door and got out.
When he looked up, the little courage he had just mustered disappeared like a fart.
There was a man standing at the door of the apartment. He didn't know how long he had been standing there. He didn't say a word, just looking at Bai Li.
Lu Zhao stood in the soft rain and finally waited until Bai Li got out of the car.
A sour feeling rose from his heart, choking Bai Li's throat, blocking all words. He opened his mouth, not knowing how to speak.
After a long while, Lu Zhao's voice rang out.
Still very calm, no ripples could be heard in the dark night, and he said lightly: "I thought you were not coming back, and ran away along the retreat route."
Bai Li laughed dryly: "How could that be, flowers? I just drove for a ride."
The rainy season in the empire brought a hint of coolness. Bai Li closed the car door and joked: "Why are you still outside in the middle of the night? Are you going to look for me?"
After saying that, he felt that what he said was very boring, but Bai Li didn't know what to say.
The two were silent for a while, and Bai Li heard Lu Zhao say "hmm".
"..." Bai Li felt like a coward in front of Lu Zhao, "What if you can't find me?"
It was true that he couldn't find me. Lu Zhao thought for a long time and found that he didn't know much about Bai Li. Apart from the apartment and the research institute, after asking Situ at the research institute and getting the reply that "Bai Li has left", Lu Zhao couldn't think of where else Bai Li could go.
He went downstairs and then realized that he didn't know where to go, so he just stood there like an idiot.
Bai Li asked him, what if he couldn't find it?
Lu Zhao's expression finally changed. He was stumped by the question and showed a trace of bewilderment. He answered very frankly: "I don't know."
From the first time he met Lu Zhao to now, Bai Li had never seen this expression on Lu Zhao's face.
He seemed to be standing at a fork in the road. None of the road signs had "Bai Li" written on them, because Bai Li never told Lu Zhao which way to go if he wanted to find him.
Even so, Lu Zhao was still moving forward. Even if there was no road, he was still walking towards Bai Li.
Bai Li was soaked by the rain, and his stubbornness and pretentiousness were all extinguished. He realized that he was not a good person, and that he was also forcing Lu Zhao. He forced Lu Zhao into this state.
He forced a person who had never been lost to stand in the rain in the early morning, not knowing where to find him.
Bai Li heard a sound in his heart.
It was a brick that fell on his retreat.