Perhaps it was because the words "Take a break" worked, Bai Li fell into bed as soon as he got back to the apartment, too sleepy to open his eyes.

In his drowsiness, he felt Lu Zhao take off his clothes and pants and wrap him tightly with a quilt.

Lu Zhao sat beside him for a long time, during which time he quietly walked out of the bedroom to answer several calls. Whenever Bai Li felt that Major General Lu was busy with official duties and would probably have to stay in the living room until the evening, Lu Zhao would return and return to the bedroom without saying a word.

They were already very accustomed to each other's pheromones, and the smell of grass was very good. Bai Li struggled to turn over, wanting to say a few words to let Lu Zhao do his own thing first, but when he was so sleepy that he was unconscious, the sound coming out of his throat was no longer under his control.

Bai Li uttered a few syllables vaguely, and Lu Zhao reached out and touched his forehead and cheeks. He didn't know whether he understood or not, but he responded with a "hmm".

This sleep was very relaxing. Bai Li knew that he was sleeping very strangely. His body was relaxed, and his mind was blank. He was like a machine with its axis pulled out, and finally completely stopped, and he was able to rest without any guilt.

He didn't start to dream until the second half. In his dream, he was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, and heard the patient in the same room muttering in a low voice. As usual, he started with "no family" and ended with "poor". In

the dream, Bai Li was still very disrespectful. He turned over with a "bang" and his huge body stopped immediately. He covered himself with the quilt with satisfaction, took out his mobile phone from under the pillow, and began to click on various websites to pass the time. He was refreshed by different ideas and lowered his bottom line. He read with relish.

Not long after, he became a child again, standing alone in the empty training ground of the Bai family's old house in a daze. Suddenly, he was kicked lightly on the buttocks. When he turned around, he saw the shiny military boots of Mr. Bai.

He could no longer hear clearly what Mr. Bai said in the dream, but he was still very happy. He complained loudly, but he leaned over and hung on Mr. Bai's waist.

Mr. Bai dragged him forward, and it started to rain heavily after only two steps.

Mr. Bai disappeared in the rain. Bai Li stood in the heavy rain, with a dog squatting at his feet, sticking out its tongue and looking at him innocently.

Bai Li kicked it with his toes, and it jumped up suddenly, wagging its tongue as if it had rabies and rushed into the depths of the rain curtain.

There was a person walking towards this side in the rain curtain, and then he started to run. Bai Li stood there for a few seconds, and then ran out in the direction of the person.

He was himself one moment, and the next he became that dog, his heart beating violently, his eardrums roaring with the sound of blood flowing.

More and more people were gathering in the rain, all walking towards him. They were shouting as they walked, and their voices were transmitted to Bai Li through the rain curtains.

Bai Li rushed towards the person running towards him and hugged him with open arms.

The dream came to an abrupt end here, Bai Li opened his eyes, and put his arms around Lu Zhao's waist.

Lu Zhao half-sat next to Bai Li, leaning on the pillow, browsing information on the virtual screen with one hand, and unconsciously playing with Bai Li's hair with the other hand as she buried her face in his waist.

Noticing Bai Li's movements, Lu Zhao turned his head to look at him: "Are you awake?"

Bai Li tightened his hands on Lu Zhao's waist, rubbed his face against Lu Zhao's body, and then said "hmm": "I think I dreamed about the old man."

Lu Zhao pinched the tip of Bai Li's ear.

Dusk was falling outside the window. Bai Li slept all afternoon. Fortunately, the main star area qualifiers ended early, and he had some time to wait for the end of the sub-area qualifiers. He had enough time to rest.

The room was filled with warm orange in the evening. For the first time, Bai Li felt calm after waking up from a long nap. Lu Zhao didn't ask anything or mention anything. Bai Li felt very comfortable.

"Too intimate," Bai Li yawned, "He kicked me."

Lu Zhao couldn't help laughing.

"What are you looking at?" Bai Li glanced at the virtual screen, but without further ado, he rubbed against Lu Zhao and moved his nose closer to his neck. He could smell the reassuring scent of grass. "I seemed to hear you received a few calls. You must be very busy."

"There's something going on in the legion," Lu Zhao said, looking a little hesitant.

Bai Li asked, "Anything else?"

"I found out something," Lu Zhao said, "I wanted to wait until you've rested enough before I told you."

"Nothing, I've had enough sleep." Bai Li smiled and sat up, only to find that he was shirtless. He pretended to push Lu Zhao, "Oh, how could you do this while Li Li was sleeping!"

Lu Zhao was irritated by his pinched voice, and he couldn't bear it anymore and took the pajamas that had been prepared and put them on Bai Li's head.

"What's the matter?" Bai Li struggled to put on his clothes, and then he fell down as if he had no bones, and squeezed together with Lu Zhao.

Lu Zhao enlarged the virtual screen: "You mentioned that professor before, I looked it up."

"The professor who invented that machine?" Bai Li was stunned, "Why did you think of looking him up? I was going to talk about it later."

"It just happened." Lu Zhao said lightly, "You said 'the small gear may also be a key link', so I looked it up."

Bai Li could no longer remember when he said this, but he quickly understood Lu Zhao's thoughts.

The competition was tight, and Bai Li was forced to have no time to be distracted, but Lu Zhao saw how much he cared about the machine.

"I sorted out the information." Lu Zhao pushed the virtual screen in front of Bai Li.

Bai Li took it and looked at it blankly. Before he recovered from the shock that Major General Lu would actually look into such a thing, he was already attracted by the things written on the virtual screen.

"Professor Wang Lang," Lu Zhao said, "his wife has been ill for many years and has been receiving treatment. His daughter also fell ill with the same disease and had to be hospitalized three years before his accident."

There was not much information, and Lu Zhao was not very good at listing it one by one, so the content he organized was a bit fragmented.

"How did you find all this?" Bai Li was surprised.

"Wang Lang is in charge of many projects. The military and the research institute often have cooperative projects. It is not difficult for me to find out about the military," Lu Zhao explained. "I found Wang Lang's name through the cooperative projects. Some high-level projects have basic information about the participants, so I found out about his family situation."

"I've heard about the disease his family has," Bai Li frowned. "It's very difficult to treat. This is a huge amount of money beyond his ability, not to mention that he has to take care of two patients."

This also means that Professor Wang is very short of money. From the information Lu Zhao found, the professor has sold all his valuable belongings, but the medical expenses for his partner and children are still like a bottomless pit.

"Before he got into trouble, a sum of money was deposited into his partner's personal account." Lu Zhao said softly, "He doesn't have many ways to make money."

Bai Li sighed: "The projects he was involved in were all mountains of wealth."

"I asked someone to check, and the project he took on the cruise ship for business trip was not related to mental power." Lu Zhao said.

Bai Li: "Yang Han also said that it was not normal for his personal terminal to have data on high-level confidential projects."

"This project has been stopped a long time ago, and I can't find the content, but I can ask someone to find the access and download records of this project." Lu Zhao clicked on the virtual screen, "But nothing was found."

A record screenshot was called up, and Bai Li saw something wrong: "The access and download records of the month before his accident were deleted."

"Yes," Lu Zhao said, "It is said that there was a power outage at the Imperial Research Institute at that time, causing the operating machines to malfunction and lose some data."

This was too coincidental, Bai Li didn't quite believe it.

Before Bai Li could speak, Lu Zhao continued, "But deleting records usually requires an administrator to do it. I'm familiar with this routine, so I looked up the name of the administrator at the time."

When Lu Zhao mentioned the "routine," he paused, and Bai Li immediately thought of the medical examiner and his fiancée at the military hospital who leaked personal information.

Those two were the ones who dug the hole for me to shovel. The medical examiner's partner was responsible for managing the medical records.

Major General Lu had a strong ability to draw inferences about other cases, and Bai Li was a little moved that he had learned these methods from such a dirty thing.

"Did you find out?" Bai Li asked.

Lu Zhao gave a name.

The name was familiar to both of them, and even in the past few days, the citizens of the Empire were not unfamiliar with this person.

"Isn't this the young leader who was dismissed?!" Bai Li sat up and said in shock, "He was arrested for corruption and bribery!"

He immediately understood the connection.

Professor Wang Lang chose to steal the internal data of the Imperial Research Institute because he could not afford the heavy medical expenses. At that time, the projects he had on hand had been basically completed or announced to the public, and the value was not high, except for the project of improving mental power.

But the confidentiality level of this project was very high, and he could not take the data out of the Imperial Research Institute. He should have given a sum of money to the young leader who was dismissed at that time who had an administrator account, obtained the data and deleted the records, and then covered it up with a large-scale power outage accident in the Imperial Research Institute. Later, the project was stopped and no one cared about it. This matter has been so confusing until now.

"He took advantage of the opportunity of a business trip for other projects and took a civilian cruise ship to the buyer's place," Bai Li speculated, "The money deposited into his partner's account should be part of the deposit. This machine is too sophisticated, and the buyer may need him to provide some technical assistance. Maybe he also promised additional money, otherwise he would not be so anxious to leave the main star. He really needs money."

Lu Zhao nodded: "I think so too."

Bai Li re-read the information.

If the original book also follows this routine, then Wang Lang returns to the main star after successfully selling the information on hand, and then recommends Yang Han to enter the Imperial Research Institute.

But from the original book, this project was never mentioned from beginning to end, and no one like Tang Kaiyuan appeared afterwards, so this project was still stopped.

In other words, the machine's defects always exist, and Wang Lang should be aware of this in his heart, so he dared to sell it so confidently, because it was impossible for outsiders to develop it successfully.

Tang Kaiyuan should be the only successful experiment.

But for some reason, when Tang Kaiyuan returned to the main planet and sought help because of his declining mental power, the professor was not at the institute. Instead, Yang Han found a way to stabilize the mental power based on the data left by the project, relying on his extraordinary talent and experience, thus saving Tang Kaiyuan's life.

"This may be a part of the original trajectory that cannot be explained," Bai Li told Lu Zhao his speculation, "I don't know why Professor Wang, a character who changed the direction of the plot, has never appeared."

Lu Zhao tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Professor Wang received several psychological treatments before leaving the main planet."

Bai Li didn't quite understand.

"When I checked his information, I learned that researchers had the idea of ​​letting him retire early," Lu Zhao said, "His psychiatrist reported that his condition was not good, and he had some..." Lu Zhao paused, "bad tendencies."

"So early retirement increased his desire to make money," Bai Li pondered, "but the problem should have been solved after the money arrived..."

"It can't be solved," Lu Zhao said, "For this disease, money can only delay the death of his partner and daughter."

Bai Li looked sideways at him in surprise.

"My father also has this disease." Lu Zhao said lightly, "It can only delay time. He may have indeed extended the life of his relatives for a period of time, but it only prolonged the time of waiting for separation. This kind of waiting will torture people to death."

Wang Lang couldn't stand this kind of waiting for separation day after day. He was already extremely depressed. His relatives finally died in a long torture. He may have ended his own life and disappeared from the original book. At that time, Tang Kaiyuan had not even returned to the main planet, so he would not be mentioned in the original book at all.

Outside the records in the book, some people lived and some died.

A small person made a choice because of the burden of his family, and indirectly created an artificial son of heaven.

This world is full of loopholes.

If it weren't for the rampant bureaucracy and irregular management of the Imperial Research Institute, Wang Lang would not be able to sell the data at all. But in order to achieve a person, this situation was allowed to happen.

But if the Imperial Research Institute had not become like this, Yang Han should have been able to be hired based on his strength, instead of losing the job because of Wang Lang's accidental death, which indirectly caused the subsequent problems of Tang Kaiyuan's spiritual power to remain unsolved.

Similarly, if these institutions were not pedantic and incompetent, Situ would not have been squeezed out of the Imperial Research Institute and cooperated with Bai Li to develop mechas. White01 might not exist, and Bai Li, who is now blocking Tang Kaiyuan's way, might not exist.

Life is really made up of coincidences and tragedies and comedies.

Planting the seeds of "goodness" may not bear any fruit, but the threads of "evil" may not necessarily weave an ideal blueprint.

These are just speculations. Bai Li could no longer understand the truth of the matter from the original novel. Lu Zhao's speculation was very convincing. After a brief moment of shock, he realized that this speculation was based on Lu Zhao's experience.

The original novel understands the world from Tang Kaiyuan's perspective from beginning to end. He gives "equal love" to the people around him, but love is never equal.

People have limited energy, and sometimes understanding another person will use up all your energy. Tang Kaiyuan's love is fair because his energy is divided into small pieces, and everyone is understood superficially, digging up the surface, but not going deep.

Bai Li couldn't answer the question, so he could only lean over and whisper to Lu Zhao: "Thank you for answering my questions."

"Yeah." Major General Lu accepted the thanks unhappily.

"Facts have proved that the friendly forces are still very capable of doing things," Bai Li said flatteringly, "My good days of eating free rice are just around the corner."

Lu Zhao smiled for a while: "I'm not very good at doing these."

Without waiting for Bai Li to refute, Lu Zhao said again: "But I will learn."

Bai Li looked at him, and after a while he said: "I don't think I will need these in the future."

Lu Zhao didn't understand.

"Today, the big brother of CL-17 told me that everything will be fine in the future." Bai Li lay on his side and hugged Lu Zhao, "I think he makes sense." Everything

will be fine in the future.

The world will not change, only people will change, and people will become better.

Lu Zhao said "hmm" and touched Bai Li's arm.

"Well," Bai Li asked hesitantly, "Professor Wang's partner and daughter..."

"Dead." Lu Zhao replied.

Bai Li didn't know what to feel for a moment. Too many things happened today, and he was a little numb. He just said bluntly: "Oh."

"I know you will ask," Lu Zhao turned his head and looked at him, "so you hesitated whether to say it."

"What can't be said."

Lu Zhao said succinctly: "Soft-hearted."

"What's so soft-hearted about this?" Bai Li laughed.

"You are soft-hearted." Lu Zhao suddenly smiled. "Pretentious."

Bai Li "tsk"ed and grabbed the itchy flesh on Lu Zhao's waist: "Bullshit!"

"You are angry because of shame." Lu Zhao laughed and commented.

"I am also furious," Bai Li said, "I am itchy!"

Before Lu Zhao could figure out the mess of idioms, Bai Li's hand reached in along the hem of his clothes and groped all the way up, causing a tremor at the touch of his skin.

Bai Li lifted Lu Zhao's shirt and bit his stomach. Major General Lu snorted lightly, and not to be outdone, he raised his leg and rubbed Bai Li's lower abdomen, making Bai Li's mouth dry.

"I am your enlightenment teacher, aren't I?" Bai Li said, "Can you give me some freedom?"

Just as Lu Zhao was about to laugh, he heard a sound from the personal terminal next to him. This reminder tone was specially set, and it was obvious that it was a text message from the army.

He was about to take it and read it, but Bai Li held him down with displeasure: "The arrow is on the string, Major General Lu!"

Lu Zhao suddenly flipped him over, sat on Bai Li to take the personal terminal, and said with a smile: "News from the army."

Bai Li calmed down, and didn't mind Lu Zhao pressing him on the bed and touching him with his hands.

Before he could touch him a few times, the gangster's hands were held down.

When he looked up, he saw Lu Zhao's eyes moving away from the virtual screen and falling on his face: "The legion asked me to go for a meeting tomorrow."

"Go ahead." Bai Li said, "There is no competition tomorrow anyway, and the competitions in the sub-districts must be completed by tomorrow afternoon at the earliest."

"The legion invites you to join." Lu Zhao looked at him and said.

Tang Kaiyuan woke up from his coma and felt a buzzing in his head. He vomited twice.

He sorted out the useful parts from his chaotic memory. Today is the final of the sub-district 1 qualifying competition. He lost control during the competition.

Everything in the dream was intertwined with reality. Tang Kaiyuan felt as if he was rising and falling in the sea. The suffocation and chaotic memories tortured his spirit. He had a splitting headache and almost couldn't drive the mecha.

Fortunately, he managed to survive in the end. He only vaguely remembered that he struggled to walk down the main stage and was supported by the researchers in the backstage. He didn't remember much after that.

Tang Kaiyuan looked around and found that he was lying in a ward. The name of the hospital was printed on his hospital gown. It was a private hospital on the affiliated planet.

He glanced at the capsule on the bedside and found that two pills were missing. He turned it over and found that it was a drug that inhibited alpha pheromones.

A chill enveloped him from head to toe.

Two pills were missing. Did he take them? Did he fail to control his pheromones? How could he not control his pheromones? !

Tang Kaiyuan threw away the capsule packaging box in a panic, and the things fell to the ground. He then found that there was a person sitting on the small sofa next to the bed.

Mrs. Tang looked very tired and fell asleep on the armrest of the sofa. Tang Kaiyuan put on his shoes carefully and didn't find anyone else in the ward, so he had to walk out.

This private hospital is very small, and there are not many inpatients. Only his ward showed that it was occupied, and the corridor was empty.

As soon as he walked out of the door, Tang Xiao's low voice came: "...Yes, I know, but he still won... Please think of a way, if those reporters know what happened backstage today..."

Tang Kaiyuan followed the voice and found Tang Xiao who was communicating with someone at the corner.

"It was a mistake," Tang Xiao pleaded, suppressing his anger. "I swear he won't do that again."

Lin Sheng's voice came through the personal terminal, sounding as if he was already angry to a certain extent: "What can I do! I'm so busy dealing with those bastards in the police department - and that old guy in the military!"

Tang Kaiyuan realized that he was talking about the marshal.

"Or ask the young master if there is any way," Tang Xiao's face was full of impatience, "He said that if Kaiyuan wins the game, he will guarantee that he can enter the First Legion."

"Why do you think he said that? It's because all his connections in the military have been cut off, so he hopes your son can find a new way," Lin Sheng sneered. "The second brother has already forced him into a corner. The eldest master is busy with his own affairs and has no time to deal with me. Do you think he will care about your trivial matters?!"

Tang Xiao's patience finally reached its limit. He said angrily, "Then you What should we do?!" He paused, remembered his own position, and lowered his voice, "In the current situation, if the Kaiyuan incident gets out of hand, you and the young master will have more trouble."

Lin Sheng muttered something dirty in a low voice: "Okay, I get it, let me finish the investigation first."

Without waiting for Tang Xiao to say anything else, Lin Sheng hung up the call.

"Son of a bitch!" Tang Xiao cursed and stomped on the cleaning robot next to him, making it stumble.

He turned around and saw Tang Kaiyuan standing behind him with a look of astonishment on his face.

"Kaiyuan," Tang Xiao forced a smile on his face twisted by anger, "Are you awake?"

Tang Kaiyuan whispered, "What happened? Why am I here?"

"Oh, you..." Tang Xiao's anger rose again, but he had to stand against the wall because of dizziness. He looked like an angry old man, "You leaked some pheromones in the backstage, and some omegas couldn't stand it and entered the estrus period early. Some alphas were affected and were confused for a while."

These few casual words chilled Tang Kaiyuan's heart to the bottom.

It would be fine if O entered the estrus period early, but A was also present. He opened his mouth but didn't dare to ask how it was handled.

"If you ask me, the competition committee is just a bunch of good-for-nothings," Tang Xiao scolded, "Anyone can be hired. Some people should be at home taking care of the children and doing housework, but they have to come out and make trouble..."

He kept talking, and Tang Kaiyuan asked harshly, "Will it affect the upcoming finals?"

"No!" Tang Xiao was firm, "This matter can't be known to those fly-like reporters! Don't worry, I'm already looking for someone to handle it, and this matter will never be leaked."

"Even if it's true... it shouldn't affect the competition," Tang Kaiyuan said with a glimmer of hope, "It's just that I couldn't control my pheromones. I, I can say that I'm in a susceptible period! They will understand..."

"Understand?" Tang Xiao looked at him in disbelief, and then laughed strangely, "My silly son! The outside world will never understand you. The outside world will only believe what they hear. The more one-sided, the more they will take it as true."

He was amused by Tang Kaiyuan. After laughing for a long time, he patted his son's shoulder and said, "People should never have any negative information, otherwise they will be endlessly dug out and destroyed slowly." After a pause, he added, "Otherwise, how do you think Bai Li was destroyed in those years?"

Bai Li's name was very stimulating to Tang Kaiyuan. He subconsciously looked up and looked at Tang Xiao in a daze.

"Once a person falls, just spread a few groundless news and give some sweet treats, it will be enough for others to rush up and tear him to pieces and crush him." A slightly smug smile appeared on Tang Xiao's chubby face, "You are different, son, you will stand higher sooner or later, how can I let you do that."

Tang Kaiyuan vaguely understood the meaning of his father's words.

From this meaning, he realized that Tang Xiao's hatred for the Bai family had reached this point.

Old Master Bai might not have dreamed that his contempt and disdain when he was alive would have what consequences for the only heir. The old man never bowed his head in his life, but he didn't expect that after he closed his eyes, Bai Li's waist was almost broken by someone.

This is probably one of the reasons why Tang Xiao felt relieved.

Bai Li is too much like Old Master Bai. Seeing him fall to the bottom is like seeing the entire Bai family fall.

Human emotions often need to be carefully managed to maintain, but hatred can come easily and grow day by day.

"Don't worry too much, I have a way." Tang Xiao saw that Tang Kaiyuan didn't say anything, thinking that he was still thinking about this matter, "Mr. Lin Sheng and the young master will have a way."

"But Mr. Lin Sheng also said just now that they all have their own troubles." Tang Kaiyuan whispered.

"Their troubles are none of my business. I just need them to solve my problems. And they have to solve them," Tang Xiao sneered, "Am I wasting time with them in the club for nothing?"

Hearing the word "club", Tang Kaiyuan's expression was instantly stiff.

"Okay, go in quickly," Tang Xiao said, "Restorate before you think about using the machine next time."

Tang Kaiyuan walked back to the ward with a numb head. His mind was in a mess, and he didn't even notice that Mrs. Tang, who was sleeping on the sofa, had changed her posture.

The sound of quilts being covered rustled in her ears, and Mrs. Tang slowly loosened her hands.

Her nails left deep marks on the palm of her hand, but she told herself not to look up.

My father once said that when you hate someone to the extreme, you must never let him see your eyes.

Don't let him see the sharp blade hidden in your heart from your eyes.