Chapter 37 Uncle Fu's Intervention
"Xiao Yao, um... can we not go to the desolate planet for the assessment?" Uncle Fu asked Lin Yao a little awkwardly while sitting in the lobby on the first floor of Zhuyuan, his voice slightly dry and barely noticeable.
This was the first time that Uncle Fu had stepped into this small building since Lin Yao moved to Zhuyuan. He met Lin Yao and sat down to talk to him.
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Time goes back half an hour.
Coming out of Delinfeng's study, the carved wooden door slowly closed behind him. Lin Yao stood in the corridor, with the agarwood from the ebony box still lingering on his fingertips.
The name of his grandmother Lin Wanzhao and the agreement about the surname "Lin" were like a stone thrown into still water, causing ripples in his heart. Even the original owner's memory had never touched upon these things, which showed how deeply De Linfeng had hidden this past event.
He didn't ask Butler Zhan to arrange a hovercraft, and slowly walked out along the corridor of the main courtyard.
The afternoon sun streamed in, casting mottled shadows on the marble slabs, making his thoughts even more chaotic.
Why did De Linfeng do this?
Lin Yao kicked a small stone at his feet, and the stone rolled far away.
In memory, this grandfather was obviously more concerned about the second and third uncles, and was always lukewarm towards the original owner's father, his eldest son.
But it was this person who kept his promise to Lin Wanzhao, let his eldest son have the surname Lin, and handed the jade pendant to him intact.
He could have simply denied it. With De Linfeng's authority in the family, changing a surname and hiding a relic was just a matter of a word.
"It can't be that... Grandma Lin is his true love, Bai Yueguang?" Lin Yao couldn't help but whisper to himself, but the thought was extinguished as soon as it came out.
If it was true love, how could she be so permissive towards her only son and only grandson? The original owner lived like a transparent person in the family, and rarely received the old man's attention when his father was alive.
I was lost in thought all the way and unknowingly arrived at the entrance of the bamboo garden.
The Shasha on his wrist suddenly extended an ice-blue vine, gently patted the back of his hand, and swayed it towards the yard.
Lin Yao looked up and saw a familiar figure sitting at the stone table in the yard. It was Uncle Fu.
He raised his wrist to look at the computer and saw that the clock hand was pointing to eleven fifty.
Usually at this time, Uncle Fu would come to deliver medicine. But today, after delivering the medicine, he did not leave as usual. Instead, he sat on the stone bench with his back to the door, stroking something in his hand.
"Uncle Fu." Lin Yao walked forward, "Come in and sit down?"
Uncle Fu hurriedly stood up upon hearing the sound and rubbed his hands on his clothes: "Hey, Xiao Yao is back."
Following Lin Yao into the living room of the main building, Uncle Fu placed the portable capsule containing the medicine on the table. His eyes moved twice around the floating sofa, which was so clean that it could reflect a person's shadow. His feet seemed to be nailed to the spot and he refused to move forward.
"Please sit down." Lin Yao pointed to the sofa opposite.
Uncle Fu waved his hand: "No need to sit, I'll just stand."
"Sit down and talk. What do you want to talk to me about?" Lin Yao sat down first.
Uncle Fu then moved over hesitantly, his butt only touching the edge of the sofa, his back straight, like a new student.
He clasped his hands on his knees, his knuckles turning white from the force. He was silent for a long moment before he raised his head and told him not to take the test!
Lin Yao raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Uncle Fu deeply.
If I remember correctly, Uncle Fu had planned to prepare luggage for him for the exam. What he said today was really abnormal.
"Reason?" Lin Yao's tone was calm, yet inquiring.
Uncle Fu's eyes flickered, as if he had prepared a plan long ago, or as if he had just remembered it at the last minute: "You, you have never been out of the Central Star. The climate on the Barren Star is harsh. What should I do if I can't adapt to the climate?"
Lin Yao shook his head slightly: "In this practical test, more than one-third of the candidates are from the Central Star. If they can go, why can't I?"
This reason was easily overturned. Uncle Fu's cheeks flushed slightly, and he quickly added:
"But there's a radiation belt around that desolate planet..." He stopped talking, his Adam's apple rolling, "It's too dangerous!"
"How can a combat assessment not be dangerous?" Lin Yao's eyes remained calm. "Since the academy dared to organize it, they must have a safety plan."
He was blocked after just two sentences, and Uncle Fu was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.
He seemed to want to say something else, but not a single syllable came out of his mouth.
The living room became quiet, with only the rustling of bamboo leaves in the wind outside the yard.
Lin Yao watched as Uncle Fu's Adam's apple rolled violently. He clenched his hands tighter on his knees, his knuckles turning blue and white, and his lips moved, but he couldn't come up with a new reason for a long time.
"Then... you can't go!" Suddenly, Uncle Fu raised his voice sharply, his tone more forceful than ever before, like a trapped animal cornered. "There's no reason, you just can't go!"
The roar was particularly abrupt in the quiet living room, and even the wind blowing outside the window seemed to pause.
Uncle Fu was also stunned. He obviously didn't expect to say such words. The color instantly faded from his face, leaving only panic.
Lin Yao's eyes darkened, and he looked at him quietly without saying a word.
His out-of-control figure is reflected in those beautiful peach blossom eyes. Their gaze is not sharp, but carries a kind of calmness that sees through everything, like the water in a deep pool, which can reflect what is hidden in people's hearts.
Uncle Fu felt uncomfortable under this gaze, and a drop of sweat slid down his collar from the back of his neck.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something to cover it up, but under Lin Yao's gaze, he suddenly realized that his previous words seemed to have revealed something.
He wasn't discouraging, more like...forbidding.
The silence in the air suddenly became suffocating. Uncle Fu's shoulders slumped, and the tough aura he had just displayed disappeared without a trace, leaving only a deep sense of uneasiness.
He lowered his head, his eyes falling on his calloused hands, not daring to look at Lin Yao again.
Lin Yao hummed softly, his tone calm and composed, "I understand, but I'm determined to get the Advanced Guide Certificate this time."
Lin Yao spoke firmly, but did not delve into the matter further. Instead, he gave a result that could not be changed.
Uncle Fu raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of complexities. He knew that his words could not stop anything, so he could only sigh softly: "Then you, be careful when the time comes!"
"I will!" Lin Yao raised the corners of his mouth slightly, his smile polite yet distant.
After tacitly skipping the previous topic, Uncle Fu quickly took out an insulated box from the carrying cabin. When he opened it, a slightly bitter medicinal aroma filled the air.
The yellow-green medicinal juice was served in a white porcelain bowl, still emitting a wisp of steam.
"It's time to take the medicine." He pushed the bowl towards Lin Yao, his tone returning to its usual gentleness, but with an unyielding insistence, "The temperature is just right. Once you've finished drinking, I can take the bowl back with me!"
Lin Yao looked at the medicine in the bowl, then looked at Uncle Fu's tense profile. He touched the edge of the bowl with his fingertips, and the warm touch came through the porcelain.
Lin Yao did not hesitate or refuse any longer. He picked up the bowl, tilted his head back and drank the medicine in one gulp.
The familiar taste spread across the tip of the tongue, with a barely noticeable bitterness.
Uncle Fu watched him finish his drink, and finally he breathed a sigh of relief. When he took the empty bowl, his hands were much steadier, and he said with a lowered brow, "Then I'll go back first."
He put the bowl into the carrying compartment with swift movements, but after walking out of the bamboo garden, he looked back for a long time with a mysterious look in his eyes.
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Lin Yao retracted the mental power he had extended, and then immersed himself in the mental picture.
As soon as he entered, Lin Yao was overwhelmed by a wave of excitement.
Shasha was excitedly using her ice-blue vines to wrap up a ball of rich energy. The leaves were stretched and shining, and the tips of the vines were sweeping happily like a puppy's tail - this was completely different from usual.
In the past, when Uncle Fu sent medicine, Shasha had long been accustomed to swallowing it three times a day. In addition, now that Lin Yao was working in the White Pagoda, Shasha could swallow more energy, so it changed from being excited before to being slow and leisurely, as if it was sipping a cup of warm tea.
But today, the light around it was brighter by more than one degree, and even the movement of absorbing energy was filled with impatient excitement.
Lin Yao's gaze fell on the ball of energy, and his doubts grew even more intense.
Just now in reality, he felt something was wrong with Shasha, and discovered that the color of the medicine juice was darker than usual, with a hint of dark brown in the yellow-green, as if it had been boiled for half an hour longer.
The astringency when it enters the throat is also sharper, like holding a piece of unsoaked tea leaves, poking at the tip of the tongue.
At that time, Shasha was so anxious that his mind was churning. It was not so much that he was alert, but rather that he was greedy, greedy for the extremely rich energy in the medicine.
"Swallow it first and don't transform it for now." Lin Yao instructed Shasha before drinking the medicine.
Shasha paused for a moment, and its leaves tilted, as if asking "why", but it still obeyed obediently, swallowing the energy in the medicine and gathering into a ball among the vines.
Lin Yao moved closer to the ball of energy and instantly noticed something strange.
In the past, after the transformation by killing, the medicinal energy injected into the spiritual sea was always warm, like melting snow in spring.
But today, this ball of energy carries and is wrapped with several gray-black undercurrents.
Lin Yao asked Shasha to transform now, and Shasha started immediately to purify and transform the energy. The gray and black were peeled off and crushed bit by bit.
Sure enough! In the gray and black, Lin Yao felt the tyrannical energy. The scarlet threads on Shasha's body kept flashing, as if it couldn't wait to swallow up this tyranny!
Lin Yao shook his head. He understood Shasha's excitement! It always preferred aggressive energy!
After Lin Yao explored and examined this part of energy, he allowed Shasha to send it into the scarlet thread. The rest of the energy was carried out according to the previous operation, and part of it was transferred into his spiritual sea.
Seeing his spiritual sea expanding again, Lin Yao's expression became solemn.
There are some things he should take into consideration!
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Two o'clock in the afternoon was the meeting time agreed upon by Lin Yao and Shen Yan, which they had made last night.
Driver Xu picked up Lin Yao at the gate of De Lin's house, and their destination was the Starship Science and Technology Museum.
The sunlight at two o'clock in the afternoon made the glass curtain wall of the Starship Science Museum hot.
As soon as the hovercraft stopped at the entrance steps, Lin Yao saw Chen Yan standing next to the huge mecha model sculpture. The back of his white T-shirt was slightly wet, and he was holding two bottles of energy drinks with white steam in his hands. He waved when he saw him.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?" As Lin Yao approached, the Shasha on his wrist moved restlessly. The tip of the ice-blue vine quietly poked out of the cuff and swayed towards the direction of the venue. Faint energy fluctuations came from there, attracting it like a magnet attracting iron.
"How could that be? I just arrived." Chen Yan stuffed a bottle of drink into his hand. When his fingertips touched Lin Yao's wrist, he quickly retracted his fingertips and was almost caught between their hands.
Lin Yao calmly clenched his sleeves, his fingertips straining as he took the drink. "Here, I've already got the tickets for the latest Meritorious Mecha Exhibition. They even have the actual Dawnbreaker machine shipped over."
Chen Yan shook the silver card in his hand. The card was printed with the pattern of the mecha's energy core. Lin Yao didn't know if it was an illusion, but he saw the killing vines curling up excitedly under his sleeves, almost rubbing off the cold drink bottle.
As soon as you enter the museum, the cold air mixed with the solemn smell of metal hits you in the face. The retired starship model suspended in the center of the hall is humming, and the blue light in the transparent pipes simulates the flow of energy.
Shasha stood up instantly, and the tip of the vine turned half a circle like a radar, staring straight at the blue light, wishing it could get in immediately.
"What are you thinking about? Let's go, the Meritorious Mecha is on the basement floor!" Chen Yan dragged him towards the suspended ladder. Lin Yao stumbled and took the opportunity to press his elbow against his sleeve, whispering a warning in his mind: "Behave yourself, don't move."
Shasha rubbed his wrist in grievance, but the vine was not obedient and kept poking out along the seam of his sleeve, like a cat stealing fish.
As soon as the exhibition hall on the underground floor came into view, Shasha's nerves suddenly tensed. Three life-sized mechas stood side by side, their metal shells gleaming coldly under the cold light, and the hydraulic pipes at the joints still bore scratches from actual combat.
The particle cannon on the shoulder of the "Guardian" on the far left was vibrating slightly, and the energy waves emitted made the tips of Shasha's vines tremble, almost breaking through the cuffs.
"Look at this armor. It withstood the Zerg acid without breaking down..." Chen Yan was pointing at the mecha and talking incessantly when Lin Yao suddenly made a "hiss" sound and pressed his wrist hard.
Shasha had crawled out of the vine halfway at some point and was trying to wrap around the mecha's legs, but he grabbed the back half.
"What's wrong?" Chen Yan turned around and looked at him.
"Nothing, just got chilled by the drink bottle." Lin Yao raised the bottle in his hand, and while Chen Yan turned his head, he pinched the murderous vines hard.
Shasha curled up in a ball feeling wronged, but still didn't give up. He stuck the blade to the inside of his wrist and secretly probed towards the mecha.
Walking to the middle of the "Wind Chaser" mecha, Chen Yan touched the sensor screen next to it. The moment the screen lit up, a simulated laser sword flashed with blue light.
Shasha appeared again with a whoosh, and this time it directly wrapped around Lin Yao's finger, poking the tip of its finger at the blue light, as if asking "Can I eat it?"
"This mecha is ridiculously fast. I almost vomited in the last simulated battle..." Chen Yan was still talking. Lin Yao pretended to adjust his collar, raised his hand to cover the vines on his fingers, and quietly stuffed Shasha back with his other hand. "Look at the design of this thruster. Isn't it very impressive?"
"Yeah, it's quite exciting." Lin Yao said perfunctorily, his attention completely focused on his wrist. Shasha was tickling his palm with the tip of the vine, making him almost laugh out loud, but he had to keep a straight face. "By the way, you said Dawn is here too?"
"It's in the innermost part, it's suitable for guides. It is said that there is a mental buffer device in the cockpit..." Chen Yan said as he rushed forward. Lin Yao followed behind, feeling that his wrist was about to be broken by Sha Sha's tossing.
As soon as he saw the soft blue light core on the chest of the "Dawn" mecha, Shasha suddenly exerted force and actually moved Lin Yao's wrist half an inch to the side.
Lin Yao quickly grabbed the railing beside him and avoided doing something stupid like jumping at the mecha in public, but was caught red-handed by Chen Yan: "What's wrong with you today? You look absent-minded. Didn't you sleep well?"
"No, no, it's just that the temperature is high and it's a bit hot!" Lin Yao's smile was a little stiff. While Chen Yan turned his head to look at the mecha, he stuffed all the murderous vines into his sleeves, locked them in the mental picture, and slammed the "door" viciously.
"Let's go. Didn't they say there's a simulation cabin? Let's go and try it." After the killing had completely subsided, Lin Yao said to Chen Yan.
After saying that, he dragged Chen Yan away, the "Dawn" mecha behind him still emitting energy fluctuations. Shasha rolled over in grievance in his mental picture, the tip of the vine drooping wilted, like a child who didn't steal any candy.
Lin Yao could feel it howling, feeling both angry and amused. This ancestor probably treated the Science and Technology Museum as an energy buffet.
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