Chapter 213 Origin
"Just now you asked me if I was Lu Yao's brother." Lele shook his finger: "Actually, no, I'm his master, and he's my weapon."
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Everyone was full of questions.
"I am the chief of this generation of the Yu clan, and he is the chief's sharpest knife."
Ah this... everyone was speechless.
"You don't believe me?" Lele glanced at everyone's expressions, then curled his lips in disappointment. "Okay, okay, actually, I'm Lu Yao's clone."
"Look, Lu Yao and I look so much alike. Even if we're brothers, we can't be this similar, right? The truth is, Lu Yao and I share the same genes!"
"So what's the difference?"
"Lu Yao is actually the product of gene editing. He was given excellent traits, such as intelligence, physical strength, and a strong learning ability... But this gene editing also has a side effect: his lifespan will be very short, so he has only lived until now."
"The scientists who created him—you know as his parents—were very dissatisfied with the result, so they abandoned the first generation of the experiment and produced the second generation, which is me!"
At the end of the speech, Lele excitedly supported herself with both hands and made a flower shape with her chin.
Everyone was frowning.
The reporter looked at Lele with a frown on his face, turning the recorder in his hand off and on again. He felt that he was extremely naive for having any expectations of Lele.
Although his face is somewhat similar to Lu Yao's, he is far inferior to Lu Yao.
Lele is a completely naughty child who doesn't know the seriousness of the situation. Although he looks older, his mentality is as immature as that of a five or six-year-old child.
He seemed to be completely unaware of what Lu Yao's death meant, and he couldn't understand what kind of mood the people present were in when they came here.
He was holding the biggest stone, but he had no idea of the lethality of this stone.
He just held it, thinking it was a fun toy, and then called a group of people over to play a game of catch with it.
When he saw their expressions of fear at the falling boulders, he asked them, "Why aren't you laughing? Is the game not fun?"
——In the past, when reporters encountered such naughty children, they would directly educate them on behalf of their parents, so that these naughty children could understand the dangers of society.
"Lele." The reporter showed a cold smile on his face, "Can you be more serious?"
As if sensing the murderous intent in the reporter's eyes, Lele put his hands down dejectedly and curled his lips, "I'm serious."
"Don't you think this setting is cool? How cool!"
"A popular idol is actually the product of gene editing! He was a genius! Smart! But he died young because of this—Okay, okay, I'll just tell the truth. Don't look at me so fiercely, it's so scary."
"After Lu Yao was born, he was diagnosed with a disease and was not expected to live long, so he was thrown away."
"Then our parents left here and lived outside. A few years later, I was born. After the examination, I was found to be healthy, so I was not thrown away."
"But unfortunately, not long after I was born, those two people died, and then I was taken back to the village."
After listening to Lele's story, the reporter nodded slightly: "So that's how it is. They really are a terrible pair of parents."
Ding Ling said angrily: "This is too inhumane. How can you throw away a child just because he is sick? You should raise him only when he is healthy."
"Right, right!" Lele nodded repeatedly, "So they got their comeuppance right away!"
Hearing this, Ding Ling looked at Lele and carefully hid her disbelief.
Although this couple's behavior was terrible, they were Lele and Lu Yao's parents after all. However, when Lele mentioned them, he was so indifferent and emotionless, and he even scolded them with a smile.
Lele's personality is completely different from Lu Yao's, but seems to have gone to the other extreme.
After listening to Lele's introduction, Song Rui looked away in amazement.
She never expected that Lu Yao's brother would be such a person.
At first she listened carefully, but the more she listened, the more outrageous it became. Later, Lele said she wanted to speak seriously, but she started talking about clones... If Song Rui hadn't still had her rational mind, she would have almost rolled her eyes.
She looked at Lele with a 100% filter for Lu Yao, but after hearing these few sentences, the filter was completely shattered.
"So you lived in the mountains with Lu Yao when you were a child?" Cang Zizhen realized that something was wrong and asked.
As soon as his voice rang out, everyone except the Fifth Regiment looked over.
Only then did Song Rui notice that the people from the Fifth Regiment opposite her did not show any impatience towards Lele on their faces. Even after Cang Zizheng asked the question, they all looked at Lele seriously, as if they were really waiting for the other party's answer.
No, Lele doesn't know how to answer properly! Was there any truth in his answer just now?
She had never seen a child who told so many lies!
"Yes, yes." Facing Cang Zizhen's question, Lele was very happy. He began to count on his fingers: "From the time I went up the mountain at the age of two, to the time he came down the mountain at the age of thirteen, and then to when he came back a few months ago, we were together all this time! We lived together for a very, very long time, much longer than the time I spent with you!"
After counting the time, Lele looked at Cang Zizhen with pride, as if to say: Look! I have lived with Lu Yao for so long, so I am the person closest to Lu Yao! You are just garbage!
Yin Hongxue frowned: "But Lu Yao said that he was raised by his master."
"Yes." Lele nodded as a matter of course: "I can't support him."
…
It makes so much sense, I can't refute it.
"No." Cang Zizhen continued to shake his head. He looked at Lele steadily: "Lu Yao said that there were only him and Master on the mountain."
——And Lu Yao never tells lies.
"Oh, do you mean I'm lying?" Lele covered his mouth with a boastful look, "But Lele is a good boy, and good boys don't lie."
Song Rui rolled her eyes in her heart.
"But Lu Yao wouldn't lie—" Suddenly, Lele's expression changed, and the hand covering his mouth dropped. The pretentious liveliness in his tone disappeared: "So, there are indeed only two people on the mountain. Who could they be?"
"Is it Lu Yao and Master? Is it me and Master? Or is it Lu Yao and me?"
Song Rui rolled her eyes even wider inwardly.
She saw that the reporter beside her had even put away his recorder.
But when she glanced around, she saw that the people from the Fifth Regiment opposite had serious faces, as if they were really thinking about what Lele said.
No, what's wrong with them? Do they really believe such things?
——No way.
Song Rui adjusted her expression, trying to make herself look as sincere as the members opposite her.
It's known that Lele's words are so outrageous that people don't want to listen, but the members can still look serious and even ask questions. Do they really believe it? Of course not.
So there is only one result.
For Lu Yao's sake, they had infinite patience and love for this extremely naughty child, to the point that they could cooperate with such lies without batting an eyelid.
Even years of professionalism make them look incredibly sincere.
It seemed like he was really interested and curious about Lele's topic.
Just like that, amidst Song Rui's painful performance, the carriage drove through the dusk, passing through farmlands and into the mountains and forests, shaking all the way. After it was completely dark, it finally arrived at its destination with the help of the dim lights on the carriage.
After the car stopped, Song Rui almost couldn't wait to follow everyone else and get out of the car.
No, this is too scary.
No one told her how scary the forest was without lights at night!
Those branches and green leaves seemed to have become the hands of ghosts. Every time they shook, it was like a pair of sharp claws trying to grab them away.
Song Rui used up all her life's control to resist the urge to scream and jump out of the car to run away.
After getting off the car and looking at the small building in front of her with lights on, Song Rui felt like she had returned to human society.
She looked at Lele, who was the last one to get off the car and had to jump down because he was not tall enough to touch the ground, and suddenly she felt that the other party was not so bad.
Lele's sudden anger in the car might really be resentment towards them.
Whatever the reason, Lu Yao did abandon him and let him grow up alone in such a place.
The night without lights is really dark, and the deserted mountains are really scary.
"You'll stay here tonight." Lele stood in front of the small building and introduced it. "The village chief will come to call you up the mountain at four o'clock tomorrow morning. You must get up on time, otherwise you will miss the auspicious time."
When saying this, Lele's face no longer had that faint smile, and his voice no longer had the frivolous joking tone, but was serious and calm.
Under the dim light, even though she knew it wasn't him, Song Rui couldn't help but feel that she saw Lu Yao.
Lele now is no different from Lu Yao.
After Lele finished speaking, he took a flashlight and left. Watching his back disappear into the darkness, Ding Ling turned around and asked the village chief: "Where is he going? Isn't he going to sleep here?"
The village chief and Ding Ling had met several times. When he heard Ding Ling's question, he smiled and replied, "He wants to go home."
Ding Ling: ...What a good answer.
She looked again in the direction where Lele disappeared.
Go home? If she remembered correctly, that was the direction up the mountain, so Lele was going up the mountain at this time?
Before Ding Ling could think about it, the village chief was already urging everyone to rest.
"You have to get up early tomorrow, so you have to go to bed early tonight. The small building has been cleaned and all the rooms are available. You can choose where to stay."
There were seventeen people in total attending the funeral. Although the building was not big, it had large bunk beds, so they could all fit in even if they squeezed together.
After lying on the bed, Song Rui suddenly realized that this house seemed to be where the fifth group in the travel show lived.
Now she lives in the same place with them.
Even now the members are sleeping upstairs from her.
The long-lost awareness of being a fan arose, but was quickly suppressed by her.
Although she is a fan, she has a conscience and is a good person with a correct outlook on life. This is definitely not a place for star chasing.
At this moment, there is no room for such impolite happy emotions.
With a light sigh, Song Rui closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
And in the room above her that belonged to the Fifth Regiment, the lights were still on.
Cang Zizhen kept turning Lele's words in the carriage over and over in his mind, and finally couldn't help but find Yin Hongxue to confirm.
"What do you think Lele meant?"
Yin Hongxue didn't even raise her head: "Literally."
Cangzi really got excited: "Right! You think so too! I knew you would be able to hear it."
"What did you hear?" Bai You, who was busy with his computer on the bed, suddenly spoke.
Cang Zizhen turned back embarrassedly: "Did you hear it?"
Bai You didn't even want to say anything: "Why do you think I can't hear?" He took out the jade pendant from his arms and held it in his hand: "What you have, I also have. If you can hear, I can certainly hear it too."
"Haha, yes." Cang Zizhen smiled awkwardly. Although he didn't say anything bad to Yin Hongxue, it was indeed a bit unnatural to discuss Lu Yao in front of Bai You.
Yin Hongxue, who was standing next to him, accepted the situation very well and even asked Bai You: "What do you think?"
Bai You rolled his eyes: "I see with my eyes."
Yin Hongxue wasn't surprised by Bai You's answer. He didn't expect to hear anything about Lu Yao from Bai You. He shrugged and continued talking to Cang Zizhen: "Piece together what Lele said, that should be enough."
"What do you mean almost done?" Zhu Xiangming came into the room at some point and ran over to join the conversation.
Cang Zizhen patiently explained: "It's Lele——"
"Oh!" Zhu Xiangming said, his face clearing up. "I know, I know."
He lowered his voice and said, "It's known that Lu Yao and Le Le are not lying, but there are indeed only two people on the mountain. So who are those two people?"
"There is only one correct answer - the people on the mountain are Master and Lele."
As soon as Zhu Xiangming finished speaking, before Cang Zizheng and Yin Hongxue could respond, Qiu Yuge's voice was heard from the bed.
"It's late, go to bed."
When I turned around, Qiu Yuge and Bai You were already lying in the quilt, looking like they were about to fall asleep.
Seeing this, the three of them stopped talking, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed.
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Author's Note: A chapter introducing the origins of Xiaolu and Lele
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