Chapter 97

Principal's Office.

On the light screen were data simulations of twelve scenarios, eleven of which had a zero survival rate, and the only one with a survival rate of 10 percent was titled "Bait Plan."

There was a line of small red words next to the bait plan: Reported to the military, approved!

The old man's eyes were bloodshot, and the principal clenched his fists under the table. He seemed to be talking to Teacher Zheng, but also seemed to be talking to himself: "This is a helpless act, but we must make a choice."

After hanging up the call, the corners of the old man's mouth twitched slightly, and he pursed his lips tightly to suppress these slight gaffes.

After a long silence, he wearily opened a file containing an analysis of the virus, one of which was from Tang Rong:

"Mr. Tang Rong believes that the virus is likely to have come from the Empire. This accident is a hunting plan by the Empire against the Federation's newest talents. The Federation's existing bioinformatics infection technology lags behind that of the Empire..."

"Tang Rong also believes that there is no need to give Tang Bai special care. There is no distinction between the noble and the cheap in life. Since he (Tang Bai) has chosen this path, he is ready to sacrifice. The Tang family understands and obeys all arrangements made by the military and the school."

Tang Bai was looking at the navigation route of the Exploration released by the system. He also had a copy of the route of the spaceship that Qiu Yan and his companions were going to take. The two routes were very far apart, so to speak, one in the south and the other in the north.

Why so far away?

If two spaceships depart from the same starting point, the system should intelligently assign a route that will lead to the fastest arrival.

A faint sense of violation shrouded my heart.

"What are you thinking about?" Xie Ruheng walked to Tang Bai's side and saw that Tang Bai's brows were tightly furrowed. The mark between his brows looked like wrinkles on milk skin gently pushed out by fingers.

"I have a bad guess in my mind." Tang Bai paused and said awkwardly: "But I don't really want to say it out loud."

"It was the same with the Einstein-Rosen Bridge incident. I felt a little uncomfortable at the time. I thought it was impossible to discover the chaos of time and space, but I had a vague premonition in my heart." Tang Bai said angrily: "As a result, it came true after I said it out loud. Tell me, am I being crow-mouthed--"

Seeing that Tang Bai was getting more and more depressed, Xie Ruheng reached out and covered Tang Bai's mouth.

Alpha's palm is wide and Tang Bai's face is small, so at first glance it looks like most of his face is covered.

Tang Bai: "Hmm...mud house!"

Xie Ruheng pinched Tang Bai's soft face in this position, "Verify whether it is a crow's beak."

Then he said seriously, "No."

Tang Bai slapped Xie Ruheng's hand away, extremely suspecting that Xie Ruheng was taking the opportunity to take revenge, but after being interrupted by Xie Ruheng, Tang Bai's originally depressed mood was suppressed.

"Your appraisal is too casual." Tang Bai reached out his hand and rubbed his cheek.

"If you were Crow Mouth, Gu Tunan would really like me." Xie Ruheng gave an example to prove his judgment.

"Doesn't he like you?" Tang Bai was puzzled. After thinking for a long time, he could only say, "He has fallen in love with someone else?"

Xie Ruheng: “…”

Tang Bai's eyes widened. "No way, where can he find another independent, self-reliant, new-age omega who meets his mate selection criteria?"

Xie Ruheng tapped Tang Bai's forehead and said, "Isn't there one here?"

“Although it’s a bit silly.”

Tang Bai was stunned for a moment. He didn't care about the "stupid" comment. He said in disbelief: "You mean Gu Tunan likes me?"

That girl who was always late for every blind date, deliberately made him wait, secretly reported him to the teacher and parents, refused to eat his lunch box, looked down on his dressing style, used him as a shield for blind dates, and mocked his coquettish habits and being raised as a vase, Gu Tunan, did she like him?

"How is this possible? He used to dislike me..."

"You also said it was before. Are you now completely consistent with Gu Tunan's ideal type?" Xie Ruheng asked patiently.

Tang Bai: "...Oh?"

Now he seems to be a standard independent new era omega.

"In fact, Gu Tunan had changed his opinion of you during the military training entrance ceremony. At that time, Gu Tunan challenged me for you. Have you forgotten?" Xie Ruheng stretched out his left hand, bent his thumb 90 degrees, raised his index finger, and clenched the other three fingers.

Tang Bai subconsciously reached out his hand: "Pen refill?"

Xie Ruheng was silent for a while, looking at their challenge gestures together, which actually looked like a heart. He was a little amused and said, "What are you thinking about all the time? Gu Tunan and I had a fight over you. Don't you know?"

The main character and the bottom fought for me?!

Weren't you guys in love and hate with each other at that time? !

Tang Bai's mind froze.

Xie Ruheng looked at Tang Bai's confused expression. He felt complicated and found that he seemed to be able to guess Tang Bai's thoughts...

As expected, stupidity is contagious.

[Too much information, my brain is going to freeze after listening to this. Thank God, do you mean Tang Bai doesn't know that Gu Tunan likes him? ]

[Although I suspected that this was Tang Bai's way of whitewashing himself, but by analyzing their micro-expressions, I found that Tang Bai and Xie Shen were actually expressing their true feelings...]

[Teacher Tang’s green tea character is going to collapse? ! Grandpa Qingjie!!!]

[Gu Tunan: I hate you for being a piece of wood]

[Tang Bai wouldn't think that Gu Tunan and Xie Ruheng were just having a friendly exchange [black question mark face.jpg]]

"Gu Tunan looked at you with such affection just now, and you didn't feel anything?" Xie Ruheng's helpless tone had a hint of sourness.

Although Tang Bai was slow to react to other people's emotions, his emotional radar had evolved when it came to Xie Ruheng. He immediately sensed the sour taste and shouted, "Because I can only see the deep affection in your eyes!"

[I don’t know if she’s good at tea, but it’s true that she can seduce men]

[Thank God for looking at Tang Bai with such gentle eyes. I envy him.]

Those phoenix eyes were unusually sharp under normal circumstances, but when they looked at Tang Bai, all that coldness turned into tenderness.

He obviously looks in a good mood.

Tang Bai continued to coax her, "I just meet Gu Tunan's criteria for choosing a partner. When I no longer look like his ideal type, he will definitely not look at me like this anymore."

Xie Ruheng smiled, his voice low and soft: "I don't think I told you that you were my ideal type at first."

At the beginning?

Tang Bai asked in confusion: "What about now?"

Xie Ruheng looked at him, his eyes moving across his face, looking very slowly and carefully, as if an invisible hand was touching Tang Bai's facial features in detail, making Tang Bai's scalp numb.

Tang Bai suddenly panicked when he thought of Xie Ruheng calling him "little fool" and "little bad boy" today.

Could it be that after falling in love, Xie Ruheng felt that his filter of ideal type was shattered?

His recent behavior is indeed a little stupid, but this is Mo Yin's fault. Besides, it is said that love can lower one's intelligence, so Xie Ruheng has to take the blame too!

Tang Bai quickly found a reason for himself. He cleared his throat and prepared to start his long speech: "I..."

"My ideal type now is you." Xie Ruheng interrupted him.

The ideal type is you.

So I like every look of you.

The pheromones floating in the air have a light tea scent with a hint of sweetness.

Tang Bai's eyes widened slightly, and he saw his current appearance in Xie Ruheng's dark phoenix eyes.

Looking dull, he seems a bit stupid indeed.

He was just a little overwhelmed by Xie Ruheng's confession...

Surprised?

Tang Bai stared in amazement as Xie Ruheng reached out and turned off their live broadcast. Every time Xie Ruheng turned off the live broadcast, he would do something inappropriate for children.

Those phoenix eyes were deep and gentle, and their gaze was so hot that Tang Bai didn't dare to look at them. Originally, Tang Bai even suspected that Xie Ruheng was just saying sweet words.

But Xie Ruheng still wanted to kiss him when he was so stupid, which suddenly proved the credibility of those words!

But we have already kissed several times today. During class, the teacher said that we should not pamper the alpha too much, otherwise the alpha will become an insatiable character, and the omega himself will be the one who suffers.

Ah... this...

Tang Bai's eyelashes trembled slightly. He looked at Xie Ruheng's face getting closer and closer, but he couldn't help but slowly closed his eyes.

then......

Xie Ruheng stroked his hair.

The action is the same as touching a dog's head.

"What are you doing with your eyes closed?" Xie Ruheng's low laugh came from above.

Tang Bai: “?” You are not right.

"I want to discuss some serious business with you." Xie Ruheng said softly, "We'll start a business together next time."

Tang Bai: “???” So you were teasing me just now?!

Tang Bai opened her eyes shyly and angrily, expecting to see a teasing look from Xie Ruheng, but to her surprise, Xie Ruheng looked very serious at this moment.

"I really have something important to do. I won't tease you anymore." Xie Ruheng touched Tang Bai's head, "Did you notice that there is something wrong with the barrage?"

When the bullet screen was mentioned, Tang Bai's attention was immediately diverted and he nodded.

"I suspect the school has set up a keyword block on the barrage and blocked the news of the Dream disaster." Although he said he was suspicious, Xie Ruheng's tone was firm.

Tang Bai then entered the analysis state: "I think so too."

Xie Ruheng continued, "I just went to see the players on Qiu Yan's spaceship and found that they have one thing in common."

Tang Bai looked at Xie Ruheng and heard a difference he had not thought of: "They are all civilian students."

Xie Ruheng's base in the competition for the presidency is these civilian students. He has a certain understanding of these students and even remembers who voted for him.

"The only noble student on that spaceship has come to our ship. Now, except for Rongyao and me, everyone else on the Discovery is a noble student. Rongyao and I have excellent grades in our respective majors."

"You call this a coincidence?"

Xie Ruheng didn't say anything else, but Tang Bai understood what Xie Ruheng meant, "We need to collect more information on the spaceship."

......

Tang Bai and Xie Ruheng walked out of the lounge and saw Gu Tunan, Mo Zheng and Bai Li surrounding the NPCs in the hall like a vicious force. The two NPCs were not afraid at all, and Lu En even said "Get lost" to Gu Tunan impatiently.

The atmosphere on both sides was tense and ready to explode.

After seeing Tang Bai coming out, Rong Yaohe hurriedly explained to Tang Bai as if he had seen a savior: "Didn't the Adventurer just come to pick up Qiu Yan, Lu Lu, and You Xiang? The Adventurer also gave our spaceship a lot of energy, but it was too much. The NPC on the Adventurer seemed to be angry."

"The two NPCs on the Adventure are very strong. They tied up all the players on the spaceship and now they are back on our spaceship to ask us to return the energy crystals."

"In the end, I don't know what they said to the NPCs on our spaceship. Luen and the others also want to return!"

Tang Bai slowly typed a question mark.

Similar situations also occurred on various spaceships, especially the NPCs on some spaceships whose energy was stolen by players. They were furious when they found out.

Labor has worked hard to save and pinch pennies to save this little bit of energy, and you spendthrifts just give it all away in one go!

No more sailing! Go home!!!

What's even worse is that all the powerful players on the spaceship have been transferred away by the system. The players on the spaceship are of average strength and are easily dealt with by the rampaging NPCs. The players are weak, pitiful and helpless, without any say, and can only watch the NPCs return home in anger.

As for the players' earnest attempts to tell the energy star that it is really at that coordinate, the NPC's response is always: I don't believe you!

The attitude of the NPC on the Exploration was relatively mild. To be more precise, the NPC had a good attitude towards Tang Bai.

Lu En walked up to Tang Bai, biting a cigarette between his thin lips, and said to Tang Bai with a strong smell of tobacco: "The captain and I want to go back."

His tone was not one of notification, but one that contained a hint of negotiation.

So Tang Bai advised: "Our mission is to find the energy star."

The rising white mist enveloped his face, and the expression on his sharp features could not be seen clearly. Lu En narrowed his eyes slightly, not looking at Tang Bai, but looking at the bright starry sky outside the window.

He held the cigarette between his legs and took a deep puff. "The energy on the spaceship is running low. If we encounter a few more meteorites, the energy consumption rate will quickly reach the warning line. By then, even if we want to go back, we won't be able to do so."

As soon as the words fell, Tang Bai's firm answer rang out: "No."

Lu En turned his head and looked at Tang Bai sadly.

The faint light of the stars outside the window fell into Tang Bai's eyes, like sparkling gems.

So energetic.

Lu En thought listlessly.

"We will find the energy star, complete the mission entrusted to us by the Federation, become heroes of the Federation, and return home in glory under the watchful eyes of the public..."

Luen's vision began to become empty again. He turned his head to look at the scenery of the universe, but it seemed more like he was simply daydreaming.

Tang Bai looked at the silent Lu En, and suddenly said, "Senior Lu En wants to go back so much, he must have something to say to someone."

Lu En, who was daydreaming, was stunned for a moment. He slowly turned his head and looked straight at Tang Bai.

"It must be very regretful that you can't be with that person."

No one has mentioned that person's existence for a long time.

It was so long that Lu En almost forgot about that person.

But every time he thought he had forgotten, as soon as any tiny memory was triggered, the countless moments of their time together would come flooding back like a flood.

He could clearly remember every sweetness in his memories, as well as the heart-wrenching reluctance after the separation.

A pain that not even tobacco can numb.

Lu En put down the cigarette in his mouth. He was much taller than Tang Bai. Without the shroud of smoke, the sharpness of his face suddenly came out. His tightly pursed thin lips slightly opened, and he said coldly: "Did Kang Pengze tell you?"

Tang Bai shook his head.

He just suddenly remembered that when Rongyao was telling the story of BO love, Lu En shook his head, raised his teacup and drank it all in one gulp, and his appearance was very similar to Gu Tunan.

"If you discover the energy star, you will definitely receive a reward from the Federation. You will also be able to appear in front of that person with a brand new look and tell him what is hidden deep in your heart."

Lu En looked down at Tang Bai from above, "What do you know?"

Tang Bai looked him in the eye without hesitation and said seriously, "I only know that if you don't say some things, you will regret it for the rest of your life."

The fingers holding the cigarette twitched imperceptibly for a moment.

"The coordinates of the energy star are in the Y galaxy 367-37-245." Tang Bai's tone and expression were very sincere, so sincere that it was impossible to question it.

"Senior, I can't explain why I know the coordinates of the Energy Star, but please believe me, the Energy Star is really there."

"Besides, he is also there, waiting for the senior to arrive."

When Lu En, who had been motionless, heard the last sentence, his heart suddenly ached again. Lu En closed his eyes. During the countless days and nights numbed by tobacco, he often felt that his life was being wasted in the monotonous life.

Like a dead fish floating in dead water.

Unchanged.

No matter what class you belong to, you are destined to be in that class for the rest of your life. No, it may even get worse.

When he boarded the Discovery, the captain asked him why he wanted to enter the Discovery, was it for the future of mankind or the material rewards of the Federation.

He said, neither.

It's for one person.

He wanted to seize the opportunity to move up, but his hope was worn away bit by bit by repeated disappointment.

It seemed easier and more practical to flow downwards.

"Senior?"

Lu En opened his eyes and saw that the cigarette between his fingers had burned out, which seemed to indicate that the days of self-paralysis were coming to an end.

Meeting Tang Bai's bright eyes, Luen seemed to see himself when he first entered the Discovery.

"Did you learn this coordinate from the God of the Universe?"

Looking at the bewildered Tang Bai, Lu En chuckled softly.

He used to think these newcomers were crazy.

But now, he suddenly wanted to go crazy with these people.

Lu En threw away the cigarette in his hand and looked at the starry sky outside the window. His eyes, which had always been dull, glowed with an unprecedented brilliance.

"Okay." He spoke in a joking and casual tone, but inexplicably serious: "Let's go to the place you mentioned."

"Ding—NPC Luen's favorability towards you +3." The system prompt sounded in Tang Bai's mind.

[666666, this is the first time I’ve seen someone use verbal attacks to convince an NPC not to return.]

[Other groups have been fighting with NPCs, I want to tell them this peaceful solution! ]

Tang Bai let out a long sigh, and suddenly heard another mission announcement: "New mission: Persuade Lu En!"

"NPC Luen has a high impression of you! Your words have a certain influence on him! The NPC on the Adventure wants to return home, please persuade Luen to drive the Adventure to the Energy Star!"

Tang Bai finished reading the mission details, then he made a cheering gesture to Luen, and turned and left unexpectedly.

There was absolutely no attempt to convince Lu En while the iron was hot!

"Ding - players please pay attention to the mission time limit. The mission needs to be completed before the Adventurer returns! The mission will not be completed after the time limit is exceeded!" The mission publisher was anxious.

Tang Bai turned a deaf ear and walked to the lounge. He closed the door and turned off the live broadcast. Then he talked to himself in the air: "You should be able to hear me."

"Don't you think your plan is going to fail? In addition to Luen, there are many NPCs who are planning to return. It will take you a lot of time and energy to stop them."

“Is it necessary to implement such a plan?”

The lounge was very quiet, with only Tang Bai's confident and calm voice: "In that case, why not listen to my plan?"

After a while, the system prompt sounded in Tang Bai's mind: "What are your plans?"

It turns out that I can communicate with leaders from outside!

Tang Bai puffed out his chest and said, "Then we need to exchange some information first."

Half an hour later, Tang Bai walked out of the lounge with his hands in his pockets. He found Xie Ruheng and pulled Xie Ruheng to a secluded corner. Then he and Xie Ruheng both turned off the live broadcast.

They do this kind of thing all the time, so barrages are nothing new to them.

Xie Ruheng had the same wrong idea as Tang Bai last time, and was about to do something above his neck when he suddenly heard Tang Bai say softly, "Look, our baby."

Xie Ruheng: “???” Can you get pregnant if you kiss in the game?

Tang Bai showed Xie Ruheng a mecha pet egg in his pocket. It was a pitch-black metal egg, the size of an adult's fist, and exactly the same as the mechanical vine egg that Xie Ruheng had been incubating for a long time.

"How did it appear in the game? And it turned into a mecha egg?" Xie Ruheng was shocked.

"Good question!" Tang Bai patted Xie Ruheng on the shoulder. "Thanks to you for always carrying the egg with you, this game has been contaminated by the virus. Once it starts, you can no longer add variables and can only use the existing conditions. But after you brought the mecha egg with you, the egg was also scanned in by the system!"

"The introduction principle is the same as that of the Zerg virus. Both of them can be digitized. After being scanned and entered, they need energy to hatch. Without energy, they are just eggs. That virus eats everything, but our eggs are more picky. Next, we can only give them energy crystals to make them grow."

Tang Bai explained: "The emergence of the Zerg virus is likely a product of the Empire's bioinformatics and infectious diseases. The Federation's research in this area is weaker than that of the Empire. Grandpa was also worried about this before, but later when he and I were studying mecha pet eggs together, he had a new inspiration."

"We didn't study bioinfection, but instead we lit up a technology that is very similar to bioinfection but different from bioinfection in our existing technology tree: bioinformatics and mechanization."

"The virus released by the Empire has infected the entire game system. Our current technology cannot overcome this technical problem. After the game system is infected, forcibly terminating the game may cause all students to be infected, so it is better to try to fight poison with poison."

"We can also put a bug in there." Tang Bai touched the sleeping mechanical vines: "After hatching this guy, let it drag the Zerg into the black hole."

Tang Bai patted the mecha egg, and said in a gentle tone with a chilling encouragement from a strict father: "This can be considered as its contribution to the Federation. It ate up all the energy crystals from the Cheng family, and now it should come out and work hard!"

This chapter is a combination of the extra chapter to celebrate the 21W nutritional fluid and the normal update.

Thank you all for the nutrient solution. My liver is in good condition. You don’t have to feel sorry for me. I can still accept more powerful nutrient solution irrigation!