Chapter 35
“…Dad, do you know how powerful Uncle Lover is?”
Early in the morning, a high school student appeared in Jiang Yun's office cabin, looking excited and peering around him.
Although Jiang Yun didn't know what the father and son talked about when they were standing together as punishment last night, he could probably imagine it from the admiring look in Lu Chao's eyes when he mentioned "lover".
Jiang Yun asked, "How powerful is it?"
"All of his skills are rated either [Proficient] or [Reached Maximum]!" Lu Chao said with shining eyes, "Especially in [Disguise]. It's a shame he didn't become an actor! My lover is particularly good at [Voice Imitation]. Yesterday, he imitated the puppet's speech so well! Dad, let me show you—"
Jiang Yun said, "No need."
Lu Chao cleared his throat and said in a voice that was completely different from Gu Xingzhou's: "'The director said that after this mission, I can only be promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel because I was exposed in front of Lance! She said that a qualified agent must put the mission first when encountering such non-life-threatening situations - let me ask, how can this not affect life? Kiss Lance, and I will live at least ten years less, okay'..."
Jiang Yun felt that perhaps there was no need to take Lu Huai for a mental age test.
Colonel Lu is so childish that he even imitates the younger generation's speech in front of his son. His mental age is probably around 24 years old.
"Alas, I didn't learn it well, but Uncle Lover did it perfectly!" Lu Chao regretted that he couldn't show his lover's true strength to his father. "Then I asked Uncle Lover, if you were a puppet, would you kiss that Lance? Guess what Uncle Lover answered?"
Seeing his son so excited, Jiang Yun also became a little interested and guessed: "My lover said he can't kiss, but he can also avoid exposing himself?"
Lu Chao was stunned. "Dad, how did you know?" Lu Chao couldn't wait for Jiang Yun to answer, and continued, "And, my lover said that he once drove the [Poseidon's Halberd] to a depth of x, x meters in the sea in order to destroy a nuclear weapon..."
Jiang Yun asked: "How many meters deep is the sea?"
Lu Chao scratched his head, "Uh, I don't remember this."
Jiang Yun sneered, "You really can't remember a single number."
Lu Chao ignored his father's words because he didn't understand the sarcasm. "What's even more outrageous is that my lover once had dinner with the mecha master Nakame Yuto!"
Hearing the word "Mecha Master", Jiang Yun's interest almost ended, "I'm very busy. If you like your lover so much, let him play with you and have dinner together in the evening."
The return trip was imminent, and there were many things he needed to deal with. If he didn't let Lu Huai take care of the child at this time, then when would he wait?
Lu Chao readily agreed: "Okay! Let's go——"
After Lu Chao left, Jiang Yun opened an informal private report submitted by Gu Xingzhou.
He wanted to fully understand the whole process of Lu Huai's "resurrection" from the perspective of a [puppet].
This kind of important report should have been made in person by Gu Xingzhou. However, Gu Xingzhou was still recovering in the medical area, and this Alpha was too talkative, so a face-to-face interview with him would drain the energy of both parties.
Jiang Yun originally thought that a written report would save some time, but it turned out that he had misjudged Colonel Gu's willingness to express himself.
Dear Foreign Minister Jiang, hello. This is the first time I'm reporting directly to you, and I'm incredibly excited and thrilled.
I grew up listening to your stories, and my admiration for you personally is no less than my admiration for Colonel Lu.
[Especially after I discovered that Colonel Lu wasn't as loyal and upright as I'd imagined, my perception of him was completely shattered. I solemnly decided that from now on, you will be my idol.]
Your understanding of me should be limited to the file titled "Puppet." Since Ms. Agatha mentioned that I will be given priority for the joint operation between the Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I believe it's necessary for you to spend more time getting to know me. — Gu Xingzhou
It was a long, hot summer. On Browning, one of the sixteen planets of the Alliance, famous for its arms trade, a black-haired little boy was born...
Jiang Yun closed his eyes and paused for five seconds before continuing to read.
After omitting a thousand words of his childhood story, the time came to a month ago. Gu Xingzhou, who was lurking in the Aolin Imperial Capital, was selected by the mining team and became a small leader supervising the miners.
After arriving at the Ice Wasteland Planet, Gu Xingzhou's communication equipment temporarily failed due to the special magnetic field and extremely low temperature deep in the ice layer, and the Intelligence Bureau subsequently lost contact with him.
Without instructions from his superiors, Gu Xingzhou should have remained silent in the enemy camp. But when he learned that the mining team had found Colonel Lu's body in the ice, he could no longer sit still.
Seventeen years ago, for the safety of all citizens of the alliance, Colonel Lu Huai used himself as bait to successfully lure a huge alien army away from the alliance area.
Before the battleship completely disintegrated, he used the remaining protonuclear core in the escape pod to allow the battleship to complete a final irregular jump.
The automatically popped-out escape pod completely protected Lu Huai's body, but there was not enough energy to create the necessary conditions for his survival.
In the end, Colonel Lu died in the escape pod—in the second month of his marriage.
Gu Xingzhou has regarded Colonel Lu as his idol since he was a child. He chose to serve in the Intelligence Bureau because Colonel Lu had served in the Intelligence Bureau for two years and thus achieved an exceptional promotion from major to colonel.
——Here, Gu Xingzhou spent 800 words describing the importance of idols as a guiding light in a little boy’s growth process.
Olin would inevitably use Colonel Lu's body as a bargaining chip to exchange for the interests of the alliance. Even without receiving orders from his superiors, Gu Xingzhou believed that it was his duty to bring Colonel Lu's body home.
Even if it was for his own sake. In an intelligence agency where everyone was "perverted", getting promoted was incredibly difficult. He could only get a promotion if he stepped up and did something beyond his assigned tasks.
He did not expect to replicate Colonel Lu's legend of being promoted to colonel at the age of 23, but at least he should be promoted to colonel before he turns 30!
——What follows is a 1,500-word tearful accusation against the serious internal circulation phenomenon in the Intelligence Bureau.
In short, Gu Xingzhou disguised himself and lurked, collecting clues and making plans. In the end, he decided to make Colonel Lu's body "disappear" perfectly from the Olin Institute on the day when the Alliance Foreign Affairs Group arrived at the Ice Wasteland Planet.
On that day, Gu Xingzhou successfully infiltrated the institute's network and came to the underground floor where Colonel Lu's body was located.
Everything went as he planned until he opened the door to the laboratory.
The crystal core chamber was completely empty. The young man who was supposed to be lying inside was standing unharmed in the middle of the laboratory, casting a steady and calm gaze at him, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.
Gu Xingzhou was stunned on the spot.
Before he realized what this scene meant, he heard the young man say to him, "I want to kill someone."
At 3:05 p.m. that day, Gu Xingzhou witnessed Lu Huai's "resurrection" with his own eyes.
At 3:15, he and Lu Huai escaped from the research institute and got into the car he had prepared in advance.
There was a sniper rifle in the car that he never lent out, and he lent it to Lu Huai.
At 3:35, Lu Huai asked Gu Xingzhou to stop the car, but the distance from their location to the port was not yet within the farthest sniper range.
Gu Xingzhou asked Lu Huai to make other considerations, but was rejected by Lu Huai.
At 3:36, at Lu Huai's insistence, Gu Xingzhou stopped the car.
At 3:37, Lu Huai shot Wycliffe Lu in the head with Gu Xingzhou's sniper rifle.
…
Seeing this, Jiang Yun glanced down briefly, and after confirming that the rest of the content was unimportant, his gaze remained on the time point "3:37".
The fact that Lu Huai was able to accomplish all this in just thirty-two minutes meant that before he met Gu Xingzhou, he already knew that Gu Xingzhou was one of his own, knew about the Intelligence Bureau's assassination order against Wycliffe, or knew that Wycliffe was a pervert who deserved to die.
In addition to these, Lu Huai must also know the time when Wycliffe arrives at the port and the distance from the institute to the port.
But Lu Huai had only been awake for half an hour.
How did he do it?
Jiang Yun had reserved time for dinner with his children that evening. However, when the time came, he didn't see the father and his two children in the restaurant. Instead, he found his younger brother in the medical area, vomiting furiously but looking satisfied, his father patting his shoulder to make him feel better, and his older brother standing beside him with an indescribable expression.
Oh, and there is also a weird Alpha uncle who is lying on the hospital bed and still watching the fun with gloating eyes.
Jiang Yun tried to be calm and asked, "What's going on?"
Lu Huai, Lu Chao, and Gu Xingzhou opened their mouths to explain at the same time, but Jiang Yun directed Jiang Mu to answer: "You go ahead."
Jiang Mu said helplessly: "My lover uncle took Lu Chao to play in the training room. They played the mecha simulator for a while, and Lu Chao fainted and vomited."
Jiang Yun glanced at Lu Huai expressionlessly, questioning his Alpha with his eyes: So I only let you take care of the child for one day, and you let your son faint and vomit?
Colonel Lu, who was eloquent, had no intention of making excuses at this moment. He bowed his head and admitted his mistake more honestly than anyone else: "I'm sorry."
"What do you mean 'played for a while'? I lasted a full ten minutes in the simulator!" Lu Chao said with determination, despite his disability. "That's the [Poseidon's Spear]! My lover uncle said that many adult Alphas can only last five minutes at most when they first pilot this mecha."
Gu Xingzhou interrupted, "I lasted twenty minutes back then."
Lu Chao choked and said coldly, "Why are you everywhere, Puppet Brother?" The boy was very unhappy about being compared to him and said sarcastically, "Do you really want to join our family? Do you want my dad to adopt you as his adopted son?"
Gu Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, looking at Foreign Minister Jiang's frosty face, and said quickly: "No, no, I don't have the courage to call Foreign Minister Jiang 'Dad'."
Jiang Yun said coldly, "I don't want to be called Dad by Lieutenant Colonel Gu either."
"Ignore him," Lu Huai comforted Lu Chao, "He was an adult when he first piloted the [Poseidon's Halberd]. How old are you now?"
Doctor Renee brought Lu Chao a small box of plums and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Minister Jiang, mecha sickness is as common as motion sickness. Mr. Lu Chao, just rest for a while and eat some acidic food and you'll be fine."
Jiang Yun nodded and said to the father and son, Gu Xingzhou and the other two, "Lu Chao, have a good rest. Jiang Mu, keep an eye on your brother. Lieutenant Colonel Gu, please stop talking nonsense and disturbing them. As for you, my lover." Jiang Yun looked at Lu Huai, his eyes dimming slightly. "Come with me. I have something to ask you."
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