Chapter 97
Although Lin Qingge and Lin Qingsi are brothers, they are completely different. Lin Qingsi is in a high position and has great power. Even if he stands there silently, even if he smiles and has a gentle attitude, he can make people feel an inexplicable deterrence and omnipresent pressure. People with poor psychological quality don't even dare to raise their heads and speak in front of him. Although he looked warm and polite when he greeted everyone at the airport, Mu Xiaohu instinctively felt that this person seemed to be shrouded in a bottomless fog, making it impossible to see clearly.
Lin Qingge is like most teenagers of this age, simple as a pool of water, and can be seen through at a glance. He is pure, enthusiastic, and sincere, and people will not feel the slightest pressure when they are with him. So not only the cheerful and genuine Mu Xiaohu, but also Luo Er, who has been depressed for a while, get along well with him. Within a few days, the three teenagers went out together, making an appointment to go out and play together early every morning, and would not come back until dusk.
Lin Qingsi stood by the window, watching Lin Qingge greeted cheerfully at the door downstairs. Within two seconds, Mu Xiaohu jumped out like a little leopard, opened his arms and jumped to the mount called Lasini, hugged its neck and kissed it for a long time, and then saw Luo Er walking out slowly. He first gave Mu Xiaohu a disdainful look, and then greeted Lin Qingge politely. The three teenagers did not get on the carriage, but walked away with bickering and laughing, and Lasini followed meekly behind.
Lin Qingsi turned around and said, "I'm sorry to have caused you trouble these days."
"No way." Rong Yuan said: "Qingge is lively and cheerful. I also thank him for taking care of Xiaohu and Luoer for me."
The table between Rong Yuan and Lin Qingsi was filled with all kinds of information, and the messy papers were densely written with many contents. Alpha stood beside Rong Yuan, with a faint green light flashing in his electronic eyes. There were three or four people sitting next to Lin Qingsi, most of them were writing furiously. Their eyes were dark and their faces were tired, but their spirits were inexplicably tense and excited. They were so busy that they didn't even bother to wipe the sweat off their foreheads.
There was also a young man with sparse eyebrows beside the table. His name was Yunxi, and he was Lin Qingsi's most trusted assistant. At this moment, he was reviewing the contents written by everyone word by word, binding them in order, and then carefully putting them into the gray box at hand. The contents here were too important, so important that they didn't even dare to use any more advanced typing equipment to print them out, and could only use the most traditional handwriting method. And all the information here is unique in the world. In addition to these organized materials, some of the draft papers they wrote in bits and pieces during this period will be destroyed uniformly. And those who were responsible for writing not only signed a confidentiality agreement before coming, but also all of them will be sent to the Northwest Military Region afterwards. In name, it was a job transfer, but in fact they were under house arrest. Until the information was decrypted, they could not leave the military region.
Hearing the two people talking, Yunxi couldn't help but look up.
Two people who looked so similar that even their closest family members sometimes couldn't tell who was who were standing by the window and talking in a low voice. The morning light shone through the clouds and mist. Yunxi couldn't help but squint his eyes after a night of fatigue. He couldn't see the expressions of the two people clearly, but only saw two dark silhouettes that were extremely similar.
After spending a few days together, everyone found that the two people not only looked the same, but also had the same expressions, movements, and some small habits, but no one dared to say it out loud. The two people themselves knew this, but neither of them had the intention to change.
Yunxi vaguely realized that in his boss's mind, this was like a struggle, as if whoever couldn't help but change first would lose the legitimacy of his identity. This powerful and dangerous man was now stubbornly insisting on himself like a child, as if no external storms could shake him. However, Yunxi knew that when he began to deliberately not let himself be affected, the existence of that person had actually had an omnipresent influence on him.
But what about the man named Rong Yuan? Does he have the same idea? Yun Xi couldn't see through it.
Judging from just the past few days of getting along, this man can be said to have great goodwill towards them.
These days, the robot named Alpha had a lot of communication with them as Rong Yuan's assistant. With Rong Yuan's tacit consent, it revealed a lot of information about the Interstellar Alliance to them - culture, customs, etiquette, species, countries, various forces, weapons technology, alliance laws and many conventional rules, etc. Before this, the world outside the atmosphere was a mysterious desert to them. Because they knew nothing about it, it was particularly frightening. But after understanding this information, when they really started to contact the Interstellar Alliance, they could avoid many detours, and the losses that could be avoided were immeasurable.
Usually, it was Alpha who answered their questions, and Rong Yuan just sat beside them, seemingly listening, or in a daze. But the one or two words he occasionally interjected were always well-targeted and to the point, and often contained valuable experience that could not be obtained through public information channels.
The price they had to pay was simply to provide enough supplies for Rong Yuan and others' spaceship according to the list listed by Alpha. Although the number was huge and there were some high-value items among them, compared to what they gained, this was just an extremely insignificant price.
While Yunxi was developing a fondness for Rongyuan and was secretly grateful to him, he did not realize that his boss might have the exact opposite idea.
Resentment, anger, madness, dissatisfaction, and many other negative emotions made Lin Qingsi's eyes look like dark clouds rolling and rainy. He stood up and left the heavily guarded meeting room and came to the small garden on the side of the manor.
The leaves of the tall green plants were stretched out, blocking the view from others; the garden was planted with many extremely beautiful exotic flowers and plants, and all kinds of fragrances blended into a wonderful and quiet fragrance in the air; several butterflies and birds with colorful fan-like wings on their backs were flying lightly in the air, stretching out their pointed beaks to suck nectar from between the petals; a lantern-like flower grew right at Lin Qingsi's feet, it emitted purple light in the morning light, reflecting Lin Qingsi's changeable face.
The rustling sound of footsteps sounded behind him, and the sound of leaves being rustled broke the silence. Lin Qingsi frowned, turned around, and saw a pair of smiling fox-like eyes.
Semillian stood still, put one hand on his chest, bowed, and said with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Director, sorry to bother you."
Not long after Lin Qingsi left, Rong Yuan also returned to the lounge. Yunxi and the others would need another two or three hours to sort out the things, so there was no need for him to stay with them all the time. Not long after, Alpha also came to his side.
The robot's electronic eyes flashed, and a beam of light shone on the open space in front of Rong Yuan. The light blue light formed a three-dimensional picture in the air, which was the scene of the meeting between Semillian and Lin Qingsi. Even the voices of people talking were clear as if they were standing next to them.
"There's no need to monitor." Rong Yuan said, "It's the first time they've met. They can't possibly talk about anything substantial. This is just a tentative attempt to understand each other."
"But Semillian has secretly contacted Lin Qingsi, a powerful figure on this planet. His motives are unclear, the meaning of his actions is unclear, and his behavior is secretive. It is very likely that he has purposes that are detrimental to you, my master. I recommend that he be sanctioned." Alpha said.
"No hurry." Rong Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "Before that, I have one more thing to clarify. Alpha, I'll leave this to you. Protect Xiaohu and Luo Er. And..." Rong Yuan paused, looking at Lin Qingsi's resolute and indifferent expression in the three-dimensional image, and smiled, "Forget it, let's leave it at that."
"I understand." Alpha said.
Rong Yuan nodded, said no more, turned the ring on his left ring finger half a circle, held the seemingly rough stone in his palm, and sensed it. In an instant, everything around him - the walls, chairs, exquisite teacups, flower pots placed in the corner, and even Alpha beside him, all shattered into countless pieces like broken lenses, and twisted and deformed into extremely strange shapes like melted wax figures. The world in his field of vision completely changed -
There were countless fragments in all directions, some of which looked like things in reality: a metal part from some unknown machine, a small ball of water that kept changing shape, a red thing that looked like an internal organ, and it was even undulating slightly; there were also some things that seemed to not exist in reality at all: a piece of light restrained by an invisible force was moving slowly forward, lines with no beginning or end were floating in the air, the planet underfoot was like a crumpled and curled paper, some people were above my head, some were far away under my feet, in some places magma was rolling, in some places waves were beating against the clouds, and a bear was printed on the glacier like a stretched piece of paper.
At this moment, the boundaries between time, space and dimension became blurred. He seemed to be here and also seemed to be anywhere in the world. He existed and did not exist at the same time. The distance of thousands of miles became just a few inches, and it seemed as if he could touch the stars with just a stretch of his hand.
Faced with this scene, Rong Yuan felt no fear or hesitation at all and walked in.
The chaotic scene disappeared in an instant, and Rong Yuan was in a dark void. Suddenly, a faint starlight lit up in the darkness, and then as if a switch was turned on, countless light points lit up one after another, forming a vast, tortuous, and boundless river of starlight, and many light balls of different shapes and sizes were playing and chasing in it like fish.
The starlight was like a river, and Rong Yuan was like a reef. The river of light passed by him silently, and there were many extremely tiny points of light lingering around him as if they were attached to something. Rong Yuan paused for a moment, then took a step.
In an instant, he appeared in the river of light thousands of miles away from his previous position.
It wasn't that Rong Yuan had used some ability to teleport, but that the river of light itself was made up of fragments of time and space, and spatial migration was just its most basic characteristic. When walking in it, it was not surprising that the distance between two steps was hundreds of light years.
Rong Yuan took a few more steps, and each time, his figure appeared at a distance . After a few steps, Rong Yuan found the space node he wanted to reach. With a wave of his hand, the river of light shattered, and the scene of dimensional confusion appeared again. Rong Yuan stepped out.
At this moment, only one second in reality had passed since he entered the Light River World.
