Chapter 97: Extra and regular updates

Headmaster's Office.

Twelve scenarios were simulated on the light screen, eleven of which had a zero survival rate and the only one with a ten percent survival rate was titled "Decoy Plan".

Next to the decoy plan is a small line in red: Reported to the War Office and approved!

With bloodshot eyes, the headmaster's hands were clenched into fists under the table, and he seemed to be saying to Zheng, but it was as if he was talking to himself, "There is no way out, but we have to make a choice."

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

After a long silence, he wearily opened a file containing analyses of viruses, one of which was from Tang Rong.

" His Excellency Tang Rong believes that the virus is likely to have come from the Empire and that this accident is an Imperial hunt for the Federation's latest talent,The Federation's current bio-information infection technology lags behind that of the Empire ......"

"His Excellency Tang Rong also believed that there was no need to give special attention to Tang Bai, that there was no difference between life and death, and that since he (Tang Bai) had chosen this path, he was ready to sacrifice, and the Tang Family understood and complied with all the arrangements made by the military and the school."

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Tang Bai was looking at the system's route for Discovery, and he had a copy of the route for Qiu Yan's ship, which was so far away from each other that it could be described as the opposite of the route.

Why so far away?

The system should intelligently assign the fastest route to the two craft starting from the same point.

A faint sense of dissonance hangs over the mind.

"What's on your mind?" Xie Ruhang walks over to Tang Bai and sees that Tang Bai's brow is furrowed, the markings on his brow like the folds of milk milk skin being gently pushed out by his fingers.

"I have a bit of a bad suspicion in my mind." Tang Bai paused and said, "But I don't really want to say it out loud."

"The same thing happened before with Einstein's Rosen Bridge, I was so slightly uncomfortable, rationally I thought there was no way I would find the temporal turbulence, but I had a vague sense of foreboding in my heart." Tang Bai was bereft: "It turned out to be true when I said it, so do you think I'm a raven-"

Xie Ruhang reached out and covered Tang Bai's mouth when he saw how low Tang Bai was getting.

With alpha's wide palms and Tang Bai's small face, it has the visual effect of covering most of the face at first glance.

Tang Bai: "Well ...... Mudgangshemao Duck!"

Xie Ruhang squeezed Tang Bai's soft face in this position, "to check if it's a crow's nest."

Then he said seriously, "No."

Tang Bai slapped Xie Ruhang's hand away, strongly suspecting that Xie Ruhang was using it as an opportunity for revenge, but with Xie Ruhang's interruption, Tang Bai's original melancholy mood was lost.

"You're too casual with this identification." Tang Bai reached out a hand to her cheek and rubbed it.

"If you're a crow's-mouth, Gu Tunan will really like me." Xie Ruhang gives an example to prove his judgement.

"Doesn't he like you?" Tang Bai was baffled, and after thinking about it for a while, all he could say was, "Has he moved on?"

Xie Ruhang: "......"

Tang Bai stared blankly, "No way, where is he going to find another independent, self-made, new age omega who meets his criteria for a mate?"

Xie Ruhang nudged Tang Bai's forehead, "Isn't there one right here?"

"It's a bit silly though."

Tang Bai was confused for a moment, not bothering with the 'stupid' comment, he said incredulously, "You mean Gu Tunan likes me?"

The Gu Tunan who is late for every blind date, who deliberately keeps him waiting, who secretly snitches to his teachers and parents, who doesn't eat his lunchbox, who disdains his style of dress, who uses him as a blind date shield and who mocks him as a spoiled vase, likes him?

"How is that possible? He hated me before ......"

"You also said it was before, are you now exactly the same as Gu Tunan's ideal type?" Xie Ruhang followed the advice.

Tang Bai: "...... Oh, what?"

Now he seems to be the standard independent and autonomous new age omega oh.

"Gu Tunan actually changed his mind about you at the military training entrance ceremony, that time Gu Tunan challenged me for you, have you forgotten?" Xie Ruhang held out his left hand with his thumb bent at ninety degrees, his index finger up and the other three fingers closed.

Tang Bai subconsciously held out his hand as well, "Refill?"

Xie Ruhang was silent for a moment, looking at the challenging gesture they had put together, surprisingly it really did look like a love heart, he cried a bit, "What are you usually thinking about, when Gu Tunan and I fought over you, don't you know that?"

The main character attacked and suffered once fought over me?!

Weren't you in love with each other then?

Tang Bai's mind froze.

Xie Ruhang looks at Tang Bai's dumbfounded expression, he finds himself with mixed feelings as if he can guess what Tang Bai is thinking ......

It's true that stupidity is contagious.

Xie Ruhang means Tang Bai doesn't know Gu Tunan likes him?

[Although I doubt this is a whitewashing tactic by Tang Bai, I found that Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang are actually showing their true feelings through freeze frame analysis of micro expressions ......]

[Old Tang Division Green Tea persona is going to collapse? Master Green Knot!!!]

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

[Tang Bai didn't think Gu Tunan and Xie Ruhang were simply having a friendly sparring session [black question mark face.jpg]]

" Gu Tunan looked at you with such affection just now, and you didn't even feel anything?" Xie Ruhang's helpless tone flooded with a faint tinge of acidity.

Although Tang Bai is dull to other people's emotions, Tang Bai's emotional radar has evolved when it comes to Xie Ruhang, and he immediately exclaimed, "Because I can only see the deep love in your eyes!"

[I don't know if it's tea, but it's true that I can flirt with men]

[The way Xie Ruhang looks at Tang Bai is so gentle, I'm so impressed]

Those phoenix eyes are normally stern, but when they look at Tang Bai, the coldness turns into tenderness.

It looked like it was clearly in a good mood.

Tang Bai continued, "I just fit Gu Tunan's criteria, and when I don't look like his ideal type, he'll never look at me like that again."

Xie Ruhang's lips were tipped with a smile and his voice was low and soft: "I don't think I ever told you that you were my ideal type to begin with."

At the beginning?

Tang Bai queried, "And now what?"

Xie Ruhang looked at him, his eyes running around his face, looking very slowly and carefully, as if an invisible hand had touched Tang Bai's features in detail, making Tang Bai's scalp tingle a little.

Tang Bai suddenly panicked when he thought of Xie Ruhang's "little idiot" and "little bad" names for him today.

Xie Ruhang should stop talking about falling in love and then feeling like his ideal type filter is broken!

It's true that he's been acting a little bit stupid lately, but it's Magic Silver's fault, and I've heard that falling in love makes you drop your wits, so Xie Ruhang has to take the blame!

Tang Bai quickly found himself sophomoric as he cleared his throat ready to begin his long speech, "I ......"

"Right now my ideal type is you." Xie Ruhang interrupted him.

The ideal type is you.

So I love you in every way.

The pheromone floating in the air is a light tea scent with a hint of sweetness.

Tang Bai's eyes widened slightly as he saw himself in Xie Ruhang's dark phoenix eyes at this moment.

Dumb and dumber, it does seem a bit silly.

He was just a bit taken by Xie Ruhang this confession ......

Surprised?

Tang Bai watched in awe as Xie Ruhang reached out and turned off their live stream, whenever Xie Ruhang turned off the stream, it was to do something juvenile.

The phoenix eyes were deep and gentle, and the gaze was so hot that Tang Bai dared not look at them.

But the fact that Xie Ruhang wanted to kiss him when he was so stupid suddenly proved the credibility of those words!

The teacher said in class that you shouldn't spoil an alpha too much, otherwise the omega will be the one who suffers when he develops a demanding personality.

Ah ...... This ......

Tang Bai's eyelashes trembled slightly as he looked at Xie Ruhang's approaching face, but he slowly closed his eyes.

Then ......

He was jerked around by Xie Ruhang with a handful of dull hairs.

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

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

Tang Bai: "?" You're not right.

"I need to discuss business with you." Xie Ruhang said softly, "Next time we'll do business together."

Tang Bai: "????" Did you just tease me?

Tang Bai opened her eyes in shame and annoyance, expecting to see Xie Ruhang's teasing eyes, but to her surprise, he was looking very serious at the moment.

"There's really something going on, I'm not going to tease you." Xie Ruhang stroked Tang Bai's little head, "Have you noticed that there's something wrong with the pop-ups."

Tang Bai's attention is instantly diverted by the mention of pop-ups, and he nods.

"I suspect that the school has set up a keyword block on the pop-ups to block the news of the Dream shipwreck." Although he says he suspects it, Xie Ruhang's tone is certain.

Tang Bai followed into the analysis, "I think so too."

Xie Ruhang continued, "I just went to look at the players on Qiu Yan's ship and found that they have one thing in common."

Tang Bai looked to Xie Ruhang and heard a direction of distinction he hadn't thought of: "They're both civilian students."

Xie Ruhang's base for the chief competition was on these plebeian students, all of whom he knew well enough to remember who had even voted for him.

"The only noble student on that ship came to our ship, and now Discovery is full of noble students except for Rong Yao and me. And Rong Yao and I have excellent grades in our respective majors."

"Would you say it's a coincidence?"

Xie Ruhang didn't say anything else, but Tang Bai understood what Xie Ruhang meant, "We need to gather more information on the ship."

......

Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang walked out of the lounge and saw Gu Tunan Mo Zheng Bai Li in the lobby, surrounded by nppc like a vicious force, with Lu En saying "go away" impatiently to Gu Tunan.

The atmosphere between the two sides was tense and explosive.

After seeing Tang Bai come out, Rong Yao hurriedly explained to Tang Bai as if he had seen a savior, "Didn't the Adventure come to pick up Qiu Yan Lu Lv and You Xiang just now? The Adventure also gave us a lot of energy, but it was too much and the npc on the Adventure seemed to be angry."

"The two NPCs on the Adventure are particularly strong in battle, they tied up all the players on the ship and are now running back to our ship to get the energy crystals back from us."

"Turns out they don't know what they said to the npc's on our ship, Lu En they want to return too!"

Tang Bai slowly typed out a question mark.

A similar situation occurred on various airships, especially the npc's on some of the airships that had their energy stolen by players, who instantly blew up when they found out -

I've worked so hard to save this much energy, but you losers are giving it all away for nothing!

No more sailing! Go home!!!

What's worse is that all the powerful players on the airship have been transferred away by the system. The players on the airship are of average strength and are easily cleaned up by the rampaging npc's. The players are weak, pathetic and helpless, without the slightest right to say anything, and watch as the npc's return to the ship in anger.

As for the players' painstaking attempts to say that the energy star is really at that coordinate, the npc's response is always: I believe you, damn it!

The attitude of the npc's on Discovery is more moderate, or more accurately, the npc's are nice to Tang Bai.

Lu En walked up to Tang Bai, his thin lips biting into his cigarette with the rich smell of tobacco, and said to Tang Bai, "The Captain and I have some thoughts of going back."

His tone was not one of notice, but a hint of negotiation.

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

A rising white mist envelops his face, and the look on his sharp features is unreadable. Lu En narrows his eyes slightly, not at Tang Bai, but at the starry sky outside the window.

He clutched his cigarette and took a hard drag, "There's not much energy left on the ship, and if we encounter a few more meteorite swarms, the rate of energy depletion will quickly reach the alert line, and at that point we won't be able to go back even if we want to."

As soon as the words were spoken, Tang Bai's firm reply rang out, "No, I won't."

Lu En turned his head and looked at Tang Bai in dismay.

The shimmering light of the stars outside the window falls in Tang Bai's eyes like glittering gems.

It's so energetic.

Lu En thought listlessly.

"We will find the energy star, we will complete the mission given to us by the Federation, we will become heroes of the Federation and go home in style in the limelight ......"

Lu En's eyes began to fade again, and he tilted his head as if looking out at the cosmic landscape, or more like a simple daze.

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

Lu En, who was lost in thought, froze for a moment and slowly turned his head to look straight at Tang Bai.

"Senpai must be very sorry that he couldn't be with that person."

It has been a long time since anyone has mentioned the existence of that person.

It's been so long that Lu En has forgotten about that person.

But every time he thought he was going to forget, the slightest memory triggered, countless moments of our time together came back like a tidal wave.

He could vividly remember every sweetness of the memories and the heart-breaking resentment of the separation.

A bitterness that not even tobacco can numb.

Lu En put down the cigarette in his mouth, he was much taller than Tang Bai, and without the shroud of smoke, the sharpness of this face suddenly flowed out, the thin lips pursed slightly open, he said coldly, " Kang Pengze told you?"

Tang Bai shakes his head.

He just suddenly remembered the way Lu En shook his head when Rong Yao told the story of his love for Bo, and raised his cup of tea and drank it in one gulp, much like Gu Tunan.

"If the seniors had discovered the energy star, they would surely have received a commendation from the Federation and would have been able to appear before that person with a new face and speak to him the words buried in their hearts."

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

Tang Bai met his eyes unapologetically and said earnestly, "I just know that there are some things I regret not saying for the rest of my life."

The fingers holding the cigarette twitched imperceptibly for a moment.

"The coordinates of the energy star are in system y 367-37-245." Tang Bai's tone and look were sincere, so sincere that one could not question them.

"Elder, I cannot explain how I know the coordinates of the Energy Star, but please believe me, the Energy Star is really there."

"And, he was there, too, and he was waiting for the seniors to come."

Lu En's heart suddenly throbs again as he hears these last words. Lu En closes his eyes, having spent countless days and nights paralysed by tobacco, often feeling that his life was being wasted away in a constant routine.

Like a dead fish floating in stagnant water.

Unchanging.

Those who were originally of whatever class are destined to be of that class in this life, nay, perhaps they can become even worse.

On embarking on Discovery, the Captain asked him why he was entering Discovery, whether it was for the future of humanity or the material rewards of the Federation.

Neither, he said.

It's for one person.

Trying to seize the opportunity for upward mobility, he was worn out of hope bit by bit in disappointment after disappointment.

It seems easier and a little more practical to flow downwards.

"Seniors?"

Lu En opened his eyes and the cigarette in his fingers had burned out, a sign that the days of self-paralysis were coming to an end.

Looking into Tang Bai's bright eyes, Lu En feels like he sees himself as a newcomer to Discovery.

"Did you know this coordinate from the Gods of the Universe?"

Looking at the bewildered Tang Bai, Lu En gave a soft laugh.

He used to think the newcomers were crazy.

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

Lu En threw away the cigarette in his hand and looked out of the window at the stars, his eyes, always spiritless, glowing as never before.

"All right." He spoke with a joking diffidence, but was inexplicably serious: "Just go to the place you said."

"Ding - npc Lu En has +3 good feeling towards you," the system beep sounded in Tang Bai's mind.

[666666, it's the first time I've seen one that can use its mouth to convince an NPC not to return to the ship]

[Other groups are fighting with NPCs to the death, I'm going to tell them about this peaceful solution!

Tang Bai breathed a long sigh of relief when she suddenly heard another mission announcement, "New mission: persuade Lu En!"

"npc Lu En has a high favorable opinion of you! Your words are having an effect on him! The npc on the Adventure wants to return to the ship, so please persuade Lu En to pilot the Adventure to the Energy Star!"

Tang Bai reads the details of the mission, then he makes a cheering gesture to Lu En and, to the surprise of the mission issuer, turns to leave.

Not at all trying to convince Lu En while the iron is hot!

"Ding - Please note that the quest is time-barred and needs to be completed before the Adventure returns! After the time limit the quest will not be completed!" The quest publisher was in a hurry.

Tang Bai walked to the lounge without listening, he closed the door and switched off the live feed as well, then he muttered to himself into the air, "You should be able to hear me."

"Don't you think your plan is already going to fail? Besides Lu En, there are many npc's planning to return to the ship, and trying to stop these npc's will require you to waste a lot of time and effort."

"Is there any point in going ahead with such a plan?"

The lounge was quiet, except for Tang Bai's confident and calm voice: "In that case, why don't you listen to my plan?"

After a while, a system beep sounded in Tang Bai's head, "What's your plan?"

Surely you can communicate with outside leaders!

Tang Bai puffed out his chest, "So first we have to exchange information."

Half an hour later, Tang Bai walks out of the lounge with his hands in his pockets, he finds Xie Ruhang and pulls him into a secluded corner, then both he and Xie Ruhang turn off the broadcast.

They do this sort of thing all the time, and the pop-ups see it all the time.

Xie Ruhang thought the same thing as Tang Bai did last time and was about to do something above the neck when she suddenly heard Tang Bai say softly, "Look, our baby."

Xie Ruhang: "???" Can you get pregnant even if you kiss in a game?

Tang Bai shows Xie Ruhang a mecha pet egg in his pocket, a dark metal egg the size of an adult's fist, exactly the same as the mechanical vine egg Xie Ruhang has been hatching for so long.

"How did it appear in the game? And it's turned into a mech egg?" Xie Ruhang was shocked.

"Good question!" Tang Bai patted Xie Ruhang on the shoulder, "Thanks to you keeping the egg on you, the game was contaminated by a virus and once it started it was impossible to add more variables, only to use the existing conditions. But after you brought the mech egg with you, it was scanned in by the system!"

"The principle of importation is the same as that bug virus appeared, they both can be datamined and when scanned in they both need energy to feed to hatch, without energy they are egg shaped, that virus eats everything, our egg is more picky, the next thing you can do is give it energy crystals to make it grow."

Tang Bai explained, "The appearance of that bug virus is most likely a product of the Empire's bio-informatics infectology, the Federation's research in this area is weaker than the Empire's, and Grandpa had fretted about it before, then he got a new inspiration when he and I were working on the mech pet eggs together."

"Instead of working on bioinformatic infection, we went on our original technology tree to illuminate a technology much like but different from bioinformatic infection, bioinformatics and mechanisation."

"The virus released by the Empire has infected the entire game system, our current technology is unable to overcome this technical problem, and after the game system is infected, forcibly terminating the game may infect all students, so why not try to fight poison with poison."

"We can put a bug in there, too." Tang Bai touched the sleeping mechanical vine, "After you hatch this guy out, have it drag that bug into the black hole."

Tang Bai patted the mecha egg, his tone gentle but coolly fatherly, "This is its contribution to the Federation, it ate all of Cheng Family's energy crystals, now it's time to get out and work hard!