MWITA CH52
In his previous life, shortly after Rong Shi enrolled, Lu Youqi appeared before him as a close friend of his father’s generation. Among a group of military bigwigs, he chose this relatively trustworthy elder.
However, in this life, just because he didn’t accept the recruitment, Lu Youqi hired an assassin to kill him. It’s unlikely that merely a friend’s son not accepting his care would warrant murder, unless there was some significant conflict of interest.
If it were because he took Lu Ming’s chairman position, then in the previous life, Lu Youqi should have killed him, not recruited him. The only explanation is that Lu Youqi only needed the chairman position to be held by his person, not necessarily by his son.
Although there is currently no direct evidence, Rong Shi is almost certain that Lu Youqi, or rather the entire Lu family, is involved in the experimental subject trials. Their high-profile recruitment of him was a facade; once things were exposed, they could push him out to take the blame, killing many birds with one stone.
After leaving the warehouse, the two went to the top floor, but this time they found no further abnormalities. Going downstairs, Song Yu asked:
“Besides the Lin family, which other family can you think of?” Since the lab could be opened with the chairman’s authority, Jiang Xingze couldn’t escape suspicion, and behind him was the Lin family, where Lin Feng was located.
Rong Shi: “The Lu family.”
Song Yu: “Lu Youqi?”
Rong Shi looked at the dark corridor ahead and suddenly stopped: “There’s also someone—who might know.”
The next morning, before the first class began, the student council suddenly issued an announcement.
“Due to an Omega’s accidental estrus, the pheromone concentration in the C8 Experimental Building has exceeded limits. It is now sealed for one day for purification and cleaning. All classes for the day will be moved to different classrooms.”
“Poisonous, right? Another Omega is in estrus there!”
“An estrus sanctuary.”
“I just want to know who didn’t properly inject their inhibitors this time?!”
Just as everyone was discussing heatedly, the student affairs office also issued an announcement, releasing the list of participants and departure time for the desolate star survival league to be held on Capital Star.
This competition was set in a Class 3 danger zone, too challenging for new students. Only the top five in the monthly exam were selected, the rest being second and third-year students, totaling three hundred people.
“Holy cow! Only five new students can go?!”
“Class 3 danger zone?! Even a mutated cockroach would be a meter long!”
“Is it really okay to let that old slacker represent the new students in the competition?”
“Hahaha, won’t he be roasting meat again?”
In the classroom, Song Yu caught sight of the time on the announcement and cursed under his breath. They were leaving on Thursday, and he was supposed to meet Bunny in person on Saturday!
Rong Shi, whose peripheral vision had been observing Song Yu’s expression, deliberately asked: “You don’t want to go?”
Song Yu’s face was sour: “I’m meeting him this weekend.”
Rong Shi: “Then what do we do? He hates people who stand him up the most.”
Song Yu’s expression stiffened.
Rong Shi: “It’s not impossible to avoid making him angry.”
Song Yu: “How?”
Rong Shi: “Want to know?”
Song Yu: “…” Damn it.
After the first class ended, Rong Shi decisively skipped the second practical class to go to the school infirmary to find Jiang Huai.
“He resigned?” Rong Shi frowned. In the pharmacy, a middle-aged Beta in a white lab coat was tidying medicine boxes: “Yes, yesterday was his last day.”
Song Yu and Rong Shi exchanged glances, then looked at the Beta: “Do you have his contact number?”
The Beta shook his head: “I just started yesterday, I’m not very familiar with him.”
Walking out of the infirmary, Rong Shi snapped his fingers. With a flick of his wrist, his terminal automatically opened, projecting a virtual screen with Jiang Huai’s photo and personal information.
Song Yu narrowed his eyes: “Where did you get that information?” Such detailed information couldn’t possibly be found on public information platforms.
Rong Shi: “01 stole it.”
Song Yu: “?”
01: “…” Doesn’t he have any dignity?
Jiang Huai’s personal information was as ordinary as a passerby’s. After graduating from the Central Medical Academy, he held various medical-related positions in different hospitals and organizations, and came to the military academy as a school doctor a year ago. Apart from the unusually high frequency of job changes, no other problems could be seen.
It took a day to repair the passage and warehouse on the basement floor of the C8 Experimental Building. With Song Yu’s connections and Rong Shi’s control over the military academy, the entire process went unnoticed. The two didn’t rashly decide to empty the lab. Rong Shi instructed 01 to strengthen the screening of personnel coming and going, especially those appearing near the lab.
Before departure, Rong Shi contacted Qian Fan and solemnly entrusted Sleepy to him.
“Don’t worry, I’ll go check on him every day,” Qian Fan said with a playful scold. “You just focus on competing well; don’t worry about anything else.”
Rong Shi: “Thank you.”
Qian Fan patted his shoulder: “Sleepy and I will be watching your competition. Do well.”
Rong Shi: “…”
That evening, Rong Shi packed his belongings and went online early, waiting for a certain kitten to come with droopy ears to apologize.
He waited until almost eight o’clock, but the “Diamond Kitty” didn’t come online. He grew a little annoyed. Would he just not explain anything? Would he simply not say anything because he didn’t know how to explain?
A notification window suddenly appeared at the bottom of the screen. Rong Shi casually clicked it open; it was a mech ranking challenge notification. All online players on the mech score leaderboard could potentially receive challenges from others. Waiting idly was truly boring, so he accepted. The next moment, the screen switched to the mech battle waiting area.
Fifteen minutes later, a string of exclamation marks suddenly appeared on the harmonious public chat—
“Damn! The supposedly retired Rabbit God is slaughtering the rankings again!!!”
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you. If you don’t want to get crushed, switch to a alt account and play dead right now!”
“My fault for not escaping fast enough, I’ve already surrendered.”
“Run, run, run! The Rabbit God at night is violent, one kill per strike!”
“Latest intel from the front! Rank 32 has already fallen. Currently matching against 27.”
“…I’m 27, already… Good luck to the brothers behind me.”
Besides a large area of wailing, there were also many who seized business opportunities, following the Rabbit God’s pace to make a lot of money.
“Follow the Rabbit God, and there’s meat to eat, slurp.”
“Goodness, oh my goodness! My balance quadrupled in half an hour!”
“Ahhhhh, any big shots give directions? This junior wants to earn some pocket money too!”
“Those who want to make money, come to room VI23913, bet on Shadow M1.”
“There’s no time, ahhhhh! Just entered the room number, and it said ‘battle ended’!”
“Rabbit God, can’t you fight slower! I can’t keep up!”
Watching an entire leaderboard almost cleared, Rong Shi checked the time. It was 8:45. He wasn’t coming? Should he go over and see what he was doing?
Just as he thought this, two more notification messages appeared in the bottom right corner.
[Your special contact ‘The Little Cat Loves Fish’ is now online.]
[User ‘The Little Cat Loves Fish’ has invited you to a Mech 1v1 duel.]
The night’s irritable mood was instantly calmed.
The top players on the mech leaderboard waited eagerly, only to find that the ranking-slaughtering rabbit had once again disappeared without warning, as if he had never been there at all—
“Rabbit… Rabbit God left?”
“…Always so sudden?”
“Rabbit God, come back! I haven’t earned enough yet!”
“Bold guess: Cat Lord has arrived. Rabbit God’s soul has been hooked, so he’s no longer interested in making money.”
“Rabbit God, wake up! What’s so good about clinging to a sugar daddy? Of course, you should be self-reliant!”
“Cat Lord, if you’re here, just say something, so everyone can give up hope QuQ”
Every time the rabbit disappeared, the public chat would discuss it for a long time, always calling out for the “Rabbit God” and “Cat Lord,” but the person never appeared. Everyone treated it as a form of entertainment, no one taking it seriously.
Among the frantically scrolling subtitles, a red envelope suddenly appeared, especially eye-catching. Before people could complain that they couldn’t grab it, the public chat was flooded with a whole row of red envelopes.
At first, the red envelopes would be scrolled away by the subtitles, but later, people gradually stopped sending messages and were all grabbing red envelopes. When the red envelope barrage stopped, someone counted carefully, and there were actually nine hundred and ninety-nine of them!
“The Little Cat Loves Fish: Don’t bother me and Bunny, all of you scram.”
Following that was a string of “Thank you, Cat Lord, we’re gone.”
In the training room, Rong Shi stepped out of the virtual cockpit, and a small kitten was suddenly in his arms.
Rong Shi’s body stiffened. His hand, hanging at his side, moved. Just as he was about to give up thinking and just hug him, the kitten slipped away from his embrace.
“Bunny, I might not be able to meet you for a while.”
Rong Shi silently put his hand back.
Author’s Note:
Rong Bunny: Irritable, wants to hit someone.
Song Cat: Irritable, throwing money.