Because he was accompanied by two women, Liu Fei had to detour and enter through the main entrance of Zuo'er Mecha University. Passing by Fallen Street, where Su Zijing had been humiliated yesterday, Su Zijing glanced around and felt the empty street seemed to be lurking with countless evildoers. She quickly took a few steps, walked to Liu Fei's side, and tightly pressed against his body. She hoped Liu Fei would hold her like he did with Chen Chen...
Unfortunately, Liu Fei didn't even notice the beautiful women beside him. He was thinking about handling Cheng Lao's affairs. This kind of thing was routine for him; after all, sending the iron head to the crematorium was something he personally did.
At this time, the school was still quiet. Occasionally, students who got up early to exercise ran through the woods.
Morning was when people were most sleepy, so the security level of the school was highest at this time. In addition to the dense holographic scanning monitoring every corner of the school, security guards were also patrolling frequently.
Under the "escort" of two stunning beauties, Liu Fei walked into the gate while lost in thought.
"Stop!"
Less than fifty meters inside the school gate, the three of them were blocked by four security guards. The guards didn't recognize Liu Fei because he rarely passed through the school's main gate.
Of course, the guards weren't there for Liu Fei. The school's holographic scanning system had a powerful identity recognition function. The moment Chen Chen stepped through the gate, the main control brain of the school had identified her as an unidentified person and fed the information back to the nearest group of security guards.
Zuo'er Mecha University was semi-open, and guards generally didn't question people. However, it was morning, and security levels were higher than usual.
"Is she Miss Su's friend?" Although Liu Fei hadn't changed into his janitor uniform yet, the information fed back by the main control brain had let the guards know Liu Fei's identity. Naturally, they didn't pay attention to Liu Fei but instead tried to please the first beauty, Su Zijing. Opportunities to speak to the first beauty were rare and had to be seized.
"No," Su Zijing's answer was decisive, her nostrils emitting a cold snort, her face full of arrogance, as if it were written there: "Is she even worthy of being my friend?"
The guards naturally sensed Su Zijing's displeasure, exchanged glances, and then their gaze fell solemnly on Chen Chen.
"I am his friend," Chen Chen bowed lightly to the guards and said softly.
"Oh, oh... his friend, go ahead, go ahead..."
The guards' gaze fell on Chen Chen, and they were already enchanted by her heavenly beauty. They had already lost themselves in her charms. Hearing Chen Chen's soft words, their whole bodies felt limp. How could they refuse? Moreover, they had already fulfilled their duties as security guards by verifying the identity of the stranger as a friend of a school staff member.
"Thank you," Chen Chen bowed politely once again.
"Go ahead, go ahead. We will inform the other groups to let you through."
"Hmph!"
Su Zijing glared fiercely at the guards, seeing Liu Fei and Chen Chen had already left. She quickly followed a few steps, and then followed behind Liu Fei, as if subconsciously. She didn't want that fox spirit to confuse him.
In Su Zijing's mind, Chen Chen had already been labeled as a fox spirit.
Of course, Chen Chen didn't hold a high position in Su Zijing's eyes either. Chen Chen had already regarded Su Zijing as the biggest potential threat.
And Chen Chen wanted to confirm one thing.
Chen Chen gritted her teeth lightly, couldn't delay any longer, had to confirm it now!
"Brother Fei, yesterday..." Chen Chen's voice was very soft, hesitant and stuttering.
"Yeah, what's up?" Liu Fei didn't understand the intent behind this question.
"Yesterday was a bit cold. Were you cold sleeping alone?"
"Not cold, used to it," Liu Fei naturally didn't understand the implication behind her question.
"Oh, I'll bring you a blanket tomorrow," Chen Chen's tone relaxed.
"No need."
"Yesterday, I was a little hot..." Su Zijing secretly pleased herself, hitting the nail on the head against the fox spirit.
"Why?" Chen Chen's heart tightened.
"It's a bit hot with two people squeezing on one bed!" Su Zijing pretended to be coy.
"Ah..."
Chen Chen's body trembled, suddenly stopped in her tracks, feeling as if she had fallen into an ice hole. She looked palely at Liu Fei's back.
Liu Fei turned around, looked at the two women, feeling a bit baffled. What was there to talk about sleeping?
"Liu Fei, I still want to sleep with you today," Su Zijing looked at Liu Fei coquettishly, her expression full of charm.
"Okay."
Liu Fei's answer brought despair to Chen Chen and gave Su Zijing a sense of dignity. However, Liu Fei's next words gave Chen Chen a glimmer of hope and plunged Su Zijing into despair.
"Three hundred yuan per night." Liu Fei was pleased; he had another opportunity to make money.
"...," Seeing Chen Chen looking at her with a puzzled expression, Su Zijing's face turned green with envy. She felt murderous.
"Brother Fei, why three hundred per night?" Since Su Zijing didn't speak, Chen Chen had to ask Liu Fei.
"Need a reason? That's payment." Liu Fei didn't want to dwell on this question, but he had to answer it.
"Then... then... can I sleep?" Chen Chen's mood was like riding a roller coaster, she looked at Liu Fei nervously.
"You can," Liu Fei nodded.
"Then... then... how much?" Chen Chen's hands were clasped together so tightly that her knuckles turned pale.
"No charge," Liu Fei's answer was still firm.
"Oh... cough..." Chen Chen started coughing, tears streaming down her face. Her flawless cheeks seemed to be smeared with rouge.
While coughing, Chen Chen kept looking at Su Zijing, smiling gently. That smile was like a sharp sword stabbing into Su Zijing's bleeding heart.
"Liu Fei, you're ruthless!"
Su Zijing, her face green with anger, raised her jade-like arm. Her delicate fingers pointed fiercely at Liu Fei's nose, and after stomping her foot hard, she ran off in a hurry. If she stayed here any longer, she would probably die of anger.
Little fox spirit, little fox spirit, little fox spirit...
Su Zijing went berserk, cursing Chen Chen and Liu Fei frantically as she ran along the shady path.
It wasn't until she ran deep into the woods that Su Zijing snapped out of her rage.
Why was she angry?
Why?
Was it necessary for her to be angry over a janitor?
Su Zijing kicked a tree hard, causing her feet to ache before stopping.
Hmph! I'm the number one beauty of Zuo'er Mecha University. What's a mere janitor? As long as I want, with just a beckoning of my finger, I can have protectors lining up from the university all the way to the pedestrian street. Dreaming of sleeping with me? Huh, dream on!
Su Zijing made a beckoning motion toward the tree trunk.
Su Zijing quickly healed her wounded ego and soon regained her injured self-esteem. With her head held high, she emerged from the woods. When she encountered those security guards again, she immediately lifted her head high, emitting a cold snort from her nostrils. They hadn't seen a beauty like her before...
"Why is she angry?" Liu Fei looked bewildered as Su Zijing stomped away in a fit of anger.
"It's nothing, let's go," Chen Chen said softly.
"Okay."
Chen Chen followed Liu Fei to the optical brain laboratory and watched him clean while standing to the side.
Because of an important matter, Liu Fei maximized his potential. When he finished his work, he was a full twenty-one minutes ahead of schedule.
Liu Fei's reference time was a comprehensive measure, considering the complexity of cleaning due to the tools used and student traffic. He calculated the total cleaning time for a period and compared it to a comprehensive value. Any time saved beyond this comprehensive value was considered early.
Of course, this early completion also had another reference value. For instance, it compared the time needed for a class previously and the comprehensive value. All of this was in the reference data.
When Liu Fei finished his work, Chen Chen was nowhere to be found.
After searching the large laboratory in circles, he spotted Chen Chen staring blankly at a large experimental optical brain, gently touching its control panel.
When Liu Fei approached Chen Chen, the optical brain was flickering erratically, with random stripes and data pouring out as if analyzing something.
"You opened the optical brain?" Liu Fei looked surprised. In the optical brain laboratory, more advanced equipment required permission. This experimental optical brain, connected to the school's main optical brain, was not accessible to ordinary students.
"Ah... I don't know..." Chen Chen suddenly snapped out of her trance, saying, "It was on when I came..."
"That's impossible..."
Liu Fei shook his head. He didn't believe it, but the fact forced him to. The optical brain was calculating on its own without any human input, with massive data pouring out like rivers, and holographic rulers moving rapidly in the air as if measuring something.
Suddenly, the data stream on the optical brain's holographic screen stopped, leaving several Arabic numerals frozen on the screen, looking eerie.
36.
24.
36.
109.
"What kind of data is this?" Liu Fei stared blankly at the numbers. None of the mechas in the past two years had been related to this data.
"I... I... don't know..." Chen Chen's face turned crimson from her neck to her ears. She hung her head and dared not look at Liu Fei, her voice barely audible.
"Oh... let's go then." Liu Fei felt that something was off about Chen Chen's flushed face, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was.
"Okay."
Just as they were about to leave the optical brain laboratory, Chen Chen turned around. There was a hint of reluctance in her shining eyes, a gaze that occurred every day, but in a different location — the mecha laboratory...
Liu Fei took two days off from school to escort Cheng Lao on his final journey. Following Cheng Lao's will, his ashes were sent into the vast expanse of space, scattered into the boundless universe.
Cheng Lao's set of carving knives was given to Liu Fei, along with a spatial ring. Of course, the spatial ring could store not only carving knives but also many other things. Liu Fei's love for the spatial ring far exceeded that for the carving knives because with it, the use of his "house" space became much larger.
Two days later, Liu Fei returned to school to work, while Chen Chen began handling some of Cheng Lao's remaining properties. Among them, the most important was Cheng's Woodcarving, because it contained many woodcarving works. Except for Cheng Lao's works, which had commemorative significance and needed to be preserved, most of the woodcarvings had to be sold. After all, they were a valuable fortune.
During these two days, Liu Fei had no idea that the entire slum area was turned upside down because someone offered two hundred thousand Zuo'er coins to break Liu Fei's leg.
Liu Fei became famous in the slum area; almost everyone was talking about him, but more about Cheng Lao, because Liu Fei was Cheng Lao's son.
Iron Head is dead!
In fact, even though Iron Head hadn't appeared in the slum area for half a year, most people didn't know that Iron Head had died a long time ago. Perhaps people had never paid attention to an old scavenger, except for Iron Head's competitors.
Because of Liu Fei, people from all walks of life in the slum area knew that Iron Head was dead.
"Boss, two hundred thousand Zuo'er coins!"
In the middle of a dilapidated playground in the slum area, a group of ruffians squatted in a circle. In the middle of the circle was a one-eyed big man in his thirties, with a prominent hawk nose, broad shoulders, and a golden head of hair, dry and sparse, coiled into bunches on his shoulders like a fluffy gorilla.
"No way." The one-eyed big man shook his head firmly.
"Why? Boss, Iron Head is dead anyway, and even if he weren't, he's just an old fart. We don't need to fear him," another thug persuaded.
"I said no, who dares to touch him, it's me, Long, who they'll have to deal with!" The one-eyed dragon suddenly stood up, snorted coldly, and said, "If Iron Head weren't dead, just for saying that, he'd knock your teeth out."
The group of thugs looked at each other, not understanding why their boss would fear a dead man.
"You won't understand how terrifying Iron Head is, but he's dead. No matter how powerful a person is, once they're dead, they're dead, and there's nothing to fear," the one-eyed big man said sternly.
"That's right, Boss, Iron Head is dead no matter how powerful he was. As long as we chop off Liu Fei's leg, we can get the twenty thousand Zuo
'er coin bounty, hehe... " A small thug looked greedy, with saliva almost dripping from his mouth. The temptation of two hundred thousand Zuo'er coins was too great.
"Fool, do you know why Liu Fei offended someone?" The one-eyed dragon scolded fiercely, then squatted back down.
"It's just for protecting a woman, right?"
"Yes, it's a woman, but do you know the woman's background? Do you know her identity? Do you know her family? Do you know anything?!" The one-eyed big man's voice was fierce.
"Ah... Boss... I don't know..." The little thug weakly said.
"Yes, you don't know anything. If we disable Liu Fei, what if the forces behind that woman retaliate against us?" The one-eyed big man glared disdainfully at the little thug.
"Ah..." The little thug shuddered, his face full of flattery. "Boss, you're indeed the boss, your strategies are miles ahead, hehe... we can't keep up..."
"Yes, Boss is the boss."
"Yeah, yeah, Boss has one less eye but one more brain, oh, it's one more head..."
The group of thugs immediately followed suit, flattering the one-eyed big man, who was enigmatic to them.
"Do you know what the highest realm of being a gangster is?"
"Boss's clear instructions."
"To be a cultured gangster!"
The one-eyed big man stood tall, looked up at the sky with a hearty laugh, and strode over to a nearby trash can. He tossed the tissue he had used to wipe his nose into it. The gang of thugs looked up at the one-eyed big man's towering figure, full of admiration. Indeed, he was a cultured gangster!