Marrying the Short-Lived, Maniacal Eldest Miss for Good Fortune 94

Chapter 94

The summer green grew thicker, and the roaring thunder and showers would often come suddenly.

The raindrops pattered against the floor-to-ceiling window. The huge temperature difference between the inside and the outside caused a faint layer of white mist to appear on the inner edge, making the scenery both inside and outside the window very hazy.

When Lin Shuxing woke up in a daze, the warmth of the woman was no longer by her side. She had stuffed a large teddy bear pillow in her place. So in her soft confusion, the young lady turned over and met a pair of dark, gentle, gem-like eyes.

Fang Yi…?

She’s turned into a teddy bear.

The young lady woke up.

Lin Shuxing immediately opened her phone with a cold face to check Fang Yi’s location, but in a series of message notifications, she found that the woman had already driven home in the early morning after she had fallen asleep.

It was their shared home.

Before she had fallen into a deep sleep, Lin Shuxing still remembered that pair of warm hands, carefully sliding over her skin, helping her to wash and wipe clean bit by bit.

She liked the feeling of Fang Yi hugging her from behind afterward. The woman’s long, slender arms would rest on her, exuding the fresh scent of shower gel. Her broad palms would occasionally press against her curved lines, rubbing her sore waist and legs.

It was hard to imagine that after a night of passion, Fang Yi could still force herself to leave. The distance from the Lin family’s old residence to the city center apartment was not short.

Lin Shuxing stared at the surveillance for a while, and only after exiting did she click on the communication software and see the message Fang Yi had sent in the early morning.

[Fang Yi: I’m home. Good night.]

This was a very well-behaved prey that would consciously return to its cage.

It was just a little too self-aware. Why did she have to obey even the expired “no overnight stays” rule!!!

Mom wouldn’t really say much. At the family banquet, she had already tacitly let them sit together. Didn’t she even see such an obvious hint?

The young lady rested her head on her arms and took Lin Xinyou’s gentleness for granted. Her morning grumpiness mixed with a bit of an indescribable shame and anger, and she felt that she should add another family rule in the future:

Do not leave before your partner wakes up.

She was sullen and deliberately did not reply to the message, but switched back to the surveillance footage, as if she were watching an idle game, and saw Fang Yi sitting in the study with a straight face again.

The large screen was displaying forum messages.

As soon as Fang Yi went online, she found that some things were different.

Although the technical posts in the past had also been very lively, after the preview prototype of Genesis was released yesterday, the reaction seemed to be even stronger than she had imagined.

In a long string of private message red dots, Fang Yi even glimpsed a few ancient-level great gods, the kind she had only seen in textbooks before.

Her hand, which was on the mouse, was a little shaky. One of the big shots with a black and white avatar, she had always thought was no longer in this world. She had not expected that one day she would receive her kind greetings and inquiries.

It was like a dream.

Although the voices of doubt were also very strong.

Interactive projection had existed for many years, but holography was a brand new field.

It wasn’t impossible to realize, but the cost was too great.

To be both cheap and leading, a collection of high requirements could only get one word: get lost.

Most people, like the initial Zong Heng, questioned whether these were just preset animations, or whether the entire demo was based on special effects.

This team was too young. Even though Wang Quan had poached several big shots to hold the fort, in front of the long-established old companies, they were still like a toddler learning to walk.

After she had posted yesterday, Fang Yi had not looked at the forum again. After all, her life was very fulfilling and happy now, and she had no time to be on the internet all the time.

Fang Yi glanced at it with a smile. It was completely expected that someone would argue. It would be scary if no one paid attention, which would mean that it was not even worth discussing.

But this night of debate, several groups of people seemed to have given up sleep and had been fighting with high intensity across time zones. The intensity was so fierce that it even made one suspect if it was a paid article from Wang Quan’s water army.

Fang Yi scrolled to the bottom and found that the one who had first ignited this fire was actually Zong Heng.

Faced with those who accused her of faking it without any proof, she had directly and openly used the account that had been affiliated with the research institute to mock them. Fearing that her international friends would not understand, she had eruditely translated a sentence into various languages:

“A frog in a well.”

Zong Heng’s translation of curses was quite interesting. Others could easily get her contempt.

But if Fang Yi remembered correctly, not long ago, Zong Heng herself had also seemed to be in the well.

After she had been removed from the E-Core Project, this account had been banned for a long time. She had not expected it to be unbanned now.

Fang Yi guessed that her unbanning was probably related to the violet lady. Anyway, things in Yanjing were a mess, and it was not peaceful to do anything.

However, as these ghosts and monsters were fighting, things had gradually started to develop in a wrong direction, and had directly risen to the level of personal attacks.

Someone, in a fit of shame and anger, had tried to hack Zong Heng’s computer, but they did not know that this national team member was not only good at developing chips. She had in turn paralyzed the other party’s organization’s network and had brazenly pasted the promotional page of Genesis on the opponent’s face.

For a time, that starry sky was floating on all major websites around the world, with a large, deep blue font at the end: Welcome to the future.

Fang Yi’s mood was a little subtle.

In the past, she had always thought that Zong Heng was a relatively conservative person, at least chaotic neutral. But now, it seemed that she did not know her very well.

Zong Heng alone had attracted most of the fighting power, and many people had begun to conspiracy theorize that she was the mastermind behind this project. After all, Zong Heng’s qualifications were there. Otherwise, how could she, who had always been so arrogant, be willing to personally step down?

The netizens’ analysis was very logical. Fang Yi watched it like a story: Ah, so that’s how it is!

The discussion was too heated, and it had even dug up an old story: Zong Heng was suspected of attempting to murder a male colleague, which was why she had been removed from the research institute.

The truth could not be confirmed, but the next second Fang Yi saw this message, all related terms were completely deleted.

Then it was most likely true.

Zong Heng had a very strong sense of order. Fang Yi believed that it was impossible for her to act without reason. Rather than saying that Zong Heng had attempted to murder, it was better to say that that person must have done something that had touched her bottom line.

What did she care about the most? Chips, military industry, Yanjing…

Fang Yi hesitated and called Wang Quan.

Taking a step back, Zong Heng should also be considered to have been injured at work in this incident. They could not stand by and do nothing.

Wang Quan answered quickly and said with a loud laugh that Fang Yi should not worry about it, and that she had her own clever plan.

She didn’t say what the clever plan was and hung up the phone in a hurry.

Fang Yi took off her not-so-used-to-wearing glasses, pressed her throbbing brow, and had a faint, bad premonition.

This premonition was like a radar. Once an alarm was issued, a nerve in her brain would be tense.

Her head hurt, and her hands also hurt, but Fang Yi did not want to go to bed and rest now.

She opened her phone and glanced at it again. Lin Shuxing still hadn’t replied to her message.

Is she not awake yet? Or was last night too much?

Fang Yi rested her chin on her hand, and the wound was startled. She sat up straight again and slowly began to type.

[Fang Yi: Shall I come and pick you up?]

There was no response from the other side. Fang Yi first got up to get a glass of water. The two fat cats were sleeping at this time, a large and a small one curled up together, their breathing rising and falling.

Fang Yi squatted down, rubbed the large one against its fur, and was in a good mood.

Her phone suddenly rang. Fang Yi, with a bit of a guilty conscience, smoothed out Little Whale’s messy fur, and only then did she pick up her phone.

It was not a message from Lin Shuxing.

The faint smile that the woman had built up disappeared again, and her cool jawline became very cold.

It was another Yanjing IP, a virtual short number.

Fang Yi didn’t really want to answer, but if she hadn’t answered yesterday, she would have missed the chance to get the good news as soon as possible.

“Hello?”

The person on the other end chuckled.

This laugh was very recognizable. Fang Yi immediately hung up the phone with a blank expression.

It seemed that most of the things that came out of the fate box were not good things.

[Unknown message: It’s me.]

I hung up because I knew it was you.

Just as Fang Yi was about to block her, the other side had predicted her action and had slowly typed.

[Unknown message: On official business. Are you coming out yourself, or are we coming up?]

[Fang Yi: ?]

[Fang Yi: Scam message. Already reported to the police.]

[Unknown message: Go ahead and report it. It will be transferred to me anyway. By the way, let’s discuss the problem of personal possession of firearms.]

[Fang Yi: I don’t have any.]

[Unknown message: But many of your bodyguards outside are armed. Oh, then a pitiful citizen is surrounded by lawless elements. We have the right to break through and rescue.]

“…”

In the moment of Fang Yi’s silence, a red dot passed through the glass and aimed at her brow. Outside the window, several drones were hovering a hundred meters above the ground.

In an instant, countless red dots gathered and condensed into a cinnabar dot on her forehead, so red it was demonic.

Her phone vibrated.

[Unknown message: Please.]

The woman had one hand in her pocket, her brow furrowed. She was so annoyed that she wanted her to have the guts to shoot and not just bluff.

But this was her home. It would be very troublesome if it was messed up.

Three minutes later, Fang Yi still gritted her teeth and appeared downstairs.

Xia Wenzhou, in a dark green shirt, was very polite now. She invited her into the car like a human and a dog, and poked her still-bandaged left hand with a smile. “Comrade Broken Arm, long time no see.”

“…”

How on earth has this person lived so long without being beaten to death? Fang Yi sincerely suspected.

“You really can’t forget, can you?” The woman said this with a subtle smugness.

Fang Yi: “Forget what?”

Xia Wenzhou raised an eyebrow. “What do you think?”

They had all seen the demo of Genesis. No one could forget that starry sky from the past. It was also one of the few wonderful memories.

“I was just saying, how did you run off to do these time-wasting things? It turns out there’s such a big deal. You really are a scholar.”

“That thing, the leader is also quite interested. He asked me to come and get a prototype from you to take back to the military for research.”

Xia Wenzhou spread her hands and stared at Fang Yi with a smile. As expected, when she heard the word “leader,” the calm disguise on the woman’s face suddenly rippled.

“Who?” Fang Yi could hardly believe her ears and even forgot to scold this shameless robber.

“The leader.”

“What leader? Which leader? Be clear.”

The smile in Xia Wenzhou’s eyes deepened, and she was still playing a riddle. “The leader is the leader. Do you have a second leader?”

“…”

Fang Yi pinched her brow, trying to physically suppress the stormy waves in her heart.

The car drove straight into a mountainside. After passing through heavy checkpoints, a huge, semi-circular gray building appeared on the ground.

“You’ve replicated a Tianlan Fortress?!”

“To be precise, it wasn’t me,” Xia Wenzhou shrugged, quite pleased with Fang Yi’s shock. “But I’ve reorganized the Wind Chaser Squad.”

Wind Chaser was the small squad that Xia Wenzhou had led in her past life. Fang Yi didn’t know what to say anymore.

She had finally managed to cut ties with her past memories, but these things had so easily appeared in front of her again.

The gap between the two worlds was too great, and there was a very absurd sense of disconnect.

Xia Wenzhou stood behind her, her voice also as if it were floating from another time and space. “Fang Yi, when are you returning to the team?”

“You haven’t been to Yanjing yet, have you? Everyone is waiting for you.”

“There, we have everything we want. We will, together, control this brand new world.”

“The things you’re researching should be put to real use.”

“Don’t mess with those useless, broken games anymore. With this kind of technology, don’t you find these weak animals ridiculous?”

Xia Wenzhou raised her hand and threw a pet egg on the ground. An exhausted Shiba Inu jumped out and fell to the ground.

Xia Wenzhou raised her boot and kicked it. The Shiba Inu cheerfully showed its belly for her to rub.

The little dog was still sticking out its tongue. Fang Yi couldn’t bear it anymore and also kicked Xia Wenzhou. “Are you sick?”

Xia Wenzhou’s face was unchanged. She let her kick her, pointed at the dog on the ground, and said contemptuously, “I’m just asking you, what’s the use of these things?”

Fang Yi retorted, “What do you want a pet for? To be your military dog?”

“Yes. Otherwise? Didn’t you promote it as cutting-edge technology? It can’t even run for a few kilometers, and it needs to be charged. So troublesome.”

The woman’s disgust was very frank, and Fang Yi was almost amused to the point of anger.

“If my hand were really broken, would you also ask me what’s the use of this person?”

This question was a bit sharp, and not in line with Fang Yi’s usual tone. Xia Wenzhou frowned, spread her hands with great indifference, and waved her five fingers. “Then you’re not broken, are you, great scientist?”

Fang Yi was too lazy to bother with her and bent down to pick up the pet egg that was lying in the dirt.

The woman would not let her pick it up.

Xia Wenzhou took a step forward, and her tall figure cast a shadow. Her soft boots were only a few centimeters away from Fang Yi’s hand, and she wickedly stepped on the pet egg.

Fang Yi looked up and saw Xia Wenzhou with her hands in her pockets. Because they were too close, her long, slender thighs were almost on her head. She looked down at her, and her nonchalant temperament was replaced by a cold killing intent in the moment she lowered her eyes:

“A person should know how to be grateful. I was the one who drove away the killer in that car accident. Otherwise, do you think you could still be standing here, talking to me?”

Fang Yi was slightly stunned. If it had been a dog or a noodle in front of her, she would have thanked them. But facing Xia Wenzhou, she had no good temper at all. She looked at her coldly and grasped the main point. “So, you were really following me?”

Xia Wenzhou raised an eyebrow, noncommittal, and smiled at her with her pale, sharp teeth, her drawn-out tone also as if she were singing an unknown song:

“I heard that your little girlfriend did well on her exam.”

“A spring night is short. How much more time do you have to waste?”