Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 120 False
"This news can't be false!"

Yuanze was sitting on the hillside, holding a yellow-green dogtail grass in his mouth, looking at the stars, and uttered these words.

"No way, you don't even believe in your master?"

Astra was also bored. He had just controlled the source beast to search for a long time but found nothing, so he didn't want to do it anymore.

"Alas, I don't know when Dai Hui will wake up. I still have a lot of questions to ask him."

"Are you talking about me?"

A sudden voice came from behind Yuanze, and he turned to look at the figure in the cave.

In the firelight, Dai Hui's slender figure was stretched even longer, like a chopstick stuck in rice, swaying with the beating of the campfire.

Just like last time, he was still unreasonable and pointed the gun at Yuanze, but the reason for his questioning was different this time.

"Where did you take my brother?"

"Your brother?"

"It's Liu Shuiyun. We are sworn brothers."

Yuanze was silent for a moment. He was not sure whether Dai Hui saw the scene of Liu Shuiyun being beheaded, but now he was sure that Dai Hui did not know the truth.

"Speak quickly! Or I'll shoot!"

"Who are you scaring?"

Dai Hui looked at Yuan Ze carefully for a while and fell silent. The Yuan Ze in front of him was no longer the kid at the body-tempering level. With his strength reaching the peak level, he might be stronger than his elder brother.

But he was stuck at the Rongtong level, so he sighed, put down the gun, and kicked it to Yuanze.

Yuan Ze didn't reach out to pick it up. His attitude was sincere enough, not to mention that his partner was dead.

The atmosphere was frozen in the present moment.

"We can sit down and talk this time."

Yuanze patted the empty space next to him and motioned him to come over here.

Dai Hui sat quietly next to Yuanze, and together they looked up at the stars on the hillside.

"Your brother is dead..."

Dai Hui's body trembled slightly. He lowered his head and clenched his fists: "I know... I saw it. I don't want to admit it, but I was distracted at that moment and was knocked unconscious..."

Yuan Ze gently patted Dai Hui's shoulder. At this moment, he knew that no matter how many words of comfort he said, they would be pale and powerless. As for those doubts and questions, let's put them aside for now.

"I still remember the first time I saw him..."

Dai Hui's voice echoed in the night sky, bringing my thoughts back to that sunny afternoon.

At that time, four-year-old Dai Hui was still playing with mud in a corner of the orphanage. Because of his introverted and closed personality, other children didn't want to play with him.

"For you to eat!"

A boy three or four years older than him came over and stretched out his hand to Dai Hui with a piece of exquisite candy in his hand.

In that era, candy was an extremely precious commodity. The first large-scale source beast war had just ended, the human industrial system was completely destroyed, and the first mechanical city B01 had just been built.

The orphanage and disabled shelter where they were staying was the first one in B01. It was founded by the white-robed old man Li Ru and took in many people who were traumatized in the war.

Dai Hui looked at the candy in front of him, his eyes sparkling with excitement. At that time, he only knew that this was a reward given by the orphanage to the best-performing children of the week.

He only tasted one piece when he was admitted to the hospital, and it tasted very sweet. But he never tasted it again in the following years because many children in his class rejected him for unknown reasons.

He stretched out his hand hesitantly, but froze in the air. Having been isolated for a long time, he was filled with inferiority and doubt deep in his heart. He felt that he was a bad guy, and his personality became more and more withdrawn and closed. "Take it!" Liu Shuiyun stuffed the candy into his hand, "We will be good friends from now on."

From that day on, his world seemed to be blessed. Although he was still silent and not very likable, he finally had a playmate and someone he could talk to.

They were always inseparable, and Liu Shuiyun always took care of him. No matter if he didn't understand something or someone bullied him, Liu Shuiyun would always be with him and stand by his side.

Later, the two grew up together and both joined the martial arts school founded by Li Ru. Liu Shuiyun was rewarded with "precious" source power potion due to his outstanding talent, but he has always been mediocre.

Dai Hui once curiously asked Liu Shuiyun why he gave him that candy when he was a child and why he always let him follow him around even though his ability was not outstanding.

Liu Shuiyun didn't hesitate: "It's been so long that I don't remember it. What's important is now. We are brothers, right?"

"right!!"

"And your potential should not be underestimated. On the contrary, I feel like I'm about to reach a bottleneck after taking the potion."

"Mmmmmmm!!"

In Dai Hui's heart, Liu Shuiyun is his biological brother.

After saying this, Dai Hui hugged his legs tightly and buried his head deeply in the gap between his knees and chest, as if he had once again locked himself in a lonely world.

"Yuan Ze, it's all my fault. Sometimes I seem too stubborn. I should apologize to you for what happened last time."

Yuanze can understand people who have an unfortunate childhood. Due to their early inferiority complex, most of them are paranoid and prone to quarreling with others. Last time, he even refused to listen to his brother.

He took the opportunity to ask Dai Hui this question: "According to what you said, you two brothers have always worked for this guy Li Ru? Why didn't you arrest me this time?"

"The Lord is as kind to us as our parents. But this mission is really strange. Last time the Lord was very anxious to capture you, but this time he asked us to secretly observe you and protect you."

Yuanze felt the key to the problem, which was the issue of the "Source Power Potion". After the old doctor gave him the antidote last time, the old man began to protect him instead.

It seems that this scheming old man knows a lot of things, and the reason why Liu Shuiyun has difficulty making further progress must be because of the "Source Power Potion".

Liu Shuiyun doesn’t deserve to die this time!
"Have you taken the energy potion?"

"How can I be qualified? I have very poor talent."

Yuanze was not going to reveal the secret of the source power potion to him. He did not know him well enough, and his relationship with Liu Shuiyun alone was not enough, so he might as well give him some more practical benefits.

After all, he indirectly killed Liu Shuiyun, and he felt a sense of indebtedness towards his brother. Although they were only out to carry out a mission, they still met after all.

"I see that you are still accumulating energy to seek a breakthrough to the peak level. You are just one step away from success. I have a good idea for you to try."

Yuanze looked at him curled up into a ball and knew that he was gradually becoming closed off again because of his brother's death.

He sighed. It seemed that the only way to stimulate him was with some words.

"Do you still want to avenge your brother? What can you do with your mediocre skills?"

"Your brother believes in your potential so much, what about you? You are ruining your brother's wish!"

"You are already over thirty..."

Yuanze's rapid-fire sentences poured down on him, his emotions gradually got out of control, he buried his head and sobbed, he was very weak and timid now.

He didn't know what he should do after Liu Shuiyun left. It seemed as if all these years had been a distant dream, and the past days were replaying before his eyes one after another.

"Spit~"

Yuanze spat out the dogtail grass in his mouth, turned back to the cave, and said:
"Your brother is such a tactless piece of trash."

What is lost is real
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(End of this chapter)