Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

Before he went to the United States, he was still the same taciturn person. Was his personality distorted during those two years on the periphery?

So it's still the BOSS's fault. He originally wanted Vermouth to take him to America, but he insisted on sending Chu Ming to the periphery to hone his skills. As a result, he has been influenced by what he sees and hears over the past two years and has become like this.

Chu Ming looked at Gin, who seemed lost in memories. He lay on the sofa and watched him for a while, but Gin didn't seem to come back to his senses. If he were to launch a sneak attack now—

Chu Ming's eyes lit up. He crept up to Gin and nimbly walked to his side. Then, with lightning speed, he kicked Gin's leg, trying to knock him down.

Hehe, a sneak attack!

Gin sensed something was wrong, quickly extended his leg to block, and then drew his gun from his side.

"Hey, hey, hey, big brother, you're cheating! Why are you using guns during a perfectly good sparring match?!" Chu Ming decisively retreated and shrank behind the sofa. "Rude, too rude! You're wasting this beautiful morning with knives and guns. The world is so beautiful, yet you're so irritable. This is not good."

Gin sneered, cocked his pistol, and fired a shot at Chu Ming without hesitation.

Chu Ming kept retreating and dodging along the sofa until Gin emptied the entire magazine. Only then did Chu Ming cautiously peek out from behind the sofa, his bright eyes scanning Gin to assess the situation. After confirming that Gin had reloaded the magazine and put the gun away, Chu Ming wiped his sweat and got up.

This amount of exercise is a bit alarming for so early in the morning.

He collapsed onto the battered sofa: "Phew... I'm exhausted. Brother, are you really this heartless with your furniture? Look at this poor sofa, I—"

Before he could finish speaking, the door to a coded room on the left side of Gin's safe house suddenly flickered and beeped twice.

Chu Ming looked over curiously, and Gin quickly walked over, entered the password, and opened the door.

"Big brother, what kind of room is this? Why don't I have this in my safe house?" Chu Ming asked curiously, but he didn't go over. He just asked from a distance.

Gin was about to go in, but when he heard Chu Ming lounging on the sofa with his head tilted back and asking, he decided to come over and drag him into the room.

Since he didn't have to walk himself, Chu Ming relaxed his limbs and hung on Gin's hands, letting Gin lead him into the room.

The moment Chu Ming entered, he saw a screen that occupied an entire wall and a silhouette of a fat black crow on the screen, and his curiosity was immediately piqued.

Chu Ming, still with his limbs hanging down, awkwardly waved forward: "Good morning, BOSS! You're awake at just past seven? You..."

"Thump—" Gin casually tossed the person onto the floor.

Chu Ming grimaced as he got up, complaining, "Big brother, what are you doing? I was greeting the BOSS."

"Ahem, BOSS, let's start again~" Chu Ming cleared his throat, stood up straight, waved his right hand to the side, and said in a melodious voice, "Beautiful morning, radiant you, a wonderful life awaits you! Beautiful weather, wonderful you, beautiful feelings nourish you! Fresh air, clear-headed you, a joyful mood accompanies you! Wishing BOSS a happy day!"

"..."

"..."

Even someone with Gin's personality couldn't help but get goosebumps.

Is Granbury brainless? Or has his brain really been damaged?

Why did he bring Granbury in here? Wouldn't it have been better to just lock him out?

Chu Ming watched as the refreshed points were divided into two parts, one from Gin and the other from Karasuma Renya. He happily accepted the high amount of points while lamenting how much he had sacrificed for them.

After a long pause, Karasuma Renya finally spoke: "Granbury, you can go out now. Gin and I have something to discuss."

Although Granbury could listen to this matter, it was still upsetting to see, so he decided to send it away first, out of sight, out of mind.

Chu Ming knew what secret they were going to talk about. Although he was extremely curious, he still obediently prepared to leave. However, before leaving, he planned to collect some points one last time. He muttered 'quietly' to make sure that Gin and the BOSS could hear him clearly: "The BOSS and Big Brother have a little secret, and they won't let me hear it. Oh well, I'm just a nobody anyway, nobody cares about me. Sigh, I'm feeling a little upset. I might as well get drunk to drown my sorrows."

“…Wait.” Karasuma Renya spoke decisively. Although he didn’t know if Granburg really wanted to go out for drinks, he didn’t want to hear the music from last time again. “Since you want to know, then stay. However, Granburg, this matter involves the organization’s biggest secret right now.”

Karasuma Renya's mechanical voice was incredibly solemn at this moment. He paused for a long time, then said in a serious tone, "Granbury, you are the child I watched grow up. I'm getting old, and there aren't many people I can worry about anymore. I had Gin help you create a seemingly righteous identity for you, partly so that you can provide feedback and assistance to the organization in crucial moments in the future, and partly so that you have a way out."

But if you choose to stay and get involved in the organization's core operations, you'll be completely tied to it. And if anything unexpected happens, this escape route won't be enough to ensure your safe retreat.

Karasuma Renya had some things he didn't finish saying. If Chu Ming stayed and came into contact with this core part, he would really start making arrangements for Chu Ming to be involved in the organization's affairs as his successor.

Chu Ming was stunned. How did things get to this point? I was just having my usual little tea ceremony, why did the tone suddenly become so serious?

However, Chu Ming was very curious about the secrets the BOSS was talking about, so he did not intend to refuse.

Moreover, although the reputation of the identity Fujino Chuming is currently quite good on the Red Team, if the organization needs him to abandon this account, Chuming feels that he has nothing to regret.

At most, I'll just switch accounts and reconnect with my old tools.

Anyway, with the system around, he can be as reckless as he wants and he won't die.

It seemed like a brainstorming session, but it actually didn't last long.

After the BOSS finished speaking, Chu Ming immediately nodded, his face full of sincerity and his eyes bright: "I'm willing!"

Karasuma Renya: I feel like something's off about this answer, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Chapter 363 Meeting the BOSS

"Alright, Gin, bring Granburch to me. To Base 1."

Having just received Chu Ming's reply, the BOSS's voice was noticeably pleased. Clearly, the fact that his promising junior was willing to get involved in all of this made him quite happy.

Before Chu Ming could even hear the BOSS reveal the secret, the BOSS abruptly ended the communication, leaving only this one sentence. Chu Ming could only turn his puzzled gaze to Gin.

He knew about Base 1, but what was Underground Base 1? He'd never heard of it before. Why did the Boss suddenly want to see him? Wasn't it supposed to be a secret?

Gin sensed Chu Ming's question and understood the BOSS's unspoken meaning, but he did not intend to tell Chu Ming.

If Chu Ming really found out how much the BOSS valued him...

The organization is probably in complete chaos.

Sitting in Gin's new car, looking at the same decor as before, Chu Ming finally couldn't suppress his curiosity and went to expose Gin's old wound: "Big brother, how exactly did you know that this car was different from your old one just by looking at it last time?"

Gin's grip on the steering wheel tightened involuntarily. The image of his beloved car reduced to charcoal flashed through his mind, and the anger that had been suppressed seemed to surge up again.

He looked at the newspaper that Vodka had nervously handed him, pointed to the picture of the car with the exploding gas tank, and told him that was the corpse of his Porsche.

At that moment, he felt like chopping up the vodka.

Chu Ming glanced at the constantly refreshed points on the screen, then looked at the car door, considering how he should land if Gin kicked him out later.

However, Gin ultimately remembered the BOSS's instructions and suppressed his anger: "It's obviously different, how can I not see it?"

"..."

What's the difference between saying something and not saying anything at all?

——(╬◣д◢)——

Chu Ming saw Gin drive straight to the outskirts of Tokyo. After taking countless detours, the car stopped behind the warehouse of a pharmaceutical company building.

Gin took out a business card-sized magnetic card and swiped it on the back door of the warehouse.

"drop--"

The door slid open to both sides with a click, and Chu Ming followed Gin through the door. Inside was an empty room.

As the two entered, the door closed automatically. Gin pressed the magnetic card against a hole in the wall again. A red light flashed at the hole, automatically recognizing the magnetic card information. The wall behind them parted, revealing an elevator that was slowly opening.

After the two went inside, the elevator doors closed, and the lights inside suddenly turned on, shining on their faces.

"Facial recognition successful."

"Please extend your hand for fingerprint and palm print verification."

"Fingerprint and palm print confirmed successfully."

"Please remove your eye covering so we can perform an iris scan."

"Iris recognition successful."

"Voiceprint recognition in progress, please state the elevator password."

"We can be both of God and the devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time."

"Password correct, voiceprint verification successful."

"Code name member: Gin, identity confirmed, clearance granted."

Chu Ming stood still and watched as Gin performed his series of actions. Finally, the elevator started moving and began to descend.

"Big brother, how come I've never heard of an underground base? What would have happened if the identification had failed?" Chu Ming, who had been holding back his questions until now, turned to ask Gin.

"The underground base is top secret; you didn't have enough clearance before. Don't be fooled by the empty warehouse and elevator area; if your identity verification fails, all the machine guns on the wall will be activated."

Chu Ming's attention was focused entirely on one sentence: "I didn't have enough authority before, but now I do? Has the BOSS finally decided to let me inherit my brother's position?"

Gin glanced at Chu Ming, whose eyes were sparkling. Did he not make a sarcastic remark? After all, what the BOSS wanted him to inherit was not just the position of the action team leader.

Chu Ming was actually prepared to be baptized by Gin's murderous aura, but seeing that Gin could ignore his provocation, Chu Ming still felt a little sad.

Gin has been tormented for too long, and his patience has increased considerably. It seems he'll need to take his troublemaking skills up to another level to rack up points in the future.

Chu Ming felt like he had descended dozens of floors in the elevator before it slowly came to a stop.

As the elevator doors opened, Chu Ming was awestruck by the futuristic-style corridor outside.

Is this the organization's top secret after more than a hundred years of operation?

Gin led Chu Ming forward without looking to either side. Along the way, they occasionally encountered some researchers in white coats hurrying past, showing no reaction to Gin and Chu Ming, the two unexpected guests.

Seeing Chu Ming looking like a country bumpkin visiting the Grand View Garden, Gin slowed down and gave him a brief introduction.

"This is the organization's highest-level experimental base. Many high-tech products or groundbreaking drugs from all over Japan and even the world originate from this laboratory. These researchers are talents recruited by the BOSS from all over the world, who have dedicated their lives to the organization's groundbreaking plan. The BOSS is currently recuperating here."

Gin explained the general composition of Underground Base No. 1 to Chu Ming one by one, and then led him to the innermost part of the base.

After another complicated identity verification process, Gin finally led Chu Ming to a room full of medical equipment.

"BOSS." Gin knocked lightly on the door. Chu Ming had never seen Gin knock so lightly before.