Why did you provoke me?

Secretary Wu looked at the communication bell in his hand and began to question the meaning of life.

He made a mistake, so he should have done something secretly. Anyway, Yan Lei wouldn't dare to make a scene in front of Teacher Yu.

Yu Meng couldn't help but laugh when she saw that there was still no message from her voice transmission ring. Had Secretary Wu given up?

Yan Lei walked in a hurry, and Xiao Wen followed behind, just smiling.

"I'm back, Chief Secretary. Have the resources been allocated?" Yan Lei's voice was loud.

Secretary Wu calmly put away the intercom. "Is it all done?"

"Of course, there's no reason why Aunt Qing would do something wrong."

"Captain Xiao has finished the inventory. You're all set. This is perfect. You can go out together and look out for each other."

"All done with the inventory? Where's the car I requested? Which warehouse is it in?" Yan Lei casually glanced around.

"Sigh, as you just saw, I just put away my communication bell. As for your car, I specifically asked Teacher Yu, and she has other uses for it. Only one car can be used by each of your teams." Secretary Wu shrugged, looking helpless.

"You asked Teacher Yu, does she still care about this?" Yan Lei's voice lowered.

"Normally we don't care, but isn't this a special time? The people living here have special status, so it's better to be prepared," Secretary Wu explained patiently.

"What about the rest? Why aren't there any else?"

"With so much stuff, how are you going to carry it all without a car? Don't worry, you won't be shortchanged."

Yan Lei looked at Xiao Wen and gestured with his eyes, "What should we do? Will lying on the ground work?"

Xiao Wen coughed lightly, pressing his fist to his mouth. "The head secretary said that whatever we use to contact him in the future, he'll have someone deliver it to us." He then gave a meaningful look.

"Brother Xiao, why didn't you say so earlier? I thought... I misunderstood the head secretary. Uncle Wu, please be magnanimous and don't hold it against me." After saying that, Yan Lei left.

"Secretary, I have other matters to attend to over there, so I'm leaving too." Xiao Wen also ran out.

Secretary Wu opened his mouth, but before he could speak, the two had already disappeared from sight.

"You brat, when did I say that?" It took Secretary Wu a long time to finish his sentence.

After walking quite a distance, Yan Lei stopped. "Brother Xiao, I'm all better now. Should our team members also get checked out?"

"Logically, it should be necessary. Can Aunt Qing perform the examination?" Xiao Wen asked, somewhat uncertain.

"Let's go back to Aunt Qing's and ask?" The two turned a corner and went to Qingyuan's experimental garden.

Qingyuan wasn't sure either; her figure wasn't as impressive as Yu Meng's, and even Niannian's couldn't compare.

"How about I call Niannian over and have her take a look at you?"

"Will it work?" Xiao Wen hesitated.

"Give it a try. Her features are quite unique, but you'll have to show some sincerity."

Xiao Wen and Yan Lei exchanged a glance and nodded in agreement. They sent a message using their personal communication rings.

Qingyuan also sent a message to Niannian.

At this moment, in Niannian's room, many lines were intertwined. She lay on the ground, her face pale and her body soaked with sweat.

Qingyuan sent her a message, which she glanced at but didn't open. She was feeling dizzy and a little disoriented.

Qingyuan stared at the communication bell in her hand, but Nian Nian didn't answer it.

Xiao Wen sent three messages in a row, but Nian Nian didn't respond. Xiao Wen noticed something was wrong.

"Aunt Qing, still no answer?"

Qingyuan put away the communication bell. "I have to go check it out."

"We..." Xiao Wen didn't finish his sentence.

"You guys stay here. Your team will be here soon, so please wait a bit." Qingyuan hurriedly left.

"Aunt Qing is too nervous. Maybe Niannian went to the backyard to test her skills with those people again." Yan Lei found a chair and sat down.

Niannian's room was some distance from the experimental garden, and Qingyuan walked very quickly. She knew that Niannian had been studying her lines in her room these past few days.

That day, after their examinations, everyone said that their brain regions seemed to have enlarged. Qingyuan overheard them saying they wanted to try new lines.

Although she stopped them, they were a bunch of sane lunatics, and who knows what they might have done next.

When Qingyuan arrived at Niannian's room, she knocked on the door. "Niannian, are you in there? It's Aunt Qing."

The room was quiet. Niannian could hear Qingyuan's voice, but she was too exhausted.

After knocking a few times without any response, Aunt Qing grew anxious and said, "Then I'll go in."

I pushed it, and the door was locked from the inside.

Qingyuan peered out the window again, but unfortunately, the curtains were drawn tightly shut. She couldn't see anything.

"Niannian, did you hear Aunt Qing speak?" Qingyuan called out while sending a message to Yu Meng, "Come and check on Niannian, she's locked the door, and there's no sound from inside."

Yu Meng sat in her office, holding the little black cat in her palm, carefully feeling her own body lines.

When Qingyuan's message came in, she glanced at it, narrowed her eyes, quickly stood up, grabbed the kitten, and rushed out.

Yu Meng arrived quickly; when she did, Qing Yuan was banging on the door and calling out "Niannian."

"Aunt Qing," Yu Meng called out.

"Come and see Niannian! I should have stopped them back then. If something had happened, I would never have the face to live again." Qingyuan said, tears welling in her eyes. She knocked on the door while crying.

Without hesitation, Yu Meng climbed onto the windowsill and kicked the window, shattering it.

The scene inside the room immediately caught Yu Meng's eye. "Niannian?"

Niannian lay on the ground, her eyes moving. She wanted to say she was alright, but when she opened her mouth, no sound came out.

Yu Meng jumped into the house, picked up Niannian and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, your fourth sister is here."

After placing her on the bed, Yu Meng carefully examined Nian Nian's body. Thankfully, nothing serious happened.

She scattered the dry branches from her backpack onto Niannian.

Qingyuan leaned against the window. "Yu Meng, how are you? Is Niannian alright?"

The dead branches were incredibly effective; in just a short while, Niannian's complexion changed, and she regained her strength.

"Aunt Qing, I'm alright now." Niannian's voice was a little hoarse, but she could speak again.

"That's good, that's good, Aunt Qing was so scared." Qingyuan wiped away her tears.

"Fourth Sister, look at my lines, they're all tangled together, I can't separate them," Niannian said, pointing to the lines in the air with a wronged expression.

Yu Meng patted Niannian's arm, "How long have you been like this?"

"It's been a day and a night. I'm lying on the ground, completely exhausted."

"Shouldn't you have come to me if you needed something? Who told you to overthink it?" Yu Meng patted her head. "Is this thing just for decoration?"

Niannian wore a bitter face. "I just wanted to give it a try and see if my guess would work. Who knew it would turn out like this?"

"Using your own lines as an experiment, using your own body to make mistakes, should I call you stupid or just plain dumb?" Yu Meng didn't give Niannian any face at all and spoke directly.

"Yu Meng, open the door, I'm going in to check on Niannian. Don't scold her, she must be terrified," Qingyuan shouted from the window.

Yu Meng watched as Qing Yuan pounded on the windowsill with her hand. She was old, and the windowsill was a bit high. No matter how anxious she was, she couldn't climb up.

Niannian nudged Yu Meng with her hand, and Yu Meng glared at her before standing up to open the door.

Qingyuan came in without even looking at the lines in the sky, and went straight for Niannian. "I'm not trying to be mean, but how can you be so bold? If I didn't have something to ask you today, do you think you would have starved to death?"

"With Aunt Qing here, how could I starve to death? Just now, I lay on the ground, and you came to save me like a god." Niannian grabbed Qingyuan's hand and kept acting cute.

Looking at the lines in the air, Yu Meng said, "What did you do to make their bodies so clumsy? Besides, there are too many alien lines here; they're overshadowing everything else."