A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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The Crown Prince was about to call Bishen when the notification tone rang once.

The Crown Princess's ears perked up instantly. She put down the half-eaten apple in her hand, tiptoed over silently, leaned her body against the Crown Prince's shoulder, and breathed softly, pretending to be invisible.

Eavesdropping in a furtive and open manner.

"?" The Crown Prince turned to look at his spiky head and said, "What are you doing?"

The Crown Princess leaned on his shoulder in a coquettish manner: "Waaaaah, I'm afraid my brother will call me a blondie again."

"Our well-off A is just very pretentious... oh no, I mean, very emotionally fragile."

He couldn't withstand his older brother's attacks.

"Then why aren't you leaving?"

"I'm not leaving. What if Brother Shen...?" Gao Tian sniffled, on the verge of tears, "What if he says I'm a 'yellow-haired bastard' again?"

The Crown Princess took the lead in occupying the moral high ground.

I really can't let go of my worries.

Brother Shen will definitely talk to his baby about crickets again, and he'll have to listen!

The Crown Prince wasn't buying it: "You're afraid to hear it, but you still want to hear it."

Isn't this just selling swords?

"I don't care, I want to hear it." The Crown Princess acted unreasonably. "Will you let me hear it or not? If you don't, I'll—" She continued to intensify her manipulative tactics!

The Crown Prince took a deep breath.

Never mind, the Crown Princess was chosen by herself.

The Crown Prince reluctantly let him listen.

The Crown Princess pressed herself against the back of the communicator, finding an angle from which she could eavesdrop from all directions.

Bro! Bring it on! We're just a fragile, good family, let's see how you insult us!

The call was made, the communicator rang twice, and the call was connected.

The Crown Prince spoke up, "Feed—" Chief of Staff Shen, are you busy?

But what came through the receiver wasn't a human voice.

It was the sound of the wind! A mournful howl in the vacuum!

It was a twisted, teeth-grinding "creak—!!!"

Another male voice, cracked and filled with immense fear, screamed: "Ahhh! Stop hitting me! Chief Shen, I was wrong! Tollbooth it is! I'll be a tollbooth! I'll be a tollbooth myself! I'll be a tollbooth for life—!!!"

The background music was so powerful that even Gao Tian, ​​who was hanging on Lan's shoulder, couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

Dude, you're awesome!

Then Gao Tian stepped back and tugged at his ears.

Ouch, I was so shocked by that that I almost went deaf.

Blue remained unfazed, as if he weren't hearing about a pest control operation, but rather a concerned and friendly conversation between colleagues: "Still trying to comfort Carlo?"

Amidst the howling wind, there were intermittent, extremely aggrieved metallic sobs, and the muffled thud of something heavy being knocked away.

Boom!

The mantis guy was very cool: "Yeah. Almost there. Get to the point, I'm busy."

"Alright, that's enough. Don't actually tear it down," the Crown Prince reminded him.

If you demolish it, you'll really have to take turns being the tollbooth manager from now on.

"Okay." Bi Shen agreed readily.

Lan: "The officials from Liernia are all staying at the Zhongshan State Guesthouse. I've booked you a top-floor suite. Come over after you finish fighting Carlo."

The background sounds of dismantling a starship paused for a second. Then, Bishon's voice came through: "Okay. Send me the location."

A blue fingertip swipes across the screen, sending the coordinates.

"And what's going on between you and the Crown Princess's childhood friend?" the Crown Prince asked, intrigued.

"What else can we do? Just leave it as it is." The older brother's voice was very impatient.

"Some insects have such hard mouths."

"I could hear blondie breathing! That eavesdropper on the phone, shameless!" the older brother suddenly roared in fury, the sound of pounding continuing in the background. "Tell him to get lost!"

Gao Tian, ​​who was eavesdropping nearby, immediately bristled: "Baby, look at him!"

He was just breathing; he didn't bother anyone!

"Alright, alright." The Crown Prince quickly reassured the Crown Princess, then turned to Shen and said, "You should also tone it down. How dare you speak to the Crown Princess like that."

Your "someone" is the Crown Princess's childhood friend! Aren't you afraid that the Crown Princess might run off with him in a fit of anger?

You should know that the most famous romance novel in the human world is the "domineering CEO and his sweet little wife running away with her baby" genre!

A brief silence followed, broken only by the sound of the wind and a background noise that sounded like sobbing.

Bishen's voice rang out again, now calm: "Is Lu Jianan with you?"

"No." Lan glanced at Gao Tian, ​​who was eavesdropping on her shoulder. "The Crown Princess just called him; he's at the research institute."

"Send a car to pick him up," Bi Shen said succinctly. Then, a sharp "crack" sound came from the background, like the snapping of some hard object. "Bring him over. I'll be there in a bit."

"Sure." Lan readily agreed, tapping her fingers a few times on the desktop screen to issue the command, "The car will be at the research institute entrance soon. You... hurry up and counsel them too."

Don't actually kill him.

"Mm," Bishen responded.

The background wind seemed to have subsided a bit, and Carlo's sobs turned into intermittent whimpers.

Bishen seemed finally satisfied.

"I'm hanging up." Lan was about to hang up the phone.

"Um."

Communication was cut off.

In the last second before the communication ended, a particularly loud crash, like a metal hatch being violently kicked open, followed by Carola's long, agonizing scream: "The door—!!! My flagship's main control room door—!!!"

You should be thanking your lucky stars that you're alive.

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Lu Jianan received a call from Gao Tian, ​​who told him to pack his things and prepare to go to the state guesthouse, and sent a car to take him there.

Since he had just returned, after spending several months traveling to another planet, the research institute gave him a few days off according to the standards for long-term business trips, so that he could rest for a while and make room for tidying up his new dormitory.

When I went to the teacher to get the holiday confirmation signed, I got slapped several times, boohoo.

Lu Jianan quickly packed a small suitcase.

He's made up his mind! He's going to elope with his older brother for a few days! [not really]

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No one is allowed to enter the research institute without swiping a card.

The silver-gray hovercar, with its sharp and superior lines, silently came to a stop, precisely positioned three meters outside the gate of the First Research Institute.

The Crown Prince is extremely wealthy; the car he sent was a supercar.

The car doors rose vertically like wings, attracting the attention of passersby.

The driver was a female military officer with silver-green metallic hair. She wore sunglasses so her eyes couldn't be seen, but judging from her hair color, she was probably a scarab beetle.

The three silver stripes on the shoulder insignia seem to be the mark of a colonel in the Liernia military rank system.

He sat ramrod straight, like a javelin. Wearing sunglasses, he looked incredibly cool, staring straight ahead with a blank expression.

Lu Jianan jogged out of the gate.

He was pulling a suitcase with one hand and clutching a document bag with the other.

Inside the bag were a transparent visa card, a cold metal ID card, and most conspicuously, a dark gold card with roses entwined around a sword—the identification of General Bishmantis, Commander-in-Chief of the Ninth Army.

Lu Jianan ran to the car door and greeted, "Hello, I'm Lu Jianan! Is this the car sent by the Crown Prince to pick me up?"

"Yes, Your Excellency." The female soldier turned her head. "Please..."

Before he could finish speaking, his gaze swept across Lu Jianan's face, landing on the file bag in his hand, and froze for a moment on the dark gold sword card.

—? What was originally just professional, distant politeness vanished in an instant.

"Mr. Lu!" The female soldier's voice suddenly rose a half-octave. He flung open the car door with lightning speed!

He took a step forward, landing silently, his military boots tucked together, standing even straighter than before, almost like a taut alloy sculpture.

He raised his hand in a textbook-perfect military salute, then opened the car door for Lu Jianan, his eyes sharp as he looked directly at her, his voice carrying an unquestionable respect:

"We've been ordered to pick you up! Please get in the car!"

Lu Jianan was taken aback by his sudden overly formal demeanor. She subconsciously said "Oh," and hurriedly got into the car, clutching the file bag.

The female soldier's gaze followed the document bag containing the identification documents the entire time.