A Maybach on a rainy night? Talk to my Levadin!

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A voice suddenly rang in my ears, soft and distant, as if it had drifted from another world.

The sudden sound of another person's voice in the empty activity room startled Lu Mingfei. What startled him even more was that someone had overheard the clichéd plot he was having in his head.

Oh no, oh no, oh no... It's all Senior Brother Zhao and Senior Brother Chu's fault for having that melodramatic, chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) conversation. I got infected with their chuunibyou too, and now they've even seen it...

Lu Mingfei stiffly turned his head, only to see a child standing at the back of the activity room, quietly watching him.

The other person looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in a pure black evening suit, with an unyielding sadness on their innocent face.

"Whose child is this? Where did you come in from?"

Lu Mingfei quickly got up to send the child away. He knew that his two senior brothers were working on a very advanced scientific invention and absolutely could not let outsiders in.

As soon as Lu Mingfei entered, the boy's figure suddenly disappeared and reappeared not far from the activity room.

"If fate hadn't taken a different turn, I wouldn't have wanted to see you so soon."

Lu Mingfei's gaze seemed to be drawn by an invisible thread, slowly landing on the boy's face, when his breath suddenly paused for a beat.

The boy's eyes were slightly lowered, his thick eyelashes casting a light shadow beneath his eyelids, just enough to obscure the brightest part of his pupils. Yet even so, that golden hue stubbornly shone through, like a star submerged in the deep sea, its light still undeniably dazzling even through the hazy mist.

"What the hell? Are you a human or a ghost?"

Lu Mingfei was somewhat horrified by this supernatural scene. He had just been indulging in a childish fantasy, but when supernatural power actually appeared beside him, he felt his legs tremble and he almost ran away.

“Brother, you should be more afraid of the guy who’s going to drag you into this mess than of me.” The boy looked at him as if he were looking at an old friend he knew all too well, but Lu Mingfei was certain that he had never met the guy before.

"Why are you calling me 'brother' all the time? You must have mistaken me for someone else. I'm not Senior Brother Zhao. If you want to go to Liangshan, you should look for him! No, you've misled me. Whose kid are you anyway?"

Lu Mingfei tried to calm himself down and asked.

"Brother, I am your younger brother."

"My name is Lu Mingze," the boy said softly.

“If you’re telling a joke, this isn’t funny at all.” Of course, Lu Mingfei knew Lu Mingze very well.

Round and chubby, 160cm tall and weighing 160kg, looking like Lucky Strike from One Piece, with a face full of acne, it was impossible to connect him with the delicate child in front of me.

If Lu Mingze looked like this, would he need to spend all his time pretending to be non-mainstream on QQ, using red ink to fake wrist-cutting and pretending he'd modified a knife, and spouting all sorts of nonsense about our world...? Hey, will you forget me? ☆Using these kinds of non-mainstream short phrases to flirt with young girls on QQ Space?

The boy seemed to have read his mind, or perhaps he was pleased by Lu Mingfei's praise of his refined appearance, and couldn't help but chuckle softly.

"Looking like you, you dare to cosplay Lu Mingze? Go eat ten pork knuckles first before you come back."

The boy didn't respond to Lu Mingfei's complaint. Instead, he looked at the computer in front of him and smiled slightly: "Sunset, you're up here?"

Lu Mingfei was startled: "How did you know? Who exactly are you?!"

Sunset was the username of his alternate account. His full name was "The Marks of Sunset." His profile picture was a cute, short-haired girl, and his signature was: "Let your smiles and sorrows become the marks of my life."

It was extremely cringeworthy and unconventional. Of course, this wasn't Lu Mingfei's own account; he was using it to bait people, and the bait was his cousin, Lu Mingze.

Lu Mingze's suppressed emotions were evident from the acne all over his face. Because his character modeling was so poor, it was difficult for him to spark a romance at school, so Lu Mingze chose online dating as a trendy way to pursue love.

Lu Mingfei, on the other hand, meticulously created this alternate account to steal pictures of young girls online and then lure Lu Mingze into his trap every day.

Every time Lu Mingze saw his avatar light up, he would impatiently start typing, just like Wa Xuedi when he saw his teammate's ID was Little Rabbit Gummy: "Sunset, you're online?"

This was a dark and heavy secret that Lu Mingfei had never told anyone outside the family, but now it was being told by a strange child who was hard to distinguish from a ghost, which made Lu Mingfei feel terrified.

A smile flickered in the boy's golden eyes: "I know everything about you."

He looked into Lu Mingfei's eyes and said, word by word, "Brother, this is my advice: stay away from that person."

Chapter Seventy-Six: Zhao Zizhan cleverly recruits shrimp, Chu Zihang carelessly loses his peer.

"What is that? Get away from me! Riddler, get out of Gotham City!"

While complaining, Lu Mingfei anxiously looked around. Why weren't Senior Brother Chu and Senior Brother Zhao back yet? If they didn't come back soon, Junior Brother Lu, who was in charge of serving rice in your team, would fall apart!

"Even after all this, you're still thinking about him?"

The boy looked at him with a somewhat helpless expression: "We've only known each other for a day, and you're already going to cower behind him, brother?"

"Why do you talk like Li Kui, calling everyone 'brother'? Wait, you can read my mind? Who exactly are you?"

Instead of pondering these absurd things, why not consider what I'm saying?

Lu Mingfei remained defiant: "How is it not important? You're like a pervert who barges into someone's office in the middle of the night to say goodnight, and then expects the other person to say goodnight too, but forbids them from saying who they are or how they got in. Isn't this the 28th floor?!"

"I would definitely choose Senior Brother Zhao over you."

"..."

The boy's faint smile disappeared, and without saying anything more, he turned his head to look at the computer screen.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei felt a sudden pang in his heart.

"Well, it's not actually that bad... If we repent and start anew, we can still..."

"Humans are all foolish things, brother, yet you deliberately made yourself like this... How pathetic, isn't it?"

The boy looked at Lu Mingfei, two lines of tears silently streaming down his cheeks.

Lu Mingfei felt immense sorrow emanating from the boy, a surge of grief that overwhelmed him like a raging tide. The emotion came too suddenly and too intensely; before he could react, the boy raised his leg and kicked him in the stomach.

In an instant, Lu Mingfei lost his balance and fell backward.

He instinctively reached out, but grabbed nothing.

The boy looked down at him as he slowly fell, a vengeful smile on his face.

"I just said a few words to you, why are you getting so worked up..."

As Lu Mingfei thought this, his consciousness faded into darkness.

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……

"Xia Mi, right?"

Inside the temporarily requisitioned student affairs office, Zhao Zizhan and Chu Zihang sat on one side of the table, while Xia Mi, who was small in stature, sat opposite them.

"Ah, yes," Little Xia Mi shrank her shoulders, becoming even smaller.

"Don't be nervous, it's just a simple interview. It's just that your senior brother Chu has a rather sour face. We're not conducting a joint trial of Galileo."

Zhao Zizhan smiled and comforted the other party.

"...Does my face look so bad?"

Chu Zihang turned his head to look at Zhao Zizhan.

"Oh no, baby, you're a sweet and soft little cake," Zhao Zizhan said sarcastically.

Chu Zihang's forehead veins throbbed, and his fist inexplicably hardened.

"puff……"

Xia Mi suddenly burst out laughing. She lowered her head, her shoulders heaving, her high ponytail swaying, struggling to hold back her laughter: "I'm sorry..."

It was just a simple interview, but I never expected to see such an interesting scene. At this moment, Xia Mi became even more determined to join the Azure Dragon Study Group.

“Laugh if you want to”

"Hehehe... Hahahaha..."

Looking at the girl in front of him who was laughing so hard she was shaking, Zhao Zizhan had to admit that Xia Mi was really beautiful.

Shilan Middle School is full of top students, and there are many beautiful girls. Most of these girls' beauty is enhanced by their temperament. They are called literary girls, artistic girls, or little angels. This temperament enhances their looks.

But Xia Mi is pure, without any other components, a beauty of numbers.

She was simply beautiful, as if Nuwa had created a special furnace just for her when she created humans; her beauty was unreasonable and flawless.

A girl like this, in Clash of Clans, would definitely have a charm rating over 96; she's practically inhuman.

If Zhao Zizhan were to rate her, out of ten, he would give Xia Mi a 9.5. This girl is the embodiment of perfection. Unfortunately, Xiao Lei deducted 0.5 points.

If Zhao Zizhan were replaced by Shui Xiong, it would be a decisive blow, but unfortunately, it can't be replaced.

Xia Mi wanted to join the group, and Zhao Zizhan also wanted to win over this strongest second-generation species.

This wave, this wave, is a two-way rush.

After waiting for the other party to laugh for a while and for the atmosphere in the room to become less serious, Zhao Zizhan slowly spoke.

"Alright, enough laughing. Now, please introduce yourself briefly, Xia Mi."

"Oh, okay," Xia Mi nodded, shifting her position in the chair. "Hello, seniors. I'm Xia Mi, from Beijing. I'm a first-year student at Shilan High School. I got full marks in all subjects in my middle school entrance exam, and I also got full marks in all subjects in my final mock exam in my first year of high school. I feel that my abilities are sufficient to take on some responsibility in the research group, and I'd like to join our Azure Dragon Study Group. Senior, could you make an exception for me?"

"You're from Beijing? Why are you studying at Shilan Middle School?"

Chu Zihang discovered the key point.

They live south of the Yangtze River, a great distance from the capital.

“Because Shilan Middle School is paying me,” Xia Mi answered matter-of-factly. “My parents passed away early, leaving me only a small single room assigned to me by my workplace, and not much money. These days, prices are skyrocketing, so I have to find money to support myself. Shilan Middle School said that as long as I focus on my studies, they will waive all my accommodation and living expenses. If I can maintain my grades, I can even get a full scholarship.”

"With your grades, even schools in Beijing should be eager to accept you, right? Don't they offer scholarships there?"

"Of course!" Xia Mi raised her little head, her pert nose radiating pride. "More than ten schools are vying for me. I was originally thinking of just studying in Beijing, but Shilan Middle School offered too much."

She held up one finger: "A full ten thousand yuan scholarship every year!"

"Other schools only offer full tuition and accommodation waivers, and the highest scholarship is only two thousand yuan, so of course I chose this school."

"I see... Then I might need to give you some simple learning ability tests. Is that acceptable?"

"Of course! Bring it on!"

For Zhao Zizhan and Xia Mi, this test was basically just a formality. Both sides knew that with Xia Mi's abilities, she could pass the test easily if she wanted to, so the test ended successfully in no time.

"Great, our little shrimp junior's learning ability is indeed terrifyingly strong... We older generation are about to be swept away on the beach."

"Oh, not at all. Senior brother is the truly amazing one. He can come up with research projects independently, which is much better than us bookworms. Look, I'm here to work for you."

"Haha, okay, junior, please have a seat first. I'll discuss this with your senior brother Chu."

"Oh, okay, okay."

Zhao Zizhan and Chu Zihang arrived outside the office, and Chu Zihang immediately asked, "How did it go?"

Zhao Zizhan nodded: "**Very close."

"I have no objection." Knowing that they were the same kind, Chu Zihang didn't have many concerns, but he also felt a little lost. Did he really have so many people like him in the world he lived in?

"You just have no objections?"

Zhao Zizhan chuckled and teased.

"?"

Chu Zihang looked at Zhao Zizhan with some confusion, seemingly not understanding why he said that.

Zhao Zizhan rolled his eyes. This gossipy old woman was super sensitive when it came to gossiping about others, but when it came to herself, she was as dull as a block of wood.

Why do you think she joined our group?

Zhao Zizhan decided to give the other party some small hints.

"...Does she have some ulterior motive?"

Chu Zihang's expression hardened.

"...Brother, you really have transformed into a dragon! That little girl came all the way here to find you!"

"I?"

Chu Zihang was still confused about the situation.

"Fine," Zhao Zizhan sighed. "Junior Sister Xia, I can't help you. You'll have to figure this out yourself. I'll just watch the show."

Pushing open the door, Zhao Zizhan led a still bewildered Chu Zihang back to his office: "Congratulations, Xia Mi! After discussion and deliberation between Senior Brother Chu and me, we've decided to welcome you to our Azure Dragon Study Group family."

Chu Zihang clapped expressionlessly.

"Great!!"

"Don't get too excited yet. Let me briefly introduce our group. So far, there are four of us, including you, and one junior in your year."

"Our group's goal is naturally to win first prize in the National Youth Science and Technology Competition; in other words, we have no other choice but to win first prize."