The first thing Silin saw when he pushed open the door was a white-haired man staring at the screen of a receiver in his hand. The receiver was playing the live stream of the race. A young man in tattered clothes was sleeping on a couch. Another young man was rocking his head back and forth while listening to some unknown song on his headphones. There was also a little girl who was completely absorbed in her game. All of them had one thing in common, and that was that they were minding their own business. They didn't even look at Silin's direction.
A pack of snow-white wolves was lying on the other couch. They only twitched their ears once when Silin entered the room. The one who reacted the most was the armadillo lizard. Silin had an impression of it. Although it was only a brief glance, Silin was certain that it was the spiky ball he had seen in the desert.
The armadillo lizard looked up when Silin entered the room. It wagged its tail and stared curiously at Silin.
Silin had never seen this lineup before. Although he knew that they were from the affiliated schools, these people were very different from the ones he had seen in the past.
Compared to the people Bel had brought to the bar with Dusk, the Soul Sentinel, they were much more imposing. However, in terms of threat level, they were definitely not as threatening as these people.
Sula walked out of the room after bringing Silin into the room. It wasn't suitable for her to stay here because they were on different sides. If she stayed here, White Night and the others wouldn't say a word.
As expected, White Night moved his gaze away from Silin after Sula walked out of the room. He seemed to be confirming the authenticity of his target, and not looking at a person.
Once he was sure, White Night took out a square object less than a quarter the size of his palm and placed it on the table. He pressed it a few times, and the square object unfolded just like the Vanguard ticket Silin used back then.
It was a certificate. White Night passed the unfolded certificate to Silin, and Silin accepted it. It stated very clearly that these people would help Silin take care of the robots that came looking for trouble, and that Silin should focus on the race. If the mission was completed successfully, there was a place for the recipient to sign and swipe the card.
While Cillin was reading the proof, Chi Lafang, who was sleeping on a chair, suddenly stood up and said, "You'd better add a comment to this. Just say that we're not afraid of death, we're extraordinary, we've accomplished our mission beautifully, and we deserve a pay raise!"
Sediya had stopped listening to the music and moved closer to Qin Lie. "Yes, yes, you must state that we deserve a reward!"
Sediya had stopped listening to music and moved closer to Qin Lie. "Yes, we deserve a reward!"
You couldn't use any other pen on the certificate. You could only use your finger. There was a sensor in the certificate. You could just move your finger and sign it. If you wanted to leave a message, you could also write it with your finger.
After signing his name, Cillin wrote "Worthy of reward" in the evaluation column. Chi Lafang and Sediya were so happy they couldn't close their mouths.
After he was done, Cillin took out his affiliated school student ID and waved it at the card swipe area. A beep later, the ID came into effect.
"It's done!" Chi Lafang took the certificate and shrank it back into its small form. He carefully put it away like a precious treasure. This was an important proof that he deserved a raise.
"Since we're done here, it's time for us to go back. We'll talk again next time." Sediya patted Silin's shoulder before moving closer to Chi Lafang and whispering something. Either way, the two of them were grinning like scoundrels. They were probably discussing how to spend the money after the raise.
White Night also rose to his feet. Before he left, he said to Silin, "Teacher Guan wants you to meet him at his house after you're done here."
"Alright. Thank you."
"No need."
Without another word, White Night, Chi Lafang, and the others left with the two animals. They completely ignored Sula and the others who were standing outside.
After White Night and the others were gone, Silin asked Sula, "Are they the ones who stayed behind?"
Most of the students in the affiliated schools would join different factions while they were still in school. They would have their own direction after they officially graduated, and some of them would be pulled into the RAS. Even the RAS's affiliated schools didn't completely belong to the RAS.
Other than these people, there were also very few people who chose to stay behind instead of joining other factions. They had a fixed salary from the affiliated schools, and they had many ways to earn extra income. This incident was one of them.
Sula nodded. "It is them. I didn't think that Teacher Guan would send them here. It looks like the situation is much more serious than we thought."
Sula had a lot of questions about this matter that she couldn't get answers to even now. She couldn't get answers from the robots, and she couldn't get answers from White Night and the others either. Not all the people who stayed behind were tight-lipped, but White Night and the others were notoriously difficult to deal with. Even though they had graduated a few years ago, the instructors still couldn't help but curse them when they were mentioned. It was a love-hate relationship.
Sula introduced White Night and the others to Silin, and told him that Gen Liao had sent them here. At first, they only received a small amount of information and weren't sure. That was why they were sent here just in case. Now it seemed that there were a lot of things that even Gen Liao didn't know.
Those robots seemed to have been upgraded again. The core protection of their brains was harder, and the robots were more cunning. They had all evaded the RAS's newest defense net and detectors, but the RAS was still one step too slow. Even now, Sula couldn't confirm how many robots were left on this planet.
Judging from the robots' abilities, they definitely had a chance to take Silin away if their target was Silin. But why didn't they do anything? Why did they give her and White Night more time to intervene?
It was fine if she couldn't figure it out. After all, Sula was just an executor herself. She should leave the brainstorming to her superiors.
Gen Xingming was already urging Silin to go over. The award ceremony was about to begin, and Silin had to go.
"Please take care of things here as soon as possible. We will escort you and Her Highness back," Sula said.
"Alright."
The venue for the award ceremony was at the finishing line. It had already been set up and was brightly lit. Even though it was nighttime, the surroundings were as bright as day.
When Cillin arrived at the award venue, Gen Xingming hurriedly dragged him over. The first place team would be photographed together with their flying car, and they would also have to give a speech. Cillin pushed the job of giving a speech to Naimi. That guy was a talkative person anyway.
This was a night of epochal significance. From this night onward, Vege-Fritter was no longer the tragic character it used to be. After being buried for so many years, it finally stood at the center of attention once more, just like it did during its glory days.
The audience in the main area were all cheering, but no one noticed that among the cheering audience, there was a burly man who was waving his arms and shouting with the people around him. His eyes flashed with light, just like the reflected light from the spotlights.
At another part of the planet, a robot exited stealth mode and walked into an empty maintenance room.
"Things are over here."
"They've started moving as well. We don't need to expose ourselves any longer. We'll leave after they leave."
"Alright."
… …
Both Silin and Naimi received a huge sum of money after winning the race. Coupled with the money Brielles sent over after he lost the bet, Silin was basically a millionaire overnight.
The second place of the race was Spearhead's wind-carrying car. The car behind it was a pretty good one, and it seized the opportunity to take second place after Aero's shuttle-shaped car made a small mistake.
Aero's and Lightning's cars crossed the finish line almost at the same time, but it was only 'almost'. Aero's car made a small mistake at the end and lost the first two places, but it was still slightly ahead and won third place.
Tobia and Qiu Xu didn't get into the top ten. This was only their first race, and it was a practice race. Their main goal was to familiarize themselves with the "Winds of Freedom". Maybe they would be able to get a better ranking in the next race.
"What are you looking at!" Tobia patted Qiu Xu's shoulder before following her gaze. It was the place where the award ceremony was going to take place. Qiu Xu's attention was drawn to the brightest stage at the moment. There was a Vege-Fritter flying car and the champion duo.
"Don't be discouraged, we're still young, and this is just our first race. We'll be able to stand there once we get used to this level of competition and work hard for the next race. Four years will pass by in the blink of an eye!" Tobia said.
Qiu Xu looked back and smiled, but didn't say anything.
Tobia suddenly thought of something and pointed at Silin with wide eyes. "Don't tell me you've fallen for that kid? Don't get your hopes up. My brother said that he's pretty close to some noble kids, and you know who they are. Also, he might be even higher than the people who invested in our team. "
"Don't make wild guesses, it's not like that!"
"Alright, alright. Let's go see our team's medal!" Tobia relaxed after confirming that Qiu Xu didn't mean it that way. After all, their team didn't want to provoke too many nobles. They would only end up as cannon fodder in a fight between nobles.
Qiu Xu followed Tobia back to the team, but the emotions in her eyes were unclear. Suddenly, she moved her gaze to a certain part of the spectator stand. The brawny man who was waving his arms froze for an instant, but he quickly recovered.
"So troublesome." Qiu Xu sighed quietly.
No one heard Qiu Xu's sigh because it was too noisy around them.
Naimi was giving his acceptance speech due to excessive excitement during a series of dazzling awards ceremonies.
"... The flying car that everyone thinks is trash is the 'Vege-Fritter'. We didn't do well in this race, and all we did was fly a little more happily than the others. Our results weren't good, and all we got was a championship …"
Some of the people on the stands behind him wanted to slap him with their shoes when he said that.
When the ceremony was finally over, Silin was dragged to the post-race cocktail party by Gen Xingming. A bunch of people passed out from drinking too much and collapsed on the ground. Everyone was taken away by their respective teams.
Silin grabbed Gen Xingming by the arm while the Sizer Family escorted the deliriously drunk Naimi, Ulaganuo, and Kenancy to the Sizer Family's lounge. When they came out, Silin saw the people from Spearhead walking out of the party hall. Their gazes met Qiu Xu's, and both of them looked away. However, Silin was already starting to feel puzzled.
Ever since he saw Qiu Xu at the repair shop before the race, Silin had a feeling that she wasn't a simple girl. At the time, Silin thought that she would definitely get a good ranking if she was the one driving the flying car. At the very least, she would be in the top ten. But later he realized that Qiu Xu was just a navigator, and their team didn't get any good results.
Why was she hiding her strength? Silin didn't understand. Moreover, when he met Qiu Xu's gaze just now, Silin had a strange feeling that the girl must know something.
But that was it. Now wasn't the time for Silin to look into Qiu Xu's information.
The next day, Silin turned down Naimi and Fleka's attempts to persuade him to stay and dragged the disgruntled Gen Xingming and Sula's group back to the Gen Family.
On the way back, Silin checked Qiu Xu's file and found a lot of fake traces. Most people wouldn't notice these traces, so the person who made them must be very skilled in this field. There was no tampering at all. Every piece of information could be proven in various ways, but when Silin analyzed it logically and probabilistically, he discovered something strange. One strange point could be said to be a coincidence, but several strange points couldn't be right. It could only be said that her information was forged.
What kind of person could forge her information to this extent? They didn't look like Black Viper, but Silin had a feeling that there was some kind of connection between them. It was Silin's intuition. An intuition without any proof.
Silin had been thinking about Black Viper and Qiu Xu all along the way. He didn't succeed in contacting Guan Feng either. Guan Feng had set up the auto-response system to reply to him every time. He didn't know what he was doing, but he heard that the Purgatory Thunder Snake S class was almost done. He was probably still working on it.
When Silin walked into Genya's courtyard, he immediately saw the big guy inside. He couldn't help but notice it because it was just too eye-catching.
"That's the egg?" Silin pointed at the fifty-meter-long guy in the courtyard. Right now, the big guy's mouth was open, and Huimao was ordering the servants to brush its tongue and teeth.
The servants seemed to have gotten used to it by now. They weren't afraid of standing in the big guy's mouth and brushing its teeth. They even talked to it while brushing its teeth.
Seeing that Silin had returned, Huimao ran over with a smug catwalk and showed off, "Look, my pet! What do you think?!"
Cillin looked at the big fellow whose mouth was open but eyes were rolling in their direction and said, "This guy's appetite is pretty big, isn't it?" Otherwise, how could he grow so crazily as if he was injected with hormones?
"It is, but second grandpa said it's nothing!" Huimao flicked his ears and said.
Second grandpa … how dare you call him that!
"Oh right, I've thought of a new name for it, Blue Skin! It's because its skin is blue! "Huimao jumped onto Silin's shoulder and asked urgently," What do you think of the name? "
"... I guess I'll just have to make do with it for now."
Poor Blue Skin's name was "made do" just like that.
Cillin explained the general situation of the flying car race to Genya. He had covered most of the small details, but he was sure that Genya knew more or less about Sula's movements. That was why Cillin avoided the important details and focused on the trivial ones.
"What?! There's a prize?! How much?! "Huimao's eyes shone brightly as he slapped Silin with his paw.
Silin ignored Huimao's paw and pinched the back of its neck. He told Genya that he was going back to his room to rest and left the yard, leaving Blue Skin to play with the servants who were brushing their teeth.
"Any news?" Silin asked Huimao after he returned to his room.
"No, we didn't get much useful information here. The Gen Family didn't find anything either, but one thing is for sure. Those robots are definitely doing something."
Silin fell silent for a moment, "Come with me to meet Teacher Guan tomorrow."
"For what?" Huimao wasn't very willing.
"I have business with him. Don't go if you don't want to."
"Then let's go. We've stayed here long enough. It's time to go for a walk." In reality, Huimao was only concerned about the money in Silin's pocket. He could also buy some fish biscuits on the way.
"Alright, let's go to AF1 tomorrow."
"I'll go make some arrangements first." He still had to tell the servants to feed the pets on time.
Genya didn't say anything about Silin leaving as soon as he came back. There was still work to be done at the affiliated school, and Silin couldn't stay here forever.
Blue Skin was very reluctant to part with Huimao, but Huimao became much more obedient after giving it a few paws.
"Be a good boy and stay at home. We'll bring you some food when we come back," said Silin.
Blue Skin: "Meow …"
Silin: "..."
Slapping Blue Skin's head, Silin said, "You're a sea beast, not a cat!"
Cillin brought the gray cat with him to AF1. The Gen Family was there to escort him there. As for Gen Xingming and the others, they were still skipping classes. They wouldn't go to the affiliated school to listen to the teachers even if they were bored.
It hadn't been long since he left AF1, but Silin's feelings were noticeably different after he returned. Maybe it was because he had vented some of his frustrations, or maybe it was because he felt a lot more relaxed after experiencing the extreme speed of the flying car race.
Most people who came to AF1 for the first time would think that the pace of life here was fast and busy. But Silin didn't feel nervous at all. He didn't feel nervous at all. He was a lot more nervous than he was during a race.
He drove the flying car to Guan Feng's house at the school's speed limit and parked in the yard.
Silin felt that something was wrong the moment he entered the yard. It was the same scenery as before, but there wasn't any sign of human presence. Was Guan Feng still at the research lab? Didn't White Night tell him to look for him at Guan Feng's house?
The door opened on its own after Silin swiped his student ID, and Silin walked inside. The house was empty, and the fish in the fish tank were still swimming happily. However, the whole house gave Silin a very strange feeling.
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