Guan Feng liked to cook his own food, so there were a couple of kitchens in his house. But judging from the state of the kitchens, all the machines had stopped working. The housework robot stood quietly in a corner and didn't react to Silin's arrival at all. Not even its indicator light flashed.
He turned on one of the baking machines and found a half-baked Guan Family special biscuit inside. The furnishings in the other places were all fine, just as he remembered. There was no mess, no traces of fighting.
Cillin went upstairs to take a look. Guan Feng's bedroom, study and so on were all tightly shut, and there was a password set in place that prevented anyone from opening them. There were no signs of someone breaking in, either. It was almost as if Guan Feng had vanished into thin air.
When he returned to the living room downstairs, Huimao was jumping out of the fish tank with a fish in his mouth. He stepped on the fish's body with his claws and tore it open from head to tail.
There was no flesh or blood. It was a mechanical fish.
"You want to fool me? No way! "Huimao swallowed the entire mechanical fish and looked at Silin." Where's Guan Feng? "
Silin shook his head. "I don't see him."
His gaze fell to the sofa. There was a projector on the table in front of the sofa with a flickering indicator light. Silin pressed a button, and the lights in the living room were turned off. The curtains on the windows were drawn shut on their own. The living room was plunged into darkness.
A human figure appeared on the sofa. It was an ordinary-looking person who wouldn't stand out in a crowd, but Silin knew that it was a robot. As for why he could tell it was a robot from a projection, Silin could only say that it was intuition.
"Dear visitor, we are sorry that the owner of this place is unable to receive you. Our boss only invited him over to reminisce about old times. We do not know when he will return. If you are in a hurry, you may come to this place …"
A gigantic star map appeared behind the voice. The planets around it were lined up neatly, and it was possible to see the twenty or so star regions of the Empire clearly. Among these planets, there was one that shone especially brightly, and that was the planet the robot was talking about. However, if Cillin remembered correctly, this planet wasn't part of the star map he had obtained before.
The star chart lasted for five seconds before disappearing. The robot sitting on the sofa also disappeared. The curtains opened again, the lights turned on, and the living room returned to its original state.
Although the star chart had only appeared for five seconds, Cillin had already memorized it. After the preset projector was turned off, Cillin dimmed the lights in the living room once more and took out the star chart in his hand.
Comparing it with the star map provided by the robot, it could be seen that the star map in Silin's hands did not contain the one that had just been marked. There were a few other planets and a star in the area that weren't on the star map. However, all the other planets were pretty much the same. From the star map, it could be seen that gravity was pulling all the planets in the area toward the spot where the star had disappeared. This meant that there was probably a star there.
The gravity image was still there, but the planets at the center of the area had disappeared.
This area was just an inconspicuous corner of the Mist Bodhisattva Empire. No one paid attention to it, and no one bothered to look into its secrets. Of course, it was possible that someone had discovered it but failed to find the answer, or that the planet had "disappeared" while they were searching for the answer.
Most of the people in the Mist Bodhisattva Empire who possessed a star map of the entire empire had the exact same star map as the one in Cillin's possession. There was no planet marked on the map at all. This meant that someone had erased all the records and star map traces of this planet and every planet around it.
Only the Mist Bodhisattva Empire's upper echelons were capable of such a thing. But who was it? Why would they do such a thing? Was it Black Viper's spy?
Silin didn't know, and he couldn't guess. He knew too little about the Mist Bodhisattva Empire. Right now, Silin wasn't involved in the games between the upper echelons and the secret squabbles, and he didn't want to get involved either. However, Guan Feng's incident had given Silin another idea.
Silin sat on the sofa and thought quietly. Huimao didn't disturb him, so he strolled around the living room out of boredom before sneaking into Guan Feng's kitchen to eat some biscuits.
Not long later.
"Oh my meow!"
Silin's thoughts were interrupted by a strange, muffled sound that sounded like a cat being locked in a jar.
"What's wrong with you now?!"
Exasperated, Silin got up and went to the kitchen. The first thing he saw when he entered was a furry butt wagging its tail. Huimao had stuck his head into a biscuit making machine and was trying his best to pull it out.
"You're stuck?" Silin walked over and helped him pull it out.
"Hey, wait, don't pull it, I'm stuck!" Huimao yelled from inside.
"Can't you transform into another form …"
Just as Cillin was speaking, he was stopped by a "click" that came from inside. Then, a few more clicks followed. After a couple more cracking sounds, Huimao finally came out with a face full of green biscuit crumbs and a round cylinder.
"This is the best I can take out. There's another box inside, so I can't take it out." Huimao licked his paws and wiped his face.
There was another world under the biscuit making machine. Huimao had discovered that there was something under the biscuit making machine while he was eating, so he bit through the biscuit making machine and tried to take out what was inside. Who knew that it would be so hard to take out?
Cillin held the small cylinder and gave it a look. He didn't know what was inside, and it would take some effort to open the cylinder. Right now, Cillin didn't deal with the cylinder immediately. Instead, he looked through the broken bottom of the biscuit machine and looked at the box he hadn't taken out yet.
Although it wasn't good to destroy something like this without Guan Feng's permission, they were in a critical situation right now.
Silin took out his tools and dismantled the composite kitchenware. Then, he took out the box inside.
Just like the cylinder, the box was protected with a password and couldn't be opened immediately.
"What's inside?" Silin looked at Huimao.
"I don't know. The outer shell is made of a special material, so I can't see what's inside." Huimao bit into another biscuit.
"You might get diarrhea if you eat these half-raw biscuits."
"I won't! It's not like I haven't eaten them before. "
"Up to you. Come over and decipher the password when you're full." Silin picked up his tools again and reassembled the disassembled kitchenware.
After eating the biscuit, Huimao cooperated with him and started deciphering the two items' passwords. He deciphered the cylinder first, and when he was done, the front of the cylinder opened up to reveal a blueprint. It was the blueprint of the Purgatory Thunder Snake S.
I think I've seen something secret...
Silin could more or less guess what was inside the box after he stuffed the blueprint back into the cylinder.
Just as Silin expected, the box contained the Purgatory Thunder Snake S.
The white body of the spear made people feel a sense of coldness, pure and cold. The muzzle of the gun was hexagonal. Silin thinks that it was a snowflake.
There was a Purgatory Thunder Snake insignia and an "S" symbol on the gun.
Guan Feng actually designed it in such a short time!
Guan Feng was the only person who could put such a precious gun under the biscuit machine in the kitchen. Of course, no one would've thought that Guan Feng would leave the priceless Purgatory Thunder Snake S in a place like this.
However, this also made Silin realize a problem. Guan Feng didn't even take the Purgatory Thunder Snake S with him. Did he leave in a hurry? Or did he not have a chance? Or did he not want Black Viper to know about this at all?
Silin put away the cylinder and box and sat down on the sofa in the living room. What should he do next?
Huimao rubbed his belly on the sofa and yawned in boredom. Suddenly, his ears twitched and he looked outside the door.
Beep —
The door opened, and a person walked in.
It was a familiar face. Silin had seen him not long ago.
"White Night?"
Silin looked at White Night in puzzlement. Guan Feng must've set up an entry requirement for this place. Silin was allowed in because he was Guan Feng's student, but what about White Night? How did he get in?
White Night wasn't surprised to see Silin here. He looked around before staying on top of the fish tank. One of the fish was missing.
"There was a mechanical fish inside. It's been taken care of," Silin explained.
"I know. I've been here before, but I didn't take care of it."
White Night walked over to the sofa and sat down. Snow Wolf Rubu followed him into the room. The wolf and cat immediately faced off against each other the moment they entered the room.
Huimao had just rubbed his belly on the sofa, leaving only the small sofa on the opposite side untouched. White Night had already sat down on the small sofa. Rubu wanted to lie down on the sofa, but the cat smell irritated him the moment he smelled it. It was as if this place already belonged to someone.
Huimao didn't feel embarrassed at all. He didn't move away from the sofa and looked provocatively at Rubu while wagging his tail.
Rubu bared his teeth.
Huimao flicked his ears and ignored him.
"Have you read the information inside?" Silin pointed at the projector on the table and asked White Night.
"Yep."
Silin raised an eyebrow. He's this calm?!
Right now, Cillin was really suspicious. Just who was this for? Was it for Silin himself, or for White Night?
"What are you going to do?" White Night asked.
Silin knocked his forehead. "I guess I'll go take a look. What about you? "
"I'll go."
"Because of Guan Feng?"
"Because I'm bored."
Silin: "..."
It was true that Silin wouldn't be able to handle Black Viper alone, but Silin didn't want to ask the Gen Family for help right now. Silin didn't want to get too close to the Gen Family other than Genya, and if he were to ask someone to go with him, would it be this guy?
It was at this moment White Night's communicator rang.
"What is it?" White Night answered the call and asked.
"Did you find him? I need money urgently! "Sediya yelled from the other side.
"No, but I've got news."
Silin looked at White Night. Was he going to leak Guan Feng's whereabouts?
"Where is he?! Is Teacher Guan hiding somewhere? He can't owe us our wages even if he's Teacher Guan! "
"Come here first. Tell Chi Lafang and Nikki to come with me."
"We have work to do? Wait here, I'll be right there! "
After White Night ended the call, Silin asked him, "Are you going to announce it to the public?"
"No, it's just that it's suicide to go to Black Viper's place with just the two of us."
Silin thought for a moment and agreed that it was fine. White Night and the others weren't too deeply involved with the other forces of the empire anyway. They were on the free side, and it would be convenient for them to act this way without triggering a chain reaction.
Sediya and the others showed up very quickly. It was probably because they didn't get their money back due to Guan Feng's disappearance that they were full of resentment.
"Eh? You're the cat that made Darr cry?" The armadillo lizard Armadillo stared at Huimao who was lying on the sofa and wagging his tail lazily.
"Who are you?" Huimao countered with a question.
Armadillo crawled over with a chuckle and introduced himself and the snow wolf Ruble. Ruble ignored Huimao just as arrogantly as before.
Huimao couldn't be bothered to deal with the big dog either. His attention was drawn to something else. Huimao twitched his nose and looked at Sediya who was sitting carelessly on the sofa next to him.
"What are you looking at?" Sediya tried to pinch Huimao's ear, but Huimao scratched him away.
"You smell like fish."
"Fish?" Sediya sniffed again. "No, I didn't eat fish today."
Huimao wagged his tail. "I know, you're a mutant! A mutant from the sea. "
This time, White Night and the others were surprised as well. They didn't expect this cat to be able to sniff out something like that.
Sediya's teeth had turned into rows of sharp fangs when he grinned.
"I'm a mutant from the sea. What do you want from me?"
Huimao yawned. "What's so special about that? Stop being so cocky!"
Sediya: "..."
Huimao jumped onto Silin's shoulder. "Are these guys coming with us to find Guan Feng, Silin?"
Sediya started yelling before Silin could answer, "What's wrong with Guan Feng? Does he owe you his salary as well? "
White Night briefly explained the situation to Sediya before turning off the projector and replaying the scene.
"I see. I happen to be a bit free lately, so I can take a look around. But I'll have to ask Guan Feng for a raise. Sigh, White Night, if Guan Feng goes back on his word, you'll have to pay him instead. He's your teacher after all," Sediya said.
Guan Feng is White Night's teacher? Direct teacher? Silin really didn't know about this. So it made sense that White Night was able to enter Guan Feng's house.
In fact, Pistura had to call White Night "senior brother" in front of him. That being said, White Night didn't demand that of Silin. He didn't care if he called him that or not, and he didn't even care about Goryeo.
The preset projector on the table had played it once when White Night had arrived, and then played it a second time when Cillin had come in. After the third time, the preset projector was completely destroyed, and all the records inside were destroyed. Moreover, the star map image on it could not be copied at all.
"Interesting. I didn't expect Black Viper to be hiding in such a small corner." Chi Lafang, who hadn't said much until now, suddenly spoke up.
White Night didn't answer. He looked at Silin instead, "We'll be going together. What's your plan? Do you want to join us? "
"Of course. I'd be courting death if I went alone," Silin said.
Huimao rose to his feet. "Me too! I'm going to teach those trash robots a lesson this time! "
Silin could tell that White Night and the others worked together quite often, and they knew a lot about the empire. It would be a lot safer for Silin to go with them.
"We'll kick you out anytime if you're a burden," Nikki said.
"No problem."
White Night and Silin opened Guan Feng's warehouse with their IDs and took out some equipment and resources. At the same time, they brought out a high-quality flying machine.
Silin guessed that White Night had been doing this for a long time, judging from how familiar he looked with the place. Speaking of which, it seemed that all of Guan Feng's direct students were more or less the same. They took Guan Feng's things with ease.
Since they were going to Black Viper's territory, it was only natural that they would be away for a longer period of time. During this time, one of Silin's courses was going to be tested. If he didn't take the test, he would fail the course. Guan Feng would never allow something like that to happen, and Silin couldn't bring himself to fail the very first course. Therefore, he had to talk to the instructor before he left.
Silin had read through the reference materials Guan Feng had given him several times already, and there was no way he would fail the course if he took the test. Therefore, Silin was going to apply to take the test early.
The instructor was quite old, and it was rumored that he was as experienced as Guan Feng in the affiliated schools. His hair was white, and although his face was covered in wrinkles, they weren't as deep as a normal old man's. Maybe it was because he often attended classes, but his voice was loud and full of energy.
The old man was very angry when he heard that Silin was going to take the test early. "I don't care how many things you have to do or what your background is. You're a student first and foremost, and a student should prioritize their studies! Students of AF1 shouldn't compete with those good-for-nothings of AF3 in terms of who lives a leisurely life … "
Silin couldn't help but sigh with emotion at the instructor's words. As expected of an experienced teacher who had taught for so many years. He didn't even pause when he started talking, and his words were righteous. As an experienced educator and one of the few academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences who had given more than a hundred lectures, he never ran out of things to say.
After enduring the old teacher's scolding that lasted for two hours without a single pause or repetition, Cillin finally got his wish to take the early test.
The old teacher supervised the entire process to prevent Cillin from committing any fraud. Moreover, the difficulty of the pre-test questions was on the high side, but it was still acceptable to Cillin. He completed the questions without a hitch, and only one extended question took up a bit of time.
The old instructor gave Silin a mental score every time he tried to answer a question. When Silin was done with the question, his total score was out as well.
He didn't give Silin any face at all. After a snort, he waved his hand and dismissed Silin.
He passed the test, didn't he? Silin left the old instructor's place after he was done with this big problem.
After Silin left, the discontent on the old instructor's face turned into helplessness. "What a troublesome matter. What the hell are you guys doing?"
"There's nothing we can do about it." A young man walked out of one of the rooms in the old instructor's house.
"Do whatever you want. I'm too old to get involved." The old instructor walked toward the study with Silin's test questions in hand. When he passed by the young man, he paused for a moment and said, "Don't go too far!"
"I know, don't worry."
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