Chapter 75: 45.2

Lu Nianqian takes the two teenage insectoids to a restaurant catering to males. Shemales and demis can only enter if they’re here with a male. Lu Nianqian chose this place thinking it would suit Cheng Zhaoci’s palette best… And who cares about Xiao Ji.

After taking a seat, Lu Nianqian cuts straight to the chase with a serious face, “you must keep an eye on the shemales and demis around you.”

“Huh? What do you mean?” Cheng Zhaoci also sits up straight, seeing Lu Nianqian’s concern.

“I was contacted by Golden Lion recently. Actually, they have contacted many shemales and demis whose circumstances mean they’re likely to hold animosity or hostility to males,” Lu Nianqian then shows Cheng Zhaoci the message he received.

After skimming it, Cheng Zhaoci feels tense. Something is going to happen.

“The most troublesome thing is that it is already rumoured Jin Yue is looking for a comic artist. That’s you. I don’t know how far this rumour has spread, but I suspect a lot of insectoids will be trying to dig up information on you for his sake,” and there’s no telling what they would do finding out about Cheng Zhaoci, especially considering the pirates’ recent treatment of males.

It has become dangerous for Cheng Zhaoci.

“If you don’t mind, I can offer some protection,” Lu Nianqian puts his holodeck back on, and continues, “there are still some means I can…”

“Thanks, but no thanks,” Cheng Zhaoci refuses, “I’m grateful to you for telling me this, but I would not ask you to guarantee my security.”

He knows he is probably being overly cautious, but he also can’t trust Lu Nianqian entirely yet.

That is when Cheng Zhaoci receives another direct message on his holodeck. It’s the white-haired male he met and helped before and added as a friend.

Why is he… making a video call?

Cheng Zhaoci glances over, and Lu Nianqian nods. Cheng Zhaoci answers the call.

In the projection, the male, in his white gown and stereotypical mad scientist hair, with two big eye bags, looks very exhausted indeed, but he says, “I can’t explain, but the Capital planet is becoming perilous. Do you want to come to our Institute building, Cheng Zhaoci?”

… Institute? Cheng Zhaoci glances over at Lu Nianqian again, and sees that he’s confused. Xiao Ji… has question marks floating off of his head.

Bai Jun is still continuing, “or you can come to my place instead of the Institute. It’s also 100% safe.”

“You know we’ve only seen each other once before, don’t you?” Cheng Zhaoci looks speechless, “will you move in with someone who you’ve only seen once and known less?”

“Wait, so you don’t believe me? Uh, gimme a sec,” Bai Jun starts poking around his holodeck, until he pulls up a photograph, “I’m not a bad guy, see?”

In this photograph, Bai Jun is standing together with an older shemale soldier, who looks about the same age as Lu Yao. Cheng Zhaoci thinks he’s definitely seen him somewhere, but Xiao Ji is already going ‘fuck.’

“The, the Chairman of Chief Command?!” Xiao Ji yells out in disbelief, “it’s the Chairman?!”

The Chairman of Chief Command? The highest ranking officer of the entire army? The one who’s rumoured to have the President and Executive branch under his control?

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Bai Jun then drops the final bomb, “he’s my dad. You can believe me now, right?”

Wait, the Chairman’s married? Xiao Ji knits his brows.

“He, he really is my dad!” Bai Jun seems distressed, “wher-where are you right now? It’s very dangerous outside. There will definitely be insectoids who will target you for the pirates!”

The exact same warning as Lu Nianqian. Before Cheng Zhaoci can answer, another call interrupts them. Unlike the primitive smartphones of his past life, theoretically infinite simultaneous calls can be handled together. This time, it’s Lu Yao, Wei Zhuo’s granddad.

He skips all pleasantries as well, saying, “xiao-Ci, there have been alarming developments of late. It’s not safe; come, we’ll talk details when…”

“G-G-Gr-Gr-Grand Marshal Lu?!” Xiao Ji’s voice is trembling. Sure, he knows the Grand Marshal is Wei Zhuo’s granddad, but he’s never seen him in person. He’s an actual living war hero! His deeds and strategies are printed right on his textbook!

“Eh? Xiao-Bai?” The insectoids on different calls can see each other’s projection. Oh, looks like they already know each other, “you’re in a call with xiao-Ci right now?”

“Oh, uncle Lu,” Bai Jun shrinks a little, embarrassed, “it-it’s become unsafe. So I wanted to tell xiao-Ci to come over.”

“Ah, same here. Xiao-Ci does happen to be my grandson’s xiongzhu-to be, so it’d be quite ugly if something were to happen. Haha. Thanks for the concern, but I can take charge of xiao-Ci’s safety. I suppose you’re quite busy as well,” Lu Yao is making one of those rather unconvincing, ‘friendly’ smiles. He doesn’t much like talking to the researchers of the Institute either.

Put most simply, they’re crazy. Not in a misanthropic way, but they’re generally quite detached from the reality of normal insectoids. It’s very tiring to talk to him, especially for the more straightforward shemale soldiers. It’s torturing brain cells just to talk to these males of the Institute.

Bai Jun has always been quite shy, and is nervous now that there are too many shemales around. He dryly says, “then excuse me for interrupting,” and finishes the call immediately.

“Xiao-Ci, you’re outside? Granddad can come pick you up,” Lu Yao’s smile is quite genuine when facing Cheng Zhaoci, “are you out playing with friends?” He says, able to see Xiao Ji right behind Cheng Zhaoci, as Cheng Zhaoci has video call on instead of projection call. He can’t see Lu Nianqian sitting across behind him, though.

“I was playing virtual mecha fights with my older brother,” Cheng Zhaoci can guess what Lu Yao is thinking, possibly wary Xiao Ji is someone trying to steal his love, given his looks.

“Oh, your older brother? I see. Do you also want to come?” Lu Yao asks him, with a much friendlier tone now.

Xiao Ji, dum-dum as always, misses Lu Yao’s shift in tone entirely. He happily replies, “I can?! Hurray!” Wow! He can go to the Grand Marshal’s home! He would give anything to have the opportunity, you know! That’s the war hero in a textbook! A living war hero!

Cheng Zhaoci, who hasn’t taken the shemale course at all, only knows Lu Yao is a bigshot in the military. A normal shemale, though, worships Lu Yao enough that they would happily make him the wallpaper for their holodeck or something like that.

Lu Nianqian, meanwhile, closes his eyes for a moment before saying, “since the Grand Marshal is here, I doubt there is anything to worry about. I’ll be leaving, then,” he gets up to pay the bill.

“Thank you very much for today!” Cheng Zhaoci calls out to him. Lu Nianqian was the first to tell him about this. Though it is true he can’t trust him entirely or accept his offer of protection, but he did go out of his way to do all this.

Lu Nianqian pauses, then turns around with a smile, “no problem. And you can also come to me any time if you need any help,” then he pays and leaves through the door.

Lu Yao couldn’t see Lu Nianqian, but he heard him loud and clear, and asks, “who was that?”

“My late father’s eldest son. Biologically my half-brother.”

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