No one knew what had happened better than Xia Chujian, but at this moment, she pretended not to know anything and continued to comfort Zhu Yingying.
[Chujian]: It's okay, I'll go to school on Monday and warn that Fen Tai Ni to delete all the photos! Zhu Yingying was defenseless against her and told her everything about her interactions with Fen Tai Ni. She also said that she would break off all contact with people like Fen Tai Ni in the future.
Xia Chujian, of course, applauded and welcomed this.
[Chujian]: Study hard and prepare for the college entrance exam the year after next.
These words finally made Zhu Yingying feel a little better.
[Yingying]: How do they test genes in college? I'm actually afraid of that...
[Chujian]: I don't know about that. My grades are so bad that I haven't really thought about going to college.
Zhu Yingying was distracted by Xia Chujian and forgot her sadness.
Today, in addition to being greatly frightened, she was even more saddened that she treated Fen Tai Ni as a friend, but Fen Tai Ni treated her like a slut...
She relaxed after chatting with Xia Chujian for a while.
However, she mysteriously said again.
[Yingying]: Chujian, I think the Holy Church Bodhisattva really manifested today, otherwise, how could I have left that place for no reason and not been seen?
Xia Chujian: ...
She felt a little smug in her heart.
Overpraise, overpraise.
She was just "doing a good deed every day," not some Holy Church Bodhisattva.
Zhu Yingying was still sighing over there.
[Yingying]: Chujian, have you seen the news? That Private Club even caught fire! Why didn't the fire get bigger and burn the club to the ground!
Xia Chujian had to remind her.
[Chujian]: Yingying, don't think about it anymore, think about what university you want to go to in a year.
In fact, even if Zhu Yingying could turn back into human form after a year, there would still be many problems to solve.
But at this time, the two young girls didn't think so much.
For them, anything that happened a week later was far away.
If they had to wait a year, it would be like forever.
[Yingying]: I know, thank you, Chujian, you're so nice.
Xia Chujian was very happy.
Is this what my aunt was talking about, getting a friend card? It feels pretty good!
Xia Chujian chatted with Zhu Yingying for a while and heard Xia Yuanfang calling her out for dinner.
Xia Chujian closed the Quantum Optical Brain's chat interface and ran out quickly.
On the dining table, there was a fragrant large bowl of steamed lion's head meatballs.
There were only four lion's head meatballs in the bowl, but each one was the size of a four or five-year-old child's fist.
A light, curling fragrance wafted from the light pink lion's head meatballs.
Xia Chujian took a deep breath and was immediately intoxicated.
"Why does it taste so good?! Has Aunt's cooking improved again?"
Xia Yuanfang said with emotion, "It's not my cooking, it's the ingredients. This Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat is really too good."
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered slightly, and she deliberately asked, "Aunt, we always do gene tests at school to measure gene activity. Didn't you say that the gene activity of Humanoids is much higher than that of normal humans? Then why wasn't Yingying detected?"
Xia Yuanfang glanced at her, thinking that since she had seen it, it wasn't a secret anymore, so she reminded her, lest she didn't know the importance of things and caused trouble for Aunt Chen and Yingying outside.
Xia Yuanfang gave Xia Chujian another lion's head meatball to shut her up, and then explained in a soft voice, "You saw Yingying turn into a big cat, but is it different from ordinary cats?"
Xia Chujian squinted her eyes, enjoying the deliciousness of the braised lion's head meatballs made from Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat, and nodded "mm-hmm".
Xia Yuanfang said, "Their mother and daughter are not ordinary Humanoids. It is said that they are Humanoids with Divine Beast Fei Fei bloodline."
Xia Chujian lowered her head appropriately, swallowed a mouthful of clear braised meatballs, and didn't let Xia Yuanfang see the expression in her eyes.
It seemed her aunt had already guessed Aunt Chen's background.
Xia Chujian finished that mouthful of clear braised meatballs before raising her eyes and asking curiously, "What is the Divine Beast Fei Fei? Is it very different from ordinary Humanoids?"
"This has to start with the true origin of Humanoids." Xia Yuanfang paused, feeling this explanation was too troublesome, and shook her head.
She immediately changed her approach, saying concisely, "Let's put it this way, Humanoids are the product of mixing human genes with the genes of other species, and the scope of 'other species' is too broad. Due to the vast differences, the genes of their descendants, after mixing, also have great differences."
"Fei Fei is said to be an ancient divine beast. Actually, I don't know if this is true or not, because I have never seen this animal in the Beichen Empire's literature."
"But since Aunt Chen also says so, we'll believe her for now. The most important thing is that their gene activity is indeed different from other Humanoids. Using the Beichen Empire's current methods of detection, it will be found that their genes are no different from normal humans."
Xia Chujian's eyes lit up: "Aunt, does that mean even if Yingying goes to college, when her genes are tested during college admission, she won't be found out?"
"You're worried about this?" Xia Yuanfang breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes, the Beichen Empire's current gene detection technology is actually quite backward. As long as she doesn't transform in public, no machine can detect that Yingying's gene activity is different from humans."
"That's great! Yingying will be very happy to know!" Xia Chujian simply told Xia Yuanfang the truth, "Aunt, actually, Yingying is worried that she will be detected as a Humanoid after getting into college, so she doesn't plan to go to college..."
"How can that be?" Xia Yuanfang immediately said, "Tell Yingying not to worry, she'll definitely be fine."
In Xia Yuanfang's heart, the only way out for girls was to receive more education, such as going to college.
Xia Yuanfang added, "She just has to change her behavior, otherwise she will still be bullied."
If she's bullied, the probability of Zhu Yingying transforming in extreme situations will increase.
Xia Chujian understood Xia Yuanfang's meaning and nodded, "I understand, I'll tell her!"
Xia Yuanfang reminded her again, "According to the laws of Mulan City, Humanoids cannot live outside the South District, so don't talk nonsense and cause trouble for them."
Xia Chujian nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, Aunt, these three years, while you were in the hospital, Aunt Chen took special care of me..."
As she spoke, she recounted all the good things Aunt Chen had done for her over the past three years.
The more Xia Yuanfang listened, the more grateful she felt, but she didn't show it.
After dinner, Xia Chujian obediently cleared the table, and Xia Yuanfang went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Soaking in the comfortable bathtub, she thought about how to repay Aunt Chen and her daughter once and for all.
...
The next day was Saturday.
Xia Yuanfang didn't get up early, and neither did Xia Chujian.
The aunt and niece slept until almost eight thirty.
Therefore, they didn't know that at this time, another dispute had begun in front of the elevator on the first floor.
Zong Ruoan stood in front of the elevator with his secretary, Lu Jianpeng.
The man guarding the elevator resolutely refused to let them in.
He patted the old-fashioned pistol hanging on his chest, and said with a smile, "Gentlemen, it's not that I won't let you up, but we have orders from above that no one can use this elevator during the renovation."
Because it was Saturday, Zong Ruoan and his secretary were not wearing the Special Security Bureau's military uniforms, but casual clothes.
They looked like a university professor and his teaching assistant, visiting a home.
It was just that the professor's face was a little too handsome.
Lu Jianpeng had grown up with Zong Ruoan since he was a child, how could he have suffered such grievances?
He said with a cold face, "Is this elevator your property?"
"...That's not it. How could we have such dilapidated property?" The man guarding the elevator scoffed.
"Since it's not your property, did you pay to lease the complete right to use this elevator?" Lu Jianpeng asked again with a cold face.
The man guarding the elevator picked his ears and said indifferently, "Who knows? Maybe we did, maybe we didn't, does it matter? I advise you two not to waste time here. With this effort, you might have already reached your floor by taking the stairs!"
Lu Jianpeng was about to say, "We're going to..."
Before he could say the floor, Zong Ruoan stopped him, stepped forward, and calmly asked, "How long have you been in this state?"
"...What do you mean? I don't understand."
"We're asking you, how long have you been blocking this elevator, preventing others from using it?" Lu Jianpeng had no choice but to explain Zong Ruoan's words again.
The man rolled his eyes. "A day or two, maybe two or three, or perhaps four or five days, I don't remember."
"And how long do you intend to maintain this state?" Zong Ruoan asked again, his voice even.
The man flicked away some earwax he'd just dug out, and said unhappily, "How would I know?! Maybe a month, maybe half a year! This is the arrangement from above! I'm just a gatekeeper, please don't make things difficult for me!"
"You—!" Lu Jianpeng was completely enraged by the man's lazy attitude and wanted to pull out his credentials.
But Zong Ruoan stopped him, saying calmly, "He has a point. How about this, you go and investigate what's going on with this renovation company. I want this resolved before I come down today."
With that, Zong Ruoan tore off the seal on the elevator and stepped inside.
The man guarding the elevator wanted to stop him, but Lu Jianpeng grabbed him, saying, "Come with me, we'll go investigate who's above you."
Lu Jianpeng left with the man, and Zong Ruoan went up to the eleventh floor alone.
He stepped out of the elevator and looked at the layout of the corridor on both sides.
The structure of this building was old, and compared to the buildings in the neighboring residential area, which had hundreds of floors and were built with new building materials, the environment here was at least five hundred years behind.
However, the housing prices here were very cheap, and not in the same class as the neighboring residential area.
You get what you pay for, and that's certainly true when it comes to housing.
There were only two apartments on this floor. According to the information, Xia Chujian lived in the smaller, south-facing apartment on the right.
Moreover, she had only bought this apartment from the original residents a few days ago.
Of course, this apartment was also one she had sold three years ago.
Zong Ruoan had investigated all of Xia Chujian's information in the past few days and knew her situation well.
He arrived at the door of Xia Chujian's new home and rang the doorbell.
Xia Chujian was awakened by the doorbell and unhappily picked up her Quantum Optical Brain wrist carrier to take a look.
There was surveillance equipment at the door, connected to her Quantum Optical Brain.
When she looked, she discovered it was Colonel Zong Ruoan from the Special Security Bureau, whom she had met at the Mulan City checkpoint!
No way?!
How did he find her home? Could it be that he discovered her secretly crossing the Mulan City checkpoint with Aunt Chen last night? Didn't Aunt Chen say that her "stealth" couldn't be detected by anyone?! This is too unreliable...
Xia Chujian grumbled inwardly as she quickly got dressed.
After getting dressed, she thought of something else.
There's no way this Zong Ruoan could know she lived here...
Could it be that he wasn't here to find her? Could he be here to find the young couple who used to live here? But she had offended that couple badly...
Xia Chujian was lost in thought as she ran to the living room and opened the door.
"Colonel Zong?! What brings you here?" Xia Chujian looked surprised.
Zong Ruoan smiled. "You already saw me on the surveillance camera at the door."
He casually pointed to the location of the surveillance camera on the door frame.
Xia Chujian: "..."
Her acting was in vain.
She smiled awkwardly and stepped aside to let him in. "Please come in."
After saying that, she remembered the strange new elevator rules in their building and couldn't help but peek out, asking, "How did you get up here?"
Zong Ruoan said calmly, "Of course I came up in the elevator. Your home is on the eleventh floor, did you think I would climb the stairs?"
Xia Chujian blinked. "...Didn't anyone stop you at the elevator downstairs?"
"Of course." Zong Ruoan was composed. "But I thought it was unfair, so I had my secretary investigate what's going on with that renovation company."
"Ah?! Really?!" Xia Chujian immediately sobered up, and not only sobered up, but also became excited. "Does this mean that if they're not following the rules, you can punish them?!"
Zong Ruoan walked into Xia Chujian's living room, first quickly looking around, before saying calmly, "I'm not from the Punishment Department, I can't punish them for this."
Xia Chujian: "...Oh."
She was quite disappointed.
Then, Zong Ruoan said again with a straight face: "However, I can investigate whether this decoration company is colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security."
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
A decoration company, endangering national security, what the hell! But Xia Chujian completely understood what Zong Ruoan meant.
She said with a smile: "Thank you so much, Special Security Bureau! This decoration company is indeed suspicious and should be thoroughly investigated! By the way, Colonel Zong, are you thirsty? Can I pour you a glass of water?"
Zong Ruoan said: "I'm not thirsty, but I wouldn't mind a cup of coffee."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She said embarrassedly: "Colonel Zong, I don't have coffee here, nor do I have tea. Those things are too expensive for ordinary civilians like us to afford."
Zong Ruoan: ...
"Are coffee and tea very expensive?" Zong Ruoan asked confusedly, "Some brands are very expensive, but there are also very popular brands."
When he was on missions outside, he always drank the most common brands.
Xia Chujian resolutely refused to bite off more than she could chew, and she told the truth very honestly: "Even the cheapest brand costs more than one hundred to buy a kilogram of coffee powder, and tea is even more expensive. When my aunt Xia Yuanfang has a job, she only earns five hundred yuan a month. Do you think I look like someone who can afford the cheapest coffee or tea?"
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