Chapter 76

Xie Ruhang has been secretly investigating Lu's father's disappearance for some time now.

If someone else had disappeared, Xie Ruhang wouldn't have bothered, but Lu Xiaoshan had been with him for half a year, and he had taught Lu Xiaoshan about mechs, so whether Lu's father had disappeared or died, he should give the boy an explanation.

"Daddy will be home at least once a week until you and Brother Sugar come over to cure Mommy."

"The last time dad came home, he told me and mom not to worry about the medical bills, dad said he had a way to get the money, but he left and never came back ......"

Xie Ruhang recalls the steely look on Lu Xiaoshan's face when she said this to him, a child who had already realized that his father might not be coming back, and had begun to try to carry something like a grown-up.

Lu Xiaoshan says he wants to be a racer in the underground arena in a couple years.

"Mom's health is not good and our family can't take funding forever."

"I want to make money early, so my mom can live in a new house."

Lu Xiaoshan's words echoed in his ears, Xie Ruhang subconsciously touched the lucky talisman in his pocket, ever since he found out that the stone was magic silver he had carried it with him every day, Xie Ruhang exhaled softly and walked towards the first floor of the black market.

In a few days, there would be a professional exam for the chief competition, and he and Gu Tunan would have a mecha duel, so he was going to buy some healing medicine from Old Man Qin.

He took out a bearer savings card, "Elder Qin, old rules, ten pipes."

Old man Qin, who was lying on the rattan chair in a drowsy state, yawned, "It's Xiao Xie, I've got a little news about what you asked me to keep an eye on earlier."

Xie Ruhang once asked this black market potion trader to look into the disappearance of Lu Xiaoshan's father, and she was well-informed and had many channels.

Old man Qin slowly took out ten tubes of potion in the cabinet, put the potion into a black bag casually, lowered his voice and whispered, "The people from the military are also investigating this matter, they are looking for me to borrow people, do you kid want to cooperate with the military department?"

Xie Ruhang raised his eyebrows slightly, "The military?"

*

"Nan Nan ah, do you want to participate in the investigation of this matter?" Admiral Gu was playing chess with Grandpa Tang while communicating with his precious grandson.

After Cheng Wenhui was put in the police station, a lot of things were investigated inside and out, and except for the swimming pool incident where there was evidence that Cheng Wenhui injected alpha students with OxyContin with the intent to harm omega, the other incidents could not be substantiated.

Cheng Wenhui's mouth is very strict, biting out that this is all his impulse, because this incident did not cause substantial harm, sentenced to a maximum of five years.

Police investigating Cheng Wenhui's light brain found interesting clues, such as a chat log that seemed to involve black talk about trading energy crystals.

The tax rate for trading energy crystals on a formal platform was high, and Admiral Gu suspected that the Cheng family was conducting a private transaction to evade the tax.

Involving Gu Tunan in this investigation will, on the one hand, gold-plate Gu Tunan's resume, and on the other hand, Gu Tunan's ability to find evidence of Cheng Wenhui's crimes might help Tang Bai's favorability.

The above was Admiral Gu's inner little scheme.

The whole Gu family knows about his grandson's unrequited love for Tang Bai. Admiral Gu is quite fond of Tang Bai as his grandson's daughter-in-law, but the only thing that doesn't satisfy him is that Tang Bai has been temporarily tagged by the alpha.

After hearing his grandson's agreement, Admiral Gu hung up the communication and single-handedly inquired about the intelligence, "Why hasn't your family arranged a blind date for Sugar recently?"

"The alpha lining up to confess my Sugar Candy's love is going to circle around the Federal Military Academy three times, Sugar Candy can't even pick over, what kind of marriage." Grandpa Tang blew a mouthful of hot tea and drank it beautifully.

"Children don't know any better, it's easy for them to be tricked by the alpha's out there with flowery words, it's better for the children we've watched grow up to know their roots most assuredly." Admiral Gu looked at the game of chess, and he specially let Grandpa Tang have a pawn.

Grandpa Tang pursued the attack, "That's true. I think these alpha chasers of my Candy Cane are no good, it's most important for kids at this age to study hard, and my Candy Cane is going to inherit my mantle in the future, so what's the point of falling in love."

"omega Well, or family-oriented, like Bai Zhi all day out blindly, more than thirty has not married, old white are anxious to death." Admiral Gu used his superb chess skills to feed moves to Grandpa Tang, and his skillful feeding techniques made Grandpa Tang smile.

"Aren't you and my daughter-in-law running away all day long these days? Especially your family's Xiao Li, I see he's much happier now than before."

Grandpa Tang's words caused Admiral Gu to fall silent for a moment, Li Songyun was so busy with the slum school during this time that he was too busy to take care of the family's affairs, big or small, and the entire Gu family found that the family didn't have much of a home after Li Songyun was missing.

With just a single lapse of concentration, Admiral Gu heard Grandpa Tang laugh cheerfully, "Haha! You lost this round!"

*

Xie Ruhang waited at the place where he had an appointment with the military, who supposedly needed someone familiar with the slums to cooperate, and waited and waited, and when he saw the face of the man in front of him-

"Gu Tunan?"

Gu Tunan was a bit surprised and said, "What a coincidence."

Xie Ruhang's pupils quake as he remembers what Tang Bai once revealed to him about the future, "Fate will set them up, and next they will not only become partners in school, but also partners outside of school because they have to do one thing ......"

Xie Ruhang forced a smile, "Yeah, what a coincidence."

"You two know each other, that's just right, let's make it a group of you two, we'll split up next, everyone hurry up, it's very likely that the Cheng family is shifting their location." The head of the military thundered and arranged the plan of action, because the black words on top of Cheng Wenhui's optical brain were vague and could be deciphered into a variety of possible locations, so each team was sent to scout a different location.

"We're going to the mines in Sector B. The map doesn't have the exact location of the mines in this sector." Gu Tunan frowned, the information on the slum's mining area wasn't up to date on the interstellar map.

"Change clothes with me first, don't scare the snakes." Xie Ruhang threw Gu Tunan a set of clothes commonly used by miners, originally he was going to directly change here, but remembering that Gu Tunan was probably secretly in love with himself, Xie Ruhang's action of taking off his pants was a beat.

Gu Tunan didn't notice Xie Ruhang's hesitation as he undressed while making what appeared to be small talk, "These clothes shouldn't have a smell, right? ...... Speaking of flavor, my pheromones are cedar-flavored."

Gray-blue eyes looked to Xie Ruhang, and Gu Tunan was more than naturally expecting Xie Ruhang to pick up the conversation.

After all, I've said mine and it's time for you to reveal it.

Gu Tunan's expression of curiosity and inquisitiveness could not be hidden from the eyes of Xie Ruhang, who was on high mental alert: "......?" Why was this alpha suddenly talking about his pheromone flavor?

Xie Ruhang glanced warily at Gu Tunan.

Gu Tunan was a bit lonely when he wasn't answered, but when he thought that Xie Ruhang had probably failed in his pursuit of Tang Bai just like he did, and that they had jointly lost to a seemingly mediocre alpha, Gu Tunan's words were opened again: "I think that excellent people should be with equally excellent people, the most harmonious state of affairs is to be evenly matched. An evenly matched relationship is the most harmonious state."

As they look at each other, Gu Tunan gives a small nod to what he recognizes as his "comrade-in-arms".

We both lost to the same unnamed alpha, it's time to turn enemies into friends and take care of the biggest enemy first!

Xie Ruhang: "????"

Xie Ruhang's mind popped up what Tang Bai said: "Equally matched rivals become more than rivals by fate, like two flints rubbing against each other, they will rub out the sparks of love, Xie Ruhang and Gu Tunan's love goes along the route of mutual love for each other's arch-rivals ...... "

Xie Ruhang, who silently retreated next to the trash can and used it as cover to change his clothes, listened to Gu Tunan continue, "Actually, I've changed a lot in the meantime, I'm not a traditional straight-A anymore."

Xie Ruhang's hand trembled slightly as he unbuttoned his buttons.

Gu Tunan, who was bent on asking his comrade to put in a good word for him in front of Tang Bai, didn't think too much about it, during this period of time, he had gone through Mrs. Gu's ears and finally learned that a straight A cancer is not pleasing to an omega, "Gender can't restrict us from doing what we want to do-- "For example, Tang Bai, an omega can be a mech builder.

Gu Tunan, who hadn't finished his sentence, was cut off by Xie Ruhang, "What are you trying to say?"

Gu Tunan had already changed his shirt and had his hands on his belt when he sniffed sincerely, "Can I smell your pheromones?"

Next thing you know, Gu Tunan is being coldly punched by Xie Ruhang.

-- "What are you doing all of a sudden?!"

-- "Because those people in the mines were carrying wounds, and wounds are the best camouflage!"

-- "So it is!"

Gu Tunan backhanded Xie Ruhang.

Xie Ruhang : "......?" Don't you like me!

The two alpha's clenched their fists, and for a moment there was fire and smoke.

Ten minutes later, two equally grimy and snotty alpha's blended perfectly into the mine.

Abandoned mines are hidden trading places, but there are so many abandoned mines in Area B that it's a waste of time to go through them one by one.

Gu Tunan looked at the dusty mining area, it was worse than he had imagined, dust pollution, strange smells, garbage thrown around, and many people in a hurry, all of them hunched over, carrying heavy ores or tools on their backs.

Gu Tunan had expected someone to suspect them, but he'd arrived at the mine only to realize that everyone here was so woefully and numbly mindful of what they were doing that they no longer had any spare energy to focus on the outside world.

He saw children about the same size as his youngest brother following their parents with some light tools in their hands.

He saw that the omega with the scar at his neck was carrying about as much weight as the other beta miner, and walking with a slightly shaky gait.

He even saw the gray-haired old man here, the other was perhaps older than his grandfather, dressed in rags, legs and feet were obviously not very flexible anymore, the old man was carrying a heavy basket, after walking for some distance, some of them couldn't bear to put the basket on the ground.

Just as Gu Tunan's heart sank at the depressing atmosphere of the place, his arm was suddenly bumped by Xie Ruhang, and Gu Tunan looked where Xie Ruhang indicated to see a healthy-skinned, fast-walking miner.

"Follow." Xie Ruhang makes a silent exit pattern.