IRCDM Chapter 94

Chapter 94: Broadcast – Should I Just Propose While I’m At It?

Chapter 94: Broadcast – Should I Just Propose While I’m At It?

Military Department, 118th floor training room.

Yi Heng Bai removed his blood-stained gloves and casually tossed them onto the sofa, looking down at the training ground in mid-air.

The corpses of heteromorphs inside the training ground were already piled up like mountains. Robots were busily transporting them out. Lu Lian lowered his voice and said, “Your rejection reaction is becoming more and more obvious. The last time you killed heteromorphs, it was only half of what you killed today.”

“Hmm, maybe seeing Li Yao’s mental power fluctuations was too much.” Yi Heng Bai pinched his throbbing temples. “How long was I unconscious?”

“Twenty-five minutes and thirty-eight seconds.” Lu Lian retracted his gaze. “This is too dangerous, both for you and for the people in the Military Department.”

“So Commander Xun wouldn’t let me out. If it weren’t for the fact that I absolutely had to bring Li Yao back this time, I probably wouldn’t even be able to leave the laboratory door.” Yi Heng Bai sat down on the sofa. “I haven’t thanked you for helping.”

Lu Lian said blandly, “The order to arrest Lin Chen, including the attack in the Western Heteromorph Forest, was Qi Mingjing’s order. You Zhao Chen and Jiang Chuxia escaping was just a coincidence.”

Yi Heng Bai said, “In that case, the heteromorph-imitating-human experiment is still not considered a success. Heteromorphs ultimately cannot control human emotions. To be exposed because of a bottle of water, should we say they’re stupid or infatuated?”

Chen Yanwei, who was sitting on the windowsill smoking, chuckled, “Brother Heng Bai, you wouldn’t pity them, would you?”

“After all, they’re half my kind?” Yi Heng Bai swiped through the data on the light screen and stopped at Liang Huan’s personal information. “The Military Department’s previous actions against Li Yao were too much. Even if he’s willing to come back, I’m afraid he won’t be able to live in peace. And this Liang Huan…”

He recalled the data he had been studying during this time and came to a conclusion: “He’s very good at playing the emotional card. The Mecha I Division is utterly loyal to him, and Li Yao is probably already biased towards him. If he’s willing to let Li Yao come back, he definitely has bigger plans.”

Chen Yanwei said, “Mecha I Division?”

Yi Heng Bai shook his head. “I’m afraid it’s not that simple.”

“Then why is it necessary to bring Li Yao back?” Lu Lian frowned, clearly not welcoming Li Yao’s return.

Yi Heng Bai said helplessly, “Li Yao has a signal receiver on him. If he comes back, we still have a chance to get the New Star coordinates. Whether we cooperate with these advanced heteromorphs or fight them, we have to get out first – Li Yao is too stubborn, always thinking that we must fight the heteromorphs to the death. The facts have already proven that this is not feasible. Commander Chen insisted on leaving back then because he saw through Commander Xun’s intention to cooperate, and would rather make a desperate gamble.”

Chen Yanwei sneered contemptuously.

“Commander Xun doesn’t have much time left. I don’t know how much longer I can live. As long as Li Yao is willing to come back, I can make him the next Chen An.” Yi Heng Bai raised his hand and rubbed his temples.

A young genius, the light of humanity, but he returned alone when the Dawn Project was severely damaged, bearing the name of a traitor and enduring humiliation, persevering for ten years just to light up the coordinates for humanity’s advancement. There is no more perfect or convincing declaration than this.

After all, he was the one who created the Dawn Star back then.

Lu Lian turned his head away, hiding the disdain and disgust in his eyes. Chen Yanwei didn’t care about this: “Brother Heng Bai, the premise is that he can come back. I think Lin’s Division – that’s Liang Huan – will never let him go.”

“As long as Li Yao wants to come back, no one can stop him.” Yi Heng Bai looked at the fourth person who had been silent in the corner. “Zhu Li, did you arrange for your brother to enter the Eastern Third District?”

The man sitting on the carpet playing games looked up, revealing a face that was seven or eight parts similar to Zhu Ming’s, but his expression was completely different from Zhu Ming’s. There was a hint of leisurely smile on his face: “Don’t worry, that idiot Zhu Ming never uses his brain.”

“Although he can distinguish the mental power of heteromorphs and humans, he has a congenital mental power defect. My cheap old man spent a lot of money to cure him. Although he can live now, he has long become my external scanner. As long as a species whose mental power has been identified by him, whether it is a heteromorph or a human, the data will be transmitted to me.” Zhu Li opened a light screen, and dense data instantly filled the entire room.

“As long as he stays in the Eastern Third District for seven days, I can completely analyze Liang Huan’s genetic defects in his mental and physical abilities. When all the data is transmitted, as long as I move my finger, everyone in the Eastern Third District Administrative Court…” His chip transmitted the finale of the game, “Boom, they can all log off.”

“Then even if Li Yao isn’t on the same side as the Military Department, where else can he go?”

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Mercenary base training ground.

Li Yao was instructing Deng Meng, Lu Biao and others to assemble the fourteen S-Grade mechas from the Military Department, and he looked a little irritable: “Hurry up! Stop dawdling, you’ve only assembled ten in three days. Did zombies eat your brains?”

Liang Huan was standing in the elevated corridor supervising the work, and Ling Xuan next to him hesitated.

“Ms. Ling, speak frankly.” Liang Huan took a sip of coffee, the latte art floating on top looking slightly ferocious.

“District Chief, are you really planning to let Li Yao go?” Ling Xuan glanced at the exploration team busy on the training ground. “Even if you two have a deep relationship, people’s hearts are easily changed. You also know the Military Department’s methods. What if Li Yao…”

“That would be fine too.” Liang Huan smiled. “If we force him to stay now, it’s easy to create resentment. It’s better to do him a favor. To put it another way, if the opponent is Li Yao, the Eastern Third District will have more room to maneuver.”

Ling Xuan still advised, “The influence of the Dawn Star in the Eastern District base cannot be underestimated. Once a person is put in a certain position, many things will be beyond their control. Mr. Liang, it’s not a matter of whether you and he are willing or not. I still think it’s inappropriate. It’s better to use some means to keep him in the Eastern Third District completely.”

Liang Huan looked at her appreciatively: “I think so too.”

Ling Xuan was a little surprised.

“It’s a pity that he’s a Dawn Star. He can control more than just these dozen or so mechas.” Liang Huan lowered his eyes and glanced at the distorted heart in the cup. Ambition and desire concealed the smile in his eyes. “If he can really help us bring the Military Department to heel, then it proves that I didn’t misjudge him.”

Li Yao is his lover. From a selfish point of view, he certainly wants to trap Li Yao by his side, but Li Yao returning to the Military Department can indeed play a greater role, and it can also arouse his interest and desire to conquer even more – even if it fails, he has left Li Yao a way out.

After all, the Empress never needs to interfere in politics.

He is very much looking forward to which ending Li Yao will go to.

A firework exploded outside the glass walkway. Liang Huan looked up and saw Li Yao standing on the shoulders of the Black Emperor, opening his arms and making a passionate heart shape to him. The surrounding exploration team members were shouting and laughing, and some were whistling teasingly.

“Vice District Chief Liang, I love you!”

“Team Leader Liang, Brother Li loves you, hahaha!”

“Brother Li, the mecha should also make a heart!”

“Ahhh, get married! Get married!”

The Black Emperor mecha raised its huge arm and made a vivid heart shape.

The cheers suddenly became louder. A group of people were shouting and jumping around, even the Silver Saddle group were jumping up and down around the mecha. Li Yao was like a monkey king in the mountains, leading the way and laughing arrogantly and brightly.

Liang Huan held the coffee and looked down at them making a fuss, saying without changing his expression, “Everyone has worked hard, there will be no training tonight.”

The cheers in the training ground shook the sky.

Li Yao’s plan was successful. He gave them an OK gesture. Clearly, these people had just been trained like dogs for assembling the mecha, but now their eyes were shining when they looked at Li Yao, and they were calling him Brother Li with incomparable affection.

This person seems to have the innate ability to get along with people. As long as he is willing, almost no one will dislike him – during this period, Li Yao changed his previous dejected attitude of not caring about anything. Everyone in the Administrative Court, even Jinbao, was leading a group of robots to worship him, and he was about to surpass Liao Yuan and become the new District Chief.

Liang Huan finished his coffee and walked out of the corridor. Li Yao happened to be walking over.

“What a coincidence, Vice District Chief Liang.” He threw an implanted chip to Liang Huan.

Liang Huan rubbed the chip. “Does Instructor Li have any instructions?”

Li Yao pointed to his wrist. “A dual single-line chip. I opened a network signal myself, which is shielded by the wristband. The Military Department and the Administrative Court can’t detect it.”

Liang Huan raised his eyebrows.

Li Yao said seriously, “It’s suitable for when you’re lonely and unbearable late at night and really miss your husband. You can make a holographic video call.”

Liang Huan calmly put it in his pocket: “Our positions are different, it’s better to avoid suspicion.”

“Tsk.” Li Yao frowned unhappily. “Work is work, life is life. If you don’t know how to please yourself, and there are no little historians staring at you here, be obedient and make me a video call every night.”

Liang Huan asked suspiciously, “Is there a need for this?”

“When I was seventeen, my biggest fantasy about my future wife was that he would check up on me every day. You don’t know how annoying those people in love are.” Li Yao nudged his arm. “I thought at the time that when I got married, all my salary would definitely be handed over to my wife. When the Military Department pays me, it’s all yours.”

Liang Huan: “…”

“It’s best to save money to buy a house in the Eastern Third District. You don’t know how expensive the housing prices in the Eastern Third District are now.” Li Yao stroked his chin, calculating, “If we have enough funds, we’ll also buy one in the East 1 Rich District. It will be convenient for both of us to go to work. It’s too inconvenient to live in the dormitory.”

“Alright.” Liang Huan stopped his increasingly dangerous remarks. For some reason, he had a sense of reality that was both funny and helpless. It was as if letting Li Yao return to the Military Department was really just a ‘job transfer’. He followed Li Yao’s words and said, “I’ll buy you a hover car too.”

Li Yao smiled and said, “You decide.”

The restlessness in his heart inexplicably began to subside. Liang Huan intertwined his fingers with his: “Since Xun Zan dares to force you back, he must have made preparations. I have already greeted Ye Zhen. The Mecha I Division can be mobilized by you. Mao Ming will also meet you.”

If Li Yao can really revitalize the Mecha I Division chess piece, then his control over the Military Department will be further enhanced.

Li Yao nodded. “I asked Jiang Mufeng to transfer to the Eastern Third District Court. He is very familiar with signal stabilizers. Qianlong, the small ones, and the first and second ones are all left to you. By the way, Jiang Chuxia and Ai Li can help you…”

The elevated pipelines of the mercenary training base were winding and tortuous. The two walked and talked. Li Yao was rarely a bit verbose: “I always feel that this kid Zhu Ming is not right. If he is really so useful, Dawn Group and Chuanwu would definitely not let go of such a good opportunity. Be careful, there may be fraud.”

Liang Huan nodded: “Su Murong and Yang Liduan are already investigating, but even if he really has a problem, we have to get the money first.”

Li Yao couldn’t help but laugh: “Buy a house?”

“Of course, it’s to pay off the debt first.” Liang Huan paused and said seriously, “But I have also saved some private money. You can pick it out in the Eastern Third District.”

Li Yao teased: “The East 1 Rich District won’t work?”

Liang Huan’s expression condensed slightly: “The house prices in the East 1 Rich District are slightly more expensive. I have to consider it.”

Li Yao laughed loudly and shook him non-stop, holding his shoulders: “Your Majesty, you are so stingy.”

“After all, I have to use money everywhere.” Liang Huan sighed in a pretentious manner and accepted the kiss that Li Yao hugged his neck and came up to him.

His eyebrows moved slightly, and he hugged Li Yao’s waist and kissed the other’s ear: “Don’t use your mental power casually. Your life belongs to me.”

Li Yao hugged him fiercely: “Got it, I’ll come back to you when I have time, so you won’t be alone in an empty room.”

Liang Huan smiled and let go.

Li Yao yanked open the door of the hover car. The bright silver hover car rushed into the sky, and the blue tail flame left a beautiful arc.

Liang Huan stood alone under the street lamp, and the smile on his face slowly darkened.

The roar of the engine came from far and near, suddenly arriving. In Liang Huan’s puzzled eyes, a large bouquet of flowers emerged from the car window, with a black ring placed in the middle. The dragon scales on it were exactly the same as the tattoos on Li Yao’s back.

“I was originally thinking of giving it to you after I subdued the Military Department, but I couldn’t help but buy a bouquet when I passed by the flower shop just now and saw that their flowers were blooming so beautifully.” Li Yao opened the car door and got out, stuffing the large bouquet of flowers into Liang Huan’s arms, cleared his throat and said, “Should I just propose while I’m at it?”

The rich fragrance of flowers rushed to his nose. It was indeed a very large bouquet of flowers, even a bit exaggerated. Although Liang Huan had been in the New Era for many years, sometimes he still couldn’t understand these human beings’ suddenly emerging whimsical ideas.

Li Yao picked up the ring and knelt on one knee in front of him, his sharp and arrogant features dyed with a gentle smile: “Your Majesty, are you willing?”

Before he could finish speaking, he was grabbed and pressed against the car door, followed by a very fierce and grim kiss. Liang Huan familiarly touched his back, held his spine, and invaded his territory domineeringly, unlike his previous deliberate and slow manner, not even giving him time to breathe or react, and pressed him into the car.

The following development was slightly different from what Li Yao had imagined. After all, according to Liang Huan’s consistent style, he should smile and agree and then give him a gentle farewell kiss.

Instead of pressing him in the car and doing whatever he wanted in broad daylight.

The brand new combat uniform was torn into a mess, the heavy military boots were against Liang Huan’s waist, the shirt was piled up in the car seat full of wrinkles, crushed under his knees by the suit pants. Li Yao bit fiercely on his shoulder, and then he was held by the back of his neck again, forcing him to look up and kissed his lips.

“What did you come back for?” He asked Li Yao.

Li Yao suppressed his gasping and smiled through gritted teeth: “I came back to propose, not to… fuck, be gentle—Liang Huan!”

Liang Huan’s expression sank: “Tell the truth.”

Li Yao frowned, the hair on his forehead was a little damp from the heat. He left several marks on Liang Huan’s back while cursing, and blood was drawn because he couldn’t control his strength: “Afraid that you’d cry, so I’d come back to coax you before leaving… won’t that work?”

Liang Huan lowered his head and gently rubbed the scar on the bridge of his nose with the tip of his nose. It was a warm and rough touch: “I have never cried, but you cry at the drop of a hat.”

Li Yao was instantly furious: “When have I ever cried?”

Liang Huan lowered his head and kissed Li Yao’s moist eyes and the slightly red skin around them: “Now.”

“Good evening, residents. Today is Saturday, March 2, 138 of the New Era. Tonight in the Eastern Third District, there will be light rain turning to cloudy, the temperature is 22°C, light breeze, radiation index is 2.13KGUT, suitable for traveling…”

Someone accidentally touched the broadcast button in the car.

Outside the car, the flowers that were casually placed on the ground were in full bloom. A drizzle was falling in the sky. The back door of the mercenary base was sparsely populated, leaving only a dim street lamp and a silver hover car under the lamp. The hazy light softened the sharp contours of the car, along with the gentlest farewell of early spring.

This year was 138 of the New Era, one hundred and two years after humans were locked out of their coordinates by heteromorphs.