After the military personnel launched a response, the Turan Academy's ineffective defense system was activated again. The transparent light film was like a big umbrella, covering the entire academy, and then gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.
Qi Yan's feet were numb from squatting, and when he stood up, Lu Fenghan pulled him and he barely avoided falling.
Lu Fenghan looked around. The trees were lush and green. Next to the white sculpture, the water columns of the fountain changed successively. It was impossible to tell that this place had just experienced an attack and explosion.
He asked Qi Yan: "Where to go now?"
"I want to go see how the principal is doing." Before, we only knew that the principal had a broken arm, and there was no time to confirm whether he had any other injuries.
In the improvised meeting room, the principal saw Qi Yan approaching and asked worriedly, "How are you?"
After saying that, he took another look at the man following behind Qi Yan, guessing that the other person should be the one protecting Qi Yan's safety.
The man stood in a casual posture, but his aura was restrained, his body was as deep as an abyss. After entering the room, he always stood within two steps of Qi Yan - a distance that allowed him to react immediately and protect Qi Yan no matter what happened.
Qi Yan shook his head: "I'm fine, you're more seriously injured than me."
"It's not a big deal. The treatment robot has checked it. It's just a simple fracture and bruise. After I finish dealing with things here, I will go home and rest for two days. I will be free and flexible again." As he said this, the principal couldn't help but look out the window.
The originally simple and elegant building has turned into a ruin.
Qi Yan followed his gaze and said, "Your office is gone."
"We can rebuild the office if it's gone, but it's a pity to lose those books on my bookshelf! They are all unique copies!" The principal looked distressed, "If I had known this would happen, I should have put them in the safe!"
Perhaps before this, no one expected that the defense system of Turan Academy would suddenly fail. Or, in other words, no one expected the rebels to take action in Leto.
Qi Yan didn’t know how to comfort her, so he just stood there quietly without saying anything.
Military personnel were walking around in the corridor outside, and reports such as "the launch location of the light pressure bomb has been confirmed" could be vaguely heard.
After mourning the destruction of the orphan book, the principal turned his gaze to Qi Yan and asked him, "Are you scared?"
Qi Yan carefully recalled the scene of the explosion and shook his head: "I'm not scared."
The principal asked, "Why? If we were sitting close to the glass wall in the explosion, we might have been killed by the scattered glass fragments the moment the wall exploded. Or, if you didn't make a quick decision to leave before the light pressure bomb arrived, we would have been blown to pieces like that building."
He repeated to confirm: "Are you really not afraid?"
Qi Yan still shook his head: "I have always been mentally prepared, so I am not afraid."
At this time, a military officer came over and told the principal: "The question you just asked has an answer." He said solemnly, "At the same time, a total of 21 similar attacks occurred in the four regions of the alliance."
The principal's lips curled slightly: "What is the specific situation?"
"Three researchers were seriously injured, and five were slightly injured. Fortunately."
Fortunately, there were no deaths.
The principal finally let out a sigh of relief.
After everyone left, the principal smiled bitterly: "The rebels really played a good chess game. Such a large-scale attack will definitely not be concealed. The media and Starnet will be in an uproar for a long time."
Qi Yan nodded: "Their purpose is very clear. Naturally, the larger the scope and the more attention it gets, the better."
The principal nodded slowly. "Tell me, nowadays, has the equation 'being a researcher = death' been established in most people's minds?"
Qi Yan did not answer this question, but simply said: "But there are some things that you cannot not do even if you may die at any time."
The tone was calm, yet firm.
Lu Fenghan, who had been standing behind Qi Yan, leaning against the wall and listening to their conversation quietly, raised his eyelids and glanced at Qi Yan.
Soon after leaving Turan College, all the news headlines were related to this attack. The Leto Daily even had the attack on the front page, with a line of bold black letters taking up the entire page.
Qi Yan didn't go out for several days. He was either reading a book or sitting on the windowsill, staring out the window in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Lu Fenghan had to worry, staying at home every day, was he bored? Just like before, when he was floating in space with a starship for more than half a year, he would also find an opportunity to land on a planet and take a walk.
After pouring a cup of warm water and handing it to Qi Yan, Lu Fenghan suggested: "Do you want to go out for dinner tonight? Is there anything you want to eat?"
Qi Yan took a few seconds to focus on the question he was thinking about. He took the cup of water and pointed out, "The day I met you was the first day I returned to Leto."
So I have no idea what Leto has to eat.
"Do you have any requirements for where to eat?"
Qi Yan thought for a moment and said, "Quiet, few people, no noise."
In view of the results of his observations over the past few days, Lu Fenghan automatically added fresh ingredients, delicious dishes, elegant environment, and no service robots after these three criteria.
After a thorough screening, only a few restaurants met the standards - there are only a handful of restaurants that are not equipped with service robots.
Lu Fenghan chose the nearest one: "Let's go and eat."
The black modified hover car drove along the fast lane all the way, leaving only a faint afterimage on the road, and finally braked critically and parked accurately in the parking space.
There was a big red hovercraft parked next to it. Qi Yan looked at it through the window for two seconds.
The car door slid open, Qi Yan stepped on the ground, and heard someone calling him: "Qi Yan?"
Qi Yan looked over.
Red jacket, black ripped jeans, and three skull metal rings on the earlobes.
"Xia Zhiyang."
Xia Zhiyang had a baby face and a bright smile. He walked a few steps closer and said, "I was just telling my friend that the car was driven so fiercely, and the braking technique at the end was really amazing. So I waited a little to see who got off the car, but I didn't expect to run into you!"
He saw Lu Fenghan coming down from the driver's seat and asked Qi Yan, "Are you guys coming to eat too?"
Qi Yan nodded: "Yes."
Xia Zhiyang scratched his head: "My friend and I too. If you don't mind, let's go together. He is also from Turan College." As he said that, he pointed to the person who got off the car nearby.
Qi Yan didn't care. To him, whether there were two or four people, it was just a meal.
The group sat down in a private room, which was elegantly decorated. Under the holographic projection, countless burning candles floated in the night sky, magnificent and peaceful.
Xia Zhiyang introduced her first: "This is Qi Yan, the Qi of prayer and the Yan of language. She will be with us at the beginning of the school year and will be a sophomore at Tulan College."
When the other person heard this, he immediately understood that his surname was Qi. It seemed that this was the young master of the Qi family who left Leto more than ten years ago and went to live with his grandparents in the Messier area.
Xia Zhiyang continued to introduce: "He is my good brother, his name is Chen Mingxuan, he is a sophomore, and like me, he is majoring in artificial intelligence."
Chen Mingxuan looks a bit mixed-race, seems to be used to smiling, has a gentle expression, and seems easy to get along with.
Qi Yan greeted: "Hello."
The dishes they ordered had not yet arrived, and several people were chatting. Xia Zhiyang asked Qi Yan a few questions about the situation in the Messier region, but no matter what the topic was, Qi Yan's answers were very concise. Chen Mingxuan was tactful and saw Qi Yan's cold personality. After expressing his closeness, he did not pull Qi Yan to talk more.
As they chatted, the topic naturally turned to the explosion at Turan College.
"As soon as the news came out, the Star Network exploded! I was playing games when I suddenly saw the whole screen saying that the principal was injured and the entire office building was blown up." Xia Zhiyang sighed, "I heard that after this, Turan's protection system will be upgraded to the next level. When the principal recovers from his injury and returns to school, it will be much safer."
Chen Mingxuan nodded: "The principal will definitely return to school. If the principal of Turan dares not show up because of fear, where will the face of the alliance and the military be?"
"There have been more than 20 explosions this time, and all the regions have become sieves. How can the Alliance and the military still have face?" Xia Zhiyang sighed again, "The rebels are so abominable! However, the top 10 to 20 people on the blacklist are basically code names, and their real names cannot be confirmed. The rebels can't find anyone, and they don't even know whether the code name is one person or a group of people. They must be very worried!"
Chen Mingxuan: "It's not necessarily a sieve, but there is news that this time there was a traitor inside. The incident has become so serious that the military will definitely clean it up from top to bottom."
Xia Zhiyang leaned back in his chair and spoke in a long tone, "I don't know when the military will be able to be more powerful and wipe out all the rebels. When the time comes, I must find out whether the code name 'Y', the number one on the blacklist, is actually one person or a group of people!"
When he mentioned this name, his expression became excited and he sat up straight. "Isn't the letter y a common one? But no one dares to have the same name as him! How can a mortal dare to have the same name as a god? Three years ago, the code name 'y' came out of nowhere and directly topped the blacklist. In the past three years, it has been ranked first on the blacklist! The reason why I gritted my teeth and memorized the books and begged my father to spend money to send me to Turan was to get closer to God Y!"
"Don't go crazy when you mention God Y. You have a good idea. We have to wait and see the situation on the front line." Chen Mingxuan shook the drink in his cup and thought, "My dad talked to me again a few days ago and asked me to change my major. He said that it is too unsafe to do scientific research now. If I am not careful, I will lose my life."
Xia Zhiyang laughed so hard that his chair almost flipped over. "I'm not saying anything, Mingxuan. With your poor grades in the final exams, you won't be able to get the last place on the blacklist even if you do scientific research for the rest of your life! Tell your dad that he's worrying too much!"
Chen Mingxuan laughed and scolded: "Get lost!"
Qi Yan held a glass of ice drink in his hand, his fingertips soaked in the coolness. He thought, this is probably what the principal meant. In most people's minds, the equation "being a researcher = death" has already been established.
The topics that Xia Zhiyang and Chen Mingxuan talked about were very broad, ranging from Leto's eating, drinking and entertainment, to the latest breaking news, to all the gossips in the social circle.
"By the way, I received an invitation from the Qi family two days ago, saying that they were going to hold a celebration party." Xia Zhiyang knew that Qi Yan didn't live in the Qi family, so he asked carefully, "Will you go?"
Qi Yan recalled what Qi Wenshao had mentioned during the previous call and said, "I'm not going."
"Then I won't go either," Xia Zhiyang nudged the person next to him with his elbow, "Mingxuan, what about you?"
Chen Mingxuan raised his eyebrows: "Celebrating Jiang Qi's admission to Turan College? You can imagine that. Who of you or me would want to hold a celebration banquet after entering Turan? Jiang Qi is the only one who has so many things to do. He wants to make everyone know about the smallest things. If you don't go, I will play games with you later."
They said this mainly to express their stance in front of Qi Yan.
From their point of view, Qi Yan had not been in Leto before, and Jiang Qi was the child brought into the Qi family when Jiang Yunyue married Qi Wenshao. He could barely be called the young master of the Qi family. Now that the real young master is back, Jiang Qi naturally has nothing to do with it.
Feeling that he was on the same side as Qi Yan, Xia Zhiyang pretended to clear his throat and couldn't help asking, "Qi Yan, what is that?"
He pointed at Lu Fenghan with his eyes.
Since getting off the car, he noticed that this man had been following Qi Yan and had no intention of greeting them at all.
After entering the box, Qi Yan didn't introduce himself, and he was too embarrassed to ask.
Now that I feel that our relationship is closer, I won't be so presumptuous, so I asked.
Qi Yan turned his head and looked at Lu Fenghan.
Lu Fenghan sat with his long legs apart, his hands in his pockets, his chin raised towards Qi Yan, and smiled: "I will protect his personal safety."
Xia Zhiyang yelled, "Qi Yan, where did you find the bodyguard?"
He is tall, has long legs, a good-looking face, and an extremely intimidating aura. Although his muscles are not too eye-catching, they clearly contain great explosive power.
There was a faint aura of Xia Zhiyang that was unfamiliar to him.
This made him subconsciously shrink slightly, feeling a little scared for some unknown reason.
Qi Yan replied: "I picked it up on the roadside."
Thinking that Qi Yan didn't want to reveal this person's background, Xia Zhiyang made up a random excuse, so he didn't dare to ask further. Chen Mingxuan at the side interrupted at the right time: "By the way, I heard that Mengge will also attend the Qi family's celebration banquet."
Xia Zhiyang: "Mongge? In order to create momentum and scene for his adopted son, Qi Wenshao has spent a lot of money!"
Qi Yan noticed from the corner of his eye that when he heard the name "Monger", Lu Fenghan raised his eyes, his expression changed slightly, but as if he was hiding something, he became nonchalant again.
Qi Yan asked: "Who is Monger?"
Xia Zhiyang replied: "He is a military man who has been in charge of connecting with the front line. According to inside information, his position will be promoted soon."
After saying this, he was a little worried that Qi Yan would be sad.
It was rare for a family to be so partial to each other. He wondered whether he should go with Chen Mingxuan and take Qi Yan to do something interesting to relax on the day of the celebration banquet.
Chen Mingxuan saw that Qi Yan was interested in Mengge, and continued Xia Zhiyang's words: "However, since the great defeat on the front line, his situation in Leto has been a bit difficult. It is hard to say whether his position can be promoted."
Lu Fenghan did not interrupt.
The army confronting the rebels on the front line of the Southern Cross Region does not belong to the Fourth Army of the Alliance in the Southern Cross Region, but to the Central Army, with the number of Expeditionary Force.
For this reason, Leto has a special department responsible for liaising with the front line.
But the department is in an awkward position.
For the expeditionary army, it is located in Leto and is naturally under the command of the Central Army. For the Central Army, it is the mouthpiece of the expeditionary army and stands on the side of the expeditionary army. A big victory on the front line is fine, but once a defeat is suffered, it will definitely be looked down upon everywhere.
The reason why Lu Fenghan had an impression of this man named Monge was because his adjutant had mentioned him several times in front of him.
Thinking of this, the adjutant's dying scream rang in his ears again, blood seeping from his throat: "Commander, something must have gone wrong... Our jump point has been exposed. The enemy can't have foreseen it and ambushed outside the jump point in advance!"
Yes, how is it possible to predict the future
Everything that seems impossible may be true.
If it weren't for the prophecy—
It can only be man-made.
At this moment, Qi Yan sensitively noticed that Lu Fenghan's aura became extremely cold, like a ferocious beast lurking in the dark in the jungle, quietly gathering strength.
Qi Yan lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, and said to Xia Zhiyang, "I'll be there."
Lu Fenghan's gaze suddenly turned to Qi Yan.
Xia Zhiyang was stunned: "Celebration banquet?"
"Well, a celebration banquet."
Xia Zhiyang and Chen Mingxuan looked at each other.
Qi Yan had just returned, was unfamiliar with the place, and was about to enter the enemy's lair...
Thinking of this, Xia Zhiyang felt a strong sense of responsibility in his heart: "Then we will go with you! By the way, the Qi family's chefs are good, let's go and try them."
There were more than a dozen dishes ordered for this meal. Qi Yan picked and chose and barely found two that he could eat. He was the first to put down his chopsticks.
After observing for a while, Lu Fenghan’s understanding of Qi Yan reached a new level.
Too sweet, don't eat. Too spicy, don't eat. Too hot, don't eat. Too sour or salty, don't eat.
Oh, it’s too bland, I won’t eat it.
Lu Fenghan was a little curious. How did Qi Yan survive the past eighteen years
No wonder the wrist is so thin.
Before leaving, Lu Fenghan glanced at Qi Yan who had eaten almost half of the fried rice, and asked the waiter to notify the kitchen to make another portion and take it away.
Holding the lunch box, Lu Fenghan thought, if he eats so little, he can have it as a midnight snack if he gets hungry at night.