CH 75.1

Chapter 75.1 – One Year

The garbage incident shocked General Lu for a long time.

All of a sudden everything came together. He remembered Shi Yuan’s resentment when he saw that he had garbage in his hands, and he said over and over again that he would litter garbage. The combination of the two became a deafening sentence “Lu Tinghan, you have low quality!”

That night, the two of them slept together, and Lu Tinghan tried to explain to Shi Yuan beside him: “Shi Yuan, do you know that there is something called the “Abyss Pollutant Treatment Method”?”

Shi Yuan was concentrating on taking care of the scales on his tail: “I don’t know.”

Lu Tinghan explained: “Simply put, throwing the things polluted by the abyss back into the abyss to prevent further pollution is the most efficient way to deal with it.”

Shi Yuan: “Hmm.”

“In other words, at that time, I…those people threw the garbage at you because of the treatment method, not littering.”

Shi Yuan: ?

Shi Yuan thought for a while: “I remember it very clearly. You stood next to the watch tower, waved your hand, and the garbage came down.”

Lu Tinghan: “It’s because of the treatment method…”

Shi Yuan refused to let him go: “Did you plan this matter?”

Lu Tinghan: “……”

This… was really his suggestion.

Shi Yuan: “Did you direct them to take out the garbage?”

Lu Tinghan: “……”

He really commanded the scene.

Shi Yuan: “Besides, the garbage was not sorted – I understand now, when dry garbage and wet garbage are mixed together, it’s a mess, and it’s very unethical.”

Lu Tinghan: “……”

Who would segregate pollutants?

Shi Yuan looked at his expression and said categorically: “Look, aren’t you just littering?”

He continued to complain: “Lu Tinghan, I waited so long for you to come back to me. I like you so much, and you threw a few tons of garbage into my house. I cried all night. I got up in the morning and worked until night every day to bury them. After burying one wave, there’s still another wave, and I buried them for several years – if I hadn’t thrown back the garbage coming later, my home would have been full of garbage long ago.”

Lu Tinghan rubbed his eyebrows vigorously.

He remembered that when the garbage was thrown back by the black mist, the driver of the transport ship was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall out: not everyone in their driving career could experience getting garbage thrown back to them by the abyss.

Shi Yuan continued: “When I went through the garbage dump, I also learned a lot. I found several books that teach the Alliance language, and I followed them to learn how to speak.” He emphasized again, “But that’s no reason for you to throw trash at me! You really lack quality!”

Shi Yuan was so resentful, Lu Tinghan thought for two seconds, and came to a conclusion that was not difficult to draw with his clever mind: probably, he couldn’t wash it off with Shi Yuan.

At least not with language.

After a period of time, Lu Tinghan took the initiative and deliberately packed up the garbage in front of Shi Yuan, brought it in front of the housekeeping robot, and put it in.

Every time he touched the trash can and every time the garbage bag made a rustling sound, Shi Yuan would immediately wake up, sticking out his head from behind the sofa, in the corner, and on the edge of the table to observe in secret. His gaze would follow Lu Tinghan all the way, and when he saw that he had handed the garbage to the robot, he’d withdraw his gaze.

After going back and forth like this, Lu Tinghan asked Shi Yuan again: “Now you know I won’t litter, right?”

“It’s only temporary.” Shi Yuan was very vigilant, “It depends on your future performance.”

So Lu Tinghan continued to be responsible for all the garbage in the home.

And Professor Guan’s “Deep Dive” plan continued.

The research team observed Shi Yuan every day, trying to simulate the wavelength of his infection, but there was not much progress.

There was no other reason, mainly because Shi Yuan’s infection pattern was too special.

Professor Guan sighed for the nth time: “If only, if only it was still in the past. Now, our scientific research strength is already very weak. There are not enough manpower and equipment, and it is difficult for the education sector to sustain it. There are fewer and fewer resources for advanced education, and everyone is exhausted. Perhaps, we will soon run out of elite talent.”

He took off his glasses and wiped the lenses with a few scratches: “I haven’t brought students for many years, and the newcomers in the research center are almost gone. Any industry needs fresh blood, so knowledge could be passed on continuously to forge our civilization.”

Shi Yuan asked, “Then what should we do?”

He sat in a swivel chair in Professor Guan’s office and took a bite of his soybean cake.

Professor Guan sighed: “I don’t know either – I wish I knew.”

He packed up the information on the table, took a large stack in his hand, and said, “Shi Yuan, you are off work, go home.”

Holding the heavy materials like this, he walked down the white corridor of the research center, and there seemed to be a few more gray hairs.

In the search for the underground buildings of the Empire, there had been some progress.

The Alliance and the Empire had a long-standing feud, there had been times of peace, and there had been years of war.

Although most of the information between the two sides was hidden and not interoperable, they also had a good understanding of each other. Today, the Alliance had locked in two underground cities of the Empire – “Wesley” and “Speke”. These two cities were closest to the main city of the Alliance, and presumably, the buildings should be in very good condition.

In addition, the Alliance was also searching for the Empire’s wartime underground buildings.

Those secret buildings were designed for war and were a better choice than underground cities. As long as they could determine the location, it was worth a try.

Shi Yuan was very curious about the Empire and asked Lu Tinghan several times.

He asked: “Why did the Alliance and the Empire fight?”

“Because of different systems, different trends of thought, and different beliefs.” Lu Tinghan was helping Shi Yuan correct the Sudoku, and the pencil was slowly writing, rubbing against the paper, making a nice rustling sound. “There is a saying called ‘If you are not of my race, your heart will be different’. People always instinctively reject things that are different from themselves.”

Of course, Shi Yuan understood this truth. He just didn’t expect that there would be such friction between humans.

He asked Lu Tinghan a lot of questions again.

Lu Tinghan told him that the capital of the Empire was called Elton. It was once the largest military-industrial city in the world. With bronze and iron walls, and thousands of troops converging into a torrent of steel, which was much more fortified than the Iron City;

He added that the Empire was martial, cultivating military thinking from an early age, and that male citizens had to serve at the age of 21, which was completely different from the cultural system of the Alliance.；

He also spoke of a war between the Alliance and the Empire, the intrigues and the flames, and the money, manpower, and various resources that were thrown into it. There were big horns shouting slogans in the streets and alleys, broadcasting the situation of the war, or spreading hatred in a hoarse voice. At that time, no one expected that in just one hundred years, human civilization would soon turn into nothing.

Lu Tinghan couldn’t tell more details.

He said: “I haven’t experienced that era, that was… a long time ago. Many materials have also been destroyed.”