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Chapter 217 Is Lu Mingfei pursuing zero?
The discipline of the Moniach can be summarized in one point:
On board, you must obey the captain's orders and commands. The logistics medics only do medic work and don't care whether you're the principal's illegitimate son or not...
It turns out that Manstein didn't think the ship needed any medics; he assumed Gu Ran was just a trainee sent by the principal to gain experience...
Gu Ran was too lazy to explain.
After seeing Professor Manstein off, he stood on the deck, enjoying the winter wind and the scenery near the Three Gorges.
After a while, the four students from the student council who were working underwater emerged from the water one by one and began to leave the surface.
Nono, Caesar, and Zero leaped from the ship's side and easily jumped onto the deck.
Only Lu Mingfei remained huddled in the water, repeatedly saying, "It's so cold, I don't want to get out!"
Diving in winter is a very uncomfortable experience; it's very cold when you enter the water, and it requires a lot of willpower.
Then, after finally getting used to the water temperature and warming up, you feel cold again when you get out of the water...
Today's temperature is between 3 and 8 degrees Celsius.
"Hey, I've prepared a hot beef tallow hot pot. Would you like to come up and have a bowl of beef soup?"
Gu Ran descended the rope ladder to the water's surface and reached out to Lu Mingfei in the water.
"Brother, you've finally arrived!"
Lu Mingfei excitedly grasped Gu Ran's hand.
Seeing Gu Ran appear, Lu Mingfei felt like the British soldiers who had retreated from Dunkirk seeing a civilian ship that had come to pick them up.
Lu Mingfei quickly got out of the water, his body still wet, and tried to hug Gu Ran.
Fortunately, Gu Ran was wearing a leather jacket, so she wasn't afraid of getting wet, and she hugged him.
"Huh? Why are you using safety pins to secure your leather jacket's armband? Is that... ridiculous?" Lu Mingfei spoke his mind, criticizing her with righteous indignation.
"Stop talking about it, stop talking about it." Gu Ran covered her forehead, not really wanting to bring it up again.
Lu Mingfei went back to his room and took a hot shower to warm himself up before going to the restaurant with Gu Ran.
Then, he saw Gu Ran take out a portable gas stove and a divided hot pot from a huge backpack...
"There really is hot pot?" When they were in the water, Lu Mingfei thought Gu Ran was joking.
"You should at least have something hot to eat before you're executed, right?" Gu Ran joked.
"Pah, whose last meal are you going to eat? I'm a reserve member of Group B, I don't need to go into the water tomorrow! It's safe!" Lu Mingfei said.
Gu Ran just smiled and didn't say anything.
Pour the prepared beef broth and hot pot base into the pot, then turn on the heat and bring it to a boil. Soon, smelling the aroma of the beef tallow hot pot, Lu Mingfei swallowed hard.
Tonight is New Year's Eve, and Lu Mingfei understands that this is a New Year's Eve dinner specially prepared for him by Gu Ran.
He's actually been eating quite well on the ship these past few days; following Caesar, it's impossible for him to be eating poorly.
Every meal consisted of huge lobsters flown in from who-knows-where, as well as very high-grade Wagyu beef; we ate as much as we wanted.
However, if things continued like this, Lu Mingfei always felt that something was missing—the warmth and humanity of everyday life.
In particular, he felt quite awkward seeing his senior sister and Caesar sitting opposite each other, while he could only sit at another table.
Fortunately, he had the Russian girl Zero with him, so he didn't feel lonely.
The aroma of the hot pot quickly attracted the other people on the ship. Gu Ran took out the hot pot base and distributed it to everyone, and those who needed it could help themselves.
Of course, the New Year's Eve dinner is more lively when there are many people eating together, so they invited Caesar, Nono, and Zero to their table as well.
To project a friendly image, Caesar gladly took his seat, while Nono, who loved hot pot, was tired of eating lobster these days.
Mao Meiling didn't care; she just wanted to be able to eat with Lu Mingfei.
When having hot pot on the ship, be careful that the waves can cause the soup to spill out. However, the Moniahe has a deep draft, and the Three Gorges are calm tonight, so there is no need to worry about the waves.
Since they were still on a mission, no one drank alcohol.
The drinks Gu Ran brought them were pineapple beer, a non-alcoholic pineapple-flavored beer. It's called "beer" because it actually contains hops.
Nono really liked this unique drink with its pineapple flavor and malt aroma, and she blew it up like beer, wanting to toast with Zero.
Zero ignored her, and she went to drink with Caesar.
"Aren't you afraid of gaining weight?" Gu Ran teased. "What if you can't fit into the wetsuit?"
"What's there to be afraid of? The mission ends tomorrow!" Nono declared confidently. "Gaining weight is a matter for the day after tomorrow!"
Lu Mingfei quickly flattered Nuonuo, saying, "Senior is right, well done, senior!"
Ling also quite liked the drink and was about to take a sip when Lu Mingfei stopped her.
"This soda is too cold, drink less of it. Instead, have some hot pot broth to warm you up..."
Zero ignored him, but didn't drink any soda either; he just silently lowered his head and ate his hot beef.
After finishing the beef in her bowl, she looked up at Lu Mingfei, her noble gaze seeming to be giving a command.
Lu Mingfei immediately understood and added food to her bowl, putting high-protein foods like beef and shrimp paste into it.
He continued to fawn over Ling: "What else would you like to eat? I'll cook it for you, and I'll watch the fire for you!"
“Honeycomb tripe,” Zero said.
Lu Mingfei immediately put the tripe into the pot, cooked it, and then scooped it into Ling's bowl, just like a dutiful... hot pot restaurant waiter.
She picked up her chopsticks without any restraint, dipped them in the sauce, and ate in small bites, just like a refined young lady from a wealthy family.
This Russian girl has a stunningly beautiful face, skin as white as Siberian snow, and a slender and graceful figure. However, her chest hasn't grown yet, making her look like a middle school student. But the age she gave was actually over eighteen.
Lu Mingfei asked softly from the side, "Have you eaten enough? Would you like some more? But don't eat too much, it's bad for your health and can easily cause heartburn."
Zero shook her head: "This is enough for me."
"Alright then, don't stay on the deck in the wind after you finish eating. It's cold outside, so be careful not to catch a cold," Lu Mingfei said to Ling with concern.
That meticulous care was just like taking care of a daughter.
To outsiders, it might seem that Lu Mingfei was pursuing zero.
Lu Mingfei offered no explanation, letting the rumors fly.
Caesar then started chatting with Gu Ran, asking him about his battles against the next generation of beings.
Caesar has no experience fighting against the next generation.
Gu Ran said that he was just lucky at the time. If it weren't for that Dragon Slayer Sword, he probably wouldn't have made it to Kassel College and would have been done for.
The Italian nobleman didn't quite understand the meaning of GG, as it involved a knowledge gap. Lu Mingfei immediately stepped in to show off, then chatted with Gu Ran about StarCraft, and told everyone about how Nono had used Norma to cheat and win a game when she first contacted him.
"If it weren't for cheating, you really couldn't beat me, senior!" The game was Lu Mingfei's last act of defiance.
But Nono is also a strong-willed woman. How dare her own younger brother ride on her head and act arrogantly?
Can't stand it!
So the two agreed to fight again another time, so that she could practice her skills and win against Lu Mingfei fair and square.
The New Year's Eve dinner was finished in a relaxed and lively atmosphere.
……
Back in the cabin that evening, Gu Ran and Lu Mingfei shared a room.
Tomorrow's operation is scheduled for tonight; the daytime is for rest and recuperation.
So tonight they can stay up all night and watch the Spring Festival Gala together on Lu Mingfei's Alienware laptop.
At that moment, Guo Donglin and Niu Li's skit "It's Just a Matter of One Sentence" was being performed.
At the beginning of the skit, Guo Zi's friend called to say that his wife would be calling Guo Zi to check up on him later and hoped that Guo Zi could say a word to appease her.
Guo Zi agreed to his friend's request, which made his wife, Lili, suspect that he might be lying to her as well.
Guo Zi explained that it was just a matter of saying a few words; telling a white lie could help maintain harmony in someone else's family.
"It's just a matter of a word. A word can make things happen, a word can ruin things, and a word can create a harmonious society. Can't you be a little more positive?"
"If you use lies to verify lies, what you get will definitely be lies!"
The skit was full of hilarious lines, drawing cheers from the audience.
Lu Mingfei watched for a while, then suddenly asked Gu Ran beside him, "By the way, have you and Su Xiaoqiang had a fight recently?"
Gu Ran was watching the skit, shaking his head with a wry smile: "Do you really have to be so appropriate for the occasion?"
"As soon as you got back to school, Su Xiaoqiang contacted me again, constantly asking me about your daily life. But, well, I wasn't even at school, how would I know so much about you... Then she scolded me, 'Even pigs in a pigsty know they're going to die from stupidity, how come you don't know that?'"
Lu Mingfei covered his forehead, feeling both amused and exasperated as he repeated Su Xiaoqiang's words. However, he was used to being scolded by Su Xiaoqiang and didn't really care about her sharp tongue.
However, Lu Mingfei noticed that Su Xiaoqiang was asking Gu Ran far too many questions, such as how he was eating lately, whether he had lost weight, and whether he was happy...
She wouldn't have asked about these everyday things before; she would have asked Gu Ran directly instead of him.
He was initially puzzled, but this week, Su Xiaoqiang stopped contacting him.
Therefore, Lu Mingfei deduced that they might have had a fight.
As the saying goes, even dogs hate couples arguing, and even a wise judge can't settle family disputes. But these two people were his classmate for many years and his good friend and brother from Kassel College.
He thought highly of the couple, so he planned to help them if he could.
He asked Gu Ran, "Is there some misunderstanding between you two? Should I put in a word for you, although it might not be something that can be resolved with just a few words..."
"It's nothing, it's nothing, we just had a few words." Gu Ran smiled, but the smile seemed a little forced.
More than half a month has passed since the last incident, and the two of them haven't communicated much during this time.
Su Xiaoqiang should have already seen all the information about the Otherworld that was available.
Five days ago, Gu Ran took the initiative to send her a QQ message, hoping to talk to her.
He had originally planned to talk to her after she fully understood the dangers of the Otherworld.
However, Su Xiaoqiang showed no interest in talking to him.