Chi Zhao looked at him and didn't speak.
Louis thought he was embarrassed, but he actually wasn't. Chi Zhao was conversing with the system in his mind.
"He looks like a really good person….."
[Yeah...]
"Last time I also thought that Li Yihan was a good person, but in the end Li Yihan....."
[Yeah...]
Chi Zhao fell silent again. Quickly changing his previous attitude, he turned away and said coldly, "Protecting me is what you should be doing. Don't expect me to give you my thanks."
No matter whether the protagonist is a good person or not, in any case, he just needs to play his antagonist role to the end. Don't even think about getting in his way!
System: "...…." The host is too obsessed, what to do? QAQ
Louis raised his eyebrows slightly. He silently gave Shao Ze'an a label.
Proud.
It seems that young masters all share such a common problem and it was also often shown in holographic movies. Louis used to look down on such a character, but after interacting with Shao Ze'an, he felt that this kind of person wasn't annoying and was even a little cute.
Louis very naturally took away the emptied packet of nutrient solution from his hands and then asked the question his aide wanted him to enquire about, "We found a large experimental device in Morris's laboratory. Do you know what that is?"
Chi Zhao subconsciously wanted ask him what the shape of it was but Morris who had been silent until now suddenly spoke up again, "Say you don't know. You didn't see anything because you were tied to the metal bed by me and couldn't move your head. You could only see the ceiling and some of the surroundings and there was nothing like that."
Chi Zhao repeated, "I didn't see any large equipment. I was tied up at the time and could only see a small part of the place. I didn't see anything apart from Morris."
Louis nodded in understanding, "I see."
Suddenly, Morris spoke again, "Get some more information out from him. Why is he asking this?"
Chi Zhao blinked a few times, "Mister Admiral, why are you asking me about this? Was there a problem with the laboratory?"
"We found some destroyed equipment." Louis replied, "It is not possible finding out their purpose for the time being, so I wanted to try asking you."
Seeing him frown slightly, Louis added, "It doesn't matter if you don't know. When we return to the main star, we will send it to the Royal Research Academy to be examined there."
Morris muttered thoughtfully, "If it's the Royal Research Academy....."
Chi Zhao: "...…."
Louis worked really hard. He immediately gave out all the information in one go. Chi Zhao suddenly understood why Morris wanted to send him back to the main star. It was because he was indeed very useful.
With a father who's an official, a brother who's a lieutenant general, a grandfather who was a retired admiral and a mother who monopolises the entire jewellery industry in the Empire as well as countless classmates who are children of high-ranking officials, Shao Ze'an was simply blessed which such excellent conditions. He was practically a big cheat plugin.
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Chi Zhao quietly looked over at Louis, "Mister Admiral, do you have anything else you want to ask me?"
Louis shook his head, "No. Also, you can just call me by my name instead of Mister Admiral."
Chi Zhao smoothly changed it, "Okay, Mister West."
Louis: "….."
He couldn't help but laugh, "Just call me Louis."
Chi Zhao felt that this way of referring was a little too intimate. In terms of relationship, they were still strangers.
Chi Zhao smiled slightly, "Okay then, Louis. In any case, it's great to be alive. I thought I was going to die. No one knew I was there; my parents had no idea and my classmates all ran off. By the way, was it my classmates who told you I was taken away?"
Louis was slightly surprised, "Your classmates?"
Chi Zhao nodded, "Yeah, I thought they had forgotten me, but luckily not."
Looking at the shallow dimples on Shao Ze'an's face, Louis finally noticed the strangeness in his words. He looked at Shao Ze'an seriously, "No, I didn't hear anything from your classmates. I saw you so I returned to save you. In fact, I can't be regarded as saving you since you were the one who saved me first."
Chi Zhao and the system both swore at the same time.
Morris continued to sit opposite a large screen, listening to their conversation while drinking tea like he was enjoying listening to an opera.
The shock they received only lasted a moment and Chi Zhao managed to quickly recover. Anyway, he shouldn't let this matter sit. The moment he is given the saviour title, no matter what he does in the future, he wouldn't be able to blacken himself completely.
Chi Zhao calmly shook his head, "You remembered wrong. I didn't save you."
Louis didn't understand why he said this. Chi Zhao calmly pointed out a flaw, "You thought I saved you probably because you found some of my genes on your mecha. In fact, I didn't do it with the intention to save you, but to save myself. At that time, I thought you were dead. You didn't have a heartbeat nor were you breathing after all. As an admiral, there must be a mecha on you. I wanted to use your mecha to escape but I later found out I couldn't open it with my spiritual power so I could only give up. Think about it, with my B-level spiritual power, how could I have activated your mecha?"
Louis hadn't thought of this problem. Because there was only the two of them there at the time, he had subconsciously thought that Shao Ze'an was the one who saved him. Hearing this now, he was also stunned, "Then how did I get back?"
Chi Zhao's expression didn't change. He continued to speak nonsense, "You activated the mecha by yourself. I originally wanted you to take me along but before I could say it, the rebels arrived and then you ran off by yourself. I think you did it all subconsciously and probably didn't know I was there. It's okay, in a situation like that, it's already difficult enough for you to escape. If you didn't, then I wouldn't have been saved, right?"
Louis looked at Chi Zhao in silence while Chi Zhao calmly looked back at him.
The room was very quiet. Chi Shao didn't know if he believed his words just now but just as he was about to add some more wood to the fire, he saw Louis stand up, "Let's talk about this later. I'll go see where we are now. You should rest up."
After saying this, Louis left without giving Chi Zhao a chance to say anything. Seeing his sudden change in attitude, Chi Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. He probably believed him.
After he left, Morris's voice sounded again, "Why did you say that?"
Chi Zhao answered naturally, "Because that is the truth. Why do you all think that I saved him? He is an admiral. Can a physique as trashy as mine save a mighty general like him?"
Morris: "….." That seems to make sense.
Morris didn't take those earlier words seriously. What made him believe him was because of the spiritual power. Indeed, how was it possible for Shao Ze'an who has a B-grade spiritual power to activate an S-grade mecha? That would be impossible, unless he suddenly levelled up then and there. At the beginning, he had thought that Shao Ze'an had levelled up and was still very vigilant but now that he knew that he was still the same useless young man, he felt relieved.
Morris went quiet, but this time Chi Zhao suddenly called out to him, "Morris."
Morris's tone raised slightly, "Young Master Ze'an, is something wrong?"
"I can be your spy." Chi Zhao said.
Morris laughed, "You couldn't be naïve enough to think that you still have a choice on this?"
Chi Zhao ignored those words and continued, "Whether or not I have a choice depends on you. I can be your spy but at the same time, I also want a certain degree of freedom. For example, when I am talking to others, I will not repeat your words exactly. You cannot see my surrounding environment, but I can. To ensure my own safety, I will make fine adjustments to your words."
Morris's expression fell. He didn't speak.
"I am willing to be your spy because I still want to live but your orders come out of nowhere and it sometimes puts me in a dangerous situation. I have to preserve my life first before I can help you acquire insider information. This is my request. You can make your choice."
"Oh, then Young Master Ze'an, what do you want me to choose?"
"The choice is to either agree with my request and continue to cooperate with me or to kill me now. If you don't agree, I won't be able to live long anyway. Whether it is dying in your hands or dying in the hands of others, what is the point of struggling? It's better to just end it quickly."
The hostility in Morris's voice grew stronger, "Aren't you afraid of dying?"
"I'm afraid, and that's why I am asking for your cooperation. If you think I am too bold, then just kill me and find yourself a second, more suitable spy."
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There was another moment of silence. Suddenly, Morris's laughter travelled over. He was laughing out loud. Chi Zhao who had never heard him act so unrestrainedly before couldn't help but frown. Once Morris laughed enough, he said emotionally, "Young Master Ze'an, you are more interesting than when you were a child. You have grown up very well. Your parents have been teaching you well. They should've raised you into one of the Empire's talents but in the end, they had cultivated an outstanding traitor."
The most important quality of the Empire was loyalty. Just hearing the words treason or betrayal left people with an unpleasant taste in the mouths. Chi Zhao listened calmly, indifferent to his mockery.
Finally, Morris decided, "Very well. I agree to your request, Young Master Ze'an. I hope you can bring us enough information."
Louis intuitively felt that Shao Ze'an was lying. His spiritual power was S-grade and his intuition was very accurate after all. But why would Shao Ze'an lie about this kind of thing?
Louis furrowed his brows as he walked out. He ran into his aide in the process, "Admiral, your injury has not completely recovered and still requires treatment. You have left it for many days now. Now that we are safe, you should lie down in the treatment capsule for a while..."
Before coming to Louis's side, the aide was also a big, strong man but right now, he felt like a nagging mother-in-law.
The aide felt a little depressed and what made him even more depressed was that the target of his mother-in-law character was still walking on as if he hadn't heard him. The aide could only accept his fate and open his mouth to persuade him again. Suddenly, Louis turned back and asked him without much of an expression on his face, "Do you know what Shao Ze'an's spiritual power is?"
"Yes." The aide replied quickly, "B-grade. The second grandson of Admiral Shao is an ordinary person, many people know about this. I also can't understand why. It is reasonable to say that the Shao family has a very powerful gene so Shao Ze'an shouldn't be too far behind but sometimes life plays its tricks. It may really be like what the experts said, combining strong with strong could really give birth to a low-level child. Isn't Madam Shao AA? She and her husband are both strong, so they gave birth to both extremes; a child who is SS-grade and an ordinary child…."
"Hey, admiral, where are you going?"
Louis left before the aide could finish speaking. The aide stood there silent for a while before finally deciding to call the military doctor over to get her to help him persuade the admiral together.
Louis returned to his personal room and sat in his chair. With his eyes lowered, he fell in thought for a long time before finally taking out his ring-shaped mecha.
The obsidian-like ring shone brightly in his hand. This mecha was indeed on that could only be opened by those of S-grade. Could it be that he had really saw wrong and felt wrong? Because he was poisoned, he had hallucinations?
Something like this was easy to judge. Although there is a possibility of levelling up, one couldn't leap to such an advanced level so quickly. Each person could only undergo this once in their lifetime and they can only advance by one grade at most but most advance by half a grade. Levelling up wasn't easy and ninety percent of people never get to level up in their lifetime. In the nearly ten-thousand-year history of the empire, there was only one person who had levelled up more than this and that was more than three thousand years ago. After that, this had not happened again.
Perhaps, he really had remembered wrong.