novelraw Chapter 1077 778: What Year Is It Tonight?
Chapter 1077 778: What Year Is It Tonight?
Since Phoenix Mountain brought it up, Li Zheng certainly wouldn't be stingy.
He found a quiet place and spent half an hour guiding Phoenix Mountain to condense his first Spiritual Power Node.
For experts like Phoenix Mountain, spiritual power is not weak.
Especially since Phoenix Mountain is an oddity among experts.
This guy doesn't use anesthesia when he operates. If either his spiritual power or willpower is even slightly weak, he would have collapsed long ago.
"So it's this simple..." Phoenix Mountain opened his eyes, a glint flashing in them: "I thought it would be much harder. When Lu Li and the others described it to me before, it sounded pretty dangerous."
His understated attitude made Li Zheng quite unhappy.
"You think it's simple now, why didn't you learn earlier?" Li Zheng scolded: "Do you think everyone is like you, fighting recklessly without regard for life, of course, you don't feel the danger."
The kind of fight style Phoenix Mountain uses, swapping injuries for injuries, is rare even among the myriad races in the Outer City.
Sometimes, when facing a strong enemy, he's even daring enough to exchange his life for injury!
Surviving up to now is truly a miracle.
Other than calming down somewhat after confirming his relationship with Yan Guang, Phoenix Mountain usually lives life with his head hanging by a thread, having experienced the most dangerous scenes, let alone the hidden danger of condensing Spiritual Power Nodes.
"Alright then, I've achieved the main purpose of this trip, I'll head back to District Four and wait there for the brats to enter the Outer City." Phoenix Mountain waved his hand in farewell to Li Zheng: "Do pass on my regards to Lady Zhan. I won't say goodbye to her in person."
Watching Phoenix Mountain's departing back, Li Zheng saw a hint of relief on him, it seems the possibility of successfully cloning Yan Guang weighed heavily in his heart.
Li Zheng didn't know if Phoenix Mountain would consider this matter as the reassurance he gave him, but Phoenix Mountain had successfully found back his focus and hope in life.
This is a good thing.
Otherwise, with his reckless nature, without someone significant enough to anchor him down, he'd certainly encounter big trouble one day!
Returning to the Gravity Room, Ye Kai and the others were chit-chatting.
Mainly it was Ye Kai, Ye Yuan, and the professor talking, while Chu Xiao and Mirel listened on, with faces full of "What are you talking about? We don't understand! But it sounds impressive!"
Li Zheng went over and listened to a few exchanges, the discussions were mostly academic which he couldn't really follow...
"Huh? Where's Phoenix Mountain?" Chu Xiao noticed Li Zheng returned alone and his expression became ambiguous: "Isn't it Yan Guang coming back to life, and now he's accompanying his wife?"
Li Zheng looked at him with a gossipy face and snarked: "You use the smallest size in Technology Cup, you should ask fewer questions like this to avoid getting hurt."
Men... no, there's always a peculiar sense of competition among males regarding this topic, hearing Li Zheng expose his "shortcoming" in public, Chu Xiao's face instantly turned crimson, and he argued: "I was just curious, bought one to see, it doesn't mean I'm only that big!
On the contrary, I specifically bought the smallest size to avoid the temptation of using it!"
Ye Kai and others paused their chat, all giving him strange, quirky glances.
Chu Xiao flushed red, shouting: "I'm serious, believe me, okay? You have to believe me!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, really pitiful." Ye Yuan shook his head with pity.
"Tsk tsk tsk, really pitiful." Ye Kai followed suit.
"Tsk tsk... cough..." The professor wanted to jump on the bandwagon but got embarrassed midway.
Mirel, not knowing the context, quietly asked Li Zheng: "What is Technology Cup?"
"It's that thing that replaces the other thing." Li Zheng whispered an explanation and casually gestured how small the smallest size was.
After understanding, Mirel also showed a look of pity: "That's too small, it's not even one-tenth of yours!"
"I...!" Chu Xiao was speechless, could only cover his face and not continue the topic.
Fortunately, the professor was forgiving and came to his rescue: "I'm conducting research on your Water Blue Star Human Race, if convenient, can some of you assist me in doing an experiment? I want to gather some of your body data."
This...
Ye Kai and the two instantly collected their playful demeanor, exchanged glances, communicating silently.
This scene was in Li Zheng's line of sight, his previous suspicions about the trio were now thoroughly confirmed.
"Sorry, professor, we..."
Before Ye Kai could finish, Li Zheng took over: "They have urgent matters later, so they might not be able to assist in the research, but the ten people we discussed have already been fetched, they'll arrive in a few days. By then, you'll have ample samples to work with, no need to fuss over data from these two or three people."
"Too bad." Professor Rothschild didn't press: "I'll head to the control room to prepare, when you're done chatting, we'll start today's training."
The professor turned and walked into the control room, leaving space for Li Zheng and the others.
Upon hearing about training, Ye Kai prepared to take his leave: "Then we won't disturb you..."
"Don't be in such a hurry, I have something to ask you." A mysterious glint flickered in Li Zheng's eyes, stopping the trio's steps: "What year was it on Earth when you entered the Matrix?"
"It's 2023 in Water Blue Star Calendar." Ye Kai looked surprised: "It's just been so long, you don't remember?"
Ye Yuan laughed: "Once in the Matrix, every day feels like a year, it's normal to get confused."
"Exactly." Chu Xiao nodded in agreement: "If you hadn't brought it up, I'd have almost forgotten what year we're in."
Hehe!
Li Zheng's smile was a facade, the trio acted authentic, responding smoothly, seems they prepared beforehand.
However, they didn't pay attention to detail.
"Listen carefully." Li Zheng stressed his tone, repeating: "I asked about the year in the Gregorian calendar, not on the Water Blue Star!"
Ye Kai's face changed momentarily but quickly returned to a nonchalant expression: "What is Earth?"
Li Zheng looked at the trio and spoke indifferently: "Weren't you subconsciously correcting the Gregorian calendar with Water Blue Star Calendar just then? How come now you don't know what Earth is?"
Ye Kai and the group's eyes trembled with force: "!!!"
The air abruptly thickened for a moment, as they all stared at each other.
Everyone understood that the other side knew that they knew some things about each other.
Yet, none knew exactly what the other knew.
The atmosphere started to become somewhat delicate, the quick-witted ones had their brains spinning rapidly, guessing what the other side knew.
Only Ye Yuan yelled at Ye Kai in anger: "I told you, you screw things up, revealing things, huh!?"
Ye Kai felt disheartened: "It was a subconscious reaction, who knew he'd see through our identities?!"
Chu Xiao was rather composed: "You asked directly about the year in the Gregorian calendar, you figured out we aren't Water Blue Star inhabitants long ago?"
Indeed!
When did he find out?
Ye Kai and Ye Yuan also realized.
They considered themselves well-disguised, fully immersed among the Water Blue Star inhabitants, when did Li Zheng notice the flaw?
"You exposed yourselves not long after entering the Matrix." Li Zheng reminded with a smile: "Someone mentioned Earth in the world channel back then, although there were too many speakers at the time, others didn't notice, even I assumed everyone entering the Matrix was from Earth and overlooked it, so I pondered quite a while but couldn't recall who initially mentioned Earth.
In fact, what truly revealed your identities was when Ye Kai asked privately about a certain question late at night."
"What question?" Ye Kai was bewildered, he couldn't recall.
"Who is the author of Journey to the West?" Li Zheng inquired.
"Journey to the West's auth... What the!?" Ye Kai was horrified: "I stupidly directly messaged you at the time?"
"Damn!" Ye Yuan's face turned iron blue: "Do you have a pit in your brain? You actually asked him this?"
"I forgot the cultural difference issue, besides, you know he is also from Earth, I didn't think much of it." Ye Kai defended, yet Ye Yuan clearly wasn't accepting this excuse.
Chu Xiao took a deep breath, slowly speaking: "Since you've identified our Earthling identities, there's no choice."
Mirel stepped back a few steps, blocking the necessary path to the Gravity Room's door.