mynovelweb Chapter 226 Escape
Chapter 226 Escape
Hearing Yang Xiao's shout, Lu Yuan, who was pretending to be unconscious, immediately released the helicopter he had selected in his spatial storage. The seven people disappeared from the laboratory before the others entered.
"Holy crap! Which bastard ripped off my protective suit!" Yang Xiao remembered that Lu Xiaoyuan had said that there weren't many of this style of protective suit available, so as soon as they were teleported to the helicopter, he realized that his suit was wrong.
"Wait, are we sure we're not in the illusion anymore?" Ji Lang looked around. It was another helicopter, seemingly similar to the one they had taken to Beijing in the illusion before.
"Don't worry, we're out now. If I wasn't worried you wouldn't wake up, I would have run away with you all long ago." Lu Yuan's voice rang out behind the others as he drank milk tea he had taken out of his spatial storage.
"If everything before was fake, then what you said on the helicopter about accidentally returning to Earth from a black hole, was that true or false?" Pei Sihao turned to look at Lu Yuan.
“It’s true, those are my memories.” Lu Yuan nodded and continued, “It’s a scene from a naval battle in China thirty years ago. I thought I was going to die, so I told my partner about it.”
"The naval battle thirty years ago?" Everyone present, except Zhong Qiang and Yang Xiao, was very familiar with this battle, as it was a very important modern battle recorded in Chinese history.
Back then, China was on a peacekeeping mission when it was attacked by the navy of Country T, which was directed by Country M. Country T denied the attack, claiming it thought the Chinese peacekeeping forces were there to attack their country, which is why it opened fire. China, of course, couldn't tolerate this, and a small-scale conflict ensued.
What was initially thought to be a minor, deterrent battle turned into a sabotage by the US, who secretly attacked a Chinese fighter transport plane, nearly causing it to not return. Now it seems that Lu Yuan and his comrades were likely inside.
"No wonder, I always felt that helicopter looked different from the ones Lu Xiaoyuan usually used." Lin Yun then remembered that it was the "Fat Girl" transport plane from the textbook, which is now a thing of the past.
"Who knew we'd all survive?" Lu Yuan chuckled. "Actually, I just wanted to vent, but in the end, none of them believed me."
"So this person created these scenes by piecing together our memories. Then whose memories are those in the laboratory and the box?" Lin Yun looked around at everyone. After all, the only one among them who had seen the box in person was Gu Nanfeng, but Gu Nanfeng did not see the box in the laboratory.
“That’s probably his own memory.” Yang Xiao clicked his tongue. “He was an old Chinese man, I’m sure of that.”
"They call him Mr. Jim," Lu Yuan relayed the information he had overheard.
"So this Mr. Jim is the leader of the coalition government?" Zhong Qiang was a little annoyed. How come the leader of the bad guys turned out to be Chinese?
"Wait, in the interstellar era you mentioned before, the one led by our China is called the Republican Government, and the one led by the US is called the Federal Government?" Pei Sihao looked at Lu Yuan with a puzzled expression.
Lu Yuan didn't speak, he just nodded.
“Yang Xiao said before that there are many reborn individuals on the warships of this united government.” Pei Sihao then turned to Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao nodded in agreement.
"So, what is the relationship between this coalition government and the federal government?" Pei Sihao asked again.
“Now that you mention it, I’m reminded of something.” Lu Yuan suddenly put down his milk tea. “When the federal government was established, the republican government hadn’t been established yet. At that time, there was a high-ranking official in China who, I think, left the space station. But I don’t know who it was.”
"Whether this coalition government is related to the federal government or not is not important now. I remember Yang Xiao saying that the past lives of those people who came to talk to you were all somewhat different." Gu Nanfeng looked at Yang Xiao.
“Yes, and none of them are the same as my own past life.” Yang Xiao nodded.
“Hmm, I also overheard something that might be helpful to you.” Lu Yuan said, then picked up his milk tea, took a sip, and continued, “When I was pretending to be asleep in the lab, they said that Mr. Jim knew a lot of things they didn’t know.”
“We’ll go to the Beijing Research Institute first, and once we get the box, we’ll return to the base immediately. There are probably many things going on here that President Jiang hasn’t told us everything.” Gu Nanfeng shook his head. Before today, even if Jiang Xing had told him, he probably wouldn’t have believed him.
"I knew that old man was up to no good!" Yang Xiao's resentment towards Jiang Xing had not yet been resolved. He always felt that Jiang Xing, who had killed the regimental commander who saved his life and the entire regiment, was problematic, so he was sure that the old man would never be a good person in this life.
"Shall we go to the Beijing Research Institute first?" Lu Yuan looked at everyone, after all, he was just a driver now.
"Yes, only by obtaining the final version of the drug can we accelerate vaccine development; there's no doubt about that." Ji Lang, Gu Nanfeng, Lin Yun, and Pei Sihao all agreed on this point.
"When will Lu Xiaoyuan be able to come back?" Faced with this result, Yang Xiao had no choice but to second the decision, no matter how unwilling he was, since he didn't know when his only "comrade-in-arms" would be able to wake up.
With Ji Lang and Lin Yun around, Lu Yuan didn't need to reset the flight path in the space. So he sat in the last row of the helicopter and ate quietly, taking whatever he wanted. He hadn't had control of his body for a long time, so his appetite was very strong. He felt like he could eat an elephant.
"You gave the spatial ring to Lu Xiaoyuan, wasn't it to stop the virus outbreak?" Yang Xiao moved closer to Lu Yuan in the last row.
“No, I’ve lived for so long. I can live anywhere, on Earth, in interstellar space.” Lu Yuan’s answer surprised Yang Xiao, and even Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao, who were sitting in front of them, did not expect it.
"Then why..." Pei Sihao turned to look at Lu Yuan.
"It's because of the principle of uniqueness. I was absorbed by him, and I no longer exist. So the space naturally becomes his." Lu Yuan said, while swatting away Yang Xiao's hand that wanted to eat his snacks.
"I..." Yang Xiao never imagined that one day Lu Yuan would not give him food, and he looked at him in shock.
"Your rations are all over there." Lu Yuan pointed to a seat in the helicopter, where six backpacks were neatly arranged. Then, while eating a small steak he had taken out of his spatial storage, he calmly said, "I've been very generous."
After being unconscious for a day, everyone was very hungry. In addition, Lu Yuan had been eating all the time, which made the hunger even more pronounced. But now it was clear that Lu Yuan was not going to share the food with them, so they could only take the bag that Lu Yuan had prepared. Having some dry food was better than having nothing at all.
"You're so stingy!" Yang Xiao, having retrieved his backpack, saw that the two bottles of mineral water inside were frozen solid, along with two or three compressed biscuits. He glared indignantly at Lu Yuan and shouted, "Give me back my Lu Xiaoyuan!"