Chapter 5

"Where is Lan Xiaobu?" The first thing Su Cen did after arriving at the classroom the next morning was to look for Lan Xiaobu.

In the past, Lan Xiaobu was no different from other classmates in her eyes. Since she brought Lan Xiaobu back yesterday, she had a strange feeling, as if she and Lan Xiaobu were a married couple, although this feeling was absurd.

If it were just an absurd feeling, it would be fine, but her dreams last night were all about Lan Xiaobu. She saw herself and Lan Xiaobu surviving together in a not-so-big city. She saw herself suffering from a terrible illness, and Lan Xiaobu going out to perform surgeries day and night to earn money for her treatment...

She saw Lan Xiaobu, who was only in his thirties, working so hard for her that he looked like a man in his sixties. Perhaps her illness had not yet been cured, but Lan Xiaobu had already died on the operating table. She could no longer bear it, struggled to get up, and then rushed out of the protective city...

What was the protective city? Why did she and Lan Xiaobu have to hide in the protective city? What were they protecting?

Su Cen struggled in her sleep, unable to understand.

Although it was still a bit cool in early autumn, Su Cen woke up in a cold sweat and could not fall back asleep for the rest of the night. She and Lan Xiaobu had never had any interaction before. If it had been another classmate, she, as the class president, would have comforted them as well. But this dream was too terrifying, as if it were real.

So, when she arrived at the class today, the first thing she did was to look for Lan Xiaobu, even though she didn't know why she was looking for him.

The classmates who arrived early were all surprised to see Su Cen looking for Lan Xiaobu. Why was she looking for Lan Xiaobu so early in the morning?

The counselor's voice came from the door, "Lan Xiaobu has dropped out. I was just about to ask what happened."

Lan Xiaobu dropped out? All the classmates were shocked. It was so hard to get into medical school, and Lan Xiaobu had excellent grades. Why would he drop out? Was it because of Xue Dongjian's humiliation yesterday? If so, wasn't Lan Xiaobu too fragile?

Su Cen was stunned and said after a while, "Even if he's dropping out, it should take some time to process the paperwork. Where is he?"

The counselor rubbed his forehead, "I don't know what happened. He just sent me a message saying he dropped out and didn't ask for any procedures. When I called him, his phone was already off."

"Where is Lan Xiaobu from?" Su Cen asked, unwilling to give up.

"You don't need to go to his home. I don't think he will go back. Do you know the Lan Song Group...?"

The counselor didn't need to say more; everyone knew Lan Xiaobu's background. Ten years ago, the giant corporation in China was the Lan Song Group.

Unfortunately, such a giant company, for unknown reasons, fell into internal strife and was completely destroyed in just two years. Apart from a few people who fled overseas, the rest either disappeared or were imprisoned. Those who survived were likely driven mad by debt.

It was truly unexpected that Lan Xiaobu was once the young master of the Lan Song Group. Could the young master of the Lan Song Group still be doing well?

Regardless of whether Lan Xiaobu was the descendant of the Lan Song Group's leader, in the Lan Song Group, anyone surnamed Lan could be called a young master.

...

Lan Xiaobu had already left Haiyang and was sitting on a train heading to Tingjiang.

Tingjiang was Lan Xiaobu's hometown, where he and his mother had lived for seven years. After he was admitted to the Haiyang Medical University's Young Talent Program, his mother left Tingjiang and never returned.

He had often thought that if he hadn't been admitted to the Young Talent Program, his mother wouldn't have left Tingjiang. Unfortunately, he was reborn at eighteen, not fourteen.

This time, he had a very clear goal: to take the UFO and never return to Tingjiang. Before leaving, he wanted to take a handful of his hometown soil. Perhaps one day, when he was waiting for death in the vast universe, at least he would have a handful of his hometown soil with him.

After going to Tingjiang, Lan Xiaobu's next destination was Huzhou.

Huzhou was a very young city, established only twenty years ago. It was a city that rose due to tourism, and in just twenty years, its population had exceeded four million.

Lan Xiaobu chose Huzhou mainly because it was close to Kunlun Mountain. Besides having less air pollution, it would also be convenient for his actions.

Because of its proximity to Kunlun, the earth's energy in Huzhou would be more abundant a year later. This led to a sharp rise in housing prices, making it more expensive to buy a house here than in coastal cities.

It took twelve hours to travel from Haiyang to Huzhou. The first thing Lan Xiaobu did after sitting down was to open his old laptop and frantically download various martial arts techniques from the internet.

These martial arts techniques were likely a mix of real and fake, but he downloaded them anyway.

In a short time, Lan Xiaobu downloaded over twenty internal breathing techniques, including the Yi Jin Jing, Chunyang Wujigong, and the Sixteen-Section Brocade. Various boxing and kicking techniques were also queued up for download. Even if he had to pay, he recharged without hesitation.

A sudden, intense cough from the opposite seat made Lan Xiaobu, who was immersed in searching for various techniques, look up. The person sitting opposite him was a middle-aged man, who was covering his mouth and coughing.

Lan Xiaobu sighed and frowned slightly. There were too many lung diseases caused by breathing these days. The reason why medicine was so popular now was because the sky was terribly polluted. Endless dust and haze made it impossible to find a place on Earth where one could breathe freely.

Seeing Lan Xiaobu frown slightly, the middle-aged man hurriedly apologized, "Sorry, sorry, it's an old problem, cough, cough..."

Lan Xiaobu smiled, "It's okay."

This bronchitis and pneumoconiosis caused by dust pollution, Lan Xiaobu had developed a massage technique that could cure it in just seven sessions with a few herbs. However, he didn't say anything. The man wouldn't believe him, and he couldn't make the man stay with him for seven days.

The middle-aged man smiled apologetically again and put on a mask. Even with the mask on, he still coughed from time to time.

Previously, Lan Xiaobu was focused on searching for various techniques online and didn't pay much attention to the middle-aged man. Now, as he closed his eyes to rest while the computer continued downloading, he felt something was off with the man's coughing.

Soon, Lan Xiaobu confirmed that the man was faking the cough.

In his previous life, he had seen countless patients and all kinds of symptoms. He had seen too many cases of coughing caused by breathing. He could easily tell when someone was deliberately coughing.

Why would a healthy person pretend to cough? Lan Xiaobu subconsciously glanced at the middle-aged man and sensed a faint aura of violence.

In his previous life, Lan Xiaobu had seen too much killing and violence. He was confident he hadn't misjudged. This middle-aged man was not an ordinary person and had definitely killed before. Just as he thought this, the man suddenly asked, "Are you a student?"

Lan Xiaobu smiled, "Just graduated, preparing to look for a job in Binan."

Lan Xiaobu's destination was Huzhou, and to get the UFO from Kunlun Mountain, he didn't want anyone to know his whereabouts. The man's fake cough made him even less willing to talk to him.

"Which school did you graduate from?" the middle-aged man continued.

"Jincheng University of Technology..." After saying this, Lan Xiaobu thought for a moment and added, "My name is Shang Wei, and I graduated from the Department of Physics and Electronics at Jincheng University of Technology."

Lan Xiaobu felt that if he didn't clarify, the man would keep asking. This was a gut feeling and experience, so he decided to be completely honest.

Shang Wei was the one who found the UFO in his previous life, took it away from Earth, and ultimately brought disaster to the planet. Facing this man with a hint of violence, Lan Xiaobu felt no remorse.

However, after saying this, Lan Xiaobu was a bit stunned. Shang Wei was in the field of physics and electronics, while he was in medicine. If opening the UFO required knowledge of physics and electronics, he would be in trouble even if he found it.

Thinking of this, Lan Xiaobu was startled. Regardless of whether the UFO required knowledge of physics and electronics, he had to study during this time.

The middle-aged man praised, "That's a good major, very good. I have something here that probably requires knowledge of physics to study. It's useless to me. Since we met, it's a matter of fate. I'll give it to you."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out an ancient wooden box and handed it to Lan Xiaobu.

What does this mean? Giving something to a stranger? Lan Xiaobu was still puzzled when the man pushed the wooden box into his hands and closed his eyes, saying, "I'll take a nap, cough, cough..."

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