boyutpedia Chapter 14: The identities of the three Lu Xiaobais are revealed!
Chapter 14: The identities of the three Lu Xiaobais are revealed!
In front of the World Society building,
As soon as Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Lu Xiaobai came out, they saw Xu San and Xu Si leaning against the car smoking.
Clearly, they had been waiting for a while.
"Get in the car!" Xu Si stubbed out his cigarette and called out.
The group squeezed back into the car. The car started and merged into traffic.
Xu Si sat in the passenger seat and glanced at Zhang Chulan in the back seat through the rearview mirror.
With a smirk, he said, "Tsk, Zhang Chulan, you really don't know how lucky you are."
His tone was half-joking and half-serious: "So many people are desperate to join the World Society, and Chairman Feng values you so much, yet you're turning him away."
Zhang Chulan gave a wry smile: "Maybe I've become a bit abnormal since I've been following Bao'er around."
Upon hearing this, Xu Si paused for a moment.
His voice deepened: "The baby's situation is complicated; it can't be explained in just a few words. In a few days, I'll take you to meet someone, and then you'll understand everything."
After he finished speaking, he turned his head to the side.
His gaze fell on Lu Xiaobai, who was leaning on Feng Baobao's shoulder and seemed to be falling asleep.
"Tsk tsk tsk," Xu Si clicked his tongue again, with a hint of admiration.
"That guy Jia Zhengyu is considered a top expert in the world of supernatural beings... but in front of my Xiaobai, he's like a red bean bun."
He shook his head, as if talking to himself:
"But thinking about it, it makes sense. Compared to the more frightening things Xiaobai did before, Jia Zhengyu is really nothing."
Looking at Lu Xiaobai quietly dozing off next to Feng Baobao, Xu Si found it increasingly strange.
People do change, but Lu Xiaobai's changes in the past few days have been too rapid, so rapid that it's a bit baffling.
Xu San nodded silently, clearly agreeing.
The current Lu Xiaobai reminds them of the time when his father first brought him out of the orphanage.
Shy and wary, like a small animal.
As Xu San drove, he chatted with Zhang Chulan, intentionally or unintentionally circling back to Feng Baobao's past.
As Zhang Chulan listened, his eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.
at this time,
A piercing cell phone ringtone shattered the atmosphere inside the car. It was Xu Si's cell phone.
Xu Si glanced at the screen and answered casually, "Hey! Xiao Bai? What's up?"
The voice on the other end of the phone seemed to say something.
Xu Si frowned, subconsciously repeating, "What? Give the phone to 'the other me'? What are you doing...?"
Halfway through his sentence, he, Xu San, and Zhang Chulan in the car suddenly realized something was wrong—Lu Xiaobai himself was sleeping in the seat behind them!
A chill instantly shot from the soles of their feet to the tops of their heads.
"Holy crap! What the hell?!" Xu Si blurted out, his voice trembling.
……
As soon as the car came to a stop in front of the familiar villa, the people inside were frozen in their seats by the sight before them.
Two people stood quietly in front of the villa.
They look exactly alike!
It's all Lu Xiaobai's fault!
One of them was wearing a black jumpsuit, arms crossed, looking displeased.
When he saw Xu San's car arrive, he rushed forward without saying a word and suddenly opened the back door.
His gaze, sharp as a knife, shot towards Lu Xiaobai, who was desperately trying to shrink behind Feng Baobao, his tone filled with suppressed anger:
"What time is it? You still know how to come back?!"
Hiding behind Feng Baobao, Lu Xiaobai shrank back at the shout, his eyes filled with grievance as he looked at the other Lu Xiaobai standing outside the car, his eyes clearly conveying two words: "Help!"
Lu Xiaobai, who had been expressionless and always wearing the same white trench coat, glanced indifferently at the car from outside.
The scene before me was too bizarre.
Zhang Chulan, Xu San, and Xu Si were completely petrified, their minds seemingly frozen in shock.
"Am I seeing things? How... how come there are so many little white rabbits?" Xu Si stared blankly, like a wooden statue.
"Slap!" Xu San, who was next to him, raised his hand and gave him a chop to the back of the head.
"Ouch!" Xu Si winced in pain.
Why did you hit me?!
Xu San pushed up his glasses and said seriously, "Looks like it wasn't a dream. You can't feel pain in a dream."
"Are you sick in the head?!" Xu Si cursed, rubbing his head, too lazy to pay him any attention.
He simply pushed open the car door, walked a few steps to Lu Xiaobai, who had remained silent and had a cold expression, stretched out his arm and put it on Lu's shoulder, his roguish smile returning to his face:
"Wow, Little White! You've been hiding your skills! You've got some tricks up your sleeve! Tell me, how did you do that 'disappearing person' trick? Could you... make me two more?"
As Xu Si spoke, a somewhat lewd smile appeared on his face, a smile that most men would understand, clearly indicating that he was thinking about something unhealthy.
Lu Xiaobai rolled her eyes at him.
She shrugged off his arm and coldly uttered only two words:
"ill!"
After saying that, he turned around without looking back and walked straight into the villa.
"Hey! Don't go! If two aren't enough, one will do! Half... how about we consider half?"
Xu Si was still calling out from behind, but with a nostalgic smile on his face. "Tsk, this is the Xiaobai I know."
On the other side, Lu Xiaobai, dressed in a black jumpsuit and looking furious, grabbed Feng Baobao's hand without a word and dragged her into the villa: "Let's go, let's go back to do our experiments!"
Feng Baobao was quite compliant and let him pull her along.
Only Lu Xiaobai, the most timid one, who was huddled in the car, followed behind like a little tail.
"Xiaobai, don't keep the baby up too late, remember we have a mission tomorrow!" Xu San shouted at the backs of the two Lu Xiaobais.
His reply came in a clear, slightly impatient, and somewhat boyish voice:
"I know! It's so annoying!"
Watching the two "Lu Xiaobais" with different personalities disappear behind the door with Feng Baobao, they recalled what had just happened, the Lu Xiaobai in the white trench coat from their original memories.
Xu San and Xu Si exchanged a glance, finally realizing what was going on.
"I see..." Xu Si stroked his chin thoughtfully. "The other two... are they probably not how they were 'before'?"
That timid and somewhat cowardly version of myself.
And that... well, more lively and fearless version of myself?
Only after the villa door was still open did Zhang Chulan, like a machine that had stalled, finally restart. He stiffly turned his head, pointed in the direction of the door, and his voice cracked:
"Fourth...Fourth Brother?"
"What... what's going on?! Three newbies?! And... and each one of them is weirder than the last?!"
Xu Si chuckled and put his arm around Zhang Chulan's shoulder.
With a look that says, "You're too young."
"What's the rush? You'll get used to it! Our 'magician' is always coming up with something new and unusual; otherwise, it'd be like the sun rising in the west!"
"Come on, let's go in and see what's going on. It'll be more exciting than any TV drama!" He dragged Zhang Chulan, who was still in shock, inside.
Xu San didn't rush in after him.
He sat back in the driver's seat, rolled down the window, and shouted at Xu Si and Zhang Chulan, who were still struggling:
"Hey! Xu Si, remember to bring Xiao Bai to meet us at the West City Development Zone at 10 AM tomorrow!"
"Those Quanxing guys have been causing a bit too much trouble in that area lately; we need him to go check it out!"
He paused for a moment, looking at the brightly lit villa, from which he could faintly hear the lively voice of Lu Xiaobai. A hint of curiosity flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by exhaustion.
He sighed and started the car:
"I'm not going in. I have a ton of reports to process at the company. Unlike some of the 'real leaders,' who can be so relaxed."
Before the words were even finished, the car had already made a clean U-turn, leaving only two red taillights that gradually disappeared into the night.