Chapter 65: Everything is Under Control (35K)

The basketball that had been knocked toward the hoop slammed into the inner rim, passed through the net, and then bounced toward Ye Sheng, who was standing on the mid-court line.

The three basketballs returned to the three people's hands one after another, and they didn't even need to move a single bit for it.

Silence descended upon the entire basketball court.

Ye Sheng was naturally stunned.

He could easily stand at one end of a basketball court and send a basketball into the hoop at the other; for the physical constitution of a Hybrid, as long as one had proper control and some experience, doing such a thing was as simple as eating and drinking.

But like that creative "one ball, two hoops" move Lu Mingfei had just pulled off, he knew without even trying that he absolutely could not do it!

Coincidence? It didn't look like it. Spirit Speech? He hadn't seen any Golden Pupil... Pure technique?

Even Chu Zihang was somewhat surprised; as the one who had guided and taught Lu Mingfei basketball, he considered himself to have an understanding of Lu Mingfei's current level—within half-court, he would hit the shot even with his eyes closed.

But what just happened clearly couldn't be explained by just "hitting the mark every time"; at the very least, it required perfect calculation of force and trajectory!

Just as both of them were silent because of this, Lu Mingfei spoke up—

"With this skill of mine, wouldn't I be able to make over a hundred a day just being a ball boy?"

He held the ball in one hand and put the other on his hip, his words full of joy at the high possibility of achieving the goal of "making over a hundred a day."

The atmosphere on the court, which had been somewhat frozen, was easily punctured by this one piece of trash talk.

Ye Sheng stood there blankly; he could never have imagined that after someone possessed such basketball skills, they would still be thinking about being a ball boy... or even just making over a hundred a day.

Chu Zihang, however, remained expressionless; he had long been used to Lu Mingfei being able to throw out trash talk at any time. If a Schedule could measure his 【Trash Talk Tolerance】, it would at least be at the LV3 level.

"... Hello, student Lu Mingfei, I am Ye Sheng."

Ye Sheng came back to his senses, smiled to reveal his snow-white teeth, took the initiative to walk toward Lu Mingfei, and extended a hand, "National Unusual Investigation Bureau, External Cooperation Division executive agent."

"Oh, oh, hello, I'm Lu Mingfei, an ordinary third-year student at Shilan Middle School..."

Lu Mingfei shook hands with Ye Sheng and asked with some confusion, "National Unusual Investigation Bureau? I remember the senior saying you were from Cassel College."

"I pursued advanced studies at Cassel College, and after graduating, I returned to the country to officially start working. In fact, the vast majority of Chinese students at Cassel College follow this process."

Ye Sheng explained with a smile.

"The matter of Hybrids cannot be disclosed to the public for the time being; this is the convention. But each country's national strength is different, so we need to unite to handle dragon-related events.

Our country certainly doesn't lack people or strength, but information and intelligence regarding dragons can still be shared to a certain extent, and there is also advanced experience from abroad that can be learned and absorbed, so the External Cooperation Division was established.

To a certain extent, the External Cooperation Division can also be said to be the Chinese branch of the Cassel College Execution Department, but we do not take orders from Cassel College; it is an equal exchange, and we only take orders from the National Unusual Investigation Bureau..."

"I get it, I get it, cooperation for mutual benefit, but the principle of maintaining sovereignty remains unchanged!"

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized.

"Yes, that's exactly what it means."

Ye Sheng nodded and walked to the side of the court, picking up a silver-white metal file case, "Look at this pattern."

"This is..."

Lu Mingfei stared at the exquisite pattern for a while, inexplicably feeling that it looked familiar.

"A banyan tree?"

"A banyan... tree?" Ye Sheng stood there blankly.

"Is that wrong?"

Lu Mingfei was a bit confused, "It looks a lot like the trees on both sides of the road I saw when I ran over here..."

Ye Sheng subconsciously turned his head to look out the window... it actually seemed to be true!

"That is the World Tree."

Chu Zihang walked over; he knew very well the lethality of Lu Mingfei's magical train of thought to normal humans. It was normal for Ye Sheng to be unable to adapt for a moment.

"The cosmic tree that supports the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology, symbolizing life, order, and connection. As an emblem, it can only be drawn simply, so it is somewhat similar to the image of a banyan tree with a broad canopy and developed root system."

"Right..."

Ye Sheng glanced at Chu Zihang without a trace.

Is this the legendary cold-faced iceberg President of the Lionheart Society?

No, the cold-faced iceberg part is fine.

Before this, Ye Sheng and Chu Zihang had played basketball here for an hour. Every time, Ye Sheng would say a lot and rack his brains to think of topics, but Chu Zihang would brush him off with a few short words...

The problem was Chu Zihang's attitude toward Lu Mingfei!

Ye Sheng chose to keep this discovery in his heart for now, and he continued to speak.

"Ahem, let's continue. This is a banyan tree... no, it's the World Tree! The World Tree in its full, flourishing state; this is the emblem of our External Cooperation Division.

If you see a half-decayed World Tree, that is the emblem of the Cassel College main campus, and it is also the school badge of Cassel College."

"Why use a half-decayed one... isn't it better to wish for a good omen?"

Lu Mingfei was somewhat puzzled.

"Using a fully flourishing one would be normal, right?"

"..."

Ye Sheng was silent for a while, "Your way of putting it is exactly the same as what our Director of the Unusual Investigation Bureau said when choosing the emblem for the External Cooperation Division..."

"Great minds think alike," Lu Mingfei sighed.

Ye Sheng: "..."

It was the first time he had seen someone gild their own lily like this, and with such a matter-of-fact expression!

Ye Sheng felt that the situation was not quite right; it seemed he had completely fallen into Lu Mingfei's rhythm, so he decided to cut the Gordian knot.

"In short, we sincerely welcome you to join Cassel College and, after completing your studies, join the National Unusual Investigation Bureau to work in the External Cooperation Division."

This time it was Lu Mingfei's turn to be stunned; he was stunned for two seconds before he reacted.

"Hey, hey, how did the topic suddenly jump to this? Weren't we just at the stage of introducing the emblem?

This is just like a shell company grabbing someone off the street, telling them the company name, and then making that person the legal representative of the company. After that, it's a one-stop service of the company running away with the money and the legal representative sitting in jail!"

"It's not quite that serious... If you don't want to attend Cassel College, our country has actually established Hybrid universities all across the nation."

Ye Sheng wiped the sweat from his forehead; he hadn't broken a sweat after playing Basketball for an hour, yet it was forced out of him just by these few sentences chatting with Lu Mingfei.

"However, I still suggest you attend Cassel College."

"Why?"

"Because your parents are honorary alumni of our school. They once had contact with Principal Angers, saying they hoped you could attend Cassel College in the future. Moreover, I myself have shouldered the task of inviting you to attend Cassel College this time."

Ye Sheng opened his document case and took out a kraft paper envelope, "This is the content of the letter."

Lu Mingfei was already stunned the moment he heard about his parents.

He took the letter. The letter was very short and printed, likely an email, and the content was exactly as Ye Sheng had said.

Yet Lu Mingfei still stared at it for a long time.

Every six months, he would receive a letter from his parents. The content on the letters was always fixed: "The plan to return to the country for a visit must be postponed," "Archaeological research has made new progress," along with greetings so simple they could be called devoid of substance.

At first, he really wanted to ask some questions, such as "What exactly are you researching?" "If you don't have time to find me, I can take a vacation to find you," "At least attach a few photos so I can see what you look like"... but there wasn't even a return address on the letters, and he had nowhere to reply even if he wanted to.

As time went on, Lu Mingfei gave up himself.

He thought, perhaps his parents were truly a pair of super-couple who ran all over the world but just never came to China; when he was hanging by a thread one day, he would be able to see them descend from the sky.

It was just that Lu Mingfei didn't expect news about them to come so suddenly.

"So, the archaeological research they mentioned is... researching Dragons?"

Lu Mingfei asked, his tone unexpectedly calm.

"My Authority is not high, I don't know."

Ye Sheng looked at Lu Mingfei cautiously; he felt a kind of emotion flowing from the bottom of this boy's heart, making one involuntarily feel... a palpitation.

Lu Mingfei didn't know what was wrong with him either; that kind of emotion seemed to have been suppressed in the bottom of his heart for a long time, basically never released.

He felt a bit uncomfortable, but his subconscious told him that if it were really released rashly, the result would definitely not be too good.

At this moment, a sturdy and powerful palm landed on his left shoulder. Lu Mingfei only felt his shoulder sink, and turning his head to look, it was Senior Brother Chu.

Chu Zihang did not speak, just quietly looking at him, expressionless, but the meaning was already very clear.

Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that the suppressed emotion had been dispelled like smoke and clouds. He quickly adjusted himself, sniffed, and asked, "If I am willing to join Cassel College, do I have to go now?"

"No, Cassel College is a formal university. You can even search for the public application method online, it's just that those without bloodlines will be screened out... In short, you will officially join after completing your high school studies; everything is legal and compliant."

Ye Sheng explained.

"Of course, you can also transfer to the preparatory class of Cassel College at Peking University High School before the new semester begins."

"Let's forget about that."

Lu Mingfei waved his hand, somewhat guiltily erasing the images of Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang that had surfaced in his mind.

"I mainly wanted to ask... if I agree to join, does that count as me being one of your own, and can I use some resources? Whether it's Cassel College's or the National Unusual Investigation Bureau's, both are fine!"

"Resources?"

Ye Sheng was stunned for a moment, then immediately became alert.

"Although we are Hybrids, we must also be law-abiding and be good citizens. Privileges are limited to being reasonably used only when facing Dragon-related incidents; you cannot think of yourself as superior to others, you must follow the Three Main Rules and Eight Points for Attention..."

"No, no, you misunderstood!"

Lu Mingfei hurriedly interrupted Ye Sheng's fluent recitation of rules and regulations, "It's because I encountered something a bit abnormal and want to investigate someone... Senior Brother should know!"

Chu Zihang nodded: "That transfer student who wants to live with you?"

"Right, she definitely has a purpose in approaching me, although I haven't been able to figure it out... but just thinking about it, how could a girl so rich and beautiful take a fancy to me for no reason! I just pretended to be swayed by money."

Lu Mingfei spread his hands, ignoring the fact that he had indeed been confused at the time, feeling a little smug.

"I have to say, Senior Brother, your reaction is really fast, you directly performed a tacit cooperation with me!"

Chu Zihang remained silent.

Could he say that he actually hadn't reacted at the time, and had only agreed because of his inner gossiping nature, and only realized it afterward?

Of course not!

"If that's the case, it should be possible. I'll just write an application to the higher-ups. Cassel College is even easier to talk about; it should be searchable in a while."

Ye Sheng smiled.

"It might be hard to say if someone else came, but Student Lu Mingfei, you are different... perhaps you don't know your own importance yet."

"Me?"

Lu Mingfei was startled, "Importance?"

"Yes."

Ye Sheng nodded.

"Your data has actually been in the archives of Cassel College and the National Unusual Investigation Bureau since the day you were born, and the level is classified as 'Top Secret'."

All of this is because of your bloodline grade—S!"

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On the other side.

"Are you sure you handled it?"

Jiude Mayi looked at Su Enxi with some suspicion.

"Of course, it's just a small matter."

Su Enxi stuffed a potato chip into her mouth with disdain.

"How could the little white rabbit be so obedient and enter the nest? I had anticipated it long ago! As long as there are no problems on Sanwu Niu's side, just let them investigate; I'm eager for them to investigate... everything is under control!"

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