Xiao Xun knew exactly what he wanted and looked troubled, "We don't have that kind of lithography machine. We can only order it from other countries according to your design."
"Aren't you all-powerful?"
Xiao Xun looked at the adorably clueless Da Lanhua, "You really think too highly of me, all-powerful? There are technology protection agreements between regions. If you demanded their core technology, and they demanded your more classified techniques, would you give it to them?"
Da Lanhua knew it was indeed a bit unrealistic and didn't say much, turning to leave.
His current technical prowess was all self-taught. It was precisely because Xiao Xun valued this that he asked him to research the puppet system.
After finishing his tasks at the base, he took some time to return to Saint Roman. Saile Peisi's belly didn't look like she was pregnant at all; it wasn't even as big as when she had faked a pregnancy last year.
Xiao Xun pressed his head against her stomach, "Why can't I hear anything?"
Saile Peisi chuckled, "It's only been a little over a month, what can you hear?"
"Right," Saile Peisi asked Xiao Xun, "Have you contacted your parents?"
"I've been too busy to, but they haven't replied to me. They're probably finding foreign call charges too expensive..."
"You should still send someone to look for them! Not being able to reach them at all is quite worrying."
Xiao Xun gently stroked Saile Peisi's stomach, "Okay, I understand."
Then he crouched down, "Son, you need to be good and not bully Mom."
"How do you know it's a son? What if it's a girl?"
Xiao Xun stood up, "If it's a girl, it's a girl. I'm not picky."
Saile Peisi smiled, "Alright, hurry back!"
Xiao Xun's face was stern, "You used to complain about me staying for too short a time, why are you rushing me off now that we have a baby?"
Saile Peisi explained, "I want to go back to that world to have the baby. You need to quickly resolve the doomsday crisis and then take us, mother and child, over there."
"Okay, I'll go back now."
Despite saying that, he immediately went to the Temple of Time. He was currently researching the best way to resist the great flood.
The opinions given were quite uniform: build an ark.
Then Xiao Xun left a comment in the comment section, asking what to do if a great flood, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions happened simultaneously.
The comments underground were uniformly: You're talking about the end of the world, you can only escape the planet in a spaceship.
Only one comment stood out conspicuously: Build a sturdier ark.
Xiao Xun rested his chin on his hand, building an ark? Isn't that like in the movies? It's too late to build an ark as large as in the movies now!
Xiao Xun did some more research, but there wasn't much movement on the technological front.
He then returned to his original world and stood on a high mountain, gazing at the myriad of lights from households, his mind filled with thoughts.
"Xiao Xun?"
Hearing someone call him, he turned around and looked at the woman in front of him wearing a leather jacket, sizing her up, "Who are you?"
"It's only been a short while, and you don't recognize me? I used to be the secretary to General Manager Wang of the Saint Roman Group. My name is Lu Wenshan."
Xiao Xun nodded in realization, recalling how he had pretended to be her boyfriend and met her parents, "Why are you coming up the mountain alone so late? It's dangerous!"
"Aren't you alone too? Aren't you afraid of danger?"
Xiao Xun smiled, "I'm a man, after all! You're a young lady, and so beautiful too."
Lu Wenshan also smiled, "You really know how to talk. Why are you up the mountain?"
"I'm just upset and wandering around. I don't know how I ended up on the mountain. What about you?"
Lu Wenshan pointed behind her, "I heard there will be the Lyrid meteor shower tonight, so I came specifically to see it."
"I didn't expect you to be an astronomy enthusiast."
Lu Wenshan pointed behind her, "Since you're here, let's go together!"
Xiao Xun nodded and followed Lu Wenshan up the mountain. In a pavilion, two astronomical telescopes were set up, and there was a large pile of food and drinks on the table.
Most importantly, not only Lu Wenshan was there, but also four or five women and two men.
One of the men asked, "Sister Shan, aren't you going to introduce him? Who is this?"
"Yeah! You went down in such a hurry, we thought you went to do something, but it turns out you've brought up a handsome guy."
Xiao Xun smiled sheepishly, "Hello everyone, my name is Xiao Xun."
"That name sounds so familiar. I can't recall where I heard it."
"That's right!"
Several people started searching online, but surprisingly, they couldn't find anything. "That's strange, could our memories be wrong?"
It wasn't a deviation in memory; it was that any content containing the three words "Xiao Xun" had been deleted from the entire network, regardless of whether it was related to this Xiao Xun.
And what they didn't know was that any search for these two words would trigger a background investigation, the depth of which would vary depending on the search content.
"Alright, stop messing around. The meteor shower is about to start."
A plump woman suddenly said, "Oh! I remember now. Isn't he the guy you went on a blind date with last time? You even showed me his photo and said you met his parents."
Lu Wenshan smiled faintly, thinking: You have a good memory indeed, remembering things from eight hundred years ago.
"That's right, it's him."
The girls' gossip instincts were ignited, "So, did you two get together? What's your relationship now?"
Xiao Xun looked at the blushing Lu Wenshan, "Friends, just friends."
Just then, two more cars drove up, powerful SUVs.
A group of people got out of the cars and just stood there.
The plump woman whispered, "What are these people doing?"
"Are they also here to watch the stars?"
"They don't look like it."
Xiao Xun sat by the table in the pavilion and ate a few pieces of cake, thinking, "Are these people getting so blatant now?"
During this time, many other astronomy enthusiasts also came to the mountain. This mountain offered the best viewing position because it was not affected by the city's neon lights.
However, upon seeing the people standing outside the two cars, everyone else consciously set up their equipment to the side. At the summit, only Lu Wenshan's friends and Xiao Xun remained.
Soon, the meteor shower began. Lu Wenshan took out a phone, attached it to the astronomical telescope, and started recording. Another phone was used to capture this spectacle.
This was Xiao Xun's first time watching a meteor shower. Celestial bodies entering the atmosphere caused combustion, turning into one meteor after another.
At this moment, he noticed an unidentified flying object, masked by the meteor shower, 'swoosh' and fly towards the horizon, disappearing almost instantly.
Its flight speed had broken the speed of light.
Xiao Xun glanced at the direction the unidentified flying object had flown; it was to the south.
After the meteor shower ended, everyone began to pack up their things.
Lu Wenshan asked Xiao Xun, "How did you get here?"
"I walked up."
Lu Wenshan smiled, "You really are a good walker. Shall I give you a ride?"
Xiao Xun thought about it; there was nothing urgent, and Su Xiang was enough for the meeting. "Okay."
The group began to walk down the mountain. The people in the two cars remained still until Xiao Xun reached the halfway point, and only then did they get into their cars.
The mountain path was quite rugged; a regular SUV couldn't have made it up.