Lu Xiaoyao went missing a week after returning home.

For the first few days after she got back, Mingmei saw Lu Xiaoyao's Xingbo updates every day, and they would video chat at night.

Occasionally, when she was exhausted from cramming all sorts of interstellar compulsory education knowledge, she would see her staying up all night broadcasting after going home.

Mingmei hadn't been on the game during this time either. On the one hand, she had almost finished the game credits for this semester, and on the other hand, she found that her foundation was really lacking.

From mecha to cramming physics and chemistry, and from the survival theory class to learning about the theoretical knowledge of wilderness survival, she discovered her weakness in biology.

As various theoretical courses unfolded, Mingmei suddenly realized something.

She didn't have any strengths. _(：3」∠)_

Looking at the semester being more than half over, all of her subjects that needed to be tested were basically hovering around a few lines. If the final exam was a little bit more difficult... she would definitely be finished, orz.

Therefore, how hard she worked selling boxed lunches before, she now worked just as hard to catch up.

However, Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast, which she used to relax in her spare time, also suddenly stopped three days ago.

She wasn't answering photon computer video calls, she wasn't updating Xingbo, and even her live broadcast room had a leave note posted, saying that her return was undetermined. This made Mingmei and several of Lu Xiaoyao's other female friends very worried. oΓg

That day, as soon as the large class was over, Mingmei took the opportunity to get together with Wang Wenfei and Hu Yue to chat. When Lu Xiaoyao was mentioned, the two of them shook their heads.

"Could she have been attacked?"

Mingmei thought of the Zerg. She had heard before that the direct line of the Lu family was only Lu Xiaoyao's grandfather, Marshal Lu, as well as Lu Xiaoyao and her mother.

Her uncles and elder brothers had all died in battle in earlier years.

There were no lack of Zerg shadows behind this, so Mingmei couldn't help but worry.

"It shouldn't be, right? The Lu family's ancestral home is on the Central Star. Going home, the Zerg shouldn't... it's unlikely, right? Besides, with the cleaning and martial law a while ago, even if the Zerg still have spies, their hands can't reach here for the time being."

Hu Yue shook her head first, then muttered, "It's not like my home..."

Hu Yue remembered the days when she lived with her father and brothers on the outer star when she was a child. There were air raid sirens every two or three days, and warplanes flew overhead every morning.

Although everyone said that the interstellar space had been peaceful for decades, they didn't know that the border had never been peaceful.

"Our family is also near the Lu family. I heard from my family yesterday... the Lu family seems to have been under martial law for the past few days and is refusing visitors..."

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Central Star, Lu Family Mansion.

Lu Xingchen was sitting upright on the sofa in the living room on the first floor. His white hair was combed meticulously and plastered to the back of his head. Lu Xingchen gripped the cane in his hand nervously, his eyes fixed on the staircase.

Occasionally, he could hear the low sobs coming from one of the two women sitting on the loveseat next to him.

The red-eyed, tearful woman was sobbing as she looked towards the stairs, the worry in her eyes obvious to everyone.

On the other hand, the two children holding toys slowly spoke, "Auntie, don't cry. Grandpa Lu will be sad when he hears it. Don't worry."

One of the boys comforted her, and the girl next to him followed suit, "That's right, that's right. Look at my brother and me. We're fine after going through treatment."

"No, it's not the same. You..."

The woman being comforted wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and burst into tears again as if she had thought of something.

"Shut up!"

Lu Xingchen interrupted his daughter-in-law's crying with a low shout, and looked at the two children who seemed frightened by his scolding and hid in their mother's arms.

His eyebrows softened slightly, and he softly comforted them, "Xiao Ye and Xiao Xuan are right. You were both able to come back, so Xuan'er can too."

"Father..."

The woman sitting there stopped the tears on her face, realized that she had spoken without thinking, her face flushed and she stopped talking.

Lu Xingchen glanced at her, saw that she didn't speak again, and then withdrew his gaze, not wanting to focus his attention on someone he couldn't reason with.

However, in the end, as if he had thought of something, he said in a strange tone, "This time, it can be considered as you wished."

As soon as these words came out, the other party was so frightened that her face turned as pale as paper, and her body was about to fall. Her lips trembled, wanting to deny what her father-in-law said, but in the end, she didn't say it.

In the end, it was indeed her fault.

Just as the atmosphere in the hall was becoming more and more strange, a sound of footsteps came from the stairs. Everyone looked up and saw two young men in white robes standing together at the top of the stairs, with smiles on their faces.

If Mingmei were there, she would definitely exclaim, why are her two uncles here?!

"Congratulations, Marshal Lu, the surgery was a success."

As soon as Ruan Xun spoke, Lu Xingchen's tense aura disappeared without a trace. He immediately stood up and walked towards them excitedly, as if wanting to confirm that he hadn't misheard.

"Really?"

The old man's voice trembled as he spoke, afraid that everything in front of him was a dream.

"Except that your little granddaughter needs to lie in the medical pod for a few more days, everything else is going smoothly."

After Ruan Xun finished speaking, he glanced at Yan Hui beside him. Yan Hui understood and immediately continued, "As for your... grandson, his mental strength may still be slightly unstable for only a few days, but there is a mental strength detector in the room. In about half a month, his mental strength will be completely stable."

"Yes, yes, I know, I know, this time... this time..."

Lu Xingchen's excited face turned red, and then, after not shedding tears for more than ten years, he couldn't help but cry.

Yan Hui had already noticed the two children playing with toys over there. He left Marshal Lu to Ruan Xun and walked directly to the two children.

Before he could open his arms, the two children came out of their mother's arms and rushed to Yan Hui's legs, one on each side, and sweetly called out, "Uncle Yan!"

"Good kids~ How's the recovery going during this time?"

Yan Hui stroked the soft hair of the two little babies, but his eyes looked at their mother next to them.

"Mental strength has stabilized at S-level. In terms of physical fitness, the doctor said that they still need to be nurtured."

"Yes." Yan Hui listened and looked at the two little guys who were looking up at him with stars in their eyes.

He took a breath and picked up the two babies together, which caused the two little guys to exclaim for a while before giggling non-stop.

"There was no mental or physical rejection, right?"

"No."

The Sen family was also very grateful to Yan Hui for being able to wake up the two children.

"If Mr. Yan has any requests, please make them. Our Sen family will definitely not refuse."

Hearing what the other party said, Yan Hui smiled modestly, saying that there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.

After he finished looking at the two children, his eyes turned to the woman with red and swollen eyes, who was standing hesitantly at the staircase at this time.

At this time, Lu Xingchen had already gone upstairs with Ruan Xun. As for the woman in front of him, with a face full of guilt, hesitation, and worry, a hint of coolness flashed in Yan Hui's eyes, and he couldn't help but let out a light snort from his lips.

"I wonder who this posture is for?"