Chapter 88: Oh No, I Played with Fire and Got Burned
After hanging up the phone, Bai Qi rushed to the front of the wardrobe, found his uniform, and hurriedly put it on. Halfway through, he sensed that something was wrong.
He took a deep breath to calm down and entered his spiritual landscape.
In the landscape, he saw a vast network-like diagram, like a chaotic but orderly neural network. The red nodes between the network lines reflected faint images.
Bai Qi thought for a moment and realized that this network-like diagram seemed to be related to the location of everyone in the White Tower.
He found the nearest node. Lu Sen and he were next-door neighbors, separated only by an alloy steel plate wall. This node should represent Lu Sen.
He entered this node, and it was indeed Lu Sen’s landscape.
Lu Sen’s spiritual landscape was a dense forest covered with vegetation, suitable for the survival of the red wolf, with trees, riverbanks, swamps, and sandy land. The terrain was very rich.
“He’s always doing such useless things…” Bai Qi couldn’t help but complain.
He continued to tour this landscape and saw all kinds of messy thoughts, including the entire content of the conservative’s rules and courses. Lu Sen had been running for the position of lecturer in the church and had been memorizing the rules every day.
Besides that, Bai Qi saw virtualized Xue Yu, Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and others.
Xue Yu’s appearance was very clear.
But Zhou Siyan’s and Feng Qizhou’s faces were blurry. Bai Qi could only recognize them by their iconic Security Division director’s uniform and white lab coat.
In the landscape, Lu Sen had a big belly and was holding hands with Xue Yu, coming to Zhou Siyan and saying shyly, “Lu Sen will be a family with us from now on.”
Then, Xue Xiaohai in purple bell-bottoms and Xiaobei and Xiaonan in identical denim overalls all gathered around Lu Sen.
Xue Xiaohai said to Xiaobei and Xiaonan, “Let’s have Lu Sen be our daddy in the future, okay? He’s much better than our daddy!”
Xue Xiaobei: “Okay, okay! Daddy Lu Sen is the best! I like Daddy Lu Sen.”
Xue Xiaonan: “I’m the same as my sister!”
Bai Qi withdrew from Lu Sen’s landscape.
He suddenly understood. So this was what Xue Yu meant by setting up a spiritual internet connection.
She had linked everyone’s spiritual landscapes together, making everyone’s thoughts, emotions… and everyone’s privacy public, to be watched as a live broadcast.
Bai Qi was furious. He picked up his phone and called the head deacon again. “Head Deacon, I want to report!”
The head deacon’s tone was not very good. She was probably very busy. “What do you want to report?”
Bai Qi was indignant. “I want to report Lu Sen! He’s even more despicable than me, more shameless than me, more shameless than me.”
“He actually fantasized about being knocked up by Xue Yu and then joining Xue Yu’s evil little group. Not only that, he also delusionally imagined Xue Yu’s three children to accept him as their stepfather and call him daddy.”
The head deacon said impatiently, “Alright, I know. You call him and come to the office together. You two will have your points and honorary medals deducted together.”
“Alright, I’ll go and get him right away. Thank you for your hard work, Head Deacon.”
Bai Qi felt a little more balanced now. He was afraid of his brother having a hard time, but he was also afraid of his brother driving a Land Rover.
The two of them were promiscuous brothers, one more sanctimonious than the other. How could he let Lu Sen go and be punished alone?
Bai Qi put on his uniform at top speed.
Halfway through, he remembered something, hurriedly took off the hard jacket he had just put on, took off the semi-transparent fishnet black shirt underneath, and found a normal cotton and linen shirt to put on.
He put on the jacket, his dark tie was straight, and he took off his self-made shiny cufflinks.
He messed up his carefully styled hair, combed it all up, and fixed it with hair gel, revealing his full and smooth forehead.
He looked at himself in the full-length mirror, well-dressed and looking like a human. He couldn’t figure it out. What was he lacking compared to Zhou Siyan?
After getting everything ready, Bai Qi put on his black leather shoes and went out. He came to the door of Lu Sen’s dorm next door and knocked hard. “Open up! Conservative supervisor is checking the room.”
Lu Sen came to open the door. “Why is it you?”
Bai Qi’s smile was wicked. “The head deacon asked me to come and call you to the office to be judged together.”
“I have a clear conscience. What am I being judged for?”
Lu Sen’s eyes flickered. Ever since he found out that his landscape had been made public, he had immediately given himself a shot of a suppressant to maintain his chastity and the correctness of his thoughts.
Bai Qi saw through his thoughts at a glance. “It’s useless to take a suppressant. The things you’ve fantasized about, as long as you haven’t forgotten them, will be stored in your thoughts. Unless you go for an electroshock memory erasure, you won’t leave a black history.”
“Damn it,” Lu Sen clenched his fists in anger.
Bai Qi said, “Hurry up and change your clothes. Let’s go to the head deacon to apologize and repent, and strive for a lenient treatment.”
Lu Sen changed into his uniform, and the two of them walked out together.
Neither of them dared to make eye contact. They walked forward in silence, and neither of them dared to start a topic.
It was too awkward. The other person’s dirty thoughts were laid bare on the table, a true “knowing the root of the matter.” Even a single sentence of conversation would give them goosebumps.
Finally, they arrived at the head deacon’s office.
The head deacon was sitting at her desk, constantly on the phone.
Lu Sen and Bai Qi did not dare to say a word and stood silently, waiting.
Before long, people came into the office one after another, one, two, three… both men and women, all of whom were outstanding graduates of the extreme sexual conservatives, and each of them had received the [Highly Ascetic] honorary medal.
The office was already full. Only then did the head deacon stop her call.
She stood up, walked out with her hands behind her back, and her gaze was as sharp as a blade as she swept over the crowd. “You all pretend to be pure on the surface, but in fact, your thoughts are dirtier than the other, more disgusting than the other!”
Everyone’s mouths were tightly shut, not daring to speak. They were all secretly entering the head deacon’s landscape to watch the fun.
The head deacon’s spirit body was a leopard. The landscape was a forest terrain suitable for the leopard to inhabit.
What everyone was most concerned about at the moment was the head deacon’s thoughts and attitude.
[What kind of damn job is this every day?
When will the conservatives be exterminated?
I was originally an undercover agent sent by the open-minded faction to the conservatives. Now I’ve gone from a member to a head deacon. The open-minded faction leader who sent me here is dead. Now I can’t quit. Who can I reason with?
Am I a pervert? After being chaste for so long, now everyone looks ugly.
I’m an undercover agent for the open-minded faction! So am I an open-minded person or a conservative now?
My boyfriend is still waiting for me to quit the church and go back to live a good life with him. Sigh.]
Lu Sen was the first to speak up, asking cautiously, “Head Deacon, are you an undercover agent for the open-minded faction?”
The head deacon was furious. “Who said that?”
Lu Sen: “That’s what your landscape’s thoughts show.”
It was a mess—
The head deacon’s aura was no longer so cold and hard. Her voice softened a little. “Can you all see clearly what I’m thinking?”
She had originally thought that her spiritual power was strong enough and would not be affected by this incident.
But Bai Qi replied, “Yes, very clearly, just like you can see our thoughts. You understand us, and we understand you.”
The head deacon turned and went around the office, sitting back down in her chair. She clasped her two hands together and thought for a full minute before she spoke:
“There must be a misunderstanding in this. We must have been set up by Xue Yu. What we are seeing now is not necessarily true.”
She regained her spirit and asked, “Bai Qi, please answer my question honestly! Do you really want to have a child for Xue Yu?”
Bai Qi answered forcefully, “No, Head Deacon!”
The head deacon turned to Lu Sen. “Lu Sen, please answer my question honestly. Have you ever fantasized about being pregnant with Xue Yu’s child and joining her little group?”
Lu Sen’s words were sincere. “Head Deacon, I have not! Heaven and earth can be my witness! I have never had such a dirty thought!”
The head deacon asked the other people in the room, “And you?”
Everyone responded one after another:
“No, Head Deacon! I was not thinking about my ex-girlfriend! The spiritual landscape must be wrong!”
“Head Deacon, I also don’t have a crush on Xue Yu! Although Xue Yu is optimistic and cute, her smile is like a spring breeze, and she has brought a lot of happiness to the White Tower, and also a lot of happiness to me. Although I can’t help but smile when I see her, I really don’t have a crush on her.”
“I am the most valuable S-class virgin in the conservatives! How could I do something like having a crush on someone!”
“Head Deacon, I have also never been jealous of Zhou Siyan! Although his daughter is chubby and cute, and she’s so well-behaved and funny when she eats.”
“But I have never been jealous that Zhou Siyan can be a father, let alone that he is Xue Yu’s ex-boyfriend! Please, Head Deacon, see clearly!”
“…”
After hearing everyone’s explanation, the head deacon pretended to nod. “Yes, I am more willing to believe everyone. Of course, I also have to explain. I am not an undercover agent sent by the open-minded faction. There must be a misunderstanding in this.”
Everyone replied in unison, “Yes, Head Deacon! We believe you!”
The expression on the head deacon’s face relaxed a little. “Everyone, you can go back first. The situation is complicated. We need to investigate what’s going on. After the investigation is clear, we will definitely give everyone a satisfactory explanation.”
Everyone bowed collectively. “Thank you for your hard work, Head Deacon.”
***
Over here, Xue Yu was hiding under the covers, browsing the White Tower’s forum, laughing non-stop. The posts on the forum were endless.
#What kind of people are these conservatives? What are they thinking all day? The more they are repressed, the more perverted they are?#
#Why are so many men fantasizing about having a baby for Xue Yu? Is reproductive anxiety so serious?#
#Who on earth did this?#
#It’s probably Xue Yu. She’s getting revenge on everyone for collectively invading her landscape last time.#
#I’m going to report it to Bai Long! Xue Yu must be sentenced to life imprisonment!#
“Mommy, Mommy, what are you doing? We want to see too.”
Xue Xiaohai, Xue Xiaobei, and Xue Xiaonan all climbed onto the bed and pulled at the blanket covering Xue Yu.
Xue Yu said, “Mommy is watching a play. Don’t make a fuss for now.”
“We want to watch the play too,” the three children squeezed under the covers and into Xue Yu’s arms.
Xue Yu threw off the covers and held the three children. “It’s all R-rated stuff. You can’t watch it.”
“Then Mommy, tell us a story!” Xue Xiaohai said.
Xue Xiaonan: “I also want to hear a story, Mommy’s own story.”
Xue Xiaobei kissed Xue Yu on the face. “Mommy, hurry up and tell a story.”
Xue Yu threw away the Cloud Sound Box. It was rare to have such a leisurely time to be with the children. She held all three babies. “Okay, Mommy will tell you a very interesting story that Mommy has personally experienced. After I’m done, you have to go to sleep.”
“Okay!” the three children looked at her with wide eyes.
Feng Qizhou had just finished his shower and was standing at the bedroom door, leaning against the doorframe, drying his hair and watching this warm and happy scene.
Xue Yu cleared her throat, her expression serious. “It was probably four or five years ago. Mommy was still very young then.”
Xue Xiaohai interrupted, “Mommy, are you not young anymore?”
“I know why she’s not young anymore,” Xue Xiaobei raised her hand and sang a song. “Because where has the time gone? I’ve grown old before I could even enjoy my youth~~”
Xue Xiaonan also followed suit and sang, “My mind is full of children, crying and laughing~~~”
Feng Qizhou’s hair was half-dry. He put down the towel and sat down on the edge of the bed, holding Xue Yu’s exposed ankle. “What are you teaching the children all day? They’re learning all your tricks.”
Xue Yu squinted at him. “Don’t interrupt me. I’m telling the children a story.”
Xue Xiaohai made a shushing gesture. “Alright, everyone, don’t talk. Listen to Mommy’s story.”
Xue Yu’s aura was very strong:
“It was probably four or five years ago. This is a true story. It’s something Mommy personally experienced. I’m definitely not lying to you.”
“That night, it was dark and windy, and it was raining heavily outside. Mommy suddenly felt very hungry, especially hungry, so hungry she couldn’t stand it. Her mouth was watering.”
The few children stared at her intently. Xue Xiaonan held her sister’s hand tightly and said in a low voice, “What a scary story…”
Xue Yu continued, “And then, Mommy got up, went to open the fridge, and there happened to be two eggs in the fridge. Mommy took the eggs to the kitchen and fried a bowl of egg fried rice. After she finished the whole bowl of egg fried rice, guess what happened next?”
Xue Xiaohai’s eyes were wide. “And then you saw a big tiger?”
Xue Xiaobei: “Did the eggs turn into egg ghosts?”
Xue Yu shook her head, her face mysterious. “After Mommy finished the egg fried rice, her stomach was no longer hungry. Don’t you think that’s amazing?”
The three children were stunned, at a loss. “And then?”
“And then it’s over. Mommy was full, and the story is over.”
She rubbed each of the children’s faces. “Mommy finished her meal, and her stomach was no longer hungry. Isn’t Mommy amazing?”
“Oh,” the three children replied weakly.
Xue Xiaonan lay on Xue Yu’s back, biting her thumb. “A funny mommy. Mommy is always being funny.”
Xue Yu: “Because Mommy is very optimistic. You should also be like Mommy, always be optimistic, and laugh every day, okay?”
The three children answered together, “Okay!”
Footsteps came from outside the room. Zhou Siyan came in. He naturally walked into the bedroom.
Feng Qizhou frowned, displeased. “Are you here to be a wet blanket?”
Zhou Siyan: “I’m here to take Xiaohai home to sleep.”
Feng Qizhou: “She said she wants to sleep with Xiaobei and the others tonight. Didn’t she send you a message?”
Zhou Siyan: “I didn’t pay attention.”
It was getting late, and the children were also getting sleepy.
Xue Xiaohai picked up her little seahorse. “I’m going to sleep. I want to sleep with Mommy, and Xiaobei and Xiaonan also want to sleep with Mommy.”
Xue Yu waved her hand at both Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou. “You two can go now. The children all need me. I’ll sleep with them. I’m so busy all day, and I don’t have much time to be with the children.”
Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou did not pester her anymore.
Feng Qizhou glanced at Zhou Siyan coldly. “Aren’t you leaving yet? This is my home. What are you doing?”
Zhou Siyan ignored his provocation, walked to Xue Yu’s side, pressed his palm on the back of her head, and a dry kiss landed on her brow. He said in a voice only the two of them could hear, “The children need you, and so do I.”
“Okay.”
After Zhou Siyan left, Feng Qizhou went to dry his hair and also climbed into bed.
He arranged the three children neatly and had them sleep in the middle. “Alright, Mommy and I will sleep with you. Be good, all of you. Close your eyes.”
Xue Xiaohai: “Okay, let’s see who falls asleep first.”
The children were all too happy. One lay in Xue Yu’s arms, one held her right hand, and one held her left.
Feng Qizhou roughly knew what Xue Yu meant by setting up an internet connection, and also knew what the result was for the White Tower.
From the looks of the forum, the entire White Tower was about to be in a mess.
Xue Yu had not pulled Feng Qizhou, Zhou Siyan, Meng Wu, Mo Li, and Yan Wantang’s landscapes into this farce.
Feng Qizhou’s heart itched. He asked, “Where did you get this skill?”
Xue Yu smiled proudly. “I won’t tell you for now.”
“I also want to participate. I want to know what this group of sanctimonious things in the conservatives are actually thinking.”
Xue Yu: “If I link you too, you can see others, and others can also see you. All your privacy will also be exposed. Are you not embarrassed to make all those messy things in your head public?”
Feng Qizhou took her hand, scratched her palm, and asked tentatively, “You can build a large spiritual network. Can you also build another independent small network?”
“A small network?” Xue Yu didn’t quite understand.
Feng Qizhou: “It’s like creating a group chat, creating an independent spiritual network. For example, we can create a small network with just me, you, and Zhou Siyan, so that only the three of us can see each other’s landscapes, and no outsiders can participate. Is that okay?”
Xue Yu had not tried this before.
Feng Qizhou added, “Why don’t you try it? Just try it with me, you, and Zhou Siyan. Doesn’t he always say that I’m narrow-minded and can’t tolerate others? Then let him see for himself if I’m that kind of person.”
Xue Yu also wanted to try it.
She had already built a large network, linking half of the people in the White Tower.
Then besides this large network, could she also build another small network?
She sent a message to Zhou Siyan, explaining the situation.
Zhou Siyan replied quickly: If you want to try, just try.
Xue Yu had linked with Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou before. She had already obtained their spiritual anchor points.
Now, she tried to divide a new area in her landscape and link the spiritual landscapes of just herself, Zhou Siyan, and Feng Qizhou.
After completing the link, she pushed Feng Qizhou. “Alright, feel it. Can you see my and Zhou Siyan’s thoughts?”
Feng Qizhou closed his eyes and entered his own landscape. He saw a triangle made of gray and white thin lines. The three corners of the triangle were all red anchor points.
He first entered one of the anchor points. It was Xue Yu’s landscape, a vast ocean with only a few water weeds and a few coral trees. It was very easy to recognize.
He then entered another anchor point. It was Zhou Siyan’s, a dense primeval forest, because the hurried trees were towering.
Zhou Siyan sent a message to Xue Yu: Yes, it’s indeed possible. I can currently see your and Feng Qizhou’s landscapes.
Xue Yu was ecstatic. Bai Long’s skill was so amazing. It was simply crushing everyone in the White Tower.
This thing was indeed like creating a group chat, but it was a group chat where thoughts were public. Both small and large groups could be created.
“Feng Qizhou, this skill is so amazing!” Xue Yu couldn’t help but hug Feng Qizhou.
Feng Qizhou patted her back. “Then you should dissolve this small network of ours. It’s fine to play for a while. I don’t want my privacy to be spied on by Zhou Siyan for a long time.”
“Alright!”
Xue Yu re-entered the landscape.
She suddenly realized that this skill had a drawback!
You could easily create large and small different spiritual networks, but once they were successfully created, they could not be disconnected.
That is to say, the spiritual landscapes of Xue Yu, Feng Qizhou, and Zhou Siyan were now linked together, bound together, and could never be separated.
Not just the three of them.
The large spiritual link network that Xue Yu had built with half of the people in the White Tower could not be undone either. It was forever bound.
“You really can’t undo it?” Feng Qizhou was horrified.
Xue Yu was on the verge of tears. “I didn’t even think about whether it could be undone before. Now that I’ve studied it carefully, it seems that it really can’t.”
“Then the three of us will be forever bound together, and all our emotions and thoughts will be laid bare for each other to see?” Feng Qizhou panicked.
“It seems so,” Xue Yu nodded with a long face and fell onto the covers, covering her face. “I’ve played with fire and gotten burned. What should I do now?”
Feng Qizhou’s breath was stuck in his chest. He could make his thoughts public for Xue Yu to see.
But he didn’t want Zhou Siyan to see it. This was really too strange.
He scooped up Xue Yu and said softly, “Alright, don’t wake the children. Let’s go to the living room and talk.”
The two of them left the bedroom and sat down on the sofa. Feng Qizhou comforted her, “Don’t be too anxious. It’s a good thing it’s just the three of us. We haven’t added Meng Wu and Mo Li. We’ve known each other for so long. It’s nothing to have our privacy exposed. I don’t mind.”
Zhou Siyan also sent a message to Xue Yu: Can’t you close or dissolve this spiritual network? I don’t want to see those unspeakable things in Feng Qizhou’s mind.
Xue Yu replied, It can’t be undone. The three of us will be forever bound together from now on.
Zhou Siyan: ?
In fact, they didn’t need any communication tools at all now.
The three of them’s thoughts were completely connected, and they could know what the other was thinking without any effort.
Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou also didn’t need to ask any more questions about where Xue Yu had gotten this skill.
They just had to feel Xue Yu’s thoughts a little to know that she had copied the skill from Bai Long.
Zhou Siyan was also helpless for the time being. He quickly came to Feng Qizhou’s apartment.
The three of them sat on the sofa together, in silence. They didn’t need to speak to know what the other was thinking.
Not just their current thoughts, but everything in the other’s mind could be clearly perceived.
Including past memories, present thoughts, and future prospects.
Everything, completely transparent, completely public.
The three of them sat on the sofa for a few minutes, in silence. Xue Yu lowered her head, anxiously scratching her head.
Feng Qizhou crossed his legs, a smile on his lips, and raised an eyebrow playfully. “Director Zhou, you look so proper on the surface, but you used to play so wildly. No wonder Xue Yu was last in school every day. It must have been because you drained all her energy in bed.”
Zhou Siyan snorted coldly. “Don’t you think you’re being very rude?”
Feng Qizhou then turned to feel Xue Yu’s thoughts. “Tsk, tsk, tsk. You little thing, you’re always having a spiritual affair, aren’t you?”
Xue Yu’s face turned red. “What do you mean, spiritual affair? Don’t slander me. If a handsome guy walks by, can you call it a spiritual affair just because I glance at him? Don’t you be so exaggerated.”
Feng Qizhou: “You’re smitten 800 times a day. What do you have to argue about?”
Xue Yu continued to argue, “I don’t believe you don’t get smitten when you see a beautiful woman! You’re just slandering me all day.”
Feng Qizhou was confident. “I don’t. I never have. You can check.”
Xue Yu carefully checked Feng Qizhou’s thoughts. It was actually true! Since Feng Qizhou had memories, besides her, he had never been smitten with anyone else.
She then checked Zhou Siyan’s thoughts. It was the same. As for love, he had only ever had it for her.
Xue Yu was completely guilty and smiled at the two of them. “Hehe, I won’t say any more. It seems I have to learn from you.”