bayedsolid Chapter 123 : Chapter 123
Chapter 123 : Chapter 123
Chapter 123: What the Song Family Suffered
By the end of it, his mother could no longer hold herself together and covered her face as she wept.
Song Chuhe was stunned.
His father, meanwhile, comforted his mother as he said, “Come on, it’s not as serious as your mother is making it sound.”
“We’ve done nothing wrong, so we’ve got nothing to fear.”
“I never did any of the things they’re accusing me of. It shouldn’t be too serious!”
But his mother cried, “How could it not be serious? If they’ve already decided to frame you, then they must have already prepared fake evidence!”
“The moment you go there tomorrow, they’ll definitely arrest you!”
After she said that, his father still wanted to explain things away.
But when he saw the look on his son’s face, he knew there was no way to keep hiding it.
So he stopped trying to explain and let out a long sigh.
Song Chuhe felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
Both of his parents were employees at a steel factory.
They had worked diligently for more than ten years before his father had finally risen to a minor leadership position.
Yet in order to raise him, his parents had pinched pennies and somehow managed to provide resources that ordinary people could never have afforded.
He had never wanted to let them down. His academic scores had been nearly perfect across the board, or he never would have gotten into Golden Scale High School.
For his sake, his parents had not even been willing to change houses. They had lived in this run-down workers’ apartment all these years.
And yet today, because he had taken one wrong step, his father was now being framed and sent to prison?
Song Chuhe was one hundred percent certain that his father had been implicated because of him.
Because the steel-processing factory where his parents worked belonged to the family of one of his male classmates.
And that rich second-generation classmate happened to be one of Song Yan’s suitors.
Ever since Song Yan had been beaten by Li Mu, she had vanished completely and stopped showing her face.
Then someone spread word of what had happened back when Golden Scale High School’s student council had held its meeting.
Everyone at Golden Scale High School learned that it was Song Yan who had made the final decision to continue challenging Blackwater High School.
But that issue had been raised by Song Chuhe.
He was the one who had said, “Goddess Song, say something.”
He was the one who had used Song Yan.
Song Yan’s admirers had quieted down somewhat after the fans who caused trouble were arrested.
But they could not blame Song Yan, and they had nowhere else to vent their frustration, so naturally they began venting it on Song Chuhe instead.
For Song Chuhe, this was nothing less than a hellish, undeserved disaster.
Everyone was targeting him. Everyone was trampling him into the dirt.
And now they had turned their attention to his parents. It was not just about making them lose their jobs. They wanted to send them to prison!
“Don’t worry. Dad will definitely be fine!”
“And even if the worst really happens and I do go to prison, it’ll probably only be for two or three years.”
“Son... the family will have to rely on you for a couple of years first.”
When he reached that point, his father let out a heavy sigh and spoke to Song Chuhe in a grave voice.
In that instant, Song Chuhe thought of countless possible solutions.
Did he have any way to prove his father’s innocence?
No.
Whether in money or influence, the initiative in this entire matter was in other people’s hands.
Tears of anguish ran down Song Chuhe’s face.
“Dad, I’m sorry...”
Song Jianmin quickly dragged his stool closer and wrapped a strong arm around Song Chuhe’s shoulders.
“Oh, my good son, my good son... don’t cry.”
“Do you remember what you told me before? That in this world, if you have no money, no power, and no strength, you’ll always be bullied.”
“And if you don’t want to be bullied, then you have to grit your teeth and fight for it.”
“Your father has always thought those words made a lot of sense.”
“The fact that you could say something like that already means you’re better than I am!”
“What is a little resistance like this to my son? Just keep looking forward. Keep moving toward turning your life around!”
“One day, you’ll definitely be your father’s pride!”
That night in the Song household was destined to contain not a trace of laughter.
Ironhand City, Military Residential District.
Inside Wang Longcheng’s living room.
Li Mu was currently receiving Wang Longcheng’s personal guidance.
“Before this, none of our country’s cities had ever connected with each other inside the Abyss.”
“But now, the city with the Abyss entrance closest to us in the Divine Elephant Nation is effectively connected to us.”
“So one of your major objectives is to determine exactly which city in the Divine Elephant Nation has the nearest Abyss entrance to us.”
“You also need to find out how far they are from us inside the Abyss.”
“Then you need to measure how far apart our two cities are above ground.”
“That way, you can provide valuable reference data to the Research Institute.”
“However, given our hostile relationship with the Divine Elephant Nation, this is going to be extremely difficult.”
Wang Longcheng was giving Li Mu a proper warning in advance.
Li Mu nodded.
Hostility was inevitable.
Not to mention that those trash from the Divine Elephant Nation had slaughtered his border soldiers.
Even if they had handed over that Vacuum Zone back then, if they then tried to negotiate with the Divine Elephant Nation to clarify this matter, the Divine Elephant Nation would still only push for more.
They had already clashed with Huaxia repeatedly before, and their attempts at aggression had hardly happened once or twice.
Now that Huaxia needed something from them, there was no way they would not take the opportunity to cut deeply.
Li Mu asked another question.
“There’s something else. I’ve actually always had only a vague understanding of teleportation gates and Teleportation Areas.”
“From Pearl Military District to that Vacuum Zone, both communication range and teleportation range fall short by sixty or seventy kilometers.”
“But Return Stones can still be used inside the Vacuum Zone to return directly to Pearl Military District.”
“We were only taught their use, not the principles behind them.”
Wang Longcheng chuckled, then beckoned to Wang Yinhuan.
“Come on, Yinhuan. You explain it to Li Mu.”
Wang Yinhuan answered shyly and walked over to sit opposite Li Mu.
Her pale hands folded together as she nervously rubbed them against her knees before asking,
“What do you want to know...?”
Li Mu repeated his question.
Wang Yinhuan nodded gently, then took out paper and a pen and spread them on the coffee table.
She leaned forward and began drawing as she explained.
To see more clearly, Li Mu naturally leaned his big head over too.
Their faces ended up very close together, close enough that they could hear each other’s breathing.
Li Mu could also smell a faint, girlish fragrance that went straight to his chest and lungs.
Of course, there was also a faint trace of smoke and warmth drifting over for some reason...Blushing, Wang Yinhuan drew as she explained, “The teleportation technology we currently possess is the crystallization of wisdom from our most cutting-edge researchers with space talents.”
“But due to technical limitations and the problem of raw materials, we still can’t achieve fixed point-to-point teleportation for anything other than returning to base.”
“For example, the teleportation gates in Pearl Military District.”
“We have so many teleportation gates, yet teleporting into the wild still lands us in random positions.”
“That’s because right now, all we can do is point-to-area teleportation.”
“You can think of our teleportation gates as human cannons.”
“When our people enter a teleportation gate, they get fired out and can only land somewhere within a very large target region.”
“That is point-to-area teleportation.”
“And because of the special nature of teleportation gates, they can only function perfectly inside Vacuum Zones in the Abyss.”
“They can’t operate properly in surface cities or in non-vacuum regions of the Abyss.”
“Our Return Stones are the only point-to-point teleportation mechanism, because they’re accessories of the teleportation gates.”
“For example, the Return Stones you usually use are accessory products of our military district’s largest teleportation gate, Gate One.”
“No matter where you activate a Return Stone, the teleportation formation it generates returns you to that teleportation gate.”
“It works by reclaiming energy, so its effective range is many times greater than the gate’s outward transmission range.”
Li Mu listened very carefully.
And with Wang Yinhuan drawing while she explained, he understood even faster.
“I see. Then what’s the most important thing right now in point-to-point teleportation research?”
Wang Yinhuan answered very directly, “Materials. Special materials that can serve as carriers for spatial operation.”
“The most common thing used in our current teleportation arrays is a type of crystal that contains special energy.”
“Beneath every one of our teleportation arrays is this kind of crystal, which bears the function of spatial operation.”
“The maximum distance a teleportation array can send a person is limited by this crystal.”
“Unfortunately, this crystal only has the traits of outward dispersion and inward retraction of its own energy.”
“In other words, the ability to send people outward and to receive Return Stones.”
“Let me give you an example.”
“Our current outward teleportation is like firing a cannon, right?”
“If there were a material in the target area that could emit some kind of signal,” “and that signal could let the cannon lock onto it precisely, then we’d be able to teleport accurately.”
“The stronger the signal it emitted, the smaller the teleportation range would become, until eventually it achieved true point-to-point teleportation.”
“Right now, the biggest subject for the Space Research Department at the Research Institute is finding that kind of material and increasing teleportation range.”
Wang Yinhuan explained it extremely clearly.
And Li Mu understood.
The reason he wanted these things clarified was so he would know what he was doing when the camp construction plan was finalized the day after tomorrow.
At that very moment, Li Mu’s phone rang.
The message was actually from Xing Yang.
“Tiger Marquis Li, do you have time? I have information to report!”