Break out of the courtyard

The gathering of the wealthy wives of Peace Property at the beginning of the month has become a must-do event for the upper class in Hong Kong and Macau, thanks to the initiative of the Cheung family, the richest family in Hong Kong Island, and has been maintained for many years.

Any woman who hasn't attended a Zhang family gathering on Victoria Peak would be embarrassed to call herself rich.

Of course, the gatherings of wealthy women today are no longer simply about playing mahjong or exchanging business information.

The marriage of Zhang's children attracted many young masters and ladies to gather. Although Zhang Bei and Zhang Nan did not find a match, some of them still took a liking to each other.

Therefore, the reason these wealthy women came to the Zhang family for a gathering at the beginning of the month was actually to find a suitable in-law.

Otherwise, so many Chinese businessmen wouldn't be buying properties on Hong Kong Island and entrusting them to Peace Property Management.

Tang Xin doesn't let just anyone into the community. Even if someone has many properties under the management of Heping Real Estate, without prior recommendation, they can forget about entering the Renheyi community gate.

When Director Wang arrived with the two girls, he saw a number of bodyguards outside the Renheyi residential area driving away unimportant people and vehicles.

Climbing the social ladder by associating with the powerful and wealthy has always been a shortcut for ordinary people to achieve upward social mobility.

Throughout history, marrying into a wealthy family has always been the most convenient option.

Director Wang didn't go to see those young girls who had been carefully packaged but were ruthlessly driven away.

If we follow her idea, we should set up a checkpoint at the intersection at the foot of the mountain to stop all irrelevant people.

In the early years, bodyguards from the Umbrella Corporation actually did this.

However, as land on Victoria Peak was continuously sold, and foreign spies tried to scout the area legally, they secretly instigated some Hong Kong Island residents to protest against the Umbrella Corporation's bodyguards for violently blocking the road and obstructing citizens' right to go up the mountain for sightseeing!
Therefore, the Hong Kong government sent people to communicate with Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting.

The Hong Kong government ultimately decided to sell the hillside and slope outside the Yan Wo Yee residential complex, Umbrella Phase 1 and Phase 2 to the Cheung family, allowing their bodyguards to legally drive away unrelated personnel outside the complex in exchange for them not stopping people at the road intersection at the foot of the hill.

As for the right to use the mountain road, when no one is bothered, it becomes an ordinary road that everyone can use.

If anyone causes trouble, then I'm sorry, this is private property!

Director Wang frequently visits the Zhang family, and since he has placed many people in the mainland into the Protective Umbrella Security Company as bodyguards, many of the bodyguards here recognize Director Wang.

If Director Wang goes in alone, she only needs to scan her face at the door, undergo inspection, and announce her presence to enter.

But since she brought two unfamiliar girls with her today, there are a few more procedures to follow.

Just as Director Wang was accompanying the two young girls in line to have their identity information entered, Zhang Bei, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a moon-white suit, walked out.

"Grandma Wang, my dad asked me to take you in." Zhang Bei said casually as he approached Wang Sumei, without looking at the others, including the two young women next to him who didn't know how to dress up.

Upon hearing this, Director Wang was naturally pleased to be spared the queue, but noticing the gold-rimmed glasses on Zhang Bei's nose, he couldn't help but ask with concern, "Xiao Bei, are you nearsighted? When did you get your glasses?"

Director Wang was extremely puzzled, because neither she nor Elder Hua had received any information in this regard, unless there was a problem with the intelligence network here.

But there were other bodyguards behind her, and none of them had given her any unusual information.

"It's just a picture frame, my dad just made it," Zhang Bei explained simply, without mentioning that it was his father's third-generation micro-brain-computer interface with recyclable mental energy.

Director Wang stared at Zhang Bei's back for a moment, but then, considering that ordinary people cannot use brain-computer interfaces for extended periods, he immediately ruled out the possibility that the gold-rimmed glasses were a brain-computer interface.

Zhang Bei led them to cut in line, and after their identity information was collected at the entrance of the residential area, they went straight to the villa.

If Zhang Bei doesn't come out to pick them up, but instead lets the two young girls that the bodyguards brought to Director Wang cut in line, it will cause another round of complaints.

After all, they are young masters and ladies from wealthy families. Why should two unsophisticated women be allowed to cut in line?

However, things changed when Zhang Bei came out to pick them up.

Because those young masters and ladies who haven't yet registered their identity information all want to curry favor with the Zhang family, or at the very least, get their mothers into the circle of wealthy wives in Hong Kong Island to expand their family's network for business purposes.

Therefore, no one dared to complain, or even utter a single word of gossip, for fear of being reported to the authorities.

"Brother, how much longer can you hold on?" Zhang Hu came over with a stopwatch that was still running, staring intently at the gold-rimmed glasses on Zhang Bei's nose.

Zhang Bei took out a stopwatch from his pocket, glanced at it, and replied softly, "If it only circles around in front of me and doesn't touch anything else, I feel like I can maintain it for another two or three hours."

"So long?" Zhang Hu was a little unhappy. "Why don't you take it off first and see if you feel any discomfort? Then we can try to see how long you can wear it later."

Zhang Bei pressed the stopwatch, stopping the numbers at 1832 seconds.

Then, he smiled and took off his gold-rimmed glasses, saying, "Go tell Dad first, then I'll put the frames on you."

"Hehe!" Zhang Hu chuckled and followed his older brother into the villa to find their father in the basement.

Director Wang, who was silently watching the two brothers whispering, recalled the doubts he had about the entrance to the community and wondered if those glasses were really brain-computer interfaces.
Just as Director Wang was wondering, Zhang Feng walked towards them.

"Grandma Wang, what would you like to drink?" As Zhang Feng spoke, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes had already sized up the two simply dressed, seemingly unskilled women who didn't know how to put on makeup.

Wang Sumei glanced at the two somewhat reserved girls behind her, smiled, and introduced them to Zhang Feng. Then she told them to follow Zhang Feng to the self-service area to get drinks and desserts, while she found an empty plastic table and chairs to reserve a spot. She didn't rush to introduce the two girls to Zhang Bei and Zhang Hu, nor did she go up to ask about the gold-rimmed glasses.

Compared to the young women around them who were dressed up in their finest attire, Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhao didn't have much of an advantage.

Their advantage is not their appearance, but the fact that they both have family members in positions of power.

Furthermore, since they came to Hong Kong Island with their parents to develop their careers, they clearly do not have the old-fashioned mindset; otherwise, Director Wang would not have brought them here.

There was another important reason why Director Wang wasn't in a hurry to introduce the two girls to Zhang Bei and his group: Zhang Bei and Zhang Hu didn't even glance at the two girls.

Since things might not work out, Director Wang changed his mindset and suggested that they could just become friends. Perhaps they would naturally come together as they got to know each other better.

However, it was those gold-rimmed glasses that caught her attention, making her want to go in and ask Zhang Heping about them.

But then I thought, even if I got the information, what good would it do?
Since the incident with the State Grid Corporation of China, Wang Sumei felt that the Zhang family had developed a rift with the mainland.

In particular, when Zhang Heping proposed an "equal exchange," Wang Sumei felt that the rift became even more pronounced.

Therefore, Wang Sumei felt that regardless of whether the glasses were a new type of brain-computer interface, she didn't need to worry about it.

The most urgent task is to facilitate marriages between Zhang Heping's children and mainlanders, so as to continue the family line and bind the Zhang family together emotionally. Only in this way can we gradually acquire Zhang Heping's new technologies.

Just as Director Wang was calculating his next move on the edge of the plain, Zhang Bei walked out of the villa alone, without his gold-rimmed glasses.

Meanwhile, Zhang Hu, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, was in the cast iron room of the underground laboratory, familiarizing himself with the use of the third-generation brain-computer interface.

For this reason, Zhang Long also took some time to visit the villa.

If Tang Xin hadn't returned and asked Zhang Long and Zhang Hu to come out and meet guests, the two brothers would probably have stayed in the underground laboratory until late at night.

The mystery surrounding the gold-rimmed glasses wasn't resolved until noon when Zhang Heping also came out wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses with gold rims. Only then did Director Wang confirm one thing with certainty: Zhang Heping's research on brain-computer interfaces had made new progress.

This situation definitely needs to be reported to Elder Hua.

However, Wang Sumei's purpose in coming here was to introduce Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhao to her, and she was not in a hurry to call and report the matter.

To her utter surprise, after she told Mr. Hua about the gold-rimmed glasses that evening, he asked her three times, "Are you sure?"

Finally, Mr. Hua told Director Wang to stay on Hong Kong Island, as he would fly there the next morning.

That night, not only did Elder Hua and Elder Yang stay up very late, but Zhang Heping's family did too.

When Elder Hua and Director Wang arrived at the Zhang family's house on the top of Taiping Mountain the following afternoon, they could still see the dark circles under Zhang Bei and Zhang Long's eyes.

Perhaps Tang Xin and Zhang Nan also had makeup on, but women wear makeup, so Hua Lao couldn't tell.

Zhang Bei did not take Hua Lao and Director Wang to the underground laboratory. After Zhang Heping arrived in the living room, he also refused Hua Lao's idea of ​​visiting the underground laboratory.

"Xiao Bei, take off your glasses and let Elder Hua try them on." After refusing Elder Hua's request, Zhang Heping directly stated their purpose.

Zhang Bei first gestured for Director Wang to stand aside, then handed his gold-rimmed glasses to Elder Hua, before quickly stepping aside to keep his distance from Elder Hua.

Although Zhang Heping's mental energy could cover Hua Lao's surroundings, for safety's sake, Zhang Heping always asked his wife and children to be careful with their mental energy, because it was a double-edged sword and could hurt them if they weren't careful.

Zhang Heping was so cautious not only because of the destructive power of mental energy, but also because of the influence of the experimental reports of the seven cerebral palsy monkeys in the Biological Gene Laboratory Building of Shenzhen Peace College.

After Zhang Heping used a second-generation brain-computer interface to release the abnormal brainwaves in the brains of the seven monkeys with cerebral palsy, and then Zhang Heping's mental power carefully examined the monkeys' brains, the seven monkeys' brains were damaged to varying degrees.

Later, at Zhang Heping's request, the laboratory in Shenzhen treated the seven cerebral palsy monkeys with a regenerative repair fluid.

However, their recovery was not ideal, because after the seven monkey brains underwent regeneration and repair, there was a lot of damaged regenerated brain tissue in their skulls, which took up space inside the skull.

Even after performing craniotomy to remove excess growths, they were not restored to normal monkeys.

Old Hua held the gold-rimmed glasses in front of his eyes and examined them carefully, turning them over and over. Apart from the fact that the gold on both sides of the glasses was wider, possibly hiding a miniature brain-computer interface, he could not see anything unusual.

Before putting on the frames, Mr. Hua looked at Zhang Heping, who was also wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and asked, "Heping, should I just put them on like this? Are there any precautions?"

"You'll understand once you put them on!" Zhang Heping chuckled as he adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses.

Last night, his wife and children took turns using the frame, and because gold is soft, the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose became slightly deformed.

The gold-rimmed glasses that Mr. Hua was holding were the same; they were a bit loose on him.

Of course, these minor issues are not important; some hardening and protection can be done later.

After Mr. Hua put on his gold-rimmed glasses, no one in the living room spoke; everyone was watching his reaction.

Meanwhile, Elder Hua was astonished that the spiritual energy that had emanated from his left temple had circled around outside before returning to his right temple by a faint suction force… (End of Chapter)