I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

Shen Xi blinked, nodded almost imperceptibly, turned back, picked up her chopsticks with an expressionless face and stared at the food in front of her, then suddenly gave the boy a symbolic blow under the table.

"Teacher Shen, why?" The boy was stunned.

"The rats stole my things again." The girl lowered her head, scooped up some congee, and put it in her mouth, her voice becoming muffled.

"It's just a shrimp dumpling? Here's a slice of beef for you." The boy took a piece of his stir-fried beef noodles and put it in her bowl.

The girl silently put it in her mouth and ate it, her cheeks bulging slightly as she chewed.

Looking at that pretty little face, the boy smiled, thought for a moment, then picked up his phone and opened WeChat to edit a message.

Shen Xi caught a glimpse of his screen and gave him a light kick under the table, her face showing displeasure. "Messageing your girlfriend again? You really do care."

"Teacher Shen, why are you being so cute again? I was just sending a message to Tang Yu to thank her." The boy waved the screen towards her.

"Reporter Tang, I received the goods. By the way, why weren't you notified beforehand that someone from above was being sent?"

"Send someone? Who? I don't even know. In principle, I should be your direct superior."

A reply came quickly from the other side.

"Yin Ranran, the one called Elise in the game, she's a transfer student now."

Shortly after the message was sent, a call request popped up on the other end.

Upon hearing the notification tone, the aloof girl opposite him looked up at Cheng Fei and narrowed her eyes.

The boy shrugged, pressed the answer button, turned on the speakerphone, and placed it on the table.

"Is your call secure?" came a familiar voice from the other end.

"Is it relatively safe?" The boy looked around.

The dim sum restaurant was noisy in the evening, and the two of them occupied a secluded spot by the window, where they went unnoticed.

As Shen Xi watched, she popped a shrimp dumpling into her mouth, making her cheeks bulge.

"When did she arrive?" Tang Yu asked immediately.

Cheng Fei realized she was referring to Yin Ranran. "Uh, in the last two days?"

"The foundation didn't send anyone to your area," Tang Yu said firmly.

"What's going on?" The boy and the girl opposite him exchanged a glance.

There was silence on the other end, followed by a series of keystrokes before someone spoke again, "She's from the Operations Research Department."

"Isn't it a department of the foundation?" the boy hesitated.

"It's a department of the Foundation, officially called the Protoss Technology Practical Application Operations Research Department. As the name suggests, it's a department that specializes in researching how to put known Protoss technologies into actual combat." The other person spoke very quickly.

"So Yin Ranran is an engineer inside?"

“She’s not an engineer. She’s undergone cybernetic enhancements. She’s a product of Protoss technology being put into practical use, the kind of people I told you about at the beginning.” There was a pause on the other end. “They’re called Apostles.”

Shen Xi frowned slightly.

Cheng Fei thought for a moment and said, "I've wanted to ask this before, what's this about the Apostles?"

He had inquired about this issue during their meeting before he joined the Foundation, but the other party's answer was vague. They only pointed out that modified humans like Ding Sheng called themselves apostles, but the connection between apostles and the Foundation remained unknown.

"This story begins with the origins of the Combat Research Department," Tang Yu said, softening his tone. "After realizing the threat posed by the Protoss Apostles, the Foundation began searching for ways to eliminate such high-risk targets. Conventional technologies, including those from other alien civilizations, were insufficient to combat the Protoss Apostles. In the end, they discovered that only Protoss technology, which originated from the same source, was effective."

Cheng Fei and Shen Xi waited silently for her to continue.

"The Combat Research Department was established at that time, bringing together a group of top talents to study Protoss technology and invest in weapons development. It eventually achieved great success. After the Foundation regarded the Protoss Apostles as the primary threat, the Combat Research Department became a special department of the Foundation, consuming the most resources."

"And then?" The boy seemed to understand something.

"Later, this group gradually developed their own ideas. They no longer regarded the Protoss Apostles as enemies, but instead called themselves Apostles. At first, everyone thought it was a joke, but it turned out they were serious. This faction gradually grew in the Foundation, and it is said that the higher-ups of the Steering Committee were also involved. It is an open secret." Tang Yu paused. "Now the Operations Research Department has its own intelligence and support departments, which are basically independent of other departments. It is said that they have even given themselves a new name."

"What's your name?" the boy asked curiously.

"Earth Protoss Organization, or EPO for short," Tang Yu said softly.

Cheng Fei thought for a moment, "So Yin Ranran was sent by the EPO?"

"Most likely, the EPO has this power to act autonomously without approval."

"I understand." The boy nodded tentatively.

"I can't help with this either. I don't know what they sent people for. You should ask them directly," the other person said.

After exchanging a few more brief words, Cheng Fei hung up the phone and looked at Shen Xi on the other end.

"What does Teacher Shen think?" the boy asked, shrugging.

"It seems Cheng Feiyu's performance has attracted attention." The girl sneered, suddenly feeling a sense of schadenfreude.

"Teacher Shen, you're so cute." The boy shook his head and sighed, "You're the one who needs to attract attention, the S-class senior specialist who single-handedly destroyed a failed operation."

The girl's face turned ugly, and she kicked him hard. "So this is Cheng Feiyu's reason for blaming everything on me, so he can easily escape unscathed?!"

"Not at all, it's just a matter of course," the boy shook his head.

After returning from Antarctica, Tang Yu asked the two to write a report. To make the content seem plausible, he wrote that he was attacked by the failed project and fell into a coma. When he woke up, Shen Xi had already taken him back to the monitoring station.

Incidentally, the girl wrote that she couldn't remember the details.

"A guilty-hearted piece of trash, he acted like a hero then, but denied it afterwards." Shen Xi gritted her teeth and turned her face away, her expression unreadable, neither resentment nor anything else.

"Not at all, it was all to protect Teacher Shen." The boy sighed, picked up a shrimp dumpling and brought it to her lips. "Since things have come to this, let's eat first, shall we?"

The girl first leaned back to avoid it, then used her own chopsticks to take the shrimp dumpling before reluctantly putting it into her mouth.

After a while, the two filled their stomachs and left the dim sum restaurant.

Cheng Fei unceremoniously grasped Shen Xi's small hand, their fingers intertwined.

The girl's eyes flickered, her stubborn pink lips remained tightly closed, and she looked at the street as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't noticed anything.

"Teacher Shen, so the situation is now very clear. Do you have any leads?" the boy asked earnestly.

"Go over there." The girl suddenly raised her chin, her voice cold and unreadable.

"Which way?" The boy paused, followed her gaze, and was surprised to see the familiar upscale apartment building. "Teacher Shen is coming back?"

"Nonsense, nobody here wants to come back. They were all forced by Cheng Feiyu." The girl glared at him, then covered her mouth with a serious expression. "Before his girlfriend came back, he actually took me to the place where I used to live. Who knows what dirty things he's going to do next."

The boy watched her fall silent, then hesitated, "Teacher Shen, we were just discussing serious matters, and suddenly you've started playing around. Haven't you noticed that your little brain is getting more and more erratic?"

"Fine, you can keep slandering me, but it was all forced by Cheng Feiyu. What does it have to do with me?" The girl glared at him fiercely, her uniform shoes striking him forcefully.

"Yes, yes, I forced you to." The boy could only nod, then put his arm around her shoulder and hugged her slender body. "Since that's the case, would you please cooperate, Ms. Shen? Shall we go upstairs and talk more?"

"I know, you disgusting trash." The girl's face showed no disgust, and she remained motionless.

So the two of them went into the upscale apartment and arrived at the entrance on the thirty-sixth floor.

"Teacher Shen, please open the door." Cheng Fei gestured for her to enter through the closed door.

"How am I supposed to open the door?" The girl frowned slightly, her face filled with confusion.

"Of course it was opened with a fingerprint, didn't we always do that?" The boy pointed to the door lock.

Although he had the password, the usual practice was for Shen Xi to open the door when she was there, since fingerprints could be recognized simply by holding the doorknob.

“This is your girlfriend’s house, how could I possibly have fingerprints? The past is the past, and the present is the present.” The girl looked at him with an incomprehensible expression.

The boy looked at her, speechless for a moment.

"Yes." He nodded helplessly, entered the password to open the door, and then gestured for her to come inside.

The aloof young woman then walked in, standing in the entryway and looking inside with a cold expression.

"As expected, she hasn't come back yet." Cheng Fei followed her inside and saw Nagasaki Asuna's slippers on the ground.

They came back too early; the study session of the Corridor Research Department will probably continue for a while longer.

Shen Xi opened the shoe cabinet, took out her slippers and placed them on the ground. Then, holding onto the cabinet with her small hands, she lifted her slender legs one by one to change her shoes, the same action she had done countless times before.

The boy stood behind, watching the scene with a sense of detachment.

The girl glanced at him halfway through changing, then turned back, her soft, delicate feet encased in black over-the-knee socks slipping into her slippers. "You're staring again. How disgusting."

After changing her shoes, the girl didn't leave her uniform shoes behind, but carried them in her hands and walked forward.

Cheng Fei followed behind, completely bewildered. "Teacher Shen, why are you carrying your shoes?"

"None of your business." The girl walked inside without turning her head.

"Alright." The boy had nothing to say, glanced at the tightly closed door one last time, and followed her.

Shen Xi went into her room, opened the cabinet, looked around, and started taking things out of it.

"Teacher Shen, what are you doing again?" the boy asked, watching from the side.

"If you're taking personal belongings, at least don't stand there staring at me like this. If you're going to do something, wait a bit." The girl glared at him again.

"Okay." The boy thought for a moment, but didn't stop her. He nodded respectfully and left the room, standing in the corridor watching the entrance and wondering where Nagasaki Asuna was.

In the room, the aloof girl folded a few clothes and put them into her shoulder bag. She looked around and then went to the bedside table to get something.

During this time, he caught a glimpse of the scene on the bed out of the corner of his eye, and his gaze shifted.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, a hint of suspicion on her face. She lifted the blanket, which was folded almost exactly like it had been before she left, and first picked up the pillow to check it. Finding nothing, she then leaned over the sheet to scan it closely, and her pupils contracted.

If you look closely in that place, you will find some kind of faint trace; the color of the fabric is different from the surroundings.

She lowered her head, her smooth, delicate nose touching that area, sniffing slightly. As if sensing something, her brows furrowed, and her face became even more unpleasant.

Next, the girl began to search the entire bed thoroughly, leaving no hidden crevice unchecked.

Finally, the girl found half a soft object near the head of the bed, where the sheet tucked into the mattress.

It was coffee-colored, straight and smooth, like the fur of some kind of animal.

The girl stared intently at the hair whose color was so familiar, took a deep breath, her flat chest heaving rapidly, and her small hands trembling.

After a while.

As Cheng Fei leaned against the wall in the hallway, hands in his pockets, yawning listlessly, the bedroom door next to him opened.

A cool, aloof girl with long, dark hair walked out and looked up at him expressionlessly.

"Teacher Shen, why did you suddenly change your form?" the boy asked, puzzled.

The girl tied her hair into waist-length pigtails, revealing her fair and delicate neck and ears, as well as the perfectly rounded cheeks on her oval face, making her beautiful but cold face become lively again.

At the same time, the girl put on the uniform shoes she had been holding.

"Cheng Feiyu doesn't like it?" Shen Xi watched him tilt his head, her eyes unblinking. "He's in his cute twin-tails mode now."

As she spoke, she flicked her shiny, flowing ponytail at the back of her head, her expression and tone nonchalant, as if she were talking about a trivial matter.

The boy swallowed silently.

The girl watched his reaction, then walked up to him. She first looked at him closely, allowing the boy to better appreciate her delicate face. Then she opened her arms and climbed onto his back, burying her face in his chest. Her spotless black uniform shoes stood on tiptoe, bending at the front, using the transfer of weight to bring the two closer together.

"Teacher Shen?" The boy looked down at her, hesitating.

"It's been two days since I last saw my little cutie. Cheng Feiyu must be tired of his girlfriend too. Anyway, even if she's the most beautiful girl in Yinghua School, she can't compare to my little cutie's round face, which is the cutest in the multiverse, right?" The girl looked up and met his eyes again, speaking in a tone that stated the facts.

Shen Xi, you are really arrogant now. The boy wanted to say this, but when he met those pure, dark eyes and saw that beautiful little face that seemed to contain all the beauty in the world, he didn't say it.

"Teacher Shen, what tricks are you using today?" The boy subtly put his arm around her frail waist.

"What does Cheng Feiyu want to do to the little cutie now?" The girl tilted her head, her stubborn pink lips parted slightly, and at the same time, she tried harder to stand on her tiptoes. As a result of this action, the position of the boy's palm moved relative to it.

Some are plump and full-figured, exuding a strong presence.

The boy became stiff.

"Come here, and then you can pinch this little cutie's round face and look at his art-like over-the-knee socks and uniform shoes." Shen Xi's soft voice was like the song of a siren in the mist, pulling the boy towards the bedroom across the way.

1052. Shen Xi's new challenge after arguing with Nagasaki Asuna is

The room, furnished with a girlish ambiance, was quiet.

A cool, aloof girl with long, flowing pigtails strolled in, her eyes slightly narrowed as she glanced around.

The boy looked around, the image of Nagasaki Asuna appearing before his eyes, and coughed lightly, "Teacher Shen, how about we go to your place instead? This isn't really appropriate."