I Was Scammed By A Snow Leopard cub - Chapter 25

Chapter 25 – Gaming Together

After answering the last question, the day’s lecture officially came to an end. The live camera was turned off, but the people in the auditorium did not leave immediately.

Xie Yingcheng put on his military cap again and walked toward the audience from the steps on the side of the stage. The crowd parted to make way for him, and he came to Luo Yu and the cub, holding the cub’s other hand.

Tuan Tuan’s nose was covered with sweat, and his eyes were shining: “Father is so awesome!”

Xie Yingcheng responded with a low sound and touched the cub’s head.

There were too many people around, so he approached Luo Yu, leaned over slightly, and asked in his ear: “Are you feeling unwell?”

Luo Yu felt a slight itch where his breath touched, and subconsciously took a step back to distance himself, shaking his head: “It’s okay, but there are too many people, I’m not used to it.”

Xie Yingcheng raised his eyebrows and looked around, and the crowd watching secretly immediately withdrew their gazes. He picked up the cub and signaled Luo Yu to follow him with his eyes. “Let’s go out first.”

Several students from the Conducting Department who were about to ask questions immediately stopped when they saw this, as they were too embarrassed to disturb the family. After Xie Yingcheng left first, the people who stayed in the auditorium slowly dispersed, but the discussion around him was still heated.

“See? The Admiral seems to be much gentler in front of his family.”

“I discussed the admiral’s sudden retirement announcement with my friends before. Now it seems that he just wants to spend more time with his family.”

The direction of public opinion has quietly changed, suppressing some deliberate provocations with ill intentions. Wen Yan, who has been paying close attention, couldn’t help but send a message to Xie Yingcheng.

[Have you figured it all out?]

However, Xie Yingcheng had no time to reply because the kid suddenly grabbed his sleeve after leaving the auditorium and asked, “Did father go to school here?” The kid stared at the huge lecture bulletin board at the door. There were four big words in the long list of titles in front of Xie Yingcheng’s name – Outstanding Alumni.

Xie Yingcheng said “hmm” to answer the cub’s question, and Luo Yu saw the cub looking around the campus curiously in Xie Yingcheng’s arms, and his heart moved.

“Tuan Tuan, are you curious? Do you want to take a tour of the school?” Luo Yu noticed when he came here that because of today’s lecture, the Main Star Military Academy specially opened up the right to free visits. At that time, he thought that if he had the chance, he would take the little one for a tour.

On campus, the kids can experience the atmosphere of being with a large number of people of the same age.

The cub was excited by the suggestion and asked his father in a low voice: “Can Tuan Tuan visit your school?”

Xie Yingcheng glanced at Luo Yu with an ambiguous look: “Do you want to visit too?”

Luo Yu felt a little guilty and nodded calmly.

Xie Yingcheng handed the cub to Luo Yu and sent a message to the school administrator. Soon someone delivered a pass for entering certain places on campus, such as the cafeteria, exhibition hall, and simulation room.

The administrator was very warm and polite: “Admiral, please feel free to visit with your family! It is our honor to have you teach at our school.”

Xie Yingcheng took the pass, raised his eyes and asked the cub and Luo Yu: “Where do you want to go?”

The cub immediately raised his hand and answered: “Tuan Tuan wants to go to the simulation room!”

Uncle Wen Yan said that he often went there with his father when he was in school! You can play the Star Wars game!

“Uncle Wen Yan said that father is not as good as him. Father, is this true?” Tuan Tuan asked curiously. Xie Yingcheng did not comment and led his men to the simulated training area of the Main Star Military Academy.

From a long distance you can see a huge teaching building and training ground, which consists of several simulation training rooms for starship driving, weapon use, tactical simulation… This is the place most frequently visited by almost every military academy student, and it is also one of the places with the most traffic.

Xie Yingcheng did not choose to take the cub and Luo Yu in through the main entrance, but chose a side door that he often went through. He walked upstairs with ease, swiped his pass, and the door of a simulation room opened, and the cub let out a sound of surprise.

“So, so big!!”

The simulation training room was very spacious, with several huge electronic screens in the center, surrounded by various operating tables. On the right side of the room was a small rest area, and on the left was an entire independent weapons room equipped with some teaching weapons used only for actual combat simulations.

Xie Yingcheng turned on the electronic screen and operating console, logged in using the pass given by the administrator, and dozens of simulation options popped up on the screen.

Xie Yingcheng lowered his head and asked the cub: “Which one do you want to see?”

The cub tiptoed beside the operating table and after struggling for a long time, he chose the first combat exercise. Luo Yu was watching quietly at the side when suddenly an operating handle was thrown into his arms.

Luo Yu: “?”

Xie Yingcheng remained calm and said, “Two-player battle.” The young boy who couldn’t even reach the buttons on the console obviously couldn’t experience it himself.

Seeing that Xie Yingcheng had already entered the preparation interface, Luo Yu hurriedly said, “I don’t know how to do this!”

He is just an ordinary civilian, how could he possibly operate anything related to a warship?

Xie Yingcheng filled in the maximum amount in the reward column as if he hadn’t heard anything. Without even looking up, he said, “Just think of it as playing dodgeball. Just avoid the meteorites.”

“…” Luo Yu was helpless and added in a low voice: “Don’t blame me if you lose.”

Xie Yingcheng raised his head and adjusted the parameters on the operating table. He said firmly, “I won’t lose.”

Arrogant and confident.

In the online matching hall of the Main Star Military Academy, the sudden appearance of a high bounty immediately attracted the attention of the cadets, and someone immediately joined the room and started the simulation.

Luo Yu was originally worried that he would be a drag, but later realised that his worries were completely unnecessary.

The oncoming enemy planes were destroyed before they even got close. The all-round, no-dead-angle ballistic adjustment and the terrifyingly accurate point-to-point sniping tore a vacuum line in the center of the battlefield where the fighting was most intense.

Xie Yingcheng is terribly strong.

After realizing this very clearly, Luo Yu really did as he said at the beginning and occasionally controlled the starship to avoid obstacles flying around.

This is too easy. Luo Yu suspects Tuan Tuan could do it too.

Bored, Luo Yu’s sight gradually shifted to the operating table in front of him. He watched Xie Yingcheng’s fingertips move and jump on the keys like playing a piano. When he came to his senses, the starship was about to collide head-on with the flying debris.

Luo Yu:!!!

At this moment, a hand reached out from the side, accurately grasped his wrist, and with a little force…

The starship narrowly missed the debris.

Luo Yu subconsciously looked to the side. Xie Yingcheng’s eyes were still focused and he never left the electronic screen. It was just that when he withdrew his hand, his fingertips accidentally brushed the back of his hand.

“Focus.”

The places he touched seemed to be electrified, and Luo Yu quickly focused his attention back on the screen, not daring to be distracted again. Three minutes later, the game officially ended, and the bounty was returned to the account intact.

When leaving the simulation training building, Luo Yu saw many military academy students gathered in twos and threes, discussing something. When he passed by, he found that they were discussing the simulated battle just now.

A boy pointed at the video and said firmly: “We actually lost just now! This must be a teacher from the Information Department testing the automatic battle takeover program. How could anyone perform such an operation?”

Although his companion was unwilling to accept it, he subconsciously retorted calmly: “Why is it impossible? Wasn’t the previous demonstration tutorial typed by a human?”

The two were arguing, analyzing the details of the battle one by one, and summarizing the reasons for their loss. Suddenly, a childish voice interrupted them.

“Yes, it was my father who beat you, not a machine.” The cub, who had returned deliberately, boasted about this and immediately ran away to catch up with the two parents who had already kept some distance between them.

The cub’s little face was rosy and it looked extremely happy.

Later, they visited the classroom and library and had dinner in the cafeteria. It was dark when they returned home, and Luo Yu took the opportunity to tell the cub a bedtime story and asked the cub about his feelings about the visit to the school today.

“Is Tuan Tuan happy to visit the school today?”

“Happy! Super happy!” the little guy answered quickly.

“What does Tuan Tuan like the most?” Luo Yu already had the answer to this question in his mind. Sure enough, Tuan Tuan chose the actual combat simulation without hesitation.

“Father is so awesome! Tuan Tuan wants to be like father when he grows up! To be very, very awesome!” The cub drew a big circle in the air with his little hands.

Luo Yu unconsciously raised the corners of his lips and quietly prepared: “Then Tuan Tuan needs to work hard. Father graduated from the Main Star Military Academy, right?”

After hearing this, the cub suddenly became quiet, and his waving hands were retracted into the quilt. He pursed his lips and struggled for a while before asking Luo Yu in a low voice.

“Can Tuan Tuan also attend the Main Star Military Academy?”

Luo Yu gently tapped the cub’s nose and said tentatively: “Not yet, because Tuan Tuan is not old enough. But there are schools that Tuan Tuan can go to now, such as… kindergarten?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the cub’s little head that was exposed outside quickly shrank into the quilt, and the whole body curled up into a ball, without saying a word.

Still not working…Luo Yu sighed.

Was he being too impatient? Maybe he should use a more tactful approach and proceed step by step.

At this moment, a muffled voice suddenly came from under the quilt: “…Luo Luo, are there many children like Tuan Tuan in the kindergarten?”

“Yes, just like when Tuan Tuan visited the Main Star Military Academy today, there were many older brothers and sisters there.”

“What are the kids in the kindergarten like? If I lose a game, will they throw stones at Tuan Tuan? Or will they be the same as those two older brothers?”

The cub was actually very envious. He envied his father for being able to play games with Uncle Wen Yan, and he also envied Luo Luo for being able to play games with his father.

The cub also wanted to play games with others, but whenever he lost a game, others would blame the cub for the loss, saying that he was stupid and couldn’t transform, so he lost the game. It hurt when stones hit him, and the cub never wanted to think about it again.

However, the two older brothers he met today also lost the game, but they did not throw stones or blame each other. Instead, they analyzed the reasons together.

The cub poked his head out from under the blanket and whispered, “If they are like those two big brothers, Tuan Tuan wants to go.”

Luo Yu touched the cub’s hair and couldn’t help but feel extremely proud of the little guy’s bravery.

Next, it’s time to convince a stubborn parent.