Publicly Defying Orders

Cang Qi rare looked solemn.

The cute baby face looked like a wrinkled meat bun.

Serious.

Yet wanting to pet him.

"Twelve years ago, Master Mo-er, the Blue River System's famous ace mechanic, once released the blueprint for the 'Slave-Driving Eye'.

Releasing blueprints before creating new machinery was Master Mo-er's habit.

Yet the 'Slave-Driving Eye' was different. At the time, the blueprint of the 'Slave-Driving Eye' caused quite a sensation in the mechanical circles."

Cang Qi said,

"Master Mo-er always insisted that the machinery manufactured by mechanics should not strip away human rights.

The ultimate goal of a mechanic manufacturing machinery was to benefit all humanity in the Blue River System.

Yet the 'Slave-Driving Eye' possessed a clear distinction between a master control and secondary controls, and possessed a 'self-destruct device' controllable only by the master control.

After being embedded into the eyes of those with the secondary controls, it could never be detached throughout their lives. If the master control died, the 'self-destruct device' would also activate.

The two words 'slave-driving' derived precisely from this."

Lu Mi asked, "How does it transmit information?"

Cang Qi replied, "It cannot transmit sound directly. The blue light that just appeared in Peter's memories is its 'communication method'.

The master control transmits text via blue light, forming an image in the eyes of the secondary controls.

After the person with the secondary control speaks and changes the font, it is transmitted back via blue light again.

The 'Slave-Driving Eye' severely violated Master Mo-er's long-standing insistence that human rights come first, drawing no small amount of abuse at the time.

However, on the third day after the release of the 'Slave-Driving Eye' blueprint, Master Mo-er died in an accident.

This controversy thus subsided with the passing of Master Mo-er."

Lin Luo, standing to one side, said, "So, someone is now using Master Mo-er's blueprint to manufacture the 'Slave-Driving Eye'?"

Cang Qi nodded. "It looks that way.

Although the blueprint of the 'Slave-Driving Eye' is breathtaking, its feasibility endlessly equals '0'.

The complexity of its internal structure is equivalent in real volume to a single-person apartment. Space folding must be used to make it meet the eye-entry condition.

Space folding has long been experimentally proven to exist, and the Mechanics Guild has always had research topics on it.

However, researching it to this day, still no one has made a true breakthrough."

Lu Mi: "Yet the 'Slave-Driving Eye' was manufactured."

Cang Qi nodded.

"This indicates a mechanic broke through a major bottleneck of space folding.

Whoever can do this step is definitely a genius among mechanics, an ace among aces.

Yet in recent years, no geniuses have popped up in the Blue River System besides myself, who keep a low profile and never wanted fame!"

Cang Qi clutched his head. "So annoying, I'm definitely going to suffer from insomnia lately!"

Lu Mi lacked Cang Qi's obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He was a typical underachiever in mindset: if he couldn't figure something out, he simply didn't think about it; questions he couldn't do were skipped directly, and writing a 'Solution' to indicate he had walked past them was enough.

Lu Mi skipped this topic directly.

"Did you notice? Just now in Peter's memories, he said something."

"What?"

"He said, 'Having Ming Qiuxue interrogate Yu Tu can still serve two purposes with one stone.'"

Concerning Yu Tu, Lu Mi's brain spun at high speed, quickly arriving at a conclusion.

"Ming Qiuxue is their second target."

This answer was actually not difficult to guess.

Yu Tu was designated from the very beginning to be sent into the Second Prison.

If not for Lu Mi's intervention, Yu Tu would probably have lost his life already.

Lu Mi couldn't help but sneer.

"Wanting Yu Tu to die, yet sanctimoniously observing the laws of the Blue River System and unwilling to leave grounds for gossip, then burying his memories and sending him to Calamity Planet, being confident that Ming Qiuxue would obey and kill Yu Tu, and finally being able to use this matter to make trouble for Ming Qiuxue—across the entire Blue River System, I can only think of one person."

Inside Cang Qi's workshop, the gazes of several people collided in the air one after another.

Lu Mi curved his lips into a baring, grinning smile.

"That is our handsome and mighty Your Majesty of the Blue River."

Cang Qi angrily bit his finger.

"If it really is like this, then he's going way too far! The Ming family is already like this, what else does he want to do?"

Lu Mi sneered. "What else does he want to do? As long as a person is alive, they can fight for breath, and Ming Qiuxue is still a Diamond-Grade Golden Python. Only when Ming Qiuxue dies can he feel at ease!"

Lu Mi pushed open the door and walked out of the workshop. "This matter isn't over yet. Although Yu Tu's special interrogation is in the Second Prison, Ming Qiuxue didn't intervene. If I guess correctly, Lan Xiao won't let go of this good opportunity."

Before he had walked a few steps, Zhang Jiao ran over from the corridor holding a tablet.

Mo Ke followed closely behind in large strides, walking very steadily.

"Prison Warden Lu, it's bad! Just now, higher-ups issued a 'Suspension Order'! They demand Ming Qiuxue be suspended, and the affairs of the Second Prison shall be temporarily and fully overseen by Third Prison Warden Qi An!"

"So fast?" Lu Mi's steps paused. "The reason for suspension?"

Zhang Jiao panted heavily; probably having just been dizzy, he now saw a few stars before his eyes.

"It's suspension punishment carried out for non-action regarding 0456's emergency interrogation!"

Lu Mi sneered. "As expected."

Zhang Jiao said, "Right, Prison Warden Lu, the higher-ups demand that you transfer Yu Tu and send him to the Third Prison, to be fully guarded by Prison Warden Qi!"

Lu Mi: "..."

Having guessed so much, he hadn't guessed that his own business could be involved in this.

Lu Mi continued to lift his foot and walk outward.

"Zhang Jiao, help me reply using my exact words.

You help me tell the higher-ups, let them—'Go have pipe dreams!'"

Yu Tu was guarded by the Black Shadow, and Lu Mi temporarily sensed no emotional anomalies from the Black Shadow. He directly led people to the Second Prison.

Outside the grand gates of the Second Prison, at least a hundred Third Prison prison officers wearing blue uniforms stood by in solemn readiness holding energy guns.

Lu Mi walked up in large strides, yet they still showed no intention of stepping aside.

Lu Mi sneered. "What, can that old fogey Qi An still use a feather as an arrow as a command? Am I someone you can just block if you want to?"

Lu Mi waved a hand, giving the merciless order: "Beat the crap out of them!"

Behind him, the First Prison prison officers darted forward swiftly like sharp swords.

Lu Mi warned at the same time: "Try twitching the energy guns in your hands and see what happens? Whoever dares try, I'll make them kick the bucket on the spot."

Originally no one dared to casually twitch an energy gun to begin with, and with Lu Mi's words, the Third Prison prison officers hurriedly put their guns away.

The instant they put the energy guns away, the First Prison prison officers had also arrived.

Fists came to say hello.

The sound of bang, bang, bang hammering faces one after another—this was a genuine beating.

The Third Prison prison officers were dazed by this archaic style of fighting, yet recovered in the span of a mere breath.

"Damn, they're actually hitting!"

"You don't hit the face when fighting, holy crap!"

"Beat them up!"

"Charge!"

The most fierce combat style often only required the simplest brawl.

The commotion here successfully attracted Qi An. When he hurried out and saw the scene before his eyes, he almost vomited blood from anger!

"Stop, stop!"

"Prison Warden Lu, you've come; you could've just sent someone to notify me. Look at you, whatever is this that you're doing?"

Lu Mi raised a hand to call a halt. The two teams separated, and his gaze swept across both sides.

Curving his lips, he was very satisfied.

Visible to the naked eye, the Third Prison prison officers' clothes were ragged like rags, while his First Prison could still fight for another three hundred rounds.

Lu Mi walked into the Second Prison and raised his chin to look down at Qi An through his nostrils.

"Prison Warden Qi, you've been promoted, congratulations, congratulations."

Qi An smiled cheerfully. "Congratulations to you too."

"Where does mutual congratulations come into play?"

"Haha, Prison Warden Lu, you might as well stop pretending. Even the higher-ups have wind of the discord between you and Ming Qiuxue. Now that he's suspended, aren't you happy?"

"Yet the higher-ups demand that I transfer Yu Tu to the Third Prison."

Lu Mi walked right up to Qi An.

Qi An only reached Lu Mi's shoulder in height.

Looking down at him from above, Lu Mi withdrew his smile, his tone icy.

"Yet, Prison Warden Qi, I have publicly defied orders. You tell me, what should be done about this?"