194: Chapter 194 Global Attention, My Brother Goes All Out

At this moment, a girl with a pink rabbit avatar also popped up.

It was exactly Wang Peng's current girlfriend, Lin Xiaoya.

"I told you so, but you guys didn't believe me."

"When has my Wang Peng ever bragged about this kind of thing?"

"Everyone watch the livestream honestly tomorrow, and remember to come back and call me Brother Peng."

Wang Peng looked at the screen, feeling like he was floating on air, and his back straightened up instantly.

"Did you see that?"

"Did you see that!"

"My credibility in our graduating class group chat is no longer at an ordinary level."

Yang Yueru hugged a cushion and glanced at him.

"That's not credibility."

"That's just borrowing the tiger's might."

Wang Peng didn't care at all; instead, he became even more smug.

"Well, you have to have a tiger to borrow from."

"A tiger at my cousin's level—others couldn't borrow from it even if they wanted to."

On the other end of the video call, Chen Wanqing had been standing to the side watching the fun, but upon hearing this, she immediately laughed and scolded him.

"Stop showing off."

"Wait until you actually see your brother on screen tomorrow before you act all smug."

She was dressed particularly neatly today, and her hair was specially done up. Although she was scolding Wang Peng, the smile in her eyes couldn't be suppressed.

She was happy, truly happy.

But after arriving in Jingzhou, that happiness was mixed with a bit of nervousness.

The biggest scene she had ever seen in her life was just being on TV in the county or attending a meeting in the town.

Now, suddenly, her own son was involved in something of this magnitude.

Even though she was already sitting in a Jingzhou hotel, she still had a feeling that it wasn't quite real.

Wang Peng nodded repeatedly at the video.

"That's for sure!"

"My brother has reached this level; if I don't bask in some of his glory, wouldn't that be a waste of a good opportunity?"

Yang Yueru had been watching quietly from the side, but finally couldn't help but speak up.

"You can bask in the glory, but don't go too far."

"Don't wait until the livestream comes out tomorrow and you pass out from excitement in the class group chat."

Wang Peng was immediately unconvinced.

"Do I look like that kind of person?"

Yang Yueru looked at him expressionlessly.

"You don't look like it."

"You just are."

On the other end of the video, Lu Yaoguang burst out laughing.

Chen Wanqing followed suit.

Even Lu Jianjun, who had been maintaining a serious demeanor, had the corners of his mouth twitch very slightly.

The atmosphere in the room eased up quite a bit for a moment.

But lively as it was, everyone knew that no one was destined to sleep soundly tonight.

Because tomorrow's event was truly too big.

In the Jingzhou hotel.

After hanging up the video, Chen Wanqing walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the brightly lit city outside. Her mood was completely different from when she was at home during the day.

During the day, she was mostly happy for her son.

But really arriving in Jingzhou, standing in this city, she truly realized one thing.

What happens tomorrow might really be huge.

Huge enough to exceed everything she had imagined in her life.

"Old Lu."

She suddenly spoke.

Lu Jianjun was sitting to the side, holding the remote control and repeatedly tuning into the livestream channel for tomorrow. He raised his eyes upon hearing her.

"Hmm."

"Do you think... how much more does Lu Li have that he's hiding from us?"

The room was quiet for two seconds.

Lu Jianjun was silent for a moment before slowly putting down the remote control.

"The child is grown up now."

"Some things, he isn't hiding on purpose."

"It's just that even if he told us, we might not really understand it."

Chen Wanqing was stunned, then glanced at her husband.

"You sound like an educated man today."

Lu Jianjun: "..."

His old face stiffened, and he snorted.

"I've always been educated."

Lu Yaoguang, who had been sitting cross-legged on the bed scrolling through her phone, burst out laughing upon hearing this.

"Dad, if my brother heard you say that, he'd laugh at you for half a year."

Lu Jianjun glared at her.

"You aren't allowed to learn bad habits either."

Lu Yaoguang laughed and held up her phone, shaking it at them.

"Stop arguing, look quickly."

"The internet has started digging into my brother again."

On the screen was a newly emerged analysis video.

The video blogger had combed through Guanghui Technology's technical lines over the past two years, from the Xingchen System to neural direct connection, and then to Robot control and Mirage's spatial reconstruction, finally reaching an extremely outrageous, yet increasingly irrefutable conclusion—the technology tree in Lu Li's hands was long ago no longer just a technology tree aimed at the consumer market.

As soon as the video was released, the comments below exploded.

"The more I watch, the more it looks like hacking."

"I used to think God Lu was on the fifth level, but now it looks like he's outside the atmosphere."

"The most outrageous thing is, his wife probably doesn't even understand how terrifying he really is."

Lu Yaoguang sneered upon seeing this comment.

"Bullshit."

"Sister-in-law doesn't know? Sister-in-law knows better than anyone how amazing my brother is right now."

Chen Wanqing nodded immediately.

"That's for sure."

"Qingxue is truly devoted to Lu Li."

Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered something and turned to ask:

"Qingxue is going tomorrow, right?"

Lu Yaoguang nodded, the corners of her mouth curling up instantly.

"She's going."

"And Shuyu is going too."

"I was just chatting with them in the group, and sister-in-law is probably still awake."

At the same time.

In another hotel in Jingzhou.

Chen Shuyu was indeed not asleep.

To be precise, not only was she not asleep, she was pacing back and forth in the room, pacing so much that the carpet was almost worn out.

"No way."

"Why?"

"Why is it that every time I think I've overestimated him enough, he turns around and hits me with something even bigger?"

She stopped pacing and looked at Su Qingxue on the sofa. Her tone was full of that familiar shock, one that had become almost numb after being slapped in the face countless times.

"Qingxue, say something fair."

"Does Lu Li have any basic humanity left at all?"

Su Qingxue had just finished showering, her hair half-dry, and she was leaning on the sofa looking at a tablet.

She raised her eyes to look at her upon hearing this, with a smile she couldn't suppress at the corners of her lips.

"Why does he have no humanity?"

"Is that what you call lacking humanity?"

Chen Shuyu was almost angered into laughter.

"This isn't lacking humanity?"

"When I first picked up his battery report, I thought he was just lucky."

"Later, when he handled the underlying system of minecraft, I started to doubt my life."

"Then later, the Virtual Helmet, Robots, Mirage... Every time I thought this was the limit, it turned out that tomorrow he's almost going to be on the viewing stand!"

By the end, she covered her forehead with her hand and fell back into the sofa, her tone a mix of jealousy and numbness.

"I'm even starting to suspect that if someone told me one day he had a laboratory on the far side of the moon, I would only ask if it's true or false, instead of saying 'what the f*ck'."

Su Qingxue was amused by her appearance and laughed out loud.

But after laughing, her gaze softened unconsciously.

Because to be honest, even she had a feeling that it wasn't quite real.

When she and Lu Li had a flash marriage back then, who would have thought there would be such a day.

She only thought this man had good character; at least he dared to jump into the water to save someone in that situation.

Later, she had hated him for not being ambitious, had been angry at him for lying flat, and even felt countless times that he was simply wasting his potential.

But later, she watched this man time and time again turn what others saw as impossible into a simple "it's just like that" from him.

She had long known that Lu Li was very capable.

But to what extent, even she was constantly having her perception refreshed.

The room was quiet for a while.

Chen Shuyu suddenly turned over and stared at her.

"Do you think he will really appear on camera tomorrow?"

Su Qingxue did not answer immediately.

She looked down at her phone.

On the screen was a message just sent by Lu Li.

"Go to sleep early."

Below that was another sentence.

"Don't go to the viewing ceremony with dark circles under your eyes tomorrow."

Su Qingxue looked at those words, and the smile in her eyes spread bit by bit.

Then, she raised her head, her tone very light, but inexplicably firm.

"He will."

"And, if he really does appear—"

"That would mean the things he has hidden in his hands are even more than we thought."

Chen Shuyu was silent for two seconds.

Then she spat out a sentence:

"Damn it."

"I'm suddenly looking forward to him scaring the whole world tomorrow."

That night, many people didn't sleep.

Qingyang County didn't sleep.

Jingzhou didn't sleep.

Countless people waiting for the livestream, watching forum analyses, keeping an eye on leaked videos and various speculations, also didn't sleep.

And in the villa that Lu Li built for his parents, Wang Peng and Yang Yueru eventually just curled up in corners of the sofa, saying "let's nap for ten minutes," but in the end, neither of them really closed their eyes.

Wang Peng even got up in the middle of the night and posted another message in the class group chat:

"Friendly reminder, tomorrow if anyone sees my brother on screen, remember to collectively change how you address me to Brother Peng."

This time, no one in the group argued with him.

Instead, there was a neat row of replies.

"Received, Brother Peng."

"Calling you that in advance."

"If he really appears on screen tomorrow, I'll call you that three times in a row."

"Brother Peng, Sister-in-law has already spoken, we believe you."

Lin Xiaoya even gave him face and added:

"Everyone learn from this, this is called insider information."

Wang Peng was overjoyed, laughing so hard his glasses went crooked. He threw his phone onto the sofa and leaned against the cushion, chuckling happily.

Yang Yueru hugged a pillow and turned to look at the livestream countdown on the TV screen.

What she was thinking in her heart was different from Wang Peng.

Wang Peng was purely fanatical.

But she had watched with her own eyes as Lu Li was misunderstood by others all along the way.

When people outside were calling him a "kept man" or a "useless son-in-law," although she was young, she had secretly cried in her bed and felt aggrieved.

Now it's different.

After tonight, the whole world will know what kind of person her cousin really is.

She hugged her knees tightly, staring at the jumping numbers on the screen.

"Brother. You will definitely be dazzling tomorrow!"