Chapter 943 - 941: Negotiating Cooperation

Looking at Candy’s "my soul has left my body" expression, Li Xuanyu, who had walked over with a bottle of water, couldn’t help wanting to laugh.

"Have some water, or your throat will feel awful."

Candy didn’t stand on ceremony. She twisted off the cap and took several big gulps.

After drinking, she felt much better overall.

Now she finally had the strength to talk.

She glanced at her brother in the distance, who was busy taking photos, curled her lip, and said:

"Nobody told me hiking was this exhausting. Stairs up, stairs down, it just never ends, it seriously never ends."

Li Xuanyu pressed her lips into a smile and comforted her: "From Bright Summit, it’s less than five hundred meters down to the hotel. We’ll go down and rest in a bit."

Hearing that, Candy didn’t look particularly happy.

Five hundred meters on flat ground really isn’t far. It’s whatever, you walk a little and you’re there.

But where are they now? On Yishan!

Five hundred meters here means at least a thousand steps, minimum.

Candy let out a long sigh and looked around at the other tourists, almost all worn out and weary. She couldn’t help sighing: "Sis-in-law, seriously, why did the Six Great Sects bother attacking Bright Summit when they had nothing better to do?"

"By the time they got to the top, how much strength would they even have left to fight?"

Just then, Zero, who was standing nearby enjoying the view, suddenly started a little knowledge lecture.

"TV dramas are TV dramas, reality is reality."

As she spoke, Zero lifted her head and pointed at the big sphere on the tallest building:

"That’s the meteorological station’s most advanced Doppler radar. It’s shaped like a ball just to protect the antenna inside."

Ignoring the people around them who had recognized the family, Candy stared at Zero in confusion.

"What thing? Dop-pler radar? What kind of radar is that?"

Candy did know what radar was; she heard about it all the time at Anyang Base, so she’d specially looked it up.

But what kind of radar was a Dop-pler radar?

"It’s Doppler radar, a type of very versatile radar. All you need to know is that it’s equipment that belongs to the meteorological station. It has absolutely nothing to do with your Six Great Sects besieging Bright Summit."

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After resting for more than ten minutes, Mo Jingchun, who had finished taking photos, said, "Let’s go, next stop.

We’ll come back up to watch the sunset this evening."

Hearing this, Candy’s eyes went wide. She said in disbelief:

"We’re climbing back up here again this evening? My legs are already shaking."

Mo Jingchun glanced at Candy’s perfectly fine legs and said irritably:

"I’ll pay someone to carry you."

"Deal!" Candy nodded without the slightest hesitation.

Honestly, on the way up she’d already wanted to sit in one of those sedan chairs.

Right then, Zero weakly asked:

"Boss, how about you give the money to me, and I’ll carry Candy up?"

Li Xuanyu couldn’t hold it in anymore and burst out laughing.

Looking at these two little rascals, Mo Jingchun was exasperated and amused at the same time.

"What are you staring at? We’re going down the mountain, to the hotel."

Without answering their question, Mo Jingchun took the lead.

Zero and Candy exchanged a look, stuck out their tongues, and hurried after him.

The next day at noon.

After leaving the scenic area, Candy slumped in the seat of the car going down the mountain, looking half-dead.

She was exhausted.

But the sunrise and sunset had really been incredibly beautiful.

On the way back, they had just gotten onto the highway when Candy, leaning against the car door, unknowingly fell asleep.

By the time she woke up again, they were already at a service area.

She yawned, not wanting to move at all, rubbed her eyes, and glanced outside the car.

After sitting there a while to recover, Candy finally unbuckled her seatbelt and got out to use the restroom.

By the time she got out of the car, her brother and sister-in-law were already nowhere to be seen.

"Don’t bother looking, they’ve both gone to the restroom."

"Okay then."

That evening, once they got home, Candy headed straight for the sofa the moment she walked through the door.

She really wasn’t faking it this time; her legs felt like they didn’t even belong to her anymore.

Even if she tried not to move, both legs still hurt like crazy.

"Bro, next time we go out to play, can we please not go hiking?"

Mo Jingchun grinned. "Yesterday you insisted on following the main group and hiking up the mountain. What’s with the sudden change of heart today?"

"Sigh—" Candy let out a breath. She really hadn’t expected climbing Yishan to be this tiring, or the steps to be that steep.

In some spots, even holding onto the handrail, Candy felt like she could fall off at any moment.

"Just admit it: Yishan is beautiful, isn’t it?"

"It’s very beautiful, and really nice, but I don’t want to go again next time. It’s too tiring."

After dinner, without Mo Jingchun having to say a word, Candy went straight upstairs, washed up, and went to bed.

By the time Li Xuanyu went up to check on her, Candy was already fast asleep.

Seeing the slight frown on Candy’s face, Li Xuanyu knew she really was wiped out this time.

Which made sense—never mind Candy, even she was exhausted.

It’s still the college special forces kids who are the toughest: they hiked up the mountain, and then hiked back down again.

That night, everyone went to bed early.

The next morning, Candy was woken by Zero and opened her eyes in a daze.

"What time is it—"

"I’m the one waking you up. What do you think?"

Candy lifted the quilt and tried to get up, only to wince from the pain.

"Ow—my legs, they’re sore and they hurt!"

Zero calmly handed Candy her clothes and said, "Of course. Sis-in-law was just like you when she got up this morning."

Hearing that, Candy froze for a second. Wait, something was off—where was her brother in this?

"What about my brother?"

"The boss?" Zero glanced at Candy and said:

"The boss is like nothing happened. He got up this morning and even went out for a run. That’s the difference between people who exercise regularly and people who don’t."

"Oh, and the boss already talked to your homeroom teacher. You can skip PE drills between classes for the next two days."

Just the between-classes exercises, huh. Candy curled her lip; she’d thought she wouldn’t have to go to school at all.

Meanwhile, downstairs, Mo Jingchun was reading the newspaper. When he got a phone call, his expression hardly changed, as if he had already expected it.

He’d just thought the call would come earlier than it did.

The call was from Qin Yuzhu.

Just as he and Zero had speculated back in the lab, someone was about to sit down with him for a talk—or in other words, to negotiate a cooperation plan.

After thinking for a moment, Mo Jingchun opened his contacts and called Xia Xiaomin.

"Hello, it’s me."

Xia Xiaomin, who was brushing her teeth, quickly rinsed her mouth and answered the phone, then heard her boss’s voice.

"Boss, what are your orders?"

"Around two o’clock this afternoon, an important person will be coming to the company to discuss cooperation. Make the arrangements.

The conference room doesn’t need to be too big; I think Meeting Room R16 will do. The visitor is from higher up, so I don’t need to spell out how to set up the room—you know better than I do.

Since it involves classified matters, have people temporarily remove all electronic devices from Meeting Room R16."

"Okay, boss, I understand. I’ll start arranging things in a bit and handle it personally."

"Mm."

After hanging up, Mo Jingchun rubbed his forehead.

On the other side, Xia Xiaomin’s expression turned serious.

For the boss to emphasize it so much, it meant the visitor was very important.