Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Chapter 1732: Chapter 1734: Counter-Control

Elder Yu was over here introducing Xiao Zhi’s abilities, and over there Xiao Zhi also noticed Lu Xiaobu.

In an instant, the mature façade on Xiao Ya and Xiao Zhi—those two little grown‑ups—completely vanished the moment they saw Lu Xiaobu, replaced by shyness and embarrassment.

The two of them walked over to Lu Xiaobu’s side. They didn’t dare look up at him directly, only snuck a couple of peeks and greeted him in a low voice: ”Brother Xiaobu!”

The researchers under them all looked on at this scene, a bit stunned.

During this period they had long since experienced the might of these two little grown‑ups. Small as they might be, when it came to getting things done they were sharp and decisive, to the point that no one even dared think of talking back.

But today, they were actually seeing these two team leaders turn into kids, which left them utterly dumbfounded.

”Who is that?”

”Yeah, never mind Team Leader Xiao Zhi, even that Team Leader Xiao Ya is acting like this?”

”Exactly. I heard that even if Officer Yu pisses off Team Leader Xiao Ya, he still has to endure her thunderous wrath!”

”I don’t get it! I don’t get it!”

”Come on, you guys are all bookworms, aren’t you!” A soldier at the side really couldn’t watch anymore and spoke up. ”That’s Lu Xiaobu, Lord Lu! Back then it was him who cured Team Leader Xiao Ya’s illness, and Xiao Zhi respects him like a father!”

”Lord Xiaobu? That Lu Xiaobu?!”

”The Lu Xiaobu who triggered Spiritual Energy’s revival?”

”The Lu Xiaobu who discovered this place?!”

”Oh my god!”

You really wouldn’t imagine that a bunch of researchers in white lab coats, whose eyes only ever see data, could show such fanatical star‑struck expressions.

But reality was right in front of them. If that soldier weren’t blocking them, this group of crazed nerds would already be charging out!

He was so scared he started regretting things like crazy—this research institute had been specially constructed: first completely vacuumed, then air was pumped in can by can from outside by manpower, so that there wasn’t a trace of Blood Continent Qi inside!

If these frail scholarly types went out, they’d all drop to the ground in the first instant!

If that really happened, he’d be in deep trouble!

Fortunately, Lu Xiaobu walked inside soon after, so the nerdy researchers didn’t end up rushing out!

But the soldier then amusingly noticed that these guys who were just trying to rush out, now that they were face to face with Lord Lu, suddenly all became timid and didn’t dare say a word!

At this moment, Lu Xiaobu didn’t spend too long catching up with Xiao Zhi and Xiao Ya. Instead, he called Shi Er over, who was still wearing his collar.

”Xiao Zhi, watch closely. I’m going to take his collar off now. Remember this cracking process and see if you can turn it into a form of remote control—ideally something we can mass‑produce!” Lu Xiaobu instructed Xiao Zhi.

Originally, he’d wanted Elder Yu to take it back for large‑scale data experiments and analysis; as long as they were done before he came out of the core, it would be fine.

But now that he’d heard about Xiao Zhi’s superpower and knew he was mainly responsible for Spiritual Energy Study, he went straight to Xiao Zhi!

”Yes, Brother Xiaobu!” Xiao Zhi hurriedly nodded, then directly activated his superpower, his brain development percentage shooting up.

Lu Xiaobu glanced over and felt it was somewhat similar to his own Intelligence Attribute at one hundred percent.

But he didn’t dwell on that. He reached out and began removing Shi Er’s collar.

His Speed wasn’t fast, and the process was a bit complicated.

But in the end, he still took it off smoothly.

Shi Er, suddenly freed from the collar’s restraints, almost jumped up with excitement!

Even though the person who could control his collar was already dead, that didn’t mean he felt comfortable wearing the thing.

Leaving aside the explosive device inside, just the appearance alone was enough to make him feel humiliated!

Now that it could be taken off, he was overjoyed!

He immediately turned around and knocked his head on the ground three times in loud kowtows to Lu Xiaobu to show his gratitude.

Lu Xiaobu chuckled and told Shi Er to go find his brother, then turned back to Xiao Zhi. ”How is it?”

At this moment, Xiao Zhi was already sitting on a nearby lab bench, his hands clacking away on the keyboard, while the surrounding researchers moved according to his instructions.

Not long after.

”Phew!” The brilliance in Xiao Zhi’s eyes that came from activating his superpower faded, and he returned to normal. Then, with a hint of showing off, he said to Lu Xiaobu, ”Brother Xiaobu, I’ve figured it out. This is a decryption program.”

”To put it simply, its operation mode is like converting the electric currents we normally use into Spiritual Energy, then running them through fixed patterns to carry out decryption!”

”Looks like these are all mass‑produced devices, so they use fixed decryption methods.”

”Remote control isn’t a big problem, as long as the other side doesn’t notice and change the decryption method ahead of time.”

As Xiao Zhi spoke, he turned back again and continued clacking away on the computer.

Here, he paused for a moment and asked, ”Brother Xiaobu, are all those collars like the one on Shi Er’s neck, used to control people?”

”Yeah, they’re used to control people.” Lu Xiaobu nodded. ”Why?”

”I have an idea.” Xiao Zhi’s hands began flying over the keyboard again like afterimages.

Soon after, a model that Lu Xiaobu couldn’t understand popped up on the screen.

Xiao Zhi pointed at the model and said, ”We’ve got their algorithm now, so as long as the other side hasn’t changed it in advance, we can work on top of the cracking process to do a reverse control and make their people obey us!”

”Can that be done?” Lu Xiaobu’s eyes lit up at once.

He had only been thinking about cracking the collars to cause chaos, but now it seemed they could even reverse control them?!

”Hehe!” Xiao Zhi scratched his head with a slightly embarrassed smile. ”It can be done, but we can’t maintain it for very long. We can’t change the algorithm in such a short time, but we can feed Spiritual Energy continuously into it on the basis of cracking it. That way we can control them for a certain period of time, and once the Spiritual Energy runs out, the collar will still open automatically!”

After saying that, Xiao Zhi lifted his head to sneak a glance at Lu Xiaobu, as if expecting something.

”Nice job! Hahaha! We’ll do it that way! That’s awesome! I’ll have Sister Lan cook something for you later!” Lu Xiaobu laughed heartily and patted Xiao Zhi on the shoulder.

Instantly, all the researchers who’d been secretly watching over here saw the ever‑composed little grown‑up Xiao Zhi’s face suddenly flush bright red.

No one could tell whether it was because of Lord Xiaobu’s praise, or because he’d get to eat Sister Lan’s cooking.

But no matter which it was, right now Xiao Zhi was just a kid who’d achieved something and was proudly showing it off at home, and getting acknowledged for it!

Noticing their gazes, Xiao Zhi immediately straightened his face. ”What are you looking at, get back to work!”

He did his best to look serious, but right now he just came off adorably fierce, which only made him seem even funnier!