Lu Siyu, with her hands shoved in the pockets of her work clothes, walked fast and was about to disappear around a corner when Tang Fei hurriedly called out, "Lu Siyu."
Lu Siyu turned to face Tang Fei with an expressionless face and asked, "What is it?"
"I want to ask you something..." Tang Fei looked at Lu Siyu, cautiously choosing his words.
What if she had no relation to the old man at all?
After all, Lu was a prominent surname on New Star, not to mention that there were many with the same surname or even the same name.
"Just ask and don’t waste time," Lu Siyu obviously grew impatient, urging him on.
"Do you know someone named Lu Yu?" Tang Fei stared into Lu Siyu’s eyes and asked.
"I don’t know them," Lu Siyu responded without a moment’s hesitation, her voice ice cold.
"Oh..." Tang Fei nodded, smiling as he spoke, "Then it’s nothing, that’s all I wanted to ask."
Lu Siyu gave Tang Fei a cold glance, then turned and left.
Tang Fei watched Lu Siyu’s retreating figure, pondering the truthfulness of her response.
If she didn’t know the old man, why did she ask earlier, "Why did you guys come back?"
Was she deliberately hiding something? Or was she just acting?
Or perhaps, the old man’s real name wasn’t Lu Yu... Lu Yu was just an alias?
Forget it, don’t think about things that can’t be understood.
When he had the chance to return to the Old Land, he would ask the old man in person...
Suddenly, another thought crossed Tang Fei’s mind.
Her question about "Why did you guys come back" clearly wasn’t addressed to him and Little Fatty; otherwise, it would have been "Why did you come" not "Why did you guys come back."
The "you guys" she referred to must mean the old man...
"Could it be that the old man has also returned to New Star?"
Tang Fei shook his head.
If the old man had returned to New Star, he would surely have contacted them.
Even if he had gotten into trouble, he and Little Fatty were not the kind to betray or report someone...
Tang Fei felt overwhelmed, his mind tangled with countless thoughts.
He returned to the classroom where his classmates had already started disassembling the snakehead.
Tang Fei temporarily put aside his troubling thoughts and calmed himself, starting to observe and learn alongside his classmates.
These classmates had joined the school before him and some had been studying mechanical knowledge for years. Their practical skills and understanding of mechanical products far surpassed Tang Fei, the newcomer, who was eagerly learning and absorbing knowledge at this critical moment.
Seeing Lu Siyu’s impressive performance, the question in Tang Fei’s mind about "what exactly is machinery?" suddenly became clearer.
Perhaps, he could be like her one day?
"Classmate..." Tang Fei nudged the arm of a male student beside him and asked, "Why is our class president so impressive?"
"Because her last name is Lu," the male student replied, as if it were obvious.
Where there were machines, there was the Gong Shu Lu Family.
Ever since the ancestor Lu Ban founded the discipline of craftsmanship thousands of years ago, it has been applied in all aspects of life through the inheritance and promotion by later generations.
The Gong Shu clan excelled among them, not flaunting themselves, but every major technological change was closely related to them.
From the initial sickles and hoes to later airplanes and cannons, right up to a significant mechanical revolution before the great catastrophe...
The emergence of Star Discs and Super Starships allowed humanity to travel quickly between planets.
The application of various high-tech weapons and intelligent machines also bore their silent toil and dedication.
This was an industry that no citizen could bypass, and yet, the name of the Gong Shu Lu Family was rarely seen in public places.
They were too low-profile, almost eerily so.
This had always been their way of life, maintained for hundreds of years.
Lu Siyu was from the Gong Shu Lu Family. After she left from her class, she drove directly back to the Lu Family.
The Lu Family had an ancestral home on Lu Ban Mountain, where direct descendants and some core technologies of the family resided.
It was said that Lu Ban Mountain was heavily fortified, easy to defend but hard to attack, making it nearly impregnable without an army of a hundred thousand.
There was also a saying that one family could exceed the might of three armies.
Lu Siyu parked her car in the courtyard and walked directly towards a small courtyard on the left.
She knocked on the door, and the iron gate of the courtyard opened in response.
The iron gate slowly contracted to both sides as if it could completely merge and overlap together.
Once Lu Siyu entered, the gate pulled back from inside, sealing the courtyard securely.
A square-faced middle-aged man came out from indoors, and upon seeing Lu Siyu return, smiled and asked, "Si Yu, what brought you back today?"
"Has he come back?" Lu Siyu looked at the middle-aged man and asked.
"You’re being vague. Who are you talking about? I don’t even know his name, how would I know if he has come back?" The middle-aged man looked at Lu Siyu bewilderedly and spoke.
Lu Siyu kept her eyes fixed on the middle-aged man’s facial expressions, not wanting to miss a detail, and spoke, "You know who I’m talking about."
Lu Zhiyong looked at Lu Siyu, sighed softly, and said, "Si Yu, you should know, he’s been gone for many years... If he had returned, could he really have refrained from seeing you?"