Chapter 111

After reading the manga and the forums, it was already past eleven o'clock.

Bai Xuechao stood up from the leather sofa, ready to go out for lunch. Just as he was about to go downstairs to the dining room, the sound of wheels rolling echoed from the hallway outside the bedroom, getting closer and closer, and then there was a gentle knock on the bedroom door.

He opened the bedroom door directly.

“Hello, the master asked me to deliver something after 11 o'clock.” Standing outside the door was the male servant in a maid's uniform whom Bai Xuechao had seen before. Beside him was a trolley. The male servant smiled, nodded, and said respectfully, “I hope I didn't disturb your sleep.”

Bai Xuechao glanced at the items on the trolley.

The trolley had three tiers. The top tier held pastries, a fruit platter, a teapot, and teacups.

Next to them was a brand-new mobile phone, the one Yuan Lan had promised to compensate him for yesterday. The second tier had two neatly folded sets of clothes and boxed underwear and socks. The bottom tier had two pairs of shoes, a pair of black leather shoes and a pair of white sports shoes.

The male servant saw him scanning the items on the trolley and continued, “The master said you can use these for now. He will take you to buy more clothes later.”

“Got it.” Bai Xuechao picked up the phone and said to the male servant, “Find a place for the rest. Thank you.”

“You're welcome.” After speaking, the male servant pushed the trolley into the bedroom. He placed the refreshments on the small round dining table by the window used for afternoon tea, hung the clothes in Yuan Lan's cloakroom, put the underwear and socks in a cabinet, and placed the shoes on the shoe rack.

After doing all this, he bowed his head and asked, “What would you like for lunch?”

Bai Xuechao said, “Noodles.”

“Alright.” The male servant asked again, “Would you like to eat in your room or in the dining room?”

Bai Xuechao thought for a moment and asked, “Where is Yuan Lan eating?”

The male servant replied, “The master is eating in the laboratory today.”

Bai Xuechao continued to ask, “What about the others?”

The male servant said, “All the executives will eat in the dining room.”

Bai Xuechao raised an eyebrow, “All together?”

“No, each executive eats at different times.” After speaking, the male servant, seeing that Bai Xuechao said nothing, tentatively added, “The master and Mr. Tao's meal times are not fixed. Mr. Lin and Miss Mu eat earlier, usually between 11:30 and 12:00. Miss Yu eats the latest, generally around 12:30.”

This male servant was quite perceptive; he said everything Bai Xuechao wanted to know.

Those who weren't mentioned probably weren't permanent residents here.

“Then I'll eat in the dining room too.” Bai Xuechao added, “No noodles. Let's change it to pan-fried meat pies. Celery and pork filling or corn and pork filling will do.”

It was almost 11:30 now. It would be at least 12:00 by the time the pies were done. If he ate a little slower, he should be able to run into Yu Ruolan.

His goal was to first get close to Yu Ruolan, become familiar with her, and make it easier to gather intelligence from her in the future.

“Alright. I will contact you via your phone when lunch is ready. Please pay attention to our messages.” The male servant bowed and left with the trolley.

Bai Xuechao turned on the phone to take a look.

Besides the usual applications, there was also a software icon on the phone with a black letter 'M'.

Bai Xuechao recognized it. Yuan Lan had tapped this icon to call Mortar before. If he wasn't mistaken, this should be the internal software of the Apocalypse Society, created by Mortar.

He tapped on it, and sure enough, it was just as he had expected.

He checked the contacts added to this account; there was only Yuan Lan. However, he had been added to several small groups.

One of the small groups was related to logistics, responsible for the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of the leader and executives. All the servants of the Apocalypse Society were in the group, but there were very few message records. He figured that the servant's 'please pay attention to our messages' referred to messages sent through this software.

Bai Xuechao carefully examined the functions of this software and felt that it was very different from the Dark Organization's software. It was more like an internal chat application, without any important data.

Yuan Lan probably didn't trust him yet, which was why only this one software was installed.

This was within Bai Xuechao's expectations.

He exited the software and suddenly thought that this was a perfect opportunity to act and mislead the readers. So, he spoke aloud to Bai Guzi, “Author, I want this next part cut into the manga.”

“Host, what are you trying to do?” Xiao 6 asked.

Bai Xuechao was too lazy to explain much, so he said succinctly, “Make the readers think I came to the Apocalypse Society for my brother and sister's matter.”

Xiao 6: =A=?

It didn't really understand, but it didn't dare to ask either.

Bai Xuechao took a deep breath, ignoring the awkwardness of performing a one-man show, and hovered his thumb over the Apocalypse Society's software icon.

“Apocalypse Society…” Bai Xuechao lowered his eyes to look at the software icon, the corners of his lips curling up slightly. His ruby-like, gorgeous red eyes held an ambiguous emotion as he smiled, “Finally…”

He stopped there. Saying too much would seem strange.

After all, who would idly talk to themselves so much and then expose their purpose? It was enough to reveal a little and let the readers guess.

After delivering his cryptic line, he silently returned to the leather sofa, threw himself onto it, and placed his hands on his chest, closing his eyes peacefully.

Sure enough, it still felt awkward!!

This kind of inexplicable soliloquy wasn't quite his style; he felt his toes couldn't help but curl.

He suddenly thought of something, opened his eyes, and said, “Don't cut this part in.”

Otherwise, it would become a comedy manga.

Xiao 6 imagined the scene in the manga where Bai Xuechao, after his cryptic monologue, immediately lay down peacefully on the sofa, and couldn't help but chuckle secretly.

Just then, Bai Xuechao's phone made a “ding-dong” sound.

Bai Xuechao first switched the phone to vibrate mode, then opened the message displayed in the notification bar.

It was a message from Yuan Lan sent through the Apocalypse Society's internal software.

[Awake? I'll take you on a tour of the laboratory at two in the afternoon~]