People are in Xingtie, and I am their dead white moonlight?

"I'm doing all this so that our future research won't be influenced or restricted by them. If we go looking for a company now, all our efforts will be in vain."

"To make sure our efforts are not in vain, our best plan is to... just run away!"

Hearing Jiang Mo's words, Heita looked at Jiang Mo strangely, and his crimson eyes revealed an indescribable look.

——It was like the first day I met Jiang Mo.

Jiang Mo naturally noticed Heita's gaze and asked with some doubt:

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"...I used to think you were a somewhat unserious scholar, but now...I don't think so anymore."

"Now you think I'm a serious scholar?"

"No, rather than a scholar on the 'Path of Knowledge,' you are more like a masked fool on the 'Path of Joy.'"

"After all... 'Intensifying the conflict, causing trouble, and then just running away'—I only think the Masked Fool would do something like that."

Heita looked at Jiang Mo seriously and said so.

"..."

Hearing Heita's words, the corners of Jiang Mo's mouth trembled slightly. For a moment, he didn't know how to respond and fell into a long silence.

In a sense, Black Tower is right.

After all, his behavior in Pier Point was indeed a bit "joyful" because it was what Aha asked him to do.

But from his own perspective, this is the best way to achieve his wishes, no doubt about it.

Rather than dealing with various academic cliques, or waiting for Black Tower to become the Intellectual Envoy and dominate the field, he prefers to solve the problem now and make his future life easier.

As for why Jiang Mo just ran away...

On the one hand, he was on guard against the remnants of the academic clique causing trouble for him, and on the other hand, he planned to leave Pierpoint to find out who that "familiar female voice" was.

Although Jiang Mo had already guessed the identity of this person, he still kept praying in his heart that his guess was wrong.

In this universe, no one wants to be associated with the evil star known as the "Lord of Silence"

——Even Jiang Mo is the same.

Chapter 47: The End of the Pierpoint Journey

Just as Jiang Mo had expected, the company did not hold him accountable for his actions. Instead, it turned a blind eye and let him go.

What was even more exaggerated was that right after Jiang Mo and Heita left the venue of the "Global Academic Forum", a large group of company employees armed with guns rushed in, as if hinting at something.

Heita looked through the car window at the company employees who were entering the car one after another, and a strange look flashed in his crimson eyes.

"Looks like... the company staff should have arrived long ago, but they just waited until we came out before going in..."

'It's as if they deliberately let us go.'

"Could it be that...the candies sprayed out by the combat drones were also the result of a tacit collaboration between Jiang Mo and someone in the company?"

The girl pursed her lips, a thoughtful look crossing her face. She didn't look away until the small spaceship they were riding in started moving and the scenery outside the window began to change rapidly.

After pondering for a moment, she raised her head slightly, looked at Jiang Mo who was beside her with a relaxed expression, and asked softly:

"Jiang Mo, what's going on with those drones equipped with weapons?"

"Did you expect something like this to happen, or..."

"Is this actually the result of cooperation between you and someone in the company?"

Perhaps even Heita herself did not realize that she deliberately emphasized her tone when she asked the last question.

With this tone, the original "inquiry" also had a taste of "questioning", which made Jiang Mo shiver.

He tilted his head slightly and looked at the black tower that was tilting its head and staring at him intently. He suddenly felt like a husband who did not come home at night and was being questioned by his wife.

"Ahem... Actually, I didn't know this would happen. I didn't even expect Hawkins to be crazy enough to use armed drones."

"Of course, maybe it's because I thought Hawkins, that academically dishonest idiot, was too smart."

Jiang Mo shrugged, feeling helpless for a moment.

"From a common sense perspective, if Hawkins insisted that all the 'evidence' I presented was false, I might not have been able to achieve my goal so easily."

"But this idiot chose to use weapons. From the moment the armed drone entered the venue, all his arguments were negated."

"If you were truly innocent, why would you use a weapon to kill someone and silence them?" This is the first thought that most people would have when they see this scene.

"Sigh, I don't know if it's because I've been sitting in that chief maester position for too long, but my brain has become rusty."

Jiang Mo curled his lips, his words filled with disdain for Hawkins.

"As for why the armed drone sprayed candy... I guess it was someone from the company who did it. After all, this is Pierpoint, and allowing people outside the company to possess weapons is inherently a hidden danger."

"In order to eliminate this hidden danger, those who were planted by the company within the various schools of thought may have already taken action."

Heita glanced at Jiang Mo suspiciously, but didn't say much.

Although her keen sixth sense made her feel that this matter was not simple, considering that Jiang Mo's "explanation" was indeed reasonable, there was no need for her to ask further.

"Then how did you know about Hawkins? Video footage of that level... I'm afraid it's not that easy to obtain, right?"

Heita changed the subject and directed the question in another direction.

"There is no impenetrable wall in this world, Black Tower."

Jiang Mo was swiping the screen of his phone carelessly, but his erratic black eyes reflected his true state of mind.

"Any secret can be discovered. It just depends on how much time and credits you are willing to spend."

"When I was on Azure Star, I began preparing to deal with the various schools of the Polymath Society, and these secrets are my greatest confidence."

"Compared to other chief maesters, Hawkins's dark history is easier to investigate. This may be related to his arrogant personality."

"But now it seems... these secrets, combined with some coincidences, have allowed me to achieve a multiplier effect~"

"That's it..."

As Heita spoke, he turned his head to look at the scenery flashing by outside the car window, and a look of thought appeared on his slightly childish face.

"Is there no such thing as an impenetrable wall? Then can I know your little secrets?"

"Even if you're not the Memory Keeper that Pertivia knew, judging by your extensive access to information and sharp judgment, are you truly just a scholar..."

Thinking of this, Heita sighed softly, as if he was a little unhappy that Jiang Mo was hiding something from him.

After a while, the girl shook her head gently and whispered in a low voice that only she could hear:

"I hope I'm overthinking it."

......

The small spaceship was very fast, and Jiang Mo and Heita quickly arrived at the jump spaceship station in Pierpoint, and also boarded the spaceship back to the Azure Star very smoothly.

Compared with the spaceship from Azure Star to Pier Point, this return spaceship had obviously fewer people on board, with only a handful of people on the entire spaceship.

But this is a good thing for Jiang Mo. At least this time, he doesn't have to worry about being treated as a pervert by other passengers.

What's more... he is really a little tired now.

For some reason, after arriving at the jump ship station, he felt an inexplicable fatigue that almost made him fall asleep in the waiting hall.

If there wasn't Black Tower watching the spaceship schedule, they would probably have to change their tickets and take the next jump ship.

"Are you tired? If you are, take a rest."

A soft voice sounded in Jiang Mo's ears. He turned his head slightly, looked at the talented girl beside him who had a worried look on her face, and nodded gently.

"It's been an overly strenuous speech and I've been using awareness patches. I'd be surprised if I wasn't exhausted."

"Rest for a while. I'll call you when we get there."

As he spoke, Heita turned his head again and fixed his gaze on the vast universe outside the porthole, as if he was observing something.

But in fact... she was not actually observing anything, she just turned her face away, not wanting Jiang Mo to see the faint blush on her fair cheeks.

Looking at the back of the girl beside him, Jiang Mo shook his head, feeling both amused and helpless.

As Heita's tutor, and as someone who has been with her day and night for more than half a year, how could he not know the little thoughts in Heita's mind?

However...Heita's current tsundere-like reaction made him feel relieved.

"Just stop being a yandere...just stop being a yandere..."

With this thought in mind, he closed his eyes peacefully, waiting for the black tower to wake him from his sleep.

However, at the moment he closed his eyes, a woman in a candy-colored dress walked slowly into the spacecraft.

She raised her head slightly and looked around, her eyes finally fixed on Jiang Mo who was sleeping on the seat.

"Got you."

The corners of the woman's blood-red mouth curled up slightly as she murmured softly.

Chapter 48 Jiang Mo: Run away! It's a heavy girl! (4k)

As the faint fragrance of violets penetrated Jiang Mo's nostrils, Jiang Mo slowly opened his slightly heavy eyelids and asked vaguely:

"...The Black Tower? Are we there yet?"

"..."

The cold female voice that he imagined should appear in his ears did not appear. Instead, there was dead silence, and the scent of violets still lingered in his nose.

This sudden situation made Jiang Mo subconsciously want to pinch the little girl's hand beside him, but what his fingertips touched was not the girl's soft skin, nor the hard seat armrest of the jump spacecraft.

——But the bed curtain has a slightly velvety texture.

This unusual touch made Jiang Mo open his eyes instantly. After seeing the surrounding environment clearly, the drowsiness that had lingered in his consciousness was swept away in an instant.

"Is this...the room in the Black Tower?"

"Shouldn't I have fallen asleep on the spaceship...? Could it be that the spaceship has already arrived at the Azure Planet, and the Black Tower brought me back?"

"No... How could I sleep so soundly? And if that's the case... Where are the people in the Black Tower?"

Jiang Mo propped himself up and muttered to himself. The dusk sunlight was shining through the window lattice onto the desk piled with various academic materials.

In the center of the desk was a paper, which was the result of Jiang Mo and Heita's hard work over the past few months, a paper on solitary wave algorithm.

The two chairs in front of the desk were empty, even the girl who should have been sitting there in Jiang Mo's subconscious mind was nowhere to be seen.

"What the hell... is going on?"

Jiang Mo frowned deeply, and an incomprehensible look flashed across his face, as if he was a little confused about the situation before him.

Is this a dream? But... can dreams really feel this real?

Also, does the self in the memory bubble really still dream?

"Aha, is he teasing me? If that were the case, he would have jumped right in my face..."

A look of confusion flashed across Jiang Mo's face, and the irritation in his heart was constantly magnified by this inexplicable sense of the unknown, which made him feel a little uncomfortable for a moment.

At this moment, the porcelain vase on the Black Tower's desk, which was used to temporarily store violet flowers, made a very small vibration, but it was particularly harsh in the Black Tower's dead-silent room.

"I didn't expect you to attach so much importance to this little girl. Even the place that left the most profound impression on me was her room."

A female voice, as if wrapped in a thousand years of frost and snow, rushed towards Jiang Mo from all directions. The body of the porcelain bottle also cracked like spider webs at this moment. "Even I don't get this treatment..."

Hearing this cold but slightly familiar voice, Jiang Mo's temples throbbed. The situation he least wanted to see finally happened.

"Lord of Silence," that crazy woman finally showed up!

The sudden change made Jiang Mo subconsciously want to turn over and get out of bed, but he suddenly felt as if his body was frozen by something and he couldn't move at all.

At this moment, Jiang Mo suddenly felt something soft touching his back. He had also felt this kind of touch from Black Tower, but... it was obviously bigger and softer than Black Tower.

At the same time, a pair of white arms reached out from his shoulders and gently held each other in front of his chest, as if they were afraid that Jiang Mo would run away.

"Don't worry, as agreed, I still have questions for you."

The orchid-like fragrance unreasonably penetrated Jiang Mo's nostrils, driving out the remaining violet fragrance, as if... declaring sovereignty.