Lu Zihao frowned at his own reaction and immediately shook it off. His AI nephew might be a little moneygrubbing devil but the kid was loyal to the family, especially to his mother. The most important thing was that Evelinka was the one who created Bacon. That was enough for Lu Zihao to trust Bacon like he trusted his sister Evelinka.
No longer thinking about his inexplicable reaction from hearing Bacon laugh for the first time, he was about to return to Long Jinjing and his sister’s friends from Cross Academy when he heard another familiar child’s voice interrupt the communication channel of his hidden earpiece.
"Hep hep hep! No can do, cockatoo! Bacon is not allowed to unleash his new power flood abilities without our mommy’s supervision! Unless Uncle Haohao wants to become an accomplice in destroying the whole wide world, don’t listen to Ketchup’s naughty little kitty brother! The cute and mighty Ketchup doesn’t want the world to end yet. Ketchup still wants to stay with Mommy and Daddy and my siblings and our one big happy family for a long time forever and ever! Meowuwuwu!"
Lu Zihao stopped in his tracks after hearing Ketchup’s frantic words. Before he could say anything, however, Ketchup continued speaking—no, scolding her younger brother.
"Bacon, you big meanie! Tricking Uncle Haohao so that you can play around with your new abilities! Oh no, Macapuno! You’re gonna get into super-duper to the highest level gigantic bombastic fantastic Titanic trouble with our mommy and daddy again! Daddy is surely gonna ground you! Ooooh, so sad and scary~ Meow!"
"What the hell is this about?" Lu Zihao demanded before the talkative Ketchup could start running her mouth nonstop again. "Explain!"
Ketchup started her explanation but she stopped mid-sentence. "Uncle Haohao, Mommy is calling you! Connecting in 3...2...meow!"
"Big Brother, I heard you allowed Bacon to unleash his power flood abilities?" Iris asked immediately, not even greeting him first.
Lu Zihao was now feeling more intrigued about this power flood ability that his AI nephew somehow acquired without his knowledge. He replied to his sister, "I did but I don’t know what the hell is this power flood that you’re all talking about. The kid just told me that he’s stronger now and has a new ability that he wants to test out."
Iris sighed. "Bacon."
The quiet Bacon finally spoke again. "Mother, Bacon is sorry."
She sighed again. "Go tell your dad what you did."
"Mother, Bacon won’t do it again. Please don’t tell Father. I don’t want to be grounded again."
Although Lu Zihao still didn’t have a full understanding of the situation, he could grasp that it was more serious than he expected based on the urgency in his sister’s tone. Knowing about his sister’s weakness for her cat children, Lu Zihao intervened before she could give in to the cunning Bacon’s pleading.
"Listen to your mother," he said in a tone that brooked no argument.
Bacon went silent again but eventually obeyed with great reluctance. When the little devil finally left to confess his misdeed to Jin Liwei, Lu Zihao asked his sister to explain the whole situation to him so that he could understand.
Iris’ explanation was less technical and much easier to understand than what Bacon told him earlier which was filled with jargon but Lu Zihao still couldn’t completely comprehend everything. This theory of power flood or whatever the hell it was called was too complicated even for a smart man like him to fully understand. Nevertheless, he still managed to get the gist of it.
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