Lu Shiliu didn't go far after leaving. He mounted Da Hong and began to walk the rooster around the open area outside the chicken coop.
He was a Beast Tamer, so exercising a rooster was a routine operation for him.
But he had only made two laps when a message from Shen Yue arrived—"Shiliu, how did it go?"
Shiliu was Lu Shiliu's nickname, given to him by his adoptive father, Lu Chenyuan.
His adoptive father, Lu Chenyuan, was the Military Department's chief weapons expert. He was also severely socially anxious, cold, and taciturn—the type to stay cooped up in a secret military lab year-round, rarely seeing anyone.
Lu Shiliu was a war orphan, adopted by Lu Chenyuan thirty years ago.
Everyone assumed Lu Shiliu was so named because Lu Chenyuan had found him on a particular day, leading to his given name, Shiliu (Sixteen). They also figured his nickname, Shiliu (Pomegranate), was just a play on his given name.
