The Liang family quickly held this press conference. Lu Wanqing also saw it. The Liang and Lu families suddenly joined forces, publicly announcing the listing of a brand-new S-class mecha. During the promotion, they very impolitely stated that their new mecha was better than the Mu family's. This was a naked attempt to step on the Mu family to rise.
After coming down from the star net, Lu Wanqing's mood was visibly bad. The sudden alliance between the Liang and Lu families made it hard for her not to think about what had happened before. It must have been Lu Yuanyuan's inability to have what she wanted, so she turned to these actions.
It felt absurd, but considering Lu Yuanyuan's personality, she was indeed capable of doing such a thing.
Her sleeve was suddenly tugged. Lu Wanqing looked down at Xiao Mu Lan.
Xiao Mu Lan looked up at his mother and said earnestly, "Mommy, don't be unhappy."
Lu Wanqing was stunned for a moment, then rubbed her child's head, comforting him, "Mommy isn't unhappy."
Lu Wanqing wasn't too worried about the Mu family. After all, the Mu family had been a mecha family for hundreds of years. It wouldn't be so easy for others to surpass them.
However, as she thought this, she couldn't help but recall the phone call from Mu Sijie's mother that afternoon. Her anxious demeanor suggested that something big had happened. Was it really just the Liang and Lu families joining forces to release an S-class mecha?
That day, Mu Sijie worked overtime until very late. Lu Wanqing had already finished telling Xiao Mu Lan bedtime stories and had settled the little one to sleep. She quietly came out of the child's room and then heard the sound of Mu Sijie returning downstairs.
Lu Wanqing thought for a moment and then walked downstairs. Mu Sijie's father and mother also returned with him. Their expressions were very serious, and it looked like something significant had happened.
Lu Wanqing initially felt that the problem wasn't that big, but seeing them like this, she couldn't help but feel uneasy. Had something really happened?
It was too late, and Mu Sijie's father and mother didn't speak. After entering the house, everyone silently went upstairs, including Mu Sijie, who was also frowning, clearly looking worried.
Lu Wanqing couldn't help but worry about them. She wanted to ask something, but considering her status, she hesitated to speak.
Everyone soon returned to their respective rooms, including Lu Wanqing. After taking a shower, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Finally, she couldn't help but open her optical computer terminal and send a message to Mu Sijie.
"Is it very troublesome?" Lu Wanqing asked with concern.
After sending the message, there was no reply. Lu Wanqing kept staring at her optical computer. After an unknown amount of time, she sighed.
But just as she was about to give up, her optical computer vibrated slightly. It was Mu Sijie replying. Lu Wanqing quickly stared at the screen to check.
"The Liang family might have developed a 3S mecha," Mu Sijie said.
Lu Wanqing saw the message clearly, and her mind went blank for a moment, then she quickly reacted. She was shocked. "They developed it?"
Lu Wanqing's first thought was that it was impossible. The Mu family was the most powerful mecha family in the federation. Before today, only the Mu family had S-class mechas for sale throughout the entire federation. Other forces did not have the strength to produce S-class mechas. Because of this, Mu Sijie's status as a master of S-class mechas was very high in the interstellar, and he was respected and admired by many.
Moreover, she remembered that a 3S mecha was a hurdle that even the Mu family had not yet overcome. Mu Sijie had invited her some time ago to research how to produce a 3S mecha. Such a difficult task, and the Liang family had already achieved it first?
Lu Wanqing thought about it and couldn't help but send another message to inquire, "Did the Liang family release this news?"
After another long silence, Mu Sijie replied, "Yes."
Lu Wanqing didn't know what to say for a moment. But then she thought it shouldn't be so. Was the Liang family really that powerful? They had just announced the release of an S-class mecha today, and they were going to have a 3S mecha soon?
Was the technological barrier so easy to break?
If they had the ability to produce a 3S mecha, they should have been able to produce an S-class mecha much earlier, right? Why didn't they release an S-class mecha before and waited until today to make it public?
The more Lu Wanqing thought about it, the more something felt wrong. And considering that the Liang family had specifically emphasized their joint development with the Lu family when releasing the S-class mecha this time, her feeling of unease grew even stronger.
A few days ago, Lu Yuanyuan was still pestering Mu Sijie, wholeheartedly wanting to confess to him, wanting to marry him and form an alliance with the Mu family... If you think about it, even if the Lu family switched sides, their alliance with the Liang family wouldn't have lasted long, right?
In just a few days, could the Lu family support the Liang family in developing S-class, or even 3S-class mechas?
Or perhaps, the Liang family had been hiding their strength all along. They had the ability to manufacture S-class and 3S-class mechas long ago, but they had kept it hidden and not revealed it. Only now, with the support of the Lu family, did they feel they had backing and could contend with the Mu family, so they revealed their true strength?
Lu Wanqing pondered these questions, but in the end, she found no answers. She could only sigh and close her eyes to sleep.
In the following days, the Liang family's release of S-class mechas became a sensation online. Most importantly, the Liang family set the price of their mechas lower than the Mu family's. This move directly won the hearts of over half of the interstellar population. Many people began to speak up for the Liang family, and some even agitated citizens ran to the Mu family's official website, tagging the Mu family's official account repeatedly, urging the Mu family to see the price of the Liang family's mechas and questioning the Mu family's conscience.
Lu Wanqing adjusted her appearance on the star net and visited the stores of both the Mu and Liang families. The star net stores in the interstellar era were different from those of ancient Earth, but also somewhat similar.
For example, these stores were more like physical stores where people could directly enter and view products, as if they were real items. However, beneath these products, there were special ratings and reviews typical of online shopping, with good reviews, bad reviews, and user experience, all similar to the twenty-first century.
Lu Wanqing randomly selected some items in the Mu family's store, especially the S-class mechas. She checked the reviews under those mechas and found that many negative reviews had suddenly appeared in the past few days, all of them fiercely criticizing the Mu family for their expensive prices, calling them inhuman, and constantly comparing the Mu family's mechas with the Liang family's mechas, denouncing the Mu family as capitalists and vampires sucking the blood of the people.
Furthermore, Lu Wanqing also noticed that compared to before, the traffic in the Mu family's mecha store had decreased by almost half. She spent a morning browsing in the Mu family's store, and in the afternoon, she couldn't help but go to the Liang family's store. Upon seeing it, she realized that there were indeed many people at the Liang family's store, and every customer browsing there had a smile on their face. They were all happy when selecting the Liang family's mechas.