Lin Zaifei fell silent for a moment.

Seeing that he hesitated and dared not speak directly, Lin Yiran asked directly: "Are you researching my superpowers?" She could guess.

Lin Zaifei nodded: "It's for researching special abilities, but I really didn't expect that the one who was kidnapped would be my sister."

Lin Yiran: "Can you tell me about what happened back then? Why did Lin Fei become the Lin family's daughter? And I remember you did the genetic testing back then." She decided to ask directly. She felt that things weren't as bad as she thought, and there must be some misunderstanding. But seeing how well the Lin family treated Lin Fei, she still felt uneasy.

Lin Zaifei didn't intend to hide anything from Lin Yiran and straightforwardly explained what happened back then: "After you got lost on the battlefield, your mother missed you so much that she passed away from illness the following year. After your mother's death, your father's old illness from the battlefield relapsed, and his health never improved. But he firmly believed that you were not dead and told my three brothers and me that we must never give up searching for you."

"The three of us have never disappointed our father's wishes over the years, searching for your whereabouts on various desolate planets, but we have found no trace of you."

"Last year, my father suddenly fell ill. The doctor wanted him to have surgery and take good care of himself, but he had been depressed since my mother passed away, and now he hadn't heard from you for a long time, so his will to live was very low. The doctor said that if a person has no will to live, even if interstellar medicine is the best, it is impossible to save a person who wants to die. He told us to be prepared."

"My eldest brother and third brother couldn't bear to see our father continue to suffer, and they originally intended to give up treatment, but I was unwilling. So I ran to the remote Ninth Star System to adopt a child to cheer up our father."

But when I arrived at the Ninth Star System, I unexpectedly found Lin Fei by the roadside. Her figure resembled my mother's, so an idea immediately came to me.

"To keep my father alive, I lied and said I had found someone who looked very similar to my sister and was about to do genetic testing. Only then did my father agree to continue treatment. Later, I simply went all out and fabricated a fake genetic testing report to show my father, successfully deceiving him."

"So Lin Fei isn't a child of the Lin family. Only I know this; my father and brother don't know."

“I thought you were dead,” Lin Zaifei said calmly.

Lin Yiran remained unmoved and asked, "So the servant you sent to pick up Lin Fei in the beginning knew about this?"

Lin Zaifei frowned: "He probably doesn't know, but he's one of my men, and I was the one who prepared the genetic report, so he'll believe it. Even if you had found him back then, he wouldn't have paid any attention to you. It's my fault..."

Lin Yiran understood: So from the beginning, Lin Fei was just a substitute. Lin Zaifei knew this, and the people he sent, because they trusted him too much, rejected the original owner's request and showed their disgust towards her, which eventually led to the original owner being punished and killed by the orphanage director.

However, Lin Yiran still felt that something was wrong. She asked, "Is this something only you know about? Does Lin Fei's mother know? I initially thought they were in cahoots to deliberately steal her identity, but now it turns out that wasn't the case. It was all his second brother's doing, but it seems he was also kept in the dark."

"And that jade pendant, the one I always carried with me, was also taken away by Lin Fei."

Lin Zaifei was stunned: "What? A jade pendant? I didn't see any jade pendant."

"She probably hid it," Lin Yiran said. "She's quite cunning."

Then Lin Zaifei immediately shifted his focus to the main point, a chill running down his spine as he asked, "You mean Lin Fei isn't an orphan? She has a biological mother?"

This was what shocked him the most. If what Lin Yiran said was true, then things had become complicated.

Lin Yiran nodded and continued, "She has a biological mother, who is the director of our orphanage. She has been different from us since she was a child, and everyone in our orphanage knows this."

Lin Zaifei clenched his fists: "But I didn't find out that Lin Fei had a mother back then. I'm afraid someone did something to that effect."

His face darkened.

"So the jade pendant you've worn since childhood is on Lin Fei, right?"

Lin Yiran nodded: "Yes, she forcibly took the jade pendant, and it should still be on her. But she didn't take it out, which is interesting. She knew from the beginning that she was not a child of the Lin family, but she was still acting with you. It seems that you are the one who has been caught in the trap, Second Brother?" Even at a time like this, Lin Yiran still had the mind to tease, her face smiling without a trace of gloom.

Lin Zaifei was amused: "What time is it, and you can still laugh? This matter is probably more serious than we imagined."

Lin Yiran: "Oh, right, before coming to the capital star, I killed the orphanage director, who is also Lin Fei's mother, but it seems she didn't die. She was saved by a man, but I couldn't beat him, so I left on my own. Later, I was chased by people from the Divine Eye Society. Could there be any connection between these events? You can think about it."

"And you still haven't told me why you're here?" A geneticist coming here to conduct secret experiments, especially those related to superpowers, is a bit of a frivolous thing to do.

Lin Zaifei: "This matter needs to be explained from the beginning."

"Last year, right after I brought Lin Fei back, I received a message." Lin Zaifei looked at Lin Yiran, who replied, "What message?"

Lin Zaifei: "It's a video, a video of my sister after she went missing, it shows..."

"She was brought to this laboratory and subjected to secret experiments."

Lin Yiran was taken aback: "A secret experiment?" She panicked. What was going on?

"Is it fake?"

The system hadn't told her about this, so the only explanation was that the other party had deliberately lured him here by sending a little girl who looked just like his sister.

Lin Zaifei's eyes were deep as he replied, "It should be fake, but in order to find out the truth about what happened back then, I still chose to infiltrate this laboratory, starting as a junior staff member and climbing to the position of professor, just to find out what this laboratory does."

Lin Yiran thought to herself: So that's how it is. He's really persistent. Even though he's convinced his sister is dead, he still sneaked into this lab alone to investigate the truth behind her death. It seems the Lin family is really protective of their own.

"So what exactly does this laboratory do? And who was that old man I just saw?" Lin Yiran asked.