Chapter 108 Cause and Effect: The So-Called Plan

The sea breeze is very refreshing.

Moist and soft.

Sang Li felt that even what Chi Du said wasn't this unacceptable.

For example, one's own mother was involved in this conspiracy and plan.

Sang Li sighed: "What exactly happened?"

“Professor He Chen knows everything,” Chi Du said in a low voice. “Because she participated in the experiment at the beginning, but it wasn’t directly applied to you, so she was unaware that her technology and data were being used in human experiments. Later, she found out what had happened. Perhaps she developed feelings for you while spending time with you, so she had a change of heart and wanted to help you escape that kind of life, so she agreed to our request for the experiment.”

Chi Du didn't know what He Chen was thinking; he didn't have a penchant for making unfounded assumptions.

Sang Li squinted slightly, feeling the wind blowing in from the window, as if all the gloom had been washed away.

It seems that I am not unloved after all.

Sometimes people like to use some painful memories to cover up all their memories.

For example, when her parents divorced, she felt like an unwanted child.

She felt unloved by her father and mother.

However, Sang Li now knows, at least, that it wasn't about her parents getting divorced.

She was afraid of her parents' divorce and also afraid of human experimentation, but she couldn't say which would hurt her the most.

Although divorce doesn't sound nearly as terrible as stabbing yourself in the head, Sang Li felt that this kind of relationship would definitely last a lifetime.

“After you begin to feel ‘love’ and ‘warmth,’ your abnormal abilities gradually return,” Chi Du continued. “During this process, your memories also slowly awaken, and you begin to understand what happened.”

"I've always been by your side in different guises, secretly, so we've always kept in touch." Chi Du's words were gentle yet unwavering.

Fei Ling laughed from the side: "Who hasn't contacted her yet? I've been by Li Li's side the whole time."

Chi Du: "That's not the point."

"Tsk."

Chi Du looked at Sang Li: "So we started thinking about how to retaliate against the Bureau and escape their control. Even if He Chen didn't report your data, the chip in your body would still send your data back to the Bureau. But we discovered the chip a little too late; we didn't have that much experience back then."

Sang Li frowned slightly: "So... the Bureau discovered me? So we're starting a battle royale?"

Chi Du nodded, his tone calm: "I noticed something was wrong with you, so I took you and we started to escape."

Sang Li couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!" A sense of tension, like someone on the run, welled up inside her: "That sounds pretty exciting."

Chi Du sighed softly, "More or less."

Fei Ling rested her chin on her hand and said slowly, "Escape is Chi Du's skill. He himself didn't have the ability to protect himself. Back then, he was just a crow with no feathers, so he almost died several times. If Chi Du hadn't been so incompetent, you wouldn't have ended up in the Pacific Ocean and met Amber."

Ike Watari: ...

Sang Li: ...

Fei Ling: Hey, we finally won back a point.

Chi Du: "You're even more useless."

Fei Ling: ...

The wind rustles the coconut leaves, and the waves gently lap the beach.

Ike Watari rarely attacks others so directly.

So the story returns to Amber.

Sang Li looked at Him, a slight smile playing on her lips.

Amber's silvery-white pupils remained fixed on her. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered the first time he met Sang Li and how she looked.

She is completely different now.

Indifferent, fearless, yet resolute and full of power.

That kind of charisma, without any extraordinary ability to "attract" anyone, makes it impossible to look away.

Amber knew that nothing in the world could compare to her.

He remembered Sang Li standing on the rock, her eyes sharp, like a god looking down upon all things. Her outstretched hand seemed to touch every drop of water, every wave, and even the entire ocean seemed to submit to her gaze.

Disdainful.

Like a deity.

Later, after Amber learned of her abilities, she realized that she might be trying to use them to influence her.

However, there isn't actually much difference.

Mermaids are not a race that sympathizes with the weak; they prefer the strong.

Although Sang Li was being chased all over the world by BEAM at the time, he still had an unshakeable power.

Especially.

stubborn.

Resolute.

Like a seagull taking flight.

At that moment, He looked up at her amidst the rolling waves and instinctively reached out to catch her.

She couldn't swim, choked on water, struggled and coughed, tears mixed with seawater streaming down her face.

In his arms, her body was as soft as a little animal, clinging tightly to his neck.

He looked terrified.

The case is different from when I first saw it.

On the cliff, the BEAM special forces team was closing in, but they were no match for them.

Without looking back, he led Sang Li into the sea, their bodies cutting through the water like sharp blades in the dark.

This was their first meeting.

Sang Li saw a hint of a smile in Amber's eyes: "Amber, what are you laughing at?"

Chi Du knew what He was thinking; that mermaid was always excessively blunt.

If he hadn't lost the necklace that served as an anchor point during the pursuit of Sang Li, he wouldn't have been able to find Sang Li's exact location by tracking BEAM.

Chi Du: "Thief."

Amber: "If you're weak, you have to admit defeat."

Sang Li raised her hand: "You three, stop arguing."

Fei Ling: "I haven't said anything yet!"

"Then shut up too."

Amber's smile lingered: "Later, I helped you evade the pursuit. During that time, you and I spent about a month together at sea."

Sang Li raised an eyebrow, her gaze involuntarily sliding down Amber's spine.

A month?

That's exceptionally long.

I wonder if Amber was more... back then than she is now.

A bit stronger and fiercer?

After all, Amber is beautiful enough as she is now.

His naked body had distinct lines, broad shoulders, a rising and falling chest, and symmetrical, taut abdominal muscles, exuding a wild, animalistic quality. Water droplets slid down his collarbone, meandering along his lines and disappearing into his waist, carrying a burning allure.

Sang Li felt a surge of heat in her heart and bit her lip.

A month... really, that's enough time to do anything.

Amber seemed to hear what she was thinking, and the corners of her mouth curved into a smile: "Just as you thought."

Sang Li was taken aback and pointed to herself.

Really?

Is there a famine?

Are you that hungry?

Amber approached slowly, her eyes deep and unfathomable: "You just like to be happy."

He paused, then added with a low laugh, "However, I was the one who seduced you first."

Sang Li finally understood why everyone said that sirens could bewitch people.

Amber's voice was deep and husky, with a certain innate allure, as if it wanted to drag her completely into the abyss of the sea.

Sang Li was about to retort when Fei Ling suddenly interrupted her, saying coldly, "You can shut up now."

His eyes were dark as he stared intently at Amber: "Mermaids don't need to learn human languages, much less their vulgar ones. All you have to do is howl in the sea."

Chi Du said coldly, "Can you let me finish what I'm saying?"

Sang Li patted Chi Du's hand and smiled ingratiatingly.

The empress is still the best.

Chi Du looked up at Sang Li and said slowly, "You were already making plans while you were on the run. Plans that could overthrow BEAM, or rather, plans that could destroy all of humanity."

The Day Witch hates humans.

Because it was humans who killed her.

Because the Witch of Daylight's powers awakened, Sangli also carried a part of her consciousness and unfinished hatred.

And she also harbored hatred.

How could someone who has conducted hundreds or thousands of human experiments possibly have any good intentions towards humanity?

He paused, his voice lowering, "But none of the three of us know what that plan actually is."

Amber's eyes flashed, and Fei Ling frowned, but neither of them spoke.

Chi Du continued, "At that time, the power of the Day Witch should have already awakened within you. You must have foreseen something but didn't tell us."

Sang Li's heart tightened slightly.

“Until you found He Chen again.” Chi Du’s gaze was cold, suppressing his emotions. “You said yourself that an experiment needed to be conducted.”

He turned to Amber, his eyes flashing, "That is, the experiment that Amber mentioned later."

Amber remained silent.

“The experiment was a success. Later, Amber lost her memory. And you,” he stared at Sang Li, his eyes filled with complex emotions, “secretly escaped from us. When you reappeared, you were already in BEAM’s containment facility.”

Sang Li pursed her lips, noticing the subtle changes in the air.

"Your memories have been completely erased." Chi Du slowly uttered the last sentence, "Back then, you completely forgot us."

That's the whole story.

Sang Li lowered her eyes slightly, and a chilling thought suddenly flashed through her mind.

Although her memories are still fragmented, she can piece together some blurry fragments.

Lu Jin.

Based on her previous personality, Lu Jin shouldn't have gotten involved with her in the first place. But everything changed when she discovered that Lu Jin's blood could alleviate the "black hole" within her body.

Back then, I probably misled Lu Jin. Perhaps it was intentional, or perhaps it was just going with the flow.

But as a result, the two crossed a certain line.

And then there's Lu Jin's amnesia.

And being cleaned.

Wait, amnesia can only be achieved through experimental methods.

Therefore, Lu Jin's amnesia was caused by the Bureau.

The Administration Bureau must know that Lu Jin and the Bureau had a relationship.

interesting.

She knew very well that Lu Jin had always been just a pawn manipulated by her.

Even if he may have always believed that it was genuine emotion.

This means that the Authority possesses a potion that can "remove" its own "mark".

Ah, this looks like a threat.

Sang Li laughed.

Chi Du looked at her and chuckled softly, suddenly feeling as if the Sang Li from before had returned.

***

The night was deep, and Lu Jin sat alone in his office, with documents spread out on his desk.

He has barely slept in recent days.

He is investigating Sang Li.

More precisely, it's about tracing the vague secret behind Sang Li and figuring out what the Administration Bureau is hiding.

Bai Heng helped him a lot.

Soon, a disturbing fact emerged: the secret had disappeared.

Bai Heng said that He Chen was originally a key member of BEAM's gene research project.

The time of his disappearance coincided with the period around the time Lu Jin first received the order to capture Sang Li.

The cold, hard date on the document made Lu Jin's eyes darken instantly.

Just then, footsteps sounded outside the door.

Bai Heng pushed open the door and placed a new medical report on the table: "I've discovered a problem."

Lu Jin raised his eyes, his voice low: "What's the problem?"

Bai Heng stared directly at him, speaking slowly and deliberately: "Your brain has undergone 'control intervention'."

Bai Heng continued to explain: "This is a method of amnesia, but it does not involve extracting memories. Instead, it directly sets up a barrier in the brain to destroy the memory."

forget?

What can be forgotten?

Lu Jin slowly reached out and pressed his temple, the coldness in his eyes seeming to engulf everything in an instant.

He knew in his heart that the lost memories must be related to Sang Li.