suspicion
On the top of a flying disc-shaped tower in the Mirage Abyss, the two sisters' eyes were red.
"It was the people from the maintenance bureau who rescued me from the pit that day." Xiaowei recalled that when she first saw 07, she was frightened by his appearance. In a trance, she thought it was the god of death who had come to collect people.
"And he brought you here?" Xiaoyue held her sister's hand tightly, her eyes filled with heartache. "Then whose body was it that we found?"
Xiao Wei shook her head and said, "I don't know. I remember that I could only hear a few vague sounds at that time, and I couldn't see clearly what was happening. When I woke up again, I was already in the Mirage Abyss."
"The people who rescued me left me here. I can't find a way out, but I know." She pursed her lips, "I know you will survive. We agreed before."
Xiaoyue's nails became cold, hard and sharp due to the influence of the energy of the S561 organism. As her hands tightened unconsciously, they dug into Xiaowei's palms, leaving several scratches.
"But you...how could you..." When Xiaowei said this, a fine electric current suddenly ran through the back of her forehead, giving her a splitting headache. She immediately stopped the topic, fell forward and began to tremble all over.
Xiaoyue was startled: "What's wrong? What happened to you?" She reached out anxiously to hug Xiaowei, and subconsciously patted her back soothingly, just like when she was a child.
"Weiwei? What's going on?" Xiaoyue's eyes were wet with anxiety. She turned her head around to seek help, but all she saw was green.
Under the energy stimulation brought by the sudden change of emotions, the scales on her snake tail expanded rapidly, and a large piece of it fell off in the blink of an eye. The blue blood soaked Xiaowei's clothes and flowed along the stone to the ground.
The light moss covered with blood rotted instantly.
There was a rustling sound from deep in the bushes, and Xiaoyue's snake tail responded by striking in that direction.
The snake's tail lashed against a curtain of water, splashing scattered water droplets, which then fell and hit the shallow moss on the ground.
"Calm down, He Xian asked me to come here." Yan Zhiyuan looked a little embarrassed because he had just been looking for a way in there for a long time. There were a lot of plant debris hanging on his hair and body. Before he had time to clean them up, Xiaoyue swung his tail in the head.
He gestured to Xiaoyue: "Let her lie flat on the ground first, and then stay away from her." Then he squatted down, put his hand under the grass, lifted it up, and set off a curtain of water.
The water curtain was still flowing, with dots of green light mixed in the ripples. It extended forward with Yan Zhiyuan's movements, gently separating Xiaoyue and Xiaowei.
"The energy disorder of the modified experimental subject in you has affected her. Leave this to me. You should leave first." Yan Zhiyuan pointed her in a direction and said, "Go straight ahead and you will see a bridge. After crossing the bridge, there is the second door on the left. He Xian asked you to meet there first."
"Oh, you may not know who He Xian is." Yan Zhiyuan suddenly realized, "You've seen him in District 5, a guy with sunglasses and pigtails."
Xiaoyue remembered that the man who brought her into the Nigra auction venue was indeed the same as he described, and she felt a little relieved. She frowned slightly, raised her tail and swam in the direction he had pointed.
Yan Zhiyuan let the water curtain wrap around Xiaowei's flat body. Her trembling gradually subsided. She opened her eyes and looked at Yan Zhiyuan with a pale face: "I... I'm fine. How about her?"
"I asked her to go to the gathering first. Don't you know she's been transformed?" After Xiaowei recovered, Yan Zhiyuan helped her to stand up. "Didn't you go to District 5 with Shi Youchen?"
Unexpectedly, her eyes froze, and she murmured, "I don't remember... I seem to have slept in one place for a long time." Then she exclaimed, "Mr. Shi asked me to go find Mollier and tell her something."
Seeing that she didn't seem to be deliberately lying, Yan Zhiyuan said, "Then go quickly. She should be in the pharmacy."
...
After hearing what Xiaowei said, Mollier took off her protective goggles and said, "Okay, thank you, I understand." After watching Xiaowei leave, she sighed almost inaudibly.
"Is it finally coming?" As one of the few people who knew that Shi Youchen was 07, Morrill knew that this meant he had to carry out his next plan.
The person he asked him to find in District 8 was undoubtedly Lu Zhiqi.
Mollier scanned the information, and the corner of the pharmacy floor gave way, revealing a dark passage beneath her feet. She walked down that passage until she reached a secret room as cold as an ice cellar.
There was a person lying on the water bed in the middle of the secret room, with his eyes closed as if he was resting.
"Wake up." Mollier patted his shoulder, "Ying Yungui." The person on the bed did not respond.
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In Sanye Temple, Ying Yungui and Lin Zhouze appeared. He Xian said "Huh" and asked Shi Youchen, "How did they find this place?"
Shi Youchen didn't answer him, but just fixed his eyes on Ying Yungui.
"I've already told you there's no need to come. This place is not open to the public." Ying Yungui glanced at the roots of the banyan tree and said lightly to Lin Zhouze.
"That's perfect." Lin Zhouze nodded, "Let me tell you something."
He Xian originally wanted to continue asking Shi Youchen other things, but when he heard this, his ears pricked up.
Lin Zhouze asked, "Since you took over, have you received any reports from the research base besides the selection competition?"
The Orb Trials, originally scheduled to resume on the day of the public judging, were canceled due to the incident. Although the decision was based on multiple considerations and weighing, there were still some doubts within the association.
Ying Yungui knew that those voices mainly came from his own position, and he had been busy with this matter for some time.
"Research base?" His brows furrowed. "No, why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
From Ying Yungui's perspective, when he first heard Lin Zhouze mention this, he thought that he had come into contact with those people, or more directly encountered "super evolution", so he was a little stunned for a moment. Fortunately, after hearing Lin Zhouze's next words, this concern disappeared.
Lin Zhouze said: "Remember what we talked about last time, how did Lan get to where he is now?"
"Didn't you say that she joined as a recorder for the first batch of experimental subjects shortly after Lynch Feller became president, when the research project was still recruiting experimental subjects, and was later selected by Lynch Feller for a more important position?"
Ying Yungui deliberately turned his body a little and said these things in the direction of the banyan tree, so Shi Youchen understood in his heart - he already knew that he was here, and what Lin Zhouze said was related to himself, or to 07.
At this time, He Xian nudged Shi Youchen with his elbow and asked softly, "Did you do it?" Shi Youchen nodded.
Lin Zhouze's eyes narrowed: "I think she might have been given some kind of instructions."
“?!”
“?!”
He Xian was shocked and even moved a little more vigorously. He looked at Shi Youchen in disbelief: "How did he know?" Even Morrill, who already knew that Shi Youchen was 07, did not know Lan's true identity. Even Lan himself knew nothing about it.
Did Lin Zhouze notice something?
"Why... do you say that?" Ying Yungui calmly took half a step forward.
Lin Zhouze rubbed the base of his other hand with his fingertips. "I remember very clearly. Before I left the research center to go to your place that day, I had already entered the data of a new experimental subject into the research center's system."
"That is to say, from that moment on, it would be impossible for her to leave that place easily unless she got permission from the person in charge."
"Because the incident happened suddenly and saving lives was the most important thing, her transformation experiment was conducted by Lan herself, so the most direct and senior person responsible to her was Lan."
The area of Lin Zhouze's skin that had just been rubbed quickly turned red. "I stayed with you for a few days, and when I returned, I discovered she had already left the research center and even the headquarters."
"All data related to her in the system has been completely wiped out, as if her transformation experiment was just an illusion." Lin Zhouze shook his head slightly. "She is the only one I can think of who has such authority and can do such a thing."
“…”
Ying Yungui's throat relaxed.
Shi Youchen finally loosened his grip on the hem of his clothes.
"So that's why you think she might be controlled by someone? Like someone from the Filer family or something?" Ying Yungui curled his lips.
Lin Zhouze: "If they're coming for you, then that's not impossible. After all, aren't they the ones causing the most trouble lately, both openly and covertly?"
"Hmm..." Ying Yungui thought for a moment and said, "I see. I'll keep an eye on it. So is this why you deliberately called me to District 5?"
Unexpectedly, Lin Zhouze paused and said, "There is one more thing." Then he seemed to not know how to start and was stunned.
"What?" Ying Yungui's nerves, which had just relaxed, tensed up again in an instant.
"There's a welfare auction here, which I think is a bit strange. If possible, you can check it out." Lin Zhouze frowned as he said this.
When Ying Yungui heard this, he was about to react, but suddenly his mind became dizzy, as if his consciousness was forcibly pulled away in an instant. Shi Youchen could see that his eyes were empty for a moment.
"Is Ying Yungui?" Lin Zhouze asked.
"Oh no." Shi Youchen's reaction confused He Xian: "What's wrong? What happened to him?"
Shi Youchen lowered his eyes and said, "I asked Xiaowei to go back to find Mollier and ask her to go to the basement to wake up Kong, but I didn't have time to inform Ying Yungui."
"The action over there has already begun."
"Then...what should we do?" He Xian's eyes widened. "He won't be exposed here, right?"
Just when Shi Youchen was calculating the possibility of taking action, Ying Yungui on the other side forced himself to make a gesture - "Go quickly."
"I'm fine." He said to Lin Zhouze, "Let's go back first. The matter you mentioned...I'm afraid it's really related to the Feller family."
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