Chapter 116 The Truth of That Year: Genetic Secrets, Qin Shu's Physique
At that time, it was the day before Qin Yue and Li Qin joined the Sheng'an Division.
"Because your parents published many high-level papers while pursuing their master's and doctoral degrees abroad, the Cortel Research Laboratory, which specializes in human cloning research, had their eyes on them for a long time."
"Kotter has a foreign military background and had previously extended offers to your parents. After being rejected several times, he came up with this method to coerce your parents into submission."
Originally, the other party did not intend to control the old man.
It was Qin Shu.
Li Qin and Qin Yue got their marriage certificate early; they got married before they even graduated.
During his time abroad, he always had Qin Shu by his side, taking care of him personally. He didn't even need a nanny, and he was protected by experts hired by the Qin and Li families and people from the Chinese military.
After keeping watch for a long time without finding an opportunity, those people turned their attention to Old Master Qin.
So when the old man returned from his business trip to Hong Kong, those people kidnapped him and quickly evacuated him after the security check, before the bodyguards and others had passed through the checkpoint.
Hong Kong was not peaceful at that time; unrest occurred frequently, and such things were extremely common.
After the bodyguards passed through the checkpoint, the person had completely disappeared.
“Those people know that if they kill me, your parents will never listen to them, so they keep me alive while keeping me trapped, sending you videos to your parents every day, just so that your parents will do things for them.”
That year was the darkest time in Mr. Qin's life.
Every day when I open my eyes, all I see is darkness.
There was no light, no hope; only during mealtimes could one see a faint glimmer of daylight.
No one could have imagined that this influential old man in the capital's business world had such a dark and hopeless past.
"On one side is the country, on the other is family, and the matter involves foreign forces and Cortel's inhumane research, so your parents quickly reported the matter to the leaders of the Bureau of Life and Safety."
"With a unanimous decision within the bureau, your parents' onboarding will be suspended, and they will be asked to feign agreement to the other party's request while mediating between them."
The person who said this was Qin Yong.
When he couldn't contact the old man for several days, he quickly noticed something was wrong.
At that time, Qin Zhen was carefree and rarely home, spending all his time out and about, while Qin Jin was busy conducting research and was away from home for almost half a year.
Seeing that they couldn't hide it from Qin Yong, and in order to make things easier for them later, Qin Yue and his wife, after consulting with him, told him some non-confidential information.
"CEW Biotech was founded around that time."
"On the surface, it's a new field that the Qin family is venturing into, but in reality, it's the result of your parents' negotiations with the other side—they don't need to go abroad; they can help with the relevant research domestically. This way, they can lull the other side into a false sense of security and, with the control and assistance of the Bureau of Life and Safety, they can deal with various unexpected problems more calmly."
"Because of the old man's expectations for the Qin family, in addition to his research, your father not only personally handled the various businesses of the Qin family, enabling the Qin family to develop rapidly and outpace other companies even without the old man, but also taught me how to continue to maintain the company's development in the future."
When Qin Yong talks about his younger brother Qin Yue, he feels both gratified and proud, but also ashamed and guilty.
That year, Qin Yue was busy with CEW research during the day and stayed up late at night to handle company affairs, while also mentoring his older brother Qin Yong.
"To my shame, I am clearly the eldest son of the Qin family, and A-Yue is clearly the youngest son, but he has become the most responsible one among us."
"What the second son said was unpleasant to hear, but he was right about one thing—if it weren't for your father's efforts to turn the tide, there would be no Qin family as we know it today, let alone the richest family in the capital."
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The old man's words and Qin Yong's words unveiled another long-buried memory from Qin Shu's childhood.
He knew from a very young age that his parents were very busy.
He spent his childhood in a laboratory.
Cold, precise instruments, transparent test tubes of various sizes, white lab coats, and specimen bottles...
At that time, while his parents were busy at the control panel, he would read books by himself in a distant corner.
Often, they are busy for an entire day.
Qin Shu would read books, and sometimes he would spend the whole day reading.
When Qin Shu was seven years old, she returned to China with her parents.
His parents became busier than before, but this time, they wouldn't let him continue to follow them, and even only allowed him to play inside the villa.
No matter where he goes, he is always followed by a large group of bodyguards.
After their parents passed away, the number of bodyguards not only did not decrease, but actually increased.
Even his very existence seems to have been erased.
Everyone knows that Old Master Qin dotes on his youngest grandson, but as time goes by, it becomes increasingly impossible to find out what this grandson looks like.
"The Qin family is keeping you hidden not only because it is your parents' last wish."
Qin Yong raised his head and looked at Qin Shu. "Second brother just said that your father's last phone call before he died was to me. That's true."
"He only told me two things on the phone."
"First, the gene reagents that the other party wanted have already been developed. In order to lower their guard, they will not find any problems when they conduct reagent tests at first. However, in the later stages, there will be a gene backlash, causing the internal cells of the cloned human to die and preventing the embryo from forming."
"Secondly, during the preparation of the reagent, they discovered an active enzyme called Tα-941. After being injected into the human body, it can enhance a person's various immune systems and functions, making them a superhuman in a certain sense. Such a person's memory, physical strength, or even the ability to master a certain skill will be many times stronger than that of an ordinary person."
"In order to produce what the other party wanted in the shortest possible time and at the same time save the old man, they injected this active enzyme into their own bodies. And that year, because you had a high fever of 40°C for two consecutive days, in order to enhance your resistance, they... also injected you with this active enzyme."
By this point, the course of events and the various entanglements behind them had far exceeded Qin Shu's imagination.
Even Song Ying, who was standing to the side, was somewhat dumbfounded.
"Does this active enzyme have any side effects?"
She asked the question instinctively.
For Song Ying, the first thing that came to mind was Qin Shu's health.
"Probably not."
Qin Yong shook his head. "Otherwise, A Yue and A Qin wouldn't have injected their own child with it. But this kind of thing, like gene reagents, is anti-human and anti-common sense. If it is discovered, it will definitely cause a new wave of biotechnology upheaval."
"Therefore, the second thing he entrusted me to do was to hide this secret and have the Qin family protect you as you grow up safely."
Qin Shu frowned slightly: "So, even the people in the Safety Bureau don't know about this?"
"have no idea."
Qin Yong affirmed.
“After the old man’s accident, I became extremely careful in communicating with your parents. The signal was encrypted layer by layer, making it almost impossible to decode. Moreover, no outsider knows what they are doing. Even Ling Hai, whom you have now found, only knows a few bits and pieces and has no idea of the whole picture.”
Qin Shu stared at Qin Yong for a long time. Seeing that he looked back at her calmly and didn't seem to be lying, she asked the final question.
"So, what exactly happened in that car accident? Why did my second uncle say that the accident was related to you? Why did my father have an accident while driving your car?"
Qin Shu remembers the day her parents passed away very clearly.
At that time, his parents were too busy to be home, and he felt lonely living in the villa, so he was always unhappy. So his aunt Li Wan, who had married and moved to the capital, took him to live in her home.
Later, his parents finally had some free time, so they drove to his aunt's house to pick him up.
However, he was getting along well with his cousin Wei Qi at the time and insisted on staying at his aunt's house for a few more days.
His mother originally intended to stay overnight at the Wei family's house with him.
But not long after, Mother suddenly changed her mind and left with Father ahead of schedule.
Before leaving, she told him to listen to his aunt and not to cause trouble.
Not long after, while he was playing in the Wei family garden, he heard the devastating news of his parents' passing.
Faced with Qin Shu's question, Qin Yong shook his head.
"That's just the second brother's side of the story. In fact, it wasn't just my car that had problems that day."
"What's the meaning?"
"Someone wants to eliminate all those who know about CEW."
Qin Yong looked at Qin Shu.
"For a long time after your parents developed the gene reagent, they were extremely cautious when traveling to prevent the other party from discovering the problem with the reagent. All the vehicles they used were equipped with anti-eavesdropping devices, and even the interiors of the vehicles were modified. From hardware to personnel, they took multiple precautions to ensure the maximum possible and most comprehensive security."
"But as you can see, they still got into trouble—the old man, like you, also questioned whether I was the one who did it, but your parents borrowed the car that day on a whim, and it wasn't inevitable."
"And soon we discovered that it wasn't just that one car; all my other cars, as well as your parents' other cars, had all been vandalized to varying degrees."
"The opponent is very cautious. All the cars have minor problems. You can drive them for two or three days and there won't be any noticeable issues. But one day, they will reach a critical point and become uncontrollable."
In other words, even if Qin Yue and his wife hadn't been using Qin Yong's car that day, they would have gotten into an accident sooner or later while riding in their own car.
“Anyone capable of doing all this is no ordinary person. And that day, at the accident scene, the old man received a phone call.”
Qin Shu had heard Ling Hai mention the phone call.
According to Ling Hai, the scene had already determined that it was not an accident, but after receiving a phone call, the old man, together with the police, agreed to tell the public that it was an accidental fall.
"Was that phone call made by the murderer?"
Qin Shu narrowed his eyes and quickly figured out the key to the matter.
Grandpa Qin took a deep breath and nodded.
His hands, placed in front of him, were clenched into fists, and the veins on his thin wrists bulged.
Years later, when he recalls that phone call, he can still feel the other person's arrogant attitude.
"They were afraid the reagents would be leaked, so they wanted to eliminate anyone who knew. That day, they were lurking in the shadows. But our people couldn't even find their hiding place..."
One is in the light, the other in the dark; this is not simply a matter of power imbalance.
Since then, all of the Qin family's cars have undergone thorough inspections before leaving the house.
In the early years, Qin Yong was slashed with a knife several times, and was even shot once.
However, perhaps because they discovered that CEW had gradually declined after the deaths of Qin Yue and his wife, and had no new research results, and Qin Yong did not seem to know anything, such incidents were slowly decreasing.
I haven't encountered this even once in the past few years.
"Perhaps they have new targets, who knows, but at least they're not keeping an eye on us anymore."
However, what ultimately made the old man decide to swallow his anger and hide the truth about his young son's death was another discovery.
“Do you remember what your uncle said? Before your parents passed away, they injected themselves with Tα-941 active enzyme. So, when I held your father that day, I noticed that the wounds on his arm and forehead were healing little by little…”
Upon hearing this, Qin Shu was startled.
Song Ying was also shaken to her core.
I spoke subconsciously:
"The wound is healing itself? Doesn't that mean that Ash's parents might still be alive?!"
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