Chapter 185 The Laboratory Opens the Gate of Time and Space
“You’ve committed illegal and criminal acts, so you should be punished by law,” Su Qinglan said softly, lowering her eyes. “You’re over thirty years old, don’t you even understand this principle?”
Su Qiang was stunned for a few seconds, then asked, "You mean you won't save me?"
Su Qinglan wiped away the tears that were about to overflow from the corners of her eyes. "I cannot interfere with judicial fairness because of personal relationships, I cannot make things difficult for Xiaoli, and I cannot let criminals escape legal punishment, even if... you are my own child, it is still not allowed."
Su Qiang realized that his previous wailing and sob had been completely futile, and he immediately broke down, yelling at the top of his lungs, "Su Qinglan! You wouldn't even save your own son from death, are you even human?! I know, you've always held a grudge against me, and now you're just here to laugh at me! My life is completely over, are you satisfied now?!"
Su Qinglan suddenly didn't want to argue with him anymore. The last bit of attachment she had for her blood relatives was completely crushed by his words at this moment.
My heart suddenly ached.
However, it doesn't hurt as much as it used to.
After this sudden pain subsided, I felt an unprecedented sense of relief.
She can finally let go of Su Qiang completely and start living her own life.
"I just wanted to see you one last time. We'll never see each other again." After saying this, Su Qinglan calmly stood up and prepared to leave.
Seeing that he was about to lose his lifeline, Su Qiang panicked again. "Mom...Mom! Wait! I...I was just anxious and said the wrong thing. Don't go! Let's talk some more, please give me a chance! Mom!"
No matter how he called out, Su Qinglan did not turn around.
Su Qiang broke down and cried out, "Mom... I'm your child!"
“I only have one child now, and that is Xiao Li.” Su Qinglan said this without turning her head, opened the door and walked out of the interrogation room.
Su Qiang felt as if his soul had been drained, and his whole body went limp.
...
Just as Ning Jinli and Su Qinglan were about to leave the police station, they suddenly saw a familiar figure walking out of the station's gate.
"Xiao Li, isn't that Ning Yao?" Su Qinglan asked in surprise. "Wasn't she detained? How did she get out? Did you forgive her?"
"No, I didn't forgive him." Ning Jinli also found it strange.
Based on Ning Yao's situation, although it does not constitute a criminal case from a legal perspective and she is not likely to go to jail, she should still be detained for a considerable period of time.
So she immediately asked someone at the police station.
It was later learned that Ning Yao had been released on bail, having paid a large sum of bail.
That's even stranger.
Ning Hai fled to the United States and his whereabouts are unknown. Lin Lina has been imprisoned, and everything in the Ning family, including the Ning Group, has returned to Ning Shan's hands.
How could anyone possibly bail Ning Yao out?
Ning Jinli wanted to ask who had bailed her out, but the police station said it was a lawyer representing her.
As for who hired the lawyer, that remains unknown.
Ning Jinli had many things to do, so she didn't think too much about it and left the police station with Su Qinglan.
On the other side.
Ning Yao was also surprised by her sudden release on bail.
She got into the car with the people who came to bail her out, and was then taken to a hotel.
The other party only told her to rest well first, and that she would know the reason later.
Ning Yao racked her brains but couldn't figure out who could be helping her. Her father was wanted by the police and was hiding in the United States, doing who knows what. It couldn't be him. Her mother was already in jail, so that was impossible too.
As for friends...
Since her family fell into poverty and she lost everything, the large group of people who used to fawn over her and keep her company have all disappeared one by one, avoiding her as much as they could. Her brother is unlikely to offer any help.
Ning Yao had no clue what to do, so she decided to take a shower and rest first.
In the short few days she spent in the detention center, she lost a lot of weight, couldn't eat or sleep well, which was a huge torment for someone like her who was used to a life of luxury.
Now that I'm in a hotel room, it feels like I've arrived in paradise.
In the evening, the person who bailed her out brought her food, new clothes and shoes, and a new cell phone, telling her that she would receive a call later, and then left.
Ning Yao tore open the takeout packaging and wolfed down her food.
This was the first time in her life that she felt that ordinary takeout could taste so good.
Just as I was enjoying my meal, my phone rang.
It was a video call from an unknown number overseas.
Ning Yao clicked on it casually.
Ning Hai's face appeared on the screen.
"Dad?!" Ning Yao could hardly believe her eyes. After exclaiming in surprise, she quickly lowered her voice, "Why are you video calling me? Is this okay?"
Ning Hai looked to be in good spirits and said with a smile, "It's nothing, Yao Yao. You've worked hard these past few days. How are you? Do the clothes and shoes Dad asked you to buy fit?"
Ning Yao was stunned for two seconds. "Did you ask a law firm to bail me out?"
"Yes, it was a bit difficult, but we managed to get you out on bail. Try not to leave the hotel during your bail period, and I will have the law firm end your waiting period as soon as possible."
"Waaaah... Dad... Thank goodness you're here, otherwise... otherwise I wouldn't want to live anymore."
"Don't cry, don't cry."
Ning Yao cried her heart out, her face streaked with tears.
"Dad... what about Mom?" Ning Yao asked, wiping away her tears. "My mom was sentenced to more than ten years in prison. Can you find a way to get her out?"
Ning Hai's expression was somewhat solemn. "This is very difficult. I'm still trying to figure out a way."
Ning Yao suddenly realized that Ning Hai seemed to be in some kind of scientific research laboratory, so she asked curiously, "Dad, are you safe now?"
She really wanted to know Ninghai's current situation, where he was and what he was doing.
However, considering that Ning Hai was wanted by the police in China, I refrained from asking any further questions.
Ning Hai nodded. "Dad is perfectly safe. Otherwise, how could I have bailed you out? Don't worry, Dad will definitely reunite our family of three. Dad has to go now. Don't be afraid of anything, just wait for good news."
"Yes! I understand!" Ning Yao nodded vigorously, her eyes red.
The video call ended.
Ning Hai entered a room in the laboratory, pushed open the door, and asked, "Brother Feng, are you ready?"
Inside the room, Lu Xingfeng was meditating.
He not only wore modern clothes, but also had a modern hairstyle.
Since he traveled back in time, met Ning Hai, and was taken to the United States by Ning Hai, he has adapted to life in this era. Judging from his appearance, you can't tell that he is an ancient person from more than two thousand years ago.
"Of course I'm ready." Lu Xingfeng slowly opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.
"Okay, you go to the teleportation station first. I'll change my clothes and get my gear ready and then head over. We'll set off in half an hour," Ning Hai said before leaving the room.
About twenty minutes later.
Ning Hai, dressed in a specially made protective suit with a pistol at his waist, arrived at the teleportation station he had mentioned.
This is a huge basement.
Hundreds of researchers from country M are busy working in front of various complex instruments.
In the middle of the basement, there is a platform connected by countless cables, and a black sphere is floating and slowly rotating on the platform.
That black ball was the very thing Ning Hai brought out from under the ruins of the Kutcherberg nuclear power plant.
With the secret research team working day and night, and with the unreserved support of the M country's high-ranking officials, Ning Hai and Professor Bruce finally found a way to activate the black sphere.
Furthermore, it has successfully opened the portal to spacetime three times in a row and has been able to maintain stability for a certain period of time.
For safety reasons, no one was allowed to pass through directly for the first three times.
Only a preliminary exploration was conducted using machines.
On the other side of this portal was a primeval jungle, with no signs of human activity and no way of knowing what that place was.
Therefore, someone still needs to go there in person to find more useful clues.
Ning Hai naturally didn't want to miss the first opportunity to travel through time and space, so he volunteered. Lu Xingfeng was originally from another time and space and had powerful martial arts skills that modern people didn't have, so of course he had to be brought along.
This time, only the two of them will go together. After further determining the situation near the other side of the time portal, we can send out researchers to conduct an on-site investigation.
Inside the teleportation station's control room, Professor Bruce was in charge of overseeing the entire operation.
Once everything was in place, he pressed the start switch, then, while observing the various monitoring data displayed in real time on the computer screen, he looked through a huge glass wall at the black ball spinning faster and faster in the center of the platform below.
It was accompanied by a loud electrical hum and the roar of various large instruments and equipment.
A few minutes later, a fluorescent vortex about two meters in diameter slowly appeared on the teleportation platform on one side of the black ball.
"Ninghai, Mr. Lu, you can go now." Professor Bruce said into the microphone in perfect Mandarin, "God be with you, and good luck."
Once the portal had stabilized, Ning Hai and Lu Xingfeng went inside one after the other.
The two looked around.
It was indeed a very primitive forest, with each tree having a diameter of over one meter. The trunks were tall and straight, blocking out the sky and the moon, with only sparse moonlight shining through the gaps in the canopy.
Ninghai took out the instrument and first tested the air quality here.
They soon discovered that there was no pollution and that the oxygen content was higher than in modern times.
He took off his mask, took a few deep breaths, and immediately felt refreshed.
"Brother Feng, is this the place you came from?" Ning Hai asked as he continued to examine the surrounding vegetation.
Lu Xingfeng shook his head, "The trees and grass here are different from those back home."
"Okay, then go and look around and see if there are any small animals or anything like that. Catch a few for me."
"Brother Hai, are you hungry?"
"Haha, I brought food with me, so I don't have to hunt here."
"Then why capture animals?"
“That’s how it is,” Ning Hai explained patiently. “Through the plants, animals, and other environmental conditions here, I can get a lot of useful clues to help me understand the situation here, and maybe even figure out what this place is.”
"I see, then I'll go."
Lu Xingfeng disappeared into the dense forest in a single stride.
Before long, Ninghai determined from the nearby plants that this was not in China, because he found species that did not exist in China.
"This kind of thing seems to only be found in the Americas..." Ning Hai muttered, frowning as he held a blade of grass. "Is this the Americas? North America or South America? Could it be that we've only traveled through space but not time?"
Ning Hai pondered for a moment, then found a relatively open spot, took out his binoculars, and looked at the night sky.
Through observation, he quickly determined that he was in the Northern Hemisphere.
The scope has been narrowed further; this is the North American continent.
"Brother Hai!" Lu Xingfeng's voice suddenly rang out, "Look what I caught!"
Ning Hai turned around at the sound and saw Lu Xingfeng carrying a man over.
He was overjoyed.
Since there are people around, we can find out the situation directly.
So he quickly took out his flashlight and shone it over there.
The blinding light made the man Lu Xingfeng had grabbed hurriedly raise his hand to shield his eyes, muttering something in a panic.
Ning Hai noticed that the man had messy hair, bronze skin (whether from sun exposure or natural skin tone), and was wearing simple clothes made of some kind of rough plant fiber with animal skin sewn in some places. He was barefoot.
Judging from his appearance, this person is a native of a relatively primitive tribe.
However, it is still impossible to determine the period in which this place exists.
Even in modern times, there are still some places where primitive tribes exist.
"Brother Hai, I can't understand a single word of what this guy is saying. Can you understand it?" Lu Xingfeng asked.
Ning Hai shook his head. "I don't understand either. It seems there's no way to get anything out of him directly."
"Should we release them or... kill them?" Lu Xingfeng asked.
Ning Hai took a closer look and found that the man's facial features were very different from those of modern people from the United States. He was also wearing some ornaments made of metal ores and animal bones, which were extremely crudely made but quite distinctive.
If we take these back and have Bruce have them examined by relevant experts, we should be able to glean a lot of information.
"Take off all his clothes and accessories," Ning Hai said, taking out a handheld video camera.
Lu Xingfeng immediately took action, easily stripping the person naked even with just one hand.
The man was terrified and angry, and began to scream and wail.
"Shut up!" Lu Xingfeng warned, ignoring the fact that no one could understand him, "If you keep spouting your bird language, I'll kill you!"
"Don't kill him, let him talk." Ning Hai pointed the video camera at the man's face. "The more he says, the better. I want to record it and take it back for the experts to analyze and identify."
Ning Hai then recorded a video of about ten minutes, put away the video camera with satisfaction, and put the man's clothes and accessories into a bag.
"Is this person still useful?" Lu Xingfeng asked. "Should we take him away for research? Or should I go and capture a few more? I just saw a cluster of thatched huts in the distance."
Ning Hai narrowed his eyes. "It's no use. Let's kill them to silence them, so as not to attract the attention of the local indigenous tribes before we figure out the situation. If we need to take them away for research, we can just come back and capture a few more later."
Upon hearing this, Lu Xingfeng decisively slapped the man on the forehead.
The man bled from all seven orifices and died on the spot...
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