Chapter 117 The Pei Family
The group walked along the gravel path to the villa next door.
A gentle knock on the door, and Zhou Siyu opened it.
Lu Xici: "Would it be convenient for us to chat?"
Zhou Siyu's tall figure blocked the doorway, his silhouette clearly defined against the backlight: "It's convenient."
The boy silently stepped aside to make way for her: "Mom, my older brothers and sisters are here."
Gu Wan looked up at the boy who was much taller than her: "How old are you?"
Zhou Siyu: "Sister, I'm fifteen."
Lu Beiye looked up, his heart churning with shock: [At fifteen, he's already taller than my brother! In my past life, when I was ten, I wasn't even up to his chest.]
He subconsciously gestured to show the height difference between the two, and his face turned red with anger.
Lu Nange suppressed a laugh and gently rubbed her younger brother's frizzy head.
"Ah Ye." Lu Xici bent down and picked up Lu Beiye, lowering his voice, "The men of our Lu family are all slow and steady wins the race. Before I turned sixteen, I was shorter than other boys my age, but then I grew to 1.87 meters in just one year. Don't worry."
Lu Beiye looked up with some doubt, only to meet Lu Xici's smiling eyes.
"Really." Lu Xici ruffled his hair. "You'll definitely be taller than your brother someday."
The little guy gave a muffled "hmm".
The macaw perched on Lu Nange's shoulder suddenly flapped its wings: "Quack quack quack! Aye... ten meters!"
[Don't be sad, Aye, you'll grow ten meters tall in the future!]
Everyone who had already entered the living room turned around in unison.
Lu Beiye reached out from Lu Xici's shoulder, grabbed Gangzi, and pinched its mouth shut.
He Zhuo raised an eyebrow and turned around: "Brother Gang, what ten meters?"
Lu Xici: "What what ten meters? Gangzi is just mimicking me and he's messed up."
Gu Qi looked at Lu Beiye's flushed face and grabbed He Zhuo by the back of his collar: "Shut up!"
Pei Qique slowly rose, supporting himself on the sofa, a gentle smile on his pale face: "Please, everyone, have a seat."
Wen Qing: "Excuse me, Ms. Pei."
"Look at me, I forgot to ask your names."
Everyone took turns announcing their names.
Seeing that everyone had announced their names, the macaw quickly broke free from Lu Beiye's grasp, puffed out its chest, and shouted, "Gangzi!"
The atmosphere immediately lightened up a bit.
Pei Qique covered her mouth and chuckled, "You children aren't much older than Ayu. If you don't mind, just call me Auntie Que."
"Auntie Que!" everyone exclaimed in unison.
Pei Qique adjusted his shawl: "What would you like to ask?"
Lu Nange noticed the faint bluish needle marks on the inside of her wrist and lowered her voice, "Auntie Que, can you tell us about Zhou Muyun?"
Pei Qique's eyelashes trembled slightly, casting a shadow on his pale face: "Zhou Muyun..."
Her voice was so faint it seemed it might vanish into thin air at any moment.
Zhou Siyu gently patted his mother's back.
Pei Qique took a deep breath: "What do you want to ask?"
Lu Nange's spiritual power stretched through the air like threads, yet she did not sense any malice from Pei Qique and Zhou Siyu.
She cut to the chase and asked, "Auntie Que, how much do you know about psychoactive toxins and mutated plants?"
Pei Qique: "Actually, I'm not entirely sure either."
Her gaze was lowered, landing on a point in the void: "Over the years, I've had trouble sleeping. I need to drink a glass of warmed milk from Zhou Muyun every night to fall asleep."
He had an urgent matter to attend to that night and had to go out...
After he left, I really lost my appetite, so I had the maid take the glass of milk away.
I was awakened in the middle of the night by noises in the study. When I went closer, I heard them discussing feeding the mutated plants in the city center with living people.
I turned to leave, but... I accidentally kicked the corner of the wall and was spotted by Zhou Muyun and his men.
The next second, my back slammed heavily against the wall, and his fingers gripped my throat like iron clamps.
Just then, Siyu was woken up and rushed upstairs…
Siyu's cries for her mother came from the stairwell.
Through my blurry vision, I saw Siyu rush over barefoot, kneel on the ground, and cling tightly to Zhou Muyun's leg, begging him to let me go!
The hand that was gripping me suddenly released its grip.
I collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, when Zhou Muyun waved his hand and injected neurotoxin into both me and Siyu.
The next day, using my name, he used poison to control all the superhumans in the Pei family... We became his puppets.
We only found out a week ago that I had been injected with a neurotoxin, while the madman injected Siyu with an experimental gene enhancer.
Pei Qique's eyes turned cold: "Perhaps it's because we were poisoned that he's become less wary of me."
It was only when he was on the phone with someone in his study that I learned that before the apocalypse, Zhou Muyun, in order to seize my Pei family's assets, killed my parents when I was having a difficult childbirth and suffering severe bleeding!
It's all because of me that my parents were harmed.
If I hadn't insisted on marrying him, we wouldn't have let a wolf into our house...
He Zhuo: "This grandson is such a freeloader!"
Seeing Zhou Siyu's gloomy expression, he hurriedly waved his hand, "Um... I wasn't insulting you..."
Zhou Siyu shook his head with a wry smile: "Brother He Zhuo, I stopped considering him my father a long time ago."
Pei Qique pressed a corner of his eye: "That's all I know."
She looked out the window at the darkening sky: "Our people are searching all the places he frequents... to see if they can bring back any useful information..."
Chi Yanzhou: "The kind of person Zhou Muyun will only keep important things under his own nose."
Gu Qi: "Auntie Que, would it be convenient for you to take us to see Zhou Muyun's room?"
Pei Qique stood up, supporting himself on the sofa armrest: "Of course, his own room is combined with his study and bedroom. I'll take you there now."
At the end of the second-floor corridor, the heavy solid wood door slid open silently as Zhou Siyu pushed it.
The room layout is so simple it's almost deliberate—the study is right inside the door, with a clean mahogany desk facing the entrance.
Go further in, there's a door, behind which are the bedroom and the toilet.
After receiving Pei Qique's permission, the group began to make noise and banging in the room.
Lu Nange closed her eyes, and her spiritual power spread throughout the room like a spider web.
After opening her eyes, she went straight to the bookshelf against the wall.
Her fingertips traced the spines of a row of books, finally stopping on a "Plant Cultivation Manual".
With a gentle pull, the entire bookcase made a soft "click" sound as it slowly opened to both sides.
The dark room was less than two square meters in size, with bare walls on all four sides.
In the very center was a wireless device, and below it was a rusty iron basin.
Chi Yanzhou squatted down, his fingertips tracing the rusted nameplate on the side of the equipment.
"How is it, Brother Yan?" Gu Qi leaned forward, one hand on his knee. "Can you break it?"
"Military-grade encryption." Chi Yanzhou tapped the transmit button, the metallic clanging particularly jarring in the confined space: "At least triple frequency hopping."
Ji Xian kicked the iron basin beside his feet, causing the remaining ashes at the bottom to swirl in tiny eddies: "They even sifted the ashes so thoroughly, isn't that a bit too meticulous..."
The group descended the stairs empty-handed, and the sound of orderly footsteps echoed from the top of the stairs.
Pei Yuan led a group of people in single file, each carrying a box or bag.
Upon seeing the stranger, the graying man immediately straightened his back, only speaking after Pei Qique nodded slightly: "Young Miss, all the items found have been brought back."
Zhou Siyu rushed towards Pei Yuan: "Uncle Pei Yuan, the antidote! Have you found the antidote yet?"
Pei Yuan gently pressed his calloused hand on the boy's shoulder and shook his head: "Young Master, no."
Zhou Siyu: "How could that be? How could there not be!"
Pei Qique: "Ayu".
Lu Nange stepped forward at the right moment: "Auntie Que, let's go back and rest first."
Pei Qique: "These were all obtained from Zhou Muyun. Why don't you take them back and take a look?"
Lu Nange: "Thank you, Auntie Que."
"Pei Yuan, take some men and deliver the items to these distinguished guests."
Pei Yuan: "Yes, Miss."
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