The concern in his words was impeccable, but the "case" he deliberately emphasized was like a fine needle that pricked Ning Xiwan.
"Okay." Ning Xiwan replied indifferently and went upstairs accompanied by Duan Shuce.
Duan Shuce sent her back to the bedroom.
"Have a good rest." He closed the curtains for her.
"The preliminary test results of the box are out, and I will tell you as soon as possible. Here..." He looked around the luxurious room with a cold look in his eyes.
"It seems safe, but it may not be. You have my encrypted communicator with you. If anything goes wrong, contact me immediately. I'll be downstairs, waiting for your brother to come back."
In the evening, the roar of an engine approached from afar. A bright yellow Lamborghini stopped at the main building entrance. Ning Xiuyan, wearing a fancy shirt and sunglasses, got out.
Ning Xiwan was woken up and walked to the window with a cold look in her eyes.
She went downstairs and walked to the corner of the second floor. She heard Ning Xiuyan's deliberately raised and sarcastic voice:
"Hey, I heard our 'heroine' is back? Fighting human traffickers single-handedly? And nearly losing her life? Dad, Mom, what do you think if this gets out... I say, with this kind of background..."
"Ning Xiuyan! Shut up!" Ji Qinglan shouted angrily.
Ning Xiwan walked down the last few steps with an expressionless face.
Ning Xiuyan turned around and saw that it was her. He rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses and raised the corners of his mouth in a sarcastic arc: "Hehe, isn't this our great hero? What, you woke up? Are you missing any limbs? What a pity..."
"It's so noisy." Ning Xiwan's voice was like ice beads falling to the ground.
Next second!
Ning Xiwan raised her leg like lightning! A side kick filled with ruthlessness and anger landed on Ning Xiuyan's chest with incredible precision and force!
"Bang!"
The sarcasm on Ning Xiuyan's face froze instantly, turning into horror. His body flew backwards as if hit by a truck.
"Splash—plop!"
He jumped over the glass door and slammed into the huge outdoor swimming pool! Water splashed everywhere!
The living room was dead silent. Ning Yuanshan's hand holding the teacup froze, and Ji Qinglan covered his mouth and glared.
Ning Xiwan withdrew her legs expressionlessly, her cold gaze swept across her parents' shocked faces, and she turned and walked towards the restaurant:
"Let's eat."
A few days later, Ning Xiuyuan walked home exhausted.
As soon as he entered the door, his eyes were immediately fixed on Ning Xiwan sitting on the sofa in the living room, and he walked over with big strides.
"Wanwan!" His voice was hoarse with genuine worry. He opened his arms and gave Ning Xiwan a solid hug, full of the strength of a brother.
"I'm glad you're okay! You scared me to death!"
He let her go and carefully examined her complexion. His gaze paused on the scar on the side of her neck, and deep regret and cold anger flashed through his eyes.
Then he turned to Duan Shuce and extended his hand: "Shuce, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness."
"It's my job." Duan Shuce shook hands with him. Their eyes met briefly, and they both saw the solemnity and tacit understanding in each other.
The atmosphere at dinner was delicate. Ning Yuanshan and Ji Qinglan enthusiastically inquired about Ning Xiuyuan's overseas projects.
Ning Xiuyuan responded appropriately, occasionally asking about Ning Xiwan's recovery in a gentle manner, but his eyes were stern when he glanced at Ning Xiuyan.
After dinner, Ning Xiuyuan said, "Wanwan, Shuce, come to my study."
The heavy door of the study cuts off the world. The layout is cold and business-like, with a huge mahogany desk and towering bookshelves.
Ning Xiuyuan locked the door behind him. Instead of sitting down, he placed his hands on the table, his back to Ning Xiwan and Duan Shuce, his shoulders tense.
There was a suffocating silence in the room.
After a few seconds, he turned around.
Ning Xiuyuan's face was no longer gentle and calm, but as suppressed as a frozen volcano.
He stared at Ning Xiwan intently, his gaze behind the lenses sharp enough to penetrate the soul.
"Wanwan...Qingshi'ao...Organ refrigerator..." His voice was hoarse, and each word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth with difficulty, carrying a heavy weight.
"I found out." He paused, as if trying to control his surging emotions, and his voice became lower and colder.
"Following the clues, we mobilized all our overseas connections and traced the capital flow backwards... The result..."
He took a deep breath, as if to suppress the bloody taste in his throat. His bloodshot eyes looked at Ning Xiwan in pain and despair, his voice low and hoarse as if pronouncing judgment:
"That...huge sum of money regularly injected into that underground network to support their operations and 'procurement'...the source...after layers of disguise and jumps through offshore companies...ultimately leads to...the secret R&D fund of the 'Prometheus Project' under 'Ning's Biotechnology'!"
Ning Xiwan heard a buzzing sound in her ears, as if a bomb had exploded in her head.
Ning's Biotechnology! Father Ning Yuanshan's core industry! Mother Ji Qinglan's proud "health business"!
The two chained women in the cave... the cold refrigerator... the military advisor's strange smile...
A bone-chilling chill instantly froze her blood!
"This is impossible..." She murmured subconsciously, her voice light and her body swaying slightly.
Duan Shuce immediately reached out to hold her shoulders, his face as gloomy as iron.
"Impossible?" Ning Xiuyuan's lips curled into a cold, self-deprecating arc, his eyes sharp as a knife, "I also hope it's fake. But..."
He suddenly opened the drawer with a fingerprint lock at the bottom of the desk and took out a thick brown paper file bag with worn edges. He placed it gently on the table with steady movements but with tremendous force.
"Seven years." He pointed at the file bag, his voice was terrifyingly calm, but it contained a turbulent storm.
"From the moment I discovered the huge amount of money flowing into the company's accounts, and from the moment I came into contact with the encrypted file containing 'special biological materials' with key information erased, I knew there was a rotten cancer beneath the Ning Group's glamorous exterior."
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