Chapter 247: Walking into a Trap
Behind the door is a circular space with a replica of the Sphinx standing in the center, surrounded by twelve stone cabinets.
Meng Anran immediately noticed that each stone cabinet was engraved with a different ancient Greek symbol - exactly the same as the symbols on the back of her silver coins.
In addition, the surrounding area is filled with antique furniture and artworks.
Meng Anran's attention was immediately attracted by the figure in the corner.
Situ Huajian was tied to a Baroque-style chair, his white shirt stained with blood, and the gunshot wound on his right leg had scabbed over.
Hearing the noise, he slowly raised his head, and his originally dim eyes suddenly lit up when he saw Meng Anran.
"An Ran..." His voice was hoarse.
Meng Anran's pupils suddenly shrank, as if she hadn't expected Situ Huajian to be imprisoned here. She quickly rushed over to untie the ropes: "Who put you like this? Where's Kevin?"
Situ Huajian shook his head weakly, "It's not Kevin, it's Bai Yujin."
Meng Anran frowned, a cold light flashing in his eyes, "Bai Yujin? She showed up?"
"She forced me to tell her where you were going, and she planned to get rid of you and Lin Rencheng in Country A." Situ Huajian twisted his wrist, which was marked red by the hemp rope, and his mood was surprisingly calm.
It's totally unlike the reaction of a pampered young man who is suddenly kidnapped.
Meng Anran couldn't help but narrow her eyes and looked at him suspiciously. She always felt that he was a little weird, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
Without giving it much thought, she waved to the two bodyguards to escort Situ Huajian away first, while Lillian would meet him outside and take him to the hospital for a detailed examination.
The moment Situ Huajian stepped out of the door, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at Meng Anran, "Oh, right, when they tied me up and brought me here, they seemed to have glanced at those stone statues a few more times. Maybe they're hiding what you're looking for."
The bodyguard took Situ Huajian out. Meng Anran looked at the stone statues suspiciously and winked at the other bodyguards.
Everyone began to search the storage room for valuable clues.
After a while, someone touched a mechanism and a secret door slowly opened in the storage room.
The space behind the secret door is not big. There are four sets of metal filing cabinets neatly arranged in the archive room of about 20 square meters.
Meng Anran signaled two bodyguards to guard the door, and he put on gloves and began to check.
In the third row of cabinets, she found a folder labeled "Lu's - Newborns."
It neatly records the births of newborns from major hospitals in Beijing over a period of about five years. However, the earliest batch of newborns in the record was born before Lu's Pharmaceutical was established.
Meng Anran frowned, unable to figure out the connection between them for a moment.
"Miss, please look at this." The bodyguard took out a medical file from the drawer.
Documents show that 23 years ago, the Beijing Maternal and Child Health Hospital admitted two women who gave birth on the same day.
Meng Anran's eyes narrowed as she saw her previous name, Lu Anran, on the baby care record.
The name column of the mother in the bed next to him was blackened with ink, and the word "white" was faintly visible.
"Take these away." She closed the file, feeling that there were definitely more secrets that Lin Rencheng could protect with his life.
She continued to search.
Finally, a confidential file was found in the bottom drawer, which showed signs of having been tampered with.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard outside. Meng Anran's brows tightened. He quickly took out the paper inside, folded it, stuffed it into his waistband, and covered it with the hem of his clothes.
The file bag was put back into the drawer.
The bodyguard who was originally assigned to guard the elevator entrance hurried in to report: "Miss, there are several business cars coming this way, and they look malicious."
Meng Anran's eyes were so gloomy that ink could drip out of them. It seemed that locking Situ Huajian here was completely a trick of Bai Yujin to lure her into a trap and get rid of her in this basement without seeing the sun.
Without much hesitation, she pushed the drawer shut and said, "Withdraw."
Just then, Lillian pointed the way out for her: "Huajian said a group of uninvited guests have arrived, and they told you to run. Exit the storage room and turn left. There's a door at the end. It's an emergency fire escape, so you can get out. It's usually not visible. I've sent your bodyguard to pick you up there."
Meng Anran had no time to reply, and led his men to retreat along the route Lillian had specified.
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An hour later, Meng Anran returned safely to Lu Heng's cabin in the woods. When he opened the door, Qin Mu was the first to rush up.
"How are you? Are you not hurt?" Qin Mu grabbed her shoulders, his fingers tightened unconsciously, and his eyes scanned her body, afraid of missing any possible injuries.
Meng Anran gently patted the back of his hand, a comforting smile on her lips, "No injuries, everything went well."
As she spoke, she pulled out a stack of poorly folded documents from her waist. "I found this, but I haven't had time to look at it carefully yet."
The moment she unfolded the document, her fingertips trembled slightly. The contents on the paper pierced her eyes like a sharp knife—the records of Lu Pharmaceutical's secret human experiments.
When his eyes fell on the column of experimental subjects, his breathing suddenly stopped.
The paper fell from Meng Anran's fingers, like a withered leaf, floating silently to the ground.
"What's wrong?" Qin Mu noticed her face turned pale instantly and quickly picked up the documents.
The document details the development process of the two drugs:
Agent B, a series of sedatives. From B1 to B4, the successive generations have documented alarming side effects: emotional depression and severe depression.
The last line coldly marked the names of the five experimental subjects, one of which instantly caught Qin Mu's attention: Ke Ling (suicide).
The project ended seven years ago, the day after Ke Ling committed suicide.
The record of G drug was even more shocking. Although this stimulant was advertised as "promoting active thinking", the words "melanin loss" in the side effects column were particularly glaring on the pale paper.
What was even more disturbing was that there were only three names in the experimental subject column, and Qin Mu saw Meng Anran’s previous name - Lu Anran (failed).
He didn't understand how this drug could distinguish success from failure, but the last experimental subject was Lu Yi.
Behind Lu Yi's name, the word "success" was clearly written.
Qin Mu's grip on the paper gradually tightened. Reason told him that he could not destroy this key evidence that was enough to bring down Bai Yujin.
He quickly took out his phone, scanned the document into an electronic version, and sent it to Zhuo Cheng for backup. He then folded the paper document, put it in an envelope, and ordered his bodyguards to dig a hole in a secluded place and bury it.
After arranging all this, he took a deep breath and tried to calm Meng Anran down.
"Baby..." He reached out to hug her, but was pushed away.
"Stay away from me." Meng Anran was like a hedgehog, resisting everyone's approach and sitting alone in the corner to digest the news.
Experimental subject...So, she was also drugged by Bai Yujin when she was young?
But why did the potion cause Lu Yi to turn albinic, while she didn't feel anything unusual at all?
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