Chapter 71 Chapter 71 You can use me, I have no problem...
Pei Shuyu wanted an answer.
Are there really so many coincidences in the world?
Why did Lu Hean choose this ship, and why did Qiao Songyan bring those scientific researchers with him when he went traveling?
Pei Shuyu always felt like he was getting closer to the truth, but it was like walking through a fog. Every time he was about to touch the truth, he found it was empty. Huo Si, Qiao Songyan, and that person, what was the connection between them?
Judging from Lu Hean's reaction, he should know the purpose of Qiao Songyan's visit.
"I know you are investigating Qiao Songyan. Although I don't know why you are targeting him, I can help you. Pei Shuyu, whether you regard me as an ally or something else. I just want to say that you can use me, and I have no problem with it." Lu Hean lay on the bed, speaking such solemn words in a weak voice.
Pei Shuyu tilted his head, "You won't be my ally."
Lu Hean was startled, his eyes filled with disappointment, then he smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yeah, but I'll still help you."
Pei Shuyu did not say the second half of the sentence.
I don't want you to be my ally, and I don't want to use you.
"Let me tell you why Qiao Songyan came here, and brought his research team with him," Lu Hean said weakly. "I found out that among those missing A-level omegas, there were a lot of employees of the Qiao family's medical company, so I investigated Qiao Songyan himself. He's also an A-level omega. And they've been developing artificial glands for a few years now, and it seems they may have discovered something."
So Qiao Songyan couldn't wait to run out to experiment.
Pei Shuyu couldn't help but think of Meng He.
Is compatibility really more important than life?
The alliance's restrictions on gland sales are tantamount to severing some people's evil thoughts. Glandular surgery requires extreme caution; a single misjudgment could result in the patient's death. This kind of case has occurred before. Now it's the glands, but what if they develop into the reproductive cavity?
However, considering the real need of some special groups, the alliance changed the regulations. Gland donations can be replaced with new ones, and the records will be kept in the gland bank.
But over time, problems arose. The gland needed to remain active to maximize the success rate of the transplant. Who would voluntarily donate their gland while still alive? Voluntary donation meant they had no money, and remaining alive meant they had to maintain vital signs and experience the pain of having the gland removed from their body. There was no guarantee the donor would be able to die the next moment after donating.
This also makes the glands in the gland bank extremely precious.
Just then, the Qiao family came up with a solution: artificial glands. These glands could be customized to suit individual needs, with the pheromones and grade of each chosen. This news instantly sparked a wave of innovation within the alliance, and their stock price surged.
They also whetted people's appetite and held a press conference that day, saying that they still have many shortcomings and are still in development. They will share the results of the experiment with everyone as soon as possible, and thank everyone for their support.
But this research has only progressed to this point.
People have gradually forgotten about it. Some people occasionally think about it, but they just mention that the Qiao family is just bragging. Don't wait.
So the Qiao family suffered backlash, and those people who had previously come to give gifts and want to buy shares could no longer be contacted.
Fortunately, the Qiao family has two omegas, and the elder brother is smart and astute. When the Qiao family's capital chain was in crisis, it was Lu Tingyuan who appeared and proposed a marriage alliance with them, saving the Qiao family.
Originally, Lu Tingyuan chose Qiao Songyan, but Qiao Songyan himself strongly resisted, so it was finally Qiao Zhishi's turn.
After hearing this, Pei Shuyu still found it unbelievable.
If the artificial gland experiment were truly successful, it was unimaginable what kind of chaos the Alliance would be in. The Alliance would absolutely not allow something like this, with its pros and cons, to exist.
"Cough cough." Lu Hean coughed a few times, bringing Pei Shuyu back to his senses.
Pei Shuyu stood up and put his hand on Lu Hean's head again to measure his temperature. He felt that he had a fever again. He still had to keep an eye on Qiao Songyan's movements, but Lu Hean...
While he was still hesitating.
The door was knocked loudly, mixed with Qiao Zhishi's tearful and relentless shouting: "Pei Shuyu! I know you're in there! Open the door! You have the ability to snatch people away, but don't you have the ability to open the door?!"
You woke up so soon, you're so noisy.
Pei Shuyu frowned slightly and immediately looked at Lu Hean, signaling him with his eyes to hide quickly.
"Why are you looking at me?" Lu Hean asked knowingly.
Pei Shuyu tsks and looks up at him, "Hide in the bathroom or cloakroom."
Lu Hean just lazily shrank back into the quilt, and even deliberately pulled the quilt down, revealing his clearly defined collarbone and a small part of his chest.
"Why are you hiding? We didn't do anything, are you afraid of him seeing it?"
Lu Hean's cheeks were flushed with fever, and it looked like the two of them had really done something.
"Open the door," Lu Hean's pale lips curled up slightly, "otherwise he will call everyone on the ship."
Pei Shuyu gritted his teeth, knowing that what Lu Hean said was true. If Qiao Songyan was attracted to him, it would be troublesome. He took a deep breath, walked to the door, and pulled it open.
Qiao Zhishi outside the door was about to knock on the door again, but his hand froze in mid-air.
He immediately saw Lu Hean lying on the bed in the room, who was obviously in a bad state, and... another pillow next to Lu Hean that was obviously wrinkled from sleeping.
Qiao Zhishi's eyes instantly turned red, and like an enraged rabbit, he rushed in: "Pei Shuyu! You are here! What did you do?!"
Pei Shuyu moved sideways to block him, not wanting this farce to continue. After Qiao Zhishi shook off his hand and calmed down a bit, he said, "Lu Hean is sick and needs to rest. Keep your voice down. I'm going out first, you guys can chat."
After saying that, Pei Shuyu wanted to leave this place of trouble and leave the space to these two people.
But just as he took a step, Lu Hean said weakly from behind him: "Don't go, stay here."
And Qiao Zhishi was also blocking him.
Pei Shuyu froze in place, caught in a dilemma.
Qiao Zhishi watched the silent tug-of-war between the two, especially Lu Hean's subconscious dependence on and retention of Pei Shuyu, and was so angry that he trembled all over.
He pushed Pei Shuyu away, pointed at Lu Hean, and asked in a tearful voice, "Lu Hean! Tell me! If you didn't like me at all, why did you agree to marry me in the first place?!"
Lu Hean's gaze finally shifted from Pei Shuyu to Qiao Zhishi's face, and he said calmly, "It's arranged by my family."
"What happened after you lost your memory?!" Qiao Zhishi asked unwillingly, "You even went shopping with me after you lost your memory!"
"In order to avoid the surveillance of certain people, I need to find a cover." Lu Hean answered straightforwardly.
Qiao Zhishi's face turned pale, and he said anxiously, "Then...then those gifts you gave me...were they also a cover?!"
"It's a matter of reciprocity." Lu Hean said lightly.
"Then...then..." Qiao Zhishi tried desperately to recall and find more "evidence", but his mind was in a mess.
He kept saying "that" for a long time and couldn't say another word.
I thought... he would have a chance after Lu Hean lost his memory. I thought Lu Hean would be moved by him sooner or later and would fall in love with him sooner or later.
The huge grievance and embarrassment flooded him like a tide. He looked at the alpha on the bed who was still handsome even though he was sick, but was extremely cold to him, and then looked at Pei Shuyu with a stiff face next to him. He finally realized that from the beginning to the end, he might have just been a wishful joke.
"My brother will not let you go..." Qiao Zhishi said weakly.
I never expected that this crybaby would say this after holding it in for a long time.
Pei Shuyu couldn't bear to attack him, but Lu Hean planned to be a bad guy to the end.
"Do you know what your brother is doing behind your back?"
Qiao Zhishi held back her tears and retorted, "You! What you said is so rude. Our family is doing a legitimate business! What do you mean by scheming?"
"Do you still remember your family's research project, 'Artificial Glands'?"
"I remember, what's wrong?" Qiao Zhishi asked in confusion.
Lu Hean shifted, changed his posture, and continued, "Your brother's ostensibly project is for the benefit of the people, but it's actually just for himself. Your family's artificial gland technology has already been used on your own employees. Don't you know about this? With so many omega employees gone, haven't you ever doubted it?"
Qiao Zhishi's face was still stained with tears, and her eyes were wide open, filled with disbelief. "You're talking nonsense! You're accusing my brother! Stop slandering me!"
Although his brother treated him badly, Qiao Zhishi knew that it was because he was so useless that his brother was like that. He was just disappointed in him. And every time he said he would lock him up, he never really did it.
But he knew about the previous omega disappearance case. Were there... a lot of their employees involved? That's impossible!
There was no expression on Lu He'an's face. He propped himself up slightly and looked directly at Qiao Zhishi: "Believe it or not. What good would it do me to lie to you?" He looked at Qiao Zhishi's face which turned pale in an instant, his lips slightly opened, as if he wanted to say something.
"Okay, stop provoking him." Pei Shuyu interrupted, he took a step forward and stood between Lu Hean and Qiao Zhishi.
Lu Hean obeyed and shut up.
Pei Shuyu turned to Qiao Zhishi, who was standing there trembling all over. Knowing that Qiao Zhishi couldn't accept this fact for a while, he softened his tone and said, "Qiao Zhishi, go back now. Just pretend you haven't seen us. Don't tell your brother a single word of what you heard today."
He looked at Qiao Zhishi's distraught expression and added, this time with a hint of threat in his voice: "If you tell anyone, I don't mind knocking you out right now and tying you up in this room until the ship reaches the shore."
Pei Shuyu didn't know whether Qiao Zhishi would tell anyone.
If Qiao Zhishi doesn't listen to his threats, he will tell Qiao Songyan when he gets back, and Qiao Songyan will bring people to kill him the next second.
Qiao Zhishi glared at Pei Shuyu hatefully, then looked at Lu Hean resentfully, his lips trembling, and in the end he couldn't say anything.
Grievances, fears and a struggle of unwillingness to believe mixed together, eventually turning into resentment that had nowhere to vent.
Qiao Zhishi looked at Pei Shuyu, who had a stern expression, and then at Lu Hean. Lu Hean's eyes followed Pei Shuyu all the time, never resting on him for a moment.
He couldn't stay there any longer, so he turned around and rushed out of the room crying, his footsteps fading away in the corridor.
After the door closed softly, the room fell into a subtle silence.
Pei Shuyu turned around and asked, "Did you do this on purpose? Did you say this to him on purpose to provoke him?"
Qiao Zhishi is an unstable factor, and Pei Shuyu is also taking a gamble.
Lu Hean half-closed his eyes, his thick eyelashes casting a small shadow under his eyes. He said calmly, "I'm telling the truth." He paused, his voice a little hoarse, "Do you want to see him kept in the dark?"
Pei Shuyu looked at him silently and did not respond immediately.
He knew Lu Hean had a point. It would be even more dangerous for Qiao Zhishi to remain in the dark. Now they were targeting their own employees, but what about the future? If nothing worked, who could guarantee they wouldn't end up targeting Qiao Zhishi?
After all, they are related by blood and are both A-level omegas.
They are the most suitable experimental subjects.
"Aren't you afraid that he can't bear it and will run to tell Qiao Songyan? If that happens, both of us will die here." Pei Shuyu walked to the bedside and reached out to touch Lu Hean's forehead again. It was even hotter.
Lu Hean felt the cool touch of his palm and squinted his eyes comfortably, like a cat being stroked, but his tone was firm: "He won't. He's quite timid, he's afraid of his brother."
Pei Shuyu withdrew his hand and was about to say something else when Lu Hean, seemingly exhausted, began coughing violently, a fine layer of cold sweat oozing from his forehead. Pei Shuyu swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue and turned around to pour him a glass of water.
The cruise ship was sailing smoothly on the sea, but suddenly it lurched a few times. An announcement immediately sounded, reminding passengers to stay in their rooms, saying that it was just a wave and would recover soon, so there was no need to worry.
Qiao Zhishi lost her balance for a moment because of the small wave. She stumbled back to her cabin, tears streaming down her face, her heart still pounding from the news she had just heard.
His hands were shaking so much that he could hardly hold the room card, and it took him several tries to swipe the door open.
As soon as I entered the door, I ran into Qiao Songyan who was walking out from the inner room.
Qiao Songyan, wearing a neatly ironed casual suit, was about to go out when he saw Qiao Zhishi's disheveled appearance with red and swollen eyes. He paused and frowned in disgust: "What's going on?"
Qiao Zhishi shuddered with fear, hurriedly wiped away her tears with the back of her hand, lowered her head, and spoke with a voice filled with tears and guilt: "No... nothing, the boat was shaking too much just now, I, I was not walking carefully and fell... I cried because of the pain."
He lied, his heart beating faster.
Qiao Songyan looked him up and down with a cold gaze, seemingly unconvinced by his words. Finally, he snorted and scoffed, "Oh, you're so useless. You can even fall down while walking."
Qiao Zhishi bit her lower lip tightly and didn't dare to refute.
Silence spread between them, so oppressive that Qiao Zhishi couldn't breathe.
Qiao Zhishi was still a little sad. He actually believed that he would cry like this because of falling. How useless he was in his brother's heart!
After a while, Qiao Zhishi finally mustered up all his courage and asked in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Brother... why did you bring so many people with you this time? Are they all researchers from the company?"
Qiao Songyan's eyes suddenly became sharp, piercing him like a needle: "You want to meddle in my affairs now?"
Qiao Zhishi was so frightened that he quickly waved his hands and shook his head like a rattle: "No, no! I'm just asking... I'm curious..."
Qiao Songyan stared at him for a few seconds with an unfathomable look in his eyes. Finally, his tone softened a little and he warned him, "Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask. Just stay here honestly until you get off the boat, and don't cause me any trouble..." He paused and threw out a bait, "I promise you, as long as you stay here honestly until you get off the boat, I will let Lu Hean be with you."
Qiao Zhishi suddenly raised his head, his face filled with astonishment and a hint of disbelief: "Ah? Brother... what are you going to do?"
A trace of impatience flashed across Qiao Songyan's face. He turned and walked towards the door, leaving only a cold word: "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. As long as you behave yourself, I can do it."
The door closed behind Qiao Songyan.
In the empty suite, Qiao Zhishi stood alone, his mind a mess.
His brother's promise and Lu Hean's accusation were like two opposing forces tearing at him.
What should he do?
Outside the door, Qiao Songyan did not leave immediately.
He stood in the shadow of the corridor, glanced back at the closed door, his eyes filled with the enthusiasm of someone about to achieve their goal, and muttered to himself, "Almost there. Almost there."
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