378 Memories
◎I will protect you◎
"I don't recognize some of the people here, and they might have died a long time ago, but there's no mistaking your face for Liu Yu." Chu Qing pointed her finger at the photo and stared at Zhu Yao, making it impossible for her to deny it.
"Before I saw your photo, I wasn't sure if Zhu Ning was your clone, but she only looks similar to you, not exactly the same. Her genes come from you, but not entirely from you. So, what exactly is she?"
Zhu Yao blinked slowly and subconsciously picked up the coffee cup. When she lifted it up, she realized that the cup was empty.
Zhu Yao pretended Chu Qing didn't exist, put the half-read book upside down on the sofa, and got up to make coffee.
The bar was only three meters away, and she did not leave Chu Qing's sight. Chu Qing was not worried that she would escape because she had been detained, but his eyes still followed her closely.
Zhu Yao had seen a lot of things, so it was difficult for him to pry Zhu Yao open her mouth. He rehearsed countless plans in his mind, ready to directly interrogate Zhu Yao when she came back, and not give her any room to react.
"Where did you find it?" Zhu Yao suddenly asked amid the gurgling sound of boiling coffee.
Chu Qing was stunned. His plan was disrupted. However, Zhu Yao was his senior. He was better than him in terms of professional ability and interpersonal skills. He didn't care.
Chu Qing: "Someone offered me the information at a high price."
Zhu Yao didn't ask who this person was, but instead asked, "How much?"
Chu Qing: "One billion, a second-district ID card, and the protection of a first-class citizen."
"It's very valuable," Zhu Yao asked, "Did you give it to me?"
"He did," Chu Qing said, crossing his legs, "but he's dead too."
Zhu Yao laughed out loud, her back facing Chu Qing. Chu Qing couldn't see her expression and didn't know whether she was mocking or happy.
Zhu Yao laughed for a while, thinking it was very funny. Once such a thing was spoken out, no matter how much money was spent, it would be useless.
Zhu Yao came back with the coffee. It was a little hot, so she didn't drink it immediately. She held the cup in one hand and tapped the wall of the cup twice with the other hand. The smile on her lips was still there as she looked at Chu Qing.
It was a simple action, but Chu Qing felt a sense of pressure. As expected of mother and daughter, Zhu Ning had also given him this kind of pressure.
Chu Qing tugged at his tie, feeling very uncomfortable, as if he was being stared at by Zhu Yao.
Zhu Yao looked at Chu Qing for a long time. Chu Qing was one of the latest batch of geniuses, and was surprisingly similar to himself back then. His ability to explore the truth might have been due to someone's tacit approval, or the noise he made might not have been discovered yet.
Sooner or later, he had to tell someone these things, but Zhu Yao didn't expect that the person he was talking to was Chu Qing.
Zhu Yao said softly, "Liu Yu's team."
Chu Qing raised his eyes. The leader was actually Liu Yu? He had a stereotype about women in the Kingdom of God, believing they were merely vases to perpetuate their genes, needing only to dress up beautifully, be obedient, and participate in a few social events or charity events.
Liu Yu's initiative exceeded his expectations. She was actually the leader of this team?
Chu Qing asked in surprise: "It's not you?"
"No," Zhu Yao said, "She came to me on her own initiative and said she had a research project that she wanted me to participate in, and she was very urgent. I hadn't even received any training."
Normally, scientific researchers who go out with the team would undergo simple training, such as simple shooting and combat training, but Zhu Yao had very few opportunities to touch a gun in his life, and the real training only came after he was discovered by Chu Qing.
Chu Qing was surprised for the second time, but it made sense. Zhu Yao was surprisingly cooperative today. He might have felt that he had already found out so much, so he might as well take the initiative to explain.
Chu Qing continued to ask: "She came to you and you agreed?"
As pollution spreads, everyone has their own reasons for going outside the walls, completely disregarding life and death.
Zhu Yao is very famous and is a very authoritative expert in any era. If she were to come out now, there would be many institutions vying for her. People like her have no worries about money, so why would she cheat on her husband?
Chu Qing thought of an answer: "Is it because of ideals?"
He put himself in their shoes and thought that if it were him, he would be willing to go outside the wall because he loved pollutants.
Considering the situation back then, Zhu Yao and Liu Yu should have shared the same ideal. They both wanted to better understand the logic behind how the world works.
Zhu Yao stirred his coffee and didn't answer the question directly. He said vaguely, "I guess so."
"She said she could guarantee my safety," Zhu Yao continued. "She was very arrogant. It was the first time someone said that to me."
Chu Qing: "But she did it."
Zhu Yao is still alive and has survived to this day. There are no obvious scars on his body and he has never replaced his mechanical prosthesis. It is incredible.
Zhu Yao smiled, as if thinking of an old friend, "She protected me very well."
Chu Qing frowned. He already knew that Liu Yu was not simple, but this level was far beyond any S-level psychic around him.
Liu Yu's personal strength is absolutely terrifying. He may be one of the top psychics at that time. This leads to another question: why did Liu Yu end up so tragically?
Chu Qing knew very little about the Lu family, only that Liu Yu committed suicide.
He couldn't understand why Liu Yu, if he was so powerful, would choose such a tragic method.
Chu Qing asked: "What kind of person is Liu Yu?"
This question is very unprofessional and too broad to be answered, but Chu Qing couldn't help it. As for the real Liu Yu, perhaps only a few people knew about it.
And Zhu Yao is one of them.
"Liu Yu..." Zhu Yao said these three words and then stopped talking, as if no words could accurately summarize it.
Zhu Yao stared at the coffee. The liquid was like black slime, reflecting her face and reminding her of the past.
She had just joined Yongsheng Pharmaceutical in her third year. Her future was bright and she was working on important projects. She was still in a confidential experimental base when suddenly the minister said he wanted to introduce someone to her.
She walked into the reception room and saw a woman in a light purple suit. This color was difficult to pull off, especially in the laboratory where no one dressed so fancy, so Zhu Yao frowned when she saw her for the first time.
Until Liu Yu turned around, revealing a very delicate face, and smiled at him, "Hello, Professor Zhu, I am Liu Yu."
At that time, Liu Yu had just gotten married, and her most impressive identity was Mrs. Lu, which was also the reason she was able to meet him.
Zhu Yao took the business card and became even more disgusted after seeing the name. She said to the director, "Next time you have this kind of event, don't ask me to come. Ask Xiao Liu. I'm very busy."
She was young and frivolous at the time. She was surrounded by pollutants every day and stayed in the laboratory all day, as if the world could not move without her, and wasting a second would be disrespectful to the world.
Zhu Yao didn't give Liu Yu any face and turned away, not wanting to waste time dealing with the chaebol's wife.
The minister was a little embarrassed and wanted to persuade her to stay. Just as he opened his mouth, Liu Yu said, "Professor Zhu, I have news to share with you."
Zhu Yao turned around to look at her, his eyes still impatient, and glanced down at his watch, meaning that she should speak quickly if she had anything to say.
Liu Yu: "It's about utopia, but also about the truth of the world."
Zhu Yao paused in his departure. This time, he not only looked back but also turned around. The minister could see that Zhu Yao wanted to talk and quickly said, "You guys chat, I'm going to leave first."
He closed the door, and the place became a closed space, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Zhu Yao was familiar with the place and went to the coffee machine to pour coffee. Liu Yu said, "Can you pour me a cup?"
Her tone was gentle and she exuded politeness. Zhu Yao didn't say anything. When she turned around, she brought back two cups of coffee. Then she saw Liu Yu smile.
It wasn't quite like a polite smile, it was hard to describe, it was genuine.
Zhu Yao coughed lightly, still looking impatient, "Go ahead."
Liu Yu took a sip of coffee. It was bitter and not fragrant. The chaebol wife did not dislike it. She seemed to sort out her thoughts and asked, "How much do you know about the world?"
Zhu Yao thought that this question was really difficult to answer. She was in the laboratory every day looking at pollutants and staring at experimental instruments. The world seemed to have shrunk for her. She definitely knew more than ordinary people, but definitely less than the upper class.
Liu Yu then asked, "Do you want to change the world?"
Her face was only the size of a palm, but her eyes looked particularly large as she stared straight at him. Zhu Yao originally thought this question was very childish, but being stared at like that, she couldn't even laugh back.
Zhu Yao answered ambiguously: "Who wouldn't want to?"
Otherwise, she would have nothing better to do than to stay here and work on the project. She could get a job as a teacher at a university and get a leisurely job.
Liu Yu smiled, thinking Zhu Yao was very interesting. "Then we have the same goal."
Liu Yu said: "This world is magical. Utopia can give birth to new life."
Zhu Yao was just waiting for these words. She knew about the existence of Utopia. At that time, pilgrims were quite famous. The news media treated them as fools, and there were related jokes and spoof videos on the Internet.
The public looks down on this group of people, but Zhu Yao doesn't think so. Being able to trick batch after batch of people out means that even a cult has its strengths.
Sure enough, Utopia has some kind of natural phenomenon. Some of the people who enter will be reborn, and the deformed ones will become normal again.
Zhu Yao didn't know more about the rules. Yongsheng Pharmaceutical had set up a secret research group, so they let it slip. Zhu Yao submitted a report of willingness to participate in the research, but the approval had not yet come down.
Liu Yu should have looked at her resume during this session.
As a chaebol family, they probably want to gather a group of scientific researchers. It turns out that Liu Yu came here to recruit talents.
Zhu Yao had a plan in mind and was just thinking about how to deal with it when Liu Yu suddenly said, "My mother's grandmother was a Utopian."
Zhu Yao's pupils widened slightly, and she couldn't even figure out the relationship. Liu Yu's words were so shocking that her first reaction was to check whether the door was closed tightly.
The door was closed tightly. Liu Yu had given notice in advance that no one dared to come in, and today's conversation would not leave any trace.
"The descendants of people with superpowers are deformed and go to Utopia for treatment." Liu Yu even blinked at her and continued the story without caring about Zhu Yao's reaction.
Zhu Yao looked away, thinking to herself, of course, no trace will be left, and if I leak the information or refuse, it will be cleared immediately.
Zhu Yao looked at Liu Yu, who was still narrating, "Later, she transformed. Not only did she look normal, but her abilities were even enhanced."
Zhu Yao calmed down and sorted out the information he had obtained, then asked, "Is there a pattern?"
"Female, the offspring of a person with superpowers." Liu Yu answered quickly, and was surprised that she adapted so quickly and didn't even panic. Sure enough, she chose the right person.
Zhu Yao pondered and asked, "What about the side effects?"
Polluting the world is fair in a way, you gain something and you lose something.
Liu Yu replied: "It is short-lived, its mind is out of control, and after a year it enters a susceptible period, and it is easy to degenerate into a pollutant."
Zhu Yao pondered for a moment and glanced at Liu Yu. She looked normal. Liu Yu said, "I'm more stable than the previous generations. Don't worry."
"The only way to prevent collapse is to dilute the contaminated genes and combine them with purebred natural humans."
It's like adding flour if there is too much water, and adding water if there is too much flour. You have to find the right concentration.
Zhu Yao was very smart and immediately understood the operating rules. The existence of the Kingdom of God was indeed justified. Liu Yu was actually revealing all the secrets of the Kingdom of God.
Zhu Yao was not naive either. The Pilgrim Utopia, including Liu Yu in front of him, were all part of the secret plan of the Kingdom of God, but they were now connected together.
Zhu Yao asked, "What are the principles of utopia?"
"Unknown," Liu Yu said, "Maybe you need to figure it out."
Zhu Yao asked: "Is this why you came to see me?"
If that's the case, then Zhu Yao is also interested. No, if you want me to join this project, she has already submitted an application. Just let it go and go through the official recruitment process directly. There's no need to come to her in person.
Liu Yu: "No, I want you to have an affair with me."
Zhu Yao thought she had misheard. Why would a researcher like her leave the city? Wouldn't that just be suicide?
Scholars outside the wall need many years of training, and she relies on the security of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical when traveling.
Liu Yu: "I will protect you."
She said it very seriously, which gave her words more credibility. Zhu Yao grasped the key point and asked, "Are you going too?"
Liu Yu: "Yes, I lead the team."
Zhu Yao was silent for a moment, and admired Liu Yu's courage. However, according to what Liu Yu said, she should have powerful supernatural powers, but how could she enter the kingdom of God freely?
Zhu Yao hasn't made up her mind yet.
Liu Yu: "We are six people traveling with you, five of whom are supernatural beings. We can all protect you. We have also found a guide and a team to accompany us north."
The core consists of six people, and the others are "pathfinders" who can be sacrificed at any time. However, Zhu Yao did not understand this side at the time, as she knew very little about the world outside the wall.
"When?" Zhu Yao asked.
"the day after tomorrow."
"The day after tomorrow?" This was too hasty. Zhu Yao instinctively wanted to refuse. A business trip required two days' notice, but an affair only required one day? This wasn't a vacation.
“I’m sorry,” Liu Yu said. “I know it’s urgent, but there’s no time.”
Zhu Yao drank the coffee in one gulp. It had become cold after a while and tasted like Chinese medicine. Zhu Yao didn't like cold coffee. She rubbed her brows and tried to clear her mind.
If you agree too quickly, you may die outside the wall, but if you don’t agree, you may die now.
Zhu Yao asked: "So what about the mission?"
Liu Yu thought that she probably agreed. Someone who didn't want to agree wouldn't ask so many questions. The less they knew, the easier it would be to withdraw. Based on the information Zhu Yao knew now, the consequence of her refusal would be death.
Liu Yu: "There's a road beneath utopia, and there's another space beneath. We need to explore it. Perhaps this is the truth of the world."
Zhu Yao took a deep breath. The news was getting more and more explosive, almost beyond her tolerance.
No wonder Liu Yu asked her how much she knew about the world.
The strange thing is that the more she knew, the faster her heart beat and her body reacted very excitedly. Of course she was interested.
Zhu Yao asked in a deep voice, "Who is the source of this information?"
This was the last thing she needed to confirm, whether the news was accurate.
Liu Yu mentioned a name, and that was the first time Zhu Yao heard of this person, "Chen Qihang."
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