"You killed her?" Lu Yunzhao, who had been hiding his hand in the drawer, released the pistol, utterly astonished.
"Yes." Lu Dangui lowered his head.
"Don't you like her a lot?" Lu Yunzhao's smile was ambiguous as he tapped the table with his fingertips. "You had many opportunities to kill her before, but you didn't do it."
"She has violated your interests."
"By the way, this time, you didn't leave a clone down there, did you?"
"No."
Lu Yunzhao pushed the cookies on the table toward Lu Dangui: "You've worked hard, have some cookies..."
...
The Valley of Villains was Lu Yunzhao's test of Lu Danggui.
Unfortunately, Angelica sinensis passed the test.
Spending long periods underground, occasionally disobeying orders, showing leniency when escorting consumables, and possessing the ability to create clones that are almost impossible to kill...
All of this had long since made Lu Yunzhao want to kill Lu Dangui.
She thought that Lu Dangui would never lay a hand on Xia Chuhe, so she could use disloyalty as an excuse to kill Lu Dangui.
But Lu Dangui's loyalty made her hesitate.
Lu Yunzhao fiddled with the cookie box on the table, unsure of what to do with Lu Danggui.
At her level, if she really wanted to get rid of someone, she wouldn't need an excuse. But killing them would also be a bit of a waste.
...
Lu Dangui wanted to destroy the source of the Lu family's secret army, and she finally found a suitable person.
That person was herself.
She was willing to commit suicide in exchange for the demise of the Lu family's secret compound.
From the moment Xia Chuhe became Xu Nuo, Lu Dangui had planned everything.
She couldn't let Xia Chuhe live in hiding forever.
Only if Xia Chuhe hides can Lu Dangui have a sliver of hope. If only one of them can live, Lu Dangui hopes that person is Xia Chuhe.
Before her life ended, there was only one thing she wanted to do most—destroy the compound.
Lu Dangui didn't tell anyone about this plan, including Xia Chuhe.
She lied to Lu Yunzhao.
She left three clones on the lower level.
One of them purchased explosive, wide-range weapons in the Valley of Villains.
One infiltrates the base's black market to purchase special items.
One group headed to the Lu family compound and secretly laid an ambush.
The upper-level clone has the most important task—to stall Lu Yunzhao and prevent her from becoming suspicious.
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The children of the Lu family compound had the same dream on the same night.
In their dreams, they possess the bodies of a high-ranking woman, using her mouth to taste food they've never eaten before, using her eyes to review the compound's resource consumption and each of their friends' personal information, and using her mouth to reveal the cruel selection plan.
Then, they go to another person, go through danger with her, escape with her, experience the fear of having their lives threatened, and develop a dependence on that person after the fear is released.
A dream allowed the children in the courtyard to see their future.
Most of them will die in the upcoming selection process, and the few who survive will fight and toil day after day, serving a certain high-ranking person for life.
At the end of the dream, someone told them: If you don't want to live this kind of life, then quietly hide this dream from everyone, and tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, the compound gate will open; that will be their only chance to escape.
...
"Auntie Fan, I had a really strange dream..." the boy said, clinging to Auntie Fan with a cheeky grin. "I'm not leaving. I'm a good boy, I'm obedient. Auntie Fan, can you give me a piece of candy as a reward?"
Most of the children surrounding Aunt Fan changed their expressions. A few precocious ones lowered their heads to hide their emotions or pulled their friends away to chat secretly.
It turns out I'm not the only one having this kind of dream.
Is the future in our dreams real?
Will the compound gates open at 3 PM?
Auntie Fan tapped the clingy little boy with a clean rice spoon: "Go away, go away, you're just trying to trick me into eating by telling me a weird dream."
As it got closer to 3 p.m., the children in the courtyard looked increasingly strange, all staring at the gate.
The children's uniformly strange behavior reminded Aunt Fan of the strange dream the boy had told her, and she couldn't help but wonder if what the child said was true.
She lived in the compound for decades, raising batches of children. There were always some children she particularly liked, so she would occasionally ask the people delivering supplies about the children's situation.
Those people always had fierce, tense faces, telling her to stop asking questions.
Aunt Fan had also wondered what the purpose of keeping these children in the compound was.
She had never seen the outside world and didn't know that some people were so vicious that they wouldn't even spare children.
In the end, Aunt Fan could only conclude that the upper class was kind-hearted and willing to give these children a chance to survive. Once they grew up, they would eventually become a source of labor, and the adults in the upper class wouldn't lose out.
...
But after hearing the boy's dream, she was always uneasy, and the scene of the monsters running rampant kept appearing in her mind.
Could it be that the dream was real?
Are the adults in the upper echelons really going to kill the children they've raised with such care?
Aunt Fan couldn't help but look at a little girl sitting by the door, playing with a rag doll.
The children in the compound didn't have names, but Auntie Fan would name them in her heart. This little girl, her name is Xiao Bu.
Xiao Bu is a very good child. He doesn't talk much, but he is very helpful and often helps her with chores. Sometimes when the two of them are free, Xiao Bu will massage her shoulders and back.
Aunt Fan likes her very much.
At this moment, Xiao Bu is still playing with the rag doll, seemingly having never had a strange dream before.
Aunt Fan watched Xiao Bu play, and seeing that Xiao Bu was no different from usual, she felt a little relieved and completely dismissed her earlier unease as mere paranoia.
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Three o'clock in the afternoon arrived amidst everyone's eager anticipation.
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