Yu Wei had only been gone from the lab for a few days when he sent someone to the lab. Zhou Siyu sat cross-legged on the bed, listening to the discussions outside.
"Hey, hey, hey, have you seen the person that Chairman Yu sent over? My goodness, according to the soldiers who saw him, that person is as beautiful as a flower and as beautiful as an angel."
"Ha, a military spaceship escorted by a group of heavily armed soldiers, the scene was so grand that anyone who didn't know better would think they were escorting some important figure."
"Oh dear, why does this sound like a declaration of war?"
"As expected of Chairman Yu, he's amazing. He keeps the red flag flying at home while having colorful flags fluttering outside."
"I heard that the man escaped from the rebels and went to join the Chairman..."
"Where did you hear that? Don't talk nonsense." One of them glanced at the door, gestured with his lip, and lowered his voice, saying, "The real one is here."
"Him?" The man scoffed, "He's a short-lived wretch who'll die any day now. He doesn't have the fortune to live. What good would it do him if he heard it?" He then lowered his voice, "I heard it with my own ears. The morning Chairman Yu left, he specifically went to the person in charge to talk about this, and the two of them even had a fight about it."
The man's embellished narration was captivating, and Zhou Siyu couldn't help but get out of bed and press her ear against the door, wanting to listen more carefully.
At the same time, he couldn't help but wonder: Yu Wei argued with Lin Ling over someone—was that person very important to him? How important? When did they meet? What was their relationship?
A barrage of questions gave him a headache. Before he could hear the whole story, footsteps sounded in the distance, and the chatter outside the door gradually subsided. Zhou Siyu rubbed his temples and sat back on the bed, still full of questions.
A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses stopped at the door and looked at the people there sternly, saying, "Are you all very free? Did the person in charge assign you to stand guard here to gossip?"
"sorry……"
“What’s the use of apologizing to me? You should apologize to the person inside!” The man pointed to the door, then turned to the figure in the black robe behind him and said, “He’s inside. Go in.”
The man in black nodded slightly, took a few steps forward to the door, and warned, "You only have thirty minutes."
After saying that, the man called the researchers who had been gossiping aside and reprimanded them, while observing the activity in the room.
Zhou Siyu sat cross-legged on the bed, leaning back, and calmly observed the person who had come in.
The newcomer was about the same height as him, around 1.8 meters, and was covered in a long black robe. The patterns on the robe, made of some unknown material, shimmered in the light.
A strand of long golden hair slipped out of the hood, and as the hood was slowly pulled open, the smooth golden hair cascaded down like a waterfall, revealing a delicate face.
Zhou Siyu opened her mouth slightly. The person in front of her was really beautiful, with fair skin like snow, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and blue eyes like a clear and calm sea, like an elf who came from the seabed.
Truly, she was a beauty like a painting.
“Hello, my name is Mondor Lakayah, you can call me Mondor.”
The beautiful woman wore a gentle smile, exuding an intellectual and graceful aura. Her smooth skin made Zhou Siyu feel ashamed of herself.
Seeing that Zhou Siyu remained silent, Meng Duo continued, "You are Yu Wei's partner, and I am his friend. Can we be friends?"
"My name is Zhou Siyu, nice to meet you."
Zhou Siyu appeared calm on the surface, but inside she had already become a devoted admirer, obsessed and crazy for Meng Duo.
"How can there be such a beautiful and gentle person in this world?"
"Holy crap, he's looking at me! He's looking at me! He's smiling at me..."
"Oh my god, I'm so nervous, I'm about to shake hands with the beauty."
"Oh ho ho, the beauty's hands are so beautiful too..."
"Ugh, Yu Wei has such a beautiful friend behind my back! I'm so jealous!"
Meng Duo naturally had no idea what Zhou Siyu was thinking; he only felt that Zhou Siyu was somewhat indifferent, but he didn't take it to heart.
Normal people will keep their distance from strangers unless that person has ill intentions towards you.
“Since we’re friends, I’ll get straight to the point.” Meng Duo pulled a chair from the desk to the bedside and sat down facing Zhou Siyu. “I’m here to help you at Yu Wei’s request.”
"You two are very familiar with each other?"
Zhou Siyu raised his eyes and met Meng Duo's eyes. He felt that this face looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
“We are friends,” Mondor repeated, then added after a moment’s thought, “You don’t need to see me as an enemy. He and I are just ordinary friends, or more precisely, partners.”
"Have we met somewhere before?"
He was more concerned about this person than about the relationship between Mengduo and Yuwei. He was quite sure that he had met him before, or that he was someone similar to him.
“I’m sorry, I haven’t seen you before.” Meng Duo tilted his head and thought for a moment, then quickly denied it. “I have seen you, but only from a distance. You should remember, the seventeenth planet, Changchuan City, Xiaojiang Town.”
"No, I've seen you on the eighteenth planet."
Zhou Siyu tried hard to recall that when they were having lunch in Xiaojiang Town, Yu Wei saw a dark figure and left the restaurant under the pretext of paying the bill. He disappeared for a while and his whereabouts were unknown.
Immediately afterwards, he encountered Chu Sheng.
“The person you saw on the eighteenth planet should be my twin brother, Mond Lakaya.” Seeing the doubt in Zhou Siyu’s eyes, Mond slowly explained, “Yu Wei asked me the same question when we first met. In addition, you were also at the underground auction house on the eighteenth planet, so I guess you met Mond with Yu Wei at that time.”
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