Chapter 259 Lizard·Extra 4
Yu Jiao has been feeling restless recently, often waking up in the middle of the night. At first, she thought Zhou Qingyan was up to something again.
Her work went smoothly, and her relationships with her colleagues were harmonious. Her only concern was Zhou Qingyan's periodic outbursts, often caused by this overly harmonious relationship. Sometimes, when preparing lessons was exhausting, or when encountering difficult parents, Zhou Qingyan would always add, after his conciliatory words, a nonchalant remark: "It's still freer at home." Yu Jiao was naturally tempted, but she quickly regained her composure and resolutely pushed Zhou Qingyan's nonsense out of her mind. She couldn't let him seduce her, or else one misstep would lead to another...
After nearly a week of insomnia, Yu Jiao went to see a doctor. She prepared a herbal remedy and took it home, hoping it would resolve her recent condition. However, her symptoms not only didn't improve, but became increasingly severe.
She clutched her chest, her face pale. Zhou Qingyan frowned at her, touched her forehead, then her stomach, and asked her where she felt uncomfortable. Yu Jiao felt suffocated, as if a huge stone had been stuffed into her chest, filling the space where her heart was, making it feel heavy and uncomfortable.
Yu Jiao clutched Zhou Qingyan's hand, tears welling in her eyes. "I'm feeling so bad. Give me my phone."
He handed her the phone. Zhou Qingyan's face was filled with anxiety. "Don't be afraid, Jiaojiao. Let's go to the hospital now." He gently patted her back to calm her down. Just as he was about to pick her up, Yu Jiao pushed his hand away. "I'm fine. I need to contact my sister."
She had contacted the institute, but was told the information was confidential. After a long time, she still couldn't reach her sister. She and the families of her sister's colleagues went to the institute to inquire, but their response was vague, telling them that the signal was poor at the institute and that even contacting them would be difficult, and asking them to be patient. Yu Mo was anxious, but she had no other way to contact her sister. She could only silently hope that she would contact her, and that she was safe and healthy...
But recently, she has been feeling uneasy. This feeling is very mysterious. Although her body is healthy, her chest feels suffocated and uncomfortable. She thinks something has happened to her sister. Thinking of this, Yu Mo couldn't help crying, and her face was covered with tears. Zhou Qingyan wiped it away for her, but it flowed out again. Zhou Qingyan called her distressedly: "Jiaojiao, don't worry."
Yu Jiao shouted in a muffled voice: "That's my sister!"
That was her dearest sister in the world, her only blood relative, and the sister she depended on for everything. Yu Jiao hadn't seen her sister for nearly two years. She knew that her sister was very busy at work and it was common for her to not be able to contact her often, but it had never been like this before. She didn't even send her birthday greetings!
In the past, no matter how busy her sister was, she would contact her around her birthday. She had been to the institute several times, and the information she received was always vague. But when she went to the institute recently, she felt the atmosphere was very strange. Even the number of security guards had increased a lot, as if something big had happened. Yu Jiao became more and more uneasy.
Zhou Qingyan gritted his teeth. The room was filled with thick black fog. Yu Jiao had long since grown accustomed to it, unconsciously ensnared in it. It kept wriggling and spreading, enveloping Yu Jiao, tightly concealing her within the mist. The feeling of completely enveloping her, possessing her, gradually calmed Zhou Qingyan's subtly frantic mood.
He silently said, that is Jiaojiao's sister, her biological sister, you can't be jealous, you can't be jealous, you can't be jealous!
Zhou Qingyan hugged her: "Jiaojiao, that's my sister too. I know you're worried about her condition, but don't let yourself get upset before you figure things out. Take a day off tomorrow and we'll go to the research institute to inquire about the situation. If they're still vague, then I'll find a way to get in and find out, okay?"
He reached out and wiped away her tears, his fingertips wet with tears, "Jiaojiao, I'm with you."
Yu Jiao looked up: "Really?"
Zhou Qingyan held her hand and kissed her red eyelids twice: "Really."
Yu Jiao raised the back of her hand to wipe away her tears and took out her phone: "Then I'll ask for leave. I want to find out why you didn't tell me. I'm your sister's younger sister, and you should tell me any news about her as soon as possible!"
Zhou Qingyan tightened his arms and said, "Yes, Jiaojiao is right."
The research institute is located inside Zhihe. In the past, family members of the institute's staff could apply to enter Zhihe's reception room, but recently the security around Zhihe has increased, making it impossible for outsiders to enter.
Yu Jiao contacted the families of other researchers whose whereabouts were unknown, and they started a disturbance outside Zhihe. They clamored to see the director of Zhihe Research Institute and to know the institute's current situation. Their request was not a difficult one at all; they simply wanted to know if their family members were safe. Couldn't even this small request be met?
They were turned away for several days in a row until the person in charge of Zhihe showed up, sternly reprimanded the security guards who had driven them away, invited them into Zhihe's reception room, and explained to them the latest situation of Zhihe Research Institute.
The interior environment of Zhihe is very exquisite. In the all-glass elevator, Yu Jiao noticed that there was a very beautiful flower vine swing in front of the terrace on a certain floor. The sunlight slanted on it. A girl in a white dress was sitting on it holding a book. She was leaning on the man in a suit next to her.
Behind her, there were several very strange flower vines wrapped around her waist. They were brightly colored, black and red. Yu Jiao rubbed her eyes, thinking that it might be because she had not rested well recently and her eyes were blurry. Those black and red vines seemed to be able to move.
Yu Jiao wanted to look again, but suddenly, the man opposite looked at her. Unlike the gentle expression he showed in front of the girl, his eyes were cold and contained an icy chill, like an unknown surge in the dark deep sea. Her limbs began to tremble involuntarily.
Her vision suddenly went dark, a thin black mist covering her eyes. Zhou Qingyan's aura washed over her, dispelling the pressure released by the man opposite. However, Zhou Qingyan's tone was very bad, and there was a suppressed jealousy in his voice: "Jiaojiao, what are you looking at?"
Yu Jiao: "No." She closed her eyes.
"Open your eyes."
Yu Jiao quietly opened her eyes. Zhou Qingyan's face was pale, his pupils were dark, and the blue veins on both sides of his forehead were faintly visible. She sighed inwardly, "Oh no! He's going crazy again." Before she could say anything, Zhou Qingyan leaned close to her ear. He was invisible, so only Yu Jiao could see him. Therefore, Yu Jiao hunched her neck in the corner, and no one noticed her abnormality.
"You like him like that?"
"No, no!" Yu Jiao spoke in a whisper, and shook her head, afraid that Zhou Qingyan would think too much.
"Then why are you staring at him?"
"The girl next to him is very beautiful. Can't I even look at her?"
"no!"
"Zhou Qingyan, you're too overbearing!" Yu Jiao puffed up her cheeks slightly, pinched Zhou Qingyan's arms, and twisted them hard, but they were too stiff for her to twist. Zhou Qingyan frowned and bit her ear: "Jiaojiao, do you remember what you promised me? You can't look at other men, let alone have other thoughts, otherwise I won't let you go!"
"I know, I know!" Yu Jiao rolled her eyes.
The Zhihe representative treated them very friendly, but this friendly attitude did not reassure the others because their attitude was too enthusiastic, which was not a good sign.
As expected, the person in charge of Zhihe said with an apologetic look on his face: "Teacher Li's team lost contact with us when they arrived at the Devil's Sea. We were very anxious and tried to contact them, but there was no way. Later, we got some news. It was from Teacher Li's team..."
"How is my son?"
"Is Xiao An still alive? I dreamed that she called me mom and asked me to save her. What's her condition now?"
"mine……"
"Please listen to me. While the research process is inherently dangerous, we've invested years of effort in minimizing the risk. However, Professor Li's team suffered a shipwreck while passing through the Devil's Sea. Later, through our active contact, we discovered that Professor Li had violated the original intention of the research and had secretly conducted illegal research with the team members, resulting in the disappearance of all team members and causing tremendous losses to our institute..."
The reception room was instantly in chaos.
The person in charge's face was filled with pain. "We don't want to see this happen either. All we can do is try our best to compensate you. At the same time, we will send a rescue team to the Devil's Sea to search for the researchers. As for Teacher Li and those involved in this illegal research, we are also working hard to find them. Once we find them, we will send someone to inform you!"
After leaving Zhihe, Yu Jiao was in a daze, squinting her eyes. The sun was scorching, but she felt like she was falling into an abyss. Finally, Zhou Qingyan appeared and took her home. Yu Jiao cried even in her sleep, and Zhou Qingyan felt sad, but he could only bear it. He coaxed her to sleep, wrapped her in black mist, and then returned to Zhihe.
In the dark night, he met Lin Yanzhou.
The two were not strangers and often met at major banquets.
Lin Yanzhou was wearing a neat suit, a women's windbreaker draped over his right arm. The light was on in the restroom at the end of the corridor. He leaned lazily against the wall, opened his eyelids and glanced at Zhou Qingyan. "Mr. Zhou," he laughed. "What's going on? Have you turned into a ghost?"
In the dark corridor, Zhou Qingyan's body was pale, his veins exposed, like a ghost. Lin Yanzhou turned into the bathroom before Wei Jingan emerged, leaving a message: "I will tell you the truth you want. Now please leave." Zhihe has too many secrets that cannot be explored. After Zhou Qingyan left, Lin Yanzhou covered Wei Jingan's eyes, fearing that she would be frightened by the sight of the ghost.
Wei Jingan hadn't even washed her hands when Lin Yanzhou covered her eyes. She shuddered and complained softly, "What are you doing? You scared me to death!" Lin Yanzhou took her hands and placed them under the water. Tentacles slowly emerged and wrapped around her waist. He apologized gently, "It's my fault. I just saw a ghost in the corridor and I was scared. Jingjing had to protect me."
Wei Jingan glanced at him sideways: "Are you still afraid of ghosts?" Wei Jingan pinched the tentacles that were trying to move upwards and said angrily: "We are outside, don't make trouble."
Zhou Qingyan received a message from Lin Yanzhou.
The Zhihe Research Institute is divided into several factions. A senior group, led by Louis, advocates for human evolution, but this proposal is rejected. Unwilling to give up, Louis forms a new team with Professor Li, who also advocates for human genetic evolution. While ostensibly carrying out the previous mission, they are actually searching for opportunities and secretly conducting numerous research experiments.
The researchers who accompanied Teacher Li to the Lizard Islands were carefully selected subjects for human genetic evolution experiments. Yu Mo was naturally one of them. When the truth came to light, Zhihe sent people to capture Louis, but Louis disappeared.
At the end of the message, Lin Yanzhou sent him the research team's route, as well as the research report on the Devil's Sea.
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