Inside Wen Zhen's room, Li Chonghe opened his eyes.
He woke up when Cen Yu and Chi Jiazhen left; to be precise, he hadn't fallen asleep at all.
He got up from his cot, straightened his clothes, and felt a faint pain in the healed wound on his back.
After his glands were destroyed, his mental energy was almost depleted. However, as time went by, he found that his mental energy was slowly recovering, as if the part of him that was an insect was replenishing his mental energy, making it even stronger than before.
He stood up, ready to leave.
"Where to?" Wen Zhen asked.
"Let's go out for a walk," Li Chonghe said.
"Shall we go shopping with those two?"
None of the four people in the room were asleep. Wen Zhen knew exactly when Cen Yu and Chi Jiazhen had left... Wen Zhen propped himself up, changed his position, and sat on the edge of the bed. "Huo Shen won't let you get away with this."
If he could detect that something was wrong with Li Chonghe, Huo Shen certainly could too.
Wen Zhen didn't know much about Li Chonghe.
Although he had no interest in these power struggles and intrigues, he knew that many people within the empire were optimistic about this Beta prince. Wen Zhen was still a little curious about how the other party had become this half-human, half-insect.
"Why would he not let a victim go?" Li Chonghe asked matter-of-factly.
He didn't go out, but stood by the door and said to Wen Zhen, "To protect my comrades, I was injured by the Zerg in my glands... Maybe it was some kind of Zerg 'venom'?" He said, "That stuff changed me."
This is clearly a lie.
Both people in the room knew.
Wen Zhen understood that this was an excuse prepared by Li Chonghe.
“Huo Shen won’t believe it,” he said.
Li Chonghe knew, of course, that Huo Shen wouldn't believe him. "I don't need him to believe me." He didn't look at Wen Zhen, but just looked at everything outside the window. "Someone will use their actions to make Huo Shen trust me."
Wen Zhen didn't speak, but he knew that the person Li Chonghe was referring to was most likely Chi Jiazhen.
Li Chonghe was not prepared to explain his plans and ideas to Wen Zhen in detail.
He pushed open the door and went out. "I just have insomnia, I'm just going for a walk."
"If we encounter Chi Jiazhen and Cen Yu..." he smiled, "that would just be an accident."
...
Cen Yu brushed the dust off his pants and stood up from the steps.
"Let's go back," he said, turning to Chi Jiazhen. "It's getting late."
What kind of creature that laboratory was trying to create was unimportant to Cen Yu; he was merely a passerby in this world who would leave after completing his mission.
He walked a little further, then looked back at Chi Jiazhen, who was still sitting on the stone steps. "Aren't you sleepy?"
Chi Jiazhen was certainly not sleepy.
He stood up as well. "Is there anything else you want to ask?" He wanted to prolong his time alone with Cen Yu, and couldn't help but ask again.
“No,” Cen Yu said.
“I promise I won’t lie,” Chi Jiazhen said.
Cen Yu had his hands in his pockets. Chi Jiazhen was standing on the steps, and since the other man was taller than him, Cen Yu had to look up slightly to see the expression on his face.
Have you ever used hypnosis or mind control abilities?
"Don't lie."
Chi Jiazhen took a few steps up the steps and approached Cen Yu. Because there was no odor blocker, he could smell the faint pheromone scent on the other person.
"I've used it."
Cen Yu watched as Chi Jiazhen drew closer and closer to him, "Who is it used on?"
"I?"
“No.” Chi Jiazhen finally stopped. He was now less than 20 centimeters away from Cen Yu, and he could almost feel Cen Yu’s breath. “I won’t use it on you.”
However, he didn't say who it was used on.
"Someone I know?"
“I don’t know him,” Chi Jiazhen asserted. “You don’t know him.”
Chi Jiazhen's resolute statement only fueled Cen Yu's curiosity.
After entering Xingdu, Chi Jiazhen stayed at the Cen family's house, and Cen Yu definitely knew all of them.
After entering the Imperial Military Academy, he got to know quite a few students in the command department... However, Cen Yu felt that Chi Jiazhen would not waste his abilities on these people. Although he didn't know why, he was just so sure of it.
"Students from the Imperial Military Academy?" Cen Yu asked again.
Chi Jiazhen knew that Cen Yu was making a decision, "No."
Cen Yu was completely baffled. Who else could have gotten Chi Jiazhen to use her mind control or hypnosis abilities?
"If he's not a student at the Imperial Military Academy, then he must be a teacher."
Cen Yu only noticed Li Chonghe standing at the corner when he heard the sound.
The once-noble second prince of the empire stood there, saying, "Jiang Yan said before that he had not tampered with Cen Yu's mecha."
Because many people in the Black Mud District suspected that Jiang Yan and Cen Yu teamed up for revenge, Jiang Yan himself directly revealed that it was all an accident and that he himself had done that thing.
“Only Cen Yu’s mecha had a problem,” Li Chonghe said. “It seems to be just a simple accident; the instructor in charge of the mecha didn’t detect the problem.”
Li Chonghe didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear—
Since Chi Jiazhen is capable of mind control, it would be very easy for her to control someone by tampering with their mecha.
“I was still at the Cen family’s house then,” Chi Jiazhen replied calmly in the face of Li Chonghe’s suspicion. “You shouldn’t have eavesdropped on our conversation.”
“I just happened to be passing by,” Li Chonghe said, looking at Cen Yu. “He said he wouldn’t lie.”
Cen Yu understood Li Chonghe's meaning. He glanced at Chi Jiazhen, who did not look away.
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