"09, stop crying. There are still those guys outside. They're doomed if they hear us," a girl said anxiously.
Her warning turned the sobbing girl's sadness into anger.
"Death? What difference is there between us now and being dead? I'm not called 09, my name is Lan! I want to go home, I miss my mom!"
"Shh, keep your voice down. Can't you just hold back? Didn't they say they'd let us go back tomorrow and we'd get paid? We've endured so much, don't let it all go to waste."
“Go back? How is that possible! I've already contacted 07 who went back before, she didn't return to the Allied Powers at all. Does she even know where she is now? She's in the Allied War Zone, she can't come back!”
As the girl finished speaking, the cubicle fell into a deathly silence, followed by the even more terrified voice of the girl who had just been trying to persuade someone.
"Impossible, impossible! Didn't they say in the contract that if we stayed here for a year, they would send us back?"
"How is that impossible?! They never intended for us to return alive. Otherwise, why would they still be keeping the secrets of Eden hidden until now? In the year you've been here, have you seen a single R-level gene user?"
Her words brought another brief silence to the cubicle.
Xia Yixin also thought of this point of doubt. Logically speaking, R-level gene users are more perfect. Qian Dahai and his group are so absurd, why didn't they target R-level gene users? The Eden has long been their base.
Soon, the girl named Lan gave her the answer in her deep, cold voice.
“I saw it with my own eyes. There’s absolutely no one in Zone R, not a single person! That fat guy told me this himself when he was drunk. All the R-level gene users died in the riot a year ago, and the last one died three months ago while giving birth. The baby was a B-level gene user. In the future, there will only be fewer and fewer A-level gene users. They will cleanse our Zone B. Not to mention us, everyone might die!”
The girl's words shocked not only the other girl, but Xia Yixin herself hadn't expected to receive such news.
If what she said is true, Qian Dahai and his group might really resort to force to maintain the dominance of A-level gene users. The question is whether Lu Yuan knows about the R-level gene users and which side he is on.
The two girls left shortly afterward.
Xia Yixin calculated that it was about time and then went out. The people in black uniforms were soldiers from the combat readiness zone. They were fully armed, standing out starkly from the pure white world of Eden.
The view of the universe outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was still magnificent, but Xia Yixin felt a chill.
To outsiders, the people of the R zone are all "genetically perfect" and live a life of luxury. But what she sees now is that the entire Eden is controlled by such a group of people. Even the commander-in-chief is under their control. As R-level gene users, the women are probably lambs to the slaughter.
The residents of Area B on the ground knew nothing about all this or the fate that might befall them.
Xia Yixin originally wanted to delay a bit more in the corridor, but unexpectedly, she saw Lu Yuan walking towards her in a hurry as soon as she turned the corner.
The man was dressed in a crisp white uniform, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. He was handsome and his eyes were full of urgency. Reflected in the vast Milky Way, Xia Yixin was momentarily dazed, as if the person in front of her was Lu Yan, but she quickly came to her senses.
When Lu Yuan saw that it was her and confirmed that she was alright, the urgency in his eyes turned into a hint of anger. He then forcefully took her away in front of the two enforcers.
She was taken aback by the man's anger, but quickly realized that the two were still "acting." Lu Yuan was playing the role of his beloved woman who had run away for a long time, and he was both angry and anxious.
So she made a token resistance, acting as if she was unwilling.
Once back on the interstellar shuttle, she finally breathed a sigh of relief after setting up a mental shield again. She casually asked, "You guys finished so quickly? I thought you and that girl..."
As she spoke, she met his angry gaze and obediently shut her mouth. Well, you can never say anything to a man.
The white interstellar shuttle sped towards the Allied Powers, and soon passed through the clouds, the outline of Sky City reappearing on the horizon.
"I didn't touch her." After answering, Lu Yuan felt something was off. He released his arm as if he had been electrocuted, and pretended to be serious. "Tonight is dangerous. You shouldn't have run out on your own."
Xia Yixin was successfully led astray by him. She belatedly realized that Lu Yuan didn't smell of alcohol at all, except for a slight smell of smoke. His condition was completely different from the drunken image she had seen before.
It's clear that he made preparations tonight to ensure her safety when he took her away; she really shouldn't have run off.
"I'm sorry, I really just wanted to get out of there for a while, I stayed in the restroom and didn't go anywhere else..."
Lu Yuan was still furious.
"If you were separated from the Eden and they wanted to do something to you in secret, like adding or removing a part from your body, do you think you could resist, or that I could save you?"
The Eden has long been Qian Dahai's territory.
His words sent a chill down her spine. She realized that she had been too naive. The technology here was so advanced that it was impossible for Qian Dahai to implant a listening device in her body using minimally invasive surgery.
"Don't act on your own in the future," Lu Yuan said in a deep voice.
"I see."
Her obedient appearance dispelled Lu Yuan's anger. For some reason, looking at her docile appearance, his hands unconsciously felt a little itchy.
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