Duan Jingfu looked at his boss with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot, "That kid from the Fu family..."
Ruan Chen was startled.
Is this matter also related to Fu Jianzhi?
She had just searched for Fu Jianzhi's scent; he should be fast asleep, as there was no sound at all.
Ruan Chen wanted to continue listening, but suddenly the instrument in front of Duan Jingfu lit up with a red light, and a mechanical warning sound swept through the entire underground laboratory: "Warning, unauthorized mental network intrusion!"
"Warning, intrusion detected!"
Ruan Chen knew she had been discovered. She hadn't expected that the Martial Arts Research Institute had already put mental energy monitoring technology into practical use. In Ruan Chen's previous knowledge, this technology was still only on paper.
Without hesitation, she withdrew her mental network, and from then on, she knew nothing more about what happened in that basement.
After she left, the underground laboratory remained silent for a long time.
The deputy director spoke up, "Old Duan, besides your students, I can't think of anyone else who could do that."
Duan Jingfu didn't say anything and continued working at the control panel.
"Find an opportunity to send Fu Jianzhi to Crescent Bay for a few days, and let him come back after you've dealt with Ruan Chen," the deputy director patted Duan Jingfu on the shoulder. "Make it clean, and don't let the Fu family know that we're involved."
"She's not an adult yet." After a long while, Duan Jingfu finally looked up from the control panel. He was probably thirsty, and his voice sounded dry and weak as he said this.
The deputy director just smiled, the smile lines at the corners of his eyes deepening as he stared at Duan Jingfu. Even Professor Wei, who was uninvolved, started to feel uneasy under his gaze. He then said quietly, "Old Duan, are you addicted to being your father? Then you should have stopped hinting to the Fu family's son to coax Ruan Chen over back then."
Duan Jingfu's tapping on the control panel sounded rather heavy.
"Hurry up, or we won't be able to do it once she realizes what's going on and runs to the First Academy Research Institute."
Ruan Chen regained her senses and reached out to hug Wu An's arm, whispering, "It seems like everything's alright now."
However, her consciousness seemed to still be stuck on the moment she heard the phrase "that kid from the Fu family".
When she saw that disgusting scene in the lab downstairs this morning, she thought about the Fu family. She wondered if the Fu family knew anything about it. Fu Jianzhi had the family head's order, so how much did he know?
However, Ruan Chen later realized that the Fu family probably didn't know. The Fu family was the only pilots recognized by Zhanlu, and they had already mastered one of the most powerful weapons in the world. There was no need for them to get involved in such dirty and sordid matters.
As for Fu Jianzhi... although he is excessively precocious, as long as there is still one person of sound mind in the Martial Arts Research Institute, they wouldn't be foolish enough to let a child know these things.
Ruan Chen's mind was racing. The tentacle creature outside the door had already quietly left. Wu An still quietly took a clean tissue and simply wrapped the bite wound on Ruan Chen's arm, then apologized softly.
"Ruan Chen, what's going on?" She had already come to regard Ruan Chen as her pillar of support.
Ruan Chen shook her head, got up and walked to the window, barely managing to gather the tattered curtains to block the night wind, and said to Wu An, "There are still a few hours until dawn, you can get some more sleep and rest. You'll know during the day."
Wu An's nerves suddenly relaxed, and he slept soundly, but Ruan Chen tossed and turned.
She carefully reviewed the images she had just seen—the other timeline, and the underground laboratory.
The self in the other timeline should have also experienced betrayal, but that self seems to be very powerful, easily breaking into the underground laboratory head-on; while the self in this timeline knows about the betrayal a full ten years earlier than Ruan Chen in the other timeline.
Betrayal... A subtle, persistent pain welled up in Ruan Chen's heart.
Although some people had told her long ago that she was merely a vessel for Duan Jingfu, she simply thought it was a clumsy attempt to sow discord and a pointless smear campaign.
But now she heard it with her own eyes; it's true.
The deputy director of the Institute of Military Medicine said that he would send himself into a petri dish as soon as possible.
Petri dishes are probably those densely packed glass jars.
Ruan Chen recalled meeting Duan Jingfu during an assessment when she was thirteen years old.
She remembered the look of precious affection in his eyes when he looked at her;
She remembered that when she cautiously told him she was willing to have him as her mentor, Professor Duan Jingfu, who sat high on the academic altar, was so excited that he rubbed his hands together, somewhat at a loss, and carefully reached out to rub her head.
She remembered the first time she entered the Municipal Public Security Bureau; Duan Jingfu came in the dead of night, so forcefully supporting her...
Ruan Chen laughed silently in the darkness; it was all a pretense and a premeditated scheme.
Sure enough, before dawn the next day, the whistle for assembly sounded outside. Wu An, still half asleep, rolled out of bed and suddenly remembered the nightmare from the previous night. He quickly looked up and called out to Ruan Chen, "Shall we go together?"
She called several times before Ruan Chen groggily peeked out, "Why are you up so early? Aren't we supposed to meet at eight?"
"The assembly whistle is blowing outside," Wu An said, quickly changing his clothes. "Let's hurry, it must be related to the monster in the middle of the night."
Ruan Chen arrived at the teaching and research office yawning. On the way, she ran into the other people. Everyone looked tired. They looked at each other, hesitant to speak, but none of them mentioned what happened last night.
Ruan Chen noticed that Wei Feng was not there.
Professor Wei was the only person in the teaching and research office; Duan Jingfu was not there, nor was the professor leading the team.
She sat down calmly, her eyes subtly sweeping over the camera, which was off.
Professor Wei didn't intend to wait for Wei Feng. Once all eight people had arrived, he spoke up, "Students, you must have had a wonderful night, right?"
His words caused a huge uproar. The teaching and research office, which clearly only had nine people including Professor Wei, suddenly became noisy.
"Professor, what was that last night? It was absolutely terrifying!"
"Professor, is that a weapon secretly developed by our Weapons Research Institute? Is it a robot?"
"This is also part of the summer camp? That's so exciting!"
These people clearly hadn't had a direct encounter with those creatures, chattering away as they described what they saw and heard through the window.
Professor Wei's smile seemed to be painted on. He listened attentively without saying a word. Only after everyone had finished discussing did he look at Wu An and Ruan Chen, who had remained silent, and asked, "Wu An and Ruan Chen, what are your thoughts on the little surprise at summer camp last night?"
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