Ying Jian did not tell Yu An the research topic he was going to work on; he only said in general terms that it was related to biology and genetic diseases.
"Yu An".
Yan Meng led Yu An downstairs, and to prevent Yu An from getting bored, she handed her a game console: "Don't worry, stay here. Dr. Ying said he would take good care of you, and he won't go back on his word."
"Just wait here for news from your father."
Ying Jian prepared a very nice room for Yu An, and he kept sending him things.
Yu An held Qiu Qiu and refused to let Yan Meng accompany her.
As soon as Yan Meng left, Yu An immediately closed the door and started calling Xie Chiyuan.
That's strange.
He wasn't that far from Xie Chiyuan, so why hadn't Xie Chiyuan shown up yet?
"Beep, beep—"
I made several calls, but no one answered.
Yu An looked at her phone, then at Qiu Qiu, her expression grim: "Qiu Qiu, we've lost contact with Xie Chiyuan and Ba Zai."
Chiu Chiu was stunned. He had seen them when he was looking back from Yu An's shoulder earlier.
Yu An remained calm.
He knew that Xie Chiyuan was following him closely, so he must be nearby right now.
"Chirp chirp, let's go look for it."
Yu An picked up Qiu Qiu, opened the door, and went outside. There were people guarding their door; to put it nicely, they were protecting their safety.
Yu An didn't mind.
He simply said politely, "My son doesn't want to stay inside, so I'm taking him for a walk."
The people at the gate had not received any instructions to restrict his freedom, so they naturally wouldn't interfere with his request to wander around as he pleased.
The two, one big and one small, went outside and began to observe the factory building.
I wonder what's inside the factory building.
Following his memory, Yu An walked to the place where he had just entered. Standing there, he could still see the path he had come from, but he could no longer see Xie Chiyuan on that path.
Yu An could not see Xie Chiyuan, but Xie Chiyuan could sense his presence.
"Ba Zai."
Xie Chiyuan, carrying the bone blade and accompanied by the eight-headed cub that had grown to a head taller than him, frowned and asked, "Have you thought of a way out?"
Without a doubt, they had stepped into a trap set up in a way that was unknown to them.
Almost everything around them was a hallucination. For example, the mutants that Xie Chiyuan had killed reappeared in front of him. The food that Bazai had eaten also blocked their path like ghosts.
These hallucinations damage their abilities.
Ba Zai ate the food again, feeling like he was eating leftovers. He suppressed the urge to vomit and replied, "Not yet. These things can't be eradicated. What sins did you commit in the past?!"
The two were busy killing monsters and couldn't spare any attention to figuring out how to break through the traps. They were both brute force types, but brute force couldn't continue indefinitely.
Ever since Bazai started following his older brother, he's spent all his time eating, sleeping, and playing with Qiuqiu, without suffering a single hardship. But now that they're fighting, and in such a long way at that, Bazai already feels like he's endured a great deal of suffering.
It would be better if he were helping his older brother fight, but instead he's helping this vixen sister-in-law who's very good at pleasing his older brother!
The man surnamed Xie was born with a beautiful face, so calling him a fox spirit is not an exaggeration.
Bazai was extremely aggrieved, but after feeling wronged, he still had to keep fighting.
Yu An looked around the factory from front to back and realized that something must have gone wrong when Xie Chiyuan came over.
"Uncle Ying."
Yu An approached Ying Jian and asked, "There should be surveillance cameras at the entrance, right? I'd like to see them."
He stopped hiding it and said frankly, "I came here behind my boyfriend's back, but he came looking for me. I can't get in touch with him right now, so I wanted to see if he's here."
Ying Jian mostly granted Yu An's requests.
He had someone take Yu An to see the security footage, which only showed them entering. For at least an hour after they came in, there was no one at the door.
The person who showed him the surveillance footage also explained, "This place is quite remote. Without someone to guide you, very few people would find this place."
Yu An stared at the monitor without saying a word.
After a busy day, Yu An initially held Qiu Qiu in his arms, but later he couldn't carry her anymore.
Chiu Chiu held her older brother's hand, her little face all scrunched up as she walked.
Night falls.
Yu An was wide awake, still thinking about how to find Xie Chiyuan. The locator he was wearing was still flashing a small red light, indicating that it was working properly.
Xie Chiyuan could also locate him using a GPS device.
"Big brother."
Holding her phone, Qiuqiu turned her head and asked, "Are you worried that they might be in danger? Bazai is very good at fighting, he won't be bullied."
Needless to say, Xie Chiyuan was even more so.
In Qiuqiu's mind, everyone believed that Xie Chiyuan was very strong.
Yu An was well aware of her boyfriend's abilities; she just needed to wait patiently, and her boyfriend would definitely be able to find her.
There's no doubt about that, it's just a matter of time.
Yu An wasn't in the mood to play on her phone. Perhaps she was a little agitated, which caused her chronically bad injury to flare up at this time.
He looked down at the bite wound; it had healed a little and wasn't as bad as before.
As long as the bite heals, it's not a big problem.
Yu An lowered his sleeves, intending to go out for another stroll.
Qiuqiu had already taken a shower. He was wearing pajamas, sitting on the bed, video chatting with Huzai.
Big Brother was going out, and Chiu Chiu didn't follow.
"Chirp, don't open the door for anyone who comes before your brother, okay?" Yu An wanted to carry Chirp out, but Chirp was being coquettish and didn't want to move, so he had no choice but to stop forcing her.
"Okay, Chirp knows!"
After seeing her older brother off, Chiu Chiu continued talking to the tiger cub: "Meow meow, Eighth Brother hasn't come back yet, and I don't know when he'll be back."
The tiger cub paused for a moment, then asked casually, "You two made up again?"
Just yesterday, Qiuqiu was saying that Bazai was playing a game with him and accidentally threw him into the water. He cried for a long time, but his older brother comforted him.
The tiger cub counted the number of times.
These past few days, the octopus has made this crybaby cry 13 times already.
"You've made up."
Chiu Chiu rubbed her eyes, feeling a little sleepy but not wanting to sleep: "He will cover me with a blanket with his little tentacles. Oh, and he also said that next time he will secretly roast tentacles for me to eat! We won't let Big Brother know."
Qiuqiu talked a lot about his time with Bazai, and at the end, he mumbled, "I hope Bazai can come back soon."
When Bazai comes back, I can play with him again.
The tiger cub listened quietly to him, and finally said softly, "He'll be back soon."
Chapter 105
The video was still playing, and the phone was propped up on a small stand on the headboard. With her eyes closed and her hands clutching the blanket, Qiuqiu drifted off to sleep to the sound of a story being told.
To be fair, the tiger cub's storytelling tone is so flat and even, without any inflection, that if he ever had to make a living this way, he would surely starve to death.
But Qiuqiu didn't mind. With his older brother not around, he needed the tiger cub watching over him to be able to sleep.
I don't know how much time passed.
Tiger Cub looked at the sleeping Chiu Chiu on the screen and slowly stopped making noise. Seven Cub next to him yawned when he stopped.
"You really need to take some serious storytelling lessons."
Qi Zai offered him some advice: "You don't put any emotion into it at all, so it's very boring and doesn't sound good at all."
The tiger cub gave him a cold look.
He tells stories not for entertainment, but simply to have some peace and quiet. He wants to get people to sleep quickly so he won't be bothered anymore.
Just as Tiger Cub finished, suddenly, the sound of a door opening and footsteps came from Chiu Chiu's side.
Seven's eyes lit up: "Is it Big Brother who's back?"
The tiger cub also looked up.
The screen showed the upper half of a person, with a thick waist, not Yu An's build.
There were other people following behind this person.
Are you asleep?
"She's asleep, hug her—"
Before the man could finish speaking, a cold voice suddenly rang out in the room: "Get out."
The person who was about to bend down and hug Chiu Chiu froze, then looked around warily: "Who? Who's speaking?!"
“Aberration A05”.
The tiger cub's voice was almost laced with coldness as he introduced himself. At the same time, the person standing by the bed finally saw him in the video.
The tiger cub in the video is in its original form, with a body so large that it almost doesn't fit on the screen, exuding a strong sense of oppression, and its cold, vertical pupils are even more terrifying.
Even though it was just through a screen, the A05's impact was still quite significant.
Seven also spoke up: "We're nearby. I advise you to leave now. Otherwise, not only A05, but also many aberrations of the A sequence... I wouldn't mind going there."
One A-sequence aberration may not be a threat, but if several more come, or even all of them, the consequences would be terrifying.
The person at the bedside finally stopped hesitating, withdrew their hand, and prepared to leave.