Ch 111: TGCIR

Shen Cheng’s eyes widened in surprise. She was very curious about what had happened during their escape.

However, Li Weilan did not respond immediately; he lowered his gaze as if indifferent to what the female researcher had said.

But Shen Cheng, who was very familiar with him, knew that his microexpressions suggested otherwise. Why was he hiding something?

However, Researcher Xu didn’t understand Li Weilan as Shen Cheng did. After saying her piece, she stole glances at Li Weilan’s expression, finding him indifferent, even when hearing the phrase “eating blood-soaked mantou.” Her heart skipped a beat.

Over the past two years, much had changed. Could it be that Li Weilan truly no longer cared about the betrayal from back then?

But even if he didn’t care, Researcher Xu was extremely eager for revenge.

Li Weilan carefully pondered, meticulously discerning the expression of the person in front of him. Was it that he didn’t care, or had this person before him been stripped of all courage, no longer daring to oppose the Institute?

If it was indifference, then it was manageable. But if it was due to fear, Researcher Xu felt he was no longer useful. After all, back then, the Institute had used so many methods; even she felt a chill recalling it. How much courage did this person have left to oppose the Institute?

Inside the cave, there was a moment of silence.

Until the nearby sacks began to emit low murmurs, indicating that the other women were also regaining consciousness. Researcher Xu turned around and her face changed drastically. She gritted her teeth and said to Li Weilan, “We can’t wait any longer. Once the fetus is mature, I have to open up all the bellies like mine. Once these fetuses see the light of day, they will immediately inform the Institute. Xia Jinshi will know immediately. They are his eyes and his mouth. Then none of us here can escape.”

Seeing this, Shen Cheng also felt nervous. What would the cub do?

However, Li Weilan did not remain silent for too long. He said to Researcher Xu, “After asking for their opinions, you can proceed.”

Researcher Xu was taken aback. “What do you mean by asking for their opinions?”

“If some of them want to keep the child, let them.” Li Weilan said.

Researcher Xu stomped her foot in anger. “How can you have such naive thoughts? Some women feel that the child growing in their belly is connected to their bloodline. If everyone makes their own decisions, how can we get things done?” She had encountered such situations before. There had been times when the Institute had been negligent, but when the caretakers had let those people escape, the experimental subjects hadn’t had the courage to kill the children. At that time, Researcher Xu had marveled at the Institute Director’s control over people’s hearts. But now, in her current situation, she felt a chill down her spine.

The reason she could make such a ruthless decision was that she knew very well that the children in their bellies had no consciousness. But those people didn’t know anything; they only saw their bellies growing bigger every day. How could they know that the children in their bellies were just puppets, no different from clones?

What did it mean to “let them”? How could he?

“You absolutely must not make decisions for anyone else. Otherwise, what’s the difference between us and the Institute?” Li Weilan said lightly. He glanced at Researcher Xu and relaxed. “You can persuade, you can explain, but you cannot decide for them. What you can do is not something everyone can do. If some people are unwilling, what we think is good for them might actually cause the death of another person.” He had also learned this from Shen Cheng.

Researcher Xu muttered a curse under her breath.

Seeing this scene, Shen Cheng sighed quietly in front of the phone screen. The cub was indeed a very gentle person. What kind of person would it take to push him to such an extent?

But fortunately.

They asked each of them what had happened to these women in the Institute, and basically, they all understood that the child couldn’t stay. Researcher Xu might have exaggerated some details, but Li Weilan could tell from their expressions that they didn’t see the child in their bellies as bloodline-connected offspring.

So the process of performing the cesarean section and applying medicine went relatively smoothly.

Li Weilan didn’t feel comfortable standing among the women.

He walked alone to the entrance of the cave, gazing sadly at the darkness above. At that moment, he only had one thought in his mind: how much better it would be if Shen Cheng were here. Unfortunately, she wasn’t.

Suddenly, he heard Shen Cheng’s soft voice, “Lan Lan, I miss you so much.”

Even though they had only been apart for a few minutes, sitting in her safe, comfortable room, Shen Cheng couldn’t help but want to be by his side uncontrollably.

Even though that world was dangerous and dark, requiring careful effort to survive, nothing was more important to her than being by his side.

If it weren’t for the automatic return to her home after the wasteland day trip, Shen Cheng even doubted whether she would come back at all.

Looking at his handsome, tired profile, a faint pang of pain flashed through Shen Cheng’s heart. She couldn’t help but ask, “What was that Researcher Xu talking about?”

Li Weilan frowned.

Good. Shen Cheng thought, he must be trying to avoid alarming me. Humph, does he think I’m clueless?

As expected, Li Weilan’s response was nonchalant, “They’re just a bunch of inconsequential people.”

He lied to me. The cub actually lied to me, the jerk.

Shen Cheng didn’t know whether to be grateful for her good understanding of him now or angry that he still hid things from her.

In fact, upon reflection, she felt like she didn’t know him well enough, despite having done the most intimate things with him.

Thinking like this, Shen Cheng said softly, “Lan Lan, I don’t think I’ve heard you talk much about what you experienced on the escape route. Oh, right, did you have a girlfriend before? Seeing how skilled you are, could it be that there’s some history you haven’t told me about?”

Li Weilan was taken aback. What a huge pot to drop out of nowhere.

He was just being a little attentive, so why did it have to involve history?

This was just a matter of having a heart or not. How could she say that?

But after a moment of frustration, he quickly realized that Shen Cheng’s meaning behind saying this was that he couldn’t avoid telling the truth. But what he said earlier was also partially true. Those people weren’t that important to him now.

It wasn’t that his resentment had dissipated, but rather, he now had more important things and people in his life.

With someone to protect, hate became less significant.

On Shen Cheng’s phone, a new task popped up.

“Goodwill detected. Should Li Weilan’s Memory Sphere 2 be unlocked?”

Shen Cheng was stunned.

Yes, she had previously accessed Li Weilan’s memories using Memory Sphere unlock method. Maybe it would be more intuitive this way, but she hesitated for a moment and clicked “no.”

What was their relationship then, and what was their relationship now?

What she wanted now wasn’t the Memory Sphere; it was for the person in front of her to tell her everything clearly.

She just wanted to hear it from him.

“On the second day of the apocalypse, meteorites fell from the sky,” Li Weilan said, breaking the silence and finally telling Shen Cheng about what had happened to them back then.

The first people to come into contact with the meteorites absorbed them into their bodies, becoming the first batch of people to possess abilities.

The meteorite that fell into their school was particularly large. According to later Institute reports, this meteorite might have been the core of the planet that exerted gravitational force on Earth, so they suspected that Li Weilan’s body contained the code for developing abilities.

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The larger the meteorite, the stronger its impact on nearby individuals. Li Weilan even fell into a coma for three days because of it.

When he woke up, he possessed abilities.

At the time when the Institute was looking for the first group of individuals who had come into contact with the meteorite, Li Weilan didn’t realize the extent of the danger.

Back then, the apocalypse had just arrived, and rules and order still had some influence among humans.

So no one expected that those who knew about the Institute’s search would never return.

But their disappearance brought compensation.

Compensation for those around them. Compensation for the messengers to their relatives and friends.

Li Weilan’s rank wasn’t high at the time, and he didn’t have much attacking power, so he mainly served as a warehouse keeper in the team.

There were only three people who knew that he had come into contact with the meteorite, including himself: his dormitory roommate Jiang Qiu and his girlfriend Lin Xiu.

They had escaped from school together, and they were originally classmates. Li Weilan never expected that Lin Xiu would covet the supplies given by the Institute.

Of course, she discussed it with her boyfriend first.

Jiang Qiu didn’t agree.

Just probing, he was unexpectedly rebuked by her boyfriend, which Lin Xiu couldn’t bear. In retaliation, she sold them all out to the leader of the group.

The others in the group had no such connection with Li Weilan, so they immediately set up a trap.

Li Weilan still remembered the day it all happened.

He was a spatial ability user, and his space was originally filled with supplies.

Even if the Institute’s people came to capture him, he could hide in his own space, survive on the supplies until there was no one around to chase him anymore.

Lin Xiu pretended to be injured during the sweep the day before and needed to see a doctor.

At that time, both doctors and medicines were very expensive, so Li Weilan took out the supplies from his space.

Lin Xiu asked Jiang Qiu to accompany her. As soon as they entered the room, she immediately controlled Jiang Qiu.

They used Jiang Qiu to threaten Li Weilan in turn, and in the end, unable to bear being betrayed by his girlfriend and becoming a burden to his friends, Jiang Qiu committed suicide in the chaos.

That day was filled with betrayal and blood in Li Weilan’s memory.

However, before Jiang Qiu died, he still said to him, “I’ll repay Lin Xiu’s betrayal with my life. For the sake of our brotherhood, don’t seek revenge against Shuixiu.”

At this point, a hint of confusion flashed in Li Weilan’s eyes. He fell silent.

Shen Cheng also didn’t expect the events of the past to turn out like this. She had also wondered why Li Weilan, a spatial ability user, with his own space, could still be captured by the Institute.

She said angrily, “Why does Lin Xiu, after causing her boyfriend’s death, get to live comfortably by stepping on your corpses?”

Li Weilan fell silent. He didn’t tell her that if it weren’t for her, the first thing he would have done after escaping from the Institute would have been to find Lin Xiu and die with her.

But now his life was no longer just about hatred.

Yet, listening to her indignant words, there was a hidden sense of satisfaction in his heart. So Li Weilan smiled faintly and blinked at her, “Not seeking revenge or anything. It’s just something to tell Researcher Xu, so she doesn’t think she’s in a position to negotiate terms with me.”

There it is, the cub is still the cunning cub.

I worried about the cub for nothing.

Sure enough, Researcher Xu, who had settled the women in the cave, came out. This time, she didn’t show the same provocation, incitement, and arrogance as before. She whispered, “I’ll tell you where Lin Xiu is now. You help me find a safe place for her to settle. Since you escaped from the Institute, Lin Xiu has been hiding, and if you go looking for her yourself, you’ll never find her.”

Anxious and fearful, always worried about when that person would come for revenge.

Having done wrong, living is worse than death.

Now that she had fallen to such a state, she didn’t know whether she, who always liked to calculate decisions based on value, felt it was worthwhile.

He nodded and agreed to Researcher Xu’s request.

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