Chapter 99

As for replicating Light Cones...

Don't even think about it.

Herta has tried, and Ruan Mei also made a simple attempt.

It is simply impossible.

Unless they can usurp power from an Aeon.

"Forget it."

"I'll think about it later."

"With the current strength of the Underworld Legion, it is enough to solve many problems."

Lin Qi finished his snack and didn't think about this annoying problem anymore.

However, he does have the intention to go to a place filled with Memetic Substance to explore.

As for becoming a Memokeeper himself, that is not within the scope of consideration.

Just kidding.

Without a body, how much pleasure would be lost?

Collecting his thoughts, Lin Qi looked at Ruan Mei and asked.

"A-Ruan, that matter I told you about before, how... how is your investigation going?"

Ruan Mei stopped her movements and didn't speak immediately.

She was even a bit silent.

Or rather, she didn't know how to bring it up.

It is hard to imagine that there would be something that could stump a genius.

It wasn't until she had fully prepared herself mentally that Lin Qi heard that voice, which sounded like a sigh and also like an exclamation.

"There are some clues."

"Actually, before you told me, I could vaguely sense it, but that gaze had no malice, and was even somewhat intimate, and it only appeared during work hours, so I didn't delve into it."

"My dear, I can give you a definite answer: someone has indeed been spying on me for a long time! Day after day, year after year."

Although the two hadn't declared anything, their relationship was still very clear.

And precisely because of this, after hearing Ruan Mei's reply, Lin Qi couldn't sit still at all; his brows were furrowed tightly, and he was even considering what tools to use to solve this problem.

There's no way.

His romantic interest is being long-term peeped at by some other existence?

This is something no man can accept.

After taking in Lin Qi's reaction, Ruan Mei let out a "pfft" and laughed.

"My dear, you are so cute."

"You can still laugh?"

Lin Qi glared at Ruan Mei and said, "Listening to you, this hasn't been just a day or two, or even a year or two! You can actually sit still? It's fortunate I don't have the habit of messing around in the laboratory, otherwise..."

Ruan Mei understood what Lin Qi was saying and couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

In the laboratory?

He really could think of that.

However, she still explained, "I suspect that the gaze might come from my... grandmother? What a distant term."

Grandmother?

Lin Qi was stunned for a moment.

He had heard a little about Ruan Mei's past.

As for her grandmother, there had been no contact since she joined the Genius Society.

Lin Qi once used his influence in the Genius Society to investigate this matter.

But apart from a file and a few experimental records, no other useful information could be found.

One could only know that the experiment seemed to be related to the Metaverse.

It might involve a genius who had already passed away, Zhuming.

Speaking of which.

It was precisely because Lin Qi added fragments of this genius's kin to his own genes and optimized them that he was able to discover that extremely tiny trace of abnormality in Ruan Mei's experiment.

He sensed that there was "something" in Ruan Mei's experiment.

At first, he thought it was Ruan Mei's creation, some dog shaped like a candied hawthorn, a pig shaped like a pancake...

In short, all kinds of strange life forms could be found in Ruan Mei's laboratory.

But after some searching.

Lin Qi discovered that it had nothing to do with these creations.

That sense of weirdness came from the laboratory itself.

Or rather, someone was monitoring everything through the laboratory's electronic equipment.

After informing Ruan Mei about this, she began her investigation.

It was just that the result surprised Lin Qi a bit.

However, considering the experiment Ruan Mei's grandmother was doing before she disappeared, it seemed somewhat reasonable.

"So..."

"Did our grandmother become a cyborg? Or did she ascend to the Metaverse? A place similar to the Underworld of the Ten-Lords Commission?"

"Or perhaps... she became a Memokeeper?"

Lin Qi stated his guesses.

And no matter which one it was, there was a not-insignificant possibility.

Ruan Mei didn't correct Lin Qi's error in address, but shook her head and said.

"I don't know either, but it shouldn't be a Memokeeper. Grandmother was a scientist; a scientist's vocation is to seek the unknown, while Memokeepers only record the known."

"Then that means she ascended to the Metaverse and became an existence similar to a cyborg," Lin Qi nodded and said.

"Maybe."

"Then what do you plan to do next? Block out your grandmother's peeping?"

Ruan Mei was silent for a moment, then shook her head and said.

"Nothing. Although I don't know what grandmother's purpose in doing this is, she definitely wouldn't harm me. Besides, it's only in the laboratory, not anywhere else. Even if those experimental data were leaked, it wouldn't be a big deal."

"Alright."

Lin Qi couldn't say anything more.

However, this did indeed fit Ruan Mei's style.

At this moment.

Ruan Mei stood up, stretched her waist, and said.

"Alright, my dear, afternoon tea time is over. I will stay in the laboratory tonight; there is some important experimental data coming out."

"Alright then."

Lin Qi nodded helplessly.

Obviously.

He wouldn't be getting any tonight.

Then.

Ruan Mei left the office through the Anywhere Door.

"She's using it more and more skillfully."

Lin Qi couldn't help but mutter.

Not long after Ruan Mei arrived here, Lin Qi gave her an Anywhere Door.

For such a Curio, Ruan Mei naturally wouldn't refuse.

In fact.

This Curio helped her a lot.

The biggest help was saving time.

For example.

She built a biological experimental field on an uninhabitable planet in the Jarilo star system.

In the past, she would usually have to take a spaceship to get there.