Chapter 152

Xie Wantang answered Shen Ye's questions one by one.

"You've already decided to go participate?" Shen Ye asked.

"Yeah, it's once every five years; I missed the last one, this time I want to go."

Shen Ye naturally knew that Xie Wantang had already decided, and presumably she had filled out the materials needed to go.

"Alright, I got it; I'll look into the specific procedures of this so‑called summit. Also, stop thinking about being bait—you're now part of the organization, and every action must follow orders."

"Yes."

"It's late; go to sleep. Starting tomorrow, our workload will be huge."

"Mm."

After hanging up, Xie Wantang fell asleep without distraction.

Shen Ye then directly called Lu Chen.

"Team Leader Lu, do you know that next month Sijiucheng will host an International Voiceprint Summit?" Shen Ye got straight to the point.

He knew Xie Wantang's temperament; if she wanted to attend that summit, nothing he said could stop her.

But there is one person who can.

That person is Lu Chen.

Of course, Lu Chen's own weight certainly isn't enough, but if he were willing to act in the organization's name to stop Xie Wantang, there would be no problem.

He hopes Lu Chen can stop Xie Wantang.

To keep her from going.

For some reason, he always feels that this so‑called summit is a trap.

Moreover, it's being held in Sijiucheng, and Yan Xiu is also there.

"I know, Team Leader Shen—this late‑night call waking me up is just to ask me this one question?" Lu Chen frowned.

Don't you know our project team has a lot of work to do?

"Of course not; I'm asking you—can you, in the organization's name, stop Xie Wantang from participating?"

"Why should I stop it? You're the one who got Xie Wantang into this project team. Since she's in the team, whatever task she's assigned is what she should do—just carry it out."

Lu Chen spoke in a strictly businesslike tone.

"Besides, Team Leader Shen, I once asked you to tell me who Queen really is, but you refused to say. Xie Wantang told me that Queen will attend that International Summit, and the entry pass can only be obtained by Xie Wantang—do you think I would stop her?"

"Lu Chen, don't regret it."

Shen Ye hung up the phone speechlessly.

He was really about to die of anger.

He didn't know why Lu Chen insisted on finding Queen, but his gut told him that Lu Chen's search for Queen must be important.

And it's a big deal.

He just won't say it, even now.

Lu Chen found Shen Ye bewildering and didn't pursue the matter further; after hanging up, he went to sleep.

After being woken up, Lu Chen tossed and turned a bit and found it hard to sleep again.

He took out a storage card and inserted it into the player.

These were several audio clips recorded from the sea surface—some from above, some from below.

The person said that if he could identify which sea area this was, he might still have a chance to save his brother Lu Yanshen.

Obviously, someone had previously wanted to play a game with him, but the result was that he lost.

Looking back now, everything seems to have been deliberately arranged by someone.

Three months before he received these items, he had just agreed to let his foster parents use him as a guinea pig, extracting the memories concerning King.

After losing King's memories and abilities, someone actually sent him these things.

Is it a coincidence?

Or...?

He doesn't want to entertain that possibility, but it seems increasingly likely.

The number of missing people keeps growing; Xia Meng is also dead, yet Lu Yanshen's remains have not been found, and Xia Meng's wish remains unfulfilled.

The Lu Family has also been wiped out.

It turned out he had always thought Lu Yanze was the one challenging him to a game, but upon reflection, before he pretended to be Lu Yanshen, he had no connection whatsoever with Lu Yanze.

Everyone in the Lu Family, including Lu Yanze, didn't know that he and Lu Yanshen's mother had given birth to a pair of twins.

His mother left only Lu Yanshen in the Lu Family and took him away.

However, she contracted a lingering illness during childbirth and soon passed away.

At that time he was only a few months old when his foster parents adopted him.

So he has a lot to do—find Lu Yanshen's remains, and the criminal gang hiding behind everyone is his most urgent mission now.

……

Xie Wantang never expected that before she went to Sijiucheng to attend the summit, she could still run into Yan Xiu in Haishi.

It shouldn't be called a chance encounter; rather, Yan Xiu was waiting for her in a one‑sided, hopeful manner.

On her way to drop off the child, she was waiting for Xie Wantang.

When Xie Wantang dropped the child off at kindergarten, Yan Xiu appeared at the entrance and said, "Miss Xie, do you have time for a cup of coffee together?"

"No need for coffee, Mr. Yan—just say what you have to say."

Thinking of what Xiao Qianqian had told her, Yan Xiu is not a good person.

Together with Lu Chen's frankness, she now knows Yan Xiu's true background.

Yan Xiu is another personality split from Lu Yanze's main persona.

Yan Xiu?

The fusion of King Yan and Asura?

Heh—

Lu Yanze really is too gloomy.

No wonder he could be so vicious toward his own parents, grandparents, and even his own younger sister, killing them all?

His purpose in life is just to kill people, isn't it?

Now he's taken care of everyone around him and turned his sights on outsiders, is that how it is?

"Miss Xie, did I offend you somewhere? When you saw me this time, you seem... unhappy?"

Yan Xiu said with a good temper, even the corner of his mouth curling into a creepy smile.

"Mr. Yan, what you said is a bit funny; this time I'm not happy—it seems like last time I saw you I was happy. Is this the impression you're giving me?"

Yan Xiu was left speechless: "……"

What a sharp-tongued woman.

He really does like her; even last time, when he was at the Lu Family, he wanted to mess with Xie Wantang.

Moreover, she was pregnant then, and he kept imagining the scene of pressing this pregnant Xie Wantang beneath him, which would cure Lu Yanze's cowardly inadequacy.

But that guy, relying purely on his sheer will, suppressed him.

This just pissed him off; he can't let a single member of the Lu Family live.

Since childhood his health has been poor; he's just a useless sickly good-for-nothing, useless wherever he goes.

His parents got him a wife, but he can't even sleep with her.

This is just laughable.

"That was my misunderstanding; no wonder, the flowers I sent Miss Xie have been sitting there for days, and their fate is still the trash can."

Yan Xiu seems not to care about money at all.

"Alright, since Miss Xie dislikes me so much, I'll go attend to my business first; today I've been invited by a kindergarten to let the kids thank me for the picture books I sent them."

"I had originally wanted to invite Miss Xie to join, but now..."

"Yan Xiu, what are you planning?" Miss Xie's defenses shattered instantly—he actually wants to go to a kindergarten?

Is he setting his sights on her child?