Chapter 293: Deduction

In the kitchen, Ye Qi was preparing a freshwater fish common on domestic dining tables—a carp.

To say "preparing" is not entirely accurate, though.

Clearly, she had already had the fish shop handle the slaughtering; she was currently using a slender, short-handled knife to carefully process the scales and fins.

"Are you making Squirrel Fish later?"

Seeing her like this, the gloom knotted between Sun Cheng's brows eased slightly.

Although he had lost most of his childhood memories due to the surgery he underwent after the car accident that claimed his parents' lives, he had always loved eating fish since being adopted by the Ye couple, though he was never good at spitting out bones.

After growing up, his tongue seemed to have become as clumsy as his increasingly taciturn personality, to the point where he had rarely eaten fish during his university years.

It was rare that she still remembered he liked Squirrel Fish.

Hearing his voice, Ye Qi, who was busy with the fish, didn't even look up as she gave a hum of acknowledgment.

Sun Cheng stood at the kitchen entrance and rolled up his sleeves. "Is there anything I can help with?"

"No need, you've had a hard day working at the company!"

Ye Qi looked up at him with a smile and declined.

He didn't leave, but instead took the opportunity to ask: "By the way, Sis. How did you get to know Ms. Ada Wong, who came to Nandu with you yesterday?"

His eyes flickered; Sun Cheng was actually fishing for information.

The woman whose very name he didn't know to be true or false had appeared before him again, and had even come to Nandu with Ye Qi; this undoubtedly raised his guard.

Last night, Revenge had hacked into Nandu's municipal surveillance system and captured that video of Ada Wong.

It was clear that besides himself, others were also targeting Ada Wong.

Especially since he noticed the pursuers seemed to be equipped with weapons, which made it even more dangerous!

Not only was that woman exuding an unreadable mystery, but the final sentence she left behind in the surveillance footage from last night didn't seem like it was said without purpose.

Ada Wong seemed certain that someone would be tracking her!

The suspicious Sun Cheng, after watching that video countless times, had a faint feeling that it wasn't aimed at anyone else, but was left specifically for him.

This made him unable to sit still.

Regardless of who Ada Wong had a conflict with last night, it was an indisputable fact that she had neutralized and taken away a pursuer.

Sun Cheng wasn't worried about himself; he was worried about Ye Qi.

Once that force exerted itself to investigate, it wouldn't be difficult to track Ada Wong's itinerary.

She had traveled all the way from Shencheng to Nandu, accompanied by two female friends.

It was easy to imagine that as long as the other party wasn't a fool, they would naturally investigate Ye Qi and Chen Lan.

"Ai Jie, you mean..."

Ye Qi frowned. She wasn't unobservant; in fact, when picking her up at the airport yesterday, she had noticed that her younger brother seemed to know Ada Wong, but their relationship appeared somewhat strained.

She rinsed the fish she had just finished preparing under the faucet, hesitated for a moment, and then answered him: "Ai Jie is a moderator in my livestream room. She is a big influencer on the Yuegui Network. Many female streamers in the circle have received tips from her. It's said she's a second-generation wealthy kid, though she admits herself that she does corporate venture capital. I'm actually not very close to her, but Ai Jie is a very good and enthusiastic person; she has tipped me quite a bit and helped me with a few things. She always seems very busy, but most of the time she comes to my livestream room at night to help me manage the comments..."

"Oh..."

Sun Cheng's suspicions only grew thicker. If not for that night in San Jose, based solely on the few days spent together on Nublar Island, even he might have been fooled.

But that was a woman who could easily destroy two Decepticon Scouts.

A terrifying woman whom he suspected had combat skills even superior to the elite United States special forces soldier—Daqi shao xiao—and who was suspected to be a corporate spy or even an elite agent trained by some nation.

Such a person would actually hang around a domestic livestreaming platform as a big influencer who tips streamers with abandon?

If these words hadn't come from Ye Qi's mouth, Sun Cheng wouldn't believe a single punctuation mark.

"Interesting. It seems necessary to have Revenge hack into the Yuegui Network database to investigate. Following this lead, perhaps I can find some clues..."

Calculating silently in his heart, his questions didn't stop there. "Has this Ms. Ada Wong only recently appeared on your Yuegui Network? Sis, think carefully. For example, did she only show her face in your livestream room in May?"

His brain whirred rapidly; relying on the fragments of information Ye Qi revealed, Sun Cheng was seriously deducing the other party's purpose.

The reason he knew Ada Wong was because of the trip to Nublar Island.

And Sun Cheng had gone to Nublar after his birthday at the end of April.

On that island of dinosaurs, they had spent a few days together before going their separate ways.

If Ada Wong had been targeting him for some reason since then, then everything made sense.

She had tested him in San Jose, at the Larvis Hotel.

Although it was unclear why, Ada Wong hadn't killed him that night, but Sun Cheng might have been targeted by her ever since.

Consequently, she had followed him to China and started investigating his background.

Sun Cheng's true identity and family background were perhaps exposed to this woman under these circumstances.

Following this line of reasoning, her appearance by Ye Qi's side had an explanation.

"Is it a threat..."

A flash of ferocity crossed his eyes.

But his inner confusion increased along with it!

What exactly made Ada Wong target him?

In his mind, he quickly reviewed every scene he had experienced with her on Nublar Island.

The secret talk during breakfast in San Jose, the rainy night scouting the Yanjiu Zhongxin on Nublar Island, the composure at Guantanamo, and the sudden attack back at the Larvis Hotel!

His fortuitous encounters had caused Sun Cheng's memory to grow astonishingly, to the point where those fragments he had inadvertently ignored in the past were now completely preserved in the depths of his memory.

At this moment, when he seriously recalled them, the scenes he had experienced flashed through his mind like segments of a movie.

Finally, Sun Cheng's expression turned abruptly solemn; he had finally discovered something he had forgotten.

"Ghost Hunter... Damn it, how could I have forgotten them..."

That was it!

On Nublar Island, besides encountering attacks from the ancient beasts—dinosaurs—resurrected by the International Genetic Technologies, Sun Cheng and the others had more bizarrely encountered three uninvited guests from an extraterrestrial civilization—the Ghost Hunters.

Although he acted very covertly, two of the three specters died one after another at the hands of Sun Cheng.

However, one of the corpses was pushed by him out of the window of the first-floor restroom in the Yanjiu Zhongxin; although that specter's corpse might have been gnawed on by velociraptors, the blood and remains could not possibly have been cleaned up that thoroughly.

There was also the fact that he exposed too many things while searching for the spaceship in the Canyon.

Thinking of this, Sun Cheng felt a chill shoot straight up his back!

At this very moment, he finally realized that he had left behind too many hidden dangers on Nublar Island that would bring him great trouble.

"Ada Wong, could she be suspecting that I obtained something from an extraterrestrial civilization? I can't worry about that for now; there are too many places on Nublar Island I didn't have time to deal with... I must go back as soon as possible..."