Chapter 117 – Triple Critical Hit

By the time Su Lifeng returned to the lab, Gouzi had already been there for quite a while. Clearly, he had “picked up” another van on the way.

Gouzi did not dare leave those two Xenospecies unattended, nor did he dare let Jiang Yushi and the others get near the boxes. When Su Lifeng arrived, Gouzi was addressing Su Lian as “my dear lady” every other sentence, trying to fend off her overflowing curiosity. Among the few girls present, Su Lian was the liveliest. Naturally, she was also the one most familiar with Gouzi. She had even vouched for his identity.

It was just that the process was not exactly worth remembering…

“Oh, this shady-looking uncle is a good guy,” Su Lian had said.

Shady-looking. Uncle. Good guy… That was a triple critical hit.

Jiang Yushi and Cheng Xiaomei were rather interested in how Gouzi had come to know Su Lifeng, but after asking a couple of questions, they realized he was tight-lipped and stopped pressing him. Su Lian, however, did not care whether Gouzi found it awkward or not.

“He’s my brother! What could he possibly not tell me? I even help him with his love life all the time! Do you know how many good things I’ve said about him…”

Su Lifeng solved the problem with a single flick to her forehead, then said to Gouzi, “Carry them and come with me.”

Su Lian followed behind, clutching her forehead. The look she gave Su Lifeng seemed aggrieved, but in truth, she had let out a breath of relief.

No matter how capable Su Lifeng seemed, every time he went out, Su Lian worried about him.

And she knew Jiang Yushi and the others felt the same.

“Where’s Yuming?” Sure enough, the moment they met, Jiang Yushi and Cheng Xiaomei both quietly released a breath, then asked anxiously.

When Su Lifeng had called to ask them, they had already learned what had happened.

When Liang Junyu tricked Qiu Yuming into getting in the car, the security personnel nearby had witnessed it. It was easy enough to ask them and find out.

Jiang Yushi felt the most guilty about what had happened, because once she connected the events before and after, she knew Liang Junyu’s original target had actually been her.

But even she had never imagined Liang Junyu would be that deranged…

“Her sister should have picked her up,” Su Lifeng said.

“I see… As long as she’s safe, that’s what matters,” Cheng Xiaomei said with a nod.

After a moment of hesitation, Jiang Yushi asked in a low voice, “What about that evil man?”

“Dead,” Su Lifeng replied calmly.

Those two simple words made the three girls present fall silent for a moment.

But they had all seen corpses before. Cheng Xiaomei had even killed someone with her own hands.

“Good. A person like that would only be a menace if he stayed alive.” Jiang Yushi’s face was a little pale, but her tone was still very firm when she said it. To encourage herself to finish, she even secretly clenched her fair, delicate fist and gave it a tiny swing.

“Where’s Shen Fei?” Su Lifeng asked.

“Studying that corpse, along with the new experts who just arrived. They said that with the research direction you provided and all that data, they’ll probably get results very soon. Maybe even faster than the national research efforts!” Cheng Xiaomei immediately grew excited as she answered.

Su Lifeng pondered for a moment, then shook his head. “That’s hard to say.”

To be honest, the fact that Huaxia had remained stable until now was something even Su Lifeng found a little hard to believe.

It was only after seeing what had happened today that he understood what the environment he lived in would become once chaos truly broke out. And during this hard-won period of stability, had Huaxia seized the time to make extensive preparations? Judging from the military’s response, Su Lifeng felt that was very likely the case.

Because it wasn’t just Ningnan. Before this, all the major cities across Huaxia had maintained a basic level of stability as well.

“Brother… where are the Xenospecies?” When Su Lian saw Su Lifeng come back empty-handed, she had actually already guessed. But when she thought of the change in fate that was about to come, even her voice trembled as she asked.

Su Lifeng looked at her, then at Jiang Yushi, and his heart immediately grew uneasy. It felt no different from when he had undergone his own evolution.

In truth, even now, he still had the constant feeling that something might change.

Fortunately, neither Su Lian nor Jiang Yushi showed the slightest intention of backing down.

“Then let’s begin.” Su Lifeng took a deep breath and said.

There were two Xenospecies. After breaking all four of their limbs, Su Lifeng threw them into a sealed laboratory.

Su Lian and Jiang Yushi looked at each other, then walked into the laboratory hand in hand. Behind them, Su Lifeng could not help saying, “Don’t force yourselves.”

The two girls turned back to look at him. It was hard to say what kind of emotion filled their eyes. Fear? Resolve? A desperate effort to keep themselves under control?

By the time a bang rang out, the two girls had already entered the laboratory.

Su Lifeng stood where he was, one hand propping up his chin while the other supported his elbow.

This was the anxious posture he only showed when he ran into a difficult problem in an experiment. It was obvious just how nervous he was right now.

Just then, a soft hand suddenly came to rest on Su Lifeng’s shoulder.

Su Lifeng turned and saw Cheng Xiaomei looking at him with a smile.

Then her gaze shifted to the tightly shut laboratory door, and she said softly, “Don’t worry. They’ll definitely be able to do it. It’s just that not everyone is you, so you have to give them a little time. I wouldn’t dare say I understand them completely, but from the time I’ve spent with them, both Xiaolian and Yushi are girls much stronger than I am.”

After hearing her say all that in such a gentle voice, Su Lifeng did feel a little calmer. Once he came back to himself, he thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand. Somewhat hesitantly, he reached over and patted the hand she had placed on his shoulder. “Don’t sell yourself short, either. To be honest, you’ve already made a lot of progress. Besides, not wanting to hurt other people isn’t a bad thing. It doesn’t count as cowardice.”

“Really?” Cheng Xiaomei froze for a second, then revealed a very happy little smile. Ever since they had run into each other in the bathroom that day, it seemed Su Lifeng had been speaking to her a little more. And that tone just now really sounded like they were already very close friends.

“All this time, I thought he and Yushi had known each other much longer, while I was only someone he saved and then shamelessly insisted on becoming a long-term burden to him. But this feeling now… he should really see me as a friend, right?”

So Su Lifeng was not cold. He simply was not very good at expressing himself when it came to things like this. As Cheng Xiaomei watched Su Lifeng stare worriedly at the laboratory, she thought of the expression he had worn when he saw the problem with the Xenospecies inside her body.

But… why had her heart suddenly skipped a beat when Su Lifeng touched her hand just now?

“I… I was probably just startled…” Cheng Xiaomei thought. At the same time, she quietly withdrew her hand without letting it show and squeezed it hard in her other palm.

Su Lifeng’s palm had been so strong, and so warm…