Chapter 130 – Don’t Overthink It

After being rejected, Xiang Qianyan looked disappointed, but he still handed over his contact information with some unwillingness. “Even if you don’t join, we can still cooperate in the future, right? Humans ought to unite and help each other, shouldn’t they? Oh, right, those words came from my younger sister Qianru, but they really are the original intention behind why we founded the Association.”

“All right.” Seeing that Su Lifeng accepted the “business card” but did not say anything more, Xiang Qianyan sighed and finally gave up for the time being.

In truth, Su Lifeng still admired the thinking of these two siblings. At the very least, it was clear that Xiang Qianyan really did think that way. Otherwise, facing a stranger like Su Lifeng, why would he keep cooperating so much?

It was just that from his own standpoint, Su Lifeng truly did not want to act together with a group of people whose backgrounds he did not understand. If it were only him, that would be one thing, but now he could be considered someone “dragging a family along.”

After finishing the inventory of the equipment, Su Lifeng slung the canvas bag over his back, looked at Stranger, and asked, “Tell me. Time and place.”

“Two o’clock tomorrow morning. I’ll wait for you at the exit of the ring road overpass,” Stranger answered simply, without wasting words.

“Got it.” Su Lifeng did not say anything like “I’ll definitely come.” Since he had taken the things, that meant he had agreed.

Only after Su Lifeng left with Cheng Xiaomei did Xiang Qianyan finally speak despite himself. “Stranger, didn’t you say you had to carefully understand his skills before you would consider whether to cooperate with him? Although he did restrain me in one move, but… hm?” Xiang Qianyan suddenly revealed an expression of sudden realization and rubbed his chin. “Could it be that you actually have great confidence in my strength? So by that logic, you…”

“Don’t overthink it. He restrained you, but his true strength is probably enough to take off all four of your limbs before you can react. I probably have no hope of victory in front of him either. Didn’t you hear? I said I needed to kill people, and he didn’t even ask me who I wanted to kill or why I needed his help. Although this kind of person looks gentle and refined, inside his body lives a wolf.” Stranger glanced coldly at Xiang Qianyan and said.

Xiang Qianyan listened in a daze, then suddenly reacted. “So you actually think I’m very weak!”

Unfortunately, just as his words fell, he saw that Stranger’s figure had already disappeared into the distance as well.

The parking lot instantly returned to silence.

“Sigh…” Xiang Qianyan sighed.

He had suffered a very serious internal injury today…

“Let’s stop by and pick up Yushi,” Cheng Xiaomei suddenly suggested.

Su Lifeng glanced at her. He did not know why she had suddenly brought this up, but he still nodded and said, “All right.”

Saying it was on the way was definitely something Cheng Xiaomei had casually made up, but neither of them was slow, and both had ample stamina. Even crossing the entire city would be very easy.

Along the way, Su Lifeng kept observing their surroundings, while Cheng Xiaomei appeared calm on the surface, but in her heart she was actually somewhat conflicted.

The scene of hiding among those abandoned vehicles with Su Lifeng just now kept surfacing in her mind. It gradually made her begin to doubt her original theory. Being too close to a boy for the first time could make someone nervous and shy, but there was no reason to keep thinking back on it again and again, right? Did she actually want to do it again?

No, no, no. That was absolutely impossible.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that she had blurted out and suddenly mentioned Jiang Yushi.

“I completely don’t understand what I’m thinking…” Cheng Xiaomei helplessly knocked her fist against her own head, wanting to drive these thoughts out.

This time, Su Lifeng noticed. “What’s wrong with you?”

“Ah! No… nothing. I’m just knocking randomly.” Cheng Xiaomei immediately felt guilty and spoke in a panic. Then, in order to prove the truth of it, she hurriedly knocked herself several more times.

Su Lifeng looked at her inexplicably, then suddenly could not help smiling. “Don’t knock yourself even dumber.”

Cheng Xiaomei stopped somewhat awkwardly, but looking at Su Lifeng’s smile, she felt as if her heartbeat had suddenly slowed down.

Perhaps because of his evolution, the current Su Lifeng still looked refined, but there was always an overly calm temperament within him. Now that he smiled, Cheng Xiaomei saw a trace of the real Su Lifeng within that smile.

Perhaps before the Xenospecies arrived, Su Lifeng had been like this?

I like him.

For no reason at all, while the two of them were running, Cheng Xiaomei looked at Su Lifeng, who had already turned his head back, and this sentence suddenly emerged in her heart.

So those feelings of nervousness and panic were actually what liking someone felt like.

“Ah!!!!!” Cheng Xiaomei suddenly sped up, surpassing Su Lifeng in the blink of an eye.

“Ah!!!!!” Her right arm also entered its mutated state, and the swinging claws and spikes danced wildly above her head.

Su Lifeng watched in a bit of a daze… Could it be…

Her period had arrived?

After reaching the vicinity of Jiangnan Biomedical Group, Su Lifeng discovered that without a special identity badge, it would be very difficult for them to approach this large group company, which occupied an extensive area.

After circling the perimeter of the group and observing it, Su Lifeng became even more curious about the order placed by the military. This kind of security was truly too strict for a private enterprise. A military Factory was probably not much more than this. There were cameras in every direction, high electric fences, and those things that looked like small iron rods, which Su Lifeng did not quite understand but knew at a glance were very bad news.

Moreover, every certain distance, quite a few armed soldiers could be seen patrolling back and forth.

Su Lifeng relied on his high-speed movement to ensure he was not discovered.

Before long, a car drove out from inside. As it passed through several checkpoints in succession, the vehicle merely rolled down its window and was allowed through.

However, not long after the car turned onto the road, the driver suddenly felt her vision blur and instinctively stepped on the brake.

“Hi.” Su Lifeng was already standing outside the passenger seat. He patted the car window and greeted her with a smile.

The driver was Jiang Yushi herself. She looked at Su Lifeng with some amusement.

“I don’t know what method my father used to exempt me from being inspected. But there were still people in the company specially responsible for watching me. They probably stopped only after observing that I wasn’t a Xenospecies,” Jiang Yushi said.

“Mm. We also said back then that if there was danger, you wouldn’t go back to the company anymore,” Su Lifeng said.

“But from what I can see, the fact that they agreed to these requests from my father also shows that they really value this order. Of course, on the other hand, I can’t access the production line anyway, so making an exception for me doesn’t hurt.” Jiang Yushi pursed her lips and smiled.

It seemed that under Jiang Fusheng’s influence, Jiang Yushi was still very perceptive in this area.

Immediately afterward, she recited a string of drug names, making Su Lifeng pause.

“What are these?” Su Lifeng asked, though in his heart he already had a faint guess.

“Some of the raw material names provided by the military. When I accompanied Dad to take inventory, they only gave me two minutes. This is all I could remember. When it comes to memory, among our group of graduate students, you’re still the best.” Jiang Yushi looked somewhat nostalgic, then slyly blinked and continued, “Right?”

“…If I say yes, you’ll definitely take the chance to say I’m narcissistic.” Su Lifeng shook his head, then revealed a thoughtful expression and recited those names again. “With this many things, what does the military want to make?”

“This… may require continued investigation,” Jiang Yushi said.

Su Lifeng pondered for a while longer. He had some guesses, but for now, he could not verify them…

“Right, I have something for you,” Su Lifeng said.

Jiang Yushi’s beautiful eyes lit up, and she looked expectant. “Oh? You actually learned how to give things to girls? What is it? Hurry and take it out so I can see!”

In the blink of an eye, Su Lifeng took a gun out of his pants pocket. “This. How about it? Happy?”

“…”

“Lifeng, I think Yushi is so happy she can’t speak,” Cheng Xiaomei added from the back seat, covering her mouth.