dtnovels Chapter 408 - 393: Men and Women Make for Light Work
Chapter 408 - 393: Men and Women Make for Light Work
At the mention of Zhou Jing, Yang Chi’s expression turned a little grim.
"Nothing." He shook his head and pushed up the cool glasses on the bridge of his nose, a hint of frustration in his eyes.
Ever since discovering something was off about Zhou Jing back in South City, Yang Chi had been investigating her. But strangely, in over a year, he had come up with absolutely nothing about her past.
It was as if Zhou Jinyu’s illegitimate daughter had appeared out of thin air.
It was damn strange.
Seeing everyone look his way, Yang Chi tapped his personal terminal a few times, then enlarged the Light Screen in front of him and turned it toward the others. "Zhou Jing first appeared publicly five years ago at the Central Base as a freshman at the Agricultural College..."
He had checked her academic records from back then. They stated she was from a small safe camp under the jurisdiction of S City Base.
But later, Yang Chi used his uncle’s connections to go through the Military Department’s internal channels and had someone investigate on-site. At the location listed in Zhou Jing’s academic records, there had indeed been a little girl named Zhou Jing, but she had passed away ten years ago.
And the photos didn’t match.
In other words, the Zhou Jing of today had actually assumed a dead person’s identity to get into Central University’s Agricultural College.
Zhou Jinyu probably couldn’t have pulled this off alone.
"Oh, and one more thing." Yang Chi paused. "The person who exposed Zhou Jing as Zhou Jinyu’s illegitimate daughter was one of her roommates..."
"I know about that," Qi Xiang suddenly interjected. Seeing everyone look up at her, she swept her long hair to one side. "Why are you all staring at me like that? Don’t forget, I graduated from the Agricultural College too."
And she just so happened to be Zhou Jing’s classmate.
"But didn’t you live off-campus?" Yang Chi commented dryly from the side.
Because of her special superpower, Dr. Qi had kept her by his side wherever he went back then. As a result, Qi Xiang hadn’t lived in the dorms as required during her time at Central University.
"Living off-campus doesn’t mean the university didn’t assign me a dorm." Qi Xiang shot him a glare, then turned to Gu Xi in the front row. "Back then, our dorm room was right next to Zhou Jing’s..."
Although Qi Xiang didn’t live on campus, she would occasionally go to her dorm room to rest during lunch. Plus, she was lucky and a natural gossip, so even without living there, she knew almost everything that happened in the girls’ dorms.
Not to mention she was right there on the scene when the news about Zhou Jing being an illegitimate daughter broke.
"The girl Yang Chi mentioned was also our classmate. She tested in from a small, third-tier base in a remote area and was usually very low-key..." Qi Xiang thought back carefully. There really wasn’t anything special about that student.
"That’s what you don’t know," Yang Chi said, tapping the Light Screen in front of him. "That low-key female classmate you mentioned actually received funding from the Gu Family when she was young..."
Qi Xiang raised an eyebrow, genuinely surprised.
Because after the story broke, she had also felt something was off and had even used her own connections to investigate, but she hadn’t found anything at the time.
"Go on," Qi Xiang said, looking at Yang Chi.
Yang Chi tapped the Light Screen. "I looked into it. The one that funded the female student back then was a small, local non-profit organization for superpowered individuals. On the surface, it had no connection to the Gu Family..."
But after digging deeper, Yang Chi discovered that the adoptive father of the organization’s leader at the time was one of the orphans the Gu Family had been sponsoring before the apocalypse.
However, because the apocalypse broke out so suddenly, this connection was completely buried by the chaos of that period. Yang Chi only discovered it recently by chance, from a superpowered individual who came to apply for a job while he was helping Mr. Zhou screen applicants for the farm.
"So you’re saying the girl who exposed Zhou Jing’s background was likely one of the Gu Family’s people too?" Qin Yi asked from the side, resting his chin on his hand in confusion. "But why would she do that?"
If she was also working for the Gu Family, shouldn’t she have helped Zhou Jing hide her identity even better?
Qi Xiang and Yang Chi glanced at each other, seeing the same understanding in each other’s eyes.
’It was probably because... Zhou Jing, or perhaps Zhou Jinyu, had gotten a little disobedient, right?’
’So the Gu Family deliberately leaked the story—not all of it, but just enough—to give the father and daughter a warning.’
It was a typical tactic for those so-called great clans.
Gu Xi had been listening quietly the whole time. Only now did she speak. "Find a way to locate Zhou Jing as soon as possible."
After returning to A City Base, the group split up.
Wei Heng and Yang Chi took the sacks of Crystal Cores from Gu Xi and went to find Tang You at the base’s administration building. Qin Yi drove to the heavily affected area to report to Shen Yue. Qi Xiang went to the City A branch of the Abnormal Ability Research Institute. And Gu Xi returned alone to the small courtyard that A City Base had arranged for her.
Tang You had been very thoughtful, even assigning two private assistants to Gu Xi’s courtyard—both were excellent cooks and quite presentable.
Following the principle that "work is less tiring with both men and women," he had provided a handsome man and a beautiful woman, both gentle and attentive. His consideration was truly thorough.
Gu Xi offered no opinion on the matter. After eating the elaborate lunch the two had prepared, she simply left them with a message—"I’m entering seclusion to break through my Superpower Barrier. Do not enter my room for any reason, or you will bear the consequences"—before heading upstairs to her room.
Watching the door on the second floor close, the handsome man and beautiful woman stood stunned downstairs for a long while before anxiously calling Tang You.
Upon receiving the news, Tang You couldn’t figure out what this Miss Gu was thinking.
To be honest, he had painstakingly selected those two by modeling them after Gu Xi’s existing entourage—in other words, he had chosen them based on the standards set by Wei Heng and Qi Xiang.
He originally thought this was the type Gu Xi would like, but he hadn’t expected...
Tang You thought for a moment and decided to leave the assistants at Gu Xi’s courtyard after all. As for everything else... he would wait and see.
While Gu Xi was in seclusion, Tang You was remarkably perceptive. Without even needing a reminder from Wei Heng, he proactively took the sacks of Crystal Cores Gu Xi had provided and went to the Land of Death to recruit superpowered individuals.
...The superpowered individuals who had remained in the city had already been screened several times over, and any suitable candidates had long since been sent to Farm 0101.
But Mr. Zhou was still very short-staffed; after all, there was a great deal of farmland at the farm waiting to be cultivated.
Tang You thought it over and decided to go to the Death Swamp personally to recruit superpowered individuals.
—Ever since the head of the Liu Family and his wife returned to the Central Base to visit relatives, Shen Yue had practically dismantled the Liu Family’s power in City A, leaving them unable to fight back. Wary of Gu Xi’s methods, Liu Bo didn’t dare to confront Shen Yue directly and had taken the remaining Liu Family forces to hole up in the Death Swamp.
This time, Tang You was also going to see what the Liu Family was up to.
Of course, he was also extremely interested in the legendary Superpower Seed—what if it just so happened to fall into his hands?
Every man dreams of being the chosen one, right?