Chapter 1222: Chapter 1221
Lu Mian looked up at Qi Zhen, always feeling that the gentle woman across from her harbored an unknown story.
Qi Zhen smiled softly.
“Nothing can be hidden from you.” The woman raised her head, her gaze falling somewhere unknown, as if she was recalling something.
Lu Mian put down the physics magazine, listening patiently.
“After Qimo’s Mo Particle research was successful, it was always stored in that laboratory in the manor, you should have seen it, right?”
“Yes, I’ve seen it.” Lu Mian nodded.
During the New Year, when she came to the Xiao Family manor, Director Qi had taken her in to see it.
Inside, it was all related to physics.
It was also the past that Director Qi had sealed away.
Qi Zhen smiled.
“At that time many were eyeing the Mo Particle, some trying to purchase the patent, others seeking collaboration, all rejected by Qimo. He said the Mo Particle was quite dangerous, and misuse could lead to uncontrollable consequences, such things are better kept in one’s own hands. Therefore, there were some secretly plotting to steal it, Qimo’s uncle, Xiu Hualei, was one of them.”
“Someone contacted Xiu Hualei and made a private deal with him. I don’t know the amount of the deal, but I know it must have been astronomical. On May 12th, 2015, both Qimo and his father went to a company meeting, Xiu Hualei took action, and after discovering this I drove to chase him. I didn’t expect that as soon as the Mo Particle was seized, a strange man appeared in front of me.”
Qi Zhen recalled the events of that day, instinctively clutching her chest, looking somewhat pained.
Lu Mian quickly poured her a cup of warm water and placed it in the middle-aged woman’s hand.
“I’m fine.” Qi Zhen shook her head, lips tugging faintly, continuing, “The man looked quite young, his complexion was unnaturally pale, the whole person seemed sickly. I don’t know what he did, I just felt a sudden blackout, dizziness, my whole body felt like it was being torn apart…”
Lu Mian quietly listened to Qi Zhen’s words, finding some familiarity in her description, the girl grabbed Qi Zhen’s wrist.
“Xiu Mom, did you also go to those places?” she asked, surprised.
Qi Zhen furrowed her brow, “You know?”
“…” How could Lu Mian not know?
She herself had experienced being pulled into books again and again, torn apart, reassembled, and torn apart again…
That kind of pain, she would never forget in a lifetime.
She nodded.
Qi Zhen, unexpectedly, in a moment of absent-mindedness, felt emotional, “When I first saw you, I felt a sense of familiarity. Later I thought it was from the Yun Family, I didn’t expect this kind of connection between us.”
Yes, at the moment Qi Zhen took the Mo Particle, she too crossed into a book.
However, the time she traversed was very short, just long enough to grab a plant in the vast hills, then returned to reality.
But, the feeling of being torn apart and reassembled remained undiminished.
She fell seriously ill.
Since then, she suffered from severe aftereffects with many doctors helpless, declaring she didn’t have much time left.
Qi Zhen reversed her hand to hold Lu Mian’s, smiling gently.
“Netherman is what I brought back at that time. According to Qimo, during the days I was in a coma, I always clutched that plant. He found the most renowned botanists, but they couldn’t determine its properties.”
“Netherman is what I brought back at that time. According to Qimo, during the days I was in a coma, I always clutched that plant. He found the most renowned botanists, but they couldn’t determine its properties.”