Chapter 1184: Cell Biology

By: Sanyin YinyuWord Count: 1277

"Hey."

At the banquet hall, Zheng Zhiqíng turned her head with a strange expression and called out to Fu Kun, who was not far away.

Fu Kun seemed not to hear her call. He was busy blanching slices of lamb, his attention fixed on the ethnic song and dance performance on stage, seemingly completely immersed in the lively atmosphere of the banquet.

"Hey! Fu Kun!" Zheng Zhiqíng raised her voice and called again.

Only then did Fu Kun turn his head and ask displeasedly:

"What?"

"I feel like His Majesty's state isn't quite right..."

"What's wrong?"

"He seems to have been staring in our direction!"

Fu Kun turned to look and saw, on the other side of the stage, a young man wearing black-rimmed glasses staring coldly in their direction. Although he did nothing, he exuded an inexplicable sense of pressure.

"..." Fu Kun instinctively felt a little scared. He immediately looked down at his phone and asked suspiciously,

"That doesn't make sense... If there was something, wouldn't he just send a message? Why just stare at us..."

"I find it strange too..."

"How about you go ask?"

"Why me? Can't you go??"

"I'm too big, too conspicuous, and if I, a man, suddenly went to talk to him, it would draw attention... It would be more natural if you went." Fu Kun said seriously.

"..." Zheng Zhiqíng glared at him fiercely. "Coward."

After a moment of hesitation, Zheng Zhiqíng still picked up her wine glass and walked around the edge of the banquet toward Yíng Fù. Fortunately, most guests were focused on the stage at that moment, and Zheng Zhiqíng was skilled at socializing, so few people paid attention to her movements.

She quietly approached Yíng Fù. The next second, she felt a gaze fixed on her. She turned to look and found it was a young man sitting behind Xiao Chūnpíng.

Zheng Zhiqíng didn't know Yao Qīng, but with someone watching nearby, she had to maintain her persona. She smiled and raised her glass to Yíng Fù:

"Handsome, how old are you? You're so good-looking, do you have a girlfriend?"

Yíng Fù gave her a deep look,

"No. Can I have your number?"

Zheng Zhiqíng was taken aback. "Sure, wait for me to get my phone..."

"No need."

Yíng Fù directly took Zheng Zhiqíng's hand and used his index finger to draw on her palm. Strokes appeared, quickly intertwining into a line of text.

Upon seeing the text, Zheng Zhiqíng's face immediately darkened!

She exchanged a look with Yíng Fù, immediately pulled back her hand, and forced a smile:

"Okay, little brother, big sister will call you when I get back, remember to answer~"

She turned and walked toward the main entrance.

Seeing this, Yíng Fù slowly turned back to his table. The next moment, Yao Qīng's faint voice drifted from beside him:

"Hmph, grabbing someone's hand right away, what a scoundrel..."

Yíng Fù: ...

As Zheng Zhiqíng passed Fu Kun, she grabbed his collar and began dragging him towards the door.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?!" Fu Kun's blanched lamb hadn't even been eaten yet when he was pulled to the door, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Still eating?" Zheng Zhiqíng glared at him angrily. "Someone's about to be taken away!"

"Someone? Who?"

Fu Kun paused, then realized, "You mean... No way, he's so well-hidden by us, and no one here knows about his existence. Who would try to take him??"

"Stop asking, let's go!!"

Zheng Zhiqíng and Fu Kun hurriedly exited the banquet hall. A staff member nearby asked curiously:

"Distinguished guests, where are you off to? Director Sun will be giving his concluding remarks soon..."

"Just going to the restroom! We'll be right back!"

Without waiting for the staff member to ask further, the two directly left the corridor, leaving the staff member with a subtle expression as they watched the man and woman stealthily depart to "go to the restroom" together.

Zheng Zhiqíng and the other person arrived at the lobby of the Huixian Hotel. Just as they were about to exit, a figure who had been sitting on the steps by the entrance slowly stood up...

"Where are you two hurrying off to?" The young man smiled faintly.

"You are..."

Zheng Zhiqíng looked at the young man in front of her, finding him somewhat familiar.

"Shen Nan, the combat ceiling of Shanghai City," Fu Kun suddenly said. "I recognize you. You're a key talent currently nurtured by Bureau 749, and Director Sun's favorite..."

"I can't live up to those titles; I'm just an opera performer," Shen Nan shrugged. "Besides, Bureau 749 has already listed me as a target for criticism..."

"Mr. Shen, please excuse us, we have something to attend to outside~"

The situation was urgent, and Zheng Zhiqíng had no time to waste with Shen Nan. She directly linked arms with Fu Kun and gave Shen Nan a knowing smile.

"Oh?"

Shen Nan raised an eyebrow. His slender fingers retrieved a ferocious Nuo mask from behind him. Under the flickering red screen light, it seemed to reflect a chilling, blood-like hue...

A playful smile curved his lips.

"What if... I just don't let you?"

Seeing this, Zheng Zhiqíng and Fu Kun's faces immediately turned extremely grim!

"How are you all here?" Chu Chángqīng looked at the three people in front of him, his eyes full of confusion.

"We're here to save you," Lu Xún said seriously. "We've been tracking you all the way from the lab in Shanghai, precisely to rescue you from those people..."

"Dr. Chu, what exactly happened here?"

Su Zhīwēi's gaze swept over the spiders, which were clearly not terrestrial organisms, and she couldn't help but ask.

Chu Chángqīng's expression was complex. His gaze swept over the two university students wrapped in cobwebs, long since lifeless. A hint of bitterness and fear appeared in his light blue eyes.

"I just wanted to try this power... I didn't realize their power was so terrifying... so... uncontrollable."

"Is this the ability from your *Cellular Biology*?" Lu Xún looked at the monstrous, terrifying spiders, his expression still undisguisedly shocked. "How did you do it..."

"...I don't know either. But I can feel it's like a Pandora's Box... and now, I've opened it myself."

Chu Chángqīng looked down at his hands on the wheelchair, then at the eerie, grotesque spiders beside him. His tone was filled with pessimism and despair. "Perhaps my power shouldn't exist in this world at all... Perhaps, I shouldn't either..."

"Power has no right or wrong; only people do."

Lu Xún strode forward, not even glancing at the monstrous spiders surrounding Chu Chángqīng, seemingly treating them as if they didn't exist. He reached out to grasp Chu Chángqīng's wheelchair, intending to pull him out of the web, but the next moment, Chu Chángqīng's startled cry suddenly rang out!

"Lu Xún! Be careful!!!"