Three days later.
Zhou Qing drove Yang Huaijin to the A City New District. Before they left, he asked Yang Huaijin, “Do you want to bring some people with us?”
Yang Huaijin smiled, “If it comes to fighting, can’t I handle it at home? Why would I need to bring people along to fight outside?”
“…,” Zhou Qing, seeing him speak lightly, couldn’t help but feel more worried. “Master Jin, he’s deceiving you.”
“Yeah, I know.” Yang Huaijin’s smile faded, his tone calm.
Zhou Qing fell silent, feeling like he may have said too much.
The place they went to was a small building, perhaps decades ago it was an office building for some factory, or an abandoned teaching building for a school. Now, it was so dilapidated that even the traces of its former days were no longer visible. The yard was overgrown with weeds, and although the small building was still intact, it was clearly evident that no one had been there for a long time. Logically, in the rapidly developing A City New District, such a small building should have been demolished long ago, but somehow it had been preserved until today.
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Finding Zhou Qing’s displeasure amusing, Yang Huaijin approached and said, “Go find Feng Zhi and ask him to come see me.”
The guard was tall and stout, currently in a bad mood. When he saw that the newcomer was a heavily pregnant man, and then thought of Zhou Qing’s beautiful face—two Omegas, what were they doing here causing trouble? He felt even more disdainful, just about to make a sarcastic remark when he saw the man reach up and take off his sunglasses.
This guard was not just an ordinary lackey; he was one of Feng Zhi’s capable men, which is why he was assigned to manage things here. Zhou Qing didn’t recognize him, but he always recognized the face of Yang Huaijin, the master of the Qingyan Gang. He stood frozen in place, looking at Yang Huaijin, then at his obviously pregnant belly. Suddenly, it was as if he had been struck by lightning—Yang Huaijin… was an Omega! And he was pregnant! So the rumors about their boss getting involved with Yang Huaijin from the Qingyan Gang were true after all! Feng-ge, you’re incredible!
…
Feng Zhi received a phone call that was incoherent at first, but after listening for a while, he finally understood what was going on. He drove at the fastest speed possible, not daring to delay even for a moment.
Yang Huaijin had already been invited into the courtyard to have tea. Without Feng Zhi’s instructions, the guard didn’t dare to bring anyone into the building. Fortunately, there was a dilapidated pavilion in the courtyard that had been cleared of weeds. Yang Huaijin sat down under the pavilion, looking at the rundown appearance of the courtyard, and another suspicion arose in his mind. Although the small building and courtyard seemed dilapidated, there was an orderliness amidst the chaos. Despite being abandoned for thirty or forty years, hardly any windows were broken, and the paths in the courtyard were intact. It didn’t look like true abandonment but rather like a deliberate disguise using dilapidation.
Seeing Feng Zhi enter the courtyard, his pace went from hurried to slow. Yang Huaijin understood clearly that Feng Zhi was thinking of a plan; he didn’t want to engage with Feng Zhi too much, so he decided to be direct.
“Why did you lie to me?”
Feng Zhi shook his head and explained, “A-jin, I didn’t lie to you. It’s just that I don’t have full confidence in this matter yet. Letting you know would only bring bad emotions without solving the problem.” He didn’t know how much Yang Huaijin already knew, so he deliberately kept the matter vague and softened his tone. “Let me figure things out first. Can you trust me, please?”
Yang Huaijin remained unmoved. “I asked you yesterday how the investigation was going. You said you hadn’t found the person yet.”
“…I did find the person, but the situation is not that simple. As I said, I need to clarify things and be sure before telling you.” Feng Zhi’s tone showed some impatience as he frowned at Yang Huaijin. “You’re pregnant. Can’t you wait until the child is born to think about this? It’s been over a decade since that happened. What difference would waiting a few more months make?”
Feng Zhi wasn’t someone who usually explained himself in such matters. Today, he said so much and deliberately showed emotions, trying to pressure Yang Huaijin to give up using the child as leverage, but it ended up being a mess. After saying all this, he felt embarrassed. The more he acted like this, wouldn’t Yang Huaijin become more suspicious about what was going on behind the scenes?
Yang Huaijin didn’t doubt it. Feng Zhi’s behavior only confirmed his suspicions, a name he didn’t want to believe in, a name he didn’t even want to speak out loud. He shifted his gaze away, looking at the overgrown weeds swaying in the wind in the courtyard, and said, “It’s… Professor Fang, isn’t it?”
Feng Zhi’s expression changed several times, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.
He couldn’t tell Yang Huaijin that the person who harmed him all those years ago was someone he had trusted for many years, someone he had regarded as family. That person was Fang Xingping, who was internationally renowned for advocating Omega rights and dedicating his life to physiological research on Omegas. At the same time, he was also a part of the darkest human trafficking industry in the world, using his students, patients, and his connections and resources in the industry to obtain huge research funds. That’s why Fang Xingping was able to buy a building near A University twenty years ago to use as a research institute, and this was just one of his many research institutes. Many research projects were clearly pushed forward with his money, but to avoid suspicion, he chose to remain completely behind the scenes. Fang Xingping was using money tainted with Omega blood to pursue his mission of saving Omegas.
Feng Zhi led Yang Huaijin into the building, which was completely different from the desolation outside—clean and orderly inside. As Yang Huaijin suspected, this wasn’t some old factory area but a small-scale laboratory.
Inside the laboratory, there were only a few Crimson Alliance guards arranged by Feng Zhi to watch over the place. All the researchers were gone, and the empty corridors echoed with the footsteps of Feng Zhi and Yang Huaijin. The more Yang Huaijin observed, the more alarmed he became. Many of the arrangements here felt familiar to him—the layout of the laboratory equipment, the various configurations… Fang Xingping had a laboratory near A University where he visited once or twice a month. This place was very similar to that one, clearly another research base for Fang Xingping.
When Yang Huaijin pushed open the door of the laboratory, Fang Xingping was sitting in a chair, seemingly waiting for him.
“A-jin, you’re here.”
Ahhh I guessed as much…bad teacher
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