Gu Xi wanted to find that person and learn the truth about the past.
But Dr. Qi told her, "Xiaoxi, the person who gave you your na back then was my teacher, Mr. Fang."
Mr. Fang?!
Gu Xi raised an eyebrow slightly. ’But Mr. Fang has been dead for many years...’
Gu Xi lowered her eyes and said nothing. A small vine was wrapped around her wrist, slowly coiling. Occasionally, the two tender shoots at its tip would extend toward Dr. Qi and sway back and forth.
For a mont, no one in the room spoke. The atmosphere grew tense.
Dr. Qi lay quietly against the headboard, seemingly unconcerned about his own fate.
Until Gu Xi asked him, "Have you t Yan Xun?"
Dr. Qi looked blank for a mont, then asked in return, "Who is Yan Xun?"
His reaction seed genuine, showing no sign of deceit.
But Gu Xi knew better than anyone what kind of person Dr. Qi was.
She lifted her gaze and stared at him quietly for a long mont before speaking. "According to Yan Xun, he’s my uncle."
Dr. Qi frowned slightly. "He said that? What’s his proof? Has a DNA test been done? Which institution perford the test? How did he confirm...?" Each question revealed the cautious logic of a research scientist.
But Gu Xi said, "None of that is important."
Dr. Qi’s frown deepened.
He tilted his head back slightly to stare at Gu Xi, seemingly not understanding what she ant.
"Then what is important?" After a long mont, he pushed up the cold fras of his glasses and looked up at Gu Xi.
Gu Xi’s gaze had already shifted to the window. She didn’t answer his question. Instead, she recounted her eting with Yan Xun to Dr. Qi, not leaving out a single detail.
Dr. Qi might have already known all of this.
But Gu Xi described it in great detail, even clearly conveying every expression and every movent Yan Xun made after seeing her.
’A high-level ability user’s mory is terrifyingly sharp.’
"Xiaoxi, from the sound of it, this Yan Xun is also at Gu Garden now? Did you co looking for him tonight?" Dr. Qi asked, his fingertips twitching slightly beneath the blanket.
Gu Xi looked back at him. "What do you think?"
Dr. Qi slowly shook his head and gave a wry smile. "Xiaoxi, you still don’t believe ?"
Seeing Gu Xi stare at him without speaking, Dr. Qi sighed. "We more or less grew up together. Ever since the apocalypse began, I lost all my relatives, and in the end, even my teacher left ..."
Back then, he was only a thirteen-year-old boy, not much older than Li Ming and the others.
And in the apocalypse, when human life was as worthless as straw, everything he did was simply... to survive a little better.
"Xiaoxi," Dr. Qi said, his face a mask of sincerity, "I’ve always thought of you and Ye as my own sisters..."
"Is that so?" Gu Xi suddenly cut him off. "Dr. Qi, do you really not know where the Gu Family is keeping those stolen mutated humans and mutated beasts?"
Before Dr. Qi could answer, she looked toward the window, her calm, profound gaze seemingly piercing through the mountain to land on so point in the void. She sighed softly. "This is a nice place. The Gu Family is good at picking locations."
The nearby mountain range was continuous. The peak where Gu Garden was located was encircled by a winding river, forming a W-shape connecting the mountains. Gu Garden was on one side of the W, and on the other side, across another peak, lay a massive, deep canyon.
And because of Mr. Liu’s public persona as a doting husband, the entire mountain range was guarded by the military, making it difficult for outsiders to approach.
Of course, in this day and age, the wilderness was quite dangerous, so no one would wander into the remote outskirts for no reason anyway.
As for the pioneers who dared to venture out of the safe zones, they wouldn’t actively approach a military district either—such places were usually scoured clean long ago, and they likely wouldn’t find anything even if they ca.
"Dr. Qi, don’t you agree?" Gu Xi looked back at Qi Xiao. Her fingertips twitched, and her lips curved into a chillingly detached smile.
Feeling the imnse spiritual power that had suddenly erupted around them spread out boundlessly like a tidal wave, before surging nacingly toward a single point, Dr. Qi’s heart sank.
"Gu Xi."
This was the first ti he had called her by her full na since she returned.
Dr. Qi narrowed his eyes slightly. "What are you planning to do?"
In his mory, Gu Xi had always been a very quiet person who rarely showed any emotional fluctuations.
’A smile that cold and detached shouldn’t be on her face. It can’t be.’
Dr. Qi’s heart filled with alarm and uncertainty. ’Sothing is starting to veer off its intended course.’
Gu Xi didn’t answer him. She just watched him calmly, her deep, dark eyes churning with whirlpools as turbulent and dark as the sea.
It was a profoundly unsettling sight.
Dr. Qi imdiately realized the gravity of the situation.
"Xiaoxi," he pushed up the cold fras of his glasses, took a deep, quiet breath, and subconsciously softened his tone. "Even if you kill all those mutated humans and mutated beasts the Gu Family is secretly raising under the Liu Family’s watch, what then?"
He looked at Gu Xi with utter sincerity. "To a behemoth like the Gu Family, that’s nothing! Even if you kill them all, you won’t be able to shake the Gu Family’s foundation..."
"Is that so?" Gu Xi replied nonchalantly.
The fluctuations of energy from the distance faintly carried through the mountain, and Dr. Qi’s expression grew tense.
He sighed softly and tried to persuade Gu Xi. "Xiaoxi, listen to . The Gu Family’s foundations are far deeper than you or I can imagine. The people of the Gu Family have always been low-key, and ever since the apocalypse, no one knows where their true base of operations is hidden..."
"And the Liu Family is just one of the powers the Gu Family has pushed into the open over the years. Who knows how many more such powers the Gu Family holds..."
Gu Xi cut in nonchalantly, "Then I’ll just kill as many as there are." ’Once I chop off all the limbs they’ve stretched into the outside world, I doubt the Gu Family will be able to sit still. If I have to, I’ll just kill more. After all, I’m very good at this kind of work.’
Gu Xi glanced up at Dr. Qi and sighed with a hint of lancholy. "Dr. Qi, you don’t really think that after a re thirty years, I can no longer lift my blade, do you?"
Dr. Qi stared at her, alard and uncertain, for a long mont before raising a hand to rub his brow in resignation. "Xiaoxi, take my advice. Don’t be so fixated on the truth of the past. The Gu Family is not a good place. The farther you stay away from it, the better..."
After a pause, he looked up at Gu Xi and said seriously, "I think Li Ming would feel the sa way."
Li Ming did, in fact, feel that way.
’But...’
"Actually, what the Gu Family is like doesn’t matter to ," Gu Xi said calmly, looking at him. "But I think, as the person involved, I should at least have the right to know, shouldn’t I?"
Dr. Qi desperately wanted to ask, "And then what?"
But faced with Gu Xi’s preternaturally deep and calm black eyes, which seed capable of devouring everything, Dr. Qi ultimately didn’t voice the question.
Watching Gu Xi transform back into a gentle breeze and depart, Dr. Qi sighed softly after a long ti—
’Gu Xi is no longer the Blood-colored Asura of the past. This ti... I’m afraid certain people are about to lose a lot more than they bargained for.’
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