"Why is your backpack so heavy? Did you bring books ho today?"
Amadeus Yancey offered to carry her backpack and rarely saw it bulging and stuffed, his deep and narrow eyes slightly squinting.
Nathalie Quinlan was still checking ssages, not lifting her head, "Hmm, I brought a few."
She usually didn’t bring books ho, her backpack was always empty, at most containing so trinkets like the ’gum’ she always carried with herself, plus an ipad and a pen, nothing like a senior high school student’s backpack.
It was the first ti Amadeus saw her being ’ordinary,’ carrying the books a senior high school student should.
Out of curiosity, he asked in a deep llow voice, "What did you bring? Review materials?"
On Nathalie Quinlan’s phone.
@ilovebeingskinny was replying to a ssage.
[@ilovebeingskinny: Boss, I’ve looked into the information you asked for. This person is not easy to investigate. I only got a bit of information by hacking into the computer system using an overseas server.]
[sun: Whatever you find is good enough.]
[@ilovebeingskinny: Lynette Kingsley died 18 years ago, and I can’t find out how! All I found is that her death is deeply related to the Yancey Family, and there are also shadows of the Illegal Zone involved. I’m not clear on the specifics, only that she died in Beijing 18 years ago.]
The Yancey Family?
The Illegal Zone?
Nathalie Quinlan didn’t expect her biological mother’s death to be so complicated, even involving the Illegal Zone!
The Illegal Zone, as the na clearly suggests, is a lawless land.
Illegal doesn’t an that the area itself is unlawful, but that in this area, any illegal acts you commit are legal.
As long as you have money, you can do whatever you want unobstructed in this area!
Nobody cares whether you’re a murderer or a criminal.
This place is without any taboos!
It only respects power.
The Illegal Zone is like a shadow; if the ordinary world is dayti, then the Illegal Zone is the night, many people don’t even know it exists.
But those who do know of its existence are aware of how terrifying it can be.
It is considered one of the largest and most formidable powers overseas.
Nathalie Quinlan’s gaze dropped, concealing the cold light in her eyes.
No wonder, whether it’s Audrick Zachmann or the old man, none of them ever ntioned her mom’s affairs.
If her biological parents’ deaths were related to the Illegal Zone, then the whole matter was more complex than she had imagined, and she needed to investigate slowly to understand clearly.
Nathalie Quinlan’s heart was occupied with thoughts, inevitably a bit distracted, "Yeah, the teacher at school gave a few review materials."
She was still ssaging @ilovebeingskinny.
[sun: Try again to see if you can find anything else, I’m not in a hurry.]
[@ilovebeingskinny: OK. If you’re not in a hurry, that’s good. I’ll try to hack into other databases and maybe find the information you want.]
[@ilovebeingskinny: Boss, why are you so concerned about people in McKinney lately, what’s going on? Are you in McKinney?]
He wouldn’t have discovered where the boss was hiding, would he?
Nathalie Quinlan went offline, exiting the app.
The red app disappeared from the phone screen the mont she logged out, as if it had never existed, leaving no trace behind.
Amadeus did not see who she had ssaged, only noticing her profile seed more solemn than before, as if she had encountered a difficult problem.
He couldn’t ask, so he just held Nathalie Quinlan’s backpack, his gaze deep and restrained, asking, "Do you need to take these to Beijing?"
Nathalie Quinlan had already put away the phone. Hearing this, she looked up, rembered what @ilovebeingskinny ntioned about the Yancey Family’s involvent, and felt a bit of a headache, saying, "No need. I probably won’t have ti to look at them, they are too heavy, just leave them in McKinney."
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