Upon hearing Wei Jingyu’s words, Gu Yuluo moved her lips, opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say, and in the end, she could only say stiffly, "I indeed misunderstood her."
She thought that the girl was very capable.
It never occurred to her that the girl was not just capable, she was freakishly so.
All along the way, there was never an opportunity for her and Wei Jingyu to take action.
Gu Yuluo began to ponder what the point was of her and Wei Jingyu following along.
"There’s an infrared sensor trap ahead." Seeing that the two of them seemed out of it, Gu Zhiqi spoke up and warned them.
Once Gu Zhiqi spoke, Gu Yuluo and Wei Jingyu immediately snapped back to reality.
Looking at the long corridor in front of them, their expressions became serious at once.
Wei Jingyu took off the backpack he was carrying and started to rummage through it, saying, "It’s good that I was prepared, Fall, sister, put on these glasses and..."
Wei Jingyu hadn’t finished speaking when he heard the sound of whooshing wind, and by the time he looked up, he saw that Gu Zhiqi was already standing at the other end of the corridor.
"Your sister... how did she get across?" Wei Jingyu looked up and glanced at Gu Yuluo.
"She flew across," Gu Yuluo said as she took a pair of glasses from Wei Jingyu’s hand, and as soon as she put them on, her vision was filled with a dense, crisscrossing pattern of infrared beams.
"No, I mean, can she see the infrared beams without glasses?" Wei Jingyu asked while putting on the glasses himself.
"Damn! Hurry up, the little girl has run off." Seeing that there was no one at the other end of the corridor, Gu Yuluo cursed under her breath, then started tumbling and weaving through the infrared beams.
Upon seeing this, Wei Jingyu immediately put on the glasses and followed.
A laboratory made up like a hidden treasure trove, with mechanisms all over the place.
For Gu Zhiqi, it wasn’t much of a challenge, but it might be tough for the two following her. Thinking that she might have to wait for the two to slowly come through the mechanisms, Gu Zhiqi decisively chose to go ahead on her own.
After bypassing seven or eight mechanisms and passing six mechanism doors, Gu Zhiqi arrived at the room holding the mother body of the 317 genetic experiment.
The door to the room was open, and when Gu Zhiqi saw the person being held inside, she paused slightly.
How come... it’s a man?
She saw a young man dressed in a white lab coat sitting on the bed in the room, hanging his head slightly, idly fidgeting with the watch on his wrist.
Even when he heard the door open, the man didn’t look up but continued playing with his watch.
Gu Zhiqi’s gaze paused when she saw the watch on the man’s wrist.
Since it was calculated from Wei Jingyu’s daughter, she could only approximate that the person was here but couldn’t determine a more specific location.
However, the person in front of her was obviously not the experimental mother body, but since he was being held captive, she thought he might not be here willingly and could be useful to her.
"Do you know where the mother body of the 317 genetic experiment is?" Gu Zhiqi leaned against the door, looking at the man sitting on the bed, "If you tell me, I can help you get out."
The girl’s voice was very distinctive, cold yet hazy, and extremely pleasant to the ears.
Hearing the girl’s voice, the man at the bedside, playing with his watch, stalled for a moment, then abruptly looked up.
As the young man raised his head, Gu Zhiqi clearly saw his features—handsome looks, sparse brows and eyes, refined and scholarly temperament, like a gentleman from a distant path, gentle and smooth as jade.
Those features, Gu Zhiqi felt, were somewhat familiar.
When the young man lifted his eyes, he saw Gu Zhiqi’s face, his pupils dilated suddenly, and he stood up from the bed, his expression tinged with obvious excitement.
"Little junior sister, you... how are you here as well?"