Chapter 31: Lying Low (Part 2/2) (1/2)

Chapter 31: Lying Low (Part 2/2)

Xie Junping raised his head after jumping from the exit of the hidden passageway. The camouflage film looked like a whole metal plate, blocking his line of sight perfectly.

Who would ever expect there to be a short and narrow hidden passageway with the peculiar space of a tree hole right behind it?

Luo Nan did not utter a word, maintaining silence during their return trip. Xie Junping gave another glance at the monitoring video and caught up using two urgent steps. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Luo Nan, but he soon found himself regretting his decision.

Each of the system modules of the laboratory had recovered back to normal operation right now. The way back was no longer a pitch black darkness. Unique black light illuminated with a dark purple glow within the glass walls. It made the watery area turn phantasmal and dreamlike.

But this long and tedious road was simply torture from Xie Junping’s perspective.

The mental state of Luo Nan next to him was abnormal after all…..

During the journey, Luo Nan continued to stifle his state of mania from the tree hole, his thoughts spinning in endless circles the entire time. Sometimes he would suddenly stop his footsteps, turn his head, and look back down the long corridor. Sometimes he would look at the increasingly gloomy waters next to him and was lost in thought for a long time. The blood within his eyes glistened with vividness each time he did this, causing it hard to look at his eyes directly. And there was even a few times when Xie Junping could hear the low sound of teeth grinding.

So several minutes past while moving in this walk-and-stop manner, causing Xie Junping to confirm all the more:

That Luo Nan was going mad!

He had no doubts whatsoever; if there was some person who dared to say, “I am the one who has been living in this tree,” Luo Nan would immediately throw himself over, crush that person’s throat with his teeth, and then roar in interrogation:

What the hell do you damn think you’re doing here!?

What was he thinking…… If he continued thinking like this, Xie Junping felt that he too would go mad!

He had to do something at least.

Xie Junping racked his brain as he recalled back to a few communications courses he had taken. He framed his words and hesitated for a long time before opening his mouth:

“Hic. Junior. You don’t know much information about Auntie, your mother, right?”

Luo Nan was clearly stunned; his defenses had been broken into and the force that did it came from his thoughts of affection for his mother. These wonderful feelings were like a gushing river that cleansed his heart. It was a bit painful, but it wasn’t bad.

A long time passed; only then did Luo Nan nod: “No, not much.”

There’s a way!

Delight filled Xie Junping’s heart. He rushed persistently: “Auntie didn’t have many relatives?”

Luo Nan continued to respond: “My mom was a war orphan. She grew up in an orphanage since she was small.”

Xie Junping nearly choked, but thinking of the time period, Bu Qingwen certainly was born during the third war. There were many people of that generation with similar circumstances.

Regardless of how it happened, at least a conversation was started with Luo Nan.

“Was she a local? If, Junior, you want to collect more information, I still have some capabilities in Xia City.” Xie Junping took complete charge with quite decent results.

Luo Nan faced him with a half bow: “Thank-you Senior.”

Here we go again! He felt that Luo Nan was just like a person from the previous century, or perhaps he was following procedures completely by the book to perform his actions….. Ugh, that might be it.

Xie Junping’s speech until now was filled with sufficient confidence in this conversation. He gestured with his hands: “In fact I really admire Auntie to be able to design Gear and still have people scratching their heads over it twenty years later. I just assumed it was a masterpiece from an expert master.”

“This is also my first time I knew about this.”

“Then Junior, what sort of things did you know before? Your family hasn’t mentioned a single thing about Auntie?”

“......”

The sudden silence made Xie Junping nearly believe he had overreached himself, like he had tried to be clever and ended up with an egg on his face. But Luo Nan still opened his mouth in the end: