Chapter 1184: "Cell Biology"

"Hey."

At the banquet venue, Zheng Zhiqing turned her head with a strange expression and called out to Fu Kun, who was not far away.

Fu Kun didn't seem to hear her call. He was busy swishing lamb in his hot pot while intently watching the ethnic dance performance on stage, seemingly completely immersed in the lively atmosphere of the banquet.

"Hey! Fu Kun!" Zheng Zhiqing raised her voice and called again.

Only then did Fu Kun turn his head and ask with displeasure:

"What?"

"Why do I feel like the Emperor's state is a bit off..."

"What's off about it?"

"He seems to have been staring in our direction the whole time!"

“？”

Fu Kun turned to look and saw a young man in black-rimmed glasses on the other side of the stage, looking coldly in their direction. Although he wasn't doing anything, he gave off an inexplicable sense of oppression.

"..." Fu Kun felt instinctively afraid. He immediately looked down at his phone and asked suspiciously,

"That shouldn't be... If there was something, wouldn't he just send a message? Why just stare at us..."

"I'm wondering the same thing..."

"Why don't you go ask?"

"Why should it be me? Can't you go??"

"I'm big and too conspicuous. Plus, if a guy like me suddenly goes to chat him up, it'll attract attention... It'll be more natural if you go," Fu Kun said seriously.

"..." Zheng Zhiqing glared at him fiercely. "Coward."

After hesitating for a moment, Zheng Zhiqing picked up her wine glass and stood up, walking along the edge of the banquet toward Ying Fu. Fortunately, most of the guests had their attention on the stage, and Zheng Zhiqing was skilled at socializing, so no one paid much attention to her movements.

She quietly arrived beside Ying Fu. The next second, she felt a gaze fixed on her. She turned her head and found it was a young boy sitting behind Xiao Chunping.

Zheng Zhiqing didn't recognize Yao Qing, but with people watching, she had to maintain her persona, smiling and raising her glass to Ying Fu:

"Little handsome, how old are you this year? You're so good-looking, do you have a girlfriend?"

Ying Fu looked at her deeply.

"No. Want to leave your number?"

Zheng Zhiqing was stunned. "Sure, wait for me to get my phone..."

"No need."

Ying Fu grabbed Zheng Zhiqing's hand and used his index finger to trace on her palm. Strokes appeared, quickly weaving into a line of text.

Seeing that line of text, Zheng Zhiqing's face turned ugly!

She exchanged a look with Ying Fu, immediately pulled her hand back, and forced a smile.

"Okay, little brother, big sister will call you when I get back. Make sure to pick up~"

She turned and walked toward the entrance.

Seeing this, Ying Fu slowly turned back to his table. The next moment, Yao Qing’s voice sounded faintly from the side:

"Hmph, touching someone's hand right away, what a scumbag..."

Ying Fu: ...

Zheng Zhiqing passed by Fu Kun, grabbed his collar, and dragged him toward the door.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?!" Fu Kun hadn't even finished his lamb, and he was being dragged to the door. He couldn't help but ask.

"Still eating?" Zheng Zhiqing glared at him angrily. "Someone is about to be snatched away!"

"Someone? Who?"

Fu Kun was stunned for a moment, then realized. "You mean... that's impossible. We hid him so well, and no one here knows of his existence. Who would go to snatch him??"

"Stop asking, let's go!!"

Zheng Zhiqing and Fu Kun hurried out of the banquet hall. A staff member asked suspiciously:

"Respected guests, where are you going? Director Sun's closing remarks are coming up soon..."

"We're just going to the bathroom! We'll be right back!"

Before the staff member could ask more, the two left the corridor, leaving only the staff member looking at the man and woman who had left so sneakily together to "go to the bathroom," his expression somewhat subtle.

Zheng Zhiqing and Fu Kun arrived at the lobby of the Huixian Hotel and were about to head out when a figure who had been sitting on the steps at the entrance stood up slowly...

"Where are you two in such a hurry to go?" the young man smiled slightly.

"You are..."

Zheng Zhiqing looked at the young man, feeling he looked somewhat familiar.

"The combat ceiling of Shanghai, Shen Nan," Fu Kun suddenly spoke. "I recognize you. You're the key protégé of the current 749 Bureau and a favorite of Director Sun..."

"I can't take those titles. I'm just a performer," Shen Nan shrugged. "Besides, I've already been listed as a target for criticism by the 749 Bureau..."

"Mr. Shen, please move aside. We have something to do outside~"

The situation was urgent. Zheng Zhiqing didn't have time to waste with Shen Nan. She hugged Fu Kun's arm and gave Shen Nan a "you know" smile.

"Oh?"

Shen Nan raised an eyebrow. His slender fingers took out a hideous Nuo mask from behind him. Under the flowing red light of the screen, it seemed to be cast in a layer of grim, blood-red color...

He curled his lips into a playful smile.

"Then what if... I just don't move?"

Seeing this, the expressions of Zheng Zhiqing and Fu Kun turned incredibly ugly!

……

"Why are you here?" Chu Changqing looked at the three people before him, his eyes full of confusion.

"We're here to save you," Lu Xun said seriously. "We tracked you all the way from the Shanghai laboratory just to rescue you from those people's hands..."

"Dr. Chu, what exactly happened here?"

Su Zhiwei scanned the spiders that were clearly not Earth creatures and couldn't help but ask.

Chu Changqing’s expression was complex. He scanned the two college students wrapped in spiderwebs who had long since lost their breath. A bitter and fearful look appeared in his pale cyan eyes.

"I just wanted to try out this power... I didn't expect their power to be so terrifying... so... difficult to control."

"Is this the ability brought by your 'Cell Biology'?" Lu Xun looked at the hideous and terrifying spiders, his expression still unable to hide his shock. "How did you do it..."

"...I don't know either. But I can feel that it's like a Pandora's box... and now, I have opened this box with my own hands."

Chu Changqing looked down at his hands on the wheelchair, then at the strange and hideous spiders beside him. His tone was full of pessimism and despair. "Perhaps my power shouldn't exist in this world at all... Perhaps, I shouldn't either..."

"Power has no right or wrong; only people do."

Lu Xun strode forward, not even glancing at the hideous spiders circling Chu Changqing, as if they didn't exist at all... He reached out to grab Chu Changqing's wheelchair to drag him out of the webs, but the next moment, Chu Changqing’s exclamation rang out suddenly!

"Lu Xun! Watch out!!!"