Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 26: Accidental Assassination (4)

Tatsuya's gaze stopped on her face for a split second and looked at Chisuk, "Where are the thugs?"

"One was killed by me, one is being held in room b283 by Luo Xun."

Tatsuza ordered, "Hand Luo Xun over to Dean Feng Lin, you and I will go to room b283, you are needed to state what happened to Zi Yan and Brown Li and assist in the investigation."

"Yes!"

Qian Xu carried Luo Lan to Feng Lin, smiled at Luo Lan, and left with Tatsusa without saying anything.

Luo Lan breathed a sigh of relief and softly said "Thank you" to Chen Sha's back.

She knew that Tatsuha could hear her and hoped that he would accept her thanks.

Feng Lin was suspicious in his heart, although Qian Xu and Luo Lan barely spoke, not even saying "goodbye", but every move in the tacit understanding, completely not like a new acquaintance.

Feng Lin helped Luo Lan treat her wounds while tentatively asking, "You and Qian Xu knew each other before?"

"Uh-huh."

"How did you know each other? How long have you known each other?"

"I ran into them unintentionally at the research institute, it's been a while."

"He doesn't know who you are?"

"No one at the Institute knows who I am except you and Anna."

Every one of Loran's answers was fine, but Feng Lin always felt uneasy: "Qian Xu saved you, are you grateful to him?"

"Yes."

"Did Chen Sha's behavior make you angry?"

"No."

Feng Lin, however, didn't listen at all, worried, and said to himself, "You mustn't be angry with Chen Sha."

What exactly did that mean? Luo Lan wondered if she had lost her memory again, or else how come she couldn't remember what Tatsuha had done wrong and needed her forgiveness.

"It's not that Tatsusa doesn't care about your safety, it's just that, at that time, we all thought that those people were coming for the Consul, and didn't think at all that you would be in danger." Feng Lin was secretly chagrined, ever since Loran came to Odin, it had been too peaceful, they had all been negligent.

Oh! So it was for this. However, ten years ago, Tatsuha had agreed with her that it was just a fake couple with an exchange of benefits. Tatsuha hadn't treated her as a wife and had no emotions for her; she hadn't treated Tatsuha as a husband and had no expectations for him. So one left without hesitation when in danger, and the other didn't think to mind at all when she was left behind.

Loran smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, no one could have imagined that someone would try to capture me."

Feng Lin was very vain, at that moment, habit became natural, the seven of them did their own thing, not only did Tatsusa not think of Luo Lan, but she, her good friend, also completely forgot about Luo Lan, or it was only when Zi Yan asked about it that they realized that Luo Lan had disappeared.

Calling her terminal, no one answered, and there was no way to locate her position, they realized that something big was wrong, and in the end, it was Zi Yan who determined that Luo Lan was possibly in the research institute through her brain.

Feng Lin said sincerely, "Chen Sha drove the car fast on the way here, I can tell he's feeling bad in his heart, it's not that he doesn't care about you."

Loran felt heavy and dizzy and agreed with a "home" while drifting off into a daze.

The central monitoring room of the research institute.

Feng Lin gave the Intelligence Brain the command to call up the surveillance video and replay what happened earlier.

Zi Yan sat in a chair and watched in silence-

Loran stood in front of the security door, beaten and bloodied for delaying the opening of the door.

In the elevator, Loran was punched in the face and the man dropped to his knees ......

Ziyan suddenly said, "Stop!"

He pointed to Loran's bowed body, "Zoom in here and slow down."

After the image was zoomed in, one could see Loran quickly touching the personal terminal, and as he painfully bowed his body to wipe his mouth, he scooped up his hand and deliberately spit all the blood from his mouth into his palm, staining it all red.

Feng Lin says in amazement, "Oh my god! Loran was calculating, she deliberately spurred the thugs to beat her?"

Zi Yan's gaze was deep and did not comment, just said, "Keep playing."

Loran left blood stains on both the elevator buttons and the elevator doors as if she had no intention of doing so at all.

Feng Lin muttered, "As long as someone passes by the elevator, he will see the abnormality on the door; as long as he enters the elevator to check it out, he will know which floor the abnormality occurred on. This must be how Qian Xu found Loran."

Loran led the thugs into the observation room that the institute had built specifically for the study of sudden mutations ......

Feng Lin said, "This room looks like it has a lot of instruments, but, it's just a preparatory observation room without any useful information, and Loran didn't even think of giving these two jerks any information."

Violet Feast stared in silence at the virtual imaging in front of her-

The bald man picked Loran up by the neck, warning her to be honest, and Loran blanched as her toes struggled painfully to touch the ground.

As the glass cover fell, Loran dashed outward, the bald man in hot pursuit.

Feng Lin knew that Loran had been saved by Qian Xu, but he was still sweating.

Loran rushed into the apothecary storage room, her nose was bruised and swollen, she was in a sorry state, but through the glass door, she condescendingly raised her middle finger to the bald man.

Feng Lin couldn't help but let out a giggle and said easily, "Qian Xu should have arrived at this time."

However, Qian Xu did not appear.

Amidst the sound of the bald man sweeping the glass door, Loran calmly concocted the potion, and Feng Lin's face changed. She completely didn't expect Luo Lan's glib "Qian Xu saved me" and the process to be like this.

Zi Yan asked, "What is she doing?"

"An improvised gas bomb, Luo Lan wants to die with it."

Violet Feast stares at the busy Loran and says nothing.

The glass door shattered and the bald man walked towards Loran.

Loran's hands were hidden in her skirt, her eyes became clear and firm after a momentary trance, the corners of her mouth slightly curved, still with the smugness of a cunning plan about to succeed.

The bright red dress, like a blazing fire, wrapped around her.

The moment she raised her hand to smash the bottle, Feng Lin almost lost his voice and screamed.

Fortunately, the bald man suddenly collapsed, Luo Lan saw Qian Xu, and her hand stopped in mid-air.

When Luo Lan finishes dealing with the gas bomb she configured and sits on the ground and loses her

voice, Feng Lin feels her eyes get a little moist, if Qian Xu comes a little later, Luo Lan will use her life to

fulfill the promise she made ten years ago. Unconsciously, the few moments of displeasure she had

towards Qian Xu were gone, only to be left with gratitude, fortunately, there was him holding Luo Lan,

fortunately, he appeared in time!

Feng Lin whispered, "We should all be nicer to Luo Lan."

Zi Yan stared thoughtfully at Qian Xu who softly soothed Loran, "Send this video to Tatsusa."

Loran woke up from the pain of his wounds to find that he was already in his bedroom.

Tatsuza was sitting in an armchair next to the bed with his eyes closed in a false sleep. The moment she woke up, he opened his eyes as well.

"Chumo said the wound would hurt a little." Tatsuza pressed an ice pack onto Loran's face, "You should be able to carry through, I didn't let him use painkillers."

The side effects of painkillers were so small as to be almost unimportant, but there was a darkly circulating saying in the military that if one wanted to become a level 3a physique or even the legendary level 4a physique, one must use things like painkillers sparingly, to keep the body sensitive to pain.

Loran huffed and said, "You have confidence in me."

"You can't carry it off?"

"It's not that, I'm saying that you surprisingly haven't given up on the idea of making me a level 3a physical artist, don't you know that there are only two level 3a physical artists in the entire federation?"

Tatsusa was silent.

Loran looked at his resolute face, completely unable to understand, "Do you believe that I can become like you and the Consul?"

"It's not believing, it's hoping. I wish my wife was a level 3a physical."

Loran thanked God in her heart that she and Tatsusha were a fake couple, this non-human demanded too much from his wife for an ordinary woman to be able to consume.

In the darkness, Tatsuza quietly looked at Luo Lan, his gaze silent and more obscure than the night.

Loran felt odd and said without words, "What about the thug I locked up?"

"He had already killed himself by the time I arrived."

Loran smiled bitterly, "Expected, they acted viciously, they wouldn't leave me alive if they succeeded, they wouldn't leave themselves alive if they failed, and they wouldn't leave clues anyway."

"There are many mercenary organizations in the stars, it looks like the clues are broken and untraceable, but there are not many with such strict and cold discipline, which is a clue in itself."

Right! Loran's eyes lit up, "Any leads from the Consul's side?"

"Caught a few alive, killers specifically bred by those organizations. Don't know anything other than killing people. Purple Feast is interrogating them, but based on experience, no useful information can be asked."

"What kind of person would want to assassinate the consul as well as want information on genetic research?"

"Maybe it's a foreign enemy, maybe it's ......," Tatsuya pursed his lips tightly, his gaze as cold as a knife blade.

Loran gradually reacted, maybe it was one of his people who did it! No wonder the lighting systems of both the Spyder Palace and the military base had been hacked, and the two robbers had held her hostage in the base's internal research institute without triggering any of the surveillance alerts. It seemed that the only way to explain it was to have help from someone on the inside, and this mole's authority was not low.

Things were so complicated that they had completely exceeded Loran's understanding, and she didn't even know where to start when she asked, but there was no doubt that Tatsuha's identity had put him in the middle of a torrential whirlwind.

Loran said, "Go rest, just have the robot take care of it."

"Feng Lin asked me to stay with you, she said you're angry and I should coax you."

Loran was surprised, "Since when did you listen to Feng Lin so much?"

"Because it just so happens that I want to do the same."

"......" Loran was dumbfounded.

"I was ill-considered about tonight, I promised to keep you safe and failed to do so, I'm sorry."

"I'm not angry, to be honest, I don't care at all."

"Zi Yan said that women are angry when they say they're not angry, and they care a lot when they say

they don't care at all." Tatsusa opened a vintage-style eyeglass case with a pair of eyeglasses inside,

"Eyeglasses made from the Pear Light Stone on the Beer Pear Multi Planet, which can isolate the harmful

light from the universe and protect the health of the human eyes, it's very suitable for the ladies who are

engaged in scientific research and use their eyes a lot." His tone was stereotypical, exactly like a sales robot

making a product introduction.

Loran was so irritated that she sat up at once: "You, send, me, a gift?"

Tatsusa studied Loran's expression, "Your reaction is different from what Zi Yanen said."

Loran practically spat out a mouthful of old blood, wondering what the spy chief's face would look like when he was considered to be good at the field of coaxing women.

She endured the pain and slowly laid down, "Tatsuha, I'm not angry, on the contrary, I'm thankful to you."

"Because ...... Qian Xu."

"Well, thank you for not revealing me."

Tatsusa lowered his head slowly closed the glasses case and put it on Loran's dresser.

He turned his back to Loran and said, "Is your refusal to tell Chisoku who you are because of your princess status or because of your marriage to me?"

Loran opened her mouth, but there was no way to answer.

What could she say? Could she tell Tatsusa both reasons? Because the identity was fake and the marriage was also fake, she didn't want to deceive Qian Xu and could only say nothing.

Tatsuya turned around and looked at her expressionlessly, "Deception is like quicksand, no matter what you want, it can't be sustained."

Loran froze and fumed because she didn't want to deceive Qian Xu, so she kept deceiving him.

But what could she do?

Even after uncovering this deception, it was still a piece of quicksand, unable to support anything.

"You'd believe Zi Yanen's words?" Big brother, has your IQ been eaten by a dog?

"Everyone has their area of specialization, and this should be the area that Zi Banquet specializes in."