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    ☆、Where are we going, dad 36

    “Okay, I promise you.”

    The man’s deep voice seemed to still be echoing in his ears, and his fingers stopped on the keys but did not press them for a long time.

    “Teacher Song?”

    Yao Ji was startled and woke up from her trance. She smiled apologetically at the students: “Sorry, let’s continue.”

    The soothing piano sounds flowed again, and she tried her best not to think about what happened that day, but everyone could see her absent-mindedness.When she got off work, a teacher asked her: “Teacher Song, are you feeling unwell?”

    “No,” Yao Ji said softly after hesitating, “I’m getting married, so…”

    “Eh?” Several teachers were stunned, and they all laughed, “This is a good thing.”

    “It seems that he was too happy and distracted.”

    “Congratulations, Teacher Song.”

    “Congratulations.”

    The feeling in her heart was complicated and hard to describe, but Yao Ji still smiled and accepted everyone’s congratulations.

    She and Gu Jingfei’s wedding is scheduled for next month. Like her, Gu Jingfei’s parents passed away many years ago. The two agreed to hold the wedding in a low-key manner and only invite close relatives and friends to attend.Yao Ji and Xiao Baozi have moved to Gu’s house. She doesn’t need to worry about anything, just waiting to be the bride.

    It was not that she was unhappy and looking forward to it, but her joy was mixed with a darkness that she herself could not express.Should her past and the secrets she carries be buried like this for the rest of her life, not even being able to tell the person next to her?

    Yao Ji has always been open-minded. Since she decided to be with Gu Jingfei, she believed in that man. If she trusted, why couldn’t she be honest?

    The repeated words kept tormenting in her heart. The closer the divorce was, the more anxious she became.

    After get off work, she did not go to Gu Zhai, but returned to the apartment where she and An An lived.There were still some luggage left in the apartment, so she packed her things and walked out. The alloy door opposite slid open, and Tao Shuning, whom she hadn’t seen for a while, walked out.

    “Miss Song,” he didn’t seem to be surprised to meet Yao Ji. His eyes fell on the luggage bag in the girl’s hand. He lowered his eyes, “You want to move?”

    Yao Ji was stunned. It seemed that Tao Shuning had seen the people from the moving company coming and going during this period. Thinking that she would no longer be neighbors in the future, she felt a little regretful: “Yes, I have troubled you so many times and I haven’t been able to treat you to a meal, so I have to move out now.”

    “It doesn’t matter,” Tao Shuning smiled gently, “I would like to ask, Miss Song… where are you moving to?”

    After thinking about it, Yao Ji answered truthfully: “I’m getting married, so I’m moving to my fiancé’s house.”

    Marriage… He lowered his eyebrows, and the look on the man’s face was the same as usual, “Really?” he smiled more gently, “Congratulations, Miss Song’s fiancé is the gentleman from last time.”

    “Yeah.”

    “You two are a perfect match.” He said softly. For some reason, his smile was filled with sadness.

    There was just a flash of sadness, but Yao Ji didn’t see it. After a few more greetings, she pressed the floor button and waved to Tao Shuning when she stepped into the elevator: “Goodbye.”

    “Goodbye.”

    The elevator door slowly closed, and the man’s face was obscured bit by bit in the gaps. Before the alloy door was completely closed, Yao Ji heard he seemed to say: “…must be happy…”

    #
    The elevator door closed, and the stairwell became completely quiet. He stood in front of the door for an unknown length of time. After a slight movement, the man returned to the room with stiff steps.

    The room is empty, and all kinds of supplies are packed in suitcases. If Yao Ji had just taken a look, she would have found that he was leaving here too.

    He walked to the table, picked up his personal terminal and clicked on a number with no name stored in the address book. He paused with his fingers, but did not make a call, but sent a message.

    The system showed that the other party had not read it yet. After a moment of silence, he dialed a number named “Dean Qi” in the address book.

    “Teacher?”

    “Yes, it’s me… I have some new ideas about the previous experiments… Yes… Yes… Yes… I think this is key…”

    “The result?”

    The hand holding the personal terminal tightened, and the corners of he’s lips curved into a smile. The smile was very light, but with a lingering coldness——

    “If this idea can be realized, our experiment has a 90% chance of success. You can tell the President’s Office that artificially creating Key through genetic modification will no longer be a fantasy.”

    There seemed to be silence for a long time. After a while, he nodded: “Okay, I will go back to Bolin tomorrow.”

    #
    It was almost dusk when I returned to Gu’s house after get off work as usual.

    The two buns were doing homework in the study room. Yaoji looked at the child once and heard that Uncle Fu said that Gu Jingfei would be back very late today because of something else. She nodded, strolled to the floor-to-ceiling window, and stared at the afterglow in the sky in a daze.

    The originally brilliant golden sunset was now a deep red, as if a prairie fire was burning wantonly, and it was as cold as residual blood.

    It was already late autumn, and she thought of that rainy night that day. It seemed that all the major turning points in her life had happened in autumn.

    When I was fourteen, my grandmother passed away, and the maple leaves in the yard downstairs had just turned red.After holding his grandmother’s funeral, Brother Shuning left the town and went to the capital Bolin to study. After that, they never saw each other again.

    And it happened to be late autumn when that incident happened. She was sixteen years old. She was an ordinary girl in a small town. Although she had no relatives, she had an uncle who had taken care of her since childhood and supported each other in her life.

    Neither She nor Uncle Wen thought that the man from Bolin would be the cause of the disaster.

    The cause was an armed conflict on the border.

    The racial hierarchy implemented in the United States has always made the alien species at the bottom of society very dissatisfied. Like the evolved species, most alien species are born through inheritance. If the parents are alien species, their offspring must also be alien species. It is not possible to become improved species through expensive genetic modification experiments like the original species, thereby changing the class of origin.

    This status quo of being “untouchables” from generation to generation has led to frequent armed conflicts among the alien species. Although the scale is small, it is no more than scratching an itch for the powerful state machinery, but it is a big trouble for ordinary people.

    The town where Yao Ji lives happens to be very close to where the conflict broke out. Brother Shu Ning sent a message from Bolin, hoping that Uncle Wen and she could temporarily go to Bolin, not only to visit relatives, but also to avoid the dangers that may be caused by armed conflicts.

    Just as they were packing their bags and getting ready to leave, Uncle Wen ran into his former colleague.

    The researcher went with the army to the conflict area. The government troops fighting the rebellion passed by the town and were stationed. By chance, they reunited with the old friends.Uncle Wen was very happy, invited him to his house for dinner, and introduced Yao Ji to him.Yao Ji still remembers that he was an ordinary-looking man with a medium build and a pair of tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses. Uncle Wen called him Qi Huilin.

    Thoughts were wandering leisurely, the room was too quiet, and the air seemed a little depressed because of the silence.Yao Ji sighed, turned on the video screen on the wall, and watched some relaxing programs to adjust her mood. She didn’t want Gu Jingfei and the two children to worry.

    She changed channels at will and when she tuned to the news channel, her hand suddenly stopped.

    The female anchor on the screen was broadcasting a news: “From our station, Mr. Qi Huilin, a famous biogeneticist, genetic modification experimentalist, and director of the First Genetic Research Institute, was murdered at home at 5 pm on the 16th. The police arrested the suspect on the spot.”

    “It is reported that the criminal suspect Wen is a student of the victim Mr. Qi Huilin. He has studied under Mr. Qi for many years. He currently works at the First Institute of Genetics and is a key member of a major experimental project of the institute.”

    “Wen tried to escape after killing Mr. Qi. After being arrested, he refused to explain the crime process and the motive of the crime. According to what our reporter learned from the police, in addition to intentional homicide, Wen also committed crimes such as forging citizen IDs and employing fraud through false identities and false IDs. Wen has been using a pseudonym while working at the institute, and his appearance has also been surgically adjusted.”

    When the broadcast reached this point, a photo of “criminal suspect Wen” was displayed on the screen. Although the eyes were mosaic, Yao Ji recognized the person at a glance——

    Tao Shuning.

    Wen had a fake identity and a fake ID, and his appearance had been surgically adjusted… Her mind was in chaos, and she couldn’t hear clearly what the female anchor said after that.When she first met, she felt that Tao Shuning looked familiar, but she didn’t look that way at all.

    Because if it’s he, why doesn’t he recognize her? Why don’t he recognize her?

    After studying under Qi Huilin for many years, she worked at the First Genetic Research Institute, and now she killed Qi Huilin. Thinking of the female anchor saying that he refused to explain the motive for the crime, Yao Ji felt cold all over and fell into the ice cave.

    She thought that the motive might be what she guessed. His motive, Brother Shuning’s motive, was revenge.

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