Huo Rou spoke with Madam Ren for a long time. After a lengthy phone call, she returned to her room and looked at Qin Ningyi with a strange expression.
Qin Ningyi was handling some matters. He looked up when he heard her footsteps. "A Rou."
The moment he looked up, Huo Rou's expression had returned to normal. Qin Ningyi walked towards her. "Kete is dead."
His expression was also a bit strange as he said this.
It turned out that after the people guarding outside the door had opened fire on them, BDD had initially tried their best to protect Kete and rush him to the hospital. However, the firepower outside was too intense, making it impossible to move.
BDD was forced to retreat. As they retreated back to the BDD entrance, their vehicle paused for a moment, and then Kete was thrown out.
Kete's eyes were wide open, looking in the direction of the BDD entrance. Amidst the continuous gunfire, he was shot full of holes.
With Kete dead, the BDD members had finally retreated safely.
"A companion who was destined to die and drag them down, versus their own safety. Of course, they chose the latter," Huo Rou said, unsurprised.
Almost everyone would think that way.
Only Ling Xiao knew that Kete had not been poisoned deeply due to his reduced intake, and could have been saved if he had reached the hospital.
Kete watched with his own eyes as he was betrayed by those he trusted most.
Huo Rou was looking up at the moon in the evening when Minister Zeng asked with a smile, "Xiao Rou, Kete's death, is it your doing?"
Huo Rou smiled and remained silent, only asking him, "Minister Zeng, is the situation in Yizhou really that serious?"
The intelligence department always had the most up-to-date information.
He put away his smile. "Yes."
The moon in the sky was dim, and it was obscured by dark clouds again. Huo Rou's vision was filled with darkness.
She clutched her phone tightly. "Compared to that drug virus ten years ago?"
Minister Zeng was stunned for a moment. Ten years ago...
Ten years ago, the country had successfully contained a virus spread through drugs. Preventive and curative medicines had already been produced and used without the public's knowledge.
Except for some special departments, no one would know about the drug virus that had almost spread ten years ago. Huo Rou, at her age, was only about ten years old back then. How could she know?
"What drug virus?" he asked tentatively.
Huo Rou sighed, tugged at her collar, and said into the phone, "Experiment 126."
She was concise, but Minister Zeng was greatly alarmed. "How did you know?"
"Minister Zeng, you have all the intelligence data. Tell me, how does the situation in Yizhou compare to that time..."
Minister Zeng sighed deeply. "More serious."
These few words were so heavy that they seemed to carry the weight of countless lives.
"What about the people transporting things to Yizhou?" Huo Rou asked again, her tone also becoming heavy.
Minister Zeng hesitated whether to tell her.
Huo Rou gazed at the moon, a faint smile on her lips. "If you tell me, what are you worried about?"
"They are all infected and undergoing targeted treatment," Minister Zeng replied. "The effect is not good."
Although the situation in Yizhou seemed to be improving, that was only for the initial batches of infections, and it was merely a temporary relief. The people who transported things in later almost went with the determination to die.
"The virus is mutating rapidly, and the newly infected are more severe," this was the news Minister Zeng and his colleagues had received.
"I understand."
Huo Rou thanked him and hung up the phone.
"Mom, now I have to inherit your legacy too." Huo Rou looked at the moon, which had reappeared from behind the clouds, bright and gentle.
In the past, her mother had looked at her with the same gaze.
"I just scolded him fiercely, and now I have to make the same choice he did." Huo Rou smiled helplessly, thinking of her own anger and impulsively shaking her head.
If Madam Ren hadn't sent her this message, she wouldn't have dared to inquire about the situation in Yizhou. Every time news from Yizhou reached her ears, she would return to that helpless night in her dreams, meaning she would once again have to endure the parting brought by death.
Qin Ningyi's voice, as he told An An a story, drifted to her on the wind. An An was laughing happily.
She also curved her lips into a smile. "This is good too."