Since ancient times, debts of feeling had never been easy to repay no matter where they were placed.
If she had not owed this kind of difficult debt, Spider Woman would not have wanted to wade into these muddy waters.
The current situation inside the research institute was also very complicated. When those big figures fought, one careless move would bring disaster to low-level nobodies like them.
Blood Shark was a living example.
Those who could not understand the situation often died the fastest.
When she saw this so-called Hide-and-Seek game, Spider Woman had already roughly guessed what trick Dan was playing.
She had also guessed that the bounty hunters who had accepted the employment, as well as those researchers, were all cannon fodder pushed out to the front.
Unfortunately, Blood Shark had only understood this logic right before he died.
And dying as a monster was probably the death Blood Shark least wanted to see. After all, he had provided the research institute with no small number of experimental subjects before this. They had all been hostages he had plundered from various planets.
In the end, he never expected that he would one day experience the pain those hostages had once gone through.
A cold, mocking light flashed through Spider Woman’s eyes.
Wen Yuzhi and the others were still considering whether Spider Woman’s words could be trusted.
The other party’s attitude was truly a little strange.
Spider Woman clearly had her own purpose. It did not seem to be only for the sake of repaying a favor, as she had claimed.
But if they carefully thought back on everything she had done before, it was nothing more than answering Wen Yuzhi and the others’ doubts. She had not done anything else.
From Spider Woman, Wen Yuzhi indeed had not sensed malice. It was as if her existence was only to tell Wen Yuzhi and the others the things she knew.
Ever since they had been trapped here, Wen Yuzhi had always had the feeling that they were being led by the nose.
Everything had gone too smoothly.
It was as if they were walking step by step according to some script that had already been written.
Dealing with the stray beasts outside, entering the building and discovering the research institute, along with those experimental plans concerning the stray beasts, and then Spider Woman supplementing answers to their doubts...
All of this seemed as if it had been arranged in advance.
Everything they learned was the truth inside the research institute, as if someone wanted them to uncover the research institute’s conspiracies little by little.
There were even witnesses and physical evidence now.
Wen Yuzhi and the others had even personally seen Blood Shark transform into a monster in front of them.
The research institute’s evil deeds were already settled beyond doubt, with conclusive evidence.
After laying everything out, Spider Woman seemed to relax a great deal. She did not say anything more, only dutifully led the way at the front.
She brought Wen Yuzhi and the others to the top floor of this building.
There was already a person in a cloak sitting here, seeming to have waited for them for a very long time.
“I brought them here,” Spider Woman said.
The other party walked straight toward Wen Yuzhi.
When he was still about three meters away from Wen Yuzhi, he stopped.
Of course, it was not that he did not want to take another step forward. Rather, he had sensed very obvious killing intent.
He was very certain that if he dared to approach rashly any further, the bodyguards around the young man might attack.
And these people gave him a very strong sense of oppression.
He could only stop and stand at a relatively safe distance, one that would not be overly offensive, to speak with Wen Yuzhi.
The other party removed the hood covering his head, revealing hair that was half gray and half white. Beneath it was a pair of eyes that left a rather deep impression.
His dark-brown pupils, from certain angles, looked like the eyes of some kind of beast, appearing both cold and suffused with a dangerous wildness.
And the owner of these eyes seemed uninterested in everyone else. His gaze remained fixed on Wen Yuzhi from beginning to end.
“It is an honor to meet you. My name is Fenrir.”
He introduced himself first.
Since the other party had shown a friendly attitude from the start, Wen Yuzhi naturally could not pretend he had not seen it.
He nodded and also responded, “Hello. My name is Wen Yuzhi.”
As he spoke, the young man hesitated for a moment. Under Fenrir’s gaze, Wen Yuzhi still could not help asking, “...May I ask if you know me?”
Fenrir’s gaze was too intense, full of exploration and curiosity.
Most importantly, he did not seem to be seeing Wen Yuzhi for the first time.
Hearing the young man’s question, Fenrir shook his head. “I don’t know you, but I know Bai Yi.”
Bai Yi.
Wen Yuzhi had not heard this name in a very long time.
Back then, Wen Yuzhi had suspected that it was Bai Yi who had sent him back to the Saint Clan from Blackrock Star. Unfortunately, there had been no news of the other party afterward. He had not expected to hear this name from Fenrir’s mouth now.
“The two of us could be considered colleagues.”
Seeing Wen Yuzhi look over, Fenrir smiled. When he smiled, two sharp canine teeth were revealed. Added to that faint smile, it somewhat softened the aggression brought by his appearance.
Xi Heyan’s gaze shifted slightly.
Fenrir sensed it too.
He tilted his head, raised a brow, and looked back at Xi Heyan with a hint of provocation.
The other party was not as good-looking as him, and his smile was average too. After carefully sizing him up, Xi Heyan no longer took the other party to heart.
Xi Heyan and Fenrir looked at each other for only a very short time, merely an instant, so almost no one present noticed the emotional change between the two of them.
Wen Yuzhi was more concerned about something else. “Where is Bai Yi?”
Fenrir replied, “He still has something to do. I’ll take you out of here first.”
The people outside had no way to destroy the energy barrier trapping them here, but the people inside could still find a way to shut it down.
Others might not have a way, but Bai Yi could do it, because the spatial energy used to trap them here originally came from him.
However, while Fenrir wanted to take Wen Yuzhi and the others away, someone else wanted to stop them.
“Good children, are you planning to betray me?”
A smiling voice slowly sounded from behind Wen Yuzhi and the others.
Hearing this voice, Fenrir and Spider Woman’s expressions both changed visibly.
“I knew it.”
Lottie muttered quietly.
“Knew what?”
Even though he knew very well that now was not the time for casual conversation, Fatty still could not help asking curiously.
Lottie said, “Adventure stories all say this. After the protagonist defeats one enemy after another, right when they’re about to escape, a final boss will definitely pop up!”
And the final boss they had to face now was not some monster.
On the contrary, the other party wore a white coat, with a shirt, vest, and suit trousers underneath. He looked elegant and proper.
Although he called them good children, the other party’s appearance was refined and scholarly, carrying the air of an educated gentleman.
And he was Dan Hecris, the third head of Polaris Life Research Institute.
The instant he saw the other party, Xi Heyan’s eyes sank completely, killing intent rising in their depths.
Wen Yuzhi had never seen Dan before.
But with only one glance, the feeling the other party gave him was as if he had been mixed with all the malice in the world, abnormally twisted and hideous.
Compared with Dan, even the giant tumor seemed not quite so evil.
It was clear that the other party was absolutely not as open and noble as he appeared on the surface.
Dan was also looking at Wen Yuzhi. His gaze made Wen Yuzhi very uncomfortable, as if in the other party’s eyes, he was an object worthy of praise.
And he did not like this gaze that could be called offensive.
Dan, however, seemed not to see Wen Yuzhi’s displeasure at all. He smiled and said, “In truth, we should have had the opportunity to meet twenty years ago. You should have belonged to us. We are the ones who are your family.”
The moment his words fell, the ones with the most intense reaction were the Saint Clan royal guards.
Without Wen Yuzhi’s order, they chose to attack Dan.
To the Saint Clan, little highness was their reverse scale. Anyone who wanted to steal little highness away was naturally their enemy.
When facing enemies, the Saint Clan would never show mercy.
However, the attacks of these Saint Clan royal guards were stopped by another figure.
The other party also wore a cloak, but during the fight, his cloak accidentally slipped off.
That appearance of silver hair and golden eyes made everyone present fall into a daze.
Even the Saint Clan royal guards attacking him froze.
Others might not be able to recognize the other party’s identity, but the Saint Clan knew very clearly. Silver hair and golden eyes... these were the characteristics of Salileno.
The other party was clearly a royal-blood!
What shocked the others was that if one looked carefully at the other party’s features and brows, they were actually somewhat similar to Wen Yuzhi’s appearance.
Especially Xi Heyan. He had seen Wen Yuzhi’s original appearance.
If the young man’s current black hair and black eyes were changed back to his original form, then standing together, the two of them would look almost like biological brothers.
Wen Yuzhi was probably the person at the scene who received the greatest shock.
He had never seen Bai Yi’s appearance before. All this time, Wen Yuzhi had thought Bai Yi was only an ordinary Saint Clan member.
But now, the other party’s hair color and pupils were clearly telling him—
Bai Yi was the same as him. He was a Saint Clan royal-blood.
And Bai Yi, who was being watched by everyone, also seemed somewhat unused to seeing the outside light. His body was tense, and his expression became increasingly cold.
After sensing Wen Yuzhi’s gaze, Bai Yi’s lips pressed even tighter.
Dan was familiar with Bai Yi. He could tell that Bai Yi’s current mood had become very nervous.
As for whom he was nervous for...
The answer was almost self-evident.
It seemed that this royal-blood cub indeed possessed mental energy with extremely high affinity. Its effect seemed even more outstanding than Dan had imagined.
Not only could it affect the Saint Clan, it could also affect other experimental subjects.
First was Bai Yi. The former could still be explained with the same bloodline. However, Fenrir and Spider Woman’s behavior clearly showed that they also had goodwill toward Wen Yuzhi.
This child seemed especially loved by monsters like them.
Thinking this, Dan’s gaze toward Wen Yuzhi finally gained a few traces of genuine heat.
He issued an order. “Bring our little prince back to me.”
“...”
Bai Yi did not move.
Dan raised a brow. “What are you waiting for? Don’t you want to reunite with your family?”
Family.
Although everyone had already predicted it, when they heard Dan say this word, they still found it somewhat unbelievable.
...Wen Yuzhi and that Bai Yi across from him were family?
At this moment, let alone the people at the scene, the viewers in the livestream room were also dumbfounded.
【Huh?! So cub actually has an older brother?!】
【Just looking at their faces, the other party and cub really do seem a little alike...】
【That Bai Yi should be from the research institute, right? Family, reunion... Is this going to be some melodramatic plot where two brothers were separated as children and then grow up to face each other with blades?!】
【No, don’t you think the silver hair and golden eyes are a really eye-catching feature?】
【I feel like there’s some race with that trait...】
...Which race?
If the various racial representatives currently in the meeting hall could reply to the bullet comments, they would definitely shout out those two words.
The Saint Clan.
Silver hair and golden eyes were the characteristics of Saint Clan royal-blood.
So that young man was the child Mansendis had spoken of, the little highness treasured by the Saint Clan like a precious jewel.
But...
What was the current situation?
Looking at the other silver-haired, golden-eyed figure on the screen, the various racial representatives’ minds also could not quite turn fast enough.
Why had another Saint Clan royal-blood suddenly appeared?
Everyone’s gazes could not help turning toward Mansendis.
However, the silver-haired sovereign had already left the meeting hall at this moment. The Saint Clan members behind him also followed him out.
Haisena hesitated for a moment, then chose to follow as well.
As for everyone else, they were still a little confused.
And on the rooftop of the building, upon hearing the word family, Bai Yi finally moved.
His figure vanished from where he stood.
The next moment,
Bai Yi appeared behind Dan.
