Chapter 527: Chapter 522: That Would Be a Lifelong Regret
"Where is the person?"
"Dead."
Ye Xingyan looked regretful, but his tone lacked any regret.
"Great-grandfather once lamented that if that guide could have brought something out, it would have been better."
Ji Ning glanced at him, "So the guide brought something out?"
Ye Xingyan shook his head, hinting, "No, but his body was taken for research. Great-grandfather discovered that kind of mutated virus in his body. During the research, some results were stolen by those with ulterior motives, which led to the mutant corpse besieging the city. Since then, great-grandfather halted the experiment and destroyed all the data."
"How did you find out about this?"
"I noticed something unusual from my father. I discovered he had sent people to the south to watch over a certain family. I later investigated that family and found that their children all awakened with Wood Element Abilities, and mutated ones at that. I asked my father, and only then did he tell me these things. That family are all descendants of the guide."
Ji Ning frowned slightly, "What about that family?"
Ye Xingyan shrugged, "I don’t know. Initially, my father had people watch over that family, but later, as the Ji Family Army became more unmanageable, my father shifted his focus to them and gradually paid less attention to that family. In recent years, we’ve basically lost track of them. But as long as they haven’t gone to the Outer Continent, they should still have superpowers. Commander, you should be able to find their information."
Ji Ning suddenly thought of someone, that unfortunate Wood Element Investigator, who came from a small southern city, yet could control mutated plants.
"Zero, pull up the family background of the newly assigned C-level Detective number 106 at the Beijing Security Bureau."
Ye Xingyan’s heart skipped a beat, "Commander, this person is..."
"Possibly the descendant of the guide you mentioned."
Le Wuyou, who hadn’t spoken, suddenly chimed in, "We can obtain his blood and analyze whether he has the same viral sequence in his body."
The room fell silent, Ji Ning turned to look at her. Le Wuyou’s face was emotionless, appearing extremely rational and calm, even less compassionate than her.
Ji Ning coldly asked, "He is a C-level detective in the special department of the Security Bureau. How do you intend to obtain his blood?"
"Naturally, by inviting him to Beizhou. The commander only needs to order him here."
Ji Ning, upon hearing this, smiled again.
Ye Xingyan felt a chill on his scalp and quickly gave Le Wuyou a look, "Xiao Le, the commander can’t just call people here whenever. Go organize some materials first; the commander and I have some other matters to discuss."
Le Wuyou looked puzzled but still closed her mouth, took her tablet, and walked out.
At this point, Ji Ning suddenly called after her, "Le Wuyou, take me to see your husband."
Le Wuyou paused in her steps, turning back in confusion to see Ji Ning already coming over to her, saying, "I have some connections with the You Family."
...
You Tianming was not dead, but had become a vegetative state due to physical reasons.
He could still communicate with the outside world using spiritual power.
Ji Ning looked at the man in the sterile capsule, wearing a specialized helmet connected to a Smart Brain screen, and asked coldly, "Who did this?"
"Tianming himself." Le Wuyou similarly looked at the sterilized capsule, her gaze finally not purely rational, but softened with a trace of warmth and longing unique to You Tianming.
"Ever since he awakened his powers, his health wasn’t great. He only improved after being taken to Beizhou by the teacher, but his power was too special; every use would harm his body."
"What kind of superpower?"
"Decomposing material structures. He can see the structure of all materials in the world and decompose them. It’s because of this power that Tianming and I were brought to Beizhou for research." Le Wuyou’s eyes were filled with unending sorrow, with a hint of regret.
Ji Ning was somewhat surprised and turned to look at Ye Xingyan again, "Then what about the Sun Family forcing him to jump off the building?"
Ye Xingyan immediately said, "It was all a misunderstanding..."
"You speak." Ji Ning directly interrupted him.
Le Wuyou explained, "Back then, Tianming was building for the Sun Family. He had just awakened his powers and found that some of their materials were substandard. He reported it to the Sun Group headquarters, but the one embezzling funds and skimping on materials happened to be a direct young master of the Sun Family. To protect that young master, they deliberately withheld construction payments and set up a trap, trying to force Tianming to conspire with them. Tianming refused, which is why he was put in danger. But they didn’t know about my relationship with the teacher, so the teacher sent someone back, allowing us to leave Hua Continent together..."
"I really didn’t know the Sun Family was so domineering. I had told A’Ming back then that the Sun Family’s character was not good, but who knew he still married into the Sun Family." Ye Xingyan added, exasperated yet not angry enough to hate.
Ji Ning asked again, "Why didn’t you contact your family after you left?"
Le Wuyou felt very guilty, "It was indeed not easy to contact the outside world from Beizhou, and we also feared bringing danger to them. But every month, I entrusted Xiang Wan to send money to them under the guise of Sun Family’s compensation."
Ji Ning: ...
Grandma Youle refused to spend money stained with her son and daughter-in-law’s blood.
That money, therefore, remained untouched, lying in the bank account all this time.
Ji Ning suddenly found it somewhat ironic, pursed her lips, and reminded, "Some truths shouldn’t wait until someone is gone to be told. That would be a lifelong regret."
Le Wuyou bit her lip and nodded slightly.
Ji Ning once again looked at You Tianming, lying in a capsule resembling a space pod, "Can he hear us now?"
"Yes, but his body is too weak. We put him in the nutrition pod to ensure his organs function normally."
"Then how do you utilize his superpower?"
"We used some methods from the Eternal Life Sect."
Ye Xingyan, knowing Ji Ning detested the Eternal Life Sect, quickly added, "We only used the memory extraction methods before, but ours are safer, designed by Tianming himself, and only usable by him."
"Is this a kind of human-machine integration?"
"Yes, we just need to show Tianming the objects here, and he can analyze the material composition using the Smart Brain, displaying it on the screen. It greatly reduces the consumption of his superpowers compared to before."
Ji Ning carefully observed, and You Tianming’s superpower appeared to be a special Spiritual Ability.
Because his physical strength was not great, nor did he have special means to train this spiritual power, every use of his superpower consumed a large amount of spiritual power, and his body couldn’t withstand it.
However, the You Family indeed had an extraordinary talent for material structures.
His ancestors used various terrains and environments to design architectural structures, but he could see the essence through the structure, even more remarkable than his ancestors.
Unfortunately, such an extraordinary superpower did not have a good body to support it.
It really was fate’s trickery.
"Have you had him analyze those viruses?"
Le Wuyou glanced at Ye Xingyan, who nodded slightly before she said, "A few years ago, Tianming analyzed the substances on the mutated corpses and found that part of the virus gene sequence matched your gene sequence highly."
Fearing Ji Ning’s anger, Ye Xingyan quickly added, "I suspect this is related to your experience in Region 318217 as a child. So, Commander, are you sure you were only entangled by mutated plants for a long time without any other abnormalities?"
Ji Ning thought of those tormenting plant fluids and suddenly had a thought:
Was it possible that she got a blood transfusion from the tree spirit?
"I’m not sure if my memory is accurate, but if there is a connection in the memory content, perhaps those viruses and I came from the same place."
Ye Xingyan didn’t understand why Ji Ning was convinced her memory was altered and asked, "Commander, aside from the plane incident, do you have any other evidence to prove your memory was tampered with?"
"The old professor’s dagger wasn’t in the right place..."
