Chapter 195 - Their Creations

"What?" Mian Bingbing vocalized the confusion and shock that everyone else had. This Ren Shanyue threw her Feng'er into a hellhouse and not even have proper eyes on him? Moreover, she was working with a Qiao Shan? No, no, wait… they made use of the Qiao family's channel to get Li Feng inside? This was… unacceptable! Li Heilong shouldn't be able to let this happen!

However, Li Heilong didn't even bat an eyelash as if he knew what happened. Of course, he knew what happened. Nothing happened to Li Feng that he wouldn't know—not after his son almost died pathetically in the paddy fields that night. If he had to bug Li Feng's gadgets, car, and room; he wouldn't hesitate. He didn't hesitate.

Jiang Yanyu was horrified. She was being blocked by Cherry Medical for some reason, but she didn't realize it was because they knew about Chuan Nayi. She had heard her daughter confirm that they wouldn't be exposed easily. Perhaps even Chuan Nayi was tricked by this woman…

"How villainous." Mian Tianni only hummed. "So we do not have any way to get Xiaodan out of the facility? Seeing that you're not yet ready to do so."

"It's best for him to stay there at least for the remaining of the month, actually." Ren Shanyue cleared her warning glare and looked at the matriarch. "The Qiao family and their allies are preparing for a large-scale takedown of big families. If they wouldn't use the Black March, the Wu family would be very instrumental. If we introduce Liu Xiaodan to this kind of mayhem, we only have two outcomes.

"One, Qiao Muwei will be able to get his hands on Liu Xiaodan. Two, Liu Xiaodan will start a killing spree, and neither the Qiao family nor the Mian family would be able to stop him."

The maiden tucked some hair behind her ear. "We need to resolve this first, or else we wouldn't know how much alterations would happen if things continued to cook under our noses. I'm also worried about this… Project Hades. I've never heard of it before, but the Wu family seemed to be saying good results are coming from it. Is that Cherry Medical's priority project?"

"This..." Mian Tianyu felt conflicted.

Jiang Yanyu was still glaring at this young mistress, but she cleared the glare when Ren Shanyue took a look at her again. She shook her head. "No, it's called Project Red Justice. I don't think I have heard of that Project Hades before. If anything, it does sound very scary…"

A sigh came from Mian Tianni. She didn't need to take a look at Wu Qianqian to know that she was rather disturbed again. It seemed like the Qiao family and the Wu family were serious when they said they would destroy the families. More importantly, it's not like they're waiting for Liu Xiaodan first before proceeding. She then moved her hand in a gesture. "Hideous is not even enough to cover what Project Hades is…

"Liu Xiaodan is Project Hades."

At this, even Li Heilong flicked his gaze at the older woman. He wasn't surprised, but it was intriguing… and downright worrying. This Project Hades was supposed to be the Qiao family's trump card, right?

Mian Tianni continued: "Project Hades started with Lengleng, our Qianqian's mother. The main goal of this project is to create a perfect entity to swallow all the abilities of ghosts and stronger beings. It was an attempt in creating an abysmal creature to consume everything in its path." She then closed her eyes. "The only downfall was that Mian Lengleng's strength was too overestimated.

"She failed the final tests and discovered that her power was being consumed by whatever they had placed inside her. It was as if the serum was poisoning the meridians of the subject should they go over the limit. That was also the time when Mian Lengleng escaped the Wu family, when she was pregnant with her little girl. It just happened that she returned to Wu Zhong in the name of giving Qianqian a simple life.

"However, she discovered about the inheritance of the serum and Qianqian's possible corruption. She ran back to the Mian family, but Father had banished her after she decided not to surrender Qianqian. That was how she found herself on the run with a nine-year-old child." Mian Tianni hummed. "To think that Liu Xiaodan would still be inheriting the serum… and even Lengleng's abilities…

"Everything that Liu Xiaodan can do… Lengleng had done them as well. However, instead of him just absorbing the abilities of the dybbuk, it seems that the dybbuk himself is sharing his abilities with Liu Xiaodan. I have a feeling that this was causing Liu Xiaodan's powers to transcend that of Lengleng's. None of us even knew how much he could take before he started mutating into a real monster… if Lengleng also had the possibility to..."

Ren Shanyue twitched, but her hand started to curl into a fist. "How… mutating?"

Mian Tianni stayed quiet for a while before flattening her hand on her c.h.e.s.t. "You see, it was not only Lengleng who had a strange power. Her sister, Chang'er, later developed a more bone-chilling ability… of gobbling ghosts. I figured both of them had been entranced by the Qiao family into taking serums for their bodies. Chang'er actually ingested so many ghosts in her system that her body started taking in the faded blood as her own.

"Before we knew it, she had lost her human shape and turned into a living monster. It's just that… her husband dealt with it using his two hands before we could do anything. The only thing we could save was her children, one boy and one girl. Both of them were born before Chang'er turned… and were heavily suspected to inherit the same serum. We didn't want another Chang'er or another Lengleng…

"So we… I… I had to drive them both out when they reached the age of sixteen. The council didn't have troubles as the two children didn't have strong inherent capabilities." Mian Tianni then curled her hands. "But, years ago, Qingtao started writing letters addressed to his mother but mailed them all to Feng'er. He said things about the Cherry Medical facility that took his sister.

"All these things coinciding altogether… it was as if the Qiao family had always been attached to the Mian family, latching on it slowly, just to see a downfall." Mian Tianni then suddenly had an epiphany. "Wait… could it be that they can use Qingwei's blood to enhance their new creations? If that's true, then..."

Li Heilong's phone started to ring, and he didn't even apologize for its sound or the disturbance it caused. He slowly got up, waving a hand for anyone not to help him, and walked away to pick up his phone. In a rather secluded place, he answered the call: "Mn, it's a good time. Chaos? That's fine. How's everything? Not good? Don't meddle with him for now. Report to me again when…

"Hey, look up a name for me since we're on the subject: Mian Qingwei. She should be a patient in there."