Chapter 440: Relations

"So far, Old Man Huang already moved his fingers a few times, but he is still unconscious." Lai Su explained as he stood next to the Old Man. "I checked his body, and It's normal. His kidneys were damaged though, but that was expected. However, his heart was normal. It surprised me. Before we started the dosage for the syrup that you made, his heartbeat was really slow." He lifted his gaze and stared at Lyca, hoping to know what she was thinking.

Lyca and Shen Qui just arrived and the two instantly asked him to tell them everything about the progress.

"I guess he would wake up in a week or two." Lai Su added.

"I didn't expect that he would wake up," Lyca said. Old Man Huang was already eighty-four! Usually, older people would easily succumb to poison compared to people in Lyca's age. She actually never expected that his internal energy would be able to save him from death.

"It's a miracle," Lai Su added. He was a scientist with multiple doctorate degrees. And despite this, he never guessed that the old man would still recover from this. He actually thought that Lyca would just let her grandfather die.

It was the most logical thing to do.

"How's Chu Munan?" Lyca asked.

"The treatment was a success. The cancer cells were gone. Of course, he is still under observation. We don't know if it will come back." Lai Su frowned. "Old Man Chu is already planning to announce the result soon. He is not going to name me, but I think people would still have ways to find out."

"Oh. You wanted me to— "

"No. I want you to hide me."

Lyca didn't say anything. She signaled Lai Su and Shen Qui to go outside of the room. "Hide you? I thought you wanted to make that pharmaceutical company who stole your result suffer? Did you forget that mockery that you received when they accused you of plagiarism?"

"No. Actually… the fact that I was able to cure Chu Munan was enough. At least… At least I know that I am a talented man. I am not the dumb person that those people ridiculed. Who cares about fame? I don't want any trouble." But most importantly, he didn't want to stop working for Lyca. He liked learning new things. To him, the world is still a mystery, and he felt that only Lyca would be able to help him achieve his dreams.

"Then I need you to do something for me."

"Of course."

Lyca smiled. Then she looked at Shen Qui. "Lai Su will be in charge of the upcoming exhibit. I want the best security."

"You mean…"

"Someone might try to steal our prototypes." Lyca shrugged. "I am not taking any chances." As they say, prevention is better than cure. "I want you to make something… some very dangerous security prototypes that we would show off to the people. And secret cameras, too. And my secret, I meant… secret. Something that even the guards didn't know."

"We only have a few days." Lai Su's lips thinned. He had some ideas about incorporating his radioactive in security, but this would need time and a lot of experimentations. He wasn't some god! He needed time for this.

Lyca bit her lower lip as she fell into silence. Actually, she just wanted Lai Su to do her job. "Alright… I will help you." She said when she realized that time is really the best issue this time.

"Ronan is going to help out too. He is pretty good in computations and of course programming."

Lyca nodded. "I have some stuff and design. We should get going." She said as if forgetting the fact that it was already eleven in the evening and she just arrived from a long trip. "We don't have much time left."

To Shen Qui's surprise, Lai Su didn't complain. Instead, he beamed and followed her towards the lab. This left a wry smile on Shen Qui's lips.

Seeing the two went to the lab, Shen Qui went to see Ronan and inform him to bring his computer to the lab. "What's wrong with you?" Shen Qui asked when he arrived in Ronan's computer room. "You came back ahead of us." Ronan and the others arrived ahead of them because unlike Shen Qui and Lyca, they didn't stop their car in dark corners.

"Nothing,"

"Nothing that concerns me?" Shen Qui leaned against the swivel chair next to Ronan's chair. He eyed the monitors with various codes and footages.

Ronan discovered with a sigh. He had been working with Shen Qui for years now, he felt that sometimes Shen Qui knew him better than Rue knew his own twin brother. "Shen Family… how are you related to them?"

Shen Qui crossed his arms across his chest. "Nothing."

"None?"

"Was it so important to you?" She Qui couldn't help but ask.

"Yes," Ronan said.

"Then... I have no relations to the Shen Family."

"Then… why did I found this in the black market?" Ronan pressed some keys and one monitor revealed a woman who looked a little like Shen Qui. "Sixty percent match to your face. And guess what? She was once the young miss of the Shen Family. Someone who ran away and worked as a singer in a bar where he met… someone from the Xu Family?"

"Interesting story," Shen Qui said. "How did you know that? I am sure the Xu Family wouldn't want someone to associate them with the Shen."

Ronan fixed his eyes at Shen Qui, coldness flicker in his pupils. "Because… my father was once working for the man that this woman slept with. In short… when the Xu Family got rid of the secret, they got rid of my father and mother too." Shen Qui stared at Ronan, surprised at the sudden revelation. "You know… you can only keep a secret when the people who knew it are… dead," Ronan added. "So… let me asked you again. Are you someone from the Shen family?"

Shen Qui looked at him. For a few seconds, he was silent. Then he shook his head. "No. I am not… someone from the Shen family." Aside from their blood he had nothing in common with those people.

Ronan squinted. "You do know that the person who was trying to find out what happened to this woman was Lyca's assistant, Yi'an. Right?"

This statement made Shen Qui silent. He didn't know that Lyca was still trying to know his background. Was it that important to her? "No. I am not aware of that."

"Then… she probably wanted to keep it as a secret and just tell you when she already found something."

Shen Qui nodded. That is certainly Lyca's style. She would be too lazy to answer some questions from him. So… he would want to compile what she knew and let him read it.

"This is why you hated authorities?" Shen Qui asked.

"Partly." Ronan clenched his jaw. "Partly because they are just nasty people. They wouldn't even blink when they betray 'criminals' who are working for them. The authorities are hypocrites."

Shen Qui frowned but said nothing more about the issue. Then he stood and told him about the things that Lyca asked. "You should go to the lab to start working on it."

"Now?" Ronan asked.

"Yes."

"I thought she was lazy! How come she is working overtime?"

Shen Qui just shrugged in response. There are things he didn't know about her actual intentions, and he was respecting her privacy. If she wanted to tell him something, then she would surely do it one way or the other.