From Apocalypse Boss to Farmer: My Vegetables Make Me Stronger!-Chapter 165 - 154: It Really Is Him

Li Ming suddenly looked up, and for a moment, the way he looked at Gu Xi was strange.

After a long moment, he nodded. "There was someone like that. But, if I remember correctly, you were less than two years old when that Mr. Ye had his accident, right?" ’Maybe even younger?’

"Then how did the accident happen?" Gu Xi asked again, her eyes lowered as she fiddled with a small green sprout.

Li Ming looked down, hiding the complex emotions in his eyes. "I only remember that Mr. Ye suddenly vanished from the base back then. Later, I vaguely heard that he’d had some sort of accident, but I don’t know the specifics."

After all, he was just a six or seven-year-old child at the time. No matter how smart or precocious he was, there was only so much he could have known.

"But I remember..." Gu Xi frowned slightly, tilting her head to look at him, uncertain. "There seemed to be an older boy with him. That boy was very pretty. I think he even held me and gave me candy?"

Li Ming’s hands, resting on his lap, curled slightly.

He looked up, a complicated expression on his face as he looked at Gu Xi. "Xiaoxi, you..."

He desperately wanted to ask if she remembered something, but in the end, he couldn’t bring himself to ask.

In truth, those childhood memories were extremely vague. Gu Xi had forgotten them long ago.

But for some reason, these past few days, she kept dreaming of the past. In her dreams, there was Yun Ye, Ye Xin, Li Ming, and all her other childhood friends... and at the very end of the dream, that older boy would appear.

The older boy was very handsome. He not only held her but also secretly gave her candy...

At first, Gu Xi didn’t think much of it. She just assumed that seeing Yun Ye that day had affected her somehow, causing her to dream of people and events from the past.

But just last night, she suddenly dreamed that the older boy had grown up, becoming a tall young man with a blurry face.

Strangely, even though she couldn’t see the young man’s face clearly, Gu Xi’s mind subconsciously jumped to Ye Junhan.

After waking up, Gu Xi thought back carefully. There really had been a very friendly, handsome older boy like that in her childhood...

Coincidentally, they both had the surname Ye.

Although their ages didn’t match up...

Li Ming’s unusual silence made Gu Xi hesitate for a moment before she finally asked the question, "Is it him?"

Li Ming was silent again.

Gu Xi sighed. "Ye Junhan is that older boy from back then. He’s the son of the Mr. Ye who disappeared, isn’t he?"

After a long silence, Li Ming forced a smile and tried to brush it off. "Xiaoxi, what makes you think that? Everyone watched Jun Han grow up. His age..."

"Ming," Gu Xi suddenly cut him off. She looked at him, her expression serious. "You once taught me that sometimes, an explanation is just a cover-up..."

Li Ming fell silent.

Gu Xi lowered her eyes.

’So it really is him.’

Ye Junhan was the older boy from all those years ago.

After a moment, she looked up at Li Ming, her expression extremely serious. "Ming, I want to know what’s really going on."

After a long silence, Li Ming looked up and said:

"Xiaoxi, you’re right. Ye Junhan is that child from back then."

Gu Xi raised an eyebrow slightly.

Li Ming seemed lost in thought. "When the apocalypse suddenly descended, humanity faced a great catastrophe. How to deal with the end of the world became the biggest problem facing everyone."

Back then, the higher-ups at the Abnormal Ability Research Institute had differing opinions on the matter.

One faction, led by the Chen sisters, was ambitious. They were determined to create the world’s strongest ability users to wipe out the zombies and restore peace to the world...

The other faction was led by Mr. Ye. They believed that humanity, at its current stage, was likely no match for the zombies. To avoid total annihilation and the extinction of the human race, they advocated for creating Hibernation Chambers. They proposed the concept of freezing people to preserve some of humanity’s bloodline...

Later, the two factions fought, and the base descended into chaos...

"So, in the end, Mr. Ye was the one who lost, right?" Gu Xi picked up where he left off, asking Li Ming.

"That’s right." Li Ming lowered his gaze, his hand tapping on the armrest of his wheelchair. "But I don’t know the specific details of what happened back then."

Much of what he knew was pieced together afterward from clues and traces left behind from that time.

"Then what about Ye Junhan?" Gu Xi asked.

Li Ming explained, "Although Mr. Ye was defeated, his Hibernation Chamber project was a success..."

At that time, no one knew that Mr. Ye had secretly and successfully developed a Hibernation Chamber. Before his accident, he had frozen his only son and hidden him in a place no one would ever think to look.

"Then how did you find Ye Junhan?" Gu Xi asked. "You said he was your man."

’That means Li Ming must have been the first person to find Ye Junhan.’

"That’s a long story." Li Ming sighed and looked up at Gu Xi. "Xiaoxi, after your accident, the first people I suspected were that group from the Abnormal Ability Research Institute..."

Later, he voluntarily joined the base’s intelligence department and used swift, decisive methods to quickly seize control of the entire intelligence agency.

Afterward, while going through some old files from years ago, Li Ming accidentally discovered a few clues...

After analyzing the old files and comparing them with some resource consumption records, he began to suspect that Mr. Ye’s Hibernation Chamber project had actually succeeded.

But at the time, Li Ming’s focus was entirely on Gu Xi’s disappearance. When he made this discovery, he started to wonder. Gu Xi had never reappeared; could she have been put into one of these Hibernation Chambers, frozen, and hidden somewhere?

’Was that why they could never find any trace of her?’

Following this line of investigation, Li Ming didn’t find Gu Xi, but he did unexpectedly find a child.

Ye Junhan.

It just so happened that the Abnormal Ability Research Institute was about to restart the G01 project, Ye Xin’s actions were becoming increasingly radical, and the other teammates were all going their separate ways... After investigating Ye Junhan’s ability, Li Ming quietly pushed him in front of Ye Xin.

Gu Xi fell silent after hearing his story.

’To think that she and Ye Junhan had such a history together.’

After a moment, she looked up and asked Li Ming, "Does he... know?"

Li Ming slowly shook his head. "When I found him, he wasn’t in good condition. After I took him out of cryostasis, I discovered the boy had lost his memories..."

Even after so many years, Li Ming had recognized Ye Junhan at a glance.

After all, he had cherished little Gu Xi like the apple of his eye since they were kids. If any little brat in the courtyard so much as looked at his sister for too long, Li Ming would have noted it down in his little book.

Ye Junhan was nice to his sister, and he was Mr. Ye’s son. The precocious Li Ming, who understood things beyond his years even as a child, had vaguely realized back then that letting this boy get close to Gu Xi might help her situation.

So, the young boy back then not only didn’t stop Ye Junhan from approaching Gu Xi, but was actually happy to see it happen.

Unfortunately, Mr. Ye’s faction ultimately lost the power struggle...

And his sister, in the end, became a bargaining chip and a pawn in their hands to fight for power.

Those people, under the guise of the greater good, brutally forged a lively little girl into the base’s human weapon!

Li Ming was too young back then. He couldn’t do anything but endure one inhuman training session after another, staying firmly by his sister’s side...

But now, things were different.

Li Ming lowered his gaze, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.