From Apocalypse Boss to Farmer: My Vegetables Make Me Stronger!-Chapter 225 - 216: Matters of the Past

Ye Junhan’s background?

Gu Xi glanced at Yang Chi in surprise.

Li Ming had personally cleaned up all traces of Ye Junhan’s background. ’With Li Ming’s methods, how could Yang Chi possibly have found anything?’

’Heh, this kid has some skills.’

Seeing that she was indeed interested, Yang Chi quickly opened his personal terminal and shared a file marked "Top Secret" with Gu Xi. "Gu Xi, I found this while I was backing up some data..."

He pointed to a photo on the Light Screen and said, "This person is Ye Xun, a very famous biologist before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse began, he participated in the formation of the Abnormal Ability Research Institute with the support of the Ye Family and became one of its three deputy directors. But a few years later, he disappeared..."

’So that’s how it is.’

Gu Xi’s gaze fell on the photo of Ye Xun. ’No wonder Yang Chi suspected that Ye Junhan’s background was related to this Mr. Ye.’ No matter how capable Li Ming was, he was still young when Mr. Ye disappeared, and there were many things beyond his reach.

By the time Li Ming had the ability to investigate, some of the information had long been buried by time...

Like this file right in front of her.

The Ye Xun in the photo looked even more like Ye Junhan than the face she’d seen in the vegetative state.

It was no wonder Yang Chi began to question Ye Junhan’s background after seeing this photo.

After quickly reading through the file about the lab, Gu Xi thought for a moment, then looked up and asked Yang Chi, "What else did you find besides this?"

There was a lot more.

Yang Chi instinctively straightened his back, eager to prove his worth. "Gu Xi, the information about this ’New Human’ experiment has been sealed by the military, so I don’t know much about it."

"However, while I was looking into this Mr. Ye, I did find some interesting things..." At this point, Yang Chi deliberately paused.

When he saw Gu Xi look over, Yang Chi continued, "Back when Mr. Ye disappeared, he supposedly had an eight-year-old son... It’s said that he had a premonition before the incident and hastily entrusted his only son to his best friend."

"Gu Xi, do you know who that was?" he asked, deliberately trying to build suspense.

But Gu Xi just gave him a slightly strange look and asked in return, "Where did you get all this information?" ’Why does it sound like a piece of gossip?’

Yang Chi lifted his chin, looking both reserved and smug. "The Abnormal Ability Research Institute has a small internal forum. I secretly hacked into their server and focused on browsing through messages from the ten years before the apocalypse..."

But Gu Xi suddenly realized something was wrong.

Having grown up in the institute, she naturally knew about that small internal forum.

But according to Xv Yiyisan, after she disappeared, someone had tampered with that server to erase all existence of the Blood-colored Asura... Logically, all that old data should have been long gone.

’So how did Yang Chi find it?’

After thinking for a moment, she asked Yang Chi again, "What else did you find?"

Yang Chi was confused. He looked up at Gu Xi and asked tentatively, "Gu Xi, what are you referring to specifically?" The forum content was all over the place; he really couldn’t guess what she might be interested in.

Gu Xi: "...It’s nothing, just keep talking." ’I hope I’m just overthinking this. But if someone really did leave something on that server, who could it have been?’

’And what was their purpose?’

’Was it so that the Blood-colored Asura could one day reappear before the world?’

Gu Xi suddenly thought of the impostors Yun Ye had... ’So, back then, when those people were trying to erase my existence, did Yun Ye leave a "backdoor" on the forum’s server?’

Seeing the strange look on her face, Yang Chi didn’t dare build suspense this time and said directly, "Gu Xi, I found some gossip in the forum’s old chat sections. It seems that back in the day, Mr. Ye and Dr. Qi were very close..."

But there was one thing Yang Chi couldn’t figure out.

In the year Ye Xun disappeared, the Ye Family hadn’t declined yet; they were still a very prominent and powerful family. So why would Ye Xun rather entrust his only son to a friend than have him raised by his own clan?

Gu Xi lowered her eyes and said softly, "That’s obviously because..." ’...that Mr. Ye had probably long since realized he had become a pawn in a power struggle.’

’That’s why he didn’t trust the Ye Family and, left with no other choice, sought out his best friend.’

’Unfortunately, he ultimately entrusted his son to the wrong person.’

Although there was no direct evidence that Dr. Qi was involved in Mr. Ye ending up in a vegetative state, the construction of this underground laboratory was clearly connected to Dr. Qi in some way.

Otherwise, how could Qi Xiang’s fingerprint have appeared here?

’But does Ye Junhan himself know about this?’

Gu Xi thought of the half-formed "vegetative people" she had secretly hidden away and sighed internally.

’Using the terrifying regenerative abilities of mutant plants to overcome the limits of human lifespan... who knows what kind of lunatic came up with that idea?’

Gu Xi frowned in disgust.

The file stated that this experiment had been suspended for many years. It was restarted thirty years ago.

Afterward, the experiment was officially named the New Human Project.

Gu Xi’s lips curled into a sneer.

If she wasn’t mistaken, this so-called New Human Project was probably intended for her in the beginning... or to be precise, for the Blood-colored Asura.

Because back then, she was universally acknowledged as the most powerful Wood Element user, and in the eyes of those lunatics, the most suitable test subject to be turned into one of their "vegetative people"!

’But if they want immortality so badly, why don’t they go under the knife themselves?’

’Why do they have to bring ruin to others...?’

Yang Chi glanced at Gu Xi in surprise.

He hadn’t quite heard what Gu Xi had just said. After a moment’s thought, Yang Chi decided to move on and continued, "But the strange thing is, I’ve checked Dr. Qi’s records over the years, and a little boy like that never appeared by his side..."

Although Ye Junhan bore some resemblance to Mr. Ye, their ages didn’t line up.

Yang Chi had originally guessed that Ye Junhan might be a descendant of that little boy from back then.

But judging by Dr. Qi’s attitude toward Ye Junhan over the years, he showed no sign of suspecting he was the son of an old acquaintance.

It was truly confusing.

"So, Gu Xi," Yang Chi looked at her and said hesitantly, "I’m actually not sure if Ye Junhan’s background is really related to Mr. Ye..."

But Gu Xi suddenly realized something.

’When Mr. Ye had his "accident," I was too young to remember what he looked like. But Li Ming was several years older than me; it was impossible for him not to remember.’

’Ye Junhan bears a strong resemblance to his father, and Dr. Qi was his father’s good friend. Seeing such a familiar face, there’s no way Dr. Qi wouldn’t have become suspicious... Li Ming is almost inhumanly clever. How could he have overlooked something that even Yang Chi could figure out?’

’Unless... he and Dr. Qi had already reached some kind of private agreement long ago.’

’Perhaps when Li Ming found Ye Junhan in the Hibernation Chamber back then, Dr. Qi had secretly provided a lot of help.’

’And then there’s Qi Xiang’s fingerprint, the activation mechanism for the underground lab, all the information that was revealed—whether intentionally or not—and his secret cooperation with the military...’

Gu Xi suddenly found that she couldn’t quite figure Dr. Qi out anymore. He seemed to maintain a reasonable, neither-too-close-nor-too-distant relationship with every party involved.

’And Li Ming...’

’It’s not a huge deal that Dr. Qi knows about Ye Junhan’s background. But why would Li Ming hide it from me?’