"Dead?"
In the transparent, pristine laboratory, Sheng Shishu's brows were tightly furrowed.
"I'll go to the hospital in a bit."
"Understood. You come back quickly too, it's been unstable outside recently."
"Then I'll welcome you back when you return."
After hanging up, his assistant spoke, "Professor, the transport team will be here in half an hour, you..."
"I need to go to the hospital first. We'll talk when I get back."
The assistant clearly hesitated.
In his opinion, nothing should be more important than the alien specimens. With such terrifying things around, they wouldn't be able to rest easy until they were dealt with.
Sheng Shishu was also very worried, but thinking about what he heard on the phone, he decided to go to the hospital first.
As he got into the car, his phone rang.
It was Zhu Zhu asking about the alien.
"Miss Gu, the transport people will reach the research institute in over half an hour. I have something to attend to right now and need to leave. If you have nothing else to do, you can come over first."
"Where are you going?"
Sheng Shishu hesitated for a moment, then decided to tell her what had happened.
There was a long silence on the other end.
Finally, they agreed to meet at the hospital.
Zhu Chongyan hadn't gone out much for a while to take care of the baby. When she heard Zhu Zhu was going out, even to visit a patient at the hospital, she showed great enthusiasm.
Zhu Zhu thought for a moment, wrapped the baby snugly, and the family of three went to the hospital together.
Upon arriving at the hospital, they placed the baby in a stroller and pushed it inside.
As they passed through the lobby, Zhu Chongyan's eyes caught a glimpse of a figure, but she didn't see clearly and didn't think much of it.
They went to the hospital room Sheng Shishu had mentioned. Several burly men in black stood outside, and the faint sound of a woman's crying could be heard from within, sounding extremely sorrowful.
"Who's here?"
Sheng Shishu quickly walked over, "Miss Gu, you're here. Is this... your child?"
"Yes." Zhu Zhu walked in, "I was bored at home, so I brought her out for a walk."
A baby not even a month old wouldn't understand boredom. Sheng Shishu thought she was talking nonsense.
"Mr. Zhu." He greeted Zhu Chongyan and led them back to the ward.
The VIP ward had only one bed. Lying on it was an old man who looked on his last breath, with white hair, loose skin, yellow eyes, and a cloudy gaze.
However, according to Sheng Shishu, this person had been a handsome young man in his twenties before yesterday.
In the ward, besides them, there were four other people: a middle-aged couple, a girl in her early twenties, and a child a few years old.
The middle-aged woman was the one who had been crying earlier.
The man's face was also grim. Seeing them enter, he looked surprised, "Xiao Chi, who is this?"
Sheng Shishu said, "This is my friend, Miss Gu Zhu Zhu, the chairman of Future Star. This is her husband."
He deliberately stated Zhu Zhu's identity, clearly with some ulterior motive.
The man's expression was surprised, "So you are Miss Gu. Seeing you is better than hearing about you. Please forgive us, our family just returned from abroad today. We heard you are a great benefactor to all of us, and it's an honor to meet you."
The woman sobbed unintelligibly, while the young girl looked at her with disbelief and admiration. Her voice trembled slightly as she spoke to Zhu Zhu.
"You, you are so young! And so capable!"
"Thank you," Zhu Zhu smiled, "You are very beautiful too."
After a brief exchange, they began discussing the person in the bed.
"Uncle Fu is my elder. This is their younger son, Fu Yujun. And that," he pointed to the person on the bed, "is the eldest son of the Fu family."
"The situation is as I told you on the phone. He returned from abroad yesterday and stayed at the Sheng Lan International Hotel last night. This morning, someone broke into his room, killed one of his bodyguards, and turned him into this state."
"Did anyone see the killer? Is there any surveillance?"
Sheng Shishu lowered his head, "The hotel's surveillance cameras were all broken. The receptionist and a cleaner saw the person, but they've also had mental breakdowns and are speaking incoherently. The receptionist said the person was looking for their cat."
"Cat?"
The little boy suddenly said, "My brother sent me a message yesterday. It was a black cat. I was on the plane then and didn't see it. I only saw it today."
"Let me see."
The little boy took out his phone and found the photo.
It was a completely black cat, with no distinguishing features other than being small and cute. It wasn't an expensive breed.
From this single photo, Zhu Zhu couldn't discern anything.
She felt it would be more appropriate to ask the person involved directly.
However, the person in the bed looked like he could die at any moment. If he weren't on an oxygen mask, he'd probably stop breathing within minutes.
"Can I ask him a few questions?"
"Given his current condition, he probably can't answer."
"It's alright." Zhu Zhu asked them to leave for a moment, removed his oxygen mask, and used a bit of her spiritual power to revive him for questioning.
Soon, she got the answers she wanted.
"You can come in now."
The others returned to the room. Sheng Shishu asked anxiously, "How is it? Can he be saved?"
Zhu Zhu felt he had misunderstood something. She wasn't here to save people.
"If the killer can be found, maybe there's hope." She then asked, "The people transporting that tiger should have arrived by now, right?"
"Yes." Sheng Shishu glanced at his watch, "They should have arrived about twenty minutes ago."
"Call them and tell them to activate the defenses."
"Why?" Sheng Shishu asked while complying.
However.
"Bang!"
"Hello, what's wrong!"
"Someone has broken in!" Su Dan Novel Network
With another loud bang, there was silence from within.
Sheng Shishu panicked, "The research institute is in trouble, I need to go back!"
"Wait." Zhu Zhu took out two magnetic discs and handed them to Zhu Chongyan, "Don't run around. Wait for me to come back with the baby."
"I'll go with you."
They quickly left the hospital and sped back to the research institute.
The army had already surrounded the entire research institute.
Energy fluctuations of a special nature were coming from inside. Zhu Zhu grabbed Sheng Shishu, who was trying to rush in, "You can't deal with her. Stop them and don't let anyone in."
With that, she walked straight in.
The moment she stepped into the laboratory, a long sword flew out, constantly guarding her side. The person and the sword quickly reached the laboratory where the big tiger was kept.
Thanks to the two magnetic discs, the woman couldn't open the cage. The magnetic field lacked its initial form, and her abilities were blocked.
"Who are you?"
The woman turned around and stood up. The patterns on her white robe flowed like water ripples as she moved, looking incredibly mystical.
She scrutinized Zhu Zhu for a long time, her gaze growing more confused.
"And you? You don't have the initial form."
"Zhu Zhu."
The woman frowned, clearly not recognizing the name.
"Did you kill my pet?"
"You mean those monsters?"
"Yes." She walked over, "Did you really kill them?"
"I did."