Lu Jin saw Gu Nianzhi frowning and thinking hard, so he quickly said, “I’ll go. If I go, I can just casually say something to get her attention if I want to, so she won’t keep an eye on Nianzhi.”
Lu Yuan sighed, then said disapprovingly, “That’s not good. You’ve been looking for many opportunities to get close to Qin Yaoguang over the years, but she’s too vigilant. She’s afraid of being ambushed and unknowingly hypnotized. There’s even an anti-hypnosis chip implanted in her brain. There’s no way to control her at all.”
“Then destroy her body.” Gu Nianzhi made up her mind and blurted out.
Her expression was stubborn. She raised her chin slightly and did not accept any rebuttal.
So what if she was her mother?
She thought about how this woman had used Gu Nianzhi since she was two years old to conduct all sorts of experiments that would cause great physical harm, just to test the extent to which her genes had repaired the damage to her body. Gu Nianzhi wanted to do all those experiments on this woman from the beginning to the end.
She would do the same to her.
Since she did not treat her as a daughter, she would not treat her as a mother.
Lu Jin and Lu Yuan looked at each other and smiled bitterly. “If it were that easy, we would have done it a long time ago.”
Gu Nianzhi: “…”
“… Is it that difficult?” She was very confused. “Does Qin Yaoguang have a lot of bodyguards around her?”
“Her security level used to be only one level lower than He Chengjian’s. Think about it.” Lu Yuan swiped open the IPAD and showed Gu Nianzhi a schematic diagram he had made before.
“Look here. Every time she goes out, these are the security guards around her.”
Gu Nianzhi glanced at it and was instantly stunned by the little red dots that were everywhere on the sketch.
There were so many people protecting her.
She said in surprise, “This woman is really afraid of dying!”
“Of course, she still has so many goals to achieve. How could she bear to die?” Lu Jin pursed his lips. “And she has several sets of bulletproof vests that I made back then…”
Gu Nianzhi: “…”
She was just thinking about using a sniper…
Well, forget about it.
Lu Jin’s small phone made of bulletproof materials could block even heavy sniper bullets, so his serious bulletproof vests must be even more powerful.
Gu Nianzhi mumbled, “She is armed to the teeth… are we going to use missiles to deal with her?”
“Don’t think about how to deal with her first.” Lu Yuan saw that her imagination was running wild so he shook his head with a smile. “It’s better to think about how to appear tonight. Just don’t let her be too surprised.”
“That won’t do.” Gu Nianzhi firmly objected. Her mindset was the same as Huo Shaoheng’s. She believed that the best defense was to attack. “I have to cut off her fighting ability before she comes back to her senses to deal with me.”
“Then what do you want to do?”
Gu Nianzhi pondered over it. On her first day at the He family’s residence, she had cut off Qin Yaoguang’s hand tendons so that she could no longer perform sophisticated brain surgery.
“… Does my genes have a restorative effect on other people’s physical damage?” Gu Nianzhi suddenly thought of this question.
She looked at her hands. Her fingers were straight and slender, and her joints were completely invisible.
She had been injured before, but there were no scars on her body, so she had healed very well.
If Qin Yaoguang had known that her genes had a restorative effect on other people’s physical damage, she would definitely keep an eye on her.
However, Lu Jin quickly shook his head. “Your genes are able to repair other people’s genetic defects, but it’s impossible for them to repair physical damage.”
“Huh? You mean, my genes are only able to repair my own physical damage?!” Gu Nianzhi’s eyes lit up, and she suddenly felt like she was alive again.
In this world, there were very few people with congenital genetic defects like He Zhichu.
However, because of various reasons, many people had their bodies damaged.
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t imagine what it would be like if her genes could also repair other people’s bodily damages!
Lu Jin explained to her, “Your genes can repair your own bodily damage, and this process requires a complete gene chain to work together. In other words, if other people also relied on their genes to repair their body damage, they would need all of your gene chain. — and that’s impossible. Because one person’s genes cannot be completely replaced with another person’s genes.”
Gene editing also involved editing, deleting, and replacing gene fragments, but that was only a small portion of targeted replacement; it absolutely could not replace all of the genes.
Gu Nianzhi breathed a huge sigh of relief and said with a smile, “That’s great. Does Qin Yaoguang know about this?”
“She’s not even sure if your genes can repair your own physical damage, let alone think so far ahead.”
Lu Jin was quite familiar with Qin Yaoguang’s way of thinking.
The two of them used to be quite compatible in scientific research. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have built the Gu-Qin lab together.
At this moment, Gu Nianzhi felt like she had “narrowly escaped death”.
Thank God, thank God, thank God she had a father named Lu Jin.
Gu Nianzhi stood up from the sofa and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room. She was lost in thought for a moment as she looked out at the blue lake scenery.
After getting rid of her biggest concern, her mind was obviously active.
Soon, she thought of an idea.
“Let’s stick to the original plan. I’ll go to the He family’s Christmas party tonight with Young Master He.” She turned her head from the floor-to-ceiling window, then smiled. “But I’ll be sitting in a wheelchair with a nasal oxygen tube in my nose and a drip on my wrist. I’ll just look like I’ve just been rescued from the brink of death.”
Lu Yuan’s eyes flashed. “That’s right. You should discuss it with Young Master He and ask him to cooperate with you.”
Gu Nianzhi smiled and went to call He Zhichu.
The two of them talked for a long time and finally came to an agreement.
An hour later, He Zhichu came to pick Gu Nianzhi up on the plane.
He Zhichu was mentally prepared, but when he saw her “fully armed”, he was still shocked and almost stopped breathing.
Her waist-length seaweed-like hair cut into shoulder-length strands, Gu Nianzhi sat in a multi-purpose wheelchair.
Her palm-sized face was pierced with a nasal oxygen tube, and her face was so white that it was almost transparent. It was obvious that she had just recovered from a serious injury.
Her thin neck chain protruding from her collarbone, she was wearing a simple black dress.
He saw that Gu Nianzhi’s eyelids were drooping, and she looked weak. This perfectly illustrated the situation where she had just been brought back from the brink of death.
“… Do you need to be like this?” If He Zhichu hadn’t seen Gu Nianzhi jumping around moments before, he would have been scared by her.
“Absolutely.” Gu Nianzhi patted her leg. There was a soft, ashy grey blanket draped over it that matched her black dress perfectly.
He Zhichu shook his head speechlessly. He pushed her wheelchair and walked into the elevator.
After they got out of the elevator, a few guards came over with bulletproof black umbrellas. They covered He Zhichu and Gu Nianzhi and escorted them to the bulletproof car.
Gu Nianzhi had discussed this with He Zhichu beforehand. He Zhichu knew that Gu Nianzhi was going to the capital in a wheelchair, so he drove a large SUV that could carry the wheelchair directly to the capital.
The group quickly arrived at the airport and boarded He Zhichu’s private plane to fly to the capital.
Their private plane had just taken off when Lu Yuan and Lu Jin also arrived at the airport and took their own private plane to fly to the capital.
It was already five o’clock in the afternoon when the plane arrived at the capital airport.
The He family’s Christmas party started at seven o’clock in the evening.
He Zhichu took her directly back to the He family’s mansion.
Gu Nianzhi had been pushed back in a wheelchair and had even taken a nap. To outsiders, she had been sent here in a “coma”.
Qin Yaoguang had originally not wanted to go to the He family’s Christmas party, but her father had already reported her name, so she was throwing a tantrum.
“I said I’m not going. Why do you have to force me? !” She smashed a Tang tricolor horse antique decoration on the Treasure Pavilion.
“Because you divorced General He, it’s all the more reason for you to attend this party today! Our Qin family relies on ourselves to stand at the top of this country. You and General He parted on good terms, so it won’t affect our business relationship.” Old Master Qin tried his best to persuade Qin Yaoguang, “Stop fooling around. Go change your clothes.”
Qin Yaoguang was also very stubborn. She sneered and took another suet jade tube from the treasure pavilion. Without looking, she threw it on the ground. “I’m not going. What can you do? !”
Old Master Qin was so angry that his liver hurt. He grinned and said,”… Take it easy. This is a suet jade from the Song dynasty. You can’t even buy it with money!”
Qin Yaoguang was about to sneer at him when Wen Shouyi knocked on the door and said urgently, “Auntie Qin! Gu Nianzhi has appeared!”
“Where is she? !” Qin Yaoguang’s eyes darted over. “Is she not dead? !”
“No, but she hasn’t recovered from her serious injury. She seems to have just come out of the operating room. She’s in a wheelchair with a nasal oxygen tube inserted. She’s been unconscious for the whole time.”
Wen Shouyi quickly told Qin Yaoguang the news she had heard.
“How do you know so much? Is it fake news?” Qin Yaoguang frowned.
“Of course not.” Wen Shouyi lowered her voice and quickly glanced at Old Master Qin, who was standing next to her. She whispered, “My father told me. He saw it when he was building a bush at the gate…”
Wen Shouyi’s parents were both gardeners from the He family. Although she had been kicked out of the He family, her parents were still gardeners in the He family, so they didn’t get kicked out.
Because her parents’ status was too low, they couldn’t even enter the main entrance of the house, so the He family didn’t bother to kick them out.
As Wen Shouyi spoke, she showed Qin Yaoguang a photo that her father had secretly taken.
In the photo, He Zhichu was carefully pushing a wheelchair past the flower path.
The setting sun, casting a shadow over Gu Nianzhi, who was standing in front of him, shone from behind him.
Gu Nianzhi, who was wearing a black dress, looked even paler. She tilted her head and leaned against the back of the wheelchair without moving at all. Not only was there an oxygen tube on her face, but there was also an IV drip in her hand.
Qin Yaoguang’s pupils dilated abruptly, but she soon let go and said as if nothing had happened. “Since she’s here, I’ll go. After all, she’s my daughter. I don’t know how she survived such a serious injury.”