Chapter 345: The truth of speculation

This ‘He’ is not used to describe a person.

In ancient times, the character ‘He’ usually referred to the third-person pronoun for general deities.

To put it simply, this character means ‘deity’.

However, in a world where science reigns supreme, there’s a massive team entering the Underground World to search for a deity—this sounds utterly preposterous.

Even Su Lan noticed something amiss, and it was all because of that character ‘He’.

At first, she also thought it was either ‘him’ or ‘her’, but then she sensed something was off from Liang Yu’s tone, and upon careful thought, it really could be the character ‘He’.

If it truly is ‘He’, then Liang Yu’s belief that this matter is related to the company might be true. As for why she doesn’t know about such things, don’t ask; the answer is simply that her qualifications and background aren’t sufficient.

An Jintong’s reaction here was quite normal; after all, she was the one narrating the events, and as the person involved, it was only natural for her to know the inside story.

It was only when Liang Yu pieced things together that he realized something was wrong.

Assuming An Jintong was telling the truth, then the modern people who went to the Underground World had the goal of finding the ‘He’ of the Underground World.

However, how could the Indigenous people not know about this for so long, especially their leader, who must be extremely clear about this matter?

Since this matter wasn’t even mentioned to Liang Yu, there must definitely be some trickery involved.

If there were no issues, Liang Yu wouldn’t believe it, and he thought of something that, when used as an explanation, made Wu Er’s hostility towards him much more understandable.

Firstly, Wu Er’s parents are indeed dead, and their deaths are related to the modern people at the time; Liang Yu does not deny this.

What he questions is, did Wu Er’s parents really die searching for those modern people?

Liang Yu also found the crux of the problem in the words of the Indigenous people’s leader.

Since they clearly knew the danger, how could both of Wu Er’s parents go searching for the modern people’s whereabouts? Was there no one else in their family?

Under normal circumstances, only the man of the house needs to be sent out; it’s believed that other families would do the same.

So why was Wu Er’s family so special?

They were willing to leave behind young Wu Er and elderly Wu Er’s grandmother, yet both adults in the household had to go. This is clearly unreasonable.

The only explanation Liang Yu could think of was that their parents and others died to prevent them from searching for ‘He’.

After all, it should be quite normal for Indigenous people to worship deities. For five years, they lived in peace until, five years later, these people found clues about ‘He’. Except for those who chased after the people who entered the abyss, everyone else was dealt with by the other Indigenous people.

Liang Yu felt this explanation was quite reasonable.

Just as Liang Yu was lost in thought, Su Lan’s hand reached out and waved in front of him.

“Wake up, wake up.”

“What are you looking at so intently?”

Then, following Liang Yu’s gaze, she found that his target was An Jintong, which made Su Lan unable to resist complaining.

“Indeed, all men are the same; they just like big ones.”

Hearing what Su Lan said, Liang Yu was utterly speechless. What was all this? How did it get dragged into this again?

He was just lost in thought; this Su Lan was truly toxic.

It was at this moment that Liang Yu said something that left both An Jintong and Su Lan speechless.

Liang Yu actually asked in front of them both,

“Su Lan, do you have any knockout drops, the kind that doesn’t need to be too potent?”

“Just like in TV dramas, the kind that makes people faint as soon as you sprinkle it on them.”

Hearing this, both of them rolled their eyes. Was Liang Yu even speaking like a human?

Su Lan thought he must have watched too many wuxia dramas, talking about fainting with just a sprinkle. Although technology is advanced now, aside from methods like electrocution to make someone lose consciousness, any drug inhaled still needs two or three seconds to take effect.

Su Lan was curious what Liang Yu wanted it for, but she didn’t ask. She went to the table, picked up her bottles and jars, and started mixing.

Watching Su Lan actually concocting knockout drops, Liang Yu felt a chill down his spine. Was this stuff really that easy to make?

Anyway, he couldn’t be bothered to care; as long as he could get his hands on it, that was fine. The ones in his backpack were too effective, and Liang Yu couldn’t accurately control the time for others to wake up. As a last resort, he just came to Su Lan to see if she had anything with less potency.

While Su Lan was preparing the knockout drops, An Jintong proactively walked over and spoke to Liang Yu.

“Thank you.”

“I never had the chance to tell you before, thank you for saving me.”

“I want to know, among so many people, why did you choose me?”

Even at this moment, Su Lan had to interject.

“Why else? He’s taken a liking to you.”

“An, look how beautiful you are now. You’re just a bit thinner from hunger, which makes your figure even better.”

“If I were a man, and you lived with me these past few days, you would have been eaten by me already.”

An Jintong, however, ignored Su Lan’s comment. Having spent time together, she knew what kind of person Su Lan was, so her gaze remained fixed on Liang Yu.

Liang Yu was also lazy; he simply used Su Lan’s words, repeating them verbatim. The meaning was clear: I desire your body.

An Jintong shook her head after hearing him, clearly not believing Liang Yu’s excuse, and even proactively started to undress in front of Liang Yu.

“Aren’t you lusting after my body?”

“Now’s your chance.”

Liang Yu looked at the sudden scene before him, adhering to the principle of ’no harm in looking’ and observed intently. All his thoughts could be summarized in two words.

“Nice shot!”

Su Lan also came over with the potion at this time, handed it to Liang Yu, and then offered a suggestion.

“Do you want to test the potency? You have two living people in front of you; you can do whatever you want.”

Liang Yu still didn’t respond, saying to An Jintong,

“Alright, don’t worry, the measurements have been recorded, there will definitely be no mistakes.”

“My eyes are the ruler!”

Who knew, An Jintong remained persistent, stepping forward and asking,

“So, why exactly did you save me? You said it was because you lusted after my body, and now she is yours in front of you.”

As she got closer, she took Liang Yu’s hand and placed it on her body, and Liang Yu, not being polite, tried the feel of it and gave an unbiased evaluation without changing his expression.

“Very good, well-maintained, and after the scars were removed, it didn’t affect the feel at all.”

At this point, Su Lan couldn’t stand it anymore. She took off her own lab coat and draped it over An Jintong, then said with some displeasure,

“I’m just puzzled, you’ve already lured her back, what else is there that you can’t tell her?”