Lazily Yours.

"Mr. Xu… I don't remember you showing interest in my experiments before. How come you are here now?" Lyca asked as she removed her lab coat. She looked at Xu Jihan who walk inside the lab while she was busy.

"Am I not allowed to come here?"

She shrugged in response.

"Any good news?" Xu Jihan continued.

"What kinds of good news do you want?" she asked.

"Something about that experiment?"

"Oh. There's none." She rested her hand on the metal table. "Why are you really here?"

He pursed his lips in response. "The country fell into chaos right now."

"…" So?

"For some reason, I feel like it had something to do with you."

"…"

"Stop staring at me like that! Not everyone in this place is stupid."

"…" So?

Seeing the lack of reaction in Lyca's face, Xu Jihan felt even more irritated. "If you think you can fool everyone else then you are wrong. I will find out the truth! I don't trust you and I will not rest until you leave this place."

"Mr. Xu… did you forget something? You guys kidnapped me." Lyca said. "Did I plan the kidnapping? Did I plan to stay here? If given the chance, I would immediately run away," she smiled. "Since you are already here… Since you are already suspecting me. Why don't you just help me out?"

"Stop with these mind tricks. I know you are hiding something. You are succeeding in fooling him but you cannot fool me, Miss Huang." He squinted and walked towards her. "Once I discover that you have something to do with this, once I have the proof. You should just run and pray that I couldn't find you."

"Mr. Xu… you are scaring me." Despite her words, there were no signs of fear on her face. In fact, she was actually beaming at him. "Those words are just… making me shiver, my palms are sweating." Then she suddenly laughed and took a step forward, her face just a few inches away from his. "But let me remind you something… all the people that threatened me would always end up dead or miserable. I hope you will remember that."

Xu Jihan knitted his brows but he said nothing and left the laboratory room instead. Seeing this, Lyca snorted. It seems that Xu Jihan was a little smarter than she thought?

….

"Tell me everything." Xu Jihan said to the man following behind him after exiting Lyca's room.

"The chaos in the Aiba region and Saka region is intensifying. We needed the president. Moreover, other countries are condemning the act of killing that farmer. Human rights groups are pretending to care. They wanted us to step up or chaos would ensue. Also…"

"Also what?"

"I found a lot of social media accounts spreading fake news. Some news is outright bullshit and people believed them. The power of social media is very important in these games that the Shen Family wanted to pull off."

"Are you sure it's the Shen?"

"Yes. Everything started right after we obtained that armor. They are attacking us left and right with false accusations and trying to use public opinion against us."

"Is it working?"

"Please take a look at this." The man handed a tablet to Xu Jihan. "It's a petition calling for the resignation of the president who can't even show himself in times of crisis."

"There are more than one million signatures?"

"We're not sure if it's fake or not but yes. The numbers are right. This campaign started two days ago and the signatures are still increasing."

Xu Jihan's face turned darker. "Do you know who started this?"

"I cannot trace it. But it should be from the Shen Family. As you know they have a very good hacker on their side."

"Are you sure it's them?"To be honest, Xu Jihan is already suspecting that Lyca is working with the Shen Family. However, he cannot prove it. Moreover, that is just beyond logic. Lyca already poisoned the Shen Father and daughter. She is a very dangerous person to work with. Surely the Shen Family would not be too desperate to work with her, right?

Additionally, when they killed Shen Qui, they made it look like it was the Shen Family who did it. According to Xu Ke, Lyca thinks it was the Shen Family. At that time, Xu Jihan believed Xu Ke. However, seeing the current trouble they were in, Xu Jihan is starting to believe that Lyca actually knew it was them who killed Shen Qui.

Then why was she here? Was she here to kill them? Was she here to have her revenge?

If she was then that would be impossible to achieve. This place was heavily guarded. She had no weapons and Xu Ke confirmed that he took everything important to her. Right now, all she had was that ring— her engagement ring.

They already scanned that ring and confirmed that it didn't have any weapons or poison. Also, this facility is located in the middle of nowhere. No one really knows about it aside from the people working here.

"Sir, I just received a call. It seems that the Ye Family is also behind the sudden chaos. Someone spotted one of them in the Ibya region. He was using a different identity. The police are currently looking for him."

"Ye Family?" This has gotten more and more chaotic! "Why would they involve themselves in our matter? They are rich and they don't usually have conflicts with other countries! Send a message to their embassy. I want to talk to their representative."

"Yes, sir."

Xu Jihan got inside the helicopter that would transport him out of this facility. Without the helicopter, one cannot just get inside easily as the security was pretty tight.

Xu Jihan eyed the building just as the helicopter left. Right now, what he needed was something that would prove Lyca is somehow involved in all these things. His instinct about everything was just never wrong. He could feel Lyca in everything that had been happening lately.

And he hated that he couldn't figure out why is this happening.