The laboratory’s door and windows were closed, and even the curtains were pulled shut, completely impenetrable. The surveillance camera installed in the corner of the room had been taken down and Song Baicheng couldn’t monitor this area any longer. Fan Fan had made these many preparations, all to gather Xia Lei’s sample.

“I’m ready. Are you ready?” Fan Fan looked at Xia Lei lovingly under the light.

“What samples are you going to collect?” Xia Lei had actually already guessed it, and he smiled naughtily.

Fan Fan rolled her eyes at Xia Lei. “What do you think?”

“How are you going to collect it?”

Fan Fan came up to him and gently pulled Xia Lei’s zipper down.

“Won’t this sample be contaminated?”

“Well in any case, you don’t really want me to give Song Baicheng a real research report do you, my Strong Stick Superman?”

Xia Lei was speechless.

Fan Fan pressed close to Xia Lei’s body and bent down. She was going to use her little mouth to persuade Xia Lei to hand his sample over.

Footsteps came from outside the door. Xia Lei somewhat nervously looked over. He used his left eye, and the wall and door disappeared at the same time to reveal Song Baicheng.

There wasn’t a surveillance camera, but that didn’t seem to deter Song Baicheng’s interest. He approached the door quietly, a little nervously, and was extremely careful.

Song Baicheng came up to the door and stuck his ear to the door.

It was obvious that he wanted to hear what was going on inside the laboratory.

Fan Fan was still engrossed in her work but the eavesdropper outside had already made Xia Lei nervous. Luckily, Fan Fan’s process of persuasion was very tender. It wasn’t as exaggerated as certain types of videos made it out to be, or the eavesdropper would have knocked on the door already.

But they couldn’t keep silent. Song Baicheng wasn’t a fool. The fact that he had come here meant that he had good reason, and tricking him would not be so easy.

Xia Lei braced himself and pinched Fan Fan’s cheek. After he got her attention, he pointed to the door and then mouthed, “Someone is outside.”

Fan Fan was an exceptionally intelligent girl. She quickly understood what was going on and went silent for a moment. She suddenly said, “Mr Xia, you don’t need to feel awkward. This isn’t a big deal. You can pretend I’m a doctor from a hospital. Patients don’t need to be awkward in front of their doctors.”

Her reaction was pretty quick.

Xia Lei sighed slightly and said, “All right, I can consider you a doctor in a hospital, but please turn around. I really can’t make a sample in front of you.”

“All right, no problem.” Fan Fan bent her head again.

Not all girls were willing to do it for their men. However, Fan Fan was willing to do this for Xia Lei because Xia Lei was her hero, her superman.

“That Song guy makes me very unhappy. I don’t like him,” continued Xia Lei.

These words were clearly said for Song Baicheng.

“Who does he think he is that I’ll just cooperate with whatever he wants to do. Do I have to give him whatever he wants? How annoying. I might as well change Thunder Horse Military Factory into a factory that produces toothpaste.”

Outside, a cold smile surfaced on Song Baicheng’s face. He clearly didn’t take Xia Lei’s threat seriously.

Fan Fan looked up and added, “Mr Xia, Mr Song is also doing this for his work. He doesn’t have any evil intentions. Please be a bit more understanding.”

Xia Lei gave Fan Fan a big thumbs up.

Fan Fan stuck her tongue out and continued working him.

“Miss Fan, do you know where this Mr Song is from?” asked Xia Lei.

“Sorry, I don’t know.”

“Then forget about it, just pretend I didn’t ask.”

Outside, Song Baicheng nodded faintly. He was very satisfied with Fan Fan’s performance.

Xia Lei’s voice came from behind the door again. “A week, you guys all have to leave this place in a week... Nn!”

A heavy grunt came at the end of his sentence.

Song Baicheng smiled disdainfully and moved away from the door.

Inside the room, Fan Fan gave Xia Lei a big thumbs up and then ran to her work station.

Xia Lei walked over and lifted her short skirt from the back. Fan Fan had pleasured him so he should pleasure her too — it was very easy to pleasure her too. She was practically the easiest girl to please and satisfy in the whole world...

The same laboratory, one hour later.

Fan Fan looked at the analysis data, dumbstruck. After a very long time, she said, “Oh my gosh, his sperm actually kills each other. That’s insane. This means he basically can’t get a girl pregnant. If a girl did get his child, what kind of a monster would this child be?!”

This was a question, but a question with no answer.

“These numbers will have to be changed otherwise someone will probably arrange for a variety of women to try to become pregnant with Xia Lei’s child,” Fan Fan said to herself. When she said this, her cheeks reddened for some reason, in response to whatever she was thinking about.

At the same time, in the undergrowth behind the villa, Xia Lei quietly stopped using his X-ray vision and left.

Fan Fan changed even these numbers, cheating for him. Xia Lei really didn’t have much to worry about anymore.

The next day, Tang Yuyan came to Thunder Horse Military Factory and found the new workshop that Xia Lei was working in.

Tang Yuyan shoved a thick document envelope into Xia Lei’s hands. “This is the person you let me investigate. You can take a look yourself.”

“You settled it this quickly? You’re pretty awesome,” said Xia Lei with a smile.

Tang Yuyan didn’t speak. She just looked at Xia Lei with her dark, liquidy eyes.

Xia Lei opened the document envelope. He took a look, and stared blankly.

The materials inside the envelope had been downloaded and printed off the internet. There made up a very thick pile of paper, but all of the words had all been covered by a thick red line. Two big black words “Top Secret” were written on every single document!

“This...” Xia Lei doubtfully said, “What’s up with this?”

“I want to ask you what’s going on!” Tang Yuyan glared at Xia Lei and angrily said, “Yesterday, I was wondering why you didn’t get Long Bing to help you but got me instead. It turns out you wanted me to poke through a hornets’ nest!”

“Your words are a little... I just didn’t know this person so I asked you for help. You’re much more capable than Long Bing so who would I ask to do the job if not you?” Xia Lei laughed.

Tang Yuyan’s mouth quirked upwards. “You’re stigmatising me. I won’t be fooled.”

“How could I be stigmatising you? You’re the eldest daughter of the Tang Sect. Who would make things difficult for you?” Xia Lei said, “Do you still not understand? I got you and not Long Bing because no one would touch you.”

Although he said he wasn’t, Xia Lei had given Tang Yuyan a bigger stigmatizer.

Tang Yuyan finally smiled. “So now you know how good I am? You should have realised long ago.”

“I always knew of your strong points,” said Xia Lei.

“Tell me, since I’m helping you with such a big favour, how will you compensate me?”

Xia Lei’s hands were full of documents with coarse lines. He forced a laugh as he said, “Your help turned out to be like this and you still have the nerve to ask for compensation?”

“Why wouldn’t I have the nerve to? I don’t care, you have to treat me to a meal and then a movie.”

Xia Lei was speechless.

“Tell me, what trouble did you get into now?”

Xia Lei didn’t speak.

“The person who you told me to investigate has such a high confidential level that it’s beyond reasonable limits. In China, there are few people that we at Bureau 101 can’t investigate, but this person is one of them. I can’t look up any of his information and I bet I’ll be questioned,” said Tang Yuyan.

“Who would question you? Boss Shi?”

“I’m not afraid of my godfather scolding me, I’m afraid...”

Her phone rang at that exact moment. She took her phone out, glanced at it, then showed it to Xia Lei.

Xia Lei saw the name on the screen: Godfather.

He had just asked if Shi Boren would question Tang Yuyan when he had called. It wasn’t hard to guess that Bureau ZN had already found out about the records of Tang Yuyan investigating Song Baicheng. This made him feel very surprised because they were actually so quick to respond!

“Can you put it on speaker?” asked Xia Lei probingly.

“Of course, but you need to treat me to a meal and treat me to a movie,” said Tang Yuyan.

Xia Lei laughed. “No problem.”

Tang Yuyan put it on speakerphone and then answered her phone.

“You wench!” Shi Boren’s voice came from the speakers. “What are you doing?”

“Godfather, what are you doing? I’m on the streets. Is there an urgent assignment?” asked Tang Yuyan.

“You’re still trying to lie to me!” Shi Boren’s voice was filled with anger, “Would there be no sounds on the streets? You’re at Xia Lei’s place, aren’t you?”

Tang Yuyan glanced at Xia Lei and didn’t know what to say.

“Is he next to you?”

Tang Yuyan signalled for Xia Lei to speak but Xia Lei shook his head.

“Godfather, he’s in the bathroom. If Xia Lei were right next to me then what would our relationship be?”

“Don’t pull that shit with me! Stop investigating that person right now. You don’t have the authority, and less so for Xia Lei!”

“All right, all right, I get it. I was just curious so I wanted to take a look but I didn’t find anything. That person’s files are encrypted and has been modified. It was heavily redacted,” said Tang Yuyan.

“Don’t you know curiosity will kill the cat? This matter will end here. I know Xia Lei is right next to you. Tell him stop messing around. No one can help him with this!” Shi Boren’s voice was very stern.

“I will tell him. Is there anything else, Godfather?” asked Tang Yuyan.

“Come back here immediately!” Shi Boren hung up.

Tang Yuyan pouted, and looked unhappy. “He definitely got scolded, otherwise he wouldn’t get angry at me. I have to go back. You still have to honour what you promised me.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll call you after I work through the next several days,” said Xia Lei laughingly.

“That’s a promise.” Tang Yuyan left.

Xia Lei followed Tang Yuyan out with his eyes but he kept replaying every single detail of Tang Yuyan and Shi Boren’s conversation in his head, from the voice over the phone to the minute background noises. He quickly realised that another person had been standing next to Shi Boren when he was talking to Tang Yuyan.

‘Who is that person? Could it be Mr Z?’ Xia Lei couldn’t help but guess.