Because of Me, There Was a Connection

Those who schemed against others could hardly escape being schemed against themselves.

Xu Qiuyan's mother had somehow captured Old Shu and Dan Zeng, but had she never considered whether people like them could really be caught so easily?

At least, it seemed to me that they had deliberately walked into her trap and allowed themselves to be captured.

Did that mean they were fully capable of handling any danger that might arise?

But if they could handle it themselves, why had they asked Fatty to drag me into this as well?

The reason I had come to this prison was because Fatty had shown up.

I looked at the two of them with a strange expression in my eyes.

I asked, "You wouldn't happen to be after the Heart Core too, would you?" I said that because, aside from the Heart Core, I could not think of anything else worth such effort—enough for them to willingly land themselves in prison and become meat on someone else's chopping block.

At my question, Old Shu's expression immediately turned serious. He nodded. "That's right. We came for the Heart Core. But there's one thing you needn't worry about—we have no intention of competing with you for it. We simply believe that the Heart Core must not fall into that madwoman's hands."

The madwoman he meant was naturally Xu Qiuyan's mother.

At that, Old Shu gave a bitter smile. "I knew long ago that this woman was ambitious, but I never expected her ambition to run this deep. She wants to rule the world. She used Institute 507's name to establish the Administration Bureau, and on this matter, she even won the support of many of our departments. She also said that the idea had come from you. At the time, we thought that