There was not a trace of human habitation on this planet, nor a single animal in sight. When 99 looked up, she saw a massive celestial body hanging in the gray-blue sky, several times larger than the star of the planet where she had lived in her previous life.
Only at this moment did 99 truly realize that she had come to an incomparably vast world. She was already within the boundless universe.
Before she could look any longer, Wu Yuan changed forms, scooped her and Wei Lanshan into his arms, and sprinted forward.
Wu Yuan raced across the wilderness for five minutes before finally finding the Ye Family's airship parked nearby.
Wei Lanshan brought 99 aboard the airship and cut off the signal sources of all the robots left behind to guard it.
She then set the airship's speed to maximum, selected a coordinate at random, had Wu Yuan enter the airship's flight system, and severed the airship's connection to the mothership.
Only after the airship had left the detection range of satellite Q68 did Wei Lanshan finally let out a breath of relief. They were safe for the moment; Tang Yongyu would not catch up so quickly.
Tang Yongyu still had to oversee Ye Zhenwei's treatment. There were three sets of medication in total, requiring ten days. Two days of treatment had already passed, so they had eight days to shake off Tang Yongyu's pursuit.
Wei Lanshan had calculated this in advance. Only this way could they gain more time to escape the Tianning Star System.
As for Lin Zeyu and the others, that would depend on their luck.
When 99's experiment had succeeded, Wei Lanshan had already released the data to the other five people. She had also given Lin Zeyu a data package and a Space Locket. Whether he would use them, and whether he could escape, would be up to fate.
Wei Lanshan had fulfilled the promise she had made to the Ye Family. As for Tang Yongyu wanting to bury her along with the laboratory, sorry, but Wei Lanshan was not someone who meekly accepted whatever was done to her.
Moreover, Wei Lanshan had remembered this debt. Once she had the chance, she would make Tang Yongyu and the Tang Family pay for it.
Who did Tang Yongyu think she was? Just because she had a gifted daughter, did she think she could try to kill the Alliance Chief?
Wei Lanshan looked at 99 beside her, planning to settle 99 somewhere safe before returning to the Alliance to settle accounts with Tang Yongyu.
Inside the airship, Wei Lanshan met 99's gaze. 99 looked back at her as well.
After they stared at each other for a moment, Wei Lanshan said, "I know you're very smart, and that you understand everything I say. My name is Wei Lanshan."
99 pressed her lips together and remained silent. She was thinking. Those people had clearly intended to kill both of them, which was why Wei Lanshan had taken her and fled.
"Hello, Doctor Wei."
The child's voice was pleasant to hear. Although Wei Lanshan had caught her talking to her companion robot, Sixi, countless times through surveillance footage, this was still the first time she had formally spoken to 99 face-to-face.
During the experiments, drug tests, and gene editing, no matter how much pain she was in, she would only let out a soft grunt or two.
At first, she had tried to negotiate with Wu Yuan. After several attempts, she realized it was useless and stopped struggling. Her obedience made Wei Lanshan feel cruel.
Wei Lanshan looked at the airship's Star Chart display and said calmly, "The road ahead is unknown. I can't guarantee that I'll keep you completely safe, but I'll do my utmost to send you to the destination I've chosen."
Wei Lanshan paused before continuing, "I'll send you somewhere safe. You'll live there from now on."
"All right. Thank you, Doctor Wei. As for whether I can survive, I'll do my best. If I still have to die after doing my best, I won't hold any resentment." 99 thanked her sincerely.
Wei Lanshan was not surprised by 99's answer. She knew that 99 was resilient by nature; she had observed that through all those experiments.
She did not know what the test subjects on Lin Zeyu's side were like, but the one before her had shattered many of her principles and preconceptions.
"If you have any questions, you can ask me once you think of them. We'll probably be living together for a long time. While we're on the run, you can only trust me," Wei Lanshan said with certainty.
Wei Lanshan spoke to 99 in this manner because she had discovered from the recordings that 99's thoughts were mature, that she was exceptionally intelligent, and that she learned very quickly. Though she was not yet five years old, she possessed the thinking ability of an adult.
And so, two people and one robot embarked on an unknown journey of escape.
Tang Yongyu, who had remained on satellite Q68 while waiting for her daughter's treatment, destroyed every laboratory on the satellite after Ye Zhenwei recovered.
Not even the remaining test subjects, Lin Zeyu, and the other five were spared. She left no survivors.
Tang Yongyu left with a pleased expression. After she took Ye Zhenwei away from satellite Q68, several people in Protective Suits appeared on the ground...
As long as she dealt with the escaped Wei Lanshan and Subject 99, whom Wei Lanshan had taken away, the Alliance would have only one genius: her daughter.
She had not expected Wei Lanshan to entertain the idea of taking the Ye Family's test subject out of the laboratory, let alone put it into action and succeed.
Both Ye Yunhan and she had misjudged Wei Lanshan's personal strength. Wei Lanshan's physical fitness and Mental Power level were definitely not low. Judging by the wounds on the guards, even Ye Yunhan likely had no chance of winning against Wei Lanshan.
The fury in Tang Yongyu's heart reached its peak. Once Ye Zhenwei had recovered, she contacted Ye Yunhan and told him about the laboratory.
Ye Yunhan told her not to act rashly. Wei Lanshan's reputation in the Alliance could not be underestimated, and she had concealed such Mental Power and Martial Skills. She surely had many backup plans they did not know about.
Ye Yunhan said, "Yongyu, leave this to me. As long as they're still in the Tianning Star System, everything will be manageable."
Tang Yongyu agreed on the surface. Ye Yunhan had his own channels, while she, Tang Yongyu, would use every possible means to erase that test subject who should not exist.
Tang Yongyu found clues in Wei Lanshan's laboratory and on the companion robot.
She concluded that the test subject Wei Lanshan had taken away was very likely extraordinarily gifted. There was a strong possibility that she was, like her daughter Ye Zhenwei, someone who stood at the pinnacle of the Alliance.
Otherwise, given Wei Lanshan's character, she would not have risked her life and offended the entire Tianning Star System and the Ye Family just to take the test subject away.
Wei Lanshan could not possibly have been unaware that the Ye Family would issue a kill order, or that the Tang Family would send interstellar assassins to wipe them out no matter which star system they fled to.
She must have wanted to keep such a genius in her hands and cultivate her carefully. Wei Lanshan would then possess a trump card that could run rampant throughout the Alliance.
No. How could she, Tang Yongyu, allow such a lowly test subject to exist—one who would cause an uproar in the Ye Family and subject her daughter to endless criticism?
The Ye Family could only have one genius: Tang Yongyu's daughter. Tianning Star could only have one genius as well: her daughter, Ye Zhenwei.
A beautiful genius of extraordinary talent, destined to become the Alliance's first female marshal—Ye Zhenwei.
Ye Yunhan had agreed to conduct this experiment without discussing it with her first. Tang Yongyu only learned of it after Ye Yunhan returned.
At the time, Ye Yunhan had not cared. He believed that the test subjects would always be destroyed afterward and could not possibly be kept alive. He told her not to worry, that everything was under his control.
They had both misjudged Wei Lanshan's personal strength, as well as the fact that the test subject possessed talent that defied the heavens.
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