Soaking in Hot Springs

On his way back to the little villa with the bottled water, Shen Ranxin kept thinking about what those two people from the Anomaly Management Center had said.

"Actually, I hadn't joined the Anomaly Management Center five years ago. I only heard about it from my seniors."

"Lu Zhi escaped the quarantine zone while injured and went to the filming location where you were. We don't know what happened during that time. When the seniors from the Anomaly Control Bureau arrived, Lu Zhi was holding a woman and lying in the fire. If the Anomaly Control Bureau hadn't arrived in time, there probably wouldn't be... well."

Shen Ranxin's heart twitched faintly, a subtle pain spreading through it.

He had never experienced any of those things, yet upon hearing them, his body seemed to automatically switch into some kind of mode. His hands and feet went cold and ached instinctively.

Five years ago—was that the fire that had killed two people?

Shen Ranxin pressed his lips together, squeezing the water bottle in his hand until it creaked.

"Who were the two people who died in that fire?"

The two people from the Anomaly Management Center looked at Shen Ranxin in surprise. "You... you don't know?"

Shen Ranxin pursed his lips. "My memory isn't very good."

Their expressions became even stranger as they softly replied, "They were... your parents."

Shen Ranxin braced himself against the table and rasped, "Then why did no one report it? Why can't I find any information about the victims from back then in the news?!"

"Your father and mother both worked for the Imperial Research Institute. Their identities were absolutely confidential. Mr. Shen, that's all we know. Can you let us go now?"

Shen Ranxin stood and left the Points Mall.

So the fire back then might