This Household Was Not His to Rule

Lan Xiao looked at Yu Tu, his expression dark and unreadable.

After a long while, he gave a strange laugh tinged with self-mockery.

"Yu Tu, you're the first person to say I wasn't the murderer who killed those researchers."

Ever since he woke up, whether it was the Ninth Army, the Freedom Army, or even the Imperial Army that had defected from Blue Star, everyone had firmly believed that he had killed the researchers of the Pharmaceutical Research Academy.

The only one to deny it was Yu Tu, whom he had kept chained like a mad dog for a full ten years.

Yu Tu, however, remained calm.

"Just as you know how to get a hold on me, Lan Xiao, I understand you a little too."

Yu Tu had wanted Cang Qi to destroy those experimental files and turn them into a secret that would remain buried forever.

It was precisely because Lan Xiao knew what he would do that he had come to the Pharmaceutical Research Academy ahead of time.

If the secret Yu Tu wanted destroyed was exposed, then even if Lan Xiao could not kill Yu Tu, he could still drive a knife viciously into his heart.

The greatest weakness of the strongest mutated vine in the galaxy was its very growth.

Attacking Yu Tu's soul was more satisfying than taking his life directly.

Lan Xiao neither confirmed nor denied it. "True. Otherwise, I wouldn't have fallen this far. The thing I raised was no mad dog. Yu Tu, you're more like a jackal."

Yu Tu continued.

"Let me guess again... After entering the underground laboratory, you discovered that the files you wanted were being destroyed. You flew into a rage and intervened, causing the destruction of the files to stop. At that point, your first reaction