The equipment required for Subconscious Implantation Technology was not particularly complicated. Now that Lu Xian had returned, the precision components could be made quickly. Shen Bing planned to finish the equipment within two days.
While Shen Bing was busy working with Lu Xian, his phone suddenly rang.
Shen Bing picked it up and saw that Mom was calling.
Weren't those two traveling abroad? Why did they suddenly think to call me? Normally, they wouldn't call before coming home.
As for whether they might have heard about his kidnapping, that was highly unlikely. Knowing them, they barely paid any attention to current affairs while traveling.
He remembered how, a few years ago, his parents had taken the opportunity to go abroad while he was boarding at school.
Then an earthquake had struck Sichuan Province, making headlines worldwide, yet his parents had only called him from abroad a day later. At the time, he had felt abandoned by the world. Fortunately, they had rushed back as soon as they heard the news, or Shen Bing might really have wondered whether he was their biological son.
"Mom, aren't you traveling around Europe? What made you think to call me?"
"Huh?" Mom sounded surprised and delighted. "Son, is that really you?"
Shen Bing was instantly exasperated. Weren't you calling me? What's so strange about me answering my own phone?
"Mom, what do you mean? Were you expecting someone else to answer?"
Mom chuckled, then continued in a shaken voice, "Son, your dad and I just came down from the Alps. As soon as our phones got a signal, we received a news alert saying you'd been kidnapped by terrorists. It scared us half to death! Tencent News published it, too. I never thought it would be fake news. Your dad and I are definitely