Li Zekun nodded again.
"What... I did... has... nothing to do... with my family."
He used the last of his strength to finish those words, and the light in his eyes slowly faded.
Song Ning fell silent for a moment, then reached out and closed his eyes.
She had never expected someone who had been alive and well that morning to stop breathing right beside her now.
Her own heart was in turmoil.
Li Zekun's dying words were like a fine thread, stringing together everything she had experienced-
Lu Changqing and Grandpa Song had been assigned to find "Blue Tears" on Xiaolu Mountain.
Meanwhile, Gu Zheng was fighting an organization that targeted people connected to metal materials.
That organization had most likely orchestrated this fire.
And Liang Shunsheng, who had died in the fire, had been an expert on uranium.
Uranium was an essential raw material for nuclear weapons.
The missing Zheng Zhenguo had been Liang Shunsheng's colleague.
Zheng Zhenguo had mentioned "Blue Tears."
And there was a secret nuclear weapons research base on Xiaolu Mountain.
So "Blue Tears" was most likely related to nuclear weapons.
That was why Song Ning had always believed the organization Gu Zheng was fighting was trying to obstruct their country's nuclear weapons research.
And because Zheng Zhenguo had also become involved,
she had only recently realized that Lu Changqing's mission might be connected to this organization too.
The connection was that it all involved their country's nuclear research.
This was research of the highest level and utmost secrecy.
Although Song Ning had picked up on some of it, she would not pry, nor did she want to get caught up in it.
Even if Gu Zheng held things back from her, she understood.
They all had rules to follow.
But today, Li Zekun had