"Li Ke! How have things been?"
With stubble covering his chin, Li Ke gave a helpless yet relieved smile.
"Fortunately, there aren't any other suspicious people left in the Pewter Science Museum."
In fact, Domino hadn't been the only Tulip Squad member in the Pewter Science Museum. Some of the lackeys who fawned over Mao Xiong had been members too. Their everyday performances had been so flawless that no one would have imagined they were phantom thieves.
Fortunately, the Tulip Squad had been practically wiped out at Lake Acuity. Even if two or three stragglers remained, they weren't in the Pewter Science Museum.
After the Security Bureau and the authorities took away some files, Li Ke regained control of the museum and its research facilities.
Now, no one in the Pewter Science Museum dared defy Li Ke.
If the researchers here left anytime soon, no other institution would take them in. No sponsors wanted to invest in the Pewter Science Museum either, and even its ticket revenue would be low in the short term. The entire museum depended on the research projects in Li Ke's hands to survive.
Only if Li Ke continued producing research achievements would the Pewter Science Museum's situation improve.
So the good news was that Li Ke had a research institution of his own, with fairly good facilities;
the bad news was... the institution was facing a crisis of survival.
"Things will get better. You can't keep having bad luck forever, right?"
The parking lot wasn't a place to chat. Shen Qi parked Little Sheep, then followed Li Ke to his lodgings.
"You can stay here with me. These are the Curator's Quarters."
Behind the Pewter Science Museum stood what looked like a three-story residential building, but only the curator lived there.
"This..." Shen Qi shook