After seeing the true nature of the woman he had been pursuing, the CEO's wife cried and begged

Chapter 479 The Night of the Full Moon

In a corner of the lab, Liu Jinya held a gun, the muzzle pressed against Liu Ya's head: "Give me the ledger, or I'll kill her!"

“The ledger has already been handed over to the police.” Xu Zirui stepped back, his hand slowly reaching for the scalpel in his pocket. “You can’t escape.”

"Escape?" Liu Jinya laughed. "I've already prepared my escape route. As long as I replace my daughter's memories with your mentor's, this technology can sell for billions!"

Qin Mo suddenly injected Liu Ya with an IV, and Liu Ya's body began to convulse. Xu Zirui grabbed Liu Ya and slammed her against the operating table. Liu Jinya's gun fired, a bullet grazing Xu Zirui's ear and hitting the totem, shattering the glass jar on the floor.

The SWAT team stormed in, and Liu Jinya was pinned to the ground, still yelling, "You don't understand! This is a great evolution!"

Xu Zirui hugged the convulsing Liu Ya; her eyes had turned into vertical pupils, like a snake's.

"Inject her with this." Qin Mo suddenly handed over an antidote. "I was forced into this too. My daughter is in their hands."

Xu Zirui hesitated for a moment, but still injected the medicine into Liu Ya's arm. The girl's pupils slowly returned to normal, and she fainted.

The laboratory's secret door suddenly opened, and a dozen people dressed in black robes rushed in, their faces covered by snake-shaped masks.

“The elders of the Snake Doctors Association.” Li Gang raised his gun defensively. “They’ve come to silence us.”

Gunshots rang out in the underground passage. Xu Zirui carried Liu Ya on his back and ran outside, while Qin Mo's screams came from behind.

Liu Ya opened her eyes and lay on the hospital bed. Sunlight streamed in from the window, falling on the blankets.

Xu Zirui sat on the edge of the bed peeling an apple. He made several cuts before the peel broke; he made a few more cuts before he could cut the apple open.

"Thank you," the girl said softly, her wrist bearing a ring of needle marks. "How is my dad...?"

“He’s in the detention center.” Xu Zirui handed her the apple. “Your brother is also under investigation; we’re trying to get him a lighter sentence.”

Liu Ya took a bite of her apple, and tears suddenly streamed down her face: "I don't want to study those things... They locked me in the lab, made me watch dissection videos every day, and gave me electric shocks if I didn't cooperate."

Xu Zirui felt a lump in his throat as he thought of those glass jars: "Do you know where my advisor's research data is?"

Liu Ya pulled a USB drive from under her pillow. It had a snake-shaped mark on it: "Qin Mo gave this to me. He said it was your mentor's hard work and shouldn't fall into the hands of the Snake Doctor Association."

Besides research data, the USB drive also contained a video—the mentor sitting at his desk, speaking to the camera: "If something happens to me, it will definitely be Snake Doctor who does it. They want memory transplant technology, but this technology will destroy humanity... Zirui, you must stop them."

Xu Zirui's eyes welled up with tears; his suspicions of the past three years had finally been confirmed.

“Oh, right.” Liu Ya suddenly remembered something. “Qin Mo said that the founder of the Snake Doctor Association was your mentor’s senior brother. They parted ways back then because of differences in their philosophies.”

Xu Zirui was dumbfounded; his mentor had never mentioned having a senior student.

Jiang Xin rushed in, holding a newspaper: "The elders of the Snake Doctor Association have been wiped out! But Li Gang said there was one who escaped, codenamed 'Viper'."

The man in the newspaper was wearing a mask and disappeared just before the hidden door closed. On his exposed wrist was a snake tattoo, just like his mentor's.

“Viper…” Xu Zirui suddenly remembered that there was a photo in his mentor’s album of their younger days. Two men in white coats were standing at the entrance of the laboratory, and one of them had a faint tattoo on his wrist.

“Let’s go check out our mentor’s hometown; there might be some clues there,” Xu Zirui said, standing up.