"Judging from Ji Ziyin's personality, she probably just wants to get rid of you as a burden as soon as possible. She won't let you drag her down." The girl's tone was soothing, revealing a bit of nonchalance.
"You're talking nonsense." Gu Hengbo emphasized every word he spoke, as if he was trying hard to prove something.
Qiao Nian changed his sitting position, still looking nonchalant, but his eyes did not leave him: "You know whether I am talking nonsense or not."
Gu Hengbo's expression changed slightly, and his eyes began to flicker.
Qiao Nian saw his hands unconsciously grasping the quilt under him, and raised her eyes: "There are only two options before you now. First, you continue to dream and don't say a word. If the First Research Institute suffers losses because of this, I will put the blame on you. You can't pay it back anymore, and if you can't pay it back, someone else will have to pay it back, so the only way is to let the family pay it back for you..."
"Second, you cooperate with me. If you say what you need to say, then this matter will have nothing to do with you. The Gu family will not be implicated! As for you...it depends on how my teacher wants to deal with it."
Gu Hengbo was extremely angry, with hatred in his eyes that made him want to rush out. He gritted his teeth and whispered, "You threaten me?!"
Qiao Nian didn't even blink, and looked at him very frankly: "I'm just stating a result."
Gu Hengbo stared at her fiercely, his chest heaving several times, but his mind was working fast, and he had already weighed the pros and cons in his mind.
He had already made his choice, but when he saw the girl sitting steadily in front of him, the unwillingness in his heart gnawed at his heart like locusts.
He spoke every word with great difficulty: "I once gave her the email address of an elder of a hidden family. She should have contacted that person."
"That person and Martin have always been at odds. Martin agrees with Feng Yu's ideas and is unwilling to let the First Research Institute become a place for major forces to manufacture weapons..."
"That person has the opposite idea from Martin! He has always hoped that the First Research Institute can create new types of lethal weapons for the hidden family."
Qiao Nian guessed this without him saying anything. He looked at Gu Hengbo and said in a hoarse voice, "Is Ji Ziyin trying to poach people from the research institute just to research weapons? She doesn't seem to have the ability to do this, so how can she complete the task assigned to her by the hidden family?"
Gu Hengbo looked at her in surprise, as if he didn't understand why Qiao Nian asked this: "Didn't you know that she had a notebook?"
"Ji Qing was once known as a once-in-a-century genius at the institute, and he has made amazing achievements not only in biology and physics."
"She is also a master weapon maker herself."
Gu Hengbo lowered his eyelids to hide the complex emotions in his eyes, and said disdainfully, "The rumor now circulating that Xie Tingyun is the best weapon maker is just because the Ji family erased the records related to Ji Qing. Many young people don't know the inside story and think that Xie Tingyun's achievements in weapon manufacturing have reached the pinnacle! In fact, it is not... The only person who has truly reached the pinnacle in this area is Ji Qing."
This wasn't just what he said.
Xie Tingyun himself also acknowledged that Ji Qing was stronger than himself.
She never mentioned her title of the number one weapons maker to others, because in her heart, she was never the number one.
After hearing this, Qiao Nian stopped beating around the bush and directly asked about her ultimate purpose in looking for Gu Hengbo: "So how did she die in the first place?"
(End of this chapter)