The Master’s Mask Unveiled Again
Chapter 614 - Chapter 614 Chapter 614 Her Darkness and Violence

Chapter 614: Chapter 614 Her Darkness and Violence Chapter 614: Chapter 614 Her Darkness and Violence “Group Leader Pan,” Lu Mian, when speaking with Pan Jiancheng, remained very polite.

“Miss Lu, please go ahead.”

“As I mentioned before, my relative’s eyes urgently need treatment, and I hope your side can accelerate the research.

The vigorous growth of Netherman shouldn’t be a problem.

Using my method, we can definitely cultivate a large number of better varieties.

I just hope you can speed it up a little…”

Pan Jiancheng hadn’t understood what Lu Mian meant by “shouldn’t be a problem” before, but now he got it completely.

Miss Lu’s cultivation methods were too powerful; obtaining Netherman capable of extracting the RE Factor would be no issue in the future.

His attitude became extremely cooperative, which was a form of respect and appreciation for the powerful.

“Rest assured, Miss Lu, this old man will do his utmost to research a RE Factor agent suitable for human use!

As long as the special funding is in place…”

Dong Li disdainfully moved to one side, his every third word about special funding.

Had his teacher gone mad from poverty?

Lu Mian couldn’t help but smile, turning her head to glance at Xiao Qimo beside her and gently hooked her index finger around the man’s finger.

It carried the coy and gentle charm of a little girl.

“Director Qimo…

about the money, could you please lend a bit more support?”

“…”

This…

rounded up, counts as acting coquettishly, right?

Xiao Qimo, who understood being content, fully grasped the girl’s small hand, and with a very domineering gesture, he waved his hand.

“Don’t worry, I’ll pay them ten times over.”

Pan Jiancheng: Ten times the special funding?!

Isn’t that just an extra zero?

He couldn’t be happier!

The middle-aged man winked at his disciple as if to say: Learn a little, crying children get the candy!

Dong Li: Not just candy, but dog food too.

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Over at the lab, there wasn’t much for Lu Mian and Xiao Qimo to fret over.

Their trip to Luoxia Town was coming to an end.

But for Xiao Qimo, the two-person world he had meticulously planned had changed from the very beginning.

The weather improved that day, and the temperature rose.

With nothing urgent on her hands, Lu Mian took the opportunity to take Xiao Qimo up on his invitation to go out to the farm to clear their minds.

Lu Mian wrapped herself in a coat and nodded in agreement.

Their way of interacting was simple; they didn’t talk much, and even when they walked together in silence, it didn’t feel awkwardaEUR”they both enjoyed this natural state.

Xiao Qimo held Lu Mian’s hand as they walked through the vast farm.

Eventually, they arrived at the farm’s glass greenhouse.

No one was inside the greenhouse at the time, and Xiao Qimo invited Lu Mian to have a look.

The place was like a separate little world, with a comfortable temperature and a suitable humidity.

Each pot of carefully cultivated flowers was thriving.

Compared to the icy, barren landscape outside, with leaves fallen and grass withered, here it was eternally spring, with all sorts of flowers in full bloom.

Seeing these flowers made Lu Mian’s mood exceptionally good.

Upon spotting a meter and a half high raised platform, she rested one hand on it and lightly jumped up, sitting on it in a carefree manner.

Her long legs swung back and forth as she leisurely surveyed the entire glass greenhouse.

She had always been this spontaneous, sitting whenever she wished without caring whether the surface was clean or if her clothes would get dusty.

The refined man beside her pushed up his glasses and furrowed his brows, seemingly in thought.

Lu Mian paused, glanced downward at the motionless Xiao Qimo, and after a moment of thought, she understood what he was thinking.

The young woman, with an arrogant lift of her brows, swept the space beside her clean, then extended her arm toward Xiao Qimo, “Director Qimo, come up.”

This gesture was clearly an invitation for Xiao Qimo to lend her a hand.

In the depths of Xiao Qimo’s eyes, a hint of grievance began to show.

“Can this girl return the male lead’s script to me?”

Ignoring the arm extended towards him, he easily seated himself beside Lu Mian, supporting himself on the countertop.

He helped the girl retract her hand and tenderly held it in his own, seriously instructing her, “In the future, only I can do such actions, understand?”

“Huh?” Lu Mian blinked, “Why?”

“It’s only right for a man to take care of a woman.”

“…That doesn’t always depend on gender,” Lu Mian felt some things she could do herself, which Director Qimo perhaps couldn’t.

She was only trying to help him up, “If it’s necessary, I could also lift you up.”

“…” Xiao Qimo rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on, not daring to think too deeply.

That image was too beautiful; he couldn’t handle it.

“Let’s enjoy the flowers, enjoy the flowers.”

“Oh.”

In the rare moments they had alone, Xiao Qimo embraced the girl, his chiseled chin gently resting on the top of her head.

After a quiet moment, he spoke, “You said you would explain to me.”

Explain the unique cultivation methods of Netherman.

Explain why she wasn’t hurt in such a strong magnetic field.

He was waiting.

Lu Mian stiffened slightly, not really having figured out how to tell him, or rather, where to begin the explanation?

Lu Mian shifted positions, lazily half-lying on Xiao Qimo’s legs.

The warmth of the girl’s face came into contact with the man’s muscular legs, and Xiao Qimo’s eyes grew darker.

Yet he had to suppress his restlessness and listen patiently.

Lu Mian began to speak softly, her tone distant.

“I once walked a path, one that was dark and without a visible end.

I stepped onto it without care and found that it led to a place with an exceptionally strong magnetic field.

So strong, that without protection, both people and objects would be torn apart, shattered by the field’s force…”

Xiao Qimo’s heart clenched fiercely.

Just like when he saw the farm worker, without any protection, attempt to touch Netherman with bare hands, and in the blink of an eye, both hands were injured, bones laid bare.

If there was no protection…

His arms drew the girl lying on his legs closer, and with a gruff voice, he asked, “And you?”

Stepped in by accident.

There should have been no protection, right…

Lu Mian smiled, her warm breath misting on the man’s clothes.

She gave a vague and evasive answer, “Maybe, I have a special physique.”

And so, she survived.

Only, she was left with the chronic pain of dysmenorrhea.

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Each time, she had to endure the agony of being torn apart, shattered, and then reassembled.

Luckily, later on, with Director Qimo’s painkillers, she was doing much better.

“Was it that time during the kidnapping?” Xiao Qimo asked solemnly.

Lu Mian knew that once she spoke out, he could surely guess it.

A man as smart as Director Qimo, how could she deceive him?

“Mhm,” Lu Mian nodded, “They were conducting experiments; we were all their test subjects.”

Even though Lu Mian spoke calmly, Xiao Qimo still understood the hatred she held for those people from her trembling shoulders.

The hatred that seeped into her bones would drive her mad at the mere mention.

He held Lu Mian, using his own body heat to warm her, yet it seemed never warm enough, only able to feel the darkness and violence hidden beneath her cynical exterior…