The moment the elder of the Chen family heard what the ability user brought down from the building had said, his expression immediately changed.

At the same time, Nan Muran took a few steps to the side, approaching Qi Yangfan and Ling Yuan, who had just come down from the 14th floor, still looking confused.

She lowered her voice: “Dr. Jin, who lived in Room 909 before, is a top-tier medical professor. Before the apocalypse, he had a history of conducting gene experiments for foreign companies.”

“Go and search for anything related to gene experiments about 909 and get the materials for Zhou Ling.”

Since Chen Shuhan had already stepped forward, he must be dealt with thoroughly.

Qi Yangfan originally wanted to argue, but Ling Yuan gently tugged at him and said to Nan Muran, “We’ll handle it as soon as possible. Please help us keep an eye on the situation here, Miss Nan.”

Zhou Ling, seeing Nan Muran’s actions, began to understand her intentions. He directly revealed Jin Tailin’s identity in front of everyone.

Because Jin Tailin had fled in haste, Qi Yangfan and the others had actually gathered some concrete evidence.

A person who had been using living humans for gene experiments before the apocalypse was universally regarded as a monster.

Due to Jin Tailin’s identity, the Chen family instantly became the accomplices in everyone’s eyes.

Allowing such a family to continue holding power in the base made everyone uneasy.

The father and son of the Chen family looked at the crowd of onlookers around them, pointing and whispering, and were extremely angry.

Unfortunately, once Chen Shuhan mentioned Hotel 909, the situation could no longer be covered up.

To protect the elder of the Chen family’s position as the base’s leader, the Chen family lost control over the base’s security. From now on, the security forces of the entire Lan City Base would be handed over to the Zhou family.

Zhou Gang felt that his son, who had been called a foolish second-generation rich kid, was finally able to hold his head up.

Twenty-four years of upbringing had finally paid off today.

Before the still-disheartened Chen family members could relax, a female voice rang out from the crowd.

“Dr. Jin didn’t just use ordinary people for gene experiments; ability users were his best experimental tools.” Nan Muran’s cold voice carried a seductive force that spread throughout the hall.

This caused the remaining thirty or so ability users from the Chen family to begin to feel uneasy. It was a psychological attack, effectively sowing discord.

Zhou Ling, listening to Nan Muran’s calm and emotionless words, couldn’t help but feel his heart race uncontrollably.

He was angry at the Chen family, but more so excited about the progress they had made today.

Soon, the base’s security department intervened to maintain order, and the onlookers in the hotel lobby were gradually persuaded to leave.

Back on the 15th floor, Nan Muran glanced at Si Ye and the others. After a mutual understanding, they all entered Si Ye’s room.

“A Level 5 peak control ability user?” Eagle couldn’t believe how impressive that was.

Nan Muran picked up a brush and began sketching a man and a woman standing a short distance away on the upper floor earlier.

The man wore a white shirt and black pants. He was tall, clean-looking, with phoenix eyes that conveyed an alienating sense of distance, as though he was a giant standing far away, yet unaffected by the surrounding snowy landscape despite his thin clothes.

The woman wore a white down jacket, her round eyes were quite cute, yet there was an obvious dissatisfaction in her expression.

“Is this man the one with control abilities, at the peak of Level 5?” Jiawu spoke with certainty.

Nan Muran nodded. “Yes. Both sides refrained from fighting today because we had concerns, but that was only for today.”

“Jin Tailin said he wanted to bring us both to the lab, and his goal was to eliminate those people.”

“Could those people be connected to this man?” Si Ye asked, somewhat suspicious.

Nan Muran looked at the man in the sketch and wrote down his name: Xingchen.

“It may not just be one person, but a group of people, or even an organization.” Nan Muran put down the brush and looked out the large floor-to-ceiling windows at the endless white snow.

It was already December, and there were less than two weeks before the extreme cold arrived.

“We’ll harvest the fruits here in Lan City as soon as possible and then head back.”

“We’re not going to look for those people?” Eagle was uncertain after hearing Nan Muran’s words.

Nan Muran glanced at the two sketches on the table. “Of course, we will, but not right now. We’ll wait until the end of the year, when the weather gets colder—potentially even below minus seventy degrees. I have no intention of spending the winter outside.”

The group trusted Nan Muran unconditionally, so they immediately understood the point.

“Then let’s quickly harvest the fruits and head home.” Eagle thought of minus seventy degrees and realized it was just like the Yakutsk in Russia, where if you stop for more than ten minutes outside, your muscles freeze and you could easily die from exposure.

Jiawu couldn’t help but shiver. At that temperature, even bodily functions would freeze up. “We should definitely head back.”

Si Ye and Nan Muran exchanged a smile but didn’t speak.

The next morning, the group went to see Zhou Ling and informed him of their departure.

“Can I come with you?” Zhou Ling asked weakly.

Nan Muran shook her head. “No.”

“You can’t reject me so decisively, Miss Nan. I’m useful, and I’ve awakened the Blink ability.” Zhou Ling started promoting himself.

“The scholars from Lan City’s Security Base who came for the academic exchange need to be dealt with after classification.” Nan Muran looked at Zhou Ling.

Zhou Ling paused. That’s right, at three o’clock this afternoon, he still had to attend that academic exchange.

Although Dr. Jin had fled, the Ouyang family and the Chen family were still around, and this matter was far from over.

At 3:00 PM, the academic exchange conference was still held as scheduled.

Nan Muran and her group, with the invitation from Zhou Ling, entered the conference venue and found that nearly a hundred people had already gathered.

The entire conference looked more like a university classroom, with strange declarations written all over the whiteboard at the front. The attendees quietly sat down.

As more and more people gathered, someone began to speak.

They discussed the latest medical exchanges, their understanding of ability users, and eventually, someone started openly talking about gene syringes.

“If the drug experiment could help awaken more ability users and help humanity stand strong in the apocalypse, why shouldn’t we do it?” A genetics professor, around fifty years old, spoke with righteous indignation.

A girl in a dark blue down jacket stood up. “If we proceed with this, where is the limit, and what is the boundary?”

“According to your idea, Professor, our experimental tools will turn into living humans. If we can’t effectively limit it, we’re not saving humanity’s survival space and abilities; we’ll be leading to the complete degeneration of human nature.”

Upon hearing the girl’s words, there was an intense debate in the conference room.

“Survival of the fittest. If we can’t survive under the urge of the drug, we won’t survive in the apocalypse anyway.”

“Would you be willing to become the first subject of the drug experiment?” The girl coldly questioned the man who had spoken boastfully.

Eagle looked at the girl. “Interesting.”

He had thought that everyone at the exchange would be mad like Jin Tailin, but it turned out there were still normal people around.