VHBF -Chapter 128 The Bigshot Researcher Daddy (Part 18)

Yinyin widened her eyes and looked at it several times, even reaching out to touch it. Finally, she nodded with certainty. “Uncle, it’s this one.”

“Yinyin picked it up where the bad sister disappeared. Later she ran out from inside it, like a fairy.”

Thinking back on what happened that day, Yinyin was no longer afraid. Daddy had told her that the bad sister had been caught by the police uncles—anyone who did bad things would eventually be caught by the police.

When he said this, Mo Linqing felt not the slightest bit guilty. To keep Yinyin from being traumatized, he had even sworn confidently, “Daddy is a good person, so bad people are afraid of Daddy. That bad woman has already been taught a lesson by Daddy.”

The system rolled its eyes. The one who should be caught the most is you, villain boss!

Yinyin even tugged at Captain Zhang’s pant leg with sparkling eyes, lifting her chubby little face as she asked, “Uncle Zhang, is that bad sister really a fairy?”

“Even if— even if she is a fairy, she’d still be a bad fairy. Good fairies don’t bully little kids. Daddy says she’s a bad egg.”

Captain Zhang’s mouth twitched. Holding back his laughter under Old Master Mo’s death stare, he reached out and rubbed Yinyin’s head, saying solemnly, “She might be a bad person, but she’s not a fairy. There are no fairies in this world. We have to believe in science, okay?”

“Uncle, what is science?” Yinyin asked.

Captain Zhang paused, thought for a moment, then said, “Your daddy’s work—that’s science.”

He thought that would be enough to brush her off, but unexpectedly, the three-year-old Yinyin turned into a living One Hundred Thousand Whys, firing off one question after another. Old Master Mo stood nearby, enjoying the show. Did they really think his granddaughter’s head was so easy to pat?

Wouldn’t they have to pay some price?

Yinyin asked innocently, “Is science more powerful than fairies?”

Captain Zhang replied, “…Mm.”

Hearing that, Yinyin beamed, her chubby little face full of pride and delight. “Yinyin knew it! Daddy is the most amazing!”

Captain Zhang: “……”

Nearby, the old master could no longer hold it in. He sat in his wheelchair laughing, the wrinkles on his old face fully exposed. Clearing his throat, his conscience finally stirred. He waved his hand and called his granddaughter over.

“Yinyin, Uncle Zhang still has work to do. Let him go back.”

Yinyin was very understanding. Leaning against Grandpa’s leg, she quickly turned back and waved her little paw. “Bye-bye, Uncle! Drive carefully!”

Captain Zhang: “……”

After getting into the car, the female police officer who had come along laughed herself half to death in the passenger seat.

Did they really think the granddaughter of General Mo and the daughter of Professor Mo was so easy to take advantage of?

They’d practically driven the rigorously trained Captain Zhang into a fool.

“Captain, I couldn’t tell—you’re pretty good at coaxing kids.”

Captain Zhang drove on, glancing sideways. “Shut up. Sit properly. Put on your seatbelt.”

“……”

No one noticed that a ring of light flashed across the jade stone in Captain Zhang’s pocket.

The system lay in its system space, legs crossed, feeling like it was broken.

Following such a tiny host—the youngest host in history—it hadn’t managed to turn her wholeheartedly toward goodness. Instead, it had become this bad. This had to be the villain’s fault.

That big villain was so bad he’d corrupted even a system like it.

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Captain Zhang stared fixedly at Lin Ju, not missing a single flicker of expression on her face. “Still not talking?”

Lin Ju’s face was deathly pale as she shook her head. “I have nothing to say. You actually believe a little kid’s lies?”

She tugged at the corner of her mouth. “Where do so many magical things come from in this world? A broken stone that can house people? What is this, cultivation?”

The junior officer accompanying them brightened at the last sentence.

After stepping outside, he tugged at the captain’s sleeve and, under the puzzled looks of the captain and the psychologist, said, “Captain, how about we try it?”

“Try what?”

“Drip blood! Cultivation novels say that stones like this, the kind that can hide people, are usually spatial artifacts. Inside there are mountains, water, all kinds of things—maybe even stuff we’d never imagine.”

To Captain Zhang and the others, who had never read novels, cultivation stories and spatial artifacts sounded like pure fantasy. Hearing such a novel idea for the first time, they asked, “Blood recognition?”

The junior officer rubbed his hands together excitedly. “That’s right! Hehe, Captain, why don’t we give it a try?”

“Captain, wait for me! I’ve got plenty of blood—let me try!”

An internal meeting was held within the criminal investigation team handling the case. In the end, they decided to report upward.

Regardless of whether the jade stone was truly some kind of artifact as the junior officer claimed, blood couldn’t be dripped on it casually. As a crucial piece of evidence, it had to be handled cautiously.

The matter was quickly reported to higher authorities. The next day, after finishing a meeting, the leader returned to his office. After the assistant finished reporting work, he hesitated, then said, “Chief, about the case at the Bio-Pharmaceutical Research Institute…”

“Any results from the interrogation?”

The assistant replied, “Captain Zhang reported this morning that the suspect won’t talk, but there’s an unconventional method to try with that jade stone, so they reported up for instructions.”

“What method?”

“Dr—dripping blood…”

Suppressing his embarrassment, the assistant explained the whole web-novel theory. “Captain Zhang and the others are grasping at straws.”

Unexpectedly, the chief, hearing this for the first time, smiled slightly. “Didn’t the Academy of Sciences have a bunch of people very interested in that stone? Let Xiao Wu go. Send him over to assist. There’s no harm in trying.”

And so it was decided. Xiao Wu was the chief’s own guard—his character was trustworthy. Having him carry out something like blood recognition would be fair regardless of whether it worked, and it would spare the old geezers at the Academy of Sciences from fighting over who got to go first.

Captain Zhang still found it somewhat absurd when he received the notice. The chief actually agreed?

Things moved quickly on the other side. That very afternoon, Guard Xiao Wu arrived. Under the joint witness of the Academy of Sciences and the criminal investigation team, Xiao Wu decisively cut his finger without even furrowing his brow.

Everyone held their breath.

Lin Ju had heard about it from the cleaning aunties and wasn’t worried at all. The space had already completely malfunctioned—it was just an ordinary stone now.

When she was arrested, she had secretly bitten her finger and tried dripping blood again, but it was completely useless. The space showed no response whatsoever. Even she, the owner, was like this—how could these ignorant natives make it work?

At first, no one dared to speak. About five seconds later, the old professors at the Academy of Sciences, obsessed with research, couldn’t help but speak up, crowding around Xiao Wu to ask if he felt anything.

“Any sense of connection?”

“Try activating the space—see if you can enter?”

“Intent! Use your intent!”

“Oh, come on, what era are we in? You really believe this stuff? Even in ancient times this would’ve been called a broken stone. Talking nonsense like this could get your head chopped off—spreading heresy, you know!”

“Maybe that Lin Ju woman was just fooling us?”

“You’ve studied science your whole lives, done research your whole lives, and you still believe this kind of superstition?”

“Have all your books gone down the dog’s stomach?”

“Dog’s—dog’s stomach…”

The conference room fell dead silent, so quiet you could hear a leaf drop. Everyone’s breathing suddenly grew rapid, eyes widening in disbelief.

“Th—this…”

“Xiao Wu disappeared?!”

The young man who had been standing in the center moments ago, stern-faced in his military uniform, had vanished—disappeared from where he stood!

The doors and windows of the conference room were clearly shut. Over a dozen pairs of eyes had been fixed on him. He hadn’t moved or run—so how had he suddenly vanished?

In the silence, the junior officer who had first proposed blood recognition jumped up and shouted, “Captain! I told you earlier! See? It worked! He must be inside the jade stone now!”

That shout was like flipping a switch, and everyone finally found their voices again.

The conference room erupted in chaos. The old professors, who had believed in science their entire lives and spent most of it in research, suddenly felt their worldviews completely overturned.

Just as the room descended into utter turmoil, Xiao Wu suddenly reappeared, standing exactly where he had disappeared.

When he came out, Xiao Wu’s expression was even more serious than before. He didn’t even have time to say anything to the others. He immediately took out his phone and called the chief’s office.

Not long after, an armed unit rushed over at top speed. The area was placed under tight security, and the footage recorded by the observation cameras in the conference room was taken away and sealed.

After Xiao Wu followed the interrogators and performed a live “vanishing act” right in front of Lin Ju, then transported all the items hidden in the space back and forth, Lin Ju’s psychological defenses completely collapsed.

She couldn’t understand it no matter how she tried—why had the space suddenly failed on her side, yet worked once it fell into someone else’s hands?

Wasn’t that her cheat ability from transmigration? Why was it useless in her hands?!

She couldn’t understand it. She would never understand it.

Lin Ju confessed everything honestly. Her face was smeared with tears and snot as she cried and screamed, wanting to go home, wanting to return to her original world.

In her original world, she had just been an ordinary white-collar worker from a modest family. Her life wasn’t particularly good or bad—just average. Maybe in the future she’d marry someone and live an ordinary life.

She had thought that after transmigrating, even if she ended up in a world destined for a BE ending, with her cheat ability she could still thrive with ease. Who could have known that before the villain demon even destroyed the world, she herself would be finished first?

“Transmigration? Into a book? A world inside a book? A villain? Destroying the world?”

The higher-ups were only half-convinced. The three parts they believed stemmed from the space right in front of them that could allow people to enter and exit.

The remaining seven parts they doubted because the world Lin Ju described in the book differed entirely from how reality was developing. They saw no signs of the so-called “villain,” Professor Mo, destroying the world.

At present, Professor Mo had already led his team into the lab, developing drugs to cure incurable diseases for the country and its people. Such an outstanding researcher, a future pillar of the domestic and even global bio-pharmaceutical field, how could he possibly destroy the world for no reason?

And how could they deny or even suspect him based on the ramblings of a minor figure?

The leaders were not fools. After careful consideration, they decided to take only three parts of Lin Ju’s words as truth. The key was not to hurt people’s morale or hearts.

They even decided to send the miraculous substance discovered in Lin Ju’s space—the so-called spiritual spring—to Mo Linqing’s laboratory, hoping it might help his current research project.

This project was simply too important. If successful, it would not only hold tremendous significance for the country and the world, but more crucially, if a drug capable of curing all incurable diseases could be developed, such a key technology being held by Huaguo would shift international discourse power, allowing the nation to secure far more initiative and resources on the global stage.