Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 62 - I killed him at his request

XG 62 - I killed him at his request

The father and sons were truly alike. But compared to his sons, Mr. Chen had a scholarly air with a grumpy expression under his reading glasses. Most of his hair was turning grey from age and the grueling research work. Wong Xue Guo had not met the late Mrs. Chen, except in pictures, but she could see the brothers got their friendly demeanor from their mother.

Was the saying people using too much brain will experience hair loss true?

Despite seeing his younger son again, there was no smile on the elder Chen's face. That indifference cleared any doubts Wong Xue Guo had on how Mr. Chen and her father could be friends and able to work together well.

"Unfortunately, there is no cure in sight," Mr. Chen broke the bad news.

Charles Wong was not worried about that bad news at all. "We had already expected that. That's why I'm here to talk."

Normally, Mr. Chen would not leave his workstation unless there was a meeting. But now that there was no result from his experiments, he did not rush back to his workstation and choose to listen to what his friend and business partner wanted to say.

Inside a meeting room, only the three members of Chen and three members of Wong were in attendance.

"This may sound unscientific, but please keep an open mind," Suzie Yap started softly. "I will now reveal to you that a person I've brought back to the base is a survivor of the infection through a bite."

"Survivor?" All Mr. Chen's attention was successfully grasped. "We need to examine this person!"

"Calm down, Zhang Bei," Charles injected. "Let my wife finish."

Chen Zhang Bei restrained his excitement and adjusted his seat, but his eyes were full of eagerness. This might be the only moment Wong Xue Guo had ever seen Mr. Chen with such a lively expression. She sneaked a glance at Chen Yibo, but there was no surprise on his face.

The more Suzie Yap spoke about the symptoms of the infected human and the methods to survive it, the more animated Mr. Chen became. Even Chen YiWen could not resist pulling out his notebook and taking notes.

"The survivors will have supernatural abilities. As for the survivor that came with me, his ability is rather hard to define, but everything he touches turned into ashes. Don't worry, he managed to control his ability well enough."

They had also discovered those that awaken their gene naturally tend to have poor control compared to those genes that were awakened using external help. It was unknown why, and they do not have time to find out the reason why.

"Is it the existence of these abilities that you are worried I won't accept because it's not scientific? As long as I can witness it, what is there to worry about whether I can accept it or not?" Chen Zhang Bei asked.

"Oh no, that's not the one I'm worried about." Suzie Yap smiled. "I'm afraid you won't believe me when I say Charles and I have the memories of the future. It is the same meaning that we have come back to the past."

Eyes wide in shock, Wong Xue Guo glanced at her father, only to have her father turned to look at her as well. Flustered, she immediately broke eye contact, even when she was not the guilty one.

But now that she knew it, she was sure that her father knew why his wife was angry with him, and it happened in their future, which their argument was brought back to the past as well.

Unlike Wong Xue Guo, Chen YiWen and his father do not look very surprised hearing the existence of time travel. Instead, they started to examine the couple with the eyes of a researcher.