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(Foreword)

The deepest face full of darkness, hidden behind the chaos, under the mask of a man.

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January 5, 2025 at 16:59

At that moment, I vaguely saw a trace of darkness in Hu Zaide's eyes, and that darkness seemed to have plunged people into the abyss, making it impossible to recover.

"I'm sorry, Professor Hu, I didn't know she was dead."

I apologized to Hu Zaide with self-reproach, but Hu Zaide just shook his head gently, and then spit out: "No...... It's okay, though...... Although I lost ...... lost her, but ...... But I ...... But I ...... I have other ...... The meaning of being alive. ”

"What else is it to be alive?" I was about to ask, but my phone rang suddenly, and I saw that it was a call from a dwarf.

What's the matter with him looking for me at this time? Could it be that he found out that I had been discharged from the hospital ahead of schedule, so he called me to reprimand me?

"Professor Hu, I'm sorry, I'll answer the phone." I said hello to Professor Hu, and then secretly stepped aside and whispered to the dwarf, "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

"Char, I have to tell you something very important!" The gnome said nervously to me.

"What's the matter?" The dwarf's serious words couldn't help but make me nervous.

"Didn't I tell you that I'm now in the same company that makes the dragon defense system? Now that I am finally able to use the internal system, I found that in January 2018, Professor Wu of your school had not been to the Arctic glacier at all, and among all the faculty members of HKUST, the only one who had been to the Arctic glacier at that point in time was ......"

While the dwarf was talking, I accidentally saw a picture of a book on the shelf that was being sandwiched. I gently pulled the picture out of the book, only to find that it was only half there.

Fear and anxiety permeated my mind, and an indescribable panic and anxiety engulfed me.

I flipped the photo over, but what caught my eye was the one I was all too familiar with—a photo of me standing in front of a university, with my right hand extended to the right, as if I was lifting with someone.

Suddenly, I felt a roar in my head, and the whole world spun infinitely.

This photograph and the one I saw at Professor Wu's home are a complete photograph when taken together.

"Char, are you listening to me, let me tell you that among all the faculty members of HKUST, the only one who has ever been to the Arctic glacier at that point in time is Hu Zaide! Your Professor Hu! He's him, that's him! He's the real 'Z' professor! The dwarf said anxiously.

I even doubted my ears, and for a moment I couldn't believe what was happening in front of me.

Hu Zaide is Professor "Z......

What about Professor Wu? What about Professor Wu?!

He's not "Z" professor, he's not "Z" professor......

It was I, it was I who caused him innocent to die......

It was me, it was I who indirectly killed him.

"Char, Char......!" The gnome was calling out my name on his phone, but I couldn't hear him at all. The cell phone signal suddenly cut off, and a long "beep" sound came out instead.

At this time, Li Ruina suddenly stood up, took out a pistol from her bag, and pointed it at Hu Zaide's forehead. However, at the moment when she was about to pull the trigger and shoot Hu Zaide, her legs suddenly weakened and she sat down.

I felt weak and fell to the ground.

"Why...... Why, I obviously ...... I didn't eat anything, why did I get hit? Why did I get hit?......" Li Ruina collapsed on the couch in disbelief, her hands struggling helplessly.

"Why?" Hu Zaide smiled coldly and explained to her, "You are so stupid that you think I will be drugged in tea and refreshments?" How could I, Hu Zaide, do such a stupid thing? I'll tell you the truth, I'm not drugged your food at all, I'm drugged in this air purifier, which is colorless, odorless, and extremely difficult to detect. ”

Listening to Hu Zaide's smooth words, I finally realized that the previous stuttering was all disguised by him.

"Air purifier...... That...... So why, you're okay? Li Ruina asked weakly.

"Why am I okay?" Hu Zaide suddenly laughed, and then said: "Because the antidote is applied to the mouth of my teacup, I drink tea at the same time, which is equivalent to drinking the antidote." ”

"Original...... That's right. "Li Ruina understood everything.

Hu Zaide snatched the pistol from Li Ruina's hand and turned the muzzle of the pistol in the direction of Li Ruina. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, I used the last of my strength to run in front of Li Ruina and block the shot for her.

It hit me directly in the ribs under my chest, breaking my ribs.

I endured the severe pain, glared at Hu Zaide angrily and said: "On January 15, 2018, it was you who found the 'Z' crystal on the Arctic glacier and colluded with Yitzhak to escape to the United States in January this year!" I'm not wrong! ”

"How do you know? I don't think I told anyone about that. Hu Zaide put down the pistol in his hand and looked at my face suspiciously.

"Huh." I smiled disdainfully, and instead of answering Hu Zaide's words, I asked directly, "What about the 'Z' crystal?" Where are the 'Z' crystals? ”

I suddenly thought of the safe in the underground research room, where he most likely hid him.

"You hid it in that safe, didn't you? The underground research room isn't where the man in black hides, it's where you've been researching. The reason why the man in black caught you but didn't kill you directly was because he didn't know where the 'Z' crystal was, but he never thought that it wasn't somewhere else, just under his eyelids. And I helped you. I said with a wry smile after thinking about everything.

Indeed, all this reasoning was beyond my expectations, and for so long I had been so desperate to settle Professor Z's guilt at the cost of saddling myself with sin, only to end up letting him go. I can't help but regret it when I think of this, and my heart is like a knife.

"Yes, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to escape, and I should really be grateful to you when it comes to this." Hu Zaide walked up to me and Li Ruina as he spoke, and we fell asleep with a faint look at him.