She is the most beautiful rose

Chapter 363 What are you thinking?

He leaned back against the headboard. “I can tell you my feelings now because I completely trust you and know that you would cherish these feelings as well. But if we choose to hide them to maintain the status quo, it will only amplify the emotions that have accumulated in our hearts, creating a barrier between us and pushing us further and further apart.”

Shen Manzhi pursed her lips and tilted her head slightly. "Are you talking about the time I got drunk and yelled at you?"

She would never say, in such a lucid state, that she cared about his inappropriate contact with women, like he just did.

She would only take advantage of her drunkenness to throw a little tantrum and give him the cold shoulder, then dredge up old grievances and accuse him of what he had done.

Qin Yanfeng squeezed her hand and shook his head. "What I wanted to say was, were you sitting outside alone just now because something was bothering you?"

Shen Manzhi looked at him, her eyes shifting with complex emotions, glistening with tears, and then smiled, saying, "You've said so much just to ask this one question?"

"Rather than asking you so bluntly, I would prefer you to take the initiative to talk to me, or even just wake me up, instead of sitting outside alone facing this."

His eyes were filled with heartache.

He understands her so well that he is willing to give her time and guide her patiently, rather than directly questioning her about what happened, which would make her resistant and feel restricted and controlled.

"We agreed to be open and honest, not just about feelings."

Shen Manzhi sighed softly, lowered her head and leaned against him, "Don't do this."

Qin Yanfeng let her lean against him and waited patiently.

"I met your friend this afternoon and asked about Helandai."

"If it were about her, it wouldn't have made you look like that."

He didn't ask about Helandai; instead, he was more concerned about her emotions.

Shen Manzhi paused slightly, surprised by his insight, then laughed to cover it up with a joke, "What about me?"

“Confused, down,” he said, raising his hand to smooth her brow, “guilty.”

Shen Manzhi's lips twitched slightly, but she couldn't utter a word.

"What are you thinking?"

What are you thinking about...?

Like a child caught doing something wrong, my heart is pounding.

But he couldn't truly understand her heart.

A pang of heartache gradually spread through Shen Manzhi's heart. "I'm thinking that I didn't protect you well."

He was dragged into all these causes and effects, yet he couldn't be protected.

Qin Yanfeng gently pressed the back of her neck and pulled her closer, his eyes filled with amusement, "Are you keeping a mistress in a golden cage?"

Shen Manzhi looked at him.

"You still need to keep me by your side to protect me," Qin Yanfeng kissed her gently, "Do you understand?"

He was always like that, so gentle that she had no reason to say no.

Shen Manzhi's eyes welled up with tears, and she smiled helplessly, "I understand."

I was gently guided by the other person to open up several times, which felt like a heavy burden being lifted off my shoulders. How fortunate I was.

She relaxed and returned to the matter of Helandai.

On the night of the third attack at the tea house, they analyzed the intentions of a certain organization behind it, but they lacked the key information to find the other party, so she wanted to personally determine whether Helandai was related to this organization.

Qin Yanfeng asked softly, "How is it?"

"Helandai is indeed cooperating with other organizations, most likely the overseas organization we mentioned before."

Shen Manzhi didn't make any absolute statements. She originally thought that she could only rely on Helandai to follow the clues to the organization behind the scenes, but after talking with Qin Juan, it seemed that there were other clues that could be used to break through.

Qin Yanfeng held her hand. "If I hadn't asked you, would you have wanted to go find her alone?"

Shen Manzhi's slightly furrowed brows relaxed as she leaned closer to comfort him, "I have no such plans. I'm just thinking of a solution."

However, Yi Wenshu had told him on the phone that afternoon that she didn't want him to know, which meant that she had already decided at that time not to let him get involved.

Qin Yanfeng didn't say anything, but simply hooked his fingers around hers and asked, "Have you thought it through?"

Shen Manzhi was slightly taken aback. "Not yet."

He took her hand. "Let's think about it together."

“You told me before that your friend belongs to a special Chinese organization stationed abroad, and Helandai was his colleague before, and together they carried out the mission to arrest me.”

Qin Yanfeng's eyes flickered slightly. "Was she transferred to be in charge of the annual inspection to get close to you?"

Shen Manzhi turned over and sat back down next to him. "I guess so. She was dismissed and transferred after committing a crime, but the organization gave her an identity that allowed her to get close to me, which can be considered as giving her an opportunity in a roundabout way."

But the organization revoked her control over the situation, so even if she knew my whereabouts, she couldn't catch me. However, after I returned to China this time, she gained a new faction around her.

"So you suspect she's working with someone else right now?"

"Yes. Actually, she had looked for other people before. Do you remember when I went to see Xu Meizhou last time?"

Qin Yanfeng certainly remembered that when Shen Manzhi didn't come out for a long time, he led his men and barged in, only to be greeted with "I love you" from her. His Adam's apple bobbed slightly. "I remember."

Shen Manzhi didn't think as much as he did and said bluntly, "He was sent by Helandai. After our last meeting, he replied to me saying he would no longer be involved in this matter, but Helandai obviously has other forces around her."

After meeting your friend this afternoon, I already had someone investigate, and it's pretty much confirmed.

Qin Yanfeng guessed that the reason why they hadn't investigated earlier was because Helandai belonged to a state organization, and Shen Manzhi wouldn't cross that line.

But things are different now. Given the possibility of Helandai's betrayal, she can naturally investigate thoroughly without any scruples.

What are your plans for the next step?

Shen Manzhi pondered for a moment, “Helandai is now very clear about my whereabouts. I’m worried that she and the forces behind her will soon find out that I suspect and investigate them, so I need to go find someone in advance.”

Qin Yanfeng tilted his head, "Looking for Helandai?"

Shen Manzhi looked up at him, pursed her lips, and said, "Si Ming."

A flicker of surprise crossed his eyes, but it quickly vanished. "To cooperate with him?"

Shen Manzhi shook his head, first leaning in to touch his face before explaining, "The matter of Helandai's collusion with foreign organizations should be under the jurisdiction of the National Security Bureau, but we cannot report it at present because we cannot produce specific evidence. However, the series of malicious attacks in Huaicheng may be manipulated by foreign organizations, so this matter can be handed over to Si Ming."

Special events should be treated specially.

This is why she went to the hospital to investigate and search for concrete evidence.

Qin Yanfeng asked her softly, "Have you found out who attacked us on the eve of the Lunar New Year?"

“Hmm,” Shen Manzhi’s eyes turned cold as she spoke of this matter, “I had a friend do a detailed blood test, and in addition to a small amount of stimulants, there was also a trace amount of specific antibodies.”

Qin Yanhan almost immediately realized that what she was talking about was probably similar to the serum drug that had been injected into her body.

These types of drugs contain a special antibody.

Detecting donor antibodies in a recipient's body that are not originally present is a highly sophisticated technology. The other party used stimulants as interference to try to make people ignore other abnormal indicators, but they did not know that Shen Manzhi had been monitoring the changes in his body caused by the continuous production of antibodies due to serum injections for the past three years, which is why he was so vigilant.

Thinking of this, Qin Yanfeng felt a pang of heartache again, "Is it the same as the one inside your body?"

“It looks very similar,” Shen Manzhi raised her hand to rub her temples, “but I’ve only given my serum samples to Delson and Wen Lin…”

I also gave it to Yi Wenshu in the afternoon.

She paused for half a second, then continued, "Blood transfusion requires rigorous blood matching tests and is rarely successful. The drugs these people were injected with seem to be self-developed targeting the same point, only the antibody characteristics are somewhat similar to those in my body."

In contrast, that pervert Delson is more likely to directly inject her serum into experimental subjects.

But since the laboratory was blown up three years ago, destroying important data, he could no longer cooperate with others, nor could he transfer the laboratory to do such a thing. All his experimental subjects were in that dark and sunless cage.

Shen Manzhi's eyes turned cold.

There are two possibilities regarding the release of a special antibody drug similar to the one in her body.

“Researchers at Delson Lab may have leaked the information,” Shen Manzhi leaned back, “but I tend to think there were other surviving test subjects from that time.”

Qin Yanfeng's expression changed slightly.

Shen Manzhi only discussed this matter with Wen Lin, and later mentioned it in a private conversation with Delson. They guessed that it might be an experimental subject that had leaked from Delson's new laboratory, but it was obvious that Delson had investigated privately and denied it.

If the researchers leaked the latest drug research from Delson Labs, then the recipient's blood test would not have shown antibodies similar to those in Shen Manzhi's body, because Delson has never replicated the serum drug from that year.

That leaves only this one possibility.

The experimental subjects who were injected with the same two drugs as Shen Manzhi are still alive.

Whether she is as normal as him or not is unknown.

Qin Yanfeng had a fairly good understanding of the matter. After a moment of contemplation, he quickly sorted out his thoughts, "If there is a surviving test subject in this overseas organization, they have two ways to replicate similar specimens from back then. One is to directly transfer serum with special antibodies, or to create new drugs based on the targeting effects of such serum antibodies."

However, the former requires a higher price due to strict matching requirements, while the latter, through continuous clinical trials via medical research projects, carries the least risk and is the safest option. However, it also takes more time, hence their need for such human and material resources to conduct the trials.

He paused for half a second, looked at Shen Manzhi, and frowned slightly, "Have you ever thought about why they chose China as the location?"

Why choose China?

Shen Manzhi had naturally thought about it. She was the only normal person who survived the injection of the mutated virus and anti-mutated serum back then, and also the only Chinese person.

It wouldn't be difficult for the other party to find out this secret.

But is that the only reason?
When Qin Yanfeng asked her again, she suddenly felt some shimmering gold and silver threads constantly weaving through her mind, as if she could almost string them all together.

what exactly is it?
Qin Yanfeng slightly turned his gaze. "Delson initially collaborated with domestic laboratories because he attributed the experimental failure to the human specimens, so he wanted to find Chinese people to use as test subjects. However, due to the accidental injection of serum into your body and the subsequent laboratory explosion, the domestic and international collaboration came to an end. But why did this foreign organization so precisely target China as their time-consuming and labor-intensive clinical trial base?"

Shen Manzhi's fingers tightened slightly, and for the first time, her tone carried an uncharacteristic certainty: "They know about my special nature."

"Did someone from Delson Labs leak this information?"

But the hospital basement was started three years ago. If there was a mole in Delson Labs back then...

wrong.

Shen Manzhi finally realized that something was wrong.