Poverty makes me capable of anything.

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In An Ran's eyes, Little Gold Tooth was already a dead man.

Anger was hidden in her chest, but An Ran remained rational.

With her current strength, it would be difficult for her to kill Little Gold Tooth unless she used a long-range sniper.

Little Gold Tooth was known for his caution throughout the old town.

Because of his great reputation, An Ran was able to quickly discern his shadow from Sandy's words.

An Ran doesn't have much time to lie in wait for Little Gold Tooth to reveal a weakness.

Reason also told her that she couldn't be foolish and rush straight in.

If you haven't fought it, you'll get trapped.

Even if they successfully kill Little Gold Tooth, they are very likely to be unable to escape smoothly.

Once your identity is fully exposed, it's like putting yourself in the eye of the storm of Morning Star.

That's not how you court death.

An Ran could only pretend not to know for the time being, and then eliminate Little Gold Tooth with lightning speed once she became stronger.

By eliminating all the witnesses, there would be no risk of being exposed.

Having made up her mind, An Ran raised her head.

It was already noon.

Ella sat quietly to the side, and after seeing Anran fall into thought, she rested her chin on her hand and began to stare blankly.

Ella herself did not deduce any useful information from the recording.

"Let's eat first," An Ran said.

"Okay!"

When the topic of food came up, the listless Ella suddenly became enthusiastic.

She followed closely behind An Ran, watching An Ran clean a piece of metal that she had brought out from the research and development center, then hold the metal in both hands and eat it like bread.

Anran also kept an eye on Ella's eating.

She quickly ate her fill, told Ella not to wander off, and then rushed off to the research and development center.

There are still 45000 experience points needed to upgrade to [Apprentice Mechanic Lv10].

If we work together, four days should be enough.

Having spent almost a week at the R&D center, Anran handed over the blueprints for the [Mechanical Spinner] to Gray before entering the workshop, in accordance with the initial deal.

Gray silently put down the blueprints, not dwelling on the matter any longer. Instead, he suddenly rolled his eyes and began to complain to An Ran: "What's wrong with young people these days? It's the local young people like this, and even the young people from other places are like this. None of them know how to respect the elderly and care for the young. Sigh, the world is going to the dogs!"

An Ran's lips twitched, feeling that Gray's mention of the local young man was a veiled reference to her.

You old scoundrel, I'm being lenient by not beating you up, and you actually expect me to respect you!

Don't even think about making a move on Ella and me!

An Ran turned and left; there was still countless experiences waiting for her to discover in the workshop.

She had only been gone a short while when the young man she had seen several times before pushed open the door and walked in.

"Director..."

Chapter 42 She is a very special student

"Chief, the weekly meeting is at 5 p.m., in the Security Department's review section building," the young man said in a calm voice.

Like Colin, young Morton was also a high-achieving graduate of a respectable university.

His outstanding abilities led most people in the institute to be optimistic about his future, including Gray.

On the other hand, Gray harbored a subtle aversion to Morton.

Morton was similar to Colin, who had just graduated, in many ways; they were both in charge of developing new weapons.

However, Colin is essentially a peace-loving person. Although he is engaged in weapons research and development, he hopes to put his technology into civilian use.

Therefore, Colin resigned immediately after the major changes.

Morton, however, had an extraordinary passion for developing new weapons.

He constantly looked forward to the weapons he developed shining on the battlefield.

But a mature and usable weapon is not so easy to create.

It would be difficult for him to do it all by himself.

Gray handed Morton the blueprints Anran had given him: "Take a look at this first. This is what we'll be reporting on at the weekly meeting."

“This is…” Morton took the blueprints.

"Take a look first," Gray said, looking down at the table.

The R&D center is producing fewer and fewer results, and therefore is becoming less valued by its superiors.

The consequence of this is that the annual funding is getting smaller and smaller, to the point that some people have even suggested closing the R&D center at meetings.

Since it's pointless anyway, we might as well just kill it.

Although the proposal was ultimately rejected, Gray's worries did not diminish at all.

The research and development center is the culmination of his hard work.

He had worked diligently as the director for nearly 30 years, how could he easily watch the R&D center collapse under his leadership?

That's why he went to see Colin before.

It's urgent.

Gray still remembers the decisive and resolute way Colin shook his head in refusal.

"I'm just a mechanical and electrical repairman with a broken leg right now, and there's really nothing I can do to help with what you're talking about."

Colin, sitting in a wheelchair, had his hands flat in front of him.

While carefully observing Colin in the room.

Gray then realized that he had lost his former vigor.

But Colin was still full of energy, though his body seemed a little weak, and his calm eyes were filled with happiness.

Is it because he reconciled with his wife behind him?

Or is it because of those two children outside?

Gray suddenly realized that it was a mistake for him to have come to disturb Colin's life.

In many ways, he has already let down his nominal disciple.

But now I still have to swallow my pride and come here to ask for help.

They're really getting worse as they get older.

Colin's resolute attitude left Gray feeling uncertain. After a flashback, he was about to leave when Colin suddenly dropped a bombshell.

"I've handed over all my blueprints to that girl in the workshop just now."

"Huh?" Gray turned around in surprise.

Colin isn't a talkative person, so there must be a reason why he said that.

Gray quickly understood what it meant.

Even if you don't get results here, you can still go find that girl.

But would Colin be so kind as to remind him?

Of course that's impossible.

"Is she your new student?" Gray asked.

He suddenly felt a pang of guilt; as time went on, he realized he really didn't know Colin at all.

In reality, the emotional entanglement is just a hollow title. I forced myself to come over, and in the end, I still owed him a debt of gratitude.

“I don’t think so,” Colin said, but Gray suddenly noticed a slight smile on his lips, as if he had remembered something. “Although she calls me boss, strictly speaking, I should be considered her teacher. But I reckon, given her personality, she won’t admit it.”

Our relationship is inexplicably good.

Well, that made Gray a little jealous.

Hey, hey, hey, as a wife, aren't you even a little angry that your husband is so concerned about female students?

Gray gazed at Eudora, who was smiling gently.

I was being a little mischievous.

Gray continued, "What kind of girl is she?"

“She’s special, isn’t she?” Colin stopped speaking to Gray in a harsh tone. “From the first time I met her, I felt she was a very special girl.”

"Perhaps this is fate. After taking her in, everything seemed to go smoothly. You know, before that, I had failed 16 times."

His tone was full of sighs.

Colin had never believed in fate until that tragedy happened.

He had failed 16 times before successfully creating "Ella".

But even the deepest despair couldn't compare to the hope of seeing Ella again.