The island laboratory was Liu Hanyan's greatest asset, and Lu Qingwan wasn't surprised she'd assign her confidantes to guard it.
However, "Liu Hanyan has two sons and two daughters. If she wants to help Nangong Che seize the Qi Dynasty's empire, why doesn't she have her two sons try harder? Why must she resort to such roundabout means to have her daughter replace me?
How can she be so sure that if I disappear, the Prince will marry her daughter?
What if the Prince resolutely refuses, or the Emperor of Qin and the Empress have another child? Wouldn't her plan be completely ruined?"
Si Fengwu nodded vigorously, "Exactly, this King would rather die than surrender."
Lu Qingwan swatted him away dismissively, continuing her onslaught, "And another thing!
If she wants to save the country indirectly, why is she fixated on the Prince alone? What's wrong with the Emperor of Qin?
According to Liu Hanyan's logic, the Emperor of Qin has no heir. Her daughter's child with the Prince could inherit the Qin Dynasty's empire. In that case, wouldn't the Emperor of Qin's son also inherit the Tianfeng Dynasty's empire after the Prince's reign?
Why is she targeting the Prince exclusively?
Is it because she thinks I and the Prince are easy to bully, or does she think the Emperor of Qin is not worthy?"
Ying Yi trembled, "This, your subordinate doesn't know!"
He wasn't Liu Hanyan's confidante, how could he possibly know what schemes she had in mind?
However, for things he didn't know, others would naturally provide answers.
While they were talking, they had already entered the laboratory. Lu Qingwan hadn't intentionally lowered her voice, so the people inside could actually hear them.
Feng Ziyi appeared from somewhere and said scornfully, "Are you stupid? Since they want to help Nangong Che reclaim the Qi Dynasty's empire, they naturally need to leave an heir for Nangong Che!
Her two precious sons are meant to be the future Emperors of Qi, so how could they be sent to take risks now?
As for the Emperor of Qin's side, how do you know she hasn't made any efforts there?"
Lu Qingwan's eyes widened instantly, "What do you mean? Someone is actually targeting my Imperial Brother?"
Feng Ziyi beckoned mysteriously, "They are plotting for the entire world, how could they possibly overlook such a crucial link?
Look..."
As Feng Ziyi spoke, he picked something up from the table and slowly unfolded it.
A familiar face was suddenly revealed, causing Lu Qingwan to exclaim, "Imperial Sister-in-law?!"
Si Fengwu's face also darkened abruptly, "What is the meaning of this?
Could it be that she intends to find someone to impersonate Imperial Sister-in-law, using a substitution?"
Upon hearing this, Feng Ziyi's expression lost its former ease, and he said gravely, "Liu Hanyan's second daughter, Nangong Ruoya, is already in Zhongzhou.
Send word to the Emperor of Qin immediately to be wary. That woman is extremely sinister. If she makes a move, the Empress of Qin, that dodderer, will be no match for Nangong Ruoya."
Si Fengwu remained silent, his jaw slightly tilted, and Ying Yi quickly departed at his signal.
Feng Ziyi then said to the two, "Since you're here, come and take a look."
Being on a remote island, the laboratory wasn't deliberately hidden.
The two followed Feng Ziyi for only a few steps before arriving at a spacious room.
In a room comparable in size to a training ground, various workstations and bottles and jars were arranged in a chaotic yet orderly fashion.
As soon as Lu Qingwan entered, she smelled a strong medicinal odor but saw no firearms.
She asked suspiciously, "Weren't you saying there were firearms?
There was an explosion just now.
Are you sure the firearms are inside here?"
While asking Feng Ziyi, she had already scanned with her x-ray vision.
As the intricate and precise bombs came into view, Lu Qingwan was utterly shocked.
Forgetting to conceal anything, she lifted the various disguises covering them and picked up the device with its intermittent fuse, "Where did this come from?"
Before she could get a clear answer, she saw soap placed nearby, as well as crystals that looked both familiar and strange, and liquids with pungent odors...
Every item on the workstations was enough to shock Lu Qingwan's eyes.
She looked at them one by one, and finally asked dazedly, "Who made these things?"
Feng Ziyi pointed next door inexplicably, "The room next door is full of strange people. According to the people here, their task every day is to tinker with these things non-stop."
Without a word, Lu Qingwan ran towards the adjacent room.
What was called a room was actually a square space enclosed by giant reefs.
As Lu Qingwan rushed in, she saw a group of people sitting or lying there, completely numb.
Seeing her enter, some lazily lifted their eyelids, while others didn't move at all.
Lu Qingwan counted them roughly, nearly sixty people, at least half fewer than the list Lan Ting Shuang had provided.
Although she had doubts, to verify her suspicions, she still asked, "Who made the trigger grenade outside?"
The group of people listlessly rolled their eyes, and no one answered.
Lu Qingwan wasn't in a hurry. She picked up a medical flashlight from the spatial laboratory and turned it on with a click.
The bright, pure white light was particularly dazzling in the dim stone room. The formerly numb crowd, who seemed indifferent to everything, suddenly became agitated.
"You... you're also a transmigrator!"
A thin man scrambled up on all fours and rushed in front of Lu Qingwan, reaching out to snatch the flashlight from her hand.
Lu Qingwan clicked the flashlight off again, surveyed the surroundings, and said coldly, "I don't care what time period you come from, nor what your identity was before you came here.
Explain clearly everything you've done since arriving in this era, and I can send you back to your original world.
Of course, if anyone is willing to stay, I can also send you wherever you wish to go.
If anyone thinks they're clever and wants to run rampant in this era using their prior knowledge, I can make them disappear."
Lu Qingwan's words were tantamount to admitting her status as a transmigrator.
However, what surprised her was that the first reaction of those people wasn't to beg her for help, to ask her to send them back to their original world, or to demand their freedom.
Instead, they aggressively questioned, "What do you mean, are you threatening us?
I think you were the one who brought us to this feudal dynasty, right?
Now that you've used us, you want to discard us?
Let me tell you, there's no such easy deal in this world!"
It took only a few sentences from questioning to unreasonable scolding.
Even Lu Qingwan, who had seen her share of oddballs, found this person quite remarkable.
She was too lazy to argue with them and casually replied, "Even if what you say is true, with your kind of behavior, why would I need to threaten you?"
After speaking, she didn't wait for them to blabber further and turned to call out, "Guards!"
Having realized that these people might all be transmigrators, he gestured for Si Fengwu to keep the others from approaching.
Now, it seemed these people were not worth treating with courtesy.