The White Moonlight Omega Has Amnesia and Always Tries to Seduce Me - Chapter 64

Shen Zhi sat next to Shen Wen, frowning, her eyes intently fixed on the older Alpha across the table.

Unlike Shen Wen’s cultured and humorous demeanor, Qin Zhijing sat on the other side of the conference table, legs crossed, one hand hanging down, the other casually resting on the table. The nearly fifty-year-old Alpha had many wrinkles on his face, but perhaps due to the inherent sense of authority he possessed, these wrinkles didn’t lessen his distance but instead made him appear even more rigorous.

Perhaps noticing Shen Zhi observing him, Qin Zhijing dropped the pen in his hand, his gaze sweeping towards Shen Zhi’s direction, “Does Miss Shen perhaps have any better suggestions?”

Shen Zhi hadn’t been listening attentively the whole time, only occasionally catching a keyword or two, similar to “pheromone” or “gland,” so naturally, she had nothing to say. Shen Wen took one look at his daughter’s blank expression and understood immediately, intervening, “No need to mind her so much, I only brought her along to observe today.”

Facing an outsider, Shen Wen also put aside his thoughts of scrutinizing his own daughter, sternly saying, “I told you not to bring the cat, but you insisted. Now it’s hungry, hurry and take it back to the car to find something to eat.”

Shen Zhi stroked the little cat’s head, standing up with some hesitation.

Facing Qin Zhijing, Qin Huai’s Alpha father, Shen Zhi had too many questions. These questions stemmed from the academic community’s accolades for Qin Zhijing, the students of Jiangcheng University’s evaluation of him, and her own unilateral investigation into him.

The academic community said Qin Zhijing was exceptionally capable, students said Professor Qin’s lectures were meticulous and earnest, and her initial investigation results on Qin Zhijing were that he lived a regular life and was morally upright.

This was an Alpha who was impeccable in every aspect. If Shen Zhi had abandoned further investigation, she might have also been deceived by all the false appearances.

Her contact had once sent her a photo. In the picture, the middle-aged Alpha stood in a flower room stacked high with flowers. Colorful blossoms enveloped him, and the Alpha, head half-bowed and eyes closed, held a small glass bottle similar to a perfume bottle, inhaling with intoxicated absorption.

That intoxication was the satisfaction of control, and the absorption was him enjoying the immersion.

From that moment, Shen Zhi became suspicious of Qin Zhijing. As she expected, Qin Zhijing indeed had a problem.

As Shen Zhi turned, her gaze lightly dropped, a nonchalant smile on her lips as she retorted to Shen Wen, “I didn’t even want to listen.”

She had only just learned that Qin Zhijing was involved in this place. Since her people couldn’t find anything, it must be because he didn’t want people to know. Moreover, judging by her father’s surprised expression just now, Shen Wen was also learning for the first time that the other person in charge of this project would be Qin Zhijing.

To Shen Zhi’s satisfaction, the young Alpha’s face, once turning her back to Qin Zhijing, lost its earlier carelessness, her eyes becoming calm and fierce.

“Wait a moment,” Qin Zhijing spoke from behind her.

Shen Zhi froze in place, the smile on her lips fading, and she turned her head, asking, “What is it?”

“Does Miss Shen know Qin Huai?” Qin Zhijing organized the thin stack of documents in his hand.

Shen Zhi remained silent, secretly pondering Qin Zhijing’s intention behind this question.

Qin Zhijing aligned the edges of the papers and placed them on the table, waiting for Shen Zhi’s reply.

Regarding the investigation of Qin Zhijing, Shen Zhi wasn’t sure if he knew, and she was even less certain what impact stating familiarity or unfamiliarity would have on Qin Huai, especially since a father who blamed his wife’s death on his daughter was himself unfit.

Shen Zhi lowered her gaze and chuckled softly, “Somewhat. We’re on ‘say hello when we meet’ terms.”

Their gazes met in the air.

The atmosphere was ostensibly peaceful but felt electric.

Shen Zhi withdrew her gaze, patted the little cat’s head, “Let’s go, Mommy will take you to find something to eat.”

The laboratory had two floors, with the conference room in the far corner of the second floor. After Shen Zhi exited, she stood by the doorframe, her eyes completely devoid of the previous flippancy. She stroked the cat with one hand, her eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings.

The laboratory was quiet, the kind of stillness where no excess molecules were in the air. This was not surprising, as the lab was built in this location, and its owner likely desired undisturbed solitude the most.

Shen Zhi softened her footsteps and slowly walked from the corridor towards the stairwell.

Alphas possess a natural keenness for danger. As Shen Zhi walked, her gaze swept across the signs on the doors of each room.

[Sample Room]

[Material Room]

As Shen Zhi reached the stairwell on the second floor, she felt somewhat discouraged. These rooms, just by looking at the signs, seemed unremarkable, but the actual situation was unknown.

Could it really be that she was wrong?

Yet, the various pieces of information sent by her investigator all suggested that Qin Zhijing was not as simple as he appeared.

Shen Zhi was lost in thought, her hand exerting pressure without realizing it. She must have applied too much force somewhere, angering the little “lord” in her arms, whose sharp claws scratched her tiger’s mouth, leaving a faint white mark. Then, the cat darted out of the window beside the stairs and into a room.

Shen Zhi was startled, but dared not raise her voice to call for help. She quickly rushed to the room door. As she twisted the doorknob, she glanced at the sign in front of the door.

[Scent Room]

Shen Zhi initially didn’t hold much hope, as it would be abnormal for any room in a laboratory not to be locked, but this time was different. After a few unsuccessful twists, just as she was about to give up and look for help, the door suddenly opened.

Shen Zhi was surprised. Pushing the door handle open with her hand, she saw the little cat clawing at the doorknob; it seemed to have opened the door just now.

The layout of this room was very similar to a chemistry lab. All the space along the walls was filled with shelves, upon which were placed finger-length glass bottles, containing liquids of different colors?

Shen Zhi stared intently at a corner, her legs moving uncontrollably towards it.

The soft yellow light of the wall lamp shone down, illuminating the glass bottles with a rich texture. They were frosted glass bottles with a glass stopper that could cover them. Each bottle’s body had a note written on a white sticker, the sense of ritual extraordinarily heavy.

Shen Zhi walked over, took a deep blue bottle from the corner, and glanced at the text outside.

[Seawater]

She removed the outer glass stopper, brought her nose close to the opening, and carefully sniffed. A faint, salty, and damp smell of seawater spread through her nasal cavity, a scent somewhere between the real and the illusory.

That scent wasn’t just perfume, it was Shen Zhi’s eyebrows furrowed tightly. The gland on the back of her neck throbbed slightly, unable to bear the scent.

This scent was the smell of Omega pheromones.

The reason she could distinguish it was due to compatibility. Although she had only temporarily marked Qin Huai, the scent of pheromones was like a scar. Once left on the skin, no matter how much one cares for it afterward, the scar can never be erased.

This room contained so many Omega pheromones. How did these pheromones come to be here?

This question lingered in Shen Zhi’s mind. She placed the bottle back in its original position, and just as she was about to take a few photos with her phone, the little cat suddenly became extremely restless, scrambling up the shelves of the entire room like a cat tree, finally stopping in the middle and meowing twice towards Shen Zhi.

Shen Zhi was afraid that the cat’s repeated cries would alert people outside, so she quickly followed its steps and stopped in the middle, lightly patting the cat’s head to warn it, “Keep your voice down.”

The little cat naturally didn’t understand human language, but persisted in using its claws to push the glass bottle in front of it. Shen Zhi was worried that the bottle would fall and leave a trace. When she reached out to hold the cat and stop it from causing trouble, she inadvertently glanced at the glass bottle.

[Orange Scent]

Because Qin Huai’s scent was orange, Shen Zhi paid extra attention to this smell, especially in this place. She put the cat down at her feet and reached out to pick up the glass bottle from the shelf.

The faint orange color was like the sunset glow of the evening, brilliant and colorful, captivating one’s gaze at a single glance.

Shen Zhi lifted the lock ring on the stopper, a certain conjecture in her heart about to surface.

She closed her eyes, lowered her nose, and brought the tip of her nose close to the opening of the bottle.

Unlike the previous stinging sensation, when the orange scent was transmitted to her nerves through her nasal cavity, the comfort that went deep into her bone marrow caused her scalp to tingle.

This was Qin Huai’s scent.

Shen Zhi suddenly opened her eyes at that moment.

Shen Zhi couldn’t wait for Shen Wen to come out. She picked up the cat, rushed out of the lab, knocked on the car window to give the cat to the driver, and then prepared to go down the mountain. There was no way to call a taxi in this wilderness, so Shen Zhi could only descend the mountain step by step on the stone stairs.

Since this laboratory had Qin Huai’s pheromones, it meant that the people here must have had contact with Qin Huai. However, Qin Zhijing and Qin Huai’s relationship was very strained, and Qin Huai hadn’t encountered anyone extracting her pheromones recently.

No, wait, she had. Someone had extracted her pheromones.

It was Hao Yan!

And Hao Yan was now dead.

Shen Zhi used the known information and what she saw in that room today to frantically piece things together in her mind. It felt as if something had been forcibly opened in her head, and everything seemed to have a reason.

The steps on the mountain were not well-maintained it was common for one to be wide and the next narrow. Shen Zhi wasn’t careful, missed a step, and as her body’s weight tilted forward, she plunged towards the hard steps.

She rolled down the stairs. Although it wasn’t a great height, and she didn’t sustain any major injuries, she still accidentally twisted her ankle.

But Shen Zhi couldn’t rest. She could only lean on the bamboo shafts in the mountains and hurry down without a moment’s delay.

She was afraid

She was afraid that if she was a moment too late, Qin Huai would encounter a danger she couldn’t even predict.

She once thought the furthest distance from Qin Huai was only being able to watch her back, silently remaining an observer. But after learning about Qin Huai’s breakup, while she felt sorry for her, she was secretly thrilled. She got closer to her, initially only wanting to get her attention, but she became greedy. After getting her attention, she wanted Qin Huai to be happy and sad for her. Even after Qin Huai suggested breaking up, she still felt that a little pause, and everything would work out once Qin Huai cooled down.

Qin Huai would forever be vibrant in her heart. But what if one day Qin Huai was no longer there?

Shen Zhi dared not think deeply. At the brink of life and death, all the beautiful, happy, sad, and reckless thoughts vanished, leaving only one thought in her mind.

She wanted her to be safe.