Chapter 3422 — Sisters Reunited
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"Hello? Benjamin the Second—you're looking for me?" Miss Lan asked mildly.
"It's like this, Madam Lan. That Song Lingwei has gone back to Huaxia. I want Qiu Shanlong to make a move—send his people to kill her and bring her corpse back for research."
"Oh? She's gone back, has she?" Miss Lan mused for a moment, then said, "Very well, arrange it as you see fit. Though a living specimen is more valuable—if it can be managed, bringing her back alive would be better for the research. If she dies and the genes mutate, that would be a nuisance."
In the presence of Ancestor Xuanchen she did not wish to say too much and expose the Center's reserves and strength, so she spoke only vaguely; but this also signified her tacit approval of the matter.
"Madam Lan thinks of everything. I understand," said Dr. Benjamin II.
"Mm. Have Qiu Shanlong arrange it. Your energies should stay on the research. In a few days I'll have the newly produced first- and second-grade automatic cauldrons of medicine sent over—replicate them as quickly as you can!" Miss Lan instructed.
"No problem, Madam Lan, rest assured!" Dr. Benjamin II agreed, hung up, and straightaway passed the news to Qiu Shanlong, telling him to send people to carry it out.
To ensure the affair went off smoothly, Qiu Shanlong was cautious this time. He dispatched four skilled hands, all at the great consummation of the late Heaven Rank. These four had never appeared on the stage of the ancient era, and no one knew their identities.
They were the Center's reserves. This Center might seem quiet and unassuming now, but in truth it already commanded no small strength.
To kill Song Lingwei, three great-consummation experts ought to have been enough—even with Song Xianghua, himself a great consummation, three against two would be more than sufficient. But to take Song Lingwei alive would be rather more difficult.
Four were sent, mainly for deterrence. After all, Song Lingwei was a living, breathing person—and a great-consummation expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank. To drag such a person back by force would be harder than hard; if anything went amiss along the way and Song Lingwei escaped, she would be gone for good.
So, following Qiu Shanlong's orders, they planned to threaten Song Lingwei with her family and then compel her to return with them. Since she had gone back to the Song family, it was clear she held deep feelings for it; and for the sake of keeping the Song family from harm, her only choice would be to submit meekly.
The four slipped quietly into Huaxia. Being cultivators, they took no rest but headed straight for the Song household...
Today Qiu Lingshan had returned to the Song family, and the house was all festivity, hung with lanterns and colored silk.
Qiu Lingshan and Song Lingwei had a younger brother, though he was still at school and not very strong. The Song family was waiting for him to grow up before he could take over in due course—after all, Qiu Lingshan and Song Lingwei alike were girls, and girls would surely marry out in time, and then they would no longer be of the Song family.
"Lingrui, you're back?" Qiu Lingshan had no sooner come home than she saw her sister, returned from abroad, and was at once overjoyed.
"Mm. This time it isn't only me—Second Grandfather has come back too!" Song Lingwei embraced Qiu Lingshan. The sisters had not seen each other for so long, and their bond had been close since childhood; reunited after a long parting, both were stirred.
"Second Grandfather?" Qiu Lingshan was slightly taken aback. "What second grandfather... ah! You don't mean Grandfather's younger brother—that Second Grandfather Song Xianghua who once left the Song family?"
"Yes, him!" Song Lingwei nodded with a smile. "Second Grandfather is inside talking with Grandfather. Shall we two sisters have a little whisper of our own? Did you bring my brother-in-law back with you?"