Lu Feng’s footsteps headed down the corridor. Then Lily suddenly leaned against An Zhe and asked in a mysterious tone, “The colonel is Mrs Lu’s child. Did you know that?”

An Zhe watched the girl. After two days of contact, she was much livelier. He asked, “Do you even know this?”

“It is because I’m smart.” Lily slightly raised her chin. “They only sleep while I know everything.”

For the things she said before, An Zhe didn’t have much interest. Then once she mentioned Lu Feng, he felt some curiosity. “What do you know?”

“There are photos of the colonel stored in the madam’s communicator. I have seen it.” Lily swung her legs on the chair and continued, “They said that the colonel is the madam’s real child and he wasn’t grown with the assistance of machines.”

An Zhe thought that the relationship between Lu Feng and Mrs Lu was really special. The children of Eden themselves didn’t know the identity of their parents. The only number that had been with them since birth was their ID card number.

He heard Lily continue, “There seem to be two reasons. The first is that the colonel was in a precarious state at the time and wasn’t suitable for in vitro culture. The other one is just a guess.”

An Zhe inquired, “What is it?”

“The madam stayed outside the Garden of Eden. Later, she would go to the Lighthouse for meetings and talk to people outside. My guess is that the madam had a lover outside. Maybe the colonel is the child of the madam and her lover.”

At this point, Lily stared at An Zhe. “Are you Colonel Lu’s lover?”

An Zhe pondered on the meaning of the word for a moment before shaking his head.

“Have you ever been paid for sperm?” Lily wondered. “Although you don’t have a lover, you might already have a child.”

“No.” An Zhe frowned. “But…”

“What is it?”

An Zhe slowly shook his head and didn’t speak. He didn’t have a human child but he had his spore. He just didn’t know where his spore was now. He would ask Lu Feng but he was afraid to reveal his heterogeneous identity. If he continued to search the ventilation ducts, he was at risk of getting lost and being exposed at any time.

The only thing he knew was that according to Lu Feng’s manual, the spore was most likely in the Lighthouse. He was now in the Lighthouse but facing the complicated authority gates and secure laboratories, he had no idea how to find the spore.

It was clear that he and the spore must be close. In the Lighthouse for the past two days, An Zhe felt sad whenever he thought of this.

Lily wondered, “You aren’t happy?”

“Yes.”