He couldn’t hear anything in the darkness but the wind until he bumped into something small. An Zhe’s first reaction was that a heterogeneous monster had hidden here. Then his fingers touched smooth human hair and he heard a child’s soft gasp.

He hesitated before asking, “Lily?”

“An Zhe?” Lily also called out.

“It’s me.”

“You’re here!” Lily exclaimed. “I… I heard the Twin Towers was starting to move and I was going to find you. Sinan? Has Sinan moved?”

“I don’t know. They said that important samples would be transferred.”

The moment he said this, he suddenly remembered that heterogeneous species could infect without contact and the Lighthouse might not let Sinan enter the Garden of Eden. However, Lily seemed relieved. “Sinan must be important.”

She leaned against the stairs for a while before saying, “Did you come to find me as well?”

“No.” An Zhe told her, “I’m here to hide.”

“Does someone want to capture you?” Lily asked before saying, “It’s safe here.”

An Zhe knew that Lily was a child different from the other humans.

“I’ll be here for a few days.” He touched Lily’s hair. “Can you not tell anyone that I’m here?”

The next moment, the stairwell became as bright as daylight, bright white lights hitting him and Lily. Lily subconsciously screamed and leaned back against him. He reached out to protect the little girl and looked up.

Madam Lu in a long white dress stood in the bright light. Next to Madam Lu were two Eden workers with bright flashlights.

“Lily.” Madam Lu’s gentle voice was filled with a mild rebuke. She was clearly speaking to Lily but her eyes were on An Zhe. “Why are you still running away this time?”

CHAPTER 49

Lily whispered, “I’m sorry, madam. I was just worried about Sinan.”

“Is there anything you can’t say to me?” Madam Lu reached out to her and Lily obediently left An Zhe to be held by Madam Lu.

The last time they met at the Lighthouse, Madam Lu wore a mask and An Zhe could only see her eyes. This time, he finally saw the lady’s features. The lines of her face were soft, her eyebrows were curved but her thin lips didn’t smile. She slightly squinted and this added a bit of firmness to her gentle expression. Lu Feng didn’t look like her at all.

Yet inexplicably, An Zhe felt that her facial features were similar to Lily. If all the people in the base were grown from Eden’s embryos and all the embryos were from the women in Eden, then Lily might indeed be the youngest daughter of Madam Lu’s blood.

In this way, Lily’s behaviour when she saw Madam Lu was understandable. After all, she was the lady’s child, not his child. In this world, only the spore would never take the initiative to leave him.