—Just like everyone he had killed.

An Zhe’s eyes opened again. He looked up, voice so low that Lu Feng had to lean closer to hear it.

“When Madam Lu became a queen bee, she completely lost her mind. Before that, she told me… she doesn’t hate the base, she just wanted to experience a new form of life. She doesn’t hate you.”

In this deadly silence, Lu Feng didn’t speak. Time passed and just as An Zhe was about to touch Lu Feng’s cheek to confirm this person was alive, he saw Lu Feng’s cold lips slowly curving up.

His voice was very light but certain. “She hates me.”

An Zhe stared into his eyes. Madam Lu said that Lu Feng would never get what he wanted, that he wouldn’t die well and that he would eventually go mad.

“Why?” An Zhe questioned.

“After I was born, her relationship with my father was discovered by the base and she could no longer meet him at will. I killed her father and killed many of her children. When her little daughter escaped from the Garden of Eden with her help, the daughter met me. In fact, just across the street from where you and I met Lily, she was standing there to meet her friend.”

Lu Feng rarely spoke such long sentences. An Zhe was accustomed to listening to every word that came from this person so by the time Lu Feng finally finished speaking, he was almost out of breath.

The silence lasted three seconds. “There were very few things that made her happy in life but they were all ruined by me. She hated me like everyone in the base.”

Looking at him, An Zhe opened his mouth. In the end, he knew what he wanted to say.

“I don’t hate you,” he declared.

There was a long silence.

“Why?” Lu Feng’s hoarse voice suddenly entered his ears.

“Why… what?”

“Why are you…” Lu Feng stared at him. “Why can you always forgive me?”

An Zhe stared up at him but didn’t see the cold Lu Feng.

The colonel’s voice trembled imperceptibly and he asked again, “Why?”

An Zhe wanted to explain it but he couldn’t. He didn’t have the IQ of humans, nor did he know the many languages they spoke. He had to think about it for a long time.

“I know you,” he eventually said.

“You’re not even human.” Lu Feng’s fingers were gripping his shoulders, eyes still so cold but something collapsing in his voice. Lu Feng almost trembled as he asked, “How do you know me?”

This person had to ask.

An Zhe couldn’t say anything and desperately shook his head.