A retired reincarnator from a certain American film studio

Mengmeng's disappearance was caused by one group of the 235 missing Hydra members.

But Lucy's disappearance was the work of another group of people.

As Lu Ke sat in the car, following Dr. Zhao Hailun toward her "Regeneration Cradle" laboratory, he lowered his eyes in deep thought.

From the very beginning, he felt that Hydra was playing a much more complicated game this time.

It was through Interpol that Lucy deliberately disappeared.

Then, through that Dr. Bai, Mengmeng was kidnapped.

This is far too complicated; it doesn't fit Hydra's "rebellion is doomed to fail" persona at all.

However, if we look at it separately, it becomes easier to understand.

This group of Hydra remnants is not a monolithic entity.

This can be seen in the twenty Hydras he captured in Los Santos.

The twenty Hydra agents he captured in Los Santos had absolutely no idea about the list of their colleagues outside of Los Santos.

Luke believed they genuinely didn't know.

After all, he even managed to create the "human pig." Those hydras may have sold their souls to the Heart Demon, but they didn't sell their lives to the Heart Demon as well.

and so……

Luke had a guess.

Daniel Whitehead did indeed separate 325 Hydras before he died.

However, these 325 Hydras are not a single entity; they may have been divided into several smaller groups.

Each small group should have at least twenty members.

This is also based on the number of Hydra remnants captured in Los Santos.

But no matter how many small groups these 325 Hydras were divided into, Daniel Whitehead issued the final order.

That is……

Find Luke, capture Luke, and kill Luke.

But Whitehoe died at his hands, so how could these small fry possibly think they had the confidence to go head-to-head with Luke?

Thus, the plan to kill Luke through conspiracy was put on the agenda.

The best way is through Luke's people.

Rachel or Lorna would be the best choices.

but……

Rachel and Lorna are both in Los Santos, which is Luke's base of operations. There's simply no chance of making a move against them quietly in Los Santos.

Just look at the Hydra assassin who was captured, and you'll know.

Less than an hour after he made his move, Luke intercepted him on the spot and then, following the clues, wiped out all the remaining spies hiding in Los Santos.

Besides Rachel and Lorna, what other weaknesses does Luke have?

So they turned their attention to Lucy Chen, Luke's only publicly acknowledged ex-girlfriend.

The result was that you wouldn't know unless you looked, and what you found was quite shocking.

Lucy Chen is not only in a relatively easy spot to grab, but there's even a baby included.

However, because Daniel Whitehead dispersed these people, the current situation has arisen.

Some remaining traitors have their eyes on Lucy, while others have their eyes on Mengmeng.

The result is that Lu Ke finds the situation quite complicated.

Lu Ke slowly opened his eyes, his gaze flickering.

"Two groups of people."

"what?"

Zhao Hailun, who was sitting to the side and had accompanied Lu Ke to his lab, looked at Lu Ke upon hearing this and asked, "What's wrong?"

Luke shook his head, ignoring Zhao Hailun, and looked at Jack, who was driving.

"Jack."

"Boss."

"Split our agents in two, one to investigate Lucy's disappearance and the other to investigate Mengmeng's disappearance. At the same time, have Debbie re-examine the timelines of Lucy and Mengmeng."

"..."

Jack glanced at Luke in the back seat through the rearview mirror: "Boss, you mean Lucy and Mengmeng's disappearances were caused by two different groups?"

Lu Ke said expressionlessly, "It was done by two groups of people, but the nature of the crime should be the same."

Jack nodded. "Understood."

Lu Ke then turned to Xu Xialing, who was sitting in the passenger seat and had followed him, and said, "Xialing, your father has more influence in the world than I do. Tell your father to keep an eye out for me."

Xu Xialing nodded: "Don't worry, Uncle Lu, my dad has already spread the word that he will let me know as soon as he finds out where Mengmeng or Lucy is."

Lu Ke hummed in agreement and said nothing more.

soon.

We've arrived at the Regeneration Cradle Laboratory.

Zhao Hailun, who had left with her hands cuffed and a feeling that she would never return, surprised and delighted everyone in the lab with her reappearance.

But this is not a good time for small talk.

Zhao Hailun led Lu Ke and the others directly to the testing room.

The reagents from the cutting-edge life sciences laboratory have arrived, and, as instructed by Zhao Hailun, her assistants have already prioritized testing these reagents.

But testing this takes time.

Lu Ke was too lazy to rest, so he pulled out a chair, sat down in the testing room, leaned back, closed his eyes, and waited for the test results.

Zhao Hailun and her assistant, dressed in white lab coats, were testing the reagents for other components.

"Jingle Bell!"

"Hey."

Luke opened his eyes, took out his phone, looked at Rachel's call, answered it, and held it to his ear: "Rachel, what's wrong?"

Rachel had just gotten home from get off work, changed into her pajamas, and was already in bed when she heard Luke's voice: "What's wrong? Tired?"

Lu Ke hummed in agreement and rubbed his temples: "A bit, it takes a lot of brainpower."

Although he wasn't afraid of needing to decipher anything, deciphering does require some brainpower.

Well known.

He has always preferred simplicity and directness, and his plans are as minimalist as possible.

If it were him...

His plan consisted of only three steps.

Find Lucy and Mengmeng, kidnap them, and take them away.

There's no need for all this roundabout stuff.

It's as if they're afraid others won't find the clues they left behind.

It's important to understand that the success or failure of a plan is directly related to its complexity.

The simpler the plan, the higher the success rate.

Conversely, the more complex the plan, the greater the likelihood of failure.

Upon hearing this, Rachel smiled and comforted Luke, "I have some good news, would you like to hear it?"

Lu Ke raised an eyebrow.

"What good news."

"I feel that Lucy's disappearance and Mengmeng's disappearance—no, I should say, the guy who called me to complain—wasn't the one who kidnapped Lucy and Mengmeng."

"Ah."

"why are you laughing?"

Lu Ke straightened up and shook his head, saying, "It's nothing. I just realized that this might involve more than one group of people. How did you come up with that idea?"

Rachel leaned against the headboard and said with a smile, "It's simple. That guy just called me again. I had a brief chat with him and then I snapped him out of there."

The Hydra agent who disguised his voice just called Rachel again.

There's a lot of content, but the core idea remains the same as before.

He was trying to sow discord between Rachel and Luke, attempting to break down the fortress that held Luke together from within.

“I acted very angry, just as he expected.”

"But when I asked him to provide more evidence, he hesitated and stammered."

"There isn't one for Lucy."

"None of them are cute either."

“I felt something was wrong because you said that Lucy and Mengmeng had both disappeared. Logically speaking, if I asked him for more evidence, he should have provided it to me easily.”

"Even when I compromised and asked him to give me Mengmeng's skin tissue so I could do DNA comparison with your hair, he couldn't provide it."

"He kept saying that you had an illegitimate daughter behind my back."

"Ah."

Rachel was speechless on the other end of the phone: "It's like this is some big deal."

Lu Ke quickly offered his compliment: "That's because they don't know how understanding my fiancée is."

Rachel rolled her eyes: "Alright, stop praising me. Let's hurry up and find Lucy and Mengmeng. It's been so long, I'm worried..."

Lu Ke smiled and said, "Don't worry, I've already prepared for the worst. The worst outcome is just a trip to hell."