Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

That's why we're discussing contingency plans here.

Chen Hui looked at Qian Shoucheng, his tone turning cold.

"Mr. Qian, you've invested your money and don't want to see the project fail. So tell me, besides complaining, what solutions can you offer?"

Qian Shoucheng fell silent.

He's a businessman; he's more proactive than anyone else when it comes to making money, but when things go wrong, he only blames others for not covering for him.

If you really asked him to come up with a solution, he couldn't think of anything except "find a few experts to take care of that woman".

"I can propose a solution."

At the far end of the conference table, a man who had been silent all along suddenly spoke.

His name is Duan Changming, he is 48 years old, and he spent more than ten years working on the border, making his fortune by smuggling experimental biological agents.

All of Huike Biotechnology's early experimental subjects were obtained by him from illegal clinics, underground surrogacy agencies, and illegal immigrant transit points in various places.

He had dark skin, an old scar on his left eyebrow, and habitually tapped the table with his knuckles when he spoke.

"I have already had my subordinates assess Li Su's abilities."

Duan Changming opened a handwritten notebook in front of him.

"From mental hospitals to research centers to hospitals, she killed a total of forty-three people. All of the killings were done through remote physical attacks, including tearing, squeezing, throwing, and manipulating bullets. There was no direct contact, no close combat, and no other superpowers were discovered."

"What is the conclusion?"

Chen Hui asked.

"The conclusion is that her ability is most likely telekinesis, or in layman's terms, mental power. The range of control is at least ten kilometers, the weight she can control is at least three tons, and her reaction speed can keep up with a bullet."

Duan Changming looked up and glanced at everyone present.

"This means that conventional security forces are useless. Pistols, rifles, hand-to-hand combat—none of them are effective. Before you even get close to her, she can crush you and your car into an iron ball. She can stand still and let you shoot, and the bullets won't even reach a meter in front of her."

Silence fell over the conference table.

Fang Zhizhong's face turned extremely ugly.

Song Mingxi pursed her lips and remained silent.

Qian Shoucheng's fingers unconsciously rubbed the cigar, causing the tobacco shreds to fall down in a rustling sound.

"Go on."

Chen Hui's voice remained relatively calm.

"So my solution is to not touch her."

Duan Changming closed the notebook.

"Those she killed all had one thing in common: they were all people who had directly participated in her child's experiments, her husband's death, or her own imprisonment. Qi Jianmin, Sun Guodong, Zhou De'an, and the five people at the hospital were all specific executors in the chain. This shows that she killed along her own revenge list."

"Our biggest advantage right now is that she's still unsure about Huike Biotechnology's existence. She only killed those who directly harmed her, which means her information is still based on reports from three months ago. She doesn't know who paid for it, who provided the experimental subjects, or who's protecting her from higher up."

"So our best course of action is to ensure she can never find out."

Duan Changming paused for a moment, then added a sentence.

"At the same time, we're prepared to leave Changning immediately if she finds out. The company has backup locations overseas where we can hide."

"You mean run?"

Qian Shoucheng frowned.

"If you don't run, you can try to see how many people her telekinetic powers can tear apart with your life."

Duan Changming replied coldly.

"I do dirty work, so I know what kind of money you can make and what kind of money will kill you. If you think I'm a coward, then I'll quit."

"Boss Duan is right."

Chen Hui suddenly spoke up, silencing the other two.

"Now is not the time to be reckless. We can only deduce Li Su's ability level, not quantify it precisely. Any proactive contact is a gamble, and the price of losing is death."

He stood up, walked to the whiteboard next to the conference table, picked up a black pen, and wrote four large characters on it: "Passive Defense".

"We are preparing for all three scenarios."

"Firstly, there's a lack of information flow. Mr. Fang, you're in charge of coordinating and eliminating any remaining traces of funds from Shanyang. Attorney Song, you're in charge of the legal team's stance, ensuring a unified public statement that Huike Biotechnology's relationship with the research center is purely one of equipment procurement and that they didn't participate in any experimental projects."

"Secondly, physical refuge. Boss Duan, you are responsible for upgrading the security of the overseas backup hideout. All core shareholders should prepare passports and emergency cash. Once Li Su appears in Changning City, we will leave the country immediately."

"The third method is to use someone else to do the dirty work."

Chen Hui underlined the words "passive defense" and then wrote the word "official".

"The National Center for Response to Abnormal Affairs is currently under the management of Cheng Yanqiu. He has publicly stated that he will first try to communicate with Li Su, explaining that the authorities do not want to resolve the issue by force for the time being. However, Li Su's abilities are too dangerous, and as long as she continues to kill, the authorities' patience will run out."

What we need to do is divert Li Su's attention elsewhere. Let her kill a few more people, cause a few more major incidents, and change the official characterization of her from "victim" to "out-of-control threat." At that point, we won't need to lift a finger; the Abnormal Affairs Response Center will mobilize a large force to suppress her.

The meeting room was silent for about ten seconds.

Everyone is digesting this plan.

"I have no objection."

Everyone agreed to the plan.

"Then it's settled."

Chen Hui threw the pen into the whiteboard tray and sat back down in the main seat.

"Everyone, follow your assigned tasks and act quickly. By today, Huike Biotechnology must not leave a single piece of paper, a single payment, or a single call record with any of its affiliated entities in Shanyang City."

He paused, his tone chilling.

"At the same time, the research into extraordinary powers cannot stop. Jeolla Province produced Song Chao, Sanyang produced Li Su, and there will be more to come. Whoever figures out the nature of these monsters first will be able to control the next era. Huike Biotechnology cannot fall on this path."

The lights in the conference room were still on.

Outside the window, the morning rush hour in Changning City has already begun.

Traffic was heavy and pedestrians were in a hurry.

Unbeknownst to anyone, in a conference room on the top floor of an office building, eight ordinary people were sitting together discussing how to survive from a mother who had turned into a monster, and how to extract more profit from this monster.

Meanwhile, dozens of kilometers away, Li Su was holding a cold metal box, flying at full speed in the rising sun.

She was unaware of this meeting by Huike Biotechnology.

But she remembered every single word Lin Maocai uttered before he died.

Huike Biotechnology.

Chen Hui.

She silently repeated those two names in her heart over and over again, engraving them into the blank space at the very beginning of her revenge list.

The wind whistled past her ears, and the box in her arms grew lighter and lighter.

Her child was inside.

It also contained all of her remaining reasons to continue living.