Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 810 - 518 Nesting

Feng Yi listened very patiently to the entire exchange meeting and observed the speaker who had mentioned the Venus flytrap.

From the changes in emotional information, there seemed to be nothing unusual.

At the end of the meeting, Feng Yi made a point to go over and chat with the speaker for a few moments to confirm his judgment.

After the pleasantries were finished, Feng Yi left the venue and returned to the hotel. Declining all visitors and giving a brief instruction to Jia and A’que, he went back to his room to lie down.

He closed his eyes, carefully recalling the dream imagery, inch by inch, searching for the target.

The images were still not clear, as if time had cast a layer of haze.

Feng Yi guessed that this might be because their generation’s development was constrained by changes in living conditions, which also limited their abilities, making this method of memory inheritance incapable of high-definition format.

However, this was not a big issue.

After all, he had a direction to search. Feng Yi began scanning from the starting point as if conducting a sweep.

The memory visualized a place like a research base, with different functional and purpose-specific experimental areas, plant culture rooms...

He felt as if he were back several decades ago, stepping along the corridor, passing by various types of vessels and experimental materials.

Identification rooms, greenhouses...

Greenhouses!

His gaze skimmed over the familiar and unfamiliar plants.

Since joining the United Protection Agency, his job had led him to learn about a great many animal and plant species, domestic and foreign, desert and swamp, high latitude and low latitude, believing himself to be knowledgeable.

Even so, within such a memory passed down from decades ago, there were still quite a few plants he had never seen before, or some that looked a bit familiar but were not the species he knew.

Each type was not numerous, only taking up a small space, but varied.

Instinctive antennae seemed to have touched upon something.

Feng Yi came to a culture box.

In this area, such a culture box was actually inconspicuous.

Inside were not only a type of grass, but also several other carnivorous plants.

However...

Feng Yi focused on the Venus flytrap in a corner of the culture box, looking like mere decoration.

Yet, in such an unobtrusive corner, such an unobtrusive plant might be the key to creating "historical legacy issues"!

Feng Yi leaned in slightly, peering through the haze of time at what lay inside.

Without looking deliberately, his gaze was already pinpointing a certain ferocious trap.

The closed insect traps resembled a weird eye with sinister eyelashes.

The "eye" in the middle of the "eye," folded inward, was impossible to discern clearly.

Feng Yi could only be certain that it wasn’t a creature like a fly or a small insect.

Lacking a clear outline, its appearance unknown, its category undetermined, yet it made his instincts wildly point towards it—

It was it!

In the hotel room, Feng Yi opened his eyes, disconnecting from the immersive memory.

Other parts of this memory were no longer important, fixated on that inconspicuous corner, on that inconspicuous plant, on what lay hidden within.

After a moment of quiet thought, Feng Yi checked the time and called Yi.

He asked Yi to look into the guest speaker who presented today.

Feng Yi had not detected anything abnormal from the emotional information, but he still asked Yi to make contact.

If no issues were found, and if the speaker lacked funds, Feng Yi was willing to invest.

It was also to thank the speaker for helping Feng Yi find the crucial issue.

After the call, Feng Yi dialed Yue Geng Yang.

He first inquired about the progress on the investigation team’s side.

In the past few days, Feng Yi had been running between various venues, negotiating related matters with Yue Gengyang and the investigation team.

Yue Gengyang briefly summarized the recent events.

"They checked the false labels on the drug packaging boxes; the medication instructions inside the boxes are also fake, and there’s solid evidence for that. The progress seems fast but, in my opinion, there’s not much useful material. It’s still not fast enough, the investigation team must be very anxious by now," he said.

The investigators and the people behind the illegal drug manufacturing kept outwitting each other, each regarding the other as fish. Now, both parties were in the phase of casting their fishing hooks, with smokescreens following one after another.

But with one in the light and one in the dark, the investigation team in the open was at a greater disadvantage; they needed quicker actions to secure the results they anticipated.

Who are the people manufacturing the drugs behind the scene? Who is on their management level? To clarify these points still required time.

But as the battle line stretched, greater uncertainties arose. If at the end it still led to nowhere, it would have been all in vain.

"The investigation team needs more lethal clues," Yue Gengyang said.

Feng Yi listened intently.

In his eyes, both the investigation team and the illegal drug producers were "fish."

"Maybe we can give it another push," Feng Yi suggested.

Last time, the Ancestral Factory created a rapid identification test kit that improved the efficiency of the investigation team’s work.

It was time for another push.

As for which party, the one in the light or the one in the shadow, made a misstep or seized the opportunity, Feng Yi wouldn’t care too much about that.

He had already located his target and was ready to deal with unresolved historical issues.

Yue Gengyang asked, "So we are also going to cast out our line?"

Feng Yi replied, "No, we’re going to ’bait the nest’ directly."

Yue Gengyang fell silent for a few seconds.

When he spoke again, his words carried a tinge of doubt, "This doesn’t need to be so urgent. There’s no harm to us in the short term; we can continue to wait and see. As long as it is resolved eventually."

"No, we must resolve this matter as soon as possible," Feng Yi said, his voice slightly heavy, "I just have a bad feeling, an unease in my heart."

Yue Gengyang quite believed in Feng Yi’s intuition, without a hint of doubt, and asked worriedly, "Is it about the unresolved issues?"

Feng Yi: "No."

He also trusted his intuition.

The intuition led by instinct was mostly reliable.

For instance, identifying the Venus flytrap through a symbol and then tracing back to the memory images to find the cause—his instincts had played a significant role.

The "unease" Feng Yi had mentioned was hard to pin down; it was just an occasional flutter of the heart. As if something uncontrollable and significant was brewing.

The limited space in the room made him feel claustrophobic.

He walked to the window, parted the curtains, and looked outside.

It was already night, and the city lights made the low-lying cloud layer appear now hidden, now visible.

Gazing at the idle clouds tinged by the city lights, Feng Yi suddenly said, "The recent offshore experiments are still underway."

Yue Gengyang replied, "Yes. Globally, there’s been more activity in the storm seasons over the last two years, extending in duration. It was mentioned earlier that there would be minor climate fluctuations this year. To avoid severe damages, and also due to the offshore testing project of the ’Butterfly Plan,’ Meteorological Weapons have been deployed, ensuring that extremely intense storms do not make landfall.

"In our country, we have already neutralized a super typhoon each at the east and south. However, for the time being, there’s no activity on the coast, but other countries are hit by large typhoons and super hurricanes."

As he talked, Yue Gengyang realized something and asked, "Is it the weather issue?"

Feng Yi: "Hmm, just a bad intuition."

He would resolve the historical issue as soon as possible, then focus his attention closely on the celestial phenomena.

Yue Gengyang understood.

The meteorological issue and the illegal drug matter needed to be considered together—if it wasn’t resolved now, should there be any major sudden meteorological events, it would be easy for the matter of illicit drugs to be disrupted. The people behind it could slip away, and who knows how long it would take to catch them again.

"Alright, I’ll prepare," he said.

Pausing for a moment, Yue Gengyang reminded him, "When you scatter this bait, both sides will go crazy; you have to be careful."

He wasn’t worried about Feng Yi being at a disadvantage; he was considering how he would help Feng Yi clean up if any unforeseen events happened on his end.