Chapter 165

Noelle went upstairs and returned to her room. In the corridor, when she heard Stanley mention that, she quickly looked around.

She pounced on the bed and grabbed her phone tightly, asking Stanley nervously, “Does Nick know anything? Did he send you to ask me?”

Stanley recalled Nicolas had warned him not to reveal what he had asked. Thinking quickly, he fabricated a reason and said, “Nicolas came to Radiance Media’s headquarters. I saw he looked troubled and asked his secretary what was wrong. So, I found out you had been avoiding Nicolas for the past few days. I thought you were so intimate with Nicolas that you wouldn’t have refused to see him for no reason, so I guessed the laboratory had given you some orders.”

Noelle was a little surprised to hear that. She asked, “So, Stan, you guessed something happened on my side and called me?”

“Well, right, yeah,” Stanley agreed against his conscience.

“Ah, I see,” Noelle said, slightly surprised and emotional. “Stan, I really couldn’t tell.”

“Huh? Couldn’t tell what?” Stanley felt guilty.

Noelle continued, smiling. “So you care about me this much! Is this the so-called kinship? I always thought you were a snobbish person. I’m sorry. I misunderstood you. It turns out you’re so kind!”

Stanley’s eyelids twitched when he heard that. He wouldn’t have cared about Noelle if it weren’t for Nicolas’s one hundred million dollars. He wouldn’t give a damn about whatever happened to Noelle! However, after hearing what she said, Stanley felt a little embarrassed. He reflected deeply on himself to see if he was too snobbish. Then, he felt guilty and wondered if he should give Nicolas a 20% discount for eighty million dollars. But in total, twenty million dollars was missing.

In the end, Stanley decided to continue being a snob! After all, money was much more important to him than feelings.

He calmed down and asked Noelle, “So, what’s going on between you and Nicolas? Is it true that the laboratory ordered you not to contact Nicolas?”

Noelle fell silent. She could not tell outsiders about the laboratory. When facing Stanley, who was also from the laboratory, she finally had someone to talk to. Noelle pursed her lips, feeling wronged.

Then, she complained to Stanley, “Yes, it was the laboratory’s order. Brand said that from now on, I’m not allowed to get too close to Nick, so I can’t see Nick frequently now. I miss Nick a lot. I want to see him every day, but I can’t. I feel terrible! What do you think I should do?”

After hearing that, Stanley fell silent and pondered. ‘So, it’s indeed the laboratory’s order. This is getting tricky.’ Moreover, Stanley was concerned about the “Brand” that Noelle mentioned. He asked, “Who is Brand? Is he from the laboratory?” He wondered why Noelle would address someone from the laboratory like that.

“Yup,” Noelle said, “Brand was the one who underwent the experiment with me in the past. After he left, we hadn’t seen each other for many years. He’s back and even became the commander-in-chief of the Atoraka-Nowedon Laboratory. Brand has my management rights now, and I must listen to him.”

Stanley was shocked and asked in astonishment, “So the Brand you’re talking about is Brandon Jones! Fuck! That badass!”

“What?” Noelle was puzzled and asked, “Stan, what do you mean? Is Brand powerful?”

“Super powerful! Of course, I also heard from the Revelations Guild that a monster had joined the laboratory’s management. He used extremely ruthless methods and almost slaughtered all his clansmen. Later, to advance to the core management of the laboratory, he killed all his competitors. Moreover, he’s in the super $5 level and unbelievably powerful!”

“Wow! Brand is awesome!” Noelle was amazed. She had always known Brandon was powerful. During the experimental test, he was the only one who could keep up with her pace. She heard from her co-workers in the laboratory that Brandon’s potential was only second to hers. But Brandon could even kill his clansmen. Didn’t that mean he had killed his parents and siblings? Noelle thought about it. If it were her, she might not have been so decisive. After all, she quite liked the Anderson family.

Chapter 163

“I didn’t expect you to be related to Brandon,” Stanley wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and asked again. “But why doesn’t he allow you to interact with Nicolas? Nicolas has many connections. It’s good for the laboratory to get closer to him, right?”

“I don’t know, either.” Speaking of this, Noelle became more dejected; she said gloomily. “When I heard Brand’s order, I also asked why. But Brand said I should listen to his orders unconditionally and shouldn’t ask why. Then I didn’t dare to ask again.”

“TAK, I don’t know what the management is thinking,” Stanley complained.

Upon hearing that, Noelle thought for a moment and had an idea. She said, “Stan, why don’t you ask Brand for me? I can’t ask him myself. What if others can?”

“Don’t be ridiculous?” Stanley quickly dissociated himself and said, “I don’t want to have anything to do with Brandon. Besides, I belong to the Serpaton-Morrta Alliance Laboratory. I don’t use the same operating system as the Atoraka-Nowedon Laboratory?”

“The Serpaton-Morrta Alliance Laboratory!” Noelle was surprised. “Are there many more laboratories?”

“Of course. Otherwise, how could so many modified people be released?” Seeing Noelle not knowing anything, Stanley started to explain.

“There are three regions of the laboratories, including the Atoraka-Nowedon Laboratory, Serpaton-Morrta Alliance Laboratory, and the Third World Laboratory. These three laboratories are interconnected and hostile to each other. The standards of the modified people they developed are also different. At present, the comprehensive strength of the modified people in the Serpaton-Morrta Alliance Laboratory is the strongest. Moreover, they are less restrained against ‘modified people’ because they advocate freedom.

“Next is the Atoraka-Nowedon Laboratory. They released fewer modified people. It’s said that they’re taking the elite route. Every modified person is strictly supervised.

“Lastly, there’s the Third World Laboratory. They released the most modified people. Of course, many are to make up the numbers. It seems they want to quantify them first before qualifying them. For example, many modified people in Revelations Guild came from the Third World laboratory.”

“Oh, I see.” After listening, Noelle felt she had learned something new. She didn’t even know there were so many laboratories.

“In short, I’m not from the Atoraka-Nowedon Laboratory. Your laboratory can’t control me, and I don’t want to have anything to do with Brandon,” Stanley concluded.

“Fine.” Noelle sighed in frustration. She seemed to have lost her spirit again.

“Noelle, you…” Stanley was sure Noelle could not meet Nicolas because of the laboratory’s order. However, Stanley was afraid he would not get the one hundred million dollars from Nicolas alive if he reported to him like that.

After thinking it over, he asked Noelle, “You just said Brandon ordered you not to get close to Nicolas, right?”

Noelle nodded, “Yep.”

“What were his exact words?” asked Stanley.

Noelle answered. “His exact words? Let me see. Brand said, ‘Although you don’t have to kill Nicolas, you shouldn’t get too close to him from now on.’”

Stanley was secretly shocked when he heard that. “Although you don’t have to kill Nicolas?” He pondered, So, the laboratory has been planning to kill Nicolas! That way, he could understand why the laboratory did not want Noelle and Nicolas to get too close. After all, Nicolas might be a dead person. A dead