“Yes, what do you think?” Jiang Hao's eyes seemed to pierce Ning Tao's soul.

“I think they're aiming for Lin Qinghua's project of ancestor seeking. We have to guard them.”

“Blueprint Biotechnology Company doesn't keep any information about the project of ancestor seeking, and Lin Qinghua is here. Lin Qingyu, Lin Donghai and Fang Meiling are not familiar with the project. What can they get out from Lin Donghai and Lin Qingyu?”

“But we can't let them get in touch with Lin Donghai and Lin Qingyu at will,” Ning Tao insisted. “They are Lin Qinghua's father and sister, after all.”

Jiang Hao took one look at Ning Tao and asked, “Are you concerned about Lin Qingyu?”

Ning Tao gave a wry smile and didn't answer.

Jiang Hao walked on, saying, “In fact, we've got everything you just said.”

Ning Tao followed Jiang Hao on.

A gray hare darted out of the gra.s.s, across the path, into the woods, and disappeared in the twinkling of an eye.

Jiang Hao continued, “Our intelligence agents have been monitoring the Lin family. We even know when their servants clean up and take out the garbage. Will we be ignorant of what you said?”

Ning Tao was surprised. “You know everything?”

“Takeda's full name is s.h.i.+nsuke Takeda. He's chairman of Takeda Biopharmaceutical Company. He and his son Tamao Takeda came to our country three days ago. They spent a day in Man City first, and then came to Shan City. Arthur you mentioned is Crewe Arthur, and he is really a top executive at UK Archer Investments,” Jiang Hao stated.

“Even if they have normal status, I still don't believe that s.h.i.+nsuke Takeda and Arthur are here to invest in Blueprint Biotechnology Company,” Ning Tao argued.

“Neither do I, but…“ Jiang Hao paused.

”But what?”

Jiang Hao was silent for a moment before she answered, “But s.h.i.+nsuke Takeda has invited Hu Jilu, the mayor of Shan City to the party at their consulate. Shan City government is very optimistic about this business cooperation, mayor Hu has accepted the invitation. If you want me to stop Takeda's party, I can't do that.”

Ning Tao nodded. “I see.”

Jiang Hao was just an ordinary special agent, and wouldn't have much authority. The enemy came in the name of investment, and the Shan City government valued the business operation. What could she do without orders from her superiors?

“But you don't have to worry. I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you that s.h.i.+nsuke Takeda and his son and Arthur are being monitored. If they do something wrong, we will take action. This is Hua Country. They don't dare to mess around.”

“In that case, I'm out of this.”

“You should never have meddled in this. You're a doctor. Don't do anything risky. I've been worrying about you these days. I'm relieved that you came to me instead of acting alone.” A trace of smile played across Jiang Hao's lips.

“You squat down,” Ning Tao said suddenly.

“Squat down?” Jiang Hao had a stunned look on her face. “What for?”

Ning Tao said, “Just squat down.”

Jiang Hao looked around and blushed inexplicably. “Here?”

Ning Tao said, “Forget it, just stand.”

“Stand?” Jiang Hao's face went even redder. “What do you want to do in the wilderness?”

“I want to see if you have white hair. I'm three hairs short,” answered Ning Tao.

Jiang Hao paused for a moment and asked, “What do you want white hair for?”

“Making medicine,” replied Ning Tao. He moved around Jiang Hao and looked at her hair.

Jiang Hao sighed a little sadly and said, “I'd better squat down. I think I have white hair. My mother pulled out one last time.”

“Don't sigh. Some teenagers nowadays have white hair. It's not about age. It's basically because of mental strain, anxiety and food intolerance. Eating foods rich in folic acid and vitamins can inhibit the growth of white hair.” Ning Tao said, looking for white hair.

“You're really a doctor.”

“I am a doctor. Don't move. I see one.” Ning Tao stopped, then reached out and brushed Jiang Hao's hair, pinched the white hair and pulled it out.

“Be gentle, it hurts.” Jiang Hao said in a very feminine voice.

“You are so fierce on the battlefield. Are you afraid of pain when you don't fear death?” Ning Tao kept looking for white hair.

Jiang Hao glared back at Ning Tao and snapped, “I'm a girl. Is it strange that a girl is afraid of pain?”

“Don't move. There is another one.” Ning Tao pinched another white hair, and this time he pulled it more gently.

He found four white hairs on Jiang Hao's head, one more than he needed. Considering Jiang Hao's short white hair, he decided to use them all when he returned to the clinic.

“I'm going back,” said Ning Tao, putting these white hairs away.

“So soon?” Jiang Hao's eyes glowed with disappointment.

Ning Tao explained, “I have to go to the Sword Pavilion Village. The children of the orphanage moved to that village. I must go and see.”

“All right. I'll come to you when the ban is lifted,” Jiang Hao uttered.

Ning Tao said, “Be careful. If you have any problem that you can't solve, just call me. You can always call me there.”

A smile appeared on Jiang Hao's lips as she and Ning Tao returned to the gate of the botanical garden. The cab which Ning Tao came in was still waiting for him. But just as Jiang Hao was going to say goodbye to Ning Tao, Liang Keming came out of the guard room.

“Doctor Ning, we meet again.” Liang Keming walked over to Ning Tao and Jiang Hao with a faint smile on his face, looking very friendly and kindly.

Ning Tao smiled nonchalantly, too, and said, “Yeah, what a coincidence. Academician Liang, you look good. You must have made some achievements in your research.”

Liang Keming ignored what Ning Tao mentioned. “Doctor Ning, what do you want to see superintendent Jiang?”

“It's personal,” replied Ning Tao.

Liang Keming cast a glance at Jiang Hao, then at Ning Tao's face. “Love, Doctor Ning, is all right, but I must warn you. Don't pry into things here. Stealing information is a serious crime, and it can even lead to the death penalty.”

That was a threat.

Ning Tao smiled. “I know, I don't need your warning, Academician Liang.” As he spoke, he quietly awakened his eyes and nose to make them enter the state of looking and smelling.

“Lin Qinghua became a demon by studying the Ancestor-seeking Elixir, and Liang Keming's research is building on Lin Qinghua's. Will he going to be a new monster?”

Liang Keming, however, was normal. He didn't emit demon aura, or talk nonsense like Lin Qinghua.

After the diagnosis through looking and smelling, Ning Tao said to himself, “Yin Molan said Liang Keming had made greater achievements in the Ancestor-seeking Elixir than Lin Qinghua, but he seemed normal. He didn't seem to be trying out the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. In that respect, he's much more restrained than Lin Qinghua.”

Liang Keming said to Jiang Hao, “Superintendent Jiang, there's a problem in the lab that you need to deal with.”

But Jiang Hao walked up to Ning Tao and made a grab for his chest.

Ning Tao looked at her awkwardly.

Jiang Hao spread her hand, and in the middle of it lay a short hair.

It was her hair.

Liang Keming frowned slightly.

“Well, you go back, and I'll find you when I have time,” Jiang Hao said.

Ning Tao smiled and left without saying goodbye.

Liang Keming stared after Ning Tao and watched him get into the cab. He did not look away even when the cab drove away. Just after Jiang Hao entered the botanical garden, his mouth curved into an intriguing smile.

Ning Tao told the cab driver to stop after only a few kilometers from the botanical garden. “Sir, please stop.”

“Do you want to pee?” asked the driver, stopping at the same time.

“No, go back yourself. I want to walk around in the mountains. I won't give you less fare.” Then Ning Tao paid for the ride and got out.

The driver grunted something and drove away.

Ning Tao left the mountain road and entered the woods, and then chose a secret place to draw a blood lock. After that, he opened the blood lock and went directly back to the Sky Clinic.

He left the blood lock near the botanical garden of Blueprint Biotechnology Company so he could get to Jiang Hao as quickly as he could in case of an emergency.

Back at the Sky Clinic, Ning Tao took out the 13 white hairs that had been pulled from Su Ya, Lin Qingyu and Jiang Hao's heads. The fact that the three girls all had white hair on their heads somewhat surprised him. But this was a normal situation. Su Ya's white hair was probably due to malnutrition; Jiang Hao's white hair was due to the nature of her work, which often led to her mental tension, while Lin Qingyu's white hair was probably due to her bias towards food and work. Now most people were in a sub-health state. It was not surprising that teenagers and young people with white hair had long been a common phenomenon.

Ning Tao wrapped the 13 white hairs with a common prescription pad, and then took the large package of spiritual materials that Yin Molan brought here, and the delicate perfumed tripod before he turned the blood lock to the Sword Pavilion Cave, and went back to the cave.

Lin Qinghua studied the Ancestor-seeking Elixir, but he not only failed, but also became a new demon.

Liang Keming now also began to study it. Although he was full of confidence, but he doomed to failure.

s.h.i.+nsuke Takeda and his son and Crewe Arthur were obviously coming for the Ancestor-seeking Elixir, as well as the previous special-forces unit of unknown nationality that had been wiped out.

So many people and things were around an Ancestor-seeking Elixir, which const.i.tuted a vortex. Ning Tao always thought he was outside the vortex, but the fact was that he was in the center of it. Now, he also began to refine the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. Nevertheless he did not want to refine it in the Sky Clinic, because it was the elixir that could create new demons after all. It would terrible in case something of the Sky Clinic was triggered.

Ning Tao stopped beside the spiritual field, looking at the four kinds of superior spiritual materials growing in the field, and feeling a little reluctant. But after a moment's hesitation, he finally took out his firewood knife and began to dig those plants out. When he left, there was only one demon kidney in the small spiritual field.

What effect did the Ancestor-seeking Elixir have when it was made with the colorful ginseng, the emerald turnip and the corpse onion?

Ning Tao didn't know anything about it. The only thing he could be sure of was that, even if all the materials were replaced by the best spiritual material, the Ancestor-seeking Elixir he refined out was incomplete.