Yun Qiqi thought she was just like herself, so she tentatively asked, "Does the Doctor know about your escape from the lab?"

Tong Xi understood she had misunderstood and said, "I escaped a few years ago."

"What?"

"Did the people in the laboratory tell you that some of us had health issues and needed to be sent elsewhere for treatment?" Tong Xi’s face was much calmer as he spoke softly, "Actually, that’s not the case. We were meant to be secretly executed. They initially planned to euthanize us, but at the time, Assistant Jiang couldn’t bear to do it, given how young we were, so they secretly let us go, and that’s how I managed to escape..."

"The other children who escaped with me all died on the way, leaving me the only survivor. They pursued me for a while too, but later, when they saw I was already dosed with amnesiac drugs in the lab and deemed an insignificant failure, they stopped chasing me..."

Yun Qiqi’s pupils shrank; even someone as consistently calm as her couldn’t remain composed at this moment.

She never imagined... those children who were gradually sent away were all executed.

"How, how could this be..."

If all those children sent away were executed, how many people had died?

Although she didn’t have many memories, she knew that during her time in the lab, new groups of children were occasionally brought in for "treatment," and many were sent away after physical examinations, leaving only a few behind.

Those left behind would undergo transformations by lab researchers, becoming increasingly different from normal people, like her and Shi Yunshen.

The researchers would tell them that those sent away were being treated in another laboratory.

But thinking about it carefully, despite having moved through different labs over the years, she never saw those children again.

Yun Qiqi’s heart sank completely, feeling an icy chill down her spine.

Tong Xi continued, "The Doctor told us we were children sent by parents for treatment of congenital diseases, but that’s all deceitful. We were healthy children; they only wanted to capture us for experiments. Luo Luo, I don’t know if you have memories, but I clearly remember I was captured by them, and I’ve been searching for my biological parents ever since."

Yun Qiqi said, "I know about this..."

"You know?"

"I guessed."

She’s extremely sensitive to her surroundings. Even when she woke up two years ago with unclear memories, she instinctively felt fear and rejection towards that lab, so she kept observing cautiously.

Although everything seemed normal, even Shi Yunshen noticed nothing wrong, she trusted her instincts and avoided contact with the Doctor, even insisting on leaving.

She just hadn’t realized how brutally cold-hearted the laboratory was.

Those children were so young, yet they had their lives ended simply for being deemed unworthy.

Chen Yuchen calmly said next to her, "Your previous amnesia was likely because you already knew some truths about the lab before encountering Yan Yan, so you fled that place. Those people might have used some method to erase your memory, fearing you’d leak information."

She glanced at Yan Yan, whose face was as still as water, and then shifted her gaze back to Yun Qiqi, saying:

"Later, you were captured again, which was around two years ago when you had already developed feelings and reliance on Yan Yan. To keep you, Dr. T erased your memory once more."