Coolest Girl in Town

Chapter 496 Who’s That?

Tina laughed upon hearing that. “Your self-introduction was quite special.”

“Yeah? I thought so too.” Elise giggled.

“You helped me, so let’s exchange numbers. I’ll treat you to a meal some time after this.” Tina took out her phone with the intention to get Elise’s number.

“There’s no need. Let’s talk about it in person tomorrow.”

As Elise had things in both her hands, she was unable to take out her phone, so she rejected Tina’s offer. Then, the former turned around and strode off in the direction where she had come from.

When she returned to her room, she turned on the computer to contact Joseph while she ate.

Joseph, whose body was still weak, was not in any condition to take a plane, so he didn’t come along. Instead, he remained in Athesea to monitor the internal communication of the SK Group.

However, that wasn’t the reason why Elise looked for him at that moment. In fact, it was due to the poster of the stall owner.

When she was at the food street earlier, she took note of all the details on the poster. The stall owner’s son was a physics graduate student from a research institute in Dukethorn, who had gained the lecturers’ special attention due to his outstanding academic performance. He had mysteriously gone missing six months ago and nobody knew whether he was currently dead or alive.

Researchers usually had dull and boring lifestyles and they rarely made enemies. Therefore, it was apparent that this person’s disappearance was more or less related to the suicide case of the physicist from Athesea.

Joseph soon went online, but he used the new identity that Elise had given him and a separate communication channel.

‘Did everything go well with your trip to Dukethorn?’ he texted, to which she replied, ‘Everything’s good. I need you to analyze a set of data right away. Please tabulate the total number of physicists that we have in our country in the past two years.’

Joseph then typed, ‘Ten minutes.’

The national database was relatively vast, so it would take time to analyze the data.

1760. It was 1680 last year, and this year, there are only 1440 physicists. Other than 20 of them who passed away due to old age, the rest of them either disappeared or died.

was fixated on the statistical report on

be precise, they were trying to achieve the goal

physicists. However, there were people who schemed to slowly annihilate Cittadel’s researchers in order to bring the country’s science and technological advancement to a standstill. Who in the world has such a huge ambition and capability? Also, what does this have to do with me and

were too many unresolved mysteries but fortunately for her, Elise wasn’t completely clueless on what to

sure that no one finds out that we investigated this. Also, figure out a way to summon Xavier back to

‘Alright, I will do

last message, Elise exited the chat and destroyed all the data that

for a long time during the day, she wasn’t sleepy at all

whether she had ever shown her face in the field that consisted of the top physicists. In

joined international physics competitions out of her anger toward Reuben, that happened after she had been targeted, which proved that that wasn’t

‘Joseph’ had provoked her.

A sudden doorbell interrupted

to see that it was already

warily clambered out of the bed and tip-toed to

her gaze. Could it be that I’m hearing things?

just after she took two steps back to return to her

Who is this

returned to the door in frustration. When she looked into the peephole again, it was still empty outside—there wasn’t

a kid? Possibly,

then, a loud knock was heard from

for scaring others in the

put on a fierce expression. Then, she pressed on the door handle hard and abruptly pulled

a body fell onto the floor along

who seemed to be unconscious

as crimson blood gushed out from his abdomen, which was possibly the

the end, she gave in to her conscience. So, she dragged the man into her room and plopped him on the couch to