Chapter 1487

"Why? Have you severed ties with all your male friends after marriage?" Lily asked bluntly.

Rhea said, "I..."

Lily continued, not waiting for Rhea’s answer, "Oh, I forgot.You aren’t married yet, are you?"

"How do you know I’m not married?"

Rhea narrowed her eyes.

"This should be the first time we met, and I’ve never told you about my love life, have I?"

"Just like you’ve known about me, I’ve heard about you for quite a long time." Lily nodded and said meaningfully.

"Oh?"

Rhea raised her brow and felt somewhat surprised.

"You have a cousin named Anastasia, and your mother purposely hired Austin to treat her.You should be quite close to Austin, shouldn’t you?"

Lily turned around to study the woman’s expression.

Rhea caught on.

"Anastasia told you, huh?"

Lily smiled without answering.

"I'm afraid you’ve misunderstood.I hardly hang out with my cousin, although my mother treats her as a daughter and visits her often.I’m not even aware that Austin Fike has treated her.I had always been studying abroad and only just returned and joined the lab.

"It’s just a coincidence that Mr.Fike works here too.So I’m not close to him as you’ve imagined."

Rhea casually explained, then drawled, "You're closer to him than I am."

"I see."

Lily nodded thoughtfully, removed her seat belt, and held the door handle.

"Okay, I’ve said what I wanted to say and won’t interrupt your work I should get going."

She opened the car door.

As she was about to step out of the car, she heard Rhea say, "Mrs.Russell..."

Lily stopped, looked over her shoulder, and saw Rhea staring at her intensely.

"Thank you for coming to tell us about what happened to Professor Thompson.Although I hardly feel saddened by it, I feel very sorry nonetheless.

"As for the experiment, it won’t stall just because of his death.You worked on it for so long and know how important it is.Trust me.You'll soon witness what kind of changes this great experiment would bring to humankind."

Rhea sounded earnest, and her gaze was hopeful, excited, and surging with untamed desire.

Lily once saw such a desire in Thompson's eyes.

It was the desire for the laboratory’s success and the fulfillment of his ambition.

However, Rhea’s desire seemed even more potent than the professor’s.

Lily was slightly taken aback and nodded.

"I wish they are good changes for humankind, not ones that would bring disasters."

"Good or bad, only time can tell!"

Rhea stared after Lily as Lily got off the car and unhappily continued, "The ice age spelled doom for the bean dinosaurs, but without their extinction, would there be the rise of humankind and civilization? It’s short-sighted to judge something good or bad based on its short-term impact."

Lily did not want to say anymore after exiting the car.

Still, as she turned to shut the door, she could not help but retort, "I’m short- sighted since I can’t see far and don’t know how the dinosaurs went extinct.

"However, I know their extinction was caused by a natural disaster, not because of some dinosaurs’

death-seeking behavior.Also, the basic principle of being a human is not to kill our species," she said, then shut the door with a bang.