Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1178

It was a massacre that painted the floors red.

Countless brilliant researchers were brutally slaughtered.

Elyndor's scientific community suffered a blow so devastating it was incalculable.

Even though she hadn't been there, Serena could vividly imagine the horrific magnitude of the tragedy.

She held the metal box tightly against her chest, waiting for the Old Man to continue.

He took several more pulls from his gourd, sighing heavily. "Aria knew that if things kept going, it would only lead to more annihilation for both herself and the National Lab. So... to prevent her core technology from falling into their hands..."

"...Your grandmother decisively destroyed every last trace of her data. She took the most vital serum and the raw source code, completely erased her identity, and fled all the way to this desolate, middle-of-nowhere village of Blackwood Creek."

"She hid exceptionally well. To the Obsidian Sun, it was as if she had simply vanished from the face of the earth."

"And she stayed hidden... for thirty years."

Hearing the truth of the past, Serena felt as though an invisible hand was brutally squeezing her heart.

She couldn't bear to imagine what her grandmother had felt, destroying decades of her own painstaking research.

And what must it have been like to change her name, abandon her entire life, and bury her past forever?

Serena was a scientist herself. She had built the Elyndor Institute of Advanced Sciences from the ground up.

Because of that, she knew exactly how much raw courage such a sacrifice demanded.

Serena lowered her eyes, her gaze falling back onto the metal box.

Her slender fingers gently traced the surface of the container, as if she were holding her grandmother's hand.

"Then... why didn't the Wynn family know who she really was?"

How could they have ever realized who she really was?

Even during the four years Serena had spent with them, she had overtly helped them, funneled resources to them, and elevated their status countless times.

Yet they had remained entirely oblivious, arrogantly assuming all that success and fortune was a result of their own brilliance.

They completely failed to see that everything they had was merely a handout from the 'country bumpkin' they so thoroughly despised.

Serena let out a cold laugh but said nothing.

The Old Man's gaze shifted back to Serena.

His eyes were complex, layered with a deep sense of heartache.

He sighed softly. "Kid, you were actually the biggest surprise of Aria's life."