Chapter 55 Dear...

The communication connection was established. Ling Qiu looked at Wang Zheng on the screen and said, "Can you hear me? Wang Zheng."

As she spoke, her eyes were glued to the screen, watching Wang Zheng's every move.

Wang Zheng seemed slow to react; she called his name several times before he responded.

"Ling... Ling Qiu?" Wang Zheng looked around blankly, as if searching for her.

“I’m at Noah Company,” Ling Qiu told him.

Wang Zheng paused, then slowly asked, "Why...why?"

"Haven't you been watching the news lately?" Ling Qiu said. "I've been getting very close to the Manson family lately."

Wang Zheng seemed not to have reacted yet, and stood there stunned for a while.

"Then I...then I..." he murmured, unable to finish his sentence.

Ling Qiu said, "I came to advise you not to detonate the bomb. I knew that the prosthetic doctor must have done something else to you. After you went back that day, you started feeling unwell somewhere."

Wang Zheng answered without hesitation: "Chip."

After he finished speaking, the onlookers who had been listening to the conversation were all stunned.

There really is a problem with the chip...

If any prosthetic doctor can tamper with chips at will, how can everyone's safety be guaranteed? This is no longer a matter of privacy.

"Oh... so you removed the chip? It must have hurt a lot." Ling Qiu bit her lip, feigning nonchalance. "If Noah hadn't been monitoring your chip, I wouldn't have known you were in so much pain..."

Ling Qiu's words once again startled those who heard them, and the noise immediately erupted.

Ling Qiu paused, then subconsciously glanced in Mamborra's direction. Mamborra's expression was indifferent, revealing no emotion.

So Ling Qiu tried to cover it up again: "Ah, actually it's not that... It's because the company's higher-ups were worried about you, so they granted you surveillance privileges."

This statement does not provide any explanation. If monitoring chips is so easy because of some "concern," then who knows if you might be monitored for some other reason later?

Or perhaps the chip has been under constant surveillance?

This kind of information is best given in moderation; let's get back to the main point.

"Is it because you saw that video?" Ling Qiu asked him. "Besides that, are there any other difficulties you're facing? You can tell me, and I'll help you."

Wang Zheng forced a bitter smile, unsure of what expression to make, and simply asked, "You've joined the company now, right?"

Ling Qiu realized that Wang Zheng thought she was now employed by the company.

She chuckled easily, "I'm a free agent. Aren't you more likely to get into the company than me? The company needs people who can install chips."

Wang Zheng said, "Actually, I also..."

But he only said a few words before stopping.

However, Ling Qiu did not overlook this. She pursed her lips and knew that besides learning the true whereabouts of his mother's remains, there must be other reasons that caused Wang Zheng's mental breakdown.

Is it related to the company? She remembered that Wang Zheng had been looking for a job. Even if he hadn't found one yet, he wouldn't suddenly stop living, would he?

That means he may have lost his job for some reason and is no longer able to survive.

Ling Qiu wanted to tell Wang Zheng that there was no need to be so desperate. Soon the company would cease to exist, and she would blow it to smithereens. At that time, all the companies would go to hell. She was going to destroy Noah.

But she couldn't say it. She could only try to persuade Wang Zheng: "Don't be so pessimistic. Things will definitely turn around. We'll figure something out together. Take the bomb down. Don't gamble with your life."

But Wang Zheng's expression remained blank and calm. He smiled bitterly and said, "There's nothing in this world worth my lingering feelings. Thank you, Ling Qiu. You are the best person I've ever met in my life."

Ling Qiu frowned immediately. If Wang Zheng continued to act so stubbornly, he would likely be ordered to be shot again.

“But what you’re doing will implicate a lot of innocent people,” Ling Qiu said. “Some of these people might be like you, trying very hard to live. There are still many people working at Noah Company.”

“No more,” Wang Zheng said. “I just saw it; they’ve all been evacuated to a safe place.”

Then he chuckled softly, "But why are you in there... why are you in the company? If you weren't... how perfect my plan would have been... I could have gotten my revenge."

Ling Qiu moved her lips, wanting to say no, even if she wasn't in the company today, he would have been shot dead by the police outside, and might already be a corpse.

However, Wang Zheng was clearly in a bad mood, so Ling Qiu couldn't say it directly. Now that Noah's employees had all successfully evacuated, only the Manson family and the group of people that Mamborra was raising remained. She could press the button right now and make the whole company explode.

But if that's the case, she will die too.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, Ling Qiu still hopes to witness Noah's demise with her own eyes.

Ling Qiu tried her best to persuade Wang Zheng: "The company wants to negotiate with you now, to help you let go of your hatred... and the company will also give you some compensation, Wang Zheng, there's no need to drag yourself into this... right now you just need to..."

"It's too late! It's too late..." Wang Zheng suddenly went berserk. "I don't have time to turn back! I need to see Palu! Otherwise, I'll pull the fuse right now!"

His sudden movement put the military on high alert, and in an instant, countless guns were pointed at Wang Zheng's head.

"Let Palu come out!! I want to see Palu!" Wang Zheng shouted.

The military told him, "We will not let you see anyone. Now, put down your weapons immediately!"

Terrible negotiation!

Just as Ling Qiu was about to speak to calm Wang Zheng down, Wang Zheng suddenly burst into laughter: "I knew it would be like this! Hahaha! I knew it would be like this!"

He took a step forward, reaching into his pocket for something, while the military officer's finger was on the trigger.

"Wang Zheng!" Ling Qiu quickly called out to him, "You just want revenge, right? I can help you! Let's... blow Palu to smithereens, how about it?"

"What?" Wang Zheng scoffed. "How could that be? You couldn't possibly..."

“Why not? Listen to me, stay there and don’t move, then I’ll tell you a secret.” Ling Qiu took a deep breath and looked at Mamborah.

"May I go to him? But I'm a little scared to go alone. I hope Mr. Manwell can come with me."

"What?" Mamborah chuckled. "You're actually going to risk your life to save a complete stranger who owes you money?"

"So what?" Ling Qiu spread her hands. "Forty thousand. Do you know how long it would take me to save that much money?"

"Besides, I've done him a favor, so he won't blow me up," Ling Qiu said confidently.

She narrowed her eyes, and as soon as she and Manwell left, she would immediately send the order, and then Manson and Noah would ascend to heaven together.

Mambora paused for a moment. He didn't care about the lives of those people outside, nor did he care whether that madman would detonate the bomb. The only thing he cared about was the company's reputation.

It would be best to resolve this peacefully.

"Sure, but you'll have to represent the company."

Ling Qiu: "Can't Mr. Manwell represent this perfectly? The fact that he went with me is the best proof."

Under Ling Qiu's expectant gaze, Mamborah gave her permission.

“Don’t make things worse,” he said. “I’ll be keeping an eye on you from here.”

“Of course, what good would that do me?” Ling Qiu said, looking at Manwell. “Let’s go, darling, I need you to come with me.”

Knowing her intentions, Cyrus and she left the room together and took the elevator down.

No one said anything unnecessary during that time.

The moment Ling Qiu stepped out of Noah Company, she saw Wang Zheng. Upon seeing him in person, Ling Qiu realized that his condition was even worse than she had imagined.

Without the slightest hesitation, Ling Qiu gave Cyrus a wink, then her fingers moved swiftly to send the command. She rushed towards Wang Zheng and tackled him to the ground.

A protective net was woven behind the two men. Cyrus managed to remove Manwell's skin in time. The massive explosion affected the surrounding area, and Manwell's body was quickly engulfed by the flames.

The crowd panicked, were shocked, and then scattered and fled.

Ling Qiu immediately pulled the still-dazed Wang Zheng outside, because she knew very well that this was only the first wave. The middle floor was the first to explode, with the aim of destroying the escape route. The second wave would come soon, with no more than three minutes between them.

"Run!" She appeared extremely calm, showing no surprise whatsoever at the explosion.

She wants to blow up Noah Company.

"what happened!"

"Save the company!"

"Oh my god, this is a disaster!"

"The Huanyu Company incident has been repeated!"

The vast majority of the chips began to heat up, almost burning people's skin, and everyone was busy pulling the chips out.

"Heh ha." Ling Qiu laughed with pleasure as she watched this scene.

The scorching heat in the air and the smell of gunpowder excited her, a feeling completely different from when she saw the explosion on television more than a decade ago.

She did it.

However, soon, the city of Mante was shrouded in darkness as dusk fell, and the entire Noah Company building burned fiercely in the darkness, already in ruins.

"Hahahaha..." A clear yet eerie laugh echoed in the sky. "I knew it was strange. It was you, Cyrus."

A pair of enormous, blood-filled eyes descended upon the sky, and everyone who saw them felt their consciousness instantly ripped away, leaving only emptiness and bewilderment, staring blankly at the sky as if their souls had been taken away.

Ling Qiu's head felt like it was about to explode, until a pair of hands quickly covered her eyes.

“Don’t look into its eyes,” Cyrus said. “They’re easily contaminated.”

Ling Qiu felt much better after being comforted by Cyrus.

"Why did it get so big? Can you handle it?" Ling Qiu asked.

Cyrus was speechless for a moment, as He had not yet broken the seal on His own body.

Seeing that He was silent, Ling Qiu understood.

She turned to Wang Zheng and said, "Can you go home by yourself?"

Wang Zheng was still in a daze. He seemed to have a lot of questions he wanted to ask Ling Qiu, but right now he couldn't ask a single one.

"Will you... will you come back safely?" Wang Zheng asked.

Ling Qiu shrugged and said, "Of course, you can explain to me why you wanted to carry out a suicide attack when I get back."

Wang Zheng moved his lips, knowing there was nothing he could do to help Ling Qiu, and could only drift further and further away with the flow of people.

Noah's company exploded. Compared to this major news, people even forgot that just a few dozen minutes earlier, he was a terrorist who helped set off a bomb.

Seeing that he couldn't win, Ling Qiu decided to run, whether he could escape was another matter.

"What do we do now?" Ling Qiu asked as she ran. "Now that Mamborra's body is destroyed, will it try to infest someone else?"

"It stayed inside Mamborra's body because it was trapped. I think it no longer needs a human body," Cyrus said.

Ling Qiu didn't know where to escape to. Because of the Noah Company explosion, the entire city's traffic was paralyzed, and people could be seen gathering everywhere, talking about the incident with expressions ranging from solemn to relaxed.

But slowly, the expressions of these people changed, becoming as numb and lifeless as those around Noah. Ling Qiu knew that it was that guy who had caught up with them.

She ran with all her might, and it was only thanks to Cyrus that she was there; otherwise, given her physical condition, she would have given up long ago.

It seems there's no escaping it.

Gradually, as if their minds were controlled by something, they all looked at Ling Qiu and began to chase after her like walking corpses.

Ling Qiu knew she was in trouble. All the roads around her were blocked, so she could only run into a building and use the more complex terrain to evade her pursuers.

"What do we do!" Ling Qiu cried out, "You still haven't found a way to solve it?"

Cyrus was also very impatient.

“Maybe I really shouldn’t have made an exception and sent me back to the past to see that…” Ling Qiu said, “It’s okay, maybe we can escape.”

Ling Qiu kept running upstairs, and more and more people were chasing after her from below. Their movements were not fast, but they were very dense.

Like a horde of zombies, they followed Ling Qiu's footsteps and slowly climbed upwards.

Ling Qiu had a bad feeling.

Ling Qiu pursed her lips. She was already considering whether to kill these people and forcefully open a path.

Until she suddenly realized that Cyrus seemed to have been silent for a long time.

"Are you still there?" Ling Qiu tried to communicate.

There was no response.

Ling Qiu stood there for a long time, wondering if Cyrus thought she was finished and had given up on her.

After a moment of stunned silence, she realized that Cyrus didn't seem to be like that at all.

Did He encounter some trouble?

“Cesius? Are you still there?” she asked again.

There was no response, only the silent, zombie-like crowd surging towards her.

This can't go on. If she's going to die at the hands of these people, she might as well commit suicide.

Until she discovered that a room had an open window.

Ling Qiu was stunned for a moment, then rushed into the room and locked the door.

She stood at the window and looked down, noticing that the building's walls weren't smooth, but rather had various bumps and dents. What if... what if she climbed down from here?

This will certainly be a huge challenge, but it's not entirely impossible...

However, as if that strange fellow could read her mind, just as Ling Qiu was about to try to go down from there, a crowd of people split off from the large number of troops surging into the stairwell and surrounded the wall.

"..." Ling Qiu was speechless for a moment.

A beep, a beep, a sound suddenly rang out in the room, a sound that sounded incredibly familiar.

Ling Qiu froze. She turned around abruptly and discovered that a bomb had appeared on the wall sometime during the countdown.

"I knew you looked familiar. It's you." Noah's voice rang in my ears. "More than ten years ago, it was your parents who ruined my sacrificial ritual, wasn't it? They've kept me from separating from this guy's body for so long... And now, as their daughter, you want to take away my livelihood?"

“Your name is Ling Qiu, right? I can sense that your soul is very pure,” Noah said. “No wonder that guy stayed by your side for so long. Now, your soul is mine.”

The moment it finished speaking, the countdown timer on the bomb on the wall began to rapidly reset to zero.

As Ling Qiu watched the string of red numbers decrease, her breathing became increasingly labored.

Her heart was pounding, and when she realized that death was really coming, she was not as calm as she had imagined.

"...Cesius, are you still there?" she asked hopelessly, her voice trembling.

However, to her surprise, she received a response this time.

"I am here."

"You still can't solve it, can you?" Ling Qiu asked.

Cyrus responded with silence.

Ling Qiu knew the answer. She shrugged easily: "It's okay, this is already very good. It's better than many of the endings I expected. At least I got my revenge. As for Noah, it was never within my capabilities to begin with."

"In that case, you should go back," Ling Qiu said. "It's a good thing we didn't get married so early... otherwise you would have become..."

"Ling Qiu." Cyrus's voice suddenly became very close, as if it were right next to her ear, "Can you repeat what I wanted to hear that night?"

Ling Qiu didn't even need to ask which night or what he said; she knew exactly what he was talking about.

She paused, then slowly sat down on the floor against the wall.

As she listened to the countdown getting faster and faster, she thought that there was nothing wrong with talking about it.

“…I love you, Cyrus.” This time she pronounced His name clearly.

Then, as soon as she finished speaking, Ling Qiu felt a warmth on her lips, as if something... had been put into her mouth.

The bomb exploded, and everything was torn to pieces.

Strangely, Ling Qiu seemed completely oblivious. She appeared as an outsider, watching everything explode, the walls crumble, and shards of glass fly everywhere...

She herself was unharmed, but instinctively grabbed onto the undamaged building to steady herself.

Ling Qiu slowly opened her eyes, confused. At the same time, a panic gripped her: "Sesius!? Are you there? What did you do?"

There was no response.

This silence completely threw Ling Qiu into a panic.

"Cesius!!!" she screamed several more times, her eyes filled with terror.

"...Yes, I'm here." The familiar voice rang out again, almost bringing tears to Ling Qiu's eyes.

"Tell me what happened?" Ling Qiu asked hurriedly. "What did you just feed me?"

"...Yes, it's my blood," Cyrus said slowly. "It can save your life. However...I didn't expect my seal to be broken unexpectedly because of this."

"What?" Ling Qiu didn't know what was going on. She just had a feeling that Cyrus was nearby, and then she reached out her hand, wanting Cyrus to carry her down.

Then she was pulled into an embrace, unseen but familiar.

"Has your seal been broken?" She held Cyrus tightly, refusing to let go. "What would have happened to you originally? What would have happened if you had given me your blood?"

“He'll probably die,” Cyrus said casually. “It's the only option left.”

Ling Qiu was silent for a moment. He wouldn't have suddenly thought of this method; he must have planned to do it long ago.

Ling Qiu didn't know what to say.

“What about Noah?” she asked.

“I just ate it,” Cyrus said.

“…Wow.” Ling Qiu paused. “So everything’s alright now?”

“Hmm… I think everything is alright. But there’s still one thing to do,” Cyrus said.

Ling Qiu: "What?"

"Marry me." Cyrus clicked his tongue. "You have to marry me now, or... or neither of us will survive."

Ling Qiu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly hugged Cyrus tightly.

“Of course, of course,” she said.

-

Noah was destroyed, and Mante City was plunged into a brief period of despair, but people soon realized that everyone seemed to be able to live normally without the company.

The city gradually returned to order, and many people wanted to replace Noah's Company as the new ruler, but they always fell apart due to insufficient ability or internal discord.

"Oh dear, I absolutely have to take this order!"

In the bedroom, Ling Qiu shoved Cyrus's head away, "Do you know how much they're paying me? 300,000!"

"Hmph." Cyrus turned his face away. "Another deal involving the invasion of people's privacy."

“That’s what I do!” Ling Qiu shrugged.

"You won't stay with me." Cyrus looked resentful.

Because of the previous explosion, Cyrus's physical form has not yet fully formed. He needs to create a new body so that he can go out with Ling Qiu. However, staying at home all the time is boring, so Ling Qiu looks for a job to earn some money.

"Oh, give me a kiss, I'll spend time with you after I finish this order," Ling Qiu coaxed him.

"Don't call me Bobo," Cyrus snorted again.

“I didn’t call you, I meant I’d kiss you!” Ling Qiu typed out the words for Him to see, then smiled and said, “This ‘kiss’ means two kisses on the breasts.”

Cyrus glanced at the screen, then at Ling Qiu, said nothing, and turned to leave the room.

"Where are you going?" Ling Qiu asked.

“Cook for the young lady,” He said.

Ling Qiu chuckled a few times. After she finished discussing the project with the client and was about to leave, she saw a new profile picture in her contact list that she hadn't seen before.

Ling Qiu opened the chat window and found that it was Cyrus's profile picture.

Ling Qiu couldn't help but chuckle.

So cute, Cyrus.

Author's Note: It's finished! I'm currently preparing for the mermaid book, it should be starting soon! [Milk Tea] Welcome to support!