109 It’s not over yet

◎If you don’t tell me, I’ll kill you◎

The higher you go, the more similar the layout and structure of each floor become.

Qi Qiuxue silently counted the floors until she reached the seventeenth floor. The location marked on the route map was the fifth room from the left. Qi Qiuxue hid in the corner to eavesdrop on the situation, but there was no one guarding the door.

Given Simon's level of paranoia, this shouldn't have happened.

Any questions?

Qi Qiuxue paused, lowered her eyes, took out a stone from her pocket, rubbed it quickly with her palm to warm it up, and threw it forward.

The stone happened to fall in front of the door, and after waiting for a while, nothing happened.

There doesn't seem to be any sensor device at the door.

From the time we sneaked into the facility to now, almost half of the time has passed, and the lucky potion only has more than half an hour left to work, so we can't waste any time.

Qi Qiuxue gave up trying any further and decided to sneak in anyway and then act accordingly.

So she walked out from the corner, walked quickly and lightly to the door, pressed the handle with her fingers, and the door was not locked, so she opened it easily with a little force.

The structure and furnishings of the room were exactly as the two men had drawn it. Qi Qiuxue easily found the location of the safe. She tried several commonly used passwords but failed to open it successfully.

But she believed that all the questions in the copy had answers.

What will it be?

Qi Qiuxue gradually recalled the production date of the original chip -

【120927.】

She tried to enter these numbers, and with a beep, the safe was successfully opened.

There were twenty or thirty notebooks and some paper documents stored inside. Qi Qiuxue took a quick look and found that Simon actually had the habit of writing a diary. The date of the earliest diary could be traced back to more than thirty years ago.

Those paper documents include information on some important subordinates, a list of new humans with brain chips implanted, the chip's research and development progress, records of past experiments, and so on.

In order to prevent this from being a deliberate trick set up by Simon, Qi Qiuxue compared and verified it with the data obtained from the previous analysis of the chip and found that the information recorded on it was true and reliable.

It seems she found the right place. This is indeed Simon's real room.

So, where is the initial chip?

Qi Qiuxue carefully searched everything in the safe, but there was no trace of the initial chip at all.

Not here?

Qi Qiuxue was stunned for a second. For a moment, she suddenly doubted her conclusion. Could it be that she guessed wrong?

But she quickly rejected the idea. It was impossible. The chip must be stored somewhere within Simon's reach, either in the room or on his body. It was a mother copy that could completely destroy all chips. According to the other party's personality, he would not be able to trust anyone to keep it.

Qi Qiuxue temporarily gave up searching the safe and shifted her attention elsewhere. She searched every corner of the room carefully and quickly, even the walls, the floor and the ceiling. However, the final result disappointed her greatly. There was nothing, nowhere.

While I was thinking, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door.

"?!" Qi Qiuxue's breathing stagnated as she realized that the voice was getting closer and closer to the room she was in. Fortunately, she was more familiar with the structure of the room during her previous exploration. Before the person outside entered, she hid behind the door of the inner lounge.

A few seconds later, someone pushed the door open and walked in.

It was a man's figure. Qi Qiuxue looked out through the gap between the door and the door frame. The man was about fifty years old, with gray-white curly hair and unkempt stubble. He looked decadent and thin, but his eyes were inexplicably sharp, which was in stark contrast to his appearance.

It was Simon, and his appearance was exactly the same as the photo of him hanging in the frame in the room.

Qi Qiuxue held her breath and hid in the dark, waiting for her chance to strike. It was not easy to leave in this situation, not to mention that she had no reason to leave. She could not stop before finding the initial chip.

Simon stopped in an area near the lounge.

Qi Qiuxue was only a door away from him. Simon stopped walking and raised his eyes to slowly look around the room, as if looking for something.

Then, he suddenly turned his head when Qi Qiuxue had not expected it.

The two looked at each other at this moment.

“…”

A strong sense of crisis surged in her heart, and Qi Qiuxue instinctively jumped back, dodging the knife thrown at her by Simon.

"It looks like there's a mouse in my room." Although he's old, perhaps because he never neglects exercise, Simon's physical indicators are still healthy, strong, and quick-witted.

He didn't even call his subordinates. Perhaps in his opinion, getting rid of a small invader was as easy as crushing an ant. Before Qi Qiuxue could stand firm, he rushed in and grabbed the corner of Qi Qiuxue's clothes with his skinny but powerful right hand.

Seeing this, Qi Qiuxue quickly took out the bone knife and cut off the cloth at the corner of the clothes without any delay. She dodged Simon's attack again and turned sideways. She turned her body and stabbed the other party's back with the blade.

Simon seemed to have predicted her action. He leaned over to avoid the knife behind him, raised his right leg, and kicked backwards suddenly.

Qi Qiuxue almost didn't dodge. Realizing that the space in the lounge was too small and it was inconvenient for her to fight or dodge, she quickly took a few steps back and came to the more spacious office outside.

Of course Simon was not willing to let her go and quickly chased after her. Compared to Qi Qiuxue, he obviously had more combat experience and was even very good at close combat. Even with his bare hands, he could still fight back and forth with Qi Qiuxue who was holding a knife.

Qi Qiuxue retreated all the way under his attack until she had nowhere to retreat, with her back against the wall behind her. Seeing this, Simon took advantage of the situation and raised his hands to tightly grasp Qi Qiuxue's neck, tightening and exerting force without mercy.

Under the dual pressure of suffocation and pain, Qi Qiuxue's lips quickly turned pale and she was on the verge of death.

"How did you find me?" But even so, she still did not beg for mercy. Her voice still sounded calm, even with a hint of laughter and sarcasm.

"The room's layout has changed," Simon said. "The water glass on the table is shifted two centimeters."

Qi Qiuxue: “…”

"I haven't seen you before." Simon quickly skipped the topic and scanned Qi Qiuxue's face with sharp eyes. "I remember the faces of all the new humans."

"You're an old human, right? What are you doing here?" He asked, his grip still tight. Qi Qiuxue felt her head grow increasingly dizzy, and her hands and feet gradually lost their strength. "You even managed to get a decent uniform and evaded all the guards to get into my room."

"You are the smartest old human I have ever met. It's a pity that you are going to die soon."

"Really?" Qi Qiuxue raised her lips and smiled, "I don't think so."

"It's not over yet, is it, Mr. Simon?"

"What?" Simon was stunned as if he didn't understand what she meant. Then he suddenly looked down as if he realized something.

The knife in Qi Qiuxue's hand had changed style. The bone knife had disappeared at some point, and was replaced by a sharp chain blade. As if it had life, Qi Qiuxue just swung it lightly, and the chain blade flew forward rapidly, piercing Simon's body before he could dodge.

Then, the blade pulled the chain and quickly wrapped around his waist, abdomen, chest, and even neck like a metal snake.

A huge pain and a feeling of suffocation came over Simon, and he unconsciously let go of his hands. Then the chain blade quickly wrapped around his arms, wrists, and even locked his mouth and nose, leaving only a small gap for him to breathe and preventing him from making any sound for help.

"Cough, cough..." Qi Qiuxue lowered her eyes and coughed softly, breathing in the hard-earned fresh air in big gulps. After a few seconds, she adjusted her state and kicked Simon in front of her to the ground.

"Everything is different now." She raised her lips and chuckled softly. The bone knife flashed from her hand again. She turned around and locked the door. Then she walked back slowly, squatted beside Simon, and scratched his face bit by bit with the sharp tip of the knife. "No matter what, people should never let their guard down. Don't you agree?"

"Tell me, where is the initial chip produced on September 27, xx12?" she said in a deep voice, with a fierceness in her eyes that was hard to ignore.

"If you don't tell me, I'll kill you."

【Author’s words】

I'm so sleepy that I may not be able to update twice. Everyone go to bed early. I'll give you guys a small red envelope as compensation in the comment section of this chapter tomorrow. Hold me tight.

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