Chapter 234 Inside and Outside the Door

When Luo Huayi emerged from the shadows, Xin Que was standing on the edge of the rooftop terrace of the apartment building, overlooking the city.

At this moment, only a sliver of afterglow remained on the horizon, and night was about to replace evening.

Xin Que felt a weight on his back.

The man's arms around her waist tightened slowly, and he rested his chin in the crook of her neck, just as always.

Xin Que noticed that Luo Huayi's wrist was trembling slightly as he held hers.

"What, are you scared?" she asked.

Upon hearing this, Luo Huayi tightened her grip on his arm.

"I don't know... whether I can still trust you." Luo Huayi's voice was somber.

But he had no other choice.

This is a high-stakes gamble.

He risked everything, just for a chance for Xin Que to keep his promise.

Xin Que raised her hand and patted the back of his hand, whether to comfort him or not, "There's nothing to be afraid of."

The whistling wind buried the rest of their conversation in the darkness.

The two figures on the rooftop eventually parted ways and went their separate ways.

"Xin Que," Cheng Zheng suddenly spoke after a long silence, "You...have you made up your mind?"

Xin Que gave an irrelevant answer, "Don't worry, I'll deliver on my promise of a system upgrade package to you very soon."

Cheng Zheng scoffed and then fell silent.

As Xin Que climbed down the ladder, Cheng Zheng's voice rang out again, "Something's not right!"

Xin Que: "???"

Cheng Zheng gritted his teeth, "Who gave you the right to discount my request without my consent?!"

"System upgrade package, and physical body! Two different things!!!"

Cheng Zheng's voice rose higher and higher, almost cracking in Xin Que's mind, "Not one can be missing!!!"

Xin Que: "...If you keep babbling, I'll uninstall your anthropomorphic module as soon as we get out!"

Cheng Zheng's voice suddenly rose, "What do you mean?!"

"So, if you have a new love interest, you don't need the old employees anymore???"

Xin Que "..."

"You have no heart!!!" Cheng Zheng's voice flew through the passage like a rocket, "I've suffered all kinds of hardships by your side, and in the end, I'm not even as good as a low-level program. You even crippled my performance. Not only did you cripple my performance, but you also withheld my pay. You're ungrateful and treacherous, you blah blah blah..."

He hurled every insult at Xin Que, stripping away all the punctuation, before finally raising his voice to the highest pitch.

"The heartless bosses who exploit the system deserve no house!!!"

Xin Que's head was about to explode.

Her expression turned ferocious. "Shut up!"

Cheng Zheng hesitated for a moment, then became even more righteous and assertive, "I just won't..."

“The budget for the body has already been set aside for you.” Xin Que spoke quickly, finishing before Cheng Zheng could go crazy, “but now is not the time.”

"The most urgent task is to return to reality."

Cheng Zheng switched to another face in a second, his cybernetic voice almost coming out, "I told you you're still a good boss with a conscience."

Xin Que "..."

That's so despicable.

Xin Que regretted for the umpteenth time not gritting her teeth and increasing the budget to choose a normal system.

"Your emotions are acting strangely," Cheng Zheng's eerie voice rang out, sounding like a male ghost.

"You've come to terms with me?"

Xin Que did not answer Cheng Zheng's pointless question.

Her gaze fell on the figure of the administrator's mechanical pupil gradually emerging in the distant night sky.

"You know what, that's really what I think."

“But it seems there’s no time to fire you right now…” Xin Que’s voice grew serious. “The target has arrived.”

The city was put on pause in an instant.

“Sir,” Mr. Zhen said respectfully, stepping aside the man behind him, “please.”

“Wen Jingchen,” Huo Fenglin glanced at the person being held captive beside him, “submit all the materials related to the interrogation plan to the administrator, and you can leave the interrogation area with the prison guard.”

Wen Jingchen's gaze fell on the handcuffs on his hands, his expression revealing no flaw. "Okay."

"In addition..." Wen Jingchen hesitated for a moment, but finally made up his mind to speak, "You'd better be wary of whether the prisoner has any external help."

Huo Fenglin finally looked at Wen Jingchen properly.

External response?

Does he mean that his subordinates have been infiltrated by Xin Que?

Huo Fenglin frowned.

After the bombing, Huo Fenglin thoroughly cleaned up the hidden agents and assassins.

Logically speaking, Xin Que, who was isolated in prison, should not have had the opportunity to come into contact with these newcomers.

But it's better to be cautious.

When Wen Jingchen saw that Huo Fenglin's expression softened, he knew that what he said was exactly what Huo Fenglin wanted to die.

He couldn't gamble that Huo Fenglin would let him go after using him.

Especially after he personally uploaded Huo Fenglin's secrets.

Huo Fenglin would never let him, an insider, go unpunished.

He had to find himself a chance to get out alive after being taken away by the prison guards.

The quickest way is to temporarily divert Huo Fenglin's attention to other intelligence.

The obvious answer is to betray Xin Que.

Xin Que genuinely believed that the information she uploaded was a version that the two of them had discussed.

In fact, Wen Jingchen relayed everything to the engineers truthfully.

From beginning to end, Wen Jingchen was just being hypocritical.

This path of survival is destined to leave only one person alive.

It must be Wen Jingchen.

With a smile, Mr. Zhen separated Wen Jingchen and Huo Fenglin to prevent him from harming Huo Fenglin.

"Mr. Wen, it's time for you to leave."

Despite his polite demeanor, the prison guard holding Wen Jingchen received the order and immediately dragged Wen Jingchen away roughly.

The prison guard dragged Wen Jingchen toward the administrator, while Huo Fenglin and the five AI supervisors turned and headed toward the apartment where Xin Que was located.

They pressed on relentlessly.

Xin Que, who had just left the rooftop, glanced back at the shadows in the stairwell and no longer hesitated.

The woman's figure plummeted from the top-floor window like a kite with a broken string to the ground.

Before Huo Fenglin entered the apartment, like a drop of water merging into a lake, the woman silently fell into the darkness of the ground and disappeared without a trace.

When Huo Fenglin pushed open the apartment door under the protection of the AI ​​in charge, Wen Jingchen's consciousness had already been received by the administrator and was about to be escorted into the passage back to the real world.

[We have successfully received Wen Jingchen, who is assisting in the interrogation of the suspect.]

【_……】

Wen Jingchen suddenly looked up at the administrator.

The administrator's mechanical pupils seemed to only pause for a moment, without any apparent abnormality.

[King of Reincarnation, open the return passage.]

For some reason, Wen Jingchen always felt uneasy.

As the data-constructed channel opened before Wen Jingchen, his sense of panic grew stronger.

What exactly is wrong...?

Even as he was being led into the passageway, he was still frantically trying to figure out if he had forgotten anything.

【_……】

The program has been attacked by an unknown virus!

A deafening global alarm blared throughout the entire interrogation process, even reaching parts of the corridor.

Wen Jingchen's eyes widened.

Xin Que has gone mad?!

How could she dare to do this at a time like this...

"At times like these, be careful of your surroundings and don't expose your back." Xin Que's sinister voice rang out from behind Wen Jingchen.

Before Wen Jingchen could utter a sound, he was pierced through.

He had only one thought before he died.

How did Xin Que end up in the teleportation portal?!