Chapter 68 Account Recovery in Progress

Luo Huayi's consciousness, accompanied by the despair of being pushed off the building, plunged into complete darkness.

Ma Hong had just given a strange smile when Xin Que, who was rushing up with a military knife, interrupted him.

Ma Hong's system crashed for a moment.

"Damn it," he quickly backed away, "Shouldn't you have rushed down to save him..."

Xin Que plunged her knife directly into Ma Hong's right wrist as he was about to pull out the three-edged dagger. Then, as Ma Hong lost his mind due to the pain, Xin Que swiftly pulled out the knife and slashed at his waist.

Xin Que snatched the three-edged dagger.

The knife wound to Ma Hong directly damaged his internal organs, rendering him unable to move once again. He collapsed onto the floor like a dead fish, blood gushing from his wound and pooling around him.

Xin Que glanced at Ma Hong, whose pupils were unfocused, and said, "Don't worry, as long as I don't draw my sword, you won't die anytime soon."

The fact that there hasn't been a notification about the plot rewinding means that Luo Huayi is still alive.

As for Ma Hong... a key figure in this kidnapping case, she can't let him die now, lest his death cause the plot to rewind once again.

She turned and walked toward Song Wangyuan, who had slid to the corner of the wall.

If a tragic story features a choice between two characters, then... often the character chosen by the male protagonist through the plot is the mastermind behind it all.

By working backward from the logic of tragic romance novels to reconstruct everything that happened after she met Song Wangyuan, Xin Que finally understood the key to the matter.

The man, who was disabled in both legs, was in a sorry state, his limbs tightly bound by ropes, leaning against the corner of the wall.

"Chang Qin..." he struggled to squeeze out a few words, "Why...did you save me?"

Xin Que crouched down. "Song Wangyuan, haven't you realized there's something wrong with your identity, or... are you just playing dumb with me?"

Song Wangyuan's pupils widened slightly. "What are you saying? I didn't..."

"Do I need to explain in detail to you?" Xin Que said expressionlessly, looking down at the disheveled man in front of her. "You were the one who hired me to bring down Song Wenxian, and you were the one who hired this kidnapper to put on a show to force me to choose between two options, and you were the one who plotted against Luo Huayi."

Song Wangyuan was taken aback.

“Even I was fooled by you…” Xin Que flicked the triangular dagger in her hand toward his chin. “At first, I thought there was something wrong with the plot.”

"How could someone as important as you, with such a well-developed life, not be part of the story?"

"Now it seems you knew all along that you didn't belong to this world, didn't you?"

Song Wangyuan's expression gradually froze.

“A special assistant similar to Cheng Zheng, an adopted son with a similar background to Luo Huayi…” Xin Que suddenly laughed, “So that’s what the guidance I got from Chen Zheng meant.”

Some people used Luo Huayi and Cheng Zheng as models to create the characters Song Wangyuan and Chen Zheng, and placed them in this world.

It even added many patches to Song Wangyuan's life story, including other characters' memories of Song Wangyuan and the various traces Song Wangyuan left in this world.

But it simply cannot be inserted into the plot rules that control this world.

If Xin Que hadn't never immersed herself in this tragic fiction world, she would almost have believed that Song Wangyuan was a real person.

Chen Zheng and Cheng Zheng sounded very similar. When Xin Que saw the strange things about Chen Zheng, she subconsciously matched the scrambled words with Chen Zheng's name.

In fact, the sentence about the garbled humanoid character was meant to draw Xin Que's attention to the similarities between Chen Zheng and Cheng Zheng.

Song Wangyuan's expression shifted for a few moments before finally settling down. "When did you find out?"

“I discovered it quite late,” Xin Que stared into Song Wangyuan’s unobstructed eyes, “from the moment you took the initiative to replace Xin Xin in this part of the story.”

When Xin Que found only one hostage at the kidnappers' hideout, she felt something was amiss.

But Ma Hong was too strong, and he pressed her relentlessly, leaving her almost no time to think.

It wasn't until the plot was rewritten that Xin Que saw Luo Huayi and Song Wangyuan in Ma Hong's hands that she became certain of her thoughts.

Based on the previous plot where Luo Huayi and she were trapped in the storyline and slandered by Xin Xin and Song Wenxian, the female lead's script clearly targets Xin Xin as her rival.

However, Song Wangyuan, a character who was not mentioned in the plot, suddenly replaced Xin Xin's role, appeared at the kidnapping scene, and even became one of the hostages.

It's hard not to be suspicious.

"So, what exactly are you?" Xin Que's triangular dagger was already pressed against Song Wangyuan's carotid artery, her tone grim. "A bug, or... a pawn?"

Song Wangyuan remained calm, seemingly unconcerned about Xin Que's threat. He remained silent for a long while before speaking.

Who would you prefer to be in front of?

Xin Que's pupils suddenly dilated.

It was the same voice as that one in the factory at night!

The ropes binding Song Wangyuan seemed to vanish into thin air in an instant.

When the other party raised his hand to grab the triangular dagger in his hand, Xin Que's body reacted faster than his brain, quickly judging the other party's action of aiming at his weapon as a threat.

"Pfft."

A dull thud was heard as a blade pierced flesh.

As Xin Que thrust his weapon toward his heart, Song Wangyuan collapsed.

Xin Que paused in his movements.

The massive factory began to crumble the moment Song Wangyuan was stabbed to death.

What flows out along the blood groove of the triangular thorn is not blood, but a data stream formed by symbolic codes in a water-like shape.

Amidst the cataclysmic collapse, Song Wangyuan, falling downwards, had his appearance rapidly crack like shattered glass.

Xin Que inexplicably recalled a fragment of her memory when she lifted the sack to check the hostage's identity.

Song Wangyuan's appearance gradually faded, revealing his original appearance.

Xin Que's hand, which was tightly gripping the three-edged dagger, froze.

Opposite her was Xin Que's own face.

"Why..." Xin Que was completely stunned.

[Because you and I both know...] The image of "Xin Que" appeared only briefly before shattering. [People like us only trust ourselves.]

Therefore, this escape route... must be discovered by you personally.

A tiny chip emerged from the shattered and dissipated corpse of "Xin Que" and then flew straight toward Xin Que.

Fragmented memories quickly entered her brain, and finally, with a splitting headache, Xin Que pieced together the images transmitted to her by the chip.

The sequence of events is... the backup of her memories that she created for herself before being thrown into this world.

It was also her escape route after escaping from prison.

[Serious criminal Xin Que has been transported to his destination.] The scene before us is one of heavily armed officers filing out of an armored vehicle and handing over the convict to a certain staff member.

[Number?] The scene shifts, and we see men and women in uniforms of different ranks negotiating.

[Let's keep her assassin number from when she was still with the Huo family.]

[Those rebels, may you be nailed to this pillar of shame until you die.]

The staff member handed Xin Que's data chip to a high-ranking man standing nearby. [Warden, the supervision has been activated at the highest level as instructed by the Huo family. Shall we now send her to the mental prison?]

The warden casually inserted the chip into the interface of the floating display screen, and soon the large screen quickly displayed detailed information about Xin Que's arrest.

Xin Que confessed to the crime of wiping out the Huo family, and even proactively disclosed the methods he used to brutally kill the four members of the Huo family...

"Isn't this enough to sentence Xin Que to death...?" The warden frowned. "Supervisor, first, separate Xin Que's mind and hand it over to the administrator AI to calculate her mental weaknesses, then develop an interrogation plan targeting those weaknesses."

[If the Huo family doesn't want Xin Que's confession, then what is it?]

Is there some hidden information in this case?