That night, Song Kaiji took Shen Qing to find Chen Jiaqian.
Now they couldn't show any sign of knowing each other. Although Feng Hao no longer believed Chen Jiaqian, the top leaders of the government and the military did not believe Feng Hao's statement, so they had to continue the show.
Chen Jiaqian was alone at home at night, her husband and children were not at home. Seeing Song Kaiji suddenly appear in her living room holding Shen Qing, she seemed to be relieved: "You are finally here. I thought you were going to come to see me last night."
As a result, I waited for a whole night yesterday.
Shen Qing seemed to want to say something, but Chen Jiaqian didn't wait for him to speak and apologized first: "I'm sorry, I read your memory."
Song Kaiji:!!!
He looked at Shen Qing in surprise. Yesterday, only Shen Qing met Chen Jiaqian face to face. He guessed that Chen Jiaqian had read his memory based on her expression. The other members of Shen Qing's team who were stopped aside didn't know about it. Tang Wenjie even praised Chen Jiaqian for being smart and being able to react in such a short time and gave Shen Qing the identity of their roommate.
"You, you broke your oath. You swore on your child—" Song Kaiji stuttered. Shen Qing had so many secrets, and Chen Jiaqian knew about them. This, this—
He couldn't say what would happen, but he instinctively felt the danger.
However, Chen Jiaqian shook her head: "I didn't tell anyone."
At the beginning, Shen Qing did ask her to swear with her child that she would never look at the images in Shen Qing's mind. However, when she swore, she slightly changed the oath:
"I, Chen Jiaqian, swear to heaven that I will never look at the images in your mind again in my life, including those of the people around you! If I accidentally see them, I will keep them to myself and never tell anyone."
However, Shen Qing was very satisfied at that time and accepted her revised oath.
Song Kaiji was stunned: "So... when you swore, you had already designed this loophole and thought that this day would come?"
"How is that possible!" Chen Jiaqian scratched her hair in annoyance. Her child was dying at that time, so how could she have the energy to plan these things? Moreover, she didn't know the secret of Shen Qing at that time, and she just thought he was an ordinary person with a little background, so what was there to see?
It was when she saw Shen Qing in Feng Hao's memory that she became interested. But now, Chen Jiaqian regrets it very much.
She risked her oath coming true and falling out with Shen Qing and the others to peek into Shen Qing's memory because she guessed that Shen Qing came from another world, and based on Shen Qing's clothing in Feng Hao's memory, she determined that it was most likely from an ancient world.
Since she met Shen Qing, especially before going to Zizhou, she also knew that Shen Qing would leave the Hongcheng base every once in a while, and no one knew where he went. But when he came back, he would bring some supplies.
Does this mean that Shen Qing can still return to his original world and bring supplies from his original world...
She didn't want Shen Qing to find out that she had peeked. She didn't plan to tell anyone, she just wanted to secretly see where the entrance was, and then move there with her family without Shen Qing knowing, or become a trader like Shen Qing, shuttling between the two worlds.
This probably shouldn't be considered a breach of oath, Chen Jiaqian thought to herself.
Her pupils trembled when she looked at Shen Qing. It was not because she was shocked that Shen Qing came from another world, but because she was shocked that... Shen Qing was the only one who could travel between the two worlds.
In Shen Qing's memory, she clearly saw how much Shen Qing wanted to take Song Kaiji there. But they tried countless methods, even Shen Qing's mother tried them, but the cave remained indifferent and only opened for Shen Qing.
Chen Jiaqian smiled bitterly. Isn't this all in vain? And she even offended Shen Qing.
Although Chen Jiaqian no longer had anything to ask Shen Qing for, she was still embarrassed and guilty because of the kindness she had shown Shen Qing in the past. She whispered, "I won't betray you. I didn't say anything yesterday. Don't worry. I swear."
But now her vows seemed so pale and powerless.
Shen Qing covered his forehead. He had seen it all. What else could he do? Could he delete this memory from Chen Jiaqian's mind? But he couldn't trust Chen Jiaqian as much as before.
Chen Jiaqian also understood.
The three of them sat in silence for a while, and Chen Jiaqian said, "I'm really sorry. Regardless of whether you still trust me after this incident, I will compensate you for this matter." She looked at Shen Qing, hesitated for a moment, and said, "If you encounter any difficulties, maybe you can ask me, I can give you some advice."
This of course refers to the matter in Lantang Village. Now Shen Qing has no secrets in front of Chen Jiaqian.
To Chen Jiaqian, many of Shen Qing's actions were not really smart. Of course, Shen Qing was a native... uh, little brother. This setting really took Chen Jiaqian a while to digest, and her eyes quickly swept between Shen Qing and Song Kaiji.
As a person from the lower class of ancient times who could not read a single word half a year ago, Shen Qing is very smart and capable to have achieved what he has today.
But in the eyes of Chen Jiaqian, the fully evolved body, some of her methods were still too immature and had many loopholes. If Shen Qing was still willing to interact with her as before, not to mention treating her as close as Qu Weiwei, at least they could continue to cooperate under the guise of cooperation, for mutual benefit.
She has nothing to gain now. Song Kaiji can't even get through that cave, so it's better for her to be a military advisor to Shen Qing and gain some benefits.
Shen Qing: ...
He really admired Chen Jiaqian. How could she break her promise and then talk about more cooperation as if nothing had happened? Should she immediately expose the issue with just an apology?
Oh, Chen Jiaqian said she didn’t break her oath, she just found a loophole.
Shen Qing did not agree to her and waved his hand: "Forget about this matter, the rest... let's talk about it later."
He and Song Kaiji did not stay long and quickly left Chen Jiaqian's house. Returning to their bedroom in the villa, Song Kaiji asked him: "Do you still believe in Chen Jiaqian?"
Shen Qing was silent. In fact, in Shen Qing's opinion, it didn't matter whether they believed it or not. What mattered was, even if they didn't believe it, what could they do to Chen Jiaqian? In terms of brains, they couldn't beat Chen Jiaqian. In terms of force, they couldn't beat the supernatural powers of the official and military's human wave tactics.
Although they were now a very powerful superpower team in the Rainbow City base, they were still like a mantis trying to stop a chariot when facing the government and the military. Once they were chained, the most powerful superpower in their team was no different from an ordinary person.
Shen Qing collapsed on the bed, feeling very bad: "I am obviously stronger than before. I have more chips in my hand than before, but why do I feel that life is more difficult?"
Song Kaiji thought for a while and gave Shen Qing an example. This was a common example when they were studying.
If we compare a person to a circle, the area inside the circle is the knowledge that the person possesses, while the area outside the circle that the circle touches is the person's ignorance.
The more knowledge you have, the greater your ignorance will become.
"Maybe it's the same with difficulties." Song Kaiji carefully placed his hand on Shen Qing's belly: "The stronger you are, the bigger the problems you will encounter. In the past, in the village, the most difficult thing was probably what to eat every day. Now it's different. Now we have to face more complicated problems."
As he spoke, he looked up at Shen Qing, only to find that Shen Qing had fallen asleep at some point, and it was unknown whether he had heard his long speech.
Song Kaiji: “…”
Coming back to his senses, he smiled again: This is also good. What's the problem? Let's sleep on it first. He looked at Shen Qing's sleeping face and thought, if this place is too dangerous, Shen Qing should go back. Take their child with him... He didn't know if the child could travel through the cave, but he had made up his mind that Shen Qing must give birth there.
If the child cannot pass through the cave, he would rather never see the child again for the rest of his life than have the child be born in a world like the end of the world.
And he... he could take Zhang Sujuan away from the Hongcheng base. They could find another place not too far away and build a small base. If Qu Weiwei and Tang Wenjie were willing to join him, they could still kill zombies together, save crystal cores, and complete missions. If they were unwilling... Song Kaiji also understood. Then he could only wait for Shen Qing to support him.
Song Kaiji lay next to Shen Qing, thinking about this and that. But this was his last resort: he felt that he really had no way to fight against the base officials and the military. If he couldn't afford to provoke them, couldn't he just hide? At worst, he could hide in the ravine and practice madly, and when he mastered his magic skills, he would go out of the mountains and kill people everywhere. It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge -
But it hasn’t really reached that point yet.
The military and government leaders believed Chen Jiaqian's words. Shao Nan looked very guilty. Only Feng Hao was still holding on to Shen Qing. As long as they got rid of Feng Hao, they should be able to live a peaceful life.
Qu Weiwei did not go to work at the Third Farm anymore. She was originally reluctant to do so. After this incident, the good friendship they had maintained with the military, especially Shao Nan, had now collapsed.
Shao Nan came to apologize twice and persuaded Qu Weiwei to go back to work, but Qu Weiwei remained indifferent and packed up the shop that the military had given them for permanent use, intending to close it.
"This is really a misunderstanding! We are not in cahoots with Feng Hao, we are just going through the process. Now that the process is over, you are all clear..." Shao Nan felt more and more guilty. However, no matter if his superiors asked him to appease them or he did it from his heart, he did not want to lose these friends from Shen Qing's team. Besides...
He glanced at Qu Weiwei.
However, Qu Weiwei never gave him a straight look from beginning to end. "I understand, I understand very much." She took down the banner that the military had given her in the past and rolled it up and handed it to Shao Nan. "We didn't say anything. Did we ask for compensation from the military? Did we ask you to apologize publicly or deal with Feng Hao? We, the victims, didn't ask for anything or say anything. We just don't want to open the store anymore. Why are you so anxious?"
Shao Nan was speechless. The silk banner in his arms felt like it was burning.
"Shao Nan, everyone has a temper." Qu Weiwei locked the door of the shop and stuffed the key into his hand. "You have your duty. Between duty and us, you chose duty. We don't blame you."
"But just like you chose between your duty and us, I will definitely choose my team over you. If you don't put us first, you should accept that we don't take you too seriously either."
If we can no longer be friends, and just treat each other as ordinary strangers, that's fine. But why do we think that as long as we apologize, we must forgive?
"We can still be polite strangers. That way, no matter what happens in the future, we won't have any expectations of you. Without expectations, we won't be disappointed."
Shao Nan was stunned by her words. "But..."
But how could Shen Qing's team compare with the military? He moved his lips, wanting to say something, but looking into Qu Weiwei's eyes, he couldn't say anything.
In his mind, Shen Qing's team naturally couldn't compare with the military. But in Qu Weiwei's eyes, no one could compare with Shen Qing's team.
Four days later, Shen Qing and Song Kaiji discussed: "It's been a few days, can we kill Feng Hao?"
They didn't try to avoid people when they talked about this. Qu Weiwei heard it from the side and was very happy: "How are you going to kill him?"
Feng Hao had arrested them all before, put them in shackles and locked them up in the research institute. Qu Weiwei already had old and new grudges against the institute, so she was so angry!
"Just, teleport there and kill him unexpectedly?" Song Kaiji has already found Feng Hao's residence.
"That's not what I'm talking about!" Qu Weiwei waved her hand. "Feng Hao probably only has a grudge against us. If he dies a violent death, no matter how long it takes, the institute will suspect us. I want to ask, is there any way to die that looks similar to a heart attack or sudden death, so that he looks like a normal death?"
She didn't want to kill Feng Hao and then have a bunch of people come out to avenge Feng Hao. If she killed the young ones, the old ones would come too, and it would be endless.
Shen Qing and Song Kaiji thought about it and felt that it made sense. So they took out all the medicines in the space, picked and chose, and selected two drugs that might cause sudden death, and also took out some anesthetics.
Song Kaiji thought for a moment and said, "I'll feed him a handful of it and wait and see. If he doesn't die, I'll suffocate him to death."
There is no other way. We cannot refrain from killing him just for the sake of rigor.
Qu Weiwei: "... Forget it, just kill as many people as you want." Ideals are full, but reality is skinny. They don't usually kill people, and they are not good at anything. She leaned on the sofa, thought for a while and said to Shen Qing: "A new base has been built in my hometown, Chicheng. If the killing of Feng Hao this time is exposed...why don't we move to another place to live, and start over in Chicheng?"
Qu Weiwei had a little bit of selfishness. Although she roughly knew that her family was gone, what if she could try her luck? But the most important thing was that she felt that the current Hongcheng base was not safe.
Her idea was not wrong, and it even coincided with Song Kaiji's idea. It was just that Song Kaiji knew that the location of Shen Qing's cave could not be changed, so he planned to build a small base nearby instead of going to other bases. But it was not easy to explain to Qu Weiwei, so Song Kaiji and Shen Qing could only vaguely pass it over: "Let's kill Feng Hao first, what if it goes smoothly?"
Qu Weiwei had nothing to say.
They spent some time looking for the medicine. After Song Kaiji left, he appeared in the living room again not long after. Shen Qing was surprised: "So fast? It seems that the medicine is very effective?"
Song Kaiji's face was not very good, and he shook his head: "I was too late, Feng Hao was already dead."
Everyone in the room was stunned: "Besides us, is there anyone else who wants to kill him?"
Song Kaiji nodded, then shook his head: The one who killed Feng Hao was one of their own, Chen Jiaqian.
When Song Kaiji teleported over, Chen Jiaqian was squatting on the ground, digging into Feng Hao's brain with a dagger. The crystal core belonging to the brain-type mutant rolled down with red and white things, and Chen Jiaqian took out another crystal core from her pocket: Song Kaiji looked familiar, and after careful recollection, he remembered that it was the crystal core of the bald space-type mutant on their way back from Zizhou.
Chen Jiaqian dug out his crystal core and planned to take it, but later Ge Bingbing had side effects after absorbing the human crystal core, so Chen Jiaqian gave up the idea. Unexpectedly, she did not discard the crystal core, but kept it here for use.
When the two met, they were both startled and panicked for a while.
Seeing that it was him, he heaved a sigh of relief. Chen Jiaqian was a little embarrassed, so she stuffed the brain crystal core into her pocket and smiled at Song Kaiji: "You are here to kill him too, right? You came just in time, give me a ride, otherwise I would have to sneak out."
Song Kaiji was somewhat speechless: "...If you dig out the crystal core from his brain like this, everyone will know that there is something strange." The crystal core of a space-type psychic is very similar to that of a brain-type psychic, and the color is almost the same. But who would kill someone and then dig out their brain? It doesn't make sense. Wouldn't it be discovered during the autopsy?
Once it is detected that the brain crystal nucleus is missing, the first people to be investigated will be these brain-related mutants!
"It's okay." Chen Jiaqian smiled and pointed to the corner of the table, where there was a small potted plant. "That's a mutant plant, dormant at night and crazy in the morning. It will pierce the human brain with its stem and eat the brain. Feng Hao is so obsessed with research that it's not surprising that he secretly brought contraband back to the dormitory, right?"
After all, in order to investigate Shen Qing, Feng Hao even dared to bring the zombie to the base.
Then let's create the illusion that he was killed by mutated plants.
Song Kaiji had to admit that he was smart. He was not like a bunch of idiots who struggled for so long and still couldn't get the insurance, and were late.
But his eyes fell on the brain crystal core again. After a pause, Song Kaiji said, "You plan to absorb it."
Not a question.
Chen Jiaqian was also very frank: "You know, I don't mind absorbing the crystal cores of these bad guys. I was just worried about the side effects before." In Chen Jiaqian's eyes, those logical and moral things are not very important.
But she had also observed Ge Bingbing for a long time. For Ge Bingbing, except for the first few days when she was a bit irritable, everything else was fine. Moreover, in Chen Jiaqian's opinion, it was better to say that she finally woke up than to say that she was irritable.
As long as she didn't run into Sun Cheng's family, Ge Bingbing was very normal now and wouldn't get angry at others. She just couldn't tolerate grievances and mistreatment more than before.
Chen Jiaqian felt that she could accept this level. The side effects of one crystal core were limited to this level, but it was hard to say for multiple crystal cores. So Chen Jiaqian only planned to absorb one, and this crystal core would naturally be used to give her precious brain ability.
In fact, she had been eyeing Feng Hao's brain for some time.
"Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?" Chen Jiaqian said, "I get the benefit, and he can't target Shen Qing anymore."
Song Kaiji sighed. He and Chen Jiaqian couldn't reach an agreement on the human crystal core, and he didn't have the confidence to convince Chen Jiaqian completely, so he didn't mention it at this moment. "Let's go, I'll take you back."
Chen Jiaqian nodded, and then she thought of something, picked up a bunch of supernatural shackles, and handed them to Song Kaiji: "Here I give them to you."
"This guy is quite cautious. I came to see him, but he asked me to bring this." She used Shen Qing's matter as an excuse. Although Feng Hao didn't believe her, he was really curious and let her in. However, Chen Jiaqian thought it was quite ridiculous: "It's as if you need supernatural powers to kill him?"
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