Chapter 25
She didn't believe that Zhou Ye was calling her so urgently at this time because he had something good to say. Maybe he was just a tattoo shop attendant who knew she was naked and was deliberately trying to embarrass her.
Fortunately, she still had a bathrobe to cover her body.
The beauty salon's regular services are located on floors 1 to 3, while the 4th floor houses exclusive private rooms for different V-level guests.
Starting from the 5th floor, it becomes a completely private area that is not open to the public and is not accessible even to guests with only a beauty VIP card.
The elevator stopped on the 4th floor. The attendant who had just led Tan Lingling onto the elevator silently held the button and bent down to see Tan Lingling out of the elevator.
Another waiter stood outside the elevator, bowing as he waited.
"Miss, I will now lead the way for you."
An eerie atmosphere, a dimly lit environment.
Tan Lingling was wearing soft-soled cotton slippers, but every step she took on the marble floor felt like thunder.
It was so quiet… She suddenly realized that the person leading the way hadn’t made a sound, not even the rustling of his clothes, as if he didn’t exist at all.
"Miss," the waitress suddenly stopped in front of a fire hydrant. She turned the water outlet of the hydrant left and right a few times, and then moved the entire hydrant to one side.
A small, empty room was revealed.
"Please come in." The waiter remained quiet and reserved, his manners impeccable.
Like the previous waiter, this waiter stopped there, leaving Tan Lingling to step inside alone.
The small room was dark, and she had to feel her way forward with every step she took.
Should we find the stairs to go up? Tan Lingling was a little confused.
Suddenly, the sound of the elevator arriving broke the darkness, and Tan Lingling could see that there was a waiter in the room besides her.
This man was even more silent than the two waiters before him. He knelt on the ground with his limbs pressed against the floor. By the light shining through the open elevator doors, one could barely make out that he was a man with a very good physique.
A man? Why would there be a male waiter here?
Strangely enough, Tan Lingling felt relieved. Ever since she stepped onto the fourth floor, the eerie feeling that had been lingering in her heart and the intuition that warned her of danger had finally come true.
The biggest secret of this place is finally about to be revealed to her.
Her heart no longer ached secretly, but beat vigorously, so strongly that Tan Lingling trembled all over.
She was terrified. Just as the man looked up and reached for the elevator button, she caught a glimpse of his face in the reflection of the elevator door.
A singer who rose to fame in the entertainment industry like a shooting star and then suddenly disappeared.
He's actually here...
He was definitely not doing this voluntarily.
The elevator takes much longer to travel from the 1st floor to the 6th floor than a normal elevator would.
It was rare to be alone in a confined space with only the two of them, so there was no need to worry about being watched. Tan Lingling glanced around, wanting to find out some information.
"Zhao Ziyou? You must be Zhao Ziyou."
The man's body jolted as he knelt down again, burying his upper body even deeper.
He didn't answer, but Tan Lingling could still keenly see that he was trembling.
"What are you doing here? I've heard you sing before. If you hadn't retired from the entertainment industry, you'd be a top star by now!"
Tan Lingling squatted down, trying to look him in the eyes as she spoke, and attempted to reach out and pry Zhao Ziyou's shoulder.
Zhao Ziyou was startled by her action. To the people here, he was just like pressing an elevator button, although he didn't know Tan Lingling's identity as someone standing here...
But if a girl appears here, her fate will only be worse than his.
Out of the conscience that had led him to this state, he tilted his head slightly and quickly glanced to the side behind him.
This brief tilt of her head allowed Tan Lingling to see clearly a thin chain extending from the corner of the elevator and attached to her neck.
The chain is directly linked to a ring implanted in his body that hangs around his neck.
A sense of inhumanity stunned Tan Lingling, and she stiffly looked in the direction Zhao Ziyou had turned around.
A camera slowly descended from the ceiling, its cold red light sweeping over Tan Lingling.
"Don't ask questions you shouldn't, okay, Lingling?"
The tone was both doting and chilling; it was Zhou Ye's voice.
"Ugh!" As Zhou Ye's voice rang out, Zhao Ziyou's body suddenly convulsed, as if he were suffering immense pain.
Tan Lingling looked at her hand, which was so close to Zhao Ziyou's, and quickly took a few steps back. As the distance between them increased, the pain in Zhao Ziyou's body gradually subsided.
He was drenched in sweat, feeling completely exhausted, yet he still forced himself to keep his limbs stiff and maintain the kneeling position.
The evil here seemed to be far greater than she had imagined.
Tan Lingling's head started buzzing. So, the reason why Zhao Ziyou, who was so popular back then and was just one step away from becoming a superstar, fell like a meteor because he was imprisoned here?
And what about her?
Tan Lingling leaned against the elevator wall, the icy temperature barely managing to revive a sliver of her rationality.
That was Zhou Ye's voice just now. He's a regular here. So what kind of person is he in a place like this?
Did he bring her here with the intention of imprisoning her and turning her into a slave who doesn't even have the right to stand up?
So when the elevator doors opened, Zhou Ye, who was standing leisurely at the elevator entrance, saw Tan Lingling, whose face was pale, her whole body was trembling, and her legs went weak the moment she stepped out of the elevator, almost collapsing into his arms.
"What happened? Did he scare you?"
Zhou Ye put his arm around Tan Lingling and glanced coldly at Zhao Ziyou, whose head was pressed against the floor. He was being electrocuted again, his whole body convulsing, and a puddle of liquid gradually seeped out from where his knees touched the ground.
The elevator doors shut out the stench emanating from the liquid, and Zhou Ye, unusually considerate, picked Tan Lingling up in his arms.
The beautiful woman's delicate appearance clearly rekindled his sexual desire for Tan Lingling.
Tan Lingling did not answer his question. Zhou Ye's question was not actually directed at her; it was just a formula under the "vent her anger" template.
He carried Tan Lingling into the room, where there were many people who looked much older than Zhou Ye.
Each of these men had several naked beauties embracing them between their legs and in their arms.
Zhou Ye sat down with Tan Lingling in his arms, placed his feet on the woman's chest, and reached out to pull at the belt of Tan Lingling's bathrobe.
Tan Lingling didn't want him to succeed, but she didn't dare to refuse, so she could only fall into Zhou Ye's arms with tears streaming down her face, cleverly pressing down on the belt around her waist.
Zhou Ye, who saw through Tan Lingling's little scheme, was not angry. Perhaps it was because Tan Lingling had always acted snobbish in front of him, but now she was showing a rare gentleness, which made him willing to give her more face.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Zhou Ye asked considerately, his hand slipping inside Tan Lingling's collar as if he were checking her body.
Tan Lingling looked at that hand, pressed her pounding heart against it, and slowly leaned her head closer to Zhou Ye...
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In the metal-sensory control hall, the staff responsible for the comparative simulation had already exported and compared the memory fragments that Zhu Yu briefly recalled.
"How about it?"
What they are looking for now is the "Gegan Real Estate Collapse Case," in which Zhu Yu was involved and directly caused his sacrifice.
Back then, Zhu Yu went undercover in Ge Gan's company to investigate issues such as substandard materials and shoddy workmanship in his real estate projects, but he encountered a terrible situation.
Zhu Yu's sacrifice was very sudden. Her superiors only received evidence that Ge Gan's use of inferior materials and shoddy workmanship directly led to the collapse of the house and the resulting casualties.
However, judging from the last message that Comrade Zhu Yu conveyed before his death, the crimes of this "Ge Gan" go far beyond this.
It is even quite possible that "Gegan" is just a shield pushed into the open to attract attention.
The sacrifice of Comrade Zhu Yu proves this point. She must have obtained extremely important evidence to be silenced by the mastermind behind the scenes.
"Within the organization..." The person holding the data was wearing a specially made pure white work uniform. This place was a top-secret base built to preserve Comrade Zhu Yu's last bit of will. Anyone who wanted to enter had to undergo strict screening, body search, and disinfection.
The person in charge of this project is Shi Ru, the one sitting in front of Zhu Yu right now, patiently listening to her order.
The "Shi Ru" in Zhu Yu's current world is a set of data instructions that Shi Ru himself input according to his own template.
The highest directive was: "Take good care of Zhu Yu."
Shi Ru is a researcher, but he has always had great respect for frontline combat personnel who walk on the edge of evil and death.
Zhu Yu was smashed to pieces in that crash, almost turning into a pile of mud.
Just when the doctors were about to give up, her heartbeat miraculously returned, but she never woke up again.
Comrade Zhu Yu has become a vegetable.
Therefore, her comrades-in-arms all know that Comrade Zhu Yu actually sacrificed herself at the moment of the crash, and the reason she is still holding on to that faint heartbeat is because she has very important intelligence on her hands.
She would persist until the intelligence reached her contact.
They can't keep the heroes waiting too long!
Upon hearing about this, Shi Ru, a national science and technology expert, took the initiative to accept the task and spent half his life studying the half-body that was soaking in a special liquid.
Until a month ago, this dream-making technology finally matured, and he was finally able to give this hero a brand new, safe, and new life.
He didn't want those painful memories to haunt him again; he would extract them before Zhu Yu noticed.
Evil will eventually be brought to justice; the law will not yield to illegality.
"A traitor?" He took the document handed to him by his subordinate. Although the facial features were not clear, he could tell from the body shape and clothing.
"We speculate that this person should be one of Comrade Zhu Yu's teammates back then."
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"Here, take this." Zhu Yu saw that the director had no intention of letting her participate in the rehearsals, so as soon as Shi Ru sent the message, she ran off without hesitation.
As soon as they sat down in the private room of the restaurant, Shi Ru took out an exquisite bag and handed it to her.
"What is this?" Out of habitual, subconscious caution, Zhu Yu did not rush to touch the packaging bag.
Instead, she looked at Shi Ru and waited for his introduction. Although she believed that Shi Ru would not harm her, one should always be wary of others.
"I found some pretty good coffee abroad, so I brought some for you to try."
"Coffee? But I don't know much about coffee..."
Zhu Yu's knowledge of coffee is limited to major chain stores... To say that he understands coffee would seem to be a slight to coffee.
"It's just a beverage. As long as it tastes good, that's all that matters. You don't need to know anything about it."
Shi Ru comforted her.
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