Chapter 166 Meeting
"I'm sorry, I'm late."
"What?"
Jiang Qian didn't react to what the system was saying for a moment. After she reacted, she suspected that she didn't hear it clearly and asked back subconsciously.
The train affairs working group just sent a message, saying they'd like to meet you. Something seemed off, so I investigated online. I overheard their conversation and discovered they seem to know about your connection to the train...
The system spoke tremblingly, and its scalp still tingled when it thought of some of the information it had just found.
Although it knew it would be discovered eventually, it thought the two of them were being careful enough, but it didn't expect them to be exposed in the end. More importantly, as an interstellar system, it hadn't discovered them before, and now it didn't even know how the host's identity was leaked!
It feels very incompetent!
Jiang Qian, on the other hand, quickly calmed down after her initial surprise.
"It doesn't matter. I never intended to keep it a secret. Besides, traces will be left after the fact. This can't be concealed. Since it was done, there will definitely be traces left."
Jiang Qian had been prepared for the day she was discovered. Rather than dwelling on how the information was leaked, she was more interested in understanding the rescue team's current attitude.
"What did they say? Just want to meet up?"
The system was infected by her calmness and projected the received message onto the screen in the lounge.
"I just wanted to talk about the train issue. I felt something was amiss, so I went to investigate. Do you want to accept it?"
Jiang Qian looked at the cautious wording in the letter on the screen and relaxed for a moment.
Based on her understanding of the rescue team, they might have just discovered the relationship between the train and her and wanted to talk to her.
However, Jiang Qian still felt that she should make some preparations for unknown events.
"If we meet on the train, can you and the train protect me if something unexpected happens?"
[Of course! You are the master of the train. You are the boss on this train! No one can force you to do anything!]
"That's fine." Jiang Qian thought about it and decided to cut the Gordian knot.
She glanced at the scheduled departure timetable and said, "Then go back to them and tell them that the meeting time is tomorrow night at 11 o'clock, and the location is in Room 1 of the dining car of Line 1, Car 2."
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After making the decision, Jiang Qian let it go, remaining as calm as before. She stayed in the lounge to research as usual, and went to the dining car to eat when it was time.
It was not until the next afternoon that she took advantage of the absence of Ren's father and Yangyang to tell the rest of the family that her connection with the train might have been discovered by the rescue team.
Everyone in the family who had just gotten off the dining car and were eating were stunned, and the worrying Huang Liping couldn't even eat.
"How did they get discovered? We've been hiding this for so long, how could it suddenly be discovered?" Huang Liping was worried about the secret being exposed. "Did they say anything? I hope they won't do anything to you?"
Jiang Weimin's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death. However, seeing his wife's worried look, he comforted her, "It shouldn't be a big deal. Don't scare yourself."
But even though he said this, the fingers of his right hand unconsciously rubbed on his knees, subconsciously trying to find a cigarette to smoke.
Jiang Dong and Ren Ru sat on one side. Although they didn't say anything, their faces were full of sorrow.
Jiang Mingchen obviously still remembered what his grandmother and mother had said before about keeping it strictly confidential. Now that he heard that this matter had been known by others, his chubby little face was twisted into a bitter melon.
Seeing how anxious her family was, Jiang Qian felt even more confident that her decision to tell them today was the right one. If she had told them the news yesterday, they would have been unable to sleep since last night.
"Don't be so nervous." Jiang Qian herself was not in a hurry. After a night, she had already adjusted her mentality.
"I've said it before, this can't be kept secret forever. Besides, the message they sent just said they wanted to see me, there's no danger. Don't you still trust our country's rescue center?"
Despite this, the Jiang family was still nervous. Hearing that the meeting would take place tonight, Huang Liping and Jiang Weimin even considered going together to sit in on the meeting.
Jiang Qian set the time at 11 p.m. because she thought there would be fewer people on the train at night and it would not attract attention. She never thought about asking her parents and family to stay up late with her.
"I can do it by myself. You guys have to go to work early the next morning, so there's no need for you to accompany me. I'll be fine on the train, don't worry."
In the end, after Jiang Qian's repeated dissuasion, Huang Liping and others gave up the idea of accompanying them.
The afternoon passed quickly, and not long after dinner, the clock hands pointed to nine o'clock in the evening.
After receiving the reply yesterday, the female leader in charge of this matter has been preparing for it.
At 9:10, Train No. 2 passed through Capital Station, and the female leader boarded the train with her two subordinates, a man and a woman.
It’s not that no one suggested that she bring more people, but they were all blocked by the female leader’s words.
"We're going to make friends, not to fight. Why would it matter if we bring more or less?"
The female leader has always had a good impression of trains. Now that she knows that the trains may be controlled by someone behind the scenes, she also has a good impression of the people behind the trains.
She knew the purpose of her trip, and she felt that since the other party had agreed to meet, it meant that they trusted their friendship. In this case, she naturally would not do anything to make others uncomfortable and take the initiative to break the friendly relationship between the two parties.
Because the agreed time was 11 o'clock in the evening, the female leader did not rush to find the dining car and private room after getting on the bus. Instead, she walked around the various cars first.
The train carriages were quieter at night than during the day, and the seats were filled with tired people. Stations were constantly being added, so even though the train had been around for over six months, there was still a constant flow of people traveling to various places to look for their relatives.
The three female leaders walked through the train while looking at the situation inside, and soon arrived at the dining car.
At nine o'clock in the evening, past dinner time, the dining car was empty, and even the staff had gone home. The three of them found a place to sit, working quietly while waiting for the agreed time to arrive.
At 10:50 in the evening, the three of them got up and walked towards Box No. 1.
After knocking on the door and no one responded, the female leader pushed the door tentatively, but found that the door of the box opened easily, but there was no one inside.
After looking at each other, the three of them walked into the box, sat down and waited quietly for a while before they heard a knock on the door.
Then, the door of the box was pushed open, but before anyone appeared, a voice came from outside the door.
"I'm sorry, I'm late."
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Because they were going to meet tonight, and in order not to waste the opportunity for this meeting, Jiang Qian discussed with the system over the past two days to see if they could simply organize some interstellar information for them to see, so as to facilitate the future cooperation between the two parties.
The system also felt it was necessary to reveal some information to the partners, so it urgently applied. After the StarCraft side agreed, Yiren Yitong was so busy with this matter that he almost forgot the time.
After the alarm went off, they realized the person they were meeting had already arrived. Jiang Qian hurried over.
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Everyone in the room stood up when they saw the person who pushed the door open and whose face matched the one in the file.
The leading female leader smiled and showed goodwill first.
"It's not late, we're early. There are still three minutes until the appointed time!"
After Jiang Qian came in, she was a little nervous when she saw everyone, but after hearing this, she gradually calmed down and quickly greeted them, "Sit down, everyone, sit down!"
She came in a hurry and did not prepare any tea. She only had time to buy four bottles of drinking water from the vending machine in the dining car, one bottle was just right for each person.
At this time, she said while dividing the water, "I'm sorry, I thought it would be quieter at night and better for discussing things, so I decided on this time. Isn't it a little late?"
It was only on the way here that she heard the system say that three people were reading documents in the dining car, and only then did she realize that the time she set might have caused inconvenience to others.
When she was working, she hated being asked to work overtime by her boss the most. She never expected that one day she would do the same thing and felt a little guilty.
However, the other people in the box were lost in thought as they looked at the water in front of them. They looked around the box but found nothing.
It was the female leader who calmed down first. After Jiang Qian sat down, she started the conversation.
The content of the conversation was decided at the meeting and there was no need to think too much about it.
The female leader first expressed the rescue center's happiness that Jiang Qian agreed to this meeting, and expressed gratitude for Jiang Qian's previous help. Then she returned to the most important topic of the day and inquired about the relationship between Jiang Qian and the train.
Although the report finally submitted by Zhang Chongguang of the A City base showed that the girl and her family had always lived an ordinary life in A City, and there were other people who corroborated this, but now that they were linked to the train, even the most ordinary people were no longer ordinary.
The moment they saw the report, many of the attendees were even more confused. Could Jiang Qian and her family really be from this planet? Could they be spies sent from another planet?
To this, Jiang Qian’s answer was of course affirmative.
From the moment she agreed to the meeting, Jiang Qian no longer considered hiding anything about the train, the system, or the interstellar world. In fact, she had long wanted to unload this heavy burden and simply serve as a mouthpiece between the modern world and the interstellar world.
【Author’s words】
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