Chapter 113 Let's Go Back Together
What are you all talking about?! Why are you getting so hung up on this?!
The director wanted to stop it but didn't know what to say. In fact, just like the doctor said before, he didn't really care about the rumors between him and his pseudonym.
If these rumors can help him achieve his goal, he would love to have as many as possible.
However, this does not include the current situation.
If this situation isn't stopped, another so-called "research institute" might be set up. He finally managed to retire!
It's too tiring for him to manage such a large group of people again; all he wants now is to sleep every day!
Soon, the other aliases arrived one after another. "What are you doing?" Shao Ji's voice rang out.
Soon, those who had been coerced by Nangong Qi without any incentives immediately scrambled to Shao Ji's side and began to complain one after another.
They watched the others warily. Shao Ji looked somewhat helpless, unsure how to handle the situation.
Then Aji came out, which indirectly admitted that the people here were monitoring the situation in real time, and that they could all see what was happening here.
But we can't worry about that now. "It's so late. It's kind of you all to be concerned about the director's safety. The director is fine, everyone should go back to sleep."
This essentially gave them a way out, since all of them probably couldn't defeat just a few of them, and they had already missed the best time to rescue them.
Everyone could only leave dejectedly, as if it were a joke, nothing had happened, which also showed that the rescue was doomed to fail from beginning to end.
So all that was left in the courtyard was a mess, with a few vests, and the director, assistant, doctor, Nangong Qi, and translator still there.
They were doing it secretly before, but now everything has been exposed and they have nowhere to hide.
Facing the enemy head-on, Nangong Qi trembled slightly, wondering if even her ashes would be scattered, but she resolutely refused to leave.
"What do you want to know?" Hu Ji asked, his attitude calm as if he didn't take the riot seriously at all.
But this only made them more uneasy.
“I just want the director to leave. That’s his freedom. You can’t do that. And the director has indeed treated you badly, but that doesn’t mean you can imprison him here and treat him like your plaything.” Only the assistant dared to say this, her eyes fixed on Hongji without moving.
“Revenge is avenged, and grudges are settled. If you kill or beat up the warden, I won’t say anything. But by imprisoning the warden here, you’re clearly asking me to rescue him.”
The assistant said something completely illogical.
"..." The director was at a loss for words, as his assistant was only this stubborn when she was with him.
"I'm just too tired lately and want to take a break," the director emphasized.
"But...we don't even have the right to come in." The assistant said sadly.
The director opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. It was indeed his fault. After learning everything, he was eager to get away from the doctor, which is why he did such an outrageous thing. He didn't expect it would hurt his assistant.
The doctor had some indescribable feelings: "The reason why they don't monopolize their strengths, or even use force, is actually quite simple."
He pulled the director aside, who seemed somewhat confused.
Then he suddenly pulled open the director's sleeve, revealing countless needle marks inside.
The doctor said with some sadness, "I've always known that you've been taking drugs to increase your mental strength, but a person's tolerance is limited. Why are you still able to keep taking these drugs?"
Everyone else seemed stunned and quietly spoke to the doctor, "Now I think I understand. People like Aji, Huji, and Shaoji were originally dead or non-living beings, so why were they able to come back to life?"
"The reason is simple: their lives are closely tied to the director's. They are constantly absorbing the director's life force, so if the director dies, they will die too."
Everyone except the doctor was shocked, especially the director, whose words seemed to make sense but were completely different.
"There's another reason, isn't there? Director, the reason you're injecting so much medicine is not only because you feel weak, but also because you don't want to live anymore, right?" the doctor said sadly.
Everyone else stared at the director in shock. Clearly, they were in front of the director... Don't spread rumors! He had never thought of it that way.
But the doctor was so caught up in his own logic that he couldn't extricate himself and kept rambling on and on.
"So they don't dare to push the warden too hard and can only secretly keep him here in a way that he can accept. They like the warden, but they also know very well that the warden can't stay just because of them and they're afraid he'll run away, so they set up this joint imprisonment to remind him that if he dies, they will all die, and they have to live to keep the world from falling into chaos." The doctor spoke these fantastical words with a confident tone.
The director has already explained everything, each explanation makes so much sense, but this isn't the truth, this is just fabrication. The truth is something I can't bring myself to say.
The assistant looked at the director with some pity, "Is that how it is?"
"No...no." The director had a headache. "Like they said, I volunteered. I'm fine here. I can eat whatever I want. The whole house is in my favorite style. I'm fine here. You really don't need to worry about me. As for what the doctor said about my vitality, that's just guesswork. Don't take it seriously."
Seeing the director's laborious explanation, the others were even less convinced, thinking he was just putting on a brave face. After all, compared to the doctor's reasoned and well-supported examples, the director's explanation seemed weak and unconvincing.
People are more likely to believe what they see.
Forget it, I'm too lazy to explain. I'm too tired. I'm going to use an alternate account.
Seeing that the vests had surrounded the director, the group realized they were getting impatient and didn't want to waste any more words.
"Please leave, everyone." Aji gave them the order to leave without saying how to handle the matter, implying that she wouldn't deal with it. Of course, it was also possible that she couldn't take action because the director was there.
But clearly, some people were still unwilling to give up. "Chief! Are you really doing this voluntarily? Didn't you promise to take me home?" Nangong Qi finally panicked at this moment.
The director indeed stopped in his tracks. "Your way home is right here."
"Then... Director, can you take me back? I can't find my way back. I know I'm stupid. I can't understand your riddles and I don't understand what happened. It's like how I've caused so much trouble since I came here. But... Director, I can take you away. Just tell me. After all... I also have divine power. I just didn't know how to use it before." Nangong Qi looked at the director with a serious expression in her eyes.
A divine essence, combined with the deepest obsessions in people's hearts, has the power to make people's wishes come true. Nangong Qi was not joking when the director said this, and she didn't know what price she would have to pay.
However... the director sighed. He had never said he would go back; he had only promised Nangong Qi that he would help her find her way back.
The assistant chimed in, "Perhaps we can discuss this, since you're not really willing to share your strengths, are you?"
Sharing? That's a strange word.
However, the director stopped, not because of what his assistant had said, but because he said to Nangong Qi, "You already have a divine status, you can walk now. Do you see the crack in the sky?" The director pointed to the moon in the sky. He wasn't lying; the path was right there, it was just that Nangong Qi couldn't see it.
Nangong Qi looked up and, after being awakened, saw a crack in the ground, with things continuously crawling in.
Nangong Qi looked at the director in disbelief, unable to believe that it was so easy to go back.
"Then... what about the director? Are we going back together?" Nangong Qi asked, seemingly feeling fearless since she was leaving, as she dared to say something that would anger the other sockpuppet accounts.
Unexpectedly, no one disturbed Nangong Qi's words; they all remained quiet, as if waiting for the director to make a decision.
But from the director's tone, she vaguely realized something.
Perhaps she is the only one who can go back.
"Wait! Nangong Qi! If you go back and leave with the divine essence, the divine essence of this world will be incomplete! This world will soon be torn to shreds by those foreign things!" At this moment, the translator didn't care if others discovered that he could read minds.
He is not ready to perish with this world; he does not want this world to be destroyed, nor does he want anyone else in this world to die.
Nangong Qi glanced back at the interpreter, and for some reason the interpreter sensed a chill, causing his heart to tighten subconsciously.
"But... but without a godhood, I can't go back!" Nangong Qi said in an almost heart-wrenching tone.
Then, after calming herself down, she looked at the director again and asked, "Director, shall we go back together?" She reached out her hand while looking at the director, her eyes filled with expectation.
She needs an "accomplice," someone who can share her "sins" and "guilt."
The director was not surprised; he knew this would happen the moment he told Nangong Qi the answer.
Nangong Qi's mind was never firm, and she could never grasp the power of the divine head. Now she has a goal: she wants to go home. This is not her fault; she just wants to go home. The director cannot blame her; he once wanted to go back too.
The assistant was overwhelmed by the huge amount of information before she realized what Nangong Qi meant.
So, does that mean Nangong Qi and the director are from the same place? Now, can Nangong Qi take the director back to their original hometown?
The assistant was in a daze for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to grab the director, but slowly withdrew her hand. Maybe...maybe it would be better for him to go back.
The warden is imprisoned here, surrounded by so many people eyeing him covetously. And how long can this world even exist? Should we drag the warden down with us? What's the point of taking another person with us?
What does it mean when the doctor says the director doesn't want to live anymore? Does the director also want to go home and miss his family on the other side?
She didn't think the director had done anything wrong; he hadn't done anything wrong. She respected all his decisions. The director was a good person.
Aji initially liked the director because he projected his uncle's feelings onto the director.
Huiji liked him because he thought the director had given him a new life and helped him escape that dark world, but later he learned that the person who took him away was Aji.
Shaoji liked the director because she heard a voice when she was lifeless. Out of curiosity, she was born and relentlessly pursued the voice, thinking that the person was the director, but it was actually Huiji.
Even after learning the truth, they still clung tightly to the director because... they were merely the reason for their survival. The director gave them meaning. They had been chasing after him for too long. The director was like a carrot dangling in front of them, making them strive forward, wanting to eat the carrot before everyone else. But he just fell down and remained dangling in front of them, unattainable for anyone else. He became a white moonlight, a cinnabar mole, an obsession, a delusion.
So, in the moment they knew they were about to die, they clung tightly to the director, wanting to stay with him as long as possible.
However, after they learned that the director could leave and wouldn't have to die there, they were willing to let go, because the director was a very, very good person, and it would be a pity for him to die here.
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