Chapter 51 Where to Go Home
Xu Nuo was embarrassed.
If she still doesn't know what Qi Qian is thinking, she is hopelessly stupid.
But even so...
Qi Qian... Even if she didn't mind his approach and contact, she just thought of him as the obedient and sensible little boy who followed behind her silently.
The boy met her when he was very young and developed a childhood crush on her, which is understandable.
She couldn't blame him, but she couldn't respond either.
Perhaps, after this disaster is over, Xu Nuo wants to take him to travel the world again, and he will find that there are many warm people and things. Maybe then... things will not be like this anymore.
"Sister," Qi Qian pleaded, "Can we just stay like this for a while?"
"It's been a long, long time since we've been this close."
“…”
The two were silent, Xu Nuo's gaze moved from the distant sand dunes to the scorching sun in the sky, until the sun set and the dim sunlight was swallowed by the skyline.
"Are you feeling better?" Xu Nuo asked.
"Much better." Qi Qian's voice was no longer hoarse, but his tone was still weak.
"What's going on with that mutant?" Xu Nuo asked with his head down.
"He has such a huge amount of energy that he can survive even if he loses consciousness, making him very difficult to kill completely."
"If it can't be killed...will the body still expand?"
"After his core was devoured, he stopped transforming into flesh, but he retained his self-healing instinct."
Xu Nuo sighed, "This isn't an option. The contaminated area is backed by Fino, and there's no telling what they might do with it if they find out. We have to find a way to spread the news of the S-class mutant."
"I'll listen to you, sister." Qi Qian glanced at the girl's face. "Is sister still angry with me?"
...again.
Xu Nuo slapped his arm around her and said, "Let go once you've rested well. This won't happen again."
Qi Qian let go of her hand, watched her get off him, and adjusted her clothes as usual.
After finishing his preparations, Xu Nuo said seriously, "Let's leave now. Zhou Xuanyi let me out on purpose. He has a backup plan. The longer we stay here, the worse it will be."
"Okay," Qi Qian extended his hand toward her hopefully, "It's not safe here. I'll carry my sister away. It's faster."
Xu Nuo: “…”
Fino Camp.
"Report, target location updated, heading towards the core area." The communicator shouted loudly in the tent.
Zhou Xuanyi quickly moved to his screen and said, "He's going back... Could it be that Xu Nuo hasn't noticed that I'm about to close the net?"
The captain of the guard followed behind him, holding up the digital display with both hands, and hesitantly said, "Master, the data model just calculated that the target's previous pollution fluctuation exceeded the S-level critical point. Do we need to request support from the chairman..."
Zhou Xuanyi paused and took the digital display. "You are my father's man. You should know that my father has given me all the resources to activate the field. If I can't seize it this time, the group will be helpless."
"You have such doubts...Did your father give you other powers?"
The captain of the guard hurriedly lowered his head: "The chairman ordered that everything be done under the young master's command."
Zhou Xuanyi looked down at the data: "I hope so."
Using the same frequency band as the headset, the communicator reported to other tents:
"The target position has changed, returning to the origin."
"The target changed direction and moved forward at a speed of 60 km/h."
"The target's forward speed is increasing, and it is changing direction frequently."
"The target has been stationed for a quarter of an hour and is very close to the field team's location. Do you need support?"
Zhou Xuanyi flipped through the data and hesitated for a moment.
"Wait, the target... the target is coming towards us!!"
Zhou Xuanyi put down the digital display screen and asked, "How long will it take to arrive?"
"One minute, no! Arriving in 30 seconds! Are you ready..."
Zhou Xuanyi waved his hand: "It's not the time yet."
He stood up and walked outside the tent. Night was approaching, the sky was dark, and the horizon swallowed up the last glimmer of sunset. The staff became busier due to the shouting in the headphones, and people of all kinds were shuttling between the tents.
The captain of the guard followed him out and handed him the digital display: "Master."
Zhou Xuanyi took it and looked at the dark sky: "Finally, this day has come."
The desert seems peaceful at night, but hidden beneath the calm surface, hungry mutants crawl out from their hiding places during the day, following the traces left by their prey, salivating and approaching silently.
The crowd behind him exclaimed and talked in suppressed voices, adding a sense of uncertainty to the action.
"Master, the target...has already overlapped with us."
The camp was suddenly quiet, dusk was falling, and the darkness seemed thicker than usual.
On the electronic map, the target point coincided with the camp's location. The icon turned a rich blood red, and the panel emitted a rapid alarm sound, anxious and ominous.
But in the night, nothing unusual happened except that the surroundings became a little darker.
The crowd suddenly became quiet and some murmurings could be heard. They were talking to each other and looking around.
There is nothing much to look at in the desert at night, just distant sand dunes and endless darkness under the moonlight.
But...the dunes in the distance were gone.
What replaced it in my vision was a dark color.
Darkness falls.
At first there was only a slight rustling sound, and then the temperature dropped sharply. The cool ice crystals gradually eroded the ground and poured into the depths of the camp.
This silent change did not attract attention until someone realized that their feet were frostbitten, with ice crystals climbing from the soles of their feet to their thighs. They screamed, and the darkness that was sweeping in was reflected in their terrified eyes.
Some people looked around, at a loss, and walked towards the crowded place, but the next second, they stepped into the silent night by mistake.
One, two, three, more and more people disappeared silently, and the survivors were like frightened birds, panicking at the slightest movement.
They huddled together like ants leaving their nest to keep warm, but suddenly someone said, "Where are the guards?"
"The guard's gone!"
"My legs! Ahh ...
The howling completely ignited the camp shrouded in chill. The crowd fell apart and fled in all directions, like headless flies, crashing into the approaching inky black encirclement.
The captain of the guard summoned his spirit body to resist stubbornly, but after one round, he was strangled by the coldness and struggled, leaving behind a piece of broken ice crystal.
The crowd disappeared.
The entire camp was empty and desolate, all the equipment was destroyed, frost and ice crystals covered every inch of the area, leaving only desolation.
Zhou Xuanyi was the only creature still surrounded by darkness. He gripped the digital display tightly and bent down to pick up the ice crystal.
He said, "Xu Nuo, I know you are here."
The darkness did not stop even though he mentioned someone. The encirclement had shrunk to the point where no one could move. Everywhere he looked, there was a swirling ominous black air.
He said loudly: "You want to rely on his ability to capture the thief first. It's a good plan, but I always have a backup plan."
"Right now, with your camp as the center, ten teams have been deployed around it. Each team has installed a field device at their station, covering every inch of this area. Once activated, the field will generate a special looping sound wave. As a human, you can't hear it, but he can."
"In fact, sound waves of this frequency will only affect mutants," he said. "Under the sound waves, they will become painful, irritable, and full of self-destructive tendencies."
"The self-destruction of an S-rank creature should be spectacular. However, before it self-destructs, it might completely lose consciousness and kill you first."
He smiled and said, "How is it? Am I qualified to sit at the negotiation table?"
The darkness was still and quiet, as if no one was there.
Zhou Xuanyi slid his finger across the screen and clicked to start. "Since you don't believe it, seeing is believing. Let's try it."
Teams dozens of kilometers away activated their devices, and instantly, a spectacular field formed across thousands of square kilometers of desert. Invisible sound waves of a special frequency crisscrossed the field. Within its coverage area, mutants—whether hiding, hunting, or dying—howled in pain, tumbling and tumbling on the sand, raising a cloud of dust.
The darkness surrounding Zhou Xuanyi was also surging violently, as if he could imagine the painful expression on the face of the creature behind him.
Zhou Xuanyi: "Qi Qian, if you don't want to lose control and kill Xu Nuo, then take back your ability. There's still room for maneuver."
No one answered.
Zhou Xuanyi flicked the digital display, increasing the frequency of the sonic waves. "Fino has been adjacent to a Class A contaminated area for so many years. How do you think we ensure that mutants won't threaten the base's safety? The sonic control methods are nearly mature. I'm only at level two, and the highest level is level five."
This time, accompanied by wailing sounds from afar, the black fog fluctuated violently, expanding rapidly and uncontrollably, approaching him.
A little frost crept up the tip of Zhou Xuanyi's nose.
In the field of vision, within the black fog, all matter was frozen, and outside the black fog, a bone-chilling coldness spread.
"Can't help it?" Zhou Xuanyi sneered. "What about Xu Nuo? She's going to die here because of your loss of control. Or... do you want to see who dies faster, her or me and these scattered teams hiding underground or in the dunes?"
"Qi Qian, you have no choice. Come out, and promise to leave safely, return to school, and continue a stable and peaceful life. You've turned her life upside down enough over the years."
The darkness seemed to fluctuate.
Zhou Xuanyi operated on the digital display screen, and a crack appeared in the sand in front of him. Sand particles fell into the depths as the crack expanded, and a dark blue hard metal cage rose up.
"My data model shows that your mind is on the verge of collapse. If you adjust it to level three now, you will lose control of yourself. Level four, you will completely lose your self-awareness. Level five..." He lowered his voice, "You will be completely distorted into an S-class mutant."
"I promised to treat you well. You know how to choose."
After he finished speaking, a few minutes later, the black fog dissipated as if it had lost its breath, and not far away from him stood a figure that was about to fall.
Qi Qian clutched his forehead, a look of agony. Black lines streaked across his green pupils, and blood streamed from his ears, nose, eyes, and mouth. His once handsome face was now bloodstained, a hideous sight. As he walked forward, dark, mottled cracks appeared on the surface of his skin. A vast, billowing black aura swirled behind him, like a demon from hell, its aura eerie and terrifying.
He stumbled to the front of the cage, his hands trembling as he held onto the wall. "Will you... let her go?"
Zhou Xuanyi was determined: "Let her go, send her back to the academy, and give her the best possible life."
Qi Qian wiped the blood from his eyes and said sarcastically, "You are the enemy...how can I trust you?"
Zhou Xuanyi lowered the frequency setting: "This is my sincerity."
Qi Qian breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the wall of the cage.
Zhou Xuanyi glanced at him and said, "Don't even think about killing me. After I die, the field team will receive instructions to adjust the sonic wave to level five, regardless of the consequences. By then, this contaminated area will be razed to the ground in an instant. You know what will happen to Xu Nuo."
Qi Qian lowered his head, his blurred vision revealing a half-melted ice crystal in his palm: "In the desert, ice melts very quickly."
Seeing that he had no intention of taking action, Zhou Xuanyi retracted the digital display and said, "Xu Nuo is my friend and also my apprentice. I admire her very much. If you didn't exist, we might have become good partners."
"Father made a mistake in letting you go. You've brought her too much misfortune. But now, you have the opportunity to make amends. Return to Fino and continue your experiments. Then everything I promised will come true. Even... if the experiments are too painful and you need comfort, I can bring Xu Nuo to see you regularly."
"As long as you are willing to submit to Fino."
The night wind brought with it unusual flying ice particles and frost, and the cool breeze rustled like a light snowfall in winter.
Qi Qian didn't respond to him. Instead, he stared at the half-melted ice crystal in his hand and said, "Do you like Xu Nuo?"
Zhou Xuanyi was stunned: "I have only known her for three months."
Qi Qian's bloodstained face forced a smile: "Isn't three months enough? Sister is very likable, everyone likes her."
"Even I, who was on high alert at the time and wanted to use her to hide from your pursuit, was inevitably attracted to her."
"But because of this, many people besides me like my sister." Qi Qian crushed the remaining ice chips in his hand, and the ice crystals completely melted in his palm, leaving only a pool of water.
"For example, you." The curve of his lips deepened, "And I just hope that my sister will stay with me alone."
Zhou Xuanyi suddenly realized something, quickly picked up the digital display screen and clicked on the FM.
The cold wind blew violently, like a flying sail. His fingers were half bent and frozen in front of the screen, and frost solidified on his fingertips.
The temperature plummeted to dozens of degrees below zero, and ice crystals rose from the ground, freezing into a human-shaped icicle.
Qi Qian approached the icicle, looking down at the man with bloodshot eyes, and laughed heartily: "Sister won't let me kill you, but the more you do this, the more I dislike you."
"Qi Qian!" Zhou Xuanyi struggled hard but couldn't move. He said with difficulty, "In one minute, if there is no news from me, the field team will adjust the frequency to level five."
He was breathing heavily. "Xu Nuo isn't here... Did you let her escape early? But no matter how fast she ran, she couldn't outrun the destructive power you unleashed in the few seconds after your transformation."
"As long as she can't leave this contaminated area, she will be killed by you in a minute!"
"You probably underestimate the destructive power of the S-class mutants that appear in the world."
Qi Qian withdrew his hand from reaching for the icicle, his eyes darkening as he leaned against the cage wall and said, "Do you think she will leave?"
Zhou Xuanyi's pupils shrank.
Qi Qian raised the corner of his mouth: "I also hope she leaves, but unfortunately... my sister won't leave."
"What is she going to do?!"
Countdown to shift gears, 30 seconds.
Zhou Xuanyi calmed down. "She wants to intercept my field team? All teams are equipped with one B-level and two C-level sentinels for support. Even if she knows some combat skills, she's just a guide. Even if she sets out before I activate the field, I'm afraid she won't be able to find and annihilate them in such a short time."
“…”
"Are you even listening to me?"
"No."
Countdown to shift gears, 20 seconds.
Zhou Xuanyi frowned: "If you don't let me out, it will be too late. If an S-class mutant appears, everyone will die."
The blood at the corner of Qi Qian's mouth kept gathering: "I believe my sister."
Countdown to shift gears, 10 seconds.
"south wind!"
The giant eagle appeared with flapping wings and let out a long cry, stirring up a storm of wind and frost. However, as soon as it landed, the ice crystals on the ground climbed up its body like a thorn in its flesh, and in a few breaths, formed a huge ice sculpture.
Zhou Xuanyi was stimulated and spat out a mouthful of blood. He tried to teleport away, but the black air returned and surrounded the icicle with a strong murderous intent.
"Don't move," Qi Qian wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, gathered the water stains in his palm and said, "My sister asked me to stay here to suppress you. She said that she would come back to find me after this ice crystal melted."
"But the ice has already melted!"
Countdown to shift gears, 5 seconds.
After resisting the second level of sound waves for a long time, Qi Qian became a bloody man, with mottled and cracked black lines all over his body, leaving complex irregular patterns on his face. He leaned against the wall of the cage and staggered. Pure black lines covered his originally green eyes, and the beast's pupils stood up, sharp and cold, filled with a strong desire for destruction.
Zhou Xuanyi's eyes were red and he said anxiously: "Qi Qian, it's too late!"
"Let me out, you still have a chance, and you can make long-term plans! Otherwise, she will definitely die!"
Countdown to shift gears, 0 seconds.
The entire camp was plunged into darkness.
Ten minutes later.
"Qi Qian!!"
Xu Nuo appeared in a hurry carrying two boxes. He looked around anxiously. The camp looked like it had been hit by an avalanche and was covered with a thick layer of ice and snow.
She immediately dropped the box and started digging around in the snow-covered area, trying to find any signs of human presence.
But after digging for a long time, there was nothing.
Forty minutes ago, she and Qi Qian were returning together, and on the way they discovered a group of Finno people hiding behind the sand dunes and moving stealthily.
It was on the outskirts of the contaminated area, far away from Fino and even farther away from human habitation. He risked his life to sneak into the Class A contaminated area at this time. What else did he want to arrange... Xu Nuo immediately decided to arrest him.
Time is urgent, and we can't force or bribe anything out of the field team, so we plan to capture the leader first.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy and also fearing that Zhou Xuanyi was luring them into the trap, she did not do anything to the team. Instead, she stayed behind to interrogate them and asked Qi Qian to go and suppress them.
When Zhou Xuanyi activated the device, she had just forced out the burial location of the field equipment and found out the locations of other teams by the way.
Once the field is activated, at least three devices must be destroyed to disarm it.
Although the teams are far apart, her little Gu is not a pushover. Although each team is equipped with sentinels, Xu Nuo is not weak as an A-level guide.
What's more... there are so many manic and out-of-control mutants in the field, and she gave these accomplices some mutants a big shock.
Even so, she attacked multiple teams for insurance purposes and arrived too late.
"Qi Qian! Where are you!"
There were several loud explosions in the distant sky, followed by waves of red light from the explosions of weapons and bombs.
Xu Nuo looked up and gazed into the distance.
That position... is Fino.
She picked up the box worriedly: "Little Gu!"
Fino Base.
"Alert! Alert! The base is under large-scale attack, requesting support!"
"Highest alert! Fifth level security breached. Guards prioritize protecting the core area and retreat!"
"I can't hold on any longer! The opponent is S-rank!!"
"Quick! Prioritize the evacuation of the chairman and the guests. Everyone else, intercept them regardless of the consequences!"
Above Fino, black fog filled the entire city, bringing a strong sense of oppression.
Qi Qian, holding Zhou Xuanyi, who had been frozen into an icicle, stood outside the collapsed fifth security gate and paced forward.
"Those ahead, stop invading immediately! Stop invading immediately! This is a warning! Otherwise, Fino will punish you with the crime of destruction and execute you on the spot as a warning to all!"
As Qi Qian approached, the guards at the gate raised their guns tremblingly, but their hands holding the guns were shaking constantly. Every time the person in front of them took a step closer, they took a step back.
Zhou Xuanyi spat out a mouthful of blood in the ice and laughed, "Let them go. Compared to the field team, they are just low-level employees who are paid to do their job loyally."
Qi Qian raised his hand and waved, and the team was swept away by the black mist. Then, he looked at the gate impatiently.
"Not many, there are still five, each guarded by a sentry of different levels. If you find it troublesome, you can just go through it. It doesn't matter to me." Zhou Xuanyi looked calm.
Qi Qian glanced at the rare metal door behind him, bent his knees and gathered his strength, causing the ground beneath his feet to collapse.
The next second, a sound of breaking air rang out over the entire Fino, and a swift black shadow broke through five gates like a missile and rushed towards Fino's core test area.
"Chairman, something bad has happened! There are S-level sentinels breaking in!" The secretary stumbled and pushed open the office door, shouting.
Zhou Junlin paused playing chess and glanced at his secretary's limp legs. "Stand still! This is unbecoming!"
The secretary held onto the door and managed to stand up straight. "Should we... evacuate?"
Zhou Junlin put down the chess piece: "Where's Falcon Yi? Did he fail?"
The secretary lowered his head and shrank back: "The young master... he has been kidnapped and is now in the core area."
Zhou Junlin looked at the secretary expressionlessly.
The secretary hurriedly bowed and shrank back: "Chairman, calm down! Young Master, you didn't do well this time, but you always did..."
"waste."
Zhou Junlin pressed the chessboard, squeezing the chess pieces until they creaked. "I thought he'd improved over the years, but he's still a complete loser. Have all the guests moved on?"
"Transferring to the sub-base."
Zhou Junlin stood up and put on his coat: "Arrange for the chief researcher to evacuate, and abandon everything except the core equipment."
"Chairman, what should we do with the young master?"
"Young Master?" Zhou Junlin paused at the door. "Fino's successor can't be a waste."
The massive black fog destroyed the entire experimental building, and the crowd screamed and fled. In mid-air, Qi Qian threw Zhou Xuanyi down, "Where else?"
The icicle shattered. Zhou Xuanyi climbed to his feet and brushed off the dust on his body. "That's enough. The experimental building is the most important part. The equipment in the branch bases isn't as good as this one. If you destroy it, Fino won't be able to harass you again for at least ten years."
Qi Qian's brows were cold: "It's not enough."
In the past ten years, he and his sister had too little peaceful time.
"That's enough. You have to leave something for me," Zhou Xuanyi said helplessly. "I said, if I stop the field, I can only ask Fino. If I were the chairman, you and Xu Nuo wouldn't be disturbed."
Qi Qian raised his hand, and several buildings near the laboratory building collapsed one after another.
"Alright," Zhou Xuanyi crossed his arms. "It's all money, but it's not mine. The experimental area is destroyed, so be it. There's no one on night shift anyway. Don't move around. If you destroy it, how will I help Fino make a comeback?"
A group of helicopters rose up in the distance and split into three groups, flying away in different directions.
Zhou Xuanyi's eyes followed the helicopters as they flew away, and he smiled, "Father has truly given up on me. He's so ruthless."
Qi Qian's gaze was fixed on one of the fleets, which were heading towards the contaminated area.
"You have excellent eyesight. You can even see that," Zhou Xuanyi followed his gaze and stared at one of the helicopters. "My father is right there, trying to take a shortcut out of the contaminated area."
"But I won't bother you with any help."
Fifteen minutes later.
Xu Nuo arrived at Fino, where the chaos was nearing its end. Smoke billowed in the air, and people huddled together for inspection and counting. Some shouted that they wanted to leave, but since they were in a remote desert, adjacent to a polluted area, there was no way out and they could only shout and cry.
She rode on Xiaogu, exhausted, and headed towards the area where the black fog was the thickest.
"Qi Qian!"
In the ruins, there was only one person standing quietly, his body covered with mottled black scars and bloodstains, his pupils filled with black lines had lost focus, and even his breathing was extremely shallow.
It's like a lifeless puppet that is just placing itself there peacefully.
Xu Nuo jumped off Xiao Gu, ran up to him, and waved his hand in front of his eyes: "How are you? Did anyone hurt you?"
The puppet's stiff eyeballs slowly moved and cast a look at the person in front of it.
The girl rushed over anxiously, her body covered in dust and sand, and there were several bleeding scars on her cheeks. She didn't know if they would leave scars.
The night wind blew up her clothes that were torn from the battle, revealing the scars underneath. These were the medals she earned for challenging those dozens of field teams alone.
Before she left, she was fine, her face was clean and her body had no scars.
Or maybe everything was fine in her life before she met him.
Now, he was being hunted, nearly killed by mutants from the contaminated area, and scarred by being forced to fight as a guide, all because of him.
From childhood to adulthood, it has always been because of him.
Zhou Xuanyi is a very annoying person and you can never trust what he says, but there is one thing he said that was not wrong.
He had brought her so much bad luck that her peaceful life was turned upside down.
This was a fact he had always known but dared not think about - he always approached her in a despicable and one-sided way, and was reluctant to let go, which brought her many disasters and completely overturned her life.
"I'm sorry," tears fell from his pure black eyes, "It's all my fault."
"What's going on?" Xu Nuo was puzzled and raised her hand to wipe his tears. "We haven't seen each other for a while. How did you get yourself into this state?"
She was in a bad condition, covered in blood, with mottled and cracked lines on her face, and she was on the verge of collapse. Why did I say sorry to her?
"Are you okay?" Xu Nuo was worried that the field had damaged his brain, so he touched his forehead and asked, "Are you feeling any discomfort?"
Qi Qian was afraid that he couldn't help it, so he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Xu Nuo was like this, and had always been like this. No matter what happened, his gaze would always be gentle and caring. How could he bear to give up on this, how could he not be wishful thinking?
He calmed down, lowered his head, and put his face close to her elbow, feeling the soft warmth brought by her body temperature, and gently said: "Sister, it's over."
"it's all over."
“Beep—”
Above Fino, the shrill sound of the broadcast covered the aftermath of the explosion.
"Hello, microphone test, OK." Zhou Xuanyi's voice appeared on the radio.
"Ahem... Ladies and gentlemen—distinguished foreign guests and employees of the Fino Group, I am Zhou Xuanyi, the sole heir to the chairmanship of the group."
"As you can see, Fino is in dire straits. The chairman's helicopters departed for the sub-base fifteen minutes ago. He took his trusted associates with him, leaving everyone behind. As far as I know, before he left, the chairman issued an order requiring all escort teams to hold off the invaders, regardless of the consequences or losses."
"Also, I have some unfortunate news to share with you all. According to the Chairman's orders, the base has initiated its self-destruct sequence. In ten minutes, all the bombs ten meters below Mibufino will detonate, razing the entire base to the ground."
"As the chairman's own son and a Finno man, I feel incredibly angry! We come to work for the group not to risk our lives to survive, yet the chairman has disregarded the safety of all employees' lives and property."
"But fortunately, I have reached an agreement with the intruder. He will be driven away in five minutes. However, the self-destruct device is still in place, and we still need the joint efforts of the remaining scientific research and security personnel. If you hear the broadcast, please remain calm and quickly go to the control center to help decipher the code and rescue the entire group!"
The sonorous broadcast stopped, the boiling crowd in the distance gradually quieted down, and some people began to rush towards the control center.
Xu Nuo was extremely surprised: "Zhou Xuanyi is not dead?"
Qi Qian's eyes darkened, and he said in a muffled voice, "If my sister doesn't let me kill him, then I won't."
Xu Nuo glanced at him and patted his cheek on the side of his elbow: "Not bad, I commend you."
Qi Qian was very pleased and rubbed his hands against hers: "Sister, why didn't you let me kill him? Did you guess he would turn against us?"
Xu Nuo shook his head: "I'm not that calculating. This is quite unexpected. I didn't let you kill him because I was afraid he would have some tricks up his sleeve and perish with us. You know, when dealing with a smart guy like him, sometimes you have to leave some wiggle room."
Qi Qian raised the corner of his mouth: "Sister is really amazing."
"Happy?" Xu Nuo also forced a laugh, "You're so silly, you're jealous of him..."
She suddenly stopped talking, as if she realized something and was a little stunned.
Qi Qian's eyes lit up a little because of her words, but he was a little bit incredulous: "Sister..."
Xu Nuo was caught off guard and suddenly covered his mouth: "I didn't say anything!"
Qi Qian looked at her, the light in his eyes gradually dissipated, and then he lowered his head and pulled the corner of his mouth in self-mockery: "Okay."
Seeing him like this, Xu Nuo didn't dare to speak and just stood there: "I'm sorry."
"Sister, there's nothing wrong with that. There's no need to apologize," Qi Qian smiled. "Are you curious about what happened?"
"Once you've dealt with the team, Zhou Xuanyi immediately destroyed the monitoring equipment and told me he'd tampered with the field team. Even if you didn't have time to disarm it, it wouldn't be set to the highest setting. And the team we discovered was deliberately set up by him for us to discover. It was a sign of his sincerity."
"He asked me to help him compete for the position of chairman of Fino."
Xu Nuo was speechless.
She recalled Zhou Xuanyi's flawless acting skills over the past three months and the series of schemes within the schemes that involved everyone - he and Zhou Junlin were truly a pair of similar father and son.
"I'm not afraid of smart people showing off their talents, I'm just afraid of smart people pretending to be pigs and eating tigers." Xu Nuo sighed.
She suddenly remembered the day two months ago when she was learning physical skills from him. They practiced very late that day. Everyone in the training room had left and the light from the street lamps outside the window was dim.
Zhou Xuanyi threw his last set of punches and leaned against the wall, sweating profusely, as if venting some unexpressible emotions.
After a while, he drank a few sips of water, looked at the office building where Zhou Junlin was, and said to her, "Have you heard that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs?"
Xu Nuo didn't understand at the time: "Why ask this? Even elementary school students know this."
Zhou Xuanyi chuckled, threw down the water bottle, and punched the sandbag.
"Yeah, so many people know about it."
Zhou Junlin probably never knew until his death that the evolutionary plan he had been planning for decades had collapsed under the power struggle between his father and son.
But what does this... have to do with them?
She even wanted to thank Zhou Xuanyi for saving her from being harassed by Fino again.
"Where is Zhou Junlin?" she asked.
"Dead." Qi Qian said.
"Alright then," Xu Nuo glanced at the chaotic situation in Fino, "We can finally leave. Let's go."
"Where are we...going?"
"go home."
"go home?"
"Yeah! Go home!"
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