Chapter 38 I still have to go find Him...
It's Cyrus.
Ling Qiu didn't know what to say for a moment, but when she suddenly heard His voice again, she suddenly found it a little funny.
"You haven't been watching me all this time, have you?" Ling Qiu muttered to himself, but Lululan, busy dealing with the cultists, didn't notice.
She glanced around the car, then at the seemingly frenzied cult members, and said to Lululan, "Step on the gas and ram them."
"Huh!?" Lululan was taken aback. "Can this really work? I don't think we can get through, and what if..."
“There’s no such thing as ‘what if’,” Ling Qiu said coldly, placing Lu Lulan’s hand on the steering wheel. “They’re the ones who’re asking for it.”
Immediately afterwards, she took out her stun gun from her pocket and said to Lululan, "I remember your car was insulated, right?"
"Okay." Lululan nodded, understanding what Ling Qiu was about to do. She slowly pressed the accelerator and told Ling Qiu, "I'm going to go."
The moment the car started moving forward, Ling Qiu opened the window, turned the electric stun gun to maximum power, and slammed it directly into the car body.
The current instantly connected, and the crowd that was blocking them suddenly squeezed together, then suddenly exploded, making way for them.
"Now's the time, charge!" Ling Qiu said.
Lululan stepped on the gas, and the car sped away, taking them away from that place of trouble.
"Wow! That was close!" Lululan breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time looked at Ling Qiu's electric knife and said, "I have to say, this thing of yours is pretty useful!"
After saying that, she sighed, "I've been working at the company for too long, Qiuqiu. I think I should get a few combat-type cybernetic bodies installed so that we won't be afraid next time something like this happens!"
Lululan works for Noah Corporation and is a formal employee registered in the employee system. Most people don't dare to have a direct conflict with Noah's employees. Moreover, Lululan lives in the city center, so as long as she is willing to avoid gang fights, she is generally not in any danger. Therefore, she has never installed a combat-type prosthetic body.
“It is indeed very necessary,” Ling Qiu said. “If I could equip myself with cybernetic bodies, I would definitely equip them all with combat-type ones.”
Having escaped the cultists' encirclement, Lululan couldn't help but wonder, "What is the origin of this temple that it dares to be so arrogant? I'm going to report this to the company and have them take care of them."
Ling Qiu pursed her lips, realizing that Noah and the Temple were probably in cahoots from the start.
"Lululan, how is Catherine at your company?"
“Catherine? She’s fine, what’s wrong?” Lululan asked, puzzled.
Catherine is the woman with the same position as Lululan, but whose employee information shows purple. Ling Qiu really wanted to know what those colors represented.
"Has she shown any unusual behavior lately?" Ling Qiu asked. "Tell me anything unusual that you can think of."
Lululan choked up, recalling, "Oh, speaking of which, she suddenly took the day off yesterday, I don't know why."
"Yesterday?" Ling Qiu pursed her lips. This should be considered a random event, right? It doesn't prove anything.
However, at this moment, a short message from Noah Corporation came through the Lululand chip.
"All employees are going to the hospital for a physical examination this afternoon!?" Lulu Lan murmured in confusion, then exclaimed in shock, "Holy crap!!"
"What's wrong?" Ling Qiu asked.
“…Catherine…” Lululan slowly looked at Ling Qiu, “…died suddenly, just last night.”
Therefore, for the health of all its employees, Noah Company plans to have them all undergo medical checkups at the hospital.
Ling Qiu was stunned. What a coincidence! She had just asked Lululan about Catherine, and then Catherine had an accident?
Or perhaps... that color originally represented something?
Ling Qiu tried hard to recall what she had seen at the time. She remembered an employee whose file card was black and asked, "Do you know Bobby? He's also an employee of your company."
"Huh!? Him..." Lululan couldn't help but roll her eyes. "He used to be my mortal enemy, but unfortunately, fate was blind..."
"He's dead?" Ling Qiu pressed.
“It would be better if he were dead.” Lululan pursed her lips. “He got promoted, seems to have climbed into the upper echelons, doing really well. Who knows how he got there? Maybe he sold himself…”
Ling Qiu's breath eased again.
If a darker color doesn't represent death or a healthy state, then what does that color actually mean?
"Why are you asking me so many questions about the company today?" Lululan asked Lingqiu, realizing what was happening. "Have you taken on any new projects related to Noah recently?"
Ling Qiu, of course, did not tell Lululan that she could no longer do this as a hacker; now, however, this had become an excellent excuse.
“Yes,” she said. “It’s a bit tricky. You know, there are some things about Noah’s company that are hard to find out. I can only ask you.”
“Okay,” Lululan said. “Anything that I can help with, you can ask me.”
Ling Qiu smiled and said, "Thank you, Lululan. I don't know why, but you seem to be in a much better mood today."
Unlike before, Lululan's mood was always very low.
"Really? Have I been in a bad mood?" Lululan replied with a smile. "I've been feeling pretty good lately. Life is quite interesting, especially going to work... Ah, I'm really starting to enjoy going to work more and more."
Yes, she saw a hint of fanaticism in Lululan's eyes, an expression that was like...like...
She suddenly shivered, just like those cultists in the temple.
Arriving home safely, Lululan waved to Ling Qiu: "Then I'm going to get a medical check-up!"
"Okay, be careful on the road," Ling Qiu said.
She watched Lululan's car disappear into the distance, her heart heavy with sorrow.
Her intuition told her that something was going to happen to Lululan, but so far she couldn't predict it. Lululan's emotions were strange, and so far, this was the only thing Ling Qiu could sense about Lululan's unusual behavior.
After returning home, Ling Qiu first cooked something to eat; there were still some ingredients left by Cyrus in the refrigerator.
She thought that once she was back to being alone, Cyrus would surely reappear, but to her surprise, he was very calm, as if what she had heard when she was besieged by the cultists was just her imagination.
After finishing her lunch, Ling Qiu immediately turned on her computer, entered the code she had obtained from the oak tree group, and after the data conversion was successful, Ling Qiu saw a model.
It looked like a new type of chip, with sophisticated data and a wealth of functions, and Ling Qiu explored it carefully.
She quickly discovered that this was a chip specifically designed for free agents, with functions ranging from predicting and detecting dangerous events and marking dangerous locations on maps, to pinpointing which market had the cheapest vegetables and where to buy medicines that free agents could use, and so on…
Ling Qiu was certain that if this chip could be perfected and manufactured, it would bring great convenience to all the free agents in Mante City, and could even greatly improve their survival rate.
Now, the chip has taken initial shape, and she can continue to improve it and add some more user-friendly and advanced functions, since these functions were developed by her parents more than ten years ago.
While continuing to refine the model, Ling Qiu faced another dilemma: even if she successfully developed it, how could she promote it? Firstly, she couldn't manufacture it herself, and secondly, she didn't have enough funds.
Ling Qiu didn't quite understand why the air quality in Mante City was so bad, when it wasn't like this ten years ago.
When Ling Qiu opened Hilink, she saw a message from Li Jiale asking if she had found any information about that person.
“No,” Ling Qiu replied. “I was blocked by something on the intranet.”
She didn't know whether to tell Li Jiale the truth about the monster, but she guessed that Li Jiale probably wouldn't believe it. After all, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would have been quite unbelievable.
Ling Qiu used to be an atheist, but what about now?
"Do you know what those different colors on Noah's employee profiles mean?" Ling Qiu planned to ask Li Jiale, since although Li Jiale worked for an entertainment company, he was also under Noah's umbrella.
"What color?" Li Jiale was clearly unaware.
Ling Qiu rephrased her question: "The employee information you see on the intranet isn't color-coded?"
"No, they're all white."
Ling Qiu pursed her lips. From this, she could conclude that white was normal, and it was the different colors that were amiss.
Green, red, purple, black... what do these colors represent? Clearly, it's a process of deepening color.
She has no way to connect to the dark web now, and her attempts to investigate Noah's employees are also severely hampered.
Could she possibly have the audacity to bring her former boss, Holt, back? Impossible. Holt would never let her use the dark web again; he might even mock her…
Hmm... so only...
Ling Qiu slowly scratched the back of her neck.
It seems she has no choice but to go to Cyrus. However, after their breakup, it was Cyrus who spoke to her first. So, does that mean she has to apologize first?
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