Chapter 48 I will always be with you...
By the time Ling Qiu felt satisfied, more than half an hour had passed. She sat with her legs spread apart on either side of Cyrus's waist, her lips glistening with moisture. She had already emerged from Cyrus's clothes, but her hands were still restless.
“I didn’t know you were so interested in this,” Cyrus remarked, slowly pulling Ling Qiu’s hand out of his clothes.
He thought that he might be in pain for several days.
"Don't you know?" Ling Qiu thought for a moment. She hadn't shown any particular fondness for it before. "That's because I was a little shy before."
Cyrus was about to retort, "Is there something you're embarrassed about?"
But then he gave up; why should he argue with her over these things?
The digital watch screen lit up. Ling Qiu tapped the screen and saw a message from Lululan with only four words: I got promoted!
When Ling Qiu saw this message, her first thought wasn't to send Lululan her blessings, but rather...
"Cesius, can you do me a favor? I want to check Noah's internal network, but I'm not sure if that monster is still there."
“Okay, I’ll keep an eye out,” Cyrus said. “You can rest assured, that guy won’t find you.”
Upon receiving this message, Ling Qiu no longer hesitated and opened the link that Li Jiale had sent her last time. This was her second time accessing Noah's intranet, and she was much more familiar with it than before. She immediately opened the internal staff list of Noah and looked through it.
A few minutes later, Ling Qiu found it; Lululan's staff list had turned purple.
Catherine, who was previously purple, is now black.
Catherine is dead, and the employee named Bobby that Ling Qiu and Lululan asked about before also had a black file card, but Lululan said he was promoted.
After a moment of silence, Ling Qiu sent a message to Lululan: "When was the last time you saw Bobby?"
"I don't remember, it's been a long time, what's wrong?" Lululan replied quickly.
“Then let me ask you this,” Ling Qiu said, “After Bobby was promoted, have you seen him again? Or has anyone around you seen him?”
A few minutes later, Ling Qiu received a reply from Lululan: "No, but Bobby has been promoted to another company."
Upon seeing this line, Ling Qiu was certain that Bobby was dead, and Catherine was dead too. Perhaps they hadn't died from sudden death; perhaps Bobby and Catherine had already ended up on people's dinner tables.
Now, the purple ones have become Lululan, which means that Lululan will soon die and end up on people's dinner tables.
Later, Ling Qiu accidentally discovered that Lu Lu Lan's memory had become somewhat poor. Several times when she mentioned things she had said or things that had happened before to Lu Lu Lan, Lu Lu Lan's first reaction was to freeze, as if she couldn't remember such a thing at all.
brain.
Is it related to the brain? Is everything related to the brain? Is the brain the standard for Noah's killings? These people's brains all have problems, so Noah Corporation has to get rid of them. And judging from Bobby's case, Noah's killings were carried out in secret. They claimed to the outside world that Bobby had been promoted, but no one has seen Bobby since.
Of course, once employees join the company, there will be competition and rivalry among them, and people will no longer care about the whereabouts of a former colleague.
In Mante City, family ties are weak, so even if Bobby disappears, no one will care.
Like Lululan, she gradually cut off contact with those around her. Lululan broke up with her boyfriend, and the frequency of contact with him decreased.
Previously, Lululan would video call her every two or three days to check on her and see if she was safe or in danger. But now, after she and Lululan went to the oak forest to retrieve their parents' belongings, Lululan has not contacted her again.
It can be inferred that Bobby and Catherine went through a similar process before their deaths, gradually losing contact with their friends and lovers, so that no one noticed their disappearance in the end.
And now, this outcome is gradually being replicated in Lululan's case.
"I need to pay a visit to Wang Zheng." Ling Qiu stood up. "Would you like to come with me?"
"certainly."
Downstairs, Ling Qiu knocked on Wang Zheng's door.
"It's you, come in!" Wang Zheng seemed to be doing some cleaning work, and the room smelled of cleaning agents.
"I'm sorry," he said apologetically. "I only realized how much dust was in my house after I regained my sight. I couldn't resist cleaning it, and it turned into an obsession. I feel uncomfortable if I don't wipe it down every day."
Looking at her newly renovated home, Ling Qiu felt happy for Wang Zheng.
"How's your job search going?"
Wang Zheng shook his head and said with a smile, "You know my resume, how could I possibly find a job so easily?"
"It's okay," Ling Qiu said. "Anyway, things are much better now than before."
"Yes," Wang Zheng said with emotion, "Things are much better now than before, all thanks to you, Qiuqiu."
Upon hearing the man's address, Cyrus frowned slightly, but ultimately said nothing.
"I came to see you today because I wanted to ask you some questions about your mother," Ling Qiu said. "Would it be convenient for you to tell me?"
Wang Zheng was taken aback. "Of course, what do you want to ask?"
"May I ask when exactly your mother started showing symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease? When she went to the hospital, what exactly was the diagnosis?"
“Uh…” Wang Zheng recalled, “She has been mentally unstable for many years. Let me think, the time I felt something was wrong was probably when I went home for summer vacation during my junior year of college. I was packing my luggage when I suddenly heard her ask me in a very unfamiliar tone who I was and why I had broken into her house.”
"Does she have any other symptoms? Tell me anything you can think of."
"Hmm... Ever since she started losing her mind, I've noticed that she's become increasingly reluctant to go out and socialize. She even avoids people when she's shopping, and she's become very passive and withdrawn. I think she might be worried that she won't be able to remember the other person's name, which is why she's like this."
"What about your relationship with her?" Ling Qiu asked. "Does she remember you?"
“Her memory is fragmented and disorganized. Sometimes she thinks I’m in elementary school, and other times she’s urging me to get married. Eventually, she completely forgot about me.”
This is indeed very similar to the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
However, there is one point.
Ling Qiu: "Is there anything she's passionate about, or really enjoys?"
“Yes.” Wang Zheng gave me a look that said, “How did you know?” “My mother was a primary school teacher. During the period when she was mentally unstable, she loved to write on the blackboard, writing densely packed notes. At first, she wrote on the wall, but later I bought her a writing board, and she has been using that ever since.”
It's still work-related.
Then it's not hard to understand that this was definitely something the company did.
Where is the problem? It's the chip, of course.
They had previously used chips to spread the virus, but after Ling Qiu exposed the matter, it didn't escalate for long and was quickly suppressed.
Rather than believing the company has ulterior motives, people are more willing to believe that there is a mole within the company. The company is too sacred in their hearts, and no one wants to believe that the company is on the opposite side of them.
The previous virus outbreak showed that the company had controlled almost everyone's chips. They extinguished people's most basic will to survive and then pushed people's spirit of dedication to the extreme to create higher performance for the company.
When a person is overdrawn, their bodily functions cannot keep up with the consumption, and their condition will deteriorate. This will first manifest in the brain.
To prevent the company from discovering the brain problems, they quietly disposed of this group of people. This is why they were able to handle the situation so precisely, as they could see each person's mental state.
The chips that Noah has been promoting all over the world have problems. The longer they are used, the more brain problems will occur. This is a very serious business accident. How could Noah let people know that their products have problems?
The city of Mant has long been ruled by the Manson family, who are now completely unconcerned. They deal with whoever causes trouble, which conveniently solves the meat shortage problem – it's perfect.
“Wang Zheng.” Ling Qiu stood up. “If you’re willing to trust me, take my advice and remove the chip. Never use it again.”
After giving those words, she left with Cyrus. She hadn't forgotten the response she received when she tried to persuade Lululan and Ron in the same way last time; they didn't believe her at all, so she didn't hold out any hope that Wang Zheng would believe her either.
The door closed, and Wang Zheng stood in the room for a while, then muttered, "Of course I'm willing to believe you... but without the chip, I can't find a job."
He still needs to repay Ling Qiu's money.
“Just like last time, you still can’t persuade your friend to stop using the chip.” Back home, Cyrus said. His experience almost overlapped with Ling Qiu’s. He knew what Ling Qiu could deduce.
“I know.” Ling Qiu tugged at her hair in frustration. “But I can’t bear to watch Lu Lulan die. If it weren’t for her, I would be gone from this world by now.”
He came to Ling Qiu's side, gently stroked her face like someone who had been through it all, and said in a steady voice, "If the chip problem can't be solved on an individual, do you know how else it can be solved?"
“…We need to address the root cause,” Ling Qiu said. “If we destroy Noah, the chip will cease to exist, but I can’t do that alone…”
"Who said you are alone?" His voice rose at the end. "My power has not been restored, but Ling Qiu, as long as I parasitize you, you will not die."
Ling Qiu was stunned.
"So you can do whatever you want, I will always be with you."
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