Crimes
What could he do? Even in his dreams, he couldn't imagine how to change things. The Queen's power seemed to have happened overnight, but to accumulate such power, she should have already taken action by the time he was reborn. But he couldn't see anything or do anything, because he couldn't accomplish anything with his own strength alone.
But Li Zhi is just one person, a student still in college. How could she possibly gain such power a year later? And why would a seemingly harmless girl be so ruthless and indiscriminately kill innocent people?
He stepped out of his house, the deep pit right in front of him. He looked at the crowd running, crying and wailing, and at the tallest building in the city in the distance. He couldn't help but walk forward. Just then, a bomb fell from the sky.
He woke up, and as soon as he did, a red, round object flew toward him.
He instinctively covered his head to avoid it, but it wasn't until the object hit his head that he realized it was just a massage hammer with no force at all.
Kong Xiang lowered his hand, looked at Zi Cheyu who was half-squatting, and asked in confusion, "Why aren't you in class? Where are the others?"
Ziche Yu said, "He went down to dig a tunnel. He asked me to call you down to dig with him."
ah? ?
Kong Xiang didn't expect that they hadn't given up on bombing the school. If they kept digging, the ground would be hollowed out. Did they want to build an experimental base or an underground city?
Besides, if they're so short-staffed, why didn't they poach those people from before? Even if they didn't click, they could have poached them and then fired them later, right?
"I can tell from your eyes that you're up to no good." Shen Bai glanced at Kong Xiang and commented, "Are you secretly plotting against us?"
"Cricket you." Kong Xiangbian forgot to beat around the bush: "I never thought that in this day and age, even joining a student department would require doing the most primitive physical labor."
Li Zhi cleared away the rubble and calmly smiled, "At least they made us add departments before we started working, which shows they have principles. If they were any more unethical, they would have tricked people into coming here to work first..."
She turned her head and met Kong Xiang's gaze: "It might be a little faster."
Holy crap, this is mind reading!
Kong Xiang almost broke out in a cold sweat. How could the Queen always guess his thoughts so accurately? In his previous life, he had contact with her as a minister, but in his memory, she was always unpredictable and would lash out on the spot if she was unhappy. Although she was intimidating, as long as you knew her bottom line, nothing serious would happen.
But now, he couldn't quite see through her, and felt that she was even more dangerous than he had imagined.
"I can't do something so beastly." Shen Bai set up the next demolition point: "The most important thing between people is trust. Besides, making someone work for free is something even God would want to strike him down with lightning."
Kong Xiang smiled silently to himself. How should he put it? There were many things they probably couldn't even imagine now, and he couldn't have imagined them back then either.
Xu Zhizhou pressed the detonation button, and inside the soundproofed space, they saw another path appear before them.
"I hope we won't dig the wrong hole again this time?" Kong Xiang asked hesitantly.
Xu Zhizhou nodded: "Don't worry, it definitely won't happen this time."
Kong Xiang glanced at Zi Cheyu, who was drawing and recording maps. It seemed that his quiet cousin had integrated into the group much faster than he had. Even the newcomer, Li Zhi, had naturally accepted the department's setup.
Doesn't anyone find it strange? They're hollowing out the school.
There are many things in Kongxiang that I can't understand, but when I'm in that atmosphere, I can only bury myself in my work and get to it. It's inexplicable, but it's very efficient. I don't know why.
After a busy day, Kong Xiang felt completely drained. With three more people, their efficiency more than doubled; he even felt like they had almost hollowed out the school.
Kong Xiang wanted to go to the surface to take a look, but after digging to the end, it didn't lead to the surface, so Chen Bai shouted to turn back home.
"Come on, everyone's tired today. I'll treat you all to a meal, a real feast made by hand!"
More than a big meal, Kong Xiang was curious about where they had dug, but seeing that Zi Che Yu had already put away the light screen, he didn't ask and planned to come down and calculate it himself.
In the restaurant, while they were eating, they were still discussing the data, which gave Kong Xiang time to organize his thoughts. He calmly calculated and reproduced the excavation route. Just as he was about to finish the calculation, a voice suddenly attracted the attention of everyone present and interrupted his thoughts.
"You can't do this! I'm the owner here, this will cause trouble!"
Kong Xiang looked in the direction of the sound and saw several security guards dragging a middle-aged man out. The man was shouting that he was the boss, but the men didn't even look at him and kept pulling him out.
The middle-aged man smashed a vase next to him and said to the customers at the next table, "They maliciously took over my restaurant and replaced all the ingredients for the food you are served with products they source from their own channels. Those things are inedible and will kill people if this continues!"
The manager, standing behind the security guard, apologized: "I'm sorry, this is our former owner. The restaurant went bankrupt due to poor management. After it was acquired, business improved, and he came back to cause trouble. We will definitely handle it properly, so please don't worry. Our ingredients are all selected according to standards and absolutely meet food safety requirements. They are not products that have been frozen for decades on the market, and they could not possibly cause any harm."
"You're talking nonsense!"
The former owner suddenly broke free and started berating the manager: "What mismanagement? What acquisition? I was the owner here last month! When has business ever been bad? It's clearly because I disagreed with changing ingredients that you deliberately colluded with others to kick me out! And standards? Who set the standards? It was your group behind the scenes!"
The manager maintained a smile, reassuring the customers nearby. He then turned to the security guard and gestured. Since the restaurant's main operating model was one that closely resembled the retro era, it had not adopted a new generation of data-driven security systems. Just as the security guard was about to use a weapon, a kitchen knife suddenly flew by and knocked the guard's stun gun to the ground.
Why are these attack patterns getting more and more retro? Kong Xiang watched the show silently.
"who?!"
A hint of humanity finally appeared on the manager's face, and the person who threw the knife stood up. Kong Xiang was no stranger to him; it was Chen Yilin, whom he had watched the match just two days ago.
Chen Yilin slightly raised his chin and said to the manager, "If you have something to say, go outside and talk. Don't fight here; you're getting in the way of my meal."
Kong Xiang looked at Chen Yilin over there, and then followed his gaze to observe Li Zhi opposite him. He found that her expression was nothing but focused, but there was something indescribable about it.
He believed what the boss said because the future queen's control over the country permeated every aspect of an ordinary person's life, from clothing and food to housing and transportation. Only the upper class was entitled to enjoy carefully cultivated real food, while the lower class went down, all they got were frozen food and genetically modified semi-finished products made by large companies. When these were found to be harmful, the rules were changed, and in the end, when there was no food to eat, they would drink cheap, mass-produced nutrient solutions. Eventually, their bodies couldn't take it anymore, and they would leave this world in various ways.
Before Li Zhi noticed his scrutiny, Kong Xiang subtly shifted his gaze back to Chen Yilin.
Eleven years of absolute rule by the Queen.
Why is that? Why?
The farce ended hastily. Kong Xiang saw Chen Yilin quietly get up after the group cleaned up the mess, and knew that she would meddle. The thought that the person she wanted to overthrow was sitting in front of her brought back that feeling to Kong Xiang's mind.
Li Zhi cut off a piece of beef, and when he looked up, he bumped into Kong Xiang, who was staring at him intently. He smiled at Kong Xiang and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
Kong Xiang was terrified as soon as she opened her mouth, but she still tried to remain calm and said, "No, I just saw you eating so heartily and suddenly remembered what that person said. I don't know if it's true."
Shen Bai chuckled: "Whether it's true or not, we can just sneak over and check after they close up shop, right?"
ah?
Kong Xiang couldn't believe what he was hearing. What was even more inexplicable than the content was Shen Bai's matter-of-fact tone.
Dude, is this a decision you can make so easily?
At one o'clock in the morning, looking at the four people around him, he had a feeling that this world was very unreal.
Can anyone tell him why these people have such outrageous ideas yet are so capable of taking action?
“This shop already has basic security measures connected to the network, so leave that to me and Xiao Yu.” Shen Bai tilted his head at the other three: “You guys go in.”
ah? !
Kong Xiang really didn't understand, especially since Li Zhi and Xu Zhizhou were actually preparing to take action.
"Let's go quickly. Since there are doubts, let's go and verify them."
Li's calm and gentle voice brushed past his ear.
Xu Zhizhou also said, "That's right. Without investigation, there is no right to speak. What we need to do is conduct the right investigation."
But aren't your current methods a bit too abnormal?
Kong Xiang felt like a helpless badger, not knowing why he was there, but now it was time to steal melons.
He had been used to a smooth life from childhood to adulthood, if not extremely successful. He had never experienced any hardship or fright in his previous life, but in this short second life, he has experienced it all.
Why would someone steal ingredients here in the middle of the night? He wondered as he stuffed the ingredients into his pockets and made a list in his mind. He had no answers to any of his questions, but he did his job just as well.
"Melon, melon, melon! It's time to get one!" Kong Xiang was about to take something off the shelf when suddenly, a hand reached out from the opposite side and made the same gesture as him.
Stuck between the two, even before the melon arrived, was the one staring at the other with wide eyes.
What are you doing here?
Kong Xiang was shocked to see Chen Yilin; it felt both expected and unexpected.
Chen Yilin was also taken aback, then suddenly remembered something and preemptively said, "You actually stole something here, come with me."
"Are you a policeman? I'll go with you? Are you crazy? Aren't you stealing too?" Kong Xiang couldn't hold back his anger when he saw the person who was calling him before he died.
"I'm conducting an investigation."
Chen Yilin spoke with righteous indignation, looking at the two figures approaching behind him: "You, you, you, the three of you are a gang."
Kong Xiang: "We're even cooperating on the investigation. Alright, since we're all in the same boat, stop pretending and just take what you need and get out of here."
Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly felt something move at his feet. He looked down and was almost speechless.
Yi Guoduan raised his hand and greeted him.
It seems like everyone with a name has gathered here. Kong Xiang kicked him and was about to continue walking when he suddenly saw a flash of silver light, and something flew towards Li Zhifei!
He immediately wanted to lift his foot, but at the moment of action, he suddenly hesitated.
That's the Queen, the tyrannical Queen. Tonight, their investigation into all of this is precisely to stop her from becoming the future Queen.
If she dies... and he's just a bystander.
Li Zhi looked at the flying fruit knife, simply tilted his head quietly, and the knife went straight into the watermelon behind him.
She looked ahead. Chen Yilin was still in the position of throwing the knife, while Kong Xiang stood motionless. Li Zhi smiled and spoke in the tone that Kong Xiang once knew best and feared most:
"I wish the Queen would die here, is that what you think, Minister Kong?"
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