Chapter 86 Seeking a Place
Li Xiaogou drove to the Special Investigation Bureau.
Along the way, his mind was full of Yunlou's strange behavior, and there were many frightening guesses in his heart, but he didn't want to think about it too deeply.
However, it seemed as if God was playing a joke on him, not even giving him a chance to verify his horrific guess.
Li Xiaogou was stopped at the entrance of the Special Investigation Bureau.
He was at a loss and tried many methods, but was finally driven away by Tao Qi who came out of the Special Investigation Bureau.
Tao Qi, as gentle as ever, smiled and said to him, "This is not a place to play, kid."
There was a complete strangeness in his eyes.
The horrific speculation is developing in another even more horrifying direction.
Li Xiaogou didn't know whether to be happy or scared.
Fortunately, Yunlou is not a spy who has been exposed. What is scary is that everyone else besides Yunlou has gone crazy.
Li Xiaogou drove back to the villa.
He was stunned when he opened the door.
A strange family of three was enjoying lunch in the villa. When they heard the noise at the entrance, they all looked up and screamed in fear.
In broad daylight, there are actually such bold thieves who dare to break into private homes.
Li Xiaogou was even more confused than the other three members of the family. This confused feeling lasted until the police arrived and handcuffed him.
"He looks gentle and well-behaved. He has hands and feet, so why not do something?" The policewoman was heartbroken.
Li Xiaogou looked up blankly and met the scrutinizing gaze of their leader.
"It's you." Li Xiaogou was surprised.
However, the other party acted as if he had never seen him before. He only glanced at him once more and then looked away.
Li Xiaogou's heart sank again.
Considering that he was a first-time offender and had not committed any crime, he was granted bail.
Li Xiaogou opened the address book on his phone and swiped his fingertips back and forth over the names of Jiang Mu and Wang Bo, but he was unable to press either of them.
"The tea here is so delicious, you don't want to leave?" The police officer laughed at him.
Li Xiaogou laughed nervously, but only he knew why he was like that.
He was terrified.
In the end, he still hung up Jiang Mu's phone.
The call was quickly connected, and Jiang Mu's warm and gentle voice came from the other end.
Li Xiaogou took a deep breath and explained his current situation.
There was silence on the other end of the line.
Li Xiaogou's heart was falling uncontrollably, falling into the abyss with no end.
After a while, the person on the other end said apologetically, "Sorry, you dialed the wrong number. I don't know anyone named Li Xiaogou."
After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaogou raised his hand and placed it directly on his forehead, with his large, dry palm covering his entire face.
He laughed, his shoulders shaking with laughter. Everyone in the police station turned to look at him in astonishment, as if they were looking at a monster.
Li Xiaogou didn't care.
Anyway, the world will soon forget him completely, right?
He was eventually sent to the psychiatric department of a hospital by kind police officers.
There, he met Wang Bo, who was sneaking around.
At that time, Wang Bo looked very serious in appearance, wearing a white shirt, jeans, black canvas shoes, and neatly trimmed black short hair, like a good student.
Li Xiaogou was sitting behind him for the examination. He moved closer uncontrollably and, in the doctor's astonished eyes, raised his hand and took off Wang Bo's wig.
Sometimes people do things that they themselves cannot understand.
This is the case with Li Xiaogou.
He didn't know why he did this, maybe because he was too anxious, or maybe it was just that the anger pent up in his heart was so strong that it forced him to go crazy in this way.
Because of this action, which he himself could not explain, he was placed under house arrest under the pretext of being kept in the hospital for observation.
It was late at night and the world was quiet. Outside the window, shadows of trees were looming. Li Xiaogou watched the fan blades waving and leaving afterimages, and suddenly he understood why he had been so clumsy during the day.
He wanted to see Wang Bo's reaction like before.
However, Wang Bo did not do that. He just looked at himself in horror, his expression like a weak cat.
"Host."
In the dead of night, the system that had not appeared for a long time stretched out its bald head.
Li Xiaogou curled his lips and said, "If you don't come out, I'm going to suspect that all this is just a dream."
"Or a near-death fantasy after revenge."
The system replied in a serious tone: "You are truly reborn."
"So what's going on now? Suddenly everyone forgets me?"
"Remember I once said that the end of the world should have come long ago. It was your appearance that caused the butterfly effect. Now Yan Jiang is rewinding the timeline."
"Backtrack? You mean he's going back to the time of the end of the world?"
"Yes."
Li Xiaogou stared blankly in the darkness for a long time before finally figuring out the logic behind it.
It turns out that the timeline has converged and formed a closed loop.
His arrival caused a bug in the system and the end of the world was postponed. As a result, in order to deal with him, Yan Jiang had to rewind the timeline to the point of doomsday.
"Then can you bug it again and postpone the apocalypse again?"
The system replied without hesitation: "The last bug was unintentional. Tongzi has not yet found the cause of the bug."
If you don't know the reason, there is naturally no way to replicate it.
Li Xiaogou thought for a moment and sneered, "So it seems the Destroyer is Yan Jiang? He's such a loser! He was just captured, but he's already thinking about perishing with the entire world. Why doesn't he strive for something else and create more glory?"
This time, the system was silent for a long time. I don’t know if it was because it was too speechless.
"All of Yan Jiang's escape routes have been blocked by you, the host." The system said objectively.
"What do you mean, then the destruction of the world is my fault?"
"Without you, the world would have ended long ago."
"Hmph." Li Xiaogou put his hands behind his head and suddenly felt that it was boring. He was now a pure nitpicker. He even had to argue with the system. It was so boring.
but--
"Can Yan Jiang do something like reversing time? Even if he is data and can guarantee his immortality, reversing time entirely can't be done by a string of data, right? Unless he has such a supernatural power."
"Tongzi, you didn't come here just to chat with me. Tell me, who possesses the ability to go back in time?"
"The current director of the Special Investigation Bureau."
Li Xiaogou was silent.
After a long moment, he asked in confusion, "Since this guy can already control the current director, why would he even bother going back?!"
The system did not answer, and Li Xiaogou did not expect his answer.
No one knows what Yan Jiang is thinking.
Perhaps no one has ever truly understood him.
"No matter if he suddenly doesn't want to live anymore or simply wants to take revenge on society, it's right to kill him anyway. Am I right?" Li Xiaogou said rather irritably.
"Um……"
"Whether it's someone occupying Mo Shang's body or the Director's, the essence of a speech is just a string of data. So destroying the hard drive will always work, right?"
"Yes, but after going back in time, the hard drive was revealed to be in your hands."
"Shit, this isn't why he does it?!"
Li Xiaogou felt that he had grasped the real point.
Yan Jiang did this because he didn't want his life to always be in the hands of others.
"So, host, you should rush to the Yan family as soon as possible."
Li Xiaogou suddenly sat up from the bed, but he quickly calmed down: "It's still not right."
system:"?"
Li Xiaogou: "If Yan Jiang went back in time just to get those hard drives back, then he only needed to go back to before Wang Bo and I went to the Yan Family Ancestral Hall. Why would he have to go back so far?"
"A supernatural power like turning back time wouldn't come without a price, right?"
Everything seemed to be back to the dead end just now.
"Why am I starting to speculate about his motives again? Anyway, just destroy those hard drives."
"It would be better if Yan Jiang had other purposes, so he wouldn't focus all his attention on those hard drives."
Time waits for no one. Instead of sitting by the bed in a mental hospital and complaining, it is better to act quickly.
The last time Li Xiaogou became a variable, even if he couldn't repeat it, he couldn't go back to the past even if he went back in time, because the memories in Li Xiaogou's mind could not be erased.
He tiptoed out of the ward and ran to the telephone booth on the street. Just as he was about to make a call, he suddenly remembered another very urgent and serious problem. Time went back and gave him his youth, but it also took away the accumulation of his youth!
Li Xiaogou is now a complete pauper.
How about begging?
Li Xiaogou looked at the hospital gown on his body. If he went out to beg like this, he would probably be sent back immediately by some kind-hearted people.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Li Xiaogou finally made up his mind to wake up and take a gamble!
He followed his memory and found Jiang Mu's residential complex.
The community looked much newer. All the old men and women were asleep in the middle of the night. Li Xiaogou avoided the security guard at the property booth and found Jiang Mu's home without any obstruction.
Without giving himself time to hesitate, he rang the doorbell four times in a row.
During this time, most homes still use old-fashioned doorbells. The four consecutive loud noises would wake up even someone who was unconscious.
Li Xiaogou tugged at the hem of his hospital gown and was trying hard to practice a pure and kind smile when the door was opened from the inside.
However, it was not Jiang Mu who opened the door, but Jiang Yao.
The young Jiang Yao has the handsomeness of a mature man, with bulging pectoral muscles under his tight black sweats.
Li Xiaogou took two steps back and slightly increased the distance.
When Jiang Yao was in his most victorious period, he couldn't beat him in a head-on battle of fighting strength.
Standing still, Li Xiaogou raised the corners of his lips and smiled obediently. Just as he was about to speak, there was a bang and the door panel almost hit his nose.
He could hear it all through the door. Jiang Yao was angrily calling him a psychopath.
Ah, I am, what?
Of course Li Xiaogou did not answer like that.
He pressed against the door panel and shouted, "Yan Chong."
The footsteps behind the door were indeed heard.
Li Xiaogou swallowed nervously, only to see the door in front of him being opened. Jiang Yao's face was as dark as the unlit room behind him.
Li Xiaogou was not unfamiliar with the look in his eyes. It was called murderous intent.
Hot murderous aura.
Li Xiaogou had no doubt that if he could not give a decent explanation at this moment, Jiang Yao would definitely kill him.
However, Li Xiaogou came prepared. On the way here, he had already thought about how to deal with this gamble.
Since Yan Jiang cannot take away his memory, it means that this is destined by God. He has to use his memory to solve the current dilemma.
Li Xiaogou directly told everything he knew about Yan Chong, also known as Jiang Yao's past and present lives.
For fear that Yan Chong would interrupt him, he kept talking the whole time. Yan Chong didn't even have a chance to interrupt him. He listened in amazement as Li Xiaogou dug out all his secrets.
After Li Xiaogou finished speaking, his voice became hoarse and his throat was burning with anger.
"I'm done." Li Xiaogou said dryly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he was grabbed by the collar and pressed against the wall.
Jiang Yao's strength was indeed formidable. If Li Xiaogou hadn't gotten the supernatural power for free from Wang Zheng, he would have definitely been dislocated by Jiang Yao's move.
Now it just causes him pain, which is still within the tolerable range.
"You don't even ask me what my purpose is?" Li Xiaogou squeezed out the question from his throat.
Yan Chong sneered: "I will kill you, and I won't care what you are up to."
This is really trying to kill him.
Li Xiaogou struggled seriously, but the harder he struggled, the stronger Yan Chong became. If he didn't want to make too much noise and tear down half of the building, Li Xiaogou had to restrain his strength.
When he was at his wit's end, Li Xiaogou shouted, "I'm Jiang Mu's friend."
Yan Chong was stunned for a moment, and it was this tiny gap that allowed Li Xiaogou to successfully break free.
He distanced himself from Yan Chong and said cautiously, "You've been hiding everything I just said from Jiang Mu. I might not be able to escape death in your hands, but I'm sure I have the strength to wake Jiang Mu up before I die and let him see how his father, whom he sees as weak, kills people."
"You don't have to do anything to me. I didn't come to you to threaten you, but to ask for a favor."
"What help do you need?" Yan Chong looked at Li Xiaogou with a deadly look.
"Lend me your phone, and two thousand dollars, no, three thousand or so."
Yan Chong: …
"So stingy?" Li Xiaogou was shocked.
Yan Chong turned and went into the house, taking out his old-fashioned cell phone that looked like a brick.
Li Xiaogou curled his lips in disgust, and this expression seemed to anger Yan Chong again, and the latter's knuckles cracked.
Pretending not to hear, Li Xiaogou called the Yan family.
At this point in time, Yan San was still a little kid, so Li Xiaogou could only talk directly to Yan San's parents.
In that era, people's awareness of anti-fraud was not that strong. Although they felt that the strange call coming in the middle of the night was very suspicious, Yan San's parents did not hang up the phone immediately.
It was not until Li Xiaogou told the story of the second son of the Yan family's bizarre car accident that the person on the other end of the phone began to breathe heavily.
Seeing this, Li Xiaogou continued in an almost bewitching voice, "All this is because someone has placed a curse on your family. If you don't believe me, go look at the pillar in your ancestral hall that faces the tablet. The thing is hidden in that pillar."
"Why should we trust you? How do we know if you're deliberately trying to trick us into destroying the temple's good feng shui?"
Li Xiaogou chuckled, not disguising the sarcasm in his laughter. "Good feng shui? You know very well whether it's good feng shui or not. With your recent fortunes, the fortune of this ancestral hall is ruined. We're already at the bottom anyway, so whichever direction you go is uphill."
Yan's parents were speechless after being blocked by Li Xiaogou.
Li Xiaogou continued, "Besides, I won't gain anything by smashing the pillar. I'm not the phone company trying to cheat you out of your phone bills. So far, I've only been doing this for your own good."
"We don't know each other."
"Indeed, but I know your third son. I met him once and calculated that he was destined to have a disaster. As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Since we are destined to meet, I will help him."
"Whether I'm a liar or not, you'll know for sure once you try. Just crack open a small hole in that pillar and see if there's something hidden inside. That will confirm my claim."
"I'll be waiting for you."
After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaogou sat at the dinner table with his chin in his hand, in a daze, as if he had forgotten that Yan Chong was there.
"Yan family?" Yan Chong asked suddenly, "What on earth do you want to do?"
Li Xiaogou raised his eyes to look at him and made a "please sit down" gesture: "Are you willing to talk to me calmly now?"
Yan Chong snorted coldly without saying whether it was true or not.
Li Xiaogou didn't care, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "What I am about to say may sound like a fairy tale to you, but it is indeed true."
He looked straight into Yan Chong's eyes: "We used to be very familiar with each other."
Yan Chong narrowed his eyes, and all the muscles in his body tensed up instantly. This was a completely defensive posture.
Li Xiaogou was not angry. He told Yan Chong everything he had experienced. He noticed that as he spoke more and more, Yan Chong's defensive attitude gradually disappeared.
Until he finished speaking, he drank a cup of tea.
Yan Chong said calmly, "This is all your one-sided statement, and it cannot be verified."
"Yes, that's true. But that's the only way to explain why I know something you've never told anyone."
Yan Chong fell silent, as if he was thinking about something.
After a while, he asked, "According to what you said, as long as we destroy those hard drives, we can remember everything?"
"No, I mean, as long as those hard drives are destroyed, Yan Jiang will definitely die, and the world can be saved. As for whether the timeline can be returned, perhaps only the director knows."
Yan Chong's eyes flickered: "If you lie to me, I will kill you."
"If this doesn't work out, we'll all be dead without you having to do anything, my friends on the road to the underworld."
Yan Chong wanted to say something, but at this moment, the Yan family called back.
Li Xiaogou picked up the phone immediately. A nervous and frightened voice came from the other end: "I, we did find something in that pillar, but we didn't dare to take it out to see."
"Well done." Li Xiaogou said, "Curiosity will only kill you."
"The things in there are very evil, especially the red bundle. Don't touch it."
"What, what exactly is that thing?"
"Human bones. You must have heard of Yan Jiang's name. These are his bones."
"Yan Jiang! Isn't he gone a long time ago?"
"It's because I'm gone that I'll turn into bones and come back to seek revenge on you."
"But we have no grudge against him..."
"He hates the entire Yan family. If you really had harmed him, I wouldn't have helped you. It's precisely because you are also innocent that I'm extending a helping hand."
"So what should we do?"
"Only raging fire can deal with the evil spirits. Just throw the tinder in and burn everything inside."
"Be careful not to start a fire. After we're done, I'll teach you what to do next."
After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaogou met Yan Chong's meaningful gaze and said calmly, "A white lie."
Yan Chong did not completely trust Li Xiaogou. After all, what he said was too unbelievable, but just as Li Xiaogou said, he also had an indescribable sense of familiarity with Li Xiaogou.
That's why he didn't take further action.
The two of them just sat in the living room waiting in silence.
Although they had not communicated, there seemed to be some kind of tacit understanding. Both of them were very careful in their movements and did not wake up Jiang Mu who was sleeping soundly in the room.
But it was such a coincidence that Jiang Mu, who usually slept until dawn, actually got up at night today.
He tiptoed, worried that any loud movement would disturb Jiang Yao, but when he opened the door, he was petrified.
Jiang Yao was sitting at the table, and opposite him sat a young man who looked more handsome than a star.
The boy lowered his head, his eyes fixed on the phone on the table. From Jiang Mu's perspective, he could see the boy's thick eyelashes fluttering like a fan.
Could this be his father's illegitimate child? His father was afraid of hurting him, so he never acknowledged him and could only see him secretly at night.
At the first sight, Jiang Mu had already imagined a whole drama in his mind.
At this time, the boy raised his eyes and looked over.
A hint of surprise flashed in Jiang Mu and Li Xiaogou's eyes at the same time.
Li Xiaogou was surprised that Jiang Mu actually came out, while Jiang Mu was surprised that he felt that the young man looked familiar.
The two stared at each other for a while. Yan Chong, who was still a good father, immediately explained gently, "I have some urgent business matters to deal with. You should go back to sleep."
Jiang Mu said "Oh" obediently, and went back to his room after using the toilet.
Before closing the door, he couldn't help but secretly glance at Li Xiaogou. Li Xiaogou was also looking at him. Just from this one glance, Li Xiaogou knew that Jiang Mu didn't believe Yan Chong's words at all.
Is she worried about stealing her dad's attention? So cute.
Li Xiaogou smiled.
At this time, the Yan family also called.
"Master, we listened to you and threw the tinder in to burn it."
"Nothing happened?"
"No." The other party paused, "Is there any danger?"
"I was worried he might have a backup plan. It seems I overestimated him. In that case, just watch it burn until it's finished."
After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaogou's expression was unclear.
Yan Chong asked, "Isn't it all in your heart? Why are you frowning?"
"It went so smoothly." It was so smooth that he couldn't believe it.
At this time, Yan Chong had not yet fully experienced Yan Jiang's terrifying nature. Hearing Li Xiaogou's words did not give him any special feelings. All he could think about was getting rid of him: "It's all done, can you get out now?"
Li Xiaogou silently stretched out his hand: "Money."
Yan Chong: …
He angrily paid Li Xiaogou 500 yuan.
Li Xiaogou counted it three times, but still couldn't believe that Yan Chong was so stingy.
"It's true that they say the richer people are, the more stingy they are." Li Xiaogou put the money in his pocket and was about to leave when the light bulb made a crackling sound and went out.
Yan Chong looked outside and saw that the entire community was plunged into darkness.
No, not only in the community, but also in the city’s landmark buildings not far away, the high-rise buildings that were brightly lit with different words flashing at night, have now turned into a large mass of dark reinforced concrete.
Major power outage?
The word "power outage" has almost become an unfamiliar word to the people of Daxia, especially young people.
Yan Chong went into the room and fiddled with it in the dark for a while. When he came out, he was holding a brand new smartphone in his hand.
…
The screen light reflected Yan Chong's dark face and his tightly knitted brows: "The internet is down."
"No electricity, no internet. It's been a long time since I've experienced this kind of primitive life. And you've experienced it as soon as you got here. You're such a bad luck." Yan Chong said sarcastically.
Li Xiaogou was completely stunned.
Although I have always been aware that the hard drives store key data about this world and that destroying those hard drives may cause the entire system to be paralyzed, it is still difficult to reconcile this with the actual situation.
Could this be the aftereffect of destroying the hard drive?
"System, please help me check. Is the hard drive damaged and causing the paralysis?"
Soon, the system's mechanical voice came from the darkness: "Yes."
Li Xiaogou's fingertips couldn't help but tremble, because the collapse of the system also meant that Yan Jiang collapsed along with it.
Turning back time was just Yan Jiang's futile struggle, and in the end he still ended up on a dead end.
Li Xiaogou, immersed in excitement, did not notice that Jiang Yao beside him had not made a sound for a long time.
The dim light from the screen still shone on his face, but the feeling was completely different from before.
Dark, twisted, struggling hatred.
A shadow flashed across Li Xiaogou's eyes, and the next second, he felt a sharp dull pain. The metal hit his cheekbone heavily, causing him to stagger and fall backwards.
Yan Chong suddenly attacked him.
Li Xiaogou raised his hand to block his attack again. When he was about to ask the reason, he met Yan Chong's eyes.
Those cold eyes filled with hatred.
This is not the look Yan Chong would have.
Almost immediately, a terrible idea emerged in Li Xiaogou's mind.
"Yan Jiang? You're not dead."
Did Yan Jiang take advantage of the opportunity to take away my body while I was using my phone just now?
Li Xiaogou had no time to think, because Yan Chong's attacks were one after another, leaving him no time to think.
Unlike Mo Shang, Yan Chong is a living person, and Li Xiaogou cannot ignore Yan Chong's life or death when fighting.
One side is fighting with all its might without any scruples, while the other side is cautious and cautious.
Soon, Yan Jiang gained the upper hand.
The broken edge of the phone case pierced Li Xiaogou's cheek, leaving a bloody mark immediately.
The sharp horn was not satisfied with just a brief taste of blood. It raised slightly and approached the most vulnerable part of Li Xiaogou's face.
Li Xiaogou's pupils suddenly shrank, and he gritted his teeth to resist the hand that was stabbing at his eyeballs. He slightly reduced the force on his right hand, inserted it in the middle of their bodies, gathered strength, clenched his fist, and hit Yan Chong's ribs hard.
When he attacked, he deliberately avoided the vital parts.
He didn't hold back in this attack.
Half of Yan Chong's ribs collapsed, but he seemed not to feel any pain. The next second, he rushed towards Li Xiaogou again.
The special ability he learned can only be used once within a short period of time.
Unable to punch, Li Xiaogou dodged everywhere, and his house was instantly turned into a mess.
When crawling under the table, Li Xiaogou seized the opportunity and used the puppeteer's spider silk skills to tightly tie Yan Chong's limbs and tied him to the four corners of the room.
The footsteps in the corridor became clearer and clearer, and people finally woke up from their sleep, terrified by the current situation.
Everyone upstairs and downstairs is awake, so where is Jiang Mu?
When Li Xiaogou realized this, he immediately turned around and looked back, narrowly avoiding Jiang Mu's knife.
"Things are not as you see them. Your father is possessed. I am only controlling him temporarily and have not harmed his life."
Jiang Mu's eyes changed slightly, but the next second the look between his eyebrows became firm again, and the strength in his hands increased.
Li Xiaogou realized that Jiang Mu had heard Yan Chong's thoughts.
However, Yan Chong has been possessed by Yan Jiang, so his voice has naturally become Yan Jiang's voice.
Looking at the gentle expression of his former friend, Li Xiaogou made up his mind and decided to do the opposite.
Jiang Mu's physical skills have always been a weakness, so it is not difficult to control him.
Li Xiaogou used Tao Qi's special ability to turn the ground where Jiang Mu stepped into into soft clay. He didn't have to exert any effort at all and easily subdued Jiang Mu by twisting his hands behind his back.
Picking up the broken phone on the ground, Li Xiaogou pointed the sharp corner at Jiang Mu's aorta. He stared at Yan Chong and said slowly: "If you don't want your son to die, defeat the disabled thing in your body. Yan Chong, aren't you alive to avenge the Yan family? The enemy is in your body, but you can't do anything to him. Don't you think you are useless? Don't make me look down on you."
"What are you talking about?" Jiang Mu turned his head with difficulty, and his neck was scratched by a sharp fragment, leaving a bloody wound the length of a knuckle.
Li Xiaogou remained unmoved. "Shh. Now use your special ability to listen carefully to your father's heart."
The boy was no ordinary person, so Jiang Mu was not surprised that he knew about his special abilities.
What really surprised him was that he heard two voices coming out of his father's body.
Looking at Jiang Mu's stunned expression, Li Xiaogou knew that he had won the bet again.
None of the people who once walked side by side with him were weak people who needed to be saved by others.
Jiang Mu didn't know what he heard exactly, but Li Xiaogou could feel that his whole body relaxed.
So Li Xiaogou also loosened the shackles on him.
"My dad told me to listen to you and to seize the opportunity to kill... Yan Jiang."
Li Xiaogou discovered right after the fight that although the destruction of the hard drive failed to completely kill Yan Jiang, it greatly weakened his strength. He could only occupy Yan Chong's body and could not use his special powers.
This is indeed the best opportunity to kill Yan Jiang.
Just then, with a humming sound, the air conditioner, which had been shut off due to the power outage, turned on. The lights in the community also gradually came on.
As soon as doubts arose in Li Xiaogou's mind, he heard the voice from the melon-eating system.
"I have taken over most of the systems here. I can maintain the basic operation of the system until it is repaired by humans."
"Also, I've set up a firewall so Yan Jiang can no longer integrate into the system."
After a moment of hesitation, Li Xiaogou understood what the system meant: "So the best way to kill Yan Jiang right now is to kill Yan Chong?"
"Yes." The system said in its cold voice.
The data has nowhere to go and its energy is about to run out. If even this body dies, then it will be completely destroyed.
Li Xiaogou's expression as he looked at Yan Jiang made Jiang Mu feel like he was facing a formidable enemy. He stood in front of Yan Jiang and said firmly, "I won't let you kill him."
Li Xiaogou didn't want to kill Yan Jiang, but he really didn't know what to do right now.
As the two men were facing each other, the door was kicked open.
"Master, here I come!"
The familiar voice and smell made Li Xiaogou's eyebrows move slightly.
Wang Bo walked out from the dust.
At the same time, because he kicked the door open, one of the four spider silks that bound Yan Jiang broke.
Li Xiaogou: ...
Wang Bo: ...
"I'm here to help you."
Li Xiaogou stared at him, his eyes gradually brightening: "You... remember me?"
Wang Bo opened his arms and rushed forward: "You are my little dog, how could I forget you!"
Li Xiaogou pulled the person off his body with disgust.
Now is not the time to delve into why Wang Bo recovered his memory but Jiang Mu did not.
"Try using your special ability." Li Xiaogou said.
Wang Bo rubbed his nose and said, "That's exactly what I meant."
"He has psychic abilities and won't harm your father." Li Xiaogou said to Jiang Mu, "We can only let him try now. If we hand your father over to the bureau, considering the overall situation... your father won't have a better ending."
Jiang Mu slowly lowered his arm that was blocking him.
"I'll go with you." Li Xiaogou said.
Wang Bo nodded, and the two of them used Wang Bo's special abilities against Yan Chong.
Everyone has fear in their heart, which is buried by the long years. When it breaks out of the ground, it will only bring greater power.
No one knew what fear Yan Jiang was hiding deep in his heart, but there was an obvious change in Yan Chong.
First, a layer of fine beads of sweat seeped out of his forehead, then his whole body began to twitch, and his eyes rolled up so that his eyeballs were almost invisible.
"Dad, Dad, what are you doing to him?" Jiang Mu's eyes turned red with anxiety.
Just when he wanted to stop Li Xiaogou and Wang Bo from continuing this torture, his wrist was suddenly grabbed.
"They... are helping me." Yan Chong regained consciousness briefly. He lowered his gaze to the faces of Li Xiaogou and Wang Bo, and said with great pain, "I saw the past through my empathy with him..."
Just this one sentence seemed to have drained all his strength.
"Is he still there?" Li Xiaogou asked.
Yan Chong shook his head, still looking very weak.
Jiang Mu helped him sit back in the chair.
"water."
"I'll go pour it."
Jiang Mu took two steps towards the kitchen and stopped, then said to Wang Bo, "Come with me."
Wang Bo scratched his head and followed.
Yan Chong looked at Li Xiaogou, and raised the corners of his lips with difficulty: "Wait... when this is over, Jiang Mu will recover."
"Yeah. Stop talking and get some rest. The bureau should be sending someone over soon."
"I...I want you to help me take care of him."
"Who?" Li Xiaogou said subconsciously, but he realized something was wrong as soon as he asked. He turned his head suddenly - it was too late. Yan Chong pushed open the window behind him and jumped down resolutely.
In the night, his body was like a drifting boat.
Li Xiaogou heard the sound of glass breaking behind him.
Jiang Mu rushed to the window and was grabbed by Li Xiaogou.
The human body hit the ground with a dull thud, and in the thick darkness, liquid spread under Yan Chong's body.
In an instant, Jiang Mu stopped all his movements.
He regained his memory.
Yan Chong lied. Yan Jiang was still alive in his body, but he had the upper hand temporarily.
Now, Yan Jiang is completely dead.
The city slowly regained its brightness, and many people were surprised by the sudden appearance of a memory in their minds, but eventually they all regarded it as a strange dream.
In a big dream, only one person left this world forever.
With the death of Yan Jiang, the world quickly recovered from the brief disorder. The melon-eating system awakened Zero, and one person temporarily took over the operation of the entire world system.
During this period, those who took the opportunity to cause chaos were liquidated afterwards, and those who fled abroad were issued arrest warrants. Cooperation between countries was also strengthened.
The bureau gave Jiang Mu a few months of vacation, but a few months later, Jiang Mu handed in his resignation letter.
At that time, he had changed his surname and the name on his ID card became Yan Mu.
Jiang Mu said that he wanted to fulfill Yan Chong's wish and bring the Yan family back into the public eye.
The Yan family was previously engaged in the media industry. Jiang Mu also worked as a host for a few months when he and Li Xiaogou were on the run together. He planned to start with a small live broadcast room and gradually build his own media empire.
Li Xiaogou and Wang Bo did not try to keep him.
They stood side by side at the door of the Special Investigation Bureau, watching Jiang Mu leave.
Li Xiaogou smiled softly: "In fact, Yan Chong has already fulfilled the Yan family's dream."
Wang Bo:?
Li Xiaogou: "Let everyone know about the existence of people with special abilities, so that everyone can freely choose their own lives."
"Now, isn't that the case?"
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