Chapter 17 Chapter 17 The social beast gets beaten
Chen Run pushed his check away firmly and decisively: "I don't want it."
Cao Xun's determined face froze for a moment, a look of disbelief in his eyes: "Do you know what you're talking about?"
Chen Run looked puzzled: "Of course I know, I'm not stupid."
"Are you sure you're not stupid?" Cao Xun almost laughed out loud. "Do you know what rejecting me means? Not only will you not get paid, but you'll be fired soon. You're carrying so much debt. Given your financial situation, you'll be sleeping under a bridge in three days, and starving to death in ten."
"But if I agree to steal Chi Ge's blood sample and various data, I will be fired now."
Chen Run pointed at his nose. "Article 28 of Article 10 of the company's confidentiality policy states that if an employee leaks company secrets without authorization, the company has the right to immediately fire the employee and recover the losses."
She said honestly, "If you want to fire me now, you should at least find a reason. If I really helped you steal secrets, you'd have evidence against me and you could just fire me. Do you think I don't understand labor protection laws?"
Cao Xun: “…”
As for Chen Run, if you say she is smart, that's not the case at all, but if you say she is stupid, she always does things that surprise you.
This reason was so righteous that even Cao Xun, who had been walking on the edge of illegality and crime for many years, could not find any reason to refute it.
She continued, "Besides, who knows what you're going to do with the blood sample and data? What if you're going to use it to harm Chi Shuangliu? I can't help you do such a wicked thing."
Cao Xun narrowed his eyes and studied her for a moment, then suddenly placed the check next to her again. "Here, take this. Don't worry, you won't have to come back to get the blood sample and data."
Seeing Chen Run's suspicious face, he touched his chin and smiled slightly. "To be honest, I quite admire you. After Lu Kuo steps down, you can continue to work with me. This money will be my resettlement fee for employees." He raised his chin. "What do you think? I'm much more generous than Lu Kuo, right?"
What he said was reasonable, and Lu Kuo was in a bad situation now, so there was no guarantee that he would not be in charge of the overall situation in the future. On the other hand, who would refuse something that cost money like that?
Shen Runhui.
She stood up and casually threw the cheap canvas bag over her shoulder. "I can pay off my debts with my own labor. I don't need you to give me money."
After she finished speaking, she left without looking back. Cao Xun didn't know for a moment whether to say she was too smart or too stupid.
After a while, Cao Xun flicked the check on the table with his fingertips and laughed muffledly.
——In a way, her stupidity saved her life.
There's something wrong with this check.
Its account belongs to an organization of superpowers that extremely hates ordinary people. It is full of desperadoes who enjoy killing ordinary people and wanted criminals from all over the world. Because of their strong strength and erratic personnel, governments around the world have been troubled by them for a long time.
Their symbol is a beetle tattoo on their arm. They call themselves the Darwin Evolution Group and believe that people with special abilities are the product of human evolution, while ordinary people are only worthy of being enslaved by them. They hate the current situation where people with special abilities hide from others like rats in the gutter. This check was obtained by Cao Xun by chance during a collaboration with them. If Chen Run dares to accept and use it, he will be noticed by the people of the Darwin Evolution Group and will be retaliated against crazily. Cao Xun can also kill people silently by borrowing a knife.
——What he said to Shen Run just now was all a cover. The blood samples and data were just excuses. His real purpose was to make her greedy and receive and use this check.
From beginning to end, he wanted her life.
As for why he wanted to kill Chen Run... Cao Xun struggled, and finally rolled up his sleeves, revealing a closed eye on his wrist - an eye exactly the same as Bai Miao's.
Unlike Bai Miao's fear and disgust, Cao Xun's expression was fanatical. He gently placed his fingers on his eyes and silently recited his honorific name. When his eyes were fully open, he said in fear and trepidation: "Master, the task you assigned to me failed. She didn't take the bait, and I failed to kill her..."
He gritted his teeth, a ruthless look flashing in his eyes: "I can make amends, I can do it myself..."
He soon received a cease-and-desist summons.
Cao Xun was slightly stunned. He suddenly didn't want to kill her anymore?
He closed his eyes completely and cut off the communication with him. In the moment before the cut-off, Cao Xun felt a subtle confusion from Chi Shuangliu.
Yes, Chi Shuangliu is his master.
Unlike Bai Miao, who was cursed and forced to serve him, Cao Xun voluntarily offered his soul to the evil god.
When Chi Shuangliu just woke up, Lu Kuo asked Cao Xun to find his Shuangliu County to inquire about Chi Shuangliu's origins. After he came back, he told Lu Kuo that he had found nothing. Chi Shuangliu was probably a person with superpowers who was mutated by the meteorite shower. Lu Kuo also believed him.
——However, this was not the case. He visited all the villages near the county town and finally heard a very interesting legend from a village where ethnic minorities gathered. In ancient times, an alien god came to China, and the ancient gods joined forces to seal him. Thousands of years later, the seal loosened, and the heroic leader Chi stepped forward to seal the alien god again and imprisoned him in the witch temple.
This idea seemed to appear out of thin air in his mind, and he didn't know why he suddenly decided to hide it from Lu Kuo and ask him about it privately, but what happened later proved that this was the best decision he had ever made in his life.
Although there was no solid evidence, Cao Xun believed for no reason that he was the foreign god that all the gods feared. He tried to call him through various means, and finally got his response one day. He couldn't wait, almost trembling, to ask the god to curse him, and he got his wish and became his most devout believer.
He believed that his divine power would cover the entire planet, and he would be the only one favored by God walking in the world - Old Lu Xian and Lu Kuo were both fools, they actually tried to control the gods.
These days, he followed Chi Shuangliu's instructions, step by step swallowing up the shares of Lu father and son in the company, and took over the father and son's power in the company. He thought he would need to endure the father and son for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect to get the opportunity for revenge so soon. He was extremely excited.
Cao Xun was about to get up and leave when his wrist suddenly started to burn again. He received a message from Chi Shuangliu in his mind, his face changed drastically, and he kicked open the door of the box and rushed out.
......
It turned out that Lu Kuo was no pushover. He went straight to Bai Miao and said in a calm and indifferent tone, "In three days, I will transfer Chi Shuangliu to Canada. I have a private estate there. No one knows about it except my father and I. You will come with me and continue your research on him."
He said calmly, "Before that, I'm going to place him in a villa in the suburbs. Then, I'll use the helipad nearby and fly him to Canada on a private plane. The entire park will be without power for an hour tonight. Please cooperate with the transfer."
Is he determined to take over Chi Shuangliu alone? Bai Miao was surprised: "Isn't it too hasty? The other shareholders..."
"A quick fight and a quick resolution." Lu Kuo said coldly, "When the time comes, I'll tell them that Chi Shuangliu ran away on his own. There's nothing I can do if they don't believe me. Do they still dare to search my house?"
This kind of decisive and ruthless style is indeed very Lu Kuo. Bai Miao opened his mouth and said, "What about Chen Run?"
"Chen Run?" Lu Kuo frowned slightly, as if he had just remembered such an insignificant little person.
His answer fully demonstrated the coldness and ruthlessness of the capitalists: "I will find a top-notch caregiver in Canada to take care of him. As for Shen Run, transfer her to other departments first. When this matter slowly calms down, find a reason for her to resign." In fact, Shen Run is quite useful, but he does not plan to send her to Canada. That would be too conspicuous and the procedures would be difficult to handle.
For positions like nursing, there are substitutes all over the world.
Bai Miao fell silent. Lu Kuo's move of cutting off the source of the problem was really brilliant. She had no way to stop him from diverting Chi Shuangliu, and neither did Chi Shuangliu himself.
His abilities were indeed powerful and bizarre, but he had a fatal flaw - as long as humans didn't harbor ill will towards him, he couldn't take the initiative to attack humans.
The concept of 'not harboring ill will' can even be circumvented through hypnosis or certain supernatural means. This means that no matter how high his IQ is or how strong his abilities are, he cannot escape Lu Kuo's control. Otherwise, why would he pretend to be deaf and dumb, and even be unable to reveal the fact that he is an intelligent creature?
In other words, his strength is limited to his individual status, and he has no control over the real world. Lu Kuo is just the opposite. He is the chairman of the Sun Umbrella Company and is almost at the top of the food chain in human society. The resources he can mobilize are unimaginable.
Didn’t Chi Shuangliu himself realize this?
Lu Kuo glanced at the time and said, "Hurry up and get ready. We'll start in two hours. We have to be quick."
——His idea was very beautiful, but when he actually implemented it, he encountered a little accident. Chi Shuangliu was extremely uncooperative. Although he could not actively attack humans, his physical strength was terrifyingly strong. Unless he wanted to, no one could make him move. Several psychics spent half a day trying to make him move at all, but they did not dare to use their psychics on him for fear that he would judge him as having "malicious intentions."
Lu Kuo rarely got impatient. After thinking for a moment, he finally gave in: "Call Chen Run and try."
So, Chen Run was woken up by several bodyguards in the middle of the night to work the night shift, and was stuffed into a six-seater super-large commercial vehicle with Chi Shuangliu. As soon as Chen Run arrived, Chi Shuangliu really quieted down.
Lu Kuo sat in the front row. The driver was an unfamiliar one. Two other seats were also occupied. Only she and Chi Shuangliu sat in the last row. In addition to this car, there were three high-performance private cars outside for protection.
She was still confused at the moment.
Her hair was a mess from sleeping, and she was wearing Doraemon pajamas that had faded from the wash, with the collar half turned inside out and half standing up. She asked in shock, "Director Lu, what happened?"
Lu Kuo glanced at the rearview mirror. He didn't want to pay attention to her, but he was worried that she would keep asking questions, so he said perfunctorily: "Chi Shuangliu is no longer convenient in the Science and Technology Park. I plan to take him to another place, and you should come with me."
Chen Run didn't ask any more questions. She glanced around and saw that no one was paying attention. She was just about to take a nap when her peripheral vision accidentally caught the forest scenery quickly receding outside the car window. She was slightly startled.
Is this... in the mountains outside the city? If Chi Shuangliu were to move to another place, he wouldn't have to go to the wilderness, right? He was probably just trying to escape his enemies. Just as she was panicking, the car suddenly jolted violently, creating a zigzag S-shaped curve on the road. The driver cursed softly, trying to steady the steering wheel, and whispered to Lu Kuo, "They're catching up. They must have noticed our movements."
In this six-seater commercial vehicle, besides Lu Kuo and Shen Run, the other four were all psychics. Lu Kuo's expression suddenly turned cold: "How many are here? Are they Cao Xun's people?"
The question was quite illogical. The driver lowered his eyes for a moment, sensing the situation, and surprisingly gave a quick answer: "Twelve. I'm not sure if Cao Xun's men are here yet. There should be people sent by other shareholders as well."
He paused and said, "He's still four or five kilometers away from us. We'll catch up in about ten minutes."
Lu Kuo knew they wouldn't let him escape Chi Shuangliu easily, but he didn't expect them to arrive so quickly. Who leaked the information? How could it happen so quickly?
He suppressed the churning thoughts in his heart, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, and he turned to Chen Run: "Get out of the car and take the one at the back."
What could Chen Run, a commoner born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze, know? She was completely confused, as if she was listening to a foreign language. "Me?"
Lu Kuo took a deep breath and suppressed his anger: "This is a conflict between me and several shareholders. It has nothing to do with you. You should take a car and return first to avoid being affected."
——This is of course also a lie.
Those shareholders had all seen Chen Run and knew that she was responsible for taking care of Chi Shuangliu. He needed Chen Run to help attract firepower, perhaps to confuse their vision and make them think that Chi Shuangliu was in the car behind.
He didn't even give Shen Run a chance to react, and quickly completed the exchange after shouting to stop the car - Lu Kuo's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain was not completely successful, and the psychic behind him quickly caught up. The psychics on both sides fought in a mess, and both cars exploded one after another, with flames shooting into the sky.
All kinds of supernatural powers were flying around in the chaos, and no one noticed that Chi Shuangliu had disappeared long ago.
......
There was only one driver in the car behind. He took Chen Run and turned onto another more remote and winding road without hesitation.
The road was littered with rocks and pebbles, and Chen Run was practically falling apart from the impact. He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Master, where are we going?" She was completely bewildered. "Isn't this a society ruled by law? Can't we discuss anything first? Why are you making it like a chase?"
With several superpowered people chasing after them, what's the point of discussing this? The driver glared at her unhappily, not even bothering to answer her. He stepped on the accelerator and accelerated to the top of the range.
Chen Run felt like he was about to be shaken apart. He didn't know how long he had been speeding like this. Suddenly, he heard a "bang" and the right rear tire deflated. The whole car suddenly stopped and almost turned over. Fortunately, the driver controlled the steering wheel in time to avoid a car accident for the two of them.
The car definitely couldn't be driven anymore. The driver opened the door and pulled Shen Run out. He pointed in a direction and said, "Run, run forward, run to where there are people—"
The psychics sent by other shareholders must have caught up with him. He still had a conscience and did not let Chen Run, an ordinary person, stay here to die. The main reason was that he was afraid that she would get in the way if she stayed here.
Shen Run subconsciously asked: "What are you going to do?"
The driver waved his hand impatiently: "Leave me alone and don't stay here to get in the way!" After all, he was a B-level mutant. If he really couldn't win, he could just run away. Chen Run, an ordinary person, would only be a nuisance here and would definitely die in one encounter.
Chen Run did not dare to delay and ran forward in the direction the driver pointed. She didn't know how long she had been running before she finally looked back. She didn't see the irritable but kind-hearted driver, but only vaguely saw a violent halo of thunder and fire exploding in the weeds. Looking at this scene, the driver was probably in danger.
Could ordinary people fight like this? Did they resort to firearms? But isn't the country's law very strict?
She felt a strange feeling in her heart, shook her head again, and continued to run wildly.
A figure appeared out of nowhere under the moonlight. Chen Run ran closer before he recognized who it was and said in surprise, "Brother Chi?"
She shouted, "Run!"
Although she was still confused, one thing was certain: these people were definitely chasing and blocking Chi Shuangliu.
Chi Shuangliu stood under the moonlight, still unconscious. Chen Run could only run towards him desperately. Before she could even catch him and run together, she heard several voices from behind that made her heart chill.
"I caught her, there she is!!"
"Look, Chi Shuangliu is here too!"
"Haha, I'm about to get the evolution potion that Mr. Liu promised me. I can evolve again!"
Chen Run gritted his teeth and pushed Chi Shuangliu behind him: "Brother Chi, go first, don't worry about me. If you can gesture, remember to call the police."
The five people who caught up with her included both men and women. Chen Run couldn't guarantee that she could defeat them, but she couldn't just watch these people take Chi Shuangliu away.
Although she was respected as a street bully when she was a child, she hadn't fought with anyone for many years. She turned around and stretched her muscles, but before she could get ready, a woman opposite her threw a punch from a distance of four or five hundred meters. She felt a huge force coming towards her and fainted in embarrassment.
Chi Shuangliu: "..."
The few psychics who caught up couldn't help but burst into laughter: "What an idiot! An ordinary person wants to take on five psychics alone?"
"Forget it, ignore her. Take Chi Shuangliu away first and then find a place to bury her."
Several people gathered around Chen Run and laughed a few times, then turned their gaze to Chi Shuangliu, their eyes revealing a hint of greed and eagerness. A gentle man wearing glasses among the five people immediately said, "Control your emotions. Chi Shuangliu will attack anyone who has ill intentions towards him!"
The gentleman activated his special ability as he spoke, and his companions immediately calmed down and their minds went blank - without any emotions, Chi Shuangliu really did not attack them.
The five men gradually formed a siege, approaching him very slowly. Someone muttered, "He was the one who killed seven psychics? It doesn't seem likely."
Chi Shuangliu remained motionless, and apart from his stunningly beautiful face, there was nothing special about him.
"Because they all had ill intentions towards him." The man with glasses moved slowly and explained in a low voice: "The information shows that Chi Shuangliu is a non-intelligent creature. As long as our ill intentions are not detected by his abilities, we can take him away smoothly..." His expression gradually revealed a hint of fanaticism.
Under the moonlight, Chi Shuangliu suddenly curled the corners of his lips. He was like a sculpture that suddenly came alive, so vivid and beautiful.
The five people who surrounded them seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying and froze in place.
He smiled and said, "What a pity, I noticed it."
The five people seemed to be in sync with each other. After losing their most powerful superpowers, they turned around and ran without hesitation, trying to buy themselves a chance of survival.
Chi Shuangliu put one hand in his pocket and raised the other arm, with his long and beautiful fingers slightly spread out.
His most primitive ability, outer god power, dimensionality reduction.
Under each other's horrified gazes, the five people's bodies were stretched and thinned little by little, and finally turned into a thin page of people, becoming two-dimensional "paper people" in the true sense.
He lightly swiped his index finger, and the five pieces of paper were torn into pieces with a 'hiss' sound, and paper scraps flew everywhere.
He seemed to find it amusing and laughed very softly.
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