Chapter 99 The Actor's Self-Cultivation
Cars sped past the window, and Yue Yiyue listened to the melodious music playing in his ears. "Quickly, answer the call!"
Thank goodness... thank goodness she got on this car.
Fortunately, the car owner was a chatterbox, and thankfully, I managed to talk to him politely in the end.
If even the slightest error occurs in any link of the chain, she will not be able to obtain this information.
"Yiyue, what's wrong? I'm on my way to your house." Yu An's voice was a little noisy, with car horns honking, a noisy crowd, and loudspeakers from shops.
"Where are you? Can you hurry up and get a taxi? I'll call a few more people to protect you later." Yue Yiyue didn't expect Yu An to leave so quickly, and she was also glad that Yu An had left so fast.
"Huh?" Yu An didn't expect to hear this on the phone. She covered the receiver and said, "My monster radar is going to go beep, and I feel like something bad is going to happen, so I left early. I'm almost at your building now."
"Who are you going to call to help us?" Yu An looked around. Aside from an auntie exercising in the corner, muttering, "Little girl... Building 3..."
Yue Yiyue clearly heard something about Building 3 coming from across the street. Just as he was about to listen carefully to what was going on, Yu An interrupted him with her voice: "I'm about to get into the elevator now, so be careful."
Yue Yiyue raised his hand and rubbed his right eye, which had suddenly twitched violently: "Yeah, yeah, you should also be careful."
Hearing the sound of the machine steadily rising from the other end of the phone, Yue Yiyue added, "The key is on the table. Once you unlock it, remember to send me a message."
"I've arrived at your door. Your elevator is so boring; there's not even an advertising screen to watch."
After the door opened, Yu An said she had gotten the key; Gu Nanqiu was still sleeping.
Hearing this, Yue Yiyue finally felt relieved and hung up the phone.
Another call connected, and Ye Qiu's tired voice came through: "Hello, what's up?"
"Can you contact a forensic doctor now? Could you ask the forensic doctor to find some reliable people to protect Gu Nanqiu? Zhou Qingyi, the youngest daughter of the Zhou family, has issued an arrest warrant for Gu Nanqiu. I'm very worried about her."
"Me? I... I don't need it, I'm safe now." Yue Yiyue glanced at the Zhou Group building across the street; he would be there in twenty minutes.
"Can you get to Gu Nanqiu's side within twenty minutes?"
"This is complicated to explain, do you believe me?"
There was a rustling sound coming from the other end of the phone, like someone getting dressed.
A muffled voice came from the other end of the phone: "You really have no manners..."
Another yawn: "I'll take a taxi there right away and contact the person you mentioned later. I should have her contact information, um."
"It's related to Zhou Qingyi. Hmm, that makes sense now."
"I couldn't get in touch with her sister for a while either." The sound of a door closing came from Ye Qiu's side. The elevator dinged, and Yue Yiyue gave a soft "hmm." She looked up and saw a strangely shaped bird flying by in the sky. There was a commotion downstairs, as if some important person was about to arrive.
Yue Yiyue stepped back, listening to Ye Qiu's breathing on the phone, and stood behind the curtains quietly looking downstairs.
A car stopped in front of the Zhou Group building. A bodyguard wearing sunglasses and wrapped in a large towel walked inside with his head down.
Reporters who had appeared out of nowhere quickly followed the person wrapped in a towel.
It's rather pointless to watch their every move being photographed.
Why did you suddenly stop talking?
Yue Yiyue then realized what was happening. She spoke a few more words to Ye Qiu, telling her to be careful.
Ye Qiu gave a few perfunctory "uh-huhs" and then started asking about her location. Now it was Yue Yiyue's turn to give a perfunctory reply.
In the end, Yue Yiyue simply said that she had some things to take care of and needed to leave.
Before the other party can react, hang up the phone and set it to Do Not Disturb.
She looked at the newly popped-up message: "Come in through the West Gate, someone will take you to find me. Thank you, she's the only person I trust."
"Remember, don't make eye contact with people wearing white clothes. Something terrible will happen."
"There are no bodyguards wearing red bow ties around here. If you see one, you must run."
"The red room contains mass-produced Aberrations and monsters; the white room contains new rules; the purple room is safe. If you encounter anything, please go to the purple room."
"Finally, there are many versions of myself here, so many versions of myself, and those lingering outside the room are all fake!!!"
Looking at this thing, Yue Yiyue realized that the person who had just gone in was not President Zhou.
Who is that person?
Zhou Qingyi?
She switched to some news websites, and the latest news, as she suspected, was indeed related to the Zhou Group. The clear photos were of people whose hair was completely covered up, and the comments below said that the Zhou Group really looked bad and wondered if it had been mutated by a monster.
She was a little stunned. When did people become so accepting of this thing?
Everything was normal during the Spring Festival...
Thinking of this, Yue Yiyue was stunned. She really hadn't been looking at any news on her phone during the Spring Festival.
They choose the places to go, and we go with them.
It seems to have little awareness of the outside world.
If we say that during that period, the world changed quietly.
Especially in the few days after her mother left, she was paralyzed at home and barely moved.
Yu An also mentioned a concept: the world is folded...
The image of that building number three flashed through my mind, along with the sounds I heard when I left the house.
When Yu An took the elevator up just now, it was as if there was no announcement.
The last time I heard her on the news was when she was delivering takeout to a wealthy neighborhood.
My memory instantly returned to that time.
The face of the aunt who gave her directions, which she vaguely remembered, gradually overlapped with the face of the aunt who was exercising that she had just seen.
After a sudden chill, Yue Yiyue pursed her lips, comforting herself that maybe she had misremembered, since she had been acting very strangely lately.
Forget it, let's first confirm whether that person is indeed Zhou Qingyi, and we'll deal with the rest later.
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Putting away his phone and returning to his seat, Yue Yiyue looked at the driver apologetically: "I'm sorry, I had a lot of things to take care of at home, but I've taken care of them all now."
"I'm settling the bill and about to leave. Please make yourself at home."
"Excuse me, I overheard your conversation." The driver called out to Yue Yiyue, who stood up apologetically and said, "I just heard them talking on the phone about that Gu guy..."
"Is she the person Mr. Zhou is looking for?" the driver asked Yue Yiyue tentatively.
Noticing Yue Yiyue's gaze, the driver immediately became wary and shook his head: "I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation."
"I was just about to come over and tell you everything's been served, but I overheard a little bit as I walked over." The driver clasped his hands together: "I heard they found the medicine, and someone will bring it. Is that you?"
The driver quickly pieced together the cause and effect, and also revealed a new piece of information.
Yue Yiyue was somewhat puzzled about who this driver was.
She sized up the seemingly ordinary driver in front of her, her eyes filled with a wary alertness.
"Relax a bit." The driver looked at Yue Yiyue's appearance and knew that he was probably right. She waved her hand and said, "My name is Gu He. Gu means rice and He means seedling. My grandma hoped that I would grow tall and fast like rice, so she named me that."
"Hmm, you might know a colleague of mine, a forensic pathologist." As she spoke, she pulled a brown leather wallet from her pocket and showed a special bureau ID photo.
Yue Yiyue looked at the information above and the sign in the corner, and they were all the same as what he had seen at the forensic doctor's office before.
After sending the message to the forensic doctor, Yue Yiyue checked the time. There were only ten minutes left, and she didn't have much time to waste here.
"what you up to?"
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Five minutes later, Yue Yiyue, supporting a person wearing sunglasses, a mask, and whose face was mostly covered by a hat, walked towards the agreed-upon location.
As they walked over, the vendor making jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes) suddenly put down his spatula and shouted, "Oh dear, I forgot about that. Setting up a stall here will result in a fine!"
"Hurry up and move over there, I think I just saw some lights flashing."
The vendor apologized as he dragged his cart and followed Yue Yiyue and the others toward the door.
At this sudden moment, Yue Yiyue was afraid that the person next to him would be discovered, so he quickly took a few steps forward and whispered, "Don't say anything after we go in. Just cooperate with me. We'll see how things go."
Gu He nodded and patted Yue Yiyue's hand, which was supporting her, to indicate that she had heard.
After taking two more steps forward, Yue Yiyue asked again, still worried, "You've remembered all those rules, right? If we get attacked and get separated, remember to run into the purple door."
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After passing through security and entering the door, Yue Yiyue saw a receptionist in a black suit walking towards them.
"Gentlemen, you are Mr. Zhou's distinguished guests. Mr. Zhou has been waiting for you in the conference room for a long time." As she spoke, she glanced strangely at Gu He standing to the side, then looked down at the information in her hand.
"Excuse me, we may need to verify the situation of this lady here, which is also for the safety of our boss, Mr. Zhou."
Yue Yiyue took out his phone: "I've already spoken to your CEO Zhou about this. She told us to go up directly. Who do you think you are?"
"Mr. Zhou is really something, he can't even handle such a small matter. I have medicine with me, and I have to get to Mr. Zhou's side now, otherwise Mr. Zhou will die on the spot."
"She didn't even come down to pick me up herself, really, she's crazy."
Yue Yiyue spoke with a mix of intimidation and arrogance, his legs moving without pause as he pulled the person inside.
The receptionist blocked Yue Yiyue's way: "I'm sorry, and please understand."
"I understand you?" Yue Yiyue snorted, pinching the hand of the person behind him and rolling his eyes: "Damn it, I still need to get some money later, don't block my way. I understand you, but who understands my four yuan bus fare?"
As she spoke, she tightened her grip. Gu He pretended to be unwilling and pulled her hand back, revealing the scar on her wrist. She gasped as if she was enduring some pain.
"Hurry up, I already told you, Mr. Zhou will give us a lot of benefits, just like you usually do for me, just a little bit will do."
In the hall, Yue Yiyue's irritable voice rang out, filled with impatience. The sudden reprimand startled the people behind him.
The person wearing the mask moved, as if wanting to say something, but was yelled back by Yue Yiyue.
"I already said, after this is over, I'll marry you when we get back. You just need to come by once, I'm begging you—"
Upon hearing this, the expressions on the faces of those in the hall as they looked at Yue Yiyue were somewhat indescribable.
Several people silently rolled up their sleeves.
The group of reporters, who seemed to have caught something by looking outside and were setting up their cameras to take pictures and handing in microphones, were all looking on with anticipation, waiting to see what bombshell this unusually irritable person would drop next.
The security guards also had dark faces and reached for their batons at their waists.
The unexpected turn of events caught the receptionist off guard. Her face froze for a moment, then returned to normal, no longer bothered to verify anything.
Anyway, there were several injuries that seemed to match what the boss had said. She said with a forced smile, "Please come in quickly."
"Let's go inside and talk about it..."
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