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/Noel, I am ready to leave this world. You are my only friend, but I cannot accept his ideas. However, I know I cannot resist. In this case, I might as well leave directly rather than being used as a tool. /

This was a text message Noel received. The sender was an internet friend he had known for some time, but the content of the letter made him extremely upset.

/What do you want to do! /

Noel asked as he strode towards the garage, typing with one hand.

/Noel, thank you so much./

/I don't know if I can fly up like an ark by jumping down, maybe my soul can. You may see another friend of mine in the future. His name is Noah's Ark. /

No, can you please stop talking about your last words? Are we that close? Why are you telling me? And...

/No, your situation is not bad enough for you to jump. I haven't jumped yet. /

After realizing the opponent's plan, Noel said he couldn't accept it. It was like participating in the legendary misery competition, where he was the champion but the opponent won the prize.

What the hell is going on with this freaking irritability?!

[That's because you also consider him a friend...]

Xiao Hei can always perceive a lot from an outsider's perspective, but at this moment, Noel didn't want to pay attention to him at all, and just quickly replied:

/Where are you now? If you want to leave that guardian, I can help you. /

Noel had reached his car, pulled out a small computer and started tracking the location.

/It's too late.../

The other party just replied as if everything had already become a reality, which made Noel very unhappy.

/Just wait for me. /

———

This is one of the most luxurious hotels in New York. The rooms on the top floor are decorated in an extremely luxurious way, with an intricate and exquisite Baroque style. This kind of unassuming luxury is like a flamboyant beauty. In the center of the room, there is a semicircle surrounded by several high-tech screens, like an overlap of the old and new eras. A boy is sitting in it, reading a letter from his friend.

His name is Hiroki Sawada, also known as Noel's online friend Noah, and he is nine years old.

Without a doubt, a genius.

Just now, he made a decision that he had been planning for a long time, and in the end, he chose to tell his only human friend.

His acquaintance with Noel was very simple. They just bumped into each other accidentally while surfing the Internet. It was the other party who initiated the attack. As a result, the two of them tested each other back and forth and finally became friends.

Of course, this friend was unilaterally identified by him. After all, since he was adopted by his current guardian, he has not come into contact with anyone other than his bodyguard and guardian for a long time. He is not sure how friends get along with each other, but since the two of them often communicate about their lives, they should be friends, right? Sawada Hiroki thought uncertainly.

His situation is actually quite complicated. After his parents divorced last year, he immigrated to the United States with his mother. However, his mother was not in good health and passed away last year due to illness.

Then he was adopted by Thomas Sintra, the president of Sintra Corporation.

He felt helpless when he thought of this. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, he was lucky to be adopted by such a wealthy man and receive the best education. However, he knew very clearly that the other party only saw his computer talent and regarded him as a useful tool. Not to mention that he had discovered the other party's secret. If he continued like this, his fate would only be more tragic.

Sintra Corporation is a giant in the IT industry. As a minor, I have no possibility of resistance and I am being monitored by them at all times.

Hongshu looked up at the camera in the corner, not even bothering to cover up, and told everyone in the room nakedly that everything about them is under my control.

This kind of life has lasted for more than a year, and he has long been accustomed to it.

Just now, he completed the final settings of the artificial intelligence Noah's Ark and left something in it that Sindorah would never allow.

In fact, he did not expect that Noah's Ark would be completed so quickly. He thought it would take at least nearly a year. However, since he met Noah, he has never been stingy in answering various technical questions, and his vision is quite advanced, which is completely unlike that of a person of this era.

What is the other person like in reality? Hiroki sometimes thinks so. He should be quite good. He knows that Noel is not yet an adult and has a younger brother with whom he has a very good relationship. Hiroki also has relatives. His father is now in Japan. He once thought about asking for help, but what can he do? Even his own father probably can't do anything about such a huge company like Sintra. He will only implicate the other party.

He stood up, stretched his body which was a little numb from sitting in front of the computer for too long, and came to the balcony. In this luxurious top-class hotel, even the balcony was surprisingly spacious. He slowly approached the edge of the balcony and looked at the scenery below.

This is New York, one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Looking up from a high place, you can see the hustle and bustle of traffic and the flashing lights below. All of this is the crystallization of human wisdom and is so beautiful.

“Boom boom boom—”

Hongshu was not surprised to hear someone banging on the door outside. He knew that his every move was under surveillance, which had aroused the suspicion of the paranoid guardian. The door locks of top-class hotels were of good quality. Whether he went to the front desk to get the key or broke down the door directly, it would take more than four or five minutes, and this time was enough.

Thinking of this, the boy took off his shoes and prepared to climb up the guardrail which was not very high.

"Bang——"

"Bang——"

“Boom——”

To Hongshu's surprise, the door was opened after just a few knocks. This stunned Hongshu for a moment, and before he could turn around, someone grabbed his arm fiercely.

"Noah?"

Hongshu was stunned by the other party's address. He turned around and saw a big paper bag.

The man was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and had two holes poked by a paper bag on his head for his eyes. With the door behind him being broken down and the black-clad bodyguard lying on the ground, he looked like an unreliable bank robber, which was both funny and absurd.

But this title, is it?

"Noel?" Hongshu called out uncertainly. After all, they had just finished chatting for a short time and then suddenly met in person, which really caught him off guard.

"Hahaha, you're so small..."

The person who came was none other than Noel. God knows how awesome he was that he quickly tracked the other party's location after putting down his phone, stepped on the accelerator, was chased all the way to the hotel by the traffic police, and then killed them all the way down there. He could brag about it to others for three days and three nights.

But now, his attention was completely focused on how young his netizen was, barely ten years old. This made him feel extremely amused and he couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Wait, how did you find me? Even if you could track me down, the best you could find is the hotel."

Hongshu no longer cared about the other person's strange outfit. He had no idea how the other person did it.

"Oh, I found the hotel. After all, if you want to jump off the building, you should do it from the top floor. That way it will be more fun!" Noel said as a matter of course, indicating that he was very familiar with this job. If you want to jump off a building, you should jump from the top floor, otherwise it will not be romantic at all.

"But there are many rooms on the top floor..." Hongshu retorted subconsciously.

“So I just bumped into it all!”

Noel answered nonchalantly with a hint of pride in his tone, but he had no idea how much the tenants who were disturbed by him wanted to curse.

"Those people?" Hongshu noticed the crowd of people standing in all directions at the door, and even saw his guardian Sindora among them.

The usually aloof and extremely serious guardian was lying on the ground in his pajamas, looking as if he was dead or alive.

"Don't worry, no one is dead, just fainted."

[If I hadn't kept yelling at them to be gentle, they definitely wouldn't have been knocked unconscious.]

"Then let's get down to business, little Noah." Listening to the footsteps on the floor, Noel cleared his throat, looked at the boy in front of him, and said:

"You are held hostage by me, from now on."

The funny-looking man with the paper bag on his head made his declaration with a smile. He stretched out his arms to the boy, and a pair of gray-green eyes, full of madness, appeared from the torn paper bag.

"Unless the Sintra Company takes 1 billion, um, no, that's too little, 10 billion in exchange, we won't let you go back."

Just like the poisonous snake in the Bible that tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, Hongshu thought in his heart, but he couldn't control himself and stretched out his hand, willingly placing it on the other person's hand.

"Then kidnap me, Mr. Kidnapper." The boy said with a smile, "Take me anywhere, I don't want to stay here anymore."

"Of course!" Noel pulled the man into his arms with a little effort. The man's small body was so fragile that he could be picked up with just a little effort. It was hard to imagine that this was an opponent who was on par with him in the computer field.

There was a shrill alarm sound coming from outside the room. After all, Noel's actions were ostentatious enough. The security in such a top-class hotel would not be too bad. This realization made Hongshu a little desperate. The light that had just come on seemed to be about to dim.

"Are you ready?" the boy locked in the kidnapper's arms suddenly heard the other party ask.

"How do we leave?" Hongshu's brain was working rapidly, and he was looking for a way to leave unwillingly, but he felt the arms holding him suddenly tightened a bit, lifted him up high, and brought him to the balcony railing.

There were countless lights flashing below. The height was high enough to shrink all the lights into small pieces, making Hongshu a little dazed, until the other party's voice sounded:

"Of course, they jumped off the building! Together!!!"

As the words fell, everything around suddenly became blurry, my ears were covered by the sound of the wind, and my face was buried in the other person's chest. I felt a little suffocated, but at the same time, this feeling of being held tightly brought an indescribable sense of security.

So do we still have to leave this world in the end?

Hiroki Sawada couldn't help thinking, he closed his eyes gently, waiting for death to come.