Chapter 368: Inhuman (End) (1st update + 2nd update + 8900 thunder 3rd update) [VIP]
The team that went to the pseudo-human space hurried back to the Novice Village.
On the screen, everyone saw something spurting out the moment Hang Yiqing slashed at the main control line. The next second, Qiao Bie pounced on them and knocked both Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan to the ground. The next second, he fainted on the spot.
Qiao Bie was sent back by Xiao Tang and several members of the foundation team, and Hang Yiqing, who had always been indifferent to Qiao Bie, followed him all the way.
"I think..." Xiao Tang sat on the sofa after sending the man back. He looked at the private doctors of the Qiao family who came one after another. After a moment of silence, he said, "Hang Yiqing might have treated Qiao Bie as a child at that moment."
At this time, in the capital of violence, everyone stays at home at night, but the Qiao family can still call doctors over continuously at this time, which shows the influence of the Qiao family.
The follow-up impact of Qiao Bie's sudden fainting would probably cause a chain reaction, and the first link in the chain reaction was Hang Yiqing, who suddenly became a different person.
It’s not known whether Bai Jinshu and the others could see clearly through the screen, but Xiao Tang and the others who were right next to them saw it all the way.
Qiao Bie didn't wake up all the way, and Hang Yiqing followed him all the way. His expression couldn't tell anything, but the tension in his eyes never subsided.
"What happened at that time?" Several more doctors from the Qiao family went in. Xu Zichen got down from the sofa and asked, "What was that thing that was sprayed out? Did Qiao Bie die?"
"He's not dead," Xiao Tang pointed at the door with his chin, "It's because he's not dead that Hang Yiqing behaved like that..."
No one expected that Qiao Bie would suddenly call out that name, let alone Hang Yiqing, even she had the thought at some point of time that "is it possible that the child is still alive?"
But she soon realized that it was impossible. If the child was still alive, many things would not have turned out like this. Apart from anything else, Qiao Bie, who replaced him, would not allow this to happen while he was still alive.
More than a dozen people on Purple Street have been killed, so this one won’t matter.
Although Xiao Tang reacted, Hang Yiqing was obviously too concerned, or he was unwilling to accept that possibility, and was more willing to pray for a miracle to happen.
"Tsk... have you seen what that thing is?" Guan Hongyan frowned and glanced at the busy room, then looked at the other five people surrounded by the Foundation team members, and turned around to ask, "Can you confirm Qiao Bie's physical condition?"
"We can't be sure. We don't know what that thing is," Xiao Tang frowned. "I guess it might be some kind of safety device to prevent others from damaging the factory wiring."
This thing must have a certain degree of lethality to humans, otherwise Qiao Bie would not have been so nervous in an instant. However, we will have to wait for the doctor of the Qiao family to come out or for Qiao Bie himself to tell us what this thing is.
"Then let's not talk about this for now," Yun Guang nodded and whispered, "Now that the six of you are back, what are the arrangements in the pseudo-human space?"
"The Qin army stayed there to destroy the factory, and a few cameras were left behind for live broadcasting," Xiao Tang tapped the screen with his finger. "Once Qiao Bie left, we were worried that there would be some accidents in the pseudo-human space, so we had to leave some people behind."
Although the incident happened suddenly, fortunately everyone had brought many people with them, so it would not be a problem for the six of them to leave temporarily.
As they were talking, the doctors who had entered the room earlier also began to walk out. Several Foundation employees quickly surrounded them. By the time Bai Jinshu and his team walked over, the doctors had already left. The first few exploration team members who surrounded them were saying, "The doctor said that there is no problem with Qiao Bie's body for the time being."
"There are no problems?" someone asked. "It hasn't even been put on the instrument yet, so there are no problems?"
"From what I heard from the doctor, Joe has been unwilling to undergo checkups over the years, and the few times he's been checked he's been healthy," the man lowered his voice, "don't forget, he's..."
The situation of pseudo-humans is different from that of ordinary humans. Qiao Bie is probably unwilling to check because he doesn't want to be exposed.
Everyone knew what was going on. Someone whispered, "If we don't check, who would know what the problem is with the sprayed stuff?"
"I heard from the housekeeper that we seem to have to wait. Even if we want to use instruments for examination, we have to wait until tomorrow morning. Now we can only rely on the experience of these doctors to judge whether Qiao Bie is okay or not. Look, a few more Chinese medicine doctors have gone in." A team member interrupted.
Hearing this, Bai Jinshu and the others looked at each other and left the crowd.
"Western medicine can't find any problems now, and Chinese medicine probably can't either. I doubt the doctors can even find out what that thing is," Yun Guang whispered, "It was installed in that tricky position to prevent others from damaging the line."
"Do you suspect it's the toxin floating in the air in the pseudo-human space?" Bai Jinshu frowned.
"Yeah," Yun Guang nodded, "This is the only thing that can make Qiao less nervous."
Qiao Bei was nervous and must have recognized what it was. He had been living in the Novice Village since he replaced the child. Anything he could recognize must be something he had seen before.
He has never seen the outside world, so based on his past experience, the most vigilant and dangerous thing is the toxins floating in this pseudo-human space.
"Then why did the investment bank install that thing?" Guan Hongyan frowned, obviously not understanding the meaning of the device. "This thing won't kill the pseudo-human at all. What's the point of insurance that won't kill the pseudo-human? Or did the investment bank foresee that someone would enter the pseudo-human space and try to destroy the factory in the future?"
That's not right either.
According to Qiao Bie, humans will die as long as they enter the pseudo-human space, so there is no need for investment banks to prepare these insurances to prevent damage by others in the pseudo-human space. This thing can only be used to prevent fake people.
This loop comes back again. If it doesn't kill the fake person, then what's the point of installing this thing?
"Who said it's not fatal?" Bai Jinshu tapped his finger on the table. "What if it's fatal?"
"Lethal..." Xu Zichen repeated, thoughtfully, "These pseudo-humans have very short lives, so only a small amount of toxin is needed to kill them directly?"
"Yes," Bai Jinshu nodded, "That's what I mean."
"What do you mean?" Xiao Tang came back with a fruit plate from a distance and only heard Bai Jinshu's last words.
"The thing that knocked Qiao Bie unconscious might be a toxin in the pseudo-human space. It would definitely not be detected in the Novice Village," Bai Jinshu briefly explained. "This thing may not be fatal to a pseudo-human like him, but for a new pseudo-human, it would probably mean death if they come into contact with it."
It was still early in the morning, so Yun Guang simply sat down and sorted out his thoughts bit by bit: "First of all, no one else can enter this space. All life that is not born in this space will die once it enters, so this thing can only be used to defend against our own people."
Lu Changfeng nodded.
"Since it is to protect against our own people, then this thing is placed here to prevent fake people from destroying the factory. This probably means that this thing has happened before, otherwise it would not be installed here for no reason," Yun Guang clasped his hands together, "According to Qiao Bie, everyone knows the length of their life when they are born, and this length cannot be extended, so is it possible to shorten it?"
After all, these two elements have been fighting each other in the body of the pseudo-person. When one of them is exhausted, the pseudo-person will die. One of these two elements can only be obtained before birth, and the other floats in the air. It goes without saying that if the toxin floating in the air suddenly increases, the person's life span will be forced to be shortened.
To them, this thing is a deadly poison. Once they come into contact with it, their remaining life bar will be forced to decrease.
For those fake people who would do anything to survive and even replace others, the death of their companions who try to break the rules is the most effective way to serve as a warning to others.
Even without death, it would be scary enough for them to see that those who tried to destroy the factory only had a few days to live.
This thing is nothing to Xiao Tang and his men as well as the Qin army, but it is probably still quite lethal to Lao Guan who is half monster and half human.
This was probably the reason why Qiao Bie pounced on him in an instant.
But now we have found the reason why he pounced on us, but he has been unconscious for several hours.
Everyone in the room waited until the next morning, but the doctors who came with their instruments were unable to find out anything, so they all prepared to leave.
"Just let Qiao stay unconscious. We are not doctors or anything like that," Guan Hongyan was woken up from the sofa. She rubbed her face several times before speaking weakly, "Yun Guang, what should we do next?"
Now they can't enter the pseudo-human space, and the live broadcast going on in the novice village has nothing to do with everyone. It seems that there is nothing they can do except wait for fifteen days to be teleported away.
"Follow-up..." Yun Guang rubbed his temples, "Let's arrange the current affairs first. After our batch, it will be difficult for the foundation to squeeze in people."
The new fakes suddenly stabbed the investment bank in the back and blew up all the channels through which the novice village contacted the investment bank. It was impossible for the investment bank not to take some countermeasures.
Even without any news from the foundation, one can guess that it is impossible for the investment bank to send newcomers to the Novice Village in the next period of time.
The original purpose of the Novice Village was to allow fake people to copy newcomers. Now that the fake people have suddenly turned against us, there is no need for [Fei Ren Zai] to exist as a Novice Village.
This also means that for a long time, the Foundation may not be able to place people in the Novice Village. If it wants to destroy the fake human factory and completely abolish the Novice Village, it depends on the next preparations.
When they first attacked the investment bank's poison field, they had at least laid the groundwork for more than ten days. Now the live broadcast has only been connected for one day, and there is probably not enough time to ferment public opinion.
We can only pray that other organizations that are rivals of the foundation can step up and add fuel to the fire at this time.
"I'll go contact the foundation," Yun Guang glanced at his watch, feeling a little headache, and said, "I wonder if the accumulated live broadcasts for this day will be enough..."
"Bingqi?" He looked at Bai Jinshu.
"I'll go contact the Qin army," Bai Jinshu nodded, "After we leave, the matter of the pseudo-human space will depend on them."
The factories in the pseudo-human space are endless, and it will take more than a day or two to destroy all of them. After they all leave, only the Qin army will remain in the novice village.
Fortunately, there are still hundreds of thousands of people. Otherwise, if we rely on the few people coming in from the foundation, the destruction will take forever.
"Xiao Tang..." Bai Jinshu waved at Xiao Tang, "Do you remember how you entered the pseudo-human space before?"
Only more than 5,000 Qin troops have entered the subway so far, and the rest must rely on the door opened by the fog inside the subway to enter.
"Remember, remember," Xiao Tang jumped up from the sofa, full of energy, "Let's go, let's go and tell the Qin army how to enter."
Yun Guang and Bai Jinshu had all left. Guan Hongyan, who was left, stretched and sighed: "The others have left because they have something to do. What should we do then?"
"Uh...wait?" Xu Zichen yawned, "Hey, I'm not used to being idle all of a sudden."
During the first ten days in the Novice Village, everyone was in a hurry. Now that we are suddenly free, we really don’t know what to do.
After all, before, when people explored unknown spaces, they just filled in the rules and left. This is the first time that all the secrets in the space have been discovered, but people cannot leave.
"Why don't we go check on Hang Yiqing?" Guan Hongyan hesitated for a moment, "Did he go into Qiao Bie's room last night and never come out?"
Although she had only known these two people for a short time, she was indeed a little worried about their reactions after what happened yesterday.
"Ah...it seems so." Xu Zichen stood up and stretched, "Let's go."
Qiao Bie's room was actually in another building of the Qiao family, but the incident happened suddenly last night and everyone only had time to carry him to this villa. It was unclear why he was unconscious and the Qiao family did not dare to act on their own. The doctors who came and went and Qiao Bie stayed here all night.
Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan also stayed overnight.
When Guan Hongyan pushed the door, the room was already full of instruments. Hang Yiqing was lying on the bed with his head buried, seemingly asleep. Lao Guan looked up when he heard the door open, and when he saw it was Guan Hongyan and the others, he made a "hush" gesture and walked out quietly.
"Uh... let's come and see you guys," Xu Zichen pointed at the two people inside, "Is he okay?"
The reference of this "he" is unclear, and it is not clear whether the question is about Qiao Bie or Hang Yiqing.
Lao Guan shook his head: "Ah Qing stayed up all night last night and just fell asleep."
"Are you two okay?" Guan Hongyan gestured, "The gas yesterday..."
They speculated that Lao Guan, as a semi-ghost story, might be affected to a certain extent.
"We are all fine, but Ah Qing..." Lao Guan exhaled lightly, "He may not be able to react, he will be fine when he wakes up."
Guan Hongyan and Xu Zichen looked at each other, and neither of them wanted to take the initiative to talk about what this "no reaction" meant.
It would be a bit too inhumane to poke at someone's scars at this time. You can't just say bluntly "The child can't be alive, you two should stop dreaming" after Qiao Bie fainted while trying to save Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan, right?
"You two don't have to make such expressions." The two didn't say anything, but Lao Guan spoke first, "Do you mind if I smoke?"
"Don't mind, don't mind." The two shook their heads.
Lao Guan took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it and held it in his mouth for a long time before he slowly said, "I know that the person inside can't be a child."
"Maybe it's because I'm a half-ghost story. When I don't want to recall it, I rarely think about what happened before." He paused, "But Ah Qing often dreams about it."
Old Guan looked like he was treating Guan Hongyan and Xu Zichen like tree holes, so the two people who came to him on their own initiative could only listen.
"Ah Qing, you can actually forget these things," Lao Guan spoke vaguely, holding a burning cigarette in his mouth, "He should have vaguely mentioned it before. He forgot why he became a ghost story before he became violent. He was in pain because of forgetting, and because of forgetting, he forgot why he was in pain."
Hang Yiqing's pain is forgetting, and the way to solve the pain is to forget why he is suffering from forgetting, that is, to discard all his past and format it. After formatting, he got a new life.
If Qiao Bie had not appeared, he would not have been dragged back into the painful vortex of ghost stories.
"If he wanted, he could have abandoned this past and started a new life," said Lao Guan, his cigarette flickering in his hand, "but he didn't."
"You may think he is a bit... um, looking for a sword on a boat? Is that the idiom?" Lao Guan thought for a moment, and a rare unfamiliar expression appeared on his face. "You may think he is looking for the shadow of a child in Qiao Bie, and think that we can't tell whether our relatives are real or fake."
"No, no," Xu Zichen shook his head frantically, "We are just a little worried about your... physical condition."
"It's okay, we are very clear about the difference," Lao Guan said calmly. Perhaps cruel past events and time can indeed change people. Time can also smooth out all the unruly edges of a former Purple Street gang leader. "And you may not know much about it."
He pointed at Hang Yiqing and Qiao Bie who were lying in the room and said, "The call of 'brother' yesterday can allow Ah Qing to stay here for another ten years."
"Don't worry," Lao Guan said, the cigarette in his hand had only been smoked for a few puffs and had already burned to the end, "We will leave after he wakes up. If you are not worried about the follow-up matters in the pseudo-human space."
"You can also leave it to the two of us."
*
When Bai Jinshu and the others came back, they saw an empty room.
Qiao Bie lay quietly on the bed. The two people who had not slept all night last night had left, leaving only a cigarette butt still extinguished in the corner.
"Lao Guan said that after we leave, we can hand over the matter of the pseudo-human space to him," Guan Hongyan sat cross-legged on the sofa, supporting her face with her hands. "Xu Zichen and I asked him if he and Hang Yiqing were interested in living in the space organized by our organization after the pseudo-human space was completely resolved, but he refused."
Guan Hongyan looked quite depressed: "The Novice Village is already in tatters, and the pseudo-human space is gone. Why are they staying here?"
"Maybe they think... as long as they don't leave, they still have hope of finding the child if they stay," Xu Zichen flicked the straw in the Coca-Cola next to him, "after all, if they leave, they will really have nothing."
"Ah..." Guan Hongyan let out a breath without much interest, "It's not pleasant at all that the investment bank went bankrupt."
In her mindset, not to mention that the people in the foundation would destroy the entire investment bank with their divine weapons, she would have to at least be an undercover agent for ten years to finally reach the top and then point at the heads of everyone in this lousy organization and say, "You never expected that you have already been infiltrated by the foundation."
What is the situation now?
Apart from the investment bank being a real villain, she didn't know who to hate.
"Hongyan, this is just the early stages. You'll have your fill of fun later," Yun Guang came over from behind and said, revealing the essence of Guan Hongyan's lack of interest. "When the investment bank is completely ruined, all space ownership is transferred, and all employees are scattered, there will be plenty of fun for you to watch."
"Really?" Guan Hongyan raised her head with great interest, "How many times did Xu Zichen's enemies have to kowtow to us before we allowed them to enter the foundation?"
"Knocking a few times won't work. I only have a few enemies who are still alive today," Xu Zichen rolled his eyes and complained, "The first thing I will do when the time comes is to twist their heads off one by one."
"Then just knock it and twist it," Guan Hongyan waved her hand nonchalantly, "I didn't say you can definitely get in after knocking it, really."
As they chatted, the two stood up from the sofa and looked at Yun Guang: "What did the foundation say?"
"Newcomers will no longer enter the Novice Village," Yun Guang tapped a pile of documents in his hand, "Now the hacking of the live broadcast has been discovered by the investment bank, but it is not certain who did it for the time being."
When the wall falls, everyone pushes it. After the investment bank was exposed for the fake human space incident, other organizations also began to take action. The most obvious thing was that everyone posted the live broadcast of the investment bank on their own relevant websites, and all said with a unified voice that their websites had been hacked.
Needless to say, the investment bank was in a state of panic after the Pseudo-Human Space turned against it, and now it was being blamed by a bunch of friendly competitors. I guess the person in charge must be furious.
Thinking about the scene, Guan Hongyan gloated and laughed twice: "So what should we do now?"
"Wait," Bai Jinshu rubbed his forehead, "Everything that can be arranged has been arranged, just wait to leave."
He and Xiao Tang had just finished arranging the affairs of the Qin army. These soldiers were essentially transformed from terracotta warriors. They did not need to eat or drink and did not need to rest. They were simply the best laborers.
According to the area of the novice village, the area of the pseudo-human space is estimated. The factory in the pseudo-human space is not small, but with hundreds of thousands of troops, it will only take a dozen days to completely resolve it.
From a long battle that might have taken three or four months to a blitzkrieg that could be resolved in just a dozen days, the Foundation probably didn't expect it to be resolved so quickly.
After all, this large group of people had originally planned to stay undercover in the investment bank for years, but who would have thought that the biggest secret of this organization lay in the Novice Village.
"By the way, Xiao Shang is going to leave with us," Bai Jinshu added, "I originally planned to let him coordinate the Qin army here, but since Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan are willing to do this, Xiao Shang can leave with us."
Shang Yu, who kept saying that he was a temporary college student, had no idea how old he was. He simply said that as long as he didn't get a permanent job, he would be a college student. When he heard that he was leaving, he would hug his legs and demand to leave with him even if he got a permanent job.
The decline of the Novice Village has begun to show signs. Shang Yu is not stupid, so naturally he follows Bai Jinshu and the others to leave at this time.
In addition to Shang Yu, there are many others who are ready to leave with everyone. Other members of the foundation team have more or less made a lot of friends or received a lot of help in these fifteen days. Everyone tends to bring these people and the ghost stories that can go together to their own organizational space.
After all, as the heroes who tripped up the investment bank, the exploration team members who entered here still have some privileges.
The Foundation needs to go through a lot of procedures to rescue people. During the period before leaving, everyone was busy counting the friends who were willing to leave with them, and then reporting that Yun Guang was here. For a while, the Novice Village was in chaos, and some ghosts and humans who originally lived in the Novice Village disappeared without anyone noticing.
Everyone entered here in a different order. Bai Jinshu stayed here for a few days. The destruction of the factory in the pseudo-human space was ongoing, and the number of foundation members was decreasing day by day.
Just when the fifteen-day countdown for Yuan Shanming's team was about to end, he suddenly learned an unexpected news.
"Qiao Bie is dead?" Xiao Tang looked at Jin Ling in disbelief.
[Dead,] Jin Ling nodded, and the texts on the phone popped up one by one, [The Qiao family is in chaos, don’t you know? ]
"We...how do we know?" Xiao Tang twitched his lips and quickly pulled Bai Jinshu to his side. "Didn't you say that thing has no lethality to Qiao Bie?"
"I don't know either..." Bai Jinshu frowned, "What's the specific situation? Jinling, do you know the specific situation? Do Hang Yiqing and the others know?"
[I don't know,] Jin Ling shook her head, [I just heard it from a friend. He went to the capital of violence to find an old man who had helped him. He found out about it by accident. Why don't you go ask him?]
The friend Jin Ling mentioned was another member of Qirita. When Bai Jinshu went to ask about it, the other party only gave the answer "I don't know how Qiao Bie died, and the Qiao family didn't say, but I heard that he hasn't been buried yet, so I don't know the situation."
There was still about half a day left before leaving here, so Bai Jinshu and Xiao Tang discussed it and decided to go.
Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan were the key to their ability to bring down the investment bank. Now that Qiao Bie was dead, it was reasonable for them to go and see what was going on, even for the sake of these two people.
The capital of violence is still as chaotic as ever.
After several days of chaos, there were not many team members hiding here. The underground pipe they had passed through before was discovered by the fake people at some point. All the newcomers and team leaders inside who had no time to escape were killed by these fake people.
And this is the last carnival of these fake people.
When the investment bank goes bankrupt, these fake people will lose the institutions that have been keeping them alive, and they will die sooner or later.
The Qiao family did not look messy from the outside. When Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu walked to the door, the door actually opened automatically.
Standing at the door was the butler they had met before. He seemed to have been waiting for a long time. When he saw Bai Jinshu, he looked behind him, as if he was looking for someone.
"Guests..." He spoke again about guests, "Are there only a few guests coming?"
"You... knew we were coming?" Xiao Tang frowned.
"Are you looking for Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan?" Bai Jinshu asked more directly.
The butler paused for a while and said, "...So those two are called this name."
"Did you come here because you heard some news?" The butler asked as he walked in front, "About the death of the master of the house."
"Yes," Xiao Tang looked at the old man strangely, "No, what do you mean? Did he spread the news that Qiao Bie was not dead to deceive us?"
Otherwise why did he have such a strange attitude, as if he had known they were coming and was ready to open the door early.
"...That's not the case," the old man who led the way suddenly laughed, "The head of the family has indeed passed away."
"It's just that..." He paused, "Before he passed away, we got something from him. The head of the family specifically asked to give this thing to those two people."
"Isn't that for them? Why are you telling us?" Xiao Tang looked alert. "You don't want them to come and get it, do you?"
If she hadn't said so, she even suspected that Qiao Bie was killed by these two people! So don't let them come!
"Please be understanding of an old man," the butler smiled tolerantly at Xiao Tang's vigilance, "Let me finish what I'm saying."
Bai Jinshu: "...you say."
"I have met those two once before," said the butler.
He had met Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan once, when the Qiao family brought a group of people to Zi Street to "recognize their relatives".
At that time, the Purple Street kid was riding on the wall, not knowing what kind of life he was about to face or what kind of turning point it would bring.
The gang on Purple Street was burned down. There were many people like him who knew the identities of the kids on Purple Street, but there was no one who knew Qiao Bie's identity.
Or rather, there is only one.
"I already knew that the head of the family was not the child we brought back from Purple Street. They are completely different. That child was well-raised and would not do those things," the housekeeper smiled tolerantly, "but the Qiao family needs a head of the family, and so do I."
So this secret has been kept in his mind for so many years.
"After the master of the family died yesterday, his body mysteriously disappeared without a trace," the old butler said slowly as he walked. "On the bed, we only found a letter and a strange box."
"Is this it?" Bai Jinshu looked at the strange box in his hand.
"Yes," the butler put down the thing and opened the letter in his hand. "The letter said that this thing can only be handed over to them after those two people come. Others are not allowed to reveal anything."
"I helped the master keep it a secret for so many years," the old man lowered his eyes, "In the end, I still want to return this thing to his relatives. Please take it to those two."
He has lived for too many years. This world is not a safe place, and he knows a lot of its secrets.
The identities of the patriarch Qiao Bie and the kid from Zi Street no longer had any meaning at this point. The only moment he felt guilty was when he stood behind patriarch Qiao Bie and saw the two relatives of the kid from Zi Street.
"This thing..." After opening the box, Xiao Tang's eyes widened.
Bai Jinshu quickly closed the lid of the box and nodded to the butler in front of him: "We will take it back."
Bai Jinshu and the other two took the strange box back to the no-man's land and saw Hang Yiqing for the last time.
Hang Yiqing did not come out, and it was Lao Guan who came to see them.
"What's wrong?" Lao Guan looked strange, "Aren't you leaving soon?"
"There is something I want to give you." Bai Jinshu took the wooden box from Huai Jiamu and paused. "Qiao Bie died. He left no body. The Qiao family has no heir. The body of the head of the family is missing. There is a big mess."
"He..." Lao Guan paused, still didn't say anything, "Forget it, what is this?"
"Do you remember one thing?" Bai Jinshu did not answer Lao Guan's question, but suddenly mentioned, "When the kid went to the Qiao family to be the substitute young master, the Qiao family once took out a contract, which bound the souls of both parties. After signing, two copies were made. The Qiao family took one and you kept one."
"...What do you mean?" Lao Guan tightened his grip on the box and raised his head. "Is that the contract inside?"
"Yes, but that's not the point," Bai Jinshu paused, "You were able to hold on for so many years because you knew the child was not an ordinary person, right?"
Dai Quan said that the child was able to shield himself from the dead because he was born after his mother's death.
"Back then, the new mother of the investment bank who died during childbirth willingly gave her last breath to her child, pulling him back from the brink of death and giving him his first life. This child became an infant spirit that can shield the dead," Bai Jinshu said after carefully considering his words, bit by bit, "The contract involves the souls of both parties to the contract, so after □□'s death, his soul has never completely disappeared, but has unconsciously followed the person who replaced him..."
This is probably the reason why Qiao Bie is different from other pseudo-people and can return to the past in his dreams at midnight as if he were there himself.
Lao Guan was stunned. Bai Jinshu raised his head and spoke slowly, "Qiao Bie didn't have much time to live. He had been in the Novice Village for so many years, but he didn't submit any points to the Foundation to keep his life. He had planned to join the Novice Village as a bug when he was about to die, but after being attacked by the toxins in the pseudo-human space, his life came to an end. Before he died, he gave the child his last breath."
"Mother's love gave him his first life, and the Purple Street Gang and his two brothers in his memories gave him a second life. If the time is right," Bai Jinshu pointed to the box, "perhaps he will be conceived a second time."
Lao Guan was completely stunned.
Hang Yiqing, who heard the voice behind him, was also stunned.
The light was bright, and Bai Jinshu saw that his eyes suddenly turned red.
"Thanks……"
"No need to say that," Lao Guan was blocked by Bai Jinshu and Xiao Tang before he could finish his words. "The one you should really thank is yourselves."
If it weren't for those memories, if it weren't for the days and nights in Purple Street, Qiao Bie might not have made this choice at this time.
"How about it?" Xiao Tang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "After the matter of the pseudo-human space is resolved, are you interested in playing in the space of our organization?"
"The former boss of Xiao Shang has been found," Bai Jinshu added at the right time, "He has become an ordinary person. You know what this means, right?"
It means that he has transformed from a ghost story back to a human being.
"The temporary business manager Yu solved the pain and struggle of the Business All-Round Challenge that lasted for more than 300 sessions. The moment the challenge became profitable, he was freed," Bai Jinshu looked at the two men and the boxes in their arms, "You will also have this day."
Hang Yiqing didn't speak for a long time. He just looked at the contract in Lao Guan's hand silently. After a long time, the two turned around and left.
Bai Jinshu watched Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan walk away, carefully holding the lost and recovered seed, and suddenly thought of what a complicated and tangled moment it was when Qiao Bie made this choice before he died, and wrote that letter before he breathed his last, writing that he could only take the contract away when they learned of his death and came to see him in person.
"What do people call this feeling?"
"Hmm?" Huai Jiamu suddenly spoke.
Bai Jinshu then realized that he seemed to have accidentally said what he was thinking.
"Nothing," he replied.
"Qiao Bie?" Just then, he heard Huai Jiamu's voice, "It's a pity that you didn't get what you wanted until the end of your life."
He blinked slightly, said nothing, and just looked at the backs of Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan. Before entering the Novice Village, he had a strange and boiling fire burning in his heart, and when he left here, he...
"It should be called hope." He shook his head slightly.
The author has something to say:
The story in the Novice Village ends here. Like the spore memory, some subsequent explanations and unimportant foreshadowing will be recovered after returning to the Foundation. After all, there is still the pseudo-human space that has not been processed. According to the timeline, some information has not yet been discovered.
So Hantang couldn't wait to put on Xiaochu's new cover. Hehehe, new cover! Cyberpunk Cthulhu, here I come!
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