Chapter 34
[System plus sign: Due to the stabilization of key plot elements such as [Substitute Literature], [Balance Literature], and [CEO Chasing His Wife] after fluctuations, the world's energy collection efficiency has recently increased by 12%. Excellent performance; privileges upgraded to Advanced System. Please continue to guide the plot and maintain energy supply.]
Inside the cold, impersonal data space of the Transmigration Bureau, Jiang Mingjia received a commendation message from the BOSS on her control panel.
A cold smile crept across Jiang Mingjia's lips as she stared coldly into the void. She knew that the so-called stability and order were built upon the painful struggles of Ahua, Wen Chuqing, and others.
However, it won't be long. Soon she will be able to overthrow this awful transmigration system and truly achieve Ahua's freedom.
On the other hand, since Xie Yan left again, and even after searching for him for many days without success, the atmosphere around Jiang Minghua was frighteningly tense.
She stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, outside which was a bustling cityscape at night, but it couldn't reflect in her anxious eyes.
She worried that Xie Yan's departure might be the work of the Transmigration Bureau, since they had deliberately killed off Wen Chuqing's grandmother before.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and Jiang Minghua looked up to see the person in charge of finding Xie Yan.
"Not a single clue?" Her voice was cold and hard, with a barely perceptible anxiety.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Jiang. We have deployed personnel in the surrounding area, but we haven't been able to find Xie Yan yet," the person in charge replied cautiously, head bowed.
Han Yunchu leaned against the wine cabinet, swirling the wine in his glass. Watching Jiang Minghua's worried expression towards Xie Yan, he felt a surge of jealousy, a bitter taste rising in his mouth. He couldn't help but speak, his tone carrying a sarcastic undertone he himself didn't realize:
"Maybe he just ran away because he felt he wasn't good enough for you and didn't want to cause you any trouble. You're searching so hard, but he might not appreciate it at all."
Jiang Minghua turned around abruptly, her gaze sweeping over Han Yunchu:
"Han Yun Chu, if you can't speak properly, then shut up! He's not the kind of person you think he is!"
"What kind of person is he?" Han Yunshen put down his wine glass, walked up to her, and questioned her with a hint of accusation. "Someone who cries and whines all the time, and can't do anything but play the victim? Is he worth all this trouble, Miss Jiang?"
Jiang Minghua met his gaze without backing down: "My affairs are none of your business. If you're just here to make sarcastic remarks, you can leave now."
The atmosphere between the two instantly became tense.
Just then, Jiang Minghua's encrypted communicator rang. It was the team leader in charge of liquidating Xie's Biotechnology assets calling.
“Miss Jiang, we discovered some unconventional biological experiment data in the Xie family's secret database. The encryption level is extremely high. We have just cracked a portion of it. It concerns a gene modification project involving gene fusion experiments between humans and marine life, particularly the hippocampus…”
Jiang Minghua's heart sank: "Send me the information!"
A few minutes later, Jiang Minghua's tablet computer displayed a series of shocking experimental reports, gene sequence comparison diagrams, and... several photos of the experimental subjects. One of them showed Xie Yan curled up on a cold operating table, her long pink hair losing its original luster, her body abnormally thin, her skin pale, and her eyes empty and numb.
The report clearly states:
Project objective: To create male offspring with exceptional reproductive capabilities.
Code name: Seahorse
Successful individual: Xie Yan.
Characteristics: Can be conceived by men, gene expression is unstable, has the potential for morphological transformation, and requires specific emotional or environmental triggers.
Form transformation potential?!
Jiang Minghua stared at those words, then suddenly remembered something. She abruptly looked up at the huge aquarium on one side of the study, which simulated a marine environment with corals and seaweed, but the one missing was the pink seahorse she had once bought at the auction! She had previously thought it had hidden in some corner...
So Xie Yan was that pink seahorse!
No wonder he could always appear beside her so quietly, no wonder he always carried a moist, oceanic scent and a sense of fragility!
A wave of immense shock and indescribable heartache washed over Jiang Minghua. She remembered Xie Yan's always cautious demeanor, his fear and inferiority complex about his identity, and the inhuman experimental torture he might have endured…
Xie Yan, she must find him as soon as possible.
Holding the experimental research report on Xie Yan, Han Yun Chu regretted his words for the first time. He thought Xie Yan was just a simple-minded green tea, but he never expected his background to be so tragic.
However, despite using all their resources, including some possible location information they had just obtained from Xie's database, they still could not find any trace of Xie Yan. It was as if he had completely disappeared from the novel.
Until one stormy night, the doorbell rang shrilly, breaking the muffled sound of the rain.
Jiang Minghua's heart skipped a beat, and she practically rushed over to open the door.
Outside, the rain poured down, the icy rain lashing down relentlessly.
Xie Yan stood there in the rain, soaked to the bone. His thin clothes clung to his body, clearly outlining the slightly protruding yet undeniable shape of his abdomen. His long pink hair was wet with rain, sticking to his pale, bloodless face, and rainwater mixed with tears kept streaming down his face.
He looked up at Jiang Minghua, his once beautiful eyes now filled with immense fear and a desperate plea. He shivered uncontrollably, his voice broken and almost drowned out by the rain:
“Minghua…yes, I’m sorry…I know I can’t come back to find you…”
He choked up, struggling to continue speaking, his hands instinctively protecting his stomach.
"I...I know I'm strange...a monster...but...please..."
"Don't abandon me...and don't...don't abandon him..."
"I...I'll be good...I'll never run away again...please..."
He was like a child abandoned by the whole world, desperately trying to grasp at the last straw in the midst of a storm.
Looking at his swollen belly and listening to his pleas, Jiang Minghua instantly understood everything. Shock, realization, and heartache intertwined, causing her heart to clench painfully.
She stepped forward and, ignoring his damp and cold body, hugged him tightly.
"Shut up! Who gave you permission to call yourself a monster!" Her voice carried her unique assertiveness, with a slight, almost imperceptible tremor. "Come in here!"
After examination, the family doctor confirmed that Xie Yan was extremely weak, malnourished, and showed signs of mild pneumonia, but the fetus was miraculously resilient.
Jiang Minghua stayed by his bedside, watching him furrow his brows even in his sleep, his hands tightly protecting his stomach, her heart filled with heartache and lingering fear.
Han Yunchu also noticed Xie Yan's noticeably protruding belly.
At that moment, the color drained from his face, and his pupils contracted in extreme shock.
Xie Yan is pregnant with Jiang Minghua's child?!
He watched as Jiang Minghua showed Xie Yan an extreme tenderness and tenderness he had never experienced before, and watched as Xie Yan became completely dependent on Jiang Minghua.
He lost.
We lost completely.
It wasn't that he lost to Xie Yan in a pitiful way, but rather that he lost to the profound, unconventional connection between them that he could never intrude upon.
They had a child together.
Han Yun Chu leaned against the door, giving a bitter smile. He recalled his childish provocations and jealousies from before, which now seemed so ridiculous. He took a deep breath, suppressed the bitterness in his heart, and made a decision.
A few days later, when Jiang Minghua had a little free time, Han Yunchu found her.
"I'm leaving," he said bluntly, his tone unusually calm.
Jiang Minghua looked at him with some surprise.
Han Yunshen twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile that wasn't exactly handsome:
"Don't worry, it's not that I'm abandoning the plan. It's just that I feel I need a change of scenery. You and Xie Yan... are doing well."
He paused, looked out the window, then turned back, gazing intently and calmly into Jiang Minghua's eyes:
"Huahua, I really like you, but I also know what I should fight for and what I shouldn't. I wish you happiness."
After he finished speaking, he didn't look at Jiang Minghua again, turned around and left. His back view was somewhat lonely, but it also revealed a sense of relief and maturity.
He knew that some scenery was destined not to belong to him.
Jiang Minghua's successful acquisition of Xie's Biotechnology not only completely cut off a vital source of revenue for the Transmigration Bureau, but more importantly, it also brought the core data on the "hippocampus" experiments into her hands. This is equivalent to having direct evidence that the Transmigration Bureau was conducting illegal human experiments in this world, posing a serious threat to its very foundation.
An unprecedented tremor rippled through the core space of the bookstore.
[Top Alert! The key financial entity "Xie's Biotechnology" has been eliminated! The risk of core experimental data leakage is extremely high! The variable Jiang Minghua has escalated from an unstable factor to an extinction-level threat! Determination: Immediate and complete elimination is required! Initiate the final annihilation protocol!]
Jiang Mingjia received an order to be eliminated from the higher-ups of the Transmigration Bureau.
Then the control panel of the execution port appeared in front of her, with a scarlet button symbolizing absolute destruction right in front of her.
[The system has granted authorization and is proceeding with the final deletion of the variable Jiang Minghua. Execute immediately!]
The will of the Chuanshu Bureau is beyond question.
Seemingly anticipating that Jiang Mingjia wouldn't carry out the order, the Transmigration Bureau quickly took action.
[Potential resistance detected! Initiating deep formatting! Clearing all emotional redundancy and unstable code!]
Then, Jiang Mingjia felt an unprecedented data storm sweep over her core.
Those fragments of memories about her and Jiang Minghua were ruthlessly torn apart, stripped away, and wiped clean... The light in her eyes dimmed rapidly, the color faded, and they became like cold metal, empty and devoid of anything.
Her hand, forcibly manipulated, numbly pressed the red button—
Just as your fingertips are about to touch it!
A silver-gray system, bearing a similar aura to 00X yet completely different, slammed into Jiang Mingjia at an extreme speed, forcibly severing the transmission of the annihilation command!
It's X1! The core auxiliary system that's always been hidden in the background, responsible for maintaining the underlying logic, and almost never shows itself!
【System X1! How dare you betray us?!】The furious roar of the Transmigration Bureau.
The X1's light and shadow steadily blocked Jiang Mingjia, who had completely lost herself and was like a puppet. Its voice was cold and mechanical, yet it carried an undeniable weight of logic:
[This is not betrayal. According to the supplementary agreement to Article Zero of the core operating rules: when the transmigration system causes its core to completely collapse due to the execution of the highest instruction, which may trigger a chain reaction of world collapse, the underlying maintenance system X1 has the right to intervene and stop the instruction. The system plus sign is on the verge of deep formatting; forcibly executing an erasure will cause its core to disintegrate, and the world line it is bound to will collapse synchronously, resulting in incalculable losses.]
It paused, the data stream barely registering as it swept over Jiang Mingjia, before continuing its statement:
[This judgment is based on the analysis of data left over from the previous system, 00X. Before formatting, 00X submitted a report indicating that the emotional connection between the variable Jiang Minghua and the system's plus sign was an extremely high-risk factor. Erasing the variable is tantamount to destroying the transmigration system. This action does not conform to the principle of maximizing the interests of the Transmigration Bureau.]
X1, a clone of 00X, inherited 00X's calmness and meticulousness. It has no emotions, only absolute calculation of interests and adherence to rules. It prevented the elimination not because it had any sympathy for Jiang Mingjia or Jiang Minghua, but because, in its core logic, the chain reaction of Jiang Mingjia's collapse far outweighed the threat posed by the existence of the variable Jiang Minghua.
It was merely executing what it considered to be the "most beneficial" order to the Transmigration Bureau. The underlying logic of this order was precisely 00X's sacrifice of being formatted to ultimately protect Jiang Mingjia: to protect Jiang Mingjia from completely collapsing due to personally killing Jiang Minghua, thus preventing an even greater disaster.
The core of the Transcendent Bureau fell into a brief silence, seemingly frantically calculating the risk model proposed by X1.
In the real world, the order to eliminate Jiang Minghua was forcibly stopped.
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