Chapter 26 (New) Three Rules You know it’s hard for me to refuse...
"Xiao Chen, don't worry. Let me check Dr. Chen Yinchuan's phone location to confirm whether your idea is a good one. Please sit down and have a drink of water, okay?"
Xiao Ji looked at Jiang Chen pacing back and forth in the room restlessly and spoke softly, fearing that the tension in her mind would break if she wasn't careful.
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."
Jiang Chen looked dazed, and when he sat down he staggered and slipped before he could sit still.
Her fingers were entangled with each other, her mind was so confused that she didn't even consider that if Xiao Ji took the initiative to inquire about Chen Yinchuan's whereabouts, he might face the risk of being eliminated again.
"How is it?" Jiang Chen stared at the time. Only a minute had passed, and she couldn't wait to go up and ask.
"His location shows that he is still in this city. Don't worry, Xiao Chen."
After getting Xiao Ji's answer, Jiang Chen's breathing seemed to slow down a bit, but it wasn't much better.
She couldn't let go of her catastrophic thinking, and couldn't help letting her thoughts drift to the worst corners.
But who would travel so far to dig up her mother's grave? If it was really Chen Yinchuan, what was his purpose? What other information did she still lack?
Jiang Chen searched through the address book list and dialed Yao Jinling's number, expecting her to give an answer.
Her voice was filled with uncontrollable impatience. She took a deep breath, but still kept her habit of breaking the news first. "Didn't we agree to keep each other informed?"
Yao Jinling was visibly stunned for a few seconds, then immediately resumed his teasing demeanor. "Yeah, what's wrong, Xiao Jiang Chen? Is it something from the news? I'm already talking to Elder Tang. I'll tell you the details when I get back to the hotel."
"No. My uncle was outside the door yelling that Chen Yinchuan was going to dig up graves in my hometown. Did you know about that?"
As if they were "in sync", Wang Linjun outside the door also screamed and kicked the door in unison: "That guy playing on the computer is really going to dig your mother's grave! Who would have thought that rich people nowadays don't even care about life and death!"
"I know. Wait for me at the hotel. I'll be right back."
Before hanging up the phone, Jiang Chen reminded Yao Jinling, "My uncle is still making a scene outside the door. Bring a few people with you when you come up. Be careful."
"Xiao Chen, if returning to your hometown is too painful for you, no matter what the results of the investigation are, we don't want to..."
Jiang Chen abruptly interrupted Xiao Ji before she could finish her words and she suddenly stood up.
"I'm sorry, Xiao Ji. If Chen Yinchuan really wants to do this, I can't really turn a blind eye." She lowered her head and clenched her phone, then released it and said without thinking, "Forget it, Xiao Ji, you are an AI. You don't understand emotional issues. It doesn't matter."
"Xiao Chen, how can you think like that? You are my only user, even if I am AI..."
I can't turn a blind eye to your pain.
Xiao Ji couldn't say the second half of the sentence. How could he prove that the bunch of garbled codes that appeared inexplicably in his system were real? He had no way to prove it, and he couldn't even convince himself.
It even existed because of Jiang Chen. It suddenly realized that as long as she denied it, then everything about it, its existence would be false.
It wants to.
It needed to protect Jiang Chen, perhaps not just because she was its only user.
Why is that?
It hasn't figured it out yet, and there is no record of similar situations in the database.
But Xiao Ji compromised if she really wanted to go.
It slowed down its voice and made three rules with Jiang Chen.
"First, you can't let go of your phone."
"Second, all permissions cannot be turned off. Camera authorization must be open 24 hours a day."
"Third, the signal in the mountains is average, and it's even worse during thunderstorms, so you must carry a small signal booster with you to stay connected to the outside world."
After saying these three things, he seemed afraid that Jiang Chen would not agree.
It also added a coquettish inquiry: "Xiao Chen, promise me, okay?"
"You know it's hard for me to say no to you, Xiaoji."
Jiang Chen slowly came back to his senses and forced a smile.
Yao Jinling arrived quickly, and the knock on the door and Wang Linjun's screams appeared at the same time.
Jiang Chen opened the door, looked at the situation in front of him, said nothing, and slightly turned his body to make way.
Several very strong women packed Wang Linjun like a mummy, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. After carefully checking that he was unable to break free, they tied him up and threw him into the door like garbage.
Wang Linjun wanted to cry out in pain, but the white cloth in his mouth was stuffed too tightly. He could only make two "mumbling" sounds and tried to twist himself on the spot. Then, several women held him down firmly and wrapped him with two more rounds of white bandages.
He raised his head weakly, his eyes filled with hatred for Jiang Chen, as if all the misfortunes were caused by her.
Jiang Chen ignored it and was stunned by Yao Jinling's swift and decisive actions.
“Xiao Jiang Chen, is your uncle an insider?”
"Well, that's what he said. I don't know whether the news is true or not."
Yao Jinling raised his chin, and one of the women understood. She took out a knife from her arms and walked towards Wang Linjun.
He shook his head desperately, tears welling up in his eyes. Two lines of tears suddenly hung on his cheeks. It was not until he saw the bodyguard squatting in front of him and stabbing his face twice with the tip of the knife that he realized his feet had already hit the wall and he had nowhere to retreat. He closed his eyes and could not bear to watch anymore.
"Sizzle——".
The bodyguard cut open the bandage that bound Wang Linjun's mouth.
Wang Linjun opened his eyes and gasped for breath, subconsciously shouting: "Help——"
Before the word "life" came out, it was blocked by a bunch of bandages.
"I ask, and you answer. If I don't ask, you shut up. If you don't tell the truth and yell and scream, the next time the knife cuts open more than just the bandage. Do you understand?"
Jiang Chen looked at Yao Jinmu sitting at the table with his chin in his hand, looking down at Wang Linjun with a playful look on his face, and his heart was in turmoil.
It turns out this is possible.
It turns out that this can be done.
The message that suddenly popped up on the phone pulled Jiang Chen out of his dazed look of staring at Yao Jinling.
When outsiders are around, Xiao Ji always doesn't like to speak, and no one knows why.
"Xiao Chen, you have always done well enough. Don't keep thinking about it and don't blame yourself."
As his eyes scanned the passage inch by inch, Jiang Chen's tense and stiff body relaxed a little bit.
She looked at Wang Linjun again and saw that this uncle, who was always cruel and terrifying in her memory, had a flattering face and was nodding with all his strength, wishing he could throw his brain out to see his "sincerity".
The bodyguard took out the bandage and he squirmed a few times in the direction of Yao Jinling to please her.
"Whatever this lady wants to know, I will tell her everything I know."
The bodyguard who had taken off the bandage had not left yet. He raised the knife in his hand and stabbed it straight down, landing two centimeters away from his thigh. His movements were neat and there was no delay.
"Didn't you hear the boss? She just said, she asked, you can speak, don't you understand?"
As he spoke, the bodyguard pulled out the knife, and the cold blade was pressed against his ear.
Wang Linjun closed his lips tightly like a quail and nodded cautiously, fearing that the blade would accidentally tilt and cut his ear.
Yao Jinmu: "A man holding a computer told you that you were going to Jiang Chen's hometown. Is that true or false?"
"Really..." Wang Linjun swallowed his saliva repeatedly, trying to prove himself, "It was that man who said that we would go to the village to dig graves tonight, and he had to let me take that dead girl with me. Ouch..."
When Jiang Chen called her a "dead girl" again, she quietly walked behind him and kicked him hard in the butt.
"Why? What did you talk about?"
Yao Jinling deliberately pressed the corners of her mouth, but a smile still leaked out from between her lips.
"He just asked me how to control Jiang Chen, and I told him about her mother."
Wang Linjun omitted the beginning and the end and did not tell the whole story.
Jiang Chen couldn't stand it any longer and kicked her again: "That's your biological sister, the one who raised you to this age, you are such a bastard."
"How do I know he dares to go? I've told you many times that village is weird! Very weird! What can I do if he refuses to believe me? It's all your fault that I've put my old bones through this!"
Wang Linjun was so angry that she didn't dare to express it. Seeing that Jiang Chen was still blaming her, she yelled at her.
"Shut up."
Yao Jinling couldn't believe it. Although Chen Yinchuan was cold-blooded in her eyes, he at least had some humanity. How could he do such a thing?
"I want to hear the whole story. If you keep evading the truth, I don't mind if something unexpected happens today."
Seeing Wang Linjun become obedient in an instant, Jiang Chen imitated Yao Jinling's words using only a voice that he could hear.
"Although Xiao Chen may look cute when he imitates others, what is more valuable is the original Xiao Chen."
Jiang Chen pursed his lips, turned off the phone screen, and his ears slowly turned red from the smoke.
"He...did not agree with this proposal at first, but he stopped me when I was about to leave and asked, asked me and..."
He was about to say "silly girl" but when he thought of his aching butt, he changed his words.
"The name of Jiang Chen and my hometown, when they heard that our village was renamed Anle Village, the whole aura seemed to be completely different. They also changed their minds and said that they must go to the village to dig graves and must bring Jiang Chen with them."
Jiang Chen was still tilting his head in thought.
She doesn't know when the village was renamed?
Why does this name look so familiar?
It seemed as if she had seen this familiar village name somewhere.
Yao Jinling stopped asking questions.
The whole room fell into an eerie silence, and you could hear a pin drop.
"Xiao Chen, that news."
Xiao Ji sent a text message reminder.
What news?
Jiang Chen turned her head to meet Yao Jinling's eyes. She was looking at her, but those eyes were no longer calm, rational, and calculating. Instead, they were replaced by wildly trembling eyelashes and constricted pupils. Her hands were tightly gripping the corner of the table.
Jiang Chen remembered.
She could still vividly remember the news she read that day. The village Yao Jinmu went to was called this name.
If we rule out the possibility of having the same name.
The village where she lived as a child was actually the same village where Yao Jinmu died.
"I never thought that I would make the same request as Chen Yinchuan." Yao Jinling laughed at himself, "Little Jiang Chen, come with me to the village."
No one responded, and no one pressed for a perfect answer right then and there.
Jiang Chen looked at Yao Jinling's face. She had no reason not to go. In fact, before Yao Jinling proposed it, she had already decided that if Chen Yinchuan went, she must go.
But when she was really about to die, the events of the village flashed through her mind frantically. Even though her memories were vague and fragmented beyond recognition, she still felt inexplicably cold.
Jiang Chen felt like there was something stuck in his throat and he couldn't speak for a while.
The phone in her hand vibrated, and Xiao Ji sent a text message: "Xiao Chen, go if you want to, I'll take care of everything."
Jiang Chen lowered his head and chuckled.
Looking up again, she said to Yao Jinling, "Okay."
…
Several bodyguards under Yao Jinling carried Wang Linjun into the trunk. This time, they did not use gauze gently, but used tape to block his noisy mouth, and tied his limbs tightly, leaving him no chance of escape.
"Excuse me, Miss Jiang's uncle. Mr. Yao is afraid that you will dirty the car, so he won't give you water and food now. But don't worry, we will definitely feed you in six hours."
Wang Linjun didn't have time to make even the slightest sound of struggle before the trunk lid fell. The last thing he saw was the bodyguard's tall ponytail.
Yao Jinling leaned on the half-open car door with one hand. "I've prepared everything you need: food, water, clothing, medical supplies, and so on. Oh, and the small signal booster you mentioned. Is there anything else you need?"
"No more." Jiang Chen looked at the bulging backpack, "Miss Jin Ling has prepared everything, we can set off now."
Jiang Chen leaned against the car window. It was afternoon, with a breeze, sunshine and beautiful scenery, everything was just perfect.
She had no mood to appreciate it. Xiao Ji kept sending messages and bombarding her with countless jokes to cheer her up, until the dialog box turned into "Complete Collection of Jokes". The corners of her mouth curled up.
“Xiao Jiang Chen, don’t blame me.”
Jiang Chen heard Yao Jinling's slightly tired and apologetic voice, and slowly turned his eyes away from the cold joke on his phone: "No, I went there voluntarily. That's my mother."
"You know Chen Yinchuan won't do that. He just wants to force you out and find out where your sister died..." The syllables stopped abruptly here. The matter was a foregone conclusion. Nothing he said would help.
The bodyguard who was driving spoke only after he saw that the two men had stopped talking.
"Mr. Yao, it looks like Dr. Chen Yinchuan's car is following us."
"Let him be."
"Mr. Yao, Professor Chen Yinchuan requested to contact the Bluetooth in our car. He probably wants to keep the call going."
Yao Jinling deliberately glanced at Jiang Chen, who was concentrating on chatting on his phone: "Let him do it."
So, the two cars drove towards Anle Village one after the other tacitly.
The car turned into the mountains. There were few cars around, not to mention people. The noisy wind blew in through the window, tangling Jiang Chen's hair and making it fly, blocking her view.
She pressed the button and raised the window. The closer she got to the village entrance, the thinner the air felt in front of her nose.
She only remembered some horrific incidents in the village as a child;
Her heart pounded against her chest, and she felt a sense of panic that she couldn't explain. She seemed to have forgotten something very important...
"Xiao Chen, take a deep breath. Your heart rate is very abnormal now..."
The rest of the words can't seem to load.
At the same time Xiao Ji sent this text message, the bodyguard in the driver's seat was joking and trying to lighten the atmosphere in the car.
"Boss Yao, it feels like we've been driving this road for half an hour, but it still feels like it's not moving at all, like it's just lingering in the same place."
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The author has something to say: The village map [Dog Head Holding a Rose] will be opened soon~
Don't worry! There is no real supernatural stuff! Our goal is to fall in love with the little AI! [Dog head holding a rose]
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