110 Ah Qing, the skeleton is your incarnation
Nothing will happen to me
Qi Qiuxue placed the bone knife against Simon's temples and loosened the chain a little, leaving a gap for him to speak.
The blade of the bone knife was incredibly sharp. If she applied even a little force, it would have pierced Simon's brain, killing him instantly. Simon didn't dare to refuse to answer. After a brief silence, he shook his head, "I don't know."
"What?" Qi Qiuxue frowned, not believing his words. "If you want to survive, I advise you to recognize the current situation. Lying will do you no good."
"I really don't know!" Simon raised his voice slightly. "It's true that this chip did exist, but that was twelve years ago!"
"You can look through my diary," Simon said. "Twelve years ago, I started experimenting the moment the original chip was born."
"But at that time, I was afraid of failure. To be on the safe side, my subordinates and I created hundreds of robots and made them the first subjects of our experiments. Thus began the first round of experiments."
"We wrote similar code for all of our test subjects, recording the reactions and thoughts of me, my subordinates, and hundreds of other humans into their databases. This gave them independent consciousness, allowing them to believe they were normal humans. We then implanted chips into their brain motherboards and set various restrictions and punishments to observe how they would react."
"What happens next?" Qi Qiuxue asked.
"Then the experiment went awry. The earliest batch of chips contained numerous vulnerabilities and flaws, some even unable to fully control the subjects' behavior. As time passed, the robots' minds became more sophisticated. They secretly gathered together and planned an uprising."
"They killed almost all of my men and destroyed various facilities and equipment, causing me heavy losses. We had no choice but to destroy them all."
"That original chip was probably completely destroyed by then." Simon took a deep breath and looked at Qi Qiuxue flatteringly. "I swear there wasn't a single lie in what I just said. Please let me go. I can give you everything you want except that chip."
“…”
How could it be that I didn't lie?
Qi Qiuxue was unwilling to believe this result. A scheming man like Simon would never easily hand over such an important chip. Qi Qiuxue stubbornly believed that he was hiding something from her. After a few seconds of silence, she finally took out another prop from her body.
[The Princess's poisonous insect.]
"Open your mouth." She pinched Simon's chin with her left hand and mercilessly pushed the insect into his mouth with her right hand, forcing him to swallow it. Then she looked at the man in front of her with cold eyes and said word by word, "Are you sure you are not lying?"
Simon was frightened by her eyes and swallowed silently: "I confirm."
One second, two seconds, time passed slowly, and the insect in his stomach did not react at all.
Simon was not lying. This was the final answer obtained after verification by the insect.
How is that possible?
Qi Qiuxue was stunned. She looked at the person in front of her in disbelief. If the initial chip had really been destroyed long ago and she could not obtain the data to crack other chips, then thousands of new humans in the town would be completely beyond salvation and would be trapped in hell forever, losing their freedom.
Time is running out for the Luck Potion.
After a brief silence, Qi Qiuxue slowly stood up. In fact, she could have just left with the data in the safe. The content recorded on it was enough for her to complete the task and pass the level smoothly. But when she thought of the wailing and bloody new humans in the punishment room, she finally decided to try harder.
There must be some clue she hasn't discovered.
What is it?
Qi Qiuxue tightened the chain again, restraining Simon on the ground, then came to the safe again and quickly browsed through the diaries and documents inside.
Not this, not this...
Unable to find any useful information in the file, Qi Qiuxue gave up exploring and turned her attention to the diaries filled with dense words. She focused on reading the contents from twelve years ago and what happened in the adjacent years.
The diary records many things, including the various experiments Simon has done and his various mental journeys. When he was young, he was not well fed or clothed, was bullied and suppressed, and did not receive any care or love. Under long-term repression, he gradually developed the idea of building a perfect world.
Like a seed, the idea took root and sprouted in his body.
Simon is a very intelligent man. Before becoming a scientist, he joined the army, fought in wars, and ran an extremely large business. He earned enough money to last him several lifetimes, but he was still not satisfied. His past experiences made him empty, and made him more paranoid and resentful, and eventually he became a devil.
The experiment began.
——Something seems wrong.
Qi Qiuxue frowned and read Simon's past experiences carefully again. He wrote down some of his experiences on the battlefield in his diary, including suffering, blood, tears, and scars.
His right hand had been stabbed by the enemy, with the skin and flesh turned inside out and blood flowing. There were not many good medical conditions on the battlefield, and even though it was sutured later, it still left a deep scar that has not healed even after many years.
scar.
Qi Qiuxue finally found the key information and suddenly turned around to look at Simon on the ground. Qi Qiuxue had noticed during the previous battle that the skin on the other party's hands was very smooth and there was no wound at all!
An idea popped up in Qi Qiuxue's mind. She immediately turned back quickly and squatted in front of Simon again to check the wound caused by the chain blade. There was only a hole the size of a fingernail and there was no blood at all. It was just because the color of Simon's clothes was as deep red as blood, which just covered up this fact and made her not notice it for a while.
Qi Qiuxue inserted her fingertips into his wound, and beneath the extremely realistic skin, she felt layers of cold steel plates.
“…”
Sure enough, it was not Simon, or rather, it was not the original Simon at all.
Perhaps Simon had already died in the robot uprising, and what was left behind was the robot that carried Simon's thoughts and the experimental subject that was not destroyed in the first batch of experiments. The overly perfect thinking system made it mistake itself for a human being, and even inherited Simon's will, continuing round after round of experimental research.
"I'm sorry." After realizing this, Qi Qiuxue took a deep breath, calmly raised the bone knife, and stabbed it into Simon's brain without hesitation. She cut open its skin and found what she wanted among the motherboards one by one.
The original chip engraved with the code.
The moment the chip was dug out, Qi Qiuxue heard a dripping sound coming from deep within its brain. It seemed that Simon had a self-destruct device programmed into his body, and the countdown was only twenty seconds.
Oh no!
It was obviously too late to leave. Qi Qiuxue pulled out the tablecloth as quickly as possible and packed up all the diaries and documents in the safe. Then she pierced the glass with a bone knife and jumped out of the window.
At this moment, an explosion sounded behind him. Qi Qiuxue was pushed far away by the air wave and fell from a high altitude at an extremely fast speed.
By some coincidence, she saw Li Yiqing hiding in the distance, and saw her anxiously stand up at the sound of the explosion, her eyes turning red in an instant.
Soon, something caught her.
Qi Qiuxue raised her lips and looked up. She was being held tightly in the arms of a huge skeleton.
"Ah Qing." Qi Qiuxue even called her name leisurely, "It's you, isn't it?"
"I've witnessed the entire process. The skeleton is your incarnation, and you can control it freely. Every time it appeared in the past, it was the result of your secret manipulation, right?" Her warm fingertips slowly stroked the skeleton's knuckles, her voice tinged with a hint of laughter and temptation. "Are you still hiding this from me now?"
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue was right. At this point, there was no need to hide anything anymore. This time, Li Yiqing took the initiative to reveal his identity in front of her. "Axue is right."
"It's very dangerous." She hugged the person in her arms tightly and landed slowly on the ground with an extremely stable posture. Because of the explosion, the facility behind her had already been in chaos, with people and horses falling to the ground.
But none of them paid attention. They just looked at each other and said, "What if you get hurt?"
"Aren't you still here?" Qi Qiuxue responded, "You said you would always protect me."
Li Yiqing: "What if, what if I don't make it?"
"It's okay." Qi Qiuxue smiled and raised the chain blade in her hand to show her, "Aliu's weapon can help me."
"Besides, the effect of the luck potion will last for another minute. I calculated everything before jumping out of the window. With triple insurance, nothing will happen to me."
【Author’s words】
Here I come! Woohoo, I updated so late today, sorry sorry
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