Chapter 61 Dual Worlds
"Where exactly are you taking me?" Song Wangyuan finally couldn't hold back and asked as the scenery outside the car became increasingly desolate.
Xin Que frowned, pondering the meaning of that sentence.
Is chenzheng a guide?
Chen Zheng? If it's him, what guidance could he offer?
She suddenly remembered the plot hints that hadn't appeared for a long time.
Not only have the plot hints disappeared for a long time, but the feeling of being forcibly bound to Luo Huayi also did not appear at the manor.
Has the plot already abandoned her character, or...?
Xin Que was in the center of the fog, unable to see her situation or the road ahead.
A moment of silence fell over the car.
This silence, in Song Wangyuan's eyes, was a blatant and deadly threat.
After a long while, Xin Que finally spoke calmly, "Come with me to the tollbooth."
Song Wangyuan immediately heard the alarm bells ringing.
Did Chang Qin intend to kidnap him and take him to another place by going to the toll station?
Song Wangyuan immediately tensed up.
Xin Que noticed that Song Wangyuan was trying to grab the steering wheel, and quickly blocked his hand. "Sit still and I won't do anything to you!"
Song Wangyuan didn't believe him. "You're about to take me to the tollbooth, why should I believe you?!"
Xin Que "..."
Fortunately, there weren't many cars on the road, and the road conditions were relatively smooth. Xin Que held Song Wangyuan with one hand and controlled the steering wheel with the other, and they drove into the toll station without any major incidents.
When the plot once again reversed the space and sent her back to the road leading into the city, Xin Que's expression was extremely unpleasant.
She stopped in the emergency lane, gripping the steering wheel tightly, seemingly lost in thought.
Song Wangyuan was somewhat surprised that Xin Que hadn't taken him out of the tollbooth. He was also surprised by the man's strangely trustworthy behavior.
Xin Que stared at the road illuminated by the car headlights through the car window, her expression gloomy.
wrong.
The last time I drove out of the toll station with Xin Xin, the plot first controlled the heavy rain to hinder us, and when we got to the toll station, because there was Xin Xin in the car, the time of the spatial change was extended to two or three seconds.
But today, as she drove out of the toll station with Song Wangyuan, the weather changes disappeared, and the time of spatial changes was compressed to the brief moment when Xin Que first tried to leave.
The changes in the tollbooth space this time were exactly the same as when she first tried to leave.
Why?
Is it because the role of Song Wangyuan is not as significant as that of Xin Xin?
Looking at the details of the spatial changes, this space did not change in the slightest because Song Wangyuan was in Xin Que's car.
Compared to Xin Xin, whose role is less significant, Xin Que's intuition tells her that Song Wangyuan... has no weight whatsoever in the eyes of the plot.
Xin Que recalled the synopsis of the tragic novel she had initially received from the plot: the male supporting character Song Wenxian was the only member of the Song family, and the character Song Wangyuan never appeared from beginning to end.
Xin Que turned to look at Song Wangyuan.
Song Wangyuan's bewildered expression seemed no different from that of an ordinary person to Xin Que.
If there's something wrong with his existence, how could other characters naturally have a connection or understanding with Song Wangyuan?
Song Wenxian hated his adopted brother to the core, Xin Xin was indifferent to the worthless Song Wangyuan, and Chen Zheng and Ji Mingchuan were loyal to him...
Song Wangyuan's past experiences can also be found in the media, and these details all prove the authenticity of Song Wangyuan's existence.
Song Wangyuan felt a chill run down his spine under Xin Que's gaze, and he couldn't help but lean back. "What do you want to do? Silence me?"
Xin Que turned around, started the car, and drove away. "Don't worry, I won't harm you."
Song Wangyuan was still somewhat dazed when he was placed in a roadside fast food restaurant.
Chang Qin really kept his word and didn't do anything to threaten him.
When Chen Zheng arrived, he saw Song Wangyuan sitting in front of the island counter by the floor-to-ceiling window, with an untouched single-person hamburger meal in front of him.
"Where's Chang Qin?" Chen Zheng and Ji Mingchuan breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Song Wangyuan was not injured, but their tension quickly returned. "Young Master, should we call the police and issue an arrest warrant for him?"
Song Wangyuan stared at the single-person set meal in front of him, and then recalled Xin Que's relaxed manner when she packed her own portion, as if she had come in just to buy dinner.
"No need." For some inexplicable reason, Song Wangyuan refused Chen Zheng's suggestion.
"He... meant me no harm."
I can't explain why I have this judgment; it's like an intuition etched into my bones, or a trust that comes out of nowhere.
Xin Que leaned against the wall in the shadows and heard Chen Zheng and Ji Mingchuan talking as they helped Song Wangyuan into the car at the entrance of the fast food restaurant.
If her deduction is correct, then the direction that the "human nature gibberish" refers to, "Chenzheng is the guide," should be Song Wangyuan, Chen Zheng's loyal boss.
Could she interpret this as her being able to obtain some useful information from Song Wangyuan?
Although the garbled humanoid code was bizarre, Xin Que inexplicably felt that it was more trustworthy than the plot.
because……
Amidst the dark, chaotic, humanoid gibberish, Xin Que caught a fleeting glimpse of the number 13 as a watermark.
...
[Automatic alerts issued by AI]
[#Program Error]
[Automatic AI alert cancellation.]
[No administrator intervention is required.]
"Administrator, what just happened?" The staff member, wearing a jacket and overalls, glanced at the floating display screen that had returned to normal, but was drawn to the abruptly stopped warning.
A mechanical voice came from the machine in front of us: "[Full database scan confirmed. The AI in charge mistakenly identified a normally functioning program as a virus, issuing an error warning.]"
The staff were having a headache. Everything about the mental prison was handled with utmost care, and this misjudgment meant they had to work overtime to review and verify the system logs related to the error.
"Engineer Yu!" he called to the engineer in the break room over the walkie-talkie, "Get Engineer Wang here, we have work to do."
Soon, a man in the same uniform arrived at the control room with his assistant. When he saw the densely packed system logs on the screen, he was utterly bewildered.
"The administrator AI's check result is a misjudgment?" Engineer Yu asked his colleague on duty while checking.
"Hmm," a colleague handed Yu a cup of coffee, "Just accept your fate and work overtime, otherwise we'll lose our performance bonus this month."
Engineer Yu and Engineer Wang sighed repeatedly.
"However, the administrator AI has never made a mistake since it was put into use," Engineer Yu reassured his colleague while scrolling through the logs. "Don't worry, there won't be any problems."
"Oh, right," the colleague suddenly remembered something, stopped what he was doing and looked at Engineer Yu, "The Huo family sent someone today to ask about the progress of the interrogation of the 13th serious offender."
Engineer Yu shrugged and said, "Asking me is pointless. I'm only in charge of system maintenance. Only the AI administrator and the warden have permission to view the interrogation progress."
The colleague became increasingly worried. "Anyway, I heard from the guards who work with the warden that the progress isn't looking good... Oh no, are we going to have to work overtime again next month to revise the plan?"
The system log gradually scrolled down on the three floating display screens, and after a long time, it finally stopped at the prisoner information section.
Xin Que's ID photo was prominently displayed in the upper left corner of the document.
[Code 13, Xin Que.]
[Level: Core Serious Offender]
[Status: AI-hosted/Interrogation in progress.]
"Phew," the group of people who had thoroughly checked the logs breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily it was just a misjudgment by the AI in charge, we can finally relax."
The group pushed aside their empty coffee cups and left the control room, chatting and laughing.
"So, what kind of testimony does the Huo family want to get from this woman after going to all this trouble?"
"Isn't her death sentence a foregone conclusion?"
"It would make them go to great lengths to get this death row inmate into a mental prison..."
"Didn't you see the news? This woman was able to orchestrate the massacre of the Huo family all by herself. She must have obtained something extremely important from the Huo family, or she must know something about the Huo family's weaknesses..."
The door to the control room slowly closed, shutting the dormant floating display screen behind it.
The two-meter-high floating display screen disappeared into the darkness, and after the room became completely silent, the screen suddenly lit up for a moment.
[Virus initiation—]
Lines of code flashed across the screen, and soon, a loading completion message flickered for a moment before the screen went dark again.
Silently.
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