Confrontation
With Mu Qingyan's memory, she could remember the map completely after just one look, and she did not encounter any obstacles on her way to rescue people.
It makes sense. Since he can come up with this game, it means that the other party doesn't care about the process at all and only wants the result. He knows in his heart that Mu Qingyan's emotional balance is already the biggest obstacle on her way to her goal.
Mu Qingyan didn't want to delve into all these twists and turns. She did hesitate for a long time before leaving the room, but she never stopped after that.
It would normally take half an hour to find someone, but it only took her 20 minutes to reach the designated location on the map.
The pure white alloy door slid open to both sides, and Mu Qingyan stepped in.
It was a large room, a bit like her laboratory. The center of the room was surrounded by glass on all four sides, and it was pitch black inside and impossible to see through.
The next second, the lights in the room suddenly lit up. Mu Qingyan walked over step by step, as if there was a thousand-pound weight on her shoulders. When she could see clearly what was behind the glass wall, she slowly knelt on the ground.
The glass curtain wall slowly retracted to the ground, leaving her no time to think. She almost stumbled and fell in front of the laboratory table.
——Above is the skeleton of Kins, which has been torn into pieces.
There is indeed a difference between seeing it in photos and witnessing it with your own eyes.
Mu Qingyan's hand stroked the cracked protoplasm inch by inch, and she seemed to be able to remember where it was damaged and where the cluster wires had been replaced.
Moreover, Kins did not lose his color after death like humans. His handsome face was still vivid, but he could no longer open his light brown optical glasses to look at her.
Mu Qingyan only felt that everything in front of her eyes was blurry. She held her heart and took deep breaths for a long time before she suppressed the feeling of wanting to vomit.
The camera captured her actions clearly. The person on the other end seemed to finally be having some fun. The voice above her head rang out again—
"It seems that you like this robot more than Kinsley."
Mu Qingyan's body was shaking, and her voice was shaking too:
"You don't just want to see who I choose? Is Xiao Yin here too?"
The appeal of this game is that it allows Kinsley to witness with his own eyes who his beloved girl will choose.
The wall lamps at the four corners of the ceiling turned on one by one, and the brightness of the entire laboratory gradually increased. Soon, it was as bright as day.
The white wall on the right gradually became transparent, and it was obvious that there was another room hidden there.
Mu Qingyan turned around and saw Kinsley, who was sitting in a wheelchair, being pushed over by the robot behind him.
"Xiao Yin..."
There were still traces of tears on that weak and pale face. Mu Qingyan looked at him through the transparent wall and saw the disbelief and despair that could hardly be concealed in those eyes.
"Yanyan..." The voice was a little distorted because of the presence of the glass, "Why...why...you gave up on me again..."
——For the third time, she gave up on him.
"No...Xiao Yin...it's not like that..."
She couldn't bear to see her little Yin showing that expression, but what was the point of explaining any more?
"Why did you abandon me...why did you never choose me..."
Mu Qingyan suddenly remembered that when she came back to see Kinsley with injuries, the other party had said something similar.
Why did she always have so much to do? Why was Kinsley always last in line? Why couldn't he even know about the injury?
Why? Why?
More and more voices emerged from the depths of his mind. There was Xiao Yin, who was forcibly taken into the car by the group of men in black when he was a child, calling for help, and there was also Kinsley, who had grown up after meeting him again, questioning...
Mu Qingyan felt a splitting headache and the guilt in her heart was about to crush her.
Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she ran towards Kinsley and pounded her fists against the wall.
The coffee spoon made of special material came in handy. With a buzzing sound, the glass shattered.
And behind that, there was nothing but emptiness, no one was there, only the fragments on the ground flashing with faint blue light, as if trying to re-form a complete picture.
It's all fake, just to see her lose her composure like this.
"Kinsley…is he okay?"
"He's still alive. Don't worry, I'll let you see him. Why don't we play another game—"
"Before that, you didn't dare show up and let me see you?"
"Oh, young lady, it's not time yet. I think you'd better—"
"I'm not talking about Lawrence Bedford."
“…”
The voice suddenly stopped, which almost confirmed her guess. Mu Qingyan let out a breath and stood up with the help of the wall. She didn't care much about the scratches on her palms caused by the remaining glass shards.
After just a few words, her distraught look disappeared and she returned to her original calm and indifferent self.
"It's already this late, can't you talk to me face to face?"
She looked up at the ceiling, laughed softly, and slowly pronounced the name—
"Kins?"
After a moment of silence, the laboratory table in the center began to move until it sank into the ground. Then, a door at the back of the room opened and familiar footsteps were heard.
"Yan, long time no see."
All the prayers were in vain. Mu Qingyan looked at Kins who was intact in front of her. He still had the same gentle temperament and the same warm and tolerant eyes, but she only felt an oppressive chill penetrating into every limb.
He pressed his sharp nails against the wound on the palm of his hand with all his strength, but there was nothing he could do. It did not relieve the pain of his heart being pulled.
The pain was so severe that she could hardly stand.
"Yan, don't cry, come and sit here."
Mu Qingyan only noticed the tears when they dripped onto the back of her hand. She wiped them away casually, ignored the hands stretched out to her, and walked over to find a comfortable-looking chair to sit down.
"When did you decide it was mine?"
"Now?"
Kins was stunned, then smiled and said:
"You're always like this. The more critical the moment, the less nervous you seem to be."
Mu Qingyan remained noncommittal. "When your machine had problems before, I was the one who fixed it bit by bit. No one knows every part of it better than me. The one on the lab bench, I knew it was fake the first time I saw it."
All her doubts were answered when she saw the photo, but she did not give up and wanted to ask herself what was going on.
And now, she did see people, but she felt that all of that had completely lost its meaning.
"Yan, does your hand hurt? Let me bandage it for you..."
Mu Qingyan didn't say anything, just looked at him expressionlessly, her meaning was self-evident.
"Okay, I understand..." Kins raised his hands in surrender. "You said you wanted to talk, and I have a lot to ask you. Why don't you tell me when I revealed my weakness?"
"There's something wrong with the data you gave me. Why didn't Terrence Bedford die? Henry said... that's not right. And York didn't tell me when Kinsley was injured. At that time, you—"
"Yan... Yan... shh... Okay, okay, talk slowly, I'm right here, calm down..."
When a warm palm touched her cheek, Mu Qingyan realized the confusion in her words. Even though she already knew what she was going to face, her multi-threaded thinking was running wildly and out of control at this moment, revealing that she was not as calm as she seemed.
She turned her head to avoid the hands, pressed her palms again, and forced herself to stay awake. At this point, logic was no longer an issue, and she could only say whatever she remembered.
"Infinity's robots malfunctioned, causing multiple incidents around the world. Dustin and I investigated and found that the positron control center at headquarters was hacked. I know how much work this would require. Even if all the BI employees combined worked on it, it would take at least two years, but..."
“Yan, I was already detained before this happened.”
"Yes, but you never mentioned that York allowed you to access the core system via an uplink in order to track down Dustin and me. And out of trust in you, he didn't ask you to delete the remaining data afterwards. Doesn't that make things much easier?"
Kins remained noncommittal.
"What else?"
"Dustin and I have been wondering why Lawrence Bedford, who had already captured us, didn't take action and let us escape. Later, I learned from Chu Han that Terrence Bedford was still alive, and Vasile Guan participated in the operation to rescue him. However, how could Dr. Guan, relying on himself, leave no loopholes? Also, you and Terrence Bedford were in the same room when the accident happened, and when Dr. Guan went to confirm the death, he didn't even doubt you at all, and even deliberately avoided all eye contact with you."
"Yan, this is your guess, right?"
"That's a correct guess. I cut off communication with you before Terrence Bedford died because I knew you would handle everything. But Kins, I have no idea what you actually did. And the reason Lawrence Bedford didn't kill Dustin and me was not only because he knew his brother was still alive, but also because Terrence Bedford was in your hands, right? You used Terrence Bedford as a hostage to save Dustin and me. After all, I wasn't familiar with Dr. Guan at the time, so he had no reason to negotiate with him on my behalf."
The person who had been listening attentively didn't seem to be at all flustered by the revelation of his mistake, and even laughed out loud:
"Look, Yan, you know I care about your safety, right? So can I ask why you really started to doubt me?"
If possible, Mu Qingyan didn't want to recall the moment when she and Kins had the most intense conflict, so she slightly adjusted the order of the narration:
"I met Henry in the community. He's very kind and has been taking care of the children there. The other day he handed me a notebook in which he recorded the daily lives of several children, as well as some of their physical examination data..."
At that time, she read the entire notebook very carefully, determined not to miss any clues. In fact, there was really nothing special in it, but there were a few pages that always made her feel very strange.
And generally speaking, this feeling is not a good sign.
It wasn't until later when she looked through the data records again that she realized what was wrong.
Before she went to Australia, York had sent her laboratory the physical examination data of community members, which was received by Kins because she was in the port area at the time.
It was also a double insurance brought about by some strange habits of her and York. When transmitting some important documents between the two of them, they always liked to keep a paper copy. At that time, Kins received and modified only the electronic version of the data for her.
Mu Qingyan didn't know whether she should praise herself or not. She had just had an argument with Kins, and she had smashed things in the laboratory all over the place, and her hand was injured.
When she was hiding under the table in a daze, she was just looking at her blood dripping on the documents, which looked very beautiful, but her brain, which was working all the time, still stored everything she saw.
"The electronic data and the paper version don't match at all. Were you afraid I'd discover something? Later, when you and I went to Australia together, the Infinity branch laboratory also tampered with the data, right? They even tricked Dustin and York. Otherwise, they wouldn't have missed the pattern for so long. It was all thanks to Chu Xian's big data model."
Again, humans now trust the feedback given by machines more.
But how do you know that it wasn't changed specifically for you?
Mu Qingyan sighed:
"Now, Kins, can you please tell me what you want to do?"
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