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"Jack, it's late, you should go back and rest."
"But the vice president...Mr. Bedford——"
"I know." Shen Chuxuan responded as he walked towards the room, "Since Mr. Tanaka is here, it's the same if he accompanies me to see my father."
Jack recalled that Mr. Tanaka was initially responsible for Mr. Bedford's safety. Later, he was assigned to her when the vice president went to study in Country M, and finally followed Kinsley.
In this way, if there really is a problem, the other party will naturally have more say than himself, so he will obey the order and leave.
Chen Chuxuan returned to the room separated from Mu Qingyan by a wall. Without even taking off her accessories, she opened the terminal to check the documents and related reports recently exchanged with the E Country BI headquarters.
Due to previous accusations, some of BI's branches and businesses have been closed. However, it is involved in many fields, and nanorobot technology is the ceiling of the industry. Relying on the foundation accumulated over the years, it still holds a lot of say.
"What is this? Cubic crystal image..." She saw a strange video.
Suddenly, a cup of hot tea appeared at her hand, interrupting her monologue.
"Miss Chu Xuan, please use the hangover remedy."
Shen Chuxuan instinctively took it and took a sip.
It was a long-lost taste, and she missed it a little bit. She drank it bit by bit, and her mind suddenly recalled: Jack would make hangover tea for her after she had a social event. It was said that the recipe was taught by Mr. Tanaka himself, but for some reason, she always suspected that there was some cutting of corners.
As she thought about it, she couldn't help but chuckle.
Only when the hair ornaments on her head were taken off did she come to her senses.
The slightly curly black hair was no longer bound and fell down, and the tense nerves were relaxed. Shen Chuxuan looked at the person standing behind him through the darkened computer screen, wondering if the other person would say something.
In fact, when she was a teenager, she would not let Tanaka take care of her in such detail.
After all, there are too many more difficult problems in her life than food and daily life. She doesn't want to, and can't, become the kind of person who is lazy and doesn't know the difference between grains.
But now, I have obviously grown up a lot, but why do I take this kind of care so naturally and don’t feel uncomfortable at all?
"Mr. Tanaka, why didn't you ask me what I was laughing at just now?"
After waiting for a long time, the other party remained silent, so Shen Chuxuan had to speak first.
The clasp of the necklace opened with a click, and the priceless and extremely heavy gem was removed. Tanaka walked up to her, looked down at her, and said softly:
"No matter what it is, as long as it can make Miss Chu Yan happy, that would be great."
There seemed to be a hidden smile in her tone, and in her eyes as well, but when Shen Chuxuan wanted to take a closer look, the housekeeper suddenly knelt on one knee and took her hand that was on the table.
Watches, bracelets, rings...
The sobering tea might have started to work. Every time he took off a piece of clothing, Shen Chuxuan became more sober.
Turning her gaze back to the document, her voice was also extremely calm:
"Mr. Tanaka, do you have any idea about my father wanting to see me?"
"I know nothing about this. Perhaps the old master's laboratory has made some new research results..."
Tanaka obviously didn't care about this matter and just answered casually, but he still didn't let her go, his eyes lingering on her wrist.
"Miss Chu Xuan, it would be better to apply some medicine here."
"It's okay, no need."
Shen Chuxuan slowly withdrew his hand, not caring at all about the mark on his wrist that Ye Ningyu had just left.
The other party did not continue to persuade her. He stood up and put the accessories into the box. After doing everything, he returned to stand beside her respectfully.
"Miss Chu Yan, whatever the old master says later, please just listen and agree to it for now. Please don't get into a conflict with him, okay?"
No longer indifferent, Shen Chuxuan heard a hint of seriousness in these words. She understood his concerns, so she simply responded:
"Um."
The communicator from BI was tuned to a specific channel and began to capture the weak and erratic jumping electrons in the surrounding area. The tiny electrical pulses carried in them were able to resonate with the carrier beam that transmitted the message thousands of miles away.
This communication method guarantees absolute uniqueness, and its security and confidentiality are beyond doubt.
Soon, the signal stabilized and a huge holographic image appeared in front of the two people.
Lawrence Bedford was still wearing the exquisitely embroidered robe that Shen Chuxuan knew well. Purple, red, and gold were interwoven together, reminiscent of the authority and luxury of the Pope in the Middle Ages.
Although he is already in his fifties, his hair is still thick and black. His tall body sits on a bench, playing with a square object in his hand. His face is as serious and indifferent as it has been for decades. When he looks up, his light-colored pupils show an expression of scrutiny of the world, and there is also an inexplicable sense of compassion.
"Father, it's nice to see you again." Shen Chuxuan bowed.
The royal family of Kingdom E had ceased to exist many years ago, and all traditions had been completely forgotten, but she had felt more than once that her adoptive father had perhaps made himself a "defender" of religious doctrine.
"Father is also very happy to see you, my dear daughter. I heard that you have had a hard time recently."
"Father, you are too kind. You are the one who deserves our respect. I hope you will be more sympathetic to the passing of your uncle."
"I've been mentally prepared for this," Lawrence Bedford said, a rare hint of regret in his tone. "His death isn't the end. There are some things that someone has to do, but they never understand this."
"Some things may be wrong to do. Do you understand?" Shen Chuxuan asked knowingly.
Upon hearing this, Tanaka couldn't help but take a step forward and move closer to the person. His eyes swept across the image not far away. Fortunately, Lawrence Bedford did not have any special reaction.
"My daughter, you are still young, and young people living in this terrible era will always have all kinds of grievances and injustices. Your father will never blame you. It is precisely because of this that young people like you are too easily defeated."
His gaze turned.
"Tanaka, don't you think so?"
The former guard nodded and replied readily:
“As you said——”
"Father—" Shen Chuxuan interrupted him, "Perhaps the young people you mentioned also include the two founders of Infinity?"
"Miss Chuxuan..."
Tanaka quickly realized what Shen Chuxuan wanted to say, and stepped forward to hold the girl's hand to comfort her, but was immediately broken free.
"Father, you tried every possible way to kill them, is it just to prove that young people like this are easy to deal with?"
"You're wrong, my dear daughter. Don't you understand your father? I don't need to do anything like this. Otherwise, that child named Dustin wouldn't be alive and well now."
Chen Chuxuan gritted his teeth when he heard that, his emotions rising and falling. He had a lot of things he wanted to ask but suddenly didn't know where to start.
"Oh, by the way, I heard that you seem to be getting close to Infinity's CTO, that boy named York? It seems that you really don't like the marriage that your late father arranged for you."
"These are all trivial matters. You don't need to worry about me. As for the Ye family, they almost destroyed the Shen family this time. I think this is indeed not easy to forgive. What do you think?"
Lawrence Bedford shook his head and spun the object in his hand around.
"My daughter, you're taking things too seriously."
The square crystal turned from transparent to a thick ink color. Shen Chuxuan's eyes showed interest, but it was soon replaced by anger and disbelief in the other party's next words.
"It was my order for the Ye family to exchange raw materials."
Lawrence Bedford was just stating the facts, without a trace of guilt or self-blame in his tone, and he didn't seem to feel that the family business left by his old friend who had passed away many years ago and their children had any special importance.
"My daughter, don't be angry. This was just a test. Your brother said you insisted on choosing a little girl of unknown origin to join the company. To prevent her from harming you, I resorted to this desperate measure. Otherwise, how could she have happened to 'hear' about your brother's mid-term outage? I am very satisfied with the result. She chose to protect you and Shen's."
——The implication is that if Mu Qingyan approaches the Shen family and the Bedford family with malicious intent, he will find out, even if it comes at the cost of the Shen family's destruction.
Shen Chuxuan's hands under the table couldn't stop shaking, and the kind face in front of him seemed to become extremely ferocious in an instant.
It was just a casual remark, but in this matter, her adoptive father took the Ye family, the Shen family and Qing Yan into account.
What should we do in the future if he finds out other secrets of Qingyan?
"Father, are you threatening me with the future of the Shen family?"
"I've always told you that no one in this world is irreplaceable, my daughter. Just like you know Tanaka's abilities very well, but—"
The robe flicked lightly, and the camera zoomed out. Beside Lawrence Bedford's bench stood a number of guards dressed like Tanaka, all with submissive expressions.
——The meaning is self-evident.
Shen Chuxuan panicked and instinctively moved sideways to block the other person's sight towards Tanaka:
"What do you want to do?"
"My dear daughter, you know I care about you very much. For the sake of your deceased father and mother, I will never harm you. Of course, I still hope you will be as obedient as you were when you were little."
"Obedience? It seems you have a mission for me?"
"It's not a mission, I just want you to bring your beloved little York to your father."
—York? Something to do with Infinity?
Several files were transferred to the terminal.
Lawrence Bedford stood up, his cane hitting the ground with a dull thud.
"I heard that Infinity has established a global rescue community for those vessels that were not conceived by a mother, and is now organizing detailed physical examinations. I can put aside my concerns about Terrence, but I hope those community activities can be stopped as soon as possible. My dear daughter, I believe you can convince them. After all, the consequences are not what you want to see."
The word "container" made Shen Chuxuan's throat tighten for a while, and she suddenly remembered the theory of "ranchers and animals" that she had been taught countless times when she was a child.
After so many years, she still couldn't see through her adoptive father's thoughts, and all her self-righteousness was shattered in an instant.
She swallowed and looked back at him desperately:
"You overestimate me. With your abilities, wouldn't it be easy to stop Infinity? Why leave it to me?"
"Oh, yes." Lawrence Bedford nodded, as if he had just remembered something. "Dear daughter, I have something to show you."
He placed the cubic crystal in his hand on the table, and the opaque structure suddenly began to loosen, gradually becoming clearer and clearer, like a black mist blown away by the wind.
"Are the molecules composed of nanorobots?"
"You are truly worthy of being my good daughter. This is a very interesting idea. And this crystal has been preserved for more than half a year."
The molecules inside will automatically rearrange themselves after their positions change, and countless new results will occur.
But what Shen Chuxuan cared about was not this, but the time issue emphasized by Lawrence Bedford.
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