Chapter 005 Thief Simulator
As the man stepped back while speaking, Ji Xu also took half a step into the house. The wide-open door seemed to be mocking the unnecessary synchronization between the two.
Ji Xu put his hands in his pockets and turned sideways as if nothing had happened. "Come in, I'm not in a hurry to go out."
He knew that this person worked in the research department, was from the 34th floor, and his name was Eddie, so he asked calmly, "It seems that I have never seen your face?"
Eddie closed the door and said sullenly, "Don't mention it. I was brought up by the security team, and there were explosions and deaths downstairs. Within a few minutes, the people who brought me here left, and I don't even know the remaining guards."
The security team unanimously agreed that he had no useful clues, and if the boss hadn't required the relevant personnel to stay together, they could have just dumped him somewhere empty.
In fact, Eddie found Ji Xu very familiar, but after thinking about it, he couldn't find this person in his memory.
We can't say that this is a sense of déjà vu that ordinary employees have towards their immediate boss. It's a bit hard to judge... What kind of superior would wear a pullover sweatshirt, casual sweatpants and a pair of sneakers.
So he asked one more question: "What about you?"
"The people I know are busy, so I'm here to take a break for a few minutes." Ji Xu spoke truthfully, his wet hair adding authenticity to the break. "My last name is Di, and I'm in charge of analysis and stuff. You don't need me now."
"I see." Eddie said in a flattering tone.
He remembered that there was indeed such a Dr. Di. Eddie wanted to end the topic here, but he was embarrassed not to continue the conversation with his superior, "Your friend is really hard-working."
Ji Xu: "It doesn't matter. It won't be hard for long."
After a few pleasantries, the atmosphere between the two quickly turned into a hotbed of awkwardness. Eddie wanted to leave, but as soon as he stood up, the opposite side immediately looked over at him, so he had no choice but to grab his pants and stare blankly, trying to find a thread to kill time.
The duties of the research department and the analysis group do not overlap, so why should he respect the superiors of other departments... Oh, because Anxia is a company with a strong martial spirit.
I feel tired.
Now that his life was out of danger, he could no longer find the courage to yell at the security captain.
Seeing that Eddie was on pins and needles as if he was having an ADHD attack, Ji Xu took out a tea bag, poured a cup of hot water, and continued the previous topic, "So, they left you here, and no one cared about you running around?"
"Thank you. I didn't know our company even has tea... Of course not. I can only visit the lounge with a low confidentiality level. I can't enter other lounges that require fingerprint and genetic verification." Eddie took it flattered, "Are you not busy?"
Good question.
Ji Xu was thinking.
If you can't get in, how can I get in?
If he ignored the long time it took to activate the skill, or if no one saw a living person standing outside the door, he could ignore the fingerprint lock.
Ji Xu said, "It's a good opportunity to hit it off with you. Let's chat for a while. My friend will probably notice that I'm sneaking away soon."
When Eddie heard that they were still talking, his eyes went dark. He held the teacup in one hand, his suit pants were wrinkled, and he managed to utter a sentence: "So who is your friend...?"
"I like to call him Tom Kate. I often heard people mention him before I met him."
Dr. Di smiled, as if he was saying a tongue twister: "I guess you have seen him. If not, it means you are about to meet him."
Are there some people in high positions who are somewhat puzzled?
Eddie didn't understand, so he had to reply that it was his pleasure, observing 'Dr. Dee' while drinking his tea.
The young man looks bookish even in his casual clothes. His bangs are not long, revealing his dark black pupils. He occasionally squints and shakes his head, as if he is not used to the empty face.
But if you must say, 'Dr. Di' is not incompatible with Anxia. He put his hands in his pockets, but only sat on half of the chair, with his brows unconsciously furrowed. The next second he realized his loss of composure and immediately adjusted himself, giving people a feeling of being both anxious and relaxed.
Not bad, very spirited.
It is obvious at first glance that this is not a habit developed in a proper professional environment.
This time, the person who was feeling uneasy was Ji Xu. No matter how covertly Eddie observed, he couldn't resist his instinctive reaction, which even became more and more serious as time went by.
He stood up suddenly.
The tea wet the wooden table. Eddie was stunned and stared in amazement at Ji Xu taking deep breaths.
"Sorry, I lost my composure."
Ji Xu walked around behind Eddie with an apologetic look on his face.
Eddie was wondering whether he should stand up as well, when he caught a glimpse of the bandage and the smell of medicine hidden under the orange shower gel.
Ji Xu told him: "I like you very much - this and what I said before are not lies. I hope you can sleep well."
After saying this, he quickly and forcefully pinched the carotid artery.
After about ten seconds, Ji Xu released his left hand and put his old friend, who had been forced to have a good sleeping quality, in order. He covered him with a pillow-like blanket, gently closed the door and left.
Raindrops as big as soybeans hit the window. I don’t know which room had poor soundproofing, but a little music was leaking out, in tune with the rhythm of Ji Xu’s walking. Occasionally, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and the voice-controlled lights suddenly became as bright as day.
Ji Xu rubbed his eye sockets and missed his glasses that had fallen in the chaos.
He wasn't really into this kind of jewelry... He was just used to it, a habit left over from years of studying and becoming nearsighted.
For Ji Xu, habit means a terrifying and long-lasting sense of existence. He is not a nostalgic person in the popular sense. He throws away broken things and replaces old ones, just like other people. But when Ji Xu grows up, his preferences have not changed much compared to when he was a child. Some people who know his personality often give him the same gift for three or four years in a row.
Ji Xu leaned against the door, lost in the ocean of memories. Two seconds later, the infrared detector that detected that the person outside had not left sounded the alarm.
"Who's outside!?" the person inside turned off the phonograph and shouted.
"Eddie, Eddie Peters, a member of the research department brought here by the security team." Ji Xu sensed the sense of being watched, he slightly turned sideways, covered the door handle with his hands behind his back, and said perfunctorily, "You don't need to care about me, I was really bored wandering around the lounge, so I came here to listen to some music."
The other party showed no concern for his subordinates and was cold and ruthless: "Stay away, if you are bored, go count the stars."
Ji Xu pointed out: "It's eleven o'clock in the morning and it's still cloudy."
"I mean to get you as far away as possible."
"At least tell me, what is the name of this song?" Ji Xu was not used to speaking from the perspective of a worker, and under the annoying urging of the infrared detector, it seemed more like a provocation. After a pause, he added a request in a weaker tone, "Please, I'll leave once you know."
The infrared detector was turned off by the people in the room because they were annoyed. The rain was dripping and there was silence all around.
Ji Xu couldn't help but feel deeply sorry for Eddie's future career.
"Croatian Rhapsody." Finally, the phonograph sounded again, as if someone was sitting down. "A famous new-age song, don't tell me you haven't heard it." The voice emphasized without forgetting its original intention, "No need to answer, just leave quickly if you know it."
There was no response from outside the door. The man stared at the computer and used the mouse to drag the camera mounted on the peephole to turn. It seemed that he had left.
Just now the visitor was too close, with the back of his hair pressed against the screen, leaving only his neck and a corner of his clothes at the collar visible. Judging from the fabric, it was clothing provided by the company - Anxia would provide custom-made clothes intermittently to prevent interested parties from tracing personal information from the clothing store's consumption records.
That being said, no one actually chooses casual wear.
In the last poll conducted by the research department, 80% of the people thought that it was too youthful and sunny, and that it should just be hung to remind people of their youth. The remaining 20% thought that the pockets should be modified so that when they are in disguise, it will be more effective to take out the standard weapon Iai from their pockets.
As for whether the public knows about this matter?
If they found out, they found out. With so many employees in Anxia, they can prove who did it. If all the employees obeyed the law, the fake company would have been listed long ago.
Rainy days always bring back people's memories. The man in the room was checking the records absentmindedly. The steel alloy door was as quiet as usual. Lightning flashed across the dark sky outside the window, making people uneasy and always having a bad premonition.
An arm also grabbed his head from behind like lightning.
"Don't get excited, don't get excited."
The senior member of Anxia was forced to raise his head. He raised his hands, and the needle-like pain told him that his fatal point was being pressed by a sharp object.
But after all, his profession is not ordinary. He has experienced many ups and downs. Even when his hometown was invaded, he had the leisure to listen to music. The man was calm and composed: "Hundred Thieves?"
Then appeared the second person who called him by his nickname.
When uttering these words, Ji Xu also added the sound of fireworks to suit the occasion.
As a result, the hostage, whose life was threatened, mistakenly thought that Ji Xu was deliberately not responding. He paused and said incredulously, "You don't care about what I just said, do you? You are so stingy. Do you have to listen to me saying 'You can reply to me now' before you are willing to speak?"
Season sequence:…
Haven't you already said this?
"If it's not me, who else could it be?" Ji Xu answered with a rhetorical question.
Although his tone remained the same, he somehow made people feel that he pronounced every word with great care, as if he was venting his anger at Joyce's misunderstanding. Without waiting for a reply, he continued, "Please continue to reveal the location of 'Blue Enchantress'... Please."
I even deliberately added that request.
Joyce raised an eyebrow, "Really? You're holding me hostage just for this."
"I thought I sent a teaser email this morning."
"Of course you have." The man smiled and tentatively put down his hand. The thing on his neck immediately approached. He quickly raised it, secretly guessing what kind of weapon it was. "But I don't believe you made such a big fuss just for a bottle of medicine."
It's not a dagger, more like glass or porcelain.
The man's mind suddenly got stuck here.
Wait, don’t the Hundred Thieves have proper weapons?
——Damn it! This guy didn't even go to the manufacturing department on the fifth floor underground. He shouldn't have agreed to the helicopter approval report.
The man's thoughts raced, his anger boiling out, and he kept complaining: "I'm more curious, I don't see that you and the researchers are in sync, both of you are romantic, and you can give the same name to a bottle of test tube liquid. Or do you have an undercover inside Ansia?"
Season sequence:? ? ?
I'm afraid no Ansia member could see the blankness on his face.
He fell into deep doubt.
Simulator, don't be too outrageous! If 'Blue Enchantress' is the internal name of the researchers, then what is its real name? Don't tell him that it is a very simple and homophonic blue potion.
Ji Xu's rationality told him: Give up patching, you guessed it right. If the Blue Enchantress's reference was not both abstract and figurative, it would not have been complained by the top management.
"Let's be decisive and not waste time."
Although his mind was filled with thoughts, Ji Xu uttered the threat fluently without pausing for even a second. It was completely impossible to tell that he was trying to remain calm and save his dignity.
He bent his wrist, and the glass shard cut deeply into the man's arm, and blood flowed all over the floor.
"Last chance." Ji Xu pointed the bloody tip at his Adam's apple again and glanced at the pin badge on his suit. "Do you need me to say 'please' again? Boss Joyce."
Joyce smiled as if he had lost his sense of pain. "I am just a director, not worthy of your honorific."
He paused, "6327." For some reason he still gave enough clues about the season sequence, and even kindly pointed out, "But the house numbers have been removed a long time ago. This place is not like the downstairs, where they are neatly arranged like an office building."
Joyce also seemed to be trying hard to sell himself.
"I know where it is."
Ji Xu quickly recalled in his mind, it seemed that he was the second to last on the right hand side from Dong Shu - yes, that's right, he passed by it several times when he was kite flying and guerrilla warfare downstairs.
He put the glass piece back into his sleeve, clenched his fist, and hit Ji Joyce's temple hard.
Ji Xu said politely: "After this, I need to borrow your identity."
Joyce collapsed without saying a word.
Ji Xu wiped the blood off one side of the glass, leaving the other side undisturbed, then released his grip on Joyce and pressed his five fingers against the clean, transparent surface, not forgetting to pull out a few strands of his hair just in case.
——Hair, blood and fingerprints, collected.
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