Xu Qingran suddenly stopped eating bread.
Know, definitely not.
But he still lowered his eyes to cover his gaze and calmly found an excuse: "Sorry, there have been too many things recently, and I have forgotten a lot of things in the past."
The man didn't look too disappointed. Perhaps this was the answer he expected.
He said: "A lot has happened, and we haven't seen each other since your mother passed away, so it's normal that you don't remember."
The other person looked only a little older than he was now, but she smiled at him with relief: "You have become an adult in the blink of an eye, and you really look like your mother."
"Then let me introduce myself again. I'm Qi Heqian."
Seeing that he still looked a little hesitant, the boy continued, "He was the orphan that you and your mother rescued in a heavy rain when you were a child. He was later adopted by your second uncle. Strictly speaking, he is now your cousin."
After Qi Heqian finished speaking, several images suddenly flashed through Xu Qingran's mind.
On a rainy night, a woman holding a child of only four or five years old met a homeless boy squatting at the entrance of an alley, all wet. He was so thin that he was almost skin and bones, and his body was covered with scars and bruises.
Even though she was shivering with cold, she was still tightly holding a kitten-like baby in her arms.
Xu Qingran pretended to be surprised and asked casually, "Remember, how is the cat I rescued before?"
As expected, Qi Heqian did not suspect him and laughed, "He is fine, alive and well. He accompanied me on several missions to clean up the 'devil' before I came to the evil tower."
Xu Qingran:
Have the cats in this world evolved to the point where they can fight alien creatures
"... I've heard about what happened a while ago." Qi Heqian suddenly said, "I told you a long time ago that Lu Cheng was not a good person, but you still insisted on going all in on him."
When talking about Lu Cheng, the smile on his face faded a lot, and there was even a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.
Xu Qingran nodded and agreed: "You are right, so I am sober."
But considering the original owner's history of being in love, Qi Heqian obviously didn't take it seriously. He put on a serious expression and said to him, "Actually, I applied to be transferred to the Evil Tower in the name of learning and observation. The main purpose is to investigate one thing."
After a pause, he continued, "It's related to the truth behind your mother's death."
Xu Qingran's biological mother is Qi Shengxue, the only daughter of the Qi family. She grew up in the love of everyone, and was kind, friendly and polite. She even passed the doctoral examination at a young age and became a member of the Empire Soul Research Team.
She died when Xu Qingran was about seven years old. She was said to be severely depressed and finally committed suicide at home. But Qi Heqian met her when he was a child. Although they didn't spend much time together, he could tell from her conversation and attitude towards life that she was an optimistic and motivated girl.
No matter how severe the blow was, she knew how to balance herself mentally and put her career and children first.
She loved Xu Qingran so much, how could she abandon him to face the rest of his life alone when he was still so young and even knew that her husband had someone else outside
Qi Shengxue was an important savior to him. He suspected that something was fishy and had been looking for opportunities to investigate secretly over the years.
"Later, during my investigation, I discovered a mentally ill patient who was captured and imprisoned in the evil tower. He used to be an employee of one of your father's branches. A few days ago, I confronted him with a photo of your mother, and he finally admitted that he was indeed instigated by your stepmother and father."
Xu Qingran remembered something and hesitated, "The mentally ill patient you are talking about is a man?"
"yes."
He then asked: "…Mediterranean hairstyle?"
Qi Heqian was surprised: "Have you seen him?"
Xu Qingran was silent.
No wonder the other party's reaction to seeing him was so excited.
This kind of coincidence is indeed quite metaphysical to some extent.
Qi Heqian's communicator suddenly rang. After hanging up, he said apologetically, "I have to go."
"In short, you have to be careful of your family, especially your stepmother. The reason why your aptitude is so poor is because she used her sister to frequently drug your mother when she was pregnant, causing your mental pool to be severely damaged before you were born. You will never be able to develop normally like other children in your life."
"It also caused your mother to become so weak and sick every other day. She even lost her job."
Xu Qingran bit the bread, thinking about something.
I never thought that the stepmother who seemed the most kind and easy-going in the family was actually the most cruel one.
really not bad.
Since he is your enemy, you can be more unscrupulous when you attack him next time.
After Xu Qingran thanked Qi Heqian, he trotted away.
Just as he finished eating the bread, the old man next door who was looking for his wife every day suddenly squatted beside the partition between their cells and called him a few times.
Then he asked cautiously, "Kid, have you seen my wife?"
Before Xu Qingran came in, he had read the information of his neighbors and remembered that this old man was a Type E. However, he no longer had the sharpness of a Type E. His eyes were cloudy and only lit up slightly when he mentioned his wife.
"My wife is so beautiful. I like her blue eyes the most. They look like the ocean!"
As Xu Qingran listened, he suddenly thought of his prosecutor and couldn't help laughing.
"I should have seen it before. It's the damn place where he dumped me."
After hearing this, the old man snorted arrogantly: "You are lying, my wife is no longer with us."
Then he burst into tears again: "My wife is dead... She is dead..."
As he spoke, he walked away dejectedly and squatted in the corner, muttering to himself with his dry lips moving.
"If only I had listened to them... Woohoo... Honey, what would I do without you..."
Xu Qingran stood by the prison door, lowered his head and silently finished the bread that Qi Heqian gave him.
Then he added: "If you don't shut up, you'll die soon."
Old man: “…”
He raised his wrinkled hand again and covered his mouth.
It's rare to have peace and quiet today.
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During the time when Xu Qingran lived in a single room, he was always taken out during the day to listen to counseling from professional psychologists with the group of people in Tower 5, participate in some interactive activities, and do work that was said to be used to exercise patience and endurance. The people in Tower 5 also needed to do these physical work, but the amount and difficulty of his work was twice as much as theirs.
At first he was a little resentful, but when he started, he found that this was a great opportunity to exercise.
Thanks to Evil Tower for the free special training.
He hasn't seen the young man who caused trouble in the cafeteria these days.
It is said that he was whipped again for wasting food and he still cannot get out of bed.
On the tenth day after entering the Evil Tower, they welcomed the first evaluation of the Evil Tower.
The test labels include but are not limited to extremes and danger, empathy, pessimism, self-harm and violent tendencies, emotional instability and irritability, etc. If you can get a good score in all aspects and behave properly during your time in the evil tower, you will be judged as a non-dangerous person and can leave soon.
In the office, the kind and amiable tower director was looking at the person sitting on the sofa opposite him with a smile.
"Ting Yu, did you leave today?" When he asked this question, the smile on his face became even bigger, and he couldn't hide his good mood at all.
Shen Tingyu lowered his head and operated his portable communicator. While processing the message, he nodded and asked, "Well, the tower commander is so concerned, do you still want me to keep helping?"
The tower chief shook his chubby little hands quickly: "Hey, no, no, I have plenty of staff here, I won't waste your precious time."
Shen Tingyu chuckled silently, and before standing up, he placed the small observation instrument in his pocket on the tea table between the two of them: "Your things."
"Oh, isn't this your lucky 'student'?" The tower leader raised his eyebrows. "Speaking of this student, he is quite an extraordinary person."
"Today happens to be the first evaluation since entering the tower. His results are very interesting. Why don't you take a look before you leave?"
Without waiting for Shen Tingyu's response, he stood up and walked to his desk and retrieved some panel data from the computer.
The tower leader turned the screen directly to Shen Tingyu, then picked up the top paper from the pile of paper documents on the desk and handed it to him: "This is the paper he took for the written test. Although there are many typos, the score... is really good."
When Shen Tingyu took the test paper, his eyes fell on the screen.
The first thing I noticed was Xu Qingran's retest of his spirit pool level in the Evil Tower.
He asked: "I remember that this young master of the Xu family is famous for having the worst physique in the Silver Dragon camp, and his mental pool is the worst F-level."
"Why is he a B now?"
"But if we take you as a reference, everything can be explained."
Before Shen Tingyu's soul was finalized, he had already been detected to have an extremely high talent of level 3S.
When he began to take shape, he was not even 10 years old. Before his soul was determined to be E-type, his spiritual pool had also grown beyond the normal level, so the empire had been very cautious and vigilant towards him for so many years.
After all, it is a destructive existence that could destroy the entire empire with just the slightest mistake.
Shen Tingyu just smiled and said nothing, and continued to check.
Xu Qingran's data is indeed impressive, including the evaluation of comprehensive data such as the Evil Tower's most advanced super-intelligent AI system and polygraph.
Although it was not a perfect score, it was almost the same. Moreover, this was not the final exam after entering the Tower of Evil, but only a preliminary evaluation. As long as he was given some more time, it was very likely that he would get a perfect score for "moral standards".
What’s interesting is that on the day that student Xu entered the tower, he was sent to Tower 4 because of his violent behavior.
And on the handwritten test paper, there was only one small wrong question.
Shen Tingyu raised his eyebrows slightly and turned directly to the last question on the last page.
This was also the only thing Xu Qingran did wrong.
The topic is this:
If the world cannot love you, fate cannot treat you fairly, the pain you endure has no response, the efforts you make have no reward, and everyone spit on, scold, misunderstand, abandon, and hurt you, what would you do
Xu Qingran's answer was very brief.
—Create the whole world.
—And the pretentious person who asked this question.
A hint of smile flashed across the blue eyes.
When Shen Tingyu left the Evil Tower, the tower leader thought his outstanding evaluation was very memorable, so he asked him to add another question for future testers.
This is what he wrote casually at that time.
He is the hypocritical questioner.
The tower master asked him, "How is it? Anyway, this may be your first and last student. What kind of evaluation result should be given to him based on his condition? Why don't you decide?"
"Should we just let him go, or should we observe him for a while?"
Shen Tingyu closed the paper again and put it back to its original place.
"No, I want to send him to the fighting arena in Tower 3."
The tower leader paused, hesitating for once: "Are you sure?"
"Hiss, if this isn't done right, someone could die."
As Shen Tingyu walked out, he said, "If he survives, he will be grateful for my decision."
Of course, dying is good too.
If such a similar E-type were to graduate and be released back to the Silver Dragon Camp, he was afraid that he would not be able to resist taking action.
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"Fighting Arena?"
Xu Qingran soon received a notification from the staff.
When he heard this word, he felt that it was not a good place.
"A fighting arena? The fighting arena in the evil tower?!"
“Oh my god, wait, I still don’t understand why you were sent to the evil tower with my help, but why did you have to be banished to the fighting arena?!”
The systems that were slightly understood were already beginning to break down.
"According to the script, you should use your natural appearance to be better than your stepmother, and gradually wash away the dirty water on your body, and increase your strength and reputation. In the end, you should become the male god of the entire empire, making the scumbag top love you but cannot get you, and feel sad and regretful!"
"Why are we fighting in the evil tower now?!"
When the system was wailing, Xu Qingran was sitting in the Evil Tower's exclusive escort car, and was slowly being taken to the entrance of Tower 3 along the glowing lane.
He asked, "Do you know where it is?" The system replied listlessly, "I know!"
"To put it simply, you have to go in and fight with people, and a group of people at that!"
The evil tower also has a perverted setting.
There is a huge fighting arena on the lowest level of the tower, counting from the 3rd floor. Those thrown into the arena to fight are all serious criminals who have been sentenced to death. Only the one who survives can be exempted from punishment.
Of course, in addition to those death row inmates, there is another type of people who will be thrown in, namely those with serious E-type evil and E-type potential.
"It's going to be a tough fight for the E-Type."
The system said.
Although the E-type, who had no punishment, would have a layer of basic energy protection before entering the field, which could save his life, he would at least be seriously injured. And if there happened to be some super perverted and powerful villains inside, there was no guarantee that an unexpected situation would occur.
The system continued, "But this also means that the E-type or quasi-E type that was sent in is one of the talents that the Empire has chosen. If you can be the last person standing in the arena, you can ignore all the entrance exams and complicated basic tests and have the qualifications to be directly admitted to the Grandis Military Academy."
"If you graduate successfully, you will start as a major at the headquarters of the camp."
Xu Qingran could guess who arranged this with just a little guessing.
He didn't say another word on the way to Tower 3.
It was so quiet that the system was frightened, as if it had returned to the day when it first came here.
It was not until a long time later that they arrived at the entrance of Tower 3 in a round little car.
Xu Qingran was taken to the arena at the deepest part of the ground floor by the tense staff.
There were many entrances to the four-sided fighting arena. Everyone who was about to enter the fighting arena would exit from a different entrance.
The staff replaced his bracelet with a new one, silver-white, and he wore it on both hands.
Then he explained: "This is for your life. It can protect your vital parts and block the penetration of mental power below S level."
"The average mental strength of the death row prisoners placed in the 3-tower fighting arena is between CA level. Once the bracelet sends a notification, the 3-tower guards will go in and rescue you immediately to ensure your survival."
The mechanical door in front of the passage slowly opened upwards.
He took the dagger handed to him by the staff, and as his mental power was stimulated, the blade began to glow slightly.
Xu Qingran did not go in immediately, but imitated the staff's movements, took off the two bracelets and threw them aside.
Then, in the shock of the other party and the system, he said calmly: "No, I don't need this thing."
After saying that, he walked directly into the fighting arena. The mechanical door closed at an extremely fast speed after he went out, and the staff were too late to stop him.
He stared at the dark door in front of him, and with trembling hands, he clicked on the communication to the main office: "Tower, Tower Commander, the quasi-E type who was just sent to the fighting arena of Tower No. 3 has taken off the protective bracelet given by the evil tower..."
Who was the last crazy person to do this
Oh, it’s the general from the Golden Wing Headquarters.
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SR-Sirius system, Jade Star Golden Crow City.
Central Zone 1, Golden Wing Military Headquarters.
After completing his duty of inspecting the evil tower, Shen Tingyu finally returned home exhausted.
Before he went out, he had assigned tasks to each of his teams, so when he came back, there were not many people in his building.
Even the gossipy Xie Nanjun wasn't there.
I had just returned to my office and before I had time to sit down, someone knocked on the door holding a letter.
"Admiral, this is an urgent letter sent to you from the Empire's main planet yesterday."
(End of this chapter)