No apprentice.
Qiu Yanzhi couldn't conjure a junior out of thin air.
Qiu Yanzhi sat at the table outside the theater, bowed his head, and sipped a Coke with extreme guilt.
He Zhou: "So, the smooth progress of the strategy you reported to me is all a lie to me?"
Qiu Yanzhi lowered his head lower and lower, ashamed: "I'm sorry."
He Zhou leaned on the back of the chair, his long legs overlapped, and then he took the phone and started flipping through the chat records, in a casual tone: "Let me see, um, you sent me a photo of you going to eat hot pot and said Ye Mingxu can't eat spicy food, you are wiping his sweat all the way, and you also said that Ye Mingxu has a ball game tomorrow morning, so you are going to secretly run to watch and surprise him on the court. Oh, yes. You also said, buy When it comes to popcorn, you choose a medium cup, because the mouth of a big or small cup is more conducive to unintentional physical contact when you take the popcorn, adding to the ambiguous atmosphere?"
After He Zhou finished speaking, he glanced at Qiu Yanzhi's bucket of popcorn, which was big enough to put his head in.
Qiu Yanzhi almost bit the straw in his mouth.
He Zhou put the phone on the table: "Qiu Yanzhi, why did you do this?"
Qiu Yanzhi finally let go of the poor straw that he bit crookedly: "Because adding details will make the lie more believable."
He Zhou: "… "
He Zhou: "I mean, why did you lie to me?"
Qiu Yanzhi raised his head and sighed sadly: "He Zhou, I really can't beat Ye Mingxu, I just met him this morning, and he said..."
He Zhou: "What did he say?"
"... He said he saw us going to the hotel last night."
Qiu Yanzhi blushed and said angrily, "It's all like this, how do you want me to attack him!"
A faint smile seemed to flash in He Zhou's eyes, but he quickly disappeared. He coughed and said, "Who's to blame?"
Qiu Yanzhi pursed his lips and said, "Blame me, okay, blame me."
... Actually, it's not just Qiu Yanzhi's fault.
He Zhou was going to go straight home after get off work yesterday.
But received a message from Shen Xingwei.
"Your daughter-in-law came to my bar. Looking at the state of the person next to him, she is probably going to be drunk today, so don't forget to pick him up."
He Zhou stared at the text message for a while.
Then sent a message.
"Don't call it that."
"We're fine now."
After He Zhou finished speaking, he put down his phone, fastened his seat belt, and prepared to leave.
But then Shen Xingwei's message was sent again.
"I've got a new batch of wine here. Would you like to come and taste it? Just the two of us."
He Zhou held the steering wheel and looked at the dark sky.
Then I went to Shen Xingwei's bar.
Then, he met Qiu Yanzhi who was drugged in the bathroom at the bar.
When He Zhou walked out of the bar with Qiu Yanzhi in his arms, he actually saw Ye Mingxu.
Ye Mingxu was walking side by side with some of his classmates, and suddenly stopped.
He was tens of meters away, staring straight at them.
He Zhou himself couldn't tell what was in his mind at that time.
He paused, lowered his head and asked Qiu Yanzhi, "Qiu Yanzhi, do you want me to call Ye Mingxu for you?"
…
So, when Qiu Yanzhi told him that he and Ye Mingxu got along very well, they even went on a date together.
He Zhou was still surprised.
He thought to himself at the time.
Either Qiu Yanzhi was lying.
Or, Ye Mingxu has bad intentions.
So I saw Qiu Yanzhi took a photo of the two movie tickets and sent them to him.
He Zhou bought his adjacent seat ticket.
Qiu Yanzhi was still hanging his head, thinking that he was unlucky, and he could screw up everything back and forth: "Anyway, Ye Mingxu, I can't get down."
He Zhou pursed his lips and said, "Can't you buy a lot of powerful cards?"
Qiu Yanzhi: "...None of those cards can be used on Ye Mingxu."
He Zhou: "Why?"
Qiu Yanzhi turned his head and said a little embarrassedly, "... Because I seriously violated the rules of the game, I was punished."
He Zhou asked again, "What game rules have you seriously violated?"
Qiu Yanzhi: "..."
He Zhou frowned: "Qiu Yanzhi, did you do anything wicked in the game?"
Qiu Yanzhi's ears turned red.
"Are you murdering and setting fire or robbing and stealing?" He Zhou's expression became solemn, "Qiu Yanzhi, even if this is a game, you have to respect the law..."
Qiu Yanzhi couldn't bear it any longer: "Because I cheated."
He Zhou: "?"
Qiu Yan was dripping blood from the tip of his ear, and his voice seemed to be squeezed from between his teeth: "My main strategy for this game is Ye Mingxu, but I slept with you."
He Zhou: "… "
He Zhou silently pushed the bucket of popcorn in front of Qiu Yanzhi.
"… sorry."
all in all.
The complete failure of the mission to defeat Ye Mingxu.
Neither of these two can escape responsibility.
At this moment, He Zhou suddenly received an email.
He Zhou opened the email and his expression became solemn.
"Qiu Yanzhi, let's give up attacking Ye Mingxu first."
He Zhou pushed the phone in front of Qiu Yanzhi, "The most important issue now is Liu Cheng."
The mysteries and problems in Liu Cheng's body need to be solved urgently. If the real reason for the bug in Liu Cheng's body is found out, or if any useful information is obtained from his mouth, Qiu Yanzhi can leave the game without attacking Ye Mingxu.
Moreover, He Zhou felt that finding a breakthrough in Liu Cheng was more reliable than the idea that "the strategy is successful and the game is cleared, and then you can quit the game".
Because He Zhou couldn't be sure that as a love game, what exactly counted as a successful strategy.
confession? dating? marry? Or sleep with the same pillow and rest with the coffin.
Compared to this, He Zhou wanted to use other methods to help Qiu Yanzhi out.
Qiu Yanzhi clicked on the video on his phone.
It is the surveillance video of Qiu Yanzhi's community. He asked the property in the afternoon, but the property has not responded yet. I don't know how He Zhou got it so quickly.
The video shows that after Liu Cheng ran down from the elevator, he did not rush out of the community, but hid in the bushes.
It was not until Qiu Yanzhi came down and looked around, saw no one, and returned to the original path with his head down, only then did Liu Cheng sneak out of the bushes.
How could Liu Cheng be such a thief! Qiu Yan slapped his thigh angrily.
After Liu Cheng came out of the bushes, he didn't go through the gate. Instead, he walked to the corner of the last row of the community, climbed a tree, and ran out over the wall.
The video stops right here.
This is a university town, not the city center, which is relatively desolate.
And there was only one monitor where Liu Cheng went over the wall, but it was broken for many years.
He Zhou closed the video and opened another one: "This is the surveillance of the door of your apartment."
He Zhou clicked on the video to pause and zoom in. Then Qiu Yanzhi saw three black cars parked on the road at the gate.
A flower arm sticks out of the car window, a cigarette in his hand.
It's from Ye Hongyuan's faction.
No wonder Liu Cheng didn't go through the front door.
He Zhou continued to play the video, and the screen began to play at 64 times the speed.
After half an hour had passed in the lower right corner, the video began to return to normal speed again, and the three black cars at the gate swayed away.
It seemed that he already knew the news of Liu Cheng's escape.
He Zhou turned off the video: "Although there is no surveillance where Liu Cheng left, I have sent someone to tune up all the surveillance videos centered on the apartment and with a radius of 5,000 meters, and I will also try where the surveillance cameras are broken. We will contact the nearby car owners and get the dash cam, no matter what we do, we will find Liu Cheng earlier than Ye Hongyuan."
Qiu Yanzhi lowered his head, sucked up the Coke left in the glass, and threw it into the trash can. He lowered his eyes and said in a dull voice, "Yeah."
Seeing that he was not very interested, He Zhou asked him, "What? Do you think it's too complicated?"
Qiu Yanzhi rubbed his head: "...I feel that the road ahead is very difficult."
He Zhou said, "Don't worry, just do what you like, and I'll help you find Liu Cheng."
He Zhou paused and said, "Qiu Yanzhi, I will let you go back as soon as possible."
Qiu Yanzhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, I will also keep my promise. After I go out, I will never come in and disturb you all for the rest of my life."
After Qiu Yanzhi returned to the apartment, he habitually turned to Zhang Yuxuan's house.
Zhang Yuxuan changed into a neat suit, even smeared hairspray on his head, and was wearing leather shoes.
Seeing Qiu Yan approaching, he raised his head and asked, "Yan Yan, are these two pairs of leather shoes the brown ones, or the black ones with patterns?"
"Brown looks good." Qiu Yanzhi said, "It's almost eight o'clock, where are you going out?"
Zhang Yuxuan put on brown leather shoes and stood up: "I want to go home."
Qiu Yanzhi was stunned for a moment: "Why are you going home all of a sudden? Didn't you go back only on New Year's and holidays?"
Zhang Yuxuan opened his mouth and suddenly sighed.
"Actually, I don't want to go back. I can't wear a skirt when I go back. Yan Yan, you have to help me keep my skirt here."
Qiu Yanzhi blinked: "I don't want to go back, why should I go back?"
Zhang Yuxuan tugged at the corner of his clothes and said, "I... I tell you, don't scold me."
Qiu Yanzhi became more and more curious: "What am I scolding you for? Say it."
Zhang Yuxuan said: "Because I called my dad to help me find Liu Cheng, and my dad said I moved back to live, so he helped me find it."
Qiu Yanzhi: "...What are you doing with Liu Cheng?"
Zhang Yuxuan raised his head: "Liu Cheng is outside, and he has no money and no mobile phone. Where can he hide? If he is caught by Ye Hongyuan, he will be beaten to death."
Qiu Yanzhi took a deep breath, then tried his best to remain calm: "Baby Yu, do you remember the incident when he gave you medicine last night?"
Zhang Yuxuan bit his lip and said, "...I remember, but, but nothing happened, and how could I just watch him get beaten to death!"
Qiu Yanzhi felt that he was going to be heartbroken by Zhang Yuxuan's anger: "...Nothing happened?! If it wasn't for Shen Xingwei's help to smash the door, do you think nothing would have happened? Zhang Yuxuan, do you understand the situation? The goods almost raped you, and the reason for raping you is just to make you feel guilty, let you keep him and let you protect him, he is using you, understand?!"
Zhang Yuxuan flattened his mouth and said a little aggrievedly: "Yanyan, you just said it, you don't scold me."
Qiu Yanzhi looked at Zhang Yuxuan, suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked, "Zhang Yuxuan, do you like Liu Cheng?"
Zhang Yuxuan was stunned for a moment, stood up, and shook his head hastily: "No, it's impossible, what are you talking about? I only like my senior! Liu Cheng is just my friend, just like you!"
Qiu Yanzhi glanced at him: "I won't rape you."
Zhang Yuxuan: "...I won't be friends with him in the future, okay, I just want to help him escape this first, as long as he doesn't get beaten to death."
Zhang Yuxuan was stupid and stubborn, but Qiu Yanzhi couldn't argue, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, you can do whatever you want."
Qiu Yanzhi suddenly thought of something and said, "There is one more thing, if you find Liu Cheng, you have to tell me that I have something important to ask him."
"Okay." Zhang Yuxuan agreed.
Qiu Yanzhi lay alone on the bed in the bedroom, unable to fall asleep no matter what.
He suddenly realized that he hadn't seen Rhubarb for a long time.
I just wanted to get the rhubarb out and chat.
"Da Huang!" Qiu Yanzhi shouted.
But rhubarb wasn't there.
"...As an auxiliary robot, where did it go fooling around?" Qiu Yanzhi muttered.
"Hi." A voice suddenly sounded, "Little yellow thing, we meet again."
Rhubarb flapped its tiny wings and turned around slowly.
"Would you like to cooperate with me?"
Rhubarb said, "Why should I cooperate with you?"
The man said, "Because if Qiu Yanzhi leaves, I will be the only one in the world who can see you."
Rhubarb: "It doesn't matter, I have long been accustomed to entertaining myself, and only me, a robot, can play well."
The man smiled.
"Are you too stupid, do you think that if Qiu Yanzhi goes out, will this world still exist?"
"Qiu Yanzhi has been trapped in the game for so long. After going out, others will definitely investigate the reason thoroughly, and then they will discover the secret of this game."
"The bugs of the game will be made public, and the accident that happened three years ago will continue to be raised and discussed."
"Do you think this world is strong and complete, and will never fail? No, the destruction of this game only requires a few keystrokes from outsiders."
"Little thing, there are tens of thousands of NPCs in this game, of which thousands have their own families, careers, emotions and consciousness, and there will be more in the future. There are countless tall buildings and roads, Hundreds of thousands of birds and beasts, millions of flowers and trees, every person, every animal, every flower, and every grass here are trying to survive and perform their duties. They are no longer illusory data. Now, this is already a complete world, and now, do you want to watch it completely collapse and destroy?"
"The tranquility and peace of the whole world often requires the sacrifice of a small number of people, but now, only one Qiu Yanzhi needs to be sacrificed, and our world can be free from interference. Great, what an uplifting thing to do."
"Not to mention, Qiu Yanzhi is just a shameless intruder and destroyer, and what I want to do is to do my best to defend and protect this world."