Chapter 101
Fang Yi had always felt that Xia Wenzhou was a lunatic.
Her actions were illogical. This mad dog that had run rampant in the post-apocalyptic world had not restrained itself much in modern society. Instead, it had become even more unscrupulous because of the imperial special permission.
When she was a child, she had loved to fight. It was as if only pain and the sense of conquest from stepping on others could make her happy. Grandma Xia had been so angry that she had broken several wisteria canes, but there had been no improvement.
She had thought that now that she had grown up, she should have improved under the strict order of the military. She had not expected this symptom to become even more severe.
Fang Yi looked at her calmly for a while and asked, “Do you want to kill me?”
Even a person with the best temper would not tolerate being pointed at with a gun like this, but her tone was still so calm it was almost bizarre. Faced with this childhood friend who was six years older than her, she still had a condescending attitude.
She used her bandaged hand to lift the muzzle that was pressed against her palm, held it steady, and aimed it at her own throat:
“Either shoot, or don’t bother me again.”
Xia Wenzhou’s smile became even brighter. The knuckle on the trigger slowly made a downward pressing motion. “You think I don’t dare?”
When she smiled, she always liked to show a mouthful of good teeth, which reminded one of the cheetahs or lions that showed their dominance in the natural world. Their sharp teeth could easily tear and devour their prey.
Seeing that the woman really wanted to shoot, Wang Quan rushed over to stop her and pulled Fang Yi to the side. “Hey, hey, hey!! You can’t play like this!!! Big sister, sister, what do you want? Let’s talk it out.”
“Do you want money or what? We have nothing else but money. As long as you ask…”
Wang Quan took off a priceless watch from her wrist and directly hung it on Xia Wenzhou’s dark muzzle.
This had really turned into a scene of extortion and kidnapping.
The woman at the head finally frowned and raised her hand at Xia Wenzhou. “Officer Xia, please put away your gun. This is a symposium, not your military’s interrogation room.”
Xia Wenzhou raised an eyebrow, casually raised her gun, and pulled the trigger. Bang! The light bulb in the corner shattered, and glass fragments scattered on the floor.
Fang Yi looked up and saw that she had shot out the one in the center of the five light bulbs. Her shooting skills had not regressed.
The leaders’ faces were pale. They seemed not to have expected Xia Wenzhou to be so crazy.
Xia Wenzhou’s face was unchanged, and she said with a smile, “I’m also just maintaining order. You guys continue.”
She generously took the watch that was hanging on the muzzle and raised an eyebrow at Wang Quan. “Hold out your hand.”
Wang Quan did not dare to disobey, and her hand was even trembling a little.
But Xia Wenzhou did not do anything else, just slowly put the watch back on for her. The cold touch made the young lady shiver, and she said with a smile, “Little sister, don’t show off your wealth. Be careful.”
Wang Quan immediately nodded like a garlic pounder.
Xia Wenzhou just stood at the door, admired the watch for a while, and raised an eyebrow with a leisurely air. “Alright, you can go back now.”
Fang Yi’s face was expressionless. She held up the tissue. “I’m going to the restroom.”
Wang Quan: “…” At a time like this, don’t make any more requests!
“Alright,” Xia Wenzhou thought for a moment. “I’ll go with you.”
She followed behind Fang Yi like a ghost, her smiling and unpredictable attitude making one very suspicious if she would suddenly shoot her in the back.
Fang Yi walked in and turned around, and found that even the window was half-sealed.
This was the third floor.
“It can’t be…”
Xia Wenzhou also followed in and raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t this to guard against you?”
Fang Yi stared at the wound on her face for a while. “I admit I was a little too heavy-handed, but can you not take revenge for a personal grudge?”
Xia Wenzhou sneered, “Revenge for a personal grudge? I’m helping you.”
“Then help me one more time. Send me out.”
“Is this the attitude you have when you ask for a favor?”
Fang Yi’s tone was calm. “I’m begging you.”
“Call me ‘sister.'”
“Sister, I’m begging you.”
Xia Wenzhou looked at her with a novel look, her eyes as if she were looking at a toy. “…Ha, you’ve learned to joke.”
Fang Yi looked down at her watch, paused, and said slowly, “I really have to go, sister.”
It was unknown what strange quirk Xia Wenzhou had. She was happy when she saw Fang Yi being awkward, although this deliberate hesitation might also have a component of acting.
“It’s not that I’m not letting you go,” Xia Wenzhou shrugged. “It’s that those people outside won’t let you, you guys, go easily.”
“This meeting today is to wear you down until you agree to sign. If you leave now, your power will be unconditionally represented.”
It was rare to hear Xia Wenzhou say something human. Fang Yi hesitated for a few seconds. “Is that illegal? Can they sign on my behalf?”
Xia Wenzhou sneered, “You’re talking about the law with them? Little friend Fang Yi, how old are you?”
“Well, twenty-three. Two plus three, about five. Are you still living in your happy and peaceful fictional world?”
Xia Wenzhou raised her chin. “Listen up. These people will eat you until there are no bones left. Do you think it’s fine if you don’t speak? The more you are silent, the more they will think you are easy to bully. From now on, your things will be someone else’s. Your child will have to call someone else ‘Mom.’ If you want to see it, you have to apply for approval. The results will be changed beyond recognition. Only when something goes wrong will they drag you out to take the blame…”
“Imagine, a hundred years from now, this technology will be recorded in history, but it will have nothing to do with you, the creator. You are just a small screw that maintains stability. No one will remember you. You will die in obscurity, like a weed.”
Fang Yi asked, “So, that shot you just fired was for them to see? Then what’s the point of me staying?”
Xia Wenzhou was exasperated and reached out to grab Fang Yi’s collar. “Go and fight, go and snatch! Have you forgotten such a simple principle? I sometimes really wonder how you survived before.”
Fang Yi held her own tie and smoothed out the wrinkles. “I don’t need to consider how the project is operated. Wang Quan will solve it.”
“You trust her that much?”
“Do you think I trust you instead of her? After all you’ve said, don’t you just want me to choose you?” Fang Yi laughed.
Setting up a predicament, forcing a choice, driving a tiger to swallow a wolf. She was all too familiar with these rotten tricks of Xia Wenzhou’s.
It was hard to say if this meeting was self-directed and self-acted by her.
The woman was silent for a while, a hint of hurt in her eyes. “Is that what you think of me?”
Her tone changed again and again, and in the end, she lowered her posture a little. “I really want to help you.”
Fang Yi said, “Then let me out.”
“…”
A few minutes later, Fang Yi was kicked back into the meeting hall by the angry and ashamed Xia Wenzhou.
She stood at the door, patted the dust on her pants, and glanced back out of the corner of her eye. There was actually a checkpoint outside.
Wang Quan nervously pulled Fang Yi to sit down, looking left and right. “She didn’t do anything to you, did she?”
Fang Yi glanced at the watch on her wrist and said in a low voice, “These people must have us sign today. Otherwise, I’m afraid they won’t let it go.”
Wang Quan said in a small voice, “Sign my ass. I hate it when people threaten me.”
Just as the two were whispering, the main door was suddenly pushed open again.
Everyone’s eyes were focused on the end of the red carpet.
When they saw who it was, the leaders who had just been chattering instantly fell silent.
The late-arriving Zong Heng was wearing a very grand military uniform. She had once had many honor medals on her chest, but they had been taken off later, leaving only empty pinholes. But at this moment, a simple dragon-patterned square seal was pinned in the center of her chest.
The woman at the head of the table paused, and the subtle change in her expression was exceptionally wonderful. But she quickly straightened her clothes, stood up, and the people in the two rows on either side immediately understood and stood up together to welcome her, as if they were performing a grand mime show.
In the meeting hall where you could hear a pin drop, only Wang Quan was heard to say in a very small voice, “So cool.”
Fang Yi agreed with her.
The feeling of Zong Heng in a military uniform was completely different from Xia Wenzhou’s. She was like order itself, and could quell a riot without saying a word.
Fang Yi had seen that dragon pattern before. It was the clan emblem of the Yanjing Li family.
Xia Wenzhou followed behind her and called out sarcastically, “Major Zong Heng.”
Zong Heng didn’t even turn her head and walked straight to the front of the table.
The woman at the head wanted to say something, but Zong Heng gently raised her hand, her fingertips lightly pressing down, and said coldly, “First, who approved this meeting?”
“Second, the creator’s power cannot be transferred.”
“Third, Xia Wenzhou, you try to point your gun at our people again.”
Xia Wenzhou had rarely encountered anyone who dared to provoke her like this. She immediately let out a humorless cold snort, and held the gun in her hand provocatively, and with a “click,” she changed a magazine as if to vent.
But in the end, she did not point the gun at anyone.
This was the first time Fang Yi had seen this lunatic have any scruples. It was quite new. It was just that she didn’t know if she was giving Zong Heng face, or giving way to that dragon pattern.
“Senior Zong Heng.” Fang Yi called out in a low voice.
The imposing Zong Heng raised her eyelids, glanced at her, and also did not give her a good face. “You fool. Who told you to say that holography is my thing? Don’t you know how to write your own name?”
Fang Yi was a little surprised. She had actually thought that this was their tacit agreement.
Zong Heng was also wearing a pure black mechanical watch today. The functions on the watch face looked very numerous. Fang Yi stole a few glances but couldn’t tell the time.
Zong Heng noticed her small movements, sneered, and turned the watch over for her to see. “I know what you’re trying to do. Hurry up and get lost, you pathetic thing.”
Fang Yi blinked. Her first reaction was, how did Zong Heng know?
This should also be a very private and niche matter.
But time did not allow her to think too much here. Her body had already honestly seized the opportunity to walk out. When she passed by Xia Wenzhou, she could almost hear her gritting her teeth.
A pure black sedan with a small national flag was parked outside the door.
Because the distance was relatively far, a piece of red silk, from who knows where, was extended between the car door and the red carpet.
Fang Yi was not polite either. She opened the car door herself and jumped in, and gave an address.
However, when she peeked in, she found that there was actually another person sitting inside.
The woman smiled slightly, and her red lips curled into an elegant arc. “Long time no see. Do you still remember me?”
Fang Yi subconsciously blurted out, “Miss Violet.”
Her temperament was too superior. It would probably be very difficult to forget. Besides… her lip shape was also very similar to Lin Shuxing’s.
Fang Yi stared at her lips for a few more glances, and was a little dazed for a moment. Suddenly, at a certain moment, she sensed that their gazes had met, and she immediately and guiltily withdrew her gaze and touched her nose.
Li Xianqing said softly, “This is the second favor you owe me.”
A favor is a very precious thing. Under the woman’s gentle and smiling gaze, Fang Yi always had a feeling of being tricked.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. This interlocking chain, there was not even a moment to breathe.
Li Xianqing asked, “So anxious? To see your little partner?”
“…”
Fang Yi was inexplicably unwilling to answer her, but after a long silence, she still slowly nodded under the other party’s playful realization.
Li Xianqing raised an eyebrow. “You’re going empty-handed? As far as I know, she has quite a few suitors~”
It sounded intimate, but it made Fang Yi feel a subtle chill up her spine, even stronger than when she had been held at gunpoint by Xia Wenzhou.
Why is she investigating so clearly?
Li Xianqing clapped her hands, and the secretary in the passenger seat immediately handed over an exquisitely packaged high-end gift box.
She tilted her chin slightly and motioned for Fang Yi to take it.
Fang Yi had an impression of this brand. Lin Shuxing had quite liked this shop when they had been shopping before.
But even the gift had to be given by someone else. What did that count as? How could she just give it to her like this?
Seeing Fang Yi’s reserved appearance, Li Xianqing took the initiative to take the gift box and stuffed it into her hand. “Take it. It’s from me to her. A very outstanding little one. She also gave me one before…”
Before she could finish, Fang Yi was already on high alert. She had no cash on her and could only awkwardly take out a savings card from her bosom, and held it with both hands to exchange for her gift box.
“Thank you. I’ll buy it.”