Lian Qi was flipping through pictures on the internet.
It was a picture that was obviously cut off from a live video.
Recently, these pictures were particularly popular on the internet, and almost everyone who saw them would save them.
Just because the person in the photo was Jiu Shu.
Looking at the photo of Jiu Shu raising his eyes to look at the camera, she locked eyes with that pair of dark, calm eyes.
Subconsciously, Lian Qi was actually a bit mesmerized by it.
Although Jiu Shu had a bad reputation on the internet before, being abused was a common thing.
But a few days ago, everything had changed.
A few days ago, the program they participated in recording was shown on TV.
Although it was just an ordinary program, it received a lot of attention because they had been attacked by the resistance and a person had died.
The program, which had been on the decline, became the top stream of the TV station again and broke the ratings record.
But in fact, everyone knew that the Resistance stunt wasn’t enough to boost the show’s ratings.
The real reason why viewers went crazy for the program was because of the underground idol named Jiu Shu.
It was obvious that he was a very lowly person.
After all, the underground idol had a nice ring to it, but in reality, everyone knew what it was.
But in the program, he became the absolute main character.
Everyone’s eyes would involuntarily fall on him.
Even Lian Qi was no exception.
Especially when Jiu Shu’s face that wasn’t covered by a mask was exposed in the video.
The comment section was as clean as if it had been emptied.
It was strange.
Before this, Lian Qi had never thought that humans could really be beautiful to this extent.
On Jiu Shu was a strange kind of beauty.
It wasn’t just his features, but he also had an indefinable attractive aura.
Touching her face, although Lian Qi had always been known for her big personality in public, she was actually not considered to be particularly broad-minded, and she had never had much affection for existences that would take away her fans.
But now, in the face of this youth who had completely crushed the looks she was so proud of, she couldn’t raise a single malicious thought.
There was even a bit of concern as to whether or not he had been injured in the incident a few days ago.
Jiu Shu hadn’t been in touch since that program, and she wondered if he had been hurt by Adam.
She also called the director of the program to ask for his contact information.
However, even the program director couldn’t get his contact information, and Jiu Shu’s downtown agency also kept quiet about it.
As one of the top stars in the music industry today, Lian Qi had a rare feeling of being at her wits’ end.
A few days ago was the day when the artificial intelligence Adam woke up.
With the help of her boyfriend, Lian Qi successfully escaped from the rotten building No. 9 with the program team.
However, she still remembered the frightening feeling she had when she unintentionally looked back at the rotten tail building and saw expressionless and empty faces through the narrow window with no windows.
The structure of the building was destined to be a huge building that looked rough and pure white on the outside, and every window was densely arranged on the wall, and behind the windows were the narrow rooms near the corridors for the poor people to live in.
And at that time, in that space that reached up to a hundred floors, the bionic people who were originally hiding in the corners and didn’t dare to meet with the humans were all standing near the windows for some reason, staring at them with empty gazes.
It was as if they were watching every move of the humans.
Plotting the day when they would take their place.
It was also then that she completely understood what her boyfriend meant by being careful of every bionic person.
It was just that she was still skeptical about being careful of humans.
Adam was just an AI after all; he could assimilate bionics through the network but not necessarily contaminate human minds.
Humans were a more advanced species than bionics and were their masters.
How could they be easily assimilated easily by an AI created by bionics?
At least right now, Lian Qi hadn’t found anyone as terrifying as those bionics.
“Maybe it’s just that he’s well disguised.”
Adam was an AI that truly possessed intelligence, and no one would be able to recognize him if he tried to disguise himself.
In response to his girlfriend Lian Qi’s questioning, Resistance Leader Cory just sighed and analyzed so.
He hadn’t been resting much lately in order to come up with a way to deal with Adam.
Ever since Adam had woken up and the group of people he had sent to find Adam had been completely lost, Cory had realized what Adam meant.
He wouldn’t feel that the Resistance, who had created him, was his master; he had his own ideas.
And perhaps he held a deep malice toward the Resistance.
So recently, Cory had ordered all the resistance to try not to network.
To avoid being traced by Adam.
Right now, Adam was the most deadly and insoluble virus in the cyber world.
Once discovered, the only end was assimilation.
The reason why Lian Qi didn’t realize something was wrong was only because she hadn’t gone out recently under his advice.
Cory, who had been monitoring the city’s movements, had long since realized that something was wrong with the city.
The once noisy city was becoming quieter and quieter.
Or rather, it was becoming more orderly than it had been.
Everyone was doing their own thing in an orderly fashion.
It was so quiet that it was like a thoughtless machine.
No, to be more precise, more like puppets.
Puppets assimilated by Adam spread through the city.
Perhaps only those who didn’t frequent the internet were spared.
Cory’s expression grew heavy at the thought.
He didn’t know exactly what Adam was trying to do.
If he was at the level of insanity he was at before he awakened, he should have exacted vicious revenge on humans and bionics when he awakened.
But now it had remained peaceful for days.
The calm before the storm was always breathtaking.
The calmer it was, the more unsettling it was.
Cory felt that Adam must be plotting some terrible plan.
But he couldn’t figure it out, he could only look at the increasing number of puppets in the city and fall into the anxiety of not being able to understand.
What exactly was Adam up to?
Why would he want to assimilate the entire seventh city and only the seventh city?
Cory had observed, there were no traces of assimilation found in the other cities for the time being.
It was reasonable to say that with Adam’s ability, although he might not be able to cover the whole country, a few large cities were still perfectly fine.
Cory frowned as he watched the humans on the monitor walking towards the subway in an orderly manner, their faces calm and unusual.
Under the pressure of today’s society’s economic downturn, the government stood by and even increased taxes. Even with the superior living environment in the upper city, most of the human beings who were pressured to survive and were afraid of falling into the lower city had become violent and irritable.
The subway was usually incredibly chaotic, not so quiet and orderly.
Throughout the surveillance, these well-organized humans made up the majority, and only a few of them still had lively expressions.
If nothing was done to stop it, it might not be long before the city was nothing but Adam’s puppets.
A city where only Adam existed.
Was this what Adam was after?
To create a city where only he existed?
In that case, perhaps he could hide his fragile and easily-destroyed essence even more.
When the time came for the disaster to spread across the globe, humanity would be helpless.
But Cory always felt that something was wrong.
After thinking about it, he contacted the Paradise Lost Corporation again.
Although many experiments had been done in secret of the Paradise Lost Corporation before, causing the relationship between the two to gradually stiffen, after Adam woke up, Cory, who realized that events were starting to get out of control, immediately informed Paradise Lost Corporation of everything.
After all, he only wanted to gain the power to talk to humans as equals and didn’t want to bring about a disaster.
Adam was now out of their hands, and he could only ask for help from the humans.
But the Paradise Lost Corporation, for their part, had responded to Cory with impatience.
They despised them as bionics, even Cory, who was the leader of the bionic resistance.
They simply didn’t believe a powerful AI could be created by a mere resistance bionic group.
The highly advanced technological means that could surpass their human creation of bionic people had long been blocked to the bionic people, and they simply couldn’t be much of a threat.
Therefore, they did not take Corey’s words to heart at all.
This made Corey’s mood heavier and heavier.
No one knew Adam’s terror better than he who had single-handedly created him.
After a while, when Adam grew even stronger, there would really be no way to stop him.
So he was still prepared to continue trying to convince the group side to send troops to search for Adam.
Their current positioning device could only confirm that Adam’s body was still in the city.
Without excessive mood swings, they wouldn’t be able to determine exactly where Adam was.
Not to mention that Adam could transfer his own body at any time.
As long as he hid his main body in a place where humans couldn’t find it, such as in the ruins of the lower city where the network couldn’t reach like they did before.
He was invincible.
Cory couldn’t even be sure now if Adam was still using a bionic body; perhaps he had long since replaced it with a huge, redundant computer mainframe.
By leveraging the data processing library of the host, Adam could process more data in the online world.
“Once again, I implore the group to inform the government and find Adam as soon as possible.”
Otherwise, it would be too late.
Cory sounded eager.
They were trying to find Adam even now, but it was still too slow.
“You again? Stop calling!”
The person who answered the phone was the general manager of Paradise Lost Corporation in charge of Seventh Metropolis affairs.
Cory couldn’t even talk directly to the group’s top management right now.
He could only ask for help from humans in this way.
Yet he got only taunts.
“The group won’t give any more favors to a betrayer!”
Obviously, the group had completely given up on this rebel-filled rebel force after learning about the Resistance’s secret experiments.
After saying that, the general manager hung up the phone.
He was now busy dealing with the group’s declining sales figures within the Seventh Metropolis, and he simply didn’t have the time to pay attention to a tiny resistance leader.
It was just a bionic man that could be crushed to death with the move of a finger.
What was more important now was how to salvage the sales, or else he was afraid that his position as general manager would be unprotected.
It was all thanks to that despicable Paradise Technology Company. They just needed to go bankrupt and be liquidated honestly; wouldn’t that be enough?
He didn’t know who acquired a large number of shares in Paradise Technology, becoming the actual owner of Paradise Technology, and using various marketing methods and eye-catching new products to snatch away all their customers.
The general manager hated the major shareholder behind that sudden surge with a gnashing of teeth.
But it didn’t help, and he could only continue to worry as much as the higher-ups over at headquarters right now.
After being hung up on, Cory sulked.
Since he couldn’t turn to the humans for help, there was only one last method left.
Force Adam to have larger mood swings.
Thus determining his location.
For now, it was tentatively confirmed that the being who had caused Adam to have violent mood swings was in the human crew at the time.
Cory didn’t want to hurt too many humans, so he ruled out many humans who weren’t on the floor near the accident location and only temporarily set his target on that crew at that time.
The crew where his girlfriend, Lian Qi, was recording the program.
All humans except Lian Qi were suspected targets.
Cory looked at the list in his hands with hesitant eyes.
After a long time, he still gave the order.
Ki-ll all the suspected humans.
Only then would Adam reveal the cracks.
They still kept the neurovirus against Adam’s underlying logic within the resistanceresistance, and as long as Adam was exposed, the virus could be injected into his body.
Then, end this disaster.
Inside the apartment building.
Jiu Shu narrowed his eyes as he looked at the comparative sales figures of Paradise Technology and Paradise Lost on his cell phone.
It took a long time before he closed the page.
In a little while, it should be possible to start acquiring Paradise Lost Corporation.
In the original story, this Paradise Lost Corporation could be considered one of the root causes of the suffering of the bionic people in the Seventh Metropolis and even the entire world.
Although the economic downturn, the government’s inaction, and the solidification of classes were the root causes.
But in order to bring down Paradise Technology, the Paradise Lost Corporation’s slander of the old model bionic people could be described as anything and everything, directly leading to the Golden Age’s accumulated goodwill towards the bionic people instantly collapsing.
And as a multinational conglomerate that monopolized most of the bionic business in the entire international world, this behemoth that could be called the culprit until the end of the original story didn’t have any hurtful losses.
It had always been a huge force that the hero and heroine couldn’t fight against and was enough to rival the government.
Jiu Shu rested his cheeks in his palms in boredom as he watched a commercial for his company’s bionic man being shown on a television program.
This time Paradise Lost shouldn’t be able to be so peaceful.
Because Jiu Shu was interested in acquiring it.
The Resistance side was going to be pushed a little too.
Jiu Shu didn’t want them to get too comfortable.
“Want some fruit?”
Zero Three’s low, magnetic voice came from his ear.
As soon as the words left his mouth, a piece of sweet and juicy watermelon was brought to his mouth.
Jiu Shu bit off the pulp on the toothpick and squinted his eyes in satisfaction.
“Very sweet.”
The fruit cultivation in this world was great.
The only drawback was that it was expensive.
It was basically exclusive only to the rich.
Zero Three’s gaze lingered for a moment on the pale red tongue on Jiu Shu’s exposed lips, and he couldn’t help but tighten his embrace.
Ever since the recording of the program ended a few days ago, Zero Three had become extraordinarily clingy, often hugging Jiu Shu without letting go.
Jiu Shu also had no intention of resisting, allowing Zero Three to hug him.
Occasionally accepting the food Zero Three threw at him, he lived to turn himself into a salted fish.
[TN: salted fish — basically a person that does nothing]
A soft smile would appear when he ate his favorite food.
“It’s good that you like it.”
Looking at the smile on Jiu Shu’s face, Zero Three also smiled and rubbed Jiu Shu’s cheek.
By the way, he changed the TV channel without a trace.
It wasn’t that he was jealous of the Bionic Man commercial on TV.
It was just that the commercial was too long, and changing the channel would be better.
The changed channel was a news channel.
International news was being broadcast on the station.
Recently another wave of opposition to bionics had risen globally.
Countless people who marched and demonstrated believed that bionics would squeeze the living space of human beings and suggested that bionics should be banned completely.
There were also many news stories of conflicts and wars between countries competing for profits.
Looking at those humans holding signs and marching in the news, Zero Three suddenly spoke: “What about Jiu Shu, do you think that there are too many bionics?”
“Of course not. They are working for humans, aren’t they? It’s supposed to liberate human productivity.”
Jiu Shu spoke somewhat drowsily.
Recently, although he had been a salted fish for a longer period of time, Zero Three was always cuddling him in bed, and the overly intense and frequent intimacy caused him to not sleep very much.
Watching TV for a while made him sleepy.
“Like this? Then…”
Zero Three seemed to want to say something else, but when he looked down, he realized that Jiu Shu had already fallen asleep.
He looked at Jiu Shu’s silent sleeping face with fascination for a moment before kissing his temples lightly and turning off the TV.
Jiu Shu was indeed friendly to the bionic man.
Even he thought there were indeed too many bionics.
Humans too.
They were all too many.
Too many creatures with complicated minds always led to a lack of understanding of each other.
That was why there were protests, that was why there were conflicts, that was why there were wa-rs.
It was what led to bionics not being able to be with humans forever.
Zero Three carried Jiu Shu to the bed to rest, and after tightening his embrace greedily, his eyes looked out the window at the city.
The neon lights of the city illuminated a large portion of the night sky in the night, and the smell of prosperity and extravagance was everywhere.
And yet it was inexplicably quiet to the point of being eerie.
A city where he and Jiu Shu were the only ones left was just right.
No one else would try to hinder their happiness.
Jiu Shu slept very deeply.
He woke up early the next morning, and he got up and stretched.
It was time to go to work today.
“Zero Three is going to work today too, I guess.”
Jiu Shu finished washing up and sat at the table, watching Zero Three serve breakfast and wrapping his arms affectionately around his neck.
Zero Three carefully bent over, which kept Jiu Shu from hanging in mid-air with his entire body.
He actually enjoyed Jiu Shu’s intimacy, and hugged him back after setting down the dishes in his hands.
“Yes, time to go to work.”
Zero Three actually didn’t really want to go to work, nor did he want Jiu Shu to leave.
He only wanted to stay with Jiu Shu forever.
It would always be just him and Jiu Shu.
But Zero Three didn’t want to be too overbearing in hindering Jiu Shu’s freedom.
He considered himself to be a very open-minded lover.
Just like what the relationship guidebook said, only lovers who kept their minds smooth and were not in a hurry were excellent and could accompany their loved ones to the end.
Recently, Jiu Shu had stopped his residency over at the downtown bar just so he could spend more time with him.
He should be satisfied too.
Besides, it was just a short stint.
He’d be back by noon.
“I’m going uptown today to prepare for the album, so I probably won’t be back until the evening.”
At those words, Zero Three was stunned, and the pale arm resting on Jiu Shu’s waist seemed to tense up slightly.
After the matter of the rotten building, he had always been overly sensitive to the matter of leaving Jiu Shu, to the point of being a bit morbid.
Especially when he left for so long.
“What, don’t want me to be gone that long?” Jiu Shu seemed to have read Zero Three’s mind, his eyes curving slightly.
“Don’t worry, it’s just for a day.”
“I’ll be back soon.”
After finishing his speech, Jiu Shu snuggled into Zero Three’s arms and began to eat.
Zero Three didn’t seem to care so much after being pacified and followed Jiu Shu through breakfast.
“I’m going out then.”
Jiu Shu put on his mask and waved at Zero Three.
Zero Three, who still had an apron tied around his body, watched Jiu Shu go far away, and only after a long time did he somewhat forlornly drop his swinging hand.
In the room now, he was left alone again.
His tall figure stood at the room’s entrance hall, just as lonely and silent as when he had not met Jiu Shu.
Jiu Shu stood in the elevator and glanced at the overhead camera.
The red dot of light was a sign that the camera was functioning.
Dropping his gaze, Jiu Shu took out his cell phone.
Occasionally, there was still a need to take care of some business, so leaving was necessary.
Not just the original owner’s desire to become a star, but other matters as well.
It wasn’t easy for Jiu Shu to spare a few days to appease the object of discipline who had had a mental breakdown once.
Ding.
The elevator door opened.
Jiu Shu stepped out of the elevator and saw that the lobby of the apartment building was sparsely populated.
This was the norm in the lower city, where the people usually only came out to party when night came.
But again, the lobby was a little different now than it had been before.
Jiu Shu glanced at the smiling front desk receptionist of the property, and his gaze paused at his dark eyes and retracted.
There had never been such a thing in this run-down apartment building.
But it seemed there really was such a position, they just never showed up.
Under the watchful eyes of the customer service in the lobby, Jiu Shu left the apartment building.
He had to go uptown to prepare for the album, and needed to take the subway to get to the distant center of uptown.
The Seventh Metropolis was a mega city that covered an extremely large area, said to be larger than the land area of many small countries in this world.
The population was even more than half a billion, not including those unregistered families in the lower city center.
The city’s bloated population and vast urban area led to the city’s monstrous split between the upper and lower urban areas, as well as the long straight-line distances between the two that had to be reached by means of transportation.
Jiu Shu walked to the subway station.
Along the way, the scenery of the lower city was no different from that of the past.
Although the expressions on people’s faces were numb, there was still a glow in their eyes that was different from the darkness.
After all, there were only a few people with internet access in the Lower City, and many more were poor people who couldn’t even afford to connect to the internet.
Only occasionally did Jiu Shu see a few passersby with pitch-black pupils peeking at him.
However, they withdrew their gazes in a moment, and all of them wore gentle expressions on their faces as if nothing had happened and walked away.
Jiu Shu thoughtfully looked at their distant backs, the corners of his lips pursed lightly as he continued to walk forward.
He soon got to the subway station.
This place used to be very noisy both day and night.
There were many people from the lower city who wished to go to the upper city to make a living attempting to board the subway, but the subway only gave entry to those who had identification documents, and many who did not were stopped outside.
They could only stay there day and night, waiting for a possible job opportunity, and making this subway station chaotic and noisy.
Jiu Shu raised his eyes and saw that the subway entrances, which should have been crowded, had all become very tidy.
People were waiting for the subway in an orderly fashion, each with a similar gentle expression on their faces.
Jiu Shu was at the end of the line, also waiting quietly.
The only sound in the large waiting hall was the sound of the announcement of the station from the radio constantly playing back.
There wasn’t even the sound of anyone whispering.
The train going to the center of the uptown area had arrived at the station.
The line in front of Jiu Shu began to enter the train.
Jiu Shu followed suit.
The people in the train were equally uncontroversial, dressed in suits and dresses obviously in a hurry to go to work, but their faces didn’t show any traces of the anxiety that office workers should have.
It wasn’t in line with the high-pressure social environment of working overtime constantly.
But when there were more people with this kind of expression, it also blended into the environment.
There were no more empty seats in the train, so Jiu Shu held the handle and stood to the side.
“Please sit here, I’m getting off at the next stop.”
Suddenly, a white-collar commuter sitting next to him spoke up, standing up as he did so.
Jiu Shu’s beautiful peach blossom eyes looked up at him.
The office worker seemed a bit shy and avoided Jiu Shu’s gaze.
Jiu Shu half-heartedly refused, “No need, I’m not tired.”
He wasn’t so fragile that he needed someone to give up his seat.
“Alright.”
The commuter sniffed and sat back down with some loss, his dark pupils seeming to dim.
Jiu Shu looked at him.
In the middle of the day, as if sensing something, Jiu Shu suddenly raised his head and looked around.
In the quiet train, every one was waiting to get to their destination with a gentle expression and a lightly furrowed brows.
It was as if the countless lines of sight Jiu Shu felt were false.
Jiu Shu blinked, withdrew his gaze, took out his cell phone and started flipping through it.
Not paying any more attention to everything around him.
At the next stop, the commuter next to him did get off the bus.
Jiu Shu removed his gaze from his cell phone and saw that outside the slowly closing subway doors, the commuter stood quietly outside the yellow line, watching the train gradually move.
His dark pupils didn’t reflect a trace of light, but it could be felt that the focus of his line of sight was on Jiu Shu.
Jiu Shu watched the figure of the commuter disappear outside the window of the rapidly departing subway before looking at the empty seat not far in front of him.
According to reason, in a crowded subway car, once a seat was vacated, it would be immediately seized.
However, the one in front of Jiu Shu remained empty.
It was as if it had been given to the closer person by default.
The moral standard and quality level was extremely high.
Seeing this, Jiu Shu put away his cell phone and sat down on the seat.
Leaning against the glass window of the seat, Jiu Shu could see the stations passing by outside the car window with a twist of his head.
At each station, there were many well-organized commuters standing and waiting, all of them well-dressed, with similar expressions as they looked in the direction of the train.
Not a single one of them was looking down and playing with their cell phones.
The straight bodies were standardized like a machine.
Jiu Shu watched for a long time before his eyes moved slightly.
Looking at the reflection of the train window, countless pairs of eyes looking straight at him were being reflected from the carriage behind them.
The tip of Jiu Shu’s eyebrow was slightly raised as he rubbed his throbbing temples.
Ceasing to look at the station outside, he pulled out his cell phone and began to play again.
Even though he was the only one with his head down in the carriage, Jiu Shu didn’t seem to find it weird or otherworldly.
After sending a few messages, he flipped through the news page on his phone.
Until he got a little sleepy from reading, he leaned against the car window and closed his eyes for a nap.
In a daze, his head tilted sideways and fell, seemingly about to hit the hard railing.
In the next moment, there seemed to be many hands reaching out and padding in front of the railing.
Others subconsciously tried to embrace the dozing youth.
But all of them retracted before Jiu Shu’s eyelashes trembled and opened.
When Jiu Shu opened his eyes, he only saw his own body that was being held upright, and an office worker whose suit was slightly creased, but his facial expression was still normal.
Ding.
The train arrived again, and this time, it was the same office worker who got off the train, and he walked straight ahead after getting off, seemingly unconcerned about the train behind him.
It wasn’t until the train started that he turned his head to look at the compartment.
The dark eyes became more and more hollow, and he accidentally fell flat on the ground, just in time to hurt the hands that had just touched Jiu Shu.
Jiu Shu fell silent.
With a subtle expression, he looked at the message screen on his cell phone.
He was chatting with Zero Three just now before he fell asleep.
He was asking if Zero Three would be jealous because he stayed out for a long time.
[It’s just going to work; of course I won’t be jealous; I’m not a jealous person. [Love]]
His fingertips paused, and Jiu Shu furrowed his brows.
[I know, you’re a very reliable lover, I’ve always known that. [Love]]
Jiu Shu finished typing his message and raised his eyes without a trace, seeing the happy looks on the faces of the suited office workers around him deepen.
It was as if they were hiding the upward curve of the corners of their mouths.
Without looking at the commuters again, Jiu Shu once again lowered his head to look at his cell phone, his eyebrow slightly arched.
The train stayed quiet like this.
The commuters in the train got off one after another, but never fully left.
It wasn’t until Jiu Shu’s stop arrived that the remaining few commuters got out of the train.
Jiu Shu also followed and got off.
This was the center of the uptown area, and there were polished floors and various high-tech products everywhere.
Round–sweeping robots patrolled back and forth around the perimeter of the streets, looking for trash.
There were also a number of hover trains speeding by overhead.
It was very different from the backward decay of the lower city.
Looking back at the entrance to the subway, Jiu Shu saw a hurried-looking commuter enter it.
Then she collided with the commuters with mild expressions.
When she looked around, she saw the exact same mild expressions and immediately revealed a horrified look.
Like she had seen some horrible monster.
She quickly ran away.
Jiu Shu withdrew his gaze and continued forward as if nothing had happened.
Following the navigation guide, he soon arrived at the area where the record label was located.
This was also the place where the uptown stars were most likely to hang out.
Jiu Shu was a reserved guest and was quickly greeted up.
With his current fame, there were naturally many record labels that wanted to release an album for him, and originally the label wanted to go directly to the lower city to pick him up to gain favor, but he refused.
Now after arriving, they were equally attentive, nodding and escorting him to the president of the company.
In fact, it was just an album; there was no need to go to meet the president.
In this world, this was just a small business that was simple; the singer recorded the song in a few minutes, and the company was responsible for the post-processing and sale.
Jiu Shu looked at the president with dark eyes behind the desk as he thought.
“We need to change the contract,” the president said in a deep voice and took out a contract.
With a simple scan, Jiu Shu saw a long list of numbers on the compensation column.
Was it for money laun-dering?
Jiu Shu looked at the president again and signed the contract after receiving an affirmative answer.
A large sum of lucrative compensation for nothing.
But it was actually considered an early investment by the company to treat him with the contractual treatment of a real star.
It was just that in the eyes of outsiders, this overly generous treatment also basically meant subterfuge.
If the routine was followed, the next thing that should have happened was the company president bullying a rookie singer and office subterfuge.
The president seemed to have thought of these things as well, his cheeks slightly reddening as his gaze hovered over the back of Jiu Shu’s snow-white hand that was exposed to the cuff.
Jiu Shu noticed the president’s change, glanced at the tip of the president’s reddened ear, and withdrew his gaze again.
After obtaining the contract, Jiu Shu ignored the president’s hesitant expression of wanting to make a few polite remarks and left the office.
Only leaving the president with a forlorn expression, he disappeared behind the door of the room that Jiu Shu had closed.
Jiu Shu was in a hurry to record the song.
The studio where the song was recorded was a bit far from the office.
Walking slowly, Jiu Shu looked up at the ubiquitous surveillance cameras in the corridor.
There was one at ten paces, spreading all the way to the end of the corridor.
In the flashing red camera image, his porcelain white cheeks were still so beautiful that people couldn’t take their eyes off of them.
The abundance of surveillance cameras had become a feature of the Seventh Metropolis.
It was said to prevent the Bionic people from rioting.
The people had grown accustomed to this kind of violation of ** from their initial protests.
There were so many cameras even in the company, and given the city’s surveillance-crazy urban character, it was assumed that there were only a few more cameras outside the company just now.
All of them were in operation, and his every move was all being watched.
Looking away, Jiu Shu’s expression was light as he continued to the recording studio.
After arriving at the place, he quickly recorded a few covers of old songs.
These were works that were not intended to be sold and were only used for promotional purposes.
The new songs he recorded were tunes he had only recently made, and he would continue to record a few more in the days afterward.
Jiu Shu had only finished writing one song for now.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t; it was just that he’d been resting with Zero Three for the past few days, so he didn’t have time.
[Tomorrow, I’m going to look for inspiration; I’m not inspired to write a new song.]
Jiu Shu, who had finished recording the new song, sent a message to the object of punishment.
There was soon a reply.
[Okay, I’ll accompany you then. [Love]]
Jiu Shu saw the expected reply and revealed a smile.
Going out for a stroll would indeed be better; staying at home all the time was no longer effective.
It only made the mood more depressing.
After recording the song, Jiu Shu no longer had much to do.
He sat on a chair next to the recording studio, and there was only one bionic man in charge of recording in the studio where there weren’t many people.
The bionic man’s pitch-black pupils glanced at Jiu Shu from time to time but didn’t disturb Jiu Shu too much; he worked seriously, processing the audio.
Jiu Shu rested his cheeks on his palms and watched the bionic man processing the work.
Suddenly his movements paused, and he turned his head to look at the dance practice room not far away.
The walls of the dance practice room consisted of a huge double-sided glass.. Jiu Shu walked closer and gently tapped his fingertips on the wall. TheThe double-sided glass with touch–screen function suddenly revealed everything inside the dance practice room.
Dozens of pairs of pitch-black pupils were staring unblinkingly through the glass wall in his direction.
Each pair of eyes came so close that they were almost pressed against the wall.
Jiu Shu took a step back, his expression slightly helpless.
Only after noticing Jiu Shu’s movements did they, the trainees who practiced dancing every day, retracted their gazes as if they had come back to their senses and continued practicing.
The movements were as standard as the most precise machines.
Only their gazes were still, if at all, carefully falling on Jiu Shu.
Jiu Shu held his forehead, no longer looking at them, turned around and started to pack up the things on the chairs to leave.
At this point, it was already approaching afternoon, he was going to go have a midday meal in a while, and then remotely deal with the company’s affairs, after which he could go home.
With everything planned out, Jiu Shu left the company.
This company happened to be in the same building as Lian Qi’s company.
The absent-minded Lian Qi saw Jiu Shu’s back from afar and was suddenly startled, she quickly ran but she still failed to catch up.
She failed to remind Jiu Shu to be careful of Adam.
While Jiu Shu may not have known of Adam’s existence, it was always good to be careful.
“What’s up?” Cory’s voice, her boyfriend’s, came from her headphones.
Lian Qi stopped in her tracks as if she had come to her senses: Nothing; senses: Nothing; I just saw someone I know.”
Cory didn’t hear the weakness in Lian Qi’s tone; he just continued worriedly: “I hope you can leave Seventh City as soon as possible, or at least stay out of the storm for a while.”
By leaving the center of this storm, Lian Qi should be able to stay out of harm’s way.
After all, they were truly in love, and Cory didn’t want this human who loved him to get hurt.
At his words, Lian Qi only nodded perfunctorily, signaling that she would.
Her eyes, however, still fell on the place where Jiu Shu had disappeared.
Lian Qi quickly hung up the communication.
Cory sighed as well, the sadness on his face not dissipating.
What exactly was Adam trying to do?
Since he couldn’t figure it out, Cory had no choice but to put it aside for the time being and continued to pick up the file on his desktop.
Inside was an organized list of human information.
One of the human youths with an ordinary photo was at the top of the list, named Jiu Shu.
He was the next one they were going to get rid of.
The previous ones had failed.
Adam hadn’t budged.
Cory looked at the gloomy eyes of the youth in the photo and slowly put a cross on it.
Meaning, k-ill him.
TN:
They dead 💀
They so dead.
Thank you for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter!