novelbin Chapter 381 - 366: A Good Player Plans for Position
Chapter 381 - 366: A Good Player Plans for Position
Qi Xiang looked up at Gu Xi. ’What will she think now that she knows all this?’
’...Will she think I’ve been lying to her this whole time, that I’m in cahoots with Dr. Qi and the others?’
Qi Xiang bit her lip. ’If that’s what Gu Xi thinks, then I...’ Suppressing the bitterness in her heart, she began, "Gu Xi..."
But Gu Xi wasn’t thinking along those lines at all.
She glanced at Qi Xiang, cutting her off. "The woman you saw in Dr. Qi’s office—was she from the Gu Family?"
When Qi Xiang nodded, Gu Xi leaned against a nearby machine and frowned slightly. "So, Dr. Qi had already found out about your background back then? Or did he know all along, and he intentionally let you see that woman that time?"
"I’m not sure." Qi Xiang slowly shook her head. "But Huo Changzhou bringing this up today reminded me of something."
Gu Xi looked up at her.
"Gu Xi, do you remember that woman who went looking for Huo Changzhou the other day?" Qi Xiang asked.
Gu Xi nodded. "You said she was from the Gu Family."
"Right," Qi Xiang said. "I thought she looked a little familiar at the time, and my suspicion that she was from the Gu Family was related to this matter."
When Qi Xiang saw that woman again in Dr. Qi’s office after so many years, she indeed grew curious about her own background. One investigation later, she traced it to the Gu Family.
"Later, when I was investigating that woman, I came across the one who went to see Huo Changzhou..." Qi Xiang briefly explained what had happened back then.
Gu Xi was lost in thought after hearing the story.
’No wonder some of Dr. Qi’s past actions had always seemed so baffling. So there were other things tangled up in all of this...’
’It seems the Gu Family has been quite busy.’
’But Li Ming had taught her as a child that a master strategist plans for the entire situation, while a poor one fixates on individual moves. The leaders of a great clan like the Gu Family were probably experts at laying out a grand strategy.’
’The Gu Family has likely been setting the pieces on this chessboard from the very beginning.’
But now, Gu Xi had no desire to play chess with them. She just wanted... to flip the whole board over!
Meanwhile, seeing that they couldn’t get anything else out of Huo Changzhou, Wei Heng exchanged a look with Yang Chi.
Yang Chi got the hint instantly. He deliberately moved closer to Wei Heng, glanced at Huo Changzhou, and whispered, "Wei Heng, he’s useless now..."
These words made Huo Changzhou, cowering in the corner, shudder. All the color drained from his face.
Thankfully, Wei Heng’s next sentence saved him. "Let Gu Xi handle him. After all, Huo Changzhou is still technically the person in charge of Farm 0101, and Gu Xi is now in charge of City A. It’s legitimate for her to handle it, and it’ll prevent people from making an issue of it in the future..."
"That’s true. After all, Gu Xi is already at the center of a storm. Too many people are watching her, so we have to be careful about some things..."
With that, the two of them left the room.
Huo Changzhou watched the metal door slowly close in front of him, his face ashen as he gasped for breath.
He was suddenly overcome with a deep chill, as if the very air around him radiated a bone-piercing cold.
’No, I can’t just sit here and wait to die.’
A vicious glint flashed in Huo Changzhou’s eyes. He raised his hand and opened his personal terminal...
Five minutes later, Huo Changzhou closed the Light Screen with a grim expression and struggled to crawl toward the window in the corner.
’...Thank goodness, I’m still the director of the farm. All the farm-related permissions are still mine. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have been able to leave this place today.’
Heart pounding with fear, Huo Changzhou climbed out the window to escape. The gust of wind from his leap off the sill carried with it a sliver of shattered sunlight, rattling the glass pane behind him. Meanwhile, the rose bush by the window silently crept out...
...
「In the next room.」
Yang Chi tapped the Light Screen a few times before looking up at the others. "Huo Changzhou’s gone. With that woman."
"So what if he’s gone?" Qi Xiang said, unconcerned. She casually peeled a tangerine, split it in half, and handed a piece to Gu Xi. "Gu Xiaoxi, how long are you planning to stay in bed?"
Gu Xi, propped up in her hospital bed, broke off a segment of the tangerine and placed it in her mouth. She chewed slowly, waiting until the sweet citrus flavor had completely filled her senses before she slowly looked out the window. "That depends on how capable your dear Mr. Huo is..."
’If you’re going to put on an act, you have to see it through. Now that Huo Changzhou has discovered her "secret," how could she not remain "weak" for a few days?’
’Besides, the farm is like a sieve right now, with spies everywhere...’
"Will this work?" Wei Heng asked, leaning against a nearby wall with a slight frown. "I doubt those people will believe it..."
How could a God-tier super with a Healing Ability possibly become this weak? They, especially those who know Gu Xi’s true capabilities, would never believe it.
’But then again, maybe...’ Wei Heng’s gaze fell on Gu Xi’s pale and feeble face. Even though he knew it was fake, he couldn’t help but feel a flicker of concern.
"Under normal circumstances, of course they wouldn’t believe it," Gu Xi said. "But I just so happened to have fought Yun Ye yesterday, didn’t I?"
"Since Yun Ye wants to cooperate, he’ll naturally find a way to convince certain people that I’m in a weakened state right now."
"...there’s still the Superpower Seed, isn’t there?" Gu Xi looked up at them. "Find a chance for Mr. Zhou to release some information. Just say I was injured back in the Death Swamp and have been hiding it, just forcing myself to appear fine..."
"That’s a great idea." Yang Chi slapped his thigh and rubbed his chin. "And we already have the perfect reason for the injury..."
He looked up at the others. "How about we say Gu Xi was injured while trying to claim the Superpower Seed?"
Beside him, Qin Yi gave him a thumbs-up. The idea was brilliant. No one would doubt an injury sustained because of the Superpower Seed. After all, with something as mystical as the Superpower Seed, how could anyone claim it without paying some sort of price?
Moreover, this would indirectly show that the Superpower Seed wasn’t in Gu Xi’s possession, which would stop certain people from using it against her later. There were tens of thousands of people treasure hunting in the Death Swamp right now. If they came up empty-handed and someone started stirring up trouble behind the scenes...
...then all those people would likely target Gu Xi. They’d start asking, ’Did Gu Xi take the Superpower Seed from the very beginning?’
If those people were then pushed to do something drastic, Gu Xi could become a public enemy to all of humankind over the Superpower Seed.
What they had to do now was to eliminate that possibility and have Gu Xi distance herself from the Superpower Seed from the very start.
The group gathered around Gu Xi’s bed and discussed for a while longer, further refining the plan.
Wei Heng stood up. "I’ll go find Mr. Zhou."
After Wei Heng left, Qin Yi frowned, leaned in, and asked, "Gu Xi, should we give Mr. Shen a heads-up about this?"
Seeing her cautious expression, a faint smile touched Gu Xi’s lips. "Of course we have to notify him. However, the fact that I’m severely injured and weak needs to be kept strictly confidential. So, on the surface, it’s naturally best that as few people as possible know..."
Qin Yi understood.
’So, they would just continue the act.’