Chapter 65: 65. The Link to the Outer World
This ti, the girl wasn’t wearing a formal suit but sothing more casual instead.
She had on a loose-fitting white sweater, a long pleated skirt underneath, and a pair of little leather shoes.
When she sat down there, Qing Chen could see her slender legs wrapped in white socks.
It seed that she had changed into attire she was more accustod to.
Jindai Kongyin no longer seed restless, but was quietly observing Qing Chen with her large eyes, which looked as if they could speak, seriously taking in the youth’s appearance.
Qing Chen sat down across from her, the two separated by an iron table.
The gray tallic walls surrounded them, bleak LED strip lighting above, but for so reason, the originally sowhat gloomy environnt seed sowhat refreshed by Jindai Kongyin’s presence.
Actually, the girl wasn’t particularly beautiful, but after looking at her for a while, you would feel extrely comfortable, as if basking in the sunlight.
Qing Chen hesitated before asking, “Why have you co?”
“To see you, to bring you so food,” Jindai Kongyin said, picking up a small cloth bag from beside the chair which contained a thermal lunch box, more exquisite than the one Ye Wan had.
Qing Chen silently opened the lunch box, which was neatly filled with three pieces of nigiri sushi and a side of beef bowl.
Jindai Kongyin said, “I asked around, the prison food doesn’t seem very good, so I made you sothing.”
Qing Chen asked, “Aren’t you afraid I’m a convict?”
“I know you’re on a mission,” Jindai Kongyin said with a smile.
“I’m curious, we don’t seem that close, certainly not close enough to visit in prison every day,” Qing Chen said calmly.
Although it was nice to be cared for, Qing Chen never believed in unconditional love in this world.
This was the World Within, and she was a Ti Traveler; from these two points alone, it was destined that the first thing Qing Chen felt upon seeing her was not affinity, but caution.
After a mont’s thought, Jindai Kongyin spoke softly, “This ti I ca to City No. 18 with my elders. They asked to interact more with you, and… being with them is sowhat uncomfortable.”
The two fell into silence, and Qing Chen picked up the chopsticks prepared by the girl, silently finishing all the food in the lunch box.
It had to be said that the girl’s cooking skills were very good.
Then, they fell into silence once more.
Throughout this ti, Jindai Kongyin’s gaze never left the youth, until the end of the thirty-minute visit.
So much so that even Qing Chen, who faced such a formidable array last night without panic, beca sowhat restless.
At that mont, Jindai Kongyin muttered softly, “他の「裏世界」の人と同じように,粗野で野蛮なのではないでしょうか.”
“What did you say?” Qing Chen asked, puzzled.
“Nothing, it’s a language only our clan understands,” Jindai Kongyin smiled and stood up, “Well then, Qing Chen, see you next ti.”
The girl seed to have gotten used to their silence, and the ga of speaking a language the other couldn’t understand, revealing her small thoughts, seed to bring her joy as well.
…
At the sa ti.
Lin Xiaoxiao, who was sitting bored in the reading area, lanted that ever since the boss required Qing Chen to conceal his identity, the prison seed to have lost so of its fun.
He wanted to chat with Qing Chen, but they all had to pretend to be indifferent.
He wanted to chat with Ye Wan, but Mother Ye’s personality was such that you couldn’t get a peep out of her all day.
This made Lin Xiaoxiao feel a wave of loneliness…
As for Guo Huchan… he wished that baldy would stay far away from him.
Just then, the alloy gate next to the square slowly lifted, and two chanical Prison Guards were seen escorting Liu Dezhu back to the square.
“Damn,” Lin Xiaoxiao slapped his forehead, feeling like he had forgotten sothing.
According to the prison’s punishnt rules, today was the day Liu Dezhu was supposed to finish his solitary confinent.
But the problem was, Liu Dezhu couldn’t co back because Lin Xiaoxiao knew he couldn’t let the kid see Qing Chen’s face!
“Boss, this guy can’t be released,” he said to Uncle Li Dong.
Uncle Li Dong lifted his gaze from the chessboard, then said, “Then lock him up again, we’ll talk about it tonight.”
No sooner had he spoken than the two chanical Prison Guards directly escorted Liu Dezhu away from the alloy gate and towards solitary confinent.
No one knew how Uncle Li Dong managed that, nor did anyone know who had heard Uncle Li Dong’s command and then issued the order to the chanical Prison Guards.
Just like no one knew how he managed to leave City No. 18’s prison.
Liu Dezhu, the chanical prison guard, was suspended in the air by his legs, and he roared, “Wait, wasn’t I supposed to be put back in the square? What’s this about, why am I being put in solitary confinent again? What cri have I committed?”
But no matter how much he struggled, he was ultimately taken back to the solitary cell…
Liu Dezhu felt rather dejected inside.
For a modern person, a day without the ability to communicate with the outside world, without a cell phone, without gas, was simply too hard to bear.
Liu Dezhu really wanted to end it all, but he couldn’t.
Every ti the countdown to ti travel ended, he would be forcefully pulled into the Inner World by the world’s rules and then spend several days in prison.
He never imagined that at such a young age, he would bear all that he shouldn’t have to bear.
Suddenly, the alloy gate in front of him opened, and in the hollow and dim corridor stood soone wearing a Cat Mask, silently watching him.
“Who… are you?” Liu Dezhu hesitated for a mont; he was sowhat afraid, but upon closer inspection, he saw that the other person didn’t have any weapons, and still held a prison reader in their hand.
This was the prison’s third Ti Traveler, Liu Dezhu realized.
Qing Chen slowly stepped into the solitary cell, and with a hydraulic release sound, the alloy gate slowly closed behind him.
“What do you want to do?!” Liu Dezhu felt a surge of fear in the enclosed space.
After a few seconds of silence, Qing Chen slowly wrote a ssage on the reader: “I saw the news; you’ve been mistaken for .”
Liu Dezhu’s eyes widened: “Big brother, I didn’t an to steal your thunder. I’ve made up my mind, I’ll never boast again. When I get out, I’ll admit that I’m not the Ti Traveler Jian Sheng encountered.”
Qing Chen wrote on the reader: “No need.”
“Ah?” Liu Dezhu thought, following his own logic, that he had taken the lilight from this mysterious figure, which is why they might be unhappy, but it seed that wasn’t the case.
He thought for a mont, then asked weakly, “Then what do you want to do, big brother?”
“Admit it publicly,” Qing Chen answered with the reader.
“No no no,” Liu Dezhu’s head shook like a rattle-drum: “I’m already scared of being harassed. Big brother, you don’t know, I live on the second floor, and the day before yesterday, I forgot to close the blinds while showering, and when I turned around, I saw soone on the building across with a cara pointing at ! Also, when I was cycling ho, there were paparazzi following in a car, complaining I was riding too slowly and saying I should go faster for a better shot!”
Qing Chen ignored his complaints and responded on the reader: “Do you know how many years your sentence is? It wasn’t dictated by , it was sentenced by Court No. 18 of the Inner World.”
Liu Dezhu was startled; he indeed didn’t know the specifics of his sentence, having been in prison ever since he arrived.
Qing Chen wrote on the reader: “99 years and seven months.”
Liu Dezhu: “???”
Qing Chen explained: “According to the news, you’ve committed robbery, theft, smuggling, drug trafficking, and attempted murder, with cumulative punishnt for multiple cris.”
“Damn!” Liu Dezhu nearly threw up at that mont.
At this ti, Qing Chen also pulled up the news of his trial on the reader, which belonged to Uncle Li Dong, hence had the authority to read the news.
Liu Dezhu dumbly watched the reader, which clearly stated his deeds and ntioned that it was the longest sentence in City No. 18 in the past two years.
He felt sowhat desperate, having harbored a sliver of hope that after enduring for a while and serving his sentence, everything would be fine.
Qing Chen continued to write: “Of course, I think…”
Suddenly, Liu Dezhu asked, “Big brother, you always use writing to communicate with , afraid that I’ll recognize your voice, right? So, are you soone I know, or soone close to ?”
At that mont, Liu Dezhu showed his true intelligence, that of a person whose mind hadn’t been muddled by ti travel, who had regained his normal human intellect after calming down in solitary.
Qing Chen looked at him coldly, and then spoke from beneath the mask: “That’s not important. What’s important is that Uncle Li Dong and I believe that you were set up by the Society to take the bla. The World Within Society often does this; after the Federal Public Security Managent Committee catches wind of them, they randomly pick an unlucky person to shoulder all the bla.”
In an instant, Liu Dezhu felt that the other’s presence had changed, as had their montum.
An invisible pressure made it involuntarily hard to breathe normally.
The voice was sowhat androgynous but very captivating.
Liu Dezhu pondered; if he had heard this voice before, he would definitely have rembered it.
But there was no such recollection in his mory.
Qing Chen asked, “Now that you’ve heard my voice, can we continue communicating?”
“Sorry, big brother, it was my misunderstanding,” Liu Dezhu’s deanor weakened again.
Qing Chen looked down at Liu Dezhu: “I ca to see you to make a deal. You will impersonate , and I will help you clear the charges.”
He had first shattered Liu Dezhu’s hopes, and now he was offering them back.
He did so because Liu Dezhu, as of now, could completely beco his link to the Outer World.
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