Chapter 103: I Want To Do As I Please (5)
After finishing her meal, Yu Qici ignored Jiang Zhiyan’s suggestive gaze, got her terminal, walked past her, and casually found a spot to sit in the garden.
Jiang Zhiyan followed. Yu Qici didn’t look up, her gaze fixed on the terminal, as expected, there was no news about herself.
“Did they discover that the androids were being controlled?” Yu Qici asked.
Jiang Zhiyan leaned against the wicker chair, didn’t speak, just glanced at her.
Yu Qici stared at Jiang Zhiyan for a while, and Jiang Zhiyan simply closed her eyes and turned her head away.
“Are you angry?”
Jiang Zhiyan still didn’t speak.
“Then continue being angry.” Yu Qici wasn’t going to coax her, as a prisoner, coaxing someone wasn’t something she should be doing.
The System almost laughed out loud.
“Two people died in the Jiang family,” Yu Qici continued. “Was it you again? Those two seemed to have a grudge against you.”
“You’re quite concerned about me, aren’t you?”
Yu Qici sensed the displeasure in Jiang Zhiyan’s tone.
“Don’t you have enemies?” Yu Qici retorted.
“You really are concerned about me,” Jiang Zhiyan opened her eyes, the scent of jealousy thick in the air. “Tsk.”
“Not concerned, not interested, we’re not close.”
“Mm, just be concerned from now on,” Jiang Zhiyan said, satisfied.
Yu Qici looked at Jiang Zhiyan intently: “So did they discover the androids were being controlled?”
“Are you genuinely curious, or are you trying to test my capabilities?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
Yu Qici thought for three seconds: “Would the answers be different for these two purposes?”
“Perhaps.”
Yu Qici looked into Jiang Zhiyan’s eyes, tapped the small coffee table lightly, and smiled: “I don’t quite believe in your capabilities, so I want to know the answer to the first question.”
Jiang Zhiyan knew Yu Qici was doing this on purpose: “Then I refuse to answer, you can guess… but it’s not important, whether they discover it or not, the public won’t know, it only affects the amount of compensation the Yu family receives from Ruilin Group.”
“But they might still discover it, after all, there’s still me, someone who loves watching the show, it wouldn’t be bad to have the androids dance in the streets on an auspicious day,” Jiang Zhiyan stood up and kissed Yu Qici’s forehead. “I’m going to the study.”
Yu Qici, looking at Jiang Zhiyan’s retreating figure, suddenly realized a serious problem. If Jiang Zhiyan could control all the androids under Ruilin Group, then she had spies all over the alliance, and no one knew, she could even control the androids to do many things.
Eighty percent of the androids on the market were from Ruilin Group.
She frowned slightly, looking in the direction Jiang Zhiyan left.
Judging by Jiang Zhiyan’s reaction, either Ruilin Group hadn’t discovered it, or she believed her methods were superior to Ruilin Group’s and she could maintain control over the androids no matter what they did, that’s why she was so fearless.
Forget it, she wouldn’t think about it anymore, she didn’t want to do anything.
Yu Qici stood up, found a comfortable spot, and picked up a random book.
***
“Did you find anything?” The Yu Family Head’s expression was grim.
“No,” the few people standing in front of her had equally grim expressions. “We checked the spaceship and the androids’ data, there’s nothing unusual, and Ruilin Group also said they didn’t receive any alerts yesterday.”
“So you’re saying she just disappeared into thin air?” the Yu Family Head sneered. “Didn’t receive any alerts… did you tell them what the bodyguards said?”
“We did, but they said it was impossible, because the bodyguards were found to have ingested mind-altering drugs.”
The Yu Family Head slammed the table: “And no one contacted you?”
“No,” the leader sighed softly. “If it were a simple kidnapping for ransom or some other motive, they would have contacted us immediately, it’s been so long, and there’s still no news… they’re probably after Miss Yu herself, and being able to kidnap someone between the imperial star and District 6, their identity must be extraordinary, and they’re very daring.”
Another person whispered: “I heard something happened to the Jiang family again, could there be a connection between these two incidents?”
“Could it be the Stargazers again?”
“Stargazers…” The Yu Family Head clenched her fists. “You just mentioned the Jiang family, what happened to them?”
“Jiang Lei and Jiang Shuo are dead, they were found with multiple stab wounds, the perpetrator seemed to have sadistic tendencies, we haven’t found the murderer yet, they didn’t leave any traces.”
“Sadistic? How could those two offend the Stargazers?” The Yu Family Head leaned back in her chair. “Don’t their people always kill with a single strike? But it’s also strange, they’ve only taken action three times on the imperial star, the first two times were against important figures, and this time, killing two… what’s the point of taking such a big risk for this?”
The person standing in the corner, who hadn’t spoken, said: “Family Head, should we investigate Jiang Zhiyan?”
The people in the room were silent for three seconds.
This name used to be frequently mentioned here, but since her differentiation failure, she had disappeared from their sight.
“Her?” The Yu Family Head tapped the table and sneered. “Isn’t she just a dog of the Jiang family now?”
“I received news from our informant that she seems to have fallen out with General Manager Jiang.”
“Then it’s even less likely to be her, it’s too obvious, she’s not that stupid.”
“What if she thinks that way too?”
The Yu Family Head shook her head again: “No, that child wouldn’t collude with space pirates.”
The person who spoke wanted to say something more, but the Yu Family Head stopped him with a look, and he felt a little disappointed.
***
Jiang Zhiyan, who was deemed unlikely to collude with space pirates, was currently in a meeting with several high-ranking members of the Stargazers, eight people in total, four of them wearing masks, clearly these people were hidden within the alliance, the other four without masks were all wanted criminals, everyone in the alliance knew what they looked like.
Jiang Zhiyan was also wearing a mask. She yawned: “Is there something?”
She had altered her voice; it sounded very different from her usual voice.
“You can control Ruilin Group’s androids? I haven’t heard you mention this before,” the leader of the Stargazers said with dissatisfaction, a scar across his face, looking quite terrifying, very much in line with Jiang Zhiyan’s stereotypes.
Jiang Zhiyan spread her hands and said with a faint smile: “Have you told me everything? We’re partners, not subordinates, isn’t it strange to ask your partner to reveal all their cards?”
“It seems you have quite a few cards up your sleeve.”
“Enough to save my life, so is this meeting to interrogate me?” Jiang Zhiyan took a sip of water.
“No, I requested this meeting. I heard the Alliance Mecha Research Center has new research results, I want to get my hands on a mech,” the mecha specialist of the Stargazers said with a smile. “I’ll have to trouble everyone for this.”
“Stealing a mech, you’re really thinking big,” a masked person said with dissatisfaction. “How are we going to steal it? Didn’t we just get a shipment from the Jiang family’s factory? Is that not enough?”
“The Jiang family’s mechs are nothing special,” the mecha specialist looked at Jiang Zhiyan. “What do you think?”
Jiang Zhiyan shook her head, she wasn’t interested in such a thankless and risky task, she just wanted to enjoy her time with Yu Qici. “Why not wait two years until they start mass production, then just rob them, why bother with all this trouble?”
“I agree,” another masked person said, their voice androgynous, but clearly dissatisfied.
“But I want it now, I can’t wait,” the mecha specialist looked at Jiang Zhiyan with a faint smile. “Although we’re partners, you understand, your current situation doesn’t give you the leverage to oppose us.”
“Oh… is that so?” Jiang Zhiyan tapped the table twice, and the large mechanical claw behind the mecha specialist suddenly descended rapidly, stopping fifty centimeters above his head. “We can all just die together, don’t you think, Professor Yang?”
Professor Yang’s face paled as he looked up at Jiang Zhiyan in disbelief, and someone quickly realized what was going on.
“You know who we are?” a masked person asked.
“No, and I don’t want to know,” Jiang Zhiyan said lightly. “This is my sincerity in our partnership, I hope we can maintain a good cooperative relationship in the future.”
Jiang Zhiyan took a sip of tea. Judging by their expressions, only Professor Yang seemed agitated, the other three without masks were just a little surprised, as expected of people who had experienced many storms.
“Professor Yang, do you have anything else to say?” Jiang Zhiyan raised her cup, looking at the patterns on it, after waiting for a long time without a response, she looked at the screen again.
“No, I can wait,” Professor Yang said, forcing himself to calm down and looking at the others, but seeing no one speak up for him, he could only keep quiet.
“Since you can do this, why not just directly steal the information?”
Jiang Zhiyan nodded: “Of course I can, but wouldn’t that be less entertaining?”
The others were speechless.
“Oh, and don’t send anyone to assassinate me, I can see them coming,” Jiang Zhiyan yawned. “It’s my bedtime, goodbye everyone.”
Jiang Zhiyan waved and left the meeting.
The remaining seven people were silent, exchanging glances, wanting to say something, but remembering Jiang Zhiyan’s words before leaving, they were worried she was still listening.
“She’s improving rapidly,” one person finally said after a long pause.
“Very impressive,” the unmasked female Alpha seemed to be in the best mood. “She’s right, and we invest a lot of money in mecha research every year, Professor Yang, you should come up with something new yourself, if she’s willing to join us, I believe she can directly replace you.”
Professor Yang’s expression turned even uglier, but he couldn’t refute it, the more things the Stargazers looted, the more incompetent he seemed.
Jiang Zhiyan left, but the System continued to monitor the situation, sighing inwardly: “It’s not easy working for anyone these days.”
“You’re back?” Yu Qici, leaning lazily on the sofa, heard footsteps and looked up at Jiang Zhiyan. “Are you in a good mood?”
“Coax me to sleep,” Jiang Zhiyan said, standing upstairs, her tone matter-of-fact.
Yu Qici: ?
“No,” Yu Qici refused. “Someone your age doesn’t need to be coaxed to sleep.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the robot standing next to her, playing music, suddenly picked her up and carried her upstairs.
Yu Qici: ???
“Aren’t you being a bit too absurd?” Yu Qici said, looking at Jiang Zhiyan approaching.
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t speak, just took her from the robot, Yu Qici struggled a bit, but it was useless.
“I don’t know how to coax people to sleep.”
“I believe you’re naturally talented.”
The two entered the room. Jiang Zhiyan placed Yu Qici on the bed, got under the covers herself, then looked at Yu Qici, signaling her to begin.
“Any hints?”
Jiang Zhiyan stared at Yu Qici for a while, reached out, pulled her closer, and hugged her: “Then let’s take a nap together.”
“I just woke up, my mind is very clear.”
“A clear mind can’t even come up with a way to coax someone to sleep? It seems it’s not that clear then,” Jiang Zhiyan lowered her head, held the collar on Yu Qici’s neck in her mouth, and gently licked it.
Yu Qici’s body stiffened, and she pinched Jiang Zhiyan’s arm: “Let go of me, I’ll coax you.”
“Let’s just coax each other like this, sitting and coaxing is outdated,” Jiang Zhiyan said with a smile.
Although Yu Qici couldn’t see Jiang Zhiyan’s face, she could tell from her voice that she was smiling mischievously.
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