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    After separating from Yu Zixin, Zhou Yuanchuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

    He has really never forced himself to do anything in his life. Because he showed his talent too early, he has been treated like a star by the people around him since he was a child. Liang Jize’s words, “Your life is pretty smooth” are indeed a true reflection of his twenty-year career.

    After returning to the office, Liang Jize’s call came after not sitting for a while.

    “Good performance.” The person on the other end of the phone praised you without hesitation. “She is very fascinated by you. She just told me that she would give me – well, a surprise for you tonight.”

    “We want to meet again?” Zhou Yuanchuan held his forehead.

    “Not necessarily. Let’s wait and see. If I really need you to sleep with me, I will find a way.”

    “Please give her this idea away.”

    Laughter came from the microphone: “For example, you are impotent and have premature ejaculation?”

    “I don’t mind.”

    “Hahaha, don’t worry, even if you really sleep with her, I will keep it a secret for you.”

    “I appreciate your kindness, but I won’t do that.”

    After joking, the two discussed several backup plans, but no matter which method, it required the cooperation of the national power represented by Grandpa Yu Zixin, which was also the most difficult part of the whole matter.

    “You have made so many contributions to the country, why can’t you let the higher-ups be accommodating?”

    “It’s not that simple.” Zhou Yuanchuan sighed, “Power has boundaries. I can only mobilize resources related to scientific research, and I can’t do anything else. If Paradise Island was a country, it could still operate under the pretext of academic exchanges, but…”

    “Understood, let’s talk about it later in the evening.”

    Throughout the afternoon, Yu Zixin did not come to see Zhou Yuanchuan, nor did she appear in his field of vision. Although it was strange, the man was happy and peaceful, and he read with peace of mind all afternoon.

    But when he returned to the villa and saw the expressions of Song Qiyan and Liang Jize, he knew that something bad had probably happened.

    The study room was filled with smoke, and the ashtrays near the two of them had accumulated many half-burned cigarette butts. It was obvious that they had been waiting for Zhou Yuanchuan for a long time.

    “What’s wrong?” Zhou Yuanchuan waved his hand to fan the wafting smoke. The first thing he did after entering the door was to turn on the ventilation system. “Please don’t smoke here in the future. These books are very precious. If they are burned, they will be out of print.”

    Liang Jize slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and said with a faint smile: “Although I think your type of man is too boring, women seem to like your style.”

    Zhou Yuanchuan was stunned for a moment, how smart he was, and he immediately reacted: “Is Yu Zixin going to sleep with me?”

    “It’s worse than that.” Song Qiyan said calmly, “She wants to get engaged to you.”

    “What?!”

    Song Qiyan: “Is there any way to get around this girl?”

    “There is currently no…” Zhou Yuanchuan sat down angrily, “If there had been, I would have done it long ago.”

    After speaking, he stretched out his hand to Song Qiyan, who took a cigarette from the cigarette case and gave it to him with understanding.

    Liang Jize teased: “Aren’t you afraid of burning books?”

    “I’ve remembered it anyway, just burn it.”

    “Haha.”

    Song Qiyan thought for a while: “What if I ask hackers from country E to help you?”

    “No way.” Zhou Yuanchuan shook his head. “The security level of Paradise Island’s internal network is the highest. It is equivalent to the Chinese government level and second only to the military level. Even if someone can break through it, the other party will quickly repair it in a short time. If you want to stabilize communication, you must negotiate at the national level.”

    “You mean there is no other good way?”

    “There is another one.” Zhou Yuanchuan struggled for a moment, “That is, I change my nationality and in exchange for naturalization of another country, let the receiving country open a communication channel for me. But in that case, I am tantamount to treason.”

    The three people present knew what the word treason meant.

    Liang Jize smiled, but his eyes were cold and cold: “It seems that we can only get engaged.”

    “Try not to do this.” Zhou Yuanchuan exhaled, “Even if it’s acting, I don’t want to.”

    Song Qiyan nodded, “There is still time, I will think of another way.”

    He turned to Liang Jize: “From now on, Yu Zixin, I will take over, and you have to do another thing.”

    Liang Jize shrugged: “Okay, but you have to be mentally prepared. This little girl is a bit interesting.”

    “I know.”

    “What’s the other thing you want me to do?”

    Song Qiyan folded his hands and placed them on his legs. He tapped his index finger twice. After a while, he said, “I will tell you later. I want to verify the feasibility again.”

    “Okay.” Liang Jize said seriously, “But I want to remind you two that we don’t have much time.”

    Song Qiyan raised his eyelids, his eyes were very dark, like the shadow of an endless abyss.

    He whispered: “I understand.”

    In the maze.

    “What the hell is going on!”

    “Don’t worry, run!” Qiao Qiao shouted, and the three of them ran forward as if they were lifeless. You squeezed me and you squeezed in the narrow maze passage. Ah Qing, the most skilled, rushed out first and grabbed Zhang Jie and Qiao Qiao’s collars with his backhand, dragging them out of the corridor that was only for one person.

    The fire was blazing from behind and the shouts were loud. Qiao Qiao got up on his hands and knees and continued running wildly with Ah Qing and Zhang Jie.

    After running for an unknown amount of time, Qiao Qiao’s feet weakened and she fell to the ground. A Qing and Zhang Jie in front were also dragged to the ground by her. The three of them were exhausted and could only sit and pant. No one had the strength to get up again.

    Qiao Qiao reached out and touched his chest and face, and took a deep breath: “Great, he’s still alive.”

    Ah Qing: “Huh…no, where are my legs? Why can’t I feel where my legs are?”

    The flashlight turned on with a click, and a weak light source illuminated the small space. Ah Qing breathed a sigh of relief: “Whose leg is this? Move away quickly, it’s so heavy that I can’t even feel it.”

    Qiao Qiao: “It’s not me.”

    Zhang Jie said weakly: “It doesn’t seem to be me…”

    “Whose leg is that?”

    Qiao Qiao brought the flashlight closer. After seeing clearly, she took a breath and twisted her expression: “Ah Qing, don’t look back yet.”

    Ah Qing: “…”

    “Damn it, is there something behind me?! Don’t scare me! I’m most afraid of ghosts!” Ah Qing’s face turned green.

    “It’s not a ghost.” Qiao Qiao said calmly, “Don’t look back, go forward and come to us.”

    Ah Qing was so frightened that her limbs became stiff. She moved forward with a mournful face, and the unknown thigh that was pressing on her waist gradually slipped. Finally, she jumped into Qiao Qiao’s arms and hugged her tightly.

    “Okay, it’s okay.” Qiao Qiao patted her back gently, “It’s not a ghost, it’s a dead person. It’s just that his death was… miserable.”

    It’s really miserable. Everything below the neck is normal, but there are more than a dozen bloody holes on the face. The whole face is like a torn sack with eyes everywhere, and even the facial features can’t tell which one is which.

    If Ah Qing turned around rashly, she would definitely be frightened and fainted by the scene so close to her, so for the sake of her mental health, it was better not to look back.

    “It seems to be a mechanism.” Zhang Jie ventured over to take a look, “No wonder running here didn’t trigger any mechanism. It seems that this place has been cleaned up.”

    “But look at this guy’s appearance—”

    The body was wearing almost no clothes, with only a pair of torn pants covering key parts. There were also many bruises and scars on the body, as if it had been abused a lot before death.

    In the second half of the maze game, as the cooling time of the lottery machines became longer and longer, players gradually found that it was not worthwhile to find the lottery machines alone. Some strong teams changed their strategies and began to expand aggressively to absorb stragglers.There will also be conflicts between strong teams for rare props. Anyway, the maze is a place without laws and morals. The loser will either be killed or go to the agency.

    As it becomes more difficult to obtain food and water, there will only be more episodes of cannibalism in the future.

    “There are more over here.” Zhang Jie exclaimed. Qiao Qiao went over to take a look and found the corpses of several women. They were all naked and covered with bruises. It was obvious at a glance what they had suffered before they died.

    Qiao Qiao covered his mouth and tried not to spit it out on the spot.

    These corpses were all fresh, probably dead for less than an hour. Before the beak stewards had time to clean up the corpses, the smell of blood kept filling their noses, and it felt really bad.

    “Let’s go quickly.” Qiao Qiao dragged Zhang Jie and Ah Qing, “Those people are still looking for us, we can’t stay long.”

    The three of them turned into another fork in the road. Ah Qing muttered and asked, “Who are those people? Why are they chasing us and not provoking them?”

    Zhang Jie: “Because we are women?”

    Qiao Qiao rolled his eyes: “Look at the looks of the three of us, we are only a little better than the stray dogs on the roadside. No matter how hungry and thirsty they are, they won’t bite us, right?”

    “…That’s true.”

    “I think it may have something to do with the gold bars.” Qiao Qiao scratched his hair depressedly, “When I turned around just now, I seemed to see the dark-skinned man from before. After he was deceived, he might ask about us everywhere. Maybe he met the team that had exchanged gold bars before, and deduced that the gasoline was gold bars.”

    “Then we have died unjustly!” Ah Qing slapped his thigh angrily, “Our gold bars have long been gone!”

    Qiao Qiao also sighed helplessly.

    Yes, the place where the gold bars were hidden for the second time was actually a water prison. After hiding them, they accidentally triggered the mechanism. Fortunately, the gold bars got stuck in the gears and the three of them were not trapped. However, the gold bars were completely unable to be taken out.

    Well… the good news is that they have completely solved the drinking problem. Everyone drank a lot of water and there was no problem at all until the maze was closed.

    So now they no longer have gold bars, and they fell from millions to the poor in an instant…

    The ups and downs of life.

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