AGTCTCC Chapter 64
by VolareChu Qi was finalizing the area with Shen Gui when he heard Xiang Li’s words and instantly understood what he meant.
He exchanged a look with Xiang Li, and then Xiang Li turned to leave.
Chu Qi calmly continued the previous topic with Shen Gui and Xing Zi Mu, but he could feel that his speaking speed had increased a lot.
Xiang Li rushed to find Ke Man first, and was out of breath when he arrived at Yan Zhou Ping’s house.
Xiang Li stopped Ning Le, “Find it, have you found it?”
Ning Le closed her eyes, Zhou Xinshui held her hand, expanding her perception range.
Ning Le: “I felt a little bit, but I can’t find an exact location.”
After she finished speaking, Ning Le frowned suddenly and said, “Found it!”
Ning Le: “Um – c, d intersection, 18.98.”
The moment Ning Le reported the area coordinates, Xiang Li found the location on the communicator and zoomed in on the icon.
Zhou Xinshui: “What is this place?”
Others might not know, but Xiang Li almost instantly recognized where that place was.
–That flower shop.
Xiang Li recalled the bouquet of roses he bought for Chu Qi before. The clerk led him to a greenhouse dedicated to growing roses, and Xiang Li personally selected each rose.
Xiang Li: “I’m going over now.”
Unexpectedly, this flower shop is still open.
The bouquets of flowers placed at the door are still bright, but unlike before when there were lilies and roses, now they have been replaced with sunflowers.
A familiar figure was sitting on a small bench, basking in the sun, reaching out to pick at the sunflower seeds.
A sweeping robot was squatting in front of him, guarding him, sweeping up one when he spat one out.
Qin Lai saw someone looking at him not far away, reached out and stuffed another sunflower seed into his mouth, and when he saw Xiang Li clearly, he stood up with a “whoosh.”
He cleared his throat and greeted Xiang Li, “Are you here to buy flowers?”
Xiang Li walked over and looked up and down the flower shop.
Xiang Li: “You’re here?”
Qin Lai: “Yeah, I’m the owner of this shop.”
Xiang Li: “Aren’t you from the laboratory?”
Qin Lai was stunned by his words and reacted, “You know me?”
Xiang Li remembered that he knew Qin Lai as “Wu Zhen” before, and shook his head after two seconds.
Qin Lai stroked his chin with one hand, scanning up and down, observing Xiang Li: “Speaking of which, you do look a bit familiar.”
After two seconds, Qin Lai suddenly realized and clenched a fist, hammering the palm of his other hand.
Qin Lai: “You’re the one who follows Chu, Colonel Chu, right?”
Xiang Li ignored this sentence and asked the purpose of his visit.
“Has a man come here?”
Seeing that the other party was not here to buy flowers, nor to find him, Qin Lai pouted and sat back on the small bench.
He started cracking sunflower seeds: “I don’t know.”
Xiang Li was silent for a moment: “I want to buy flowers.”
Qin Lai said “oh”, stood up lazily, and put his hands in his pockets.
“What kind of flowers do you want?”
As he spoke, he led Xiang Li in, introducing Xiang Li.
Qin Lai: “The flowers here are all cultivated by me personally. You know, I used to work in the laboratory.”
Qin Lai said this with a proud look: “This is carefully crafted by me, the most suitable growing environment for them.”
Qin Lai brought Xiang Li to a panel, which listed pictures of all the flowers in the store.
Qin Lai: “Take a look at what kind of flowers you want, and I’ll take you to the greenhouse.”
Xiang Li carefully selected flowers, observing every greenhouse monitor.
Xiang Li: “Where are the previous clerks?”
Such a big flower shop, not to mention the huge greenhouse, but from Xiang Li’s appearance to now, only Qin Lai has been seen.
Qin Lai curled his lips.
“They’ve all gone to take refuge.”
Xiang Li: “Why didn’t you go?”
Qin Lai: “It’s too wasteful, I want to be with my flowers, in case some ‘sucker’ comes to buy them.”
When he spoke, his eyes secretly glanced at Xiang Li.
“Sucker” Xiang Li: “.”
He thought of something and pointed to the “iris” picture.
Xiang Li: “I’ll take this one.”
After Qin Lai saw clearly the flower Xiang Li chose, he casually asked, “Just iris?”
Xiang Li: “Yeah.”
Qin Lai led Xiang Li towards the greenhouse where irises were planted. On the way, Xiang Li chatted with him and observed the surroundings at the same time.
Xiang Li: “Didn’t you work in the laboratory? Why did you come to open a flower shop?”
Qin Lai: “The flower shop was opened by my parents. Later, they died, so it was passed on to me.”
He said: “There are too few people buying flowers now, it’s not worth it at all. The laboratory is my side job, and the salary allows me to eat and drink.”
“Now no one buys them anymore.”
Qin Lai led Xiang Li, twisting and turning, through several greenhouses, and finally stopped in front of a sign that said “Iris.”
Qin Lai, as usual, sprayed a lot of water on Xiang Li before opening the door for Xiang Li to enter. There was also a very short corridor at the entrance.
The moment the door behind the two closed, Qin Lai reached out and pressed a button on the wall, and a pile of mist suddenly sprayed out from all directions.
When the fog cleared, the door at the end of the corridor opened, only a crack, and the irises behind it bloomed brilliantly in the sun.
Row after row of irises in front of them, red, white, purple…
Xiang Li: “Is there any difference between different colors?”
Qin Lai: “Different colors.”
Xiang Li carefully observed the flowers in front of him, selected a few deep sapphire blue irises, and when he walked to the corner, he found a few black irises.
The petals were dark ink, with a texture similar to expensive silk.
Just at this time, the communicator received a message from Zhou Xinshui.
[Zhou Xinshui: Fifty meters away in the seven o’clock direction of the flower shop. ]
After seeing the message, Xiang Li raised his eyes and glanced at the black irises, handing the flowers in his hand to Qin Lai.
“Just these few.”
Qin Lai followed Xiang Li’s gaze and looked in the direction of the black irises. A few flowers were stuffed into his hands unexpectedly.
Qin Lai: “Oh.”
He made a simple package for these flowers, and asked before wrapping them, “What color wrapping do you like?”
Xiang Li thought of the black iris just now: “Black.”
Qin Lai skillfully pressed a few bends and wrapped the flowers: “Do you want a box?”
Xiang Li: “No need.”
After receiving the flowers, Xiang Li quickly rushed to the place where Zhou Xinshui sent him the message, and found Ke Shi Zhuo fifty meters away.
It’s just–the person is already dead.
At the entrance of the street that was originally the residential area for imperial officials, Ke Shi Zhuo was lying there, clean and tidy, without a trace of blood.
In this place, Xiang Li could see the high-rise streets where Chu Qi’s house stood when he raised his eyes.
Xiang Li was silent for a while, and sent a message to Chu Qi.
[Found the person. ]
He reached out to pull Ke Shi Zhuo, who closed his eyes and quietly allowed Xiang Li to move.
On the way to pull Ke Shi Zhuo, Xiang Li received another message.
[Brother, I should die.
I promised Qi Xiao to give her the jade pendant, on the condition that she would release Ke Man.
Qi Xiao wants to use the energy of the jade pendant to suppress the person named “Wu Xing”. I don’t know anything, but no matter what, we can’t let them succeed.
After death, the jade pendant will disappear with me.
This is the only way.
Ke Man has been found, I actually have nothing to do, but I’m very sad.
Ke Man lost his arm, how can he eat, how can he go to the toilet, how can he operate a mech, and how can he avenge me? How sad will he be when he wakes up?
I am healthy, but I should die.
Two brothers. I’m Ke Shi Zhuo. All is well with humanity.
Sender: Ke Shi Zhuo. ]
Xiang Li looked at the message, and then looked down at the person who was already dead. The breathing light next to his communicator flashed twice, which was a sign of successful sending.
Xiang Li muttered: “He’s already dead, and he still wants to send me a message on time.”
He forcefully brought Ke Shi Zhuo up, his arm pulled on his shoulder.
After being pulled by Xiang Li, Ke Shi Zhuo belatedly overflowed with blood from his mouth, and the bright red color streaked across.
“How sad Ke Man must be.”
…
Xiang Li brought Ke Shi Zhuo back to Yan Zhou Ping’s house, Zhou Xinshui immediately greeted him, and was stunned when he saw Ke Shi Zhuo. He and Xiang Li carried the person in together.
Ning Le watched from the side, blinked her eyes, and the spiritual power in her eyes dissipated.
Ning Le: “Is he dead?”
Xiang Li: “Yeah.”
He stared at Ke Shi Zhuo on the sofa, Zhou Xinshui was wiping the blood on Ke Shi Zhuo’s face with a handkerchief.
Xiang Li lowered his eyes and found a few drops on his clothes.
“Where’s Lao Yan?”
Ning Le: “Basement.”
In the basement, Yan Zhou Ping and Yu Han were studying Ke Man’s body’s nerve structure.
Metal lines were directly linked to the chip in Ke Man’s body, and the chip was placed not far from the heart.
If it were someone else, it would probably not be so difficult, but Ke Man is a human, an ordinary person, a human who is fragile enough to die with a little force.
Not like old antiques like them who can’t die no matter what.
As soon as Xiang Li entered the basement, he felt a sticky gaze staring at him. He raised his eyes and looked over, just in time to meet Ke Man’s gaze.
Yan Zhou Ping also heard the movement, and Yu Han looked over together, and found that it was Xiang Li.
Yan Zhou Ping smelled a faint bloody smell on Xiang Li.
Yan Zhou Ping: “What’s wrong?”
Xiang Li: “Ke Shi Zhuo is dead.”
Yan Zhou Ping’s movements suddenly stopped: “Dead?”
Xiang Li said “um”, he couldn’t tell his emotions, his heart was very stuffy.
Xiang Li: “When I found him, he had been dead for half an hour.”
Xiang Li looked at the jade pendant hanging on Ke Man’s chest, calmed down, and asked, “Lao Yan, what is the origin of this jade pendant?”
Yu Han knew this, and he dropped a virtual screen from the side.
Yu Han: “The source stone used to cast this jade pendant is very rare, and it contains very powerful energy. I have some scraps in my hand, which were left over when I cast the jade pendant for these two brothers.”
After finishing speaking, he “tsk tsk” twice, “At that time, their parents were still alive, and the color of the one in his father’s hand was better. Unfortunately, when people died, the jade pendant was gone.”
Xiang Li sent a message to Chu Qi to explain, and the other party quickly replied “Understood.”
Ke Man also stared at Xiang Li, but still had no expression.
Xiang Li murmured: “Can his arm be cured?”
Yan Zhou Ping: “No.”
“His arm has been removed, and the chip is so close to his heart that rash removal may cause his own spiritual power to lose control and become unstable.”
Yu Han continued: “In the end, the explosion of spiritual power and madness may still be a good result.”
Xiang Li: “Then what should we do with Ke Shi Zhuo? Find a good cemetery to bury him?”
Yan Zhou Ping only sighed at Ke Shi Zhuo, who he had only met a few times, and said, “Where do you want to bury him?”
Xiang Li stared at Ke Man: “Let him decide.”