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    Chapter 44 Chapter 44 There is a strange buzzing sound when the plane is running…

    There is a strange humming sound when an airplane is in operation, which has an inevitable impact on people’s ear pressure.

    Ruan Siyu shook his wrist slightly, and rubbed the silver-blue bracelet with the thumb of his left hand – this was an instrument that Schneider put on him a few months ago to detect body movements.

    It was also his last link with Schneider.

    He sat on the couch of the private jet, slowly untied his bracelet, and soaked it in the hot coffee brought by the flight attendant.

    After the plane stabilized, Jacqueline’s secretarial team left the room.Ruan Siyu stood up from the sofa consciously, walked to his half-sister, slowly bent his knees and sat on the carpet.

    Jacqueline shook the champagne glass silently, and the crystal glass could not hide the sharpness in her eyes.Without outsiders present, she neither speaks in a coquettish voice nor overexaggerates her gentle and sweet femininity, but becomes cold, scrutinizing and evaluating.

    She put down the champagne glass, with a hint of contempt in her voice:

    “Brother, have you thought about it? Carol and mother are very dissatisfied with your actions. As for your desperate plan, it sounds more like a wild fantasy.”

    Ruan Siyu lowered her eyebrows and allowed Jacqueline to play with his cheeks with her fingernails:

    “I’m right, sister, this is the opportunity you desperately need, isn’t it? You are more capable of controlling the group than Carol. Just because your father and mother like Carol more, he can dominate you. Are you willing?”

    Even her calm and obedient words could not conceal her unruliness. Jacqueline pinched Ruan Siyu’s cheeks and distorted the beautiful face that resembled his mother’s.A flash of surprise and pleasure from power flashed in her eyes, but it was quickly suppressed by reason, so that she restrainedly let go of Ruan Siyu’s blushing face.

    “For a little thing who only learned to speak human language at the age of ten, you are surprisingly eloquent, honey. Do you know how much you looked like your mother when you were a child? Now you have grown longer, and your bones are much slender than those of men.”

    Jacqueline raised her red lips and chatted a few words aimlessly. Then her expression suddenly changed, and she raised a foot wearing a stiletto heel and stepped on Ruan Siyu’s knee:

    “It’s not surprising that my father prefers Carol. Chinese people prefer male heirs. Why does my mother prefer Carol?”

    The heels were cold and sharp. Ruan Siyu frowned, reached out to hold Jacqueline’s ankles, paused for a moment, and helped her take off the stilettos:

    “Carol has her mother’s cruelty and her father’s greed, sister.”

    “Oh, you are a clever little kid. You know how to talk to make me happy. I really can’t let you go, baby.”

    Jacqueline took off her high heels, sat cross-legged on the sofa, hooked Ruan Siyu’s collar with one hand, pulled him into her arms, hugged him like a baby, and put his face in her arms.

    If one didn’t know the true relationship between the siblings, it would be a picture of a brother and sister with deep love and closeness.

    Ruan Siyu suppressed the strong disgust that surged in her chest, calmed her breathing, climbed onto the sofa obediently, and curled up into Jacqueline’s arms.

    Carol looks the same as Jacqueline, except for the black hair and less fake white skin, there is not much Asian ancestry, more like her mother.To say that he resembles his father is naturally because of his calculations, greed and ambition.

    “It’s because he is like my father and mother that you like me more, isn’t it, honey? You are so afraid of Carol. When you are at home, you wrap around me like a little tail just to avoid him.”

    Jacqueline smiled, and the sharp nails slid on the back of Ruan Siyu’s head and neck, like the fangs of a poisonous snake:

    “How strange it is that your father and mother are your creators, but you hate them so much, and Carol loves you so much, but you want to destroy him. We once had such a wonderful family, father and mother, Carol, me, your mother and you. How happy were we? Every weekend Carol and I would fly home from all over the place to be with you. We gave you the most expensive gifts, oil paintings from the 19th century, gems from the king’s crown, high beads and yachts, and the world’s top racehorses. You have everything, baby, but you are not satisfied.”

    “You instigated your mother to leave us. Do you know that it hurt her just as much? She doesn’t have your coldness and stubbornness. Your mother loves this family just as much. She loves her mother as much as her mother loves her. You destroyed her. She is now tired and ugly. Debt has crushed her. She is just an old, has-been woman with no resume. She is nothing. This is all thanks to you. If it weren’t for you, she is still amazingly beautiful and we all love her. Isn’t that good?”

    Even though she tried hard to restrain herself, Ruan Siyu still trembled slightly at Jacqueline’s words.He closed his eyes and tried to get rid of some thoughts that shouldn’t have appeared in his mind, such as – part of him admitted that what Jacqueline said was right.

    His mother was trafficked during the trip. She was too young at the time, and her wealthy family made her too naive and innocent. The subsequent situation was like a nightmare. In the panic, it was difficult for a simple young person to maintain his sanity. When she was pushed to the booth on Slave Island and auctioned like goods, her world was completely shattered. She was almost not sure whether the eighteen years of growing up under the red flag was her hallucination or what really happened.

    The people who bought her were a newly married multinational couple. They were young and kind. The husband with black hair and dark eyes was of Chinese descent, and the blond wife was beautiful and noble. In the eyes of Chinese girls, the couple who bought her were not so much buyers as gods who saved her.

    In order to be saved by them, she was willing to sell everything, her soul in exchange.

    She was quickly raised with care. At first, she didn’t notice anything wrong. She didn’t feel like she was being bought. Instead, she believed that she was saved by kind people.Of course, some places are naturally illogical, such as why the kind-hearted angel couple appeared at the slave auction, but these are not important compared to a safe place and a gentle embrace, right?She is no longer forced, abused, or “taught”. She is recovering, and she believes with all her strength that when she recovers, she can return to the country and home in her memory.

    By the time she realized she couldn’t go back, it was too late.

    She has no identity, lacks knowledge, is timid and naive. After being threatened by violent law enforcement by the immigration bureau, she no longer dares to step out of the iron gate of the manor.The wife in the couple loves her beauty, decorates her with gems and fine clothes, dotes on her like an older sister, and provides her with shelter and security, so much so that she never cares that his wife always speaks strange German, and is unwilling and disdainful to understand her Chinese and broken English.

    All the servants in the house spoke Spanish and turned a blind eye to her poor English. No one was willing to exchange even a word with her.All electronic devices have passwords, and she finally realizes that this huge manor is a prison, not a shelter.

    The straw that broke the camel’s back was the male owner’s coercion.

    The girl has been locked up in the black market of human trafficking and tortured for a long time. This is not the first time she has experienced this, but it is the most unacceptable one.She held her bruised and weak legs and climbed to the door of the master’s room, but she did not dare to knock on the hostess’s door.

    What made her hesitate was not the hostess’s anger and unfamiliar language, but her guilt towards the hostess.

    She was too kind and too young. She only felt that the male host and herself were sorry for the noble hostess, but she did not expect that all this was a staged drama.Evelyn Ferens likes beautiful things, and she prefers playthings carved by her own hands. She enjoys destruction and reconstruction, and even more enjoys ignorance, pure admiration and love.

    Her methods are more cruel than the devil, but she also likes to sit on the altar and receive worship.

    The girl was drawn into a deeper cage. In this cage, there was the mistress who was so kind to her, the man who was deeply in love with her, and the unscrupulous child in her belly.

    A trap of heaven and earth, a turtle caught in an urn.

    “—without us,”

    Jacqueline said softly:

    “Your mother has long been known as the fetus of a religious country. She gives birth to children of strange men one after another, and they wither like flowers in autumn. Is this what you want? Isn’t she lucky enough to meet her mother? She loves her mother and her father, you know? You know, you can’t change this.”

    Jacqueline sneered, rubbed the back of Ruan Siyu’s neck, and said with a victor’s attitude:

    “We were a perfect family until your paranoia ruined everything. My father and mother were your mother’s saviors, and how come Carol and I are not yours? You still remember the first year you went to school, everyone laughed at you for being a little stutterer, unable to speak, and whining like a dog when you were anxious.”

    Jacqueline recalled the funny past events, her eyebrows straightened, and her beautiful face became more moving, but the content of her words made it weird and gloomy:

    “Nathan, right? He bullied you, pulled your hair, called you a wild dog. Carol broke ten of his bones, and it was all for you.”

    Jacqueline sighed softly, as if regretting:

    “Nathan is the youngest son of the Henry family, do you remember? He was so frightened that he never dared to say who hit him, which made his parents anxious. But the Henry family is not a small person, and of course they found you, and Nathan couldn’t help but speak, but it’s a pity…”

    “He died at home very quickly and bit two of the servants. Why, it’s such an ugly death for someone with rabies.”

    Ruan Siyu stopped shaking. He raised his face and looked at Jacqueline’s smooth jaw. He couldn’t help but feel scared.He actually didn’t remember anything about Nathan Henry. He only vaguely remembered that such a classmate bullied him. He couldn’t even speak clearly at that time, and he was extremely timid. Let alone revenge, he didn’t even remember revenge.

    But he remembered that the school later got into legal trouble because a student was infected with rabies, and it took two full months to eliminate the virus before reopening.

    Jacqueline touched his face lovingly, and her gray-blue eyes seemed to say that Ference’s real methods had never been used on him. He was their baby, why didn’t he obey him?

    “I know you are smart, honey. After Carol is exiled by the board of directors, you don’t have to be afraid of him anymore. Come home with me, okay?”

    “I am not your slave, Jacqueline. I am not my mother either. She has unrealistic fantasies about people like you, but that is not love. Even if my mother is disciplined by you like a caged bird, she has woken up. And I will never become a slave, no matter how you coax me.”

    He was still afraid.The fear of Ferens has long been engraved in his bones, and he hated himself for it, but he also figured out: anyone in his position would have such fear, and resisting Ferens became the furthest thing from his reach.

    Jacqueline was not angry at his resistance, as if she already knew the outcome.She continued to play with his broken hair for a while, then said helplessly:

    “If you hadn’t fallen in love with that barbarian Schneider and said this before, I would still believe that you were desperate for freedom. Brother, I’m afraid it’s ridiculous to say this now, right? You and your mother are the same person, but her cowardice and beauty are more honest, and you are duplicitous. I am not happy, baby, after raising you for so long, you turned against your relatives for a wild man.”

    “I don’t love him.”

    Ruan Siyu spoke very fast, so fast that his own heart skipped a beat. It seemed that there was no need to hide the truth.

    “Haha…”

    Jacqueline only smiled and did not expose him.The siblings sat hugging each other for a while, until the plane bumped, and Ruan Siyu reached for the seat belts on the sofa and buckled them.

    “I’ll give you one last chance, brother,”

    Jacqueline, who had closed her eyes to relax, suddenly opened her eyes. Her expression was cold, but her eyes were burning:

    “Love is a fanatical disease. Father and mother love each other. They still guard, use, and betray each other, but they regard Carol, who has the shadow of each other, as the apple of their eye. Your mother loves her, but she still chooses you. Your father fell in love with your mother, or fell in love with the masculine self in your mother’s eyes. He married her, but before his death, he trapped her in debt and left her with no peace.”

    “Love without blood ties and interests is just a joke. Brother, your man has even less bottom line in the mall than the Wolf of Wall Street. You think I’m terrible, but do you know him? Do you believe his love is worth a few years?”

    “I can provide you with shelter. You know the price. How many people want a sheltered life, but they don’t have the opportunity for you and your mother.”

    “I don’t need it,”

    In front of Jacqueline, Ruan Siyu has no need to pretend or pretend to be strong. He sounds consistent with his age, timid and stubborn.

    “People should not become slaves, at least not after seeing through everything, and still accept the situation of losing themselves, and even the benefits of self-discipline being taken over and mastered. You can laugh at me for not knowing anything, or teach me that there has never been real freedom in the world. Everyone is enslaved and controlled, even the rich and powerfulEven in modern society, people still cannot get rid of the essence of slave owners and use more roundabout ways to squeeze the labor, sexual value, reproductive value and emotional value of the weak.You can tell me that human beings have never changed. The Ferens family is just more naked, more real, and more loyal to their own desires.”

    “But I don’t need it, sister. I make my choice, whether to live or die, it’s all up to me. I’m not a Ferens, and we are not a family. Even if she is as naive as my mother, she still chooses to leave. If oppression is a shackles that humans cannot get rid of, then escape is an eternal poem passed down from mother to son.”

    “Carol will definitely fall, sister, we will wait and see.”

    Jacqueline’s hand fell. She seemed to feel stupid for Ruan Siyu’s declaration of freedom. She didn’t refute anything and just closed her eyes to rest.

    Privately, Jacqueline is actually very much like Evelyn Ference. She is cold and resolute, taciturn, and her only patience has been exhausted by her stubborn brother.Ruan Siyu also wanted to seize the only time to close his eyes and rest for a while, but he was too nervous around Jacqueline, like a poisonous snake coiled on the bed, and his dream was cut into tiny pieces.

    When he opened his eyes, the flight attendant came to remind them that the plane was about to land. Jacqueline had changed into a suit again, and every hair strand was perfect:

    “Little Pumpkin, that’s as you wish.”

    *

    The day after she and Jacqueline returned to their North Carolina estate, Carol flew back from California.

    He asked the secretary to take out a golf club. The metal texture was extremely dazzling in the sun. Jacqueline folded her arms and stood aside with a smile to watch. She was always like this. She didn’t like to use violence or too naked methods personally, but she never stopped him and just watched with interest.

    Ruan Siyu did not stand and wait for the club to fall on him.He was not the fearful child he had been back then. He dodged the first shot, hit Carol with all his strength, and struggled with his half-brother.

    But of course he couldn’t beat the trained Carol, but it didn’t matter, he had already changed the face of a man in his early thirties who was in his prime.Carol’s gray-blue eyes burned, and her hand tightly grasped Ruan Siyu’s wrist:

    “Pet, you really went too far this time.”

    The pain of cutting his wrists made Ruan Siyu tense up, but he gritted his teeth and kept silent, knowing that the more he screamed, the more he could satisfy Carol’s perverted desires.The servants of the manor remained silent and distant, almost silent, until a string of footsteps knocked on the marble floor tiles.

    Evelyn Ference hugged her son.The blond woman looked at Ruan Siyu who got up from the ground, turned a blind eye to his embarrassment, and gave him a hug.

    “It is rumored that you let Robert Schneider hang around and he designed the ‘door’ to the core data for you, is that right?”

    Evelyn asked.She was over fifty, but still as strong as a woman in her thirties. Her gray-blue eyes looked at Ruan Siyu, making him resist the desire to vomit or flinch.

    “Yes, mother.”

    A trace of humiliation flashed across his face, but he remained obedient and did not dare to reveal any clues.Evelin’s gaze stayed for a long time, but finally moved away.At her age, people who have been in high positions for a long time will inevitably become conceited. She knows that Ruan Siyu is dishonest, but so what?How could the little mouse that grew up under her nose, the little toy that her children had played with for years, turn the world upside down?

    “In that case, you go help Carol solve his little trouble. I know that the death of my ex-husband had a great impact on you, making you worry about gains and losses and make decisions without thinking. But since you choose to go home, I can forget about it. I have always regarded you as Ferens’ child, Ruan Siyu, don’t let me down.”

    Evelin seemed to be very busy. After talking to her children, she was escorted by her assistant to the helicopter and flew to the private airport.His mother’s intervention temporarily calmed Carol’s anger, but he was still impatient and put Ruan Siyu on the plane in the afternoon.

    At this point, Ruan Siyu didn’t know where he would fly to.Jacqueline still followed them, which became a comfort.

    Ruan Siyu didn’t know where they landed, but after they landed, they quickly arrived at a private data base. Next to the factory was a large computer room.

    “None of the players can find the door.”

    In the office, Carol idly threw away several prototypes of the brain machine.Obviously, they are also researching brain computers, which is a core technology of Schneider. Through brain computers, players can be immersed in the virtual world and have the most cutting-edge experience.

    “Suzanne said, I should get the answer from you, pet, what do you say?”

    Ruan Siyu tore his eyes away from the prototypes and said coldly:

    “Are you coveting that ten percent share, too, Carol?”

    “Share?” Carol laughed angrily. He stood up, his muscles bulged from under his suit jacket, and his handsome and evil face revealed a sinister smile:

    “Pet, who gave you the courage to joke with me? Schneider has taken too big a step. He has offended Ferens and other families. How can those famous conservative politicians hope that the real world will be reshuffled because of the virtual world? Do you really think we can let SchneiderGet out of it?Just get the core data and be done with it. The damn technological innovations that disrupt the market and the new world that ordinary people call it are all over.Jacqueline said that it’s a good thing that you chose to jump ship at this time.You haven’t been fooled by Schneider.”

    “Suzanne is yours?”

    “She? Huh.”

    Carol looked disdainful:

    “She is the illegitimate daughter conceived by a surrogate mother of a shareholder of a cutting-edge technology company. She will do anything for child support. She actually stole the key, which is really unexpected. Schneider found her out, and now she is in detention awaiting trial. She is a waste.”

    His eyes fell on Ruan Siyu again:

    “However, her ability is still not as good as yours, pet. What did you do to Schneider? It’s unreasonable for him to mess up for you.”

    Saying “unreasonable”, Carol laughed again. He grabbed Ruan Siyu’s tie and pulled him to bend over:

    “Enter the game with my team, lead us to find the door, and use the key to open the core data. After doing this, you don’t need to worry about the rest. You are still a member of the Ferens family. No one dares to touch my brother. You will not end up in jail like Susanna.”

    Ruan Siyu lowered his eyes, hiding the expression in his eyes.

    Suzanne stole the key, and Schneider’s company sued her for stealing the core technology, but the purpose was not to recover the key. On the contrary, Schneider issued a statement saying that the key had entered the virtual world. Even if someone mastered the key, they would not be able to escape in the virtual world the moment they attempted to use the key.

    In other words, the person holding the key is marked in the virtual world and is visible to all players.This almost encourages players to compete and dispute. Such an exciting and competitive design instantly aroused the enthusiasm of players. Countless professional players purchased brain computers and entered the virtual world in an attempt to show off their skills.

    At the same time, many technology companies have also launched brain-based computers to impact the physical market of “Pumping Heart”.The brain-computers launched by Ferens and established technology companies have basically replaced traditional mobile phones and computers. They are claimed to be the most advanced brain-computers, but their core technology is still stolen by commercial spies.

    Unlike Susanna, who is a useless chess player, this commercial espionage is deeply hidden, which also makes “Heartbeat” encounter irreparable losses for the first time.Many hardware companies that cooperated with Schneider also took the opportunity to tear up their contracts and colluded with established capital. In just three months, Schneider basically lost its advantages in technology and patents. It could only litigate with multiple forces and entered an infinite deadlock. It was frequently targeted by various state governments and Washington. Except for the indestructible line of code defense in the virtual world, almost everything collapsed.

    Schneider even suffered a few assassinations and had to cut back on transportation.

    But the virtual world and the core code of “Pumping Heart” are Schneider’s real reliance. As long as the core code is not leaked, he will not lose.

    What Carroll wants to target is the core code and the power to control “Thumping Heartbeat”.Ten percent of the shares is the first step. After that, whether it is copying the core code or exposing it, Schneider will lose everything. This is something that all established capital is happy to see, so that young people who do not know the heights of the world and want to subvert the market will get the lesson they deserve.

    “FBI specialists, highly paid hackers, professional game analysts, and technicians responsible for copying codes will enter the game with us. The moment we enter the game, we will be marked by the world and carry the key. Death in the virtual world does not matter.Yes, but the loss of the key is troublesome, pet.I need to get the core code myself, you understand?It can be used to inject capital into the group before Schneider and his company collapse, so I want that ten percent share, can you do it for me?”

    Ruan Siyu avoided Carol’s hand:

    “I know where the ‘door’ is, and I can take you directly there. I want a sum of money, and freedom.”

    He made Carol laugh endlessly, his deep laughter echoing in the spacious office.The other party seemed to think that he had said something unreasonable and childish. Like Jacqueline, she felt speechless and ridiculous about his declaration of freedom.

    “Freedom and safety are not things you have at the same time, pet. I may promise not to beat you up for the stupid things you did before, but this is all the tolerance your brother has given you. Take it and accept the conditions, otherwise you will bear the consequences.”

    Ruan Siyu’s forehead twitched and she was silent for a long time. His humiliation gave Carol unprecedented satisfaction and greatly offset the latter’s anger.On that day, they put on the new brain computer that Ferens had cooperated with the technology company and entered the game.

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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