The Downtrodden Villain In A Redemption Romance Novel Chapter 69
byChapter 69 Gifts
Nangong Chen returned to the center of the stage, and the spotlight enveloped him again.
He didn’t have any extra greetings. He looked calmly at the waiting technical team in the audience and nodded slightly.
“Start.”
The instructions fell clearly and forcefully.
Behind him, the huge ring-shaped screen changed from the standby dark blue to completely black. Immediately, countless blue light spots emerged from the void, like resurrected nerve endings, quickly connecting and extending to build an extremely detailed digital twin panorama of City A.
The data flow turned into bright strips of light, flowing through the blood vessels of the city model. The entire system was like an awakening giant brain, exuding strong vitality.
There was an irrepressible exclamation in the venue.
Nangong Chen stood under this piece of data and started running directly without saying anything.
On the big screen, the city model instantly simulated multiple challenges: the traffic during the evening rush hour fell into deep red congestion, and the flow of people began to gather after a stadium ended.
The system is like a sophisticated symphony, responding in sequence.
However, just when this orderly operation lasted only a few seconds, as if it had reached an invisible critical point, the giant screen suddenly flashed!
The dazzling white light made all the guests subconsciously squint their eyes.
Just after this brief glare, all the data flows that were originally running smoothly seemed to be frozen, stagnant at the same moment, and then fragmented inch by inch.
Immediately afterwards, the dazzling warning frame rushed out like a torrent of unstoppable destruction.
[Exception error] [Exception error] [Exception error]
[Exception error] [Exception error] [Exception error]
The densely packed error windows are like an out-of-control electronic storm, stacked on top of each other, multiplying crazily, and swallowing up the carefully constructed city model and all data images in an instant.
Before he even had time to struggle, he was completely overwhelmed and assimilated by the red warning.
The entire giant screen was completely immersed in red, densely packed with every inch of the screen, leaving no gaps.
The venue fell into a deathly silence, and all expectations were crushed.
Nangong Chen stood frozen on the stage, the calmness and control he had felt just now were completely frozen on his face.
The dazzling red light on the screen reflected his face that had lost blood instantly. The light and dark were intertwined, showing an almost inhuman paleness and stiffness.
His eyes suddenly turned to the direction of the technical team.
However, there was already chaos there.
The technicians recovered from the initial shock, and then fell into confusion. Some were typing in vain on the keyboard, and some were growling uncontrollably into the headset.
At the same time, a huge noise began to erupt in the audience.
The invited live broadcast team and reporters were like hungry wolves smelling the smell of blood, and instantly broke through the security defense line that was delayed by shock.
He crossed the cordon violently, with each microphone almost poking his chin. The dazzling flash lights nailed his pale face and the disaster scene behind him to countless shots.
“President Nangong! Does the system collapse mean that Tianqiong is a failure?”
“How will Nangong Group bear the losses caused by this accident?”
“Do you have any explanation for this?”
The sound of questions, the sound of shutters, and the commotion of the crowd trapped him firmly in the center of the stage.
He tried to retreat, only to find that there were moving heads and aggressive equipment in all directions.
“Turn off the live broadcast! Immediately!” Nangong Chen’s stern shout sounded hoarse and weak amid the crowd.
Su Xia held up her skirt and tried to pass through the noisy and crowded crowd with a pale face.
She looked anxiously at her husband who was trapped in the core, but was firmly blocked by the constant flow of reporters and excited guests. She could only watch the dazzling red light completely engulfing his figure.
“Click.”
A clear sound of metal friction penetrated the noise, and the heavy double doors, which had been tightly closed before the press conference, were slowly pushed open from the outside.
Dazzling white light poured in from the crack in the door, cutting a gap in the chaotic venue.
In the halo, a slender and tall figure stood quietly.
Lu Qingrang was wearing a well-tailored dark gray suit. The buttons of the jacket were fastened meticulously, and the collar of the pure black shirt was tightly buttoned. A delicate platinum collar button glowed with a cold luster under the light, which perfectly accentuated his unique sense of tenderness and alienation.
The originally turbulent crowd seemed to be choked instantly and suddenly lost their voice.
All the shots and all the eyes involuntarily turned from the dazzling red on the stage to the door.
Even Nangong Chen, who was trapped among reporters, suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the figure coming alone at the door.
Tread, step, step.
The crisp and regular footsteps echoed clearly in the silent venue, neither fast nor slow, each step seemed to step on the gap of the heartbeat.
Lu Qingrang walked into the venue calmly and holding a bouquet of dazzlingly bright white chrysanthemums.
The pure white petals made his already perfect facial features even more cool and outstanding.
He stopped a few steps away from the stage, his eyes precisely locked on the embarrassed Nangong Chen on the stage, and a faint smile appeared on the corners of his lips.
“Congratulations, Mr. Chen.”
He raised the bouquet in his hand, and the white chrysanthemum petals glowed coldly under the light.
“I’m a little late, so I specially prepared this gift to express my feelings.”
“May your career -” he said in a gentle voice, “be brilliant and eternal.”
The scene completely got out of control when Lu Qingrang appeared.
Holding the dazzling white chrysanthemum, he walked step by step through the crowd that separated automatically, and walked straight to the livid Nangong Chen.
Under the focus of countless cameras and eyes, Lu Qingrang calmly handed out the bouquet.
Nangong Chen clenched his teeth, and the hand hanging by his side was trembling slightly with extreme anger. He stared at Lu Qingrang, and naturally he would not pick it up.
Lu Qingrang seemed to have expected it. As soon as he loosened his wrist, the bright white chrysanthemum fell straight down.
There was a soft “pop” sound, and the bouquet bloomed the moment it touched the ground.
A few pure white petals were shaken off the calyx, spinning in the air, and then slowly fell to the side of Nangong Chen’s shiny leather shoes.
He no longer looked at Nangong Chen, nor at the bunch of white chrysanthemums that had scattered on the ground. In the flashing lights all over the sky, he turned around gracefully and walked straight towards the door, completely isolating all the chaos and uproar behind him.
It wasn’t until the figure was about to disappear into the light outside the door that Nangong Chen seemed to suddenly wake up from the huge humiliation.
“Come here!” He shouted uncontrollably, his voice distorted by rage, “Catch him!”
Su Xia’s expression changed drastically as she stood aside, and she suddenly came back to her senses.
She didn’t have time to think about it. She almost rushed forward and held Nangong Chen’s arm tightly. She urged her with a cry-like vibrato that could only be heard by the two of them: “Chen! No! There are so many shots… you can’t do anything!”
In such a short time, the reporters who reacted surged up again like a tide, completely engulfing Nangong Chen and Su Xia in an instant.
Among the countless pointed questions and dazzling flashes, only Nangong Chen’s bloodshot eyes could be seen, still staring in the direction where Lu Qingrang disappeared, as if they wanted to burn through his back.