Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 984: Conspiracy (Part )

When Cai Ji returned with the medicine, Zhou Yu had already returned the card to Luo Binhan. He had no good way to deal with the card, so he just asked Luo Binhan to put it back into the original container. Luo Binhan suggested that he could just destroy it, but he just shook his head.

"This card is just a receiver and integrator. The micro-device inside the card is what actually sends out the pulse. If you destroy the card that serves as the receiver, the micro-pulsers will scatter and enter automatic operation mode in place. In this way, we will have no way to shut it down."

"You know a lot about this stuff," Robinham said. "Did Fake tell you?"

“I’ve been disturbed by this thing, too.”

"When?"

Zhou Yu thought about it, and just as he was about to answer, Cai Ji came back with the medicine. He not only brought several tablets and capsules, but also a strange dark glass bottle. Luo Binhan initially thought it was some special painkiller, but Zhou Yu took the bottle and put it directly into his pocket.

"Let's go to the lounge inside and talk. There are spare water and food there."

In fact, Robinson would rather go out into the sun, find a cool and quiet place by the lake, and use the fresh air and natural scenery to cool down his buzzing head. But he really needed water to take the medicine, and he remembered that he hadn't eaten for nearly twenty hours. This was not a big deal, because he was already full of gas anyway.

They entered the iron gate, and there was only one door inside, but the room was divided into three rooms. The room at the entrance was very similar to the lobby on the ground floor, with a rolled-up projection screen and a movable whiteboard on the wall, and blurred words such as "Notes" were left on the board, just like the club activity room in the school; further in was a very small narrow room, with only two small sofas placed side by side and a low table in the middle. Opposite the sofa was a huge iron cabinet, and the two black windows of the cabinet were covered with colorful calendars and notes, like a stupid bear with flowers on its head.

At first, Luo Binhan thought that the lounge they were going to was the room outside. But Zhou Yu asked him to sit down in the narrow room of less than ten square meters, and he searched under the metal cabinet with a candle. Luo Binhan looked around curiously and finally confirmed that this place was most likely Zhou Yu's lounge, and the one outside was the guest room. This was not surprising. Zhou Yu's way of living had always confused others, but he felt quite comfortable with it.

Even so, the small space in front of him was a bit too much. It was impossible for a person to work in such a storage room for a long time, unless his job was to meditate. So Luo Binhan looked further inside - next to the cabinet was a real copper wall, without a door frame or handle. If it hadn't been retracted about 50 centimeters into the wall, revealing a dark square hole, it would be difficult to realize that this entire metal wall was the door to the next secret room.

The scene inside the hole in the wall is completely different from the outside. From the wall to the ceiling, it is all metal. There are no recognizable daily necessities, only various instruments, iron boxes locked on the wall, operating tables and black electronic screens. In the center of the room stands a two-person-high spherical container, the bottom of which is integrated with the floor, and there is an oval lid on the top that is opened horizontally, like a pecked egg or a throne with a collapsed canopy.

This scene was a bit surreal, but he was not very surprised by what he saw. Even if he was not very smart, he had ears. The speaker did mention the "rest cabin" when talking to Zhou Yu. He was secretly thinking about the use of this thing, and Zhou Yu had already come over with two bottles of drinking water and a few packs of soda crackers. This shabby hospitality and a cake candle with a burnt out fire on the table made Luo Binhan feel that they were not discussing confidential matters in the chairman's office in a secret base, but two homeless people picking up garbage to eat in the dark. The atmosphere was so vivid that even Cai Ji didn't want to come in and sit with them. He huddled outside and sighed alone.

"What the hell are you yelling about?" Robin Han said as he twisted the bottle cap. "Do you want some cookies?"

Cai Ji was leaning on the door frame between the conference room and the small narrow room, looking at them with a strange look in his eyes. Luo Binhan was too lazy to figure out the thoughts of this taciturn man. He threw all the pills to Zhou Yu, letting the knowledgeable one decide how many to take, and he took a biscuit and walked around the rest cabin inside. To be honest, he didn't see anything special, he was not working on medical equipment. So he walked back and saw Zhou Yu concentrating on distributing pills, so he asked Cai Ji: "Why did you come today?"

"what?"

"You left yesterday afternoon and didn't come here until noon today? I thought you should have rushed to your boss to complain about me last night."

"I wanted to go to the island first last night--"

Cai Ji paused with a flickering look in his eyes. He looked at Zhou Yu, who was still mixing pills with his head down, undecided for a moment. Luo Binhan looked at him, not quite sure whether to smile or not.

"What's wrong?" He asked Cai Ji nonchalantly, "What are you trying to hide from me? Did you go to that island again last night to confirm whether Zhou Wenxing was dead or alive? Or do you call your Mr. Zhou the boss?"

Cai Ji opened his mouth to argue, but Luo Binhan waved his hand impatiently. "I have eyes," he said, "one eye is enough, and my ears are not deaf. How those people treated you just now, and how you behaved here - do you think I don't understand? You were not sent by anyone to take care of him, you were just following his orders."

He sat back on the sofa next to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu first gave him two or three different pills, then took out a few small plastic bags from somewhere, sorted the remaining pills into different categories, and handed them to him, telling him how many times to take each one.

"These are all painkillers?" Robin Han said, "Can they be mixed together?"

"Only one is for pain relief, the others are for healing. It's better not to take too many painkillers."

Luo Binhan put all the pills into the hanging bag, then leaned back on the sofa and looked at the other two again. Cai Ji was still the same, but he seemed a little confused. Zhou Yu's clothes were very interesting - the air conditioning in the room had been off for a while, the heat was gradually coming up, and there was no way to ventilate, but he was still wearing a thin coat suitable for spring and autumn. Moreover, Luo Binhan noticed from the beginning that he had been wearing gloves since he appeared, and he didn't even take them off to pick up the pills. This was unusual for a mysophobia.

"Where should we start?" he said. "There seems to be a lot of things here."

Zhou Yu calmly unscrewed his water bottle and asked, "What do you want to know?"

"That's a lot, Pajaniya - who came up with that name? You?"

"…No. Someone else assigned it."

"Why do I have to give you such a foreign name? What does it mean?"

Zhou Yu turned his head slightly, and it seemed that he was also a little uncomfortable with this name. "It doesn't have any special meaning. It's just that in principle, it's not allowed to use code names that reveal one's nationality and cultural background, so most people here have names like this."

"So, what kind of organization are you?"

“It’s just an ordinary commercial research institute.”

"Ordinary." Luo Binhan repeated, "Why is Li Li here?"

"This is Li Li's property. I am just managing it on her behalf."

"So you're the acting chairman here," Robinson said, "and probably a bunch of other windfalls, right?"

"That's basically it. But in the final analysis, these things don't belong to me, and I don't have the talent to manage such an organization. I just let it run according to its original structure."

"You've made it big, Mr. Zhou." Luo Binhan said. Cai Ji started to glare at him again at the door. "So you and Li Li are not just ordinary colleagues. You are her... how should I put it, the heir? She left all her money and property to you, all in a legal way."

He paused and repeated what he had said. "The Li Li you know is the real Li Li," he said, "not the one in the box, but the living one."

"You could put it that way."

"You can say that," Luo Binhan repeated, "which means it's not. It's not a box, but it's not a living person either - it's the person himself, but not a living person. Where can you see a dead person? In that city. You've been to that city, right? You can't have any intersection in real life. There was no such person as her in your previous social circle, and there's no reason for her to have such a good relationship with a stranger."

He felt a little dizzy, like a person who had been squatting for a long time and suddenly stood up. But this dizziness did not affect his thinking. On the contrary, he felt more relaxed, as if some joints had been opened up and everything could be connected so easily.

"You two went from strangers to acquaintances in a short period of time, to the point where you could inherit an inheritance." He shook his head. "Would you accept a windfall given to you by a stranger for no reason? I don't believe it. Unless you really trust her - there is some more important event that connects you and her. In other words, you can only know each other because of 0206. She was tracking down 0206, and you were also tracking down 0206, and you met in that city."

Zhou Yu did not respond, with a blank expression on his face, and just drank water from the bottle. Luo Binhan turned to look at Cai Ji again: "You lied too."

"What do you mean by lying?" Cai Ji said immediately. His strategic fortitude was far inferior to Zhou Yu's.

"The person who saved you couldn't be Zhou Yu." Luo Binhan said, "It was him. He was the one who saved you from the beginning, but you were just left with Zhou Yu. The stories you told about the female Yama in the underworld taking care of you were all made up. They were grafted onto Zhou Yu's body. I wonder how you could stand Zhou Yu's temper and be willing to work for her - you have made up a lot, Xiao Cai, the stories you made up are so realistic, and you can even change your tone of conversation to be like Zhou Yu. I thought you were an honest person."

He began to clap slowly. This action was now a heavy burden on his right hand, so he lifted his right leg and clapped his thigh with his left hand. Cai Ji's face was filled with anger, and he opened his mouth to say something, but choked back. Luo Binhan began to suspect, so Zhou Yu put down the water bottle and said, "I told him not to tell you."

"What? You told him this whole lie?"

"If you don't teach him in such detail, he probably won't be able to handle you."

Zhou Yu answered without shame. Luo Binhan glanced at him darkly. "It's really interesting," he said, "I never knew you were so good at making up stories."

"It's just that he pushed the blame of what I did on Zhou Yu. There is nothing groundless in it, so it can't be said to be fabricated."

This explanation could not completely dispel Luo Binhan's suspicion, but he also did not see anything more from Zhou Yu's face. Cai Ji simply shrank behind the door, making it difficult for him to observe.

"Okay." He said, "Let's skip this one for now. But what's your motive? What's the point of playing this trick on me? You could just tell me that you went to that damn place to find Zhou Yu, picked up someone else's inheritance, and also recruited a little brother." "I just don't think it's necessary to say it."

"It's not necessary!" Luo Binhan shouted, "You think it's not necessary! What have you been doing in the past month?"

"…Basically, I am resting here."

"You are sleeping." Luo Binhan said, "Since last month, Zhou Wenxing and I have been fighting fiercely outside. We fought to the edge of the universe, the galaxy was shattered, and even the avenue was wiped out! You are still sleeping!"

Zhou Yu turned to look at Cai Ji again, but the latter was hiding behind the wall. He thought for a moment and asked, "Why did you want to kill him?"

"You ask why? I don't know why I wanted to kill him. Maybe I was just bored."

"…Did he just kill it yesterday?"

"Yesterday? Yesterday I went to the beach for a trip." Luo Binhan said, "I went, Xiao Li went, Xiao Wen went, and even your Xiao Cai went. We had a party on the beach, jumping and dancing and setting off fireworks. The atmosphere was so good that everyone praised it and even spoke out their innermost thoughts. I just want to ask who didn't go?"

Cai Ji poked his head out from the door and looked at him blankly. Zhou Yu drank another sip of water and added fuel to the new candle while thinking about something.

"So Li Li was involved? Only the final blow was delivered by you."

"It wasn't me. It was Xiao Wen who was so upset that he bumped into my knife."

"Did he cause your eyes? That doesn't seem like his style."

"I made it myself because it's fashionable to wear an eye mask."

Zhou Yu looked at him for a while, then said, "Maybe you just need to go back and get some more sleep. You don't need to wear an eye mask."

"Where's Zhou Yu!" Luo Binhan turned around and yelled at the wall, "Bring Zhou Yu up here! Ask her to take care of her husband!"

When he pounded the low table and cursed wildly, Cai Ji drew his head back again. Zhou Yu looked at him in surprise, as if he still couldn't figure out what he was going crazy about. Luo Binhan suddenly calmed down. He loosened his swollen fist - this damn coffee table was also made of iron - and lay back on the back of the sofa.

"Go ask your followers," he said, "or ask Li Li later. Ask them what good things I have done in the past month. You are lucky that you don't feel the need to tell me everything. If I had found out a day earlier, I would have put you in a box!"

"box?"

"Don't expect to get the answer from me." Luo Binhan said coldly, "Why should I tell you? Besides, I have something else here that even Li Li and your little follower don't know yet."

He took out the notebook from his bag again. Zhou Yu naturally reached out to take it, but he immediately pulled his hand back. "This is Zhou Wenxing's stuff." He shook the notebook, "It was placed together with the card, so I guess it's quite important. I also read the contents on it, to be honest, there's nothing I'm interested in, so I decided to exchange it for something else."

"What do you want to change?"

"I've seen that you have a lot to say," said Robinson. "I want to hear something new. Not something as trivial as a nickname. It has to be a big surprise, understand? Let's just make it simple and use a five-point scale. I promise to give you a fair score. If you tell me a secret that I can give you five points, I'll give it to you. Otherwise, I'll burn it in front of you."

While he was talking, Zhou Yu was still trying to get the notebook. Luo Binhan handed it directly to the candle flame. Cai Ji also walked in from the next room, his eyes wandering between the flame and Zhou Yu. Luo Binhan raised his chin to signal him not to get any closer.

"Don't even think about snatching it away," he said. "I'm the only one who has seen this thing, and I've only seen it once. And I'm really going to burn it."

"Aren't you afraid that we will lie to you?" Cai Ji asked with a sneer.

"How long have you known your boss?"

"What do you ask for this?"

"How funny," said Robinson. "You have only known each other for a year? Two years? I guess it can't be more than three years? And I have known him for twenty years! Has it been twenty years since you were born? And we have known each other for more than just twenty years. Do you want to know how hard it is to deceive a guy who has known you for twenty years and watched you grow up? You'd better not arouse any suspicion from him. You'd better know some secret techniques of hypnosis and forgetfulness, because all your lies have to be consistent with the first twenty years of your life! Now, let me tell you what he is capable of. He can make others believe that he is innocent, and not many people will be the first to doubt him, as long as he sits there and says nothing. But you ask him to make up a story? He will give up after the fourth sentence, because he doesn't think in his heart that there is anything worth the effort of lying. This is the true level of your boss."

Cai Ji froze in his place, looking hesitantly at Zhou Yu, who was still staring at the notebook in Luo Binhan's hand. After a moment, Zhou Yu said, "I have been to that city."

"Zero points," Robinson said. "That's what I guessed."

“I found Zhou Yu there.”

"One point. Consider it a favor to her."

“I can still go back there now.”

"Three points," Luo Binhan said, "You didn't tell the whole story - you spend most of your time there, otherwise you wouldn't have forgotten to contact your little follower in the past month, and then I would have found out that he was following me to do bad things. Combined with what you just said, it seems that you were sleepwalking when you were asleep."

Zhou Yu frowned and thought carefully. He must be thinking about what information is the safest to reveal, but Luo Binhan didn't care at all. Zhou Yu was not good at this interrogation game that did not allow him to remain silent, and he would soon lose his patience. "Don't you want to talk about your rest cabin?" He kindly reminded, "You are still wearing leather gloves in this weather. What's wrong? Did you really get burned by the flamethrower?"

"I have used some forbidden witchcraft, and these are the aftereffects."

"Be specific. What kind of witchcraft?"

"I erased part of your memory," Zhou Yu said, "about the details of the ritual I used when I entered there, and what happened afterwards. Unless someone tells you these things again, you will actively avoid thinking about the relevant things."

Luo Binhan stared at him expressionlessly. "Are you doing this just for fun?"

"It's a safety consideration. Those rituals can't be spread any more."

"So what are you going to do next? Delete some of this stuff from my head when I walk out of this building?"

"Impossible. I can't use that kind of magic now. It's a one-time use."

"Great." Luo Binhan said, "I almost want to give you five points. But I have this feeling, you know? I think you still have room for improvement. Go one step further! For some reason, Zhou Wenxing wrote your address in his notebook, although it was not your name. At least it shows that he cares about you. Just because you have visited the underworld for a few days? Can use a little forgetfulness spell? So, I will only give you four points."

Zhou Yu finally showed a wavering look. He looked at the notebook close to the candlelight, as if considering whether he could successfully snatch it. Luo Binhan directly shook a corner of the notebook's back cover into the fire, and then quickly fanned it out - he knew that there was a blank page in that position, but it was hard to say what would happen next.

"I don't want to go back and give a low score." He used his finger to extinguish the last spark on the back cover. "If it's lower than four points, we'll be gone."

Zhou Yu raised his hand and stopped Cai Ji, who was about to pounce on the candle. He finally pondered for a moment, and then said: "Freeze must determine my position, otherwise I will not appear in front of you."

"He's watching out for you."

"Ah."

"What do you have to scare him so much?"

"Because I was the one who killed 0206."

(End of this chapter)