Shared talent: traveling through the heavens and worlds at the same time

Chapter 170 The right to choose

Facing Ma Xianhong's "enthusiastic" greeting, Chen Duo did not respond, but looked at Ma Xianhong expressionlessly.

As for Ma Xianhong, although he had only been in contact with Chen Duo for a short time, he could tell that this girl might be naturally reticent, so he didn't take Chen Duo's attitude seriously and asked himself. :

"You should be the one sent by the company to hunt down that woman Liu Wenjing, right? Then you should know a lot about what that woman Liu Wenjing has done. Tell me about it."

This time Chen Duo finally stopped being silent and said everything he knew in a calm tone:
"Liu Wenjing, female, 27 years old, was originally just an ordinary person. A week ago, she suddenly became a strange person and appeared in Guizhou City, GZ Province. Later, due to some verbal disputes, she killed three ordinary people and was wanted. She fled to Liupanshui City and then He killed four ordinary people in Liupanshui City, and then killed four pursuers while pursued by the company. Finally, the pursuit mission was handed over to me."

Listening to Chen Duo's eloquent incident report, Ma Xianhong's face became uglier as he listened. It wasn't until Chen Duo finished speaking that Ma Xianhong adjusted his mood and took a long breath and said:
"What happened is roughly consistent with the information we have. It seems that she was not wronged."

Chen Duo heard this and pointed at Lin Bei and asked calmly:
"He said Liu Wenjing is dead, where is the body?"

Ma Xianhong pointed to the warehouse behind him. In the center of the warehouse was Liu Wenjing's mutilated body:

"No, it's right there. This is still your masterpiece, but it's her own fault."

Chen Duo looked past Ma Xianhong, looked behind him, stayed on Liu Wenjing's body for two seconds, confirmed that the condition of the body was caused by her own means, and then said in a calm tone:
"mission completed."

Lin Bei, on the other hand, has already turned around and invited Chen Duo:
"Miss Chen Duo, do you want to come and have a meal with me? After all, you killed that woman yourself."

"Tsk, what a conscientious tool man. I haven't even been able to confirm my own safety, but I have prioritized the completion of the task."

After confirming Liu Wenjing's death, Chen Duo, who became a little empty when he heard this, answered in a somewhat mechanical manner:

"No, my original Gu feeds on Qi. Without Qi as food, it will completely die out soon and will not be contagious."

Because in Chen Duo's past seventeen years of life, no one had ever asked her this.

Lin Bei said with a smile:

Lin Bei said with a smile:

At first, Ma Xianhong was a little confused when he heard that Lin Bei actually wanted to prepare a table for someone like Liu Wenjing. Until Lin Bei finally said that it was just for celebration, he felt that he couldn't laugh or cry in an instant.

Lin Bei, who was behind Chen Duo, naturally heard Chen Duo's whisper, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking:

After saying that, Ma Xianhong turned to look at Lin Beidao:
"Well, I've finished asking my questions. You brought this girl back. What are you going to do with her next?"

Lin Bei was sighing, but Ma Xianhong over there didn't have as much mental activity as Lin Bei. He continued to ask:
"By the way, this woman was poisoned by your poison and died. The poison on her body shouldn't be contagious, right?"

But Chen Duo's beautiful eyes were full of confusion at this time, as if she didn't know how to answer Lin Bei's question, or even why Lin Bei would ask her such a question.

After hearing Lin Bei's invitation, Chen Duo did not agree, but asked with some confusion:
"You know my name? You know me?"

Seeing that Chen Duo was silent again, Lin Bei had no choice but to speak again:

"So, do you want to go to dinner with us? You have been chasing Liu Wenjing for a long time, haven't you eaten yet?"

"What can I do? As I said before, I just asked her to come back as a guest. By the way, Liu Wenjing used to be yours, but now everyone is dead, should we give her a break? A feast? Let the people in the village celebrate appropriately."

It seemed that she just wanted to know if Lin Bei knew her.

"Of course, I not only know you, but I also know a lot about you."

After receiving Chen Duo's answer, Ma Xianhong nodded, completely satisfied:
"Oh, is that so? Then this primitive Gu of yours is quite useful."

Hearing Lin Bei ask him again, Chen Duo, who was much shorter than Lin Bei, raised his head and looked at Lin Bei. The slightly raised head made Chen Duo's little face look extra round and surprisingly cute.

Lin Bei thought that Chen Duo would continue to ask questions, such as how he knew her and what he knew. However, after Chen Duo got Lin Bei's answer, he just said lightly and stopped talking.

When Lin Bei saw Chen Duo's confused and helpless eyes, his heart moved, and then he couldn't help but sigh.

He had forgotten that in a sense, Chen Duo was still just a self-aware Gu insect, a tool, not a person.

She has very little humanity left in her, still bound by the habits of her past.

In the original plot, Chen Duo slowly awakened to her humanity because Ma Xianhong gave her the right to make major choices twice.

But Chen Duo has never experienced this at all.

So, how could she know how to answer Lin Bei's question?
Although he had figured this out and knew what the problem was, Lin Bei did not overstep his authority and make a decision for Chen Duo. Instead, he just waited quietly for Chen Duo's answer.

Since Lin Bei had planned to help Chen Duo before, he naturally analyzed Chen Duo's past and thought about specific ways to help.

Chen Duo was taken away by an alien organization called Yaoxianhui since she was a baby, and she was put together with other children to be cultivated by raising voodoos to create the so-called "holy child with a voodoo body".

This method of treating people as Gu is undoubtedly quite cruel. Among the dozens of candidates, only one survived, namely Chen Duo. She became the "Gu Body Holy Child" expected by the Yaoxian Society.

When the company rescued Chen Duo from the Yaoxian Society, the six-year-old Chen Duo had been trained by the Yaoxian Society into a "tool" that ignored everything in the world and could only create poison and accept instructions.

At that time, Chen Duo could talk but not speak, could do but couldn't do, was ignorant and shameless, fearless, joyless, careless and joyless. It could be said that he was just a body without a soul.

Fortunately, Chen Duo met Liao Zhong. With Liao Zhong's unremitting efforts and the stimulation of various methods, Chen Duo finally broke the shackles left on her by the Medicine Fairy Society and reawakened part of her nature and humanity.

But what Liao Zhong didn't know was that his approach could be said to be a success, but it could also be said to be a failure. To put it simply, Liao Zhong's approach to Chen Duo was to break and then establish. He first broke the three views and cognitions that the Yaoxian Society instilled in Chen Duo, and then re-established the correct three views and knowledge for Chen Duo.

But Liao Zhong's mistake was that he didn't break through it thoroughly enough. The world view and outlook on life and death that the Yaoxian Society instilled in Chen Duo still remained in Chen Duo's heart, affecting everything about Chen Duo all the time.

And the so-called establishment is not sufficient. Chen Duo's living environment is completely abnormal, whether it is in the bunker or as a temporary worker, the abnormal past, the abnormal present, and the foreseeable impossibility. There will be a normal future.

Under such circumstances, Liao Zhong actually felt that what Chen Duo wanted most was the so-called "normal life", which was simply ridiculous.

Lin Bei thought Zhang Chulan's evaluation of this in the original plot was very appropriate:

"This is as absurd as promising a life of imperial luxury to a poor man who is about to die of cold and starvation."

Liao Zhong didn't even think about letting Chen Duo have even the most basic human rights before talking about anything else.

For example, let Chen Duo have the power to make his own choices.

Liao Zhong is like those fathers who have no idea what their children want. They try their best to be good to Chen Duo, but in fact, that is not what Chen Duo wants at all.

And when Chen Duo began to awaken to his true self-awareness and start to have his own pursuits because of Ma Xianhong's incident, Liao Zhong was unable to give Chen Duo the choice he wanted because of the company's position and the pressure from the board of directors. In the end, Both ended in tragedy.

Therefore, if Lin Bei wants to help Chen Duo, the first step is to make Chen Duo awaken again like Ma Xianhong, completely get rid of the attribute of being a tool, and have his own pursuit, even if this pursuit is just something that ordinary people are not even aware of, choose power.

So Lin Bei is going to let Chen Duo make her own decision. If Chen Duo says she doesn't want to eat this meal, then Lin Bei will respect her choice and send her directly out of Biyou Village.

As for Chen Duo, after looking up at Lin Bei for five minutes, her stomach growled at the right time.

It seemed that the cry reminded Chen Duo and made her finally make a decision. She nodded towards Lin Bei and followed Lin Bei.

It can be seen that at this time, the confusion in Chen Duo's eyes is no longer there, but there is some unnoticeable happiness, but perhaps even Chen Duo himself is not aware of this emotion.

Upon seeing this, Lin Bei said hello to Ma Xianhong, and then took Chen Duo towards the kitchen. He called Fu Rong and asked her to help cook.

Ma Xianhong, who had watched the entire exchange between Lin Bei and Chen Duo, was looking at the backs of Lin Bei and Chen Duo, and was suddenly full of curiosity about Chen Duo.

Judging from Chen Duo's current performance, anyone with a sound mind would know that there is a big problem with this girl. How could a normal girl be so stupid like her?

The indifference and calmness shown by Chen Duo even deviated from the category of being stupid, but seemed to be missing something, causing her to have no emotional ups and downs at all.

Ma Xianhong was already very interested in Chen Duo, a girl who attracted special attention from Lin Bei, and now his interest became even more intense.

So he followed Lin Bei and Chen Duo directly and walked towards the kitchen together.

He wanted to see what was going on with the girl Lin Bei called Chen Duo.

When Lin Bei and the others came outside the kitchen, Fu Rong was already waiting here.

I have to say that Fu Rong is a really good-tempered girl. She was woken up by a call from Lin Bei at five or six in the morning and asked to come over to cook. Fu Rong was only a little unhappy, but she did not refuse.

After seeing Lin Bei and the others coming over, they just said angrily:

"Lin Bei, you guy, do you know what time it is? Do you know that girls will become ugly if they don't get enough sleep! Also, what kind of meal do you want to eat this morning?"

When Lin Bei heard this, he first smiled and apologized, then pointed at Chen Duo behind him and said:

"Sister Rong, I really don't want to trouble you. The main reason is that the girl behind me has been hungry all day and hasn't eaten yet, and my cooking skills are really average, so I'm troubling you."

Only then did Fu Rong look at Chen Duo behind Lin Bei. It had to be said that Chen Duo's excellent appearance and cute temperament made it easy to win the favor of others.

Although it was the first time she saw her, Fu Rong was full of love for this little girl who looked a little thin. She took Chen Duo's hand and said:
"Ah, that's it. What's your name? You look so skinny, it's really time to eat well. What do you want to eat? Just tell me and I'll cook it for you."

However, Fu Rong's question obviously put Chen Duo in trouble again. She didn't know what she wanted to eat.

When he was in the company's bunker before, Chen Duo could never decide what to eat. In order to ensure that the poison in Chen Duo's body would not be stimulated, Chen Duo's food was always arranged by people from the company.

Every day, every meal, and even everything that comes into the mouth is determined in advance.

There are occasional exceptions, and Liao Zhong gets some sweets such as candies for Chen Duo. After all, "children always like to eat sweets."

Therefore, when he heard Fu Rong ask what he wanted to eat, Chen Duo stood there, as if he was caught in a difficult decision. His beautiful willow leaves frowned slightly, lowering his head in thought.

Those who didn't know thought Chen Duo was doing something big that would affect his life.

Fu Rong, who asked the question, was also a little curious after seeing Chen Duo's reaction. After waiting for a long time without seeing Chen Duo's answer, she wanted to continue asking, but was stopped by Lin Bei.

Fu Rong's eyes became more curious, and just as she was about to ask, a voice as thin as a mosquito suddenly reached her ears:
"Sister Rong, please don't ask about this girl yet. It is very important to her now, so please wait patiently for a while, Sister Rong. As for the details, I will explain it to you later, Sister Rong."

Fu Rong recognized Lin Bei's voice. Although she didn't know how Lin Bei did it, she still managed to suppress her curiosity and quietly waited for Chen Duo's answer.

As for Chen Duo, after bowing her head and thinking hard for a long time to no avail, she could only turn her gaze to Lin Bei. Although she didn't say anything, Lin Bei could tell that Chen Duo wanted him to help make the decision. Decide.

But Lin Bei didn't do that. He just smiled and asked:
"What's wrong? I don't know what to eat?"

(End of this chapter)