Chapter 281

David scratched his head because he couldn't figure out what Lin Qiao wanted to do.

Lin Qiao clapped her hands: "Then let's assume that David has entered Arasaka Company, and I am your superior, okay?"

"Okay."

"Very good, then-"

Snap!

An unexpected slap hit David's face, and he fell directly on the sofa.

Although the force has been restrained, this is not the way Gloria used to care about the mother-son relationship.

"Okay? Just 'Okay'? Not even basic honorifics, is this your answer, David Martinez?"

It's like he suddenly changed into a different person.

If Lin Qiao was just a happy young man who liked to evade taxes before, then his attitude at this moment was extremely indifferent.

Or inhuman.

The burning pain quickly spread across David's face.

Lin Qiao's sudden move also made everyone present stunned.

"What are you doing!?"

The first to react was Gloria, as a mother.

She glared at Lin Qiao. If she hadn't been stopped by Dolio, she would have fought with the former.

But even so, Dolio took a lot of effort to suppress her... Obviously, the two sides were so different in size and strength.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just simulating the situation David will encounter after entering Arasaka in the future."

Glancing at Gloria, Lin Qiao explained casually, and then looked at David who stood up from the ground again.

"I'm your boss, and you're just a team leader with no power and no background. Do you have any opinion on what I did just now?"

"No... no."

David rubbed his left face that was hit.

Hiss!

The pain made him gasp. It had only been two days since he recovered, and he was beaten again.

Although he knew that this was acting, and the person K on the opposite side had also greeted him, the question was, there was no need to be so real, right?

"I can't hear you. I can't hear you at all."

"No."

"You're speaking so quietly. Have you not eaten? I can't hear you."

"No!"

"You're so weak. You want to enter Arasaka with such a low voice?"

"No!!!"

After shouting more than ten times, David's voice was almost hoarse. Even Lucy upstairs couldn't help but come down to see what they were doing. Lin Qiao nodded with satisfaction.

Man Yin and Dolio couldn't help but sigh. As expected of former senior company dog-related people, they are professional at torturing people.

"Very good, very energetic."

Hearing Lin Qiao's satisfied words, David, whose throat was dry, was relieved.

It's just...

"But unfortunately, considering that you wasted too much time and disturbed Miss Lucy who was working, which seriously delayed the company's work progress, you are now punished according to the company's regulations. Do you have any objection?"

"It's not you..."

"Hmm?"

"No, no...no!!!"

In Gloria's heartbroken eyes, David pulled his hoarse voice with all his strength.

"Very good, then kneel down at the door of the toilet for an hour."

"Kneel down? The kneeling position in Japan?"

"Yes."

"No, but this is too..."

"Do it or not? If you don't do it, I will let you go immediately."

"But this is also..."

"Say it again, do it or not? I don't want to hear any other answer."

"..."

David swallowed his saliva. If this is acting, it's a bit too much.

He knew that he could stop this simulation at any time... Having said that, under Lin Qiao's emotionless gaze, it was really hard to raise the emotion of resistance.

And is it really okay to stop like this?

"Enough!"

Just when David's knees couldn't bear the pressure, Gloria shouted to stop this farce-like performance.

"Really enough..."

Sitting on the sofa weakly, her hands tremblingly grabbed her wine-red long hair, and her head lowered made it difficult to see her facial expression.

"After all, this is just your performance. As long as David can enter Arasaka..."

"What if he enters? The real Arasaka will only be more cruel than this."

Lin Qiao mercilessly shattered Gloria's last fantasy.

At the same time, she asked Lucy to get an ice pack for David, whose face was swollen again.

After the latter found that he didn't need to continue acting, he suddenly became grinning.

"Even if he graduated from Arasaka Academy, he was born in the bottom without any background, which means he is destined not to be assigned any important position... The leader of a certain working group is probably the limit."

"Don't try to talk about so-called excellence. There are more people in the world who want to be dogs for Arasaka than real dogs."

"It's just so-called 'excellence', which doesn't even deserve to be looked at."

"The word fairness has never existed since it was born."

Not to mention that David, this unlucky child, beat someone up in school.

People who follow the rules cannot resist those who enforce the rules.

People who enforce the rules must obey those who master the rules.

And those who master the rules must obey those who make the rules.

Although we don’t know who that unlucky Shengnan is, no matter what, her family background must be much better than that of David, a peasant.

——Can make the school change its mind and set up a scholarship to attract David to go back. The family must be extraordinary.

It is estimated that if David really wants to go back to Arasaka Academy, he won't have to wait until graduation to go to work. He will be targeted to death just while attending school.

…

In the end, Gloria did not object to David's decision to drop out of school...but she also did not agree with cyberpunk.

After all, she deals with corpses every day and really doesn't want to transport her son's body one day.

"Well, thank you this time, doctor..."

Holding an ice pack on his face with one hand, David muttered in his heart, thank you, thank you, but one thing is for sure, that slap really hurt.

"So what about you? Are you really determined to become a cyberpunk?"

"...To be honest, I don't know much myself..."

He lowered his head and clenched the corners of his clothes with both hands.

If it turned out that he had indeed made up his mind, then when he saw his mother crying, he hesitated again.

——But at least the debt owed to Manin and the others must be paid off first.

"It's up to you." Lin Qiao shrugged helplessly.

"But since you have made your own decision, don't regret it, otherwise you will even feel sorry for yourself in the end."

"Also, one last piece of advice to you, don't think about stopping after finishing the last order or anything like that. When you have such thoughts, it's time to stop."

"I also said this to Man Yin... In short, it is not shameful to retreat bravely."

“Hesitation will only lead to defeat.”

After pretending to be profound, he dropped a famous saying from Wei Ming, and the door of the clinic was also closed.

Chapter 350 The trap set

Completely different from the messy environment of street bars.

In the luxuriously decorated high-end bar, a soothing symphony is playing, and the solid wood bar with gold edges has been polished to a shine.

The crystal lamps above the head reflect a variety of colors and sparkle, adding a touch of dreamy color to the interior of the bar.

There didn't seem to be many people around - of course. As a high-end place open only to VIPs, there were only a handful of people who could come here.

What's more, rather than simply drinking, people who come here often want to talk about some important matters... This is not something that can be said openly.

"Ah~ it really tastes right. I haven't had such a pure drink in a long time!"

In a private room in the bar, Sasha put down the bottle of wine in his hand with a cheerful expression.

It’s easy to tell from the label above that this is a bottle of vodka.

"If you want to drink, just say something and someone will bring it back for you, right?"

Lucy next to her smacked her tongue. She was raised by Lin Qiao as a good child, and she really couldn't figure out what was so attractive about such spicy things.

"It's different, little Lucy, the atmosphere is different."

"Drinking alone in the room is called boring drinking. Going out with other people is called expressing feelings."

I drank up the remaining vodka in one gulp.

Sasha picked up another bottle of vodka again and seemed to be planning to blow on it.

"Hey, I'm almost suffocated from being locked underground all this time."

"That's because you're wanted by biotechnology...and Miss Sasha, you're not exactly locked up in there, are you?"

In the past few years, Sasha's daily life has been settled in various facilities in Arasaka, and he rarely goes out.

After all, even with Arasaka's protection, it does not mean that biotechnology will suffer this dumb loss.

If you really want to go out and wander around, you're afraid that someone will be far away and take aim with a sniper rifle, and then... poof!

So to be on the safe side, it was better to reduce the publicity and avoid the limelight... I couldn't hold it in anymore, so I could only ask Lin Qiao to change my appearance, and then change it back when I came back.

That is to say, there have been some personnel changes in the biotechnology department in the past two years, and the wanted number on Sasha has dropped a lot. This kind of life under lockdown has barely ended.

At least she can finally go out with her original appearance.

But equally, to this day, Sasha has not let go of the fact that she hid the side effects of painkillers from biotechnology and ultimately killed her mother.

This hatred was just hidden in a deeper corner by her.

"Back to business, what happened to the things we asked the Counterintelligence Department to investigate?"

Just when Sasha was about to pour some vodka into Lucy, Lin Qiao coughed slightly and brought the topic back on track.

The former put down the vodka in his hand with some regret.

"The person who entrusted the task of stealing the navigation data is basically from Military Technology, but there is no news about who was entrusted to do it and what the purpose was."

Sasha crossed her legs and leaned on the sofa behind her, stretched out, and her abrupt body curves were fully highlighted.

"As for the guy you asked to focus on the search, who is suspected of having the ability to control minds... It's a pity that until now, there are no clues."