CH 157 Optimal Choice
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
He Qianjian's hands were pulled behind his back, his face was pale, but his eyes were red, both frightened and angry.
Old Mr. He stared fixedly at He Qianjian, with deep crevices at the end of his eyes, his majestic anger unable to be concealed in his old voice: "Is that recording just now real?"
"No!" He Qianjian quickly denied it, with a teary voice: "It's all fake, synthetic, how could I harm Jiang Chen, someone must be trying to frame me, trying to provoke the relationship between me and the He family, Grandpa, you have to trust me..."
"Who do you think would frame you?" Old Mr. He's tone didn't change a bit, he just kept looking at him, "He not only knows your background, he knows what happened between you and Qian Min back then, he also knows that Jiang Chen was in a car accident and kidnapping."
Old Mr. He joined the army when he was young. He was a person who had actually been on the battlefield. He got to his current position step by step. Even of he had become old and retired, when he truly became stern and interrogated someone, the intimidation was not weakened even by half.
"I……"
He Qianjian was born as the eldest son and grandson of the He family, and later Yang Yun was accepted by old Mr. He because of his birth. From childhood to adulthood, even though the He family's family education was strict, old Mr. He still loved and doted on him. Add to the fact that he deliberately set out to please, the relationship between grandpa and grandson had always been close.
Therefore, even if He Qianjian knew that the old man was very powerful, even if the old man was very serious most of the time, he was never afraid of him. Instead, he was even more afraid of his seemingly loving father, who was in fact very principled and had a clear bottom line, and when he punished his children He Yanfeng would not show mercy either.
It was the first time that He Qianjian's mind went blank for a moment when faced with such a look that seemed to be so heavy and so substantial that he couldn't help but bend his knees. It took him half a second to realize what old Mr. He said. He secretly bit his cheek, apart from him and the System, the only one who could know all this was Jiang Chen.
But was he going to say that Jiang Chen did all this to frame him?
He Qianjian thought about it.
But he also knew that once he said that, there would really be no way out today.
"I don't know..." He Qianjian shook his head and said, "Grandpa, I don't know why others want to frame me like this, but you have to believe me, these are all fake, I don't know anything at all."
"Tell me again seriously." Old Mr. He looked at him and enunciated every word: "Have you done these things?"
He Qianjian's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately replied, "No!"
Old Mr. He shook his head and looked away.
Company Commander Zhang pressed down on He Qianjian, and he screamed in pain, but he had no time to concentrate on what happened to his hands. Old Mr. He's expression just now made him a little panicked.
Sure enough, the next moment, old Mr. He, who had turned around, said in a deep voice, "Send him to the police station, together with the evidence, and check everything in this recording."
"Yes!" Company Commander Zhang raised his hand, signaling his subordinates to take He Qianjian away.
He Qianjian froze for a moment, a little disbelieving, and immediately struggled: "You want to send me to prison?"
Old Mr. He didn't look back, he was already holding on to the handrail of the stairs, and went up the stairs step by step.
He Qianjian felt like he had fallen into an ice pit, he gritted his teeth, and turned to look at old Mrs. He: "Grandma, Grandma, you watched me grow up, you have to believe me...don't send me to the police station, I'm still in school, how can I find work after being in jail, Grandma..." He Qianjian knew that the rest of the He family had already stood by Jiang Chen's side, and only old Mrs. He, who was sympathetic and nostalgic, might help him.
Old Mrs. He did feel distressed, but thinking of the recording she just heard, she sighed softly: "If you haven't done any of these things, the police will let you out after they find out the truth."
He Qianjian stared at old Mrs. He with reddened eyes, he hadn't expected her to say that.
Old Mrs. He couldn't bear it, so she turned her head away.
He Qianjian was forced to go out. During this period, he kept turning his head and begging until he was escorted into the car. He still couldn't believe it. Why did things turn out like this after just a trip back to the old house.
*
This time Changjiang faced System, the consumption of energy was huge, and the benefits reaped was also huge.
Although most of the files intercepted from the System could not be deciphered, just this tip of the iceberg allowed him to have a more comprehensive understanding of the System.
Just as he guessed before, the System definitely didn't belong to this era, maybe it didn't belong to this world. To be precise, it should be a galaxy that was beyond their technological level.
In the last life, human beings have left the Milky Way and migrated to another galaxy, and the other galaxy had a civilization with highly advanced technology. Although at that time Jiang Chen had not heard of a system that was connected to biological brain waves without implantation, similar things did exist.
In that era, it was not surprising that such a system appeared, but now that this System appeared in a world where the level of civilization clearly could not support the existence of the System, the purpose and method of its appearance now raise one's attention.
Jiang Chen hadn't closed his eyes for a few days in a row. He was re-debugging and fixing the bugs of Changjiang every day. Since the confrontation with the System, Jiang Chen had new inspirations again, and he had been working hard for it during this time.
The boss of the lab spent his days in the lab, so the rest couldn't be lazy. Now in the final stage of the launch test, everyone was not as busy compared to a while ago, but the information captured this time had aroused the enthusiasm of these scientific researchers. They all accompanied Jiang Chen to work overtime, and several people even wanted to know the contents of those undecipherable folders more than Jiang Chen.
"It has been deciphered!"
At seven o'clock in the morning, most people in the laboratory looked exhausted, having stayed up all night again. Because this was not a formal laboratory, and Jiang Chen didn't pay so much attention to such things, by four or five in the morning, most everyone would find a place to bunker down.
At this time, in the quiet laboratory, there were people sleeping on several camp beds, and there were also researchers who were still working with exhausted faces. The whole laboratory was very quiet. This sudden sound shocked the sleepy or still asleep few people back into the waking world. They all raised their heads, and rubbed their eyes.
Jiang Chen turned his head, moved his shoulders and neck, and asked in a hoarse voice after feeling more comfortable, "That file folder?"
"It has been sent to the general mailbox." The researcher with red eyes but an excited expression walked quickly to Jiang Chen's side, but paused when his eyes landed on the man next to him who was asleep with his chin propped up, though it was unknown whether he was truly asleep or pretending to be asleep. He turned his body sideways, pointed to the mailbox that Jiang Chen had already opened, and said, "Boss, look, these are all matched up."
Jiang Chen rubbed his swollen eyes, fixed them on the name of the folder, and raised his eyebrows a little. This was the original folder called "Optimal Choice Record Form".
Jiang Chen opened the two forms, and saw that most of the tables in the deciphered version had been changed to Arabic numerals.
"These symbols are all numbers." The man said, "There are a few words that have been deciphered, but it's a bit strange. This table is a bit like a grade sheet."
Jiang Chen glanced speedily through it.
The man was right. The form was indeed very similar to a grade sheet, including the small part of deciphered words, which were all subject names.
But... Jiang Chen's eyes fixed on a point, landing on some other symbols, and a guess floated in his heart.
He turned around and called C.
C just woke up. To be precise, he had been woken up and was still hugging the quilt in a daze. Hearing Jiang Chen calling him, he immediately lifted the quilt and walked over with a dazed expression: "Boss, you called."
"Help me check something."
C nodded, sat down on one side, and said, "Check what."
"He Qianjian's report card since primary school, as well as the names of all the students in his class, and the report cards of the top students."
C paused with his hand on the keyboard, thinking he heard it wrong, and was just about to ask for confirmation, when he saw the man next to Jiang Chen had woken up. Obviously their conversation woke him up, but the man apparently vented his anger on only one, that cool and threatening gaze landing directly on him.
Swallowing the words on his tongue, C silently started working.
This kind of thing was simply a piece of cake for him. He Qianjian had been in Chenghua since kindergarten, and all his grades were naturally stored in Chenghua's educational affairs system, and the rotation of students in private schools was not frequent. It was also easy to find. In less than three minutes, he had already got everything Jiang Chen wanted.
Only——
C's eyes shifted slightly, and he glanced at the man with a smile discussing work with Jiang Chen in a raspy voice, but that expression didn't look like Shi Fengyue was talking about work at all. And words on the tip of his tongue couldn't be uttered once again.
Clearly Shi Fengyue didn't do anything, but don't know if the shadow of being kicked into a pit by him before was too deep. C was always afraid of him, especially when he and Jiang Chen got closer, the feeling of a cold scalp would make him feel especially apprehensive. It made him quickly recall the fear of being forced to stay in the arsenal system of other countries and almost being arrested as a spy and never seeing the sun of the motherland again.
Noticing C's gaze, Jiang Chen turned his head: "What's wrong?"
"The things you want have been sent to your email."
C finished this sentence quickly, and then left just as quickly.
Jiang Chen saw his back which looked as if something was chasing after him, and shook his head with a sigh: "It's been so long, and C is still so shy when talking to us."
Shi Fengyue didn't even blink. He pointed to the documents on the desktop with his slender finger and said, "Let's continue."
Jiang Chen withdrew his gaze, "Wait."
He checked the email sent to him by C, and re-sent it to the researchers of the deciphering team: Compare this with the optimal choice form and then enter the names into the decipher system, see if you can find anything.
Jiang Chen did not keep it from Shi Fengyue when he sent the email. When Shi Fengyue saw it, he thought for a while and asked, "Do you want to use those names to speed up the translation?"
"Correct."
"The names of the people you highlighted have special meanings?"
"He Qianjian's grades may come from these people, and the text behind the numbers are most likely the names of these people."
Shi Fengyue understood immediately, and thought of what he had gained during this period of time, he said thoughtfully: "The optimal choice, the name is quite interesting actually."