CH 167 Reconnection Successful

Before Zhou Yang could figure it out, the landline phone in the duty room rang.

The awkward and stagnant atmosphere was broken, and gradually dissipated as Officer Zhao's cheerful voice sounded when he answered the phone.

Zhou Yang quietly breathed a sigh of relief for some reason. Even if the young man in front of him said sarcastic words, there was nothing impolite in his expression or tone, but he still felt uncomfortable. This feeling made him have no choice but to think about his own faults.

This feeling... was like being scolded by the most powerful and strict instructor when he was still in the police academy. But the instructor had at least been wearing the uniform of a military commander and holding a pointer. Just his appearance was enough to make people feel scared. However, the young man in front of him didn't need anything extra, just a simple look and tone could force people to reflect on themselves.

Feeling that Zhou Yang's eyes were always on him, Jiang Chen met his gaze without evading it. His calm eyes made the person who was staring at him unconsciously come back to his senses instantly and turned his head away in panic.

The prison guard on the phone didn't pay attention to what was going on here. Just after he said a few words, his originally smiling tone changed, and he glanced at Jiang Chen subconsciously before asking, "What's going on?"

Don’t know what was said over there, but Officer Zhao’s expression changed slightly, and then he hung up the phone.

"Mr. Jiang, there is a problem with prisoner He Qianjian."

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, but before he could speak, Zhou Yang, who was next to him, immediately took a step forward: "What happened?"

Officer Zhao was a little surprised by Zhou Yang's eagerness, but he originally wanted to talk to Jiang Chen about this matter, and he didn't need to avoid his colleagues, so he spoke directly: "When He Qianjian was working in the processing factory today, for some reason he got in a conflict with Wang Hei who is in the same cell as him. Wang Hei seemed to have lost his head, and got a pair of scissors from nowhere, stabbing He Qianjian."

Zhou Yang: "Is the injury serious?"

"It's not serious." When Officer Zhao heard Zhou Yang's questioning, he felt even more strange. He still looked at Jiang Chen and said, "But he is in the prison infirmary now, and he may not be able to see you for a while."

Jiang Chen nodded slightly. He didn't necessarily have to meet He Qianjian today, so he stood up and prepared to leave.

However, as soon as he stood up, Zhou Yang stopped him: "Are you planning to leave like this?"

Jiang Chen was a little confused: "Is there anything else?"

"He Qianjian is injured, why don't you go see him?"

Jiang Chen paused and silently glanced at the young prison guard in front of him. He was really puzzled and voiced his doubts: "Why do you think I would want to go see him?"

What he said to him before clearly made it clear about his relationship with He Qianjian. Maybe He Qianjian tweaked with some details when he told his story to him, but in essence, their identities and the reason why he was imprisoned were unable to be changed randomly. Since he knew this yet still asked such a question, Jiang Chen really didn't know whether the prison guard in front of him was too innocent or too stupid.

"Shouldn't you go see him?" Zhou Yang frowned and said with his own reasoning: "No matter how wrong He Qianjian was, he had already paid the price for his wrong. In this case, why can't you forgive him? To take a step back, even if you don't forgive him, he is still the biological son of your adoptive parents. Your adoptive parents are so good to you, but you won't even look at their biological son when he is injured. What would they think if they knew?"

Jiang Chen's originally calm eyes gradually darkened when Zhou Yang mentioned his adoptive parents again and again, and his voice became colder: "Officer Zhou, no matter what my parents think, I want to ask you a question first. Do you know why He Qianjian was imprisoned?"

This was the second time Jiang Chen asked this question today. Zhou Yang didn't answer directly last time, and he didn't know what to say this time. But thinking about He Qianjian being injured again and again and being ignored by his family, he couldn't help but speak up: "Even if he kidnapped you, didn't he still not hurt you?" Zhou Yang asked: "And He Qianjian is at least the biological son of your adoptive parents after all, and he has lived with your biological parents for so many years. If one really counts it, you two are almost brothers."

When Jiang Chen heard this, his simmering anger calmed down. Even if he was not angry when encountering this kind of thing before, his first reaction was to tell the truth sincerely. But he didn't know if it was because he had been with Shi Fengyue for so long. He had also become too lazy to speak sense to unreasonable people.

However, no matter how good-tempered he was, he would not continue to remain passive when faced with repeated questions and accusations from someone.

"Officer Zhou, if there is a person who decides to kill someone because he is afraid of being discovered after robbing someone else's things, and almost succeeds, should the person who was almost silenced forget his grudges because he was finally rescued by the police? And then even persuade his parents and relatives to have no grudges and forgive the person who wanted to kill him."

Zhou Yang opened his mouth, wanting to say that He Qianjian didn't want to kill him, but was just impulsive.

Jiang Chen did not give him a chance to explain, and said quietly: "He Qianjian sent people to kidnap me. The original purpose was to have the kidnappers kill me. My rescue was due to my friends and the police who rushed over in time. Without these factors, He Qianjian would never go to jail in his lifetime, and I would not be alive now.”

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, the duty room was quiet.

Of the three prison guards present, only Zhou Yang knew about the relationship between Jiang Chen and He Qianjian. The other two did not know, let alone heard about the He family and grievances between Jiang Chen and He Qianjian. When they heard Jiang Chen say this, recalling what Zhou Yang said before, their professional qualities also allowed them to piece together the rough story.

Officer Zhao coughed and said, "Mr. Jiang, He Qianjian can't come here today. How about you go back first? We will contact you when he is well?"

Jiang Chen didn't want to waste time here. There was still a lot of work in the laboratory. He nodded politely to them and turned to leave.

As he was about to reach the door, the phone in the duty room rang again. Officer Zhang answered it. After a few seconds, he suddenly called Jiang Chen, "Mr. Jiang, He Qianjian is fine and can come right away. Do you want to wait a moment? The infirmary is not far from here, he should be here in a few minutes."

Jiang Chen naturally chose to wait. Another trip would waste more time. He didn't want to postpone things that could be done at once until the next time.

Sure enough, as Officer Zhang said, He Qianjian was brought here not long after.

Jiang Chen sat on the other end of the transparent glass partition. The old red metal door opened, and He Qianjian, who was in gray prison uniform and shackled, was brought in. Jiang Chen raised his eyes and met He Qianjian's gaze.

He Qianjian walked to the other side of the glass and sat down. After seeing clearly that Jiang Chen's appearance was almost unchanged from half a year ago, his heart bled with hatred, but he was also overwhelmed by the fear and panic that made him adjust his expression immediately and did not dare to show too many emotions to be noticed by Jiang Chen.

There was a table on both sides of the transparent glass with a gray landline phone on the table. Jiang Chen came here for the first time, but he also knew the use of the landline phone. He picked up the phone and looked at He Qianjian.

He Qianjian hesitated for a moment and then picked it up.

He asked: "Is it because of you that my parents don't come to see me?"

Jiang Chen said quietly: "Who are you talking about?"

He Qianjian: "Of course my biological parents."

Jiang Chen's eyes fell on him and looked into his eyes: "Are you sure they are your biological parents?"

He Qianjian froze. Thinking of those recordings, a trace of guilt and fear quickly flashed across his eyes. However, the identity of Jiang Zhuo and Yang Si's biological son was more useful to him now than the identity of the eldest young master of the He family. He must not let Jiang Chen see anything.

"Those recordings are completely fake. I don't know where you synthesized them from, but that kind of thing can't happen in real life. Even if you don't want me to steal my biological parents from you, aren't you afraid of being exposed for fabricating and synthesizing those recordings.”

Jiang Chen remained calm and said mildly, "Do you know where your system has been during this time?"

He Qianjian was shocked and stood up abruptly, staring at Jiang Chen with a pair of red eyes, "It's really you!"

Although the System said at the beginning that Jiang Chen was not simple, and later it was indeed proven that Jiang Chen seemed to have the ability to track the System, the System was so powerful that He Qianjian was unwilling to believe that anyone in this world could defeat it, let alone believe that the person who could do this was Jiang Chen.

During these days in prison, every time he thought about the day he lost contact with the System, the fear spreading from the bottom of his heart made him tremble with cold. But day after day, the fear gradually rose in his heart. The source of the fear was precisely Jiang Chen, who he had taken everything away from before, seemed to now be taking everything away from him in return.

Veins popped up on He Qianjian's hand and forehead holding the phone, his face shifted from green to white, and his whole body was trembling with the emotions inside him.

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, and just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard a long-lost electronic sound.

[Reconnection successful, system restarting, restart successful.]

When this sound appeared, He Qianjian, who was pressed on the glass, froze. His anger had not subsided when suddenly he encountered the surprise he had been dreaming of. As a result the two different expressions on his face were unable to switch smoothly. And add this to suddenly realizing his situation and wanting to suppress his emotions, the result was a slightly distorted expression.

He Qianjian was so shocked and delighted that he didn't realize that the moment he heard the voice of the System, Jiang Chen's expression also changed. When he came to his senses again, Jiang Chen was no different from before.

[System?] He Qianjian called out tentatively in his heart. There was no response for half a year, which made him feel a little dazed. Maybe it was just his hallucination?

[Did you come back?]

[Reconnection successful.]

The System's voice was still cold, but He Qianjian's limbs and bones slowly warmed up, and even his fear of Jiang Chen became less.

Now that the System was back, it would be very simple for him to leave the prison. There was no need to waste time dealing with Jiang Chen. At this time, He Qianjian just wanted to quickly discuss countermeasures with the System, and even forgot about his purpose of wanting to see Jiang Chen in the first place.