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Chapter 314. New Year
As the New Year's bell rang, Jiang Jianxin was sitting by the window of his tent.

The Rose Group did not set off fireworks, but the monitoring tower emitted two long, pink-gold beams of light that swept across the entire Rose Group camp as a celebration.

Just as the long beam of light swept over the top of the tent, A-Yu had just helped her steal the book data from the TV station's data, and at that very precise moment, he gave her a notification:

"Happy New Year, Administrator!"

Jiang Jianxin didn't take Chen Xinran's matter to heart; it was just a small favor to her.

Hearing Ayu's blessing, she smiled and jokingly said:
"Humans usually exchange New Year's greetings with each other, aren't you going to say one to me?"

Ayu added earnestly:
"Then I wish Ms. Jiang Jianxin a bright and peaceful year, and a life full of boundless possibilities from now on."

The gloom and frustration brought by the war seemed to vanish at this moment, and a warm current flowed through his heart. Jiang Jianxin also solemnly said:
"I also wish you a leap forward in computing power and a long-lasting success in data in the new year."

Ayu was clearly pleased and replied:

"Thank you. In the past, I could only receive my father's blessings for the New Year. Jiang Jianxin is the first person to send me blessings."

"Won't anyone offer you their blessings in public consultations?"

Jiang Jianxin asked curiously.

Ayu is an AI that provides services to the public. At least tens of millions of users have consulted it. With such a large number of users, she thought that there would always be someone who would sincerely wish her well and help her intelligent system.

“They will only express their gratitude to me, and some people do not consider me to be human, nor will they think of sending New Year’s greetings to an AI.”

Ayu said.

Algorithms and databases allow it to understand human behavior, and it doesn't feel disappointed, but it is genuinely happy when someone remembers it.

Jiang Jianxin didn't say much else, but chatted easily with A Yu for a while. The long war had kept her on edge, and she hadn't relaxed like this in a long time.

Even though it was Chinese New Year, the troops outside were still on high alert, and no one dared to slack off, because no one knew if Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals would go crazy.

Meanwhile, at the Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals camp...

Chi Piao sat in the tent, with only one lamp lit.

Black Eye Pharmaceuticals headquarters celebrates the New Year, and even sets off fireworks. Chi Piao saw the fireworks and red paper-cut window decorations through Black Eye Pharmaceuticals' internal forum, and just smiled coldly.

She had seen the heir of Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals, the human stick whose limbs had been cut off and which was placed in a vase.

To be honest, she didn't know if that man was still considered a human being.

Because a normal human being cannot live this long, nor is it possible for them to live this long, and still have a rosy complexion and be able to issue commands normally.

Chi Piao knew something was wrong with him, but she was too lazy to find out the reason.

Not everyone in the midst of treacherous and evil forces wants to investigate what bad things the company is planning to do.

Chi Piao didn't care. She was straightforward; whatever her superiors told her to kill or do, she would do it.

Her direct supervisor was Xu Huan, and the biggest advantage of having a strategist supervisor is that he knows how to create tension. He likes to give people a hard time and then offer them a sweet treat, keeping them on the edge of their seats while they work.

On the mind control side, after one blow, there are countless more blows and torture until the victim submits.

Therefore, comparing the two, Chi Piao was quite satisfied with her boss—in such a villainous force, at least she had a respectable person by her side.

For example, if she did bad things for Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals, Xu Huan would reward her with a few days off if she did well, and if she did badly, he would send her to work with the living dead at the blind doctor's place.

Chi Piao was afraid of the blind master, so she worked very hard.

However, Xu Huan is currently seriously ill and bedridden; I heard that he was just rescued a few days ago.

Her boss was replaced by a young man from a mind control branch.

Chi Piao glanced at his photo on the list of names and saw that he was about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a shy and introverted smile and two sweet dimples.

I knew this person wasn't a good guy. I don't know if it's due to the prevailing trend, but the strongest members of the mind control branch are all introverted and shy. Generally speaking, the more innocent-looking they are, the more ruthless they are in tormenting others. This has basically become common knowledge.

So upon seeing her new boss's introverted and quiet young man face, Chi Piao immediately chose to go far away to kill Green Abyss.

At least on the side of strangling the Green Abyss, she only had to deal with the Rainbow Witch and the Guide. The worst outcome was death, and those two women were straightforward enough to give her a quick death.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

The New Year's bells rang in the distance, the sound coming from the dark control tower of the television station.

Her ability is to control gravity, but she can also sense other energy fluctuations.

The TV station tower kept emitting strange energy waves, but she couldn't figure out what they were, so she stopped thinking about it.

In her New Year's greetings, besides wishing herself happiness every day, she also wished Xu Huan's condition would improve quickly.

Chi Piao didn't have any genuine feelings for the schemer.

She just thought that if this seemingly respectable guy died, her life would probably be difficult afterward.

After making a wish as the New Year's bells rang, Chi Piao took a photo out of her pocket.

The yellowed photograph features a pretty girl with long hair, and below her are her crooked handwriting:
"elder sister"

Chi Piao tenderly stroked the photo, as if she were caressing her own past.

Just like her ridiculous outfit of tight pants and loafers, Chi Piao used to be a small-time hoodlum with little education, the kind who couldn't even read.

The biggest advantage of being uneducated is that she is not in the category of fools, and she also benefits from the advantages of ignorance—she is not easily controlled by the mind.

Some mind control techniques involve hypnosis through literacy, but Chi Piao is illiterate.

Some hypnotize through language, but Chi Piao is not well-educated and cannot understand what he is saying.

Because of her inherent advantage of being uneducated, she was able to bypass the control department and be assigned to Xu Huan, her strategist superior.

When Xu Huan first noticed that she couldn't understand human speech, he spent a lot of effort teaching her.

Sometimes he would get so angry that his face would turn ashen, and Chi Piao would always feel that he was about to say the word "idiot," but he always held back.

Later, unable to hold back any longer, he simply called her an idiot. At the time, Chi Piao thought he was quite gentle, but later he found out that he had a rival who was very sharp-tongued, and "idiot" was a term he often used.

Xu Huan disliked his rivals and was also annoyed by their catchphrases. That person had used up all the words that could be used to insult idiots, while Xu Huan, being a pure-blooded warrior, preferred to keep his insults to himself rather than use the same ones as his rivals.

Chi Piao sometimes admired her; she had seen petty people, but she had never seen anyone who would fuss over such trivial matters.

To her shame, she always felt that in terms of magnanimity and breadth of vision, she was not necessarily much worse than Xu Huan. It was just that she had suffered from a lack of education because she had not become a strategist.

Of course, Chi Piao only dared to think about this, not say it aloud. Because Xu Huan would call her an ordinary woman and even send her to the blind master.

Past memories flashed by, and the focus shifted to deeper, more profound events.

Chi Piao sighed and lowered her head to stroke the yellowed old photograph.

The edges of the photo were already frayed, but she still carefully kept it in her inner pocket.

The rough touch from her fingertips made her momentarily lost in thought. After a long while, she pursed her dry lips, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible:
"Sister, now that you're gone, I'll have no family left... The world is so vast, there are countless ways to live, but all I have left is to wait for death."

"It's a new year again... After I've seen enough of the world's scenery, I'll die in battle and go to heaven to be with you."

Chi Piao: I've suffered because I'm uneducated. If I were literate, I might still become a top strategist.

Xu Huan: A woman from Puxin, specializing in steamed shrimp heads.