Love, death, and false man

Chapter 45. The Box of Desire
10/4—23:40
Binhai is the most prosperous area in the bay area and the core functional area of ​​the international financial center.

Skyscrapers grow like plants, fog shrouds the towering buildings, shimmering lights create a magical spectacle, a bridge spans the river, traffic flows, and the endless night awakens.

She doesn't have a fixed address and often chooses to book hotels on a monthly basis.

The rectangular indoor swimming pool, spanning over 100 square meters, is equipped with a pressure chamber for creating small waves. The neutral black, white, and gray wabi-sabi decor and the minimalist furniture and furnishings, prioritizing functionality, result in an irregularly shaped structure. The extension of the polygonal combination exudes a futuristic style.

Successful interior designers consider the effects of light and shadow, including both natural and artificial light, to account for 50% of their designs, and all lighting combinations must be integrated with all the underlying structure and soft furnishings.

High-powered spotlights focus on the Impressionist framed paintings, while a large, monolithic stone backdrop depicting a modern Chinese-style landscape is illuminated by embedded LED strips. Panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows offer views of the city's nightscape in the bay area.

[Saviour Army members discovered...]

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No third-party forces were found. Report complete.

After submitting the task report.

Ji Wei did not choose to run long distances at the planned lakeside park route. Instead, she used an indoor treadmill, wearing only hot pants and a tank top, with her hair tied in a high ponytail, and monitored her heart rate through a fitness tracker while running.

We must avoid being summoned by the [summit] in the near future.

Unable to concentrate on training the intensity of the Soulfire, I couldn't calm down at all. I plunged into the pool and soaked for a while. Was the room temperature too high? It's already halfway through autumn.

There's absolutely no need to worry about grades. Students in private schools don't graduate until the year after next, so attendance requirements aren't high. This year's monitoring targets have already been met ahead of schedule, and there's a relatively long vacation.

The brain always automatically inserts frames, showing a serious-looking person adjusting a parachute that appears to magically appear high in the sky.

Perhaps I should really stay in school for a while longer; I can't continue like this, it's forbidden.

After getting out of the pool, I dried my hair and changed into my pajamas, but I couldn't fall asleep. I felt a sense of unease and anxiety that I had never experienced before.

After taking a melatonin pill, I slowly fell asleep.

I don’t know how long it took.

A series of urgent knocks woke Ji Wei from her sleep. She checked the time on her phone; it was already 1 a.m. Who could it be at this hour? It could only be an enemy.

He immediately took out a pistol from the bedside table.

But the person seemed to have obtained a hotel room key, and barged in after a short electronic unlocking sound.

Ji Wei fired without hesitation, but the gun shot out ribbons and flower petals. How could it be a toy gun?
The figure rapidly approached, and Ji Wei's punches were weak and powerless. She was easily subdued by the other party. Before she could even see what the person looked like, she only saw a conspicuous scar on the corner of the mouth, and was roughly forced to turn her back.

Who are you? What do you want?

"I'm here to take you away, and even if you disagree, I'm going to take you away from here."

"This voice... it's Fang Yan. Where are you taking me?"

"No surveillance, no base stations, no cell towers, no dark places."

"Why are you doing this?"

"I pray for your well-being, I pray to live in your heart, to think of you, so that I dare not slip into the abyss of darkness."

"What merit do I have? We barely know each other and have only met a few times."

"But to me, it's like a thousand moments... like a bag of tiny diamonds, whether real or my imagination, your appearance, the real texture, you in my arms, the feeling of touching you."

"Fang Yan..."

"If you could see into my heart, how would you view my... soul? I am filled with fear, I feel destroyed, the enemy is trying to put me to rest in the ground, but I am not ready. But just thinking of your face, my heart seems to have the power to fight against all lies and hatred."

"War has rendered some things meaningless, and it's hard to imagine holding a wedding. I think even if my father were alive, he would agree." "Ji Wei, I want to marry you, if you're willing."

Is there a religious tradition where you only need to say "I want to marry you" three times to become husband and wife?

"I want to marry you, I want to marry you... I want to marry you... What's so funny?"

“I’m wondering if saying ‘Let’s get a divorce’ three times will actually lead to a divorce.”

"I can wait for you."

"No...I want to marry you, marry you...marry you..."

Ji Wei continued to recount her story, but Fang Yan kissed her on the lips. However, seemingly lacking practical experience and necessary material, she gradually became dazed, which made her somewhat impatient.

"Excuse me, I have too many buttons on my clothes. Could you turn around?"

No, I won't turn around.

But they couldn't continue after that, there was no related material, and even the dialogue was based on movie lines.

until……

10/5—9:20
Strong sunlight streamed through the panoramic glass windows, reflecting a golden shimmer on the indoor swimming pool. The ripples on the water's surface jolted Ji Wei awake. She sat up abruptly, her breathing quickening, her blush of embarrassment still lingering.

Standing up and walking to the panoramic glass window, I realized that even the best building materials wouldn't be enough to support a building that tall, even at 10,000 meters. Even the roof of the world, the summit of the earth at 8848 meters above sea level, isn't that high.

It felt like I had crossed the most rugged mountain peak, and no longer felt any apprehension.

The morning run was abruptly canceled, and there wasn't even time to wash up.

A huge challenge lies ahead: the red-haired woman who appeared on the plane, whose Soulfire attribute seems to be explosive, a member of the Soda Revolution band, and Fang Yan is her rumored boyfriend. I saw her when I was searching for information about Fang Yan in the lake park that day, but I didn't pay attention to it at the time.

That's right...

Fang Yan is a suspicious person. It is entirely possible to report the plan and conduct periodic surveillance, or to use him as bait to lure out these terrorists and their higher-ranking officers.

It's all for work, it's that simple.

It's necessary to thoroughly investigate the relationship between the two; it's very likely that it's just a social connection created to circumvent satellite algorithms, and hopefully that's the case.

He opened his phone, found the video platform account of the Soda Revolution band, and scrolled through all the videos featuring Xia Bing. This woman's attire... aura... appearance... figure... is too dangerous!
He was actually half a head taller than me...

We absolutely cannot let this continue. I searched online to see when the scandal first surfaced, and it's only been ten days. It's not a big problem.

The Soul Master's satellites will be dominant in 2030; as long as the target is not in the [jamming channel], the real-time location of every person on Earth will be visible.

Having confirmed Fang Yan's real-time location, Ji Wei quickly washed up, changed into her usual sportswear—a pink windbreaker, light-colored jeans, and a baseball cap—and immediately went out.

wrong……

Wait, if Fang Yan discovers her true identity, will he kill her? Ji Wei then realized that she didn't have the prerequisites for anything to unfold.

With his hand on the doorknob, lost in thought, he hesitated to open the door.

half an hour.

The mindset of high school students played a decisive role: "I don't care about this or that."

But then he paused.

Am I dressed too badly?
(End of this chapter)