571: Encounter

Unless it was the second time they signed the contract, the parties wouldn't discover the problem, but that would be a year later!

“This...” Xiang Haitian also understood what had happened, but he was still a little confused. “What did Su Yue mean by doing this? Didn't he still jump from the rooftop in the end? The glass railing on the fiftieth floor was indeed damaged...”

A Qi shook his head and said, “I don't know either... My mind is in complete chaos right now, I can't sort out my thoughts at all... But one thing I can be very clear about is that Su Yue absolutely, absolutely fooled us again! This bizarre forty-ninth floor definitely explains the situation! Damn it!!”

He heavily punched the ground.

Xiang Haitian suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “Is it possible... that Su Yue isn't dead?”

A Qi was stunned for a moment, then thought for a while.

He was watching the live broadcast at the time, and indeed rushed out of the room the moment they fell, seeing Su Yue and Song Wen fall from the rooftop.

He thought for a moment, then shook his head. “No... That possibility shouldn't exist. Falling from that height, at that speed, plus the impact of the explosion, no one would have any hope. And at the time, I clearly heard Su Yue's voice, and since two people jumped together, Song Wen wouldn't not even recognize Su Yue. Even if Su Yue originally had a backup plan, he probably didn't expect that Song Wen would be so deranged as to strap explosives onto himself as well.”

Upon hearing this, Xiang Haitian nodded thoughtfully.

Although A Qi explained it this way and didn't find anything wrong himself, he always felt... as if something was off... but also as if nothing was wrong.

In the end, he still felt that he was being overly sensitive about Su Yue, which led him to overthink things.

“Ding-a-ling—”

Just then, A Qi's phone rang again.

It was Li Ou calling, who had already set off to return to Qingzhou.

“Hello...”

Before A Qi could speak, he heard Li Ou say, “I still feel that Su Yue's death is a bit strange... If he wasn't dead, his ultimate goal must be to go abroad. So, try to pay attention to the situation overseas, lest you miss anything.”

However, he hesitated for a moment, then gave a bitter smile.

“Never mind... I'm probably overthinking it. Su Yue really scared me, I'm too sensitive. In that situation, how could he not be dead? Alas...”

“Forget it, pretend I didn't say anything.”

He sighed and hung up the phone.

At this moment, the contradictions in his heart were highlighted to the fullest.

Hearing Li Ou's words, A Qi opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, the other party had already hung up.

Although he said he was overthinking, A Qi's heart coincided with Li Ou's current contradictions.

Rationally, they knew Su Yue was definitely dead, but intuitively, they wondered if someone like Su Yue was really dead?

“Never mind, we're probably just too paranoid.”

“Yeah, it's time to rest. Maybe we've been too tired lately.”

As he was thinking this, Xiang Haitian spoke again and asked, “What if, and I mean *if*, he really isn't dead?”

This time, A Qi answered seriously, “Theoretically, he's dead. However, assuming he's not dead... no matter where he is, the pursuit will of course be resumed. If he goes overseas, then a transnational pursuit will be launched, and an international Special Task Force will be established, and he will be extradited back to the country to face legal trial. After all, he resisted arrest many times, his influence is too great, and he's too unique! If he's not caught, the impact on the public is unimaginable; the law will no longer be respected, and everyone will follow suit! For transnational pursuit, we might not need to participate; more capable Officers Si will join and form an international capture team in conjunction with overseas authorities. But it's also possible that we might still be needed, you never know. Of course, all of this is just a hypothesis, since he's already dead. The above situations are just imagination.”

Xiang Haitian nodded and said, “Then let's pay attention to the overseas situation when we have time. Who knows, he might come back to life.”

A Qi patted him on the shoulder and smiled, “Alright, stop overthinking it, let's go.”

Xiang Haitian sighed, “I still can't believe Su Yue is really dead. Everything feels like yesterday, alas...”

Gradually, the two walked away.

But that faint feeling of unease in their hearts didn't dissipate; instead, it was buried deep within.

Meanwhile, no one knew yet that Su Yue was already on a plane at this moment.

This was a flight heading overseas.

He sat in a window seat and took a glass of cola from the flight attendant.

He smiled and nodded, then looked at the scenery outside the window.

This was the first time he had traveled so calmly on transportation.

“So this is what it feels like to sit in a passenger's seat.”

“However, maybe one day I'll come back for a visit.”

“Furthermore, I'm not going abroad to live in seclusion. Once overseas, without the constraints of the domestic environment, I should be able to make a big splash, right?”

“If that's the case, the identity of being presumed dead won't last too long. One day, they will eventually know that I'm not dead. At that time, the country should be very surprised, right? I wonder what they'll feel.”

“And that day doesn't seem far off.”

“But it doesn't matter. Once I'm abroad, I can let loose!”

Thinking this, Su Yue drained the cola in his glass.

Then, looking at the white clouds outside the window, he couldn't help but recall everything from yesterday.

Indeed, the forty-ninth floor of the Dihao Building was transacted and put into project under his control.

And it wasn't just that...

Ever since Su Yue followed the Special Task Force and witnessed the air injection death case, he had gained an understanding of Song Wen.

In fact, the operation plan had long been in his planning, including counter-surveillance against Ming Yu in the black market, and understanding Song Wen's personality through his psychologist.

Everything that happened at the Dihao Building was under Su Yue's control.

Song Wen had already agreed to meet at the Dihao Building, and the arrival of Interpol provided Su Yue with an even better opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

If Xiang Haitian hadn't received that call, the Municipal Bureau personnel wouldn't have gone to the Dihao Building, and the so-called hostage situation wouldn't have happened. That call from Interpol was actually made by Su Yue.

He knew that Song Wen was both cautious and crazy, always preparing an escape route for every large-scale operation.

Especially after learning from the psychologist that Song Wen's condition was worsening and that he frequently mentioned Su Yue and asked for the doctor's opinion, Su Yue became even more certain that Song Wen would go crazy and cause a major incident.

For this, Su Yue made full preparations.

The backup plans he left included the ether in the ventilation duct, the doll with makeup on the fortieth floor, and contact with the employees of Hongwen Technology Company, among others.

Of course, there was also the timing control for cutting off the electricity; all of this was within his plan.

The only one who made Su Yue feel tricky wasn't Song Wen, but Ming Yu, who was like a bodyguard.

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This person had considerable strength, was intelligent, and highly capable.

When Su Yue used voice disguise technology to imitate Song Wen's voice and asked him to open the door, he immediately became vigilant.

But Su Yue didn't just have one plan; he used a spare key to open the door and rushed into the fiftieth floor.

Although Ming Yu was skilled and experienced in many battles, Su Yue ultimately achieved victory. This was the only small variable.

Next, came the most exciting part of this 'performance'.

The two people who fell from the tall building were, of course, Ming Yu and Song Wen.

Su Yue applied makeup to Ming Yu's face and tied him to the outside of the fiftieth floor.

When Su Yue pushed Song Wen to fall, they began falling from the forty-ninth floor.

After the railing shattered, there was a slope, and Song Wen rolled down.

In those short two or three seconds, Su Yue completed the switch.

He grabbed the rope that had been prepared and fell together with Ming Yu, who also had makeup on.

At the last moment, Song Wen didn't notice at all that the Su Yue he was holding had been replaced.

Even Song Wen, at such a close distance, didn't notice this, let alone the onlookers downstairs who couldn't see clearly due to the angle?

Song Wen would testify for himself, the onlookers would testify for him, the DV camera that was deliberately kicked to change direction, and the audience across the country would all testify for him.

Even when they were falling, Su Yue was still standing on the forty-ninth floor, talking to Song Wen using a second microphone.

When Song Wen frantically questioned if Su Yue was crazy, the reason Su Yue could say something like “I originally had nothing” so calmly and composedly was because he was simply acting.

And all of this could be corroborated.

Under these circumstances, the 'death of Su Yue' was a foregone conclusion; this was a script that had long been written.

Su Yue's criminal traces had been erased, and he himself had 'ceased to exist', so naturally there were no pursuers behind him.

This was a 'gift' Su Yue gave to the entire country, and he wasn't afraid that people wouldn't accept it.

Since he had the name of a 'hero', such an end was something that everyone could accept with peace of mind.

Compared to darkness and gloom, people prefer light and positive energy.

Social existence determines social consciousness, and social consciousness reflects social existence.

In this kind of oppressive, helpless, and desperate situation, this positive energy 'chicken soup', this heroic act of sacrificing oneself, is what people hoped and wanted to see.

A hero's ending should be like this, which makes it even harder for people to doubt if there was any problem with Su Yue's death.

It's not that they couldn't doubt, but that people sincerely didn't want to doubt.

It wasn't just ordinary people who were like this; even the members of the Municipal Bureau were the same.

They were unwilling to believe that the scene they witnessed, the one that touched their hearts, was fake, so they would help themselves prove that everything was real.

This had nothing to do with incompetence; Su Yue simply exploited human psychology.

People will believe what they want to believe, and can only see what they want to see. This is a person's spontaneous self-protection measure, and also a subconscious behavior.

Su Yue gave them this 'gift', and they accepted it gladly.

Especially in this indifferent environment, when someone stands up and uses their life to tell people that this world should have light and warmth, and that people's hearts should be warm, all of this naturally seems so reasonable and fitting.

Su Yue even chose to fall at sunrise... everything that shocked people's hearts was deliberately created by Su Yue.

If not for this, who would say such a long string of words before facing death?

But no one would care about such details.

Participants wouldn't care, and listeners wouldn't care.

All of this will become the capital for people to remember the existence of Su Yue, this 'hero', in the future; they will carefully preserve it.

If someone were to say that this was Su Yue deliberately putting on a show, they would likely be thoroughly lambasted.

The saying 'Let the dead rest in peace' is universally applicable worldwide.

Even if one day Su Yue were to truly reappear before the public eye, people might even doubt that it was real, and just someone seeking fame through deception.

Su Yue drank his cola, a faint smile on his face.

Swindling the world System?

This time he swindled the entire country, wonder what kind of reward there will be?

The flight attendant's pleasant voice came over: “Hello passengers, this flight will land at New York Airport in ten hours. We hope you have a pleasant journey.”

Just then, that familiar voice sounded in Su Yue's ear: “First stage domestic fraud and escape concluded, System upgrade successful. Second stage global fraud and escape commenced, first stage rewards issued.”

Hearing the voice say, “Second stage global fraud and escape commenced, first stage rewards issued,” a trace of anticipation couldn't help but rise in Su Yue's heart.

To date, the System had granted him many practical skills, such as calculation ability and the Mind Palace. These two basic abilities allowed him to find a way out of difficult situations.

They greatly enhanced his logical and divergent thinking abilities.

Makeup skills provided the foundation for the success of his grand performance; at least in terms of self-preservation, he was unmatched.

The three skills of Dexterous Fingers, Magic Tricks, and Picking Pockets also provided him with great convenience in various actions.

“Overall physical quality increased, Strength 9.2, Speed 9.2, Intelligence 9.3, Charisma 11.2, Memory 11.” Hearing these improvements, Su Yue felt a burst of joy.

“Acquired new skill [Basic Hacker Technology], acquired new skill [Intermediate Language Proficiency].”

With the acquisition of these two new abilities, countless new pieces of knowledge flooded into Su Yue's brain.

Those techniques, codes, low-level data information, assembly language knowledge, etc., were all deeply imprinted in his brain.

Although it was only basic, this entirely new knowledge opened a new door for him.

Basic Hacker Technology brought not only programming ability but also various related hardware abilities, such as basic communication technology, electromagnetic signal physics, basic chip technology, etc., all of which were deeply engraved in his brain.

However, before he could carefully savor the knowledge brought by [Basic Hacker Technology], the second wave of knowledge infusion continued to pour in.

[Intermediate Language Proficiency] allowed him to effortlessly access various language knowledge, including speaking styles and techniques, as well as language habits of different regions.

This ability was of great significance to him, because disguise required not only disguise in demeanor and temperament, but also disguise in speaking style and word usage habits.

After possessing the skills [Voice Simulation] and [Language Proficiency], his imitation ability would also be applicable in the United States.

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