The Villain Knight Doesn't Want to Be a Hero

David scratched his head because he couldn't figure out what Lin Qiao wanted to do.

Lin Qiao clapped her hands: "Then let's assume that David, you have already joined Arasaka Company, and I am your superior, okay?"

"can."

"Very well, then—"

Snapped!

An unexpected slap hit David in the face, knocking him down on the sofa.

Although she has restrained her strength, this is not the same as before when Gloria still cared about the mother-son relationship.

"Yes? Just 'yes'? Not even basic honorifics, is that your answer, David Martinez?"

It's like he suddenly became a different person.

If Lin Qiao was just a happy young man who liked to evade taxes before, then his attitude at this moment was extremely cold.

Or inhumane.

A burning pain quickly spread across David's face.

Lin Qiao's sudden action also made everyone present stunned.

"What are you doing!?"

The first person to react was Gloria, the mother.

He glared at Lin Qiao, and if he hadn't been stopped by Dolio, he would have rushed up and fought with the former.

But even so, Dolio had to work hard to suppress her... Obviously, there was such a huge disparity between the two in terms of size and strength.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just simulating the situation David will encounter when he enters Arasaka in the future."

Lin Qiao explained casually after glancing at Gloria, then looked back at David who had stood up from the ground.

"I am your boss, and you are just a team leader with no power or background. Do you have any opinion on what I did just now?"

"No…no."

David rubbed the left side of his face where he had been hit.

hiss!

The pain made him gasp. It had only been two days since he recovered and he was already swollen again.

Although he knew that this was acting and someone named K on the opposite side had also greeted him, the problem was that there was no need to make it so real, right?

"I can't hear it. I can't hear it at all."

"No."

"You speak so quietly, have you not eaten? I can't hear you."

"no!"

"No fun, you want to enter Arasaka with such a low voice?"

"No!!!"

After shouting more than ten times, David's voice was almost hoarse. Even Lucy upstairs couldn't help but come down to see what they were doing. Only then did Lin Qiao nod with satisfaction.

Maine and Dolio couldn't help but sigh, as expected of a former high-level company official, he was a professional at torturing people.

“Very good, very spirited.”

Hearing Lin Qiao's satisfied words, David, whose throat was dry, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

only……

"But unfortunately, since you wasted too much time and disturbed Miss Lucy who was working, which seriously delayed the company's work progress, you will be punished according to the company's regulations. Do you have any objection?"

"It's not you..."

"Ok?"

"No, no...no!!!"

Under Gloria's heartbroken gaze, David stretched out his hoarse voice with all his might.

"Very good, then sit down in front of the toilet door for an hour."

"Kneeling like in Japan?"

"Yes."

"No, but this is too..."

"Do you want to do it or not? If you don't do it, I will ask you to leave immediately."

"But this is also..."

"Say it again, do it or don't do it? I don't want to hear any other answer."

"..."

David swallowed. If this was acting, it would be a bit too much.

He knew that he could terminate the simulation at any time... Having said that, under Lin Qiao's emotionless gaze, it was really difficult for him to muster the emotion of resistance.

And is it really okay to just stop like this?

"enough!"

Just when David's knees could no longer withstand the pressure, Gloria shouted and stopped this farce-like performance.

"That's enough..."

She sat weakly on the sofa, grasping her long burgundy hair with trembling hands, her head lowered so that her facial expression could not be seen clearly.

"After all, this is just a performance by you. As long as David can enter Arasaka..."

"So what if we get in? The real Arasaka will be even more cruel than this."

Lin Qiao ruthlessly shattered Gloria's last fantasy.

At the same time, she asked Lucy to get an ice pack for David, whose face was swollen again.

When the latter found out that he didn't have to continue acting, he suddenly grinned.

"Even though he graduated from Arasaka Academy, he was born into a poor family without any background, so he is destined to not be assigned any important positions... The leader of a certain working group is probably his limit."

"Don't try to use so-called excellence as an excuse. The number of people in the world who want to be dogs for Arasaka is greater than the number of real dogs."

"It's just so-called 'excellence', not even worthy of a second glance."

"The word fairness has never existed since its creation."

Not to mention that this poor kid David beat someone up at school.

People who follow the rules cannot rebel against those who enforce them.

Those who enforce the rules must obey those who control the rules.

And those who control the rules must obey those who make the rules.

Although we don’t know who that unlucky Shengnan is, no matter what, her family background must be much better than that of David, a peasant.

——The family must be extraordinary to be able to make the school change its mind and set up a scholarship to attract David back.

I guess David is really going back to Arasaka Academy. He doesn't even have to wait until graduation to work. He will be targeted enough during his school years.

……

In the end, Gloria did not object to David's decision to drop out of school...but she also disagreed with the cyberpunk thing.

After all, she deals with corpses every day, and she really doesn't want to transport her son's body one day.

"Well, thank you this time, doctor..."

David held an ice pack against his face with one hand and grumbled in his heart. He was grateful, but to be honest, that slap really hurt.

"So what about you? Have you really decided to become a cyberpunk?"

“…To be honest, I’m not sure myself…”

He lowered his head and clenched the corners of his clothes with both hands.

If he had made up his mind, he began to hesitate again when he saw his mother crying.

——But at least we have to pay off what we owe to Manyin and the others first.

"It's up to you." Lin Qiao shrugged helplessly.

"But since you have made your own decision, don't regret it, otherwise you will end up letting yourself down."

"Also, let me give you one last piece of advice. Don't think you can stop after you've completed your last order. If you have such thoughts, it's time to stop."

"I have said this to Maine as well... In short, it is not shameful to quit at the peak of your career."

"Hesitation leads to defeat."

After uttering a famous Ashina saying in a pretentious manner, the door of the clinic was closed.

Chapter 350 The Trap

It is completely different from the messy environment of street bars.

In the luxuriously decorated high-end bar, soothing symphony music is playing, and the solid wood bar counter inlaid with gold edges is polished to a shine.

The crystal chandeliers overhead refract a variety of sparkling colors, adding a touch of fantasy to the interior of the bar.

There didn't seem to be many people around - which was natural. As a high-end place open only to VIPs, only a handful of people could come here.

What's more, compared to simply drinking, people who come here often want to discuss some important matters...which cannot be said publicly.

"Ah~ It really tastes just right. I haven't had something this pure in a long time!"

In a private room of the bar, Sasha put down the bottle of wine in his hand with a happy look on his face.

It's not difficult to tell from the label above that this is a bottle of vodka.

"If you want to drink, just say something and someone will bring it back for you, right?"

Lucy next to her smacked her lips. Having been raised as a good child by Lin Qiao, she really couldn't understand what was so attractive about something so spicy.

"It's different, little Lucy. The atmosphere is different."

"Drinking alone in a room is called drinking alone, but drinking with others is called expressing emotions,"

He drank the remaining vodka in one gulp.

Sasha picked up another bottle of vodka and seemed to be planning to blow into it.

"Oh, I'm almost suffocating after being locked up underground all this time."

"That's because you're wanted by Biotech... and Ms. Sasha, you're not completely locked up, right?"

In the past few years, Sasha's daily life has been carried out in various facilities within Arasaka, and she rarely goes out.

After all, even with Arasaka's protection, it doesn't mean that Biotechnology will suffer this loss.

If I really go out for a stroll, I'm afraid someone will aim at me with a sniper rifle from a distance, and then... whoosh - boom!

Therefore, to be on the safe side, it is better to reduce appearances in public and stay out of the limelight... If I really can't hold it in any longer, I can only ask Lin Qiao to change my appearance and then change it back when I come back.

In other words, there have been some personnel changes in the biotechnology field in the past two years, and the wanted list for Sasha has dropped a lot, so this kind of confinement-like life has barely come to an end.

At least she can finally go out with her original appearance.

However, to this day, Sasha has not gotten over the fact that BioTech concealed the side effects of painkillers, which ultimately killed his mother.

She just hid this hatred in a deeper corner.

"Let's get back to business. How's the progress of the investigation by the Counterintelligence Department?"

Just when Sasha was about to give Lucy some vodka, Lin Qiao coughed lightly and brought the topic back on track.

The former put down the vodka in his hand with some regret.

"The person who commissioned the theft of navigation data is almost certainly from the military technology side, but there is no news yet on who specifically commissioned it and what the purpose is."

Sasha leaned on the sofa behind her with her legs crossed and stretched, her curvy body lines being fully highlighted.

"As for the guy you asked to focus on searching for the suspected mind control ability... unfortunately, there are still no clues until now."