Chapter 57: What Does a Boring Man Like Him Know?
Xue Yu squatted in front of Feng Qizhou, held his face in both hands, their foreheads touching, her eyes filled with tears.
“How could I bear to hit you? You gave me two such good daughters. How could I hit you?”
She hugged Feng Qizhou, her two arms wrapped around his flat, broad shoulders. “I won’t hit you, Feng Qizhou. If you really need psychological counseling, you should find someone else.”
“Just treat me like a dog, Xue Yu. You have to learn to be tough. It’s time to grow up.”
Xue Yu shook her head. “I wouldn’t even hit a real dog. I like dogs, both big and small.”
She messed up Feng Qizhou’s carefully styled hair. “Puppies are so cute. They shouldn’t be hit.”
Feng Qizhou raised his handcuffed hands and touched her face. “It’s okay. I’m not afraid of pain. This psychological counseling has to be done. If you don’t do it, you won’t be able to get out.”
“Do we have to do this?” Xue Yu’s mouth trembled. How could she bring herself to do it?
Feng Qizhou’s gaze was gentle. “We have to do this, Xue Yu. This is a necessary path to becoming a White Tower warrior. There are surveillance cameras here. You have to let the people above know that you are a real warrior.”
He knelt on the silver metal floor, his knees moving, leading Xue Yu to the tool table on the side.
There were all sorts of things: a pistol, a retractable steel baton, an electric baton, and a whip. The White Tower loved things made of metal. Even the whip was made of a highly malleable copper material.
“Let’s use the whip. It’s more flavorful,” Feng Qizhou suggested.
Xue Yu picked up the copper whip and weighed it in her hand. “Do we have to do it this way?”
Feng Qizhou’s face was full of certainty. “Yes.” He leaned forward and placed a gentle kiss on the cold, gleaming copper whip.
Xue Yu was hesitant. “Can we not use a tool? Can we just use our hands?”
“Why not use a tool? If you use your hands, your hands will hurt too,” Feng Qizhou said, feigning concern.
Xue Yu put down the copper whip and shook her head firmly. “Let’s just use our hands. This way, my hands will hurt too, and I can pay attention to the force.”
Feng Qizhou’s clear, dark eyes darted around. “Alright then. As you wish.”
Xue Yu wiped away a tear and threw two punches at Feng Qizhou. “Is this okay?”
Feng Qizhou was caught off guard by the two punches. He coughed twice, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down. “This is not venting. The emotional value is not enough. You have to treat me as your outlet. Do you understand venting? You have to let the people on the other end of the surveillance see your emotions.”
“My apologies,” Xue Yu gritted her teeth, tears streaming down her face, and her fists rained down.
Feng Qizhou rolled on the ground. He had miscalculated. He had underestimated Xue Yu’s combat power.
After the little ancestor had awakened her spirit body, she had also gained a lot of combat experience. In addition, he had fed her so much milk, and the essence of feeding milk was to transmit spiritual power.
He had transmitted a lot of his spiritual power to Xue Yu.
He had also given birth to two children in a row, was busy with work on a daily basis, and had to perform surgery almost every day. He had no time to recuperate, and his physical fitness had declined a lot.
Xue Yu’s fists, coming from all directions, were too much for him to resist.
Feng Qizhou hunched his back and moved to the side. “Alright, alright! Stop hitting! That’s enough, Xue Yu!”
“Is it really okay? My emotions don’t seem to be there yet,” Xue Yu didn’t hold back, her fists falling with the wind.
Feng Qizhou raised his hand to block. “That’s about it. It’s okay.”
Xue Yu leaned over to look at him closely and found that Feng Qizhou was secretly laughing, coughing and laughing at the same time.
“So you’re playing with me again! Did you get a kick out of being beaten?” Xue Yu held his hands and grabbed his collar to make him sit up.
Feng Qizhou was out of breath from laughing. He broke free from the handcuffs and licked the corner of his bleeding mouth. “I just wanted to test your feelings for me. I didn’t expect you to be so ruthless, you little heartless thing.”
Xue Yu was furious and gave him two more punches. “You deserve it. You knew I couldn’t stand the test, and you still tested me like this.”
Feng Qizhou was amused by her and dragged the white lab coat that had been thrown on the ground, looking for the psychological counseling record card in the pocket.
“Alright, I was just teasing you. But the psychological counseling is real. This has to be done.”
Feng Qizhou explained it to Xue Yu.
Only then did Xue Yu know that she had secretly let that group of miners go, but this matter had been suppressed by Yan Wantang’s clever writing.
Yan Wantang had changed the process of this mission to: Xue Yu had killed so many “ant-men” at once, which caused her to have a psychological breakdown and twist, and then she had also killed her teammate, Squid Man.
In this way, Xue Yu had barely completed the mission.
The White Tower had always had this kind of “population cleaning” mission, but it could not be brought to the surface, in case it angered the commoners and caused a criminal mentality.
For the soldiers who carried out the mission, the White Tower did not intend to cultivate a killing machine.
Every time a soldier took on this kind of killing mission, the White Tower would arrange a psychological counseling session to reduce the soldier’s guilt and also to eliminate the soldier’s brutality.
This was to prevent these soldiers from going to extremes after carrying out the killing.
This kind of extreme, whether it was suicide or revenge on society, was not what the White Tower wanted to see.
The method of psychological counseling was not like what Feng Qizhou had just teased Xue Yu with.
The real psychological counseling was much simpler and cruder, directly using electric shocks. Electric currents were used to stimulate the cerebral cortex, to alleviate the mental tension brought by the killing, and to fade the memory of the killing scene.
“Alright, alright. I wasn’t just playing with you just now.”
Feng Qizhou pulled Xue Yu up, stood behind her, and pushed her shoulders towards the electric chair. “I have to personally perform the electroshock therapy on you. It will hurt a little.”
He placed Xue Yu in the electric chair, squatted in front of her, and rubbed her knees, looking up at her pitifully. “Alright, alright. You hit me just now. When I give you an electric shock later, don’t blame me, okay?”
Xue Yu’s teeth itched. She really wanted to slap him. “What a cunning fox.”
“It’s not very painful. I’ve had this kind of electric shock before. It’s very comfortable,” Feng Qizhou pulled up the leather straps on the armrests and buckled Xue Yu’s hands.
“So comfortable? Why don’t you let me shock you?”
Feng Qizhou kissed her on the face. “It’s very simple to get revenge on me. I’m a slut. As long as you touch me, I’ll have desires. As soon as my desires come up, the chip in my body will naturally burst out with an electric current.”
“You’re so cheap, my scalp is tingling,” Xue Yu gritted her teeth and moved her wrists. They were buckled very tightly.
“Do we really have to do this? Don’t you be tricking me again,” Xue Yu was a little nervous. “Feng Qizhou, I’m seriously warning you. If you’re playing with me again, I will really beat you to death.”
“I’m serious this time. Let’s get this over with quickly.”
Feng Qizhou put a strap on Xue Yu’s head, and several electrodes were attached to her arms, forehead, and shoulders.
“I’ve set the current to the lowest level. Just hold on. We have to at least get an electric shock record to fool the people from the Affairs Department.”
“It’s not going to kill me, is it?” Xue Yu’s palms were sweating.
“It won’t. Trust me.”
Feng Qizhou turned on the monitoring equipment on the side. The screen of the equipment showed Xue Yu’s EEG, ECG, EMG, blood oxygen saturation, and other data.
“Get ready. The current will last for one second, a total of three times,” Feng Qizhou touched her hand. “I’ll count down from three. When I count to one, I’ll press the switch. Get ready.”
Xue Yu took a deep breath. “Alright, come on.”
“Three…” Feng Qizhou shouted the first number and pressed the switch.
Xue Yu was caught off guard and was electrocuted. It felt strange. The pain was not very strong, like being pricked by a needle quickly. Her whole body’s muscles contracted in an instant. It was a little painful, but still within her tolerance range.
The pain was tolerable, but after the electric shock, a different kind of anger welled up from the bottom of her heart, which Xue Yu could not control.
She was so angry that the veins on her forehead bulged. Her wrists, which were fixed to the armrests, struggled wildly. Resentment and anger erupted like a geyser.
Feng Qizhou became the outlet for her emotions.
“Feng Qizhou, I’m going to beat you to death!” She really regretted it. She had been too merciful just now. She should have beaten Feng Qizhou to death.
Feng Qizhou observed the data on the monitoring equipment. “Yes, not bad. Everything is normal. Anger is right.”
Before Xue Yu could recover, he pressed the switch again and gave her another electric shock.
“Feng Qizhou, when I get out, I’m going to pull out your prostate!” Xue Yu was hysterical.
The corner of Feng Qizhou’s mouth twitched into a smile. “My little Xue Yu is getting wilder and wilder. I like it.”
He rubbed Xue Yu’s arm and said softly, “Just one more time. It will be over soon.”
The last electric shock was very gentle. Xue Yu suddenly felt the world become calm. All the hatred and resentment were gone. The raging anger in her liver was extinguished, as if she had entered a sage-like state. All her depression and anger were instantly disintegrated.
Xue Yu sincerely felt that this electric shock psychological counseling was actually quite useful.
“So, if you can’t adjust, you can hit me again to vent your anger,” Feng Qizhou raised an eyebrow ambiguously. “I’ll let you play with me.”
Xue Yu’s mind was at peace, and her whole body felt light. “I don’t want to reward you. Hurry up and untie me.”
Feng Qizhou removed all the wires and straps from her body and propped himself up on the armrests of the electric chair to look at her. “Want a couple of sips of milk to refresh yourself?”
“No,” Xue Yu stood up. “Don’t come to me with these strange things anymore.”
Feng Qizhou shrugged. “So righteous.”
After receiving this electric shock psychological counseling, Xue Yu still had to stay in the detention room of the Affairs Department for seven days before she could get out.
Sitting on the single bed in the detention room, Xue Yu was calm, thinking about her future and also about the operating model of the White Tower.
When Wenying came to clean, Xue Yu talked to her again.
She came to a conclusion: all people born in the White Tower would have a very strong psychological dependence on the White Tower. This dependence was mainly on the work and nurturing model.
The White Tower nurtured everyone, letting everyone live in an ivory tower without disease or crime.
And everyone needed to work constantly to give back to the White Tower.
This model was far beyond the ordinary working model. It was not a simple relationship of getting a salary for going to work.
It was more like the relationship between a mother and a child. The child was dependent on the White Tower, this mother, and the main link of this dependence was work.
The White Tower did not allow anyone to not work.
And the people in the White Tower could not accept not having a job.
The White Tower and the people of the White Tower were tightly bound together by work.
The main reason why the higher-ups of the White Tower wanted to kill and drive away some people was also that there were not enough jobs.
After analyzing this key point, a light bulb went on in Xue Yu’s head. She asked Wenying, “Sister Wenying, if I offer you a job with food and lodging, and a salary a little higher than what you get as a cleaner here, are you willing to go out and work?”
Hearing that there was a job, Wenying was a little shaken. “What kind of job? Is it a job from the White Tower?”
Xue Yu used the White Tower as a cover and said, “It’s a dispatched business trip from the White Tower, to go out and build an island. Are you willing?”
“That’s fine!” Wenying’s face was not so heavy anymore.
***
After Wenying left, Xue Yu thought for a long time in the detention room. She had a great idea!
According to the current trend, the White Tower was going to reduce its population, so it would definitely launch this kind of mission-based killing operation many times.
Wenying was lucky to be saved by Xue Yu this time. It just so happened that Yan Wantang had a position available, so Wenying was able to return to the White Tower to continue working.
But besides Wenying, those “ant-men” who were wandering outside would most likely not be able to adapt to a life without work and would commit suicide, or would rack their brains to return to the White Tower.
When these people returned to the White Tower, they would continue to cause the population burden of the White Tower to increase. To alleviate the population pressure, the White Tower would increase its killing and reduction operations.
This would be a vicious cycle.
Xue Yu thought of a win-win idea.
She could actively accept this kind of killing and reduction mission and secretly transport these people out. She would transport them to the island she had discovered and have them work for her to build the island.
This would not only solve the problem of these people going to extremes because they had no work, but her plan to build an island would also have a foundation.
Of course, to form a work model, she had to pay wages.
There were paper and pens in the detention room. Xue Yu kept calculating with the paper and pens.
The reward for carrying out this kind of killing mission was very high. After she completed the “killing” mission, she could get a large sum of money.
At the same time, she could also take on the job of cleaning up the bodies. The reward for cleaning up the bodies was also very generous.
After careful calculation, the mission reward and the reward for cleaning up the bodies could completely cover the workers’ wages and basic living expenses!
In this way, she would not only have workers to build the island, but also money to pay them.
And she only needed to prepare a boat to transport the workers she had saved from the moat of the White Tower to that deserted island.
Then she could both save people and start the work of building the island.
After sorting out all this logic, Xue Yu was so excited she could barely contain herself, eager to get started.
She didn’t have to worry that the White Tower would hunt down the workers she had saved. The killing mission of the White Tower was to reduce the population. As long as these workers left the White Tower, the White Tower would not go to great lengths to eliminate them.
***
Seven days passed, and Xue Yu was finally able to leave the detention room.
Yan Wantang said to her, “Hurry up and get yourself together, and then accept a mission, you hear?”
Xue Yu gave her a military salute with great excitement. “Yes, sir! I will not disappoint you!”
“Are you not having any psychological problems?” Yan Wantang raised her hand and waved it in front of Xue Yu. “Not perverted?”
Xue Yu: “Sir, no. I was indeed a little depressed before. But after Dr. Feng treated me, my emotions are very stable now.”
“That’s good.”
Yan Wantang took Xue Yu to the office and settled the bonus for this mission of eliminating the ant-men.
“I believe you already know the inside story of the ant-men. We won’t hide these things from you.”
“But, Xue Yu, you have to know that all of this is for the future of the White Tower. We have tried to drive away many people, but everyone is unwilling to leave the White Tower. We have no other choice.”
Xue Yu was very calm, full of energy:
“Sir, I understand everything. I will also work hard for the future of the White Tower! I will actively accept missions, kill more people, and reduce the burden on the White Tower.”
Yan Wantang frowned at her words. “No, no, Xue Yu, you’ve got it wrong. We are not encouraging you to be a killing machine. We still hope that after you accept these missions, you can still maintain a normal mindset.”
“Yes, sir! I understand!”
Yan Wantang waved her hand and went out. “Alright, you go back and take good care of your body and mind. The next mission is to kill the mantis-men. Get ready.”
“Okay, sir!”
This time, Xue Yu had secretly let the ant-men go. The Affairs Department did not need to send cleaners to clean up the bodies, so the reward for cleaning up the bodies was left on the books.
Yan Wantang simply gave Xue Yu both the reward for cleaning up the bodies and the bonus for this mission.
On the mission expense details, she wrote: Xue Yu not only completed the mission of killing all the ant-men, but also cleaned up the bodies.
She received a total of 80,000 New Dollars, and it was in cash. Xue Yu left the Affairs Department with a bag of money.
It was already dark. She decided to sneak to Feng Qizhou’s apartment.
After she was arrested and brought back, she had been locked in the detention room and hadn’t had a chance to see the children.
Because Zhou Siyan had gone on a field mission to arrest Xue Yu, he now had a pile of work in his office and was so busy he couldn’t even touch the ground. He had no choice but to send Xue Xiaohai to Feng Qizhou’s place.
Xue Yu went to Feng Qizhou’s apartment with a bag of money.
It had only been a month, but the three children had grown at an astonishing rate.
The sisters Xiaobei and Xiaonan could crawl everywhere, and Xue Xiaohai was also showing signs of being able to stand up and walk.
On the foam mat in the living room, the three children were sitting in a row. Feng Qizhou was holding a bowl and feeding them. The children could already eat solid food.
The porridge, cooked with meat and vegetables, smelled quite fragrant.
Feng Qizhou sat in front of them, feeding Xue Xiaohai a mouthful, then Xue Xiaobei a mouthful, and then Xue Xiaonan a mouthful.
Xue Xiaohai was the most enthusiastic eater. The sisters Xiaobei and Xiaonan were much slower.
Adults always liked children who ate enthusiastically. Even though Xue Xiaohai was not his own, Feng Qizhou was completely won over by this big fatty’s attitude towards eating.
“Come on, big fatty, open your mouth,” he scooped up a spoonful of porridge, blew on it to cool it down, and brought it to Xue Xiaohai’s mouth.
Xue Xiaohai immediately opened her mouth and ate, chewing and swallowing it. She even happily opened her mouth to show Feng Qizhou, proving that she had finished it all and was ready for the next spoonful.
“What a glutton. Just like your old mom. So good,” Feng Qizhou smiled, his eyes squinting. He touched her chubby face. “Xiaohai is so amazing.”
He then fed Xue Xiaobei. “Come on, big baby, it’s your turn to eat. Look at that glutton. She eats so happily.”
Xue Xiaobei ate the porridge but didn’t like the taste, chewing half and spitting out half.
Xue Xiaohai crawled over to look, her mouth watering.
Feng Qizhou fed Xue Xiaohai another spoonful. “Come on, big baby, second baby. Look at how this super glutton eats. Let’s learn from her, okay? She eats so deliciously.”
Xiaobei and Xiaonan’s identical faces turned over like a copy-paste, staring at Xue Xiaohai eating porridge.
They couldn’t talk yet, but the emotions in their eyes were very strong, full of amazement and admiration: She can eat so much.
After Xue Xiaohai finished a mouthful of porridge, she raised her little fist. Her spirit body, the little seahorse, was also circling beside her, cheering for its little master.
Xiaobei and Xiaonan were motivated by Xue Xiaohai and also started to eat enthusiastically.
Xue Yu watched at the door for a long time before walking in. “Babies, Mommy is back!”
The children stopped eating and rushed to crawl towards Xue Yu. Even the sisters Xiaobei and Xiaonan could talk and kept calling for their mother.
Xue Yu put down the canvas bag full of money, took off her jacket, and then rushed to the children, squatting down and hugging all three of them, kissing each of them. “You are all Mommy’s good babies. So cute.”
Even though the children couldn’t understand, Feng Qizhou was very happy to talk to them. “Your old mom is quite something this time. She’s become a wanted criminal.”
Xue Yu looked at Feng Qizhou. “I’ve been standing at the door for so long, and you didn’t even notice. You’re so careless. What if someone else had broken in?”
Feng Qizhou: “How could I not have noticed you came? I didn’t say anything just to let you see that I can take good care of the children, much better than that Zhou.”
“Alright, your dad is being put down again,” Xue Yu touched Xue Xiaohai’s face.
Xue Xiaohai reached out to grab the empty bowl in Feng Qizhou’s hand. Her strength was very great. Feng Qizhou was not paying attention, and the bowl was snatched by her.
She held the bowl up high in front of Xue Yu. “Mommy, eat! It’s delicious…”
Xue Yu took the bowl and pretended to take a few bites. “Wow, it’s so delicious! Thank you, Xiaohai!”
Xue Xiaohai grinned, burrowed into Xue Yu’s arms, and licked the remaining porridge on her hands.
Xiaobei and Xiaonan usually spent less time with Xue Yu, especially Xue Xiaonan. At this moment, she didn’t want to leave Xue Yu at all. She held onto Xue Yu’s arm tightly.
When Xue Yu moved, her head would follow her, her gaze glued to Xue Yu’s face.
After looking at Xue Yu, the two sisters looked at each other. They seemed to have their own way of communicating.
It was as if they were saying, This is Mommy. It’s really Mommy.
The two round, plump, watery jellyfish were lying on their heads, like a funny hat.
Xue Yu held the children, her heart filled with softness.
Feng Qizhou took a wet wipe and wiped each of the children’s hands, saying, “I never realized before that I like children so much. When Xiaobei and Xiaonan smile, I feel that everything is worth it.”
“As long as it’s worth it.”
Xue Yu, while holding the children, pointed to the canvas bag she had brought with her chin and said mysteriously, “Guess what I brought? Something that will make you very happy.”
Seeing Xue Yu’s beaming face, Feng Qizhou dragged the bag over. “Something that will make me happy? A lactation-inducing drug?”
Xue Yu frowned. “Don’t be so kinky. I’m scared.”
Feng Qizhou opened the canvas bag and found that it was full of money. “Where did this come from?”
“Yan Wantang settled the bill for me. The reward for the mission of eliminating the ant-men and the reward for cleaning up the ant-men’s bodies were all given to me.”
Then, Xue Yu told Feng Qizhou about her plan to build an island.
Feng Qizhou sorted out the logic and summarized:
“You’re planning on accepting a killing mission, saving these people, then transporting them to the island to be workers, and then using the reward from the White Tower to pay the workers’ wages?”
Xue Yu nodded vigorously. “Yes! This way, I not only have workers, but also money to pay them, and I’ve also saved their lives. It’s a win-win-win.”
She continued, “If I don’t accept this mission, then the mission will be assigned to other mercenaries. In that case, those people won’t even have a chance to live.”
Feng Qizhou did not quite agree with Xue Yu’s plan to build a safe zone. But he was very impressed by her trick of taking advantage of the White Tower.
“An honest person has a lot of tricks up their sleeve. I never would have thought of this.”
Xue Yu said, “Can you get me some medicine? I’m afraid those people will get sick after they get to the island.”
Feng Qizhou: “You don’t have to worry too much about that. Even the ordinary people in the White Tower have a very strong constitution. Wenying said she got a fever as soon as she went out to wander. It’s mostly psychological.”
The children were all asleep. Zhou Siyan was finally done with his work and came to Feng Qizhou’s apartment.
Feng Qizhou had been beaten quite badly by Xue Yu a few days ago, and there were still some bruises on his body. At this moment, he took off his clothes and let Xue Yu apply medicine for him.
When Zhou Siyan came in, he saw this scene and asked, “Are you injured?”
Feng Qizhou pulled up his open shirt to cover his body. “Xue Yu did it. This person is always so rough.”
“Xue Yu hit you?” Zhou Siyan was suspicious.
Feng Qizhou’s smile was meaningful. “It wasn’t a hit. We were just fooling around and accidentally went too far.”
“You really know how to play,” Zhou Siyan walked to the side bedroom as if he were familiar with the place to see Xue Xiaohai.
Xue Yu scratched her head and looked in the direction of the side bedroom. “Did he misunderstand?”
Feng Qizhou was nonchalant, his tone high and mighty. “Don’t mind him. What does a boring man like him know? He doesn’t understand romance. I feel sorry for you for having been with him for so long.”
“It wasn’t that bad…” Xue Yu pretended to be foolish.
“So, after tasting a delicacy like me, how can you bring yourself to eat plain water like him?” Feng Qizhou asked seriously, very disdainful of Xue Yu’s taste.
Xue Yu smiled but did not speak. “Hehe.”