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Chapter 246: Chapter 246 The Real Her
Long Yueze paused when he heard this.
Had she really lost her memory? ...Had Cao Qi succeeded? No, perhaps it wasn’t quite a success. If she didn’t recognize herself, why would she kill Cao Qi?
The nodes in her memory had become confused and incorrect!
Long Yueze calmly responded, "You were injured, and we were brought here together...Killing him might cause us trouble."
Han Jiaojiao didn’t reply. She stood up expressionlessly and casually swung her arms a few times before she looked around to check the room’s environment.
She didn’t show a hint of panic, poised and composed like a well-trained soldier, her gaze cold and profound.
Long Yueze observed her silently. He felt that there was something off about Han Jiaojiao—her gaze, demeanor, and actions seemed completely changed. It was almost as if she had suddenly become a different person... If he hadn’t been watching her all along, he might have suspected that she was replaced by someone else.
Han Jiaojiao glanced at him inexplicably and said coldly, "Why are you looking at me? Search his body for keys or something. Isn’t the door locked from the outside?"
Long Yueze suddenly realized—she believed him! So, was she now thinking of a way to get out?
Not wanting to arouse her suspicion, Long Yueze crouched down and pretended to search Cao Qi’s body.
Cao Qi had his neck snapped by Han Jiaojiao, and his body still retained a warm afterglow.
Long Yueze inwardly marveled at her crisp and efficient way of killing. He silently searched through Cao Qi’s clothes, his mind already quickly thinking, trying to concoct a story that would make Han Jiaojiao believe him to thus...gain her trust.
But soon, he stopped moving because there was a hard object at his carotid artery.
Han Jiaojiao was holding a pen against Long Yueze’s neck, while with her other hand, she took the gun from his waist.
"When I killed him earlier, I found this ballpoint pen in his pocket. It’s a bit flimsy, but... plunging it in shouldn’t be too hard," she said, her voice calm and harsh, her tone as steady as a flatline.
Long Yueze didn’t move.
Han Jiaojiao felt strangely odd to him...
He was now uncertain—was Han Jiaojiao pretending to have amnesia, or...had she truly lost her memory?
If she were pretending to forget, he naturally had many ways to deal with her.
However, if she truly had forgotten, Long Yueze had other plans... He didn’t want to conflict with her, because he needed this opportunity to gain Han Jiaojiao’s trust.
He wanted to seize this chance to become her "ally," so that, whether it was to acquire her Space-Time Beast or her as a person, it would all be much easier.
"Jiaojiao, what’s wrong with you? ...We are teammates, not enemies," Long Yueze said, feigning panic.
"Huh..." Han Jiaojiao chuckled softly, "Teammates? Aren’t you over thirty? Don’t you know that the Beicheng Special Training Team only recruits young people under the age of twenty-eight? Besides, I’ve already retired from the team. Even if you lie, it should be more believable."
Hearing her say this, Long Yueze was not panicked but instead relieved. He was also somewhat puzzled and confused—she really didn’t remember anything! But why were there errors in her memory? Beicheng Special Training Team? She didn’t remember the Space-Time Base but remembered Beicheng Base? ...and from her tone, she seemed to have stayed in Beicheng Base’s Special Training Team?
He had clearly instructed Cao Qi to erase some of her memories, not to implant false ones.
Long Yueze tentatively said, "...Jiaojiao, what are you talking about? I don’t understand. We are members of the Chujiang Base’s ability team. What...what is this Special Training Team? Beicheng? Jiaojiao, are you alright? Put the pen down, let me check your body, okay?"
Han Jiaojiao laughed, "The more you talk, the more ridiculous it gets. Am I a member of the Chujiang ability team? Huh... how come you don’t even know I don’t have any superpowers?"
She slightly moved the ballpoint pen in her hand away, not to spare Long Yueze but to gather strength, preparing to stab!
Long Yueze hurriedly said, "Jiaojiao! How could you forget that you have an ability? Did they inject you with something that affects your memory? ... It’s my fault, I should have come to rescue you sooner!"
The movement in Han Jiaojiao’s hand paused slightly, with a moment of hesitation.
"Jiaojiao, do you really not remember? We came out on a mission together, you were kidnapped by these people, I tried to rescue you but got caught myself—" Long Yueze spoke very quickly, "I know you won’t believe anything I say right now. Jiaojiao, whether you have an ability or not, you can test it! You have a special Water Ability, capable of decomposing the water in human bodies. If you don’t believe it, you can try it on this corpse!"
The ballpoint pen in Han Jiaojiao’s hand was still pressed against Long Yueze’s neck, but her gaze had shifted to Cao Qi.
Long Yueze was clearly untrustworthy, but the matter with the ability was too easy to prove, so why tell such a pointless lie?
The ability, huh...
Han Jiaojiao covertly sensed it seemed there indeed was a different feeling in her body after awakening.
Could it be that this man’s words were true?
How could that be?
Chujiang Base was far to the south, a place she had never visited! Moreover, she was clearly on the verge of suicide... She had tied up Qin Nanyi, left him near the den of the Alien Species, felt that her great revenge was accomplished without regret, and then went to the place where her brother died, planning to end her life...
Damn it! Where was Pepper? Xiaogua and Xiaodou were also not by her side!
All of this was too strange!
— Because Han Jiaojiao had just awakened and Cao Qi had erased her memory with his Psychic Ability, she was still somewhat confused. Her confrontation with Cao Qi and Long Yueze was purely out of a survival instinct; in fact, she was completely confused about the current situation.
The only person who could be asked was this man in front of her, yet she dared not trust him.
Ever since her brother died, she dared not trust anyone.
Han Jiaojiao stared unblinkingly at Long Yueze, her emotions gradually clearing.
"You say, both you and I are from Chujiang Base’s ability team?"
Long Yueze, "Of course, my name is He Jiang, the captain of the ability team, and your name is Han Jiaojiao, my subordinate. We came out this time because several bases were cooperating to jointly exterminate an Alien Species den. On the way back, we encountered a blizzard, many team members were separated, and then these people took the chance to capture you..."
"... A blizzard?" Han Jiaojiao’s heart sank. The Ice Age was already over in her memory, so why were there still blizzards?
Could it be that the climate had changed again?
Han Jiaojiao fell silent for a moment; Long Yueze tried to lift his hand, intending to push the threatening pen away from his neck, but the pen suddenly pressed harder, stabbing further in!
Bright red droplets of blood emerged one by one from the pierced skin, Long Yueze dared not make any further reckless moves.
"Jiaojiao, you... you might be overly tense, calm down, calm down... I’m your friend, trust me..."
"What is your ability?" Han Jiaojiao narrowed her eyes slightly and asked, "Since we are both in the ability team, you should also have an ability. How could you be captured so easily?"
Long Yueze steadied himself and explained, "I am a Transformation System Superpower User, capable of simulating and transforming without any offensive power."
He paused for a moment, then added, "The reason you saw me with him earlier was a misunderstanding. I can take on anyone’s appearance and had disguised myself as his subordinate to blend in."
