Quick Travel: Card Destroyer

Chapter 364: Same Heart, Different Paths (Thirty-Five)

A communication request from the mother appeared on the light computer.

Ji Liangqi subconsciously wanted to refuse, but his peripheral vision suddenly caught the corresponding number, and his action of reaching out to hang up paused.

It is the mother's private number, and the most private of all private numbers. Only she and her mother know it and it has never been leaked.

connected.

A face older than himself appeared on the screen.

The mayor showed a rare hint of surprise when he found that his communication request was connected. He then regained his composure the next second and greeted, "Long time no see. How have you been recently? The temperature has been fluctuating over the past two weeks. Be careful of the temperature difference and don't catch a cold."

The expression and tone were so distant, as if he was greeting a friend he hadn't seen for a long time, rather than a descendant who shared half of his genes.

"I'm living a good life." Facing his biological mother, Ji Liangqi didn't know what topic to bring up and could only respond in a bland manner.

"Is the office busy? No matter how busy you are, remember to take a break and don't overwork yourself."

"The commissions are a bit too much, but someone will help me handle some of them, so it's okay."

Hearing this, the mayor smiled and said, "It seems that our little genius has finally found the helper he wants."

"Not a helper," he blurted out in rebuttal, "but a probationary employee."

Not until he finished the whole sentence did Ji Liangqi realize that he seemed to have said too much, because the smile on his mother's face instantly disappeared, turning into the serious expression often seen in the news.

An ominous premonition arises spontaneously.

Ji Liangqi didn't want his premonition to come true, and whispered, "You said this is just a private number and you won't use it to discuss business..."

The mother's words broke the last glimmer of hope: "But this is also the only safe number."

Sure enough.

Ji Liangqi felt annoyed.

But she didn't want to hang up the phone right away.

Times have changed. She is no longer at the age where she would get angry with her mother over trivial matters. Moreover, according to her mother's style, unless something important happened, she would never talk about the most private life between mother and daughter.

"...Tell me, what's going on." She adjusted her sitting position slightly and put away her scattered thoughts.

Hearing this, the mayor looked relieved as if he had received permission: "I need you to retrieve the 'Nun' card."

"Oh, that's it," Ji Liangqi breathed a sigh of relief, "That's what I was planning too."

It was no big deal to simply ask her to do something she was planning to do anyway, and since the request came from the mayor, it usually came with some support.

But this time, the mayor remained silent for a long time and did not offer any price.

what happened?

Ji Liangqi looked at the light curtain in confusion.

Her mother was also looking at her, with a complicated expression, which seemed to be one of expectation, but also contained a bit of struggle, and it changed for a long time before settling on determination.

"Just do it," the elderly woman sighed and said, "As your biological mother and the current mayor of Card City, I will try my best to delay it for you for a while."

No, that's not right!

After so many years, Ji Liangqi felt unwilling again and asked, "You asked me for help, but in the end, I got nothing but 'Just do it'?"

"Isn't that the best offer?" the mayor asked with a smile, "I told you to go for it because I wanted to tell you that I can give you everything this time."

"Even if I want the seat where you are sitting?" Ji Liangqi smiled sarcastically and raised his eyebrows.

The mayor was stunned for a moment, then he immediately put on his old fox-like smile: "Want to be my successor? Well... Although the city's rules explicitly prohibit direct relatives from becoming the next mayor, as long as I want, there is always a way."

"what?"

This time, Ji Liangqi couldn't do anything about it.

She just mentioned it casually, but she didn't expect the other party to take it seriously.

It's just recycling a model of cards...that's all, right?

Looking at the call interface projected by the optical computer again, she saw that her mother's expression was more serious than ever before.

"Kid, you should have discovered it, right?" The mayor said helplessly, "The 'Nun' you made that year has been destroyed by you yourself, and only a copy of the data is left in the Card Design Association."

Ji Liangqi nodded.

The mayor continued, "In fact, after your college uploaded the data privately, I specially asked someone to encrypt it for you. It is impossible for ordinary people to open the file, let alone take away the entire set of data and copy it. And it was not until the day of the Flame Bird riot that I learned about the existence of the Sisters. Logically speaking, they should have violated the city's association and parade regulations, but they did not violate the regulations, and all their actions were approved."

"Approval does not require the mayor's signature." Ji Liangqi understood. "So you want to say that someone is deliberately using me to go against you?"

"It's against the entire city," the mayor corrected, "and even more so, against the blueprint of the city."

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The air was silent.

Ji Liangqi opened his eyes wide and was speechless for a long time.

"...You said, blueprint?" It took her a long time to find her voice, her whole body trembling.

Seeing the drastic change in Ji Liangqi's expression across the screen, the mayor realized that she seemed to have said something wrong, but she couldn't figure out the reason for a while.

A trembling voice came into my ears through the "Exclusive Audio": "You can slow down, you can stop, but... you can't go against the blueprint... This is not allowed, absolutely not allowed..."

"Ji Liangqi!" The roar from her mother was like a thunder, forcibly pulling her back to reality, "Adjust your attitude!"

Ji Liangqi looked forward in shock, and what came into his sight was his mother, who was also the mayor of the Card City.

Rather than devastation.

It is not the endless red soil with rootless plants growing on it.

When she was a child, her mother once talked to her with a smile about the "blueprint", but logically speaking, the "blueprint" was not something that anyone other than the mayor should get involved in, and she just thought her mother was telling a fairy tale.

"I understand." She took a few deep breaths, forced herself to calm down, and hung up the phone.

——Back to the present, Ji Liangqi is leaning on his war hammer, staring coldly at the two people quarreling in front of him.

A few minutes ago, they were polite and good friends, but they started an endless quarrel just because they couldn't make sense of a sentence. The topic quickly deviated from the ambiguity of the sentence itself to their respective positions, and even deviated to attacking each other's personality.

Ji Liangxi has seen too many quarrels like this since she joined the nunnery alone.

Not long ago, just after she received the commission from the mayor's mother, she welcomed a special guest who invited her to work as a card repairman in the nunnery as soon as they met.

When it comes to familiarity with Nun cards, no one can compare to the designer himself except Fu Cangzhao.

Faced with the invitation from the nuns, Ji Liangqi first acted embarrassed and repeatedly emphasized that she had destroyed the cards and deleted all the information that could be deleted. Moreover, after so many years, she herself could not guarantee how much she could still remember.

At this time, the other party, as expected, began to preach some empty principles to her, using the city's position as a threat, and threatened, "If you are unwilling to support the nuns, I will discredit you."

In response, Ji Liangqi just smiled and said slowly: "Who do you think you are talking to?"