Gloomy CEO X Holographic Male God (14): Son of the World: I think I can still survive

At this moment, Zhou Qi, who was forcibly grabbed, neither had a romantic night nor received the thousand gold.

He had no idea where these strong and tall guys had come from. According to the information provided by the Chu family, the security guards couldn’t possibly pass by that area at this time. Little did he know, just as he stepped into the information room, an ear-piercing alarm that seemed capable of waking people from ten miles away suddenly blared, startling him so much that he jumped three feet in the air, almost crashing headfirst into the glass door.

He was just thinking about finding a place to hide and see what was going on when suddenly, a furious shout that could scare anyone’s liver and guts out rang out from behind him. A group of people rushed over in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, he saw nothing clearly, only a whirlwind of red light. His body was flipped over by someone, his arm was forcefully pulled up and then twisted down, a sharp pain erupted at the shoulder joint.He let out a cry of agony, repeatedly begging for mercy, but received no compassion in return, only a barrage of relentless questions.

“Who are you?”

“Who sent you here?”

“Don’t move!”

Zhou Qi, an ordinary game streamer, had never experienced anything like this before.The fierce aura emanating from the few people around him left him stunned, and he could only reflexively say “misunderstanding,” “what are you doing,” and “let me go!” before being roughly shoved into a military vehicle. The wailing sirens escorted him into an interrogation room filled with a chilling atmosphere, making him tremble in fear.

The man across the table, with a cold and sinister expression, slammed the ID card onto the iron table and angrily shouted, “What is the meaning of this thing!”

“I, this…”

“The information inside is Si Qi’s. What do you want to do by copying Si Qi’s ID card to open the information room?!”

“No! It’s all a misunderstanding! I just, I just…”

“Staying in the company late at night to avoid surveillance was a misunderstanding, and secretly copying a colleague’s ID card to sneak into the information room was also a misunderstanding!” The person opposite glared angrily and questioned, “Aren’t you going to come clean?”

“I… I…” Zhou Qi, sweating profusely, eyes darting around, racked his brains trying to argue.

Everything in front of him caught him off guard, leaving him completely unprepared and utterly confused about what was happening.How did he end up “taking something” at the company and even attracting the attention of the authorities… he had really hit rock bottom!

“Why did you use Si Qi’s ID card? Are you trying to frame Si Qi?” The person on the other side had a terrifying look in their eyes: “Where did you hear about this? The response time is so quick, just a few hours, hmm? Speak! Were you sent here by foreign forces?!!”

Zhou Qi was stunned when he heard the words “foreign forces.” He shook his head desperately, almost crying out of frustration: “No, no, no, I didn’t! How could this be related to foreign forces? I just, I just…”

Facing the cold and ruthless gazes from the people opposite him, the last bit of hope in Zhou Qi’s heart was completely extinguished. With a voice choked with despair, he frantically said, “I was just jealous of Si Qi, wanted to make him fall into misfortune, so I framed him…”

“I saw him go to the top floor, his ID card must have very high access privileges, maybe he could open the door to the information room…”

“I really have no connection with foreign forces, you have to believe me!!”

The people across the table had very grim expressions. One of them slammed his palm on the table, making a loud bang, and sternly shouted, “Still trying to argue! You’re just a game streamer, how much enmity can you have with your colleagues? The real target is the information room’s data, right? Don’t try to divert attention and confuse the issue!”

“I really…” Zhou Qi was on the verge of tears, “I have a grudge against Si Qi. I’ve targeted him many times. I bullied him when we were in school, so that’s why I’m targeting him now. I really just can’t stand him and didn’t plan to do anything else…”

The people across from him frowned as they looked at Zhou Qi, their hearts slightly swayed by his words. His anxious reaction was indeed very sincere.

However, the next moment, the phone that Zhou Qi had in his pocket was searched by the information department professionals, who went through it. Someone walked in holding a stack of printed documents and directly said, “Someone instructed him to steal confidential information from the Shifeng Group. Here are the chat records.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the few people sitting across from him instantly turned cold, and their eyes looked at Zhou Qi as if they were looking at a dead man.

Zhou Qi’s face instantly turned pale, trembling in his seat, his whole being wilted.

In a hoarse voice, he said, “I, I didn’t do it on purpose…”

Framing his colleague because of jealousy and deliberately stealing confidential information, were completely different levels.

He hung his head low, looking dejected, and said, “I was deceived by someone. I didn’t know the problem was this serious. I was just going with the flow. I didn’t know anything about the confidential information…”

Unfortunately, by this time, the people across from him no longer believed his explanations and had completely classified the incident as a malicious theft of state secrets. Under the high-pressure interrogation of a group of professionals, Zhou Qi’s mental defenses collapsed in no time, and he confessed, “It’s the Chu family, the main family of Chu Feng, the president of Shifeng Group, and Huanyu Group. The head of their company contacted me a long time ago and arranged for me to work at a live-streaming company under Shifeng. They promised to pay me a fixed salary every month as a ‘consultation fee.’ I thought they were family, and it’s normal for elders to care for their juniors… so I agreed.”

Facing the cold, piercing gazes of the people across from him, who seemed capable of seeing through his very soul, he had previously looked dejected: “Alright, I know what they want to do, but what can I do about it? I’m just an ordinary citizen, how could I possibly resist?”

The people across from him sneered, and Zhou Qi felt a chill in his heart, his body curling up even more. In a small, weak voice, he said, “This time was the same. They arranged for me to join the internal test of the holographic game and asked me to help them find the secrets of this technology. I thought it was just normal business competition tactics, so I… took it a bit seriously… I really didn’t mean to.”

However, these evasive words were all superfluous when faced with soldiers as cold as ice in December. After listening to Zhou Qi’s entire explanation mixed with personal matters, an officer turned to the person standing to the side and said, “Report this to the superiors, apply for an arrest warrant, and bring in all the directors involved from Huanyu Group!”

Hearing the stern and icy tone, Zhou Qi shivered and couldn’t help but say, “It’s just a game, is it really necessary to go this far…”

The few people across from him looked at Zhou Qi with cold smiles, half-smiling, half-serious: “You don’t know the importance of holographic games?”

Zhou Qi’s expression stiffened, and he lowered his head in guilt, not daring to say another word.

How could he not know?

This was the key to a new era.

He even thought that, after obtaining the information, only giving a small part of it to Huanyu Group, keeping the real core content to himself, and then… it would all be his in the future.

But he would never dare to say that out loud even if they beat him to death.

The main members of several families in the Huanyu Group didn’t even know that the “spies” they had sent out widely were being treated as real spies. While they were still having dinner in their family mansions, a group of aggressive officials led by a team of swiftly acting police officers in uniform directly barged into their homes and forcibly handcuffed them in front of the over seventy-year-old family head.

The people were both shocked and angry, struggling and loudly questioning. The fierce scene scared a group of women, causing their plates to crash to the ground, and they screamed in horror.

The old family head stopped the official and said in a deep voice, “Do you know what they did wrong?”

The leading official, with a cold face and an icy tone, showed no mercy: “They are suspected of sending people to infiltrate the Shifeng Group and steal state secrets!”

The old family head took a deep breath, glanced coldly at his sons, who were pale-faced, and then softened his tone, saying, “This is probably a misunderstanding. Chu Feng is my grandson. His elders sent someone to the company to get some documents, and he deliberately twisted it into theft.”

The middle-aged men who were caught shouted angrily, “What confidential information? You are colluding with Chu Feng to frame us maliciously! Let me tell you, we will not let you off the hook!!”

The official sneered and ignored the middle-aged man who was acting like a clown. He directly addressed the old family head, saying, “At your age, you shouldn’t be here distorting the truth and meddling. Mr. Chu has never wronged your family. His father died in a car accident trying to save you. You abandoned the first branch to stabilize the company and supported the second branch to rise, completely neglecting your sick grandson. Do you think we don’t know about this? There’s nothing we can’t find out in this country!”

“For so many years, Huanyu Group has maliciously targeted Shifeng, repeatedly intervening and obstructing Shifeng Group’s development, trying to use Chu Feng’s illness to force him to death, preventing him from leaving the house for over a decade. You must know this, right? Now that Shifeng has a theft case, the first ones we will investigate are you!”

The speaker showed no respect to the old patriarch, ruthlessly throwing the old man’s face to the ground. At this moment, the old man was so furious that his whole body trembled, but he had no confidence to confront the national authorities at this time.

He clenched his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, and said to the officials, “This is our family matter!!”

“Family matters are not for you to decide,” the official coldly glanced at the Chu’s, who were silent and trembling with fear, men and women, young and old, all of whom had once banded together to oppress Chu Feng.

Chu Feng was a national hero, voluntarily offering holographic technology without asking for anything in return. He didn’t mention it, but the country couldn’t really ignore it.

If the Chu family were clean, they wouldn’t have done anything to them.

But if the Chu family was hiding dirt and using some underhanded methods, then don’t blame these people for having bad luck.

The official sneered, waved his hand, and ordered, “Take them all away!”

Not a single person wearing handcuffs was left behind as they were forcibly taken away. The Chu family members watching nearby shouted and rushed over.

“You can’t do this!”

“Let go of my husband!”

“Dad—!!”

The official’s cold gaze swept over the crowd trying to intervene, like a chilling wind that froze everyone to the bone. A group of women, who knew certain things, lowered their heads in guilt, painfully wiping their tears.

Their intuition told them that this matter would definitely not end well.

A girl in her early twenties, about the same age as Chu Feng, pleaded with the old patriarch, “Grandpa, please help, save my dad! Chu Feng is your own grandson, if you step in, he won’t refuse you! After all, blood is thicker than water!!”

The official’s eyes, filled with a knowing smile, locked onto the old man. The old man flinched, coldly shaking off the hand that had been grabbed from across the table, and shouted angrily, “When your dad wanted to kill Chu Feng back then, why didn’t you say blood is thicker than water? Now you want me to clean up his mess, useless!”

These people spend all day shooting at geese, only to have the geese peck their eyes out. A group of people in their forties and fifties couldn’t even handle a child, what use were they!

If he had known Chu Feng had this ability, he shouldn’t have gone for the distant option and supported this group of useless people to rise to power. Now, neither side was getting any good out of it!

“But you didn’t oppose it back then!” the woman yelled angrily.

The old man twitched his face, glared fiercely at his granddaughter, and turned to go upstairs.

Leaving behind a scene of chaos in the main hall, with cries and shouts echoing endlessly.

–

After Chu Feng woke up, he learned that the authorities had traced the thief all the way to the Chu family. They had laid out all the despicable tactics the Chu family had used against Shifeng over the years, item by item, in clear and precise chronological order, leaving nothing out.

The matter with Si Qi was also investigated, but the people above found that all the “secrets” Si Qi revealed were already known to the Chu family. The few original pieces of information he provided caused the Chu family to lose several hundred million in one go, and all the “information fees” received were donated. It was clear that he was deliberately making things difficult for the Chu family.

After exchanging a few bemused glances, they tacitly decided not to elaborate further.

“We found out in the end that a few members of the Chu family still do not understand the true importance of holographic technology, so we can only classify it as malicious business competition…”

They were all following the rules, not letting anything that should be there slip by, and not forcibly slandering things that weren’t there.

Through the screen, they persuaded, “After this group goes in, Huanyu will have lost most of its power holders, but you will still be very competitive… Some things, if done too much, will lead to heavy losses, and too much is as bad as too little. This way is just right.”

This was hinting to Chu Feng that Huanyu might be his in the future. If Huanyu was thoroughly crippled, who knew who would suffer the losses.

Chu Feng nodded, his expressionless face making it hard to tell what he was really thinking.

He listened without any emotional fluctuations to how these so-called relatives had attacked him over the years, undermined his company, and constantly caused him trouble. Like someone unaffected, he coldly handled all the affairs as usual, nodded through the screen, and ended the call.

Si Qi was sitting right next to him, listening to the entire conversation.

“Are you okay?”

When Chu Feng turned around and saw Si Qi, he instinctively showed a gentle smile: “Of course.”

Si Qi smiled.

He knew that his lover wouldn’t be so fragile.

He walked over and said, “Don’t mind these trivial matters. In the future, Shifeng will definitely become the top company in the world. What do Huanyu and the Chu family even count for?”

Chu Feng gently embraced Si Qi: “I know, these things don’t matter.”

So many years had passed, and the Chu family could no longer stir up any waves in his heart. Even the much-praised holographic technology by the outside world was initially developed by Chu Feng just to make his life a bit less cold.

Not to mention that the subsequent situation was not as useful as Chu Feng had imagined. The holographic world did not help him much; a desolate world with only him as the living being would only make him feel pathetic.

So for the holographic technology, Chu Feng didn’t gain much surprise, nor did he feel much regret in losing it.

He just didn’t want to give this technology to that group from the Chu family.

If the Chu family were to get this information, he would rather give it to that thief and then go down with the Chu family, no one should expect to benefit.

If it weren’t for Si Qi’s sudden appearance, Chu Feng indeed wouldn’t have any attachment to this world.

Si Qi didn’t know Chu Feng’s thoughts; if he did, he might understand that this was the fate trajectory arranged by the world’s consciousness for the world’s child. Kissing his lover’s cheek, he said, “Since it doesn’t matter, let’s do something else. For example… desensitization therapy for your cleanliness obsession.”

He gently whispered into Chu Feng’s ear, his breath fragrant, “I thought of an interesting treatment method… Would you like me to spread honey on you and lick it off bit by bit…?”

Chu Feng’s breath hitched.

“Or, you could spread some jam on me and eat me little by little… ah!”

Chu Feng tightly wrapped his arms around Si Qi, his voice hoarse and deep: “I want to eat you right now!”

……

After “treating” Chu Feng for the entire morning, Si Qi felt like he had been a bit indulgent in this world.

When he woke up in the afternoon, Xiu Xiu reported to Si Qi: “After the Son of the World was captured, he actively provided information related to the Chu family. Since it didn’t cause any significant losses in the end, he was only charged with leaking company information for illegal gains and received a reduced sentence, being sentenced to just a few years.”

Si Qi was not surprised by this outcome and smiled, saying, “He still has a lot of World Power left in him, so he won’t be completely finished.”

It’s just like the time when he was an internet celebrity in that world. The Child of the World in that world was also sent to prison by him for a few years. After being released, as time passed, he gradually became indistinguishable from the crowd, and only then did he stop causing any more trouble.

Si Qi: [If he can give up the path of the holographic world, turn over a new leaf, and use the world’s power he possesses to do something else, earning more world power for this world and for Chu Feng, I wouldn’t mind letting him go.]

But if he, like the world’s chosen one Chen Yi, insisted on sticking to him, demanding his ‘golden finger’ and opposing him, then Si Qi would have no choice but to take action and completely suppress this person.

Xiu Xiu pouted: [Master, this time the Child of the World has no other strengths besides being a game streamer. He must still be thinking about the benefits you and the Lord God have given him.]

Si Qi laughed: [Then he’s just asking for death.]

The holography of this world was developed by Chu Feng, and Si Qi would certainly not let anyone take away what rightfully belonged to Chu Feng. Not to mention that the holography technology had already been approved by the authorities, and once the two sides joined forces, no matter how favored the Child of the World was by luck, attempting to steal would only be self-humiliation.

The only question was who would be unfortunate enough to become the knife in the hands of the Child of the World, who was temporarily trapped in a cage.

Si Qi soon got the answer.

The streamer Mor discovered that his teammate zq suddenly disappeared overnight. Not only could he not find any trace of him, but the company even banned his livestreaming room, revoked his beta testing qualifications, and directly deleted his account.

Furious, Mor felt that the company’s actions were deliberate targeting because zq had offended the company’s top streamer, 47. Therefore, they abandoned the “innocent” Zhou Qi and vented his anger in the livestreaming room, causing quite a stir among viewers.

There were indeed people who believed what he said, thinking that zq’s disappearance might really be because zq offended 47, and that 47 was too harsh.

Seeing this, Shifeng Company immediately responded, stating that the streamer zq, whose real name was Zhou Qi, was arrested and imprisoned by the police for stealing confidential company data. The company had already terminated his employment, and closing the livestreaming room was a legal operation by the company. It was not, as rumored, because of favoritism towards one streamer and malicious targeting of another. Shifeng would not stoop to such petty and ridiculous actions.

Netizens were shocked to see this announcement. Some rationally pointed out that zq had maliciously slandered 47 not just once or twice, and even Mor had been badmouthing 47 in the live stream. However, Mor’s live stream was still up, so it was clear that zq’s live stream being shut down had nothing to do with Shifeng. It was zq’s own wrongdoing that completely angered Shifeng.

Another group of people were curious about how a streamer like zq got involved in a theft case and why he would do something so foolish. They thought about how the government wouldn’t joke around by arresting innocent citizens, so they must had solid evidence against him. They also recalled that every time zq trended online, it was mostly because he maliciously smeared and provoked others, giving the impression that he was a guy who liked to stir up trouble with ulterior motives.

They fully accepted the situation and were even quite pleased that this guy finally got his comeuppance. He should sit in jail and reflect on his actions.

Netizens cheered for a while and then completely forgot about zq.

But Mor didn’t think so.

He thought this group of stupid netizens was simply ridiculous!

They actually believed the lies that Shifeng told.

What did it mean that Shifeng let Mor go? It showed that Shifeng didn’t expel zq because of 47. His family background was prominent; would Shifeng dare to offend his family and send him to jail? Clearly, Shifeng bullied the weak and feared the strong. Seeing that zq came from an ordinary family, they picked the soft persimmon to squeeze and just sent zq in!

Besides, zq was just a game streamer. What important secrets could he possibly steal? They even said he was caught red-handed, with the police witnessing the whole process… Haha, what a coincidence! Someone must have deliberately lured zq to a certain place, planted some so-called “secrets” there, and then had officials waiting to catch the innocent zq. Mor was sure he had seen through the truth and felt deeply indignant about it.

This 47 was really despicable, using his fame and status to collude with the Shifeng Group to frame other streamers and even send them to prison.

How could this be tolerated?!

He felt that he was a good person and absolutely could not let such things happen. So he contacted his family and asked them to pull some strings to get a visit opportunity. The next morning, he met Zhou Qi, who was dressed in a prison uniform.

Zhou Qi was shocked to see him. He never expected that a teammate from an online game would be so “loyal and righteous.” As soon as he saw him, he kept saying, “I believe you,” “It must be that Si Qi,” “You were framed, I want to help you!” Hearing this, Zhou Qi was dumbfounded.

The ever-alert Child of the World immediately came up with a plan, sighed deeply, and said in a dispirited and aggrieved tone, “I can’t do anything about it. I’m just a small fry, how can I compete with them? They dug up my chat records with the Chu family on my phone, and I had no choice but to confess.”

“Just because of this?” Mor was so angry he laughed, “This is simply unreasonable! The Chu family has so many people, how come you were the unlucky one? It’s that brat Si Qi messing things up behind the scenes on purpose!”

Seeing Zhou Qi not saying anything, looking utterly dejected, Mor sighed and said, “We have known each other for a while, after all. Since this world can target you like this, who knows when it might come after me? I won’t let them be so arrogant. I’ll try my best to help you find a lawyer to apply for bail.”

Zhou Qi looked touched and said, “Thank you so much!”

Mor waved his hand dismissively, “It’s not a big deal for me, just a few phone calls.”

Seeing this, Zhou Qi felt even more “embarrassed” and said to Mor, “Since Si Qi is so ruthless, we can’t just sit back and do nothing.”

Mor nodded: “Yeah, that guy is really something!”

Zhou Qi smiled: “I know him a bit, that video I posted online before… that was really Si Qi, not slander.”

Mor raised an eyebrow in surprise, then nodded after a moment: “I thought that incident back then looked so strange. You’re not the kind of person to act without any evidence. That guy probably got plastic surgery! Otherwise, how could anyone look that good!”

Zhou Qi continued to incite, “And that guy dropped out halfway and hasn’t been back to school since. He claims he became successful through self-study, but I don’t believe it. What can you really learn on your own? He has to stream every day to improve his gaming skills, learn so much specialized knowledge, and even get a PhD. Can an ordinary person achieve that? His credentials are probably bought, and he’s just forcing himself into the image of a genius.”

Mor suddenly realized, clasping his hands together and repeatedly saying, “Yes, yes, yes, that makes sense! I thought so too!”

Where in this world was there such a perfect person? Handsome and charming, with a pleasant way of speaking, excellent academic performance, and great at gaming—everyone liked him.

Absolutely fake!

Zhou Qi’s eyes glinted maliciously as he said, “I still have an old video of him at home. You can use it to blackmail him, make him obey you…”

Mor was surprised: “What video?”

Zhou Qi’s smile was eerie: “You’ll know when you see it, absolutely explosive.”

He served time in prison, his reputation ruined for life, so of course he wouldn’t let Si Qi off easy!