novelhk Chapter 33 is almost identical in length and height.
Chapter 33 is almost identical in length and height.
Jingni felt she shouldn't have said, "Your Excellency, what if I don't agree?" She could tell that this man really didn't care much about her and her daughter's fate.
She was lucky to meet this person, not the other way around.
Her killer instincts told Jingni that if she made the wrong choice, she would regret it for the rest of her life, and more importantly, it might implicate her daughter.
An assassin must be decisive; hesitation will only lead to chaos.
Jingni glanced at her daughter in the strange transparent box and said, "I accept your terms. I hope you will keep your promise."
Cheng Yuandao: "Draft an employment contract for Ms. Jingni."
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Several more question marks popped into Jingni's mind.
Who is he talking to?
Are there other people in this room?
Could it be some kind of strange magic?
Just as Jing Ni was filled with doubt and surprise, a pleasant female voice rang out: "Yes, Your Excellency the Supreme Ruler."
Jing Ni had already secretly activated her inner strength, raising her perception to a very high level, but she still couldn't find where the female voice came from, as if it had appeared out of thin air.
In the blink of an eye, Jingni saw a strange thing appear out of thin air in front of the young man who called himself "Cheng Yuan".
Because Cheng Yuan enjoys the feel of reading physical books, the contract he received was also projected onto a paper document.
Jingni had never seen paper documents before, so they were naturally a strange thing to her (Jingni had seen paper, but never paper books).
She saw Cheng Yuan flipping through the object, and guessed that it must be something like a silk scroll.
After Cheng Yuan finished reading it, he casually tossed it to her.
Driven by her killer instincts, Jing Ni took a slight step back, making a defensive gesture, while simultaneously gathering her inner strength in her right palm to grab the object that had been thrown at her.
Halfway through the action, Jingni realized that there was no need to be so careful.
So she pulled her clenched hand back into place.
But the thing had already flown close, and now she was caught in a dilemma: whether to reach out and catch it, or to pull her hand back.
Jingni felt that she had never been as embarrassed as she was in her more than twenty years of life. Fortunately, the other person did not seem to notice her actions.
Unbeknownst to her, all her actions had been recorded in high definition without any censorship.
Jingni still caught the thing with her claws.
Seeing what she was holding, Jingni's eyes flickered slightly; the object's appearance had changed.
In her hands, it was an object resembling a silk scroll, but in her hands it became a scroll of bamboo slips.
Does this thing change depending on the person?
But the question remains: how did they manage to do that?
Jingni opened the bamboo slip, which was engraved with the Qin Dynasty's Great Seal script that she recognized, but the script was written in a rather strange way.
First, the font is too neat, with each character having a nearly uniform length and height. Is this something a human could write?
It's like a monument; no matter what instrument you use to measure it, its length, width, and height will always be three fixed values. Even if you improve the measurement accuracy of the instrument to the chord level, it will still be the same fixed length, width, and height.
This is a very scary science fiction ghost story. What level of civilization did the civilization that created this monument reach?
Jingni didn't know about this science fiction horror story, but she felt the terror.
If these words were written by a human, then that person, if they were to learn swordsmanship, would surely become the greatest swordsman of all time.
At the end of the sword path, who stands at the peak? Upon seeing the writer, all paths become empty!
Secondly, the grammar of the Great Seal script is very strange. She can understand it, but there is a kind of awkward and strange feeling about it.
The person who wrote the bamboo slips understood the Great Seal script, but not to that extent. A normal person wouldn't write it like that, and she certainly wouldn't.
It's actually a change from "The weather is so nice today, have you eaten?" to "Oh, it's a beautiful sunny day, and it's an honor to meet you. Have you had your meal yet?" It's understandable, but people don't usually talk like that.
This is an employment contract. She accepts employment from the Trisolaran civilization to become their first martial arts instructor, and in return, the Trisolaran civilization will provide her and her daughter with corresponding protection.
The employment contract is initially signed for three years, and can be renewed at the discretion of the employer after three years.
The terms didn't specify what would happen if she breached the contract, which was quite lenient, much better than her former organization, Luo Wang.
But how do you sign an employment contract? Do you cut your finger and drip a drop of blood onto it?
Cheng Yuan's voice came through: "You can sign your name, or drip a drop of blood, or press your fingerprint, it's all the same."
Jingni thought for a moment, then pressed her right thumb on the bamboo slip. A clear fingerprint appeared on the slip, which then glowed faintly and disappeared into thin air.
It was that same method of disappearing into thin air again; Jingni still couldn't figure out how it was done.
Cheng Yuan said, "You can rest here. If you need anything, you can call your smart assistant, Xiao Ni. She is your current personal assistant and can help you."
"By the way, we need your sword now. If you need it, we'll return it to you later."
Jingni shook her head and said, "If the sword is useful to you, then leave it with you. As for me, that sword... is an ominous object."
That sword accompanied her for a long time, traveling with her on many roads and killing many people. That person also died by that sword.
Cheng Yuan said, "If you really want to say goodbye to the past, why not change your name? You're using the name of your sword now."
After saying that, Cheng Yuan's projection disappeared from the room.
Even after witnessing Cheng Yuan vanish into thin air, Jing Ni still couldn't figure out how he did it.
After Cheng Yuan disappeared, Jing Ni went to the transparent box and looked at her daughter for a long time. This little thing was her whole life now.
After that, Jingni carefully observed the room.
Besides the bed she had just slept in and the transparent box where her daughter slept, there was a transparent four-legged round table, several strange stools, and two vases with two plum blossoms in them, from which a faint fragrance of plum blossoms wafted.
There was a desk to the left of her bed, but what caught Jingni's attention most was not the desk itself, but a smooth and clear mirror on it.
She had seen such a clear mirror in the mansions of some princes and nobles, but even those mirrors were not as clear and bright as this.
Before the mirror stood an exquisite baby sculpture. Jingni recognized it at a glance as her daughter's sculpture, inscribed with neat Qin Dynasty seal script: "You are the first human baby born naturally in the Trisolaran civilization. May you be healthy and safe."
Human babies? Aren't the Trisolarans human? Then what are they?
Jing Ni didn't pay much attention to whether the Trisolaran civilization was human or not, and looked away from the room.
In the upper right corner of the room, there was a small cubicle that couldn't be seen inside; she guessed it might be a toilet or shower area.
Just as Jingni was about to go and check it out herself, a pleasant female voice came: "Ms. Jingni, it's noon. Would you like to have lunch?"
"In your time system, noon is the exact time of day. Since you need to breastfeed your baby, I suggest you pay attention to nutritional balance when you eat."
It was that same voice again, but this time, Jingni spoke up and asked, "Who are you? Who are you talking to me from?"
The voice replied, "I am your intelligent life assistant, Xiao Ni. Our civilization created me to ensure that you and your daughter can live better within our civilization. Your daughter is the first human naturally born in our civilization, which is quite a coincidence."
"I am an artificial intelligence composed of nanoscale machinery, without a fixed body. But if you need me, I can appear before you in my original human form."
Jingni pondered for a moment. In her memory, she had never heard of the concepts of "nanoscale machinery" or "artificial intelligence." However, she did understand that this "intelligent life assistant Xiaoni" could appear in front of her.
Jing Ni secretly channeled her inner energy as she said, "Then show yourself."
As soon as she finished speaking, something invisible gathered in front of her. Jing Ni's pupils widened, and a woman who looked exactly like her appeared in front of her.
The woman was wearing a long white dress and had a gentle smile on her face that was not usually seen on others.
Seemingly noticing the change in her expression, the woman said, "Ms. Jingni, if you are not satisfied with my human appearance, you may change it according to your preference."
A panel appeared in front of Jingni, displaying a woman and some patterns and lines.
Are these the things used to change the appearance of this little salamander?
Unfortunately, she didn't quite understand it.
Although it was a bit strange to have someone with the same face as her, Jing Ni said, "No need to change it, leave it like this. I want to know where we are? What is the Trisolaran civilization?"
The little salamander smiled and said, "I'm sorry, you don't have sufficient permissions to know this information at the moment."