"Are you afraid?" Zhang Heng asked.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't." Qiu Ming gave a bitter smile. "I originally thought this could be resolved peacefully, because if it were anyone else, I was confident I could persuade them not to kill me afterward. But with you, I have no confidence at all. Because of my work, I did some research on you too. My conclusion was that I couldn't see through you at all."
Qiu Ming paused, then continued, "No wonder you didn't have much of a reaction when I told you the truth about New Shanghai 0297. Did you already know all this? Come to think of it, how did you get into New Shanghai 0297, and what exactly was your goal? No, forget it... You'd better not tell me. I'd like to live a little longer."
"I promised you that if you cooperated properly, I wouldn't kill you," Zhang Heng said flatly.
Qiu Ming said nothing. He took another couple of drags from his cigarette, and the expression on his face made it clear that he did not really believe Zhang Heng's promise. He was still weighing something in his mind.
About five more minutes passed before Qiu Ming seemed to reach a decision and spoke again. "You're working for Mr. G now, right?"
"Hm?"
"Mr. G and I actually met a long time ago, back when he was still in the Emergency Response Squad and was hailed as the strongest Clone the squad had seen in a century. I gave him a USB drive containing a movie."
"Symbol Exchange and Death?"
"So you do know that movie." Qiu Ming said, "I was born into a fairly prominent family. One of my uncles was a member of Shen Tang Morgan's Board of Directors. I never