Once Xu Qian realized that she had no choice at all, she was no longer as panicked as she had been at first.
People were like that. When there was only one path left to take, they stopped hesitating. Even so, Xu Qian still slept poorly that night. The next morning, her eyes looked slightly red and swollen; she had clearly cried alone in her room for a long time.
However, once she had put on her makeup, there was little sign that anything was wrong with her face.
As usual, Xu Qian ordered two breakfast deliveries by drone. However, after taking only two bites, she set down her chopsticks and looked at Zhang Heng across from her, seemingly asking what he planned to do next.
"Yesterday, I contacted Electronic Sheep through one of the fans in the group and arranged to meet him at two this afternoon. After we eat, I'll investigate his background first, then we'll go over together." Zhang Heng finished his own breakfast as he spoke, wiped his mouth, and continued, "If we want to keep this from the company, we need to act as usual for the next few days. I told you, I'll keep helping you investigate the stalker. Only then will no one suspect anything when you report my anomaly nine days from now."
Xu Qian did not believe Zhang Heng could escape, but she had to admire his composure. Especially after learning that he was a Clone, he had shown almost no emotional reaction. For an ordinary person, something like this would shatter their entire outlook on life and the world. With the Memory Encoder in existence, they would doubt every one of their memories and might even deny their own existence.
But that was clearly not a problem for Zhang Heng,