Moving to the Golden Courtyard

Who knows? Even Xu Qi wasn't too sure himself.

Perhaps only Xin An knew the intense shock she felt when she saw the white Exoskeleton Armor rushing towards the tracks from inside 914 that day.

Born in a country like this, Xin An never believed that anyone would truly be willing to risk everything for the lives of others!

But the living example was right in front of her, and she had no choice but to believe it.

He was her savior, so helping him was only natural.

Besides, he didn't even care that she turned around and threw herself into Li Fucong's arms, so what was she being so pretentious about? In this man's eyes, there probably wasn't room for any woman at all...

Just a workaholic jerk.

"Everyone's missing the point... They're all analyzing why the emergency brake and regular brake failed, but they seem to be overlooking a crucial detail."

"What?" Xin An asked casually.

Actually, she didn't care about the 914 incident, even though she was a victim—she was alive, so what was there to dwell on?

It was just a frightening and intimidating, rather painful memory.

"I remember telling you guys to try using the EB Valve inside the train car to stop it manually, right?"

Xin An frowned—indeed...

"There's another issue. These reports all focus on the key problem of the (10238) segment bus cable aging.

But the emergency braking circuit isn't that simple. And hasn't anyone considered why the brake failure only occurred when the train was doing the 60 km/h test?"

"Maybe it's because 60 km/h was too fast, which led to..."

"Isn't that just nonsense?" Xu Qi interrupted Xin An without any politeness, and casually offered an explanation.

"The train first completed the TC1 head experiment, and then the TC2 head.

That means the entire train's cables had already been subjected to 80 km/h braking impact. If the aged cables weren't fixed and broke due to excessive speed, it would have happened already. The TC2 head should have discovered that the brakes couldn't be applied during the 20 km/h experiment."

Xu Qi was right, but Xin An still couldn't help but frown—this guy... he actually dared to interrupt her! He really was just a guy with only work in his eyes.

"Moreover, I was fully responsible for the rectification, and I checked all the cables related to the braking system. The static adjustment results were also normal, so how could this happen..."

"It's just like ten years ago."

"Huh?"

Xu Qi frowned. "What did you say?"

Xin An took a sip of water indifferently, and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Don't you know? Ten years ago, a similar accident occurred.

And that time was even worse, it was a train brake failure that happened on the main line."

Main line... brake... failure?

Xu Qi suddenly felt a discomfort in his heart. His brain seemed to be stimulated by something, and a familiar sense of despair seemed to envelop him!

His breathing gradually became heavy, and just as he seemed to remember something!

Before his eyes... it was as if he was hallucinating. Golden butterflies fluttered around above his head, and specks of starlight sprinkled down, and that painful illusion faded away again... dissipated...

"Hey!"

Xu Qi shuddered as if he had been awakened. His vision returned to normal, and Xin An was sitting opposite him, frowning, looking somewhat worried.

"What happened to you just now?"

She pointed to Xu Qi's forehead.

"You're breaking out in a cold sweat."

Xu Qi wiped his forehead—it was true...

He shook his head, took a deep breath, and said casually, "It's nothing, maybe I haven't recovered yet... What were you saying just now? Ten years ago? A similar accident?"

"Yeah, don't you know? You used to be so close to Supervisor Xia, I thought you knew. Even a newbie like me who's only been here for three or four years knows."

"With... what does it have to do with Xia Ya?"

Xin An raised an eyebrow, and a mocking arc appeared at the corner of her mouth as she said.

"Looks like you really don't know... Speaking of which, don't you find it strange at all? Why is Supervisor Xia so excellent, but he's still just a technical supervisor in his forties?"

Xu Qi frowned—at that moment, he suddenly had many bad thoughts.

He once again recalled his conversation with Xia Ya in the hospital room. At that time, he... seemed to have made up his mind to complete something.

Xia Ya...

"Ten years ago, train 956 had a brake failure on the main line, and at that time, Xia Ya was the department manager of the Sixth Repair Department. In that incident... something seems to have happened that Supervisor Xia still can't let go of."

He returned to Golden Courtyard in a daze.

Even when Elysia greeted him when he opened the door, he walked straight to the sofa as if he didn't hear her, and then... collapsed on it.

Aponia was by his side, and the ever-loving her couldn't help but move a little closer, and gently stroked Xu Qi's forehead, and whispered, "Did something happen? Xu Qi?"

Seeing this, everyone in Golden Courtyard came closer.

They initially wondered if something was wrong with his body, considering he had just been discharged from the hospital.

But looking at Xu Qi's current mental state—it didn't seem like it.

"I can't... stand idly by..."

"Huh?"

"I have to find out—I absolutely have to find out!"

Xu Qi seemed to suddenly snap back to reality! His gaze refocused, and he suddenly reached out, grabbing Pardofelis, who had leaned in out of curiosity.

"Huh? B-Boss?"

"Pardo—this time, I'm counting on you!"

20. Pardo's Figure is Actually Pretty Good

Outside the Jiuting Base of the Mode Capital Metro.

Inside a van, Vil-V was busy adjusting her various and sundry communication devices, while in the back seat, Pardo had already changed into her stealth suit.

The black, skintight outfit made Xu Qi couldn't help but glance a few more times—after all, he really couldn't tell before, but Pardo's figure was actually this good?

The curvaceous figure perfectly matched the golden ratio.

The scenery in front of her chest was certainly not as... majestic as Elysia's and the others. But that feeling of being able to hold it in one hand could be said to be even more likely to arouse the desire to play with it...

"Hmm? Boss, can you help me check if the zipper on my back is done?"

"Oh, sure."

Resisting the urge to suddenly attack the little girl from behind to scare her, Xu Qi helped Pardo zip up the zipper.

This scene was naturally taken in by Vil-V next to them.

After Xu Qi sat back down, she couldn't help but lean in and whisper, "How is it? Little Pardo's figure is good, right... at least very athletic, isn't it? Like a gymnast."

"Cough! Cough cough!" Xu Qi pondered for a moment, then gave Vil-V a thumbs up.

"Indeed, very impressive."

"Hmm? What are you talking about?" Pardo turned around in confusion.

"Nothing!" Because Xu Qi and Vil-V were so unison, Pardo's gaze became even more suspicious.

"Alright, can't you guys at least have a little sense of urgency..."

Mei, sitting in the passenger seat, sighed deeply—so why am I in this place?

Xu Qi scratched his head awkwardly, feeling a little guilty for a moment, after all, his official, oh... not yet a girlfriend, but almost a girlfriend, Mei was sitting in front.

And he was actually admiring little Pardo's figure here!

Hmm...

Doesn't seem so bad.

"Mei, if there's any problem later, just call me directly."

"Don't worry... speaking of which, if I hadn't come tonight, were you planning to go in yourself? Luckily, Elysia told me, otherwise I wouldn't have known you were going to do something so dangerous!"

"Uh... sorry... I made you worry."

Seeing Xu Qi's guilty and punished look, Vil-V couldn't help but laugh—this look of Xu Qi was indeed rare, it seems... he really likes Mei.

Yae, who was driving, saw that everyone was almost ready and said, "Alright, let me emphasize the operation plan again.

Pardo, you are responsible for sneaking into the data room to find all the information about the 956 braking failure ten years ago. Mei, you are responsible for keeping watch for Pardo, if you are discovered, just say that you are helping Xu Qi get the information, understand?"

Mei and Pardo nodded solemnly.

"Understood!"

"Don't worry, Xu Qi and I will be responsible for picking you up, Vil-V will control the entire Jiuting Base's monitoring after you sneak in, to show you the way."

"Leave it to me." Vil-V patted the equipment next to her, "A subway base is nothing to me."

Xu Qi took a deep breath, looking at everyone who was ready, feeling a warm current surging in his heart, and couldn't help but say affectionately.

"Everyone... it's so much trouble for you because of my willful request..."

"Alright Sister Yae, I'm leaving."

"Huh? Wait for me, Sister Mei!"

"Good luck!~~ With my communication equipment as a guarantee, there will definitely be no problems."

"Be careful, if it doesn't work, I will rush in and forcibly take you out."

Soon, the people in the car entered their respective working states. Xu Qi... Xu Qi sighed.

"Okay, seems like I'm being sentimental."

Through the communication equipment, whether it was Yae and Vil-V in the car, or Mei and Pardo who were ready to act, they couldn't help but reveal a smile.

"Xu Qi."

In the end, it was Mei who felt sorry for Xu Qi and pressed the communication headset and said.

"Everyone helps you unconditionally because they believe in you, just like you would unconditionally help us... right?"

Yae tilted her head to look at Xu Qi.

"See? Even your girlfriend understands you better than you do."

"Yae-nee!"

"Heh, alright, I won't tease you two anymore."

Indeed...

Xu Qi put on his headphones and began working with Vil-V to crack the subway base's firewall. Some things... are better left unsaid.

Thanks, everyone at the Golden Courtyard.

Meanwhile, on the other side, in another van, the occupants were far more professional than Xu Qi's group.

After all, the data they needed to acquire was located at the Mode Capital Metro's corporate headquarters.

Kevin's fingers danced across the keyboard, a clear indication that he was fully engaged in breaching the security firewall.

Fu Hua and Kalpas were responsible for the stealth mission.

This personnel arrangement made it clear that they were prepared to force their way out if things went south.

"This time, the Golden Courtyard is really going all out," Su said from the driver's seat, unable to help but chuckle. "Aren't we spoiling Xu Qi a bit too much?"

"It's not exactly 'all out'; Elysia, Aponia, Griseo, and Kosma need to stay at the Golden Courtyard to hold down the fort," Mobius said as she adjusted the various communication devices she had obtained from Vil-V.