His Own Brilliant Plan

I... I can't remember." Yang Xue frowned and tried to recall the situation.

But it had been more than a year since it happened. Besides, she didn't have any deep memories at all at that time, and it was impossible to recall them just from her head. Two minutes later, Yang Xue's face looked painful. Zhang Jue stopped her.

"There's no rush to think about it first. You've just woken up. Rest yourself for a few days."

"But if someone wants to kill you, the sooner I remember who that person is, the sooner you can find out the truth. There is no such thing as a thousand days to prevent a thief."

Zhang Jue laughed, "Dr. Yang, it's not the first day we met, you know? You still don't know my strength? Everyone who tried to kill me never succeeded on their part."

What Zhang Jue said was true. From Dr. Li to Lei Shui, the Chaos Insurgency, and even a few O5 Members. Anyone who went against Zhang Jue didn't get to do much of it. Yang Xue wanted to say something else, but her body had reached its limit. Under Zhang Jue's persuasion, she fell back into a deep sleep.

Yang Xue slept for another day and night. When she woke up for the second time, her body was already significantly better than before. She was no longer sleepy after saying a few words. With nothing to do, Zhang Jue picked out some of the things that had happened during the time they had been apart and told her about them.

When she heard that Zhang Jue had made a scene at the headquarters and even rode on the back of SCP-682, Yang Xue couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Only Zhang Jue could have done such an absurd thing.

Zhang Jue told the story of how he recovered the video again. When Yang Xue heard this, she remained silent. Zhang Jue waved his hand in front of her eyes.

"Dr. Yang, what's wrong?"

"Thank you." Yang Xue suddenly said she knew that since Zhang Jue had told her about this matter, it meant that he had completely trusted her.

"Look." Zhang Jue waved his hand, "Dr. Yang, I didn't tell you about this matter so that you could thank me. You can help me analyze if there are any loopholes in it."

Zhang Jue had always prided himself on his flexibility of mind, but things had developed to the point where they had almost reached a dead end. Which was why he wanted Yang Xue to help him see if he had been led into a trap.

After all, the onlooker is clear. Yang Xue understood what Zhang Jue meant, so she followed his thoughts and helped him run through the whole thing from the beginning.

On February 1, 2221. Zhang Jue crossed over to the SCP world, and on the same day, he was captured by the Foundation and sent to Site-14.

Ten days later, on February 11, 2221. Zhang Jue breaks free of his handcuffs during interrogation, attempts to hijack his interrogators, and meets Dr. Li for the first time.

On February 14, the SCP-682 termination attempt was held. Dr. Li pretends to be angered by Zhang Jue and attempts to kill him through a bet, which is the first time she and Zhang Jue meet.

The SCP-682 termination failed, and Zhang Jue suggested bringing in Shirley to help the containment. After a series of efforts, SCP-682 was successfully contained.

Just as everyone was letting their guard down, Zhang Jue was pushed toward Shirley. Everyone, including her, thought it was Dr. Li who did it because he was the only one who had the motive.

But before he died, Dr. Li denied the incident. After Zhang Jue returned to Site-14, he obtained the hard drive that had once held the surveillance footage. Then asked Simmons to help him recover the surveillance video.

Based on the content of the video, it seemed that she was the only one who was around Zhang Jue at that time. Zhang Jue was brilliant and had eliminated many of the other factors, such as the video being faked or the content had been tampered with.

At this point, things seemed to have come to a dead end. All the evidence pointed to her. But Yang Xue knew very well that the person who pushed Zhang Jue was definitely not herself.

Although she had forgotten the incident, she was sure that she was conscious at that time, not mind-controlled by others, and hadn't made any bizarre moves by ghosts.

If everything is according to the usual, then where did it go wrong?

Yang Xue thought for a long time but still did not get results. Even some kind of hypothesis with a tiny possibility could not be made. She sighed. Even Zhang Jue couldn't see the flaw in this matter, so naturally, she couldn't either.

"Forget it, don't think about it." Zhang Jue laughed, "Anyway, I'm fine now. That MRW organization wants to kill me, and it's impossible not to leave any evidence. I don't believe that they can do it so perfectly every time."

What Zhang Jue said seemed to have reminded Yang Xue.

She thought for a moment and said, "What about the motive? have you ever thought about what their motive was for killing you? You had only just arrived at that time. There was no reason why they had to kill you."

"That's also been on my mind too. The strongest possibility is probably that I am too handsome. My existence will greatly affect the success rate of male courtship worldwide. As I said before, too much charm is also a big burden."

Zhang Jue suddenly stopped boasting because Yang Xue looked at him with a disgusted look.

"Okay, okay." Zhang Jue spread his hands, "There is such a possibility that they have some kind of ability to foresee the future, and my existence will be a hidden danger to all mankind. Maybe the end of the world is caused by me. Shit, if that case, that I am the main villain, and they are the ones who should be hiding now. What a bullshit author."

Zhang Jue was talking nonsense, but Yang Xue remembered what Lei Shan had once said to her. The reason why Zhang Jue was able to become a Special Advisor of the Foundation and gets a high authority was that all thirteen O5s had dreamed of SCP-990.

At that time, Yang Xue took it for granted that the SCP-990 had foretold a disaster to the O5s and identified Zhang Jue as a savior. Because only this way their trust in Zhang Jue could be justified, it seems that things are not as simple as she thought.

What exactly did SCP-990 say to the O5s? No one knew. Yang Xue said her thoughts to Zhang Jue.

Zhang Jue pondered for a moment and shook his head gently, "The O5s don't need to go to such great lengths if they want to kill me. I have a hunch that this MRW Organization is definitely much more complicated than we thought."

"I have another way to know who pushed you at that time." Yang Xue suddenly said.

Zhang Jue raised his eyebrows, "How?"

"Extract my memory. "Yang Xue said, "From the surveillance video, we were very close at that time. If someone pushed you from the dead corner of the surveillance, I would have seen it. The only thing is my memory is now blurred. The truth will come out as long as my memory is extracted and restored to a video."

Zhang Jue looked at Yang Xue. He knew that the reason why Yang Xue had proposed such an extreme way was not that she wanted to prove her innocence. After all, even if he believed her. The evidence was there.

Zhang Jue shook his head, "The Foundation's memory extraction technology is not perfect. It is too damaging to the human brain. You don't have enough brain cells in the first place. Just forget it because it will only cause you brain damage. I promised your uncle that I have to protect you, and surely that's not suitable nor appropriate for me to do."

Yang Xue took Zhang Jue's arm in one hand and was very insistent.

"What the hell? Domestic violence, I'm calling the police for this." Zhang Jue grimaced. But no matter what he said, Yang Xue just wouldn't let go.

She was still in the hospital bed so that Zhang Jue couldn't bear it, so he patted her hand and said, "Don't be like that. You did remind me to find out what you really saw that day, and I thought of a better way."

"What is it?" Yang Xue was skeptical.

Who knew that Zhang Jue had something that he kept to himself, "Then don't worry about it. The big man has a brilliant plan for it."