Chapter 229
[Oh, that really scared me!]
[Waaaaah, there's no going back, I really can't go back. If anyone had dared to tell me before that He Muzhi would become like this, a heartless machine, I would have twisted their head off. But now... well, you become like the company you keep. There can't be two kinds of people in one class.]
[Speak clearly, who's the culprit? How many tens of thousands of people have you Plague God in such a short time? He deserves what he got, okay?]
Upon suddenly hearing He Muzhi's voice, Aldrich crouched down, clutching his head, and couldn't resist turning around to look. He saw a mixture of blood, flesh, and bone fragments, finely smeared on the curved wall of the laboratory. Aldrich felt his blood rush to his head.
Felix's new favorite is gone just like that?
Despite Felix's constant boasting about how amazing his new pet is, how it's the Creator's favorite,...
Looking at the tiny, indistinct fragments that couldn't be pieced together, Aldrich shook his head.
"No, no, no, absolutely impossible..."
Even if God spoils you, He can't force a human form out of fragments.
You should go now.
The thought had barely crossed Aldrich's mind when he heard Qin Su's indifferent voice coming through the tiny earpiece hidden by his hair.
"!"
"... Yes." Aldrich quickly gathered his thoughts, his mind buzzing, and moved his body as inconspicuously as everyone's attention was focused on the laboratory.
Observing Aldrich's condition, Qin Su reminded him again, directly stating He Wenyuan's name without any hesitation. "Take away a few people whose bodies are not stained with He Wenyuan's flesh and blood, and have them change into the dirty clothes of the corpses on the ground."
With so many people, even those disguised as kidnapped, it wouldn't be right to let Aldrich escape alone. It would be tantamount to telling the others that Aldrich is abnormal. If used properly, the soldiers "rescued" by Aldrich might become Aldrich "confidants" in the Ossotalia Empire, which would at least improve Aldrich's life in the Ossotalia Empire.
Apart from the hostages, the soldiers in the laboratory with bits of He Wenyuan's flesh on them were not allowed to leave.
"Good, good..." Aldrich was moved that Qin Su was still concerned about his safety at a time like this, and he quickly left.
After turning down two corridors, the outside world was in complete chaos. As Aldrich fled, he didn't forget to join in the beating of the soldiers wearing Felix's Guard Uniforms, posing as a 'kidnapped'.
During the beating, he would whisper his dirty face close to the other person and deliberately reveal his name in a low voice, so that the other person could escape by disguising themselves, just like him.
If there's an opportunity to escape, no one wants to die. Aldrich used this method to take several people with him. Once he had enough people and knew the terrain, he successfully escaped from the prison amidst the chaos.
In this long-abandoned prison, which Felix had designated for his 'new favorite's' amusement, the 'new favorite's' bloodthirstiness was no less than Felix's. He had abducted far too many people, and the number of guards was far less than the number of abductees. Under Qin Su's control, the prison doors became ineffective, and other communication devices to the outside world were also disabled, cutting off any information unfavorable to He Muzhi. In this sudden and overwhelmingly unequal battle, the number of soldiers Felix had assigned to his 'new favorite' was a foregone conclusion.
Apart from the few people he had brought with him, all that could be seen around Aldrich were people who had escaped from various prisons.
But this is the territory of the Ossotalia Empire. The entire planet belongs to the Ossotalia Empire. This is also a prison area that has long been abandoned and far from the inhabitants. Apart from the Spaceship that He Wenyuan came from, there is no other Spaceship that can Hyperspace Jump away.
No one knows when this place will be under surveillance again, and the only Spaceship has become the object of everyone's struggle. The group of people who worked together in the prison are now fighting fiercely outside the Spaceship.
"The Spaceship is surrounded! What should we do now?"
The soldiers around Aldrich, who believed they had been saved by Aldrich, naturally regarded Aldrich as their leader.
The Deputy Commander is dead. This traitor from the Federation, though not as important as the Deputy Commander in his position by the Duke's side, is still more important than them. If Aldrich speaks up, they have a chance of surviving after returning.
"Since things have come to this, let's find a secluded place to hide and see if we can find an opportunity to redeem ourselves. If things go wrong, we can leave. Anyway, we're just as dirty as them, and they don't know everyone, so we won't be exposed."
Qin Su didn't tell him how the group left, and Qin Su was definitely not the kind of person who only did things halfway. Without seeing the results, Aldrich was reluctant to leave, and he started making things up as soon as he opened his mouth.
Upon hearing the words "to atone for one's sins with merit," none of them objected and they all did as instructed.
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Inside the Modification Laboratory.
After a brief pause, He Muzhi's actions seemed to offer a solution to the hostages who had gained the upper hand in this war of resistance.
The thought of countless people transported from prisons to this place, just like them, who had endured inhuman torture and were then shredded to pieces by this machine, leaving traces of blood and flesh flying everywhere, caused the already surging anger of the bloodthirsty soldiers to soar to its peak in an instant.
They glared at the members of the modification experiment team, some dead, some beaten black and blue, and then, with a tacit understanding, they surrounded them, cooperating to toss and drag them one by one into the giant, running meat grinder.
The members of the experimental group, who had dismembered one human being after another according to their own preferences and research directions, looked on in horror at the bloody and horrific scene. They had thrown in mutilated bodies so many times before that they were numb and found it troublesome and dirty.
I never imagined that I would one day be one of those thrown in; my pleas and cries echoed throughout the entire laboratory.
"No... please, please don't!"
"Help... Ah!!"
"Let me go! I'll kneel down and do anything you want, waaaaah..."
"I'll agree to any conditions, as long as you don't throw me in jail, I'll never dare to do it again--"
After repeated, unoriginal pleas, came the agonizing screams of those being thrown into the machines. Mercy to the enemy was cruelty to oneself; no one had a soft heart.
[It's not that retribution won't come, it's just that the time hasn't arrived yet. They weren't afraid when the time came, but now they know to beg for mercy? Too late!]
[It's still a huge loss. Based on their past, each of them has taken tens of thousands of lives. Using their own lives to pay for so many others is a losing proposition no matter how you look at it. But there's nothing we can do about it. It's really unfair.]
He Muzhi realized that everyone was following suit, and found that he had no intention of stopping them at all. When he saw his companions' actions, he jumped down from a high place and quickly stood guard at the exit to prevent any member of the experimental group, who was, to put it nicely, conducting Body Modification experiments, but to put it bluntly, indiscriminately killing innocent people, from escaping.
A continuous stream of debris sprayed from the machine's waist, creating a horrifying scene.
He Muzhi never closed his eyes, forcing himself to keep them open and watch this scene of blood for blood, memorizing these hellish scenes, his heart filled with the urgent thought that he must do something in the future.
Qin Su admired He Muzhi's reaction. While continuing to be a silent recorder, he also took the time to extract the most satisfying, and also the most bloody and terrifying, clips from the first part of the Electronic Eye surveillance footage and then organized and merged them.
Body Modification is something that is carried out in secret on every planet. Every planet's Military District, Military Academy, and family invests in this area to some extent, maintaining one or more teams. It is completely impossible to completely ban it overnight. The only thing that can be done is to use the fear of killing to stop killing as a silent deterrent.
The reason why the Ossotalia Empire is criticized by countless planetary inhabitants is that they have repeatedly regarded Body Modification as an honor, and inevitably revealed some inside information. Even the arrogant Ossotalia Empire only revealed some embellished and disguised inside information. However, no matter how disguised, it cannot hide the fact that only one in ten is actually modified.
After this bloody and brutal "resistance," planets that want to treat those who "voluntarily" undergo Body Modification with the same impunity as before will have to consider whether their future will always be smooth sailing, and whether they will one day be caught in the crossfire and become one of those people in the picture.
Moreover, as the future of the Federation, before taking office, in order to avoid being dismissed or ignored by his 'seniors' due to his youth, it was necessary for He Muzhi to leave an impression of 'ruthless and cold-blooded' in the minds of the world.
Qin Su believed that He Muzhi, who had witnessed these things firsthand, would lead the Federation into a new era, given that He Muzhi's moral compass far surpassed his own.
After an unknown amount of time, when all the team members in charge of Body Modification in the laboratory and the soldiers brought by He Wenyuan were dead, He Muzhi glanced in the direction of the Electronic Eye.
With all the prison doors closed, something Aldrich, who was constantly under surveillance, clearly couldn't do, could only be accomplished by Qin Su. Although he knew it was narcissistic and shameless of him to think that way, He Muzhi secretly harbored the thought that ' Qin Su has always been there, and it's not impossible that he's watching his behavior through Electronic Eyes.'
Noticing He Muzhi's gaze directed at him through the Electronic Eye, Qin Su simply closed the laboratory exit, openly asserting his presence.
The time was ripe, and it was time for him to reap some goodwill and nip any possibility of He Wenyuan surviving in the bud.
Thump!
The laboratory door plummeted without warning, slicing the bodies of the Ossotalia Empire soldiers on the ground in two.
[No, these episodes are too brutal, I really can't take it. I have no idea what kind of bloody scenes are coming next when I scroll down. Thank goodness they're not real, otherwise this world would be terrifying.]
[I was so nervous just now, and it really happened. It's all their fault for going to all that trouble to kill those people. Now they're going to get themselves killed too. P. S. Our world is actually quite terrifying. Didn't a certain country recently expose tens of thousands of corpses missing various body parts?]
[Praying for world peace (hands clasped together. jpg)]
The commotion startled the crowd, who had just calmed down after venting their anger, and they looked panicked.
What's going on?
What's going on?!
"He Muzhi, do you have any leads? Have we been discovered?"
The anxious crowd looked intently at He Muzhi. At first, they did not know that He Muzhi was the one who started this war of resistance, because He Muzhi had not used his own voice when he gathered them and spoke to them before. It was not until He Muzhi told them to lie down that they recognized that familiar voice, which many of them had heard countless times on the StarNet because of Qin Su.
They recognized He Muzhi. When the people in the modification experiment group paid a heavy price, someone had personally confirmed He Muzhi's identity. Suddenly faced with an unpredictable situation, they subconsciously placed their hopes on He Muzhi.
Although He Muzhi had some ideas, he wasn't very sure and didn't dare to speak casually. He opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, he heard a familiar voice coming through the laboratory's still-intact broadcast system, reaching everyone's ears.
"Take off all your clothes and leave them on."