Chapter 284
"..."
Having his thoughts exposed, Kanasen was speechless.
Having lived together for a long time, Qin Su took Kanasen's silence as tacit agreement and ignored Kanasen, turning on his Optical Brain to check the distance between himself and everyone else.
[Am I the only one who thinks that King Su treats Kanasen better than he treats Class 6)?]
[This jealousy is outrageous! Shouldn't Class 6 take this good fortune?]
[Let's forget about it then. But does nobody care about Steven, Ailik... their disappearances? No one survived the scene of their disappearances, and their respective factions were thrown into chaos by their sudden disappearances, with no one knowing the specifics.]
[Having done so many bad things, it's no wonder they got kidnapped. They deserved it. When I saw the updated footage of them before, I didn't even bother to give them a second glance. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known they were missing.]
[Baby 1 says Kanasen has a new roommate, and people in the Federation are going missing one after another. On the other hand, apart from Kanasen, all of Kanasen's confidants in the Ossotalia Empire are doing well. Family, I have a bold idea.]
[Actually, Greyliff had already been kidnapped from his private hospital, but the Federation was afraid the outside world would find out, so it was kept in the dark.]
Kanasen, unaware of the specific situation outside, kept glancing towards the Floor-to-Ceiling Window.
After adjustments, the situation inside was completely obscured from view, and from the inside, he could only see the routine patrol team; nothing more, and he couldn't discern anything unusual...
Wait, why did the patrol team stop? Kanasen frowned, then saw the patrol team retreat hastily and quickly disappear from his sight.
"?"
Kanasen couldn't help but stand up abruptly, almost pressing himself against the wall of the Floor-to-Ceiling Windows, his already unhealthy heart pounding wildly.
They're here! They're finally here! He'll finally have company!
Before long, Kanasen heard a series of halos of light from Spaceships forcibly Hyperspace Jump out of the Passageway overhead. One Spaceship after another descended from the sky and appeared in his field of vision. Neither the daily patrol teams nor his personal guards appeared in the Setini Palace.
"!"
Despite having some suspicions about this situation, when he actually saw those Spaceships marked with the letter S and realized they belonged to Qin Su, Kanasen still couldn't help but gasp for breath, twisting his stiff neck to look in Qin Su's direction not far away.
Seeing the punctuation marks appearing at the pre-cleared destination, Qin Su looked away from the numerous Optical Brain pages on his personal terminal and met Kanasen's gaze. "As your roommate, you can go and greet them."
The Setini Palace was ten times larger than the Federation's Atopulai Palace, and the landing points he set for each Spaceship were some distance from their own locations.
He had deliberately avoided issuing orders prohibiting communication between members of different bases, as the distance was sufficient for the Modified Humans to communicate.
When he first got them, everything was unstable, and he had to be on guard against them at all times, not allowing them to meet.
Now everyone basically has something on him. Even if they have ulterior motives, they have to think twice about whether they have the guts to betray him. They realize that no matter which planet they are on, there are traces of his existence. Even if they are lucky enough to successfully defect from their current base in the future, no matter which planet they escape to, they will not be able to hide for long. It is best to be terrified of him.
Kanasen had long wanted to reunite with Felix and the others. After receiving Qin Su's permission, he swallowed hard before daring to leave in front of Qin Su. The thought of others suffering with Qin Su alongside him made his steps lighter.
Upon Spaceship, the controllers on each Spaceship witnessed the hatches opening uncontrollably.
Before this, the people in charge of the Modification Bases stationed on various planets had basically no contact with each other. After being deliberately separated and placed under supervision by Qin Su, it was even less likely that they would have any contact. When the hatch opened, they saw other Spaceships with the "S" mark parked outside. They were surprised and quickly got out of the Spaceships.
Less than three seconds after the hatch opened, the area around it was packed with people.
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Caught completely off guard, countless Modified Humans met at the Setini Palace, their eyes initially revealing utter bewilderment as they looked at each other.
[So many people. jpg]
[Are you kidding me? You're not the only ones... Wait, when did the God Su give them that order? I didn't know.]
[You probably skipped over characters you weren't interested in. It's normal not to know them, since you can find out now anyway, so it doesn't matter much.]
No one spoke. After a few seconds of silent staring, someone immediately realized that this mission wasn't exclusive to their base, and understood that it meant fierce competition. Their eyes quickly turned wary as they looked at each other.
The heads of the various bases reacted quickly and without hesitation, issuing orders to bring the mission target out of the Spaceship and deliver it to Qin Su.
"I was so scared, there were so many people..."
"Go go go, hurry up!"
"First place, first place! We must be number one! Class 6 isn't here, this is a great opportunity for us to shine. If we can't beat Class 6, and we can't beat the people from other bases, what's the point of us being alive!"
The brief pause caused by the sudden, unannounced meeting disappeared. Although the people on several Spaceships did not actually make a move, nor dared to do so given that Qin Su was very likely to be there, they were all very competitive in their actions, each playing their part to ensure that their base's people could pass through quickly. This left a deep impression on Qin Su.
When Qin Su gave the order, he only required the mission targets to be alive and did not have any additional requirements regarding their condition. However, the mission targets were by no means people who could be easily slaughtered. It was obviously impossible to make them appear obediently in front of Qin Su while they were conscious. No matter which base it was, they did not want any accidents to happen before the mission targets were delivered to Qin Su. Although they had not communicated with each other, they tacitly kept their respective mission targets 'quiet' in various ways.
[Holy crap, just like everyone guessed, all the missing people are here. This is going to be interesting, I can't wait (starry-eyed)]
[Ahhh, this prophet is here!]
[Laughing so hard I almost choked! There was no curiosity about each other in their eyes, only a strong desire to perform well in front of Qin Su and win first place (covering face)]
[Damn it, the language failed me; they're not from the Ossotalia Empire at all!]
[Laughing so hard! Wake up, everyone! We're 'home'! I wonder what their expressions will be when they wake up and find themselves in the Setini Palace, in front of Qin Su (hehe)]
[I knew it! Qin Su is a heartless hypocrite. On one hand, he ordered (Class 6 to push forward the ban on Body Modification and shamelessly deleted so much modification data from the Military District. On the other hand, he forcibly took all the Modified Humans and put them to his own use. He was clearly deliberately weakening the strength of the Military District of various planets.]
[What?! You're so cunning! I love you even more now (grinning)]
Qin Su looked at everyone in the Electronic Eyes, each displaying their unique abilities, dazzling him. They were all busy "racing," and no one was interacting as he had expected. He then looked at the mission targets on the backs, necks, hanging in the air, tucked under the arms, and fixed above the heads of the various base leaders. The silence was deafening.
Ah?
He wondered how this group of people could have had so little contact with Class 6), how could there be a 'human-to-human' transmission phenomenon? Could it be...?
Qin Su thought of the Class 6) classmate who had been forced together by him and hadn't been happy for long, only a year later they had relapsed into their old ways.
Was he mistaken? Is this inexplicable thought process not contagious, but rather transferable? Did it transfer from Class 6) to the Modified Humans?
Call...
Qin Su was glad that he had turned off the Comic Capture Camera after Kanasen left, and glad that things didn't always go as planned. He was used to it. After taking a deep breath, he had already adjusted his emotions, struck a pose, and waited for everyone who had inexplicably started arguing to arrive early.
Kanasen walked out as quickly as possible with anticipation, his eyes lighting up with a rare joy when he saw the wide, open entrance.
Kanasen, hunched over, had lost so much weight in the past year—no maintenance, only torture—that he had plummeted from 180 pounds to just over 110 pounds. At 1.85 meters tall, he looked like nothing but skin and bones. Despite already possessing a speed boost, and having replaced parts of his body with the best available through expensive modifications provided by Qin Su, his full-speed travel was astonishing. To the rapidly moving Modified Humans, Kanasen was merely a frail shadow blocking their path.
When they first saw someone ahead, the Modified Humans were rushing towards their mission objective paused for a moment. In less than a second, they determined from the figure that it was not Qin Su. Not only did they not intend to stop, they did not even give Kanasen a second glance. Unsure of the other party's identity and fearing that the other party might be Qin Su's people, they could only raise their voices to warn the other party to make way.
"People in front, get out of the way!"
Hey, hey, hey, get out of the way!
"Don't move, or you'll get hit!"
Kanasen was still quite a distance from the entrance when he heard a series of warning voices coming from afar. Anger rose in his heart, and before he could even spend three seconds adjusting his vision settings, he saw a series of indistinct shadows flying past him rapidly from the left, right, and top. All he could hear was the whistling wind, his mind was buzzing, and his whole body froze, afraid of being knocked away. He dared not move an inch.
[Kanasen: Harsh words hurt people]
[What Emperor Kanasen? He only hinders their progress.]
[It's clear they really want to improve under Qin Su. If they were kind old people, I would condemn them. But it's Kanasen, that old, wicked man... I just want to say, crash into him! Crash him!]
[Kanasen: A cool breeze was blowing against my face in gusts.]
[Unnoticed by anyone, several unconscious people vomited repeatedly on the Modified Humans before collapsing again.]
After an unknown amount of time, the 'wind' around him finally stopped. Kanasen was still bewildered and hadn't recovered when he saw a large group of people whose figures had clearly been modified walking towards him.
Kanasen: "!"
These are the roommates Qin Su told him before?