To my surprise, two days passed without any response from the Administration Bureau.
On the contrary, the Administration Bureau withdrew most of the people they had sent into the base, leaving only the original team members and a dozen or so others.
As for Liu Yang, they did not mention him at all, nor did they come looking for trouble with me.
But I had not been idle these past two days either. Ye Jinghong, Qianqian, Ying Gou, and I had been considering how to screen the people involved in the previous operation.
This kind of screening was not simple.
If they had simply been replaced by outsiders, screening them would have been almost effortless. We only needed to distinguish silicon-based lifeforms from carbon-based lifeforms. The difficulty was that they were still the same people, only tampered with. For example, they might have been implanted with chips, or they might have been bought off by the other side without even needing a chip implanted.
In the end, we could only proceed in three steps. The first was basic identification of silicon-based and carbon-based lifeforms. Those who passed that stage would then undergo scans to determine whether their brains had been implanted with chips. Once they were confirmed to be clear, they would be monitored and controlled—but the monitoring would be carried out in secret, with the subjects themselves unaware of it.
We could do that to the people below, but Dian Ling and Haman were different.
After all, I still harbored suspicions toward both Dian Ling and Haman.
But they were the leaders. If this was mishandled, it could cause a major problem.
Besides, to put it bluntly, our screening work required their cooperation. If they refused to cooperate in reviewing their own people, it would all be pointless.
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