What left Scorpion even more at a loss over how to express his feelings was Manager Wang's attitude toward him, along with the attitude of the middle-aged man beside him. The way these people treated him proved one thing: these apparent "natives" did not know his background.
Moreover, Manager Wang had said he would introduce him to a wife, which meant that China, the force controlling everything behind the scenes, had not deliberately targeted him, even though they had implanted all sorts of safeguards in his body.
Yet they were willing to let him know all this despite those safeguards. That proved one thing: they were extremely confident—so confident that they were not afraid of him learning the truth, nor of him revealing anything else. Or rather, they simply did not fear him saying anything at all.
That confidence pointed to one fact: their control over this place far exceeded anything he had imagined!
They also believed he could never escape. Even if he managed to remove the precautions placed on him, they were absolutely certain he still would not be able to get out.
A storm surged through Scorpion's heart. He had learned an enormous secret, but the price of knowing such a secret was that he would never be able to leave this place again. He understood that very clearly.
But what he could not fathom was how all of this had been accomplished.
He truly could not guess. By all rights, China could not possibly have concealed such a massive undertaking from other countries. Yet he was certain that the rest of the world knew nothing about it. Or had all of this happened during the years he had spent in prison?
But that should not have been possible either. Although he had been incarcerated these past