Chapter 345: This Man Was Full of Lies
By April 9, almost all the Ascenders had been caught.
After learning that they, too, were poor souls once tormented by the Illuminati, State Security quietly hid some of them away.
They were the meek ones who, despite having superpowers, had never dared cause trouble. When they were found, they wept and begged for mercy.
As for the Ascenders who had burst out like starving wolves and taken out their hatred of the Illuminati on ordinary people, most had been shot dead.
There had been a hundred in all. State Security hid thirty, shot more than forty, and handed the twenty-odd who had kept within bounds over to Huang Ji.
Only one remained missing.
Yu Mo Shuo had hidden those Ascenders because he wanted to get something useful out of the Illuminati.
They had all been sent to the Academy of Sciences as volunteers. They could spend their days playing games or Mahjong, smoking, drinking, even getting their hair done, so long as they cooperated with physical examinations and provided samples.
Yu Mo Shuo hoped their genetic samples might yield valuable breakthroughs in life science.
The Illuminati's brawny men noticed none of it.
Every day, they threw themselves into training, occasionally helping catch someone. Wherever State Security told them to go, they went. They were almost too easy to deal with.
And the easier they were to deal with, the more uneasy Yu Mo Shuo became. They were headed to the Great Northwest, and they were bound to pull off something big! He urged Old Chen to find a way in, but Lin Li, Seth, and the others were always sparring together. When they finished fighting, they ate; when they finished eating, they slept; and when they woke, they fought again.
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