Anti-Perfusion

The glaring white light made Watanabe Motoji unable to open his eyes. After a moment of adjustment, he realized his situation: his hands and feet were bound tightly, and a gag was stuffed in his mouth.

His two assistants were in the same predicament.

He nervously observed his surroundings. Besides the gray-white walls, cool-toned lighting, and chilling air conditioning, there was only the iron cage they were confined in.

Baka yarou! Watanabe was furious, yet terrified. As a member of the Eastern Ying United Chamber of Commerce's International Intelligence Center, he was responsible for commercial intelligence in Southeast Asia and had extensive connections there. He never expected to fall into a trap like this.

To avoid unnecessary complications, he hadn't made a big fuss about his trip to Darte Port. Only his superior at the intelligence center knew the details.

Now, all he could do was wait for his kidnappers to appear, hoping they would spare his life after receiving the ransom.

Unfortunately, he was mistaken.

Soon, several stern-faced Soldiers opened the door to the animal containment room and escorted Watanabe and his two companions to a cleaning room. After stripping them of their clothes, they were directly hosed down with water.

Then, they were sent to the operating room.

Gene Modification, followed by biological chip implantation, and then interrogation of Watanabe and the others about everything they knew.

Due to the perfection and advancement of the technology, and the fact that these spy-type Soldiers only required gene sterilization and prefrontal lobe deactivation, with no need for physical enhancement, the gene modification process was shortened to five days.

Similarly, with biological chip implantation surgery, Li Qingye, having performed forty such surgeries, along with the help of several specially trained assistant Soldiers, could essentially guarantee one implantation surgery every six hours.

Through the notebooks and mobile phones confiscated from the three men, Li Qingye also uncovered information about them.

He first sent an email to Watanabe's superior to report the situation.

In the report, he first stated that Darte Port had been experiencing network outages recently, which might affect timely communication. He then added that he couldn't confirm if the Homo sapiens Company possessed the eel breeding technology and that he would need about a month to continue his investigation in Darte Port.

He decided to string them along for now.

In reality, Watanabe and the others' phones and computers had been secretly hijacked by Li Qingye using hacker techniques the moment they arrived at Darte Port, making them believe there were communication issues locally.

Meanwhile, the modified Watanabe and his companions were being intensively interrogated in the interrogation room, their minds' intelligence being thoroughly extracted.

To avoid alerting the enemy, Watanabe and the others couldn't die in Darte Port. However, this also presented an excellent opportunity to infiltrate the Eastern Ying United Chamber of Commerce.

According to the intelligence extracted from Watanabe:

The Eastern Ying United Chamber of Commerce was a loose alliance formed by six major conglomerates—Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Fuji, Sanwa, and Kangyin—with the aim of advancing and retreating together, and to cope with the increasingly complex international environment.

This so-called International Commercial Intelligence Center was actually the former intelligence center of the Fuyou Association (Fuji conglomerate), responsible for investigating and collecting intelligence from around the world to provide intelligence support to the major Eastern Ying conglomerates.

Watanabe and his two companions belonged to the Southeast Asia Office-Luzon Task Force under the Intelligence Center. This department had a total of 12 direct employees and 243 subordinates, with close ties to both the underworld and legitimate circles in Luzon.

This was why Watanabe was so familiar with the Homo sapiens Company's background and showed no fear towards Li Qingye's fake identity as Zhang Jack.

He had simply underestimated Li Qingye's decisiveness and was caught off guard.

With so much intelligence obtained, Li Qingye effortlessly learned much previously difficult-to-obtain information, such as the intricate network of relationships within Luzon. At the same time, he noticed an opportunity.

Watanabe and his companions' superior was in Manila, outwardly appearing as an Eastern Ying owner of a sushi restaurant residing in Manila. That sushi restaurant also served as an intelligence outpost.

Other formal employees included: one at the sushi restaurant; three within the Luzon Overseas Chinese Association; three who ran a venture capital firm (Watanabe and his companions); two who operated Japanese language schools; one who managed a plantation; and one who was the head of Kubota Company in Luzon.

Clearly, they were dispersed across various industries and did not contact each other frequently. Even when they did, they would use gatherings of overseas Chinese as a cover and converse at the sushi restaurant.

Li Qingye had already obtained the exact information on these individuals and was quickly strategizing.

Watanabe and his companions had brought their families to Luzon. Although the second-generation biological chips had improved computational power, reaching an average of 622 mega-flops per second, and the Soldier programs had been further optimized, the Soldiers' shortcomings remained obvious, such as their inability to handle unknown emergencies. While rare, such situations were not impossible.

In the long lifespan of humans, all sorts of peculiar things could happen; it was only a matter of time.

For overly rigid Soldiers, ordinary friends and colleagues might not notice anything unusual, but their immediate family, who saw them daily, would surely detect some anomalies.

However, Li Qingye had no other choice; he had to make do with what he had.

Of course, there were ways to solve the Soldier problem.

To fundamentally resolve the issue, it would be necessary to maximize the storage capacity and computational power of the biological chips, making the Soldier program's database sufficiently large and enhancing its problem-solving capabilities.

This, however, was a difficult task at the current stage.

Other methods were merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause.

For example, Soldiers 1-40, who were currently being modified, were instructed not to go home, not to contact relatives, and not to undertake missions outside their scope, thereby reducing the possibility of encountering unknown events.

Another option was to eliminate the Soldiers' relatives entirely, which could suppress intelligence leaks in the short term.

However, this was too cruel, and relatives also had their own social circles. If the number of people involved grew, it would eventually lead to errors over time.

Therefore, Li Qingye decided to adopt a multi-pronged approach.

For instance, having the Soldiers frequently work overtime or travel for work, reducing the time spent with their relatives; or using excuses like divorce or establishing independent households to separate from their relatives.

However, not everyone would require such complicated measures.

This was especially true for one of the targets this time: Takasugi Hei, the direct superior of Watanabe and his two companions.

This man had a falling out with his wife several years ago and was now single. Although he had several mistresses in Manila, such relationships were easy to manage; he could simply say he was bored with them and send them away with money.

Moreover, Takasugi Hei was the head of the Luzon Task Force. If he could capture this individual, coupled with Watanabe and his companions acting as decoys, Li Qingye could completely gain covert control of the Eastern Ying United Chamber of Commerce's intelligence network in Luzon and even infiltrate Eastern Ying in reverse.

For Li Qingye, who lacked manpower and had few normal individuals to utilize, using Eastern Ying people was a very good option.

The intelligence capabilities of Eastern Ying people in Southeast Asia and East Asia were not to be underestimated. While they might appear harmless on the surface, their ambitions had never waned.

Li Qingye's current intelligence resources were clearly insufficient to investigate the murderers of his parents.

Having made up his mind, he immediately formulated a plan to lure Takasugi Hei to Darte Port. Simultaneously, two other intelligence officers with simpler interpersonal relationships were also targets for this operation.

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