Would You Be Interested in Working for Me?

Garfield, Radis, and Harry headed straight for Darte Port again.

But as soon as they arrived, they were caught like dogs with the door shut behind them.

When Garfield came to again, he saw Harry locked inside a cage, and his expression darkened to the extreme.

He threatened the soldier guarding them. "Get Mada over here. Is he looking to get himself killed?"

The soldier glanced at him, then picked up the landline. "Minister Fili, Garfield Fernando is awake."

"Bring him here. The boss wants to see him."

"Yes, sir."

With special handcuffs locked around his wrists, Garfield silently followed the soldier out. Even now, he still believed Mada was behind everything and that Mada wouldn't dare do anything to him.

After taking the elevator and passing through a corridor, Garfield arrived at an office.

"Boss, I've brought him," the soldier reported with a salute.

"Stand guard outside." Li Qingye waved him away.

Seeing the middle-aged man before him, Garfield looked surprised. Since the soldier had spoken in English, Garfield, being Luzonian, naturally understood it.

Who was this man? One of Mada's underlings? Garfield asked with a dark expression, "Where's Mada? Tell him to come out. Is he too afraid to face me?"

"Mr. Garfield, would you be interested in working for me?" Li Qingye asked casually from the sofa.

Garfield was taken aback. Only then did he take a closer look at the man. His face seemed refined and gentle, yet there was an indescribable sharpness and arrogance about him.

"Who are you?"

"I'm the founder of Homo sapiens Company. I'm someone who'll do whatever it takes to achieve my goals." Li Qingye was blunt.

"Homo sapiens Company? Where's Mada?" A sense of foreboding rose in Garfield's heart.

Li Qingye smiled and asked in reply, "You really want to see him? Okay." With that, he clapped his hands.

Clap, clap, clap...

The office door slowly opened. Mada and Radis walked in with vacant expressions, then stood off to one side.

Garfield stared hard at his older brother Mada and his Third Uncle Radis. His expression grew grimmer and his voice began to tremble. "What... what did you do to them? My father won't..."

"Why bother? Threats like that only make you look weak." Li Qingye remained as casual as ever.

Fear...

A fear unlike anything he'd ever felt...

At that moment, Li Qingye's refined, gentle face looked to Garfield like that of a devil from hell.

"Will you end up like Mada, or become the ruler of Luzon? That depends on your choice. I'll respect your decision."

Garfield's heaving chest showed the fierce struggle within him. But when he saw the lifeless look in Mada's eyes, he finally broke. Overcome with emotion, he said:

"I'll do it. As long as I don't end up like Mada, I'll do anything."

Li Qingye stood up. "A wise man knows how to read the situation. The future King of Luzon, Mr. Garfield Fernando."

"Huff... huff..." Garfield was still shaken, his eyes full of unease and panic.

"Let's go!"

Li Qingye walked out of the office.

By now, Garfield knew he had no choice. He could only grit his teeth and follow.

When they entered an operating room, terror grew in Garfield's eyes. But before he could beg for mercy, everything went black.

Li Qingye expertly opened Garfield's skull and implanted a Biochip.

The following noon.

When Garfield woke from the anesthesia, he saw Li Qingye, who had just come out of surgery. He could feel the bandages wrapped around his head and a slight stinging pain. The sensation left him extremely panicked.

Li Qingye said calmly, "Don't worry. I've left everything in your brain. Your password is 708893. Just think it."

"708893..." As soon as he said it, Garfield's eyes flew wide open, as if he'd seen something unbelievable.

He then immersed himself in the Administrator Program. It wasn't until the sun was setting that he came out of his shock.

Before, Garfield had felt nothing but fear and hatred toward Li Qingye. But after the Administrator Program had washed over him, helplessness, admiration, and greed had joined those feelings.

What he didn't know was that with advances in technology, Li Qingye's improvements to the Biochip were changing almost by the day.

The Biochip now had a new hidden feature: compound psychological suggestion.

The Biochip would continually expose its host to special snippets of imagery. Combined with various hormones and pheromones, this would imperceptibly sway the host toward Li Qingye.

This was meant to address the shortcomings of Gene Modification, while also further strengthening control over the administrators as a group.

After all, as Homo sapiens Company expanded, more and more Natural Persons would inevitably join it. Li Qingye couldn't turn them all into soldiers.

But the programs in the first-generation administrators' Biochips had some shortcomings: they preserved human desires and emotions.

The administrators might obey Li Qingye's orders because they feared death, but there were always some people who stood apart from the rest.

That meant that one day, some administrators might emerge who weren't afraid to die. The damage those special individuals could inflict on Homo sapiens Company would be unimaginable.

After all, as insiders at Homo sapiens Company, the administrators held many secrets. If they ever launched an all-out attack, they would certainly cause enormous losses.

For this reason, Li Qingye began adding psychological suggestion to the Administrator Program and Biochip Type 2.

Taking advantage of the fact that humans dreamed, and using subtle stimulation from various hormones and pheromones, this feature would imperceptibly make the host feel a sense of belonging to Homo sapiens Company and remain loyal to Li Qingye.

This was the fourth line of defense Li Qingye had established, after Biochip control, soldier surveillance, and the parasite-plasmodium.

At the moment, Garfield only knew that a Biochip had been implanted in his brain, and that it contained an Administrator Program.

But he knew nothing about the parasite-plasmodium hidden in his body, or the psychological suggestion functions in the Biochip and Administrator Program.

Unless someone knew about the psychological suggestion function from the start, or had undergone professional anti-brainwashing training, it was highly unlikely they could resist its subtle, gradual influence.

Of course, if someone truly could resist it, the Biochip would detect the anomaly.

After all, to fight off this kind of psychological suggestion, the brain would inevitably keep secreting specific hormones and pheromones. It was an instinctive biological response.

For example, if an administrator spent all day filled with thoughts of fear, hatred, disgust, and destruction, his body would also secrete the corresponding hormones and pheromones.

By monitoring this, they could basically screen out administrators with ulterior motives.

Li Qingye didn't want to scheme and maneuver against his subordinates, so he could only try to solve the problem with technology.

It wasn't that he didn't know how to win people over. After all, the memories of his ancestors contained plenty of methods for winning people's hearts and cultivating loyal followers.

The problem was that winning people over was a slow, risky, costly, and limited solution.

And Li Qingye didn't have time to drag things out.

He had only about eighteen years left to live, for one thing. Even if he had a normal lifespan, winning people over would still take a long time.

The investment required was huge, the returns pitiful, and the outcome highly uncertain. He'd have to be crazy to use that approach.

Wasn't direct technological control better?

Much better.

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