Mission Update

The situation reversed instantly. Yu Xing easily grabbed the female secretary's hand and subdued her.

Several people disguised as ordinary survivors, their faces blank, began to react. The person responsible for creating the sound and visual barriers seemed to want to deactivate their abilities. Yu Xing chuckled, "Are you sure—you want everyone to see this?"

The female secretary immediately raised her voice. "It cannot be canceled!"

She gritted her teeth. If the survivors at the base saw her, there would be too much to explain, and it was hard to guarantee that something wouldn't be discovered. If such a big mess happened, Commander Veil wouldn't let her off the hook.

She tried to break free, but to no avail. She could only whisper, "What... what do you want?"

"We're from the Base One. Someone submitted a report to the Base One about violations by Base 51. Guess what we're here for?" Yu Xing threatened the female secretary, successfully scaring her into a cold sweat.

That's impossible... Commander Veil has always kept a low profile, and the base hasn't had much contact with other bases. Where did this report come from?

The female secretary's hand trembled, and she closed her eyes briefly. "This matter... this matter must just be a misunderstanding. Commander Veil will surely be able to explain it clearly. Shall I... shall I take you two to see her?"

She had already signaled to Commander Veil that things had changed, and presumably if it were Commander Veil, she would be able to keep those two people.

The matter of Base 51 must never be known to the outside world! And these two people must never leave alive!

Yu Xing only needed a glance to know what the female secretary was thinking. He flexed his fingers and went along with it. "Alright, I really want to have a good chat with Ms. Veil now."

Releasing his control over his female secretary, Yu Xing gentlemanly raised his hand. "Lead the way."

"Oh, right." Before the female secretary could speak, Yu Xing remembered something else, "Release that girl who you just detected as infected, and let her come with us."

Since he used Luo Jue to verify his conjecture, he couldn't leave her alone here, otherwise Luo Qishan would probably be so angry that he would come after him to kill her.

"Okay." The female secretary didn't care anymore. Since things had come to this point, she should try to calm these two down first to prevent them from suddenly causing trouble.

Ahead, the testing line was still moving slowly, and about half of the people had already finished. Luo Qishan showed no abnormalities and cleverly blended into the crowd, continuing to hide.

The female secretary asked the subordinate with the binding ability to go to the lounge to bring people out. The group was stuck in place. Soon, Luo Jue, whose temperament was obviously off, followed the expressionless subordinate and stepped into the range of the sound and visual barrier.

"Wow, it's so lively." Luo Jue's tone was mature beyond her years. She tilted her head, glanced at the female secretary and the few people around her who were as numb as robots, and quickly fixed her gaze on Yu Xing's face. "You're the one who had my young master summon me? Hmm... you seem quite impressive."

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow. "Young man? It seems Miss Luo Jue has indeed learned very well; she summoned her ancestor with a single summoning."

"This young woman has a great destiny in this path, which greatly pleases me." Luo Jue spoke with the title of ancestor, but his tone was genuinely sinister and lacked much of the righteousness of the Luo family.

It seems that no matter what, even if it were the Luo family's own ancestors who were summoned as ghosts, they could not escape the mindset of ghosts and monsters.

"This place is truly unbearably crowded; I dislike it. Fortunately, this young woman's body is not bad, barely pleasing to my eye." Luo Jue's "ancestor" disgustedly touched his arm, his gaze shifting. "I hope next time we meet, it will be in a quiet place, at least so that this body won't be infested with so many low-level vengeful spirits who have usurped its place."

Zhao Yijiu's brow twitched, his already gloomy eyes growing even colder. Having been tormented by evil spirits for years, he was all too familiar with this kind of greed. "You want to possess your descendant's body?"

"Since you summoned me, you should at least pay me something, right? Otherwise, as the ancestor, it would be quite shameful for me to be summoned and dismissed at will." Luo Jue smiled and affectionately touched the warm, tender cheek. "The young woman's talent is also very high, making her perfect as my new body."

Zhao Yijiu's expression darkened further, and a sudden wave of disgust rose within him. He was about to utter a few sarcastic remarks when Yu Xing pressed down on his arm, signaling him to calm down.

Turning his head, Yu Xing gave Ancestor Luo a warm smile, "From what you're saying, when Ancestor Luo arrived, Luo Jue's body was already possessed by other vengeful spirits?"

Luo Zuzong was in a very good mood. "Yes. But they're all just trash; I can get rid of them with a wave of my hand."

The female secretary remained standing still, not daring to move.

She couldn't understand a word these people were saying, and it seemed like they all knew each other. For a moment, she had the feeling that she was uncovering some kind of secret, and the enemy was letting her into these secrets without a care, which generally meant they treated her like she was dead.

"As expected," Yu Xing said to Zhao Yijiu, "Let's do it."

The female secretary felt a chill run down her spine.

The surrounding shadows surged as if boiling water, and a chilling aura enveloped the small space. A flash of bloodlust crossed Zhao Yijiu's eyes, and then the shadows rose from the ground.

But the shadow didn't go towards the female secretary; instead, it enveloped Luo Jue in an instant, seeping in from Luo Jue legs. In that instant, ghostly energy collided.

"What are you doing!" Luo Zuzong screamed, her soul seemingly leaving her body. Her face immediately contorted in a ferocious expression. "Crossing the river and burning the bridge!?"

"You're too greedy," Zhao Yijiu said coldly.

Luo Jue is very clever. As a user of talismans, she is more cautious than anyone else and would never allow something invincible to possess her. Therefore, the ghost she summoned this time is not very strong. It is likely the most useless one among the Luo family ancestors and is no match for Zhao Yijiu at all.

Luo Zuzong didn't struggle for long before Zhao Yijiu forcibly expelled it from Luo Jue's body. Without its vessel, it let out a miserable cry of resentment and vanished into the air, returning to the unknown place connected by the talisman.

The next second, Luo Jue's expression changed, and she reverted to her girlish form. She immediately looked around and smiled, "Yay! I knew you guys were the most reliable!"

"Wow, I suddenly feel so relaxed, like a huge mountain has been lifted off my shoulders." The twin-tailed little girl bounced up on the spot. "If I hadn't been possessed, I really wouldn't have known that I'd been filled with the virus while staying in the base!"

"Yes, just as I thought. Base 51... has long been taken over by a virus, and all the survivors who entered the base were unknowingly controlled by it." As soon as Yu Xing finished speaking, the female secretary looked at him with a look of horror.

"You know everything!"

Yu Xing wanted to talk to Veil, but he never said he would let the female secretary off the hook. The reason he just acted as if he wouldn't touch her was just to get the female secretary to cooperate in bringing Luo Jue over.

Now that his goal was achieved, he directly used the power of the curse to cover the female secretary's mental energy. In just one breath, the female secretary collapsed to the ground with her eyes wide open.

The expressionless subordinates around them seemed to want to move, but following the female secretary's advice not to remove the barrier, they stood frozen in place, hardly like human beings capable of self-thinking.

Ignoring these people, Yu Xing thoughtfully continued, "The so-called testing isn't about finding those who are infected, but rather... those who have escaped its control."

"Everyone's body is filled with viral factors, which they themselves are unaware of. However, once an external force intervenes, these viral factors are expelled. Last time, I possessed Carlos by mistake and squeezed the viral factors out of Carlos's body, which is why he was judged to be out of control, and the base tried to kill him on the grounds that he was infected."

"As for Xiao Yao, Carlos said that the Lingren did something to Xiao Yao, which may have caused the virus to dissipate, freeing Xiao Yao from its control. Xiao Yao then became a threat to the virus controlling the base, and was thus captured along with them."

But these two samples alone are not enough; there are still many other possibilities. This time, he had Luo Jue willingly possessed by a ghost precisely to verify this point.

He proved to be right.

"I'm afraid this Commander Veil is the main body of the virus right now. She's controlling everything, spreading the virus to the management level, forming a team that completely obeys her orders."

"Next is cultivating tools, infecting survivors with special abilities, but without preserving their minds, turning them into puppets who only know how to obey orders," Yu Xing said, glancing at the expressionless men surrounding her.

Luo Jue nodded vigorously. "Brother Qishan had this idea before, but it was rather vague, not as precise as yours. With you here, the direction has become clear!"

Yu Xing smiled at Luo Jue, then turned her gaze to Zhao Yijiu: "Having explained myself so clearly, has the mission been updated?"

He wouldn't have explained it in such detail if it weren't for the system hearing it; Zhao Yijiu and Luo Jue should have understood in just a few words.

Zhao Yijiu nodded silently. "The mission updated when you pointed out that the base was being controlled by a virus. The new mission is to completely destroy Base 51, or to enter the central system and send a distress call to Base One."

There are two options again.

This Yugi seems to really enjoy giving players a choice between two options.