You Should Keep Laughing!

After locking the room, Hong Fei turned and headed to another location.

Pushing open the door, he saw Frank with his legs propped on the desk, frowning slightly as he watched The Leader's eerie smile through a massive one-way glass window.

"When did he wake up?"

Without turning around, Frank replied, "This morning."

Hong Fei pulled out a chair and sat beside him. Staring at Big Head's strange smile, he could not help wondering, "I feel like he can see this side?"

"Hmph, he's just putting on an act." Frank said coldly. "But you're right. He may indeed have some kind of superpower like mind control. The person watching him almost let him out earlier."

"Where's that person?"

"Knocked out and carried away." Frank's face also showed a trace of confusion. "Are there really superpowers in this world?"

Hong Fei nodded. "Of course. Seeing is believing; we have to learn to accept new things. But why are you sitting here by yourself? Aren't you afraid he'll control you too?"

Frank said disdainfully, "He's still not good enough to control me."

Pointing at his head, he said, "I do seem to be able to sense something trying to drill into my mind, but obviously, my resistance is a little stronger."

"You're right. A strong personal will can indeed resist mind control to a certain degree. He has only just mutated and gained his powers, so he definitely doesn't have enough control over them yet. But this ability may be growing, so don't let your guard down."

Frank nodded slightly.

At that moment, Hong Fei also sensed an inexplicable force appearing outside his consciousness. With a single thought, energy surged forth and directly sealed that force out.

At the same time, The Leader's smile in the next room stiffened slightly.

Hong Fei immediately laughed, rising to his feet. "I'll go take a look at him."

"Wait, aren't you afraid?"

"You aren't afraid, so why should I be?"

"Didn't you just say not to be careless?"

"I'm stronger than you."

After passing both password and iris verification, Hong Fei entered the room where The Leader was being held.

At that moment, he was tightly bound to an alloy chair with iron chains as thick as thumbs. Only his head could move freely.

Seeing Hong Fei enter, he turned his head and offered him that exceptionally eerie smile again.

With a smile at the corner of his mouth, Hong Fei approached. Suddenly, he raised his right hand high and brought it down swiftly, his broad palm rapidly enlarging in Big Head's eyes.

Slap!

Amid the crisp, resounding smack, that enormous head was slapped a full one hundred and eighty degrees around. Watching from next door, Frank could not help worrying whether such a huge head might suddenly fall off.

Whipping his head back around, Samuel Sterns's eyes were filled with shock and bewilderment. For a moment, he did not even know what expression to make.

Hong Fei smiled. "Laugh. Keep going."

Samuel did not continue that eerie smile. Instead, he blankly asked, "Who are you?"

Hong Fei sat on the table. "Who I am isn't important. What matters is whether you know who you are now."

"I'm Samuel Sterns. I'm a scientist. I..."

But Hong Fei kept shaking his head. "Wrong."

"How am I wrong?"

Hong Fei said with a smile, "You now have one identity, and one identity only: my prisoner."

Samuel froze.

Below his forehead, his head was still fairly normal. But after the mutation, it had begun growing wildly upward straight from his brow, and it seemed it had not yet reached its limit.

That blank expression of his therefore looked rather comical.

However, Hong Fei would not underestimate him because of that.

The Leader's head had not grown for nothing. As his skull expanded, his brain capacity increased as well, and his intelligence rose with it across numerous dimensions, including but not limited to intuition, computational thinking, information storage, and logic.

His head was still growing, which meant he still had room to improve.

Given his current performance, Hong Fei found it difficult to tell whether it was real or fake. So the best approach was... to beat him up first!

Hong Fei reached out and unfastened the chains around his body. "Come on, let's fight. If you win, I'll let you out. If you lose, we keep going."

"Wait, what do you mean?" Samuel quickly raised his hands to stop him.

But Hong Fei did not care. He strode forward and planted a front kick squarely in Samuel's chest.

Immediately, Frank next door saw Samuel, his oversized brain-like head atop his curled-up body, fly backward. He could not help shaking his head. "Here we go again..."

After landing, Samuel dropped to his knees with a thud. Clutching his abdomen tightly, his face twisted in unbearable pain. "What exactly are you trying to do? I don't know how to fight..."

Hong Fei stepped forward, grabbed him, and smashed a fierce headbutt into his huge forehead.

Samuel was immediately left dizzy and disoriented by the blow.

After that, no matter what he said, Hong Fei ignored him and continued beating him.

A minute later, when Hong Fei approached him again, the energy covering his brain was suddenly struck by what felt like a sharp thorn.

Hong Fei immediately had to mobilize more energy and force it away inch by inch.

"Now that's more like it. Why hide it?"

Hong Fei raised his leg high, driving the heel of his rear foot into Samuel's chin. Once again, Samuel's huge head dragged his body into the air before slamming down.

Samuel's breath caught painfully in his chest. Coughing madly, he used both hands and feet to scramble backward with all his strength.

"Cough, wait, wait a second, cough cough... I surrender. I, cough... I'm not pretending anymore..."

Hong Fei answered with a side kick.

"It hurts so much! I'm not fighting anymore!"

"I really know I was wrong!"

"I'll never dare do it again!"

"Stop hitting me! I've really done my best. If you keep hitting me, I'm going to die..."

Three minutes later, Hong Fei sent Samuel flying with a palm strike to the chest. When the back of his head slammed heavily against the wall, he immediately passed out.

Hong Fei stopped and looked at his body with a regretful shake of his head.

Another defeat without a Skill Card dropping.

He was certainly eager for a supernatural ability like Telepathy. This elusive, inscrutable power could be an excellent match with anyone.

Turning around, Hong Fei saw only a massive mirror and could not see through to the other side.

He waved a hand. "Get someone to treat him."

A moment later, under the joint watch of Hong Fei and Frank, Samuel was carried onto a hospital bed and put on an IV drip.

Leaving the surveillance room.

Frank asked, "Why did you hit him?"

"He wouldn't listen."

"But what exactly do you want him to do? Join us in our operations, or conduct the scientific research he's good at?"

"Both." Hong Fei nodded. "His ability is rare and may come in handy at critical moments. Besides, he'll only get smarter and smarter. Whether it's planning and carrying out missions or scientific research, he'll be an excellent helper."

Frank pondered for several seconds. "Then why didn't you just tell him what you wanted?"

Hong Fei suddenly frowned. "Didn't I?"

"You didn't."

The atmosphere became somewhat awkward.

Hong Fei's eye twitched. Then, as if changing faces, he suddenly beamed and patted Frank on the shoulder. "Go check the first room on the left in the armory."

Frank looked doubtful.

Hong Fei said, "Go on. I left something good there. It'll definitely shock you for an entire year!"

Frank walked over, half-believing and half-doubting, while Hong Fei stood in the corridor smiling without a word.

Shortly afterward, a loud, trembling "WTF" echoed through the hallway.

Hong Fei could no longer hold it in and burst into laughter.