Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach! Chapter 46

He got straight to the point.

Xiao Huasheng froze for a moment before answering cautiously.

"Didn't I come out of that statue? I don't know what I am either..."

Jin Li seemed to have expected this.

He slowly opened his notebook and began writing.

Then he spoke to Xiao Huasheng.

"The Foundation has decided to conduct an execution experiment on you."

After saying that,

Jin Li closed his eyes and let out a long breath.

At last, was it going to end?

He shut his eyes, preparing to face the death that was about to come.

Ever since Ku Tang's death, he had long lost the courage to keep living.

Several batches of professional psychologists had analyzed Xiao Huasheng's personality through her behavior.

She was completely willful and utterly self-centered.

Though judging an entity by human standards was somewhat laughable,

it was at least a point of reference.

After Jin Li said those words, he prepared himself to die. At the same time, the various Mobile Task Forces outside stood ready.

They waited for it to happen.

The Foundation had always assumed the worst when dealing with entities, and Xiao Huasheng was no exception.

After her first escape, the Foundation had still shown this angel enough patience.

But after her second escape, when she had fled alongside those entities, the Foundation no longer held any illusions about her.

Perhaps only executing her, or throwing her directly into some space that would never see daylight, could truly contain her?

No matter what, the Foundation had prepared for war with Xiao Huasheng.

They had even set casualty quotas.

"I'm sorry..."

Yet in the end, Jin Li heard those words.

He stared wide-eyed in a daze. Having not slept for three months, his eyes were bloodshot.

For a moment, Jin Li suspected that he had misheard.

Xiao Huasheng's halo flickered faintly like a candle swaying in the wind.

She lowered her head, her red hair falling over half her face.

Thinking Jin Li had not heard her, she spoke again.

"I said... I'm sorry." Her voice was soft, yet it struck Jin Li's chest like a heavy hammer.

Jin Li's fingers stiffened, and fountain-pen ink spread into a dark blue blot on the paper.

He stared at her, as though trying to see through whether she was lying.

But her expression was calmer than it had ever been.

"I know... nothing I say can fix this." Xiao Huasheng raised her head. There was no cunning or mockery in her eyes, only an almost exhausted frankness. "Those people... the people who died because of me, I can't give their lives back."

After saying that, she took a deep breath and stopped looking at the grieving man before her.

Jin Li's breathing halted for a moment.

The agents in the surveillance room exchanged looks. Their fingers remained on the triggers, yet no one dared make a rash move.

This was completely different from what they had expected—no rage, no sophistry, not even the slightest deceptive performance.

There was only... confession.

Since when did entities confess their crimes to humans?

To most entities, humans were merely another species. If they died, they died. Some even took pleasure in tormenting humans.

Jin Li's temples still throbbed, and the side effects of the memory enhancer made his mind incomparably clear.

He remembered every victim's face, their screams before death, and the nearly innocent smile Xiao Huasheng had worn during the containment breach.

Yet now, she looked like someone who was truly repenting.

"Why?" he finally asked, his voice hoarse beyond recognition.

Xiao Huasheng was silent for a while, then gave a bitter smile.

"Because I finally understand." She spoke softly. "No matter what reasons I had, no matter how desperately I wanted to break through back then, those people ultimately died because of me."

Her halo dimmed slightly, and guilt weighed her head down.

After realizing that so many people had died because of her, she decided to face it all.

She closed her eyes and waited quietly.

However.

If, if the Foundation truly wanted her dead,

then she absolutely would not agree to it just like that.

She would disappear from this world forever and never appear before the Foundation again.

As for placing other people's lives before her own, sorry.

She truly could not do that.

Jin Li's fingertips trembled slightly.

He should have sneered. He should have mocked her hypocrisy.

He should have laughed at her, angered her, and proven that her repentance was nothing but a joke.

These words were merely wishful thinking on her part, nothing more than naïve remarks and naïve responses.

An entity's words could not be trusted.

Yet at that moment, he found that he could not move.

Because those eyes, that look in her eyes... resembled Ku Tang too much.

They resembled the girl who had once looked at him with the same calm gaze.

Jin Li fell silent.

Ku Tang Is Back Again!

Xiao Huasheng was, in truth, still afraid of her own impending death.

She did not know whether she could withstand the Foundation's execution.

If the Foundation attacked her with everything it had, she would be completely unable to resist.

Even an avatar of Slaanesh could toy with her at will, let alone the Foundation, which was more terrifying than the Four Warp Gods.

The Foundation had truly suppressed all kinds of things even more terrifying than Warp Gods.

Xiao Huasheng did not believe she could get through this.

Angela also sighed softly.

[Looks like our company is going to end here, huh?]

As an A-rank supervisor, he was qualified to judge whether Xiao Huasheng should be executed or spared.

Ku Tang's appearance kept flashing through his mind.

His daughter's smiling face, the way she stuck out her tongue while making coffee that was too sweet or too bitter, and even how she had wailed on the floor after breaking a toy when she was younger.

They flashed past him again and again.

"Why, why... why couldn't you just kill me? As long as you did that, as long as you did that, it would have been enough."

Clenching his fists, Jin Li's body went utterly stiff.

For the first time in three months, great tears streamed from the old man's eyes, falling to the floor and soaking the cold metal sheets.

After closing his eyes in agony, he finally gritted his teeth and said wearily, "Tell me all of your abilities, all of your power... the Foundation needs you."

At the same time, within the Foundation's archives,

an order was silently canceled as Jin Li spoke those words.

The Gun Angel Execution Plan became a file awaiting transmission on the computer, but Enter would never be pressed to place it into the archives.

"My abilities?"

Xiao Huasheng widened her eyes slightly as she looked at Jin Li.

Jin Li nodded and said, "Yes, your abilities."

"Ah, okay."

Realizing that the Foundation might be recruiting her, she immediately began demonstrating.

Since she would not have to face the Foundation's terrifying methods, she was naturally happy to do so.

The foundation of cooperation was transparency and trust.

That was also extremely important in a logistics company.

If teammates constantly hid certain skills and refused to tell everyone about them, the entire process would become very difficult.

Of course, Xiao Huasheng still held some things back during this process.

For instance, she did not tell the Foundation about Lobotomy Corporation, Abnormalities, or how she would die if she exhausted all her energy.

"First, my guns!"

The red-haired angel casually pulled out a Vector and fired a shot at the ground.

Boom!

A huge crater visibly appeared in the floor. "The guns I create are all very powerful, and they consume very little of my energy. If I use too much energy, I fall asleep."

"I can see that." Jin Li nodded at the crater, then waved to signal the task force members at the door not to panic.

Seeing that he was truly listening carefully to what abilities she had,

Xiao Huasheng immediately grew more enthusiastic.

"Then there's line of sight. If you aren't looking at me, I can twist your neck off at an extremely fast speed!"

"I know that too." Back at the Foundation, once they had briefly lost observation of Xiao Huasheng, she had nearly reached the main gate in an instant. Jin Li still remembered that clearly.

"Then you definitely haven't seen this."

Xiao Huasheng blinked, the corners of her lips lifting into a sly smile.

She raised her hand and lightly snapped her fingers—

Snap.

In an instant, the air throughout the room seemed to freeze.

Jin Li's pupils suddenly contracted. His body tensed sharply, and he instinctively wanted to press the alarm.

But in the next second, his movement froze.

Because a huge, exquisitely decorated chocolate cake had appeared out of thin air on the metal table before him.

The piped cream decorations were delicate and smooth, the chocolate glaze gleamed enticingly, and there was even a burning candle inserted into the top of the cake. Its flame swayed gently, casting light over Xiao Huasheng's faintly proud face.

"What do you think?" she asked with a grin. "You haven't seen this before, right? I only learned it recently."

Jin Li's breathing stopped.

Reality distortion.

The term exploded in his mind like thunder.