Mu You and Sky Wolf both froze as they watched the wildman abruptly drop dead before them.
No matter how they looked at it, this hardly seemed like death from sheer pain...
Mu You hurriedly rewound time.
Back ten seconds earlier, before the wildman had died, Mu You tried a different question.
"How many of the wildmen's higher-ups have been parasitized?"
"I don't know..."
"Of the higher-ups you know about, how many are hosts...?"
"Ugh... argh!"
Amid another bout of agonized screams, the wildman dropped dead again, white smoke rising from his head.
Mu You frowned and could only rewind time once more, switching to some new questions.
"Is the Wildman Tribe Chief a host?"
"No..."
"Is Sescia a host?"
"I... don't know..."
"Who is your superior?"
"..."
"What is your objective?"
Mu You kept asking questions. Whenever the man suddenly died, he immediately rewound time and switched questions.
Under this relentless questioning, Mu You soon discovered that the man could not answer many crucial questions. Before he could give the answer, he would suddenly die.
Mu You reckoned these wildmen had not merely been parasitized; some safeguards against interrogation had also been built into them. Whenever the information a host wanted to reveal exceeded a certain threshold of sensitivity, this mechanism would automatically activate, making the host kill himself.
After a whole string of questions, Mu You still failed to obtain any useful intelligence. Only with the final question, when he asked about their objective, did the wildman reveal something before dying.
"Contaminate... Moon..."
With those words, the wildman's answer cut off, and he abruptly breathed his last again.
But those words alone were enough for the two of them to infer the rest.
Moon Lake!
"They want to contaminate Moon Lake?!" Sky Wolf's pupils contracted. He stopped