"We've finally reached this point."
In the eastern half of the court, the man in white looked around with a complicated expression, while standing beside him was a tall man with a blank stare and stiff, wooden movements—who else could it be but Hou Nanfeng?
Who could have imagined that the future head of the renowned Hou Family would become someone else's puppet?
"Was this your plan from the beginning?"
A faint voice rang out from within the white-robed man's body; it was Chen Qing!
"No, I had this plan from the moment you appeared," the King of Qin laughed. "I just didn't expect it to go so smoothly. You are more outstanding than I imagined. Because you demonstrated enough value to tempt Zhang Zhengyuan and his associates to take risks, I had my opportunity."
"Your situation is uniquely advantageous; you possess two souls within one body. I've studied the Federation's detection data mechanism many times. It works by detecting a spirit before performing calculations and capture. As long as your spirit is in the initial attraction process, a second detection won't be initiated."
"This is just your guess, isn't it?" Chen Qing frowned. "You don't have the chance to test it, so you're taking a risk, aren't you?"
"Aren't all people like that?" the King of Qin said calmly. "For a certain purpose, they can't help but act as gamblers at least once."
"But you also have Disintegration Program on you, don't you?" Chen Qing frowned. "Aren't you afraid that the other party will directly activate the program on you?"
"Starting the program requires massive privileges to unlock; it's a complex process that can't be decided on the spot. That's why by the time Zhang Zhengyuan and his team realized it was me, it was too late. When those experts installed the Disintegration Program on you, they were using your Disintegration Program to deal with threats; there simply wasn't time to switch."
The spirit of the King of Qin suddenly looked at Chen Qing with a ghostly gaze. "At the last moment, Zhang Zhengyuan actually didn't initiate the program to dismantle you. That's rather interesting."
"Why activate mine?" Chen Qing said calmly, "I'm not an enemy."
"At the last moment, would he still have any mercy? Even if it's just a try, he should initiate the Disintegration Program and destroy you first."
This is the point that the King of Qin could not understand the most. According to his plan, Zhang Zhengyuan should have directly activated the program to disintegrate Chen Qing before he died. In this way, this body would have completely belonged to him. But now, Chen Qing is not dead, but there is an additional risk.
Of course, as long as one can control the upper echelons and use data experts to restart the data equipment in the western district, it is still possible to restart Chen Qing's Disintegration Program.
"Who can say for sure?" Chen Qing laughed. "Perhaps it's just my fate to survive?"
"You're quite optimistic, aren't you?" King of Qin looked at Chen Qing with a smile. "What's the reason? Is it Wang Ye?"
Chen Qing: "."
"You really trust that native."
"You guessed it?" Chen Qing looked at the other person.
"What's there to be unpredictable?" King of Qin chuckled. "You deliberately let Heavenly Secrets escape just to contact your Vice Minister Wang, didn't you? Using Flying Star to follow him, that's quite creative. I'm really curious, you don't seem like the kind of person who likes to leave their fate to others, do you?"
"There are always exceptions," Chen Qing said with a smile.
"But what can they do to me?" King of Qin squinted at his opponent. " Heavenly Secrets isn't the type to fight, Wang Ye. He's only just entered the Transcendent, what can he do?"
"He's very smart," Chen Qing said, looking at the other person. "Smarter than you think."
"So smart that he could guess my intentions and persuade a high-ranking official to shut me down, right?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Qing stared at the other person for a long time before finally saying, "So, you had anticipated this all along?"
"Don't underestimate others," King of Qin shook his head and directed the stiff Hou Nanfeng, requesting that the access to the command center be opened.
Looking at Hou Nanfeng, whose eyes were filled with struggle but whose body moved like a puppet, the King of Qin recalled the past.
That was an experience I would never forget, no matter how many years passed. When the children in the Federation reached the age of three, they had to undergo a selection process. Those who were smart received higher education, while those who were dull were directly trained as the lowest-level operators, and the ideas they were instilled with were also different.
As they got older, the children who had been eliminated realized what they had missed and regretted it terribly, while the children who had successfully advanced continued the endless, frantic competition.
He wasn't particularly bright as a child, so his fate was decided early on: either spend his life digging a hole or be a lowly soldier in the army for the rest of his life.
He chose the latter because he wanted to use his hard work to create some more miracles.
But it's impossible here. No matter how many military achievements you make, no matter how well you perform in the special forces tests later on, you're still just a common soldier.
The Hou Family changed his fate. In his memory, they seemed to be important figures, arrogant and choosing him like a piglet. They chose him from the bottom because this was a test project with a very slim chance of success. Using members of any aristocratic family would not be cost-effective. On the contrary, special forces soldiers like them, who have a very high cost-performance ratio, are more suitable.
They probably never imagined things would go so smoothly for them, right?
Is things going so smoothly that one day they could turn around and threaten them?
ID: 10466, General Hou Nanfeng, Level 1 clearance confirmed, requesting access to the command center!
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"Aren't we there yet?"
Wang Ye and his companion followed behind Wu Xing, who then teleported them to what appeared to be a very secretive base. The base was filled with staff in white robes, and it looked very similar to the Dragon Palace Laboratory at the Jiangnan Academy. This must be some kind of advanced academy, right?
From this perspective, the so-called Disintegration Program of Number One seems quite reasonable in this position, after all, in Jiangnan, some important research projects and magic array weapons are also located in the Dragon Palace Laboratory.
But Wang Ye's brows furrowed deeper and deeper; he felt it was too slow.
Although Wu Xing seemed quite nervous, he still felt something was off about the fact that they had been traveling for so long.
Vice Minister Wang
Heavenly Secrets's voice suddenly reappeared in Wang Ye's mind.
"Is there anything you'd like to say, senior?" Wang Ye asked quickly.
"They all say that the puppets made by Painted Skin Mister move rather stiffly. Vice Minister Wang has a special background, but isn't he also a puppet in his own right?"
"Yes," Wang Ye frowned, "What does Senior want to say?"
Why does Vice Minister Wang appear no different from an ordinary person?
"Me?" Wang Ye was taken aback. "My situation is different. My body was originally intended for Painted Skin Mister to use himself, so it was crafted using Fine Carving Technique, and even retained a certain amount of spiritual essence. And then, um?"
Wang Ye immediately realized what was happening, stopped following, and looked sharply at Wu Xing.
Wu Xing walked briskly ahead, and only after he had gone quite a distance did he seem to realize that Wang Ye and the others hadn't followed. He turned back in confusion and asked, "What's wrong, gentlemen?"
"How much further, General Wu?"
"It's not far," Wu Xing said, pointing to the innermost part. "After passing the first two checkpoints, we'll reach the location of one of the supercomputers. We can use that to initiate the Disintegration Program for Number One."
"I'm puzzled, General Wu. Don't you have the means to contact others remotely? Given the urgency of the situation, why didn't you contact the people here yourself and shut it down directly?"
" Number One is a key figure in the project, and requires high-level privileges to initiate the Disintegration Program!" Wu Xing quickly explained.
"Is it only you, General Wu, who have advanced authority?" Wang Ye asked quietly.
"That's not it." Wu Xing frowned and said, "As you just said, that Number One has the ability to control others. I don't know who has been controlled and who hasn't. Such an important matter naturally requires my personal attention."
"But when you confirmed General Xiang Nanfeng's whereabouts, you asked an outsider. How can you be sure that the outsider you asked wasn't being controlled?"
Wu Xing: "."
"Sir, what exactly are you trying to say? Do you suspect Mr. Wu?"
"Yes." Wang Ye raised his head slightly. "The situation is urgent, please forgive me, General Wu!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp glint flashed without warning. Wu Xing's pupils contracted, and the next second his right hand was severed.
Blood splattered everywhere, but strangely, the severed arm hanging in the air was actually a piece of wood.
I actually updated three times yesterday, but the last one was blocked, haha. It should be unblocked this morning...