Chapter 193 Interrogation

The door of the storage room was heavily locked. Iron tables and chairs were nailed to the wall, and Wang Kun was tied to the back of the chair with his hands behind his back, and sweat rolled down his forehead.

He glanced at the door, his lips tightly closed, his arms trembling slightly. On the table stood a pitcher of cold water and a pile of dry bread, but no one touched it.

Xiao Ran stood beside the table and tapped the wooden surface with his fingers, keeping the sound just loud enough for Wang Kun to hear: "Wang Kun, tell me about your mission? We don't want to delay too long." He spoke in a low and slow voice and pushed the document over.

Wang Kun stared at the table, gritting his teeth and saying nothing. Lu Zhao moved a chair and sat down, deliberately lowering the light slightly.

"Don't waste everyone's time. You made some kind of deal with the Dawn Organization. Maybe you can save your life if you speak up."

Xiao Ran poured himself a glass of cold water and placed it next to Wang Kun, his tone calm: "Remember, there are zombies and troops outside the fortress. I know better than you how long the food inside can last. If you delay any longer, others will die and you will not be able to live." After saying that, he kicked the table leg with an expressionless face.

Wang Kun still didn't say anything, but shrugged his shoulders. Lu Zhao picked up the file and stared at Wang Kun's face for a few seconds.

"You made too much movement in the energy room just now. Since we can hold you hostage, we can also find out your superiors."

He placed great emphasis on the word "online".

Xiao Ran pinched his fingers and said, "Where are your accomplices? Who moved the medicine warehouse? Who destroyed the water treatment?"

Wang Kun snorted lightly, then clenched his teeth and said nothing. Xiao Ran turned to Lu Zhao and raised his chin.

"How long can he last with this much backbone? I don't think it will last more than three hours."

Lu Zhao didn't say anything, he just opened a corner of the document in his hand and spun the pen in circles on the table.

"We can take our time. Wang Kun, if you don't tell us, someone from our team will. All the data will be backed up, and the video will be stored off-site. If the power goes out, you won't be able to escape."

Wang Kun stared at the cup on the table for two seconds. Lu Zhao asked casually, "You left a loophole in the surveillance of the fortress. How did you get the password when you entered the energy zone?"

Xiao Ran suddenly pulled a chair over and sat opposite Wang Kun, crossed his arms on the table, and stared at Wang Kun with his pupils motionless.

"Do you think Liming can save you? All external channels are now locked and the signal is blocked. Don't expect to simply pass on the message. How many accomplices can you meet by tomorrow?"

Wang Kun swallowed his saliva and said in a muffled voice, "You don't understand... You really don't understand."

Lu Zhao had a blank expression on his face as he flipped through the pages of the document. After a moment, he deliberately revealed a page with several lines of English letters arranged in a strange sequence.

He asked slowly: "Do you know the nature of Eden's barrier? Your plan is actually aimed at Xiaoling and the energy core?"

Wang Kun's fingers trembled at this time. Xiao Ran saw it and added: "Everyone is focusing on the barrier technology, but you are the only one who is bypassing the main control to get the energy core. This shows that you have more information than us."

Wang Kun gritted his teeth, but a slight tremor came out of his throat. He licked his lips and spoke without looking up.

Xiao Ran sighed, pulled up the chair leg and threw it to the ground with a loud clang. "You know what your current status is. How long you can survive sitting here depends on whether you cooperate or not."

Lu Zhao stared at Wang Kun without blinking, and asked slowly and in a low voice: "What exactly is Li Ming going to do? Don't talk about human evolution. We don't believe it anymore."

Wang Kun was silent for a long time, and finally spoke in a low voice: "We have anticipated the Eden Barrier. Those people outside are not the main target at all."

Lu Zhao asked: "What is the real goal?"

Wang Kun exhaled, tilted his head and looked for a long time before saying: "The little bell and the energy core. The top leaders of our organization have always felt that these two things can be combined to create a 'purifier'. It's not the kind of medicine that cures diseases, but -" his voice trembled slightly, "it can be used to control the infected on a large scale and used as a tool for armed forces."

Xiao Ran pressed his shoulder without saying anything: "What are you talking about? Control?"

Wang Kun shrank his neck. “You have always thought that the purifier can only save lives. Those people in our organization…actually want the ability to control. Whoever can control the purifier can turn the infected into obedient soldiers and create a new type of absolutely obedient army.”

Lu Zhao twirled the cup in his hand and lowered his voice: "So you just want to kidnap Xiao Ling and the core?"

Wang Kun nodded, his voice weak: "I am a low-level member, only responsible for grabbing the core. Our team has other liaisons. I only know that there is someone in the fortress with a higher status than me..."

Xiao Ran's eyebrows twitched, and he asked directly: "Who?"

Wang Kun shook his head and said in a hoarse voice: "I really don't know his name, only his code name, called 'Eagle Eye'. Whenever the situation is critical, he will contact me with a specific code. Yesterday he sent a secret message, asking me not to do anything, saying that there are still variables in the barrier, but who knows..."

Lu Zhao tapped his fingers on the table calmly: "Have you seen this 'Eagle Eye'? How to contact it?"

Wang Kun shook his head again, tucked his neck into his collar, and said hurriedly: "I haven't seen him. There is only a set of codes, which were burned on paper. I only remember a few words - 'night sky', 'Mars', 'zero'. I only received orders when he appeared in the fortress."

The air in the storage room froze for a moment.

Xiao Ran calmed down and said, "Do you have anything else to say? Did you do that to the medicine warehouse?"

Wang Kun lowered his head: "Some of it is mine. I only took the potion and raw materials. The water treatment was not done by me. 'Eagle Eye' instructed another person. I don't even know who that person is."

He simply closed his eyes, as if he was resisting to continue.

Lu Zhao suddenly raised his voice: "You said you are just a low-level person, so how could you be in charge of something as important as the source core?"

Wang Kun gritted his teeth and said in a trembling voice: "You don't understand the power of dawn... That woman, she can see the future. She said that when all the energy cores are gathered, the disaster will just begin..." Before he finished speaking, he shivered all over.

Xiao Ran grabbed him by the collar: "Which woman? Who is she?"

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Wang Kun's fingers twitched, his face was pale, and his teeth were clenched tightly. After a long while, he said intermittently: "I can't say... If I say it, it's all over. You... You will be targeted by her..." His voice stopped here. No matter how Xiao Ran questioned him, he kept his lips tightly closed, breathing rapidly, and there was only fear in his eyes.

Outside the storage room, Su Wanqing stood at the door and heard the last few words.

She used a notebook to record the information from the interrogation, then asked someone to bring in water and bread, and locked Wang Kun in place again.

Lu Zhao and Xiao Ran walked out of the storage room, exchanged glances, and closed the door tightly.

At the same time, a slight sound came from the infirmary. Lin Che opened his eyes and saw the snow-white ceiling and a shallow scar on his chest.

He touched it, but there was no blood or pain under his fingertips. He could only remember the bleeding wound before, and the things that happened after Ye took over his body were completely blank.

This sense of disconnection made him feel upset.

Xiao Ling sat at the head of the bed, swinging her legs left and right, and smiled at him: "Brother Lin Che, you were sleeping very soundly just now, and Uncle Jinyan helped you drive away the bad guys. He said that he would go back to rest when you are fully recovered."

Lin Che's body trembled, and he asked anxiously: "Uncle Golden Eyes? Is he still there?"

Xiao Ling blinked and said seriously, "He said he hasn't seen you recently and asked you to take good care of me. He also said that the energy core cannot be touched randomly, otherwise the star will be angry."

After she finished yelling, she lowered her head and fiddled with her sleeves.

A question arose in Lin Che's mind. He tried to close his eyes and call out "Ye" in his mind, trying to find that familiar consciousness in the usual way. However, it was like there was an extremely thick wall between them. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get a response from Ye.

Lin Che's grip tightened, fear and confusion overwhelming her.

He touched his chest again, and the scar felt cold. The feeling of losing complete control of his body made Lin Che's scalp numb.

He tried to confirm with Xiaoling several times what Ye said, but Xiaoling only remembered one or two fragments and could not say anything else. She just lay motionless by the bed, leaving Lin Che puzzled.

Lin Che spent a long time calming himself down. He looked at the newly healed scar on his palm, and only questions kept popping up in his mind.

He thought about the energy core and what Xiaoling had just mentioned, "stars can get angry," but he couldn't figure out Ye's intention.

Lin Che bit her lower lip and silently raised her head, looking at the light in the infirmary. She was completely lost in confusion and anxiety.