Chapter 199 Madam Bai, You've Been Arrested

Fu Lilian was the first to recover from this sudden and unexpected turn of events.

The color slowly returned to her face, and her eyes burst forth with an astonishing light—a mixture of excitement at the prospect of avenging a great grudge and ecstatic joy at escaping a desperate situation.

Without the slightest hesitation, she rushed forward and swiftly began searching the body—first forcefully tearing off a dark-colored token with an antique design, neither gold nor wood, hanging around Madam Bai's neck, and then deftly removing the seemingly ordinary smartwatch on her left wrist, which was actually the core of internal communication and identity recognition.

After doing all this, Fu Lilian finally let out a long, long sigh of relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders.

She took two steps back, looked at Su Xiaonuan and Lu Zheng, her eyes filled with undisguised amazement and gratitude.

"Well done!" she exclaimed sincerely, her voice trembling slightly but full of strength. "Absolutely... absolutely beautiful!"

Han Ming also walked over. His gaze swept over Madam Bai, who was handcuffed and pale but still trying to maintain her composure, then looked at Su Xiaonuan and Lu Zheng, who cooperated perfectly and turned the tide in an instant. Finally, his gaze fell on the token and watch in Fu Lilian's hand.

“The highest-level access token and biometric key…” he said in a low voice, his tone somewhat complicated, “She left herself a way out, but she didn’t expect it to become a dead end.”

At this moment, the floating gun turrets in the room were still slowly rotating, and the scarlet aiming lasers were still locked on the group. However, because they had lost direct commands from the remote control or Madam Bai's bio-signals, they seemed to have entered some kind of standby or alert mode and did not fire immediately.

Su Xiaonuan shook her slightly numb wrist, took the bowl of braised pork that was no longer steaming from Lu Zheng's hand, and carefully placed it on the obsidian table next to her. Then she patted her chest, revealing a look of lingering fear: "I was so scared... I was really afraid she would press the button." As she spoke, she glanced at the bright red button on the ground with lingering fear.

Lu Zheng put away his pistol, walked up to Madam Bai, and his eyes were as cold as ice.

“The ‘White Lady’ behind Ma Guofu, one of the true core members of the Sacred Heart Society,” his voice was steady and powerful, “you are under arrest.”

Mrs. Bai leaned against the liquor cabinet, blood gushing from the gunshot wound on her left knee, staining her white suit trousers and dark gray carpet.

The pain caused cold sweat to bead on her forehead, but her back remained ramrod straight, and a false, composed smile, as if she were in complete control, returned to her face. However, deep in her eyes, there was an almost overflowing resentment and madness.

"Arrest me?" She chuckled, as if she'd heard a joke. "Just the few of you? In my kingdom, deep beneath the sea?"

“Your kingdom?” Fu Lilian could no longer hold back, interrupting her sharply, her eyes filled with tangible hatred. “How many people’s blood, tears, and bones were used to build your kingdom? How many innocent lives like my father’s were used to fill it?!”

Madam Bai glanced at her coldly: "Innocent? Your father ruined my life, he deserved to die. As for the others... the strong prey on the weak, it's only natural. The rules of this world should be written by the strong."

"Including the creation of 'Crescent Moon'?" Han Ming suddenly spoke, his voice eerily calm. "Using that twisted, self-righteous 'justice' to judge others? Including turning the Sacred Heart Society into a den of iniquity that exploits the people and conducts illegal human experiments? Including... destroying my father's family and killing my sister for your ridiculous obsession, and now you want to turn me into a substitute for the man in your memory?"

Han Ming practically choked out the last few words.

Beneath his hair, which had turned black again, his once carefree and playful eyes now held only cold disgust and deep sorrow.

Madam Bai looked at Han Ming, the madness in her eyes fading slightly, replaced by an eerie gentleness and obsession: "Xiao Ming, you don't understand. Everything I've done is for us. The wealth accumulated by the Sacred Heart Society, the power controlled by Crescent Moon, and the research results of this deep-sea base... the future is yours. I can make you stand at the true pinnacle of this world, where no one can hurt you anymore, we can..."

"Enough!" Han Ming suddenly raised his voice, interrupting her, and for the first time, a clear look of disgust appeared on his face. "Your 'for our own good' is just endless conspiracies, killings, and manipulation? It's just keeping me as a shadow of a dead person? Stop disgusting me with your twisted logic. You and I have never been 'us'."

The smile on Madam Bai's face finally vanished completely.

She stared at Han Ming, her eyes gradually darkening until they became a bottomless, icy pool.

“Is that so…” she murmured, then, as if giving up on something, or as if completely shedding her disguise, she slowly exhaled, her voice regaining its initial indifference, even carrying a hint of relieved mockery, “Fine. Since you want to know… Yes, Crescent Moon was founded by me, and the Sacred Heart Society was also cultivated by me. Ma Guofu? He’s just a puppet I put on the surface. Those so-called ‘purification of evil’? They’re nothing more than filtering out unstable factors, removing stumbling blocks, and incidentally satisfying the vanity of some fools who want to ‘act on behalf of heaven.’”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over Fu Lilian and Han Ming before finally settling on Lu Zheng and Su Xiaonuan. A cold smile curled at the corner of her lips: "As for those experiments... 'Project Prometheus,' what a beautiful name. Stealing the spark of life, modifying it, optimizing it... this is the right path to the future. Those 'volunteers,' missing persons, orphans from welfare homes... it is their honor to become the cornerstone of great evolution."

Every word carries an extreme indifference and cruelty towards life.

Fu Lilian was so angry that she trembled all over, wishing she could rush up and shoot her a few times.

Su Xiaonuan frowned as she listened, and subconsciously clenched her fists.

Lu Zheng's expression remained unchanged. He simply took out his body camera and calmly began recording. "Your statement will be evidence in court."

"The court?" Madam Bai chuckled softly, as if she had heard something utterly absurd. The laughter grew louder and echoed in the empty room, appearing particularly eerie against the backdrop of the dim red light and the suspended gun turret. "You think you can really take me to court? Even if you have evidence, so what? Do you know how many people hold high positions and have vested interests in me? Do you know how many people I have dirt on? The weapon of the law... ha, it's just a tool used to restrain the weak."

"Then give it a try." Lu Zheng put away the recorder, his tone resolute. "Let's see if this weapon can cut off this cancerous growth of yours."