Chapter 161 The Rebooter Base - 18 *** ……

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After the vote, the Rebooters reopened the four-party meeting and informed everyone of the results.

The heads of the three orc federations secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Yi was genuinely happy, while the Eastern and Northern federations were too preoccupied with the invasion of mutated poisonous humans to spare the energy and resources to fight against the humans.

After being informed of the results, the white-haired old man demanded that Lu Yi immediately cease his sabotage of the research institute. He not only demanded that Lu Yi stop his intrusion into the institute's main computer, but also demanded compensation for the damage.

He blamed Lu Yi for the damage Tang Bufan caused to the electrical and drainage systems, since Tang Bufan was his legal wife. As for the specific amount of compensation to be paid, that will have to wait until they assess the water damage to each laboratory, but it is foreseeable that it will be a very large sum.

Tang Bufan, who was listening nearby, was stunned. He had never expected the white-haired old man to do such a thing. He immediately frowned, put down the r5166 in his arms, and strode over to Lu Yi's side.

He stepped into the frame, appearing before everyone with a rather irregularly cut short haircut, and said solemnly, "I cannot accept this accusation against me by the Rebooters. First of all, your researchers forcibly abducted me here against my will, which seriously violated my personal safety..."

His dark eyes swept across the conference room on the other side of the screen, and he was surprised not to see Zero. He paused slightly before continuing, "Since you regard me as the First Lady of the Western Federation and want to settle this score with me, then we must first settle the matter of kidnapping me."

"Uh... this..." The white-haired old man looked slightly embarrassed when faced with Tang Bufan's accusation: "Abducting you..."

"Ahem." Lu Yi coughed lightly twice, decisively interrupting the old man's words, "The dispute between the Rebooters and my wife is not suitable to be discussed in this public meeting. I will bring personnel from the Western Federation's Department of Justice to negotiate with you afterwards."

Lu Yi didn't want anyone to know that Tang Bufan was a time-traveling "experiment," as it would definitely cause a global sensation. Besides affecting his and Tang Bufan's future lives, it might also attract the attention of extreme scientists like Zero.

The white-haired old man glanced at Guo Shen and the Northern Federation leader present. He didn't want the two of them to know too much about their Rebooters, since many studies were not suitable for public exposure. So he agreed with Lu Yi: "Alright, we'll discuss this privately. However, President Louis must stop his intrusion into our research institute's system now."

The institute's power and network have now been restored, so they can receive data from Sirius's system hacking efforts.

Sirius and Fick, who were not far away, were watching Lu Yi. With the help of Fang Yue's researchers, they had now cracked 70% of the system.

Since the Rebooters were willing to reach a settlement, their lives would no longer be in danger. Lu Yi nodded to Sirius, who immediately stopped his work of deciphering the code.

"No!" the little girl with the poisonous body sitting at the control panel shouted shrilly, "Continue cracking!"

The reconciliation between orcs and humans was a bad thing for the Poison People. From the beginning of the meeting, r5165 showed anxiety. However, there were four high orcs present, and she was too weak to do anything but watch them go about their business. She was filled with resentment at being powerless.

But it doesn't matter. Power can generate authority. As long as those two orcs crack the research institute's system and she deletes the audio that could control the life and death of the Poison People, she can lead her compatriots to occupy this world without restraint. At that time, whether underground or on the surface... it will all belong to the Poison People!

But now, just as the system was about to be cracked, these disgusting orcs actually listened to those cunning humans and stopped?

hateful!

r5165 decided to break her silence and immediately stretched out her hand, which had transformed into a whip, towards Tang Bufan, the weakest person not far away!

Tang Bufan was taken aback, and Lu Yi, who was standing next to him, immediately stepped in front of him!

Lu Yi wanted to reach out and grab the vine whip, but a beast-like arm beat him to it and grabbed the whip hard halfway through.

The beast-like Anderson sneered, and under r5165's astonished gaze, he yanked the whip and pulled her over forcefully. r5165's body instantly flew into the air, while Anderson's hand, with its sharp nails, straightened and closed. As her body flew in front of him, he swung it without hesitation at her neck.

The soccer ball-sized head landed with a thud, and Tang Bufan exclaimed in surprise, his eyes widening.

"You..." Tang Bufan found it hard to describe his feelings at this moment, and could only complain to Anderson: "You really have the heart to do that?"

She was a little girl who looked about seven or eight years old, and they just beheaded her like that.

Anderson was sprayed in the face with dark green poisonous blood. He disgustedly threw away the rattan whip in his hand and wiped his face with his hand: "A weird thing that looks like a human, why not kill it and keep it alive for the New Year?"

However, r5165 was not dead. Green, worm-like tentacles emerged from her severed neck and under her head, extending towards each other and trying to connect. Anderson was disgusted by this and stomped on the tentacles extending from the corpse.

“Ask those guys how to clean this thing,” Anderson said to Lu Yi.

Lu nodded, then immediately transmitted the footage to the others, and said seriously to everyone, "I'm sorry, I can't continue the meeting for the time being due to my condition."

After saying that, he cut off the video connection with everyone else, maintaining communication only with the restarter's conference room.

"Please tell me, sir, how to kill these mutated poisonous people," Lu Yishang asked the white-haired old man, still maintaining his politeness.

The white-haired old man looked at the little girl's corpse writhing at Anderson's feet in the video. His face turned pale, and he realized that the toxic people had reached the edge of losing control. He immediately said, "We have implanted genes that are sensitive to infrasound into their genes, which can make them deteriorate rapidly. The sonic instrument is on the -61st floor. I will give you access. Just take the access card in your hand and go there."

He paused, then added, "Infrasound can also resonate with humans and orcs, damaging their organs. Although you can't hear it, don't keep it on for too long. These poisonous people are very sensitive to infrasound; thirty seconds is enough to put them into shock."

"Okay, thank you." Lu Yi indicated that he understood and immediately ended the video call with the old man.

“So…” Sirius looked at Lu Yi from a distance, with dozens of virtual screens displaying scrolling data in front of him: “Shall we go to the 61st floor now?”

Lu Yi nodded: "Well, now that we've made peace with the Rebooters, let's not continue to destroy their research institute."

After saying that, he took out the pass that Fang Yue had given him from the small backpack behind him: "Let's go."

Tang Bufan turned around to hug the unconscious r5166 leaning against the corner of the wall. Anderson, who was still stepping on the wriggling r5165 in the distance, frowned and said to him, "Why are you still hugging it? If what that old man said is true, when the sound wave is released, all these poisoners will die."

Tang Bufan listened with mixed feelings: "...I've met these children before, and they're mostly kind-hearted, but they've been brainwashed by the special education Zero arranged for them. I'll take them downstairs first; there's definitely a soundproof chamber down there..."

Before he could finish speaking, a dark green vine whip quickly wrapped around his neck.

Tang Bufan stared wide-eyed in shock at r5166, who had silently raised her head and was now almost a girl.

r5166... ​​no, it should be another r5165. She was too fast, and Tang Bufan was too close to her, so Lu Yi and Anderson didn't have time to react.

"Teacher!" Lu Yi cried out anxiously and was about to rush towards them.

r5165 wrapped a vine around Tang Bufan's neck, pulled hard, and said coldly, "Don't come any closer!"

The vine was tough, and Tang Bufan's neck was slender. The pull almost broke his neck. He immediately reached out to hold onto the wall to steady himself, his face turning red from the blood rushing to his head.

He slowly leaned against the wall.

The four orcs who wanted to rescue Tang Bufan immediately froze, afraid of angering the poisonous man and causing damage to Tang Bufan's neck. If this part was seriously injured, even if he could be saved, it would very likely lead to paralysis.

"Tsk." Anderson glared at Lu Yi and cursed, "What kind of junk did you bring?"

"...It escaped from this research institute; it's familiar with the environment here," Sirius said nervously, defending Lu Yi.

Having completed 90% gene fusion, r5165 grabbed Tang Bufan by the neck and threatened the four, "Continue cracking the system!"

She must delete that sonic code and release the Mother!

Sirius and Fick both looked at Lu Yi.

"..." Lu Yi's face was ashen as he nodded to Sirius and Fick.

Upon receiving their orders, the two immediately turned around and continued to hack into the research institute's security system.

A few seconds later, Lu Yi received communications from Fang Yue and the Rebooter, presumably asking why he was continuing the cracking.

"Don't answer!" r5165 said fiercely, then threatened by pulling Tang Bufan's neck with his rattan arm.

Tang Bufan leaned against the wall, his slightly bloodshot eyes fixed on the little girl in front of him.

"Let go of him a little." Lu Yi gritted his teeth, staring at r5165 with a gloomy and anxious expression: "If he dies, none of you poisoners will survive."

r5165 looked at Tang Bufan, whose face had turned purplish-black, and turned to look at Sirius and Fick's progress in solving the puzzle. But the next second after she shifted her gaze, Tang Bufan swiftly swung his left hand, which was hidden behind his back against the wall, and used the concealed dagger to cut a large gash in her neck!

At the same time, Lu Yi, who was not far away, stepped on the ground and rushed to the two of them at an astonishing speed. His beast-like hands grabbed the dark green vines and pulled hard, completely severing the connection between Tang Bufan and r5165!

Tang Bufan immediately reached out and removed the vines from his neck, then leaned over and gasped for breath while retching violently.

"No...no no no..." r5165 reached out and covered her neck, which was oozing green blood, staring at Tang Bufan in disbelief. She shouted in a shrill voice, "You promised me! You promised me that you would delete that sound wave as long as I brought the orcs here!"

Tang Bufan's eyes were slightly moist from gagging. He said in a hoarse voice, "It wasn't you who brought Lu Yi here for me, it was r5166."

“But you…but…” r5165, her eyes brimming with tears of resentment, suddenly murmured, having absorbed the memories of countless others, “I’m also 5166…mother…”

However, before she could finish speaking, Anderson, who disliked her for talking too much, ripped her head open.

Anderson threw her head to the ground, then turned to Sirius and Fick impatiently and said, "Stop cracking it, or those Rebooters will try to extort money from us again."

Seeing that Tang Bufan's complexion had begun to return to normal, Lu Yi gradually calmed his heartbeat and connected with Rebooter and Fang Yue via video call.

He briefly explained the situation to the two of them.

But the white-haired old man was still very angry: "Then you can't break the code anymore!"

The more the Western Federation cracks, the more they expose.

Anderson went straight into Lu Yi's camera and yelled at the old man, "Then you come and deal with these poisoners yourselves. We're going to take care of them for you, but you keep babbling on and on."

"How dare you talk like that, young man!" The old man was even angrier after Anderson's rebuke.

"Harmony brings wealth, harmony brings wealth." Fang Yue quickly smoothed things over, gesturing to Lu Yi with her eyes to turn off the communication.

Lu Yi then politely assured the old man that he would not cause any more damage and ended the call. Fang Yue's expression turned serious only after the video call ended.

“My brother is missing.” Fang Yue told Lu Yi, “I noticed he didn’t show up during the second half of the meeting, and I thought he was angry and didn’t attend. But I just asked an acquaintance from the Rebooters and found out that he went back to the research institute and was caught on camera.”

Lu Yi frowned slightly, keenly sensing Fang Yue's meaning: "Do you think he will come looking for us?"

Fang Yue pursed her lips and said in a deep voice, "I know him. He will never submit to you orcs. It doesn't align with his pursuit of 'peace.' He believes that peace can only be held by the strong."

“…I understand.” Lu Yi nodded to Fang Yue: “Thank you for letting me know.”

"Don't hurt him!" Fang Yue urged anxiously.

Lu Yi nodded again and ended the call with her.

Tang Bufan had completely recovered. He stared at the head on the ground. Lu Yi followed his gaze and saw that the head was crying.

“Mother…mother…” The head called out to Tang Bufan in a sobbing voice. Perhaps because it had separated from the body, it seemed to have broken free from r5165’s control. Although its features were still those of a girl, its eyes had lost the clarity of the little boy it once had.

Tang Bufan was about to walk over when Lu Yi reached out and stopped him.

“He’s already contaminated, and his head is severed from his body. There’s no saving him,” Lu Yi said to Tang Bufan, frowning.

"I know...I know," Tang Bufan said, his voice trembling. If he hadn't been certain that R5165 was beyond saving, why would he have made that slash?

“Anyway, his body is gone, so I… just hugged his head.” Tang Bufan could feel that r5166’s life force was gradually disappearing, and r5165, whose head had been cut off by Anderson, was now completely silent. The tentacles that had been writhing under his head had also withered due to the continuous loss of blood, showing that although they had mixed plant genes, they were still affected by blood.

After he finished speaking, he stubbornly walked to the side of r5166's head and picked it up.

Poor little boy.

r5166 couldn't wait to wrap the tentacles under its head around Tang Bufan's arms and fingers.

Like living tree branches and roots, covered in moist blood, it was a very subtle feeling, and Tang Bufan didn't find it particularly unpleasant.

Seeing that the little poisonous creature was only wrapping around Tang Bufan's hand and not using its tentacles to do anything else, Lu Yi tacitly allowed the two to make contact.

"No, you really let him hold this head?" Anderson was speechless. Tang Bufan had always been stupid. It was one thing for him to lack a sense of crisis, but how could Lu Yi allow such behavior?

"If I asked myself honestly, I would want that too." Lu Yi answered Anderson earnestly, "If I were to lose my head and become like this, I would also want my teacher to hold my head."

Anderson was stunned for a moment, then shivered as if he had been disgusted by the sentimentality.

"Ugh, disgusting. Whatever." He rolled his eyes and left first.

Sirius and Fick had already stuffed their tools back into their bags and followed one after another.

At this moment, the corridor lights in the research institute were all on, but due to the water ingress, several lights flickered from time to time. Considering that the 61st basement level was too far and the research institute had a high ceiling, the group decided to take the elevator down.

There should still be a large number of that female poisoner's offspring hidden in this research institute. Although they are not difficult to deal with, it would be better to activate that instrument as soon as possible to clean them up.

"What if the elevator falls?" Tang Bufan was worried. Holding R5166's head, he stood outside the elevator and talked to the others: "I think the circuitry in the research institute is not very stable."

“Let it stop falling.” Anderson calmly raised his bloodied hand. “There are four of us high orcs here. Each of us can put a claw through the wall. We could stop a train. You won’t die from the fall.”

"..." Tang Bufan looked at the four calm and composed people and thought to himself that he really couldn't see things from the perspective of a high-level beastman.

Soon, the elevator doors opened with a "ding," and the four leisurely orcs were all startled by the scene inside.

The reason was that inside lay a "Tang Bufan" whose chest was covered in blood, his face already ashen.

Tang Bufan was taken aback, then, holding r5166's head, he went inside first.

"Don't be afraid." With a strange but still relatively calm expression, he pushed the operating table to the corner of the elevator with his foot and beckoned the four frightened orcs to come in: "It's another me."

Anderson knew in advance that there was a clone named "Tang Bufan," so he was the first to come to his senses and stepped inside with great interest.

"So this is what you look like in human form." He even looked down at "Tang Bufan's" grayish-blue face and commented, "I don't think you look as good as you do now, but you're prettier than your old skeletal form."

Sirius and Fick snapped out of their daze, exchanging glances and staring at Tang Bufan, their minds racing as they stepped into the elevator.

Only Lu Yi remained pale, rubbing her face before hurriedly entering the elevator and quickly walking to Tang Bufan's side, nervously taking his arm with both hands.

Tang Bufan's warm body temperature calmed him down a bit.

Sirius reached out and pressed the button for the -61st floor, then squeezed into the corner of the elevator with Fick and continued to stare at Tang Bufan.

"This is my clone," Tang Bufan explained to the three of them. "Zero extracted my DNA and then used AI to remove the orc parts, creating this clone. This method allows me to turn back into a human."

After he finished speaking, he freed one hand to smooth his short hair and said casually, "I was supposed to shave my head today and have a brain transplant, but I didn't want to become human again, so... I killed him."

Upon hearing that Tang Bufan had killed "himself," Sirius and Fick looked at him with some emotion.

This lady seemed more ruthless and decisive than they had imagined.

Lu Yi's pale face gradually recovered. He took Tang Bufan's arm and looked down at his other "wife." The face that had been dead for several hours was so familiar, yet so beautiful, stirring up very strange emotions in his heart.

He couldn't help but reach out and touch the face of "Tang Bufan," which was cold and somewhat stiff.

Lu Yi felt a chill run down his spine. He withdrew his hand and held Tang Bufan's arm even tighter.

"Mother, is this you too?" A childish but weak voice rang out. Tang Bufan looked down and found that the head in his arms had slumped down, and the tentacles wrapped around his arm had loosened considerably.

"...Yes, it's me." Tang Bufan looked at the little boy who was walking towards death with mixed feelings.

"Is he going to die like me?" r5166 asked.

“...He is dead,” Tang Bufan said, his eyes lowered.

"Oh..." r5166 nestled in Tang Bufan's arms, feeling a very comfortable warmth. He tried to extend a tentacle from under his neck toward the "Tang Bufan" lying there, and found that his temperature was closer to his own.

r5166's eyes trembled slightly.

With a "ding," the elevator doors opened, and Sirius and Fick went out first. Tang Bufan was about to take Lu Yi, who was holding his arm, out as well, when he heard the head in his arms speak again in a weak voice.

“Mother, leave me here,” r5166 said.

Tang Bufan looked down; the little boy's eyes were already half-closed due to blood loss: "I want to stay with this 'you.' Can you put me on this 'you's' chest?"

Tang Bufan didn't hesitate much. He gently placed the head in his arms onto the chest of the corpse, and the tentacles that were wrapped around his arms immediately moved to the chest of the corpse.

r5166 pressed its face against "Tang Bufan's" blood-stained chest with satisfaction, embracing the corpse with its tentacles.

Tang Bufan reached out and patted his little head, gently thanking him: "Thank you for bringing my lover here, r5166."

r5166 smiled faintly and gently touched Tang Bufan's finger with one of its tentacles.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Mom."

Tang Bufan lowered his head and kissed his cold forehead again: "Good night, r5166."

After he finished speaking, he led Lu Yi out of the elevator.

"Goodnight, Mom." r5166 waved to Tang Bufan with a small tentacle, then nestled in the arms of another Tang Bufan and peacefully closed its eyes.

Tang Bufan closed the elevator door for him, and also for the "himself" who had died.