Chapter 360 Controlling

In the small garden, after releasing all of Meng Shiwan's superpowers, she slowly drank the power-enhancing liquid again.

Xiao Yuye was locked in a cage next to them, looking half-dead.

After he was brought back to Dawn Base, he had been locked in this small cage for several days without food or water, and he looked very weak.

He weakly tugged at the grass growing from the cracks in the cage and stuffed it into his mouth.

There was also a cat and two pandas nearby, staring at him with wide eyes as if he were a monkey.

Ta Xue found it strange that this cage was so popular; after putting little girls in it, it was used to put adult men in it. There was always someone using it.

They also all share the same habit: they like to pull up and eat the grass on the ground, leaving the soil bare.

Xiao Yuye numbly munched on the grass, his eyes glazed over, with dark circles under his eyes, exuding a faint sense of death.

Meng Shiwan glanced at him, "Have you thought it through? Do you want to say it?"

Xiao Yuye remained silent, as if he hadn't heard anything, and continued to eat the grass on the ground.

Meng Shiwan had just used his wood-type ability, and the grass that he had previously pulled up had grown back. Xiao Yuye, whose stomach was cramping from hunger, just wanted something to fill his stomach so that he wouldn't feel so uncomfortable.

Meng Shiwan didn't indulge him. She controlled a vine and hung his cage high up, so now he couldn't even reach the grass.

Xiao Yuye wouldn't eat if there was no grass, and remained holed up in the cage without making a sound.

Meng Shiwan asked him, "Are you going to tell me or not? If you don't, I'll starve you for a few more days."

Xiao Yuye thought about how he had been unable to sleep or eat these past few days, which had truly been pure torture for him.

He then looked at Meng Shiwan and said, "I know you. You're vindictive. Whether I tell you or not, the outcome will be the same. You'll definitely kill me. That old bastard Lin Fu said he wouldn't save me, and he really won't. I can't possibly go back alive. If you're going to give me anything, just give me a quick death."

He knew Lin Fu and the old man. Now that his operation had failed and he was Meng Shiwan's prisoner, Lin Fu said he wouldn't save him, and he really wouldn't.

He was like a puppet of the Creation Base; it was fine if he existed, but it was also fine if he didn't. Nobody would care about him.

His sacrifice was insignificant in the face of self-interest.

From the very beginning, he was kept in the dark about many secrets, which should have made him realize that he was just a pawn who could be discarded at any time.

He was so eager to prove his abilities that he brought two superhumans with him to capture Meng Shiwan. He thought that with level eight superhumans, he would be invincible, but he still ended up falling into Meng Shiwan's hands.

Unexpectedly, Meng Shiwan was not very forceful this time. Instead, she said, "Tell me everything you know, and I'll let you go back."

Xiao Yuye almost thought he had misheard and pressed, "What did you say?"

Meng Shiwan sat down in the chair and said calmly, "I said I'll let you go back."

This time, Xiao Yuye heard it clearly, but he couldn't believe his ears.

He knows Meng Shiwan well. He has been investigating her for so long and knows that she is a person who will always seek revenge. If anyone provokes her, she will definitely kill them.

The Creation Origin Base repeatedly provoked her, and he was still the person in charge of the Creation Origin Base; he was the one who issued those orders before.

Logically speaking, now that he's in Meng Shiwan's hands, he's bound to meet a bad end. But now Meng Shiwan is saying she's going to release him?

Xiao Yuye didn't believe it. "You're going to blow me up?"

Meng Shiwan found it amusing. "Why don't you look at yourself? A discarded pawn abandoned by the Chuangyuan Base, a piece of trash with no value. Why would I need to lie to you?"

Xiao Yuye still didn't believe it. "Impossible. You have no reason to lie to me, but you certainly won't be kind enough to let me go."

Meng Shiwan was speechless. "It's rare for me to be a good person again, but no one believes me. I'll give you two choices: tell me everything you know about the Chuangyuan Base and I'll let you go; or if you still don't say anything, I'll kill you."

Xiao Yuye remained silent, staring intently at Meng Shiwan, as if trying to discern the truth in her words.

Meng Shiwan curled her lip, "The Chuangyuan Base has abandoned you and wants me to kill you, and you still want to keep the secret for the Chuangyuan Base? The Chuangyuan Base wants you dead, and I don't think I've done anything to hurt you except starve you for a few days, have I?"

If the previous words only made Xiao Yuye waver a little, this sentence struck him directly to the core.

Xiao Yuye muttered to himself, "Yes, the Chuangyuan Base wants me dead, so why should I keep their secret? What does it matter to me whether the Chuangyuan Base is good or bad, or whether the plan will succeed? I'm about to die anyway, so it's better if they fail and die so they can be buried with me."

Xiao Yuye said fiercely, "Ask whatever you want to know."

Meng Shiwan: ? ? ?

Was it really that easy to convince him? I should have known better than to starve him for a few days; it was a waste of time.

She's even easier to manipulate than Qin Nianshu.

Meng Shiwan asked, "The formula for the ability enhancement fluid."

Xiao Yuye: "I don't know."

Meng Shiwan: "Then what do you know?"

Xiao Yuye's eyes were now filled with hatred. "I really didn't know. The formula for the ability enhancement fluid was developed by researchers. I'm not a researcher, so how could I know? I only know that it's extracted from crystal cores."

Meng Shiwan said calmly, "Tell me everything you know about the Chuangyuan Base. For example, it seems that the Chuangyuan Base started construction before the apocalypse, right? How did you know that the apocalypse was coming? Why are you so determined to capture me? What do you want with me? What preparations have you made against me?"

After Xiao Yuye figured it out, he didn't hide anything and said whatever he knew.

He now wishes Meng Shiwan would go and destroy the Chuangyuan base right now.

"A year before the apocalypse, I received orders and blueprints from the old man to begin construction of the Chuangyuan Base's domestic base. A massive amount of resources were poured into it, almost like money was being given away, which is how the current Chuangyuan Base was completed before the apocalypse."

At that time, I didn't know what the purpose of building an underwater base was; I only knew it was the old man's order, and I just did as he said.

Later, when the apocalypse came, I was put in charge of managing the Chuangyuan Base. But "management" was just a formality; in reality, many things were handled by Lin Fu reporting to the old man, and he arranged things according to the old man's orders.

My main task was to find the black cube and capture you alive. You know what happened next; I didn't manage to steal your black cube, and I didn't manage to capture you alive either.

Meng Shiwan asked, "Who is this old man you're talking about?"

Xiao Yuye said in a deep voice, "My grandfather, an old geezer, arranged all of this. He seems to know a lot of things, even the future. I don't know much about it, and they don't tell me these secrets."

Meng Shiwan frowned. "Knowing about the future? What do you mean?"

Xiao Yuye shook his head, "I don't know. It's like he had me build the current Chuangyuan Base a year before the apocalypse. Maybe he knew the apocalypse was coming back then."

At the very first sign of the zombie outbreak, he ordered people to collect crystal cores from all over the place and had Lin Fu arrange for them to be sent to the base to begin producing the ability enhancement fluid. There was no research phase; it seemed as if he already knew the formula for the ability enhancement fluid.

"He wants me to find the Black Cubes? I haven't even adapted to the apocalypse yet, and I don't even know what a Black Cube is. He's already giving me detailed diagrams and quantities of Black Cubes to find, and he's already starting to prepare things specifically for you, as if he knew everything beforehand."