Lin Nai asked, "Are their Five Elements so powerful? They can even brainwash people from aristocratic families? What are they after?"
"The power of the gods," Zheng Longhai said slowly, his gaze deep, "and eternal life!"
Lin Nai paused for a moment: "You mean the Five Elements Society's plan to create a human god?"
Zheng Longhai asked curiously, "Oh? So you knew about this too?"
Lin Nai pointed with her chin at the woman in the cell: "This guy once told me this when he possessed Tong Yi to recruit me into the Five Elements Society."
"So, is this plan really possible? Compared to many alien races, human technological civilization is still far behind. Even advanced civilizations like the Black Angels don't dare to claim they can create artificial gods. Can humanity really do such a thing?"
"Don't say that, it's not necessarily true."
"Really??"
"Because among all races, only humans possess apostles, the ability to communicate with those once-extinct gods," Zheng Longhai said. "This is a fact that other races with more advanced technological civilizations than us cannot change."
Lin Nai nodded thoughtfully.
Indeed, no matter how strong a human becomes through cultivation, it is difficult to break through level 30 given the limits of human flesh and blood.
No matter how rich or powerful, humans are ultimately short-lived creatures, with a lifespan of at most a hundred years.
For those in positions of power who already have everything they need, the power of the gods and eternal life are indeed the only things they yearn to pursue.
Once life is gone, everything you own will also be gone.
Linnaeus pondered.
From this perspective, gene companies and the Five Elements Society are taking completely different paths.
Gene companies recruit a large number of people from the bottom of society. Most of these people have weak extraordinary talents and cannot even afford to pay the spiritual energy tax every month. They are suppressed like ants in the bottom world and have no way out. They can only rely on gene drugs with severe side effects from gene companies to change their fate.
The Five Elements Society, on the other hand, primarily recruits the upper echelons of society. These individuals lack virtually nothing; what excites them most is divine power, extended lifespan, and the grand ambition to create an era of dominance...
Lin Nai looked at the woman in the cell again and asked, "So, now that she's locked up here, she shouldn't be able to possess Tong Yi anymore, right? We shouldn't be at risk being teammates with Tong Yi, right?"
Zheng Longhai smiled and said, "I know what you're worried about. Don't worry, the cell where she's being held has soul power suppression devices on all four walls. She's just an ordinary person in this cell. Otherwise, do you really think our Dark Moon's vetting process is stupid? If there were any risks, she wouldn't have appeared in your team."
Linna: "Okay, then I'm relieved."
Before leaving, Lin Nai stopped at the door and looked back at the woman in the cell one last time.
The long-haired woman slowly raised her head and met Lin Nai's gaze. Beneath her loose, long hair, a sinister smile appeared, her eyes filled with madness and insanity.
Lin Nai frowned slightly; that smile made him feel very uncomfortable.
Most of these members of the Five Elements Society probably have some serious illness...
After leaving the prison, Zheng Longhai said, "Alright, it's getting late. Go back to sleep and don't miss tomorrow morning's training."
"If anything happens in the future, come and tell me, understand? Don't act on your own. Don't you even have this much trust in the organization? Look how scared you've made that young girl! Two grown men, running off to ambush a little girl in the middle of the night, are you really something?"
Linnaeus: "..."
Lin Nai breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Tong Yi, saying, "Sorry about just now, did I scare you?"
"No, no..." Tong Yi waved her hand, saying apologetically, "Actually, it was my fault for not explaining things clearly to the captain at the beginning..."
"Alright, that's enough, now that you've figured it out." Zheng Longhai waved his hand. "Go back."
After Lin Nai and the others left, Gao Xuan came over.
Zheng Longhai glanced at her: "What, you have something to say too?"
"Hmm..." Gao Xuan said with a complicated expression, "It's about that demon prince."
"You mean night?" Zheng Longhai asked.
“Yes,” Gao Xuan said helplessly, “Commander, is it really alright to let an outsider live in the Dark Moon Base like this? Although I know that what happened that day did embarrass you, it can’t be because of that…”
"..." Zheng Longhai coughed awkwardly twice: "Ahem, let's not talk about that day anymore."
Gao Xuan: "......"
"Do you really think that's why I let Lin Nai keep her?" Zheng Longhai then became serious.
Gao Xuan was taken aback: "Isn't that right?"
“Of course not.” Zheng Longhai said speechlessly, “That was just going with the flow. They were going to come to our base after nightfall anyway. Otherwise, even if I had agreed, Sun Shuai wouldn’t have agreed at the time, and even if Sun Shuai had agreed, Elder Ji certainly wouldn’t have agreed.”
"But...why?" Gao Xuan asked curiously, "The Dark Moon Organization is the top-secret organization in Yan Kingdom. They carry out top-secret missions and have never been known to outsiders, let alone foreigners..."
Zheng Longhai said with a serious expression, "Because we will be having a top-level confidential research and development collaboration with Ye Wan'er's second aunt, who is also Po Bing's company!"
"The highest level..." Gao Xuan immediately understood: "Does it refer to 'that thing'?"
“Yes,” Zheng Longhai said, “The higher-ups have transferred the entire research and development work on ‘that thing’ to Dark Moon. Due to the critical confidentiality of this project, it wasn’t handed over to any other research institution, but directly to us! So, next, it’s up to us to directly liaise with Po Bing and the others!”
"But isn't there still a crucial energy supply problem that hasn't been solved in that research?" Gao Xuan asked, puzzled. "So far, a suitable candidate hasn't been found..."
"No, we might have already found them." Zheng Longhai's eyes gleamed. "There's someone in this year's cohort who I think might be the one."
"You mean Lin Nai?" Gao Xuan immediately realized.
"Yes."
Zheng Longhai grinned and said, "Lin Nai, Ye Wan'er, don't you think the two of them are a perfect match?"
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