"Damn it, you guys are something else! I never expected the officials to be superhuman hackers, what despicable bastards!"
The gaunt, bald old man threw down the remote control, glared fiercely at Lin Nai, raised his hands, and roared through gritted teeth, "I surrender!"
Lin Nai: "...You're surrendering, but you have to shout it so loudly?"
"Can't I?" The gaunt, bald old man raised his chin. "Can't we surrender with dignity?!"
Linna: "...Okay."
......
In the end, the skinny, bald old man was tied up tightly by Lin Nai and Ye Wan'er and bound to a chair.
The gaunt, bald old man looked down at himself: "I've already surrendered. You're a superpowered hacker and a demonic tycoon at the Omnipotent level. Are you afraid I'll escape?"
"To be on the safe side, you can't go wrong," Lin Nai said leisurely. "Go ahead and tell me the truth."
"Explain what?"
"Name."
“Gil”.
"...A penis?" Lin Nai asked, confused.
"It's Jill! Not Chicken!" The skinny, bald old man's face flushed red. "Even prisoners have dignity. Don't insult people, okay?!"
Night Child: "..."
"Zheng—"
Lin Nai summoned Bai Ye, whose scythe flashed coldly and was instantly placed against his neck: "What if I just want to humiliate you?"
Jill: "...Then please insult me a little more gently."
"Okay." Lin Nai put Bai Ye down and stuck him upside down on the ground. "Since you want me to be gentle, just tell me the truth quickly. Don't make me keep squeezing out information. You should know what I want to know, so don't try to get away with it."
Jill paused for a moment before speaking, "My name is Jill, 58 years old, a level 19 transcendent, originally from Ancheng, a top human scientist, alchemist, rune artist, and mechanic... I met Lieutenant Li ten years ago. Because we shared the same ambitions, we became friends and began cooperating. He was responsible for stealing things from the gene company and the Dark Moon base, and I was responsible for the research..."
"58 years old?" Lin Nai raised an eyebrow after hearing this: "Then you look older than your age."
Jill: "......"
"You say you are a top scientist and alchemist of the human race. Is that your own assessment?" Linnaeus said, "Among the famous scientists in human history, I have never heard of anyone named Gil."
Jill scoffed, looking unconvinced, and said, "Those officials are blind! I don't even look at those so-called knowledgeable professors and scientists in the Academy of Sciences! They're all just a bunch of idiots who talk big and spout nonsense! More than ten years ago, they thought my research was heretical, denied all my research results, and even fired me! But if they were really better than me, why wasn't it them who discovered and opened the door to this other world, but me?"
Lin Nai narrowed his eyes: "You mean, you discovered this otherworld?"
“Of course it’s me, who else could it be?” Jill looked very smug.
"You'd better stop bragging." Lin Nai turned around: "Wan'er."
Ye Wan'er immediately understood Lin Nai's meaning, took out the motherboard, and handed it to Lin Nai.
“This thing shouldn’t be your invention, right?” Lin Nai shook the motherboard in his hand. “This thing shouldn’t be a product of human technology. I guess Lieutenant Li discovered this motherboard, and then you cracked its secrets.”
Jill: "Emmmm... Even so, with the brains of those bookworms at the Academy of Sciences, even if they got their hands on this thing, they would absolutely not be able to crack the secret of this motherboard!"
"Alright, I'll take your word for it." Lin Nai handed the motherboard back to Ye Wan'er: "You and Lieutenant Li built this factory here and imprisoned so many demonic undead. What exactly are you trying to do?"
Jill paused for a moment, then finally admitted honestly, "Of course, it's for conducting experiments."
"What kind of experiment?" Lin Nai immediately thought of Lieutenant Li, who had been possessed by a demonic spirit and turned into a purple monster, and asked, "Is it like the kind of experiment Lieutenant Li underwent?"
"I guess so."
What does "consider" mean?
"A few years ago, the Gene Company discovered a demonic tome in the ruins of the capital city's alternate reality. In it, they found a method to summon demonic spirits and make a pact with demons."
Jill said slowly, "By selling your body and soul to a demon, you can attract the demon's possession and gain great power."
Lin Nai narrowed his eyes: "They even sold their souls to demons, so they don't have their own consciousness anymore, right? Isn't that the same as being possessed? Even if they gain great power, they don't even have their own bodies anymore. This deal is too bad."
“Not quite,” Jill said. “The terms of the contract are that the demon possessing the host must help the host fulfill his final wish. So generally speaking, this is something that is used when you are in a situation where you have no chance of survival and you have to fight to the death.”
Linna thought for a moment.
No wonder, when Lieutenant Li was transformed into a monster, he had lost his self-awareness, but the purple monster still designated him as its first priority target.
"So what exactly is your experiment?" Linna asked.
Jill said, "Lieutenant Lee and I have both considered whether... it might be possible to find a way to gain the power of demon possession without losing control of the body and being completely controlled by the demon."
Linnaeus: "You think this is possible?"
“Why is it impossible?” Jill said earnestly, “Don’t be cowardly just because demons are the most powerful race among the demon races. The reason why humanity has been able to develop to this point is because we have the spirit to challenge and try the so-called ‘impossible’!”
"Demons, although they were very powerful in life, without a body, only a soul remains, and they are nothing more than a fragile 'consciousness'."
"This kind of 'consciousness' is limited by the laws of nature! They are powerless to harm any life still existing in nature, nor can they interfere with anything in the material world!"
"The only thing they can do is use the spiritual power of their souls to communicate with the life in nature in a way similar to dreaming, and to bewitch people's hearts."
"The demonic contract is their method of breaking through this restriction of natural laws!"
Linnaeus paused, pondered for a moment, and then said, "No matter what you say, it seems that your experiment has failed."
Otherwise, Lieutenant Li wouldn't have lost control after turning into a purple monster that day.
“Yes, we haven’t fully succeeded yet,” Jill said. “But I have some ideas… It’s just a pity that before we could test them, Lieutenant Lee passed away.”
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