Chapter 63
Pei Zhao watched with his own eyes as the light in front of him gradually disappeared, and the gate leading to the prison slowly closed, just like the hope in his heart, which gradually died out and turned into dead silence.
Pei Zhao had only one thought in his mind - he was dead.
Pei Zhao slowly closed his eyes, and at this moment, a hand reached into the prison gate and opened the slowly closing door.
"Wait! Boss... wait a minute." Pei Zhao was startled. The voice was Isaac.
The door to the prison opened again, and Pei Zhao saw Isaac walking in breathlessly.
He called the man boss. Despite the pain, Pei Zhao was still able to spare some energy to analyze the relationship between the two. Isaac called that man boss? So was Isaac a hired experimenter? Is this laboratory a business? What happened to the boss? Money or technology?
Isaac stood in front of the man, hands hanging down, and apologized indifferently, "Boss, I'm sorry, I was not paying attention when I was leading the way, and the test subject got lost... Ugh!"
Unexpectedly, before he could finish his words, the man hit him in the face and tilted it to the side. The words of apology were also interrupted.
Pei Zhao was stunned. The slap the man gave was extremely heavy, much heavier than the ones he usually gave Zhou Yuli when scolding her. Even... from a distance, Pei Zhao could smell the smell of blood in the air.
This is not a warning or an admonition, it is a thorough teaching.
The man pinched Isaac's chin, forcing him to look at him. "Isaac, the entire lab is monitored by surveillance cameras. Do you need me to retrieve the surveillance cameras?"
Isaac still spoke in a calm tone, "Boss, I was distracted while leading the way and lost the person. It's none of his business."
"Okay." The man stared at Isaac, loosened his hand, and seemed to be angry. He pointed to an unknown place in the darkness and casually ordered, "Since you have done something wrong, follow the rules of the laboratory."
There were footsteps coming from the darkness, and Pei Zhao realized that there were actually quite a few people standing in the darkness.
After the man gave the order, four men came out. They did not touch Pei Zhao, but pulled Isaac into the darkness. Then, two lights lit up in the darkness.
One on the left and one on the right.
On the left was a soft leather sofa. The man grabbed Pei Zhao by the back of his collar and threw him next to the sofa. He sat on the sofa and crossed his legs.
On the right side is a cross with Isaac's hands tied on both sides.
Pei Zhao was in so much pain, but he knew that what was going to happen next would be extremely bloody...
Pei Zhao struggled to climb onto the sofa and tried his best to say to the man: "Boss, it's me. I escaped from prison. Did you see... uh..."
However, the man grabbed his throat so hard that he could not speak or even breathe.
Pei Zhao's face turned red. Just when he thought he was going to be strangled to death, the man threw him aside again. This time, Pei Zhao's head hit the floor heavily.
Pei Zhao felt that it might be broken, it was very painful, and there was warm liquid. He couldn't get up, so he tried his best to open his eyes, and what he saw was Isaac with his head bowed.
Many electrodes were attached to Isaac's body, some through the clothes and some directly in contact with the skin.
With his back to the man, he couldn't see his movements, but Pei Zhao heard a wave in the air, and then... Isaac began to twitch violently.
The electrodes were shaken and fell, and the punishment had to be suspended. Isaac's head drooped even lower, but the electrodes were picked up by the man in black and put back on, and a new round of electrodes began again.
…
Pei Zhao watched with his own eyes as blood foamed out of Isaac's mouth, and his face turned from pale to the color of liver, making it hard to breathe...
Pei Zhao closed his eyes, and the mirror whip slowly took shape in his hand.
"That's enough." A man's voice sounded.
Pei Zhao's palm loosened and the mirror whip suddenly disappeared.
"Investigator Isaac, and your test subject, reflect on yourselves here."
The man and a few others quickly left here. The door leading to the prison opened and closed again, and the place fell into complete darkness.
Pei Zhao didn't care about anything. He relied on his memory and tried his best to climb to the cross. He groped around to remove the electrodes on Isaac's body and untied the ropes.
Isaac slid down the cross to the ground. Pei Zhao couldn't see his condition, but he felt his hands were covered in blood.
"Isaac, wake up, Isaac, don't sleep..." Pei Zhao's voice was filled with tears. This familiar feeling came to him again. Once again, someone was injured or even died because of him...
"Pei Zhao... don't cry," Isaac's voice was weak, but no longer indifferent. Instead, it was a little smiling. He fumbled and wiped away Pei Zhao's tears with his fingertips, and said, "Why do you have to believe me just because you have suffered a little torture... I am not necessarily a good person."
Pei Zhao shed more tears: "...You took the punishment for me, I want to take you away."
"I can't leave." Isaac's voice became vague. "What do you think the white hell is? This is... the place where the world uses to trap the awakened, prisoners... We are the abandoned people. Even if we leave the laboratory, we can only return to that white world... There is no hope, only oblivion..."
Pei Zhao didn't care what Isaac said. He carried Isaac on his back and said, "That's better than being here."
That man was so terrifying that he completely abandoned his original plan. He didn't want to stay here for another second. With that man's methods, he might die here if he stayed any longer.
"Isaac, I have a question for you." Pei Zhao stretched out a long whip in his right hand. Before the violent dismantling operation began, Pei Zhao still held on to another hope.
What if Isaac chooses to become an idol?
"Do you want to leave this world?"
The person on his back did not respond for a long time. Pei Zhao could not tell whether he was unconscious or had rejected him.
Pei Zhao remained silent and clenched the mirror whip.
"Okay, I'll take you out now..."
"I'm afraid."
"What...what?" Pei Zhao thought he had heard it wrong and asked again in surprise.
On the back, Isaac couldn’t tell whether he was unconscious or was really speaking seriously.
Pei Zhao's eyes darkened, he lifted Isaac up and said, "Don't be afraid."
The mirror whip was placed in front of his eyes, rising and falling, but nothing changed except the heavy sound of the door in front of him opening.
Pei Zhao had a cold face and continued to whip.
Suddenly, boom.
Two times, boom.
Three times...
After an unknown number of times, I finally heard a crisp "click" coming from the door.
Pei Zhao looked delighted. The glass on the tightly closed door fell off, and light came out again. Pei Zhao covered his face and said happily to Isaac behind him: "Don't be afraid, we are going out."
However, once he stepped out of that door, the next challenge came.
The cold iron railings blocked their way, and through the railings, the masked man stared straight at them.
Pei Zhao stopped immediately.
how so? Has he been watching from outside?
"Dangerous experimental subjects should be destroyed." The man's cold voice penetrated the railings, making Pei Zhao dazed.
The same conditioned reflex worked on Isaac, and Isaac rolled off Pei Zhao's back.
"boss……"
The man opened the railing door, walked over to Isaac and squatted down, pinching his chin and asking, "Do you want to go with him?"
"Come with me, Isaac." Pei Zhao was anxious.
But Isaac just chuckled. Pei Zhao even suspected that he didn't see clearly who was in front of him, but he uttered two words firmly, "Boss."
…
Pei Zhao was locked back in the small dark room.
Since no offensive weapons were found on the person, the man could only believe that there was something wrong with the prison security door.
“Stop playing tricks.” The man gave a cold order and left with Isaac in his arms.
Pei Zhao huddled in the corner with his knees hugged, feeling betrayed.
He didn't understand why Isaac refused to go with him. What kind of magic does the man called the boss have?
The only reason Pei Zhao could think of was that the man controlled Isaac's family and forced Isaac to listen to him.
But this sounds like Oriental night talk!
Isaac had told him before that everyone here was single and had no relatives or friends.
So what exactly threatened Isaac?
Pei Zhao really couldn't understand it.
Feeling a cool touch on his chest, Pei Zhao raised his hand to touch it, and felt a little relieved. Just then, the door opened and dazzling light came in.
"I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
The light closed and darkness returned to my eyes. Pei Zhao identified the person as Isaac through his voice. He lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "There's nothing to be sorry about. That was your choice."
"It's not that I don't want to go with you, I really can't leave him." Isaac groped and sat next to Pei Zhao, hugging his knees. Seeing that Pei Zhao didn't answer for a long time, Isaac changed the subject and said lightly, "Why don't you live in the room I gave you? Don't you like it?"
"Why don't you come with me?" Pei Zhao asked.
Isaac sighed. "…I am an experimenter here. I cannot leave the laboratory."
"Why can't you leave? I can take you away from this world."
"Don't be ridiculous."
"What is the World Awakener you mentioned earlier?"
“…You heard wrong.”
"That boss is the owner of the rights of a higher civilization?"
“…”
Facing Isaac's silence, Pei Zhao's answers were confirmed one by one, "So Sudi is right, advanced civilizations not only exist, but have also infiltrated the world."
Because he accidentally became a puppeteer who can travel through different worlds, Pei Zhao has a higher-dimensional perspective on the world. Pei Zhao's attitude towards this world, which he had never been able to access before, became commonplace after Sudi's repeated beatings.
"Aren't you surprised?" Isaac frowned. In his opinion, advanced civilization was such a desirable word!
Pei Zhao sighed: "Is it because of this that you want to become a new civilization forger by following your boss?"
Not to mention that the evolution of civilization does not happen suddenly and takes time, even with the current level of the real world, it would probably be difficult to achieve a change in civilization in a short period of time.
Pei Zhao fumbled and patted Isaac: "You are just too worried, really, you think too much."
Pei Zhao was really tired. He hated thinking too much, and even the daily chores in the store were done for him by Bai Zhou.
So facing Isaac who was thinking so much, Pei Zhao was really helpless.
"Before human life reaches eternity, there is no need to consider too much about the changes in civilization. It is really too unimportant." Pei Zhaozhong exhaled, raised the corners of his mouth and said, "You scared me to death. I thought you fell in love with your boss."
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