Chapter 58 I am indeed laughing, laughing at your hypocrisy.
On the way to deliver the documents to the boss, Li Xiaogou's mind kept flashing back to the words he had just seen.
The organization was actually established to eliminate the Destroyer and protect humanity.
By killing humans?
You really are just taking advantage of the fact that no one outside can see and talking nonsense on the documents.
The fact that he could be so shameless and openly do so made him even more curious about what the boss here was like.
Thinking of this, Li Xiaogou quickened his pace and headed in the direction given by the man in the white coat.
The room the Boss stayed in was no different, at least not from the outside.
Li Xiaogou knocked on the door and walked in.
He took a quick glance at the furnishings in the room and quickly concluded that this was not the room he saw in the yellow-haired man's memory.
Li Xiaogou looked at the chair with its back to him. The chair seemed to have a spirit and turned around slowly and dramatically at this moment.
This organization has been competing with the Special Investigation Bureau for so long, and their leader is about to reveal his true face in front of him.
His heart was pounding so hard, Li Xiaogou worried the other person might hear it. As the chair's angle of rotation grew, his breathing became lighter and lighter, until he held it completely. His eyes gradually widened, until—suddenly—they shrank to the size of a needle tip.
"It's you."
Li Xiaogou immediately stepped back, but the other party was faster and the door had already closed tightly behind him.
The person sitting in the chair was the young man in a white coat who appeared in the laboratory.
The young man now took off his black-framed glasses, and Li Xiaogou realized that his glasses looked so sharp.
"How have you considered it?" The young man said to Li Xiaogou with a smile, his hands on the back of the chair.
Confirming he couldn't escape, his heart, which was about to leap out of his body, calmed down. He sat down across from the young man and asked calmly, "What are you considering?"
The young man raised his eyebrows, as if trying to slow down his composure. "Consider joining us, or..."
Or "death".
Li Xiaogou didn't say anything, he was thinking.
He was not so arrogant as to think that the boss of the organization was afraid of his ability and did not dare to fight him head-on, so he took such a roundabout way to lure him here.
So why did the other party go through so much trouble?
If you wanted to invite him to join, why couldn't you just say it directly in the lab?
My hands clenched unconsciously, and my fingertips felt slippery.
The feel of paper.
He suddenly thought of something.
The other party also spoke at this time: "You have inquired about the information about the Destroyer many times in the Special Investigation Bureau. As far as I know, this is the highest level of secrets in the Special Investigation Bureau. But if you join the organization, I will reveal these secrets to you immediately."
"Why?"
"Of course, I'm sure you can catch the Destroyer."
Li Xiaogou looked directly into the young man's eyes: "I don't believe it."
"So you have no confidence in yourself?"
He shook his head: "Of course I believe I can catch the Destroyer, I just don't believe you want to catch him."
"Hahahahaha." The young man laughed so hard that his shoulders shrugged and even shook the table. "I've done it many times. It seems that even if I give you a chance to look at the documents first, you won't believe us."
Sure enough, the young man was so roundabout just to let him see the document.
"Why don't you believe that we want to catch the Destroyer?" The young man tilted his head.
"The Destroyer destroys the world, and what you do is similar. Since our goals are the same, why are you trying to capture the Destroyer?"
The young man sneered: "You are quite frank."
"But these are the ideas that the Special Investigation Bureau instilled in you. Did Yunlou tell you that?"
"I have eyes," Li Xiaogou said. "Are you trying to say that your organization is taking lives so that these powerless people don't suffer?"
"It's not that hypocritical." The young man smiled faintly, "But we are indeed helping them by killing those people."
The young man was amused by Li Xiaogou's madman-like look, but then his smile faded and he looked more serious than ever.
"The Destroyer is coming. This motto has been circulating for a long time, like a sword hanging over everyone's head. No one knows when it will strike, so people live in fear every day. Over time, the world has been divided into two factions."
"Which two factions do you think they are?"
Li Xiaogou thought for a moment and answered seriously, "The bad-tempered faction and the aggressive faction."
"...That's not a bad description. One group decided that rather than live in fear every day, it would be better to keep this secret within their hearts. So they didn't tell the next generation about the Destroyer, and as they grew old and died, the secret was buried forever."
"The other faction wanted to face the apocalypse proactively. They tried many methods, and one day, perhaps with God's mercy, four of them awakened their special abilities."
"This is a power that transcends both humanity and technology. With this power, humanity might not be doomed to fail in the face of the Destroyer. These four individuals rose to prominence with this power, becoming the founders of the Four Great Families."
This was the first time Li Xiaogou heard someone talk about the founding history of the four major families. It seemed to have nothing to do with the news descriptions he had searched online before.
"So, what does this have to do with organized murder? Could it be that you are a branch of the Four Great Families?"
The young man did not get angry at Li Xiaogou's deliberate provocation. He just twitched the corners of his lips silently: "Don't worry, I'll be there soon."
"Humans are the most greedy creatures. When the four major families first gained superpowers, they formed an alliance, hoping to unite against the Destroyer. However, as time passed, the rumors of the Destroyer faded among ordinary people, and many of the descendants of the four major families began to share the same idea. They began to regard superpowers as a unique right and established rules that prohibited members of the four major families, especially those with superpowers, from marrying outside their families."
“What would happen if someone did that?”
The young man smiled, his eyes dark. "The four major families have long held enormous power. As long as they want, they can kill someone in many ways that won't be discovered. That's how Yunlou's childhood sweetheart died. If you can still see him, you can ask him."
"I will." Li Xiaogou answered simply.
"The four great families are insatiable, and their descendants are increasingly incompetent, yet they rely on their ancestors' protection to occupy positions they shouldn't hold. There are still those among ordinary people who have awakened special abilities. These people are registered and monitored in various ways, often eventually being recruited as thugs."
"They think it's a gift, but I think it's just a house slave."
"So you created the organization to give a chance to ordinary people with special abilities who don't want to be persecuted by the four major families?" Li Xiaogou said sarcastically. He could not understand the act of killing ordinary people no matter what.
"This is just one of the results, not the original intention of the organization." The young man once again denied his speculation and continued, "Although the four major families are pursuing their own interests, if they are still trying to improve their efforts to deal with the Destroyer, then the organization may not necessarily appear."
Li Xiaogou noticed that when the young man said this, his expression changed. It was a kind of anger, and even his fists were clenched tightly.
"They're living a carefree life on a mountain of gold and silver, completely oblivious to the matter of the Destroyer. When questioned, they simply say they'll take over if and when the time comes. But they don't see the incompetent, bloated faces who pant every step of the way."
"The founder of the organization was recruited by one of the companies. After hearing this answer, he realized that he couldn't continue living in this muddle-headed way, so he established the organization."
Turning around, the young man looked at him seriously, his eyes flashing with a frightening fanaticism: "A family that has already decayed cannot fight against the Destroyer. When that day comes, the world will need more psychics, the more the better."
Although it was absurd, Li Xiaogou seemed to have caught a glimpse of these people's thought process.
"You're using children for experiments in order to make more people become superpowered?"
"To be precise, we want everyone to become a mutant."
"Li Xiaogou, join us. If what we are doing succeeds, it will be the greatest discovery in human history. We will change the entire race with our own hands! When the time comes, humanity will unite and not only be able to deal with the Destroyer, but the sea of stars that humans talk about will no longer be just a dream!"
Li Xiaogou's Adam's apple rolled up and down.
He admitted that the white coat was a very powerful lobbyist.
"But many people will die in this process. No, to be more precise, many people have already died."
"Yes." He pointed to his heliotrope. "The names of these people are deeply engraved in my mind. When that day comes, I promise that the entire human race will also remember their sacrifice."
Li Xiaogou smiled slowly.
The young man frowned. "You may not agree with our views, but I don't have the right to laugh at you."
"I'm not mocking this idea. I understand it," Li Xiaogou said. "Such events are not uncommon in history, from small reforms to major changes in dynasties. They may only be mentioned in a line or two in history books, but in those times, they meant the lives of countless people."
"This is a fact, it's human nature. Whether I agree with it or not doesn't affect its existence."
The young man's expression relaxed a little: "It's a good idea that you have this idea."
"But I am indeed laughing, laughing at your hypocrisy."
The young man's expression suddenly changed. Li Xiaogou spoke slowly under his approaching, furious gaze, "I don't know the Four Great Families. Perhaps they did what you said, and then you came into being. But in my opinion, you are just a different form of the Fifth Great Family. They enslave other psychics, and you use your self-righteous excuses to kill ordinary people."
"Even if you talk about making contributions to humanity, and those people in heaven agree, then let me ask, what do you do with the children in the orphanage whose experiments failed?"
As he spoke, the anger he had been trying so hard to suppress began to bubble up. He stood up, put his hands on the table, and leaned forward to demand, "Not only do you drink their blood, you also eat their flesh and peel their skin! Invite me to join? If I hadn't discovered that I was an anomaly in the experiment, I would have died in your hands long ago. This has nothing to do with saving humanity. You are just another bunch of rotten fish and shrimp!"
"I've said before that great things require sacrifice. If those children don't die, the secrets of the experiment will be exposed. Besides, we're conducting experiments for all of humanity. Where does the money come from?"
Li Xiaogou could not see any guilt on the young man's face.
The young man was not lying to him, because he had already lied to himself.
"What if I don't want to join? Kill me?"
The young man smiled and said, "I am very patient and will give you plenty of time to think about it."
This was intended to keep him locked up until he agreed.
"How many more people are you going to sacrifice in your plan? Have you found any clues about the Destroyer after all these years?" Li Xiaogou adopted a negotiating posture. He tried to make himself look calmer, but he was actually very nervous.
The young man looked at him intently and said, "I can only tell you the clues about the Destroyer after you join the organization."
Then there is nothing to talk about.
At this moment, footsteps were heard outside the door, followed by the yellow-haired man's voice: "Those bastards from the Special Investigation Bureau are here!"
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