Chapter 219 Chapter 219 The more you dig, the more you find
After returning home, Li Hua first dragged Benjamin to his room and said, "Ben, I want to ask you a question about Kevin. You must answer me seriously."
"If Kevin asked you to sign a letter of apology for the crime he committed against you five years ago, would you be willing to sign it?"
"...Simply put, you're asking me if I'm willing to forgive him, right?" Benjamin said helplessly. "Of course I'll sign it. If I don't forgive him, how can I possibly be good friends with him?"
What's going on? Is Kevin still feeling bad about what happened five years ago?
So Li Hua called Jason over and told him everything about Kevin and No. 666's suggestion.
"Even criminals, especially those facing execution, deserve basic human rights and respect." Benjamin rubbed his brow. "What image do I have in Kevin's eyes..."
Does he seem like the type of person who can't tell right from wrong?
"I'll go to the plumber to investigate. Don't tell Gwen about this until I find out the result." Benjamin closed his clothes, turned into a red light, turned into a stingray and flew out of the ordinary citizen's house.
Li Hua asked, "Jason, what do you think?"
"It sounds a bit hindsight now... but thinking about it, I felt something was amiss the last time we went to the Void and heard about that prison." Jason tapped the Ice Ghost cub's head with his finger, eyes downcast. "There are plenty of these sorts of management facilities in Gotham that disguise themselves as legal but actually engage in illegal revenue and abuse. I've been there before."
"Based on my experience of hanging out in the police station and investigating cases there, there's a high probability that this thing is a souped-up Arkham Asylum in another location. Or worse, a dark cell in another location."
Such a big and obvious management error and loophole has never been discovered or pointed out by anyone. This is a big problem in itself.
Whether the top leaders of Tiangong cannot see it or do not want to see it, it is a huge problem that deserves to be dug deeper.
What I worried about became a reality.
As night fell, Benjamin, his face dark, returned with a thick stack of documents. His first words were, "There's a problem with the top management of the Tiangong Association. We're not sure if it's all or just part of it."
First, there's Kevin's prison break nearly five years ago. The guard who executed "an" escaped prisoner before he escaped was called "Mog." He's now the warden of the "Inksica Prison Void Zero"—hereafter referred to as "Void Zero Prison." Shortly after taking office, he fired all the guards and replaced them with safer robotic guards.
Since Mog took over as warden, the prison supply ship has been completely deserted. It's unclear whether the natives of the Zero Realm haven't applied for this route, or if no one has managed to escape, as the supply ship records show no one leaving the area "openly" by this route.
"Also, I didn't find any records of Kevin in the Void Prison. I did find some records of Vilgax, but Vilgax broke out of prison."
Benjamin sat on the sofa and gulped down a large glass of ice water with a very sour look on his face.
"The official explanation is that for most people, the Void Realm itself is a prison. The prisoners held in the Void Realm Prison are generally prisoners transported directly there by the Heavenly Workers' Association, or those caught by the Prison Hounds and causing trouble in the Void Realm."
"What do you think about this?"
"If there's nothing wrong here, I'll eat this pile of information right now."
Li Hua flipped through the documents in his hand, and couldn't help squinting his eyes and pressing the phantom pain in his solar plexus with his fingertips.
When a spoon has a hole in it, it's natural to talk about it.
But when a soup spoon is full of holes, it's hard to say where to start. If you have to say anything, you can only say, "Your colander is really unique."
Li Hua: "In my opinion, every word you said in the past fifteen minutes is enough to execute a person. How come the Tiangong Association hasn't sent anyone to investigate?"
In such a short period of time, Mog rose from a prison guard to the warden with absolute power. No one would believe that there was no power behind him to help him!
Considering the time and current situation, Kevin, who was invisible in that incident and prison, was most likely involved without knowing it.
Benjamin: "I asked, but they said that although the Void Zero Realm Prison is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Tiangong Society, Tiangong plumbers and electricians are not allowed to enter the prison area. With my current authority, I can't find the specific person or organization that issued this order."
"Oh, that's neat! It's almost like they're using the warden as a scapegoat and alarm." Jason put down the documents in his hand and said, "Anyway, send the kid back first, then bring Kevin and Gwen over here."
This is definitely a big problem and everyone needs to be informed.
Although according to the current situation, by the time the mastermind is found, Li Hua and Jason will have returned home, but now that they have found a clue, they might as well take advantage of the opportunity to prepare and find out the approximate size of the enemy.
This way, Benjamin and his team won't be too panicked when they have to deal with that guy in the future.
At first, after listening to the story and reading the information, Kevin and Gwen, who were called in, still thought that the warden was someone who exploited legal loopholes, abused prisoners through sting enforcement, and was probably doing something illegal in prison.
But as Li Hua found the loopholes, watched Benjamin find out the key points of the drawings in the materials, and listened to Jason's reference cases, his emotions gradually changed from disbelief and anger at the beginning to horror.
Based on the current information, the enemy who was able to tamper with so much Tiangong Association information must be someone within Tiangong Association, and he must not be a small figure.
So far, all they have done is fight alien weirdos and Earth psychopathic weirdos. A struggle involving power politics like this is something they have never seen or heard of before.
Gwen: "Too many scums like this are in Tian Gong. We must dig them out!"
"...or maybe just forget it." Kevin forced himself to suppress the anger and resentment in his heart and said, "We can't even finish dealing with the issue of evolving humans right now. We don't have the time or energy to provoke another guy who is just as troublesome. Besides, I'm living a good life now..."
He didn't want his friends to be in danger because of him and lose their lives like Brother Kui.
"Not just for you, Kevin, but also for Brother Qui, and for so many more people who have suffered injustice and hardship. Gwen is right, those traitors and scum must pay for their crimes."
Before Kevin could snap and deliberately say something irritating to drive the other person away, Benjamin had already spoken back.
"You're right, so this matter can't be rushed. The soonest we can do this is after we've dealt with the Evolved Human invasion and another unknown crisis, and after my grandfather, who is more familiar with the internal structure of the Tiangong, returns."
Kevin looked at Benjamin steadily, then at Gwen who was equally determined, and took a deep breath to suppress the sourness in his nose.
This time he didn't say anything like "Benjamin, you're not stupid this time."
Because whether Benjamin is stupid or not, his willingness to risk his life for others has never changed. It has been like this since Kevin met him when he was ten years old.
So Kevin said, "First of all, although it seems that I've been involved in a huge conspiracy, I really don't know anything."
"You don't have to know, you just have to remember and cooperate."
Jason, who had been silent until Benjamin, Gwen and Kevin had communicated on their own, finally spoke, speaking in a tone as if he was throwing a Poké Ball.
"Benjamin, use Martian Manhunter!"
Martians can read people's thoughts and of course their memories.
So Benjamin, who has turned into a Martian, can go into Kevin's memory and look for clues from a third-person perspective, and can even bring people in to look for clues.
However, reading memories is a very invasive act of privacy. Not only Benjamin, but even Martian Manhunter Ron would not do it. Therefore, Benjamin stated in advance: "I know this is a violation of personal privacy, and at present, it will not read a specific memory, so it may read the wrong memory..."
"Then just keep reading!" Kevin, who had originally thought it was hopeless to redress his innocence, suddenly heard Benjamin had a trick up his sleeve and shouted, "You have an alien who can read minds directly. Why are you hesitating about such a powerful trump card? Are you going to kill me again?"
Since Kevin said so, Benjamin no longer made excuses. He simply tapped his watch and transformed into the original Martian form, and began to scan Kevin's memory.
Soon, the green-skinned Martian opened his jaw and uttered a clear and standard sentence: "What the fuck!"
Li Hua was surprised, Gwen covered her mouth, and Jason sat up straight away.
What on earth did Benjamin see that made him, whose ultimate swear word is "perverted weirdo", directly use a swear word like "Fuck"?
You know, Jason had just taught Benjamin some dirty words on a whim, and Benjamin blushed and couldn't even speak. Now this guy actually cursed "FUCK", how angry must he be?
Just as Li Hua was wondering if Benjamin was mind-reading Kevin, he was affected by Kevin's mind empathy and suddenly burst into tears. He saw the green Martian open his red eyes and say, "Kevin's memory has been altered, and more than one part of it has been altered."
As soon as these words came out, Li Hua, Jason, and Kevin, who had just opened his eyes, immediately burst out with "WTF?"
Gwen was at a loss for words. By the time she realized the people around her had finished cursing, she took a deep breath to steady herself and said, "So, the mastermind behind the prison incident is not only powerful and influential, hiding in the shadows, but also possesses the ability or technology to modify people's memories and influence their minds?"
Benjamin nodded. “That’s the case at the moment.”
Jason asked, "Then can you break through these thought barriers?"
Benjamin shook his head. "If Ron were to do it, it should be possible, but I'm not sure if he can completely remove those mental barriers without damaging Kevin's own mind. I can't even tell which part is the false memory implanted in Kevin... but there are definitely false memories!"
"For example, Kevin's memories of escaping from the Void Zero Realm and wandering around the Void Zero Realm in search of an exit have been tampered with and lost. This is my deduction based on Kevin's physical condition and the Void Zero Realm's environmental conditions."
The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment. What kind of catastrophe was this?
At this time, Li Hua spoke up: "The other party wouldn't target Kevin for no reason. In this case, I suggest that Benjamin use the Omnitrix's gene opening function on Kevin and conduct a thorough investigation of his ancestors for three generations."
Gwen: "What's your theory?"
Li Hua: "It can't be considered speculation, it's just a wild imagination, no guarantee of authenticity."
Kevin: "My head is literally being drilled. If you have any guesses, just tell me."
It can't possibly be any more outrageous than the current situation.
Li Hua: "The mastermind behind this has done so much to you instead of turning you into a retard or even killing you. It's obvious that you're very important to them. But now you, who were so 'important', are being thrown out to fend for yourself. Is it possible that the mastermind behind this is your biological parents, perhaps setting up some kind of succession test for you?"
This is how it is portrayed in literary works, and Damian's mother also did this.
"......I thought you were going to say something, but you're just playing the 'I'm your father' Star Wars meme here?"
Kevin was not angry, his eyes only expressed the speechless feeling of "Is this all your imagination and reasoning ability?"
"Although it's outrageous that my family abandoned me, they at least left me a garage and a house, not an endless prison in the void. Although there are many irresponsible parents, would human parents really push a human child into a pit of fire?"
A hand covered with calluses and tiny scars was raised.
Jason said, "Hello, yes."
He also has some say in this matter.
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The author has something to say: Li Hua: I feel like Jason and Kevin can make a hell of a joke in a double room next time they go out to eat.
Jason: Aren’t you afraid that the concentration of hell is too high and that will cause us to lose merit?
Li Hua: Let Benjamin and Gwen open another double room next to it to chat, and put the little moths in to COS angels. The sunny and all-ages atmosphere will help increase your merits.
Benjamin: What about you?
Li Hua: As a socially anxious, magical boy who doesn't fit in, I choose to sit in the middle so I can hear what's going on on both sides without having to look after the kids. [Like]
【Catch a bug once】
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