Chapter 60-60- Eclipse
After tying up Hewlett with her tentacle-like hair, Yvette did not kill him. Instead, she quickly left the road and flew to a suburban wilderness.
She didn't know whether Hewlett had made any backup plans, and whether he would wait for the arrival of the armed forces of the unicorn creatures if he stayed too long, so she could only go to another place and interrogate him later.
After loosening the hair that was blocking his mouth, Yvette couldn't help but sigh inwardly at the thought that this guy might smear his saliva on her hair. She decided to go back and cut off the excess hair, and then said, "Answer my question."
"Why should I...answer your question? Can you promise not to kill me?" Hewlett's face was pale, but he still asked with his neck stiff.
"I can guarantee that you won't be tortured before you die," Yvette said. "Is that reason enough?"
"Um... can't you really spare my life? I can guarantee that I know nothing..." Hewlett gave a flattering smile.
Yvette didn't say anything, her puppet-like face showed no sadness or joy, but the meaning she conveyed was very clear - you have seen my secret, and you still want to live, how could you have such a dream?
After thinking for a moment, she said, "I can give you the opportunity to leave a last message and send it to your loved ones."
Hewlett's smile faltered.
Yvette's lips curled up slightly. As a consultant for Lin Tui Biology and a professor at Agashe University, she could hack into Hewlett's information, which gave her plenty of room for exploitation. She said, "I imagine you wouldn't want to die without a single word for your parents, wife, and children. Your mother is probably expecting you to text her goodnight tonight, and your wife and daughter are waiting for you to come home this weekend so you can spend a wonderful weekend with them."
Hewlett fell silent. He was no carefree, invincible man. On the contrary, like most 35-year-olds, he possessed numerous weaknesses, many of which were far more terrifying than death. Especially when the other party mentioned his daughter, though she didn't say much, it didn't prevent him from imagining that if he didn't cooperate, would his daughter be harmed and retaliated by the witch? And so, after a long, deafening silence, he finally made a decision, exhaled deeply, and whispered, "Vile witch... what do you want to know?"
"All the information you know about 'Zero' and 'One'," Yvette said.
"Well...if that's the case, I don't know enough." Hewlett shook his head. "All I know is that last year, an informant from Black Tower Pharmaceuticals passed on information to the company. It said two highly classified experimental subjects had escaped from Black Tower Pharmaceuticals' Abyss Base. Those two subjects were codenamed 'Zero' and 'One', and they appeared to be little girls, one with silver hair and one with blonde hair, around eight or nine years old."
Hewlett glanced at Yvette. "Although you look a little older, you do bear a striking resemblance to that silver-haired girl. You're practically her grown-up self... Oh, and based on the company's two years of investigation, the identities of the two experimental subjects have been confirmed. One is Yvette Rosilvia, and the other is Liana Renee. Before becoming experimental subjects, both were orphans in an orphanage funded by the Black Tower."
After a pause, he said helplessly, "Now you know why I was so sure you were Zero right away? Even if it was a fake identity, your pseudonym... changing it was a bit too lazy..."
Yvette immediately fell into deep thought.
If Hewlett hadn't intended to lie before his death, it meant that "Zero" was undoubtedly her original owner. But she wasn't very familiar with Liana Renee. In her first dream long ago, she hadn't interacted much with the other genetically orphaned children from the Transformation Project. She only knew that such a little girl seemed to exist.
The original owner and Liana were Number Zero and Number One, and were kept extremely secret, apparently because of the "Eternal Life Plan"...
She then asked, "Why do you say that the means I use are not human?"
"This is just a guess... Miss Zero, please allow me to call you that. Are you familiar with 'Erosion Seed'? Of course, this is a code name circulated within the Lin Tui Biology community. Perhaps it has another name within Black Tower Medicine..."
Lost seeds?
Hearing this inexplicable new word, Yvette was slightly startled, and another noun immediately emerged in her mind.
——Divine transformation!
A divine transformation that may be related to the source of doomsday!
"Go on." Yvette said nothing.
"'Eclipse Seed' is a code name that originated from nowhere. We know nothing about it. It could be a living thing, a dead thing, a concept, or a relic... But many scholars within the company believe it exists. It may represent a technological legacy from an alien planet or a prehistoric civilization. The company gained theoretical support from this and then entrusted us with practical applications..."
"At first, all this was just speculation, even just a joke. But then we heard similar rumors within Black Tower Pharmaceuticals, and our small academic circle began to truly believe it. We believed that Black Tower and Lin Tu were special, and that our new technology didn't come from research and development, but from some special acquisition, or even inheritance..."
"And you, Miss Zero," Hewlett said, "you and One, as escaped experimental subjects, are kept under extremely high confidentiality within the Black Tower. You must be connected to an important and powerful new technology, or even to that elusive 'Eclipse Seed.' That's why the company is paying so much attention to you, hoping to learn the Black Tower's secrets from you."
"As for me, I didn't report this directly to the company, but chose to come to you secretly. Besides wanting to take all the credit, I also had selfish motives. I hope to get an answer from you, an answer that everyone in my academic community is waiting for..."
"Miss Zero, before I die, can you tell me - does the 'Eclipse Seed', or the source of technology similar to the 'Eclipse Seed', really exist?"
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After giving Hewlett an affirmative answer, Yvette saw a complex change of emotions on Hewlett's face, and finally he let out a breath of relief, as if he had finally gained some kind of satisfaction.
After he sent voice messages to his parents, wife and children with tears and said goodnight, Yvette ended his life and made a simple small box with earth magic.
She would later send this small urn to his wife anonymously, which was also one of his last requests before his death.
Standing on a large rock in the wilderness of the suburbs, Yvette's gaze fell on the center of Agassah in the distance. The veil of night could not cover this neon city. The shining holographic advertisements shot straight into the sky, as if to show off the prosperity of this place to the whole universe.
She thought of the seeker's eyes that Hewlett had shown before, and guessed that he had something else to say, which was - was the origin civilization really created by them?
Is the origin civilization just a child standing on the shoulders of giants, yet still proud of its own height?
This is such a difficult question to answer. Fortunately, I'm just a time traveler. Whether it's true or not, it won't shake my inner pride...
Yvette thought to herself, and then immediately thought of the remaining six companies, namely Black Tide Company, Lingman Company, Gravity Group, Jinhen Chemical, Sky Technology and Likong Group.
Black Tower has "Divine Transformation" and Lin Tui has "Erosion Seed", which may be the core factor for these two super companies to choose to go into pharmaceutical and biological related businesses.
What about the other six super companies?
Is their technology also related to something similar?
Or is it a mixed bag, with both normal and abnormal people?
But no matter what, tonight's harvest is already quite rich. The problem of the werewolf killer has been solved, and the mystery of the original owner's identity has been clarified...
Thinking of this, Yvette suddenly remembered something and felt a little regretful for a moment.
She had previously borrowed Hewlett's magic terminal and hacked it to erase many traces of her information. Although this couldn't prevent the unicorn creatures from noticing her, it could delay her for a considerable amount of time.
Then……
She forgot about extorting money from Hewlett.
She had originally wanted to extort money, not a hundred million, but twenty or thirty million would have been a piece of cake. But the scene where Hewlett called his family to say goodnight was a bit sentimental, and she didn't feel comfortable doing it. And then, during the execution, she was in a rather solemn mood, so she simply forgot about it.
Fortunately, there were some equipment explosions, including a military terminal with a cache of 100,000 symbol points, a semi-liquid biological colonization suit, and some biological prostheses fused with the flesh.
Among them, biological prostheses are not allowed. They are roughly equivalent to a part of the body and have genetic locks, so they cannot be used even after transplantation.
It's not that the active rune set cannot be recycled, but collecting blood to refine it is too evil and too troublesome.
The bio-colonial suit can be used, but Hewlett has worn it every day and it has become ingrained in her. The fully enclosed armor, when activated, will also hinder her from using her tentacles... She plans to sell it on the black market, and she estimates that she can get at least two or three million.
The only thing she could use directly was the magic terminal with a 100,000 talisman point cache. It was at least better than her 60,000 civilian-grade one, and the military-grade one was also priced at a premium of over 800,000 on the black market...
Calculating the gains, Yvette thought for a while and felt that it was time to go back and reunite with Miss Irene to collect the bounty for the werewolf killer.
Tonight's distortion magic power had consumed nearly 1,000 points, which was an exaggeration. She would have to devour an entire city's worth of distortions to make it back up. But fortunately, the returns were not bad: intelligence, equipment, and bounties.
So, she opened the message interface and responded to Miss Irene's message. She first reported that she was safe, and then asked Irene to take Tennyson to wait outside the police station so that she could quickly collect the reward.
Then, inadvertently, a long-lost little red dot caught her attention.
She switched over and saw the private message from the Fire Bearer. After more than half a month, the Civilization Preservation Association finally replied.
(End of this chapter)
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