Chapter 746: Do and Destroy
After dinner, Wen Liang returned to the apartment with Fu Zheng, clutching a stack of information.
The door closed behind me, isolating me from the hustle and bustle of the city, but it couldn't keep out the heavy air in the room.
Fu Zheng took off his coat and did not walk towards the sofa. Instead, he turned around and locked his deep gaze on Wen Liang with an unavoidable scrutiny.
"Aliang," his voice was particularly clear in the quiet living room, "I have a few questions that I need you to answer seriously."
Wen Liang placed the documents on the entrance cabinet, rubbed his brows tiredly, and motioned for him to speak directly.
"Based on the available information, it's almost certain that your hypnosis-induced amnesia and Mason's abduction were directly related to Keller Hospital."
"yes."
"Emma's death is also related to the KL Group. Her blood type is the same as Mason's."
"Yeah." Wen Liang's eyes darkened, and the scribbled notes on Emma's yellowed registration form seemed to appear before his eyes again.
"So," Fu Zheng took a step forward, an invisible sense of oppression spreading. "Do you understand now why the KL Group is so persistent, even resorting to such bloody means, in targeting people with this extremely rare blood type? There must be a core driving force behind this."
Wen Liang raised her head, meeting his inquiring gaze, and voiced the suspicion that had long lingered in her mind: "I suspect that someone in the highest decision-making body of KL Group, or someone deeply tied to its interests, either himself or an immediate family member, has Kidd-negative blood type and is suffering from some... extremely dangerous illness that is incurable with conventional means. They need a steady supply of 'living samples' for research and 'treatment.'"
Fu Zheng nodded slowly, a glint of understanding flashing in his eyes. "Your speculation is very logical. If that's the case, why not follow this line of investigation directly? Find the core patient and solve the root cause of the problem?"
Wen Liang paused, frowning slightly. "I'm worried about alerting the enemy. KL's power is deeply intertwined. If we act too aggressively and expose our intentions, not only will we not be able to find the truth, but we will immediately bring about a catastrophic disaster."
"Aliang, what exactly do you ultimately want to achieve by investigating this matter?" Fu Zheng posed a core question. "Is it to expose the KL Group's heinous crimes of human experimentation to the public, bringing disgrace upon them and subjecting them to legal and moral judgment? Or... is it simply to allow Mason to live a stable and healthy life, completely free from the shadow of KL and free from any potential danger?"
“…”
The living room fell into deathly silence, with only the regular ticking of the wall clock as the only sound.
Her lips were pressed into a pale line.
If Wen Liang had just arrived in Philadelphia, he would definitely answer the latter.
The chain of evidence required for the former is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and the resistance required is far beyond her imagination. She believes that she does not have that ability and cannot afford the consequences of failure.
But now, she hesitated.
Maybe she can let Mason live a stable life, but if the KL Group’s affairs are not exposed, there will be more victims like Emma.
Emma died eight years ago. Eight years ago, how many victims like Emma were there?
How many victims like Emma have there been in these eight years?
How many more victims like Emma will there be in the future?
Wen Liang shuddered when he thought about the number and distribution of hospitals under the KL Group.
Countless lives like Emma, struggling at the bottom, being hunted with precision, and being consumed as experimental consumables, weigh on her heart like heavy lead blocks.
She hesitated.
That pure determination to protect Mason alone was torn by a heavier, darker sense of responsibility.
Seeing her silence, Fu Zheng's eyes darkened. "If it's the latter, then we can just find the key sick person and kill him."
Wen Liang: “???”
She looked at Fu Zheng in astonishment, "Aren't you being too simplistic and crude?"
The senior management of KL Group, his relatives and friends, they are a community of interests and they are not ordinary people.
If he were killed, the people around him would definitely not let Wen Liang and the others go, and their lives would become even more uneasy.
It is also possible that the disease affects not just one person, but an entire family, a family that carries genes for a genetic disease, and there is no point in killing one person.
There was no expression on Fu Zheng's face, as if he had already anticipated her reaction.
He paused, as if his previous shocking suggestion was just a starting point, and calmly proposed a second plan: "This method is indeed too risky, and the risk-reward is not proportional. Well, there is a second method."
"What method?"
Wen Liang was really afraid that Fu Zheng would come up with another out-of-the-box idea.
"No need to investigate." Fu Zheng said calmly, "Just destroy it."
Wen Liang's pupils shrank slightly: "Destroyed?"
"Yes, we know that Emma's real physical data must be stored in Artemis Laboratories. It would be extremely difficult to sneak in and obtain the data, or obtain evidence of their human experiments. Even if we did obtain it, it would be of little use to us. The legal process is too long and there are too many variables."
He paused, then emphasized, "Why not just destroy the entire lab? Use the simplest and most thorough method possible to burn all the data, samples, and research results inside, until they are completely obliterated."
Wen Liang was stunned and subconsciously asked, "Then what? Will they...let it go?"
Fu Zheng's lips curled up slightly. "They might suspect we did it, and they might even find some clues. But the most urgent thing is, what do KL Group and that core patient need most? It's time, it's medicine to cure the disease, it's experimental data and samples!"
"The destruction of the lab means their years of hard work have been wiped out in an instant, and their core project has suffered a devastating blow. They must immediately mobilize all resources and race against time to rebuild the lab, recruit new samples, and restart their experiments! This massive hole will drain away most of their energy and anger like a black hole. Until the lab is rebuilt and a breakthrough is achieved in their new 'treatment plan', they simply won't have the resources or motivation to fully engage us."
"...But, with Keller Hospital here, they will still be able to recruit more volunteers for the experiment."
Wen Liang frowned slightly, his face showing reluctance. "A new laboratory will be built soon, and new tragedies will continue to unfold. Destroying Artemis is only temporarily interrupting one of their tentacles. It's only a temporary solution, not a permanent one. Instead, it will push more people like Emma into the abyss..."
Fu Zheng: "So, you choose the former, right?"
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