Joan replied quickly, and Li Ke showed no intention of changing his mind. Cage and Vincent returned to the solitary confinement room, where they had to make a choice this time.
“Who do you think is the right person to kill?” Cage asked Vincent.
Vincent pointed almost without hesitation to the two people on the far side who moved the least and slept the most: "These two siblings are completely useless. It's a waste to keep them around."
Even if you offered this kind of person, whose flesh and blood are already so old and decayed, as a side dish to the mutated animals he is researching, he would still find it unappetizing.
Cage raised an eyebrow: "These two people were originally dispensable. Using them to pressure Li Ke will likely have no effect whatsoever."
Vincent was too lazy to think about these things and simply let Cage make the choice himself.
Cage knew Li Ke somewhat, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's kill these two people first and see how she reacts. We'll see if she still has that unique Chinese sense of morality. But you should also be prepared, we might have to adjust the order of the traps."
This time it was Vincent's turn to raise an eyebrow at Cage. They had originally set up a sonic attack in the nearby sea area that had a special hypnotic effect on high-energy objects.
This sonic attack was modulated using six sonic magnetic arrays. Ordinary people couldn't sense its presence at all. High-energy beings might sense it, but would only think it was the sound of ocean waves. Under such circumstances, they would gradually lower their guard.
Then, depending on the degree to which the energy body is affected, they will either capture it or guide it to the next step.
Their research institute also has specialized high-energy locking rooms, electric shock rooms, gas chambers... various types of locking rooms, there's bound to be one that suits her.
But the prerequisite for luring her into these locked rooms was that she was willing to go in, and clearly, this woman was also cunning and remained unmoved.
If, as Cage suggested, the trap order is changed, then the only ones who can be moved are the hostages. They have been injected with micro-robots, and if they can get close to Li Ke for even a second, they have a way to transfer these robots to their bodies.
Vincent: "Then why not just hand them over to each other alive? Sending two more wouldn't hurt either; surely one of them would be able to make direct contact and successfully transfer them?"
Once the transfer is successful, this micro-robot can launch a targeted attack based on their guidance, instantly rendering the target immobile without damaging any of their bodily functions.
Of course, it can also be used as a hidden killer weapon, remaining dormant in the human body until a fatal blow is delivered at a critical moment.
Cage had his own ideas: "Sending back live hostages to her from the beginning would make it seem like we're always being led by her, which isn't good. Also, I want to see her attitude, whether she's really as tough as she appears, and it will also help us understand her better."
Vincent said he had no objection: "Then let's use these two. We'll kill them when we meet. If Li Ke gets close to the corpses, maybe we can still use the things inside them."
“Bring everyone else along too. We’ll position them in the sonic sea area so we can adjust our strategy if things change,” Cage added.
Snow began to fall heavily on the sea that night, causing Vincent, who was aboard the last warship, to frown slightly: "It's too cold. If the corpses lose body temperature too quickly, the difficulty and failure rate of transferring the micro-robots will increase significantly."
Microrobots use body temperature sensing to perform rapid transfer activities. If the temperature becomes unstable, the sensing will become dull or even fail to detect anything.
Their original plan was to bring Li Ke into the research institute first. The institute has always maintained a constant temperature, so there was no problem there. But now it's hard to say.
According to Qiong, all her interactions with Li Ke so far have taken place in open areas at the bow or stern of the ship. She has never had the opportunity to enter the cabin, and he has not given her many chances to get close.
The only close encounter was when she threatened Li Ke, who grabbed her by the throat and threw her away. But during that process, she couldn't do anything at all. It was too fast. She barely saw anything before she was thrown away. The only thing she felt was the momentary suffocation in her neck, which made her feel short of breath for a long time.
Her colleagues had video footage on their own boat. When she reviewed the footage afterward, even playing it frame by frame, she could hardly capture a complete scene. The only normal part of the video was the moment she was suddenly thrown out, as if the instant she was attacked had been stolen away.
The first thing Joan did after meeting up with Cage and the others was to take all the recently recorded videos about Li Ke to give a face-to-face work report.
Vincent listened to their conversation and watched Li Ke's video over and over again, especially the scene where Joan was being reprimanded.
His eyes shone with extraordinary surprise as he watched the replaying footage, exclaiming, "This is amazing! It's far more powerful than the mutated animal I studied! My God, Cage, you know what? Before witnessing this, I always thought that the human body couldn't reach the same level of power as animals unless it underwent special modifications. I was so narrow-minded. This woman has shown me new possibilities, new miracles."
Cage nodded, his expression grave. "The fact that she's so powerful means it will be much harder to capture her. And from these videos, it's clear she has a completely normal human body. I seriously doubt whether she's even human, or if she's some kind of alien."
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