Chapter 195

What is certain is that there is something wrong with the food, and judging from its color, it might be a product of the supernatural power of [Life Essence].

But "Life Technology Machinery Co., Ltd." can't possibly treat Wu Mingbai and the others the same way they treated Xiaofen. Otherwise, with so many students gone at once, the "Infinite Ability Academy" would definitely have to investigate.

The academy and the supernatural government are investigating together. Jiang Tianming doesn't believe that "Life Science and Technology Machinery Co., Ltd." can cover up the past. If they don't want to cause trouble, it stands to reason that the company's people won't do anything to them!

Moreover, according to Director Zhang’s previous introduction, once they touch the [Life Essence], their vitality will be immediately absorbed, so that thing is definitely not the [Life Essence] itself, at most it is some derivative product.

But what is the function of this derivative?

Su Bei had no intention of answering his question, but just sat there leisurely. As for how "Life Science Machinery Co., Ltd." dared to attack them, he had indeed wondered about this question before.

But now Su Bei has figured it out. Just like Xiaofen said, people who are killed and "resurrected" by the boss with supernatural powers will subconsciously feel close to him. Then, with some rhetoric and drugs, they can be made to obey his orders.

The wooden iron man was probably a butler assistant he made earlier, and because he was a relative, the boss didn't even prepare a line of speech for him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have run away directly after discovering that the two sides had different ideas.

As for Xiaofen, Su Bei no longer suspected that she was secretly colluding with the boss. She didn't even think that her name Xiaofen was wrong, and she didn't seem very smart.

To be honest, when he heard the name "Xiaofen" from Jiang Tianming, he almost couldn't help laughing. Does she really think there is anything wrong with such a perfunctory name? If the boss really cares about her, even if he wants to change her name, he won't give her such a perfunctory name.

Jiang Tianming thought about it for a while and then gave up. If he couldn't figure it out, he would just give up. It would be stupid to insist on being so stubborn. He stood up and said, "Let's go find someone else."

"I have a question too." Su Bei sat still and looked at him with interest, "Does Xiaofen know the true identity of the wooden iron man?"

"I'm not sure. Logically, I shouldn't know." Jiang Tianming shook his head and gave an uncertain answer. "When we first entered the warehouse, Xiaofen thought we were from Life Science Machinery Co., Ltd., so she set a trap to attack us. She was really powerful. We were all injured during this period. It was when we were injured that we discovered the monitor's secret."

Whether it was the wires that bounced out of his chest after being injured, the black smoke coming out of his ears, or the strange curve of his elbow joint, they all showed that he was extraordinary. However, everyone was very considerate and did not ask each other. Everyone has secrets, and since the wooden iron man did not take the initiative to tell them, they would not pry into it casually.

After catching Xiaofen, Xiaofen told Jiang Tianming and others the truth. At first, Jiang Tianming and others did not believe it, especially Si Zhaohua, who was unwilling to believe that his housekeeper assistant was actually a real person.

As a result, the wooden iron man called everyone out and told them his life story. Everyone was shocked and then they were willing to believe what Xiaofen said.

"The monitor never said to Xiaofen in front of her that she and she were the same, but I don't know whether Xiaofen noticed it or not." Jiang Tianming concluded his speech, and then asked Su Bei in confusion, "Why are you asking this?"

"It's a bit pitiful. The squad leader can regain a human-like body, but Xiaofen will probably have to stay in this form forever." Su Bei looked very sad, and of course he was right.

Let's not talk about whether the scientist who helped the wooden iron man is willing to spend a lot of money to help Xiaofen again. If they want to bring down "Life Technology Machinery Co., Ltd.", Xiaofen must be an indispensable witness. Therefore, she must maintain the form of a housekeeper's assistant, which is more credible.

"Indeed, maybe this is the reason why the monitor did not tell her his identity. Otherwise, what if Xiaofen becomes mentally unbalanced?" Jiang Tianming sighed, but realized something was wrong in an instant.

He turned his head suddenly and looked at Su Bei like a ghost: "No, is this something you would say?"

Su Bei looked innocent: "Can't I have a heart that feels compassion for the world?"

"Hehe." Jiang Tianming responded with two clear words with a dead look in his eyes, then ignored Su Bei and walked straight out.

Although he knew that there must be something wrong with Su Bei's behavior just now, based on past experience, he was afraid that before the incident, he would not be able to understand his hidden meaning even if he racked his brains, so it was better not to worry about it.

As soon as I walked out of the door, the big screen in the workshop suddenly lit up. This kind of big screen is in every workshop. According to Director Zhang, some TV series are usually played on it to entertain the busy employees.

The big screen was snowy at first, but after two "hissing" sounds, the screen became clear. A middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a gray suit, appeared. He looked elegant and refined.

"Xiao Hei, I know you are here." The elegant man spoke a name that none of them had heard of. Su Bei and Jiang Tianming looked at each other and knew that the "Xiao Hei" he was talking about was probably the wooden iron man.

I don't know where the wooden iron man is now. I hope he didn't show any flaws because of this sound.

But speaking of Xiao Hei and Xiao Fen, the boss’s naming style is really consistent.

"This man is the boss of 'Life Science and Technology Machinery Co., Ltd.'" Jiang Tianming said in a low voice. He had specifically checked before coming here.

Perhaps because he didn't get a response, the boss just smiled and didn't get angry. He continued, "You've been away from home for so long, it's time for you to go home. Be good, as long as you come back obediently, uncle won't blame you."

When he said this, he had a genial smile on his face. With his handsome face and gentle voice, it really sounded like he was coaxing a child. If they had only heard this, they would definitely think that it was some disobedient child who had upset the parents.

It's a pity that his performance was in vain. People who know the inside story will only think that this guy is a beast with a sanctimonious appearance.

The wooden iron man naturally didn't reply to him, and the few people who were looking for other friends outside gathered in carriage No. 4 again to watch him fool around. It was easy to be defeated one by one if they were separated, so it was safer to be together.

Seeing that the six people were looking at the big screen vigilantly, the boss who was watching from somewhere sighed and said, "Actually, Xiao Hei and Xiao Fan, you misunderstood me. The truth is not what you think. Although it is indeed me who made you become like this, it is also because if I didn't do this, you would die!"

"Don't lie!" Xiaofen said excitedly, "I saw it all. You have collected my information a long time ago. The data shows that I am healthy!"

This is also the reason why she chose to defect. At first, Xiaofen, like other housekeeper assistants, believed what her boss said. But when she saw the physical examination report and found that she was not transformed by him because of a terminal illness as her boss said, Xiaofen collapsed.

The person I thought was my savior turned out to be the one who harmed me. All the obedience I had received for so long now seemed like a joke.

The boss sighed again and looked at her through the screen helplessly: "Have you ever thought that the reason I lied to you is because the truth is more cruel? It was just a white lie."

However, Xiaofen is not a fool and will not be fooled easily: "Is there anything more cruel than my healthy body being transformed into this?"

"Then take a look at these." The boss was obviously prepared. He took out a document from the drawer and displayed it one by one in front of everyone.

The first photo is a family photo of three people. The girl standing in the middle is wearing a pink princess dress and smiling happily.

The beauty of the past made Xiaofen a little obsessed, and she murmured to herself: "That was me..."

Then the boss showed another piece of information, which was a wanted warrant on the dark web, and the wanted person was the family of three in the photo just now.

Seeing Xiaofen's wide eyes, the boss finally spoke: "Your family's original job, you remember, was a supernatural policeman. Because your father was unwilling to show mercy to a suspect, he offended the big man behind him, and the other party put a bounty on the dark web for the lives of your family of three."

The superpower police belong to the superpower government, and their functions are similar to those of the police in the ordinary world. However, the difference is that the police in the ordinary world have great authority, while in the superpower world, it is always who has the stronger fist and who has the more power. Therefore, the profession of superpower police is far more dangerous than that of ordinary police, and it is too easy for superpowers to take revenge on someone.

Hearing this, Xiaofen froze in her place. Even though she was now a robot head, everyone could see the confusion on her face.

The boss continued calmly, "I have to admit that after seeing the bounty, I did not warn you. Instead, I secretly investigated. But as a stranger, I have no obligation to warn you, right? On the contrary, I did save your life. Your parents had already been killed. I arrived in time and pretended that you were dead when you were dying. That's how I saved you from the supernatural killer."

The truth was so different from what Xiaofen and everyone knew that everyone was stunned for a moment. Could it be that Xiaofen really misunderstood?

However, despite this, everyone did not let down their guard. Wu knew that their disappearance was a foregone conclusion. No matter what the situation was between Xiaofen and Mutieren, the housekeeper assistants, they could not cover up the fact that the boss had attacked the students.

"Then why don't you tell me the truth?" Xiaofen asked stubbornly. She still felt that there was a conspiracy and refused to easily believe that her boss had no bad intentions.

"Because I'm afraid you'll go find the murderer to avenge your parents. With your strength, you'll definitely die if you find them." He looked at her with indulgence, "I didn't go to the trouble to save you just to let you die. If you follow my arrangement, work hard at your workplace, and gain the trust of the seller, I will tell you the truth. If you don't want revenge at that time, you can continue to stay in that house. If you do want revenge, you can also use the power of the seller to avenge you."

Then the boss, with an apologetic expression, analyzed himself honestly: "Of course, as your uncle, I don't want you to hate me at this immature age because of my treatment of your family... You can think of it as not helping them in their time of need, which would make me very sad."

At this point, he smiled bitterly: "But now it seems that it was all in vain."

From his perspective, he had already arranged everything for Xiaofen's future. Who knew that Xiaofen would run away without even giving him a chance to explain because of a misunderstanding?

"No, no! You are lying to me!" Xiaofen took two steps back, her eyes full of doubt. She shook her head violently, and her neck made a "crackling" sound like metal colliding. "If you are doing this for my own good, why didn't you explain all this at the time, and why did you send me to Li Jinhui?"

She still clearly remembered the unbearable mental torture she had gone through in those few days, otherwise she would not have returned to kill Li Jinhui after successfully escaping, risking being caught.

"This is also a helpless solution. You don't know that Li Jinhui's ability [Mental Torture] has a derivative ability, which is that if you use this ability on the same person for a week in a row, this person will lose the memory of the past month. I hope you forget all that and live your life according to the path I designed for you."

[Mental Torture] It is reasonable for such a supernatural power to cause amnesia, and everyone believes that the boss would not lie about this.

Now Xiaofen was completely relaxed. She had always had a good impression of her boss because of the [Life Essence]. Before, she was just forcing herself to be rational because she thought her life was threatened.

Now she realized that it was all a misunderstanding. The boss was not trying to harm her and even thought a lot about her. She immediately regained her good impression of him.

Without giving her a chance to apologize, Jiang Tianming interrupted and asked, "Where are Wu Mingbai and the teacher? Where did you take them?"

"Teacher Meng and the others have received a temporary mission, so they asked me to take care of you temporarily. If you don't believe me, you can check your phone... Oh, I forgot, to prevent peeping, the internal network of the processing plant is disconnected." The boss rubbed his forehead, looking a little dizzy, "Anyway, that's it. As for those students, because the body usually needs to be unconscious for a while to receive the increase in vitality, so I took them to the lounge."

After saying this, he lowered his head and adjusted the camera angle, and soon everyone saw eight people lying neatly on the big floor not far from him. All eight people were faintly reflecting green light, which looked very magical.

Seeing that they were all safe and sound, everyone could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. Regardless of whether what the boss said was true or not, at least they should be safe now.

Si Zhaohua glanced at the wooden iron man who looked a little lost, and suddenly asked: "What about Xiao Hei? What did he misunderstand that made him run away?"

As soon as he said this, everyone looked at him. Mutieren's eyes were full of emotion, but his expression was as solid as a rock, not changing at all. Although the boss's reasons just now were very sufficient, his own experience told him that he must not trust the other party.

"Xiao Hei, he is the first housekeeper assistant I made..." The boss looked at everyone present with a meaningful look. He knew that his Xiao Hei was among these people. But who was it?

The boss did have an explanation for what happened back then: "I know why Xiao Hei ran away. He thought what I did was wrong. I shouldn't turn people into robots. This is a matter of principle for both parties. I can't change it. But there is one thing you must have misunderstood, Xiao Hei."

Hearing this, the wooden iron man's eyes were already fixed on the boss, and the boss's eyes were firm: "I have never intentionally harmed anyone for the purpose of conducting experiments."

This is why the Iron Man ran away. Based on various clues, he seriously suspected that the tragedy of those poor people who were brought by his uncle for reform was caused by his uncle himself.

Now hearing what his boss said, he couldn't help but wonder if he had misunderstood him. Although their philosophies were different, maybe his uncle wasn't as shameless as he thought.

No, that's not right. Mu Tieren quickly came to his senses. If there had not been solid evidence, he would not have chosen to turn against his uncle and run away. Besides, his uncle's pursuit when he was running away was not fake. If he had not been saved by Mu's father, he would not know what would happen now. Maybe he would have completely lost his self-consciousness.

Seeing the wooden iron man shaking his head imperceptibly without showing any emotion, the others immediately understood that he still had doubts.

After thinking for a while, Ling You finally spoke up: "Why did you target him like that at that time?"

When the wooden iron man recounted his experience, he briefly described the process of being chased. Although his words were simple, it was not difficult to hear that the pursuer was definitely going to kill him.

"It was a miscommunication. I only found out about it later." The man on the screen sighed, "I told them that I hope to bring you back, but they seemed to understand that because you were a robot at the time, they didn't care about your life or death."

This explanation is reasonable. If you don't know that the wooden iron man is a real person and only think of him as a robot, it is understandable that you treat him more harshly. Anyway, as long as it is not scrapped, you can take it back and report it.

The boss held his forehead and smiled sadly: "I didn't expect that after so many years, those things are still fresh in my mind. I have been thinking about you all these years. Come back, you are my only relative in this world. And you are too, right?"

If Su Bei was still hesitant about whether what the boss said was true when he heard the previous words, then when the other party said the last part, he was 100% sure that the boss was definitely lying.

There was no other reason, it was just that Su Bei felt that the boss's words "the memory is still fresh" were too contrived. Although it was a bit suspicious that he could describe the events of the past so clearly and in such detail, if he did not feel guilty, the boss himself would probably not realize that this was a suspicious point.

But he made that "fresh memory" statement, which only served to explain why he could remember things from so long ago. But if he didn't feel guilty, why would he explain it?

But the wooden iron man didn't even notice this, and his attitude had already softened. However, the remaining caution in his heart still made him dare not stand up and reveal his identity.

However, his silence does not mean that others will not tell the truth. Little Pink turned to look at the wooden iron man and pointed out his identity directly: "What are you still hiding? Uncle is already so sincere! We all misunderstood him. Now that we know the truth, it's too late to apologize. Why don't you want to recognize Uncle?"

Xiaofen has indeed discovered the identity of the wooden iron man, and it is obvious that she has now completely switched sides to the boss.

Seeing his identity exposed, Mutie pursed his lips and stopped hiding: "It was me. Maybe you didn't really want to kill me, but I don't believe your excuse just now. If you didn't do bad things to those people, what I saw would be nothing."

The boss had a smile on his face after successfully finding Xiao Hei. After hearing what Mu Tie Ren said, he explained slowly, "I told you it was a misunderstanding. Some of what you saw was the result of my investigation in advance, just like the investigation of Xiao Fen. I was just a bystander and did no harm to anyone."

After a pause and a sip of tea, he continued, "The other part is that I found the people who harmed them and avenged them. The information was obtained from the people who harmed them. You may have mistakenly thought that I was the one who harmed them after reading that."

"Is that so?" said Mu Tieren uncertainly. Like Xiaofen, he was also resurrected by the [Life Essence] and he also had a great liking for the boss, not to mention that he was his uncle. Originally, it was only because of his strong willpower that he could endure.

But now the more I listen, the more I feel that what my uncle said is right, maybe he really misunderstood. It is very likely that my uncle will find the murderer and get some evidence from the murderer in order to avenge the person who already belongs to him.

In stark contrast to him, Su Bei became more and more clear-headed the more he listened. There was definitely something wrong with this boss. He remembered it so clearly, even though it happened so long ago. If you didn't know, you would think it happened yesterday.

No, he couldn't stay here. Although the protagonists would definitely be able to escape danger in the end, why would he risk it here if he could just disappear?

As soon as he took a step back, the boss's eyes locked on him: "Student from Su Bei, right? I think you suddenly went to the toilet during lunch and disappeared. You must have thought there was something wrong with me at that time."

Without waiting for Su Bei to answer, he said with relief: "You are really alert. As a superpower, you have to be so alert. Otherwise, you will suffer a great loss in the alien space."

He said this as if he were a kind and amiable elder. Of course, this was also the case in the eyes of other students who thought they had cleared up the misunderstanding.

Since he likes acting, Su Bei is naturally willing to accompany him. He showed a happy expression: "Yes, I also think it is a good thing to be vigilant, so I don't plan to change this."

"Well, it's better not to change——"

Before he could finish his words, the boss watched Su Bei disappear from the screen. His words were choked back in his mouth, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

The other people who were already familiar with Su Bei's painting style laughed awkwardly. Qi Huang faked a smile and said to smooth things over for him: "Su Bei is a bit out of tune. You don't have to pay attention to him. He will come out when he should."

Don't be fooled by her smiling face, in fact, she had already scolded Su Bei in her heart. He ran away without telling them at all. This bastard is still as bad as ever!

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If anyone looks carefully at the image of the wooden iron man I posted on Weibo, they will find that I have already told everyone his identity_(:з」∠)_

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