Chapter 24 Welcome Back
Bermode was urgently summoned to a secret manor by a phone call.
She met her elder, the Crow, who was always behind the organization and also led it. She bowed to him.
Even if the wings of a crow spread out to cover the sky, the web of power is filled with people who have the same goal and strengthen it.
Even as he leaned on crutches and sat in a wheelchair, he still looked so old, as if the goddess of time was about to pull out the last thread of life from him.
"Ahem..." Karasuma Renya took the butler's handkerchief to cover her cough. It took a while for her to recover. Her voice was hoarse and gloomy. "I want to entrust you with an important matter."
"Go find out his background... no... go control the situation at F6 Medical Company. Find any excuse you want, don't let the police get close, and find him out from inside."
"He won't die. He is the perfect test subject. The experiment will be successful in one try. He won't die."
"Bring him back, let him join the organization, and meet the conditions he proposed. You can even tell him that as long as he is willing to be this experimental subject, the organization will never use other experimental subjects in this project."
Vermouth looked at the old man in surprise, but met a pair of devilish eyes. The stubborn light in them made people's backs chill.
This familiar look made her heart ache like a hallucination.
"If he wants to be a good person, let him be. I believe you can do it well. Don't let me down, Bermode."
"Yes, I will always be loyal to you."
Only after leaving the manor and getting the information did Bermode know exactly what had happened.
Some of the laboratory's videos had been packaged and sent back before they were damaged. In order to view the data more conveniently, Vermouth did not ride a motorcycle, but asked the housekeeper's confidant to give her a ride.
She wore headphones and the whole process was like watching a gory movie that made her feel uncomfortable.
No, that's not the right way to describe it. The scene wasn't actually that bloody.
No. A-563, no, the black-haired young man's clean, neat and handsome shooting skills made the video without editing and switching of shots upgraded to the quality of a movie.
Her discomfort was not due to sympathy for the loss of these lives; she just felt relieved that the researcher in charge of the project was gone.
What made her uncomfortable was the young man's inhumanly calm attitude.
Even if they say they are in a bad mood or for justice, in the eyes of the veteran actress, the Thousand-Faced Witch Bermode, these are all superficial and false emotions. The real emotion is the eternal indifference and calmness of youth.
Was he used as a test subject? Did he destroy an illegal laboratory? Did he rescue a bunch of innocent people?
All of the above things, regardless of the process or the result, are of the same nature to the young man. He is not happy or sad about them, and may even be indifferent.
No wonder the organization's leader made such an unreasonable condition.
This young man has a strange personality and extremely strong abilities. He was able to destroy a fully-security laboratory like this single-handedly. He is not someone who can be tamed easily.
He was even like a hedgehog, not knowing where to start. Judging from the young man's behavior of saving these people, he could barely be considered a good person in the universal sense...
...Can it really be calculated that way?
Even Vermouth, who was good at seeing through people's minds, began to doubt his own judgment.
The surveillance videos were of varying lengths, and most of them were black screens because the camera was damaged by a gunshot. The order was sorted, but the last video still ended with a black screen, so I don't know what happened in the end.
Bermode is a code member who is independent of the action group and the intelligence group. He has a special status and is also the code member who enters and leaves the laboratory the most.
Even Rum in the above two groups was not allowed to interfere in the experiment.
So she is relatively clear about the laboratory settings.
If the young man causes such a disturbance and the laboratory system is judged to be unable to resist due to excessive damage, the self-destruct system will be directly activated, destroying the enemy and all traces at the same time.
However, experimental data, researchers, and equipment are also valuable assets of the organization, and the judgment of the self-destruct system is still relatively strict. So far, no laboratory has ever self-destructed.
If this is really the case, the entire building would have been reduced to charcoal above and below the ground. Karasuma Renya actually thought that the other party could survive such a situation?
No matter how much we are "favored by time," humans are still humans after all, neither aging nor immortal.
Belmode raised his lips in mockery, dialed the phone, reported the address of F6 Medical Company, and instructed:
"We arranged for people to put on protective clothing to put out the fire and to isolate anyone who wanted to get close. We said that the medicines stored in the accidental explosion were likely to be mixed with deadly toxic substances, and that they needed to be tested and confirmed before we could investigate. It didn't matter if we delayed it for a few more days or if the incident became a bigger problem."
"I'll be there soon."
Rationally, she didn't think she could see the young man, and his body was probably nowhere to be found.
Emotionally, she didn't want to see that young man, either as a successful experimental subject or as a dangerous person with a weird personality.
But her intuition told her that the other party would not die so easily.
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After exiting the game, the player returns to the personal space of StarNet.
Because of his strong mental strength and willingness to spend money, the player's personal space is almost as big as a city, filled with all his beloved things.
From the furry monsters that look beautiful but are actually extremely ferocious, to the furry creatures in archaeological records that look cute but are actually cute and adorable.
In the middle are a bunch of cool mechas, strange-shaped weapons, and various characters in Genshin Impact whose personalities are more appealing to players, as well as their related buildings.
Obviously, just like a dust pot filled with stone lions and screens, players are more pursuing practicality.
——The above is a euphemism, those who understand will understand.
In short, this place has been messed up by players, leaving only places where the three lines of sea, land and air can pass through, and it is difficult to find a place to stay in other places.
Also, because the personal space is entirely for storing XP, players are embarrassed to find professionals in this field to help them organize it, so over time, it becomes more and more messy.
Sitting on the roof of the castle tower, the bored player had no interest in finding a new game to play, so he simply went back to play a few rounds in a mecha online game that he had played for quite a long time but later quit.
As soon as he logged in, he realized that during the time he had quit playing after passing the mecha major, the game had been completely updated countless times, from mecha styles, combat methods, to all kinds of dazzling new gameplay and activities.
Compared to when he first played it, it already seemed like a strange product.
The special effects names that once topped the rankings have now fallen to the bottom as their values have inflated, and some even don’t have enough points to be counted in the rankings.
Most of the rewards in the game mailbox have expired and become invalid.
However, the game benefits accumulated over the years, plus the ranking rewards, are not invalid, and there are still a lot of resources to be claimed.
It is enough for players to draw hundreds of times from the card pool, change to the latest mecha skins, and go to the rookie area to make a big splash with their operations.
However, the players were not motivated and had no interest in the game. They were not even interested in the resources they got for free.
He opened his friend list, and it was mostly gray. The last time they were online ranged from a few years ago to a few months ago, and only one of them was still online.
It was the same one who recommended to him the holographic remake of the self-made world of Genshin Impact.
The player was furious and immediately placed an order for a virtual food to be delivered directly to the other party.
Given the closeness of the two of them as friends on the Star Network, and the fact that the virtual food that can be sold on the Star Network is legal and compliant, it is impossible for mental harm to occur. He can let the other party "eat" it directly after purchasing it.
Of course, the premise is that the other party has not turned on the relevant rejection option.
The next second, my friend sent me a series of messages in great excitement.
“!!!!”
"What the hell! What a smell!"
"Yue... No, I'm going to die of the stink... Such a disgusting taste... Yue..."
"I won't let you go even if I die!"
It was a long time before the other party sent another message.
"Speak!"
"How have I offended you?"
"And why are you suddenly playing this game? Didn't you quit a long time ago?"
The player snorted coldly and delivered another one, but was rejected by the other party and angrily threw it back. Fortunately, he had rejected it in advance, and the food was automatically put into the warehouse.
He was also very angry and had a lot to say.
"You remember when you were in school, you said you wanted to try a Blue Star era retro virtual food set. Please let me try it for you first. This is the canned herring in that set."
"How is it? Is it delicious?"
Friend: "You came back to take revenge a long time ago! When you teamed up with me, you always killed me first and then the enemy. As a result, we were both dragged out by the instructor and embarrassed in front of the whole school!"
"You guys, could it be that you are playing this game and you feel bad about the way things have changed, so you come here to torment me?"
"Forget it. As an unfilial son, what else can a father do except forgive him?"
Player: "Get away!"
Friend: "Stop talking nonsense. What? Is it not fun to play on that platform? Otherwise, the game time should not be so short. It's enough for you to play until school starts."
Player: "Its underlying logic is flawed. If you kill monsters, you will be wanted. If you are wanted, you will not be able to receive any tasks except drawing cards. If you don't kill monsters, you can't upgrade your characters and weapons. I quit the game immediately."
Friend: "That shouldn't be the case. No game would make such a mistake, let alone one that's so expensive. Have you seen any negative reviews on it?"
Player: “No.”
Friend: "I checked it for you. Although there are not many reviews, there are no negative reviews either, which shows that this logic problem must have been solved in the game. I think you may have taken the wrong route, but there are no guides for such a niche game."
Friend: "Besides, you've already reached the refund deadline, right? Why don't you try again? If it still doesn't work, forget it. I'll help you find a new game to play."
Player: "Come on, I don't know you, what new game can you find that you're still playing after this game has been changed."
Friend: "I'm a Buddhist and don't like to change my platform. At least I don't have to worry about running out of games to play. Unlike you, you keep complaining about having no games to play when there are so many games on StarNet."
The player smacked his lips, thinking that what his friend said was indeed true.
Even if he quits now, he probably won't be able to find any new games to play.
It’s better to try it again. If you really can’t play it, just leave a bad review and lie down in the Genshin Impact series of games you have played before.
After logging back into the game, the player will still be faced with the familiar prompt box for using resurrection dishes.
Even the perspective is still fixed under a pile of dark ruins.
Well, this is the character death perspective.
The wild mushroom chicken kebabs were used up in the Scottish role mission, leaving only the resurrected fried eggs.
The player is thinking about how he could complete the level without any damage when he had no vegetables, but has died several times after having vegetables, so he clicks to use the fried egg to revive.
Before he could find a way out of the ruins, part of the reinforced concrete slab had been cleared away.
As the NPCs shouted "There's someone here", a blonde woman walked over, her beautiful face appearing against the light at the entrance of the ruins cave.
She extended her hand to the player with a meaningful smile:
"Welcome back from Hell, my future companion, immortal..."
"Hennessy."