ATDIWR Chapter 82

Chapter 82 You Don’t Want Me to Tell Ji An’s Secret, Do You! Regarding…

Chapter 82 You Don’t Want Me to Tell Ji An’s Secret, Do You! Regarding…

The courtesy Philomena and the others imagined did not exist; instead, as soon as they landed, they were shoved into the interrogation room.

Charles was already waiting in the interrogation room. He stood with his back to Philomena and the others, turning around only after they had all entered.

Charles had previously had one eye blinded by a Power User at The Base, which was later healed. But for some reason, Philomena still felt a chilling sensation when facing Charles’s healed eye, as if instantly dropping from a very warm place into an ice cellar.

“Commander Charles, we, we are back.” For some reason, Philomena, who had firmly believed she was a national hero before landing on Country M’s soil, began to lose that confidence after landing.

Now, facing Charles’s eyes, Philomena even began to suspect if she had done something wrong in Jing Shi Base, something that betrayed Country M’s secret intelligence.

“We have successfully completed the mission and returned,” Philomena said, steeling herself. “Before we left, the tasks you assigned to us, we all completed them. The spatial storage item was invented by a researcher named Ji An, and the nutrient solution was most likely invented by Han Yaokun.”

Charles’s eyes were as cold as a venomous snake, staring at Philomena menacingly. “Is that all you have to tell me?”

Philomena’s heart grew more panicked. She felt as if she would perish here if she said even one wrong word, but Philomena had no way to resolve this predicament.

She didn’t know how to escape the current situation, so she could only talk about their sacrifices, attempting to awaken a shred of Charles’s pity.

“We had a very difficult time at Jing Shi Base. Gu Jinsheng made us heal the Power Users at Jing Shi Base day and night.

Later, he knew very well that if we continued healing, our abilities would be crippled due to excessive exhaustion.

But even so, Gu Jinsheng still forced us to heal, and even when our abilities were crippled due to excessive exhaustion, he even recruited people to examine us, as if we were faking it…”

“Don’t you have anything else to tell me, is it all this useless nonsense!” Suddenly, Charles erupted in anger without warning, like a bull seeing a red cloth, going mad. The veins on his forehead were throbbing, visibly pulsating.

Philomena was startled, and a sense of grievance spread in her heart. Before leaving, they were all willing; not a single person was forced to go because The Base held leverage over them.

Clearly, at that time, Charles had treated them with courtesy, constantly praising them as national heroes who sacrificed for their country, and that Country M and its people would always remember them.

How was it that now, after they had painstakingly saved their lives and returned, everything had changed, as if they were no longer heroes of Country M, but clinging sinners barely clinging to life!

One of Philomena’s companions couldn’t stand the disparity before and after, and was also dissatisfied with Charles’s attitude, so he said, “Commander, the things you instructed us to do, we all tried our best to complete them.

Honestly, on the day we left, when we set foot on the land of Jing Shi Base, I never thought I would return alive.

To be able to return alive this time is due to our own luck.

Shouldn’t The Base be happy for us and proud of us… Ah!!!”

Philomena only felt a gust of strong wind blow past, making the right half of her face sting as if cut by a knife. Her teammate was struck flying by an ability, slamming hard against the wall, and after a scream, fell heavily to the ground, silent.

Philomena stretched out her hand and touched the right half of her face, feeling a wetness, and when she brought it to her eyes, her fingers were covered in blood.

Philomena’s eyes were filled with horror.

Charles’s assistant shouted in panic, “NO, Commander, you cannot use your ability. Your eye cannot withstand the intensity of your ability, it’s bleeding again.”

Charles said angrily, “Useless, how many eyes is this? Is there not a single one that has fully awakened successfully?”

The assistant wanted to say that even if they cloned dozens of Charles’s clones, Charles would ruin the newly replaced eye every three days due to using his ability, as it couldn’t withstand the power of the ability!

In such a situation, even dozens of clones would not be enough. Even if a clone that was painstakingly cloned awakened the same ability as Charles’s original body, Charles would not give the clone time to level up and just wanted the clone’s eye.

How could the replaced eye withstand Charles’s ability in such a situation? He was a maximum level Power User!

Charles said irritably, “Tell the research institute, I’ll be there shortly to change my eye.”

The assistant cringed, swallowing fearfully. “Commander, this batch of clone eyes has all been used up. You’ll have to wait for the next batch of clones to replace your eye!”

“Useless, all useless!” Charles unleashed his ability, and the assistant, Philomena, and the others were all struck flying without exception. Philomena felt a Fishy and sweet sensation in her throat, and a mouthful of blood mixed with organ pieces was spat out.

Charles was like a berserk mad bull, wildly swinging his ability, destroying the entire interrogation room messily before stopping, panting.

At this moment, blood was gushing from one of Charles’s eyes, streaming all over his face. Charles didn’t care, didn’t even wipe it, looking like a devil who had just climbed out of hell with his face covered in blood.

Charles recovered for a long time, seeming to finally catch his breath and calm the sudden burst of irritability. He looked down at Philomena from above, and said coldly, “Honestly, Philomena, I am very disappointed in you and your group. I absolutely did not expect you to return alive.”

These words caused Philomena’s heart, which had held a glimmer of hope, to sink completely to the bottom. Philomena asked in panic, “Commander Charles, isn’t it a good thing that we returned alive?”

“It is indeed a good thing that you returned,” Charles’s tone shifted, “but you should know in your hearts what you betrayed to get the chance to come back. After returning, not only do you not kneel down and apologize to all Country M people, but you also try to deceive me, attempting to claim the status of heroes?”

“We didn’t?” Philomena didn’t know what went wrong. It shouldn’t be like this; they, the heroes who sacrificed for the country, shouldn’t be treated this way. “Commander Charles, is there some misunderstanding in this?”

Charles sneered, “Misunderstanding? Absolutely not. I see you won’t shed tears until you see the coffin.

Tell me, what’s going on with the treatment pods at Jing Shi Base?”

Philomena and her teammates exchanged glances, completely unaware of what Charles meant by treatment pods. Philomena said, “Gu Jinsheng didn’t allow us to contact outsiders, and even when we ate or went to the restroom, someone was watching. And what we had to do every day was heal, constantly treating the injured Power Users at Jing Shi Base. We weren’t allowed to sleep until we completed the task. So we don’t know anything about treatment pods.”

“Quibbling.” Charles waved his hand, and someone played the replay of Jing Shi Base’s previous live broadcast for Philomena and the others to watch.

After Philomena and the others finished watching, the hairs on their entire bodies stood on end. Charles sneered and asked, “What else do you have to say? If you hadn’t revealed the secret of cloning, how could those stupid Country Xia people have figured it out! It is you who leaked Country M’s top secret – cloning healing – in exchange for the chance to survive precariously from Jing Shi Base!”

“We are not, we did not, we said nothing.” Philomena said, “They have a very handsome man in Jing Shi Base. He used to be a mental-type Power User, but his ability was later crippled. He is incredibly intelligent, almost a demon, and everything was guessed by him.”

Philomena had only heard of Ji An’s name and didn’t know him.

“Philomena, listen to what you are saying, don’t you think it’s absurd and ridiculous? An ordinary person with a crippled mental-type ability is useless, is garbage. How can he still be incredibly intelligent, almost a demon? Do you take me for a fool?”

Philomena suddenly felt so powerless. At this moment, she suddenly realized that even if she had a hundred mouths, she couldn’t explain clearly, and even if she had ten thousand reasons, she couldn’t justify it.

Charles said, “I don’t need your quibbles, I only need the truth of the matter.”

As Charles’s words fell, over a dozen maximum level mental-type Power Users pushed the door open and entered. These were Philomena’s former colleagues; they had worked together before.

Philomena realized something, and she shook her head in horror. “No, Commander Charles, you cannot do this to us! We are heroes, not criminals!”

Philomena looked at her former friend and colleague, “Della, you wouldn’t do this to me.”

Della said coldly, “Someone who betrays state secrets and betrays their country is not worthy of calling my name!”

“No need for nonsense with her, start directly. She is already useless and cannot resist you.”

“Okay.” Della readily agreed.

“NO, NO, Della, you can’t do that to me…” Philomena shook her head, tears streaming down.

“Philomena, I can!” Della said, then released her mental power to invade Philomena’s brain. Philomena wanted to resist, but she was now an ordinary person without abilities, completely unable to resist.

Maximum level mental-type Power Users no longer needed to control mentally; they could directly invade mentally to browse the invader’s brain memory and see what they wanted to see.

Especially since Philomena had lost her ability and was an ordinary person, she had no resistance in front of Della. Della’s mental invasion of her was as easy as flipping through a book in her hand. She could easily open all of Philomena’s memories, including many dusty memories Philomena herself might have forgotten in a corner. As long as Della wanted, she could easily see them.

As Della delved deeper into Philomena’s memories, the look of pain on Philomena’s face grew stronger, and soon she was drenched in cold sweat.

Della finally finished reviewing all of Philomena’s memories, including the privacy Philomena desperately tried to hide, which Della easily reviewed once. Only then did Della break free from Philomena’s memories. Philomena lay softly on the ground, in a state of semi-sleep, semi-dream, completely dazed.

“How was it?” Charles asked.

Della shook her head. “There is no useful information. Philomena and the others have been suppressed by Gu Jinsheng these past few days, forced to heal the Power Users at their Base. They even had their abilities crippled due to excessive exhaustion. They haven’t had any contact with the outside world at all and haven’t found out any useful information.”

“Useless!” Charles cursed, “What about the cloning treatment? Did they leak it?”

“No. It was guessed by a very handsome oriental man.” By reviewing Philomena’s memories, Della could clearly see everything that happened in Philomena’s memory as if watching a movie. “That man himself said he was once a mental-type Power User, but his ability was crippled due to battle. He is extremely intelligent, almost a demon. Everything was guessed by him.”

Not only did Charles not feel guilty for wronging Philomena and the others, but he felt they were utterly incompetent. “A bunch of idiots, they can’t even keep a single secret and don’t even know when they’ve been unintentionally tricked into talking.

If they had just a little more brains, how could the Country Xia people have known about cloning? And how could that damned deputy commander have healed his broken leg!

He must have also used cloning technology to clone a body, then cut off a usable lower leg and replaced it for himself. It must be like this!”

Della comforted him, “Clones also need time to grow, and the deputy commander of Jing Shi Base replaced his clone’s broken leg so quickly, he must have used special methods.

Healing-type abilities are simply not feasible for accelerated growth and can easily cause genetic diseases or ability collapse. They haven’t researched this thoroughly or done clinical trials, so they definitely don’t know.

They only heard about cloning and naively thought that cloning could solve everything.

Stealing other people’s things will inevitably come at a price. Let’s wait and see, that deputy commander of Jing Shi Base will definitely get his retribution.”

Charles said, “Country Xia people are a bunch of thieves, stealing our technology. I will absolutely not spare them!”

Della thought for a moment and still said, “That person must have been a very outstanding mental-type Power User before his ability was crippled, which is why he still possesses such incredible intelligence, almost that of a demon. I suspect his identity might be a researcher who relies on mental abilities for a living, and perhaps the nutrient solution is related to him!”

Charles showed Della a photo. “A handsome oriental man. Is this the person you saw in Philomena’s memories?”

“Yes.” Della was very certain. Della had a deep memory of this face because even by Western aesthetic standards, this face was very beautiful.

Although he did not conform to the ‘beauty’ propagated by Europeans for so long, the aesthetic of slanted eyes and a flat nose.

But in fact, don’t Country M people themselves know that kind of appearance isn’t good-looking?

They do know, otherwise, why would the celebrities in their own country all have big eyes, double eyelids, and deep,Three-dimensional features, beautiful people, and then suddenly change their aesthetics when it comes to Eastern people?

They just wanted to domesticate Eastern people through this method, which is also a twisted form of humiliation.

“This person is named Ji An. This is the message that a researcher named Zhao Zhen from Jing Shi Base, whom we contacted previously, passed to us. He said this person is the inventor of the spatial storage item and the nutrient solution.”

Della gasped.

Charles said, “Our spy in Jing Shi Base wanted to contact him to ask about cloning, but then lost contact, including Zhao Zhen. It seems they were exposed.”

“Gu Jinsheng is very vigilant. Actually, being able to get information about the creator of the nutrient solution, we are already very lucky.”

“Really?” Charles showed a strange and somewhat twisted smile. “I have more good news, perhaps you will think that is the luckier thing?”

Della asked, “What?”

Charles said, “Zhao Zhen gave us information, saying that before Ji An came to Jing Shi Base, he was the companion of the commander of the third Base. At that time, he wasn’t shining so brightly; he only bloomed after escaping from the third Base.

And it is said that Ji An and the commander of the third Base fell out because of a spatial storage necklace. It was this necklace that gave Ji An his research direction, allowing him to decipher the secret of spatial storage items.”

“And we are very lucky to have invited another person who was a direct party involved besides Ji An and the third Base commander, someone Ji An raised by hand but eventually turned against him!” Charles clapped his hands. “Now, let’s invite this beautiful lady in!”

The person who entered was Tang Tang. Her appearance was very disheveled now, completely different from the glamorous woman at Jing Shi Base. She looked at least twenty years older. People who didn’t know her well wouldn’t recognize her as the once haughty pampered girl from the third Base.

Tang Tang’s blindfold was removed, and the rag in her mouth was taken out. Before she could clearly see her surroundings, she first said, “My brother is Gu Jinsheng, the companion of Jing Shi Base’s commander. I am the sister he raised by hand. If you dare to touch me, I’ll tell my brother and the commander of Jing Shi Base to cut off your nutrient solution supply.”

Charles was amused by Tang Tang’s foolishness. “An idiot. Forget it, don’t bother with her, let’s start directly.”

“Yes.” Della received the order and released her mental power towards Tang Tang. Tang Tang was an ordinary person; she couldn’t see the mental power threads of a Power User. Therefore, she was easily mentally invaded by Della without even knowing what was happening.

Tang Tang was even easier to invade than Philomena, who had just had her ability crippled. Her mental world was as barren as a wilderness. Della had never invaded a brain this easily.

Della thought she could easily find what she wanted in Tang Tang’s brain, but instead, Della encountered a strong mental suggestion.

Della did not dare to force her way in. She was afraid that a forceful intrusion would trigger the mechanism set by the person who implanted the mental suggestion, causing Tang Tang to self-destruct. Not only would Tang Tang die, Della would see nothing, and she could also be affected. At best, her ability would be crippled; at worst, she would self-destruct.

Della’s face was grim. She withdrew from Tang Tang’s memory. “She has been implanted with a mental suggestion. The person who implanted it has very strong mental power. I dare not force my way in. Forcing it might cause a self-detonation.

Not only will we not see the hidden secret, but Tang Tang and I could also be severely mentally injured by the person who implanted the mental suggestion, becoming idiots, or even causing the Power User crystal core to explode.”

Charles said to the other mental-type Power Users in the room, “You all go and try.”

“Okay.” All the Power Users in the room took turns looking and all gave the same answer as Della.

“Before Ji An’s ability was crippled, he was just a low-level Tier 3 mental-type Power User. If the mental suggestion was planted by him, and a group of maximum level mental-type Power Users like yourselves have no way to deal with a mental suggestion planted by a low-level mental-type Power User, are you all useless?” Charles roared in irritation, “Useless, you are all useless, freeloading rice buckets!”

Della’s face was red with embarrassment. She explained, “Jing Shi Base previously had a master who could shoot a Tier 6 Power User into an idiot with three arrows. I suspect they have special methods over there that can cultivate the mental power strength of mental-type Power Users. So although Ji An’s mental-type ability level is low, his mental power itself is very strong!”

“Don’t make excuses for your incompetence. Don’t I have methods to improve your abilities? Otherwise, do you think you fools could level up to maximum level so quickly without a continuous supply of crystal cores?”

Della was scolded until her face was flushed. She said to Charles, “Please give us some time, Commander. We will definitely figure out a way to break the mental suggestion on Tang Tang.”

Charles said angrily, “Then why aren’t you rolling off to think! Get out of here with this stupid woman now and think!”

After everyone in the room withdrew, Charles anxiously said to the person beside him, “Get me an eye patch immediately. I need to contact Gu Jinsheng right now!”

“Yes.”

Gu Jinsheng had a rare moment today to spend with Ji An. After eating, the two were lounging on the sofa chatting when Charles’s communication request came in.

“It’s Charles,” Gu Jinsheng said.

“Why is he calling you out of the blue?” Ji An said, “That Commander of HSD seems to have some kind of mania. He acts like a mad bull getting sick after just three sentences!

Maybe his maximum level ability was achieved by absorbing Power User crystal cores, and mania is a side effect.

Is he calling you to question you about those few Power Users, Philomena and the others?

He should have known when he sent them over that we wouldn’t let people go easily. Just crippling their abilities and not taking their lives was already us, the people of Jing Shi Base, acting on humanitarian principles.”

“Let’s pick up and see,” Gu Jinsheng connected the video call.

Charles, who had always been particularly mindful of his image, surprisingly wore an eye patch today, covering half his face.

Looking at the black eye patch, Gu Jinsheng was in a good mood. “Commander Charles, is your eye injured? If your country doesn’t have healing methods, you’re welcome to come to our country for treatment. The treatment pod is a very good option; you can give it a try!”

Charles gritted his teeth and said, “Your Country Xia is a despicable thief, and your Jing Shi Base is also a despicable thief! You stole our cloning technology and are presenting it as your own new research project. I wonder how your people will react when they know their commander is a thief!”

“They’ll probably think you’re crazy!” Ji An didn’t intrude on the video call but deliberately said, “How can you think our treatment pod is plagiarizing your cloning treatment?

Don’t you know how much harm your cloning treatment does?

Being unable to withstand the original body’s ability is minor; severe cases can lead to ability collapse and genetic diseases.

Our treatment pod won’t do that. It’s simply a medical method that doesn’t require any ability assistance, so it has no side effects.”

“That’s impossible! How can such a thing exist in the world? Even if it does, it couldn’t possibly be your country that researched it first. It should have been developed by our country first!” Charles then said, “Who is that person beside you? The one talking, is that Ji An?”

Gu Jinsheng, who had been in a state of nonchalance, suddenly changed his expression when he heard Ji An’s name from Charles’s mouth.

Charles laughed. “It seems I guessed right. If your treatment pod is real, then that’s great. I want its core technology now. Wait, and the core technology for the nutrient solution and spatial storage item.”

Gu Jinsheng sneered, “Charles, are you still dreaming?”

Charles looked smugly, glancing at Gu Jinsheng with his single eye. “You don’t want me to reveal Ji An’s secret, do you? Regarding his spatial necklace?”

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