Chapter 237: Becoming a puppet

Duan Wen stands in front of the steps of the Mandela building.

By now it was completely dark, and in the distance the light of the guns was like fireworks, constantly blooming.

Duan Wen was not frightened by the Dream Breaker's attack, on the contrary, his demeanor was very relaxed, I don't know whether it was because he was well prepared, or because he himself was used to not being frightened by changes.

He lit a cigarette, looking at the real-time surveillance feed on his cell phone, while occasionally peering into the depths of the darkness.

He seemed to be expecting something.

"Rumble--"

The noise of the jeep's engine broke through the darkness of the night, dotted with two orange headlights, and came toward him out of the gloom. Duan Wen dusted off his cigarette, turned off his cell phone, and stood up straight.

He waited for them.

"I've brought back the two people you wanted." Li Yun got out of the car, turning his head slightly so that Duan Wen could see the unconscious Xie Qingcheng and He Yu inside the car, "Just as you guessed, Xie Qingcheng didn't want to get into Chen Man's car, and after he broke free from the blood compulsion, he decided to stay. After he broke free from the blood compulsion, he decided to stay behind. "

Duan Wen glanced inside the car, then turned his attention to Li Yun, "No injuries?"

"No injuries." Li Yun flashed the drug-activated control device in his hand, "They didn't even have time to fight me because of this drug you gave them earlier."

Duan Wen nodded, his eyes hovering over the man in a penned uniform, "How does it feel to be working with me?"

Li Yun paused for a moment without answering, and after a while, as if he had automatically ignored the question, he said to Duan Wen, "By the way, I directly had another jeep send Chen Yan to the front line, and the driver, who was keeping an eye on him in the shadows, has just sent feedback that the Dream Breakers have already found him and brought him back. Do we still have to keep an eye on him."

"No need." Duan Wen faded, "I don't care that much about his death, I'm just saving him out of hand."

He said, inclined his head and said to the driver of this jeep, "The car is driven into the basement, there is someone at the elevator to meet you, and take General Manager He to the highest laboratory, as for Professor Xie ...... to be locked up in the safest room of the dungeon. Go."

The order was given to the driver, but Duan Wen's eyes were always focused on Li Yun.

The driver responded and immediately did as Duan Wen instructed.

Li Yun's eyes traced the driver's back, "This person is really strange."

Duan Wen took a step closer to him, "Oh? What's so strange?"

"Listening to whatever is said as if he has no thoughts of his own, the driver of the other car that took Chen Man back was like that too." Li Yun frowned slightly, "Odd."

Duan Wen laughed a little and lifted his black leather gloved hand, breaking Li Yun's face around.

"Look at me."

"......"

"Officer Li." Duan Wen said softly, "Does it feel weird that you're finally willing to follow me after twenty years?"

Li Yun gave him a look, "Haven't we always been companions."

Leather gloves lined the face, much paler than normal, and Duan Wen flexed his fingers and rubbed them across his jaw, his eyes heavy with darkness.

"Indeed." Duan Wen finally opened his mouth, softly, but somehow the color in his gaze darkened.

"We have indeed always walked side by side with a common purpose."

"...... hmmm."

"You go and rest." Duan Wen said suddenly, dropping his hand to make way for Li Yun, "It's been half a day of hard work. Don't worry about the Dream Breakers, they won't be able to come here so soon, not to mention we still have the Blood Compass."

Li Yun responded, moving forward and picking up the long steps towards the main entrance of the building.

The wind of the night blew his police uniform and his black coat, which intermingled with it.

Li Yun's footsteps suddenly stopped when he was about to reach the door.

He looked back, amidst the lights, to the back of the man in black who still had the pockets of his trench coat stuck in his pocket, standing in the darkness of the night.

"Wait a minute."

Duan Wen did not turn around, looking at the fire and smoke rising and falling in the distance, "What's wrong."

"What did I do this morning? Is that before you sent me to these young men?" Li Yun said, "Why don't I remember."

The unconfused man slowly turned back and looked calmly at the officer on the white steps.

"You were too tired to sleep."

"I feel ...... like I've been dreaming for a very long time."

Duan Wen's gaze was bottomless: "It's good to wake up now, and why take the dream thing so seriously."

"......"

Li Yun thought about it, he seemed to feel that it was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, as if there was no way to think coherently about a lot of things, and the moment he thought about it, his brain hurt as if it was being drilled and cracked.

"Go rest." Duan Wen said, "Your mission is over, Officer Lee."

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Half an hour later, Duan Wen arrived at Supreme Lab C.

The Supreme Laboratory is called "Supreme", but it is built underground, which is the safest place.

He Yu had already been brought in ahead of him, still wearing his Mandela uniform, but bound to an electric chair, his body wrapped in leather buckles and cords, the lower half of his clean face tightly covered with a black bite guard. Under the white shadowless light, his eyes were closed tightly, unconscious, and his face was like ice.

Anthony and a group of researchers stood next to him, debugging a pacemaker-like device, and when Duan Wen came in, they stopped what they were doing.

"Mr. Duan."

"Hello Mr. Duan."

Duan Wen nodded and said to the other researchers, "You guys go out first."

Although the other researchers were also elites, Anthony lived up to his reputation as a cousin to Xie Qingcheng, he was extremely talented, and Professor An's reputation was never a false one, plus Duan Cuizhen appreciated his ability and venomous character, and he had been given the real skills of Taipa, and his skills were indeed one of the best on the island. Duan Wen usually communicated with him alone in such situations.

"How's it going, will it be operational in twenty-four hours."

Anthony said, "It shouldn't be a problem."

"Be sure there are absolutely no problems." Duan Wen said, "Zhuo Ya's Radical Speed Cold Light has been destroyed, and at the current speed of the Dreambreaker's attack, it could be here in thirty hours. We need to use the Blood Compass to make a new mass-attack biochemical weapon."

Anthony suddenly laughed, ''Mr. Duan, you shouldn't rush me on this. Zhuo Ya's control room could have been preserved, only that you gave up on it this morning and instead came to watch me do Li Yun's surgery. Are you that uneasy with me?"

Duan Wen: "......"

"I'm a personal disciple of Taifa, and this operation was an attempt that Taifa was willing to make, so if you don't trust my loyalty to you, you should also trust that I won't let Taifa down." Anthony Softly said, "You see, it was because you were in my lab at the time that you didn't have the time to notice the abnormality of their actions in the first place. You are now rushing me, which is ......"

He didn't finish his sentence, but was interrupted by Duan Wen coldly: "We are on the same boat now, Xie Lishen. don't make those party disputes in the organization again. I know you're hell-bent on getting to the top by pleasing Taipa, and she does trust you very much, but if the Blood Compass's biochemical weapon can't be completed, I think she'll let you die before the Dream Breakers take over the island."

"......" Anthony's face went green.

With a final warning glance at him, Duan Wen ended the unpleasant subject and turned his attention to the still-sleeping He Yu.

"Is the latest hearing water so potent."

"...... I also gave him a shot of anesthesia." Anthony was tense and resentful, but his attitude didn't dare to be so flamboyant anymore.

Duan Wen looked down at He Yu's young face.

Truth be told, He Yu's acting is better than a lot of artists on TV these days who can't even memorize their lines, and he's doing a great job.

But Mandela never actually believed him.

This young man is the only one who can't control life and death with a loyalty chip, Duan Cuizhen or Duan Wen, no one will really hand over power to He Yu without reservation.

They all know that He Yu is an evil dragon lurking in the abyss, and that sooner or later it will come out of the abyss and devour those who try to tame it. That's why Duan Cuizhen has already laid down a killer app - she's guided her team to develop a piece of equipment that looks like a pacemaker, which Anthony is debugging at the moment.

The object is divided into two parts; there is an earpiece that pierces the flesh and blood and acts as a brain control, while the pacemaker-like master control device will eventually be placed in He Yu's heart.

It solved the loyalty chip problem back then, and was able to not only work on the blood parasites, but also provide uninterrupted control and brainwashing of He Yu.

In addition to this, it also has an appalling effect, that is, once the commissioning is completed, the cells of He Yu s entire body will be activated, and the ability of the blood parasites will be extremely terrifyingly enhanced, just like a large number of injections of RN-13, which is tantamount to overdrawing his life to explode his own supernormal abilities.

By that time, He Yu would be able to control both normal people and psychopaths indiscriminately just by using the Blood Compass, and the radiation range would be so wide that he could achieve one kilometer coverage around him.

That, in a nutshell, is why it's called a blood-compelled biochemical weapon.

"As soon as this pacemaker is completed, then the evil dragon will be bridled, the iron cords driven into the dragon's bones, and it will be impossible to break free in life or death."

Duan Wen raises his hand and points his fingertips in front of He Yu's chest.

He turned to Anthony and said, "Do a good job."

Anthony : "...... Yes."

Duan Wen paused, then added, "I've tested it, and Li Yun's doing a great job with the surgery, but I don't think a lot of his reactions, as per before, would have been like that."

"After all, he's just a substitute, isn't he." Anthony said, "Body or not, brain or not, it's all tinkered with to mimic him, it's not like he's himself. And I also adjusted this substitute's three views and memories as you requested, making him think that Mandela is what he believes in, that we are the righteous police, making him think that he has not broken with you in the past, so what, aren't you satisfied?"

Duan Wen composed himself for a moment and said, "Not so used to it. But ...... never mind, this is the first case of a toy that can be restored to this extent after countless reformer tests. It's already good enough."

"Yeah." Anthony said, "This is a substitute that Zhuo Ya can't even get. The concentration of power can really accomplish a lot of things, and I'm afraid that only you, Mr. Duan, are worthy of such a toy."

His words sounded like compliments, but there was a hint of a slippery eye-roll that wasn't hidden too well and was captured by Duan Wen.

Duan Wen gave him a sidelong, unimpressed look.

From his observation of human nature, those who betray once will betray twice, those who hate this will hate that, Xie Lishen joined Mandela out of hatred for Xie Qingcheng, and it is only natural that he would behave in such a way. That is why he has never been less defensive towards Xie Lishen over the years.

Except for that time when Xie Lishen killed someone at the reservoir, he almost killed Xie Qingcheng and He Yu by blowing the old lady's ear on the grounds that the blood parasites could be used for special body-swapping experiments even if they were dead, Duan Wen did not let him find any opportunity to break his own rules and plans out of his own selfish desires.

Duan Wen said, "Power is a good thing, but people with too much selfishness don't hold it for too long. Do you understand."

Anthony looked embarrassed, and after a few moments, he managed to squeeze out two words with a smile, "...... understand."

Duan Wen, having seen the situation over here, was ready to leave, and before he left, he saw a few things scattered on the table next to the treatment chair.

"These were retrieved from He Yu's shirt pocket." Anthony said as he followed his gaze.

Very little, a modified God of wind bracelet, a rose stack, and ......

"That one is the one he holds in his hand."

Duan Wen "Oh?" Duan Wen let out a cry and picked up the item that he had seen on the surveillance, something that He Yu had made in the lab the day before his operation. It was precisely because he saw He Yu making this that he thought He Yu would not act in the near future. Unexpectedly, He Yu was really a young man of literature, and his behavior was beyond Duan Wen's expectation.

But Duan Wen found it very interesting.

He thought for a moment and put the item in his trench coat pocket, then went back to the rose stack of papers.

He opened the folded paper and realized that it was made from a torn page of a book with He Yu's name written on it, which was the last handwritten message from Xie Qingcheng to He Yu.

"I can't for the life of me figure out what there is to like about that wastrel." Anthony saw this and said coldly, "It's worth him going this far."

"Perhaps." Duan Wen's eyes twitched as he slowly folded the piece of paper, along the creases, back to its original form, and he thoughtfully placed the rose back into the lapel pocket of He Yu's uniform, "That's the only bridge he's got."

Anthony: "This thing--"

"Keep it for him." Duan Wen said, "I still say, there are things in this world that you don't understand."

After he finished, he reinserted his hand into his coat pocket and turned to leave the Supreme Laboratory.

Anthony thoroughly revealed a sinister color after he left, "Say it like how much you know yourself again, moralistic thing, one day I can take your place ......"

Duan Wen was not interested in what Anthony thought of him.

He didn't like Xie Lishen, from the very beginning, according to his study of human nature, Xie Lishen was the kind of person who was the least worth to associate with. Sometimes a little evil is worse than a lot of evil, because this kind of people can hide in the shadows and do evil for the rest of their lives. In Duan Wen's eyes, these people, no matter how talented they are, are like the rotten roots of human society, and should be removed from the Mandela meta-universe eventually.

If you're going to talk about talent in the medical field, he'd still prefer to recruit and surrender that one ......

Duan Wen thought as he played with the object he carried in his coat pocket, slowly walking through the corridor, stepping into the private elevator, and arriving at the level of the dungeon where the prisoners were being held.

Guard: "Mr. Duan."

Duan Wen nodded calmly and said, "Lead the way. I want to see Xie Qingcheng."