Chapter 107 The most terrible "brainwashing"

Outside the factory.

Levi didn't intend to rush in to rescue people rashly at first.

Although he is now considered a high-end fighter in the Twin Cities, the alchemy barons in Zaun always have some unorthodox alchemy technology, which makes people have to be careful.

Otherwise, you might be poisoned to death for no apparent reason just by taking a breath.

So Levi just sent Janna, an inconspicuous little blue bird, to flap its wings and fly into the factory to investigate.

But soon...

"Not good!" Levi's face suddenly darkened.

"What, what happened?" The green-haired girl with twin ponytails trembled violently: "Did something happen to Chuck?"

"It's too late to explain!" Levi confirmed to her in a serious tone: "Zeli, I can sense that the magic power hidden in your body is very strong."

"But I have to ask you one last time, can you fight now?"

"I... can do it!" Ze Li was slightly stunned, and countless dazzling electric flashes surged out of her body.

As a natural spellcaster, her situation is better than Seraphine's.

Although she cannot precisely control her magic, Zeli's magic will be released as her emotions flow out .

And now, she is scared. But also angry!

"I'm going to save Chuck!" Zelie said firmly.

"Okay!" Levi didn't delay for a second. He waved his hand and created a storm, carrying the still nervous Zeli straight into the sky.

The two men flew high into the sky like rockets, then drew a perfect gliding trajectory in the air and dived vertically into the factory building like a bunker-buster.

“Ahhh——” Zeli, who had been full of courage just now, was frightened by this scene and her face turned pale.

She is a 14-year-old girl, not a 1.4-ton missile warhead.

"Levi, we're going to hit the roof!" Ze Li was so terrified that lightning flashed from her body, illuminating half of the sky.

When the factory guard looked up, he thought a sun had fallen from the sky.

"Don't be afraid!" Levi said.

The wind he could control now was no longer a harmless breeze.

A rapidly rotating high-speed airflow condensed in his hand, squeezing, colliding, and compressing, and finally condensed perfectly into a huge colorless high-pressure wind ball:

"Big Ball Rasengan!"

Levi used the gust of wind as a spear, and taking advantage of the high-speed downward momentum, he struck through the factory building from top to bottom in one blow.

A big hole was blasted out in the ceiling in an instant.

Amid the debris of steel and concrete, Renata appeared below, along with a group of gang thugs guarding her.

And below that is the "disinfection room" sealed tightly with tempered glass.

Chuck and the slaves were inside at this time, facing a slowly spreading purple alchemical mist.

Levi wasn't sure what the purple smoke was.

But it's certainly not for disinfection.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Zeli had not yet recovered from the fear of "landing on a human face" before.

The powerful electric current that she released out of control due to fear was now accumulated around her, turning her into a lightning nova that could explode at any time.

Just right.

Levi simply controlled the airflow to stop himself in mid-air, then imitated Miss Sindra's operation and threw a "Lightning Ball" down:

"Zeli, go!"

Zeli was lifted by the wind and landed on the ground.

Then, she exploded.

The terrifying electric light centered on Zeli and blasted in all directions like a tsunami.

"What?!" Renata's pupils shrank.

Caught off guard, she did not dodge. After all, no one can outrun lightning.

But the gang thugs who were originally guarding behind her had already instinctively protected Renata in advance like a perfectly functioning machine the moment Levi and Zeli fell from the top and noticed the enemy attack.

They used their flesh and blood to build a human wall for Renata.

The lightning storm released by Zeli burned the thugs blocking the front row all over. The continuous chain lightning penetrated the wall of people in the front row and electrocuted the enemies in the back rows, causing them to twitch continuously.

But Renata was not injured.

At the same time, the layer of tempered glass under Zeli's feet was broken by the thunderstorm she released, and a hole was also drilled in the sealed "disinfection room".

"Zeli, hold your breath!"

Levi reminded loudly, then instantly controlled the storm, lifted Zeli's body and moved her aside.

At the same time, using the big hole blasted by Zeli, the purple alchemical mist that filled the "disinfection room" was sucked out in one breath like a super-powerful water pump.

"Fortunately, we made it..." Levi breathed a sigh of relief.

After the purple mist was dispersed by his wind, the slave workers in the "disinfection room" appeared before him unharmed.

Among these rescued slaves were:

"Chuck!" Zeli didn't care about the mental fatigue from just losing control and using a big move. She looked down at Chuck with surprise and asked, "Are you okay?!"

"Zeli?" Chuck looked up at his friend in surprise: "Why are you here?"

"I see." Renata sighed : "Are you here to save people?"

With an impatient look on her face, she pushed away the loyal men who had been severely injured by the thunderstorm but were still trembling in front of her, and looked face to face at Levi who was floating in the air:

"Mr. Levi, I didn't expect that we would meet so soon."

"Do you know me?" Levi frowned slightly.

"Of course." Renata said, "The leader of the Wind Leader Association , the new king of the Zaun community, and the favorite of the two major families of Midalda and Jiraman."

"Now there is no businessman in the Twin Cities who doesn't know you."

"But I didn't expect you to return to Zaun so soon."

Hearing this, Levi couldn't help but frown even deeper.

Because what Renata said was not "I didn't expect he would return to Zaun", but "I didn't expect he would return to Zaun so soon".

Could it be that this terrifying Alchemy Baron in front of him... has seen through the Leader's true strategic direction?

“I’ve seen what idealists are like.”

"So I can guess what you want to do and what you will do."

A look of reminiscence appeared in Renata's eyes, but her tone was filled with an irrepressible disgust:

"I understand that people like you don't listen to others."

"Well, Mr. Levi, since you are here to save people..."

She paused slightly, as if she didn't want to waste time talking and wanted to get down to business.

Levi subconsciously took a vigilant stance.

But Renata just slowly walked to the broken glass ceiling of the "disinfection room", looked down at the slaves who had just been rescued, and then looked up at Levi:

"You can go back now, Mr. Levi."

"Because this action is just the wishful thinking of you 'good guys'. I didn't hurt them at all - these people don't need anyone to save them."

"Nonsense!" Zeli couldn't help but interrupt excitedly.

She pointed at Renata angrily, her body flashing with lightning: "Old woman! I saw it with my own eyes. You just put Chuck and the others in the gas chamber and wanted to kill them with poison gas!"

"How can you say you didn't hurt them?"

"I didn't." Renata replied coldly: "That's not poison gas at all, it's just a potion that can make people more obedient."

There are already similar potions on the market, but their effects are far less powerful than hers, and their degree of danger cannot be generalized.

But these outsiders won't know.

So Renata said it openly, not afraid that Levi and Zeli would know.

"You?" Zeli's eyes widened in shock: "Are you going to brainwash Chuck and the others?!"

"No." Renata said calmly: "I just need to gain their absolute loyalty."

"And they all accepted this 'baptism' voluntarily."

"Impossible!" Zeli retorted excitedly: "How could anyone volunteer to do such a thing!"

"Zeli..." The rescued Chuck spoke.

He sighed deeply and said to Zeli: "Thank you for coming to save me, but...we are really volunteers."

"W-what?" Zeli was stunned.

A solemn look also appeared on Levi's face.

"No... Impossible!" Zeli suddenly thought of something and asked, "Chuck, you... you haven't been brainwashed by this old woman, are you so stupid to speak for her?"

"No, we haven't been brainwashed yet." Chuck smiled weakly, "Lady Renata explained the whole situation to us in advance—"

"We really volunteered."

"Impossible..." Zeli wanted to say something else in disbelief.

But Levi stopped her: "Zeli, what Chuck said... might be true."

Because he could confirm before that, thanks to his timely intervention, these slaves were successfully rescued before they were touched by the purple mist that had just spread.

What Chuck is saying now really reflects his own thoughts.

And this... is the most terrifying "brainwashing".

It wasn't the medicine that changed him.

But this world.

"Why?" Zeli couldn't understand: "Chuck, you lost your freedom!"

How could anyone be willing to be brainwashed by drugs and lose their freedom?

Without freedom, not even free will, Chuck would no longer be Chuck.

As a human being, he is spiritually dead!

But in response to Zeli's question, the slaves only sighed and replied:

"What good is freedom?"

"We have nothing left except our freedom."

Free will is no longer important to the people of Zaun.