Chapter 218: The Venomous Snake with Its Teeth Extracted
Half an hour later.
I'm in trouble.
Yang Ming crossed his arms, looked at the girl named Catherine on the big bed, frowned and thought hard.
This half hour almost broke Yang Ming's old waist.
Moving a few seriously injured super-modifiers certainly wouldn't consume too much of his energy; but quickly dealing with a series of follow-ups would be the real challenge.
The first thing Yang Ming did was to rush to the nearest network connection point in the manor and plug the glasses into the network access port.
It took Lu half a minute to take over the entire internal network and all facilities of the manor. With the help of the main brain stored here, he found the first support point on Yaha Star and successfully opened up the first foothold.
After getting the information, Yang Ming quickly attacked and knocked out the humanoid creatures controlled by Bligh one by one.
Especially those cyborgs, because they have good self-healing abilities, Yang Ming was a bit harsh and caused their necks to undergo a collective mechanical deformation.
As for the dismemberer No. 3, Yang Ming did not tolerate him either. He had injected him with a strong anesthetic and broke all the bones in his body, allowing him to heal slowly.
Although the servants of this manor are mainly robots, Lu can control them easily;
But to be on the safe side, Yang Ming still ran around and installed a small plug-in for each of the servants.
This is the first time to cause trouble in the Imperial Star circle, so of course the more careful and thorough you are, the better.
It was almost the same as what Yang Ming expected.
It was Bligh who intentionally set an ambush for Catherine tonight, using Yang Ming's matter to lure Catherine over, and had Dismemberer No. 3 hide at the ambush point in advance.
In order to ensure that nothing that happened here tonight would be left behind any traces, Bly mobilized a lot of off-site resources, and no one would look for him and Catherine in a short time.
This undoubtedly made things convenient for Yang Ming.
Catherine showed up to protect Yang Ming?
not necessarily.
What she cared about more was that her dignity was challenged and the restrictions she set on Bligh were treated as a joke.
At this moment, Bly was tied up by Yang Ming, wearing a collar that could explode at any time, and hung in the living room.
The most difficult person to deal with now is Catherine.
Just kill him and let Bligh take the blame?
No matter what, this girl has actually been protecting him all along, and repaying kindness with enmity does challenge Yang Ming's bottom line.
After preliminary testing, the law concluded that there was some kind of anti-mind control device in Catherine's brain, which was probably prepared to restrict Bligh.
The simple effect of this device is to detonate Catherine's brain after detecting that Catherine is under mind control.
It’s even more ruthless than the one-click headshot system that Yang Ming added to the mechanical thinking entities .
Yang Ming was filled with emotion: "This is also a group of working people who are oppressed by the empire."
A hover car sped into the manor, and green lights came on at various checkpoints in the manor, allowing the hover car to rush to the vicinity of the swimming pool.
The car door opened, and 026 jumped out immediately. He ran to the back seat and took out a bunch of instruments, then rushed to the bedroom where Yang Ming was.
"Boss! Bring everything here!"
"Yeah," Yang Ming responded and continued to worry about Catherine.
Catherine's injuries have healed themselves, and under her torn combat uniform is a large area of snow-white skin.
"Wow," 026 whispered, "her skin is amazing."
Yang Ming glared at the guy.
Has Little 026 been hanging out with Lu for too long ? Why has he become so weird?
Yang Ming squatted in front of the toolbox brought by 026, searched carefully for a while, and soon looked up and said, "Keep an eye on her. You can tie her up first. If you detect that she is about to wake up, give her an injection of anesthetic in advance and let her sleep for a while longer."
“Okay boss!”
026 responded nervously.
She and Ritsu had both watched the previous battle and were a little afraid of this powerful super-changer.
But the boss finally gave her a decent task...
026 quickly ran back to the hovercraft and brought back his tool box. When he came back, he did not forget to put on his white coat and carefully laid out a row of Yang Ming's special "burning and melting" syringes beside the bed.
Another half hour later.
Under the manor, in Bligh's secret space.
Bly sat on a silver-white chair, wearing a helmet on his head. His slender body was tied up and covered with patches from chest to toes.
Yang Ming wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned on the switch beside him, and green lights lit up on all the chairs.
"Successful, boss."
Lu's miniature projection appeared on Yang Ming's shoulder, and he said with a smile: "His consciousness has been digitized and connected to the virtual space. I will increase the speed of time by several hundred times and have a good time with him."
"Lil, are you okay?"
Yang Ming asked worriedly.
"Well," Lu couldn't help but raise his hand to support his forehead, "Boss, you can have more confidence. Although in the real world, my ability is limited to computing power, in the online world, no matter how developed this guy's brain is, his computing power is not as good as the core processor of any network terminal!"
"Be careful, don't underestimate the enemy," Yang Ming said, "and don't act like a fool, I still need this guy."
"Okay, boss, just wait and see! I won't show any mercy to this kind of scum and villain."
Lu gave a thumbs up and disappeared in a flash.
Bly's body in the front seat began to twitch rapidly, and his head under the helmet showed a variety of expressions. Sometimes he looked like a fish dying of thirst, and sometimes he closed his eyes and giggled.
His previous calm and composed demeanor, as if he were just an ordinary hero, is now completely gone.
What Lu needs to do is to impact Bly's consciousness and undermine Bly's fighting spirit, making it easier for Yang Ming to conquer him.
Yang Ming walked around the underground "palace" with his hands behind his back, opened a bottle of Bray's fine wine, and watched a holographic entertainment show.
He has already regarded this place as his own property.
"Boss," Lu couldn't help but remind him, "Maybe you should come over and take a look. I have opened Bly's memory bank."
"Anything good?"
Lu didn't know how to describe it, so he just said, "Many secrets of the empire."
Yang Ming returned to the interrogation site in high spirits.
Lu turned on several projection screens, which simultaneously played Bly's past.
He was born in a petri dish and grew up in a laboratory filled with white coats. At first, there were dozens or even hundreds of children around him, but gradually, there were fewer and fewer people around him.
Loneliness is a label that always accompanies Bly;
All kinds of drugs filled his life.
Yang Ming took a quick glance and had a general understanding of Bligh's past, which was nothing more than a new version of the laboratory tragedy.
Yang Ming has always disliked the so-called "tragic villain complex". Everyone living in this world has their own sufferings. Is there any need to understand how tortuous the enemy's experience is?
In the end, it all depends on whoever has the bigger fist.
However, the information contained in Bly's memory allowed Yang Ming to have a complete understanding of the group of super-modifiers, and also obtained very precious "evidence of the empire's crimes".
What surprised Yang Ming the most was the original intention of the Empire to conduct these human experiments.
That was a conversation that Bligh overheard between two old professors at the operating table.
“Does what we do really make sense?”
"Today, the Empire has reached a bottleneck in all areas. The glory that the great Majesty Levi brought us has long been burned out. Genes and human species evolution are the last direction that can be broken through."
"To enter the fourth-level civilization, we need more than just a breakthrough at the genetic level."
"This is the cornerstone. Although it sounds a bit contrary to the ethics of today's human society, in order to adapt to the higher-dimensional world, humans must take a big step forward from the basic species. The simplest way is mechanical ascension."
"Yes, this goes against existing ethical standards, which may be why I feel uncomfortable."
"No need to complain. Entering the fourth level of civilization is '1', and everything else is '0'. We are working to help this race move towards a higher level of civilization."
The Empire has conducted so many human development experiments in order to adapt to the lifestyle of a Level 4 civilization?
Yang Ming's expression was a little strange.
He continued to search for information of interest in Bligh's memory.
The experiment that gave birth to Bligh was called the 'Mirror Man Experiment'. The Empire would carry out dozens of human development projects at the same time, and secret biological laboratories like Kigrove were spread throughout the Empire.
Bly was the only result of that experiment. Having gained powerful spiritual power, he became a hot commodity.
Experiment after experiment was carried out around Bly.
Bligh also once joked that even though his body's hematopoietic mechanism worked hard, it could only barely meet the amount of blood drawn required for the experiment.
Bly's real age is forty-six, but his body remains in the state of being in his twenties.
Bligh has no reproductive system, his excretory system is similar to that of women, but he is neither a woman nor a man, but a true asexual.
Some scientists tried to transplant a reproductive system into Bligh in an attempt to allow his genes to continue naturally, but this was not possible for various reasons. Moreover, after dozens of cloning experiments on his cells, the mortality rate of the clones reached 90%, and the remaining clones did not gain powerful spiritual power.
It is worth mentioning that Bly personally killed the clones who had grown to ten years old and spread their bodies in the pool of the manor where the laboratory was located.
——This is basically consistent with the picture Yang Ming saw in the spiritual imprint.
As Yang Ming watched, he inexplicably felt nauseous.
After getting rid of the laboratory research, Bligh became an outstanding super-changer warrior with his excellent emotional intelligence and pervasive mental control.
About ten years ago, he started to build his own collection.
The number of items in Bly's collection is terrifying, totaling more than 30,000.
In other words, Bly personally destroyed the minds of more than 30,000 innocent people, turning them into vegetables, and then played the dress-up game every day.
The empire's regulatory authorities are naturally not vegetarians. They have been closely monitoring Bligh and occasionally punishing him.
But Bligh's value made the imperial high-ranking officials show him the greatest tolerance.
Yang Ming found the relevant records in Bligh's memory. It was the mental power of Bligh, with the help of the Stinger, that was amplified dozens of times against the entire fleet. In a very short period of time, it caused mental confusion and shock to the organisms , paralyzing the fleet's command system.
Of course, Bligh's mental powers are ineffective against mechanical bodies.
A year ago, the regulatory authorities adjusted their countermeasures, gradually gave up their supervision of Bligh, and assigned Bligh to the current Super Modifier Team, making Catherine, who was wearing a golden mask, Bligh's boss.
Catherine suppressed Brye in all aspects.
In Bly's memory, Yang Ming could intuitively understand...
Catherine is comparable to Bly's old mother!
She became friends with Bligh, constantly guiding him out of the shadow of his past, trying to pull out his sting and fangs and make him a warrior loyal to the empire.
Of course, the final result was that Bligh became completely impatient and activated one of his puppets, Dismemberer No. 3, and almost recruited Catherine as a super-modified puppet.
"Tsk, isn't this a standard villain?"
Yang Ming shook his head and erased Bly's memory data.
Lu's projection appeared on Yang Ming's shoulder and asked in a low voice: "Boss, I have broken through Bly's psychological defenses. Do you want to start to subdue him? According to my calculations, you now have a 71% chance of making Bly completely loyal to you."
"How did you do it?" Yang Ming wondered.
Lu explained with a guilty conscience: "Because this is the first time I deal with such a powerful spiritual transformation life form, my methods are a little more drastic."
An image appeared in front of Yang Ming again.
This is what Bligh is experiencing.
The image was initially played at a hundred times fast forward, but as Lu pointed his finger forward, the image returned to normal.
This is a silver-gray room. A young boy named Bligh is curled up in the corner of the room. In front of him are several ferocious mechanical dogs. From time to time, a mechanical dog will rush up and drag Bligh around the room.
There are countless mechanical dogs outside the room.
"This is Bly's childhood shadow," Li muttered under his breath.
The picture then resumed fast forward, the room began to shrink, and a similar room appeared next to it.
A series of similar rooms with different contents form a cubic array that is so densely packed that it is impossible to count.
Yang Ming couldn't help but lean back.
Pretty, Lil redefines what 'slightly intense' means.
"What do you want me to do?" Yang Ming asked, "Just release my mental power and fight him head-on?"
"This is an essential step," Lu said seriously, "Whoever loses becomes a slave. This should be the most fundamental rule of struggle for spiritual reformers. But don't worry, boss. The possibility of you losing is very small."
Yang Ming wondered, "Then why is the success rate of subduing only 71%?"
Lu: "There is also a 20% chance that he will collapse directly or suffer from self-protective amnesia, which will make him lose his value. If there is no value, there is no need for it to exist. This is your principle. There is also a possibility that he will achieve a leap in the confrontation with you, but in order to deal with this possibility, I have been prepared!"
Two robotic arms extended from the side of the chair, and two laser drills used for mining were aimed at Bligh.
Lu said proudly: "If he can win, I will destroy his brain from a physical level."
Yang Ming: …
A robotic arm at the side handed over a helmet for accessing the virtual world.
Yang Ming smiled calmly, put the helmet on his head, put his hands behind his back and closed his eyes.
What is the demeanor of a master?
Fearless and full of confidence, this is the demeanor of a master.
"If this situation really happens, remember to act quickly," Yang Ming reminded worriedly.
Lu nodded vigorously and gave Yang Ming a thumbs up.
The whole process was actually quite smooth.
Yang Ming was as if facing an exhausted poisonous snake. All he had to do was to fight off the snake's final struggle head-on, then step on the snake, pull out its fangs, and impress his own spiritual imprint into its brain.
This actually carries a great risk, as mental branding is not as reliable as a one-click headshot.
But Yang Ming now has to take this risk.
By controlling Bligh, he could tear a hole in the Imperial Star Circle. This was the shortcut that Yang Ming had seen before he came to the appointment.
…
Three galaxies later.
The manor seemed to have completely returned to peace, and all traces of the battle were wiped out.
Yang Ming stood by the swimming pool, quietly watching the beautiful girl who was still sleeping soundly on the bed in the bedroom.
Bly, who had changed into a grey robe, was standing beside the bed. He turned his head to look at Yang Ming with a questioning look in his eyes. Yang Ming nodded slightly, and Bly lowered his head and slowly knelt down, piercing Catherine's eyelids with a strand of spiritual power.
Yang Ming's only challenge now is how to gain Catherine's trust.
