Part 4
Only then did the two subordinates dare to ask, “Sir, why did those above make us come here so late? Did something happen?”
The armored man gave a hum. “The Master personally gave the order for us to immediately confirm Subject 05, extract her mental power one last time, and execute her.”
The faces of the two subordinates changed slightly. “Why? Isn’t she still salvageable? Her mental power is so strong, and although she has frequent mental power collapses over time, they’ve all been suppressed. The mental power extracted from her alone each year can train five 3S-rank mental power experts for us. Isn’t it a waste to execute her?” That was five; as long as they waited a few more years, they could get in line to become 3S-ranks too.
The armored man sneered. “Forget it. In her current state, even if she weren’t executed now, she wouldn’t live for more than a few months. Moreover, her identity is special. The Master said… she can’t be kept.”
What this represented was obvious; clearly, there was a possibility of her identity being exposed, and since she was already at her limit, executing her early was to prevent her from becoming a crisis later.
The two subordinates exchanged a look and didn’t dare speak. “But what if she self-destructs at the moment of death… won’t we be in danger too?”
It was said that the person had almost destroyed the entire base on her own back then.
It was only later that they rebuilt this underwater castle to completely suppress her strength, and they had passed all this time in peace.
Ning Yunyi and the big cat followed behind, listening. Their hearts were filled with a thousand emotions, but no one leaked a bit at this juncture.
Although they had Invisibility Talisams on them, it would be a loss if they were discovered due to emotional fluctuations.
Ning Yunyi had known these people were ruthless, but he hadn’t expected them to be this cruel.
If he hadn’t accidentally learned of this from Rui Hu, wouldn’t it have been too late even when they found it?
Regardless of whether the person mentioned was Lady Zong, the Prince was clearly afraid of someone discovering this place and planned to deal with her in advance just in case.
Hearing this, the armored man laughed. “Don’t worry, she won’t have the chance to self-destruct even if she wants to. See the thing she wears around her neck? It suppresses her mental power. As long as her mental power is suppressed, it’s impossible for her to succeed in self-destructing. Moreover, she has lived until now because she hopes for a chance to get out. As long as we take out the last bit of mental power and execute her while she’s exhausted, she naturally won’t threaten us.”
Hearing these beastly words spoken as if they were a joke, Ning Yunyi’s and the big cat’s blood pressure soared.
He lowered his eyes with a cold gaze, his powerful self-control allowing him to follow the three all the way to the last cell.
This cell was completely different from the others, even its color was a dark grey.
The armored man used three magnetic cards of different colors to open the last door, followed by his own retinal scan. Only this door required a retinal scan to exit as well.
With a soft sound, the door was opened from the outside.
The three stepped inside, and Ning Yunyi and the big cat followed suit.
The completely enclosed cell wasn’t large. In a transparent cage in the corner, a rabbit was tied with a special chain. Its body was a mix of grey and white, its long ears drooping, and it lay there silently.
Seeing the rabbit, Ning Yunyi froze. Although he couldn’t see its appearance, he inexplicably had a premonition—this was Lady Zong.
Because of the Invisibility Talisman, he couldn’t see the big cat’s expression, but he could clearly imagine the other’s emotional fluctuation at this moment.
He reached out experimentally and pressed the back of the other’s neck.
What he touched was indeed fur standing on end from anger. Even though he couldn’t see it, he could feel the impulse to pounce and kill the other three people present.
Fortunately, the other knew the weight of the situation and slowly lay down, suppressing all emotions bit by bit.
Looking at the rabbit that had been trapped for so many years, the armored man had pity in his eyes but also coldness; she could only blame herself for being born as a shifter.
Her end was destined to be like this.
He waved his hand, and immediately the two subordinates stepped forward. They took out a device from a sealed box they carried and connected it to the transparent box holding the rabbit.
Ning Yunyi silently moved behind the armored man. Before acting, he used his spiritual energy to confirm there was no surveillance here, and then set up a barrier for the entire room to block everything inside.
Then he placed his palm on the other’s head, and in almost an instant, he turned all the other’s mental power into a mental power ball and threw it into his spatial storage.
He used his spiritual power to control the armored man so he couldn’t move or speak. The man’s eyes stared forward, bulging in disbelief. In an instant, what exactly had suddenly sucked away all his mental power?
Ning Yunyi had originally come this time to confirm the route here and whether Lady Zong was still alive. He hadn’t expected to run into the Crown Prince’s attempt to kill Lady Zong.
Then Lady Zong absolutely could not be left here.
But with just him and the big cat, they couldn’t rescue all the shifters here. Once they attracted all the guards of the base, it would turn into a slaughter.
It might even make the Crown Prince directly order the destruction of all shifters in the base to eliminate evidence.
To be safe, they could only take Lady Zong away in another way that didn’t reveal that someone had snuck in to save her.
The self-destruction mentioned by the subordinate gave him an idea of how to take Lady Zong away without revealing that she was rescued by an intruder.
He would make the people of the base think Lady Zong had self-destructed while being executed by these three, dying along with them in this cell.
The moment he acted, the big cat suddenly pounced on the other two people, forcibly activating powerful mental power to directly tear the sea of consciousness of these lower-rank mental power users. They couldn’t withstand the powerful mental pressure at all and immediately fainted.
Ning Yunyi couldn’t see, but he could hear the big cat’s unhidden heavy breathing, clearly furious to the extreme. Once he acted, that anger could no longer be hidden.
The anomaly here finally made the rabbit that had been lying in the transparent special box slowly open its eyes.
Its eyes were tired and deep. Its gaze moved from the two fainted people and then fell on the armored man whose eyes were bulging, and it frowned in confusion.
Ning Yunyi stepped forward at this time, revealing himself by removing the Invisibility Talisman. “Lady Zong, we were sent by Marshal Zong to save you.”
The grey-white rabbit’s deep, well-like eyes finally flickered, but it didn’t believe him, just quietly looking at Ning Yunyi who had suddenly appeared here.
Ning Yunyi simply said, “It’s true. I can’t explain in detail now, but come with us first. If you don’t believe me, you should remember the name Bai Zongcheng, right? He… is still waiting for you.”
As soon as the name Bai Zongcheng was spoken, the grey-white rabbit’s gaze indeed changed.
Only two people knew this name when she had her accident—herself and the child’s father.
If this name were revealed, either the person before her truly came to save her, or… they had long since fallen into danger and didn’t survive.
Since that was the case, no matter which it was, she could only believe him.
The grey-white rabbit pointed to its neck, the device there making it shake its head.
Ning Yunyi’s face changed. “You mean that once this thing leaves your body, it will immediately sound an alarm?”
The grey-white rabbit nodded. She couldn’t escape; there were guards everywhere, and moreover, she wasn’t going to live.
Years of frequent mental power extraction had left her sea of consciousness dried up. Even if she got out, she only had a few months to live.
She would even suffer mental power collapses during that time.
She lightly pointed to the door with her paw: You should leave.
If she would only implicate them, she’d rather accept this result calmly.
Before dying, being able to hear news of A-Hao and A-Cheng meant she could probably close her eyes in peace.
She had waited too long, endured too long; she knew she was nearing the end of her life.
Zong Hao tore off his Invisibility Talisman at this time and took a step forward, his beast eyes looking at Ning Yunyi with determination. He pointed to himself with his paw, and then pointed to the collar on the grey-white rabbit.
Ning Yunyi: “You want to take Lady Zong’s place and suppress this neck controller?”
Zong Hao nodded: Even if this thing is to alarm, there’s a buffer time. Replacing it with another shifter immediately should cancel it.
Ning Yunyi thought about it. “It doesn’t have to be that troublesome, but it requires some shifter mental power, and Lady Zong’s blood and rabbit fur.”
Thus, the person and two beasts did this in front of the completely crippled armored man. Ning Yunyi took a pair of scissors to cut the outermost layer of the rabbit fur from Lady Zong, then dropped her blood onto the fur. Since there was a mental power extraction device here, he used it.
Lady Zong’s mental power was almost exhausted, so using the big cat’s was the same.
Ning Yunyi indeed had mental power balls in his spatial storage, but they were from mental power experts, not shifters.
So they could only use what was available. He extracted a part of the mental power from Zong Hao, injected it into the rabbit fur mixed with blood, and sealed it with a mental power ball.
Then he continued to add the mental power extracted from the armored man into it, and injected the mental power from some previous mental power balls into it as well.
He only stopped when it reached a certain level, enough to trigger a self-destruction.
Then Ning Yunyi looked at Lady Zong, who was also stunned by his operation: Could it be done this way?
Ning Yunyi placed the “decoy” he had made in front of the device, inserting it onto the rabbit’s neck a step in advance. Then he used his spiritual energy to directly control the device and looked at Lady Zong. “Are you ready?”
Lady Zong nodded dazed.
Ning Yunyi: “I’ll count down from three. When I do, Lady Zong, use your mental power to shrink your body. I’ll control the device so it doesn’t shrink with you. You take the opportunity to come out and let the device lock onto this ball of rabbit fur.”
In this way, a perfect “decoy” for Lady Zong would be created.
The armored man beside them watched with wide eyes, thinking this person was being whimsical. That was a high-tech device—how could anyone move it?
Even a shifter with such powerful mental power couldn’t do it.
However, as “one” was called out, the grey-white rabbit and Ning Yunyi coordinated perfectly, and it truly ran out. Not only that, the device didn’t shrink along with the rabbit.
The armored man was completely stunned. How is that possible?
Ning Yunyi didn’t care about him. Once the device locked onto the ball of rabbit fur, he only let go once he saw that no alarm sounded.
Then he looked at the big cat. “Prepare to leave.”
The big cat immediately picked up the grey-white rabbit in its mouth and reapplied the Invisibility Talisman with its paw.
The cat and rabbit disappeared before the armored man’s eyes.
Ning Yunyi took the last useful armored man, took out the magnetic cards from him, and then opened the door. At the same time, he used the man’s retinal scan. The door opened with a hum.
Once finished, Ning Yunyi completely destroyed the man’s sea of consciousness. The moment the armored man collapsed with dull eyes, Ning Yunyi applied an Invisibility Talisman and the person and two beasts ran out.
At the same time, the ball of rabbit fur behind them began to release powerful mental power. That powerful mental power immediately made the entire base feel a sense of discomfort.
Just as everyone was wondering what was going on, a loud explosion suddenly sounded from somewhere. Boom! Countless mental pressures swept in all directions.
They were blocked by one door after another, and even in the final banquet hall, there was a hum of vibration.
The entire banquet hall fell silent instantly. In the next moment, a sharp alarm sounded.
Realizing something, the host’s face changed drastically. He forced back his unease. “Immediately send these people away; the other guards, follow me.”
The twenty young girls and boys also turned pale, not daring to move and shivering. They were led out with their heads lowered.
When the young boy passed the boxes, his arm was bumped. He immediately picked up two boxes beside him and reminded the others: “Something must have happened here. Let’s not trouble our patrons. We’ll take these back to the club ourselves.”
The others were unsettled and didn’t think much of it, and two or three people picked up the empty boxes.
Before long, everyone was taken out onto the submarine with their eyes covered.
At the same time, among the two empty boxes, one held the big cat, and the other held Ning Yunyi and the grey-white rabbit.
When the big cat escaped with the grey-white rabbit in its mouth, the rabbit’s mental power was affected, causing a mental power collapse. Ning Yunyi simply treated the rabbit in the box.
After an unknown amount of time, Ning Yunyi felt the box being picked up again and placed on a spaceship. He finally let out a sigh of relief.
But he soon felt something wasn’t quite right. Lady Zong’s mental power collapse had been suppressed by him, but she was still unconscious.
The other box holding the big cat was not quite right at the moment.
The mental power seemed unstable, the mental fluctuations sometimes weak and sometimes strong.
He frowned and waited until the spaceship finally stopped and the two boxes were placed on an open space.
The boy’s voice was very low outside: “It’s very safe here. You should leave as soon as possible. I’ll take them further away.”
Ning Yunyi waited until the footsteps faded before opening the box, holding the grey-white rabbit as he walked to the box beside him.
Just as he was about to touch it, a voice came from inside: “I…” Soon the mental power grew weak again. “Meow.”
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