The dark and cold cell is surrounded by cement walls without windows on three sides. Only one side is a fence wall with a viewing window and an iron door. A man in prison uniform is sitting on an iron chair in the center of the cell, with a bright beam hanging above his head. incandescent lamp
Light.
The room was filled with a smell of metal and rubber, making the cement gray walls look even more depressing, gloomy and cold.
This is the interrogation room of Prison No. 11 in Avent City. The war criminals of the Southern Legion and Tire's servants were interrogated just a week ago.
At this moment, the prisoners sitting in the room being interrogated were disciples of the Enlightenment Society. Two Valantian prison guards were sitting on the left and right at the desk outside the interrogation room.
Not understanding the situation, they thought this guy was just an ordinary thief. Among them, the big guy with a bad face stared at him with eyes like bells and yelled loudly.
"Be honest! Name! Age! Organization! And... where did you hide the academy's scientific research ship!" He flipped through the files to figure out what this guy had done, but for this scientific research ship... Something is confusing again.
Research ship?
The city of Avente is full of beautiful girls. How did this thing get lost here?!
A very real problem is that not all Weirant people are well aware of the situation in the academy.
Even the vast majority of people in Willant only have an impression of the college as a "slug in the swamp", and the only understanding they have has to rely on a few words in the "Southern Legion Victory".
It’s hard to say how many truths there are in that kind of thing.
Facing the aggressive interrogation, Flynn closed his eyes and said nothing. He had an open expression and did not intend to say a word.
From the moment he was caught, he was no different from a dead person. The only regret is probably that he didn't die. But this is actually not a big deal.
He had been prepared to sacrifice for his ideals a long time ago, and he had long thought that such a day might come to him in the future.
Therefore, no matter what dirty tricks those prison guards use, don't even think of asking even a single word out of his mouth!
The prisoners who had been sitting here before were all ashen-faced and dejected. It was the first time for the big prison guard sitting outside the prison window to see such an uncooperative figure.
Seeing that this guy didn't reply for a long time, he suddenly became furious, slapped the table and stood up. "Don't talk? I think you are itchy!"
Seeing him taking out the key and about to go in to repair the guy, the older prison guard on the side quickly stretched out his hand to stop the guy.
Seeing his old colleague stopping him, the big prison guard stared and said.
"Don't stop him! It's useless for anyone to come today! I have to teach him a lesson!" the older prison guard advised earnestly.
"Calm down! Don't be impulsive! The Alliance has said that we just need to take good care of people. If we can ask questions, we can ask them. If we can't ask questions, don't rush to resort to means. They will naturally find a way."
"Damn it! I can't bear it anymore!" "Listen to me, forget it..."
"......."
Listening to the chorus of dialogue, Flynn, who was sitting in the cell, was not afraid at all, but even wanted to laugh a little.
That's it?
It seems that the alliance is nothing more than that.
These people still can't let go of the reserve of civilized people.
In this way, Flynn got through the first round of interrogation without much effort, and the ease of it all even made him look down on the alliance's methods.
I don't know how much time passed, but just when he was so bored that he was about to fall asleep, there was another burst of movement and footsteps outside the fence gate.
It seems like it was just an appetizer.
Obviously, the alliance's interrogators didn't intend to let him go so simply. He still had to deal with two or three more rounds today if he couldn't save everything.
Flynn's eyelids twitched slightly as he was recharging his energy, but his expression soon returned to his normal expression, and he sat there with his eyes closed, leisurely.
Just when he was getting ready for the soldiers to come and cover up the water and earth, Fang Chang, who was standing on the other side of the iron fence, looked up and down at this inexperienced man.
"Did he confess?"
Facing Fang Chang's inquiry, the prison guard standing aside looked a little embarrassed and handed over the blank record book in his hand.
"No... You said you should look at people without resorting to tactics, so we didn't resort to resorting to tactics. We just asked casually, but this guy didn't appreciate it and didn't explain a word."
Fang Chang nodded, without saying anything else, and motioned to the prison guard to take his notebook and pen. Then he walked to the visiting window, pulled out a chair and sat down.
"I am a resident of Vault No. 404. My name is Lai Ri Fang Chang. I heard that you are also a resident of Vault No. 404?"
Hearing the word shelter, Flynn had a slight reaction. He opened half of his eyes and glanced at the man on the other side of the bars.
But it was just a glance. Fang Chang raised his eyebrows.
"So you're not from the shelter?"
Flynn sneered and said in a neutral tone.
"No. 68, Flynn.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nThere is no point even if I tell you, our shelter has long since ceased to exist."
"No. 68, Flynn."
Fang Chang nodded, glanced at the dumbfounded prison guard next to him, and motioned for him to write it down. Then he looked at the man sitting behind the bars and continued in a gentle tone.
"...There is indeed no relevant record in our database, but it is not too late to start creating files from now on. There are many such shelter residents in the Alliance. They live a good life and are very harmonious with other wastelanders.
"
Flynn curled his lips in disinterest.
"If you're going to convince me this way, just save it.
"I have no intention of convincing you, because there is no need at all. We will know what we want to know soon." Looking at Flynn with a look of disdain, Fang Chang smiled faintly and continued nonchalantly, "By the way,
By the way, do you know where this is?"
Flynn didn't answer.
Or too lazy to answer.
Fang Chang ignored him and asked himself.
"This is Prison No. 11 in the city of Avent. The war criminals of the Southern Army are being tried here. You are not smarter than them, and neither is the organization behind you. Since we can defeat the Southern Army and Tire, we can defeat you...
...and I can tell you responsibly, it is as easy as squeezing an ant to death."
Flynn sneered.
"You talk a lot of nonsense."
"I heard from my comrades that you talk a lot of nonsense. Why are you sitting here with nothing to say?" Fang Chang looked at Flynn and smiled, then looked at his watch and continued in a casual tone,
"The time is coming, I just want to chat casually, don't take it too seriously."
Not letting his guard down because of these words, Flynn grinned slightly.
"Give up, I won't tell you a word."
The voice was very soft.
Like the letter spitted out by a poisonous snake.
Looking at this guy who was so stubborn even before his death, Fang Chang suddenly smiled.
"Okay, I understand."
After that, he took one last look at the time, stood up, turned his gaze to the prison guard who had not taken any notes, and gave concise instructions.
"Move him to room 101."
This guy was originally wanted by the academy.
In this case, let the people at the college review it.
That Jiang Xuezhou should be ready.
The prison guard stood up straight, holding his right fist close to his chest with a serious expression. "Yes!"
Fang Chang waved his hand and then strolled out of the door.
As the order was given, three burly prison guards opened the iron door and walked in.
The leading prison guard looked at his face with a ferocious smile and clenched his fists - this man was the one who had threatened to give him some trouble.
Flynn was not at all panicked.
However, looking at the figure disappearing at the door, he still couldn't help but have an ominous premonition in his heart.
What is that guy planning?
Why was he so sure he could pry his own head open?
The three prison guards who walked into the cell did not give Flynn time to think about the problem.
Two of them stood guard next to him, one on the left and the other on the right. The leader used a key to open his shackles and handcuffs.
At the same time as they were untying his restraints, two prison guards standing nearby held down his arms and pushed him out of the door.
In fact, these actions are completely redundant.
In order to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide, these people had already injected him with muscle relaxants. Now he is not much stronger than a baby.
Flynn sneered in his heart and allowed the three prison guards to drag him away from the dark room to the so-called Room 101.
To his surprise, the layout of Room 101 was not that of an interrogation room, but rather resembled a server room.
Rows of light green chassis are located in the corner, and pipes of different thicknesses are tangled together, like randomly tangled balls of yarn.
The only chair was the "dental operating table" located in the center of the room, and his intuition told him that the chair that exuded an ominous aura was his seat.
What do these guys want to do?
Flynn couldn't help but feel a hint of panic in his heart. The look in his pupils was no longer as calm as before, and he even struggled a few times instinctively.
However, the prison guard holding him did not tolerate him. He directly pressed him onto the chair and then locked the shackles that fixed his hands and feet.
"Aren't you quite capable? I hope you don't pee your pants for a while," the big prison guard smiled cruelly at Flynn and reached out to pat the face.
He actually didn't know what tricks the college planned to use. He only knew that the person who used the tricks was a C-level researcher from the college.
I think this level should be pretty awesome, right? Probably.
Flynn's eyes were fixed on the back of the big prison guard. It wasn't until all the guards left the room that he began to pay attention to the situation in the room.
The man named "The Day is Long" is not here. Instead, there is a man and woman who look somewhat familiar -
Flynn's pupils shrank slightly, and he quickly recognized the two men standing here as the men and women who had attacked him in the sewer before!
Seeing the guy staring at him, Ye Shi smiled and stretched out his hand to say hello. "Flynn, right? We meet again."
Flynn stared at him gloomily, then glanced at the woman next to him who was tinkering with bottles and syringes, and squeezed out a hoarse voice from his throat.
"What the hell are you doing..." Veritaserum?
Hallucinogens?
Haha, that kind of psychotropic drugs are of no use to him at all. "What do you mean?"
Ye Shi followed his gaze and saw him staring straight at the computer case next to him. Then he smiled and said, "This, in your terms, should be called a memory retrieval device."
The expression on Flynn's face froze slightly, but it was only for a moment.
"Memory retrieval device? Stop lying...how could you have that kind of thing?" Ye Shi said with a smile as he looked at Flynn, who was pretending to be calm.
"No, there is actually one in Dawn City, but not here." Flynn sneered and felt a little relieved.
Although I don’t know where the Alliance got that thing from, luckily there is a big desert across from here, so it’s not that easy to get it.
However, just as he was thinking this, a cold voice suddenly floated into his ears, making his heart that had just been put down rise back to his throat.
"There really isn't anything evil like that here, but if you have to use it, it wouldn't be difficult for me to get one on the spot."
Jiang Xuezhou, who had completed his preparations, turned around, looked at the man lying on the dental operating table expressionlessly, and handed the syringe with the potion to Ye Shi.
The latter understood it clearly, held the needle with two fingers, and strode towards the operating table.
Fear appeared on Flynn's face, and he instinctively shrank back, but he was tied tightly and had nowhere to escape!
Although his intuition told him that "making one on the spot" was sheer nonsense, the confident look on the face of the guy walking towards him made it impossible for him to find any flaws.
Looking at the man who was pressing forward step by step and the expressionless woman not far away, Flynn roared loudly as if to convince himself.
"You're so bluffing! Do you think memory retrieval technology is some crappy thing? It's the accumulation and crystallization of our more than ten years of sociological experience—"
"More than ten years of accumulation?" Jiang Xuezhou looked at him with cold eyes, as if looking at a twisted insect, "It's just a fully immersive virtual reality technology. It just induces people's subconscious and taps into storage through continuous input of neural signals.
It’s just a deep memory in the brain. You’ve spent decades doing this? That’s it?”
If you want to ask why it is so clear, of course it is because she has felt it before.
Flynn watched in fear as Jiang Xuezhou looked at the needle approaching his arm. His Adam's apple moved, but he could not say a word.
He didn't know the origin of the memory retrieval technology. He only heard that it could squeeze out all the secrets in the brain like a sugar cane juice machine.
Since most people who have experienced that system have become dementia, it is also used within the organization as a means of punishment and deterrence.
He has never violated the discipline of the organization, and has never betrayed the organization. Naturally, he would not have the opportunity to try that kind of thing...
It was precisely because of this that he didn't know how to fight against this kind of thing! Jiang Xuezhou looked at him indifferently and continued in a cold voice.
"...Do you think that is some kind of brilliant technology? We didn't build it just because we didn't want some smart fool who thinks he is awesome to use it to pry open our brains one day in the future.
And then use this thing on ourselves."
"But you are an exception, because you are such smart fools, and I don't feel any guilt at all for using this technology on you."
"I will never forget what you did to me, and now I want to give it back to you..." "Experience it for yourself."
After saying that, she looked at Ye Shi—the person who once pulled her out of her nightmare.
Seeing that the plot was over, Ye Shi didn't waste any time. He gave Flynn an injection in his arm without saying a word, and then smiled and patted the frightened latter on the shoulder.
"I wish you good luck, just treat it as a nightmare." Remember Jiang Xuezhou's dream, it seemed like there was a lot of snow? There were also some alien species like hyenas.
Although I don't know what's scary about snow and hyenas, since she swore that this device can squeeze all the thoughts out of people's heads, let's just believe her.
Ye Shi still believed in Jiang Xuezhou's abilities.
Flynn was about to say something, but before he could utter a single syllable, a huge gravitational force enveloped his whole body, forcefully pulling his increasingly heavy consciousness away from his body.
It felt like an out-of-body experience!
But when his soul left his body, it was not only his five senses that were sealed, but also his memory! He even forgot his own name!
The consciousness that was pulled out of the body floated in the air for a while, and was soon sucked into the bottomless black hole, and then fell into the endless scarlet!
He seems to live in his own heart, and he seems to be standing in the center of the earth!
Then, after an unknown amount of time, a pinprick-like itching suddenly spread all over his body, and not long after, the itching feeling turned into a severe pain burning on the flames!
"ah-"
Unable to bear the severe pain, Flynn wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a single sound. He could only wail silently in the void without time and space.
Boundless fear filled his soul!
And under the infinite number of overclocking iterations, the things he fears and the fear itself begin to materialize, and become more and more specific!
All the cells in my body seemed to be burning. It was like falling into lava!
Soon the boiling magma turned into something else. He tried to see clearly what was surrounding him, and the hot existence soon became what he feared most...
Flame? Why fire? No one asked him. He was asking himself.
As soon as the confusion emerged in his mind, the burning door of Vault 68 appeared in front of him.
Not only the door of Vault 68, but also through the blazing flames, he saw many familiar and unfamiliar faces!
Among them are his omnipotent father, gentle and kind mother, lively and lovely sister... There are also friendly neighbors, an amiable manager, his best friend and the girl he once liked.
Those familiar faces had been sealed in the deepest part of his memory, but the boiling flames dug them out one by one.
It's not even just them-
And the predators who killed them. "No-!"
Flynn's eyes were blood red and he roared at the top of his lungs, trying to rush in and save them from the predators. However, the bridge that was only ten meters long seemed to be ten light years long. No matter how hard he ran, he couldn't escape.
to the end, until he fell exhausted into the flames.
The stars all over the sky are spreading outward!
He watched helplessly as this memory slowly came to an end, and then he slowly remembered himself and their names, as well as the hatred engraved on this unforgettable memory.
These white-eyed wolves-
The shelter gave them food, clothing... and technology they had never seen in their lives! It allowed them to live a life they had never dared to imagine before!
And when they were full, they turned around and took another bite! He wanted to kill them all-
Kill every wastelander on this planet!
At this time, blue figures suddenly appeared in the bloodshot pupils, and the rain of fire in the sky melted with their arrival.
There are limits to human perception of pain.
Continuous pain will only make people numb and no longer respond to external stimulation - which is obviously not what the "god" who controls everything wants.
Looking at the blue figures, Flynn's face suddenly showed a light of hope, just like a traveler crawling in the desert who saw an oasis -
Even if it's just a mirage!
Those people came over to him, and as he expected, with spring-like smiles on their faces, they extended a helping hand to him.
Flynn used all his strength to finally reach the hand.
But the moment the fingertips touched, a huge gravitational force enveloped his whole body again, dragging him into the boundless darkness.
"From today on, you are a disciple of the Enlightenment Society."
A familiar voice poured into my mind, and the world pieced together from fragments of memory collapsed instantly and began to iterate again.
"No-!!!" That's enough! I'll tell you everything!
Stop this damn thing!
Flynn's eyes were filled with fear, and he let out a second cry—or rather, a howl.
However, no one paid attention to him. No one heard him at all.
At the same time, in a certain cell in Prison No. 11 of Aventur City, the second hand of the clock on the wall had just passed one second...
17:00.
Three hours have passed since the interrogation began.
Fang Chang glanced at the time on the VM, then reached out and knocked on the door of Room 101 next to him.
Just when he knocked for the third time, the door opened inward, and the smell of urine hit his face.
Frowning because of the pungent smell, Fang Changmin took a look inside the door and saw a piece of turmeric under someone lying on the operating table.
"Did you burn his brains out?"
"How could that happen?" Ye Shi chuckled, "He is still alive, but he is really struggling mentally." What the guy saw in the dream, he also saw on the holographic screen.
Honestly.
He even felt a little sympathy for the guy.
But sympathy is sympathy, and you still have to resort to means when you need to.
And compared to the Enlightenment Society, their methods can be considered benevolent.
The memory extractor from the Enlightenment Society can really burn people's brains dry, but the current program compiled by Jiang Xuezhou makes people's brains feel like they've been kicked by a donkey.
If you are not mentally strong, you may indeed go crazy, but people with mature minds can still get out of nightmares.
"What an evil technique..." Fang Chang smacked his tongue and sighed inwardly.
After seeing the situation in the room, the few Wilante prison guards standing behind him looked at the little girl in a white coat with awe in their eyes.
As expected of a member of the academy! He was really ruthless!
You can’t see any external injuries on your body, but you just made yourself incontinent! This is so awesome!
At this moment, Jiang Xuezhou did not know that he and the college had gained the respect of the Weiland people for some inexplicable reason.
After waving to Fang Chang who was standing at the door and closing the door, she handed a thumb-sized hard drive to Fang Chang's hand.
"The clues have been found...our scientific research ship is probably no longer on Earth." Fang Chang frowned.
"Not on the earth? Where is it?" Jiang Xuezhou took a deep breath and said.
"Orion... guided missile cruiser."
Ye Shi and Fang Chang looked at each other, and their expressions were a little stunned and even confused. But soon, the confusion gradually turned into excitement.
"What the fuck? Are we going to open a space map?!" Ye Shi couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice. Fang Chang ignored him, just coughed lightly, looked at Jiang Xuezhou seriously and asked, "I'll go first.
Just to confirm...this guided missile cruiser is a starship?"
"Yes," Jiang Xuezhou nodded and said slowly, "All military ships in the People's Alliance era were starships. This starship was built at the starport at Lagrange Point and was completed at the end of the Three Years War.
It crashed shortly after entering service...The specific cause of the crash is unknown."
“Awesome!!”
Ye Shi clenched his fists excitedly, wishing to log off the line on the spot and tell the brothers on the forum the good news. However, this excitement did not last for two seconds in his heart when Jiang Xuezhou's next words
Hit rock bottom.
"In addition...according to our information, there are 100,000 neutron torpedoes stored on this starship." After a pause, Jiang Xuezhou continued with a trembling voice.
"Although the specific explosion yield data has not been found, there is a theory..."
"At the end of the three-year war, this starship was the one that carried out the bombing mission of the Human Federation Aerospace Forces against the Mother Hive on the Earth's surface.