Chapter 290: Mystery of Motives
"So why don't you stop me from "snooping" your secrets? Everything here shouldn't be known to others, right?"
"You're getting off topic. You should talk about where those biological weapons came from."
According to normal thinking, if a secret base and the secrets inside are discovered, generally speaking, the most correct and top priority approach is to make the person who discovered the secret shut up forever. However, Gloria looked at Han Zu in front of her, who had no intention of killing her at all, and suddenly had an indescribable feeling.
It was like being involved in something big and having no idea what was going on.
Why was he still alive? And what was the reason why Han Zu wanted him to be alive? He had no idea at the moment.
"Ta-ta."
Seeing that Gloria was "distracted" with a serious expression, Han Zu snapped his fingers twice in her ears. Gloria frowned and raised her head stiffly towards Han Zu.
"What exactly do you want me to do?"
"Ah? Didn't I just finish talking about that biological weapon and the source of the medicine inside it?"
"this one?"
"if not?"
"Do you know where I was affiliated with before?"
"I don't know. Otherwise, why would I ask you? If it's not you, can you still tell me? If you haven't thought about it yet, I'll go and do my own thing. I still have a lot of work to do."
Han Zu's attitude not only failed to make Gloria feel relieved, but made her even more confused. With the mentality that she would die anyway, Gloria quickly and clearly stated the origin of the biological weapon and the source of the chemicals inside.
"The research institute that made this drug is located in... The biochemical grenade is also one of the research institute's downstream products. After the institute was forced to close, the doctor brought these things into our weapons research and development department. It is said that he was one of the members responsible for researching these drugs at the time."
"What was the name of your original organization?"
"I don't know. My authority is only at a mid-level level, not very high. We claim to be working for a family foundation. If that can be counted as the name of our organization, the name of that family is Fei Denan."
"How about that doctor? Did you find any information related to him just now?"
"No, although my former department often came into contact with him, as I said before, we were attacked by a mysterious team at that time. Their fighting style was similar to the armed forces of the Infinite Company, but their behavior was more radical and caught us off guard. I was also in the process of escaping and stole one of their teleportation devices, and was teleported to the copy of the Infinite Company. But soon after, the pursuers arrived, and my team at that time broke out into a battle with them. Now it seems that I am the only one who survived."
"Those should be the Gray Ops Armed Forces of Infinite Company. According to the armor fragments with the emblem that I brought back, after the technical repair, they are not the current Gray Ops Armed Forces. They should be the thugs of the Board of Directors before they used the cyborg technology on a large scale."
"What does a corporation want with Gray Ops Arms?"
"Isn't it the same for you? Why would a foundation need to cyborg humans?"
What Han Zu said does make sense. Unlimited Company and the Ferdinand Family Foundation are not as simple as they seem.
"So it's very likely that the doctor is now in the hands of the Infinite Company's board of directors."
"Not necessarily. Judging from the fighting style of the Gray Squad at the time, they had no intention of leaving anyone alive."
"So that's why you're avoiding Infinity?"
"I wouldn't have hacked into the Infinite City's system unless I had to."
"So why me?"
"During the more than one year since I was trapped in that copy, it's not that there were no staff members of the Infinite City who entered the copy. On the contrary, there were many. However, their systems were all normal. Once I tried to break in, I would be discovered immediately. But yours is different. You can understand that everyone else's system is connected to the Internet, but only yours is an offline version. You can send all the information to the outside world, but the outside world can only know your location. And it's also very fuzzy and not clear."
"Tell me the coordinates of your original department or base."
After thinking for a while, Han Zu asked Gloria for the coordinates. After Gloria told him, Han Zu used his personal terminal to open an encrypted information network. This information network originally belonged to "Night Owl". After Han Zu helped Unlimited Company "annex" Q City, Han Zu took away a main key and modified it so that it could connect to the remaining information network of "Night Owl" and the information network of Unlimited Company at the same time without leaving any traces or records.
Using this, Han Zu quickly found the coordinates that Gloria mentioned. Sure enough, this location now belongs to Unlimited Company. According to the information from the person in charge, Han Zu learned that this place is now managed by the board of directors.
When Gloria was attacked and fled, and was attacked by pursuers and lost her ability to move, Han Zu had just entered the Infinite City and did not know much about the Infinite Company. At that time, he was not aware of the three-way situation within the Infinite Company, and Han Zu did not know much about the information at that time. Because he had no power of his own, a lot of intelligence collection could only rely on Han Zu himself. Coincidentally, the records of the board of directors' actions at that time had long been destroyed, and now Han Zu could not find it at all.
If I use the connections I have accumulated during this period to check one by one, I may be able to find some clues, but once the news of my secret investigation of the board of directors spreads, I will be in a passive position. After all, no matter who they are, there will always be times when they are unreliable or let the cat out of the bag. This will be detrimental to what I am going to do next.
"Has this Feidenan Family Foundation had any dealings with Infinite Company before?"
"No, but she had private contact with several people on the board of directors of the unlimited company at that time. It seems that there was also someone on the board who was from the Feidenan family. However, according to the information I just searched, she has been kicked out of the board. Her current whereabouts are unknown."
The Ferdinand Family, a new name appeared on Han Zu's investigation list. During the conversation with Gloria, Han Zu also looked up some relevant information about the Ferdinand Family and the Ferdinand Family Foundation. The result did not surprise Han Zu, it was within his expectations.
There was no news about the Ferdinand family on either the Internet or the secret network within Infinite Company. The only possible connection was that when Han Zu was cleaning up the internal traitors, there was a person named Ferdinand, but Gloria did not know this person.
Now that person has long been missing feeding fish on some seabed. It seems unlikely to ask him in person. After all, Han Zu has always been clean in his actions.
"Is there anything else you want to ask?"
"That's all. Do you have anything else to say?"
"What about me now?"
Han Zu pointed to the elevator and boarded it with Gloria. Soon, they returned to the cave where Gloria had undergone body reconstruction.
"The exit is over there, don't go through the corridor."
Following the direction of Han Zu's finger, Gloria saw a door behind a half-assembled device. Through the glass on the door, she could see that behind it was an elevator with no electricity, and next to it was a stairwell.
"After you go up, the mechanical code sequence of the crank is to turn it four times to the left, then turn it one and a half times to the right, and finally turn it two times to the left. This will open the gate. After you go out, walk along a tree stump with traces of burnt leaves and dense growth rings. At your pace, you will reach a village in half an hour. From the end of the village, you can take the bus to the city. After you arrive in the city, I don't need to teach you, right?"
After saying this, Han Zu turned around and went to his desk, opened a design drawing, and then typed something in. Soon, a nearby manufacturing equipment started running.
"You're just going to let me go? The information I provided you is not that important, not to mention these XIIV-969-T used to reshape my body. No matter how you look at it, you've made a deal that only loses and does not gain."
"Go quickly, I won't see you off."
Han Zu didn't look back, but just waved his hand, looking very perfunctory, as if Gloria was not here at all.
"Then I'm really leaving?"
This time, Han Zu did not respond at all, but just focused on the work progress of the equipment on the computer.
This completely indifferent reaction made Gloria even more uneasy.
"Maybe he set a trap at the exit, and I'll be killed if I trigger it? But if that's the case, why did he waste these XIIV-969-Ts to rebuild my body? Those cyborg soldiers have a lot of demand for this stuff, and wasting it on me is totally unnecessary. What on earth is he thinking?"
While thinking in her mind, Gloria pushed open the door. The elevator had not yet been powered on and could not be used. The stairwell could be used, but there were no stairs inside. It was called a stairwell, but in fact it was more like a shaft without an elevator. However, this was not enough to stop Gloria from leaving, especially after she used XIIV-969-T to reshape her body.
With her agility, Gloria jumped on the wall several times and reached the top of the shaft in a short time. There was a platform where she could land. At the end of the platform, two or three meters away, there was a locked gate. There was indeed a mechanical code crank on the gate.
"Four left, one and a half circles right, two left."
"Thump, thump, thump, thump."
Gloria turned the crank in the order Han Zu said, and with the dull sound of the mechanical lock lifting, the gate actually opened.
Walking out of the gate, there was a forest outside where few people came. Just a few meters outside the gate, Gloria saw a tree stump with traces of burning. It was now around two or three in the afternoon, and the vision was very clear. Looking in the direction of the dense growth rings, she saw a vague outline of a building in the distance.
"boom."
"Thump, thump, thump, thump."
The metal gate behind me closed automatically. It seemed that leaving here was the only option at the moment.
There happened to be no one around, so Gloria tried out the various abilities of this body. Although the original abilities had been lost as the body was reshaped, the body coordination she had relearned based on her memories allowed Gloria to quickly recover her original combat ability. With the help of XIIV-969-T, she was even stronger than before. However, as for weapons and equipment, she had to find them by herself.
Running at full speed, it didn't take long for Gloria to arrive at the village that Han Zu mentioned. The village looked very ordinary, nothing special. At the end of the village, Gloria did find a bus stop, and there happened to be a bus picking up passengers.
Although Gloria entered the bus station, she did not get on the bus. It was not because she had no money. Using the nanomechanical group on her hand that was transformed into a ring, Gloria could easily hack into a large number of accounts and obtain huge amounts of funds for herself. There were also electronic payment devices on the bus. The only reason why Gloria did not rush to get on the bus was that she did not know where to go.
The original organization is now nowhere to be found. According to my understanding of the Foundation, even if it still exists secretly, I should be defined as dead. Even if I can find a way to go back, according to the Foundation's style of doing things, I should most likely be suspected and subjected to long-term interrogation. Not to mention that I am now covered in priceless XIIV-969-T. It would be strange if I was not taken apart like a puzzle.