Chapter 326: A Man Infected with Sin, a Beast Behaving Crazy

Chapter 326: A Man Infected with Sin, a Beast Behaving Crazy

"So you're saying that after we left the lake, I was just floating in the air? Until we got attacked and I was hit?"

"Correct."

"And when you first tried to get me out of the lake, the scanning equipment detected a strong abnormal magnetic field?"

"Yes... No, at first I saw an electric current similar to that generated by magnetism on your body, and then I used a scanning device to detect it and determined that it was an abnormal magnetic field."

On the return shuttle, after leaving the Antarctic range, Han Zu turned on the shuttle's autopilot system. While checking the various data recorded on it during the time when the two of them left the shuttle, he chatted with Gloria. From the conversation, Han Zu had a general understanding of what happened during his unconscious period and knew what happened.

"Those who attacked us, although we are not sure of their identities, but based on what we encountered before and the signal amplifier detected by the scanning device at that time, these people are most likely the reinforcement team of the Feidenan family. This is my responsibility. If I hadn't been so confused at the time and didn't think about the energy signal leaked by the flamethrower, we might not have been discovered by the Feidenan family."

"It's not your fault. After all, when we were in the underground world, we basically didn't bring anything with us except this scanning device. Because of my modification of it, the signal of this thing is sometimes there and sometimes not. And the range of your newly acquired radiation pulse ability is not that large. You happened to enter their detection range. It can only be said that you are unlucky."

During the conversation, Han Zu looked up at Gloria and found that her mood was a little strange, like a mixture of impatience and anger.

"Are you still angry about the Feidenan family's pursuit of you?"

"No. Well, it's not just that. I'm mad at myself."

According to Gloria, in addition to the lingering fear of the previous attack and the fact that she was hunted down a long time ago, Gloria also began to doubt her own position. Perhaps she really wanted to find someone to talk to, or her trust in Han Zu had increased to a certain level, Gloria told Han Zu something that she had not told him when she first met him.

In fact, Gloria's identity is far from as simple as she said at the beginning. Gloria knows a lot about the Ferdinand family. The place where Gloria first stayed was not just an ordinary subsidiary of the family foundation. According to Gloria, the place where she was was actually a secret department of the Ferdinand Family Foundation, responsible for some secret operations. In short, it was a scavenger, and Gloria was not just an ordinary cannon fodder, she was actually a secondary action commander.

Gloria's task is to deploy these special armed forces to carry out certain missions. Due to the brainwashing of these fighters by the Ferdinand family and the cover-up of some intelligence, they all believe that they are doing something that is shameful but right and is clearing the world of evil.

Gloria thought so before she was promoted to the command level, but this perception was ruthlessly shattered immediately after she became a manager.

The higher the position, the closer to the truth. Through learning about information from several large-scale operations, Gloria finally realized that she, and even the entire department, actually only had one thing to do, which was to eliminate dissidents.

But even so, Gloria still did not give up and still had hope. She believed that the Ferdinand family must have a bottom line. However, a few months before she was hunted down, a special operation completely shattered her hope for the Ferdinand family.

"The order was for us to kill a scientist. Although the family's order did not specify why, the operation was highly valued by the higher-ups. So I became the commander of the operation because I did a good job at the time. Although I knew it was not that simple, I still had hope for the family, so I took over the command of the operation."

"So something must have gone wrong with this operation."

"Yes, the scientist received some help from local armed forces, but this was nothing compared to the well-equipped and well-trained armed forces of the Family Foundation. However, due to the difference in numbers between the two sides, I had no choice but to join the battlefield. Although the other side had a large number of people, we still broke into the scientist's base camp and successfully killed him. However, just as we were preparing to evacuate, a situation that should not have occurred occurred."

After Gloria led her soldiers to kill the scientist, they planned to evacuate immediately, but one team of soldiers discovered the scientist's family hiding in the secret room, including his wife and three children, two of whom were less than ten years old.

In previous operations, every team commanded by Gloria had never encountered similar survivors. They were either wiped out by bombing before they met, or they unfortunately died in the hail of bullets in the battle. This was the first time that survivors appeared.

Seeing these children with her own eyes, Gloria felt a little bit reluctant, but the order from above was to nip them in the bud. After much hesitation, Gloria decided to harden her heart and complete their mission.

"So I ordered them to be locked in a room, left a time bomb inside, and then evacuated the team. After we evacuated the scientists' base camp, we heard the sound of the bomb exploding."

"Are you trying to say that you have a change of heart?"

"No, I'm not that hypocritical. I won't use any means to whitewash what I did, and I won't regret it. All the choices were made by me, and I can't blame anyone. At that time, I was a monster with a vicious heart. The tangled heart and reluctance were all done to make myself feel better."

"Then why are you?"

"It was betrayal! Remember when you first met me, I was a cyborg with everything except my brain mechanically modified? Before that operation, I was not like that. Just as we were approaching the evacuation point and saw the evacuation vehicle approaching and stopping, preparing to board and leave, another armed force from nowhere attacked us from behind. Most of my body was burned into barbecue by the hot melt weapon. I don't even know how I survived. It was because of this that I lost my body and became a cyborg."

"But you said it was betrayal."

"It must be! The armed forces of scientists don't have weapons and equipment of this scale. He is not even a scientist who studies machinery or weapons, but a guy who does biomedical research! In that operation, no one in my team survived except me. Even if it was a sneak attack from behind, the weapons that could directly cause such casualties to us wearing power armor must have been provided by others."

"The Feidenan family wants to silence us?"

"Yes, when I was rescued and brought back to the Family Foundation's facility and completed the transformation surgery, they told me that I was lucky enough to survive. But after careful consideration, I am sure that not a single word they said was true. If there really was an unexpected attack, then why didn't the evacuation vehicle that came to take us away have even a scratch? And it was deliberately parked in an open space some distance away from the scheduled evacuation point? It's obvious that they didn't want us to survive."

"But you did survive."

"Ha! If I hadn't pressed the terminal and sent out an emergency global distress signal before I fell into a coma, I would have died in that "accident". And after that, every mission I commanded would go wrong, and I would even have to go to the battlefield myself, and I would have to escape death every time!"

Gloria became more and more excited as she spoke, and her emotions fluctuated more and more. After venting for a long time, she calmed down a little, folded down the shuttle seat, and lay on it like a dead fish.

"Haaa... This is the real me, a fool who helps the evil and fantasizes that a group of demons can have any bottom line. All right! You can start to judge me. Say whatever you want, I can bear anything. In fact, even if you throw me off the shuttle right now, I won't be surprised. This is what I deserve."

"Hoo-boom."

“Hiss… Huh…”

However, Gloria, who was waiting for Han Zu to say something to her, only heard the sound of Han Zu lighting a cigarette, and then she heard the sound of music. She looked up and found that Han Zu was actually using the terminal on the shuttle to watch a dance video that was borderline cute, as if he had not heard what she had just said. But when she was venting her emotions just now, Han Zu had clearly responded.

"After listening to what I said, you're not going to say anything? No moral condemnation or anything like that?"

"Do you know how many people I have killed? Who were they?"

Han Zu paused the video, reclined his seat, and put his legs on the shuttle's control console. His words suddenly made Gloria unsure of how to respond.

"What does this have to do with what I said before?"

"Did you know that I released a tactical nuclear bomb in a copy of the Infinite City and flattened the entire city?"

"But that's not a game... No."

"That's right. Even if you don't know too many details, you should know that the copies in the so-called Infinite City are actually real worlds. It's just that Infinite Company uses some powerful technological power and unconventional means to restore the people and things in it to their original state as if they were reincarnated."

"But you were just a player at the time, you probably didn't know about this, right? This is not the same..."

"No, I knew about this a long time ago."

Han Zu interrupted Gloria and said the news that shocked Gloria. Gloria thought of something bad and her hair stood up immediately. But she didn't know what to say and could only stare at Han Zu.

"That's right! I know there are real lives inside, but when I released the tactical nuclear bomb, I knew the consequences, but I did it without hesitation. It's not because I have any higher goals. I'm just simply curious about what effect a tactical nuclear bomb can have in a densely populated city. Although the city in that copy at that time was basically full of energy-bodied ghosts, I know very well that there are at least 40% ordinary people in it, including people of all ages."

"But... but they can be resurrected, so... it makes sense, right? You see, it's still different from me. The operations I command are all in reality, and they have no chance of resurrection."

"You still remember that the Infinite City's system can only play the most basic role on me, and even those are not completely useful, right?"

"You don't mean?!!"

"That's right. Those I killed were really killed. There was no chance of resurrection. They were not other players. They did not have the system protection of the Infinite City. If they died, they were dead. The Infinite Company, which is a big company, would not waste time on a group of little white mice. And I knew about this situation a long time ago. I can tell you clearly that when I witnessed the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion rising in front of my eyes, the dazzling light made me squint my eyes, and the explosion made me even unable to hear my own voice, I not only did not have any complicated and tangled emotions, but I also laughed. Not only was it crazy, but the laughter was also surprisingly loud. Because I clearly saw what would happen if a tactical nuclear bomb exploded in the center of a densely populated city, I felt happy from the bottom of my heart because it satisfied my curiosity."