Chapter 545: Chapter 396: Retrieving the Target
The interrogation room inside the mirror looked much like those special rooms built in movies and TV dramas to protect the privacy of witnesses, and at this moment, survivors were already standing in a row with their backs to the mirror.
"The suburban camp you reported is now completely locked down, and the ten people inside were randomly selected as representatives from the camp."
Upon hearing White Horse say this, Yara and Zachary remained silent, as neither of them were naive enough to believe that the Officials would lock down a camp without verification, even if it was just a small camp with a few people. Certainly, the Officials would not make such a big move based solely on their report.
Furthermore, Zachary and Yara were also self-aware, knowing that even if the Officials did confirm the veracity of the reported issue, there was no need to bring them in for validation like they were doing now.
White Horse wasn’t bothered by the silence of Yara and Zachary and continued, "We have used the two detection methods you reported to examine the survivors in the camp, and indeed found that some of them have a rather special insect lodged in their spines.
However, for some reason, whether we used qi to inspect or X-rays to irradiate, we only found that these insects were lurking in the bodies of the survivors and did not discover what you described, that is, control over the survivors by linking to their neural systems."
Zachary and Yara instantly understood why White Horse had brought them here when they heard this. If it was just that insects had entered the bodies of the survivors, it could at most be considered a form of attack by the Bug Race on the survivors—harmful, yes, but not a serious problem for the Imperial Court.
But, if it was as Zachary and his companion had reported, that the insects inside could control the survivors by linking to their neural systems, then the matter became extremely serious.
In fact, whether it was Zachary and Yara or White Horse and the Officials in charge, they all knew that the most direct way to confirm this was to perform surgery and dissection on those survivors who had been confirmed to have insects in their bodies. By opening up the body, even if the insects could not be verified with the naked eye, they could still be verified through the sense of touch.
It’s just that despite it being a critical moment, surgery and dissection were still quite severe measures, and if they weren’t official organizations, they could just dissect those people directly.
But they were an official organization, and moreover, under circumstances where everyone was clearly aware of what was going on, more radical measures were inconvenient to use.
Seeing that Zachary and Yara remained quiet, White Horse understood that they also had their schemes and were not like passionate youths who would readily step forward to take responsibility when provoked by others.
Seeing this, White Horse decided not to wait any longer and directly picked up the microphone on the table, addressing those inside, "Please lie down on the designated blankets on the floor as arranged."
Upon hearing White Horse’s words, the people in the room instinctively looked towards the direction of the sound, unfortunately seeing only a speaker in a corner at the top of the room.
However, from White Horse’s voice that came from the speaker, it was confirmed that someone had arrived behind the glass of their room.
All those present were no fools and understood that the large glass in the room must be one-way glass. They were brought here because something important must have happened; otherwise, the Officials would not have locked down the camp and sent them all the way here with such great effort.
Once the survivors obediently lay on the blankets on the floor, anesthetic gas was suddenly sprayed into the room. As the concentration of the anesthetic gas in the air continued to increase, those lying on the blankets gradually lost consciousness.
After confirming that everyone in the room had fainted, the door to the interrogation room suddenly opened, and a team wearing one-piece protective suits with gas masks on their faces entered. Following the press of a button inside the room by one of them, the spots where the blankets had been slowly began to rise.
When the team member released the button, the rising platforms had turned into individual surgery tables.
After the height of the surgery tables was fixed, the team inside divided into four groups of three and turned over the unconscious survivors; then, using what clearly looked like a new invention, they began to irradiate the unconscious survivors.
As the light shone on the clothes of the person, the irradiated part of the clothing gradually became transparent, and with the clothes disappearing, the light slowly irradiated the person’s skin. The skin that was exposed to the light began to turn transparent just like the clothes before it.
As the skin gradually became transparent, the flesh of the survivor’s back began to spread outward from the center point where it was irradiated, like a child digging in the mud, gradually expanding outwards.
As the flesh also progressively became transparent, the survivor’s spine was soon exposed. Although they could clearly see the survivor’s spine, both the flesh and the clothes were, in fact, still on the survivor’s body, only temporarily transparent for the moment.
