Chapter 306: Chapter 222: Experimental Test, Another Moon Worshiper Dies
Wang Ziru escorted Ding Yang and Wang Qiang all the way to the main gate, then returned to the conference room.
"Boss, are you worried about something?"
Wang Ziru was starting to understand. Lin Qi wasn’t building the rocket on a whim; he had been commissioned by Ding Yang. Furthermore, this commission hadn’t come from Hongshan Camp—it might have even come directly from the Headquarters.
Lin Qi frowned.
’Worries?’
Of course he had worries, but there was little point in discussing them with Wang Ziru.
After a moment of contemplation, Lin Qi’s gaze locked onto the Extraordinary Item before him.
According to Wang Qiang, this Extraordinary Item was meant to counteract the Blood Moon and delay its mutation—or rather, its awakening.
If this Extraordinary Item had such an effect, then theoretically, it should also affect beings connected to the Blood Moon, like the Moon Worshipers.
"Have Wei Yue come here."
An experimental mindset was something Lin Qi had developed at Liu’s Heavy Industries. Thinking like a researcher allowed him to discern the truth behind most events.
After receiving the order, Wang Ziru immediately went himself.
Wei Yue and the three remaining Moon Worshipers Lin Qi had brought back from the Beining District were still living separately in a single building, quarantined from the rest of the Mo University Camp.
Soon, Wang Ziru led Wei Yue to the first-floor conference room of the Club Activity Building.
Lin Qi said to Wang Ziru, "You go upstairs for now. Continue overseeing the rocket’s production."
Lin Qi was dismissing Wang Ziru. He didn’t want anyone else in the camp to know about Wei Yue and her group.
Wang Ziru roughly understood Lin Qi’s intention and quickly left the conference room, leaving only Wei Yue and Lin Qi to speak alone.
"Regarding the Blood Moon’s mutation, the Headquarters has given me a difficult problem. According to them, they’ve prepared a total of four Tier Five Extraordinary Items to be sent into space. The goal is to restrain the Blood Moon and delay its mutation."
"But I’m not convinced. I’m not sure if these Tier Five Extraordinary Items will actually restrain the Blood Moon, rather than stimulating it to awaken faster and more completely."
"The Moon Worshipers have a connection to the Blood Moon. If this Extraordinary Item can affect the Blood Moon, the Moon Worshipers will inevitably be affected as well. I want you to take a look at this item."
Lin Qi’s trust in Wei Yue wasn’t low. If Wei Yue could corroborate the Headquarters’ claims, then Lin Qi would make his final decision.
If he could maintain the relative safety and stability of the Doomsday World, Lin Qi didn’t want to lose this resource cache.
"A Tier Five Extraordinary Item?"
Wei Yue followed Lin Qi’s gaze to the square metal box in the conference room.
After a moment, Wei Yue said, "My condition is unique. I completed half of the promotion ritual to become a Blood Moon Envoy, but an accident severed most of my connection to the Blood Moon. I can’t sense anything special about this Extraordinary Item, but when I look at the box, I feel a sort of instinctual revulsion."
"If you want to confirm the Moon Worshipers’ reaction to this Extraordinary Item, I suggest letting Ni Huiqun and the other two try to get close to it."
The Ni Huiqun that Wei Yue mentioned was one of the three remaining Moon Worshipers in the camp.
She was also the one Lin Qi had made choose a list when he executed someone to deter betrayal.
’Instinctual revulsion?’
In a way, this partially corroborated Wang Qiang’s claims, but it wasn’t enough.
"Bring the three of them here. I need to run a test."
After giving the order, Lin Qi waited for another ten-plus minutes.
Soon, Wei Yue returned with the combat squad in charge of guarding the Moon Worshipers, bringing the three of them along.
After they entered the conference room, the combat squad voluntarily withdrew to the doorway to wait.
Wei Yue explained, "As the Blood Moon’s mutation draws nearer, I sometimes have trouble controlling them."
The Moon Worshipers were also undergoing slight changes, which further indicated that the intelligence about the Blood Moon’s mutation was real.
Lin Qi nodded, then looked at the three Moon Worshipers. "I need one of you to go and touch that box."
Lin Qi noticed that the moment the three Moon Worshipers entered the conference room, they showed intense unease.
They seemed terrified of the Tier Five Extraordinary Item that Wang Qiang had brought.
Noticing this, Lin Qi immediately continued, "Just pick one of the three of you to go touch it. You don’t all have to try."
Lin Qi had no sympathy for these second-generation Moon Worshipers. They had willingly abandoned their own principles, unlike the first-generation ones who were simply overcome by their high levels of inspiration.
On top of that, this group of Moon Worshipers had a history of betrayal, and according to Wei Yue, they had been acting up again recently.
Lin Qi was more than happy to use some method to divide them once again.
As Lin Qi had anticipated, if he made the three of them choose, the one pushed forward would surely be the woman named Ni Huiqun.
The last time Lin Qi had "killed the chicken to scare the monkey," he had deliberately sowed division by having her submit a death list, but in the end, Lin Qi had turned that list into a list of survivors.
Theoretically, two of the three remaining people should have hated her.
But the scene before him was completely unexpected.
The woman actually stood with one of the other Moon Worshipers, and together, they unhesitatingly shoved the man forward.
The one who was shoved forward had eyes full of venomous hatred.
It seemed that among the three remaining Moon Worshipers—two men and one woman—some things had happened that Lin Qi didn’t know about.
Wei Yue, on the other hand, didn’t seem surprised by this at all.
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