Chapter 427: Ulterior Motives (Second Update) In their eyes, Xia Chujian's mind was exceptionally brilliant!
However, Xia Chujian wasn't particularly happy, and only said in a muffled voice, "What's the use of thinking fast? It's all after-the-fact reasoning, which doesn't help."
The people who could die were already dead, so what if they guessed it?
The other party had already erased the clues cleanly.
Kang Shanxing, however, had more experience than Xia Chujian.
He enlightened her, saying, "Chujian, don't be discouraged. You have to think this way: the other party used such a Grand Scheme, even using the Mother of Forrest's Mental Strength Spores, they must have ulterior motives."
Xia Chujian thought for a moment, "So Colonel Kang means that this matter won't end here."
Kang Shanxing smiled and asked, "Why do you think so?"
Xia Chujian shrugged, "It's simple, because I haven't seen what the person behind the scenes is 'scheming' for."
"So, they will take action again."
She thought for a moment, then continued, "...Can the fact that I killed that Son of Forrest be kept secret? I didn't tell Chief Instructor Pei the truth just now because I wanted to keep it secret for the time being."
Kang Shanxing said, "I sent trusted subordinates to collect the body, and they won't leak the information."
Xia Chujian was a little embarrassed, "...But, on the Starry Sky Cruiser over there, there are five hundred Starry Sky Marines who all know about this."
Kang Shanxing frowned, "...You showed them the body?"
Xia Chujian nodded, "I also showed them the video of the Instructor shedding his skin after being parasitized..."
Kang Shanxing thought for a while and said, "That's okay. They are also within our scope of investigation."
"Later, I'll have our people 'desensitize' their brains to make them forget this memory."
Xia Chujian quickly said, "It was just an hour ago, don't let them forget too much!"
She was treating them as her Personal Guards, so they couldn't forget her, their commander!
Otherwise, she would have worked for nothing! Kang Shanxing said, "I know, desensitizing things that happened too long ago will cause irreversible damage to their brains. We won't do that to our own people."
"But it's easy to handle things within an hour, and it won't have any impact on them."
"Didn't you put them in hibernation before?"
Xia Chujian said, "Yes, so just process them directly to hibernation. Let them think they've been in hibernation all along."
Kang Shanxing agreed and immediately ordered his men to handle the matter on the Cruiser.
Only then did Xia Chujian say, "This way, no one will know that the Son of Forrest's parasitic body has been killed by me."
Kang Shanxing said, "So you want the person behind the scenes to think that they still have the Son of Forrest's parasitic body as an inside agent?"
Xia Chujian looked at him uncertainly, "...Is that possible?"
Kang Shanxing frowned, "It's not impossible, your idea is very novel."
"But the problem is, I don't know how they contacted the Son of Forrest's parasitic body..."
Xia Chujian said, "I was also thinking about this. When I went to rescue them, I saw someone from the Star Pirates exchanging messages with people from the base using signal flares."
"Looking back now, most of the inside agents at the base were people whose minds and actions were controlled by the Son of Forrest's parasitic body."
Kang Shanxing said, "That's possible, but it still needs to be verified."
Xia Chujian said, "Yes, I also want to know how you verify it!"
Kang Shanxing said, "I'll take you there in a while."
"The cause of death of these three Instructors has been determined."
"Plus, the person who sent them on the mission also died unexpectedly at the base, so we initially speculate that these three Instructors were just unfortunate enough to be chosen as sacrifices and scapegoats by the mastermind."
Xia Chujian said, "Then can you give them the treatment they deserve? Like Martyrs or something... so their families can receive compensation?"
Kang Shanxing sighed, "Chujian, unless we prove that these three were killed, their families can receive compensation."
But according to their existing evidence, they can only see that they took poison themselves.
Although their appearance was a bit strange when they took the poison, their behavior cannot be explained without disclosing the news of the Son of Forrest's parasitic body.
Xia Chujian was silent.
Kang Shanxing said, "Don't be sad. I'll report to Marshal Huo and see if he has any good ideas."
As he spoke, he switched the image on the virtual display screen.
Now it was no longer the airship surveillance footage he had searched from the database, but the footage of the screening of the twenty-six instructors in the small room opposite.
Xia Chujian saw that the small room, which had previously had no partitions, suddenly had walls rising up, dividing the small room into small cubicles.
Looking down from her perspective, it was as if she was looking at a cross-section of a giant honeycomb.
This giant honeycomb was made up of individual hexagonal honeycombs.
Each small honeycomb contained an instructor.
So there were a total of twenty-six honeycomb cubicles.
They were all sitting in their seats, with dense sensors attached to their heads.
Their eyes stared blankly ahead, as if what they saw in front of them was not the silver-white six-sided walls, but some kind of real scene they didn't know.
Xia Chujian looked at this scene with a complicated expression.
Yes, she thought again of the day when Huo Yushen had attached these sensors to her head, allowing the Mechanical Intelligence to draw the appearance of the girl she had seen.
That time it was drawing, but what about this time?
Xia Chujian looked at Kang Shanxing inquiringly.
Kang Shanxing said, "This is a lie detector."
It wasn't mechanical drawing after all? Xia Chujian was even more curious: "Then why aren't they asking questions?"
The lie detectors she had seen all required asking questions.
When people answered, the sensors attached to their bodies would measure various physiological reaction data to analyze whether their answers were true or false.
Kang Shanxing said, "This is a more advanced consciousness lie detector. It directly communicates with the deep layers of your consciousness. It is a lie detector specifically designed to deal with Gene Evolvers."
Xia Chujian understood and said with a smile, "Is it because Gene Evolvers can fake their physiological reactions to deceive ordinary lie detectors?"
"We ordinary people can't do that... I didn't expect the Special Security Bureau to have thought of this already."
"But, Gene Evolvers also have very strong Mental Strength. Can't they fake things in the deep layers of their consciousness?"
"Chief Instructor Pei can even resist the Mental Strength Spores of the Mother of Forrest..."
Xia Chujian had many questions.
Kang Shanxing smiled without saying a word.
After a while, he asked, "Want to see what everyone's deep consciousness reactions are?"
Xia Chujian's eyes lit up: "Yes! Of course!"
Kang Shanxing took a step back and raised one hand, instantly pulling out ten virtual display screens, which floated in front of them.
This way, the deep consciousness reactions of ten instructors appeared before them.
Kang Shanxing said, "Do you see the silver-white partitions rising in that small room?"
Xia Chujian said, "I see them. They make the room look like a giant honeycomb."
Kang Shanxing said, "Each of these partitions has the effect of suppressing and penetrating Mental Strength."
Xia Chujian was puzzled: "I understand suppression, but what do you mean by penetration?"
Kang Shanxing said, "Remember when your Dark Night Hunter Team went to our Special Security Bureau's Branch Station in Mulan City, Guiyuan Star?"
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered: "...Was that the time you questioned me? I even complimented you on your pretty eyes..."
Kang Shanxing's face darkened, his mouth twitched twice, and he said calmly, "Yes, that was the time."
"That time, we were able to make you tell the truth just by overwhelming you with our Mental Strength level."
"But this time, we are using Gene Evolvers with special Abilities in Mental Strength. Their Ability is that their Mental Strength has penetrating properties."
Xia Chujian said, "...Is it like those Sons of Forrest? Can they control other people's minds?"
Kang Shanxing was choked by her words, and said sullenly, "...It's not that powerful, it's just that it can infiltrate their Mental Strength into the deep subconscious of these people, suppressing their Mental Strength vitality."
Xia Chujian finally understood: "...It's like an Inhibitor specifically for Gene Evolvers."
Kang Shanxing then smiled and said, "Yes, the principle is similar. But that kind of Inhibitor suppresses for a longer time."
"And this kind of pure Mental Strength infiltration lasts for a very short time, about an hour or so."
"It's especially suitable for this kind of temporary occasion."
As they spoke, images of consciousness began to appear on the ten virtual display screens.
Seven of the images showed the Instructors in tense piloting, and when they discovered that the Starship tracking them was the Star Pirates' Bodhi Leaf Starship, they all looked panicked.
Two of the images showed that after discovering the Star Pirates' Bodhi Leaf Starship, these two Instructors couldn't wait to go up and fight.
Only one image showed an Instructor contacting someone...
Xia Chujian shook her head, staring at the Instructor's image who was contacting someone using a button-like device, and said, "...What's going on with this person?"
Kang Shanxing said, "It has already been investigated. At that time, he was contacting someone, but not the Star Pirates, but a female Instructor on another Starship... The two are a couple."
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good... That's good..."
In times of crisis, he still remembers his girlfriend.
That's already pretty good.
But Kang Shanxing didn't think it was good at all! He said with a straight face: "The first batch tested ten Instructors, and seven of them had war-averse emotions!"
"And one only remembers his small family, disregarding the overall situation!"
"Out of ten Instructors, only two remember that they are soldiers!"
"This ratio is too low!"
Xia Chujian thought, what's wrong with remembering your small family? If you can't even protect your own family, how can you talk about protecting others? She didn't think so: "You're too harsh. I think three of these ten Instructors are still acceptable."
"It's normal for those seven Instructors to have war-averse emotions."
"If they were really brave, they wouldn't be staying at the Flight Training Base in the rear."
That's the logic, but Kang Shanxing was still very dissatisfied.
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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