Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 829

Chapter 829: Chapter 272: The Mystery of the Starship, Yu Yong’s Freedom! (3)

This time, he focused on capturing key information, his eyes locked on the corner of the screen, an unremarkable building, where an electronic clock hung at the entrance.

Displayed clearly on it: [June 1, Year 17 of New Era].

“That was eighteen years ago…”

Looking again at Yu Yong in the image, his face was much younger than now, just in his early twenties.

Being able to participate in such a core scientific project at this age highlights his talent, a top-tier talent that stood out from an early age.

“It’s astounding, Firewood still has such discoveries?”

Yu Yong was still dazed, Cheng Ye’s heart equally stirred by a stormy sea.

Compared to Firewood’s exploration, Happiness City clearly embarked on a completely different path; over ten years ago, Firewood was already researching starships, yet today’s Happiness City remains clueless.

“There are only two possibilities why Firewood didn’t synchronize the starship news with Happiness City,” Cheng Ye quickly thought, “Either an accident occurred during the research, forcing a project shutdown; or research continues, requiring strict secrecy, and outsiders cannot know.”

Either of these results, just thinking about it, made his scalp tingle.

After all, Mount Everest is now situated next to New Province where Firewood is located, right in the center of the A1 Black Zone.

The Black Zone is haunted by numerous Guardian Extraordinaries, terrifying entities like farmers abound.

To enter the central Black Zone and ascend Mount Everest for research, the difficulty is simply unimaginable.

Even for strong Extraordinary Control State figures, it’s likely impossible to reach the mountain foot alive.

Only Elder-level beings might arrive, but even reaching Mount Everest, what difference will it make?

Firewood has researched for so many years without producing results that could drive an era forward.

Elders aren’t researchers, even if they go, they are useless, and according to Zhang Minister and Old Shi’s conversation, they’ve said “time is limited” eighteen years ago. Today, with the abnormality index rising, Firewood has likely long been unable to access that high-altitude platform.

“Should this message be synchronized with Happiness City…”

Cheng Ye proceeded rapidly in thought, quickly deciding, it’s impossible to hide and conceal starship news.

Clearly, Yu Yong knows about the starship information. Since heavy results must be interrogated from him, they will surely include related information.

The secrets hidden on the stairs are shocking; with his current strength, let alone reaching it, he doesn’t know how many years to prepare to enter the A1 Black Zone.

More critically, the starship in the intelligence is a “dead object” with extremely high research value, yet the starship that took Zhou Changhai was from an evil organization.

Their natures are entirely different, though Yu Yong’s reaction suggests they must be intricately linked.

With slight guiding talk, a complete chain of intelligence can be connected.

This is absolutely far more important than technical information, a heavy message.

Cheng Ye closed the panel and asked in a deep voice, “What’s wrong, are you still in shock? Or do you think I’m lying?”

Yu Yong hesitated a moment, then suddenly calmly, with a trace of ridicule in his eyes: “No, you don’t know anything. You’re just probing me, trying to extract its news from me.”

“Yu Yong, I must remind you, Firewood’s years of starship research progress are not indicative of others. Do you think there’s only one road to that place?”

“What?” Yu Yong’s face froze, suddenly rising to lean on the wall, “What do you know?”

“No, you cannot possibly know!”

“Do I need to remind you of more information?” Cheng Ye sneered coldly, “The starship just took our checkpoint’s Fifth-Phase Prosecutor, fleeing with him. Their methods are far worse than you imagine, they’ve researched many technologies we cannot comprehend, controlling Void Mist may just be the basic one, do you understand what this means?”

Yu Yong stood frozen, neck stiffened refusing to answer.

Only when Cheng Ye paused, turning to leave, did he suddenly shout, “I’ll tell you the starship information, can you help me escape?”

“I’ve told you, even if the sky collapses, you cannot leave this containment room.”

“Then why should I tell you?”

“That’s your freedom, speak if you want, don’t if you don’t.”

Cheng Ye spread his hands, “My job is to research you, periodically suppressing the Ghost Shadow Spider on you, letting you temporarily live like a human. But if you don’t want to live, no one in this world can stop you.”

He approached a step closer, his tone flat yet with an oppressive feel: “Researcher Yu, I must remind you, what you know, outside of Happiness City, it’s worthless. Here, you might negotiate some conditions with me.”

Freedom?

Yu Yong fell silent, his gaze confused, empty, yet tinged with a touch of unaffected purity from worldly matters.

In the end, he was merely a researcher amplified in desire by an infection source, re-humanized exposing all flaws and weaknesses.

“You can consider slowly, I’m not in a hurry, neither should you, right?”

After speaking, Cheng Ye turned, heading up the stairs with complete indifference.

Until his figure completely vanished at the corner, then Yu Yong awoke as from a dream, screaming loudly: “Come back! I want to discuss new terms!”

The voice penetrated the containment room, reaching the second floor.

At the corner, Cheng Ye paused slightly, his mouth forming a knowing smile.

Only when Yu Yong’s voice grew shrill, did he follow the steps back.

“Speak, what do you want to discuss this time?”

“I want freedom! I want freedom!” Yu Yong knelt before the wall, his hands clutching it firmly, “Let me out and I will tell you everything!”