"Since Corpse-eating Dog Du Ming died in the wild three years ago, why would he appear in Leprosy Village three years later? Uncle, could you have mistaken him for someone else?" A 'Ji asked curiously.
"No." Meng Chao shook his head slowly.
Meng Chao shook his head slowly. "Even if I'm wrong about this person and he's not Corpse-eating Dog Du Ming, the tattoos and wounds on his body can't be wrong. He's definitely a member of the Reaper Squad.
"Look, aside from the laser barcode tattoo on the back of his neck, there's also a thin circle of skin on his neck. The color is slightly different from the skin around it.
"This is the sign of someone wearing a spirit energy magnetic field collar for a long period of time. It's just that when I beheaded him just now, the exposed flesh and blood covered it up.
"And here's the most irrefutable evidence."
Meng Chao lifted the corpse's left arm and revealed the armpit under the shoulder.
Meng Chao held a harvesting blade between his fingers. He pointed at the corpse's armpit and said, "Do you see it? There's a wound here."
A 'Ji widened his eyes and stared at it for a long time before he nodded and said, "I see it. It's a wound the size of a grain of rice. What's this?"
"This is the sign of minimally invasive surgery. Usually, the members of the Reaper Squad have to go through surgery. They have to open a tunnel in their left armpit and implant a mini crystal bomb near their heart. That's the only way the government can control their lives at all times and give them the right to continue living."
As Meng Chao spoke, he gently slid open the wound under the corpse's armpit.
His movements were meticulous, precise, and stable. He tried his best not to destroy the growing tissues in the wound. Instead, he peeled the skin from the side and delved deeper. Soon, he dissected the corpse's heart.
Just as he expected, he found a few stents that were fused with the heart muscle near the heart.
But the mini crystal bombs that were supposed to be fixed to the stents were gone.
"The laser barcode tattoo on the back of the neck, the sign of the spirit energy magnetic field collar on the neck, and the stents implanted in the heart … If one piece of evidence is a coincidence, is it still a coincidence when three pieces of evidence are stacked together?"
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth. "But someone removed the mini crystal bombs bound to his heart and helped him regain his freedom!"
A 'Ji's eyes went wide in shock.
"Trust me. The authorities are very cautious when they use the ferocious' Reaper Squad '. They are only allowed to carry out suicide missions deep in the wilderness, which is equivalent to a lifetime exile. They will never be allowed to carry out missions in the city."
Meng Chao repeated himself. "This guy is definitely not one of us!"
"But —"
A 'Ji scratched his head. "I'm confused. He died three years ago. How did he come back to life and remove the spirit energy magnetic field collar and the heart bomb?"
"Let me think. During that battle, the authorities didn't seem to find the bodies of all the Reaper Squad members."
"Of course, they were trampled and devoured by Apocalyptic Beasts, so it's impossible for them to have intact corpses. The government seems to have only found some severed limbs and mangled organs, along with a lot of blood and crushed bones. Through the remote monitoring system, they also found that the physiological indices of the Reaper Squad members had all dropped to zero, so they announced their deaths.
"Now that I think about it, as long as you have great network attack and defense skills, you might have been able to hack into the Reaper Squad's monitoring system and change their physiological indices.
"And losing a lot of bones and flesh doesn't mean that a person has truly died. Superhumans have incredibly strong vitality. Even if they have a few organs removed, as long as they have enough time, skills, and cultivation resources, they might be able to regrow.
"Perhaps most of the Reaper Squad members died without a grave during that battle, but a small number of them were only heavily injured and … captured by certain existences in the fog!"
When Meng Chao said this, he shuddered.
He suddenly realized that there was a fatal flaw in the Reaper Squad system that the authorities used.
The members of the Reaper Squad were wild, fierce, and vicious lunatics. They completely deviated from the mainstream ideals of society. They were madmen, murderers, and even demons.
If there were only monsters who had not gained intelligence in the wild, then using the Reaper Squad to fight against the monsters until both sides were heavily injured was indeed the best way to make use of resources.
Even if there were Reaper Squad members who could temporarily break free of the authorities' control, the mini crystal bombs implanted in their carotid arteries, cervical vertebrae, central nervous systems, and hearts would enter a countdown and explode their hearts. Then, they would be decapitated.
It has to be known that even fierce Apocalyptic Beasts like the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragons did not have the intelligence, skills, and facilities to remove the mini crystal bombs from the Reaper Squad members.
This was why the authorities were at ease in "exiling" the Reaper Squad members.
But now, the monsters were no longer simple-minded animals with brawns.
Instead, they had gained intelligence, mastered technology, and even used the strength of humans to build their own civilization.
Based on the methods the monster civilization used to modify the White Spirit and the other Supernatural Entities, it could be seen that the enemy had pretty advanced biochemical modification and surgical skills.
It was not a problem for them to break free of the Reaper Squad members.
Then, was Corpse-eating Dog Du Ming the only Reaper Squad member the monster civilization had captured and "saved"?
Meng Chao knew that over the past five to ten years, more than a hundred Reaper Squad members had died without a grave in the wild.
It was normal for them to be unable to find their corpses in the depths of the fog, so no one suspected anything.
Just how many of the people who had "died" a long time ago and were actually "missing" were taken back by the monster civilization like Corpse-eating Dog Du Ming and modified into the most loyal subordinates of the monster civilization? Then, they snuck into Dragon City as humans?
Meng Chao could not help but curse coldly.
He originally thought that the enemies he had to face were at most the Vortex and a group of lost people who were wanted.
The enemy might be strong, but as long as he had the chance to tell the truth and expose the enemy's scheme, as well as the support of the powerful people in Leprosy Village and Golden Tooth Lair, such as Dragon City's Underground Emperor and Saber Jin Wanhao, it would not be impossible for him to maintain order in the lair.
After all, the difference between humans and monsters was too great. No matter how strong the Vortex was, it would not dare to show its true colors in public.
But now, aside from the Vortex and the lost people, the enemy camp also had a large number of former Reaper Squad members.
These people had committed heinous crimes, fought at the edge of hell, and even died once. They were definitely the most terrifying opponents.
Meng Chao felt his head gradually swell up and ache.
It was as if he had been stung by ten thousand wasps. It was incredibly troublesome.
"Still no signal?" he asked A 'Ji.
To prevent others from locating them, they had thrown away most of their communicators. They only kept a phone with a rubber shell and a triple-defense phone.
A 'Ji brought out the phone and glanced at it before he shook his head. "No signal at all."
"Forget it."
Meng Chao gave up on his fantasies. He took the phone, brought out the card inside, and crushed it.
Then, with a series of clicking sounds, he aimed at the face of the corpse, the laser barcode tattoo on the back of the neck, the circle of obviously fair skin on the neck, and the wound under the armpit from the minimally invasive surgery. He took pictures from all angles.
They were all evidence.
During crucial moments, they might be of unexpected use.
Once he was done, he removed all the weapons from Corpse-eating Dog Du Ming's motorized armor.
He thought about it and chose a few of the lighter mini guns and a few grenades. He stuffed them into the waterproof canvas.
As for the ridiculous shoulder-fired rocket launchers, he connected them together and turned them into explosives that could be triggered.
Meng Chao stuffed Du Ming's corpse and the motorized armor into the depths of the trash.
Of course, he also stuffed a lot of "landmines" made of rocket launchers under the corpse and the motorized armor.
"Let's go."
"We have to tell Ms. Mulian the truth before they find her. Then, she'll bring us to the village chief and Wild Wolf and tell them that the so-called 'captors' who are wreaking havoc in Leprosy Village are all fake. They're definitely not sent by the government, but lost people and former Reaper Squad members in disguise!"
Before he could finish his sentence, another roar came from the street at the mouth of the alley.
It was as if countless people were running angrily.
Meng Chao and A 'Ji looked at each other. They could see the puzzlement in each other's eyes.
"Let's go take a look."
The two of them stuck close to the wall, took a few turns, and approached the entrance of the alley from the shadows.
When they saw thousands of Leprosy Village villagers gathering outside like a raging flood, they gritted their teeth in exasperation.
Many people still had tears in their eyes, and these tears were as red and scalding as magma.
"Revenge!"
The two of them heard someone shouting in the torrent of people, "We want to avenge the Village Chief!
"These people are too despicable! They don't care about our lives at all!
"They're talking about capturing wanted criminals, but they're one hundred times more brutal than wanted criminals!
"Hurry up and look for Wild Wolf! The Village Chief is dead! Right now, only Wild Wolf can protect us and Leprosy Village!"
"The Village Chief is dead?"
Meng Chao felt as if he had been struck by a hammer, and he saw stars.
But when he thought about it carefully, it was not strange.
Since the Village Chief could provide Leprosy Village with an endless supply of synthetic food cans and clean drinking water, it meant that he had been in constant contact with the outside world. Perhaps through Saber Jin Wanhao, he could directly contact the nine great mega corporations, the Supernatural Tower, and the Survival Committee.
That was why the outside world had always tacitly acknowledged Leprosy Village's existence.
As long as the Village Chief was alive, Leprosy Village would not descend into chaos. At the very least, the Village Chief would not blindly believe that the super crystal bomb explosion was caused by the captors from the outside world.
Chances were that he would become highly suspicious of the fake "capture squad".
Getting rid of the village chief was one of the moves the Vortex had to make in its entire scheme.
"Go and investigate how the Village Chief died and what the villagers are planning to do now. Also, find out whether Ms. Mulian is still in her hospital," Meng Chao whispered to A 'Ji.
Meng Chao whispered to A 'Ji, "If my guess is correct, the next one to die will be your Ms. Mulian."
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