"It's just my speculation. After all, I'm attached to you, and my senses are extremely dull. It's impossible for me to scan all the surveillance cameras and eavesdropping chips in the dozens of square kilometers nearby. If it were my real body, I would've known everything after a cough."
Li Yao said solemnly, "But I'm still suspicious that your monitor and your deputy monitor are the 'special targets' of the enemy, because I've observed quite a few classes just now and discovered that the monitors and deputy monitors of all the classes are the type whose soul fire is burning particularly vigorously if not crazily. Their emotions are rather vivid, and their brains are as solid as iron. It's barely possible for other people to pry into them.
"For example, your deputy monitor, Liao Meng, is the type who is particularly impulsive and irritable. Your monitor, Chu Zhiyun, on the other hand, seems to have built an impenetrable wall on her brain. Even if she has intense emotional fluctuations, other people might not be able to tell it.
"If the two kids with special body constitutions were the only ones who became the monitor and the deputy monitor, it might be a coincidence. But if all the classes are the same, something must be wrong.
"Therefore, I suspect that your monitor and your deputy monitor must be specially selected 'special test subjects'. The surveillance on them is perhaps ten times stricter than on regular students such as you. How could your petty tricks in the supermarket escape the eyes of other people?"
"That explains a lot …"
Thangka was greatly enlightened.
"Of course. That's why I asked if you and the monitor did anything outrageous in the supermarket!"
Li Yao said angrily, "I only wanted to make sure that you did not cross the line and cause the enemy to upgrade the surveillance on you. Otherwise, do you think that I'm one of those old gangsters who likes to pry into the privacy of young people?"
"I'm sorry, Grandpa Yao. I was wrong about you."
Blushing, Thangka said in a low voice, "Those people intentionally chose the monitor and Liao Meng … who are either very unstable or very closed-minded, and they brought such great temptation to us. What are they up to exactly?"
"It's not as simple as temptation."
Li Yao said coldly, "They intentionally released the news that 'your fate can be changed if you escape'. They even arranged for two pioneers and asked you to report each other, implanting the seeds of suspicion, betrayal, and panic in your hearts. Just wait and see. In the next few days, there will certainly be people who will escape.
"Their specific purpose is not important. What is important is that after a 'germ culture experiment', no matter what the condition of each petri dish is, it must be thoroughly cleaned and destroyed."
Thangka was silent for a while.
"So, it's impossible for me to become a 'Purger'?"
The boy said faintly.
"That might not be the case. Don't be so depressed."
Li Yao comforted Thangka in a relaxed tone. "Didn't I tell you yesterday that the real 'Purge Troop' does not necessarily need independent will, free thought, or keen feelings? They only need to complete the work according to the records on the 'dangerous items list'.
"Therefore, chances are that you will still be a glorious' Purger 'after you are sent to the holy temple after the' ultimate test 'is over, where all your memories and feelings will be destroyed and you will become a cold machine of flesh and blood. Nothing is absolute in the world! "
"… Are you comforting me?"
The boy was almost crying. "I don't want that. I don't want to lose my thoughts, feelings, and memories. I don't want to … forget my monitor and myself in the past ten years."
"What if it's the order of the gods?"
Li Yao intentionally said, "Aren't you the most devout to the gods? If this is the fate that the gods have bestowed upon you, are you going to refuse or even … resist?"
Thangka was silent for a long time. Thousands of tides were raised in her head.
"However …"
The boy thought for a long time and finally gnashed his teeth. "Who can be sure that this is the fate that the gods have bestowed upon me? Even if it's the Ultimate Benevolence Masters who said it, who can guarantee that the Ultimate Benevolence Masters are right? I … I don't believe it! "
"Very good. It seems that you've finally awakened."
Li Yao's voice was filled with infinite comfort. "Then, just find a way to choke your fate and prove that you are qualified to be a great person!"
"Help me, Grandpa Yao."
Thangka clenched her fists with determination beaming out of her eyes. The surging tides in her head condensed into unstoppable blades. "I — I need strength. I need to know … the truth!"
"I'd like to help you, but I need more preparation and information."
Li Yao sighed and said, "I only needed you to be a simple 'springboard' so that I could find the director or the commander of the purge troop through you. However, sigh. If I were here in person, it wouldn't have been a problem for me to bring you and your monitor out of here. But right now, I am just a projection, an unsubstantial soul. I don't know how well we can cooperate with each other, and I don't know how much strength we can unleash."
"It doesn't matter. You can develop and use my body however you want."
Thangka gnashed her teeth. "I can hold it back. I only want the truth!"
"It's not a matter of whether or not you can hold it back."
After pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "It's true that if I develop your every nerve ending and every brain cell, perhaps the synchronization rate between my soul and your body will be more than 99%. Then, I will be able to perform earth-shattering techniques as if I were to arrive in person.
"However, your body is too weak after all, and my original self is too far away. The result is likely to be that after we show off for a couple of minutes, you will be killed on the spot, and my soul will disperse into a broken ghost that will be captured very soon or torn apart by the solar storm."
"Well …"
Thangka did not expect the consequences to be so severe.
"Of course, it's just the worst-case scenario. By logic, I can't be that unlucky …"
Li Yao's soul unfolded inside the young man's neural network like an octopus again, helping the boy to open up his veins, nerves, and bones. Scarlet air popped up from every acupoint and flooded into the boy's body through the Baihui Acupoint on the top of his head. "In any case, I will help you train first and try to strengthen your body multiple times as quickly as possible!"
In the days that followed, the situation was exactly as Li Yao described. Everybody was panicking, and a weird atmosphere lingered above the camp and the town.
As the purification work went deeper and deeper, the children became more and more separated. Sometimes, a child was responsible for the purification of a building or a street. They had to face all kinds of bizarre temptations on their own.
The children's mood was more and more abnormal. Some of them became more and more irritable. Now and then, they violated the third law of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence and fought other students.
Some of them became more and more unpredictable. They often sat in a corner in a daze, gazing at the horizon far away with their seemingly tranquil eyes, which were in the direction of the uninhabited area.
Although the first two children who escaped were caught, the rumors did not stop at all. If anything, they only grew more and more intense.
Some said that a lot of children escaped out of the city in the next few days, but this time, the authorities did not dare to send a large batch of children to join the search, fearing that a lot of children would escape together. The purge troops were only asked to search on their own. As a result, some of the children did escape from the blockade into the uninhabited area.
Some said that the guerrillas of the Imperium were active not far away from New Joy City and that they were ready to rescue the children. They would be safe as long as they escaped to the uninhabited area.
Some even said that the guerrillas of the Imperium were in control of an enormous underground arsenal with abundant resources. It would not be a problem for them to last three to five years.
Nobody knew where the rumors came from exactly, but it was also a fact that fewer and fewer classmates were around the children. Some of them crossed the red line of 'expulsion from the examination room' because of their intense mood swings. Some of them directly violated the Path of Ultimate Benevolence and the Three Fundamental Laws. They were tied to the execution platform, whipped, and sent to the holy temple behind them. Some of them disappeared after they woke up for no reason at all. Even their bedding was cleaned up, as if they had never existed in the first place.
The remaining students were more and more uneasy. Everybody wanted to find out the problems of others so that they could be rewarded by the school and 'safely get ashore'.
However, such a mentality only made them even more out of control. They were like a bunch of wounded, hungry hyenas who were staring at each other without blinking.
While everybody was gradually falling into the abyss, Chu Zhiyun and Thangka became two outliers.
Thangka followed Li Yao's training without any distractions. She opened up the nerve bundles and muscle fibers one after another, so that Li Yao could control her body more precisely and delicately.
In addition, she paid attention to the map of New Joy City and constructed a crystal clear virtual town in her head. From the skyscrapers to the crisscrossing drainage pipes underground, everything was clear to her.
Chu Zhiyun, on the other hand, used the excuse of 'purifying the supermarket' to learn how to be a living person with flesh and blood.
Over the past few days, they had watched countless TV series and movies from the Imperium. They dressed themselves up in all kinds of ways and imitated the classic scenes in the TV series.
The smile on Chu Zhiyun's face was more and more innocent and natural, and her eyes were brighter and brighter. She imitated the way people of the Imperium talked and behaved vividly. Perhaps she really had the talent to be a 'lurker'. After only a few days, nobody could tell that she was a girl of the Holy League and a 'cold machine of flesh and blood'.
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