Chapter 459: Chapter 169: Exceptional Cooperation Rate, Pinghai Building! (Part 3)

Yet who would have thought, this person turned out to be a master in the Embryo Realm.

When captured, he fought Long to a draw, and only surrendered when dozens of guns were pointed at his head.

"What’s his name?" Cheng Ye sat behind the iron table, lightly tapping his fingertips on the surface.

"He calls himself Wang Qing, but he won’t answer anything else." Long stood by, clutching a half-broken iron chain in case the other party suddenly lashed out.

Cheng Ye nodded, signaling Long to unlock the chains on Wang Qing’s upper body.

As the chain clattered to the ground, Wang Qing moved his shoulders, showing a few traces of joy on his face, without a hint of the fear of a prisoner, rather looking as if he was attending an appointment.

"What was the purpose of watching me?" Cheng Ye went straight to the point.

"Sir, I’m just here to take a look." Wang Qing didn’t hesitate, repeating the same phrase over and over, his tone as calm as saying "The weather is nice today."

"Quite stubborn, aren’t you?"

Cheng Ye chuckled, then changed the subject, "I’m curious, since you have thoughts about me, why didn’t you shoot when I was alone? Or plant a bomb in my room, or at least use poison?"

"You managed to slip into the Buffer Zone silently, surely you could get a gun or some poison, right?"

"Sir, I was just..." Wang Qing was about to repeat himself when Cheng Ye interrupted him.

"So, what do you want to see?"

"I..." Wang Qing paused, showing a strange smile, "I want to see what’s unusual about you."

"And did you see anything?"

"No." Wang Qing immediately shook his head, "So I need to take another look, see it more clearly."

"Alright, and how do you plan to look?" Cheng Ye stood up, walked to stand in front of Wang Qing, looking down at him.

Crunch.

As the two were less than half a meter apart, Wang Qing’s expression suddenly froze, like a machine that got stuck for two seconds, then his eyes became unfocused again, repeating the phrase: "Sir, I’m just here to take a look..."

Cheng Ye thoughtfully returned to his seat, gesturing to Long: "Switch people."

Over the next half hour, Long brought in three others for interrogation one after another.

But whether facing a burly man with a menacing look, a middle-aged man with a sinister gaze, or someone who seemed like a low-level worker, the four of them gave identical answers.

Just here to look, want to see what’s unusual about you.

Once detailed questions were asked, they would freeze and restart like Wang Qing, falling back into a loop.

"Sir... should we use some force?" Long, seeing Cheng Ye deep in thought, couldn’t help but suggest quietly.

"No need, this might be a special kind of brainwash hypnosis, needing a unique method to solve." Cheng Ye gently shook his head, his gaze fixed on the panel.

Just like when they were first captured, the cooperation level of the four people was still at 100%, without any fluctuation.

No matter how he asked questions or tried to disrupt the rhythm, the cooperation level after their restart remained unchanged, as if programmed to only recognize "here to take a look" as the answer.

Could they be assassins like Master Tian?

Or influenced by a Guardian Extraordinary skilled in Spirit Manipulation?

Or infected by some kind of special contagion that twists consciousness?

In any case, if this method which maintains a 100% cooperation level could be found, future searches would be much easier.

After some thought, Cheng Ye didn’t immediately call someone for questioning, nor did he attempt to leverage intelligence to break the stalemate.

Instead, he took out the Firewood Communication from his backpack and began to search for related information.

Over the past few days, he had discovered its usefulness.

Not only can it search for unknown things, but it can also conduct contextualized inquiries.

The internal data processing logic is far superior to Defense Communication.

Like right now.

Cheng Ye typed in the search box: "Faced with an interrogatee who keeps repeating ’Sir, I’m just here to take a look’, what’s the situation?"

The screen quickly displayed a prompt: "No matching records, please provide more key information."

He thought it over, rephrased, and input a more detailed description: "During interrogation, the interrogatee only repeats fixed phrases to any question, freezes and restarts when touching key information, continuing to repeat the original phrase after recovery, what’s the situation?"

This time, the search box didn’t directly provide an answer but popped up a dialog box for additional information.

Prompting him to provide more details.

"Hey, this is really useful." Cheng Ye nodded, added all the details of the interrogation.

After clicking submit, the Firewood Communication’s screen flickered a few times, and the progress bar slowly crept upward.

Half a minute later, a bolded black term finally appeared in the middle of the screen.

[Pinghai Building]

"Hey, it really is an organization?"

Cheng Ye frowned slightly, the name style of this organization seemed somewhat similar to one Master Tian had mentioned before, the organization he had joined. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Shanhai Building, Pinghai Building...

Could it be that the two are brother organizations?

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