Chapter 212: I Have Seen

Upon returning, Yang Yi immediately mobilized the National Security Intelligence Department and the Red Hacker team to investigate some data.

"The Arkha Country stole your DNA? The Reproductive Abomination in Diego City was cloned using your DNA?" Director Zhou jumped up abruptly.

Feng Liancheng also stared at her in shock.

Sitting at her desk in her own office, Yang Yi gazed out the window, her left hand unconsciously spinning a pen.

"Mm." She responded lightly.

Without turning around, she knew the expressions on Director Zhou and Feng Liancheng's faces.

The implication contained in the sentence "That Reproductive Abomination was cloned using Yang Yi's DNA" made the two restless.

"What? Are you afraid of me?" Yang Yi turned her head and asked calmly.

Director Zhou took a deep breath. "This isn't a matter of fear or not!" He took a cigarette pack from his pocket, pulled out a cigarette, and held it under his nose, sniffing hard. "First, why can your... DNA clone a monster?" He finally asked with difficulty.

"That Reproductive Abomination in Mist City wanted to fuse with me, but I fused with it," she said.

"Then you are still... still... Yang Yi?" His hands trembled, and the cigarette shook continuously.

Are you still human? Yang Yi knew that was what he wanted to ask.

"Director, it's been so long since the Mist City disaster, and Yang Yi has done so much; do we still need to doubt her?" Feng Liancheng couldn't help but ask.

"Shut up! Of course I believe in Yang Yi; the question is whether others believe it!" Director Zhou roared in a low voice.

Yang Yi watched the two converse, smiled, and said, "There may be genetic changes, but I am still me."

"Will you lose control?" Director Zhou asked again.

"If 'Yang Yi' is no longer here, it might." The water pen spun lightly at her fingertips, occasionally touching the desk and making a "pa-pa" sound, which was particularly distinct in the gloomy office.

"... If you lose control, what will happen?" Director Zhou put the cigarette back in the pack; at this moment, he finally calmed down and began to address the possible consequences.

"Just like that Reproductive Abomination." Yang Yi tilted her head to think for a moment. "Perhaps a bit more powerful than it."

"Then... how high is the risk of losing control?"

Yang Yi put down the pen, her tone flat: "Not too high, unless Yang Yi dies."

She added another sentence: "Rest assured, if it really comes to that, I will go directly to the Otherworld; I will not harm humanity."

"How can you be sure that the DNA of that Reproductive Abomination in Diego City originated from you? It's possible, like the one in Mist City, that it came from an interdimensional portal." Feng Liancheng, holding onto a slim possibility, asked.

"Before coming to see you, I went to the intelligence department to check some data." Yang Yi paused in her tone. "According to the online information found by the Red Hackers, the Arkha Country most likely obtained the DNA from Chris."

"It was him! We let him use our radiation facilities in Britain for nothing..." Feng Liancheng jumped up immediately. "His intentions were impure from the moment he approached you!"

Yang Yi's expression remained calm, as if completely unaffected by any emotion, always steady.

She stood up. "Alright, I returned just to go to the intelligence department to confirm this matter. Now that I have confessed to you, I should go do what I ought to do."

"What are you going to do?" Director Zhou and Feng Liancheng stood up together, looking at her in shock.

"The Arkha Country did this; shouldn't they be punished?" Yang Yi said softly as she walked out.

Should the lives of those thirty thousand people just be forgotten? A voice said silently, but at the same time she laughed at her own hypocrisy; with the Arkha Country's elimination mechanism, the number of homeless people eliminated by its political system every year was not merely thirty thousand.

How many wars and conflicts have been sparked in the world due to interests, boring religions, the private desires of the ruling class, and differences in ideology? How innocent are the people caught in them? Did she truly sympathize with them?

If she truly did it for those innocent people, why didn't she, as "Vader" said, directly rule humanity, raise humanity like livestock, and make the entire human world operate according to her own will?

Thinking this, she couldn't help but sneer coldly.

Director Zhou and Feng Liancheng, panicked and flustered, followed closely behind her.

Director Zhou, in a rush, urged: "Of course they should be punished! But, but, don't we need to hold another meeting with the upper leadership? Discuss it further? The state will not let them off; there's no need to be so hasty... The nature of the state acting is completely different from you acting on your own..."

"Yes, Yang Yi, think it over again. If the state acts, we will occupy the moral high ground and denounce them with righteous indignation, but if you act on your own, public opinion will focus entirely on you, and it will also cause fear of you within the country..." Feng Liancheng spoke in a hurried tone, making no attempt to hide anything, laying the words out plainly.

"Public opinion? Fear?" Yang Yi's voice carried a hint of a smile. "No matter what I do, there will be these voices."

Seeing that she was about to walk out of the building corridor, Director Zhou finally made up his mind, grabbed her arm, and said seriously: "Acting privately like this violates superior orders. Yang Yi, this matter requires us all to hold a meeting and negotiate before taking the next step."

Yang Yi stopped her steps.

This sentence finally unveiled a fact that everyone had been trying their best to conceal in daily life: whether Yang Yi could bypass the Xia Country leadership and possess her own will and freedom of action.

Was she willing to be a strategic weapon, fulfilling only the duty a weapon should have, without needing her own will?

This was a problem she should have faced since she gained power transcending the entire secular system.

Sitting on the moon, gazing at that small blue planet, that rotten apple floating in space, thinking about the future of a cluster of bacteria, and that Sword of Damocles ready to fall at any moment. She thought a lot.

Designing to plot and steal her genes to attempt cloning her did not make her feel much anger in itself. But she grew tired of such calculations; at the moment when the Evil God might descend at any time, humanity was divided and fighting on its own, like a cluster of bacteria on a rotten apple fighting each other for interests and power.

And today, she would use action to give them an answer.

This was the first step to manifest her will, and also the first step she extended toward the web of power.

She did not look back; her figure vanished directly into the sky.

A few minutes later, Yang Yi's figure appeared above the capital of the Arkha Country.

She stood silently in the sky, overlooking the entire city; countless life sources appeared on her telepathic net, twinkling like stars.

At dusk in the capital, the skyline suddenly darkened.

It was not a power outage, but all screens—the giant screens of skyscrapers, the faint glow of mobile phones, the billboards in the squares, even the car dashboards—went black at the same instant.

Immediately following, a concise line of text appeared on all screens: I have seen.

There was no sound, no image, only this line of text, suspended in every corner of the city, reflected in every upward-looking, terrified eye.

At the instant this line of text appeared, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Capital Special District Police Department, and the Army Military Region Command immediately activated the "Poison Fang" and "Avenger" missile systems.

The satellite air defense system also locked onto Yang Yi, ready to fire electromagnetic acceleration cannons at any time.

Inside the Presidential Palace, the President's personal guard hoisted the aged President and rushed forward toward the underground defense facilities, even though everyone knew that if the person above really wanted to kill, it would be impossible to resist.

The President's wrinkled face was pale; he shouted in panic: "Contact the Head of State of the Xia Country immediately! Ask them, what exactly does that superhuman want to do?"