Chapter 980

Unfortunately, her strength was too weak.

After struggling a few times, not only did she fail to break free, but she exhausted her strength, rolled her eyes, and fainted directly.

"Thud."

Su Quan threw her to the ground, glanced at Sonya and Clarice, who had already gotten up and were unharmed, and asked Esme, who was still gasping for air, with a smile: "Are you okay?"

"I, I'm fine..." Esme grabbed the hand Su Quan extended and stood up.

Fine?

How could she be fine?

Among the three who were knocked down, she was the worst off. The last punch she took almost made her vomit, and she still felt like her insides were churning.

"Who... who is she?" Looking at Chloe, who had fainted on the ground, Sonya asked with a frown.

Su Quan let go of Esme and said casually: "Hound Program."

"She's a Hound? Was she sent as a spy?"

Clarice found a beacon in Chloe's bag. It was obvious she was a spy. Her goal should have been to infiltrate the mutant underground organization's base and then activate the beacon to let Dr. Campbell or the Sentinel Services lock onto the base's location.

"Before, that was probably how the incident happened." Sonya glanced at Clarice and said in a low voice.

Clarice's foster parents had always been helping mutants. This sudden incident was nine times out of ten because the beacon exposed their location, leading to a precision strike by the Sentinel Services.

Thinking of her foster parents' tragic death, Clarice wanted to kill Chloe right then and there to avenge them.

However, she held back.

Chloe was just a controlled Hound; her real enemies were the Sentinel Services and Dr. Campbell!

"Let's go back first!"

"Whoosh—"

Clarice threw out a teleportation crystal, opened a portal, and called for everyone to head to the mutant underground organization's base.

Chloe was locked in a cell with iron bars. Lorna, John, and Sage already knew what had happened. After settling the mutants they brought back, everyone gathered in front of the cell to discuss how to deal with Chloe.

A few minutes later, Chloe woke up.

She didn't speak, nor did she have any intention of communicating. She just stared at them ferociously and viciously, occasionally using her super speed to slam into the bars, looking somewhat abnormal.

"What do you think?" Lorna, with her arms crossed, asked everyone.

Sage didn't say how to deal with Chloe, but instead expressed concern about their upcoming situation: "If the Sentinel Services are planting Hounds everywhere, we might not be able to take in fugitives anymore."

John said: "We cannot abandon those who have nowhere else to turn just because there might be dangerous people among them."

Everyone fell silent.

Lorna brought the topic back: "Let's first talk about how to deal with this irritable miss. We must try to extract information from her and see if we can clarify her identity."

"Sonya?"

Sonya's Dream Smoke could extract information.

Sonya nodded and approached the cage, wanting to make Chloe inhale the Dream Smoke.

But Chloe's reaction was very sharp, as if she knew what she was going to do. She kept moving back and forth with super speed, making it impossible for Sonya to blow the smoke accurately.

This was a disadvantage of Sonya's ability; she could only control the other party through Dream Smoke at close range.

After trying a few times, Sonya shook her head and gave up.

"I'm no good at dealing with moving targets. Even if she inhaled it, it would probably be metabolized very quickly, and I wouldn't be able to see any memories."

Lorna sighed helplessly, pondering whether to trap Chloe so she couldn't move, or go to Void Island to find someone to help.

Su Quan had built a portal in the base that connected to Void Island, allowing travel between the two sides at any time.

At this time, Esme, who had been observing the situation from not far away, walked over: "I am a telepath. It was I who discovered her abnormality, and it was I who warned you, so I think... perhaps you could let me try?"

Lorna glanced at Su Quan, and seeing that Su Quan had no objections, she nodded and asked: "What is your name?"

"Esme."

Esme came to the front of the cell, and her eyes lit up with blue light.

"Stop!"

Following her command, Chloe, who had been moving at high speed, suddenly froze and stopped.

Mind control, successful!

While probing Chloe's memories, Esme pretended to struggle and said to Sonya: "I... I can only hold her, you quickly... quickly look at her memories."

Sonya was stunned. She thought Esme could directly view Chloe's memories; she didn't expect her to just use her psychic ability to freeze her.

It wasn't just Sonya who thought so; the others thought the same.

"Hoo..." Sonya blew a puff of pink smoke at Chloe.

After the smoke was inhaled by Chloe, various images appeared hazily in Sonya's mind.

Her memories were very chaotic.

And very painful.

Although Sonya wouldn't experience the pain firsthand while viewing memories, she could still feel the intense pain that was almost enough to make her collapse.

The physical and mental pain was like boundless darkness, about to swallow her whole.

"I... I can't hold on much longer, are you done yet?" Esme panted, calling out anxiously.

Sonya frowned and said nothing, focusing all her efforts on viewing the memories.

"Tick..."

A drop of sweat slid down Esme's chin. She gritted her teeth and trembled slightly. Anyone who saw her would know she was gritting her teeth to persist, and was already at the end of her rope.

Except for Su Quan.

He knew very well that as one of the Cuckoo Sisters, even without the help of her other sisters, Esme's psychic ability wouldn't be weak to this extent.

Esme was hiding her ability; she was deliberately feigning weakness.

As for the reason, Su Quan could guess it too—it was nothing more than the fear that her psychic ability was too strong, which would make them wary.

The terrifying thing about psychic ability is that it can know all your memories without you knowing, leaving you with no secrets.

At the same time, psychic ability can also change a person, making them a puppet that obeys orders.

A powerful psychic suddenly appearing in the mutant underground organization's base would certainly make them extremely wary, which would be detrimental to her infiltration.

But a psychic whose eyes glowed blue when using her ability, who could only freeze others but couldn't view memories at the same time, wouldn't be feared.

"I can't do it anymore!"

After persisting for a while longer, Esme shouted, staggered back weakly, and began to pant heavily.