Chapter 238: Uncovering the Mastermind

Inside the Experimental Area.

Yamanouchi Haruhiko pressed his right hand against his broken left arm, running forward with a face full of terror, glancing back from time to time at the chimpanzee that was chasing him relentlessly.

The excruciating pain of the fracture, the abandonment by his companions, the contrast of his self-confidence being destroyed, the helplessness of being hunted—all of this made him feel despair in his heart, and tears were about to flow out.

At this moment, that question surfaced in Yamanouchi Haruhiko's heart once again—if there were a chance, would I want to leave this place?

"Of course! This place is hell; if there is a chance, I must leave this place!"

Yamanouchi Haruhiko roared desperately in his heart.

Just at this moment.

A mechanized voice came from the loudspeaker.

"Combat over, stop!"

Yamanouchi Haruhiko felt a sense of relief in his heart, feeling as if he had heard the sound of heaven.

"Number Four white chimpanzee needs some lessons."

At that time, the white-haired old man's expression turned fierce, and he said in a sinister voice:

"Claiming to be an organization that controls the world from the shadows, what a truly arrogant tone!"

"So, are we going to tell these people about the Experimental Material?"

However, a new problem arose.

"But if Tianqi Group collapses and then turns against us, we won't be able to withstand another economic crisis."

"We could forcibly cause a car accident while they are transporting the material back to the Experimental Building, intercepting their vehicles to attract the attention of people nearby; that way, they wouldn't be able to leave even if they wanted to."

In reality.

"Damn it! What do these guys take Sakura Country for! They grab people from us whenever they need material!"

In the end, they still decided to obediently cooperate with Su Xin and catch some material to send to him.

"There's no way around it; we can't afford to offend either side. If we don't cooperate, our situation will become even more difficult."

Of course, Su Xin would not just let public opinion attack him.

The leading old man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks sighed helplessly and said:

"What about the final link? They have to transport it back to the Experimental Building; no matter what, they can't avoid that step, right?"

Especially seeing that Su Xin never directly responded to the matter of the modified humans, it made more and more people believe that Su Xin was the mastermind behind the illegal human modification.

By now, many industries in Sakura Country were controlled by foreign capital like Tianqi Group, the lives of most people in Sakura Country were extremely difficult, and public grievances were mounting.

The matter of the Experimental Material had always been handled by Shen Guya and Wang Zhao.

At this moment, on Su Xin's mobile phone, information and a series of data were being displayed.

"I once arranged for subordinates to observe nearby, but there are many vehicles entering and leaving, and our people have never discovered anything unusual; it is impossible to lock onto the vehicles transporting the material."

"Furthermore, that is Long Country's territory. If an explosion really occurred, they would have every reason to handle the incident with confidentiality; it would be impossible to expose Su Xin's existence."

Hearing this, everyone frowned.

Su Xin, who had left the Laboratory, called for his bodyguard Shen Guya and said:

Like peeling a cocoon, letting the mastermind hidden behind the scenes reveal themselves bit by bit.

The full-year GDP data for this year had not yet been fully compiled, but the data from the first three quarters indicated that Sakura Country's GDP ranking had already fallen out of the world's top ten.

Seeing others looking over, he poured out his thoughts completely:

"Not bad, it seems the effect of Number 069 Agent is okay. You all continue to observe the data; I will have someone bring back some new material."

"And their Experimental Building has many vehicles entering and leaving every day—there are daily necessities, various experimental consumables, experimental equipment, staff commuting; we can't possibly intercept every single vehicle."

"If we are going to plant a Liquid Bomb, we might as well just plant a Tracker to monitor the location of the material remotely and then arrange a car accident; why go to the trouble of creating such a big commotion with an explosion?"

"Strength, in the end, one must rely on strength!"

A burst of white mist sprayed out from the ceiling of the Experimental Area, filling the entire room in the blink of an eye.

Certain organizations launched protests, protesting Su Xin's anti-human behavior and even calling for international organizations to put Su Xin on trial.

Before everyone could recover, there was now a series of mysterious population disappearance cases, which stirred up public sentiment once again, leading to one protest action after another.

"We are only responsible for transporting it to the designated location and handing it over to the man known as Owl."

Because when he suppressed those negative reports, he felt waves of powerful resistance.

"Our prerequisite for exposing Su Xin is that we must not let Su Xin know that we are the ones doing it; otherwise, regardless of Su Xin's fate afterward, our own fate will definitely be miserable."

The resistance he felt during the process of suppressing the negative reports, as well as the media that were desperately writing articles to smear him—which companies were behind them, which capitals were behind those companies, and what kind of connections existed between those capitals.

He came to the office alone.

After receiving the secret message from Shen Guya, Xiang Lianyunshu immediately told the others the news.

Everyone was silent for a moment.

"Given the scale and size of Tianqi Group, as well as their growth rate, this might be the only chance to eliminate them..."

The problem revealed behind this was very serious.

Inside the Experimental Building, about half of the staff were on leave, and every area seemed much colder and quieter than usual.

"Sss!!"

After a long silence.

Subsequently, he arranged for staff to load the enhancers and the chimpanzees into cages for transport.

Shen Guya nodded seriously.

It is worth mentioning.

The few of them discussed for a while.

In this process, it seemed that no results were achieved, but Su Xin's goal had already been reached.

Su Xin nodded slightly:

"These people have created such a small stir, plunging Tianqi Group into a storm of public opinion; if we could use that opportunity to confirm the human experimentation, and all forces joined hands, perhaps we could truly destroy Tianqi Group in one fell swoop..."

He arranged for the media forces under Tianqi Group and spent a large amount of money to constantly suppress negative information related to the modified humans.

Apart from the Tianqi-affiliated media, the vast majority of overseas media expressed condemnation toward Su Xin.

"Forget it, if those people want to deal with him, let them make the move; we cannot afford to offend either side, so it is best to remain cold observers."

"Better to just forget it; since we have decided to be cold observers, do not interfere in their struggle, lest those people make a move and drag us into it as well."

Those obstacles were his true goal.

These days.

"The public will surely make an even greater fuss."

After Su Xin left.

But no matter what, Tianqi Group did not make any statement regarding this, and Su Xin had never once appeared in public to discuss the matter.

The entire process was unrelated to Tianqi Group, only being transported into the Experimental Building in the final stage.

Others whispered to one another.

"As long as the explosion is powerful enough, it can attract outside attention and let people discover that we are conducting human transport."

"This won't work, that won't work; are we only able to obediently cooperate with him?"

Su Xin simply adjusted the formula, and after conducting experiments on the chimpanzee, he arranged for researchers to carefully record various data every day.

"The most critical thing is, if word leaks out, or if those above find some clues, it might be that we have to take the blame for all the missing persons during this period."

"Understood!"

Hearing the colleague's suggestion, Xiang Lianyunshu hesitated and said: "But Su Xin's transport channels are arranged too secretly; on the surface, they have nothing to do with him, and even the bodyguard under him has not personally appeared, but rather another person unrelated to Su Xin is responsible for the rendezvous."

There were also some related pictures and videos that passed through various channels into Long Country, causing private discussions among a small group of people.

Hearing this, Xiang Lianyunshu rubbed the corners of his eyes and said quite helplessly:

Xiang Lianyunshu looked at the few people and asked: "Now that the matter of missing persons is causing such a big stir, can we catch ten suitable Experimental Materials?"

"With the current intelligence of Chimpanzee No. 9, it can understand some of our commands; its current behavior should be intentional resistance."

The Thor Battery released when Tianqi Company first began to rise caused Sakura Country to suffer no small losses, and the subsequent stock market storm, currency devaluation, and economic crisis caused the economy of Sakura Country to regress directly by more than thirty years.

Xiang Lianyunshu shook his head:

"Yongji Society..."

"We can implant Liquid Bombs in all the materials; the yield can be slightly larger, and after the handover is completed, we estimate that when the other party is in the middle of transport, we will detonate them directly."

"We won't expose it directly either, but rather intentionally create some loopholes to let people discover the people being transported and blow the matter up."

These words made everyone think of the current plight of Sakura Country, and their faces could not help but turn ugly.

The few people gathered together urgently.

"The public's grievances are already very great, and those people are still constantly grabbing people; if we make another move, it will be no different from adding fuel to the fire."

Xiang Tianhe roared again, then pressed a button.

An old man in a suit and leather shoes angrily patted the table and said with a face full of unwillingness:

Su Xin smiled indifferently.

"Number Nine, stop!"

"There is no saving it."

He looked at some intelligence sent by Hao Zude and Liu Qingli, as well as a series of data summarized by the Tianwei Butler from a massive amount of media reports.

The chimpanzee shook its body, stumbled for several laps, and finally pounded its chest hard, let out a few cries toward the sky, and then collapsed with a boom.

Xiang Tianhe explained.

Five enhanced humans collapsed one after another.

"Now that Tianqi Group happens to be caught in a whirlpool of public opinion regarding human experimentation, if we take this opportunity to expose him, is it possible to strike Su Xin down as a public enemy of the people in one fell swoop?"

Xiang Tianhe restarted the ventilation system of the Experimental Area to exhaust all the white mist.

"I have a way."

After Su Xin and Xiang Lianyunshu met secretly last time, Shen Guya established a secret communication channel with Xiang Lianyunshu, as well as a separate transport channel.

But the footsteps behind him did not stop in the slightest; the chimpanzee was clearly still in pursuit.

Modified humans appeared several more times, and various videos and pictures spread wildly on overseas networks, causing more and more discussion.

Not to mention the distant past, just the setbacks they had suffered at the hands of Tianqi Group in the last three years alone were enough to make them quite depressed.

An old man with gray hair asked:

Sakura Country was, after all, the world's third-largest economy, but its encounters over these years were completely mismatched with that ranking.

The New Year was getting closer and closer.

"The problem is that implanting Liquid Bombs or a Tracker is easily detected by the other party."

Xiang Tianhe instructed.

Everything was clearly listed in the intelligence.

"Then release various clues bit by bit to let people discover Su Xin's transport channel for Experimental Materials, thereby striking him down directly."

"The current Tianqi Group is definitely not something we can resist, so we absolutely cannot adopt such a direct method."

When several people in Sakura Country resigned to take the blame previously, Xiang Lianyunshu luckily kept his position and was still responsible for coordinating with Shen Guya.

Countless companies in Sakura Country went bankrupt, and countless people in Sakura Country felt despair because of this, which led to a series of chaotic events.

"You contact that side; I need ten Experimental Materials, and be careful to keep it secret."

The old man with gray hair was stunned for a moment, and asked back with an ugly expression:

"Your intelligence network in Long Country is very extensive; you also know when and how we transported the materials to the Experimental Building."

This made the string in his heart immediately tighten up once again.

Outside the conference room.