Resurrection Empire

Chapter 680 256: Confession and Love [Thanks to the 2014 Junior Book Friend for becoming Alliance Hierarch!]

A single mistake can lead to a lifetime of regret.

Blind faith in science has led to the loss of humanity.

This applies not only to Ren Zhong but also to the Source Star high-level officials who are helpless against his Death Escape Technique.

The world isn't just about fighting and killing; it's about human interactions.

Once a lover of knowledge who spent his days in the lab, not fond of interacting with others or caring about their feelings, Dr. Ren was forced by reality to become a social expert.

He continuously exerted effort to discern the thoughts of everyone who approached him.

In the most critical moments, his social skills worked wonders.

Since the time of his capture, he had been observing and guiding the other party.

He vainly attempted to suffocate himself, then quickly abandoned the attempt, precisely to create the illusion for the other party that he was at a dead end with no way out.

He abandoned it quickly to show his desire to survive.

The push and pull, the give and take, it was all part of his act, causing the interrogators to overlook that the drugs he regularly used had a function beyond training—self-destruction.

Afterwards, the interrogators informed him about the lie detection mechanism, intending to breach his mental defenses and reduce interrogation difficulty, but this revealed too much information.

The people of Source Star had an over-reliance on technology, not even possessing real psychology.

The supposed psychological examination by the Telekinesis Masters still primarily relied on technology.

Yang Bingzhong's standardized micro-expressions and body language for manipulating the human mind were outrageously shallow and laughable.

Even the core interrogation personnel of the Association were not on the same level as Ren Zhong in terms of human interactions.

At that time, Ren Zhong speculated from the other's words that the lie detection mechanism might be ineffective on him, but he wasn't completely sure.

When the middle-aged man asked the first question and Ren Zhong answered, informing him it was a "training drug," the man did not follow up on the drug's efficacy but asked about the dosing order instead; at that moment, Ren Zhong knew he had succeeded.

The term "training drug" concealed its lethality.

Hiding part of the truth is essentially lying, yet the lie detection mechanism didn't give an accurate response.

Afterward, the other party asked about the consequences of not taking the drug on time.

Ren Zhong's solution at the time was to say it only caused diarrhea while frantically replaying the horrific scene of comrades lying dead in Starfire Town in his mind.

His heart suddenly started to race.

Thus, the lie detection mechanism, which relied primarily on brainwave sensing supplemented by heartbeat, blood flow, and other circulatory signals, gave a verdict of "lying."

Ren Zhong wasn't entirely sure if he would succeed, but deducing from the outcome, he indeed succeeded.

He took significant risks, and fortunately, the result was still acceptable.

Later, when Ren Zhong answered questions about "idioms" and "offspring," the interrogators left the room twice. His entirely irrational responses confused the other party, forcing them to repeatedly seek help from the "audience outside the field."

By this point, the interrogation could no longer continue.

Aside from killing him, both "Net" and the Association had no other options.

Subsequently, when Ren Zhong learned that not only did Xiao Xingyue not die, but she was inexplicably placed in the adjacent cell, he connected this with her previous remarks about the omnipotence of "Net" and his definition of the core nature of the Source Star Civilization Promotion Association, deducing that the issue inevitably lay in the longevity experiments.

Due to Sun Miao's "accidental" death, he became the only one aware of the entire research process, and Xiao Xingyue, suspected as an accomplice, risked offending "Net" by coming to extract research secrets under the joint efforts of the Promotion Association and compradors.

All previous doubts unraveled in that instant.

What do citizens with immense material wealth and power desire most?

Of course, a longer lifespan!

Otherwise, the Mengdu Group wouldn't invest so much in developing the Anti-aging Potion.

This potion, too, has different levels; the better the effect, the higher the price. Top-tier longevity potions are exorbitantly expensive but always in demand.

After the failed interrogation on the first day, he had almost no substantial contact with interrogators for the next two days, likely because "Net" was recalculating his personality model, attempting to find his flaws.

If he were a normal Source Star inhabitant, with a mind based on the regularized quantum entanglement foundation, then "Net" would certainly succeed.

But unfortunately, his mind wasn't pseudo-random; it was truly random.

Analyzing him exceeded the capability boundary of "Net."

...

On the 112th day of the Ren Zhong Era, September 6th, 682 New Origin Calendar.

At this moment, Ren Zhong was in the bathroom of his suite dormitory at the Continent Level Research Center in the Chenhui Mine, brushing his teeth and washing up.