novelraw Chapter 322: Subduing Jiufeng, a Long-Forgotten Secret
Chapter 322: Subduing Jiufeng, a Long-Forgotten Secret
[Ding... 'Rat Tail Whip' effect triggered, follower obtained ×1]
With the sound of the mechanical prompt, the Virtual Light Screen immediately displayed information related to Saint Jiu Feng.
Seeing the words [Loyalty 100] (Cannot Betray) on the light screen, Yu Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The words (Cooling Down) also appeared on the [Rat Tail Whip]. To use it again, he would have to wait three days.
He tossed the Rat Tail Whip, and it transformed back into the Stealth Rat.
Perhaps because it had triggered the enslavement effect, Zhi Zhi was also exhausted.
Now appearing in its original form, it scurried onto Yu Yuan's shoulder and kept panting with its tongue out.
Yu Yuan found Zhi Zhi's appearance somewhat amusing.
However, the trigger probability for this enslavement effect was indeed ridiculously low. But considering the [Enslavement] effect was transformed from the previous [The Missionary's Enslavement Bit]...
[The Missionary's Enslavement Bit] could only be used once. Although the [Rat Tail Whip]'s enslavement effect had a low trigger probability and even required a three-day cooldown after triggering, Yu Yuan was already very satisfied.It went from a single-use item to something usable indefinitely.
What more could he ask for?
Yu Yuan could still tell good from bad.
Mona, who had been waiting nearby, saw Yu Yuan suddenly stop his actions and Zhi Zhi reappear.
She immediately understood that Yu Yuan's goal had been achieved.
Sure enough, the next moment.
"Mona, treat Jiu Feng's wounds! Then untie him."
"Alright!"
More than ten minutes later, inside the underground command center.
Yu Yuan held Zhi Zhi in his arms, listening to Saint Jiu Feng's account, and fell into deep thought.
"So that's how it is!"
His previous feeling about Jiu Feng hadn't been wrong.
Jiu Feng actively seeking to join Yu Yuan did indeed have another purpose—his goal was to reach other worlds.
Through Jiu Feng's words, Yu Yuan also learned some secrets about the Aurora Animal Assistance Association and the cult.
He also learned about the relationship between Jiu Feng and Miller.
Simply put, Jiu Feng did indeed awaken a Psychic Ability, and this ability was to create Miller.
But Miller wasn't his clone, puppet, or illusion; Miller was Miller.
It was like a patient with dissociative identity disorder. Miller was a tangible individual with an independent and complete personality and thought process.
However, Miller was indeed one with the Saint. Miller's existence relied on the support of Saint Jiu Feng's Spiritual Energy.
Miller's sudden disappearance earlier was entirely because the [Binding Bramble] suddenly absorbed all the Spiritual Energy within Jiu Feng's body.
That's what caused Miller to vanish.
And the name of Jiu Feng's Psychic Ability was [Special Personality].
Quite simple and easy to understand.
As for the relationship between the Aurora Animal Assistance Association and the cult, it was exactly as Yu Yuan had gathered from intelligence before: the Aurora Animal Assistance Association was one of the many factions set up by the cult.
And the so-called Saints were the highest leaders of these factions, with preachers as the high-level members, assisting the Saints in management.
Jiu Feng didn't know the origins of the cult or how many Saints there were. He only knew his own sequence number was 49.
Regarding memories, Jiu Feng only had memories from the year before coming to Green Forest City, and they were very hazy.
Memories from earlier were even more chaotic.
His memories had clearly been meticulously edited. The clearest contents in his memory were only two things.
One was information related to the Aurora Animal Assistance Association in Green Forest City, including organizational structure, research directions, material reserves, the activation code for the weapon hub, experiential memories related to mutated creatures and genetic modification.
And intelligence on some special organizations across various continents.
The other content was all the procedures and some necessary knowledge regarding the cult's Sacrificial Ritual.
It was precisely because of these memories that Jiu Feng was able to take control of the entire situation in the shortest time possible after arriving at the Aurora Animal Assistance Association.
After listening to Jiu Feng's words, Yu Yuan suddenly felt that Jiu Feng's situation seemed somewhat familiar!
As if he had seen it somewhere before.
He thought for a while, then finally slapped his forehead.
Wasn't this similar to the clone plotlines in old movies?
Create an individual, then transmit memories.
Could it really be like that?
Yu Yuan looked at Jiu Feng with a probing gaze.
Was Jiu Feng a product cultivated from a cloning incubation pod, then implanted with edited memories?
Once this thought arose in Yu Yuan's mind, it became uncontrollable.
But, could this world really have such advanced biotechnology?
Just as he thought this, Yu Yuan laughed at himself mockingly.
The Aurora Animal Assistance Association already mastered genetic modification technology. What would be so difficult about biological cloning technology for the cult?
Yu Yuan looked at Jiu Feng.
"Jiu Feng, haven't you ever had your genes tested? And how did your Psychic Ability come about?"
"Master, I have been tested..." Jiu Feng looked at Yu Yuan with a sense of awe emanating from the depths of his soul.
The experience of the past consecutive hour-plus was still fresh in his memory.
The damage wasn't fatal, but it was truly painful.
The most crucial part was that every time his body was whipped until the skin split and the flesh tore open, and he became somewhat numb to the pain...
His wounds would be treated with bandages.
Jiu Feng was certain he had never seen bandages with such good healing effects.
In just two minutes, wounds with split skin and torn flesh could recover as if new.
Then he would continue enduring the pain of his flesh being torn apart again.
Pure torture.
"And then? What was the result?" Yu Yuan was somewhat curious.
"My genes show clear signs of genetic editing, but it cannot be determined if it was... cloning, because the memories about the cult are also very hazy..."
Obviously, if Yu Yuan could think of it, how could Jiu Feng not have considered it?
"And not long before the wasteland descended, my connection with headquarters was also severed. It has not been reestablished to this day."
Yu Yuan nodded slightly.
"What about your Psychic Ability? What's the situation with that?"
"Master, this Psychic Ability suddenly awakened in me while I was performing a Sacrificial Ritual."
A Sacrificial Ritual could actually awaken a Psychic Ability?
Yu Yuan became interested.
"Explain in detail..."
"Master, this starts with the previous Saint, Moga. I found half a blueprint depicting a mysterious ritual among Moga's belongings. Research revealed this ritual had some similarities with the cult's Sacrificial Ritual, and many insights about the ritual arose in my mind."
"Because I knew Saint Moga died after some inexplicable ritual, I guessed at the time that his death might be related to this half blueprint. But my intuition kept telling me that performing this ritual was very important to me, and this matter could not be discovered by headquarters."
"I integrated the Sacrificial Ritual and that half ritual based on my insights and designed a new Sacrificial Ritual..." Jiu Feng fell into reminiscence.
"I had been waiting for a suitable opportunity. Not long after, our connection with headquarters was severed. I knew the opportunity had come. However, although I was the Saint at that time, Green Robe and Cold Crow were very wary of me. I had to find a way to divert their attention..."
At this point, Jiu Feng revealed a somewhat proud smile.
"I secretly sent an anonymous report and complaint to the Zoo Qualification Review Committee, alleging suspected animal abuse at Johnck Zoo... Sure enough, not long after, members of the Safety Observer Group quietly arrived in Green Forest City and began investigating the zoo..."
Hearing this, Yu Yuan looked at Jiu Feng with an utterly stunned gaze.
Holy crap...
Yu Yuan certainly knew about this incident. He even knew the subsequent developments and the name of that investigator.
—Ning Zhe.
That was the investigator's name.
Yu Yuan remembered clearly that in Ning Zhe's investigation report, the first sentence mentioned receiving reports from residents near the zoo who often heard animal wails and ground tremors from within.
That's why Ning Zhe came to investigate.
And that led to all the subsequent events. He just never expected that the mastermind behind this whole thing was actually Jiu Feng...