They finally returned to the court.
The trial continued, but in light of the information revealed by the chairman, the death penalty was reduced to life imprisonnt.
As the ruler of Yin Country, Zhao Ling was naturally aware of the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and the state—this was no secret. Using the populations of smaller, less advanced countries for human experints was, after all, an act encouraged by the major powers. Moreover, many of the dictatorial governnts of these less advanced countries were willing to earn that bloody money.
But the chairman’s explanation about Wei Tianyang was sothing even Zhao Ling heard for the first ti. The dawn of humanity? HNA? These details she could not discern, and she could only hope to obtain more information through torture and interrogation.
After the sentence was delivered, the chairman was taken by the Superpower Special Departnt, loaded into a black armored vehicle, and taken to the temporary detention center in the suburbs of Fengrao City.
Zhao Ling left behind all her official duties to accompany Wei Tianyang on the way there.
Bouncing along the road, Wei Tianyang sat in silence while Zhao Ling sat by his side, her arm around his shoulders, appearing both as a lover and as a mother.
"Let those ministers disperse; we’re not holding a eting today. Postpone the other matters at Lingxiao Palace for ; I have so important business to deal with today," Zhao Ling instructed her secretarial staff over the phone, arranging the aftermath.
At 4 p.m., the convoy stopped at the entrance to the detention center. Everyone got out, and Wei Tianyang looked at the old three-story building in front of him, feeling incredibly suffocated.
The detention center was a Western-style building, surrounded by a wall. Ivy clung to the red brick, rustling in the wind like waves in the sea. There was a small tower on the main building with an ard guard standing on it; the windows of the outer wall were painted white from inside—it didn’t take much to guess that the windows were bulletproof.
From the outside, the detention center looked no different from a psychiatric hospital.
As a place for the temporary detention and confinent of convicted prisoners, such a building was sufficient, but... the faint screams emanating from inside from ti to ti gave Wei Tianyang the impression that things might not be so straightforward.
Due to Zhao Ling’s arrival, the warden naturally ca out personally to et her, and the Inner Guard were all ard to the teeth, turning the entire building into an impregnable fortress.
The group entered the detention center, and after a brief exchange of intelligence, the chairman was taken into the interrogation room, where several Inner Guard began to ask for information about the dawn of humanity.
Wei Tianyang and Zhao Ling were in the adjacent soundproof room, monitoring the scene, while several Inner Guard took notes.
It had to be said that even during the interrogation, the thods were not as exaggerated as Wei Tianyang had thought. He had assud that the chairman would be stripped naked, suspended, and struck in turn by whips and electric batons. In reality, however, he was just sitting at a table being questioned in turn by two Inner Guard.
However, regardless of how they threatened or enticed him, the chairman would only agree to see Wei Tianyang and refused to say anything else.
Wei Tianyang also wanted to question him personally, so with Zhao Ling’s consent, he entered the interrogation room.
Before even opening his mouth to speak, Wei Tianyang grabbed the chairman’s head and smashed his forehead against the desk, driving it downward onto the cent floor, just as Alfred had done before. By now, Wei Tianyang had already built up experience.
Zhao Ling laughed and turned to the warden, "Turn off the monitors."
Wei Tianyang, gripping the back of the chairman’s collar, lifted him from the floor. The man in his sixties had almost lost consciousness from the blow, a stream of blood running from his nose and a large swelling forming on his forehead. Still, he looked at Wei Tianyang with a smile.
"I just want to ask one question," Wei Tianyang said.
"Heh heh—" the chairman chuckled but said nothing.
"You are the person in charge of Tiantai Pharmaceutical, and you must know about a Heavenly Falling Object, whose Black dicine can grant the ability to transfer any disease or wound to another! Tell , where is that thing now?!" Wei Tianyang demanded.
"Do you know how big Tiantai Pharmaceutical is? With so many projects, how could I possibly rember them all?" the chairman said with a laugh.
"You definitely know!" Wei Tianyang shouted angrily.
"You’re still just a kid, not knowing how to negotiate with people. What could you possibly do to ? I have already completed my mission. How do you threaten a man who only wishes to die? Heh heh—" the chairman said with a laugh.
"You’ll beg for death, but death won’t co," Wei Tianyang extended the Bone Knife with his right hand.
Zhao Ling’s face changed drastically as she pushed the dean away and rushed out the door.
"Tell ! Otherwise, I’ll gut you clean... I assure you, after the organs fall out of the abdominal cavity, a person can still live for a while..." Wei Tianyang threatened.
"You’ve done this before, haven’t you? A youth wouldn’t have such a disposition. As I’ve said—you’re no longer Wei Tianyang; you’re awakening. Eventually, one..." The chairman hadn’t finished speaking when Wei Tianyang stabbed the Bone Knife into his knee.
The chairman’s face turned deathly pale from the pain. His whole body trembled incessantly. He endured for two seconds before finally screaming out loud.
Wei Tianyang clenched his teeth, hooked a finger under the kneecap, and tore it out raw. The small, smooth piece of bone, still attached to the flesh, was held in his hand.
The chairman fainted from the pain but was slapped awake. Wei Tianyang grasped his throat, seething, "Tell ! Where exactly is the Heavenly Falling Object!!"
"Humph... humph humph... That’s right, use my body to complete your revival... Oh nine one... Wake up!" The chairman let out a bizarre laugh, his facial features twisting grotesquely.
This was the first ti Wei Tianyang encountered such an odd person. He was sowhat at a loss. At that mont, Zhao Ling barged into the interrogation room.
"By doing this, you won’t get anything out of him. Instead, you might kill him, and then you will have lost everything," Zhao Ling said.
"The Emperor... humph~ He’s not so nobody that you can command at will," the chairman laughed.
"Stay put. Your life is not in your hands anymore," Zhao Ling said coldly.
Behind her, two Inner Guards ca in and dragged the chairman out of the interrogation room, leaving a long trail of blood from his bleeding knee on the floor.
Interrogation is a lengthy process. Before encountering Wei Tianyang, the Tiantai Pharmaceutical chairman had not shown such bizarre behavior. But after eting him, he had beco so crazed, and all of it was connected to the black patterns on his body.
Days of questioning yielded no progress; on the contrary, one deep night, the chairman committed suicide by biting his tongue...
All leads were cut off. Zhao Ling had failed to glimpse what lay hidden in the shadows behind the pharmaceutical industry, but she was well aware that Wei Tianyang was distinctly different from the Superpower Special Troops.
Before, Zhao Ling had rely considered him an unparalleled force in the world, but now, she had secretly assembled a team to collect his hair, fingerprints, DNA, and so on from his dostic refuse for more ticulous research.
Prior research mostly started from reverse-engineering the Black dicine formula, but this ti, Zhao Ling wanted to understand what exactly Wei Tianyang had beco.
Words of comfort could not replace the answers.
Days later.
Helena Mina and Li Songyan returned to the United Council Headquarters, and Wei Tianyang processed his military service records.
By rights, the armies of the United Council should be composed of the regular forces drawn from the Council’s mber nations. But Wei Tianyang was not a soldier of any nation. Only 17 years old and lacking any military training, normally, soone like him could not be selected to join the ranks of war observers.
For so special reasons, however, Wei Tianyang also couldn’t—or rather, no country could grant him citizenship. Therefore, he could only join the United Council Army system under the na of "special recruitnt" after completing certain military training.
Before that, in order to keep him in Yin Country for a longer ti, Zhao Ling had promised to provide him with military training from the Yin Country special forces.
This t with opposition from the Sethiyan Federation and the Western Alliance. They stated they could provide the sa training, but obviously, Wei Tianyang did not wish to travel across the seas to a place where the language was foreign to him.
Thus, Zhao Ling once again took the initiative.
The youth would eventually grow up, and the hardships of his younger years would beco nothing more than trivial conversation or mories he preferred not to
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