Chapter 15 An Impromptu Game

Fifteen minutes earlier, inside the emergency safety passage.

"Hm?" Feng Bujue saw that Dr. Jonathan, who was walking ahead, had suddenly stopped, so he questioned, "What's wrong? Doctor, is there a problem?"

"No problem, just... I just took over this body." Jonathan turned his head and replied in a noticeably abnormal voice.

At this moment, Jonathan's face was expressionless, and he didn't even open his mouth; the voice came directly from his throat.

It only took Jue-ge a second to react, and he immediately asked tentatively, "Billy?"

"Yes..." Billy, who had occupied the doctor's body, replied, "I really didn't expect... to be in such a sorry state." As he spoke, he looked down at the puppet in his arms.

"Heh..." Feng Bujue looked at the other party, unable to help but find it amusing, because this scene couldn't help but remind him of a ventriloquist (a villain character from *Batman*), "Your abilities are really diverse."

"Alas... just an emergency measure in a near-death state." Billy sighed and pointed to the doctor's head, "Fortunately, Jonathan's will wasn't strong to begin with, and it became even weaker after being influenced by you; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the situation."

"So... can you explain it?" Feng Bujue continued, "What state would you say you're in right now?"

Billy pondered slightly and replied, "First of all, my original body is temporarily unusable." He held up the puppet in his hand, "Technically speaking... this body is now just an ordinary puppet."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue thought to himself upon hearing this, "In other words... even if I take this thing out of the base, the main quest won't be completed."

"Secondly, although I can still use my abilities in this state, the effect will be greatly reduced." Billy continued.

"Oh? You can still use your abilities in this 'body snatching' state?" Feng Bujue was a little surprised by this.

"Of course, I can." Billy replied, "I am a life form based primarily on mental power. As long as my will doesn't die, I can survive even if I'm parasitizing on a rock." As he spoke, he glanced at the puppet in his hand again, "Of course, the stronger the container... the better. If I were really parasitizing on a rock, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do anything anymore."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue nodded, then asked with interest, "What if you used my body as a container? What would happen then?"

Billy snorted coldly and replied, "Hmph... Don't forget, at this moment, you are just a conscious entity using Rudy Austin's body. Moreover, your connection to this body is protected by the system. Even if I were in my best state, I wouldn't be able to intervene." He paused, "By the way... from a biological point of view, your body and Dr. Jonathan's body... are not that different in essence. Because you are the same species, even if there are some differences in individual strength, the gap won't be that big."

"Sounds like... you don't think much of humans as containers." Jue-ge continued.

Billy thought for a few seconds and replied, "Let's put it this way... If you compare my mental power to electricity and the container to a conductor... then your human bodies are probably platinum at best, and at most won't exceed iron, while slightly worse ones are equivalent to rubidium; as for my own body..." He shook the puppet in his hand with pride, "...it's like silver. The innate compatibility and the data characteristics it has are incomparable to other bodies. Not to mention humans, even higher-level biological containers may not be able to unleash my full power."

"Alright, alright..." Feng Bujue waved his hand, "Then tell me, how can I turn you back into a puppet?"

"Hmm..." Billy looked troubled, and after pondering for a moment, he replied, "***-055 is a very difficult guy to deal with. The more mental-oriented the ability user is, the greater the damage they will suffer after coming into contact with it... I had mental contact with it earlier without any precautions and suffered a heavy blow in an instant." He shook his head and muttered, "Right now, from a physical point of view, my body is still intact, but in reality... its 'Truth Sequence' has been severely damaged and must be completely repaired before it can be used again. If I continue to stay in this 'severely disabled' container, even my mental level will 'self-destruct'."

"So... how long will this repair work take?" Feng Bujue asked immediately.

"About a week..." Billy replied, and after two seconds, he added, "...at least five days."

"Then you might as well kill yourself." Feng Bujue looked at Billy with dead fish eyes and said calmly.

"It's not that long, is it..." Billy replied.

"Ha!" Jue-ge gave a dry laugh, "Do you know that five days is enough for two teenagers to fall in love at first sight, pledge their love for life, *pa pa pa pa*, fight to the death, die and live again, live and die again, and die and live again?"

Billy squinted and replied, "That only shows that the social atmosphere is getting worse and worse."

Feng Bujue said, "But I'm talking about the Renaissance."

"Oh..." Billy's mental power wasn't just for show, "Romeo and Juliet?"

"That's not the point." Jue-ge immediately changed the subject after being exposed, "The point is... how the hell am I supposed to wait for you for five days?"

"I'm the one who should be troubled." Billy replied, "You can leave the script and just walk away... but I can't leave. I have to hide this puppet somewhere without being recognized, and spend time repairing it every day..."

"Hmph... I didn't say I was going to walk away." At this moment, Feng Bujue interrupted the other party with a smile, "You should know... I'm not someone who gives up so easily."

Billy's expression changed slightly, "Looks like... you already have an idea?"

"Not yet." Feng Bujue replied, and two seconds later, he added, "I'm thinking about it."

Billy didn't answer.

Another ten seconds passed...

"Okay, I've got it." Jue-ge said in a calm, confident tone, "Let's talk as we walk."

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Time, back to the present.

"Who is it? Who is using the broadcast?" Steven's first reaction after hearing the deep voice was to look at the console in the monitoring room.

But the staff sitting in front of the console also looked back at him with an innocent expression.

"Damn..." Steven raised his pistol (he wasn't equipped with an assault rifle) and aimed at Billy on the metal table, "So it really was you playing tricks?"

Seeing this, the surrounding security guards also raised their guns and aimed at the puppet. But the puppet didn't react at all, just lying motionless on the spot.

"All along, you have believed that you are doing a noble job." The voice in the broadcast continued from the previous sentence, "I want to play a game with you," "You adhere to the Foundation's philosophy, placing yourselves in a position above secular society to view and deal with everything.

"However... what is the reality?

"Even if you think you have broken away from the category of ordinary people, your position as 'human beings' will not change.

"Who gave you the power to control and isolate those supernatural things? Who stipulated that only what you humans can understand or control is not against the laws of nature? And who told you... that the 'laws of nature' you have mastered are correct?

"If the answers to these questions can be ignored because of 'stance,' and your actions can be regarded as blameless because of 'stance,' then... from the perspective of a so-called 'supernatural thing,' do I have the right to define you 'human beings' as a 'Keter-class threat' as well, and conduct research, isolation, and even obliteration on you?"

"He makes sense..." Feng Bujue interjected with an evil smile.

"Shut up!" Steven turned his head and shouted at him, "You think this level of mental interference can have any impact on us? Don't dream!"

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At the same time, in the corridor.

Blood spread from the bodies of two security guards.

The one who killed them was none other than "Dr. Jonathan," or rather... Billy.

Billy was, after all, a unique data, and his abilities in all aspects were super Boss-level. Even with limited abilities, he could do the following three things at the same time: First, control all the broadcasts on the B7 level and spread rumors; second, shield a single surveillance camera in his location; and third, stimulate the limits of the doctor's weak body and kill two security guards.

Of course, the third thing was difficult to do with bare hands. The reason he was able to succeed was because he had a weapon hidden on his body (Jue-ge had brought a few items out of Kozmo's suitcase, and Billy had prepared the items before implementing the plan), and second, because the attention of the two guards was distracted by the broadcast.

But even so, Billy was injured in the process of taking action...

"Not good..." He clutched the wound on his ribs and looked down at the flowing blood, "...this body won't last too long, I need to speed things up."