Rescuing the Villainous Boss with a Little Dirty Master

After Jiang Heng woke up, before she even opened her eyes, the hand on Lan's waist started to wander. A fool wouldn't take advantage of a good deal.

Feeling the touch under his fingertips suddenly stiffen, he applied a little more pressure, his voice, still slightly groggy from just waking up, was incredibly alluring, "What's there to be nervous about?"

"I wasn't nervous."

Lan's mechanical hand had just left the bed when he resignedly put it down again, but his tense muscles just wouldn't relax, contradicting his claim of being 'not nervous'.

“Captain Lan’s mouth,” Jiang Heng whispered, drawing out her words as she leaned close to his earlobe, “is probably the second hardest thing on his body.”

As he finished speaking, he got up and rolled off Lan, his fingertips seemingly brushing against something, letting out a muffled chuckle. Lan immediately realized his ranking of first and second. He lay on the bed, staring at the retreating figure as he left the room, his eyes dark and unfathomable, like a predator eyeing its prey.

"Host, if you keep teasing me without giving me anything in return, I'll be completely dominated~"

Lan's gaze was caught by 886. Based on its experience reading novels, it knew that its host's teasing would retaliate tenfold or even a hundredfold in certain places—exciting!

Jiang Heng chuckled, "Who told him to be so innocent? He's got a lot to teach him."

886 gasped, "Okay, okay, so this is how you play it? I just don't know if I should tell Jiang Heng, because the more innocent she seems, the wilder she gets when she's in a bad mood. Hehe~"

Jiang Heng walked into the control room, placed the black crystal under the scanner, and set the precision to the highest level. He wanted to see what this thing was.

When Lan calmed down and went downstairs, she found Jiang Heng in the control room. She saw him playing with the crystal, his movements casual, but his expression was far from good.

"what happened?"

He went over and looked at it together, but couldn't see anything special.

“I just extracted the information from it.” Jiang Heng turned to look at the person next to her, suppressing her anger. “It’s replicating your body data.”

"Replicate my data?"

Jiang Heng turned the data panel in front of him and opened the data that the instrument automatically backed up when he peeled off the crystal scan of Lan's body.

Now, without needing an explanation, Lan understood what Jiang Heng meant. Although the data replicated by the crystal was less than half, it was indeed exactly the same as his own data.

"They want to create another me and then replace me?"

Perhaps it was used for something else, but no matter how you look at it, it's utterly disgusting.

Jiang Heng had an even worse idea in mind. He opened another document, which contained the experimental data of Li Tianming that he had previously asked 886 to record.

"The second basement level is currently dedicated to researching mechanical heads, and a group of researchers has already conducted experiments on humans." He looked at the data on the screen, his tone somber. "If you combine your body data with a mechanical head, what kind of thing will be developed?"

"Perhaps it's not just my physical data that has been copied."

"They want to abolish the Special Operations Department!"

Jiang Heng and Lan exchanged a glance and spoke at the same time. Even the so-called "Lan accidentally discovering the research institute's forced human research" in the original plot was a huge trap, with the ultimate goal of inducing the defection of the operations department, and then destroying them with a legitimate reason.

It's ironic that the empire needs a powerful war department, yet fears their power. Jiang Heng looked at the gloomy eyes of the person beside him, and gripped their hand tightly.

"There's still time."

Lan looked up at him, her tone somewhat bewildered, "Does everyone think that way?"

"No, that's not true. Everyone has seen your sacrifices. You are heroes of the empire."

Jiang Heng hugged him, stroking his back, trying to pull him out of his self-loathing. He could understand his feelings. Because they wanted to protect the country, they volunteered to become cyborgs. They seemed powerful, but could anyone truly calmly watch their own limbs turn into a pile of metal machines?

Feeling the body in his arms relax, he spoke gently, as if coaxing someone, "How about I go with you to find your teammates? If they also have crystals implanted in their bodies, I'll remove them right away."

"It's not time yet, wait for the next maintenance. I was in the first batch of robots, and the data has been replicated for less than half. No one else can outpace me, so there's still time."

Jiang Heng released him, feeling relieved to see him return to his previous state. The two discussed the matter further; the most important things now were to stop the research on the mechanical head and to find out who was behind it and who was on friendly terms.

They don't believe in the mighty empire; they think it's full of cold-blooded, brainless people. If that's really the case, then let's rebel against this incompetent rule.

Two days later, a message suddenly broke on the StarNet that someone had seen criminals who should have been in A-01 on Misa Star. If it were just one or two, it could be said that they looked alike, but judging from the video images that were released, there were more than a dozen or twenty people!

The public's doubts are now uncontrollable, and they are demanding an explanation from the empire.

"Abolishing the death penalty is unreasonable!"

"If the death penalty was changed to exile, how could such a mistake still occur?"

"Look at those people, they're probably living a much more comfortable life than us!"

"Could the abolition of the death penalty be a conspiracy? Could these criminals be doing something shady for the empire?!"

This statement immediately shifted the focus of online discussions, with everyone speculating about the depths of the situation.

"It's been an hour! Haven't we found the source of the information yet?!"

In the innermost office on the top floor of the military building, a gloomy voice was filled with anger.

The video footage that had been circulating widely was playing on the office wall, and the scrolling comments next to the video were infuriating.

"General, we can't find the source. This video can't be deleted either; even if it's taken down, it will be uploaded again soon. And it's been taken down so many times that the public is even more suspicious now."

The person standing to the side reporting was so anxious that sweat was pouring down his forehead, and he didn't even dare to wipe it away when it got into his eyes.

Some people on the StarNet are now speculating that the criminals are using the victims for human research, but there aren't many such comments, so they haven't attracted public attention. However, they have been detected in time, and the accounts of those who posted such comments have been banned, and the person is now under close surveillance.

Ji Liang picked up a cup from the table and smashed it against the wall. The light screen dispersed and then converged again, and the video resumed playing. He looked at the continuous messages on the personal computer with a gloomy face, stood up and glanced at the secretary beside him.

"Keep investigating! Be even more meticulous in monitoring online speech! Deal with anything inappropriate immediately!"

The secretary readily agreed. Ji Liang adjusted his expression, frowning with a worried look, opened the office door, and quickened his pace towards the conference room.