Then let the witch offer her loyalty

"For over twenty years, the secret sentries protecting you have changed time and again, without stopping. The bureau has secretly helped you resolve many troubles; one should always have a sense of gratitude, shouldn't one?"

Future was completely unmoved by these words: "First of all, I'm not human. Secondly, I can take care of myself, it's none of your business."

When emotional appeals failed, Yang Jie tried a different approach: "If you don't think about us, think about yourself too. Your lab is built in a sewer; the space, environment, and hardware are all limited. Isn't that tough?"

Future snorted and said indifferently, "It's not uncomfortable. It's nice to be alone. I can do whatever I want without being controlled by anyone."

“There are often violent clashes between groups on the border. After a fight, there are wounded and dead all over the place. It would be so much fun to pick them up and do experiments with them. Unlike in your department, where you have to go through a lot of approvals to do a human experiment.”

Yang Jie was speechless, completely dumbfounded.

"You're really not going back?"

"I'm really not going back."

"you sure?"

"determine."

"Should we reconsider?"

"I'm telling you this: I'd rather die in this sewer than work for your management bureau again."

Future got a little impatient and started to tell him to leave: "Three minutes are up. Get out of here now, or I'll make you release rats, crows, and spiders to chase you away."

In the culture tank not far away, the mouse covered in tumors, the crow with eight compound eyes, and the spider gnawing on a human leg were all staring intently at Yang Jie, their beastly eyes filled with bloodthirsty ferocity.

"Hey, okay."

Yang Jie sighed, turned and walked out, muttering to himself as he went.

"It's a pity that there are still more than 20 billion yuan of research funding left this year."

"I heard that the court will allocate more than 50 billion yuan to our bureau next year. We can't spend it all, we simply can't spend it all."

With a loud crash, the sound of a chair overturning came from the darkness.

Wei Lai ran over and stood in front of Yang Jie with her arms outstretched, blocking his way.

Her face was filled with anger, and because she was so agitated, the electrodes on both sides of her head were crackling and flashing at a high frequency.

She rebuked loudly and righteously, "Have you ever heard the old saying, 'Poverty and lowliness cannot sway one, nor can power and force subdue one's will'?"

"So what if you're rich? Does having money make you superior? Just because you have money doesn't mean you can come to my turf and mock me!"

"To your behavior of looking down on others just because you have money, I only have one thing to say—"

"Is it too late for me to go back to my job? Don't force me to kneel down and beg you."

Yang Jie smiled knowingly and reached out to flick Wei Lai’s nose: “Take a look yourself. If there’s anything you want to take, I’ll call someone to help you move it.”

"Welcome home, future chief engineer."

Chapter 129 Witch Bomb x2

Today is a very happy day for the two key members of the new team.

After nearly two months of tireless efforts, Alexander and Lei Lie finally found a witch who was willing to form a spiritual pact with them.

From this day forward, they, like Chen Moxin, have truly become active witch hunters.

After the oath and spiritual contract ceremony, Chen Moxin walked over to her two teammates, who were both unable to contain their excitement and were chatting very enthusiastically with their witch.

Upon seeing Chen Moxin approach, the two greeted him happily: "Brother Chen!"

Chen Moxin nodded and looked at the two witches.

The witch who made a contract with Lei Lie is named "Lin Ya", with containment number "SWAB-054", and is under general containment.

Compared to the younger witches, Lin Ya is a bit older; she is 35 years old this year and it has been 7 years since she was first taken in.

Based on her consistently good behavior, Lin Ya could have easily applied for free detention, but her parents died early and she had no relatives or friends outside.

Given her age and the current job market, it was really difficult for her to find a suitable job, so she stayed in the general detention area.

This is a heterogenous psychic, codenamed "Four Symbols Witch". Her ability allows her body to transform between four forms: Azure Dragon, White Wyvern, Red Bird, and Black Tortoise, thereby gaining different enhanced abilities to deal with different enemies. She is very well-rounded in close combat.

Chen Moxin could tell that Lin Ya was obviously a fitness enthusiast, with a very healthy tan and strong, powerful limbs.

It is said that Lei Lie and Lin Ya were attracted to each other by their similar appearances the moment they first saw each other.

Later, the two agreed to work out together.

Lin Ya has the kind of personality that says "who says women are inferior to men?" She has no interest in flowers and sweet words, and she didn't have much interaction with Lei Lie during their relationship. The two of them just lifted weights together.

They competed to see who could lift the heaviest weight, lift the fastest, and lift the longest, and they kept doing this for two whole months.

In the end, Lin Ya was won over by this muscular man and agreed to form a spiritual contract with him.

Compared to the unassuming Relie, Alexander's journey was more dramatic.

Because of his foreign appearance, the witches in the containment area were very interested in Alexander, and many of them wanted to form a spiritual contract with him, as long as he nodded.

But Alexander wasn't indiscriminate in his approach; he carefully prepared some topics to discuss with the witch.

These topics are all current social or international hot issues, and one can judge a person's political stance based on their views on them.

If the other party has any "anti-China" tendencies, or doesn't love their motherland enough, or is overly fond of foreign things, then say goodbye immediately.

So, while Lei Lie and Lin Ya were busy lifting weights, Alexander had already turned down quite a few witches who came to him.

Later, by chance, Alexander was strolling around the library in the Puguan detention area when he discovered a young girl reading the founding history of the Rose Empire.

Generally speaking, non-literary historical materials like this are very dry, and few people have the patience to read them, let alone a girl.

Driven by curiosity, Alexander went up and chatted with the girl.

This conversation led to something quite interesting.

They open with phrases like "We will not yield an inch of our beautiful land," "Born in a chaotic world, young people should dare to act," and "The place where the rose flag flies is the place I yearn for."

The two chatted so enthusiastically that they felt like they had known each other for ages, and they were practically ready to form a blood oath and kill a few foreigners in the street.

A few days later, they submitted an application to their superiors to prepare for the establishment of a spiritual covenant.

Alexander's witch is named "Mu Qing" and her containment number is "SWAB-062".

This is a nature-based psychic, codenamed "Magnetic Witch," who possesses the power to manipulate magnetic fields.

When Chen Moxin saw Alexander, this foreigner with impeccable revolutionary credentials, manipulating a bunch of metal around himself like Magneto, while constantly shouting "Empire forever," she felt that this guy's style was getting weirder and weirder.

Of course, regardless of the process, Alexander and Reilly's greatest wish has been fulfilled, and the two have finally become true witch hunters.

After chatting for a while, Yang Jie suddenly called to tell them to come back to the team for a meeting.

The three had the supervisor take Lin Ya and Mu Qing back to the detention area, and then headed to the conference room.

This meeting brought together all the witch hunters under the Snow Moon Squadron and was personally chaired by Squadron Leader Yang Jie.

Yang Jie stood on the stage and used a remote control to turn on the holographic projector, where a three-dimensional phantom of a gun appeared in mid-air.

"There's something everyone should know: a few days ago, Mo Zeyuan, Chen Moxin, and I were chasing down an illegal psychic from the Demon Alliance and we seized a gun from him."

"This firearm is extremely powerful, far surpassing any current individual firearms, and leaves behind a trail of madness pollution upon use, causing ordinary people who come near the source of the pollution to become undead. The department currently refers to it as a 'Calamity Weapon.'"

"In order to disassemble and analyze the principles of the Calamity Weapon as soon as possible, our department invited a technical expert back."

Yang Jie pressed the button, and the holographic projection of the Calamity Weapon disintegrated. The changing light intertwined in the air, and a new image of a girl dressed in white was projected.

The hunters were all astonished when the girl's projection appeared.

The girl's image is so contradictory.

Without a doubt, she was very beautiful, with delicate and pretty features. Her lips were shaped like the lines carefully drawn in a classical painting. The spotless white lab coat fit her well-proportioned figure perfectly, making her look exactly like an elite scholar who had stepped out of a research institute brochure.

But strangely, her exposed skin was covered with dark red stitches, like a spider web crawling all over her skin, spreading from her neck to her cheeks, as if cutting her originally delicate face to pieces.

Especially when she smiles, the stitches at the corners of her mouth tighten, making her otherwise gentle face appear somewhat ferocious.

This bizarre shape, coupled with the large electrodes on either side of its head...

He's like the kind of mad scientist you only see in movies.

Yang Jie slowly explained, "You young people probably don't know this person. Only I and the old-timers in the bureau who have been in office for a long time know him."

"Her name is Future. She is the chief scholar of the Royal Academy in the capital of the Rose Empire, an academician of the Imperial Research Department, and the chief technical engineer of the Twin Cities Witch Administration. She worked here more than 20 years ago."

"Of course, you should be able to tell from her appearance that Future is not human; she is an artificial being, or more accurately, a cyborg."

Soon, someone raised a hand and questioned, "Is technology that advanced enough to create androids with research capabilities?"

Yang Jie shook his head: "No, our technology is far from reaching that level. In fact, the birth of the future was an accident."

"Back then, our scientists in the field of artificial intelligence were researching an implantable chip. During the research process, some kind of error occurred, and the chip, codenamed 'Future,' inexplicably developed the ability to think independently."

"No one knows how that error occurred. Scientists have tried to trace its origin and replicate it, but all attempts have failed. Thus, 'Future' became the world's only chip with independent thought and that cannot be copied."

"Later, scientists implanted this chip into an artificial body that could move, making it into a android that resembled a human, which is how you see the future you are today."

The hunters present looked at each other in bewilderment, marveling at the wonders of the world.

Just like a mistake that occurred in countless chemical reactions millions of years ago, forming organic matter with genetic information, which eventually evolved into the wonderful life.

The future was also born from a mistake, which led to the emergence of an artificial life form with independent thought in the world.

Just as everyone was whispering, Chen Moxin raised a crucial question: "Captain Yang, you just said that you worked here more than 20 years ago and only recently came back."

"Where did she go during the time she disappeared?"

Upon hearing Chen Moxin's question, Yang Jie's expression became somewhat strange for some reason: "More than twenty years ago, the Upper Court Council ordered the stripping of all future titles and positions."

"She was so angry that she left the bureau and has been living in the Twin Cities sewers for over twenty years."

Chen Moxin asked with some curiosity, "This kind of chip-driven android should have a thinking ability far exceeding that of ordinary humans, right? It should be able to overcome many scientific research problems."

"What did she do wrong that the higher-ups were willing to remove her from office?"

Yang Jie sighed helplessly: "Because she made a radical statement back then."

"Future said that since excessive use of psychic energy can cause witches to go berserk, we can use drugs to make witches lose consciousness, and then let the proxy use psychic energy wildly without their knowledge."

"Once the witches reach the critical point of the outbreak of madness, they will be airdropped into enemy territory to cause large-scale madness contamination. Their destructive power will be no less than that of thermonuclear weapons."

She called it a "witch bomb."

"Pfft." Chen Moxin couldn't hold back on the spot.

"Chen Moxin, what are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I remembered something happy."

Chen Moxin felt that she and this future should be able to get along well.

Alexander asked with considerable doubt, "Although this idea is a bit outrageous, it's just expressing a personal opinion. Is it really necessary to strip her of all her titles and positions just because of a few words?"

Yang Jie chuckled: "Indeed, she only said a few inappropriate things. But guess where she said those things?"

"She said it at a global joint conference, in front of heads of government from all over the world, with reporters from major media outlets from various countries present, and it was broadcast live globally."

These words immediately caused an uproar in the meeting room.

Oh, awesome!

This is truly amazing!

Not to mention how inappropriate it was to say those things in that setting.

It's important to understand that, apart from the Rose Empire, most countries in the world have long since ceased to control psychic powers, and "psychic freedom" has become a universal value.

In many countries, such as the Azure Federation, witches are even considered superior beings, enjoying higher social status and civil rights than ordinary people. In fact, many high-ranking government officials are witches themselves.

In the Azure Federation, it's no exaggeration to say that, let alone interfering with a witch's freedom, if you dare to show even the slightest discrimination against a witch, it can really escalate to the legal level and send you to jail.

The Rose Empire's psionic control policy is inherently contrary to the rest of the world.

In the future, he proposed the idea of ​​a "witch bomb" in front of world leaders and global media.

Everyone could easily imagine how desperate the head of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs must have felt when those words were uttered in the future.

Yang Jie sighed and said, "At that time, the representatives of various countries were in an uproar and strongly condemned our country, which put us under tremendous diplomatic pressure."

"Social unrest has also occurred. Many witch management bureaus in cities, including our Twin Cities witch management bureau, have seen witches feel threatened and launch large-scale riots."

"Finally, under pressure from various parties, the Upper House had no choice but to distance itself from the future, stating that it was merely her personal opinion and did not represent the official stance, and ordered the stripping of all her titles and positions, which gradually calmed the storm."

After hearing about his incredible feats in the future, many people felt ashamed.