【Ability】
【Advanced Physical Control: Significantly increase control over your own body】
【Popularity Points required for exchange: 600,000】
Two advanced skills had cost Yun Ruoxi 900,000 Popularity Points, and the remaining 100,000 points were not enough to exchange for any decent skills.
She didn’t care for ordinary skills as they were useless, and powerful skills couldn’t be exchanged for only 100,000 Popularity Points.
However, she was satisfied for the time being.
Both skills, which cost so many Popularity Points, had great utility.
The former could increase the growth rate of her Stellar Energy Index, allowing her to catch up quickly even if her strength had fallen behind due to the brainwashing surgery wasting months or a year.
The latter was a skill she exchanged to guard against the Saints’ Hand Society doing anything to her body.
Of course, this Advanced Physical Control itself could also improve her combat ability and fighting level.
It was quite useful overall.
“The exchanges are mostly done, and we’re almost at the warship. I’ll soon find out what Dr. Forefinger and Behemoth intend to do to me.”
Yun Ruoxi closed her eyes slightly, intending to take the opportunity to rest for a while.
Perhaps, this few-minute journey would be the last chance she had to rest properly in the past few years.
Hoo, hoo…
Yun Ruoxi’s breathing became increasingly steady, tiny bubbles forming at the corners of her mouth as she fell into a deep sleep inside the treatment capsule.
The spaceship slowly glided into the warship, docking steadily at the bay with the assistance of mechanical arms.
With a soft click, the rear hatch of the spaceship opened.
The treatment capsule containing Yun Ruoxi was pushed off the spaceship. The loading robot, which had been waiting for a long time, moved past Xia Guang and took charge of the treatment capsule.
Xia Guang pursed her lips and followed the robot toward the inside of the warship.
Straight ahead, left turn, right turn… the lighting in the corridor grew dimmer. She arrived at the deep end of the warship, then went straight, turned left, and turned right—
She stopped in front of a large gate.
The robot pushed the treatment capsule into the gate, and Xia Guang tried to follow inside, but the gate slammed shut with a bang in front of her, sealing her out.
“Leave the rest to me to handle.” Behemoth’s voice came from the side.
Xia Guang’s expression remained unchanged, but she sighed inwardly, taking one last look at the thick alloy gate.
“Xia Guang, your mission is complete. Regarding Xinglan, later on…”
“Understood.”
She then turned and left.
“Instructor Xia Guang… seems to have some other ideas.”
In the dim Laboratory.
Dr. Forefinger spoke to Behemoth in a teasing tone while operating the robot, moving Yun Ruoxi from the treatment capsule into a culture tank filled with blue liquid at the end of the laboratory.
“Her parents are high-ranking officials in the Saints’ Hand Society; she grew up in the Asha Star system, so she is a bit different from us,” Instructor Behemoth said with his arms crossed.
The “different” he referred to meant that Xia Guang had not undergone the cruel selection and training that they, the later arrivals, had experienced, but had joined the Saints’ Hand Society directly due to her lineage.
“You should worry more about yourself; how long until you finish that personality remodeling?”
Seeing Dr. Forefinger about to speak again, Behemoth snorted: “Forget about Xia Guang, the Shengcai will be here soon. How much longer will you take?”
“Soon, very soon!” Dr. Forefinger adjusted his glasses.
In the reflection of his lenses, the unconscious Yun Ruoxi was hoisted roughly from the treatment capsule by a mechanical arm, fitted with a special mask for brainwashing and shackles that sealed her supernatural power, then stuffed into the culture tank.
The massive culture tank, three people tall, was connected to an electrical current, and the blue liquid churned.
The girl’s entire body jerked as if jolted by the electricity, waking her from her coma.
She turned her head, wanting to resist, but she couldn’t move because her limbs were firmly locked by the Iron Chain.
Dr. Forefinger pressed a button.
“I have said before, the key to personality remodeling lies in memory and the subconscious. To completely turn someone into another person, you need to twist all the memories and subconsciousness involved in their values.”
He pressed another button to activate the mask.
The girl suddenly raised her head, arching her back, before letting it drop heavily, losing consciousness once again.
“And these steps are, in fact, mostly completed after the Mental Brand that distorts values is forcibly formed. The remaining small part lies in the beautiful memories that keep her holding onto those original values.”
Dr. Forefinger sat on a floating chair, flew in front of Yun Ruoxi, and tapped rapidly on the Virtual Screen.
“So what I need to do is modify her memories.”
“Since she refuses to change because of A Zhen, wood heart, and those people, I just need to delete and modify all traces of them in her memory.”
“Won’t that cause problems with her memory?”
Behemoth questioned.
“Human memory has a self-repair function; simple modifications will eventually cause problems. Generally speaking, yes, it will.”
Dr. Forefinger answered without looking up.
“But this technology I’ve restored is very mature. Deleting and modifying memories is just the first step, fully enough to pass the test of the Shengcai. Afterward, I will arrange another experience to replace these modified memories.”
“In this way, she will be a brand-new person—a Xinglan who possesses different companions and different values due to different experiences, yet has the same powerful Gifted Talent.”
“By that time, she might also need a new name.”
Saying this, Dr. Forefinger smiled and looked up.
“Of course, if you are still not satisfied, I have other means, such as—Emotional Partition.”
“Very good.” Behemoth’s expression eased slightly. “But this is enough for now. A cold-blooded killing machine cannot climb to the peak.”
“By the way, what kind of experience do you plan to arrange for her?”
“Betrayal and rebirth, comrades and enemies.” Dr. Forefinger replied with a smile. “What do you think?”
“Sounds good.” Behemoth nodded.
“Intending to modify my memory?”
In the System Space, Yun Ruoxi listened to the conversation outside and subconsciously glanced at the System Panel.
Although the system had begun upgrading and could not respond, the System Panel could still be opened normally.
[Ultimate Brain Domain Isolation: A fake memory has been forged, isolating the impact of memory modification]
“As expected, no matter how strong the Saints’ Hand Society’s brainwashing technology is, it cannot break through the ultimate skill provided by the system. It was worth spending the sky-high price of 1,200,000 Popularity Points… worth it!”
Yun Ruoxi touched her smooth chin.
“However, since my memories are being modified… hm, this might actually be for the best.”
“When I face Lin Zhen and the others later as a villain, I won’t have to worry about acting too harshly and ruining my persona.”
Yun Ruoxi chuckled wickedly.
“Since I won’t recognize them anyway, I can just beat them however I want, can’t I?”
“I lost consecutive battles to Lin Zhen and his group because of my persona, but this time it will be different.”
After confirming how Behemoth and Dr. Forefinger intended to dispose of her—
“Sister Xi, next, I will let you all properly experience the taste of being crushed.”
An evil plan had already quietly taken shape in her heart.