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Aileen had been taken into custody. During this period, she underwent investigation and evidence collection by Interpol. Everything she had experienced from her birth to the present, and further back to her parents and grandparents, had been thoroughly investigated.
They found that Aileen’s father passed away when she was six years old. He had two wives when he was alive, both of whom had also passed away.
The police found something suspicious about the two wives’ ages. They discovered that there was a huge difference in age between the first wife and the second wife.
The police continued to trace and found that Aileen’s father’s identity was forged. He actually lived to be 122 years old, yet he didn’t gain media attention. He also never showed off his secret to longevity in any books or newspapers, which clearly meant he deliberately hid his real age.
The police found clues about Aileen’s father but only found photos of him when he was nineteen years old—it seemed his appearance was stuck at the age of nineteen.
After verifying Aileen’s father’s real appearance, the investigation process became a lot smoother because he was an extremely famous magician in that era. Over time, his skills became obsolete, and he slowly faded out of the public eye. When he was at his lowest, he took his daughter to perform street magic on the streets of Paris. He turned the blue rose in his hand into a white dove while his daughter played the violin beside him.
People didn’t care how he lived his later years; they only remembered a famous saying he proudly said that took the world by storm when he was at his peak popularity—
“My supreme ideal is to make the entire world go crazy over my mystery.”
Aileen’s files had been sorted, sealed, and were handed to the International Criminal Court.
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International Criminal Court.
Twenty judges sat down majestically. The presiding judge read out the court rules, the solemn voice reverberated in the huge, spacious hall.
The International Criminal Court had accused Aileen, director of the 109 Research Institute, of illegally conducting human experiments and illegally manufacturing biological weapons during drug research and would prosecute her for crimes against humanity.
The hall was filled with high-profile national leaders and presidents of international organizations. High-level special forces and Interpol were responsible for security inside and outside the court.
The nameplate in front of Yan Yi’s seat was printed with the IOA Freebird symbol and name. Beside him sat the armadillo president of the South America branch, a female A3 omega. They had a healthy wheat-colored skin and a powerful, long tail covered with scales.
The armadillo lightly nudged her elbow against Yan Yi from under the table, her thick eyelashes slightly raised. “Li Wang, that old bastard, arrived.”
Yan Yi raised his eyes and glanced at the alpha, who walked in surrounded by bodyguards. The man’s back was slightly hunched but he had a young face, and the obvious lower side of his eyes was slightly mean and cunning. He was holding a black umbrella in his hands. He forgot to button up his military uniform jacket, so the collar of his shirt was half inside and half exposed—the same slovenly and casual manner as when he was the warden of the International Prison.
The alpha’s gland type was a mutant species of the buthacus arenicola, Scorpio Hera. He had served in the PBB Storm Special Forces for eleven years.
Li Wang gave the black umbrella to the bodyguard in a black suit beside him. He walked to Yan Yi leisurely and sat beside him with his hands in his pockets. The nameplate in front of him had the words “International Prison Warden Li Wang” printed on it.
“I’ve seen the public surveillance of the Police Station. I’ve been admiring the heroic gesture of the president in arresting Aileen for a long time. I thought her Soul Siphon would at least be able to stop you.” Li Wang rested his elbow on the armrest and leaned over to Yan Yi. “Defeated the enemy with one move—how cool and unrestrained. After Eternal Undead was taken into custody, no A3 could ever compete with you now.”
Yan Yi didn’t want to answer him; he just gave a casual greeting. “You’ve been reinstated; congratulations.”
“Thank you, thank you.” Li Wang sat with his shoulders askew, looking out of place among the crowd of dignified and serious public officials.
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“Here.” Li Wang leisurely rummaged through his suit pockets; after going through his left pocket, he searched his right pocket. Yan Yi furrowed his brows and looked at him, waiting for him to continue.
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Yan Yi coldly twitched the corner of his lips and tossed the candy to his own bodyguard.
Half a year ago, Jin Xi was arrested by the International Police in front of the 109 Research Institute and was temporarily detained, followed by a worldwide accounting of losses. The undead summoned by Eternal Undead’s M2 ability, Angel of Death Summoning, had caused large-scale disasters in major cities. There were countless casualties and urban facilities had also been severely damaged. Jin Xi might face life imprisonment. His parents were charged with abuse, with the case not yet gone to trial.
However, during the undead disaster, the International Prison had also been attacked and destroyed by the undead summons. More than half the prisoners had been injured or killed; the warden was immediately dismissed from his post, and Yan Yi didn’t even get the chance to protect him.
Li Wang wisely retreated from the public eye and avoided the disaster. When everything had been settled, he was smoothly reinstated.
Although the 109 Research Institute had been shut down, there were still a great number of experimental subjects among the common people. The anti-human experimental subject organization “White Snow” was established in Canada under the leadership of former Red-Throated Bird member Knicks, which was still a powerful threat to human security.
Some parties and countries support Li Wang’s reinstatement for high-sounding reasons, but they were in fact intended to weaken the power of the IOA, lest preventing the IOA from jointly controlling the PBB, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the International Prison at the same time, and expanding its power to dominate the world in the future.
Li Wang laughed at himself for being lucky, but Yan Yi knew in his heart that there was another reason for his luck.
“When we were clearing the battlefield, it was your people that let go of Eris?” Yan Yi said while glancing at the bodyguard beside Li Wang. Black Panther had a cold face, golden brown skin, and a pair of golden cat eyes embedded on his angular face. He wore a sapphire ring on the index finger outside his black gloves.
“You can’t talk nonsense; you’re making a false accusation, hm…” Li Wang’s slender finger leisurely tapped the armrest, savoring the words, “Your people,” Yan Yi had said, and raised his hand to hold the bodyguard beside him. Black Panther calmly moved a step farther away, making Li Wang grab the air.
Li Wang wasn’t angry, though. He tried his best to sit upright. “Court is in session now. Some people just like to play hardball and refuse to give in, but they will ultimately receive severe punishment. Don’t you think so too, President?”
Yan Yi thought he was talking about Aileen, so he nodded
Black Panther standing behind their seats had his fingers hanging on the side. His fist clenched so tightly that his joints cracked lightly, the bones trembling slightly.
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While Aileen was being judged, the arrest of the wandering experimental subjects had already been quietly launched. Since the rights of experimental subjects have yet to be recognized, no unowned experimental subjects were allowed to escape except for those owned by national organizations.
Some of the wandering experimental subjects willingly surrendered to the IOA, but there was an equivalent number that didn’t trust humans, choosing to escape to the White Snow Castle in the Laurentian Mountains of Canada.
The Storm Forces dispatched a pursuit team, led by He Suowei, leading an elite team into the mountain.
The blizzard quickly covered the footprints of an experimental subject they were chasing. The flying snow blocked the team members’ vision, and as they marched onward, they could vaguely see an outline of a castle.
The pursuit team continued to advance until they could see the castle in full view. He Suowei raised a pair of binoculars and looked toward the castle covered in a blanket of pure white snow. It seemed their target had already escaped inside.
There were many claw marks and bullet holes left on the exterior wall of the castle. It was clear that this place had just experienced a defensive battle not long ago.
The blue and white castle stood quietly in the center. One could see roses planted on the balconies of each independent, spire-round building. The flowers are in bloom, varying in colors.
Warm yellow light shone through every balcony window. A girl wearing a white dress suddenly opened the window, holding a watering can, and leaned out half her body to water the roses. After watering one bed, she spread out her dragonfly wings and flew to another balcony with the watering can in hand.
He Suowei spied even deeper; behind a window without the lace curtains drawn, a woman wearing a dark green cheongsam was sitting in front of a dressing table and choosing a lipstick. She faced the mirror, trying different colors.
He Suowei carefully compared her appearance and determined that she was one of the fugitives on the wanted list, the peacock alpha Odd Bones.
Sometimes the clamoring sound of kids playing could be heard from inside the castle, and exquisite wood-carved gear birds fly and chirp in the courtyard.
The castle and the blizzard outside the walls were like two different worlds. Looking at the exuberant scenery inside, it seemed that one could temporarily forget the chill in their body.
He Suowei raised the binoculars and found dangerous elements on the steeple bell tower at the highest point of the castle.
The hand of the big clock showed that the current time was 3:50 pm. Eris was sitting on the horizontal clock hand, holding the straps of his shorts with both hands, two ball-jointed legs swinging in the air, and the pupils of his two eyes had strangely turned into black crosses. Behind him was a pair of silver scissors as tall as a person.
Eris could sense an unfamiliar and hostile aura outside the castle. His pair of cross-shaped eyes moved in the direction they were at. He suddenly raised his hands, hooked the corners of his lips, and pulled them to the base of his ears.
“Go away.”
The strong sense of oppression that could only be felt during the deterioration stage had been suppressed heavily, and all the creatures on the perimeter of the castle were frightened and fled.
A chill went down He Suowei’s spine. He ordered everyone to retreat more than ten meters away and stopped when he saw that Eris showed no signs of charging toward them. He made a gesture with his hand behind his back.
He Wenxiao told him the result of the anomaly radar’s scan—
‘Special Operations Weapon Number: 61012
Codename: Cursemaker
Differentiation Grade: Cursed Doll A3
Model: Fully mimetic envoy-type inanimate experimental subject
Growth Stage: Deterioration Stage
Analysis Result: Cursemaker is emotionally stable and shows no desire to attack.”
He Suowei picked up the walkie-talkie. “The target has already entered the White Snow Castle. Cursemaker is guarding the entrance. Please give orders.”
“Retreat and return.”
“Understood.”
With experience dealing with Eternal Undead, facing an experimental subject in the deterioration stage standing guard, almost no one would choose to clash head-on.
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The minute hand of the big clock on the castle moved forward a few ticks and bumped into Eris’ head.
Eris turned around to check the time; it was ten minutes past three.
“It’s 3:10! It’s 3:10!” Eris jumped up high with joy, clinging to the rose flower stand on the balcony with both hands, he swung inwards. The petals and green leaves fell, rustling downward, eliciting several curses from Odd Bones.
Eris jumped into Puppet Master’s workshop and pushed the door open. The fireplace next to the workbench was burning with a nice and cozy fire. Three fat, white spore babies laid on the carpet, slurping half of an octopus foot.
“Who allowed you guys to come in?” Eris kicked each one of them away. They slammed into the wall, flowed down, and then returned to its original shape. They crawled back to the carpet and continued eating.
Puppet Master was sitting in front of the workbench, wiping a newly tempered glass eye with suede leather.
Hearing Eris come in, Puppet Master didn’t turn his head though. “Take your head off and put it on the table.”
Eris stepped over to the pile of unpolished and unassembled doll limbs and carefully stepped on the floor to avoid stepping on any small parts.
He held his head with both hands, used force to lift it, and took it off his neck. He removed the tendons from the metal hook and placed the head on the Puppet Master’s workbench. Then he went over to the fireplace, picked up a small stick, and put it through the rubber band used to hook his head and put it around his neck to prevent the tendon from shrinking. He went to the bed to sit and wait.
Puppet Master pried opened Eris’ head along the small slit and took out the eyeballs from inside.
This pair of eyes turned into crosses, which really affected the appearance. Puppet Master wouldn’t allow any flaws in his excellent work, so he patiently replaced them with a new pair of eyes.
However, when the new eyes were glued in, the beautiful light green eyes turned into crosses again.
Puppet Master sighed.
He had tried four materials: ceramic, resin, wood, and glass, but no matter what material the eyeballs were made of, once it was pressed into Eris’s eye socket, it would be immediately marked with two black crosses. This was an inevitable manifestation of the deterioration stage.
Puppet Master rubbed the bridge of his nose to soothe his tired eyes. He had some regret for being so eager to get away from Bai Chunian and Rimbaud that he pretended to be dragged into the abyss by the Kraken without consulting Eris in advance. He knew that Eris would definitely chase him down, but he didn’t expect that this approach would directly stimulate Eris into the deterioration stage.
“Will I lose control like Eternal Undead?” Eris’ head in Puppet Master’s hands spoke. “Will you break me to protect those useless kids?”
“I won’t,” Puppet Master responded.
After getting the synthesis boosters, Puppet Master studied all night for half a month, used Eris to conduct experiments, and detected the changes in his glands. He found that the root cause of deterioration and loss of control was that the growth stage of the glands was too high, which was incompatible with the body’s internal organs and brain cells, causing the mind to lose control and go berserk.
However, Eris has neither a body nor organs and no brain.
“Good.” Eris happily stood up. “When are we going to kill them all?”
Puppet Master said while he assembled Eris’ head, “We won’t be able to easily get out of here in the next twenty years.”
“Why?”
“The 109 Research Institute has already fallen; if we act too frequently and many countries will become afraid and unite against us, we will have more losses than gains.”
“What about the IOA?”
“The IOA just lost Bai Chunian, and Rimbaud has also left the land. They suffered a heavy loss, so they won’t use all their manpower to kill us.” Puppet Master closed the top of Eris’ head and combed the hair. “On the other hand, Li Wang has repeatedly sent Devil Envoy to come help us, let us firmly take root and expand our power, and become the next thorn in IOA’s side after the Institute. The IOA will definitely direct its future planning toward us instead of rushing to seize power. Li Wang himself returned to the position of warden to retire leisurely, which is really cunning of him.”
Eris seemed to understand yet not.
Suddenly, there was a click, and the small wooden stick hooking the tendons on Eris’s body broke. The tendon sank in, and his four limbs fell apart and spread out on the bed.
“I’ve told you before, use a sturdier stick. Pulling out the tendon is very troublesome.” Puppet Master had no choice but to stand up, placed the head in his hands on the table, and sat next to the bed, and assembled Eris’ broken body. He polished the details he didn’t get the chance to do before while he was at it. The toes and nails were a little rough.
Puppet Master concentrated on piecing back the doll that had fallen apart and inevitably had to turn. While the doll’s ceramic back was facing up, the red-back spider pattern tattooed on the lower back was seen by Eris’ head, which was placed on the table.
“Logo?” Eris’ eyes widened, and he was so shocked that he forgot to control himself. He automatically activated his J1 ability, Misfortune Arrives. The screws on one side of the bedside shelf suddenly loosened
“Ohhhhh! Logo! It’s for me! I never realized! I’m so happy! Can it be on my face?”
“Knock it off.”
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