457 Restoring the armor (1/2)

Silence fell over the administrative building. As Ren Xiaosu strolled through the bloodsoaked environment, the enemies in the building had apparently all died. Only the sound of blood flowing could be heard in the background.

While he walked up the stairway to the fourth story, Ren Xiaosu realized he encountered almost no resistance. He felt that this was a little odd.

He found a locked door between the third and fourth stories, and it seemed like it was not usually accessible to even the officers of this building.

Clang! Ren Xiaosu cut open the door. Before proceeding up to the fourth story, he hid stealthily behind a window and took a look outside. He saw more than a 100 soldiers already gathered below the tower.

With a glare, Ren Xiaosu began to search through the entirety of the fourth story. It would still take a while for the brigade outside the base to get back. If there were 500 Zong Consortium soldiers in the base, there would only be about 300 soldiers below the tower after taking into account the 100 or so troops he had just killed.

To be honest, Ren Xiaosu was hoping he could attract an even greater number of Zong Consortium troops back to the base. This was so he would get a better opportunity to kill the Zong Consortium's higher-ups once he rushed out of here. As such, Ren Xiaosu believed that his plan of breaking into the Zong Consortium's base had achieved its goal of disrupting their plans.

When he slashed open another locked door, Ren Xiaosu was startled. He instinctively thought of ducking into the corner to hide as he saw 30 soldiers standing inside this spacious room!

But Ren Xiaosu realized what was going on. After he broke into the room, the soldiers did not even move. They just stood like statues.

Ren Xiaosu cautiously looked at them and was shocked to discover he actually knew these soldiers! Weren't these the Yang Consortium's nanosoldiers?!

When Yang Xiaojin was assigned to exterminate the bandits, her third uncle had sent a platoon of nanosoldiers to ensure her safety.

But Ren Xiaosu never saw those nanosoldiers again after Yang Xiaojin suddenly took him on another route to the valley.

But shouldn't these nanosoldiers have continued marching north with Zong Cheng? Even if they had failed to exterminate the bandits or encountered something unexpected, it didn't make sense that they would be standing here like statues.

Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu remembered what Zhang Jinglin had told him. ”We have evidence to suspect that Zong Cheng's superpower allows him to gain control of others.”

A conjecture popped up in Ren Xiaosu's mind. Could these nanosoldiers have fallen under the control of Zong Cheng to become his trump cards?

At this moment, the voice from the palace in his mind said, ”Nanomachines not paired to a consciousness have been detected. Would you like to establish a connection?”

Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment. In the past, he could only reset the nanomachines of nanosoldiers who had died, so why was it different this time?

Wait a minute! Ren Xiaosu remembered what the palace had said. He realized the condition required for the palace to reset the nanomachines was not dependent on whether a person was dead but whether there was any consciousness controlling them.

And these nanosoldiers had been put into some kind of a sleep mode after being controlled by Zong Cheng. Therefore, were their ”consciousnesses” forcefully suspended by Zong Cheng as well?

Living like this could not be more miserable since they did not have control over their own lives.

”Reset them!” Ren Xiaosu answered.

Since his last battle in the wilderness, Ren Xiaosu often missed the feeling of having those nanomachines. That was because the armor was like a lifeline that could allow him to ignore the effects of standard firearms for a short duration!

Although he missed having them, he had not had the opportunity to search for more new nanomachines. He had almost given up hope, so he was surprised he could actually reunite with the nanomachines here in the Zong Consortium today.

As the saying goes, you search high and low only to find it when you least expect it.

”Removing remote access protocol…

”Resetting to factory settings…

”Restarting system…

”Pairing successful.”