Chapter 703 - The Protective Huo Shao (3) (1/2)
Chapter 703: The Protective Huo Shao (3)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Huo Shaoheng entered the elevator with an extremely stern expression and told Zhao Liangze through the earpiece, “Inform the execution team. We’ll carry out the execution immediately.”
Zhao Liangze looked at his watch. It was only half past four. Executions were usually carried out at noon. Ye Zitan just issued herself a death sentence. When the prison executed a criminal, they’d usually let them have a nice final meal and also send some clothes that the criminal liked, so they knew that their time was “nearing.”
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In the interrogation room in the disciplinary committee building, Gu Nianzhi looked at Ye Zitan sternly and said coldly, “Enough, Doctor Ye! I wanted to be nice since you were going to be executed soon, but look at what you’re saying! Do you think you’re humane at all?! No wonder you’d betray your comrades for personal gain. People like you will never be the best in the world of medicine. You’re always thinking of how to take advantage of people’s knowledge for your own sake and stealing other’s credit as your own. Shame on you!”
Gu Nianzhi’s words struck the weakest spot in Ye Zitan’s heart. For her, achieving breakthroughs in experiments had become a spell, an evil spell that pulled her to sacrifice anything she had, just so she could achieve them—just like the notorious doctors from j.a.pan’s Unit 731 who used real humans for experiments just because they wanted real results for breakthroughs.
Those doctors from Unit 731 did not see the Chinese as humans but viewed them as animals. Or perhaps they saw them as objects, like a piece of wood or a rock. They were just a set of data to the doctors, not living humans that would experience pain and cry, just like they did. And what were comrades? They’d even sacrifice their own families or even themselves, if necessary.
“Haha… You’ll never understand how invincible they are! Even though you might have been lucky enough this time around, you won’t be the next. You will not be able to escape… They’ve set their eyes on you… You’ll never ever be able to escape!” Ye Zitan was almost delusional by now due to the impact of Gu Nianzhi’s words. Raising her hands, she laughed eerily and seemed to have completely lost her mind.
Gu Nianzhi chuckled and folded her arms casually. “Don’t waste your efforts anymore, Doctor Ye. It’s futile to try to get off the hook by pretending to have lost your mind. I’m a lawyer and am able to tell you responsibly that for the crime of being a spy, losing one’s mind will not be one of the considerations for being let go.”
Ye Zitan’s laughter stopped abruptly. She glared at Gu Nianzhi with red eyes. Her usually tidy hair was already a mess because of her incessant rubbing, making her look like a maniac.
“You don’t believe me?” Gu Nianzhi was full of confidence whenever she spoke about her profession. “Because being a spy isn’t an ordinary crime. You require a mastermind organization that has absolute sanity and power to carry out a crime in order to give commands, and the person receiving the commands must have absolute sanity and power to carry out those commands. Therefore, those who are spies will never be mentally unsound. If that person was mentally unsound, he or she would never have been able to carry out those commands. Don’t try so hard anymore. Your mastermind has obviously already given up on you. To them you were merely a tiny chess piece that is easily replaceable. They’ve betrayed you, but you’re still protecting them? How silly.”
“It can’t be… It can’t be… They said… They said that I’m extremely important to them… I am their only spy in the Special Forces…” Ye Zitan shook her head in denial, like she would be able to fully deny Gu Nianzhi’s words as long as she used enough strength.
Gu Nianzhi snorted. Supporting herself on one hand, her slender finger tapped on her right cheek. “Continue trying to brainwash yourself. You? The only spy? You trust their word? I really take my hat off to those people now. They’re really good at looking for one’s weak spots. To you, Doctor Ye, the usual tools of bribery—money and men—might not work. Therefore, how could they use you? The only way would be to target your eagerness for medical breakthroughs.”
“Don’t be too proud of yourself. You think that you’ll be able to escape death twice?” Ye Zitan did not even try to hide anymore. Glaring hard at Gu Nianzhi, she looked vastly different from how she looked when she had been crying a moment ago. She had really intended to apologize to Gu Nianzhi. However, seeing how Gu Nianzhi spoke, she did not feel apologetic anymore.
“Haha, you think I’m dumb? If they were really so good, they wouldn’t have had to use you to find out where I was.” If Gu Nianzhi wasn’t so capable, she would have died at the foot of the Alps. Even though she was disappointed by how she had to escape all on her own, her confidence regarding her own capability and survival skills increased tremendously. Even though people learned from failures, a person wouldn’t be confident unless they had succeeded.
Chen Lie was dumbfounded listening to their conversation. When he heard Ye Zitan bring up how Gu Nianzhi looked after the ordeal when she first contracted H3aB7, he almost died. Beads of perspiration dotted his forehead. He was just relieved that he had held it in at the time and had not told Ye Zitan the entire truth. Ye Zitan only knew that Gu Nianzhi was “used” to that extent. She did not know, however, that it was due to the H3aB7. She had thought that it was only due to a normal aphrodisiac.