My Notoriety Spreads Throughout the World

Chapter 753 - 663: The Observer of the Compassionate Civilization (5)

Seeing the leg as good as new, Bai Youyou still felt a ripple inside.

With today’s technology, reattaching a severed leg is extremely easy. The wealthy would choose to clone a new leg to attach, but there wasn’t any spray that could heal a leg merely by application like these herbs.

This body didn’t need healing; her consciousness would be uploaded after the mission ended, and the body would be discarded here. To the company, anything worthless would be abandoned.

A few minutes later, heavy footsteps echoed from outside. A man’s strong figure gradually appeared in the doorway, carrying a young deer into the room. His brown-gray waxed jacket was covered in snow dust, highlighting his solid and powerful contours.

"Xiong, you’re back?" the unnamed girl stood and asked. "I found her while climbing up the mountain, and I caught a big bear too. She was injured, so I thought about bringing her back for treatment first."

The man didn’t respond,

His attention was instantly drawn to Bai Youyou on the sofa, his gaze direct and unwavering.

After a long contemplation, the man exhaled deeply, his weathered face appearing even more worn, with eyes deep and heavy.

"Go out first," the man said.

"No... let’s settle it here," Bai Youyou rasped.

"You could talk before?"

The anonymous girl shot an astonished look. No matter how slow she was, she sensed the off atmosphere at the moment.

"It’s troublesome to kill you and then find her to explain. Just do it here," Bai Youyou slowly stood up.

"Why betray the company?"

"Betrayal?"

The man hesitated for a moment, and just as he was about to defend himself, a tactical dagger pierced through his throat.

The man’s tall body staggered back a few steps, clutching his throat tightly, as the warm blood surged from his throat, seeping through his teeth.

His eyes flickered as he reached for the hunting rifle beside the table.

Bai Youyou dashed in before him, turning her hand into a fist to push away his hand, then grasping the dagger at his throat, slowly rotating it forcefully, finally yanking it out with a gush of blood.

"You bunch... of hypocritical bastards."

The man collapsed on the ground, making a dull thud. His breath grew weaker, the flame in his eyes slowly extinguishing.

"I didn’t betray... the company..."

The anonymous girl was utterly shocked by the sudden scene, staring blankly at the man’s corpse, frozen in place and at a loss. Moments later, she charged madly, only to be subdued by Bai Youyou with one hand to the ground.

"Why do this!"

"We saved you, and you killed him!"

The anonymous girl’s voice was heart-wrenching, tears streaming down her face, and soon she cried until her voice choked.

"You killed Xiong!"

Bai Youyou sat atop the anonymous girl, effortlessly suppressing her, as she covered the girl’s face with one hand, preventing her from uttering a sound.

"Mission accomplished." Bai Youyou touched the communicator with her fingertips, her expression indifferent.

"In this mission, was there only him by the target’s side?"

Bai Youyou was silent for a moment, staring at the tear-stricken, struggling girl beneath her, saying nothing.

"Get rid of her."

"Mother." Bai Youyou frowned.

"I’m gonna kill you... I’m gonna kill you!" The anonymous girl’s face twisted in rage.

"Don’t have sympathy for her, don’t sympathize with the defector. Everything we’ve done is for humanity’s welfare; don’t leave hidden dangers."

Seeing Bai Youyou’s hesitance to respond, the voice from the communicator spoke.

"Over a decade ago, there was a tribe called Xiong Family Stronghold, whose leader was Xiong."

"They were outcasts, residing for generations in the northern Fangelis Mountains, until one day, Korossos stole experimental data from the mountaintop research lab and fled to the north of the mountains."

"The tribe’s residents warmly welcomed him, but he killed them to erase evidence of his presence, taking away the only remaining girl, and vanished in the northern deep mountains."

"If that girl were to learn the truth, wouldn’t you think it cruel for her?"

Bai Youyou stared at the tear-filled face of the girl beneath her, her expression complex.

"Death is release for her."

This was the first time ’Mother’ spoke so much to her; in her impression, Mother had always been cold and rational, replying to her with brief words and orders.

Bai Youyou broke the unnamed girl’s neck.

Having killed the two in the room,

Bai Youyou was supposed to upload her consciousness, yet the myriad signs of their life inside stopped her. She gazed at the yellowing artwork on the wall, depicting a bear standing and spreading its arms, trying to appear tall, with a girl’s brilliant smile under its embrace.

She slowly walked to the second floor of the cabin, pushed open the attic door, which was met with a puff of dust. Inside were stacks of broken miscellaneous items, and on the left side of the attic was a work desk, strewn with maps of snow-capped mountains, red marks on traps scattered about, and even notes on the distribution of large beasts and fish shoals within river domains.

She found a yellowed notebook in the drawer, aged, its pages coarse and fluffy, filled with dates in scribbled handwriting, not the man’s diary nor anything beyond the dates recorded.

The last date was circled: New Era Calendar, October 16, 530.

Exactly... today?

This discovery somewhat surprised Bai Youyou.

Could it be that the man already foresaw his death?

Yet the man’s eyes showed surprise and anger upon seeing her, which contradicted this.

Bai Youyou remembered Korossos’s last words.

"I didn’t betray... the company..."

Carrying heavy doubts, Bai Youyou transmitted her consciousness.

The surrounding scene shifted, she arrived in a dim room, just sitting up from a Petri dish, hearing the staff’s conversations stopping as they noticed her awakened.

Under the deep sea, Bai Youyou’s eyes slit open, the shimmering light on the surface seemed to slip through her fingertips, becoming increasingly distant.

Was there a silhouette swimming toward her, or was it her illusion?

She didn’t recall such a memory.

This memory...

When did it happen?

In her recollection, after transmitting consciousness, she followed the staff from the Petri dish, walked along a black corridor, and gradually entered complete darkness, all perception severed.

"Activate ’Observation’ view?"

A cold prompt appeared, Bai Youyou knew this was EVA overwriting her personality, yet she extended her hand, pressing confirm.

In the scene, a silhouette blurred in flames flashed a shot, and she fell in a pool of blood, her consciousness erased at the moment the bullet struck her brain.

As she zoomed in the image, she slowly identified the silhouette’s appearance.

The shooter...

Was herself?