Chapter 139: The Old Gods
Killing them all might bring the research to a halt for a long time.
These cold and cruel words made Fang Ziyu recall the story Wen Yan told him on the campus of Luo University in a trance.
Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, in that long era when martial arts flourished and everyone pursued great power for themselves, there was a strong ruler who believed that martial arts was narrow and had limited potential, and in order to let more people embark on the path he recognized, he slaughtered the entire martial arts with his own strength.
Perhaps because the martial arts had disappeared too completely in history, Fang Ziyu was skeptical of this story and didn't feel much about it, and it wasn't until he heard Bailey Oldman's sentence on Albert's team that he was shocked.
If Bailey wasn't lying, and if Albert's research was going to cause a biochemical catastrophe that would have claimed billions of lives, then sacrificing a handful to save the majority seemed like the only right thing to do.
If there was no other way, Fang Ziyu felt that he would most likely press the button to change the tram track, even if he did not have the right to do so, and was destined to carry a heavy psychological burden.
But Bailey was very indifferent, and he didn't even want to hide his indifference.
In his eyes, the lives of Albert's team members seemed to be just a small loss that inevitably occurred when making the right choice, and the loss was so small that he didn't even have to think about whether there was a better solution, but instead took them for granted.
Fang Ziyu had no intention of criticizing Bailey's cold-bloodedness, but he was deeply touched by it.
It's no wonder that Wen Yan would say that many rulers claim to be gods, separated from mortals.
Holding superhuman authority for a long time, the accumulated sense of superiority has evolved into self-importance, so he no longer sees himself as a human being, but regards ordinary people as resources and property, and when necessary, in order to stop losses in time, he can abandon them without blinking an eye, and when he is crazy, he does not hesitate to start a war and kill innocents.
To say that such a "god" will create a better future for ordinary people, who believes?
At this time, Fang Ziyu could finally understand why Wen Yan and Yang Dazhuang would provide protection for themselves, Luo Jinyu, and Ouyang Jie, probably this was how they fought against the "old gods".
Thinking of the many changes that had occurred since he and Ouyang Jie obtained the Celestial Weapon, Fang Ziyu felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
But now is not the time to be sentimental, Fang Ziyu shook his head and shook out those messy thoughts, and quickly strung together bits and pieces of information.
Bailey's goal was to stop Albert's research, and research projects were never a one-man job, and even if Albert was removed, his team would continue to do so, but the progress of the R&D team could be delayed without this experienced core task.
So Bailey decided to get rid of the R&D team that remained in the underground laboratory building, and maybe destroy the entire laboratory building.
With Caesaro's strength, it is not difficult to build the underground laboratory building into a solid underground fortress, so Bailey needs to use Albert to enter the laboratory building, so in the clip released by the future tablet, Albert left his seat before the explosion.
Thinking that this is not only a trick used by Caesaro to confuse the police and the public, but also a trick to confuse Caesaro's security department, as long as Caesaro's security department does not cancel Albert's access to the underground laboratory building in the first place, Bailey can easily infiltrate the laboratory building.
This also explains why the pursuing militants did not use RPGs as a mass killer weapon in the first place, perhaps they were not afraid of the New York Police Department, but received an order to stay alive.
Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration flashed in Fang Ziyu's mind, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Albert's right hand.
"You want me to take you to infiltrate Norman's underground lab building, slaughter my team, destroy all the samples, and activate the self-destruct program?"
Albert's smile became more and more obvious, although Ouyang Jie blocked the mobile phone camera, Bailey could only see that it was pitch black, he still raised his right hand and shook it gently, and said: "You don't have this opportunity, the identity verification system in the underground laboratory building has four programs: fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, face recognition and chip recognition, as long as one of them does not match, it is impossible to enter." Look, the chip in my hand has been thrown away. ”
Sure enough, the chip Albert implanted in his right hand was not used for positioning at all, but for identity verification.
Fang Ziyu's suspicions were not unreasonable, the reason why Albert confessed about the chip was most likely because he guessed that someone wanted to control him to sneak into the underground laboratory building to steal research results, so he made up a lie and asked Ouyang Jie to help take out the chip.
It seems that this research-obsessed doctor is not stupid, but very smart, and he has been deceived before, purely because of his lack of social experience, and he has never seen phone fraud routines.
Bailey was obviously stunned for a moment, then his face changed several times, and finally he sighed and said with a wry smile: "Knowing that this path will lead you and countless people to destruction, you are still obsessed. You, your stubbornness is beyond my imagination. ”
"That's what I'm going to say, Bailey, I can't understand your stubbornness. It's a foolish idea that people always associate new inventions with weapons, so why can you only see the bad side and not the good side? Why do you emphasize to me that microbial weapons could kill countless people, but not that breakthroughs in microbial pharmaceutical technology will save countless people? And also
If you can foresee the future, and now that I know it, how can I possibly make the bad prospects you foresaw come true? ”
Albert frowned slightly, his eyes full of confusion.
"First of all, as I said, my Zeus has been lost, which means that I can no longer foresee the future. Secondly, things have their inertia, sometimes it is easy to change the future, but sometimes it is difficult to change the future. Bailey shook his head and continued, "J, I want to make a deal with you. ”
Ouyang Jie didn't respond immediately, and after weighing the pros and cons and thinking about it, he asked, "What deal?" ”
"Please hand Albert over to me, and I will do everything in my power to prevent the havoc he will cause, and in exchange I will provide you with more information, including but not limited to certain taboos of the Dominators, and I will pay a ransom to your satisfaction. Fifty million, dollars. Bailey blinked, as if he felt that the offer was too low, and added, "I don't have much cash at my disposal, if you're interested, I'll send some more antiques, Huaxia antiques." ”
"I'm not short of money." Ouyang Jie's response was very atmospheric, treating 50 million US dollars as nothing, "But I have some questions, if you can answer me a few questions first, I will consider throwing this hot potato to you." ”
"What? Hot sweet potato? ”
Ouyang Jie didn't bother to explain, hung up the call straightforwardly, looked at Fang Ziyu and asked, "He will definitely call again, think about it first, do you want to ask your own question, or will I help you ask?" ”