Under the pressure of Zhushi Jiu’s intense questioning, the room fell silent for dozens of seconds.
Then, Xu Feng replied calmly, “What if it is, what if it isn’t?”
Yes, what if it is, what if it isn’t? This is a clever tactic. Even if Zhushi Jiu saw through the truth, he couldn’t change anything. As long as Xu Feng wanted to use his foresight to do something that exceeded limits, he would be stopped by two Black Soldiers. If he wanted to break through the Black Soldiers’ restrictions, he would have to use a password.
From Xu Feng’s perspective, this calculation method should be the simplest, most effective, and most scientific way to calculate. In a situation where it was almost impossible to determine whether Zhushi Jiu had foresight or not, any move Zhushi Jiu made would be suspicious.
However, Xu Feng had thought of a calculation method that conformed to his logic and allowed him to understand Zhushi Jiu’s foresight ability to a certain extent.
Xu Feng didn’t believe anything. In his view, only cold, hard numbers wouldn’t deceive people.
Zhushi Jiu’s questioning ultimately didn’t get a result.
“It’s also, if you really admitted it, then you wouldn’t be Xu Feng anymore.”
You should know that this man had deceived Zhushi Jiu multiple times using his name. With his nature, even if Zhushi Jiu guessed correctly, there was a 99% chance he would choose to deny it firmly.
“Let’s not waste words. You used the Black Soldiers to find me. What’s your purpose?”
Zhushi Jiu sat back on the sofa: “You’ve figured it out?”
“You don’t have a way to contact me, and the only way you know to contact me is through this phone, and you also know the password.”
“This shows that you foresaw a way to contact me. Since that’s the case, you should also know that your current actions will lead to the Black Soldiers actively contacting me.”
Xu Feng’s voice came out calmly from the receiver.
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“So, you let this situation develop, just to get in touch with me, right? Going around in circles just for such a small matter, don’t you feel tedious?”
Zhushi Jiu replied, “Compared to the laborious methods I used to play with, your kind of thinking ability that can freely and smoothly operate anywhere is even more annoying.”
“…”
Zhushi Jiu didn’t waste words and said, “I want to ask something.”
“One question for one question. I’ll ask first.”
Xu Feng started playing his old tricks.
Zhushi Jiu fell into a distant memory.
It had been a long time since, in that painful interrogation room, they played like this…
Oh, it was “yesterday” anyway, so it didn’t matter.
“In the future you foresaw, what kind of conversation did we have?”
Zhushi Jiu’s face was expressionless: “This question is too broad.”
He almost immediately sensed the trap in Xu Feng’s question.
If Zhushi Jiu answered naively, Xu Feng wouldn’t only know what specific events would happen in the future but also could judge whether the situation was urgent, understand potential hidden dangers, and even predict Zhushi Jiu’s hidden intentions…
…The answer to this question contained too much information.
Xu Feng saw that Zhushi Jiu didn’t respond for a long time and coldly laughed.
“Can’t answer? Not answering is fine. Then this conversation will end here, and I’ll let the Black Soldiers increase their control over you. Just like you said before, if you want the Black Soldiers to lift their restrictions, use a password.”
“It’s not that I can’t answer, it’s just that the value of our questions should be equal.”
Zhushi Jiu replied.
“After all, we’re not in confrontation now, but cooperation. You have the right to abandon your answer and cooperate with me, and I have the right to abandon my plan.”
Zhushi Jiu added with a sneer.
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“Do you think saving the world is still important to you now that you’ve lost emotions?”
To Zhushi Jiu now, saving the world was just a routine task.
He was still willing to save the world even after losing emotions because he knew he would eventually regain them.
However, Xu Feng didn’t know that.
In Xu Feng’s understanding, Zhushi Jiu had voluntarily become an emotionless Black Soldier machine, but that was before the drug injection. After the injection, whether Zhushi Jiu would commit suicide due to the lack of pleasure in life, Xu Feng couldn’t be sure.
Because Zhushi Jiu wasn’t a soldier trained rigorously from the start, but an ordinary person.
This was also a clever tactic.
To have an equal conversation with Xu Feng, one needed to mutually surrender, until one side gave in.
After a long silence, Xu Feng compromised: “What do you want to ask me?”
“National Secret Resources Protection Agency. Everything about this organization.”
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“Oh?” Xu Feng’s voice had a hint of playfulness, “You’re sure you want to use this question’s answer to exchange for my question?”
Zhushi Jiu instinctively judged that Xu Feng’s emotions contained ridicule, but he still firmly nodded: “Yes, I’m certain.”
“Okay, then answer my question first — what kind of conversation did we have in the future you foresaw?”
“We didn’t have any valuable conversations. Whether you believe it or not, this is the truth.”
This was indeed the truth.
In the last week, Zhushi Jiu barely spoke to Xu Feng, mostly just talking to himself.
“Heh heh.”
Xu Feng coldly laughed, then answered Zhushi Jiu’s question.
“National Secret Resources Protection Agency — it doesn’t exist, not just domestically, but globally. This is the truth.”
Zhushi Jiu: “……”
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After a silence, Zhushi Jiu spoke: “You should know that lying in our current conversation is meaningless.”
“This sentence is what I wanted to say to you. However, regardless of whether you lied or not, I didn’t. I roughly know which organization the people you contacted belong to, but I’m certain there’s no ‘National Secret Resources Protection Agency’.”
Zhushi Jiu thought for a bit, then added more details.
“In the future I foresaw, I injected an anti-Black Soldier suppression drug. If you know what that is, you should understand that I didn’t lie. The anti-Black Soldier suppression drug completely restored my emotions, making it impossible for me to think rationally, so our conversation was indeed worthless.”
Xu Feng thought for a while, then replied calmly, “The people you contacted are just an organization that operates under the guise of the ‘National’ flag. They have a high-ranking official backing them, and the ID they showed you is fake, but it could also be real.”
The ID is fake, but it could also be real?
“As long as they want, they can establish a ‘National Secret Resources Protection Agency’ with the same name in just five minutes through proper channels. They should have many such identity certificates ready.”
Zhushi Jiu understood.
Then, he was speechless in his heart.
Those people seemed to have no tricks up their sleeves, but the organization Xu Feng remembered couldn’t be that simple?
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He had misjudged earlier. They belonged not to the country, but to some high-ranking official’s organization.
The country’s intentions didn’t matter, but each person in the upper echelons definitely had their own thoughts, and some people hadn’t put them into action, while others had already started.
Seeing the superficial, he could even judge that the high-ranking official was cautious and hadn’t given significant support, merely lending their name to the organization, and the actual decision-makers might not be that official.
Otherwise, Xue An wouldn’t be so desperate to find talent.
So, Xue An’s organization was essentially a civilian organization unrelated to the country.
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