NOVPUB"Do you need to say goodbye to your friends?"
Nightingale teased Wu Bin while organizing magazines.
Wu Bin curled his lips and said, "It shouldn’t be that dangerous, right? With you guys protecting me, do I still need to say goodbye to friends?"
It was not so much that Wu Bin was overconfident; it was more that his first impression of the personnel from the Ninth Institute was one of professionalism.
Bulletproof vests, tactical headsets, tactical helmets, precision rifles...
Based on the equipment of these personnel from the Ninth Institute, calling them special forces would not be an exaggeration.
With such elite teammates, Wu Bin was confident he could come back alive.
Just as Wu Bin was being glib, scout team leader Hu Feng and Han Biao from the Fifth Special Task Force met up.
"Old Han, long time no see. I was wondering why I couldn’t find you at the base, turns out you were with student Wu Bin."
Han Biao chuckled.
"Isn’t this just following orders to protect student Wu Bin? Who would have thought that just by dozing off, such an incident would happen."
Han Biao was the leader of the Fifth Special Task Force. The headquarters had previously arranged for him to be specifically responsible for protecting Wu Bin’s life.
But in order not to draw attention and to protect Wu Bin’s privacy, the Fifth Task Force did not provide close protection but instead strategically positioned themselves around him.
To put it simply, when Wu Bin was active in the university campus, except for two special members who loitered around, the rest of the team would stand by in a rental house outside the university.
This time, Wu Bin was invited to a private island. The Fifth Task Force had no legitimate reason to follow onto the island, so they planned to offer support by watching the live stream from the perimeter.
But to their surprise, just as they let their guard down, the incident on the island occurred.
Han Biao led his team to the island as soon as possible, but they couldn’t find Wu Bin and his party’s whereabouts in a short period of time.
Hu Feng said to Han Biao, "Since that’s the case, then your Fifth Team will continue to protect student Wu Bin. I won’t assign more people to it."
"Sure, no problem."
At this point, Hu Feng suddenly bowed solemnly to Han Biao.
"If anything happens to me, please look after my parents for me."
Han Biao, too, became serious and returned the gesture.
Seeing the atmosphere turn so solemn all of a sudden, Wu Bin’s heart also hung in suspense.
"Is there really a need to be this serious? What exactly are we going to do?"
Wu Bin had thought that when Jin Nanhua talked about sacrifice, he was just joking, but now he realized that something was really off.
Nightingale said indifferently from the side, "Do you remember how the doctor used the Pisces Jade Pendant to reset your body state?"
Wu Bin nodded.
"Yeah, what about it?"
Nightingale explained, "Although the Pisces Jade Pendant can reset a person’s body state, it has always had a side effect."
"Do you know about Lop Nur? The Pisces Jade Pendant was brought out from there."
Lop Nur, located within the borders of Dragon Country.
Because it appears as an ear pattern when viewed from satellite cloud images, Lop Nur has long been referred to by the outside world as the Ear of the World.
The various mysteries and legends about Lop Nur actually began in the 1980s and 1990s. 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝙢
Due to Lop Nur’s special geographical location, Dragon Country once sent many scientists there to carry out field investigations and research.
However, what was unexpected was that Lop Nur seemed to be inhabited by some kind of demon.
Anyone who stayed for long periods in Lop Nur, either died or went mad, and the mad ones were as if injected with a dose of chicken blood, jumping and bouncing around until they ultimately died from exhaustion.
Rumors started spreading from that time.
Some said these people were possessed by ghosts, while others claimed there was a peculiar magnetic field anomaly in the area, and that was why those who stayed overnight would transform like that.
Wu Bin was very confused when he heard this.
"What do these have to do with the Pisces Jade Pendant?"
Nightingale glanced at Wu Bin and said indifferently, "Because the Pisces Jade Pendant was brought out from the Lop Nur, and it has a side effect, which duplicates you while resetting your physical state."
"Generally, the duplicate will appear within two hundred meters of the original body."
"This duplicate possesses its own autonomy, has exactly the same abilities as you, and most importantly, all duplicates are evil."
Nightingale’s words left Wu Bin completely dumbfounded.
"You mean, there’s another me in this world, besides me, and he’s an evil version of myself?"
"And this other me possesses all my abilities?"
Nightingale nodded her head.
"Initially, when we were treating you, we had already captured your duplicate, but he escaped our surveillance with some strange abilities."
"But we successfully injected a nanotracker into his body, so his location has always been monitored by us."
"Just two hours ago, we detected the duplicate’s location; he’s also on this island."
"That’s why we insisted you join the mission, because an original has a very strong restraining effect on their duplicate."
Hearing Nightingale say this, Wu Bin himself was shocked.
He never imagined that this was the real reason for him to join the mission.
"That duplicate, does it also have a life? What will you do after you catch it, kill it?"
As if Nightingale knew what was on Wu Bin’s mind, she said, "We wouldn’t do such inhumane things. Generally, we would send him for thought education and behavior correction first."
"If thought education doesn’t meet the standards, he can only stay at the Ninth Facility, continuing to be contained."
"But if he passes the thought education, we would also issue him a new identity, allowing him to become a free person."
Hearing Nightingale say this, Wu Bin felt a wave of relief.
Although it was just his duplicate, Wu Bin had never met it.
But Wu Bin still hoped that the Ninth Facility would handle it in a more humane way.
At this moment, Hu Feng and the others were already prepared to set off.
"The surrounding sea region has been completely blockaded, ready to embark at any time."
"Everyone on board, disembark, get in the vehicles!"
Hu Feng and Nightingale each led an attack squad, while Han Biao led a defense team specifically to protect Wu Bin and Jin Nanhua.
The group boarded military jeeps and headed in the northeast direction.
Soon, the military jeeps passed by Dong Yue’s villa.
But now, the villa was in ruins, with many bloodstains on the walls.
On the ground lay not only the bodies of Dragon Slaves, but also the bodies of security guards and housekeepers.
Seeing this scene, Wu Bin felt a tinge of sorrow.
Who could have imagined that the people who were talking and laughing just yesterday would turn into corpses today?
"Doctor, a cave has been discovered up ahead, and the signal is also inside that cave!"
