Enforcer Manual
Chapter 143: Precision Operation_1

Chapter 143: Chapter 143: Precision Operation_1

If before Song Lan was skeptical, after his conversation with Princess Lieyang, he was almost certain that it was highly likely that the Princess had also been implanted with a worm.

Could it influence emotions, change a person’s thoughts?

He vaguely guessed the functions of these mechanical scorpions. Besides, he couldn’t rule out that they might also have employed high-tech methods such as recording, surveillance, and positioning. Therefore, Song Lan didn’t reveal anything when he was in the meeting room, making everything seem like an ordinary conversation.

But during that conversation, any observer could see the abnormality in Lieyang.

When learning of the capital city being breached, she showed no panic. In the face of her father’s unknown whereabouts, she didn’t question it at all.

Mobilizing an army for the sake of it, she acted mechanically, like an emotionless tool instructed to do so.

Perhaps the brash Lieyang, who chased the Rebel Army in the Gold Diggers’ Bar, was her true self.

Song Lan had met someone with the psychic ability to rewrite thoughts in the past. However, these worms seemed much stronger in terms of controlling people’s number, distance, and upper limit. Even Lieyang failed to resist the bug’s "command".

Taking this factor into account, the event itself might not be about Princess Lieyang trying to mobilize the army by visiting the Seventeenth District, but the worm’s creator hoped that she would leave her own country and people alone in the face of national crisis and head to the First Region alone.

But there are always two sides to everything.

"If we look at this problem from a positive and optimistic perspective, it at least proves that we have not yet been implanted with such worms. The United Government probably hasn’t had the chance to implement this plan on us yet."

After returning to Lu Xiang’s office, Song Lan decided to share some good news with his girlfriend to help alleviate her mood.

His claim was based on the fact that "we have always been at odds with the United Government, and the citizens of the Seventeenth District have been cursing them online without any hesitation!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiang stumbled a little.

Was this something to take pride in?

She seriously suspected that Song Lan’s inner character was a completely reactionary, carefree in his work, but always eager to oppose the United Government.

Although Song Lan revealed his inner Rebel Army nature once again, his words made sense.

If they were also implanted with worms at this moment, the United Government would have probably used the worms to control their thoughts to destroy all evidence related to the live broadcast long ago, rather than just placing a phone call to her office.

"However, there’s also some bad news."

Song Lan suddenly said, "If they no longer let the major families take over the city, they will probably implant us with these worms sooner or later."

It seemed the situation was worse than they had previously imagined. The United Government not only chose them as cannon fodder, but it also wanted them to willingly accept this role.

The actions of Lieyang clearly showed the profound effects of the worm’s brainwashing, so much so that it could make a general, revered by the people, abandon her own country during the war.

"Just to be safe, how about we curse the United Government together every morning when we wake up to make sure we haven’t been implanted with a worm?"

Song Lan suggested.

Though in many ways Lu Xiang disapproved of the United Government’s actions, to his knowledge, she had never openly cursed the United Government.

No, more precisely, Lu Xiang had never cursed anyone in front of him.

What a polite, well-mannered girl.

Even if she was upset with you, she would never swear at you.

At most, she’d prick your neck artery so you’d bleed out and die.

This was a lesson learned by Mr. Barna (a member of the Chai Ke Criminal Group, who met his end in Chapter nine), at the cost of his life.

"Not good."

Lu Xiang put on a straight face, considering physically intervening to stop Song Lan’s babbling in her office.

"The way Lieyang spoke felt disjointed, as if she was an immature child in her deposition last night."

This probably had something to do with her exalted status in the Twelfth Nation.

As the daughter of a leader and a high-ranking general, wherever she went, she naturally received adulation. The wealth of the Twelfth Nation fostered her careless and destructive style.

"This suggests that she typically doesn’t cover up her emotions in daily life. However, during our recent conversation, she was very calm as if she had changed completely."

Or rather, she was like an emotionless puppet.

Therefore, Lu Xiang deduced some information, "When the host doesn’t involve the worm’s command, the host’s mood doesn’t show any notable changes. This may also be why those who’ve been implanted have not yet been discovered. However, if they go against the command, the host will fall into another state... Before we figure out what’s going on, don’t prevent her from going to the First Region."

She believed that if anyone thwarted the bug’s orders, Lieyang would most likely activate her bio-body and cut them down.

"Remember that broadcast...?"

Lu Xiang was reminded of something, "Apart from alerting us to the existence of the worms, they also revealed a way to get rid of them."

Without a meticulous operation, they used a knife to puncture the neck of the Minister of Finance.

If it were not for the subsequent psychic healer and the entire medical team, anyone watching the broadcast would have thought the Rebel Army was executing those captives.

"An ordinary wound probably wouldn’t work. According to the contents of the live broadcast, it seems you need to push the host body into a near-death state to get the worm to leave them."

Not everyone can guarantee that the host will survive after being stabbed in the back of the neck.

"Can you do it?"

"It might be difficult, I’ll need to think of a way."

Song Lan answered honestly. For him, extracting a worm from a person’s body was far more challenging than swiftly stabbing them from behind.

The boundary between life and death is extremely fleeting. If they missed that fleeting moment, even if they could remove the worm, the host would probably be a goner.

In the state of deploying psychic abilities, although he could control the speed of human and object movements, anyone within range would become unconscious. It would be impossible in this state to perform an operation.

As for destructive and interfering psychic abilities, given his current abilities, Lu Xiang was unable to rid the worm parasitizing inside Lieyang’s body without endangering her life.

"In simple terms, there’s not enough precision in operation."

Song Lan concluded. In the live broadcast, performing this operation would require at least one psychic healer who could heal fatal wounds in a short period.

"Support type psychic abilities are precisely what I’m worst at."

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