Enforcer Manual
Chapter 540: The Informer_1

Chapter 540: Chapter 540: The Informer_1

The troublemaking squad that broke the school rules received the punishment they deserved. In addition to attacking the artificial intelligence guards, they were also charged with assaulting the principal. To reform their ways, they would undergo a month of thought correction therapy.

This was the most severe punishment ever disclosed since the establishment of the student forum.

In reality, the vast majority of students had no idea what thought correction therapy entailed. Only a select few who had undergone the secret "remedy" knew the horrifying extent of this method. Let alone a month, it was a feat of courage to endure a week of electric shocks without going mad.

Lying in the hospital bed, Xinya shuttered involuntarily upon seeing the announcement.

To serve as a warning for students of the Purple Wisteria Academy, the teacher in charge of treating the three would document the daily process and effects of the treatment beneath the announcement.

Having been closely following the forum, Lu Xiang naturally saw the announcement right away.

Owing to Dr. Kulin’s surveillance, she and Song Lan had been confined to their dormitory since yesterday.

Even without being on-site, she could discern the principal’s malicious intent, "Look, the duration of treatment for their squad is actually different."

She found some key details in the information.

"The team leader and fighter, as the masterminds, need to undergo a month of thought correction therapy. However, their team’s support type ability user, due to a good attitude of remorse and significant meritorious performance, had their treatment time reduced to a week and were assigned to a different floor from the other two."

This announcement all but openly told everyone that it was this support type ability user who betrayed the two, reporting their secret plan to flee the campus to the teachers.

In such a situation, much of the two’s hatred for the principal and Purple Wisteria Academy would shift to their traitorous teammate.

More often than not, a betrayer from within inspires greater loathing than the true enemy.

Now that they were all in the school’s grasp, it was hard to imagine what the other two might do in retaliation against the betrayer.

"This principal is a master at diverting conflicts,"

Song Lan sighed. With just a few students challenging the entire Purple Wisteria Academy, they were indeed somewhat naive. However, it couldn’t be ruled out that the girl, after undergoing thought correction therapy, truly betrayed her teammates.

After all, the pain caused by electric shock therapy was tremendous, not even he dared to guarantee that he would remain composed after a round of thought correction therapy.

He recalled the scenes he observed with his psychic abilities over the past two days. If he put himself in the girl’s and Xinya’s shoes, he thought he might well lose control and send them to their demise in a moment of weakness.

"In such circumstances, it’s normal for the bonds between classmates to fail the test."

Lu Xiang commented, "After a month of therapy, they’ll probably have long forgotten about this event. In fact, electric shock therapy as a method doesn’t even exist. In the early days, it was actually an interrogation technique, and it targeted not only psychics. In fact, to this day, the ’external’ operational departments still employ this method to extract information from captives."

Because of the particular nature of ’external’ operations, they might not always find hallucinogenic drugs to aid in interrogations, but even in the poorest places, there was electricity.

"Forget about students; even the most vicious and desperate criminals can’t withstand the interrogation of electric shocks. It’s rare for anyone to endure a day of torture. Most of them soon divulge secrets, or simply end their suffering through suicide,"

Lu Xiang shared her experiences from her time in the "outside world" with Song Lan.

Their practical training courses involved many operations in collaboration with the "external" execution departments, and she had witnessed firsthand the sight of members of the Rebel Army, their faces gnarled with determination, convulsing and incontinence under electric shock—pain much more intense than it did outwardly appear.

So, she understood from the outset why Purple Wisteria Academy kept thought correction therapy confidential.

If word of this treatment method were to get out, their competitors would certainly make a big deal of it, taking the initiative to represent the parents of the students in opposing the use of interrogation methods on them.

Lu Xiang would bet that the Conservative Faction would definitely be eager to find out what was happening in this school.

Regrettably, this is the current state of the United Government.

The so-called justice is nothing more than a banner waved during fights between two factions, where one side’s call to arms would lead countless citizens, who couldn’t understand the deeper reasons, to play the role of the chargers.

At this moment, Song Lan suddenly remembered the time when Qi He, representing the Ragus Foundation, met with them, the many meaningful words he had said now seemed to have found their answers.

Qi He mentioned that the demure little girl by his side was a graduate of the Purple Wisteria Academy.

Despite her young age, she was one of the most outstanding graduates since the academy’s establishment. After graduation, she had devoted herself fully to the company’s service, earning unanimous praise, and was ultimately noticed by him during an inspection and transferred to work by his side.

At that time, Song Lan had keenly observed the fear in the girl’s eyes when Qi He mentioned the Purple Wisteria Academy.

Not only that, her reaction time to external events always seemed to be a beat too slow.

This is precisely the side effect of long-term electric shock "remedy."

"What’s strange is, why did they change their strategy and suddenly announce this matter to the whole school?"

Lu Xiang voiced another doubt of his own. With this, wouldn’t all the students in the school now be aware of the thought-correction remedy?

Once they talk about this matter when they go home for the holidays, it will cause an uproar in public opinion.

"Their real purpose is not to serve as a warning to all students, but rather it lies outside the Purple Wisteria Academy, with Angle Saffire, I feel that’s why they record the effects of the remedy every day."

Yesterday they all thought the "delinquent youth" was out for revenge on Angle, but no one expected that after disappearing for a night, he suddenly turned his gun around, planning a school-shaking escape attempt, and even attacking the principal.

Therefore, Song Lan speculated that the youth had already met with Angle and had reached some kind of understanding on certain matters.

"Remember Dr. Kulin said that surveillance devices have been installed in every corner of the school, so that even a fly coming in would be immediately known to them?"

At the time, she used this as a reason to refuse Lu Xiang’s suggestion to cooperate with their investigation. "But it seems they don’t know when the youth came back; maybe there’s some other way to get in and out of the school without anyone noticing."

Perhaps Angle also infiltrated the campus through this method.

Rather than exhaust manpower and resources searching for Angle everywhere, it would be better to let him come to them.

And these records are the perfect bait.

If he truly intends to uphold "justice" and rescue the three from their suffering, he must show himself soon.

If he is even one step too late, the aftereffects of the thought-correction remedy will follow them for life.

Just like the little girl by Qi He’s side, after undergoing the full course of treatment, the Purple Wisteria Academy and the company had become an inescapable Shadow in her heart.

"Their real target has been Angle from the very beginning."

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