After Xie Chen passed out, the "servant" really walked into the restaurant slowly and said, "Yu Ran, you did a great job."
Her voice was a little hoarse, and it was 99% similar to the Grandma Li in Yu Ran's memory. If it weren't for the fact that the scar on her arm didn't match up, Yu Ran would have been fooled by her.
The real Grandma Li must have been murdered. Thinking of the kind old lady who told him stories every day when he was a child, Yu Ran felt a sharp pain in his heart, and he wished he could chop the fake one into pieces!
But he can't do that yet.
Although it was crucial to catch the mimic octopus, what was more important was the detailed list of the Dark Night Organization. He wanted to find out how many people there were in this organization and catch all these rats hiding in the gutter in one fell swoop to prevent future troubles.
Yu Ran quickly calmed down and asked calmly, "Are you the person the organization has planted next to General Xie?"
The wrinkles on the old lady's face were like uneven ravines. She glanced at Xie Chen and said, "General Xie is very cautious. I have never found an opportunity to take action. On her birthday, you should visit her in person. She will definitely want to eat something."
Yu Ran stared at her and asked, "What should we do next? Did the organization ask you to tell me?"
The old lady said, "Control her like you control General Lu."
Yu Ran sneered: "Are you kidding? My control is limited by distance. How can I control two legion commanders at the same time?"
It is indeed not difficult for the Dark Night Organization to control ordinary people. There is a large number of people under their control on the planet B73.
But the mental image of an S-class sentinel is too huge to be easily subdued. Their previous experiments to control S-class sentinels had always failed, and Lu Zexuan was the first "successful" experiment, so the organization was not particularly clear about how Yu Ran specifically controlled Lu Zexuan.
Yu Ran took advantage of this information gap and found a way to save his aunt.
The old lady seemed stunned when she heard him say that, then frowned and asked, "What is the farthest distance you can control an S-level puppet?"
Yu Ran said, "It's about the same as the maximum distance that a spirit can leave its master, which cannot exceed 500 meters. This is why Lu Zexuan and I have been inseparable all this time."
At this time, Lu Zexuan had a dazed look on his face and stood obediently beside Yu Ran, like an obedient puppet.
Yu Ran glanced at Xie Chen who had fainted in the chair and said, "How about this, I will control General Xie first and ask her to have a video conference with the top brass of the corps. She will say that she has been feeling unwell recently and needs to rest at home for a while. Military affairs will be temporarily handed over to the deputy commander of the Xinghui Corps. We will put her under house arrest, and when we need her to show up, I will find a way to control her actions."
The old lady seemed to be thinking, her cloudy eyes rolled around, and then she said, "Master, tell me, I'll do it your way."
Since ordinary people controlled by the Dark Night Organization have monitoring programs implanted in their brains, the old lady's behavior really seemed like someone was controlling and monitoring her from behind the scenes - only Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan knew that she was actually the mimic octopus, the same person who pretended to be the president that day.
This is the boss behind the scenes they have been looking for!
The mimic octopus can change its appearance and features at will. This spiritual being is really terrifying.
However, the mimic octopus's "camouflage" has a fatal flaw. It can only disguise the appearance and voice of humans that it knows. It cannot completely copy some details that it has not noticed, such as the length of the president's fingers or the scars on the old lady's arms.
Yu Ran nodded calmly and said, "Okay, that's it. I'll wake up General Xie first."
***
At this time, in Yu Ran's spiritual world, the area of the lake in the forest was doubled by the white fox.
Deep at the bottom of the lake, a sleeping black shark slowly opened its eyes. It looked around with confusion, as if it couldn't understand how the ocean where it lived had suddenly turned into a lake
There is a big difference between sea water and lake water. It is the overlord of the ocean, not a fish in the lake!
The black shark seemed a little angry, and swung its tail and tried to swim upwards, but found that its body was tightly bound by soft green vines. The green vines were very resilient, and it was unable to struggle free for a while
What was even stranger was that the green vines exuded a soft luster. There was an abundant spiritual power, like a weak electric current, flowing slowly along the vines throughout its body.
So comfortable.
Over the years, it has never felt so comfortable. It seems that every pore of the body has been gently soothed.
This is the guide's healing power, helping it heal the trauma caused by the deep-sea turmoil just now.
Black Shark was quickly calmed down by Yu Ran, and even happily closed his eyes to enjoy the treatment of the vines.
As Black Shark's mental strength recovered, Xie Chen on the sofa also opened his eyes.
Looking at Yu Ran's indifferent expression, Lu Zexuan's dull eyes, and the servant with a weird smile, Xie Chen did not act rashly. The spirit body and the master's consciousness are connected, and she soon saw that her shark was pulled into Yu Ran's mental picture.
Only S’s guide can pull other people’s spirit bodies into his own picture for dialogue.
The first time she was pulled away was when she was young, when she was pulled into Marshal Qin Xiao's ocean and talked to the marshal in the transparent bubble of jellyfish. At that time, she only felt that the marshal's ocean was more magnificent and vast than her own, and her heart was full of awe for S's guide.
At this moment, she felt the same powerful mental power as the marshal did back then.
Yu Ran's mental strength is at least S.
There is a clear lake in front of Black Shark, but judging from the light and shadow, Yu Ran’s spiritual picture is not just about this lake. The trees, flowers and plants by the lake cast clear reflections in the lake... This place looks more like a forest.
Xie Chen was not a reckless person. After noticing that Yu Ran had saved her black shark, she immediately asked calmly, "Yu Ran, what are you doing? Why did you pull my black shark into your lake and heal its mental damage?"
Her consciousness was transmitted through the black shark, so Yu Ran could hear her voice ringing at the bottom of the lake.
Yu Ran was worried that her expression would give him away, so he didn't tell her his true identity directly. Instead, he whispered, "General Xie, the servant beside you put drugs in your bowl. He wanted me to take advantage of your frenzy to control your spirit and make you a puppet of the Dark Night Organization. I will explain the other questions to you slowly later. Now, you need to cooperate with me in a play."
Xie Chen was shocked—the Dark Night Organization’s drug research had indeed made great progress, and they had even begun to target S-level Sentinels!
Is Yu Ran a member of the Dark Night Organization
No! If Yu Ran was a member of the Dark Night Organization, he would have been brain dead by now and become his puppet.
But just now, at the critical moment when his mental picture was about to collapse and Black Shark was almost sucked into the deep sea whirlpool, it was Yu Ran who rescued Black Shark and even pulled Black Shark into his mental picture for treatment, hiding the truth from the world and preserving her consciousness.
So, Yu Ran is a friendly force
There is only one explanation - Mission Impossible, double undercover.
Which legion sent him to the Dark Night Organization as an undercover agent? How could he be so powerful that he could infiltrate the top echelons of the organization and get access to the core secrets? !
Xie Chen's mind was full of thoughts, but she quickly calmed down, pretending to be dazed, and looked at Yu Ran.
Yu Ran said in his mind: "Please hold an emergency video conference and tell the generals of the Starlight Army that you are not feeling well and need to rest at home for a while. The internal affairs of the Starlight Army will be temporarily handed over to the deputy commander."
Xie Chen nodded, stood up like a puppet and went to the study, turning on the internal video call of the Star Legion.
Soon, several generals of the Starlight Army entered the video conference room. Xie Chen was sitting at the desk in casual clothes. He said with a pale face, "Everyone, I'm very sorry. I have had a lot of problems with my health recently. The doctor recommended that I rest at home for a while. From now on, the internal affairs of the Starlight Army will be temporarily handled by the deputy commander."
However, Xie Chen's health problems were also within everyone's expectations.
Since her sister passed away, she has been working very hard, almost all year round, and she has personally taken care of all matters of the army, big and small. Everyone knows that she is sad, but she just uses high-intensity work to numb herself...
Some people had advised her to take a rest before, but she had refused. Now, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she asked to rest at home, and the generals readily agreed.
The deputy commander asked, "General, is your illness serious? Do you need hospitalization?"
Xie Chen said: "No, just take some medicine to recuperate. It's more comfortable to rest at home. I can't get used to the hospital environment."
Everyone asked with concern: "Then you must take care of yourself." "Yes, you haven't had a vacation for two consecutive years, and you should take a good rest for a while." "There is nothing big happening in the legion recently, don't worry, we will help the deputy commander with the daily work."
Xie Chen nodded: "Okay, thank you all for your hard work."
After ending the call, Xie Chen walked out of the study with an expressionless face.
As expected, the old lady was waiting for her at the door, and she had obviously heard everything.
She calmly walked around the old lady and towards Yu Ran.
She had no experience in how to act as a puppet. However, Lu Zexuan seemed to be demonstrating to her. The man stood next to Yu Ran with a dull look. Xie Chen imitated Lu Zexuan and walked in front of Yu Ran with a dull look.
Yu Ran smiled at Xie Chen and praised: "Well done."
The old lady suddenly said, "The leader said to take her to the Guide Medical Center for a checkup this afternoon."
Yu Ran did not refuse: "Okay, do you want to go with me?"
The old lady said, "I won't go. I'm just a servant, and I'll be suspected if I follow you."
Yu Ran took the two "fake puppets" Lu Zexuan and Xie Chen with him and "sent Xie Chen to" the Guide Medical Center.
When I pushed the door open, I saw that the guide who was seeing patients today was Ms. Adeline. As a well-known S-level healing guide in the capital star, she would often come to the Guide Medical Center to volunteer to help the sentinels. After all, her character was a "philanthropist".
Adeline smiled and said, "General Xie? General Lu? What a coincidence that you two came here together today?"
Lu Zexuan said expressionlessly, "I happened to be at General Xie's house today to discuss some matters. She was not feeling well, so I sent her here for a checkup."
Xie Chen sat down. Adeline made a few polite remarks and then extended her thought tentacles to help her check.
Her mental picture had indeed suffered a severe blow. The beautiful corals, reefs and seaweeds on the seabed were destroyed, and the entire ocean was dark, with no sunlight. There were lightning and thunder in the sky, terrible hurricanes swept across the sea from time to time, and the bottomless dark vortex seemed to swallow everything.
Adeline withdrew immediately to avoid being swallowed by her dark vortex.
The devastated ocean is horrible!
She quickly calmed down and said with a smile: "General Xie, you are just sick from long-term fatigue. You need some time to rest."
Xie Chen said calmly: "Please prescribe some medicine for me for daily conditioning. I will go home and rest."
After all, Adeline was a treatment guide and her professional qualities were not bad. She immediately prescribed several mild tonics for Xie Chen.
Xie Chen took the medicine, turned around and left the hospital.
Although her spirit body and consciousness were protected by Yu Ran, her mental picture was indeed very bad. The drugs of the Dark Night Organization would cause the Sentinels to go berserk. The ocean world had experienced a hurricane and an earthquake and had become a mess. The black sharks had almost no room to survive.
However, Black Shark seemed to like Yu Ran's lake very much.
After the vines that were entangled with it loosened their grip, it contentedly turned into a "freshwater shark" and began to swim around in the lake.
On the way back, Yu Ran said in the spiritual world: "We have temporarily concealed this hurdle. The Dark Night Organization may continue to check your mental picture, so I can't help you repair the picture for the time being. Your ocean must continue to remain in this messy state after suffering a devastating blow. In the next few days, your mental state will be very poor, so you must pay attention to rest."
Xie Chen said: "I understand. But the spirit body cannot leave me more than 500 meters, and the black shark cannot stay with you forever."
Yu Ran said, "Don't worry, I will open up a separate hidden space for it to survive in the depths of the ocean. Normally, you can let it hide there. Once someone comes to check, you can release it and let it pretend to be unconscious."
Xie Chen turned around and looked at Yu Ran.
He looked like an 18-year-old boy, but he was so calm and wise, with a pair of clear and bright eyes of different colors. When he looked at her, there was a strange hint of kindness and tenderness in his eyes.
Xie Chen looked into his eyes and inexplicably felt a strong sense of familiarity.
"Have we met somewhere before?"
Her doubtful voice echoed in my mind.
At that moment, Yu Ran's eyes suddenly became hot, but he still forced himself to resist the urge to speak out.
He was carrying out the most dangerous mission. Once my aunt knew that he was Xie Ran, she would be very worried about him, and even expose their relationship at a critical moment because of this worry. So... not letting her know is the best way to protect her.
Yu Ran said in his mind: "I met you once when I was an intern in the Starlight Corps. You may not remember me."
Xie Chen carefully observed Yu Ran's face: "Really? I really don't have any impression." She paused and said: "Your face looks very young, but you are definitely not 18 years old. Were you... sent by my sister?"
Yu Ran did not deny it. He said softly, "General Xie Xi is the person I respect the most."
Xie Chen knew that his sister had been investigating the Dark Night Organization, so it made sense to send a guide as an undercover agent. Later, his sister died, and the undercover agent went into hiding until now. His age and facial features were obviously modified.
It must have been difficult for him these years living alone, right
Thinking of this, Xie Chen said with mixed feelings: "If my sister was still here, she would definitely be pleased to see you infiltrate the top of the organization."
Yu Ran felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.
Would the mother feel relieved? Her son did not disappoint her.
(End of this chapter)