As for the truth serum, Masha had read a lot of information, at least these data showed that there was no better truth serum than alcohol - this was the conclusion of the CIA. But now Masha was not sure if this was a lie, after all, the World Government had concealed even the revival of spiritual energy.
——If there really is a truth serum, I can only bet that the other party doesn’t believe in the existence of such a convenient magic weapon. If I bet wrong, I will have to admit defeat.
This is the kind of person that Masha is. Once he decides to bet, he won't worry about gains or losses and will accept defeat.
——As for torture, I have long wanted to test whether I have the strong willpower to face torture.
——Oh, it feels good to be fearless. Maybe after I join the organization as the Yellow King, I can fool them more thoroughly.
Masha waited. He knew that when the man in front of him spoke, it meant that the discussion behind the one-way glass next to him had come to a conclusion.
**
Qi Xiangwen: "What he said just now was contradictory. He said he was delivering a message for the Yellow King, and then he said he was the Yellow King. He didn't notice the contradiction. Even after our people confirmed it again and again, he didn't react at all. I think this is the result of him being brainwashed."
The old captain: "So, the Yellow King has already used his ability to obtain the power of brainwashing from an awakened person?"
"That's right. Among the nearly one thousand awakened people who have been confirmed, many have not been found yet. Some of them must have had their abilities taken away by the Yellow King. Once the ability is taken away, the fluctuations released when using the ability will become the fluctuations of the Yellow King."
Everyone nodded, and suddenly, Xiao Meng clapped his hands: "I understand! We have detected the Yellow King's signal near Masha many times, but in fact, that signal should not be understood as 'near Masha', but 'near the magical girl'. Masha is usually with the magical girl!"
Xiao Meng took out a tablet and a stylus, and after some quick manipulation, he said loudly, "It's confirmed! The Yellow King's fluctuations appeared around Masha almost the same number of times as they appeared around the magical girl! He is very likely using his abilities on the magical girl!"
Someone immediately came up with an idea and said, "So that's what's going on. They're brainwashing the magical girl while blaming Masha. In this way, when we take action against Masha, the magical girl's emotions will be affected, and the King in Yellow can take advantage of the situation and move in!"
At this moment, everyone in the observation room felt that the King in Yellow was too terrifying, too cunning, and too evil.
Qi Xiangwen frowned: "But, since the Yellow King can take away the abilities of other awakened people, why not just take away the abilities of the magical girl?"
"Maybe there are some restrictions, or maybe he doesn't want to put all his eggs in one basket, or... In fact, he didn't take away the ability at all, he just brainwashed the person with the ability, and then used some method to fake a corpse to deceive us." said the old company commander.
"It may also be because the magical girl is too beautiful and he wants to have one as his wife." Someone joked in a frivolous tone.
The old company commander glared at the man and said, "Be serious! We are working!"
Qi Xiangwen shook his head: "No, it's possible. The King in Yellow is at most 19 years old, and he might be attracted to a beautiful magical girl. After all, that kid is someone who might come out even if a woman sees him."
Lin Qianxun is just so beautiful.
"Okay, we've almost finished discussing this. Let's verify whether our guess is correct." Qi Xiangwen ordered, "Ask him questions and ask him to confess his actions during this period!"
**
When Masha heard the question from the man opposite her, she was secretly delighted.
——It’s done!
Then Masha began to speak out the words that he had been making up for some time, and he spoke them very calmly.
**
"Very detailed." The old captain held up his chin, "and there are no contradictions. The internal logic of all actions is also consistent. Could it be that he is really the King in Yellow and has come to us to surrender himself?"
Qi Xiangwen remained silent and did not speak.
The subordinates behind him were whispering to each other, discussing the contents of Masha's confession.
Suddenly, Qi Xiangwen said into the headset: "Stop, ask him..."
**
When Masha saw the man opposite her suddenly stop talking, she knew that the question she was waiting for had come.
Sure enough, the man began to ask for details about what he had just said.
——Answer this one perfectly first, otherwise it may make the other party suspicious.
After Masha finished answering, the man motioned for him to continue, but not long after, he interrupted Masha again to ask questions about the details.
——Give another perfect answer.
After hearing Masha's answer, the man nodded and said, "Okay, go on."
Masha continued talking for a while, and then the man asked the third question.
Masha hesitated for a moment, then decided to let him pass the third question as well, and gave a perfect answer.
Masha spoke for almost five minutes, and the man did not ask any questions.
Masha thought he had gotten away with it.
At this moment, the man interrupted him again: "Wait a minute, we detected that you used a skill once at noon the day before yesterday. What were you doing?"
Masha suddenly remembered that the day before yesterday should be the day of his second experiment with the League Secretary. When he summoned the car to get on the car, he used the League Secretary's ability to block the wave of summoning the car, so the office did not detect the car getting on, but when he got off the car, the League Secretary had just returned to Earth at the moment the car returned to Earth, so he only blocked the wave of the car returning.
The man was probably asking about the fluctuation that "slipped through the net".
Masha made a decisive decision to play dumb here.
He showed a dazed expression with Oscar-level acting skills.
Then he smiled awkwardly: "I forgot."
**
"That's right." Qi Xiangwen said affirmatively, "The Yellow King made a mistake and missed this detail."
"How could such a capable person miss any details?" someone asked immediately.
"Do you think that all this was deliberately acted out by Masha in order to make us believe that we were brainwashed? Then he should have acted like this when we asked the first three questions, because he had no idea how many times we would ask questions, right?" Qi Xiangwen looked back at the subordinate who asked the question.
No one refuted.
"Besides, the more complicated the plan, the more likely it is to go wrong. Compared to 'Masha is the King in Yellow and he came to us and tried to use his acting skills to make us believe that he is a brainwashed guy and the King in Yellow is someone else', I think the speculation that 'the King in Yellow intends to let Masha take the blame' is more reliable."
Xiao Meng suddenly said, "Wait a minute! Why did the King in Yellow suddenly let Masha take the blame?"
Qi Xiangwen was startled, then looked at the old company commander.
A possibility came to his mind.
"...He may have already completed his use of magic...brainwashing Chihiro, or some other conspiracy." The old company commander expressed Qi Xiangwen's concerns.
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"Wait a minute," Xiao Meng spoke again, "Just let him use his ability! If he is not the Yellow King, he will definitely not be able to use his ability."
"He will definitely prepare a reason," Qi Xiangwen said, but he still gave instructions through the headset, "Ask him if he can use his ability now. Yes, now, immediately."
After the order was given, everyone held their breath and waited for Masha's answer from the other side of the one-way glass.
"I'm sorry," Masha shook his head, "I have stolen many people's abilities. Every time I steal an ability, I feel that my existence becomes thinner. Every time I use someone else's ability, I feel that I am no longer myself. I'm sorry, but I don't want to lose myself anymore. Even if you torture me, I will never use my ability again. I want to be myself."
On the one-way glass side, everyone looked at each other.
"Logically, there is nothing wrong with it, and it's also a bit touching." The old captain took a deep breath, "I almost believed it. He is worthy of being the King in Yellow."
**
After Masha's "memories" ended, he was left alone in the interrogation room.
——Oh, I don’t know what the final effect will be.
——Fortunately, the other party didn’t handcuff me, probably because he thought handcuffs were useless on a person with super powers.
——If it really doesn’t work, just summon the little car and leave.
When Masha's car appeared, it brought cognitive interference, so he had the "first-mover advantage". Unless the other party welded a stool to the ground and then handcuffed Masha to the stool, Masha could leave whenever he wanted.
Unfortunately, the other party was in a hurry and did not have time to make such preparations. Of course, this may also be because the other party was not familiar with the performance of the car and thought that the car needed someone to operate it. He did not know that when Masha was outside, he could directly summon the car to his side.
Masha now has a lot of cards in his hand, and he is not at all weak. In his mind, he can escape from prison if he wants, and play tricks on the office however he wants. Now he is just trying the first option, the one with the highest return.
——Even if you really fail, you can still experience "Prison on Fire".
——If I can win this big bet, then I’ll be a super genius, the chosen one, and maybe even the protagonist of this book.
——Although the surveillance on me will probably increase in the future, the office does not know that I have the trump card of being the Youth League Secretary.
——In the future, I can make an appointment with the league secretary to meet at a place. She will activate her skill and I will summon a car. Then I will get in the car and go out to have fun. She will wait there and activate her skill to pick me up at the agreed time.
——This way the office won’t even know that I summoned the car.
——As long as I choose the location carefully, I won’t have to worry about the office monitoring me.
Moreover, Masha remembered very clearly that he still had a measuring element that he had obtained from the League Secretary, which he had not used. If he could find another shielding element, he could combine a measuring shield, which would be even more powerful.
——Although the girl is of B caliber, if she is developed quickly, she might be able to combine some weak but unexpectedly useful elements into new skills.
——The fire element that Cai Shi obtained was also useless.
——When you raise the girl’s favorability to 40, you can get a gift.
Masha had nothing to do anyway, so he just sat in the interrogation room, thinking about all these things carelessly.
——By the way, I have Uncle Wu to meet here.
**
At the same time, on the other side of the one-way glass, Qi Xiangwen was listening to the suggestions of his subordinates.
"How about we put Masha and the magical girl under house arrest together?"
"What if the magical girl becomes dissatisfied and starts to rebel? We have no means to restrain her, unless we simply drug her unconscious and seal her in a cryogenic sleep box."
"It's better to seal it than to let an untrustworthy SSS-level person move freely, right?"
"The frequency of awakenings has increased significantly recently. Although the frequency of awakenings has been increasing over the past few years, the increase this week has been particularly obvious. In the past, the rate of increase was almost a constant value, and the line graph was almost a straight line. Now it has become an upward curve. I think it is very likely that something big is about to happen."
"Han Yuan, don't spread anxiety!"
"But that's the way it is. If you don't believe me, ask Xiao Meng. She is the most familiar with data!"
Qi Xiangwen listened to his subordinates' arguments silently without saying a word.
His old company commander also remained silent.
After a long while, Qi Xiangwen coughed.
The debate in the observation room stopped immediately and the whole room became quiet.
"I think," Qi Xiangwen glanced at his subordinates in the room, "that the magical girl should be given a long vacation."
"What?" Han Yuan, who had just shouted that she wanted to use a cryogenic sleep box to seal the magical girl, was shocked. "Isn't this... the same as throwing a time bomb into the crowd? We can't do this, we..."
"The Yellow King thinks so too." Qi Xiangwen interrupted her, "We want to take them by surprise. From today on, magical girls are not allowed to approach the base. All safe houses and backup facilities known to magical girls are sealed. All magical girls' shifts are cancelled, including training. In the future, magical girls will not be allowed to participate in any event."
"What if there is another SSS-level awakening?" Xiao Meng asked.
"We'll talk about it later. There aren't that many SSSs out there."
Qi Xiangwen sighed: "Too passive, too passive, King Huang, this guy will definitely become a disaster in the future."
The old company commander patted him on the shoulder and said nothing.
At this time, Xiao Meng said: "Isn't there a view that the awakened are actually the next stage of human evolution? Maybe they have also evolved in intelligence. If this is true, then there is nothing we can do about it."
The entire observation room fell into deathly silence.
Everyone was thinking about what Xiao Meng said, but no one could refute it.
Among ordinary people, they are the ones who understand the awakened ones best. They have seen too many incredible things, so they are unable to come up with any counterarguments.
Xiao Meng probably didn't know that she was actually right. There are indeed superpowers that can increase intelligence.
Not only that, it can also increase all attributes such as charm, strength, agility, etc.
Oh yes, it can also add 1000 points of penetration and rupture resistance to the chest.
And the person who possesses that kind of great power is on the other side of the one-way glass, picking his nose right now.
Xiao Meng: "The punishment for the magical girl has been decided, what about Masha's? Do we need to delete his memory?"
"No," Qi Xiangwen shook his head. "This is my declaration of war to the King in Yellow. We will just let him go. He is now convinced that he can no longer use his skills. We might as well tell him that as a reward for his annihilation of several terrorists, we will allow him to live the rest of his life as an ordinary person. To all operators who are not in this room, we will announce that 'The King in Yellow has surrendered and hopes to become an ordinary person.' Of course, I will report the truth to 409. As for how to report to the World Government, that is the business of the big leaders. And you..."
Qi Xiangwen turned around and glanced at everyone.
"I am now using my authority to designate this matter as top secret. You should know the consequences of leaking it."
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