Chapter: 4555

Ye Chen nodded slightly and asked him again, "If you complete your task, what is the subsequent process?"

The person replied, "After completing our task, we will retreat back to the garage and then receive injections in that place. Whatever's left won't be our concern anymore. The organization will take us back."

Ye Chen looked at him and asked, "Your subordinates all died from poisoning. What will your organization do with their families?"

The person said, "This time we failed in our mission, so the organization will define us as traitors who died for their country. So they won't cause trouble for our families; instead, they'll give them better treatment."

Ye Chen spoke faintly, "That's why you and your subordinates were so decisive when you took your own lives."

"Yes." The person nodded his head and said, "For most dead men, it's basic that they cannot have a good ending. Most of them die in vain, but if they die for their country, there won't be much pain; it'll just be over in an instant, and we can get better living conditions for our families, so it's as if we've died for the right cause."

Ye Chen asked again, "What is the scale of your dead men?"

The person thought for a moment and shook his head. "I don't know... The organization I'm in has 1,100 households, 1,900 dead men, and a total population including men, women, the elderly, and children of around several thousand people."

Ye Chen asked in surprise, "So your organization has more than just you and your subordinates who have sacrificed themselves?"

"Yes." He nodded his head and said, "There are death squads all over the world, but I don't know exactly how many there are."

Ye Chen's expression grew increasingly shocked as he thought for a moment before asking again, "You said you were injected with medication before arriving in New York and woke up after already being there. Do you know how long you were unconscious for?"

"I don't know." He shook his head and said, "In the death squads, no one is allowed to know the date or time. We can't see the sunrise or sunset; we only have moments of light and darkness, and I once calculated that our daily routine in the death squads wasn't based on a 24-hour clock. They seemed to deliberately distort each day's timing, making today longer than yesterday, and yesterday longer than the day before. Eventually, even when we knew the exact time during a mission, we wouldn't be able to keep track of it after returning."

Ye Chen asked him, "How did you calculate that there was a discrepancy in time?"

He said, "I dug a very small hole at the bottom of my bowl and filled it with very fine sand. I started timing from when the alarm clock rang on the first day, then let the sand flow to the second day's alarm clock ringing, and so on. Sometimes the sand would finish flowing ahead of schedule, sometimes not in time, so I inferred that there was a discrepancy between the internal and external times. The longer we went without knowing what year or month it was outside."

Ye Chen asked curiously, "You did all these things secretly, trying to find an opportunity to escape?"

"Not really." He smiled bitterly and said, "Even if I had found an opportunity to escape, it would be futile; I'm more interested in understanding the mechanisms of the death squads. If there was a real chance to escape, I'd expose everything about the death squads, hoping to bring them down and prevent others from following in my footsteps."

Ye Chen nodded slightly, saying blandly, "It seems you haven't been brainwashed by the organization either."

"Brainwashing?" He shook his head. "The organization doesn't bother with brainwashing us. We're responsible for our own lives and those of our families; whether or not we're brainwashed is irrelevant to them. They know we won't want to be slaves for generations, but they don't care because they know we're too afraid and unable to betray the organization."

Ye Chen slightly nodded, his mind clear. This person knew it all by now.

At this moment, Wan Baojun opened his mouth to ask, "You should know where your awakening garage is located, right?"

"I do." The person replied honestly. "Our awakening garage is just in Brooklyn, New York."

Wan Baojun looked at Ye Chen. "Mr. Ye, this is the only place they've ever had contact with the organization. That person set up the garage ahead of time and must have left behind some information. If we use this as a clue to backtrack, we should be able to find some leads!"

Ye Chen waved his hand dismissively. "No need to look into it."

Wan Baojun asked urgently, "Mr. Ye, this is our only lead, after all!"

Ye Chen said seriously. "It's not necessary to look into it. If the other side is so cautious, they must have already handled any clues left behind. Going there now would just expose ourselves, and even if we found some clues, they'd be meaningless anyway. We're still far from being able to take on an organization like this one. Right now, we only know of dead soldiers and guides, and we don't even know how many dead soldiers or guides they have, let alone what other organizational structures they may have beyond that." JrNovels.com