Chapter 387 - 7.77 Think Of Yourself
Oppressive silence weighed down inside the office. Lu Yizhou looked at Moshe’s agitated state and couldn’t help letting out a sigh. Slowly, all the while maintaining eye contact, he reached out toward Moshe’s hand and led him to sit on the couch. They would need to sit if they were going to have a lengthy talk.
"It’s never my intention to keep you in the dark." Lu Yizhou clasped Moshe’s hand in his lap and rubbed his knuckles, uncertain whether it was to comfort Moshe or himself. Maybe both. "I was afraid that you would be... overwhelmed by the amount of information you have to digest. I shouldn’t have assumed that. It’s my fault."
Tension seemed to bleed out of Moshe’s shoulders albeit he still eyed Lu Yizhou with wariness. Lu Yizhou wished he could kiss the emotions away. He pursed his lips and dropped his gaze to their interlaced fingers. "Let me start from Regius’ death, because that is the most pressing matter right now. I must say... I did not mean for that to happen."
When Lu Yizhou had skin-to-skin contact with Regius — preferably the tip of his fingers to the other’s head — it would enable 666 to connect Lu Yizhou’s neurotransmitter with Regius and in exchange, 666 would be able to access Regius’ memory to filter who might be the other bug they were searching for.
The process was the same with the previous world when he had pulled Cyrus into his mind. Back then he could just use his spiritual power. But in this world with no magic, Lu Yizhou and 666 had no choice but to do everything manually. It certainly couldn’t be done with just anyone or else Lu Yizhou could have dipped his hand into everyone’s memory right now.
666 had warned him early on that no ordinary human would be able to endure the invasive power of the system. Regius’ mind would most likely be shattered afterward, turning him into a mindless fool. What would be the best ending for the bug other than that? Regius wanted to be set free from his suffering thus Lu Yizhou would grant him that.
After successfully breaching Regius’ mind, they started to filter the person who might be the bug. They must be someone with a medical background and had come into contact with both Regius and Zion before. It had been surprisingly easy because as soon as they entered the criteria... only one person came up.
Cruz. An infamous doctor who had been blacklisted from the medical field due to his malicious research to enhance human’s capability. When the scandal broke out, he had killed four people with various reasons of unfortunate deaths when in fact, he had been using them as guinea pigs for his research. After that, he became an underground doctor who treated criminals and those from dubious backgrounds.
He was most likely the one who had created the drug — no, it could only be him. Lu Yizhou was almost 90% certain.