Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1020 - 392: "Turning Foes into Friends

Twelve minutes later, Ren Zhong arrived at the Health Management Office located in the outskirts of Lower Origin Capital City.

This area was enclosed by white walls. Several factory buildings were scattered within.

Director Liu Tao was already waiting outside the gate, and upon seeing Ren Zhong, he took the initiative to step forward to greet him.

Speaking of Citizen Levels, Liu Tao was also at the Seventh Level, just like Ren Zhong. But he had been stuck at this level for many years, with little possibility of further promotion, making him incomparable to Ren Zhong, who was an up-and-coming star in his ascension phase.

In a short while, Liu Tao would be able to retire smoothly and qualify for long-term cryogenic preservation, destined for the new world after the Great Migration. Thus, even though allowing Ren Zhong to conduct a corpse examination was against protocol, he compromised. He did not want to completely offend this rising star.

Three minutes later, Ren Zhong entered the morgue.

The temperature here was low, near freezing. A strange smell permeated the air. Automated machinery continuously delivered new corpses, which were scanned and examined by the machines, then sorted and placed accordingly.

Ren Zhong saw Zhuo Yihang in a corner.

He lay there quietly, his body covered in bruises, and his eyes swollen like two red apples.

Unzipping the body bag, Ren Zhong found Zhuo Yihang's limbs twisted into strange positions.

Ren Zhong conducted a simple examination and determined that the bruising and twisting injuries must have occurred while Zhuo Yihang was still alive.

This proved that Zhuo Yihang had endured inhuman torture during his lifetime.

At that moment, Ren Zhong did not feel much sadness. He was no longer the novice he once was, having witnessed life and death many times. He knew he couldn't save everyone, so he remained extremely calm, merely clenching his fist slightly before turning to leave.

No investigation was needed; he already knew who the perpetrators were. Apart from Qin Xiang and her group of former classmates, there was no other suspect.

Ren Zhong came to see the body only to decide his next course of action.

Back at the school, Ren Zhong visited the administrative office for a brief investigation. As expected, that morning, as a slave employee of the academy, Zhuo Yihang had been seconded to a junior class to participate in a social ethics experiment.

This junior class was the same class Ren Zhong had once attended.

At the Census Official College, such experiments were not frequent but did happen occasionally. Their main purpose was to study different psychological states individuals might exhibit when facing various situations and to examine the self-discipline of census officials wielding absolute power over lower-class individuals.

It was a tough job, and those selected as samples were usually neither alive nor unharmed afterward.

Such experiments generally involved wildlings or low-level citizen slaves, and professionals like Zhuo Yihang, who held certain positions, were rarely chosen. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

No one knew what means Qin Xiang and her group used to name Zhuo Yihang as a participant.

What happened next followed naturally.

As for the motive of Qin Xiang and her group, it was quite simple. They knew Zhuo Yihang was close to Ren Zhong and just wanted to disgust Ren Zhong a bit and take "slight" revenge, nothing more.

The Census Official College was still a place of birdsong and fragrant flowers, with lush green trees, but while walking through the campus, Ren Zhong smelled a bloody scent in the air.

He raised his head to look at the building housing the junior class, sighing silently.

How ridiculous it was that he once tried to save and change them.

This group was beyond saving, completely rotten.

On the balcony, Qin Xiang, who was taking a break between classes, walked out of the classroom.

Noticing the gaze from below, Qin Xiang turned to look into the distance.

Even though the distance was great and her eyesight could not clearly see the person below, her intuition told her that the person below was Ren Zhong.

She smiled smugly, raising an eyebrow before walking away with her head held high.

Indeed, she couldn't deal with Ren Zhong directly, but that didn't mean she couldn't find ways to retaliate.

She felt that her actions this time were very successful, managing to hit Ren Zhong without any rule-breaking actions, leaving him with no opportunity to retaliate.

But Qin Xiang clearly underestimated Ren Zhong, as she had not noticed that Ren Zhong was also smiling.

That evening, after school, Ren Zhong contacted the No. 38 synthetic human, who had already entered Mengdu Group and served as the assistant to the group's president.

Now, No. 38 was no longer merely identified by a number and a QR code on his shoulder. Appreciated by Hugh Augustus, he had given himself a new name, Li Yang, which symbolized the rising sun.