Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 551 - 441 "Brainwashing

"Academician."

"What is it?" Helen’s tone was cool and detached, a lock of curled hair trembling slightly on her cheek, betraying a hint of impatience.

"There’s a favor I’d like to ask of you." Weslin said with a smile, looking at the radiant yet aloof woman before him.

Even though he could see the obvious impatience in her eyes, he had no choice but to patiently curry favor.

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This was the youngest academician at the Scientific Research Institute, and universally acknowledged as the top candidate to succeed the next directorship.

If he could secure her support, it was as good as claiming half the skies over the city.

"Speak."

"It concerns Captain Bai..." Weslin’s voice carried a moment’s hesitation, "You’re aware of his current situation."

"Hmm..." Helen’s eyebrows quirked, a flicker of interest in her eyes, "What are your thoughts?"

"Continuing like this... it’s undoubtedly a waste of military force for the city, and for his personal future development, it’s not promising. Don’t you agree?"

Helen crossed her arms, her gaze icy, "Marshal, if you have any thoughts, I would prefer you speak plainly. We researchers don’t appreciate beating around the bush."

"Then I’ll be frank... I understand that because of current technological limitations, we can’t precisely edit the genetic prohibition imposed on all artificial humans. However, for a limited number of individuals, we should be able to tweak their cognition through postnatal means. What I’m suggesting is, maybe we could try to... brainwash him."

"Brainwash?" Helen squinted her eyes, a dangerous glint flashing through as she stared at Weslin.

The technology of brainwashing varies in sophistication. A basic method involves inundating the subject with a barrage of meaningless information to break their psyche and construct a new mental framework.

But this technique is primitive and unstable, and for the brainwashed, it inflicts tremendous psychological harm. If they can’t withstand it, they could end up as imbeciles. Even if successful, it’s starting from scratch, akin to a blank slate.

More advanced neural techniques don’t cause such severe side effects, but the psychic damage is similarly irreversible, varying only in degree.

Such brutal methods applied to Bai E...

But Marshal Weslin had a point.

With the personality Bai E is showing, if no change is made, neither the military nor any power within the city would make further use of him.

The best outcome would be nothing more than becoming a high-end enforcer.

Did she wish for Bai E to have a future?

The future of the city was already grim, let alone that of an individual.

Yet, for this artificial warrior who exhibited exceptional traits from the start, Helen wished for him to go further...

"I see," Helen murmured softly and turned to leave.

Left without a clear answer, Weslin called out from behind, "What do you mean, Academician?"

"I’ll inform you of the outcome."

"Thank you, Academician!"

...

"Tsk~"

The gentle sound of the door opening and closing was heard.

Glancing sideways, one could only see the long legs of Bai E as he "click-clacked" his way in and waited quietly, the rustling noises arising above his head in front of the machines.

The working devices had just stopped.

The city’s technology in the field of biology was pretty decent. While Helen was out dealing with matters, the machines had already completed the procedures she had previously set.

All was quiet.

Helen was likely checking the freshly baked reports.

’It doesn’t show...’ Helen’s brow furrowed slightly. Stay tuned for updates on novelbuddy

A basic physical examination could only display the three primary attributes of the human body. Bai E’s attributes indeed far exceeded the limits of an ordinary human, but they still didn’t account for his alarmingly terrifying combat record.

From the tissue samples she had taken from various parts of Bai E’s body, she could understand the supporting details behind those attributes, such as cell activity, cardiovascular strength, muscle tenacity, the number of visual cells, and other indicators.

And... the comparison of genetic maps.

Even after one round of genetic optimization, Bai E’s current genetic map showed no significant difference from when he first came off Production Line 95.

The changes in the fragments were almost indistinguishable from the soldiers who had undergone genetic optimization, with variations all falling within predictable ranges.

If one were willing to invest the resources, creating a clone of Bai E on a one-to-one basis was entirely feasible.

But such a cloned individual would not be significantly different from the mass-produced artificial warrior clones from Production Line 95.

From any perspective, it was difficult to pinpoint the reason for Bai E’s uniqueness.

Yet the reality was right before her eyes...

Helen’s gaze drifted, finally resting on the steadfast warrior lying before her, eyes fixed on the ceiling, expressionless as ever.

Her normally cool eyes softened slightly as Helen sighed softly and instructed gently.

"Get up, and get dressed."

"Yes."

Watching Bai E dress himself meticulously, Helen, seated in her armchair, suddenly spoke up, "They want me to brainwash you."

Bai E paused in his actions, looking at Helen with confusion, "Brainwash?"

"Yes, brainwash." There was no trace of emotion in Helen’s eyes; although she was looking at Bai E, her gaze was unfocused, as if she was looking through his apparition to something far beyond, "Even the most advanced technology would unavoidably cause some damage to your body. To be honest, I don’t want to use it. But they fear what you are now and insist you must change."

"..."

Helen blinked, coming back to the present, her eyes finally focused.