Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1722: Chapter 675: Thought Extraction_2

Ren Zhong quickly pulled back from the edge, temporarily sparing Ivan Romanov’s life.

However, Duke Ivan, who narrowly escaped death, did not feel any relief.

He remained on the brink of death, powerless against Ren Zhong. He secretly tried countless methods to contact the outside world for help.

Unfortunately, Ren Zhong wielded exceedingly advanced technology, making resistance utterly hopeless.

Even though Ren Zhong only had a small Red Blade Armor with him, he could still, with Sun Ai’s assistance, completely overthrow the security systems and Super Network auxiliary brain on Yisula Star.

In the eyes of the monitoring staff at the Yisula Star Domain Research Institute, Ivan Romanov was comfortably lying in a deep sleep within the Frozen Storage.

The realism of the virtual image was virtually indistinguishable and flawless.

For Ivan, calling for help was futile; no one heard his cries.

"The food prepared in your Frozen Storage is sufficient, so you don’t have to worry about starving to death. From now on, focus solely on taking care of my living needs. Use your past standards for others as a reference for your duties. If you fail to meet even one aspect, I’ll make you experience pain. You surely know that death is not the scariest thing."

Ren Zhong said this as he looked at Ivan, who was fixed on a medical operating table, and took out an extremely thin probe, gently piercing into Ivan’s brain, saying, "Lie still, don’t move. If you move and the sampling fails, you’ll lose more than just a neuron."

Ren Zhong did not administer anesthesia to Ivan Romanov.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t or that he was lazy; it was one of Ivan’s perverse hobbies.

Moreover, Ivan’s methods were far more brutal, disassembling a thousand cells at a time while the subject was conscious.

As they say, evil has its match, Ivan enjoyed using others’ methods to torture people, to satisfy his quirks. Ren Zhong had no such quirks, he just idly decided to let Ivan taste his own medicine.

Ivan’s vocal cords trembled, barely making a sound, indicating understanding.

He didn’t even dare to nod.

Then, the probe’s tip opened like a sprout, extending countless filaments.

Under the propulsion of a biomolecular motor, these filaments bent skillfully, gently tearing the axons and dendrites that connected a selected neuron to other cells.

Even though it involved only one cell, its special location made the pain Ivan felt as if his brain was exploding, amplified thousands of times.

Facing a survival crisis, Ivan Romanov finally displayed the demeanor worthy of a true Chosen One, enduring it all without flinching.

About fifteen minutes later, the fibers that had spread from the probe’s tip finally formed a long pouch, completely enveloping the fragile neuron, and slowly pulled it out.

To prevent the cell from being damaged by the skull’s gaps, the probe’s middle section developed sandpaper-like layers and began rotating to slightly enlarge the skull’s gaps, allowing the pouch enclosing the cell to pass through.

During this process, since the captured cell was already protected, Ivan could physically struggle as Ren executed this operation.

But he didn’t know that and continued to endure.

It was only after ten seconds of bone grinding that he could no longer bear it, struggling desperately.

Ren Zhong had completed the cell sampling, quickly retracting the probe, and placed the neuron into a nearby pre-prepared unitary cultivation machine with fully automatic culturing functions.

With his own skills, Ren Zhong could have manually handled the entire process, from culturing media incubation to assisting mitosis. However, with the precise machinery controlled by Sun Ai, there was no need for him to manually intervene.

Afterward, Ren Zhong crossed his legs, opened a communication tablet, and idly began watching the literary works recently popular in the Red Blade Army.

The demands of different eras breed distinct cultural traits.

When the Red Blade Army was still wandering, the prevalent theme was starlit martial arts infused with a spirit of chivalry. Many literary creators openly admitted that the inspiration for their stories mostly came from Ren Zhong’s experiences and character.