"It's this guy!"
Bai Ye looked at the forbidden zone mission and his gaze fell directly on Dr. Dale's name.
This guy was a celebrity.
However, Bai Ye had only heard his name, never seen him in person.
Because, in his previous life, by the time Bai Ye arrived at the Ruin City, Dr. Dale was already dead.
Back then, Dr. Dale only existed in the background story, a legendary figure of the Rhine Corporation, who made significant contributions to its prosperity. His hand was in various android research projects.
Most importantly, the mutated crystal person project was developed and led by Dr. Dale.
Rhine Corporation ultimately failed with the mutated crystal people.
There were two reasons for this failure.
The first was Allen. He discovered the mirror world and, within it, found everything about the mutated crystal people. He uncovered and exposed Rhine Corporation's conspiracy, triggering the android revolution.
Finally, under Allen's leadership, the androids overthrew the wealthy district ruled by Rhine Corporation. Although Rhine Corporation did not immediately disappear from the scene, they lost Ruin City and evacuated to other locations.
But in this story, there was also a very important character, Dr. Dale.
In the story, Dr. Dale had almost completed the development of the mutated crystal people.
Absolute obedience, physical capabilities exceeding those of androids, and high-hardness crystals provided extremely high defense. Furthermore, he utilized the genes of mutated androids to create crystallization abilities.
Dr. Dale had nearly perfected the mutated crystal people. They were just a step away from completion, meeting all requirements except for stability.
During prolonged combat, the mutated crystal people would experience loss of control.
However, no one thought this was a problem, believing Dr. Dale would surely overcome the final hurdle.
But then, a problem arose: Dr. Dale's ambition!
At that time, Dr. Dale believed that if the research on mutated crystal people could be thoroughly successful, he could create an army of them.
An army of absolute loyalty and obedience.
At that point, not only could they suppress the androids, but what was Rhine Corporation in comparison?
The combat robots controlled by Rhine Corporation would also be insufficient to contend with the mutated crystal person army.
Given this, why should he continue to serve Rhine Corporation?
He could rule the wasteland!
He could become the King of the Wasteland!
Thus, with his ambition swelling, Dr. Dale decided to cause trouble. The problem was that Dr. Dale was rather unlucky; his ambition and plan were discovered by Rhine Corporation.
Without a doubt, Rhine Corporation arrested Dr. Dale immediately.
Yes, merely arrested, not killed. The research on mutated crystal people was impossible without Dr. Dale.
But the reason this guy was unlucky was also here. During his arrest, Dr. Dale attempted to resist and accidentally fell down the stairs, meeting his end!
For Rhine Corporation, losing Dr. Dale meant the development of the mutated crystal people project was completely stalled.
Even worse, when his scheme was exposed, Dr. Dale had prepared to escape and destroyed some of the research data in his computer.
This portion of the data was in Dr. Dale's mind. It was clear that Dr. Dale was also cunning. If he couldn't escape and was captured by Rhine Corporation, he could use this data as a bargaining chip.
And then…
This unlucky fellow, before he could negotiate, fell and met his end.
But misfortune didn't stop there. In the background story, Dr. Dale was a character who had almost completed the crystal person research and was on the verge of subverting the entire wasteland world. If he had lived, he would have been a major boss.
Were there related forbidden zones for such a character?
Most likely, there should be!
But Bai Ye had never participated in them.
By the time Bai Ye arrived at Ruin City, Dr. Dale was already a thing of the past, existing only in stories.
Now, with Dr. Dale's name suddenly appearing, Bai Ye gained a degree of clarity.
Compared to his previous life, Bai Ye had arrived at Ruin City much earlier in this life.
Therefore, if the story of Ruin City were to be divided by progress, Bai Ye was clearly in the "prequel" stage, the era of Dr. Dale.
Allen discovering the mirror world and exposing the truth should be the main story.
However, it seemed that because Bai Ye brought Allen into the mirror world too early, Allen had become involved in the prequel.
Of course, one could also say that with Allen's involvement, the prequel was starting to become the main story?
Bai Ye found it a bit convoluted, but it didn't matter. The core idea remained the same: for Bai Ye, it was to help Allen uncover Rhine Corporation's secrets and expose the truth about the mutated crystal people.
As for Yimi…
Bai Ye speculated that this guy's target might be Dr. Dale!
Based on the information learned in his previous life, Dr. Dale harbored ambitions to break away from Rhine Corporation and establish himself as king using the mutated crystal people.
Therefore, strictly speaking, Dr. Dale could not be categorized as belonging to the Rhine Corporation faction.
This explained why Yimi shooting Li Chengjie, while assisting Bai Ye to some extent, did not intend to cooperate with Bai Ye and did not rule out conflict with Bai Ye.
This was because both sides were enemies of Rhine Corporation.
However, Bai Ye was of Allen's faction, or more directly, the android faction.
And Yimi was likely of Dr. Dale's faction!
This would explain the previous questions. Both sides had a common enemy, but their factions were not ones that could cooperate.
After all, Dr. Dale did not intend to do anything good with the mutated crystal people. He wanted to become the King of the Wasteland. Frankly speaking, it was just replacing Rhine Corporation with Dr. Dale, essentially the same thing.
As for the present, Bai Ye felt there was no major problem.
Although Bai Ye had not been to the third laboratory forbidden zone in the mirror world in his previous life.
He had been to the third laboratory forbidden zone in the real-world Ruin City.
The forbidden zone missions were different in the two worlds, but the structure of the forbidden zones should be almost identical. Otherwise, why would it be called a mirror world?
Therefore, Bai Ye knew the way!
He just needed to continue leading Allen and the others deeper into the third laboratory.
Although the forbidden zone mission was not directly related to Allen and his group, Bai Ye still had hidden missions, didn't he?
Bai Ye thought as he walked forward, gesturing for the others to follow him into the elevator.
"Isn't this a bit risky?" Ji Ruyue hesitated, looking to the side. "It's very dangerous."
Ji Ruyue spoke vaguely because there were surveillance cameras in the elevator. The reason it was dangerous was also because of the surveillance cameras, which would directly expose their whereabouts.
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