Chapter 43 A Game

Fifteen minutes ago, inside the emergency safety tunnel.

"Hmm?" Feng Bujue saw that Dr. Jonathan, who was walking ahead, had suddenly stopped. "What's wrong? Doctor, is there a problem?" he asked suspiciously.

"No problem, just… I just took over this body." Jonathan turned his head, replying in a distinctly unusual voice.

At this moment, Jonathan's face was expressionless, and he didn't even open his mouth. The voice came directly from his throat.

It only took Jue Ge a second to react. He immediately asked tentatively, "Billy?"

"Yes…" Billy, who had occupied the doctor's body, replied, "I really didn't expect… it would be so embarrassing." As he spoke, he looked down at the puppet in his arms.

"Heh…" Feng Bujue looked at the other party, unable to help but smile, because this scene couldn't help but remind him of the Ventriloquist (a villain in *Batman*). "Your abilities are really diverse."

"Alas… just an emergency measure in a near-death state." Billy sighed, and pointed to the doctor's head. "Fortunately, Jonathan's will was not strong to begin with, and it became even weaker after being affected by you. Otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to take advantage of the situation."

"So… can you explain?" Feng Bujue continued, "What state are you in now?"

Billy pondered slightly and replied, "First of all, my original body is temporarily unusable." He raised the puppet in his hand. "Technically… this body is now just an ordinary puppet."

"Hmm…" Feng Bujue thought to himself upon hearing this, "That is to say… even if I take this thing out of the base, the main quest won't be completed."

"Secondly, although I can still use my abilities in this state, the effect will be greatly reduced," Billy continued.

"Oh? You can still use your abilities in this 'body snatching' state?" Feng Bujue was a little surprised by this.

"Of course." Billy replied, "I am a lifeform mainly composed of spiritual power. As long as my will is not extinguished, I can survive even if I'm parasitized on a rock." As he spoke, he glanced at the puppet in his hand. "Of course, the stronger the container, the better. If I were really parasitized on a rock, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do anything anymore."

"Hmm…" Feng Bujue nodded, then asked with interest, "What if you used my body as a container? What would happen?"

Billy snorted coldly, replying, "Hmph… don't forget, at this moment, you are just a consciousness body using Rudy Austin's body. Moreover, the connection between your consciousness and this body is protected by the system. Even if I were in the best condition, I couldn't intervene." He paused. "By the way… from a biological point of view, your body, Dr. Jonathan's body… are actually not much different in essence. Because you are the same species, even if there are some differences in individual strength, these differences will not be that great."

"It sounds like… you don't think much of using humans as containers," Jue Ge continued.

Billy thought for a few seconds, then replied, "Let's put it this way… if we compare my mental power to electric current, and the container to a conductor… then your human bodies are probably at the level of platinum, at most not exceeding iron, and the worse ones are equivalent to rubidium; as for my own body…" He shook the puppet in his hand with pride. "...it's like silver. The innate compatibility and the data characteristics it possesses are incomparable to other bodies. Not to mention humans, even higher-level biological containers may not be able to exert all of my power."

"Alright, alright…" Feng Bujue waved his hand. "Then tell me, how can I turn you back into a puppet?"

"Hmm…" Billy looked embarrassed, and after thinking for a moment, replied, "***-055 is a very difficult guy to deal with. The more the ability user leans toward the spiritual side, the greater the damage they will suffer after contacting it… I previously had a conscious contact with it without any protection, and was instantly severely injured." He shook his head and muttered, "Right now, from a physical level, my body is still intact, but in reality… its 'truth sequence' has been severely damaged and must be completely repaired before it can be used again. If I continue to stay in this 'severely damaged' container, even my spiritual level will 'self-destruct'."

"So… how long will this repair work take?" Feng Bujue asked immediately.

"About a week…" Billy replied. After two seconds, he added, "...at least five days."

"Then you might as well kill yourself." Feng Bujue looked at Billy with dead fish eyes, and said calmly.

"It's not that long…" Billy continued.

"Ha!" Jue Ge laughed dryly. "Do you know that five days is enough for two teenagers to fall in love at first sight, get engaged in private, pa pa pa pa, you die I live, I die you live, die and live again, live and die again."

Billy replied with squinted eyes, "This can only show that the social atmosphere is getting worse and worse."

Feng Bujue said, "But I'm talking about the Renaissance."

"Oh…" Billy's brainpower wasn't bad either. "Romeo and Juliet?"

"That's not the point." Jue Ge immediately changed the subject after being exposed. "The point is… how the hell am I supposed to wait five days for you?"

"I'm the one who should be distressed," Billy replied. "You can leave the script and walk away… but I can't leave. I have to hide this puppet somewhere without being recognized, and spend time repairing it every day…"

"Hmph… I didn't say I was going to walk away." At this moment, Feng Bujue interrupted the other party with a smile. "You should understand… I'm not someone who gives up easily."

Billy's expression changed slightly. "It seems… you already have an idea?"

"Not yet," Feng Bujue replied. After two seconds, he added, "Thinking about it."

Billy didn't respond.

After another ten seconds…

"Okay, I've got it." Jue Ge said in a calm and confident tone, "Let's talk as we walk."

…………

Time, back to the present.

"Who is it? Who's using the broadcast?" Steven's first reaction after hearing the deep voice was to look at the console in the monitoring room.

But the staff member sitting in front of the console also looked back at him with an innocent expression.

"Damn it…" Steven raised his pistol (he wasn't equipped with an assault rifle) and aimed at Billy on the metal table. "Is it really you playing tricks?"

Seeing this, the surrounding security guards also raised their guns and aimed at the puppet. But the puppet had no reaction, lying motionless on the spot.

"All along, you've all thought you were doing a noble job." The voice in the broadcast continued from the previous sentence, "I want to play a game with you," "You adhere to the Foundation's philosophy, placing yourselves above secular society to view and deal with everything.

However… what is the reality?

Even if you think you are outside the scope of ordinary people, the position of being 'human' will not change.

Who gave you the power to control and isolate those supernatural things? Who stipulated that only things that you humans can understand or control do not violate the laws of nature? And who told you… that the 'laws of nature' you have mastered are correct?

If the answers to these questions can be ignored because of 'standpoint', and your actions can also be regarded as justifiable because of 'standpoint'. Then… from the standpoint of a so-called 'supernatural thing', do I also have the right to define you 'humans' as a kind of 'keter-level threat', and conduct research, isolation, and even obliteration on you?"

"What he said makes sense…" Feng Bujue interjected with a wicked smile.

"Shut up!" Steven turned his head and roared at him. "Do you think you can have any influence on us with this level of mental interference? Don't dream!"

…………

At the same time, in the corridor.

Blood spread from the bodies of two security guards.

The one who killed them was none other than "Dr. Jonathan", or rather… Billy.

Billy is, after all, a unique data, and his abilities in all aspects are at the Super-Boss level. Even with limited abilities, he can do the following three things at the same time: One, control all the broadcasts on the B7 level, spreading misinformation; Two, shield the single monitoring probe in his location; Three, stimulate the limits of the doctor's weak body and kill two security guards.

Of course, the third thing is difficult to do with bare hands. The reason why he was able to succeed was firstly because he had a weapon hidden on his body (Jue Ge brought a few items out of Kozmo's suitcase, and Billy had prepared the items before implementing the plan), and secondly because the attention of the two guards was distracted by the broadcast.

But even so, Billy was injured in the process of implementing the action…

"Not good…" He covered the wound on his ribs and looked down at the flowing blood. "...this body won't last long, I need to speed things up."