突突突突……

The fire tongues spat out by the assault rifle answered Dan's command.

Feng Bujue rolled towards Dr. Jonathan while pulling the trigger.

"Idiot, who would just stand here and be captured!" While Brother Jue was violently resisting in action, his verbal attacks didn't stop either, "Instead of shouting, why didn't you just shoot!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already charged and rolled to Dr. Jonathan's side, and with a single grab, he held the latter in front of him as a shield.

"Bastard! Release the Doctor!" Dan and the security team raised their guns and aimed, but they couldn't risk killing the hostage.

Dr. Jonathan was, after all, a Level Four researcher, and considered an important asset of the Foundation. Before receiving explicit orders from higher-ups, these security personnel were not authorized to shoot him.

"That's another pointless statement, Dan." Feng Bujue had already recognized Dan's voice, and he mocked wantonly, "If I was going to do what you said, why would I even bother taking a hostage?"

Having said that, Brother Jue turned to Jonathan and said in a low voice, "Doctor, for the safety of your colleagues and yourself, please cooperate with me as much as possible, understand?"

At this moment, Dr. Jonathan was hugging Billy with one hand, while his other shoulder was tightly held by Brother Jue, making it impossible to break free. He knew very little about the D-class personnel behind him, but judging from what he had seen and heard during this period… this was undoubtedly a ruthless murderer.

"O-okay…" Jonathan replied tremblingly, "Please don't…"

"...Don't make demands of me." Feng Bujue interrupted him, "I say, you do."

He gave clear instructions in an unquestionable tone, his attitude revealing immense confidence and composure. At this moment, including Dan… in the subconscious of everyone present, they had already recognized that Brother Jue was the one in control of the situation.

Thus, after a brief standoff, the security team watched helplessly as Feng Bujue used a "human shield" to retreat all the way back into the emergency security通道 (tongdao - passageway).

This type of 通道 (tongdao - passageway) is exclusively used by Level Five and O5 personnel, and entering or exiting requires two conditions… first, you have to know the location of the hidden door; second, you have to have a pass of the corresponding level.

Since Feng Bujue had the only Level Five pass in the base (there would usually be other Level Five or O5 personnel moving around, but on this day, Kozmo was the only Level Five personnel left in the base), after he retreated into the 通道 (tongdao - passageway), the security personnel were once again in a completely passive position.

"Report, this is B3 Research Lab, Austin has escaped into the 通道 (tongdao - passageway) again." Dan watched the entrance of the 通道 (tongdao - passageway) close, and he could only report helplessly.

"Damn it…" Steven, who was in B7, cursed angrily when he heard this, "Was I still one step too late…"

As the temporary commander of the base, his response was actually quite good. After receiving Gore's report, Steven immediately guessed Brother Jue's method of escape. Although he didn't want to believe that the Kozmo he respected would reveal information about the emergency security 通道 (tongdao - passageway) (information that even Steven didn't know), he still calmly analyzed the various possibilities and made the correct judgment.

Based on this deduction, Steven immediately thought… that Austin had previously mentioned Dr. Jonathan and the Billy puppet, and he seemed to know the location of the two very well… This provided two pieces of information: first, it corroborated the fact that "Commander Kozmo has already confessed"; second, the other party's primary purpose didn't seem to be escape, but rather the puppet and the doctor. Of course, it couldn't be ruled out that this was just a smokescreen released by the other party before escaping, in order to play a diversionary tactic.

With this in mind, Steven immediately ordered the team closest to the B3 Research Lab to rush over… even if this was really a diversionary tactic, they had to guard against it.

But unexpectedly, Brother Jue still succeeded in the end.

…………

Three minutes later, in the emergency security 通道 (tongdao - passageway).

"Listen to me… Mr. Austin." Jonathan was walking with the puppet in his arms, with a gun pointed at him, "If you want to take this puppet and escape, I will never stop you, I'm just a researcher, I don't plan to…"

"Alright, alright…" Feng Bujue didn't want to listen to this, he interrupted impatiently, "Don't waste your breath, Doctor. When I let you go is up to me. The fact that I'm still holding you hostage shows that you're still useful, so… please shut your mouth, and only speak when I need you to, so as not to anger me, understand?"

His tone sounded more and more like a professional criminal who lived off of crime. Jonathan didn't want to negotiate with this kind of person, he had neither the courage nor the ability, so he decided… "Okay, I understand…"

As they spoke, they had arrived in front of a hidden door exit.

Feng Bujue glanced at the sign next to the door, and then used the pass to open the door.

"Please go first, Doctor." Brother Jue stood next to the opened door and turned to point the gun at Jonathan.

Jonathan swallowed and walked through the hidden door with hurried steps.

Brother Jue followed closely behind and walked out of the 通道 (tongdao - passageway).

"Please open that safe, Doctor." As soon as they entered the room, Feng Bujue ordered.

At this moment, the room they were in was the containment room where Brother Jue and Billy had been before, the one where ***-1998 was stored.

Dr. Jonathan naturally recognized this room, because he was the key custodian of the project in the room.

"You…" The Doctor originally wanted to ask Brother Jue what he was planning to do with this thing, but after thinking about it, he immediately swallowed the question back down.

Jonathan, as a person with higher education and a not-low IQ, even if his EQ was not good, should be able to deduce Brother Jue's intentions. Obviously, the act of specifically taking himself hostage to open the safe itself at least demonstrated three points: first, he knew the purpose of this project; second, he also knew who had the key to this project; third, he knew exactly what he was going to do with this project.

"Doctor." Just as Jonathan stood in front of the safe and prepared to take out the key, Feng Bujue suddenly said in a cold tone, "If I were you, I wouldn't do that."

This sentence sounded nonsensical, but it instantly froze Jonathan in place, his blood congealing as a chill assaulted his heart.

Only Jonathan himself knew… two seconds ago, when his hand touched the key, an idea flashed through his mind.

However, just as he was still hesitating whether or not to turn it into action, Feng Bujue's words had already entered his ears.