Chapter 197 Damiaan

Three hours ago, Li Tianran received a report from Lu Chi, claiming that he had found a heavyweight while searching for survivors, and immediately started the return journey.

After returning, Li Tianran looked at the dozen or so EU people brought back by Lu Chi, and quickly used his Data Eye to find out their true identities.

Among these seventeen EU citizens, Damian Miller's identity, as written on his work permit, was a research academician of the EU Delta Force, and the man who had previously shot at the pioneers was his student and also a staff member of the research lab. The other fifteen people were their family members.

Li Tianran was also very puzzled as to why such a group of people with special identities would appear in the ruined city.

But he soon found something interesting about these people: several paper design drawings. Li Tianran recognized at a glance that the data and plans on them were very similar to the equipment seized from the EU team before, but with some changes in the details.

Soon, he also found this delicate, nail-sized USB drive in Damian's belt buckle.

With Damian's identity, hidden in such a secret place, the information in this USB drive must be shocking!

With this in mind, Li Tianran asked Lan Ning to crack the encryption program in this USB drive, and then he saw a scene that made him extremely excited.

This USB drive contained a design plan, a complete set of new evolutionary equipment design plans!

Moreover, judging from the various data and design concepts, once this new equipment called "Tyrannosaurus Rex Type" is released, its various data and practicality will surpass the first generation, that is, the set of equipment that Li Tianran is now copying from the EU, by at least five times!

It was like the difference between a Perfect Form and an Ultimate Form!

This sudden good fortune made Li Tianran unable to calm down for a long time. With this USB drive, he could manufacture more powerful equipment, allowing the Pioneer Legion to completely stand at the forefront of the world's evolutionary forces and become the most powerful legion.

But besides excitement, the doubts in his heart were equally strong.

He began to calmly think about this matter.

Damian appeared in the ruined city so abnormally, and suddenly sent himself such a great piece of luck, could there be any trap in it?

With this thought, Li Tianran decided to carefully examine this group of people led by Damian.

He did not let Han Han directly read the other party's memory, because Damian and others had suffered a brainwave impact before, and their brains were still in a damaged state. If he forcibly read their memories again, it might kill him instantly...

Under Li Tianran's arrangement, this group of people was temporarily sent to a temporary residence.

But Damian was treated specially. Li Tianran took him to the castle, fed him an Ancient-grade fruit, and waited until he woke up.

...

The perspective returns to this moment.

Damian was firmly suppressed by several times the gravity, unable to move, and could only stare at Li Tianran with wide eyes in anger.

"Don't look at me like that. No matter what, I'm your family's savior." Li Tianran gently tossed the USB drive in his hand, with a smile on his face: "Now I have some questions I want to ask you, I hope you can answer them truthfully."

"My wife and children, where are they?" Damian asked in a trembling voice.

Li Tianran picked up a tablet and shook it in front of Damian, and said, "If you can cooperate a little, you will see them soon."

The computer screen showed Damian's companions and relatives in the temporary residence, and some people had already woken up.

Damian was silent when he saw this scene. The situation was stronger than him, and he had to cooperate.

"Why didn't you let someone directly read my memory? There should be superhumans with this ability in your team..." Damian still remembered how he fainted. As a researcher, he knew very well that this was the ability of a special evolutionary.

"Although I don't like EU people, I'm willing to be more patient with people like you who may be able to create some value for me." Li Tianran said calmly: "Now I ask the first question, why did you appear in that ruined city?"

Li Tianran relaxed his gravity suppression on Damian. The other party breathed a sigh of relief, then was silent for a moment, and said, "I... escaped from the EU."

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows.

He was originally mentally prepared, thinking that he would hear stories like "transporting important resources, shot down by an enemy country halfway", "the laboratory was attacked by a beast king, carrying out a difficult survival", but he never expected to hear such a sentence.

"Escaped... yourself?" Li Tianran asked.

"That's right." Damian nodded.

"Why? Were you also... squeezed out? Framed?" Li Tianran thought of Professor Nan's experience in Nancheng before, and couldn't help asking.

Damian shook his head and said with a wry smile: "No, no one framed me. I enjoyed the highest level of treatment in the EU. All my actions have nothing to do with outsiders! I... I escaped from the EU laboratory myself!"

The expression on Li Tianran's face was very strange. This EU person was living a life like a god, but took the initiative to run out to seek death?

"Give me a reason that can convince me." Li Tianran said calmly.

Damian thought for a moment, then stood up and looked at Li Tianran and said excitedly: "Reason? The reason is... I don't want to continue to work for the EU, I don't want to continue to manufacture powerful evolutionary weapons and let them continue to be used in human infighting!"

"..." Li Tianran raised his eyebrows.

"When the Seven Continents Force Research Institute was first established, I was selected! Like most people, I felt that I was contributing to resisting the beast king's invasion and to the future of all mankind, and I felt unparalleled glory!"

"But as time passed day by day, I gradually discovered that more and more of the battle suits sent for repair were not torn apart by claws and teeth, but were destroyed by sharp steel knives and new energy bullets..."

"I know that the equipment I made, which was originally used to resist the beast king's invasion, is now being widely used in internal wars between humans!"

"I was in trouble, I began to doubt whether I was right."

"Until I saw the soldiers of the Seven Continents Force, covered in blood, carrying the heads of Russian evolutionary soldiers, laughing happily in front of their superiors to claim credit, my belief began to collapse..."

"Making more powerful equipment will only lead to more tragic internal wars. These equipments have deviated from their earliest birth purpose."

"In this state of mind, I did not hand over the "Tyrannosaurus Rex" blueprints that had just been completed, but left the EU with two students and my family, preparing to hand it over to a country that could use it correctly."

"But the tragedy of the outside world was beyond my expectation. The helicopter we were in encountered great difficulties and was tracked down, and finally crashed in that ruined city. We relied on the equipment we carried when we escaped from the research institute to kill some monsters. One of my students and several of his family members also died, and finally struggled to hide in the basement... until you found us."

After Damian finished speaking, Li Tianran touched his chin and was silent for a long time.

"If what you said is true, from the perspective of all mankind, you are indeed a great man!"

"But if you simply stand from the perspective of the country and your students and family..." Li Tianran took a deep breath and glanced at Damian:

"You're pretty damn inhuman!"