Chapter 693: 693

Chapter 693: Don’t Be So Sure

Zhang Heng’s clone curiously glared at the knife stuck in his thigh, his face showing no sign that he was in any pain . “It seems I have to take back what I said before,” he said calmly . “You are no smarter than your peers . Since you already know what I am, you should know that such torture wouldn’t affect me . If you are intending to use such means to extract information, I advise you not to waste your energy . ”

“No, don’t get me wrong, I did this because I wanted to . There is no other purpose . ” Zhang Heng stopped for a moment . “Okay, let’s go to the next topic . Before that, let me ask you a warm-up question . ”

“And what would this question be?” The clone rolled his eyes .

“I want to know what medium you used to contact your people?”

“What do you mean by the medium that I use?” The clone rubbed his chin on his shoulder .

“Think about a bat’s ultrasonic soundwave . ”

“Oh, you must be worried that I might’ve told the others about my capture, right?” the clone grinned . “But you already know the answer to this question, don’t you? You deliberately captured me and went to the internet cafe for a while . Besides saving your little girlfriend, you wanted to see if my people were aware of our differences . You are quite smart . Although pointless, you did buy yourself some time to escape . However, you will still not end well . ”

“Really?”

Zhang Heng didn’t comment on the reply . He then asked the second and most important question:

“Where did you keep the people you guys have replaced?”

“Interesting, but what makes you think those people are still alive?”

“You better answer me now,” Zhang Heng emphasized .

“Otherwise?”

The clone laughed when he heard that . “Admit it . You have no means to threaten me . The reason why I am willing to chat with you is that I’m feeling bored . ”

“Better not be too sure,” said Zhang Heng . He opened up the side of his schoolbag and took out a tempered glass jar .

Inside the jar were four hideous creatures that looked like the unholy child of a three-eyed dinosaur shrimp and a lamprey . They scurried along the glass wall of the jar, trying to open the lid . Zhang Heng had sealed the jar with some tape, and there was no escaping for those tiny monsters . The moment Bai Qing saw the peculiar creature, she almost threw up her breakfast . She had no idea how Zhang Heng could hold the glass jar without his hand twitching .

“Come and say hello to your allies . ”

Zhang Heng had captured these four alien lifeforms after killing the four people that ganged up on him in his school . He had to crack open their heads locate them . Although the clone’s expressions were well controlled, the revelation must have had a significant impact on him since he had stopped talking .

“With all due respect, you guys are much weaker than I thought,” Zhang Heng said . “I exerted a little strength on one of your allies, and his calf broke . ”

“High-level lifeforms have always paid more attention to the development of intelligence,” the clone said . “We don’t need strong bodies to be at the top of the food chain . Humans perceived dinosaurs as apex predators with advanced physical functions . To us, however, they are nothing but prey . ”

“I find that hard to refute,” Zhang Heng said, “but when I put you into this glass bottle, I wonder if you can still say it out loud with confidence . ”

“If you’re using them as blackmail, forget about it . We don’t value interpersonal relationships as much as you humans,” chirped the clone, his emotions seemingly sorted out .

“Really? Why did your allies risk their lives to rescue you last time?” Zhang Heng turned to Bai Qing . “Help me get the gas,” he said to her .

Mouth covered, the latter dug out a can of portable liquefied gas from the package on the side of the backpack, then plugged in the portable stove and handed it to Zhang Heng . This thing was usually used for cooking in the wild, allowing for the convenience of a proper fire without the luxury of a real kitchen .

Zhang Heng put the tempered glass jar on it and ignited the portable cooker with a lighter . After a while, the rapidly rising temperature began to irritate the four ugly creatures inside of it . They started to tackle the glass jar even more violently . However, as Zhang Heng’s clone said, perhaps they added all their attribute points to intelligence that resulted in their lackluster physical fitness . As a result, their bodies couldn’t match up to the strength of the tempered glass jar .

After a while, they stopped moving . All four aliens gradually dropped to the bottom of the glass jar, with their limbs curled up like cooked cockroaches . Zhang Heng didn’t assume that these things would die so easily, though—judging from the corpse from the freezer, they would enter a state similar to hibernation or apparent death once their body went below their adaptive temperature .

“Enough,” the clone suddenly spoke . For the first time, he was angry and began sounding warnings . “You gain nothing by annoying us . ”

“It depends on how cooperative you are . Tell us the whereabouts of the people you replaced, and I will turn off the fire . ”

The clone lowered his head in thought . It seemed he was weighing the pros and cons of the choice he would be making .

“Okay . ”

“I want to know what you guys have planned for me as well,” Zhang Heng added . The moment he ended, the clone’s mobile phone rang .

It should be the owner of the Internet café . He was going to ask him why he brought Bai Qing out . Zhang Heng put the phone next to the clone’s ear . “You know what to say, right?”

…

Ten minutes later, not did Zhang Heng discover the whereabouts of those they had kept alive, but he now gained a general understanding of the aliens’ organization . That said, most of them were irrelevant . Zhang Heng knew that his clone would never divulge the secrets beneath Workshop No . 3 since it was the crux of their survival and reproduction .

Even if Zhang Heng killed it and his four allies, the clone would still refuse to tell him anything . In fact, even if it knew that Zhang Heng had been to Workshop No . 3, mum would be the word .

Till the end of the conversation, Zhang Heng never once mentioned the glass factory and blue-green algae . This confused the clone to a certain extent, making it think that Zhang Heng and Bai Qing were still unaware of their core secret . Under such circumstances, it was willing to sacrifice some intelligence in exchange for a chance for him and his allies to survive .

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