Why it never ends

Chapter 1042 Rhetoric
Perhaps because the young man's voice was too soft, or perhaps because Victoria's attention was now elsewhere, she did not immediately understand what the young man meant and just stared at the open door.

She couldn't help holding her breath when she thought that the reason why so many mercury needles turned against her might be hidden behind this door.

"Are you listening?" the young man asked again.

"what?"

"I just told you..."

"Time constraints?" Victoria glanced at the girl. "What's wrong with time constraints?"

The other party shook his head: "...Forget it, come this way."

She pressed the switch on the wall, and a corridor leading to a deeper place gradually lit up. There were no heavy gates here anymore, and it looked like an underground research station.

"I'm going to show you something we've never shown anyone before, and you'll understand."

The deeper they went, the more Victoria felt that this place was like the chelate battle room in the reserve base, where the mercury needles were awakened for the second time. However, there were almost no people here. They were the only two visitors in the entire snow-white corridor.

The young mercury needle came to a laboratory and pressed a switch, and a beam of strong light hit a cage farther away. Victoria saw a disheveled child curled up in the box. He was originally sleeping in the dark, but now the strong light shone directly on his face, forcing him to raise his hands to block it.

"Who is this?"

"We brought an example from the southern part of District 12." The young man said, "Wait a minute."

The young man turned down a few levers, and the spotlight shining directly on the cage became brighter. The boy, who was suddenly awakened, also noticed the visitor in the distance, and he pounded the cage angrily. Victoria only saw at this time that the other party was wearing the same shackles as before - shackles used to restrict the movement of chelates.

The young mercury needle typed a string of numbers on the screen, and suddenly half of the special metal shackles on the boy in the distance fell off. The boy began to yell in a language that Victoria could not understand. He punched and kicked the fallen shackles in annoyance, trying to throw them out of the cage.

Victoria's expression changed from shock to disgust. She looked at the mercury needle beside her: "...What on earth are you doing? Your behavior——"

Before she finished speaking, Victoria's voice dropped.

The violence in the distance suddenly escalated at a certain moment, and the sound of the boy hitting the shackles changed from intermittent loud noises to continuous and terrifying beatings. He was like an enraged trapped beast, attacking the cage that imprisoned him for the thousandth time, with a force and frequency that ordinary people could not achieve.

...reserve?

Victoria looked at the scene in confusion.

"Is that a chelate? Or a mercury needle?" Victoria whispered.

"Of course it's not a chelate. Didn't you see that his arms don't have claws?" the young man said. "But it can't be called a mercury needle either..."

Victoria glanced at the young man - how could she use hand features to verify whether a person was chelated? "Please pay attention."

The young mercury needle gave another command, and the boy in the cage suddenly fell to the ground and twitched violently, and then fell into a brief silence.

Victoria understood what this method was. Every base and workstation underground prison cell was equipped with an electric shock device, which could cause intense pain but would not leave obvious marks on the surface.

When a current of nearly 75 milliamperes passes through the human body at an irregular frequency, it can quickly induce ventricular fibrillation, which can easily lead to sudden death.

Seeing the boy fall to the ground, Victoria realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Stop," Victoria said sternly. "What do you want to do?"

"Don't look at me, look ahead," the young man stared straight into the distance, "Don't miss what's happening in front of you."

Several mechanical arms extended from the cage, checking the boy's condition, and then reattached themselves to the cage frame. About half a minute later, the boy woke up. He stood up shakily, and after weakly slapping the metal bars of the cage a few times, he once again entered his previous almost violent state.

It took less than a minute from the time he woke up to the time he entered bullet time again.

If we take into account the brief confusion of consciousness caused by the electric shock, we can almost say that after he fell out of bullet time due to the electric shock, he immediately recovered and almost did not experience the so-called restriction time.

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"There is a small team in the southern mountainous area. The number of people is between twelve and seventeen. The age distribution is concentrated between twenty and thirty years old, and there are one or two middle-aged people around fifty years old. Almost all of them are mercury needle ability users. These people, like this child, can completely bypass the constraints of time in battle... Did you know about this?"

A thread was pulled through Victoria's mind, and she finally understood what the young man was talking about tonight.

The mercury needle user in the south...

So, Bo Heng and his students should be one of them?

"It's not just the chip. For us mercury needles, entering and exiting bullet time should be as natural as breathing. Only the Acheron moment is real, but it won't cause near-fatal bleeding. It will only make people exhausted and exit bullet time, and then shorten the upper limit of our bullet time in the short term... But this is not a permanent consequence. As long as we rest for a period of time, it will recover.

"Do you know about this?" The young man turned around, "Do you know how much freedom we - the Mirsotis who suddenly left the barbaric species far behind in the branch of evolution - have been taken away by the barbaric species so far? Living in a habitable area, living freely, it is our birthright, but AHgAs took advantage of us. They deliberately collected a large number of newly awakened mercury needles, raised us, tamed us, and then used despicable means to control us with drugs. In the end, they personally created a group of monsters full of defects - is this a utopia?"

Without waiting for Victoria to reply, the young man continued.

"Or maybe you actually want to say that all utopias are lies. All those who think they are in a dream will eventually wake up," the young man said softly, "You are now standing at that juncture, the juncture of the third awakening, do you know?"

Victoria looked at her coldly.

"I believe," the girl said, "after tonight, you will have a more objective and true perspective on everything that happens inside AHgAs. No one can deceive your eyes anymore."