Strange game designer.

Chapter 848 Eight
Xue Se was very anxious, worried that his subordinates would be killed by Dr. Gao. He immediately called Dr. Gao after finishing the meeting at the police station.

"Big Head, can he still breathe?" Xue Se knew his men well; they were all violent thugs he had brought out from the regulatory agency, and they only obeyed his orders.

"Uncle, he's not acting right. Please come back and check on him."

The 40-minute drive was completed in 20 minutes by Xue Se. He ran into the dilapidated building in the residential area and saw several of his men standing around. The room smelled terrible, and several residents of the residential area were crowded together. Dr. Gao was standing among them.

"How is this going?"

"Not long after you left, the residents living here asked us for food. After we chased them away, a child tumbled down the stairs." The burly man called Big Head, holding handcuffs, said, "He was treating the child."

"Who told you to unlock it for him?" Xue Se pushed Da Tou aside and frowned as she looked at the crowd.

Surrounded by people at the center, Dr. Gao paid no attention to the mud and stench on the residents. He patiently bandaged the wounds of the little boy lying on the ground and set his severed arm.

"The Mother Teresa game is over." Xue Se tried to pull Dr. Gao out, but as soon as he got close, the usually cowardly and selfish residents of the residential area pointed their weapons at him, including brooms, broken glass, and stones.

"What did you do to these poor people? Psychological suggestion? Hypnosis? Mind manipulation?" Xue Se stopped in his tracks. What he hated most was the fooling of the weak.

“I’m just saving people.” Dr. Gao didn’t look up: “You claim to have built an equal city, but in reality you’ve completely let go and left them to fend for themselves.”

“The difference in brain development levels is too great. If we don’t do this, they will become slaves to the superiors, just like now. Aren’t you also using them to make a living and gain leverage for yourself?” Xue Se hated hypocrisy. He was like a sharp pair of scissors, wanting to cut through the night and let the starlight shine into the new Shanghai: “Everyone has the right to decide their own destiny. They can decide what kind of life they want to live. That is freedom and living.”

"Intervention is not enslavement. I will not control someone's destiny, but rather take responsibility for the fate of all beings." Dr. Gao wiped away the little boy's tears: "Alright, the child is fine now. Everyone, go about your business. If anyone gets sick in the future, you can come to the Human Entrance Hospital to find me."

"We probably won't find you there." Not wanting to waste time, Xue Se chased away the irrelevant people and got straight to the point: "The bureau has discussed it and is preparing to help you join the ethics supervision group."

"Don't you have a very bad relationship with the ethics watchdog group?"

"The instructors of the Moral Oversight Group are highly respected figures in Xinhu. For example, Bu Cun has assisted the police and the public in resolving numerous serious incidents, which has been widely reported by the media. He is also a top doctor at a major hospital. But even he needs to pass the Human Rights Commission's exam and be recognized by the judiciary. The instructors' oversight power is granted by Xinhu. If we close other channels, they will have no choice but to select you." Xue Se gestured to his subordinates to let the ordinary residents leave: "You have managed the Human Entrance Hospital very well and dared to stand up and testify against the gardener. In terms of reputation, you are perfectly qualified. As for other matters, you don't need to worry about them; leave them to us."

"What do you need me to do?"

"Find out the connection between the ethics oversight group and the forest. The higher-ups are worried about something—the forest was planted by humans." Xue Se's deadpan face showed little change in expression. "Just wait for instructions. Our people will contact you."

The handcuffs were removed, and the pistol was concealed under the trench coat. Xue Se's actions indicated that Dr. Gao was temporarily out of danger. "We will temporarily protect you as a key witness, and during this period you are prohibited from communicating or interacting with any outsiders. This is also to prevent you from being harmed."

The phone was taken away, and Dr. Gao had the two burly men put it back into the car.

When the car door opened again, he was taken to a windowless room with a mountain of documents in front of him.

"Take as much as you can; you have an afternoon." Xue Se closed the thick iron door, leaving Gao Yi alone in the room.

Sitting in the chair, Dr. Gao wasn't too worried. The police had only taken his phone; his other personal belongings were still with him. For Dr. Gao, the phone was irrelevant; he didn't have any help anyway. The most important things were the syringes and medications in his pocket.

Dr. Gao was very engrossed in reviewing the materials. The information contained everything the police wanted him to do. From a very early stage, the police suspected that the perpetrators of these heinous incidents were hiding within the ethics watchdog group and the human rights committee. These two organizations had profited the most from the damage that had been done to the credibility of the judiciary by these heinous incidents.

The police were investigating them covertly and did indeed gather some information.

If it were someone else, they might think the police were framing him, but Dr. Gao is different; these heinous incidents are inextricably linked to him. One could even go further and say he was the instigator of some of these incidents; when he committed these crimes, he clearly felt several forces aiding him.

“Eight unpredictable beings, each transformed into different people according to their own characteristics. Even if they went completely mad, some things remained—rules that even destiny could not erase…” Dr. Gao gripped the pen tightly, feeling himself beginning to forget again: “One created the forest, one became a man-eating house, one was killed and then reappeared, and one is still missing. Xue Se can see people's souls, the gardener chose to remain clear-headed and rational, and the remaining two are the most troublesome…”

He pounded his head, each time Dr. Gao tried to recall something, his memory would permanently diminish: "I don't have much time left."

Madness can make people lose their pretense of rationality. Eight unpredictable individuals will reveal their truest selves in the new Shanghai, a side that they themselves may have long forgotten.

"They are not all bad people, they just happen to be all hostile to me. Number One and I do not have the ability to kill them, we can only delay them as much as possible."

The documents on the table made Dr. Gao increasingly alarmed. In this city where the abnormal had completely replaced the normal, in this place where the rules were completely distorted and insane, the police had almost uncovered the truth behind the heinous incident, but because it involved the Human Rights Committee and the Ethics Watch Group, many things could not be made public to everyone.

"There's really no way to hide anymore. Even if I hadn't been exposed this time, they would have found me soon."

The only good news for Dr. Gao is that the police don't want to try him alone; they want to uproot the Human Rights Commission and the Ethics Watch Group.

However, Xue Se showed him these things, so she definitely didn't want him to live.

(End of this chapter)