Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 983 Split Brain
"Latest news from Dongdu: 13 people sustained minor injuries in Huangwu, but no one died."

Just as Mr. Hua left the meeting, he was startled by a text message sent by Secretary Chen.

Last night there were Molotov cocktails and a large passenger plane crash; how could no one have died?

Therefore, after leaving the media building, Mr. Hua immediately called Secretary Chen back to inquire about the specific situation.

According to Secretary Chen, after several places inside the Royal House were set on fire with Molotov cocktails, the people inside were quickly evacuated.

When the crashed passenger plane struck the Royal Palace, no one was inside; only the firefighters on the perimeter sustained minor injuries.

"Is it confirmed that no one has died?" Old Hua was still somewhat unwilling to believe it.

The crash of a large passenger plane can be considered an accident, but the act of throwing Molotov cocktails and burning down the Royal Palace is clearly orchestrated by someone with discerning eyes.

He didn't believe that the person behind him was making such a commotion just to scare the Japanese islanders.

"No, not exactly..." Secretary Chen paused for a moment before continuing, "Other intelligence indicates that during the Mitsui family's luncheon today, several people experienced symptoms of food poisoning such as diarrhea and vomiting, and those people were involved in a chain-reaction car accident while being transported to the hospital."

"Although the exact number of dead and injured in this car accident has not yet been determined, judging from the horrific scene, a considerable number of people have certainly died!"

"Mitsui? Car accident?" Old Hua pondered for a moment before hanging up Secretary Chen's phone.

The car bomb that Zhang Heping encountered last year was allegedly orchestrated by the Mitsui zaibatsu, though there is no conclusive evidence.

If Zhang Heping is suspected of being the mastermind behind the fires at the Imperial House and the Divine Toilet, then he is more than just a suspect in the Mitsui family's car accident; it is almost certain that he orchestrated it.

However, Hua Lao was unable to advise Zhang Heping against such retaliation after the fact, especially since it took more than a year to do so.

Firstly, after the car bomb incident last year, Hua and his group did not bring the masterminds out and punish them. Instead, they forced Japan and the United States to pay a token amount of "money" that Zhang Heping didn't care about.

Secondly, in this matter, as long as the Japanese cannot produce evidence, it is their own business. Hua Lao would never use the Japanese issue to persuade Zhang Heping to be magnanimous.

If he really does that, Zhang Heping might turn against him.

In the minds of most Chinese people, they can forgive the United States, a former defeated enemy, but Japan can never be forgiven!
Especially given that the Japanese islanders refuse to admit their mistakes or confess their crimes!
Just as Mr. Hua was still figuring out how to communicate with Zhang Heping about the Japanese island issue, the person in charge of China Resources rushed over.

"Mr. Hua, there's a problem!" The China Resources representative took a deep breath, trying to catch his breath. "Consultant Zhang is with his bodyguards, looking for those mercenaries..."

"What?" Old Hua's brows furrowed instantly, his eyes sharp as he looked at the newcomer. "Why is he going to find those mercenaries now?"

"I don't know. We only saw him lead his men to the mercenaries, take a look, and then leave."

"Oh no!" Old Hua thought of the gold-rimmed glasses Zhang Heping was wearing today and immediately guessed that Zhang Heping had used his mental power against those mercenaries.

"Go back to your meeting room first!" After saying that, Old Hua strode towards the China Resources Building and asked the middle-aged manager following closely behind, "What's the situation with those mercenaries now?"

"Those mercenaries who were approached by Consultant Zhang are currently trying to escape Hong Kong Island," the China Resources representative replied, but unexpectedly, Old Master Hua paused, almost causing him to bump into him.

Old Hua stopped the middle-aged manager, who nearly fell while trying to avoid him, and asked with slight surprise, "No mercenaries died? Or has anything else gone wrong?"

"No!" the China Resources representative hurriedly said, "That's also what we're most confused about. It seems that Consultant Zhang just went to take a quick look at them."

"However, his actions are inconsistent with the large-scale deployment of personnel and equipment by Umbrella Security Company. We are worried that if something happens to those mercenaries, he will be implicated."

With the same doubts and concerns, Mr. Hua, along with Director Wang, Xiao Qin, and others, quickly went to the top floor of the China Resources Building.

The intelligence personnel who worked through the night in this conference room have taken a break during the day.

As Zhang Heping's technical sharing session came to an end, instead of letting out a sigh of relief, they all stared nervously at the screen, as if worried that something big was about to happen.

"What's the situation now?" As soon as Hua entered the conference room, he walked toward the head of the southern intelligence department who was sitting at the speaker's seat.

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Tang Wei, who had just followed Zhang Heping out of a hotel, glanced at his phone and hurriedly said to Zhang Heping, "Master, the mercenaries in other areas have received the news and have all left their strongholds. Most of the mercenaries are heading to the airport and the docks!"

Where do you think we should go next?

"Go to the dock first!" Zhang Heping said coldly. "The airport has suspended all departing flights!"

Upon hearing this, some of the people behind him called the person in charge of Kai Tak Airport, some called airport security and ground staff, and some called the heads of various docks.

After contacting the Hong Kong Island Smart City Centre, Tang planned his next destination: the Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Terminal.

According to the original plan, the bodyguards and security guards of Umbrella Security Company would deliver a fatal blow to the mercenaries who were willing to risk their lives for money, and then take the opportunity to wipe out the Japanese and Korean participants, letting them know that the Zhang family of Hong Kong Island was not someone they could mess with!
As for international reputation, the answer is self-defense!

However, the Hong Kong police and the hawkish army disrupted their plans. Since the mercenaries did not launch the first attack, the Umbrella Security Company could not retaliate against them in a legitimate name.

Otherwise, Zhang Heping wouldn't be taking revenge now!
Zhang Heping has an old-fashioned mindset: "Strike once to avoid a hundred blows in the future!"

His revenge was simple: he severed the corpus callosum of those with ulterior motives in front of them, turning them into split-brained individuals from then on.

If they can still work as mercenaries and survive future missions despite the various neurological dysfunctions that follow, then they are truly remarkable.

Although Zhang Heping's actions puzzled Zhu Chengguang and Tang Wei, who followed closely behind, the fact that Zhang Heping, Zhang Bei, and Zhang Long usually conducted animal experiments and occasionally demonstrated their ability to control objects remotely made them realize something extraordinary.

That is, the supernatural movies that have been popular in recent years seem to have affected the Zhang family!

After Zhang Heping led his men to several docks, they went to Kai Tak Airport to look for someone.

Zhang Heping made one last trip to the police station, took a look at the Japanese, Korean, and a small number of mercenaries detained there, and then led his subordinates, who were half confused and half excited, back to the mountain.

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Governor's House, Central, Hong Kong Island.

"When Zhangbei opened the virtual dream game for testing a few days ago, he claimed that mental power could cause damage to the human body and demanded that no one sit in the first three rows of the audience."

"Mr. Zhang also said in the meeting today that mental power has a certain degree of aggression."

"However, the father and son had one thing in common: they seemed unafraid of the mental energy released by those trying on the helmets, and stood very close to them on the stage."

"Therefore, I suspect that Mr. Zhang's visit to those mercenaries was not as simple as it seemed on the surface; he may have used the mental power that he and his father mentioned!"

There is never a shortage of smart people in this world. Even though Zhang Heping's observation of the mercenaries' behavior puzzled many, some people still guessed what Zhang Heping was probably doing.

However, this speculation can only be taken as a reference until it is confirmed, since those mercenaries, Japanese islanders, and Korean islanders are still alive and well.

However, there are quite a few people who are willing to do so.

With the resumption of outbound flights at Kai Tak Airport, intelligence agents from various countries planted in the flight crews have noticed some unusual activity by the mercenaries.

For example, some mercenaries had their tickets and passports in their left hand, but when the crew asked them to show their tickets and passports, they didn't react and kept searching their bodies with their right hand.

There were also mercenaries who, when putting their luggage on the plane, would put it in the overhead bins with their right hand, but then take it down with their left hand, put it back up with their right hand, and then take it down with their left hand, repeating this inexplicably.

As news of these unusual occurrences spread, some began to suspect that these mercenaries were suffering from split-brain syndrome.

However, the CT scans of the mercenaries' brains showed no abnormalities.

It can only be blamed on Zhang Heping's mental energy cutting technique being too precise, leaving a membrane on the outside of the corpus callosum while only destroying the internal nerves.

Unless those people undergo craniotomy and have their brains cut open for inspection, it is very difficult for external machines to detect abnormalities.

It is said that many foreign hospitals now use CT scanners and MRI equipment from the Heping Group. Why would Zhang Heping leave any evidence for outsiders to see?

While outsiders were still speculating about Zhang Heping's motives for visiting those mercenaries, Hua Lao had already led a team of mainland experts to Victoria Peak for his first formal visit to Zhang Heping.

These mainland experts had brought over a lot of questions, but to Zhang Heping, most of them were naive, and some even had logical problems.

For example, someone might ask:

Why can brainwaves be converted into mental energy?

Why not transform it into a stream of consciousness and directly communicate with others through consciousness across distance?

Brainwaves are converted into mental energy, and the amplified mental energy is then converted back into brainwaves. After the converter receives a large amount of brainwaves, does his brain no longer need external nutritional supplements?

Zhang Heping patiently sat on plastic chairs on the plain with a group of mainland experts, answering their questions calmly and deliberately.

However, these people mentioned three times that they wanted to visit Zhang He's brain-computer interface laboratory, but Zhang Heping coldly refused each time.

On the fourth occasion, someone again made an excuse, claiming they wanted to see how Consultant Zhang made the biological brain server, in order to indirectly visit Zhang Heping's laboratory.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Heping stood up abruptly and said, "You may not have understood what I meant, so I'll just put it more bluntly!"

"Putting aside the fact that I don't trust any of you, I haven't even let Professor Hua into my lab, let alone any of you!"

"That concludes our conversation for today. I have research to attend to, so I won't keep you for dinner!"

After speaking, Zhang Heping walked straight towards his home.

While the other experts were looking at them strangely, the four people who had just asked, either explicitly or implicitly, about going to Zhang Heping's brain-computer interface lab were also looking at Elder Hua with odd expressions.

As researchers, they naturally know that other people's laboratories have their own secrets, and they generally won't ask to visit the laboratory unless invited by the other party, so as to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

However, before they arrived, they were spoken with by Hua Lao, who hoped they would facilitate a visit to Zhang Heping's brain-computer interface laboratory.

Hua Lao didn't know how to make a brain-computer interface. Although some of the mainland experts present had studied the Ruomu brain-computer interface, they were all novices when it came to its production.

Therefore, rather than visiting Zhang Heping's brain-computer interface laboratory, it would be more accurate to describe it as a test, probing whether Zhang Heping was willing to cooperate with the mainland in developing brain-computer interfaces.

The result was obvious: Zhang Heping disagreed!

Even if Hua Lao entered the brain-computer interface lab beneath the villa, he wouldn't learn anything, and Zhang Heping still didn't agree.

This was not a simple rejection, but rather an attempt to demonstrate to Professor Hua his attitude toward brain-computer interface research.

Especially on the evening of December 15th, when the eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi called and mentioned that the tax-sharing system had been implemented in China and that she had not been able to go to the tax department, Zhang Heping's attitude became even more cryptic.

Secretary Chen then brought the list of trial participants for the Lifespan 120 drug next month, but Zhang Heping suppressed it.

Incidentally, the authorization USB drive for the Shouyuan 120 pharmaceutical production line next month was also seized.

When Mr. Hua came to the Zhang family around lunchtime to inquire, Zhang Heping's answer was simple: "I'm considering the pricing of the Lifespan 120 drug in China!"

The fact that the Lifespan 120 potion is free in China but sold at exorbitant prices abroad is inherently unreasonable.

In particular, when Zhang Heping realized that the secret force that had previously targeted him had started targeting his two sisters, these things that couldn't be said openly could only be expressed through other means.

When Hua Lao first heard that Zhang Heping was going to charge 120 yuan for the longevity potion, he actually agreed, since Zhang Heping had no obligation to provide the potion for free.

However, the question remains: how much will the Lifespan 120 potion, which sells for 120 billion RMB per vial to foreign markets, cost in China?

Hua Lao had discussed this issue with Li Lao and Yang Lao in the capital.

If the cost is too high, medical insurance won't cover it, because almost everyone needs this kind of medicine when they get old.

If the cost is lower, can the unit price of RMB 120 billion be sustained?

Thinking of the 404 vials of Lifespan 120 potion produced this month, and the more than 6 vials produced at this time next year, Old Hua asked with a smile:

"Peace, what's your price range? If the price is right, I'll report to the capital immediately."

"Shuting will handle the business matters!" Zhang Heping said as he began to eat heartily, occasionally answering his children's questions about brain-computer interfaces, mental power, and virtual dream games.

Old Hua looked at Chen Shuting, who seemed unconcerned, and knew that this matter might really be as Secretary Chen said, that someone had probably offended Consultant Zhang again.

When Zhang Heping mentions money, it's not something that can be solved with money, because his family is incredibly wealthy and doesn't lack money at all!

So charging fees is just an excuse!

After Zhang Heping quickly finished his meal and took Zhang Bei, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu to the underground laboratory, Zhang Nian seemed to suddenly remember something and looked at Chen Shuting, asking:
"Stepmother, the Economic Division of the Hong Kong Government's Chief Secretary wants to hire me. What do you think, should I go?"

Chan Suk-ting said nonchalantly, "They had mentioned this to me before, after all, Hong Kong's economy depends on our family to maintain stability."

"However, their real idea is probably to recruit you, then send you to the United States for training, and then find a way to keep you in the United States."

Then, Chen Shuting joked, "If you agree to go, you might meet a handsome guy from the UK in London."

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(End of this chapter)