An unfamiliar ceiling, an unfamiliar smell, an unfamiliar mattress softness.
Catherine was stunned for two seconds, instinctively looked at the figure kneeling by the bed, and immediately jumped up, landing on the other side of the bed, already assuming an attack stance in an instant.
Bryant prostrated himself deeply.
"Captain, please forgive my previous rudeness. You can punish me as you wish!"
"What did you do to me?"
Catherine looked on with full alert, glanced down at her own body, and heavily suspected that a spiritual imprint had been planted on her.
But as long as she saw this pervert in front of her, a strong hostility and disgust arose in her heart.
Bryant gave a bitter smile,
"A biological chip was implanted in your brain, if I attack you, you’ll die, and the organization would never spare me... I was reckless, Captain."
Catherine nodded, indicating she understood.
A few seconds later, accompanied by the crisp sound of shattering glass, Bryant’s back crashed through the floor-to-ceiling window, sliding in a mess for more than ten meters on the ground, colliding at the edge of the pool, and spewing blood from his mouth.
Catherine, with an icy expression, walked out of the bedroom.
Somehow, she felt a stiffness in her neck, and when she lifted her hand to touch it, she found two neat rows of needle marks.
Catherine’s slender leg erupted with incredible force, her figure shot like a cannonball to Bryant’s side, and she smashed a fist toward Bryant’s face.
Seeing this, Yang Ming, who was hiding nearby, was really afraid Catherine might kill Bryant with a single punch.
He had spent a tremendous amount of effort to subdue this bastard.
Just the part of imposing a spiritual shackle on Bryant after subduing him nearly made Yang Ming faint several times.
Fortunately, Catherine restrained her intense urge to kill.
The fist stopped just a few centimeters from Bryant’s face, only to be pulled back.
"I swear, Captain, I swear!" Bryant trembled, "I will never plant a spiritual imprint on anyone again. I also didn’t harm Hui, that’s my sincerity, Captain!"
"I will have them intervene directly in your issues."
Catherine said calmly, slowly stepping back two steps, and her torn clothes revealed a bit of her figure.
Several transformed people under Bryant’s control walked over with their heads down, holding Catherine’s communication device and that golden mask in their hands.
Catherine looked at Yang Ming, and Yang Ming forced a grim smile.
Catherine asked coldly again, "Where is No. 3 Dissector?"
"He’s dead, dead," Bryant dared not look Catherine in the eye, "He came to me for consultation over psychological issues, I persuaded him, but in the end, he chose to swallow a bullet. I have the video as evidence, as well as his final words."
Catherine’s expression froze, "Did you control him to commit suicide?"
Bryant’s face, which was supposed to be sanctified, initially grew tense, then gradually revealed a pathological smile.
"It was his choice to commit suicide, how could I control supermodified people? It’s explicitly prohibited by the organization."
Catherine threw out a punch in the air, and Bryant lowered his head, spewing blood and becoming lethargic, utterly losing his ability to act.
This was Yang Ming and Lyu’s plan:
Bryant couldn’t subdue Catherine and dared not detain her for long periods, so to protect himself, he killed No. 3 Dissector and admitted his mistakes to Captain Catherine.
The reason was crude but not without persuasive power. ——Bryant believed the organization wouldn’t kill him, and this aligned with Bryant’s extremely selfish character.
Yang Ming loudly said, "Do you want to contact your superior first, Miss Catherine?"
She turned her head to look at Yang Ming, frowned, and walked over.
"Just a bit hungry," Yang Ming muttered, "I tried to secretly call the police about two days ago, but the police didn’t come. However, he didn’t harm me; he probably wanted to prove something to you."
Catherine extended her right hand forward, fingers resting on Yang Ming’s neck.
Soon, she nodded and said, "Not a robot, you should be clearer now than before."
"Yes," Yang Ming sighed, "Although I still have an uncontrollable good impression of Bryant, I now understand what happened and am trying to fight against my perception... Thank you."
Catherine hummed, frowned at Yang Ming a few more times, then said, "Come with me, don’t leave my sight."
"You can call me Captain Catherine; ’ma’am’ is not a casual term, Imperial Noble."
Catherine said calmly, raising her hand to tidy her somewhat disorderly brown long hair and put on the golden mask.
Yang Ming wrapped himself in his overcoat, stuck his hands in his pockets, and followed, continuing to play his Hui Saka detective role.
When Catherine contacted her superior, she only casually described the conflict with Bryant and Bryant’s control over No. 3 Dissector, acknowledging that No. 3 Dissector had already committed suicide.
She did not mention that she had been unconscious for three Galaxy days.
Of course, Yang Ming didn’t see the scene of Catherine contacting her superior.
But based on Bryant’s previous analysis, Catherine would most likely demand her superior severely punish Bryant, and her superior would surely agree verbally but then continue to turn a blind eye to Bryant.
——Bryant had already secretly influenced their superior.
A few hours later, a spaceship appeared above the manor, more than a dozen supermodified people appeared together, taking away both Bryant and No. 3 Dissector’s bodies.
As for Bryant’s subordinates, the supermodified people didn’t even spare them another glance, knowing they were merely Bryant’s puppets and had no value even if taken back.