"It's this guy!"
Bai Ye looked at the forbidden zone mission, his gaze falling directly on Dr. Dai Le's name.
This guy was a celebrity.
However, Bai Ye had only heard his name, never seen him.
Because, in his previous life, by the time Bai Ye arrived at the Ruined City, Dr. Dai Le was already dead.
At that time, Dr. Dai Le existed only in the background story, a legendary figure of the Rhine Company, who had contributed immensely to the company's power. His contributions were evident in various artificial human research projects.
Most importantly, the mutated crystal human plan was developed and led by Dr. Dai Le.
The Rhine Company ultimately did not succeed with the mutated crystal humans.
There were two reasons for this failure.
The first was Allen. He discovered the Mirror World and, within it, found everything related to the mutated crystal humans. He uncovered and exposed the Rhine Company's conspiracy, which led to the artificial human revolution.
Ultimately, under Allen's leadership, the artificial humans overthrew the wealthy district ruled by the Rhine Company. While the Rhine Company did not immediately exit the stage, they lost the Ruined City and evacuated to other locations.
But in this story, there was another very important figure, Dr. Dai Le.
In the story, Dr. Dai Le had almost completed the development of the mutated crystal humans.
They possessed absolute obedience, superior physical capabilities to artificial humans, and high-hardness crystals provided extremely high defense. Furthermore, by utilizing the genes of mutated artificial humans, he created the crystallization ability.
Dr. Dai Le had almost perfected the mutated crystal humans; they were just a step away from completion. With all aspects meeting the standards, the only thing the mutated crystal humans lacked was stability.
During prolonged combat, the mutated crystal humans would exhibit a loss of control.
However, no one considered this a problem; everyone believed Dr. Dai Le would overcome the final hurdle.
Just then, a problem arose: Dr. Dai Le's ambition!
At that time, Dr. Dai Le believed that if the mutated crystal human research was thoroughly successful, he could create an army of mutated crystal humans.
An army of absolutely loyal and obedient soldiers.
At that point, let alone suppressing the artificial humans, what was the Rhine Company compared to him?
The combat robots controlled by the Rhine Company were also insufficient to contend with an army of mutated crystal humans.
Given this, why should he continue to serve the Rhine Company?
He could rule the wasteland!
He could become the King of the Wasteland!
Thus, the ambitious Dr. Dai Le decided to cause trouble. The problem was that Dr. Dai Le was rather unlucky; his ambition and plans were discovered by the Rhine Company.
Unsurprisingly, the Rhine Company arrested Dr. Dai Le immediately.
Yes, it was just an arrest, not a killing. The research on mutated crystal humans was inseparable from Dr. Dai Le.
But the reason this fellow was unlucky was also here. During the arrest, Dr. Dai Le attempted to resist and accidentally fell down the stairs, meeting his demise!
For the Rhine Company, the loss of Dr. Dai Le meant that the mutated crystal human development plan had completely stagnated.
Worse still, when Dr. Dai Le's scheme was exposed, he was preparing to escape and had destroyed some of the research data on his computer.
This portion of the data was stored in Dr. Dai Le's mind. It was clear that Dr. Dai Le was also quite clever; if he failed to escape and was captured by the Rhine Company, he could use this data as a bargaining chip.
Then...
This unlucky fellow, without even the chance to negotiate, tripped and fell, meeting his end.
But misfortune didn't stop there. In the background story, Dr. Dai Le was a character who was on the verge of completing the crystal human research and subverting the entire wasteland world. If he had lived, he would have been the main boss.
Did such a character have related forbidden zones?
Most likely, there should be!
However, Bai Ye had not participated in them.
By the time Bai Ye arrived at the Ruined City, Dr. Dai Le had already become a thing of the past, existing only in stories.
Now, with Dr. Dai Le's name suddenly appearing, Bai Ye gained a clearer understanding.
Compared to his previous life, Bai Ye had clearly arrived in the Ruined City much earlier in this life.
Therefore, if the story of the Ruined City were divided into progress,
Then, it was evident that Bai Ye was currently in the "prequel" stage of this story, which was Dr. Dai Le's era.
Allen discovering the Mirror World and exposing the truth should be the main story.
However, it seemed that because Bai Ye had brought Allen into the Mirror World too early, Allen had joined the prequel's story.
Of course, it could also be said that due to Allen's involvement, the prequel was about to become the main story?
Bai Ye found it a bit convoluted, but it didn't matter. The core idea remained the same: for Bai Ye, it was about helping Allen uncover the Rhine Company's secrets and expose the truth about the mutated crystal humans.
As for Yimi...
Bai Ye speculated that this guy's target might be Dr. Dai Le!
Based on the information he learned in his previous life, Dr. Dai Le harbored ambitions to break away from the Rhine Company and establish himself as king using the mutated crystal humans.
Therefore, strictly speaking, Dr. Dai Le could not be classified as belonging to the Rhine Company's faction.
This explained why Yimi shooting Li Chengjie, while assisting Bai Ye to some extent, did not intend to cooperate with Bai Ye and did not rule out conflict with Bai Ye.
Because both sides were enemies of the Rhine Company.
However, Bai Ye was aligned with Allen, or more directly, the artificial human faction.
And Yimi, most likely, belonged to Dr. Dai Le's faction!
This way, the previous doubts could be explained. Both sides had a common enemy faction, but their factions were not in a cooperative relationship.
After all, Dr. Dai Le had no intention of doing anything good with the mutated crystal humans; he wanted to become the King of the Wasteland. To put it bluntly, he intended to replace the Rhine Company with himself, which was essentially the same.
As for the present, Bai Ye felt there was no significant problem.
Although Bai Ye had never been to the third laboratory forbidden zone in the Mirror World in his previous life.
However, in the real-world Ruined City, Bai Ye had been to the third laboratory forbidden zone.
The forbidden zone missions were different, but the structure of the forbidden zones should be almost identical. Otherwise, why would it be called the Mirror World?
Therefore, Bai Ye knew the way!
He just needed to continue leading Allen and the others deeper into the third laboratory.
Although the forbidden zone mission had no direct connection to Allen and his group, Bai Ye still had a hidden mission, didn't he?
Bai Ye thought as he walked forward, signaling others to follow him into the elevator.
"Isn't that a bit much?" Ji Ruyue hesitated, looking to the side. "It's very dangerous."
Ji Ruyue spoke vaguely because there were surveillance cameras inside the elevator. The reason it was dangerous was also because of the surveillance cameras, which would directly expose their whereabouts.