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The fire tongues spat out by the assault rifle responded to Dan's command.

Feng Bujue rolled towards Dr. Jonathan while pulling the trigger.

"Idiot, who would just stand there and be captured!" Jue-ge not only resisted fiercely with actions, but also continued the verbal offensive, "If you had time to shout, why not just shoot!"

Before he finished speaking, he had rushed and rolled to Dr. Jonathan's side, grabbed him with one hand, and held him in front of himself.

"Damn it! Release the doctor!" Dan and the security team aimed their guns, but they couldn't risk shooting the hostage.

Dr. Jonathan was a level four researcher after all, and a valuable asset of the Foundation. Without explicit orders from superiors, the security personnel were not authorized to shoot him.

"That's another waste of words, Dan." Feng Bujue recognized Dan's voice, and he mocked wantonly, "If I was going to do what you said, why would I bother kidnapping a hostage?"

After saying that, Jue-ge turned to look at Jonathan and whispered, "Doctor, for the safety of your colleagues and yourself, please cooperate with me as much as possible, understand?"

At this moment, Dr. Jonathan had one hand holding Billy, and the other side of his shoulder was tightly held by Jue-ge, unable to break free. He knew very little about the D-level personnel behind him, but based on what he had seen and heard during this period... this was undoubtedly a ruthless desperado who wouldn't hesitate to kill.

"Okay... okay..." Jonathan replied tremblingly, "Please don't..."

"...don't make demands of me," Feng Bujue interrupted him. "I say, you do."

He gave clear instructions in an unquestionable tone, and his attitude revealed unparalleled confidence and composure. At this moment, including Dan... in the subconscious of everyone present, they had already recognized the fact that Jue-ge was in control of the situation.

So, after a brief confrontation, the security team watched helplessly as Feng Bujue used a "human shield" to retreat all the way back into the emergency security passage.

This type of passage, exclusive to level five and O5 personnel, required two conditions to enter and exit... first, you had to know the location of the secret door; second, you had to have a corresponding level of access card.

Since Feng Bujue had the only level five access card for the base (there would usually be other level five or O5 personnel moving around, but on this day, Kozmo was the only level five personnel left in the base), after he retreated into the passage, the security personnel were once again in a completely passive position.

"Report, this is B3 Research Lab, Austin has escaped into the passage again." Dan watched the passage entrance close, and could only helplessly report.

"Damn it..." Steven, who was in B7, cursed angrily when he heard the news, "Was I still one step too late..."

As the temporary commander of the base, his response was actually quite good. After receiving Gore's report, Steven immediately guessed Jue-ge's method of escape. Although he didn't want to believe that his respected commander Kozmo would reveal information about the emergency security passage (information that even Steven didn't know), he calmly analyzed the various possibilities and made the correct judgment.

Based on this deduction, Steven immediately thought... that Austin had mentioned Dr. Jonathan and the Billy puppet earlier, and he seemed to know the location of the two very well... from this, he could get two more pieces of information: first, this corroborated the fact that "Commander Kozmo had already confessed"; second, the other party's primary goal seemed to be not escape, but the puppet and the doctor. Of course, it couldn't be ruled out that this was just a smokescreen released by the other party before escaping, in order to divert attention.

Thinking of this, Steven immediately ordered the squad closest to B3 Research Lab to rush over... even if this was really a diversion, they had to guard against it.

But unexpectedly, Jue-ge still succeeded in the end.

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Three minutes later, in the emergency security passage.

"Listen to me... Mr. Austin," Jonathan said, walking with the puppet in his arms in front of the gun, "If you want to take this puppet and escape, I won't stop you. I'm just a researcher, I don't plan to..."

"Alright, alright..." Feng Bujue didn't want to listen to this, and he interrupted impatiently, "Don't waste your breath anymore, Doctor. When I let you go is my decision. I'm still holding you hostage, which means you're still useful, so... please shut your mouth, and only speak when I need you to, so you don't make me angry, understand?"

The way he spoke sounded more and more like a professional criminal who was "living off the land." Jonathan didn't want to negotiate with this kind of person. He didn't have the courage or the ability, so he decided... "Okay, I understand..."

As they spoke, they had arrived in front of a secret door exit.

Feng Bujue glanced at the sign next to the door, and then used the access card to open it.

"Please go first, Doctor," Jue-ge said, standing next to the opened door, turning around and pointing the gun at Jonathan.

Jonathan swallowed and walked through the secret door with cramped steps.

Jue-ge followed closely behind, walking out of the passage.

"Please open that safe, Doctor," Feng Bujue ordered as soon as he entered the room.

At this moment, the room they were in was the same containment room where Jue-ge and Billy had been before, the one that stored ***-1998.

Dr. Jonathan naturally recognized this room, because he was the key custodian for that project in the room.

"You..." The doctor originally wanted to ask Jue-ge what he was planning to do with this thing, but after thinking about it, he immediately swallowed the question back down.

As a person with higher education and a not-low IQ, even if Jonathan's EQ was not very high, he should be able to infer Jue-ge's intentions. Obviously, the very act of kidnapping himself specifically to open the safe proved at least three points: first, he knew the function of this project; second, he also knew who had the key to this project; third, he knew very well what he wanted to do with this project.

"Doctor," Just as Jonathan stood in front of the safe preparing to take out the key, Feng Bujue suddenly said in a cold tone, "If I were you, I wouldn't do that."

These words seemed to have no beginning or end, but they instantly froze Jonathan in place, his blood congealing as a chill struck his heart.

Only Jonathan himself knew... two seconds ago, when his hand touched the key, an idea flashed through his mind.

However, just as he was still hesitating whether to turn it into action, Feng Bujue's words had already entered his ears.