Dream Capture: I Can See Through All Secrets!

192: 192. It’s Jiangcheng again.”I am willing... God from the East, I am willing to try... I will dedicate all my loyalty and knowledge...”

No one truly wishes to embrace death if they can live, especially scientists like Andrew, who dedicated his entire life to exploring the mysteries of technology.

His first half of life was consumed in the microscopic world of chips, sacrificing everything, including his health, time, and even a normal emotional life.

Now, all of this would fade into eternal darkness along with his body and spirit. His first half of life was gone, yet with the encounter of Lu Feng, a new door, beyond all his cognitive dimensions, had opened.

It would also open a completely new life for him. This was no longer science; this was a miracle! It was a dimension he had never imagined in his materialistic world!

A mix of awe, shock, and the wild joy of a narrow escape made him surrender without hesitation.

He once didn’t understand why his top-tier colleagues would believe in vague religious faiths. Now, he completely understood... When faced with an incomprehensible, irresistible power, faith was the soul’s only anchor.

He felt that the divine was coming to redeem him!

Lu Feng merely smiled faintly at his words, not responding to the declarations of loyalty.

He didn’t need these empty promises, because Andrew was a supremely intelligent man; he knew how to weigh the pros and cons, and what to do after gaining a new life.

Some understandings needed no words.

The colorful dream space around them grew dimmer, like a light bulb with insufficient power, and the house with the mother’s figure began to show cracks, as if it could completely collapse at any moment.

”Since that is the case, then you shall temporarily remain in my space,” Lu Feng said calmly.

As his voice fell, without any earth-shattering actions from him, Andrew only felt his consciousness being enveloped and extracted by an irresistible force.

Lu Feng’s figure before him, the crumbling house, the entire dim dream... it was all shattered like a reflection in water by a stone, instantly distorted and completely vanishing into thin air, as if it had never existed.

Lu Feng’s consciousness returned to the main dream space. The colorful dream bubble, like a planet, rotated around him. Although still fragile, it had stabilized significantly, no longer showing signs of collapsing.

Slowly opening his eyes on the bed, a rare flicker of excitement crossed the depths of Lu Feng’s calm gaze.

Successfully containing Andrew’s consciousness meant far more than just gaining a top-tier chip expert.

It validated an unprecedented path... consciousness extraction and transfer!

This meant that the ”immortality” humanity had sought since ancient times would no longer be a vague hope for him.

Once this ability matured, who among the magnates and dignitaries at the pinnacle of power and wealth worldwide could resist the temptation of eternal life?

At that time, what he would control would not just be capital and technology, but a more fundamental, more ultimate power... the power to define life!!

This was the divine power that transcended all worldly authority.

However, Lu Feng’s rationality quickly suppressed this excitement. For now, this was merely an experiment in its nascent stage.

Clearing a target’s original consciousness was already second nature to him, having practiced it when dealing with the colonel in Fei Country.

But perfectly implanting an external consciousness and having it operate stably had not yet been tried, and this was not the most difficult problem.

The most difficult problem was actually the choice of the container.

In Xia Country, the population management system was strict. Every citizen, from birth to death, had detailed records and a vast network of social relationships. It was almost impossible to inexplicably conjure up a person.

Even criminals who committed heinous crimes and were sentenced to extreme penalties had parents, spouses, children, and friends. If a drastic change suddenly occurred, it would be difficult not to arouse suspicion and investigation.

Of course, the simplest way... would be to cooperate with the country... He believed the country would also be very eager to see the emergence of this ability... Thinking of this, Lu Feng paused, then shook his head, dismissing the idea.

Although he had some capabilities now, compared to the vast state machine, he was still quite far behind. At least, he would only have the capital to face the country when his sphere of influence expanded.

”The matter of the candidate... needs careful consideration and cannot be rushed,” Lu Feng mused inwardly, temporarily suppressing this ambition... Almost at the exact moment Lu Feng pulled Andrew’s consciousness into his own dream space.

In the operating room of the International Medical Department on the top floor of Jiang City’s largest tertiary hospital, the atmosphere was extremely tense.

Several top cardiologists were fully engaged in resuscitating Andrew on the operating table, with various advanced instruments emitting regular sounds.

The police had already intervened and confirmed his identity from the luggage Andrew carried: he was the chief chip architect for the Eagle Country National Laboratory and several core semiconductor companies.

The news was reported through various channels and immediately drew the attention of high-level officials in Xia Country. Instructions were quickly issued: spare no effort to save him, and simultaneously notify the Eagle Country Embassy in Xia Country as per procedure.

Suddenly!

”Beep...!”

On the electrocardiogram monitor, the curve representing the heartbeat abruptly flattened into a straight red line, emitting a piercing, prolonged beep.

”Blood pressure zero!”

”Pulse disappeared!”

”Pupils dilated!”

The operating room instantly plunged into a tense and helpless commotion.

The attending physician tried his best for the final resuscitation, but everything was in vain. He put down his instruments and shook his head heavily: ”Declare the time of death...”

Soon, high-level officials in Eagle Country also received the news, and chaos erupted instantly!

Andrew Miller!

He was a national treasure-level chief chip architect, a mind holding countless core technologies and future roadmaps!

His private trip to Xia Country for tourism already violated security regulations, and now he had died there?!

Suddenly, conspiracy theories abounded. Was it an accident? Or had the Xia Country side detected something and resorted to extreme measures?

Even the Eagle Country President began to pay attention to the matter, issuing instructions to the intelligence department, demanding that the cause of death be thoroughly investigated and the aftermath handled properly, absolutely ensuring that no technical information he possessed could possibly be leaked... In Eagle Country, inside an unnamed gray building, the atmosphere was as oppressive as the sky before a storm.

”Jiang City again?! Why the hell is it Jiang City again?!”

Operations Director Calvin slammed a newly received encrypted telegram onto the table. The heavy solid wood desktop made a dull thud.

Veins throbbed on his forehead, and his usually meticulously combed blond hair was somewhat disheveled from frustration.

”Mike and Julie, our two best undercover agents, walked right into a trap in Jiang City as if possessed. To this day, we still don’t understand what exactly they encountered! Were they exposed? Or were they controlled by some unknown means? The assessment report for that incident isn’t even finished, and now this!”

He pointed at the telegram, his voice rising with anger: ”Andrew Mitchell! Our national treasure-level chip architect, goes to Jiang City for a vacation, and suddenly dies of a heart attack?! My God, he was one of the core brains of our chip strategy for the next ten years!”

The other senior intelligence officials in the office all looked solemn, keeping silent.

They understood the director’s rage, because the current situation was simply too bizarre and coincidental.

A division chief responsible for East Asian affairs bravely spoke up: ”Director, from the limited medical records and on-site investigation reports currently received, Andrew’s cause of death is preliminarily determined to be sudden cardiac death, a pure accident, with no obvious external injuries or signs of poisoning. The on-site video and preliminary autopsy report provided by Xia Country also support this conclusion.”

”Sudden cardiac death?”

Calvin sneered, his eyes sharp as an eagle’s: ”Although Andrew did suffer from heart disease, he actively sought treatment and prevention every year. Yet, shortly after setting foot on Xia Country’s Jiang City, he just ’happened’ to die of sudden cardiac arrest? And this in the same city where we just lost two elite spies?! You tell me, is this a coincidence?”

He scanned the room, his voice lowering but carrying a heavier sense of oppression: ”The higher-ups have issued a death order: we must ascertain Andrew’s true cause of death! If he’s alive, we need to see him; if he’s dead... we need to know exactly how he died! I don’t care if he genuinely died of illness or was made to die of illness; I want irrefutable evidence!”

”Director, do you mean... you suspect the Xia Country side of deliberately...” another official tentatively asked, making a throat-slitting gesture.

”Anything is possible!”

Calvin interrupted him: ”What Andrew had in his head was valuable enough to trigger a technological war. Xia Country has always been suppressed by us in the semiconductor field; they have ample motive. Although the methods seem too clean, too much like a natural death, that precisely makes it more suspicious... Hmm, it could also be some biological or nanotechnology we don’t yet understand, capable of inducing fatal diseases...”

The more he thought about it, the more possibilities he saw, each one chilling.

The people around him, however, were speechless. The director was truly agitated. ”We in Eagle Country don’t even have that kind of technology; it only exists in sci-fi movies.”

”Immediately activate Project Tripwire!”

Calvin decisively ordered: ”Activate all our dormant personnel and informants in Xia Country’s Jiang City. At all costs, collect all information related to Andrew after his entry... Who he met, what he ate, where he stayed, any suspicious items or personnel he contacted! At the same time, the technical department is to re-analyze all data transmitted by Mike and Julie before they went missing, even an abnormal electromagnetic signal or background noise must not be overlooked! I want to know what the hell is hidden in Jiang City!”

”Yes, Director!” everyone responded in unison, quickly springing into action.

Calvin walked to the large bulletproof window, gazing at the gloomy sky outside, his brow deeply furrowed.

The bizarre capture of Mike and Julie, Andrew’s strange death—these two seemingly independent events, due to the commonality of Jiang City, intertwined into a huge mystery in his mind.

That Eastern city, as if suddenly shrouded in a thick fog, was full of unknown dangers.

”Jiang City... what exactly happened to you?” he murmured, an unprecedented sense of unease rising within him.

The traditional methods of the intelligence community seemed to be failing...