Chapter 570

Chapter 570: True Lies

"Yes, I am from the First Squad of the Royal Dragon Knight Corps of the Stilan Kingdom, Team Three!"

Lin Mo answered clearly like an honest little angel.

The agents in the room had completely lost their serious expressions, all of them stunned and wide-eyed.

"I will ask again: what is your name, your occupation, and which army do you belong to?"

Colonel "Black Bear" was visibly furious, never expecting that the person they had worked so hard to capture would give such an answer.

Is there even a country named the Su Lan Empire on Earth?

Has this country ever appeared in human history?

Dragon Knight Corps?

What kind of ridiculous army is this? Isn’t he from China? Where did the Su Lan Empire come from, especially with its royal authority?

Does China have such a corps?

"The First Squad of the Royal Dragon Knight Corps of the Stilan Kingdom, Team Three, Dragon Knight Morin!"

Lin Mo continued to answer firmly, without any hesitation, as if it had been engraved into his very being through countless trials.

Colonel "Black Bear" restrained his unexplainable anger and asked again, "Then who is your superior? What are the names of your comrades? What unit do you belong to?"

"My superior is Captain Geldael of the First Elite Assault Squad. My teammates in Team Three are Akka, Strong, and Mo Yun. The Dragon Knight Corps is made up of three squads, with a total of fifteen teams and one hundred and five Dragon Knight soldiers, all commanded by Corps Leader Rujie, loyal to Her Majesty Maya Zuo of the Su Lan Empire."

"……"

The room fell into complete silence. Some agents were covering their mouths, nearly bursting into laughter. How absurd is this? After questioning so many people, this was the first time they had seen something so unbelievable.

The agent responsible for administering the truth serum to Lin Mo noticed others casting sidelong glances at him and quickly waved his hands, saying, "I didn’t make any mistakes. Really, I don’t know what happened. Even if I used one-tenth of the amount, a normal person would absolutely confess without holding back. I’ve never encountered anything like this before; perhaps it is the truth."

He dared not continue, seeing the murderous look in the colonel’s eyes.

"Can someone tell me what is going on here? Have you heard of any of this?"

Colonel "Black Bear" turned his gaze to the other people in the room. There was no way these technicians and agents had heard of something from another world.

This was impossible.

"Colonel, I’m afraid he isn’t lying; all indicators are normal."

The technician, who was monitoring Lin Mo’s physiological traits, confirmed. This was the biggest disaster of this secret interrogation.

The one responsible for giving Lin Mo the injection was on the verge of tears, insisting he had not made any mistakes. Doctor Haus looked pale, bewildered by the situation!

"Bastard!"

The "Black Bear" colonel’s forehead was throbbing with rage, never expecting such an answer.

Whether he was lying or not no longer mattered; there was no such thing as the Su Lan Empire in this world, and even Dragon Knights only existed in movies and novels.

The word Dragon Knight had never appeared in Chinese mythology; they regarded dragons as ancestors—how could anyone dare to ride one? It was utterly absurd.

But there was still one question that Colonel "Black Bear" had to ask again: “Where is the ‘Fenrir’ alloy? Do you know?”

Everyone in the room perked up their ears. The target that multiple factions had been ruthlessly fighting over these days was the rumored "Fenrir" alloy, which could drive the next technological revolution. Its miraculous absorption enhancement feature could achieve mass production without industrial processes.

If Lockheed had not suddenly announced a theft, the American government would still be unaware of this precious treasure. Among the factions that had intercepted Lin Mo, there were certainly shadows of major corporations from America.

“‘Fenrir’…” Lin Mo’s voice hesitated as if he was trying hard to recall something. After a moment, he smirked and said, “I’ve never heard of it.”

Lin Mo had never heard anyone mention it, and Colonel Black Bear was doomed to be disappointed.

“What?”

Colonel Black Bear nearly jumped up, unable to believe that the other party had never heard of it. He restrained himself from the impulse to grab Lin Mo by the throat and pressed on, “Is a piece of alloy stolen from Lockheed here with you?”

“It’s not with me!”

Lin Mo’s concise reply, uttered under deep hypnosis, struck everyone in the room like a bolt from the blue.

“Are you sure?”

“Sure!”

How could this be happening?

Everyone was dumbfounded.

“We’ve been tricked; he’s just a decoy.”

Colonel Black Bear sank back down beside the bed in despair. All the vast amounts of manpower and resources they had spent over the past few days were completely wasted.

Lin Mo’s incomprehensible answer was taken as resistance against the truth serum training, a defense mechanism in some special fighters used to combat various toxins and interrogation methods. They never expected the CIA to encounter such a hard nut to crack today.

Perhaps a very skilled hypnotist had planted a special idea in the depths of this person’s subconscious to deal with hypnosis questioning.

However, the chances of them having the “Fenrir” alloy were incredibly slim; the electromagnetic scanning device meticulously scanned Lin Mo and his belongings from head to toe and even checked every place they had traveled through and every sailboat they had boarded, yet they found nothing at all.

It seemed they made a big mistake by getting sidetracked; they were simply assuming too much.

CIA personnel wore grim expressions; they had hoped to cast a large net to catch a big fish, but when they pulled the net up, it contained nothing but worthless seaweed and shells.

The disappointment from this stark contrast left Colonel Black Bear’s team feeling utterly disheartened; nothing could be worse than this.

“Colonel, what should we do?”

Doctor Haus glanced at his watch; there were less than two minutes left for questioning, and they still hadn’t gained any information.

“Withdraw!”

Colonel Black Bear waved his hand bitterly; he never expected such a result.

What Su Lan Empire? What Dragon Knights? All of it was just a chaotic pile of worthless information.

Since they used such advanced techniques, even without the truth serum, they probably wouldn’t obtain any information with other interrogation methods.

Doctor Haus rang a small triangular bell a few times to end Lin Mo’s deep hypnosis, then used a hypnosis mist to gently put Lin Mo back into normal sleep.

“Colonel, what about this?” An agent pointed at the Dragon Guard tactical helmet, which had been removed and placed on the small tea table in the room, clearly intending to take it as a trophy.

“Leave it! There’s no way we can take this.” Colonel Black Bear knew well that such digital tactical armor could not be easily captured; it had automatic locking features, a positioning system, and a self-destruct mechanism. Unless they could hide it perfectly, the consequences of trying to keep it would not be worth it.

“Understood!”

The Dragon Guard tactical helmet was returned to its original position.

The people in the room began to leave, and the electrodes attached to Lin Mo were removed. The room was restored, and special equipment filtered the air to eliminate any odors; even the footprints on the floor and the creases in the sheets were returned to their previous state.

Not only did Lin Mo give irrelevant answers, but the “Fenrir” alloy was also not in their possession, rendering Lin Mo’s group worthless to the CIA; might as well pretend nothing had ever happened.

The CIA personnel hadn’t considered taking Lin Mo away for secret detention; he had behaved properly within the borders of America, not doing anything that posed a threat to the country. Besides, Lin Mo had come through official channels, presenting himself as an aviation expert.

Without any legitimate reason, America could not detain him and was even obligated to provide protection.

Wasn’t Qian Xuesen, who could outperform three or five armies, allowed to leave as well?

Americans could only watch helplessly as the Chinese developed atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.

After meticulously cleaning up every trace around the hotel, the armed personnel surrounding the area swiftly departed.

Through it all, aside from the hotel owner, the wait staff and other guests remained completely unaware.

The withdrawing CIA operatives were oblivious to the fact that in a basement room inside the Los Angeles consulate and in some part of China across the ocean, the dialogue between Colonel Black Bear and Lin Mo resonated clearly and distinctly within the room.

The Dragon Guard tactical armor never completely cut off its power supply, and all sounds in the room were silently recorded and transmitted by a hardware module system operating through a backdoor.

Intelligence personnel in China and CIA agents alike wore identical expressions, dumbfounded, taking a moment to collect themselves.

Their initial worries flew out the window; they could never have imagined that Lin Mo, under hypnosis, had so mockingly toyed with these American agents.

Playing cosplay until it became immersive, engaging in self-hypnosis—could this help with counter-surveillance? Especially against truth serum interrogations, this case was worth keeping track of.

The CIA personnel knew nothing of the Dragon Knight Corps, but China’s intelligence department did.

During the skirmishes between Pakistan and India, the roar of the "Dragon Knight Corps" fighter jet formations was exactly what they were talking about. China’s intelligence department made the same erroneous judgment as the Americans, believing this reference originated from there.

As for anything else, it was surely just a side effect of the cosplay; it was purely by chance that such a connection was made. This guy had a history; not only was he an experienced player, but it seemed he had also won some awards because of it.

Lin Mo, a genuinely decent person from a good family background, could in no way be part of the Su Lan Empire or its Dragon Knights; at most, he was a flying codename known as the "Dragon Knight."

Neither intelligence department pursued this matter further.

Lin Mo, still unaware in his dreams, had escaped the biggest crisis he had encountered since arriving in this world.

As morning sunlight poured onto Lin Mo’s face, his Battle Energy involuntarily began to circulate, slowly condensing and replenishing the light-element energy he had expended the previous day. The spontaneous flow of battle energy within him brought him out of his deep slumber.