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Not long after, Fang Yun and the other three once again arrived inside the secret chamber at the end of the secret passage.

Normally, the interrogation process would involve Karl playing the 'bad cop', Valentine playing the 'good cop', and Vavinia being responsible for ensuring the person being interrogated didn't suddenly die.

However, because Fang Yun was present this time, they adopted a more efficient interrogation method.

"Puppet: Truth Serum," a good helper for interrogators.

Although, whether in the cyberpunk 2077 game and its corresponding real world, or in Fang Yun's cyberpunk module, there was no such puppet as "Truth Serum."

However, "Human Intelligence Ascension" could create new puppets that didn't originally exist, according to Fang Yun's needs.

Besides "Truth Serum," Fang Yun could also create various other puppets such as "Iron Maiden of Torture," "Incense of Coma," and "Subjective Sense of Time Stop."

Cough, the topic has drifted. Let's get back to interrogating San'er.

As long as Fang Yun implanted the Truth Serum puppet into San'er's personal operating system, he would become someone who knew everything, said everything, and was thorough in everything he said.

Under the gaze of Karl and the other two, Fang Yun used "Human Intelligence Ascension" to control the backdoor program he had previously left on San'er, waking him from his coma.

Fang Yun didn't give San'er a chance to fully regain consciousness; while waking him, he immediately implanted the "Puppet: Truth Serum" into his personal operating system.

To better interrogate San'er, Fang Yun helped him sit up from the ground.

Seeing this, Karl stepped forward two paces, walked in front of San'er, squatted down, and began the interrogation.

...

After a period of interrogation, Karl successfully obtained all the required information from San'er.

Feeling his legs a bit numb from squatting, Karl stood up and stamped his feet.

"That's enough. I've learned everything I needed to know. Do you guys have any other questions you want to ask? Also, feel free to add anything I might have missed."

Karl first looked at Fang Yun, then turned his head to look at Valentine and Vavinia, who were standing beside him.

In response to Karl's question, Fang Yun and the other two slightly shook their heads, indicating they had no questions to ask.

Seeing this, Karl slightly raised an eyebrow and nodded.

"Alright. In that case, San'er is no longer useful."

"Fang Yun, give him a quick end."

Hearing this, Fang Yun made an OK gesture, then took out "remnant echo," aimed it at San'er's head, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

San'er's corpse, losing Fang Yun's support, slumped to the ground with a dull thud.

Fang Yun performed a gun flourish and reinserted "remnant echo" back into its holster.

Looking at San'er's expression, which held a hint of confusion within his blankness, Fang Yun secretly said to himself:

"Tsk tsk tsk, poor San'er. In the end, he didn't even know how he died, truly pitiful."

"...Eh? On second thought. Being killed in a state similar to hypnosis, completely unaware, might actually be a kind of luck for San'er."

"Thinking about it this way, I'm still quite kind."

"Hmm, as expected of me."

Just as Fang Yun was spacing out privately, Karl had already issued the next course of action in the team communication channel.

"Fellow tribesmen, I believe everyone has seen the interrogation process just now."

"The 'Black Hand' settlement first attempted to annihilate our Buckle Family; we eliminated the 'Black Hand' settlement afterward."

"The people of the 'Black Hand' settlement met such an end purely due to their own actions."

"Alright, I won't say any more unnecessary words. In short, now is the time to enjoy the fruits of victory."

"Fellow tribesmen, let's take the spoils of war and go home!"

After hearing Karl's words, bursts of cheers immediately erupted in the team communication channel.

A hint of a smile flashed across Karl's face, and then he looked at Fang Yun and the other two and said:

"Let's go. San'er is dead, and it's time for us to return to the family camp with the tribesmen."

Valentine nodded upon hearing this, showing a "finally it's over" smile.

"Ah, this revenge battle was much more interesting and much easier than the battles I've experienced before."

"Now that everything has come to an end, we can go home."

Looking at the smile on Valentine's face, Vavinia couldn't help but laugh happily as well.

Fang Yun walked to Vavinia's side, saw her beautiful smile, and shouted loudly in his heart:

"My god, this is too beautiful. More, more."

Vavinia noticed Fang Yun's somewhat ardent gaze, lightly coughed, and said with a rosy face:

"Cough. Karl has already left, we should quickly catch up too."

Fang Yun's heart was twisting like maggots, but on the surface, due to Valentine's presence, he still maintained a relatively serious demeanor.

"Okay, we're going home."

Vavinia heard the two words "going home," then looked at Fang Yun's tall figure and chiseled handsome face, and for a moment, she felt a bit dazed.

After two seconds, Vavinia recovered from her trance.

Vavinia smoothed her hair near her temple with her hand, slightly turned her head, and said softly but firmly:

"Mm, home."

If Fang Yun had taken a look at Vavinia's favorability, he would have found that her favorability had suddenly increased by five points in the past two seconds.

But Fang Yun didn't, so he just turned around and walked out behind Karl.

Vavinia stood in place for a second, then also followed behind Fang Yun and started walking.

Valentine walked at the very back with a subtle expression, his heart feeling somewhat complex.

"Damn it, you kid really know how to talk."

"He actually said exactly what Sister wanted to hear at this perfect emotional stage. (Hey, you're really a damn genius).jpg"

Fang Yun naturally didn't know Valentine's inner thoughts; he followed behind Karl, his mind gradually drifting.

"The main source of income for the 'Black Hand' settlement was collecting protection fees from several nearby towns and forcing them to entrust the transportation of various goods to them, thereby obtaining corresponding rewards."

"However, the arrival of the Buckle Family caused the 'Black Hand' settlement's income to plummet."

"The Buckle Family wasn't afraid of the 'Black Hand' settlement, so they semi-forcibly snatched away the 'Black Hand' settlement's transportation commissions."

"And this was the origin of the hatred between the 'Black Hand' settlement and the Buckle Family."

"According to the original trajectory of fate's development, the Buckle Family would decline due to the combined schemes of the 'Black Hand' settlement and Kotou."

"Then, Vavinia would die, Valentine would flee to Night City in defeat, also stepping onto the path leading to his destined death."

"Fortunately, I descended into this world and broke the original trajectory of fate's development, otherwise things would have been rushing headlong in a direction I didn't want to see."

Just as Fang Yun's thoughts were starting to drift elsewhere again, suddenly, the System's notification sound rang out in his consciousness.

"Ding! Congratulations Host, <Combat Mission: The Beginning of the Trial by Blood and Fire - Third Ring (The Starting Point of Changing Fate)> has been completed."

"Ding! Detected that <Series Mission: The Beginning of the Trial by Blood and Fire> has been fully completed, issuing additional reward: 500 System points."