After a round of complaints, Qiu Huayan gasped for breath, her chest heaving violently, but her face was full of despair.
"If you are from the Court of Owls, kill me, or continue to control me. There's no way I can keep working for you."
Just then, Qiu Huayan felt a flash of light opposite her.
The strong light made her instinctively close her eyes.
As the light gradually dissipated, she slowly opened her eyes and was surprised to find that the hideous crab monster was gone, replaced by a girl.
The girl had fiery red hair and a pair of green eyes like two mysterious deep pools; though she looked no more than eight or nine years old, she exuded a mature and steady aura completely unsuited to her age.
The girl walked forward with light steps, ignoring Qiu Huayan's surprised expression, and extended her hand to her: "Want to work with me?"
Perhaps hearing the girl's voice, two people emerged from the corner.
Walking in front was a man in casual clothes, the first Talon to be arrested, who was now at least wearing everyday clothes instead of a tight suit.
Following behind him was Arcana, tightly wrapped up.
As an eight-year-old child, she really wanted to complain that her boss made her come in at night to work overtime.
But there was nothing she could do; after all, he was the boss.
Gwen had indeed told her it was cold here, but she didn't expect Arcana to wrap herself up like a high-grade bomb.
Qiu Huayan watched as the red-haired girl, still standing at the front, extended her slender hand towards her, her eyes firm and sincere, looking directly into Qiu Huayan's eyes, and solemnly said: "I will lead you all to destroy the Court of Owls."
Qiu Huayan paused slightly after hearing this, a flicker of surprise in her eyes, followed by a burning fighting spirit, and her gaze became exceptionally firm.
She took a deep breath, her voice strong and clear: "I'm in!"
...The rest of the process was simple.
Gwen transformed into Heatblast, went to the ice sculpture, and under high temperature, the ice quickly melted.
Then, she switched to a shapeshifter and began searching for the trackers.
Of course, later, after discovering that all these trackers were in the last wisdom tooth, she didn't even bother to detect them, directly breaking them off.
Then it was Benjamin and Qiu Huayan's turn to secure the people onto restraint beds, waiting to interrogate them after DNA repair.
The two were quite interested in this, as they had been the ones interrogated before.
They also wanted to know what others thought of the stupid Court of Owls.
After passing the lie detector test, the newcomers could basically be congratulated on becoming the new dark HR responsible for torture and interrogation.
However, after a busy night, the process, which was originally heavily dependent on Gwen, was successfully simplified.
Through the combined efforts of Grey Matter and Brainstorm, a gene repair gun that could be made with ordinary human technological materials was designed.
When Lucius was called by his young mistress in the middle of the night, he was a bit confused.
What could he do? This genius young mistress probably had another genius invention.
After Lucius, yawning, drove to deliver materials to his young mistress who was still out late at night, Grey Matter successfully put together this gene repair gun.
Of course, this gene repair gun had only observed the process of repairing a Talon back to a human, so it could only repair Talons into humans.
Gwen was not surprised by this; after all, in the original Ben 10, the DNA repair gun that restored half-beasts to humans could not repair the DNA of Aracanans (Spider Monkey) who had transformed into half-beasts.
But for now, it was enough.
With this gene repair gun, the work arrangements for the former Talons also changed; they began to undergo lie detector tests in shifts.
Thawed Talons, after being interrogated and passing the test, would become the next batch of examiners.
They would ask others the same questions they were asked.
And Gwen, completely freed, transformed into Grey Matter and began to make more gene repair guns from the surplus materials.
Honestly, going after the Court of Owls with an armory of assault rifles wasn't as effective as this thing.
A gun hitting a Talon, the Talon could still move.
A gene repair gun hitting a Talon, the Talon immediately lay down.
It didn't matter where it hit, it could penetrate clothes.
This also meant that, apart from Benjamin and Qiu Huayan, who had their genes repaired earliest, and Arcana, others did not know that their boss could also transform into alien heroes.
However, things were not so smooth.
As the lie detector work proceeded methodically, the former Talon members gradually discovered that not all of them had been forced into their roles.
Among these Talons, there were quite a few Gotham locals; some were genuinely from Gotham and felt remorse for their actions.
Some, though not born locally, were mentally Gothamites.
When other Talons, following procedure, asked a newly DNA-repaired Talon, "Do you regret killing?", that person immediately shook his head in distress, tears welling up in his eyes.
He was in tears, his voice choked, and he said sorrowfully: "I regret it very much. I never wanted to harm those innocent people. Every night I am tormented by guilt..."
But before he could even finish his sentence, the lie detector on his head let out a sharp alarm, and the red light flashed wildly.
The two former Talons present looked at the scene and exchanged glances.
When they turned back to look at the interrogated Talon, their gazes were terrifyingly cold.
The bound Talon opposite them also realized something was wrong and struggled, trying to escape.
But his hands and feet were tied, so he couldn't move at all.
One of the interrogators suddenly drew a long knife from behind; a cold light flashed, the blade swift as lightning, directly slicing across the opponent's neck.
The interrogated Talon didn't even have time to let out a scream before a gush of blood erupted from his throat, his wide eyes filled with terror and disbelief, and his head fell directly to the ground.
Although Talons had amazing regenerative abilities with the enhancement of amber gold, they couldn't revive after their heads were severed.
The other former Talon, seeing this, immediately stepped forward quickly, and the two cooperated extremely skillfully, beginning the work of erasing traces.
However, after wiping away the blood, they simply found a thick bag, crudely stuffed the body inside, and then dragged the bag towards the door.
Not far from the safe house, on the street, a truck was parked, with two former Talons responsible for watching the vehicle at the entrance.
The two of them worked together to push the bag containing the body into the cargo hold, then turned and left.
As mentioned before, Gwen contacted Lucius and had a batch of materials transported over.
The amount of these materials was a truckload.
Gwen, or rather Brainstorm, had already prepared to make a great many gene repair guns as weapons to attack the Talons, so naturally, she requested a large quantity of materials.
And now that the materials had been unloaded, the empty truck was perfect for them to dispose of the bodies.