Chapter 1392 — Impersonating Wei Zhao
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But none of this was what An Liwen and Dr. Yin cared about. So long as the Fire Wolf Gang cooperated, their plan could proceed without a hitch.
Dr. Yin could carry out his biochemical experiments, and An Liwen could rake in the money.
The masked man in black called "Zero One" was the experimental subject that An Liwen and Dr. Yin had built. An Liwen had given this subject the name "Zero One" — a code name meaning test subject number one. But the name carried another meaning as well: the sounds of "Zero One" were close to those of "Wei Zhao," and so An Liwen, with wicked intent, had come to treat this "Zero One" as Wei Zhao himself.
And in truth, whether in build or in features, Zero One was the very image of Wei Zhao — a complete replica of the man!
The Fire Wolf Gang was overflowing with talent; a man of Dr. Yin's caliber counted for nothing there. There were plenty of even more formidable doctors of medicine among them, and reshaping a man of roughly Wei Zhao's build into Wei Zhao was a simple enough matter.
Zero One had not only been given plastic surgery; he had also been genetically modified through Dr. Yin's gene-altering injections. For a set period of time he could display a burst of power rivaling that of a peak late-stage Yellow Rank external-school expert. But once the burst passed, he needed several days of recuperation and could not unleash it again — a difficulty Dr. Yin was straining to overcome.
Naturally, this Zero One no longer had a mind of his own. His brain had been reworked by the Fire Wolf Gang's senior hypnotists and brain specialists, turning him into a walking corpse that could only act on command.
These hypnotists and brain experts had carved a whole series of robbery instructions into Zero One's brain, enabling him to complete a robbery in any number of environments, and the loot was sorted according to parameters preset within those instructions.
Thus, apart from Zero One being utterly obedient, he would also never leak a single scrap of information connected to An Liwen. Once Zero One was arrested, the police would get nothing useful out of him; robbing was all he could do, and nothing else.
He had already been ***, left with no thought of his own. And Big Mule, who went out on missions with him, was merely a scapegoat. In the end, the plan was essentially foolproof: even if something went wrong, it would have nothing whatsoever to do with An Liwen.
This time, he had not let Zero One show his true face, because that would have been too obvious — and too obvious a frame-up would never achieve the purpose of a frame-up. What An Liwen wanted was for the police to slowly come to suspect Wei Zhao, and then, at the proper moment, to let Zero One inadvertently show his face. That way, everything would be perfect.
Moreover, An Liwen was a meticulous man. To achieve an absolutely airtight framing, he had even procured a Land Rover and, taking Wei Zhao's car as his model, replicated every trace of the repairs down to the last detail, even forging a set of license plates — all so that someone would stumble upon it and realize that the culprit was none other than Wei Zhao.
Of course, once the police had locked their sights on Wei Zhao as the suspect, An Liwen's next step would naturally be to do away with Zero One, wiping Wei Zhao's double clean off the face of the earth. Then Wei Zhao would have no way to argue his case. An Liwen was certain that even if Wei Zhao somehow escaped conviction, he would still have a layer of skin peeled off him.
Seeing Wei Zhao in trouble delighted An Liwen. He had always regarded Wei Zhao as a stumbling block; now that he had the chance to toy Wei Zhao to death, how could he not throw himself into it with relish?
Very soon, the take from the robbery was tallied. Big Mule came running over in excitement: "Young Master Wen, the numbers from the robbery are in!"