Chapter 272 Climb Out
[Name: Xu Jing]
【Gender: Male】
Age: 42
[Alienation to the third stage, mental confusion, sometimes lucid, sometimes manic...]
[Video Record Number…]
[Before he died, he hoped that his blood and bones could be buried in the ruins of Baiquan Park in the south of the city. He said that was the place where he and his lover first met.]
[When he mentions his lover, his mind will be briefly clear]
[Similar symptoms are also seen in other alienated creatures]
[I think that even though they have turned into monsters, there is still an area in their hearts that cannot be contaminated by abnormal energy. That is the key to awakening them.]
【……】
In the laboratory, Su Xia sat on a chair and looked through the documents with a focused expression and serious eyes, reading very carefully.
He read through more than ten files of experimental subjects and found that the creatures recorded in these files all had the same characteristics - before becoming his father's experimental subjects, they had been injected with alienated energy and would not live long!
“I see.” Yu Tuo suddenly said, “It’s the result of that special industrial chain.”
"Lord Yutuo, what is the industry?" Su Xia asked.
"You are the second in command of the intelligence department, don't you even know this?"
"The information Wu Zhonggui gave me was all insignificant trivia." Su Xia answered truthfully, "The entire intelligence department is run by him and the former Zhao Si. The people below are directly responsible to him, and the important information passed up will not pass through me."
"Well, your foundation is shallow, and this is something I neglected."
Yu Tuo nodded, indicating that he understood the situation, but did not say what he would do.
He gently put down the information in his hand and said calmly: "It doesn't hurt to tell you. You will come into contact with these sooner or later."
Su Xia also put down the information in his hand and listened to Yu Tuo's explanation of the information with a serious look on his face.
"There is a secret laboratory underground in the base of the mechanical race. It is about a hybrid creature. I think you can guess it." Yu Tuo glanced at Su Xia's expression, "In addition to the underground, there are also laboratories funded by us in other areas of this city. The research projects are similar..."
Yu Tuo personally opposed this experiment, but he did it as required by the higher authorities .
As the Mechanical City Lord of Coral City, he had control over the information of these laboratories very early on, but he had never taken it seriously before because all the products he produced were failures.
Until recently, Mercer and the underground hidden laboratory suddenly appeared, making him smell a hint of danger.
If he could have suppressed Mercer, he would have certainly stopped it.
Of course, it can only stop it temporarily, after all, the one who actually gave the order is the supreme ruler.
"In addition to the laboratories funded by the Mechanic Clan, there are also many privately funded ones. There are so many that a special underground industry chain has formed in the city."
Some people provide the experimental subjects, some people conduct the experiments, and naturally some people collect the experimental subjects.
Among them, the most famous recycler has no name, only a code name, called "Gray Robe Man".
This gray-robed man has a big appetite and abundant funds. No matter what kind of experimental subject it is, whether dead or alive, he will spend a lot of money to buy it back.
No one knows what his purpose is.
After all, even the mechanical race itself has been groping in failure with this kind of experiments, and so far they have only produced more than 20 things that can barely be considered semi-finished products.
What the mechanical race wants is to explore a new path of evolution. Although the combat effectiveness of these semi-finished hybrids is strong, it is obviously far from meeting the requirements.
The results of private laboratories are even more dismal; to date, they haven’t even been able to produce a living hybrid.
Just as Su Xia had seen before - once an ordinary person was injected with the alienated energy of the insects, the final result would definitely be death.
This alienated energy, like cancer cells, will continue to destroy normal human tissues.
Su Xia once rescued some in the underground manor.
After being released, those people only survived for a very short time; some did not even survive a single night.
The reason why the Mechanical Clan can produce these twenty-plus semi-finished products is mainly because these semi-finished products themselves are strong enough. For example, the eldest brother Gu An is a psychic creature close to level four with extremely tenacious vitality, and he managed to survive the brink of life and death.
"I didn't expect that your teacher is the legendary 'Gray Robe Man'." Yu Tuo said: "The beginning of these documents are all printed with the logo of the Gray Robe Man."
Su Xia also discovered just now that the cover of each document has a mark similar to the letter "A" printed on it.
He didn't care at first, but he inexplicably thought of the assassin type bar.
Looking at it again now, this mark does look somewhat like a gray hood.
"Most of the failed experiments from the entire industry were received by him. That's why there are mountains of bones piled up under our feet."
"I see, the teacher is doing a reversal experiment here."
"Well, maybe he has achieved some results, otherwise he wouldn't have brought your senior brother out."
Although Dad never showed up during the whole process, but considering the laboratory here and the fact that Dad has not come back, Yu Tuo is basically certain that it was Dad who did it.
This huge laboratory is the result left by my father.
He never turned normal people into monsters, but he always tried to turn monsters into humans again.
The monsters in his hands were all failed products bought from other laboratories and would not survive for more than a few days.
Those private laboratories did not know the specific purpose of the Gray Robe Man. At first, some people speculated that he wanted to extract alienated energy from these experimental subjects, and then obtain psychic energy by purifying the alienated energy.
But later someone pointed out that it was too troublesome and it would be better to directly purchase the insect corpses for purification.
Others speculated that he had a way to stabilize the lives of experimental subjects, allowing those failed products to survive, thereby forming an army of experimental subjects.
There are various speculations and opinions, and no one has ever known his true identity.
"The man in gray robes has been hiding under my nose all along." Yu Tuo said calmly, "This city is very big, with people coming and going. Many people live with masks on, and only after darkness falls will they take off the masks to reveal their true selves. Perhaps... the masked man is also somewhere, wearing another ordinary mask on top of the metal mask..."
"I think my Lord will find him one day."
"Perhaps."
Yu Tuo did not comment, but lowered his head to look at the documents on the table and pondered for a moment.
At this time, the other mechanical creatures also came along the suspended corridor and stood respectfully outside the laboratory, waiting for Yu Tuo's instructions.
After a while, Yu Tuo asked Su Xia: "All the information in the entire laboratory needs to be sent to the Mechanical Clan base. Do you have any objection?"
"No." Su Xia shook her head.
"Okay, from now on you are the owner of this pharmacy. Keep your two brothers in good care." Yu Tuo glanced at the key in Su Xia's hand. "They are not very well behaved and may contact the human resistance army. If something goes wrong, I hope you can clean up the mess."
"Please rest assured, sir."
"Well, you still need to sign an agreement..."
Yu Tuo had already asked someone to prepare the agreement, but he just wanted to see Su Xia's attitude, so he never took it out.
The agreement is on the first floor, waiting for Su Xia to sign it.
Yu Tuo did not urge her, as he had plenty of time, and allowed Su Xia to look through the numerous materials in the laboratory.
After today, these materials will be sent to the Mechanical Clan’s base. Then Su Xia will not be able to see them even if he wants to, because he cannot enter the Mechanical Clan’s base with his identity.
Su Xia handed several bunches of keys in her hand to the mechanical creatures outside and asked them to open the boxes slowly while she returned to the laboratory and took a quick look.
This was the first time he had come across a large amount of data on this type of experiment. He checked them one by one in the order of the file numbers, and the more he read, the more frightened he became.
"The teacher is actually about to succeed."
There are several very special examples in the data.
Normal experimental subjects would die within a few days, and most would not survive more than a week. However, Dad successfully made several experimental subjects live for three or four months, and those experimental subjects were all ordinary people before.
After three or four months of treatment, those people gradually regained consciousness, with less time of confusion and more time of clarity.
Dad invited the families of those people, brought things they were familiar with, and cooperated with various drug treatments. It was almost successful, but unfortunately failed in the end.
Those people still died, unable to withstand the erosion of the alienated energy.
Even if Dad used the best healing potion, it could only slow down their death but could not change the final outcome.
There was also a most special experimental subject who lived for a full eight months.
The experimental subject was a psychic creature that was forcibly transformed by alienated energy. He was already on the verge of death when he was bought by Dad, but Dad forced him to live longer and helped him fight against the alienated energy.
In the end, he turned into a creature similar to a semi-finished hybrid bred by the mechanical race, and he did not forget his past.
But he still died.
He committed suicide.
He couldn't stand his current appearance and refused to meet his family. Finally, he pierced his throat with the sharp tentacles that grew from the mutation.
This person didn't want to live a long time ago, but just to repay his father for his treatment, he endured the inner pain and lived for several months, allowing his father to observe him and collect enough information.
Su Xia continued to read on, and from time to time he would look through the video records corresponding to each file number to get a more intuitive experience of this type of experiment.
"There are also some special experimental subjects..."
"…They actually used pregnant women for experiments…"
"…Use genetic technology to edit embryos and finally transfer them into the mother's body…Some pregnant women only provide a breeding ground for their bodies. They were not pregnant before entering the laboratory. What is really important is the baby in their belly…"
“…”
These bloody and cruel experiments are beyond the reach of those people, only things that are unexpected.
In this war-torn world, rules are broken and order is disordered. Only a few people can live as human beings, and most people are just livestock in the eyes of others.
"If there are no recyclers to buy them, these failed experiments will be taken to the suburbs for landfill. Many of them are still alive when they are buried."
Being buried alive, the pain is suffocating just thinking about it.
Su Xia read through the pages one by one. Almost every page was filled with the words "failure" and "death", and the blood was almost overflowing between the words.
When reading these materials, he couldn't help but think -
In the huge Coral City, with countless laboratories, is it true that apart from the one underground owned by the Mechanical Clan, there is no other laboratory that has produced a "finished product"?
Soon, he saw a secret story recorded .
"Two years ago, on a night of thunder and lightning, a private underground laboratory in the west of Coral City was massacred. All the experimenters were torn into pieces of flesh and blood. The scene was extremely bloody... The murderer is nowhere to be found, and there are many claw marks on the remains of the body that look like those of wild beasts..."
"… Two days later, the sponsor behind the private laboratory also died. His entire family was killed. All members of the family, young and old, died tragically. Their deaths were similar to those of the experimenters. The surveillance camera only captured a blurry figure…"
"… Three days later, news came from the suburbs that there was a problem with a corpse landfill. A landfill area was damaged and it was suspected that a creature had crawled out from underneath…"
This news was absolutely terrifying for the researchers in the laboratory.
A corpse came alive!
Or is it that he is not dead at all, but is just struggling on the brink of life and death?
In any case, the monster that crawled out from the bottom of the landfill piled with corpses must have been seeking revenge.
The funny thing is, the rich man funded the laboratory in order to research a way to longevity and eternal youth, but he and his family all died tragically.
It seems that there is a cause and effect in this world. If you sow the seeds in the past, you will eventually reap the fruits in some way.
After that accident, all the laboratories in Coral City became much more cautious. They had to make sure that the test subjects were completely dead every time before taking them to the suburban landfill.
"Perhaps it is a hybrid that survived and has past memories." Su Xia thought silently, "In this case, are there more hybrids alive? Where are they hiding?"
Su Xia thought of Dr. Aigar's notes, which recorded many successful examples.
Of course, from the doctor's perspective it was a failure, after all, he wanted to create a "god" , but from the perspective of this planet it was an absolute success.
"This road is halfway through. Even the doctor can only create monsters, not gods." Su Xia thought to herself, "My ugly clone is a monster, but there is no record of it in the doctor's notes. It is probably his last work... I don't know if it is good or bad."
In this way, Su Xia stayed in the laboratory until night.
As he read, he recalled Dr. Aigar's notes and the experimental contents of the mechanical clan's underground base, comparing them with each other and benefiting greatly.
The most powerful one is still Dr. Aigar, neither his father nor the mechanical race can compare to him.
The doctor is knowledgeable and has a wide range of interests. He has also done a lot of research on how to reverse the situation and has gone further than my dad on this path.
"It's a pity that the doctor wanted to pursue the illusory creator and ended up taking such a detour."
Su Xia never believed that the Creator existed. The doctor's headaches and hallucinations were mostly caused by long-term travel in deep space.
It was ten o'clock in the evening and Su Xia returned to the ground floor.
Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu were both waiting for him. They had not eaten dinner and watched in silence as countless mechanical creatures went in and out of the pharmacy, taking away things that belonged to the pharmacy.
In front of the two of them were two documents, which were the agreement that Yu Tuo had mentioned to Su Xia.
The two of them didn't sign the agreement and just stared at the contents of the agreement in silence.
Su Xia walked over, picked up the agreement, and immediately frowned.
The first requirement of the agreement is:
[Publicly severing ties with my father and criticizing his behavior...]
