Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 708: "Seed" Protoembryo
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There are only three possible answers.
The first type is that this person is blinded by greed and wants to use the hands of heretical sects and prophets to eliminate other members of the Undead Crew, seize power himself, and become the dictator of the new era.
The second is that no matter whether it is the Prophet or the Heretic Sect, it is just an experiment of the Undead Crew, but this experiment is like a meme event, it has overturned, and it has overturned badly...
The third type is that person’s consciousness… has been completely eroded by “Him”.
All three answers are possible, and it is difficult for Ke Lan to make a deeper analysis for the time being.
The death of "Pan" is equivalent to a warning signal - the situation of the members of the Undead Crew is not as safe as they imagined.
"Then how much do you know about the monster outside? Also, what is the laboratory on the sixth floor of the Nova Chamber of Commerce headquarters used for?" Ke Lan was still thinking about the internal tricks of the Undead Crew, while Aya continued to interrogate him.
"I don't know the specific name of that monster. We all call it 'seed'... It is said to be a biological weapon based on the seed of erosion. It cannot be killed by 'active bullets' and its own capabilities have been greatly improved... The most important point is that it has the ability to integrate the genes of food. Just like what you have seen, it will grow organs and limbs of whatever it eats..."
"Does it have a weakness?" Aya asked again, "If this thing gets out of control, how do you deal with it?"
"Weakness... I don't know... I'm afraid those people in the lab don't know either. As for how to deal with this thing, only the boss knows. Oh, by the way, the lab you saw is more of a breeding ground than a lab... We will implant the 'seeds' into 'containers' with excellent physical conditions... Most of the 'containers' will die within 24 hours after the 'seeds' are implanted, and at least a very small number of them will survive. Those who survive will temporarily lose their minds and crave a lot of nutrients... In this state, they will eat everything... And according to our research, the most likely thing to make the 'container' full is its own kind."
"Eating people?" Aya's face showed a trace of disgust.
Even though they had guessed a little about these things when they were eavesdropping just now, hearing these words coming out of the other party's mouth with their own ears still made them feel somewhat angry.
"Well... if it's artificial meat made from soy protein, even if we feed them dozens of tons, it won't satisfy their appetite; but if it's real meat like chicken, pork, beef or mutton, the number can be reduced to five to ten tons... But this is just for one meal. Even if the New Star Chamber of Commerce is rich, it can't buy that much supplies at this critical moment...
"Until one day, a seed container in the 'rage phase' broke through the containment device and ate all three researchers on duty in the laboratory that night... But after it ate the three people, it quickly calmed down and regained consciousness an hour later. From then on, we used 'people' to feed the containers in the 'rage phase'."
"Because it's cost-effective, right?" Ke Lan said calmly, "Compared with 'New Star Chamber of Commerce purchases a large amount of meat for unknown purposes', the news of a few missing people is simply insignificant... What's more, after the disaster, a large number of Ark residents died and disappeared, which created a great opportunity for you, right?"
"It's like this..." The instructor lowered his head slightly, "I know this is cruel, and I won't defend myself, but I'm just following the boss's orders... Not only me, but everyone in the New Star Chamber of Commerce must obey his orders unconditionally... Otherwise, you will be used as 'feed'..."
"Then where is your boss now? Such a big thing happened here, why is he not making any moves?" Aya asked in confusion.
"The boss is in a dormant state most of the time... He sleeps for at least 48 hours at a time, with only short periods of wakefulness in between to deal with matters within the sect and the Chamber of Commerce. Apart from that, he will not wake up unless someone actively wakes him up or someone forcibly breaks into his bedroom."
"So he's sleeping now?"
The heretic sect's instructor nodded.
Sleeping for forty-eight hours , with only very short intervals of wakefulness... Ke Lan couldn't help but doubt that the BOSS this guy was talking about might not be a bionic substitute of the undead crew?
Only when the consciousness of the undead crew descends into this substitute will the substitute wake up from its slumber. At other times, it sleeps in a life-support cabin specially used to preserve this kind of bionic man...
"There is one more thing. How many of these 'seeds' have you cultivated in total? Are any of them mature? Where do the mature seeds go? Are they sealed in a secret room in the Chamber of Commerce, or sent to some other place?" Ke Lan asked.
"There are three batches in total. In the first batch, only two seeds survived in the container. In the second batch, there were four seeds. In the third batch, there were also four seeds... The one you just killed was seed number four from the third batch."
"Are the other three seeds from the third batch in the Chamber of Commerce?"
"Well...on the surface, they are all employees of the Chamber of Commerce, but they all have monitoring devices implanted in their bodies. My watch can monitor the development of these seeds." The instructor of the heretical sect took off his watch tactfully and handed it to Ke Lan.
Ke Lan took the watch and looked at it. The screen showed that "Number One", "Number Two" and "Number Three" were all in "normal development". As for the word "Number Four", it changed from green to red, and the label behind it also changed to: "Out of container".
"The monitoring device is inside the container. If the seeds are out of the container, it will not be able to monitor the seeds," the instructor added.
"What about the first two batches of seeds? Where are they now?"
"They're all dead... None of the seeds from the first two batches survived... According to the white coats in the lab, it was because of a conflict between the fused genes that caused the entire gene sequence to collapse and die... I don't understand what they mean specifically, but it's probably because they ate too much and died..."
“Do you feed the seeds after they mature and are out of the container?”
"Well... including humans, various animals and plants on Earth, and native creatures of Alpha Planet. As long as the Chamber of Commerce can get something, they will try to feed it to the seeds... But even if they only feed the seeds with living people and give them nothing else to ensure the 'genetic purity', no seed can survive for more than 72 hours after leaving the container."
Just as Ke Lan was communicating with the other party, Asano Akira suddenly took out a severed hand - this was the hand of another instructor that he had chopped off when he and Ke Lan took the initiative to attack just now. At that time, the hand had been put into the medical bag ... Now that it was taken out, one could see a syringe tightly clenched in the palm of the hand.
"What is this?" asked Asano Akira.
Ke Lan also looked at the sober heretic instructor with some curiosity - when he was attacked, this man neither fired a gun nor activated the alarm, but reached out to take the syringe, which was obviously a problem.
"The thing inside... is the original embryo of the 'seed'."
