The additional question only told them to ‘escort Professor Tang and the data chip to the Genetic Research Center in City F’, but did not tell them what Professor Tang really looked like, male or female. Yue Xingwen could not be sure if the person in front of him was the target they needed to escort.
Yue Xingwen asked cautiously, “Professor Tang, is the information in your hands?”
Professor Tang was stunned, “Information?”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce exchanged a look. Jiang Pingce quietly walked behind each other, and Yue Xingwen said with a smile, “The leader of the Genetic Research Center told us that you have a laptop in your hand, which stores all the experimental data on the Research Institute, and asked us to bring the laptop back as well.”
Professor Tang suddenly realized, “That’s right! They snatched my laptop and we have to find it as soon as possible…”
Before he could finish his sentence, Jiang Pingce suddenly raised his right hand, and the sharp hand knife slashed at the back of the opponent’s neck like lightning!
Professor Tang was chopped dazzled, and Jiang Pingce twisted his hands behind him in two or three steps, and gave Liu Zhaoqing a glance. Liu Zhaoqing understood and immediately stepped forward and tied his hands with two pieces of gauze, followed by a scalpel against his throat and asked in a deep voice, “Who are you? Where is Professor Tang?”
The man scowled in horror, “I’m Professor Tang ah, what are you doing?”
Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “Don’t pretend, mutant?”
Hearing the keyword ‘mutant’, the middle-aged man’s face suddenly changed.
His hands were tied behind his back and a knife was placed against his neck. He was obviously controlled by everyone, but in the next second, his body suddenly twisted like a snake, his whole body was so soft as if he had no bones. He was easily broken free from the gauze, twisting his waist, avoiding the threat of Liu Zhaoqing’s scalpel, and then lunged towards Yue Xingwen——
The man opened his mouth, and his slender tongue poked out! The scarlet tongue was 30 centimeters long, almost like a poisonous snake flicking out! That tongue stabbed straight towards Yue Xingwen, and the tip of the tongue still contained weird green venom?!
The crowd’s face changed abruptly. Jiang Pingce’s heart almost stopped beating in an instant, and he subconsciously shouted, “Be careful!”
Yue Xingwen’s reaction was extremely fast, fishing out his idiom dictionary to say ‘To prostrate oneself in admiration’.
Before the man could get close to him, he fell under the control of the ‘To prostrate oneself in admiration’ and performed a kneeling salute in front of Yue Xingwen.
Xin Yan hurriedly summoned the distillation flask and directly closed him into the transparent bottle. The distillation equipment was not activated, and the huge flask could be used as a temporary ‘cage’.
Yue Xingwen’s heart tightened slightly as he looked at the man twisting and struggling in the transparent bottle and said, “Are you really a mutant?”
Jiang Pingce quickly walked over to Yue Xingwen’s side and gently pressed his shoulder, asking, “Are you alright?”
“Don’t worry, I’m fine.” Yue Xingwen smiled at Jiang Pingce and said, “Did you see his tongue just now?”
Jiang Pingce frowned, “The 30cm slender tongue, and the twisting posture, it was very similar to a snake.”
Liu Zhaoqing rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and said, “Look at him twisting, it really looks like a reptile, plus a slender tongue that is beyond our understanding… Is it really a snake? But the appearance is still human ah!”
Xu Yishen stared thoughtfully at the man in the glass bottle and said, “The research institute of the Faculty of Biological Science was originally doing human gene experiments, but the data was leaked. Someone took the human genetic sequence, modified and edited the human gene. Maybe it’s fused with the genes of some animals to produce mutants.”
Liu Zhaoqing’s face was gloomy and said, “I’ve only heard of genetically modified food, what the fuck is a genetically modified humans?”
Xu Yishen rubbed his temples and whispered, “Plants can be grafted and hybridized, but not animals. There is reproductive isolation between different species and they have no way to produce offspring. But if we start with the genes, directly fusing and editing genetic sequences, and a transgenic mutant emerges, the consequences are truly unthinkable!”
The man inside the distillation flask was still struggling frantically, his body twisting and turning, spitting out a scarlet tongue 30 cm long and spewing venom from his mouth—— He obviously had a human appearance, but with the habits and movements of a snake.
This bizarre scene sent chills down everyone’s spine.
It was impossible for humans and animals such as snakes, tigers and lions to produce offspring. Reproductive isolation was nature’s protection for different species. Once that law was broken with genetic modification, the whole society would be in complete chaos.
This was just the beginning and they met a mutant. Who knew what kind of other monsters they would encounter later?
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
The 6-credit course of the Faculty of Biological Science was really not simple.
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The person in the flask glared at Yue Xingwen angrily.
In the next moment, a large amount of blood suddenly gushed out of his eyes and nose!
His head was like a bomb with the explosion button pressed, blood spurted out and instantly stained Xin Yan’s distillation flask. He died in front of everyone in just 3 seconds, his whole body softly turned into a puddle of mud.
Xin Yan calmly put away the distillation flask and released him.
Looking at the man who had fallen to the ground with a head full of blood, Yue Xingwen’s face was a bit ugly, “Is this a self explosion?”
Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, “The mutants definitely have their own organization and are very loyal to it. When they came to the Research Institute, they should have received an order from the organization to find information, or to kill the insider, Professor Tang.”
The reason why Yue Xingwen had just judged this person was not Professor Tang was because he had deliberately laid a trap when he asked the other party, distorting the facts and saying that the other party had a laptop that stored information.
In fact, Professor Tang did not have a laptop in his hand, but a ‘data chip’.
Ke Shaobin had turned on the office computer, but all the data had been erased, and apparently, the Research Institute’s data was absolutely top secret to humanity! Professor Tang did not want the data to fall into the enemy’s hands, that was why he copied all the information into a data chip, and then formatted and erased all the data in the computers.
If they wanted to judge whether the person was the real Professor Tang or not, they had to see if he had the data chip.
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and guessed, “Is he posing as Professor Tang to find information through us?”
Jiang Pingce nodded and said, “The mutants have arrived at the Research Institute, and their goal is likely to be this precious information—— The real Professor Tang may be in danger, we have to hurry up and find him now!”
Yue Xingwen simply said, “Go!”
The six people walked around the man who had fallen into a pool of blood and walked out of the laboratory quickly.
While walking, Yue Xingwen typed and sent a message on the chat channel: “Senior brother Zhuo, be careful, if you meet someone who claims to be Professor Tang, don’t believe it easily. The mutants have arrived at the Research Institute, and they’re looking for Professor Tang too!”
Almost as soon as he sent the message, Zhuo Feng and his five teammates, who met in the dormitory area, were stopped by a woman.
The woman had short ear-length hair, wore a white coat and looked smart and capable. Upon seeing the six people, she immediately stepped forward and said, “I’m Tang Ran, are you guys sent by the Genetic Research Center to protect me?”
Zhuo Feng frowned and did not answer.
Lin Manluo asked warily, “Are you Professor Tang?”
The other person nodded and replied, “That’s right. Let’s go, it’s dangerous here, we have to get out of here quickly!”
After saying that, she turned around and headed out the door. The other six people looked at each other, and did not move. The woman looked back at them and said, “What are you doing standing there? Hurry up, there’s no time!”
Qin Miao asked coldly, “Professor Tang, is the information in your hands?”
The woman hugged the briefcase she was carrying and said, “That’s right, I have it here. This information is very valuable and a top secret that I can’t let you see.”
“I understand,” Qin Miao said understandingly, “Rest assured, we’ll protect you. Let’s go.”
The woman walked forward quickly, and Qin Miao gave her sister a glance. Qin Lu secretly summoned her globe and made a mark.
The six followed her for more than ten meters through the narrow corridor. A metal door appeared in front of her, and at the moment the woman opened the door, Qin Lu immediately clicked the plate movement on the globe, and the six people collectively teleported back to the dormitory just now!
Before they teleported back, they saw a very strange scene——
Many women who looked like her, stretched out their long tongues and sprayed green venom at them!
Zhuo Feng’s face was extremely ugly and said, “Fuck, there is an ambush of mutants behind that door?”
Zhang Xiaonian blushed, “Their tongues are so long and disgusting!”
Qin Miao and Qin Lu looked at each other, they felt fear in their hearts.
Lan Yarong rubbed her chin and said, “It seems that there are a lot of mutants infiltrating the Research Institute, and this woman posing as Professing Tang just now is trying to lure us over and kill us all through?”
Qin Miao said calmly, “Their goal should be to wipe out our group and Professor Tang in the Research Institute. That’s why the additional question asked us to escort Professor Tang, who has very crucial information on his body.”
Lin Manluo hurriedly said on the Research Group’s chat channel: “Xingwen, we just met an impostor, and there are many mutants behind her. Have you found Professor Tang?”
Yue Xingwen replied: “Not yet. Be careful, escape from the dormitory area as soon as possible.”
They were not familiar with the environment of the dormitory and did not know where the exit was. Just now, after everyone met, they walked around the corridor for a long time, but they didn’t find the door. Zhuo Feng swept his gaze across the room and said dryly, “Go out through the window!”
Zhang Xiaonian walked to the window and found that the window was locked, and the glass could not be smashed. He immediately summoned the excavator and went straight down to smash the glass.
Qin Lu looked out from the window and found that there was a big tree on the side of the building, she said, “Go behind that big tree!” She quickly positioned herself on the globe and used the plate movement to send everyone behind the tree.
Zhang Xiaonian looked around and said, “That 5-story building in front of us is the dormitory building we were just in. Which building is senior brother Xingwen’s lab building ah? Are there any signposts here?”
The Research Institute of the Faculty of Biological Science was quite large. There were several buildings around it.
Lin Manluo walked to the intersection and found a signpost, and said, “The lab building is to the west… that one!” She pointed to a six-story gray building ahead.
Zhuo Feng said, “Let’s go, go and join Xingwen!”
The six people ran quickly towards the lab building.
AT this moment, Yue Xingwen was leading his teammates to carpet search the lab building. As soon as they reached the 2nd floor, they were surrounded by several same-looking women. These people were all dressed in pure black, with golden eyes and slender, long tongues.
Liu Zhaoqing scolded in a low voice and said, “What the fuck is this? A bunch of snake spirits?”
Jiang Pingce reminded them with a calm face, “Be careful of the venom in their mouths.”
The women quickly surrounded them, while spewing out strange green liquids from their mouths. The six hurriedly hid in the room, closing the door hard. With a ‘bang’, the woman who rushed to the front hit the door directly.
Yue Xingwen looked serious and said, “Let Xiao Tu go and distract them.”
He lightly clenched his fingers into a fist and gave Ke Shaobin a 3, 2, 1 gesture behind him while jerking the door open, and Ke Shaobin immediately released Xiao Tu that sang a song to lure all the mutants outside.
Ke Shaobin looked at the nimble female ‘snake spirits’ in the corridor, and could not help but spat, “The 40-point additional question is too difficult.”
They had not found Professor Tang yet, and there were obviously more and more mutants infiltrating the Research Institute. If they could not find the escort target, they probably would not be able to escape!
Giving up on Professor Tang and calling his teammates to run?
Yue Xingwen felt a little tangled, and there was no need to do the additional question to pass the examination. Seeing his tangled expression, Jiang Pingce squeezed his shoulder gently and said, “Ten minutes. If we can find Professor Tang, just give up.”
Yue Xingwen nodded his head and replied, “Okay!”
Xiao Tu led the group of snake spirits around the second floor, and the six people quickly climbed up to the 3rd floor.
The corridor on the 3rd floor was also full of laboratories on both sides. They only thought to search in their minds at that time, room by room when Yue Xingwen suddenly frowned and said, “No need to search, Professor Tang is definitely not here. He cleared all the information and stored it in a microchip, he is obviously a very alert person. Since he had a premonition that the mutants would come here to catch him, he would definitely hide in advance… Where will he hide?”
Yue Xingwen’s statement was correct. Since he dealt with the data in advance, he must have sensed that something was wrong, and could not have stood in the lab in a dignified manner to be found, but hid and waited for help.
Was there a place where it was easy to hide and still observe the mutant in action?
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and said at the same time, “The roof?”
Xu Yishen said, “I’ll go and see.”
Senior brother Xu split into five bodies, one of them staying with Yue Xingwen, and the other split bodies quickly climbed upstairs, and he found that the door of the rood was locked from the inside, not like anyone had gone out.
However, Professor Tang might also lock the door from the inside and then find a way to climb up the roof from the side, creating the illusion that there was no one on the roof.
Xu Yishen simply turned into a cell and squeezed out through the crack in the door.
The roof of the laboratory building had a wide view. There were many discarded iron boxes for storing medicines, which were stacked on top of each other, and Xu Yishen listened carefully next to the boxes—— Sure enough, a slight breathing sound was heard from the lower box.
Xu Yishen returned to the position of the split body and whispered to Yue Xingwen, “He is hiding in the box on the rooftop of the building.”
Yue Xingwen said decisively, “Go to the rooftop and find the person!”
The six of them climbed up to the top floor quickly. Jiang Pingce directly used a triangular ruler to cut the chain that locked the rooftop. After pushing the door out, Yue Xingwen quickly walked up to the stacked iron boxes and whispered, “Professor Tang, the Genetic Research Center asked us to come pick you up.”
There was silence around them, and Xu Yishen pointed to the 3rd box on the left.
Jiang Pingce and Liu Zhaoqing quickly tossed the surrounding boxes to the side and opened this box——
A middle-aged man in gold-rimmed glasses was nestled in a box with two holes poked in the side so he could observe the situation outside at any time. He did not see Xu Yishen just now because he turned into a cherry-sized cell. After seeing the six people, he adjusted his glasses and asked, “Are you guys sent by the Genetic Research Center?”
Yue Xingwen nodded his head and replied, “Yes.”
The man stood up from the box and said calmly, “I can go with you.”
Yue Xingwen asked, “What about the information?”
The man looked calm as he took out a box from his pocket and handed it to Yue Xingwen.
There was a chip the size of the fingernail inside the box.
He actually handed such an important data chip over directly? Could it be fraud?
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen looked at each other. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind them. Xiao Tu’s singing ended, and those mutants immediately chased after them——
Yue Xingwen did not have time to think about it, and simply said, “Go!”
The door of the rooftop was blocked, they could not go back the same way. Seeing countless mutants rushing onto the rooftop, Yue Xingwen had to pin his hopes on Jiang Pingce and said, “Pingce, I’m counting on you.”
Jiang Pingce held his wrist gently and quickly retreated to the edge of the rooftop.
At the moment when a large number of mutants rushed over, Jiang Pingce’s right hand suddenly drew a coordinate system, and the six people standing on the top of the building, together with Professor Tang, collectively flew into the air, and flew out of the distance of tens of meters in one breath, landing firmly on the ground!
When Zhuo Feng ran over with his teammates, he saw this scene—— Seven people flew down from the sky like dumplings. Zhuo Feng recognized Yue Xingwen and immediately stepped forward and said, “Xingwen, is everything okay?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s get out of here first!”
Why dumplings???
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Because they are delicious…? Idk
It could also be that Zhuo Feng was hungry so the first thing that came to his mind is food. Like the idiom ‘food falling from the sky’ or something?
Wahhh I feel he’s fake, he hid so well but just gave away the chip to the first people who said they were here to help? Nah I’m sure the real guy would be super wary
I think he is the real one, but the chip is fake. He could have several fake chips as decoys and have the real one hidden somewhere else or embedded under his skin somewhere like; hands, neck or maybe even the brain!?
Or I simply watched too many science fiction movies (;ᇂ_ᇂ)