Chapter 85
There was a big lock hanging on the door of an abandoned laboratory.
There were no windows around the laboratory. Si Chen weighed the iron lock, threw Chen Zhizhou on the ground, picked up the ax and struck the lock.
It had been done with the utmost skill, without using any unnecessary force. He found the most convenient and weakest point to receive the impact. It was so skillfully done, like he’d done it a thousand times.
It was fighting instinct that required almost no thought.
A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.
Lin Jiali raised her evaluation of Si Chen a little higher in her heart.
She could do this too. But she would have to rely more on the analytical calculations of her auxiliary system rather than intuition.
He pushed open the laboratory door and a layer of rust and dust fell.
Because it would be inconvenient to carry Chen Zhizhou and leaving him by the roadside didn’t seem safe, Si Chen finally decided to shake Chen Zhizhou awake.
“Don’t sleep. Get up and start looking for information.”
“Ah… en.”
Chen Zhizhou still looked half-asleep, like a college student who had gotten up early to cram. But at least Si Chen won’t have to carry him on his back.
Most of the lab instruments were broken. Si Chen saw a freezer against the wall. The power light was still on.
But he had no intention of opening it to take a look.
The smell of rotten meat was always the worst.
Though there was something wrong with Si Chen’s sense of taste and smell, that was only with regards to high-dimensional creatures. His senses weren’t completely broken.
His target was the data room. Chen Zhizhou had followed him to look for clues, while Lin Jiali stood guard at the door, a precaution against being besieged by high-dimensional creatures.
Once they get their hands on some experiment data, they’ll have a general understanding of the mutant creatures in the nearby area.
According to the data, most creatures in chaotic civilizations cannot interbreed or even reproduce. Their genes were relatively static.
What they were like thousands of years ago will still be what they will be thousands of years from now.
When Si Chen was working at Serpent Staff Gene, although most of the information were stored in computers, extremely important files were still kept in the form of paper documents.
The same went for this lab.
Chen Zhizhou watched him walk around the laboratory and accurately zero in on the experiment records from among more than a dozen identical filing cabinets. He was very shocked. “How’d you do that?”
Si Chen said without looking back, “I used to work in a laboratory.”
He had interned in a Khaos Manufacturing Group lab while he was in college. After graduation, he got an offer from Serpent Staff Gene.
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When he had first joined the company, Si Chen had made fun of how the layout of the two laboratories were practically the same.
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This thick record contained not only the information regarding the experiment subject but also loose papers.
Some were insights while some were like diary entries of the laboratory head.
[The director told us that a new research group needs to be established. Its main purpose will be to cultivate and breed mutant species to produce one with a low enough level of pollution that it can be eaten by humans.]
[It can’t be helped. The nights are getting longer and longer and the darkness is filling the air. Ordinary livestock simply cannot survive. With the vaccine from the Khaos Manufacturing Institute, people have developed antibodies to the black mist but it’s impossible to vaccinate every pig with such a vaccine, right? And with the vegetables we grow being almost inedible; the reserves in the granaries of most of the survivors’ bases can only last for a couple of years.]
[I left Laboratory No. 6 and established this new laboratory. In two years, we have to develop meat that can be eaten by humans.]
It started with mutant pig farming. They induced mutations in ordinary pigs to attempt to produce suitable meat.
Later, they found that the meat yield was too low and its pollution value was too high. If people eat it, it will aggravate the pollution. So they replaced the pigs with sheep. Sheep have lower pollution values than pigs. But their reproduction rate was too slow.
A lot of animals were captured and subjected to transformation experiments, but with little success.
[I’m so stressed that I’m about to collapse…]
After it were several pages of torn-out experiment records.
[Today, the director asked me to go to the Khaos Manufacturing Institute, that site where they cultivate the Children of God.]
[The director said, “Since those many many animals have proven unsuitable, let’s try a new animal.”]
[A deformed mutated human who was locked in a glass box was pushed out. It has no skin and seems only to have soft fat-like flesh. It’s very tall and looks very docile. It just lay on the ground eating, drinking and defecating, unable to speak.]
Mutant humans were a new species created after human beings were polluted.
With no thinking ability, only animal instincts. Humans were included in its diet.
[“This is a mutant that our team members accidentally found. It has extremely high self-healing capabilities and is characterized by limitless proliferation. I think it would be very suitable for use in your meat improvement experiments. What do you think?”]
[I really wanted to say no, but I couldn’t. Countless people starve to death every day, day by day.]
That was the last entry on this page.
Beyond this page were densely packed records of the transformation experiments.
They made this mutant reproduce and created a new edible creature.
This mutant was named “Black Goat”.
Si Chen saw the photo of this deformed man.
It had a long tongue and no eyes. Its head was like a garlic bulbs, with tendrils growing out as garlic sprouts. It had lain limply on the ground. Black goat horns grew where ears should have been.
An iron security ring was fastened around the Black Goat’s neck to prevent it from breaking out and hurting people.
Chen Zhizhou frowned slightly. “How disgusting.”
The Khaos Manufacturing Group currently conducts biological transformation experiments to transform high-dimensional organisms into things that are beneficial to humans.
But for the researchers’ mental well-being, humanoid creatures are never used.
[After so many transformations, the researcher excitedly told me that the Black Goat’s meat has passed human consumption standards.]
[Then the next step is to breed the Black Goat in large numbers.]
[We cut off its flesh and put it in a petri dish. After modification, the meat grew into a new species. This new species reproduce and mate freely. A large litter was soon born. Although the meat quality is worse than that of the Black Goat’s, it is still edible.]
[The test was successful. The new species was named “White Goat”.]
[The only problem is that when White Goats are slaughtered, they cry like humans. Even under anesthesia. Its skin-covered, sunken eye sockets can even shed tears like a human’s.]
[But it’s too late. The granaries are about to bottom out. We must promote the White Goats.]
[I keep hypnotizing myself, telling myself that it’s just a mutant. It’s no different from the pigs, cows and sheep we used to eat.]
Underneath the diary entry was a picture.
The White Goat was all white. It also had no eyes. It had the same tentacles and black goat horns on its head. The maximum length they could reach was 80cm; though it was 60cm on average. It didn’t look as fierce as the Black Goat; it was even a little cute.
[I received an award from the director for this, a very high honor.]
[The director even gave me 1% of the Khaos Manufacturing’s shares.]
[I am immersed in glory, intoxicated with it.]
[After so many tests and experiments, the Black Goat has become very weak.]
[It is very docile and the quietest mutant human I have ever seen. It has grown extremely close and dependent on me. It allows only me touch it and experiment on it. But it is time to kill the Black Goat. After all, it is a highly polluting mutant human.]
[I chose to inject it with the neurotoxin myself. The neurotoxin was one extracted from No. 3.]
[Despite prior anesthesia, the severe pain still woke up the Black Goat. The White Goat’s crying must have been inherited from the Black Goat.]
[It had never spoken, but on that day, on the experimental table, it grabbed the iron ring around its neck and let out a whimper. It opened its mouth and actually started speaking.]
[It was a very familiar voice. It was a little girl’s voice.]
[It called me, ‘Papa’.]
[Before the catastrophe, my daughter was in kindergarten. It rained heavily that day and there was a traffic jam. I didn’t have time to pick her up.]
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[I went to question the director. He said it was impossible. It was impossible for a mutant person to retain its sanity. I must have been hallucinating.]
[But every day, I can hear her calling me papa.]
[I numb myself with work every day. I used to tell myself that she’s just missing. She will definitely grow up healthy. Sooner or later, I will find her.]
[Now, I just wish I had never found her.]
[The Khaos Manufacturing Institute was established 13 years ago. For the future, for the unknown people of the future; we have been sacrificing the present, the people before our very eyes.]
[Including the so-called “Children of God” project with the goal to transform humans into gods. But more and more, all we create are batches and batches of monsters…]
[What’s even more frightening is that the humans who have been eating White Goats for a long time are slowly turning into Black Goats.]
[I have decided to die.]
[But before I die, I must write this down. I will leave my merits and faults for future generations to judge. I tucked these papers into my lab notes, using a special liquid. The writing will appear after 10 years. Where will this completed and archived experiment record be stored? Opened by whom?]
[Does our world still exist? Forget it, no need to tell me. I do not want to know. I hate this world.]
[I know I shouldn’t hate the director. He might not have known that the mutant person was my daughter.]
[But I also feel that he must know. After all, he is Kuafu.]
[Thirteen years have passed, and Kuafu has not aged. I was his protégé. I once stabbed his heart with a knife while he was sleeping. But not a drop of blood appeared. So I pulled the knife out and acted like nothing happened.]
[The experiment subjects are called the Children of God. So who is that god?]
The experiment record ended here.
Si Chen closed the experiment book and asked, “What do you think?”
Chen Zhizhou rubbed his temples and frowned slightly. “I seem to have dreamt of the Black Goat. It kept crying.”
Si Chen said, “We need specifics.”
The severe pain in his head caused Chen Zhizhou to bend over, his whole body was buried in Si Chen’s arms.
He was half a head taller than Si Chen. From the back, it looked he was pressing him against the wall.
Si Chen could sense his pain, but the information was particularly important to them now.
Therefore, Si Chen gently patted Chen Zhizhou’s back with his hand and said softly. “Think slowly, don’t rush.”
His movements were soothing.
“It…it was locked in a room. A very small room. On a chair.” Chen Zhizhou’s hand tightly grabbed Si Chen’s arm, his body was shaking violently, and his forehead was covered with sweat. “The room number is …It’s…number 11.”
Lin Jiali’s voice suddenly came from the door, “Have you finished searching? My legs are getting numb from standing up.”
The moment she saw the two people’s overlapping figures, her words suddenly lodged in her throat.
“Excuse me,” Lin Jiali quickly backed away. After a while, she added from a distance, “I’ll give you 10 more minutes. Only 10 more minutes!”
lin jiali is really getting the wrong idea here 😂😂
also i hope kuafu died the worst death possible… and if he did not, well i hope he’s at least suffering ten times more than every person his laboratory ever experimented on
Kuafu is truly monstrous. Thanks for the update ❤️❤️❤️
Everyone know what people are the main monsters in our world, but I can’t say the same about another worlds I think
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🤣 SC has Little Abyss to set his standards for “cute”
hahahaha what do you keep misunderstanding jiali.
“For the researchers’ mental well-being, humanoid creatures are never used.” Yeah, rightttt. What about the Children of God? Pretty sure they are humans whom you tried to implant with high-dimensional creatures. And when things went to shit, you decided to die? What’s the use? It’s not gonna do anything smh
Also, the existence of the many big name groups existing in different worlds from different universes is very interesting. So far, weve seen them in 3 worlds. The blue planet where Si Chen is from, this world, and the Zeus one.
I agree, these big name groups existing in multiple dimensions definitely makes the story a lot more interesting
FUCK YOU KUAFU I HOPE YOU EXPERIENCE THE SAME AMOUNT OF PAIN FOR ETERNITY