Chapter 86
They didn’t need ten minutes. Chen Zhizhou had already said everything he knew.
The Black Goat was locked in Room 11.
What Si Chen needed to know was what was in Room 13.
By analogy, in the Khaos Manufacturing Institute, each laboratory room contained the corresponding experiment subjects from way back then.
What were these things that were still alive after all these years?
And who locked these thing up?
Thinking about it, it was a bit scary.
But he had to go, after all, this question was worth 25 points.
When she saw them walking out, Lin Jiali’s expression was a little surprised.
After all, only two minutes had passed. It was simply too fast.
She scratched her head. “Sorry, did I disturb you?”
Si Chen refuted once again, “No, we are not in that kind of relationship.”
Lin Jiali’s eyes roamed over their faces.
Chen Zhizhou still looked sleepy and neither agreed nor disagree with Si Chen’s words.
Si Chen’s eyes, as before, remained clear.
Lin Jiali thought to herself that a lot of people probably praise Si Chen’s eyes. One eye was obviously a prosthetic eye, but the remaining eye was as lovely as limpid autumn waters.
Many blind people have cloudy eyes.
She breathed a slow sigh of relief.
That had been too close. Eight Directions Technology and the Machine Core Group’s good relationship went back for generations and the relationship between the Ji Family and the Lin Family has always been good.
If something happened between the two of them, and Chen Zhizhou and Ji Chuyao fought, she wouldn’t know who to help.
Probably Chen Zhizhou.
After all, Ji Chuyao was already at the Sixth Step and he could easily beat Chen Zhizhou to death.
Si Chen handed the experiment record book to Lin Jiali. “Have a look.”
Lin Jiali couldn’t understand the data, so she simply looked at the diary entries.
As she read, Lin Jiali couldn’t help shouting, “What kind of effed up experiment is this! This director is sick! And he has the nerve to call himself Kuafu?!”
Kuafu in the myths and legends is a positive character. He represents the spirit of bravery and fearlessness, how it is to be unafraid of difficulties.
In the myth, Kuafu tried his best to benefit mankind, eventually dying day by day.
This institute director who likened himself to Kuafu might have been more after the deformed and supreme power implied behind the character “father” in Kuafu.
— like the many glorifying bronze statues he had set up for himself.
Si Chen said, “In university, the law school is next to our School of Biological Sciences. The internal forum of Donglan University calls this area no-man’s land. This is because law students and researchers have a tendency to be carelessly inhumane. We have strong logic to brainwash ourselves and those around us.”
“It’s a good thing, human experimentation is still prohibited in our world.”
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Before each fusion transformation plan is determined, the elders will first conduct experiments on a control group.
Members of these control groups typically have employment contracts with his family that lasts hundreds of years. Many come from Disaster Zones or are children of company employees who used them to pay off debts.
Participation in the experiments is completely voluntary.
These control groups were housed in a closed campus.
Daily compulsory lessons include being grateful to the Chen family for feeding and housing them. They are taught some basic knowledge and simple literacy and so, their general intelligence is not very high.
When Chen Zhizhou went there the first time, he was warmly welcomed by all the children there.
They called him “Sir” and “Master”, eager to shower him with everything good.
Because Chen Zhizhou only needs one sentence to determine their future.
These children even know very well that they are reference points for Chen Zhizhou’s evolution, and feel particularly honored to serve this role.
Becoming a reference point means getting a bigger bed, better food and envious looks from the people around you.
It’s all “voluntary”, of course, completely voluntary.
He still remembered the utter shock in his heart, the feeling of his father’s big hand touching his head.
His father said, “Zhizhou, there is no need to be soft-hearted. Without the support of the family, these children would not survive.”
“You are a child of the Chen family and the hope for its future. You have successfully integrated the Feathered Serpent God within you. In the future, Serpent Staff Gene will definitely have a place for you.”
Chen Zhizhou felt like vomiting.
He suddenly realized why he felt so close to Si Chen.
A child from Chen Zhizhou’s first control group had facial features vaguely similar to Si Chen’s. Chen Zhizhou had met him several times at the school.
Chen Zhizhou was two years older than him. The child was a bit clingy but shy. He asked him, “Gege, do you like candy?”
Inferior maltose contains a lot of flavors and hormones.
The people around Chen Zhizhou would never give him something like that. But he kept it in his mouth the entire way back; towards the end, it turned a bit bitter from the sweetness.
This child died on the operating table.
Chen Zhizhou insisted on having a look at the body. Because of the mutations, it looked very disgusting and ugly; something between a small red snake and a schistosomiasis.
–They died for me.
The moment Chen Zhizhou saw Si Chen, he thought of the schistosomiasis that had given him nightmares for days on end.
Would they have had a better life had they not been adopted by the Chen family? Would they have been just like Si Chen? Could they have, one day, stood before him cold, reserved but proud?
Even if they’d died in the wilderness, they would, at least, have been free.
Chen Zhizhou’s expression was not very good.
Si Chen pushed the motorcycle over and asked, “Are you still feeling uncomfortable?”
Chen Zhizhou replied, “Yeah…yeah.”
After a long time, he still couldn’t say anything.
He sat behind Si Chen, feeling sick, his arms around Si Chen’s waist.
The motorcycle started to move forward.
Chen Zhizhou felt dizzy, but he couldn’t sleep.
He murmured, “I came into the world dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”
Si Chen laughed. “Aren’t you a capitalist?”
Chen Zhizhou replied, “I am a capitalist.”
Si Chen thought about the Chen Family’s wealth and the inhumane contract that the Serpent Staff Gene originally gave him, and nodded with deep feeling. “Indeed.”
The pay in the Production Department was pretty good.
But the contracts in R&D read like they were hiring livestock. The only merit it had was the room and household registration in a Safe Zone.
“But I can’t escape. Just because I close my eyes and don’t look, doesn’t mean it’s not there.” Chen Zhizhou’s voice kept drifting in and out, as if he was talking in his sleep. “I suddenly understand Song Bai a little bit. There is no way to go from top to bottom, the only way is from out to in…”
They encountered some mutants on the road. Fortunately, they didn’t present too much of a problem and overall, they were in no danger.
There had been a huge octopus that suddenly burst out of an aquarium window, with one tentacle as big as a man.
There had been some black predators disguised as mud, suddenly surging up and trying to drag people down into it.
There were deformed scavenging birds that gathered in a large group, hovering in the sky, swooping down to target them.
Si Chen drove them away with fire. A few of them got cooked. They made a fragrant and fatty meal for the Eternal Life Abyss.
“Squeak squeak~!”
The Eternal Life Abyss was being a bit picky with its food.
It only ate the chicken legs and wings but not the chicken breasts and internal organs. In its opinion, Si Chen had used too strong a fire to roast the birds and the meat came out a bit burnt.
Seeing Si Chen feeding the Eternal Life Abyss, the other two were shocked.
Lin Jiali said, “In the information I got, you were listed as mechanically transformed, but later during the physical examination, you came out as biologically transformed. I still haven’t asked you what creature you’ve fused with. Is this the Eternal Life Abyss?”
In recent years, Eternal Life Abyss specimens have become rare. Lin Jiali was not sure either.
On the other hand, Chen Zhizhou was familiar with this. “No wonder Baidi University is recruiting students this year.”
The outside world, by and large, suspect that Song Bai has been completely parasitized by an Eternal Life Abyss. Only that, they had no evidence of it.
Si Chen suddenly froze in the middle of feeding his child. “…En.”
His reduced intelligence debuff has already begun to manifest.
At least before, he wouldn’t have hurriedly fed the child as soon as he heard the Eternal Life Abyss shouting that it was hungry.
Some breastfeeding mothers are also manipulated by hormones in this way.
Fortunately, Chen Zhizhou and Lin Jiali probably had no intention of back stabbing him. They also didn’t care where this Eternal Life Abyss came from.
After all, it had been more than a year ago since that collateral line family member of the Song Family disappeared and died. The Family’s energies and attention have long been allocated elsewhere.
Si Chen’s party also came across a “White Goat” on the way to the Khaos Manufacturing Institute.
It was lying on the ground. It had a long mouth, two long tongues, and the inside of its mouth was covered with barbs. Its skin was snow-white, but the flesh color underneath could vaguely be seen. Its entire surface was covered with white fluff.
The White Goat showed signs of attacking but at the moment he was about to shoot, Si Chen hesitated for a second.
He almost had a piece of his arm bitten off by the White Goat.
Just as it was recorded in the experiment record, the White Goat cried like a baby when it died. Big drops of tears flowed from its sunken film-covered eyes.
Si Chen didn’t take a second look at it.
Compassion from the weak is cheap and hypocritical.
That isn’t pity or sympathy; merely the grieving of the fox for the dying rabbit.
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After passing through the large swath of peripheral laboratories, Si Chen’s party finally arrived at the core.
He took out the map and looked at their location, confirming that the building in front of him was the Khaos Manufacturing Institute.
Lin Jiali was extremely shocked. “It’s actually a tower…?”
In Eastern myths and legends, towers always have the meaning of suppressing evil spirits.
This was a square tower made of metal, tall and majestic.
But compared with the surrounding technological factories, the style of this building seemed a bit out of place.
There were some mottled reliefs on the square metal tower. They looked to be made out of bronze.
Si Chen originally thought that the creatures carved on the tower’s facade were swimming dragons, but as he walked nearer, he realized that these dragons looked more like the tentacles of the Eternal Life Abyss. Staring at it for too long was dizzying.
At the top of the tower, a long needle held a flesh-colored ball. It was a half-closed eye.
Si Chen kept feeling like the eye behind those lids was moving.
On the ground, there were several metal words embedded in the ground. “Khaos Manufacturing Institute”.
Next to the words was a particularly eye-catching relief of Khaos Manufacturing’s logo.
Si Chen: “I’ve wanted to ask this for a long time. What is the relationship between this Khaos Manufacturing Institute and the Khaos Manufacturing Group? Are these logos universal across the different universes?”
He had also seen the trademarks of the Serpent Staff Gene and the Machine Core Group before.
Perhaps like the House of the Mind, these groups are also high-dimensional world organizations, penetrating into the low-dimensional universes through some special way.
Chen Zhizhou: “I don’t know. You should ask Song Ziyu about this. If the rest are still alive.”
By their estimate, they were making good time at answering the test questions.
After all, they had high IQs, were good at fighting and had pretty good luck. They also acted as a team.
Compared with the external laboratory area, the Khaos Manufacturing Institute wasn’t very big.
Si Chen drove around and found the entrance.
The entrance to the Khaos Manufacturing Institute was a long giant mouth. Even the structure of the teeth could clearly be seen.
Like a malicious monster asking them to enter the urn.
Oh, again value of power, of money
And Marx’s word made me smile)) I mean, Marxism and Das Kapital are iconic philosophical theory and work, but because it’s a Chinese book it’s kind of fun reading about critic of capitalism)) Sorry, if I’m rudeThank you for your translation ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
He is losing brain power, showing off baby… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
I would absolutely hate working there
If ‘Please enter the pot’ = treat one as you treat others, then isn’t this behavior like Little Abyss opening it’s mouth and waiting to eat? 😂