Translator: Khun
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When Aileen said these words casually, Xiao Yang stared at her mouth without talking. The glossy lip glaze perfectly polished her haggard and peeled lips.
Since Aileen replaced the head of the 109 Research Institute, box after box of cash and gold were shipped into their vault, the upward trend of their stocks resembled a rocket, and the salaries of the researchers ranged from 10,000 to 20,000 per month to one million per year. Subsidiary cultivation bases quietly appeared in every corner of every country and city like cells dividing, and Aileen’s face frequently appeared in major international medical weekly publications and financial and economic news.
Staying by Aileen’s side for the past few years, Xiao Yang watched her move skillfully and easily among the top businessmen in various countries. Her bearing had a sense of propriety, and under her charming and openly pretty face was a heart that never stopped calculating.
A very ambitious and skilled woman was more attractive than a tall, burly, agile, and fierce man. Xiao Yang liked to stand in an inconspicuous place and look up at her.
The lighter flipped open with a sound, and then the smell of cigarettes drifted to Xiao Yang. Aileen held a thin cigarette between her fingers, her red lips moved slightly, and she softly exhaled a breath of smoke.
Aileen leaned against the sleek white armchair and crossed her leg, her delicate black leather high-heel lightly bumping against the cabinet door just below the tabletop. She finally calmed down and let Xiao Yang come over.
Xiao Yang walked over, stood beside her, picked up the ashtray on the table, and handed it to her. Aileen ground the cigarette butt on the ashtray, and then took his fingertips.
“Are you injured?” Aileen asked, gently lifting the hem of Xiao Yang’s uniform. The wound was bandaged but it was bleeding a bit.
“I’m okay, it was just two bullets. I was wearing a bulletproof vest, so it wasn’t too serious.”
“That’s good. I did have a past with Lin Deng, but that is already in the past. He was very nice, gentle, considerate, and a very good talker. Unfortunately, from the day he decided to betray me, we had no future together. Our values were different, so there was no future in staying together. But you are different, you understand my painstaking efforts.”
Aileen pulled Xiao Yang’s hand and sat him in her chair while she sat on Xiao Yang’s leg. Although they were in these poses, the control was still firmly in Aileen’s hands. The blue rose pheromones felt very oppressive.
“We should pull back for now. The Lu family has joined forces with all the major business groups to sanction us, and Yan Yi is about to leave for the International Meeting. The warden of the International Prison has stepped down. The current International Prison is full of people from the IOA. It is impossible to make votes in our favor. The monocrylene stock is dangerously low, and nutritional agents cannot be produced in a short time. Now, we can only undersell some ordinary experimental subjects to liquidate, and then stop some cultivation facilities. This way, there is still a chance to breathe with our funds, otherwise, equipment maintenance and raising experimental subjects will be a huge expense.”
As Xiao Yang said this, he indiscernibly glanced at the necklace on Aileen’s neck.
Aileen was wearing a suit jacket, and inside was a white shirt with a casually open neckline and a cheap water drop-shaped pendant on a platinum gold collarbone chain. The gift from her days as a student had actually been kept until now. It seemed that this necklace was also given by Professor Lin Deng.
“Undersell…impossible. If we lower the price this time, then we won’t be able to be brought back up later.” Aileen nonchalantly touched the necklace around her neck, pulled it gently, and the thin platinum chain broke. Then it was thrown into the ashtray with the pendant.
“Tell the major breeding bases to temporarily suspend the production of the young, shut down the young’s cultivation equipment, and then gather the existing experimental subjects in the cultivation stage into the largest cultivation bases to cultivate together.” Aileen’s tone was unhurried and peacefully ordinary.
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After the elevator doors were closed, the sunray lights went out and were turned into purple lights for disinfection and sterilization. Two sets of chainmail-lined protective suits and masks protruded from the side of the elevator, and the mechanical hands dressed them neatly.
The elevator just descended to the bottom floor, and a notification sound came out. “Ding dong, you have arrived at the headquarters cultivation area. Warning, there are high-level maturity stage experimental subjects placed in the cultivation area. Please do not make noise, run, or use equipment that has flash or causes noise.”
After passing through several strong password doors, they entered the headquarters cultivation area.
Xiao Yang was very familiar with these places, this was where he usually worked. The researchers who were working in their respective posts greeted them softly and returned to their respective workstations to work.
The entire layout of the headquarters cultivation area was very similar to that of a library. Each incubator was placed side by side and was divided into the young area, the cultivation stage experimental subjects area, and maturity stage experimental subjects area, and the elite area, where maturity stage experimental subjects in the fifth grade and above and other cultivation stage experimental subjects with gland differentiation potential at M2 grade were placed. The closest to the entrance was the young area, and the incubators contained some young whose glandular characteristics were still obvious.
When Xiao Yang passed by, a seal experimental subject lightly patted the transparent plate of the incubator. The little guy was covered with a layer of snow-white fur. He hadn’t evolved human limbs yet, so he looked exactly like a seal cub.
Xiao Yang used his iris to unlock the incubator lock, took off his mask, carried the little seal out, and put his cheek against it.
The young that have undergone the experimental subject transformation would initially possess a certain amount of intelligence and emotion. When they see their cultivator, they would want to hug them very affectionately. However, the time had come, and this seal had not yet shown human characteristics, and even if it matured, there was a high probability that it would only be an experimental subject with a degree of mimicry of 1 or 0. Although its obedience was slightly higher, its strength would be much worse than others.
Like No. 809 Experimental Subject Kraken, this kind of experimental subject cultivated from animals would not be sold if the degree of mimicry was not high. Kraken was only sold for tens of millions, which was practically a price that was marked down as a loss compared with the cost of cultivation.
The little seal was very dependent on Xiao Yang and dozed off when lying in his arms. Xiao Yang stroked the fur on its body, then put it back into the incubator and locked it.
They passed many incubators along the way, and most of the young in them were very close to Xiao Yang. Every time Xiao Yang passed by one, he would hug and coax them and gradually distanced himself from Aileen, who was walking in front.
Aileen walked forward without looking back, completely uninterested in the young.
After passing the young area, Xiao Yang took two quick steps to catch up with Aileen. He talked to her about his rescue measures.
“I suggest selling these young to the businessmen we have cooperated with. They are not aggressive. They will not grow again after nutritional agents are stopped being provided. They are a good choice for a house pet. Since the cost of cultivation has not increased, selling them at a low price can recover a part of our losses.”
“How can we ensure their safety?” Aileen asked indifferently. “Those businessmen and nobles are arrogant. If the experimental subjects bite their children at home, our reputation will be damaged even more.”
“Trained young can’t hurt people.”
“Who will train them?”
“Mn… I can.”
“You have your work to do. The current annual salary I give you is not for you to become an animal trainer.” Aileen patted him on the shoulder and walked towards the elite area.
Beginning with the experimental subjects in the maturity stage area, the incubators were placed in separate areas of single rooms. The number, code name, gland differentiation grade, and experimental subject stage of each closed room were marked outside the door of each closed room.
The deeper it went, the higher the stage of the experimental subject. At the deepest point, the signs on the door of the room have begun to show super strong experimental subjects with differentiation grade A3, maturity level 8, or even 9.
Aileen stopped in front of the last room.
The heavily locked door was marked:
Special Operations Weapons 200
Code Name: Eternal Undead
Gland Differentiation Grade: A3
Experimental Subject Level: Deterioration Stage
After scanning her iris, Aileen entered a series of commands on the control panel. The front wall of the room, which was as strong as a barrier, gradually became transparent until it became a glass-like material. People on the outside could clearly see the situation inside.
In the room stood a thin alpha. He had put on a white bed sheet over his head, which was wrapped around his body. He stood motionless on the ground, looking like a Halloween ghost. The machine running in the corner was connected to his body covered by the sheet through a hollow tube, which was continuously injecting a synthesis booster into his body.
And beside him, there was a smooth, round pearl the size of a fist floating.
Aileen gestured her hand toward Xiao Yang to come closer. “What are you doing standing so far away? The incubator is strong enough, he can’t get out.”
It was not the first time Xiao Yang saw this experimental subject, but he never dared to get too close. This was the first experimental subject that had entered a period of deterioration but had not lost control since experimental subjects appeared in the world. Because of the pearl suspended in the air, if this matter were made public, it would definitely shock the entire scientific community.
“That pearl…is inconceivable,” Xiao Yang said sincerely.
Aileen laughed. “This is a spawn cut open from the body of the Electro-optic Phantom. Really, he is really great.”
“I’ve been thinking, since this pearl has the ability to control the experimental subjects in the deterioration stage, can it control Divine Envoy in the deterioration stage?” Aileen calmly told her idea, “If it can be done, we will not even fear the IOA, our current predicament will be easily solved.”
Xiao Yang shook his head. “You really want to take that risk? Why don’t you seek stability for now…”
“Don’t be afraid, you should believe in its power.” Aileen pressed the communication button, and a burst of gentle music sounded in the closed room, awakening Eternal Undead.
Eternal Undead woke up with the bed sheet still on his head, so his face could not be seen. He slowly stretched out a pair of young and pale hands and took the pearl floating in the air into his hands.
Aileen spoke softly, “I have a task for you, do as I say.”
“Okay.” The voice of Eternal Undead was very free and natural, echoing in every corner of the room.
“Good boy.” Aileen praised. “Is there anything you want? I can meet your needs.”
“Give me a tissue.”
Eternal Undead slowly raised up the pearl and murmured, “I hope it will stop crying.”
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When Aileen explained the task, Xiao Yang backed away from her with discernment. After waiting outside for about ten minutes, Aileen came out. After explaining the matter, it was almost time to leave.
On the way, the two began to discuss the next remedial measures.
“It is true that the production of the young should be stopped.” Xiao Yang thought for a while, “But it is unrealistic to shut down the young cultivation equipment in a short period of time. There are more than 200 young in the headquarters alone. If they are not sold as pets, I can’t think of any appropriate methods that can both recover the loss and solve our predicament.”
“The nutritional agents for the experimental subjects in the cultivation period have been stopped, and the nutritional agents in stock are tightly supplied to the experimental subjects in the elite area.”
“Okay. As for the support of the experimental subjects in the cultivation stage and the normal maturity stage…”
“Directly supply all the existing young to the experimental subjects in the maturity stage as feed. All the experimental subjects in the cultivation stage, as well as those in the maturity stage that are lower than level five and cannot be used as feed, will be eliminated,” Aileen said indifferently.
Xiao Yang’s footsteps paused. He was stunned. Aileen’s sentence that downplayed the situation directly determined the fate of experimental subjects worth tens of billions and also determined the life and death of tens of thousands of experimental subjects.
Xiao Yang stopped by an incubator. The baby seal inside was leaning against the glass and barking, trying to attract Xiao Yang’s attention so he could come and hug it.
“Are they disposable, how do you plan to eliminate them?” Xiao Yang asked after a long time.
Aileen had already walked a few meters away. Hearing his question, she turned back and pulled down the power switch of the incubator, where the seal experimental subject was located in an orderly manner.
“Like this.” Aileen showed Xiao Yang a demonstration, turned around, walked away, and said coldly, “Didn’t you invent the infection agent? Use it.”
The incubator stopped running, and the oxygen pump, nutrient pump, sterilizer, and other instruments were all turned off for a while.
The lively seal experiment struggled from suffocation, then finally laid powerlessly on the bottom of the incubator without moving.
Xiao Yang raised his hand to hold the closed glass of the incubator and stood silently for a long time. Slowly, his body lost some strength, his forehead pressed against the glass, and his Adam’s apple moved slightly.
+1
The main character makes a living offing people he doesn’t like and the male lead hates most humans. If they try to pull redemption bullshit I’m going to be pissed.
Thank You for the new chapter （*’∀’人）♥