Translator: Bambootriangle
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Editor: yuki_shuichi
“…”
Bai Chunian secretly concluded.
The number of people who had passed the security check gradually jumped from 1 to 3 on the green light display board above the security check channel. In order not to make them suspicious, Bai Chunian couldn’t waste any more time, took Albedo’s ID card and hurried to the security check channel.
The X-ray security inspection image on the computer screen showed Bai Chunian’s entire body—the lion ears on his head were shaking slightly, a tail trailing behind him, the Dead Sea Heart Rock collar on his neck, and the Dead Sea Heart Rock bell on the tip of his tail, which were solid and couldn’t be see-through.
After Bai Chunian passed, the whole room fell silent. The arrows on the computer screen moved slowly.
The arrow moved to the cross in the upper right corner, closing the X-ray security inspection page.
The green light sign above the security check channel showed the number of people who had passed the security check. It jumped to 5, then to 6, 7, 8, 9… Then, the lights in the entire room and the green light sign went out together.
When Bai Chunian walked out of the security check channel, he lifted the lead curtain and saw darkness in front of him.
“Has the power here not been restored?” He was taken aback for a moment and turned on the flashlight to illuminate.
In the corner where the beam of light didn’t reach, someone’s shadow approached. Bai Chunian reacted very quickly and jumped out of the passage hurriedly. The hand holding the flashlight hit a hard object and made a muffled sound.
He looked back at the place where he had just stood. A researcher who was wearing a white institute uniform was lying on the ground. He was lying face down on the ground, his head missing.
Bai Chunian squatted down and took a closer look. This corpse was very similar to the dead researcher in the freezer. The exposed neck and rotting body were full of maggots.
There was a beam of light beside him as Puppet Master leaned over and illuminated the body with his thumb flashlight. “The time of death is about the same as that of a researcher in the freezer. It can still be judged from the corpse spots on his legs that he died standing up. Just now Eris moved the medicine cabinet and he was hidden in the crack.”
“What is this place?” Bai Chunian asked.
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Puppet Master shone a light on the wall, where the “Instructions for the Use of the Specimen Room” sign hung.
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The researcher’s corpses were not scattered at the workstation but were hidden in various corners, showing that they had been hiding and escaping with fear.
Counting the corpses that just fell, there were a total of six corpses in this room. The corpse hidden under the autopsy table was littered with used empty liquid nitrogen cannon capsules, and two empty SH shielding agents were thrown at the feet of the corpse hidden in the disinfection cabinet. The cabinet door had traces of being violently opened and the body hidden in the storage box hugged a submachine gun tightly. Only the dead body in the center of the room was holding a flamethrower.
“Hm…” Bai Chunian looked at them one by one. “They resisted, but it was of no use. It must have been an experimental subject. The headquarters researchers have rich experience in dealing with out-of-control experimental subjects and generally, there will be no mass annihilation. The level of this experimental subject must not be low.”
There were many long glass, sterile cabinets arranged in the specimen room. It seemed that each one was equipped with an independent power supply and a backup power supply to maintain operation in the event of an unexpected power outage and ensured the safety of the specimens inside.
The glass sterile cabinet in Bai Chunian’s hand was filled with liquid and an oarfish floated inside. Its body was scaleless and covered with beautiful silver guanine. Although the specimen was lifelike, its eyes had completely lost their vitality.
There was an electronic screen in the lower left corner of the sterile cabinet. The scrolling text told the origin and whereabouts of this specimen. This oarfish was caught in the Pacific a year ago. It was made into a specimen due to a failure in transformation, which was very rarely seen.
These specimens placed in these glass cabinets varied in degrees of mimicry, ranging from purely animal and plant forms to human forms.
Bai Chunian looked up and saw Eris standing in front of a glass specimen cabinet, lost in thought, so he walked closer and took a look at the things inside.
There was a human boy, in his late teens, Caucasian in appearance, naked, and with all his hair shaved off. He held his hands together on his chest, as if praying in church.
His eyes were closed peacefully and he looked like he was just sleeping. The surface of his body was covered with sutures, starting from his head, through his neck, torso, limbs, knees, shoulders, elbows, and fingertips, all of which had marks of being separated and then sewn together.
Bai Chunian carefully read the information on the electronic screen in the lower left corner. The boy’s name was Adrian. He was born in Glasgow, England, in K017. He was abandoned by his parents at the door of the church and was raised by a priest. In K029, researchers discovered his potential for differentiation. Later, he was bought back from the priest.
It was determined that Adrian’s gland type was owl and his pheromone was heather. After the transformation, some genes in the gland were deleted, making it suitable for the transformation of inanimate objects with the first code 6.
Bai Chunian nudged Eris with his elbow. “It seems that the glands on the back of your neck originally belonged to him.”
Eris showed an exaggerated smile. “What are you talking about? This body was originally mine and was replaced fifty-three times.” He approached Bai Chunian mysteriously, raised his hands, and the corners of his lips parted as he asked proudly, “Guess which finger hurts the most to be amputated?”
Bai Chunian thought for a while, “The ring finger of the left hand.”
Eris was disappointed. “What? It turns out you know. Huh.”
Bai Chunian’s eyes passed over several stuffed lion cubs lying quietly in the glass cabinet. He took a deep breath and turned on the flashlight to find the door to this room.
The specimen room was very large. They walked for a long time before reaching the end. A glass specimen cabinet near the wall was broken and the glass was shattered all over the floor. The thick rhizome of a plant took root there, absorbing the remaining nutrient liquid from the glass cabinet.
The electronic screen in the lower left corner was also shattered and no useful information could be obtained.
This plant has grown very large and its thigh-thick branches were growing towards a door on the wall. The metal door was open, but the gap in the door had been completely blocked by the thick branches, making it impossible to get out.
Bai Chunian tried his best to peek through the cracks in the branches and peered into the next room, it was also dark on the other side.
“Eris, go back and check the room where the electric switch was before. Is there a power outage? Why is it so dark?”
“Why should I go?”
“Oh, got it, you are afraid of the dark. I’m going to tell Puppet Master then.”
Eris jumped up. “I’m not afraid. Isn’t it just turning on the switch?” He turned and left.
When Eris returned to the security entrance, Pupper Master was checking the medicines in the medicine cabinet and Rimbaud was sniffing the corpses and rummaging through the contents of their clothes. He greeted him casually and went back to the corpses, showing utter indifference.
Puppet Master picked up a bottle of strong ammonia, examined it, and chatted casually with Rimbaud.
“That time at the Warwick Pharmaceutical Factory, I thought you would want to kill Eternal Undead at all costs.”
Rimbaud didn’t even look up. “I will, after killing some other eyesores.”
“But he hurt your envoy. What are you holding your grudges for?”
“It’s not the only thing that hurt Xiao Bai.”
Puppet Master chuckled slightly. “It’s not like your character not to take revenge.”
Rimbaud straightened up and sat next to the corpse, his hands lazily resting on his bent tail. “I want to let Xiao Bai completely experience humanity, otherwise, he will always be full of illusions about human beings. He has not been hurt enough. I feel sorry for him, but I can only let him go this path. He is passionate, which is what I lack naturally and it’s also the reason why I like him. The secret of eternal life is to be indifferent enough, as you should also have experienced.”
After hearing what he said, Puppet Master was a little surprised. He turned around and pulled up a chair to sit down. He listened attentively and added a sentence at the right time, “It is inevitable that the experimental subjects will be squeezed out by humans because they are powerful but few. If there are enough of them, they will be able to overpower humans. They’re such weak, fragile creatures with no faith and awe, relying on numbers to dominate the world, still so complacent. It’s disgusting to look at.”
Rimbaud gently curled his hair with his fingertips. “That’s right. Human beings are losers who were driven ashore by the sea tribe thousands of years ago. They are useless except for destruction. Occasionally, there will be a few conscientious people, but their number is negligible.”
The two chatted pleasantly.
Puppet Master leaned back in his chair and put his well-jointed hands on his knees in a gentlemanly manner. “It seems that our place is more suitable for you, please consider it.”
“You don’t understand.” Rimbaud was noncommittal and glanced in the direction of Xiao Bai in the distance. “His emotions are affecting me and making me truly know that I am alive. How could I let him down? Compared with what I wish for, I hope that most of his passion and compassion will never fade throughout his life and that all evil thoughts and murders would only taint my hands.” Rimbaud leisurely took out the dagger, stabbed it upside down on the body, and said lazily, “I don’t mind.”
In the far corner, Bai Chunian called his “wife” towards him.
Upon hearing the call, Rimbaud raised his index finger towards Puppet Master and made a silencing gesture, putting it on his lips. His deep eyebrows and long webbed fingers gave him the alluring charm of the mythical siren. Immediately afterward, Rimbaud put on a pure, gentle, and holy look and quickly crawled along the wall.
“Coming.”
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As soon as Rimbaud left, the lights in the room suddenly turned on and some electronic equipment restarted, making beeping sounds one after another.
A head suddenly protruded from under the lead curtain of the security passage. Puppet Master looked sideways at him. Eris tilted his head and said, “I just went to turn on the electric switch. It’s really strange. The headless corpse in the freezer is gone and inside is clean like new, I don’t know who cleaned it.”
“How’s that possible?” Puppet Master had a sudden thought and immediately turned around, only to find that the body that had just been stabbed upside down by Rimbaud had disappeared, and there was still some blood on the dagger.
Puppet Master quickly stepped back, took out his pistol from his apron pocket, and fired into the blade of his dagger.
After a deafening gunshot, a snow-white baby with a round head fell next to the dagger, slowly emerging from its transparent state.
The baby, which was whiter than the wall, had small bat wings on its back and a black devil’s tail with a heart-shaped tip extended from its tailbone. It had no facial features and had only one mouth on its entire face, its scarlet tongue sticking out as it chewed the last body parts of the corpse in its mouth.
The bullet holes on its body slowly healed and it crawled to the side of the dagger, licking the blood on the blade bit by bit with his little tongue, licking it clean as if tasting great delicacy.
Puppet Master realized that after entering from the hall, there was no one there and there was no blood, even fingerprints could not be found at the researchers’ workplaces. Turned out it was the monster that had eaten the corpses and licked the countertop clean.
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Rimbaud followed Bai Chunian’s call and crawled towards him. Bai Chunian was waiting for him and waved to him. “Wife, come here and help me.” As he said that, he turned around.
“Ah.” Rimbaud halted suddenly when he saw a snow-white baby lying on Bai Chunian’s back. The baby was sleeping peacefully on his shoulder with a bruise on his head.
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