In the dimly lit laboratory archives, Chen Jiazhang’s expression turned strange as he looked at Qing Chen. Knight knew about the secrets of achieving godhood. Among the shameless jokes of the old-timers in the Forbidden Zone, achieving godhood had always been one of their options.
In the words of the old-timers, “If it weren’t for cancer, we could have achieved godhood too. What a pity, it was Ren Xiaosu who got the advantage.”
At this moment, the few Knights who had died of cancer remained silent.
After Chen Jiazhang and Li Shutong’s senior uncle had gotten cancer, everyone had tried to find the method Ren Xiaosu had used back then, but they couldn’t find the black True Sight Eye, nor could they find a scientific way to coexist with cancer.
With no other options, everyone could only give up, and watch their fellow disciples buried in Forbidden Zone 002.
Now, if another Knight were to get cancer, perhaps they wouldn’t be so desperate.
Chen Jiazhang whispered, “Now, we only need the black True Sight Eye.”
Qing Chen looked at him in surprise, “I have the black True Sight Eye.”
Chen Jiazhang: “???”
Qing Chen smiled, “It’s always been in the possession of the Observer organization, but now it belongs to me. Although someone borrowed it for six months, after six months, they still have to return it to me. Or perhaps, Senior Uncle, you should try finding a place with intense nuclear radiation?”Chen Jiazhang was speechless. The atmosphere had been built up to this point; if he didn’t get cancer, it seemed a bit illogical.
It’s just that he couldn’t figure out what kind of situation this nephew was in. Things that Knights had once dreamed of seemed like nothing to him.
Forbidden Artifacts were being pulled out one by one.
Disciples were being cultivated in droves.
Now, even the pieces of the path to achieving godhood have been assembled.
At this time, Chen Jiazhang still didn’t know that the old-timers who had once manipulated him and Li Shutong were now being manipulated by Qing Chen with the exorbitant ancestral debts from the Forbidden Artifacts.
If he had known, he probably would have been envious to death.
Dayu asked suspiciously from the side, “What are you two whispering about? Achieving godhood? You want to achieve godhood too? What are you dreaming about?”
Qing Chen shook his head, “I’ll continue sorting the information.”
His pupils suddenly narrowed like a tiger’s, a golden color appearing in his elongated pupils, as if a golden river flowed in the depths of those pupils, surging endlessly.
Qing Chen said, “Coexistence with cancer, the safe passage of the blood of the gods, and so on. There’s also important information: Gene Medicine!”
“The Kindling wants to extract genes from the blood of the gods, to improve Gene Medicine. All their Gene Medicine has side effects. It can raise human strength to A-Class, but the price is that no one can live past 40. Dr. P claims he has found a secret in the blood of the gods, but the research was interrupted.”
None of the information here contained any further relevant information, indicating that Dr. P had only just begun this research, and problems had arisen in Huǒzhǒng’s various laboratories.
However, what the information mentioned seemed similar to what the No. 2 scientist they had brought back had said about the Dharma Image. To find a breakthrough point for A-Class Gene Medicine, they must start with the blood of the gods.
Previously, Qing Chen had already provided his own blood to the No. 2 scientist, but he had only fused the blood of the gods. The other party needed to select those related to the gods from the complex gene fragments. The workload was enormous, and just re-sequencing the genes would take more than a year.
If they could find the blood of the gods at the Kindling base, then City 10’s A-Class Gene Medicine would be developed very quickly.
Qing Chen took stock of his gains this time: The first point was the technology to coexist with cancer, but this technology would cause the clinical trial targets to become non-human beings with gray skin; extremely aggressive, like zombies.
The second gain would be the blood of the gods.
The third would be the A-Class Gene Medicine formula.
These were all in the A1 area, which was currently still locked.
“Let’s go,” Qing Chen said, “Dayu, help me put all the information into your Space Ring.”
Dayu questioned, “Why do I feel like this Space Ring is for you? Why do you put everything into it? Why don’t I just give it to you?!”
Qing Chen patiently comforted, “It’s not impossible.”
Dayu rolled his eyes, “Think again!”
Everyone walked towards the A1 area. Shortly after they left, the door to the information room in the darkness moved automatically without any wind, as if something had brushed against it when passing by.
Qing Chen turned to look at the dark corridor, but saw nothing.
He shone his flashlight at the ceiling of the corridor, which was also bare.
Arriving at the entrance to the A1 area, this time it was a password-locked gate that descended from above, but because the entire secret base had lost power, the lock core was completely locked.
Dayu curiously asked, “Can you open this too?”
Qing Chen looked at him strangely, drew the black knife from Qin Yiyi’s waist, and cut the door open in two strokes.
Forbidden Artifact ACE001, the God’s Knife: capable of cutting through everything in the world, indestructible.
The Elder complained, “Qing Chen, you’re too casual. You use other people’s knives just like that.”
Qin Yiyi happily took back the black knife and said to Qing Chen, “It’s okay, the Elder is just nagging, don’t take it to heart.”
The Elder: “...”
As soon as the words fell, a clang suddenly came from behind.
A section of aluminum alloy ceiling suddenly fell to the ground, as if something was passing through the dark hole in the ceiling.
Qing Chen suddenly materialized the black sniper rifle, aiming at the ceiling and firing dozens of shots in succession, but even after he had blown the ceiling to pieces, nothing was seen.
Dayu said, “Are you being too sensitive? There’s nothing there, it’s just an old drop from disrepair.”
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Maybe. Let’s go, let’s find all the hard drives in the A1 area and give them to Dayu, and also the blood of the gods.”
“Let’s split up,” Dayu said, “It’s too slow to look together. Spreading out will be faster.”
Qing Chen frowned, “There might be unknown threats in this lab, and splitting up rashly would be problematic.”
Dayu became impatient, “You’re too cautious. This place has been sealed for thousands of years, what danger could there be? If you don’t have the guts, don’t command casually, let me command.”
But Qing Chen sneered, “Suit yourself. Don’t blame me if you encounter danger, it’s your own carelessness. Let’s split up. My senior uncle and I will be in one group, Yiyi and the Elder in another, Dayu and Zard in the third.”
Everyone split into three groups and walked into the darkness.
Qing Chen and Chen Jiazhang didn’t know how long they had been walking. Most of these were research rooms, containing equipment for sampling and analysis. When they reached the innermost part, they saw another gray metal door in front of them.
Qing Chen and Chen Jiazhang looked at each other. This must be the most important place in the entire laboratory!
“Open the door,” Chen Jiazhang said.
However, Qing Chen suddenly said, “The door is already open.”
Speaking, he pulled the door open, only to find that the inner side was covered with scratch marks, as if trying to dig through the metal door, and there were dried bloodstains on the scratches.
Qing Chen frowned, “The monsters inside were originally trapped here. They suffered, roared, and raged, unable to leave this lab. But one day, the door suddenly opened itself.”
He swept his flashlight inside, only to see six standing vessels, which were now completely shattered, and there were traces of dust and liquid mixed and dried on the ground.
Chen Jiazhang was startled, “It was something inside that actively broke the sealed containers! Six ghosts have escaped! Right here in this secret base!”
“No good!”
At this time.
Dayu walked in the dark corridor and sneered, “Qing Chen is too timid. What danger could there be here? What era is it? Are you still afraid of ghosts and monsters?”
Zard cautiously hid behind him, clutching the bottom of Dayu’s clothes, “Keep your voice down. Don’t attract the ghosts and monsters in the darkness. I’m scared.”
Speaking, the two quickly walked into a room that looked like a conference room.
The next moment, the door of the conference room suddenly closed behind them.
Zard screamed in fright, turned and threw himself at the door, beating hard, “Help! Someone help!”
Dayu stood expressionlessly in the darkness, his ears carefully discerning the sounds around him.
At this moment, a sharp scratching sound on metal suddenly came from the darkness, making one’s teeth ache. The sound got closer and closer.
Dayu shone his flashlight, but only saw a black shadow flash by.
Something was laughing hoarsely in the darkness, excited like a cat playing with a mouse.
The sound of fingernails scraping against metal continued without stopping. The other party seemed to enjoy the sound very much.
At this moment, Zard, in his fear, slammed open the conference room door and ran out.
But Dayu ran faster than him, and when he passed by, he tripped Zard.
Zard fell to the ground, screaming in anguish, “Dayu, you’ve hurt me!”
Dayu ran, raising his flashlight and looking back, only to see something in the darkness quickly pull Zard into the darkness.
Qing Chen and the others heard the sound and ran over quickly. He grabbed the fleeing Dayu and asked loudly, “Where’s Zard? I ask you, where’s Zard?”
Dayu calmly glanced at Qing Chen, but with a tone completely inconsistent with his expression, he said in horror, “Something in the darkness grabbed him!”
“Why didn’t you save him? Are you heartless? He was so good to you, how could you bear to do this?!” Qing Chen questioned.
Dayu raised his eyebrows, “Enough already.”
“Ahem, got carried away,” Qing Chen said.
After a while, they heard Zard laugh happily in the darkness, “Caught it.”
Then, Zard walked out of the darkness carrying a humanoid gray-skinned monster. The monster struggled constantly in Zard’s hands, but it couldn’t break free.
Zard’s neck was also half-bitten, looking extremely tragic, but the wound was like flowing sand, quickly closing together.
From the moment they entered the building, Qing Chen had noticed this monster. It wasn’t just Qing Chen; Zard, Chen Jiazhang, and the Elder had all eaten Dragon Fish. The monster’s heartbeat sounded like a drum in the silent darkness.
Moreover, this guy had stared at everyone more than once. In the dark night, to an A-Class, this kind of gaze was like the enemy holding a large lantern in front of our mortar fire.
As if afraid that our firepower wasn’t enough.
As a result, the monster thought it was hiding very well.
If Qing Chen wasn’t worried about not understanding the internal structure of the place and the monster escaping, he would have caught it long ago.
So Qing Chen and Zard conspired together, letting Zard, who was completely immune to physical attacks, lure the monster out.
At this moment, the gray monkey was tightly held by Zard, and Qing Chen squatted in front of it and said, “Kindling test subject? I’ve seen this kind of thing in Li Clan’s information. It’s said that there were hundreds of thousands of them back then, and they destroyed several cities. They have extremely strong group combat abilities, and they’re quite good at making a fuss.”
This guy hid in the dark, probably trying to pick Qing Chen and the others off one by one.
The test subject was indeed ferocious and powerful. When the Qing Family was dealing with the disaster of these gray-skinned test subjects, the Qing Family dropped a nuclear bomb on the original city site of Forbidden Zone 008 to kill them.
But the problem is, back then they formed a disaster because there were too many of them. Once the number decreased, they weren’t scary at all.
In Li Clan’s records, the strongest individual combat ability of the test subjects back then was only equivalent to today’s B-Class Gene Soldiers.
Ordinary people might be scared of it, but the problem is that Qing Chen’s team is full of A-Class, you know?
Qing Chen looked at the ferocious face and sighed, “Brother, times have changed.”
The gray test subject gradually calmed down, gradually retracted its fangs, and asked in stiff language, “Who are you?
Qing Chen was stunned. He didn’t expect the other party to have such a clear consciousness and intelligence.
He knew that the test subjects were humans who coexisted with cancer. Thousands of years ago, they were also members of humanity.
It’s just that after coexisting with cancer, they began to become like cancer, craving matter and energy, and having an irresistible desire for all proteins.
He thoughtfully asked, “It’s not your turn to ask us yet. Let me ask you first, did you escape from the vessel inside the lab, or did you escape from the glass vessel on the cliff?”
“Cliff?” the test subject rasped, “Aren’t all the bionic bodies on the cliff dead?”
Qing Chen was stunned. He felt something was wrong, “Wait, don’t rush to interrogate him, help me turn this place upside down. I need the names of all the bionic bodies! I have a feeling there’s a big secret hidden here!”
A bionic body escaped from a glass vessel on a cliff, but the test subject had never seen it, which could only mean that the bionic body had already left the abyss!
Everyone began to search separately, leaving only Qing Chen and Zard on the spot. Qing Chen coldly stared at the test subject, “I hope you will honestly answer my every question, or I will make you suffer.”
The test subject was silent for a moment, “Being trapped in this place is worse than death. Even if I die, there’s nothing to fear.”
Qing Chen was curious, “Before you entered Kindling, what did you do?”
The test subject recalled for a long time, “It’s been too long… I was a teacher. I had lung cancer that couldn’t be cured, and I gradually fell into despair. One day, people from Kindling found me. They said they could cure my illness and pay me 300,000 yuan afterward, so I went with them. But I never expected that this would be an endless time.”
Yes, these test subjects, before becoming test subjects, were nothing but poor people with cancer.
Qing Chen couldn’t let it live, but Qing Chen understood the other party’s past.
This is not a carefully trained warrior, but a beast controlled by carnivorous instincts.
Qing Chen asked, “Since you have the ability to escape the lab, why don’t you leave this underground abyss?”
The test subject rasped, “If I could get past those human-faced insects, I would have left long ago. I also want to ask you how you got down here.”
“Huh,” Qing Chen suddenly found it interesting.
He had been pondering earlier. Since it was such a hidden laboratory, why would they bother to raise a bunch of human-faced insects? Wasn’t Kindling causing trouble for itself?
Moreover, according to the records, wherever there were test subjects, there were human-faced insects at the entrance. The two seemed to be a combination, always appearing together.
Kindling’s Laboratory 039 was like that, and so was this place.
Only at this moment did Qing Chen suddenly understand that the role of the human-faced insects was indeed to guard, but their responsibility was not only to prevent outsiders from invading, but also to prevent the test subjects inside from going out!
Kindling had made preparations. Once their experiments failed, causing the test subjects to leak, then the human-faced insects would be Kindling’s last layer of insurance, preventing the test subjects from going out to wreak havoc on the world!
Qing Chen asked, “I ask you, was it you who opened that door inside!”
He was referring to the door he had just discovered with Chen Jiazhang.
The test subject shook its head, “After the six of us woke up, we were trapped there for a long time. Despair and anger made us lose our remaining rationality, and we started to kill each other. I killed the other five, ate them, and waited for death. But on the day I was about to starve to death, the door suddenly clicked open. I ran out frantically, but I didn’t see who opened the door.”
Qing Chen nodded, “It matches my guess, but I’ll find other things to verify if what you said is true, and I also know how to verify it.”
At this moment, Dayu came back with a stack of documents, “We can’t understand this, but there are numbers and names on it, which should be what you want. But the problem is, wasn’t the nameplate on that glass vessel already torn off? How do you find out his identity?”
Qing Chen said, “Bionic people are clones. Since Kindling cloned them, they must have recorded the source of their genes, who the original owner was. He escaped the vessel and helped this test subject open the gate, tearing off his own nameplate. He thought he was very clever, thinking I couldn’t find him, but the problem is, I just need to record all the other nameplates and then do an exclusion method on the list.”
There were a total of 10,023 bionic vessels on the cliff in the abyss, and Kindling also had 10,023 names recorded on paper, but only 10,022 nameplates.
This method of exclusion was much simpler for Qing Chen than re-sorting the information earlier.
Soon, Qing Chen found the missing nameplate on page 27: T50381, gene fragment from the northwest Zong Clan, Zong Cheng.
Qing Chen suddenly looked up. It was clearly recorded in the Hu Family Intelligence Agency. Because this Zong Cheng, like the great bandit Liu Yue, possessed a rare ability to control puppets.
Everyone suspected that the Forbidden Artifact Marionette was extracted from him or Liu Yue!
At this moment, Qing Chen felt that he was incredibly close to the truth.