Johnny and Zach begin to plot how to successfully infiltrate the Adam Tech Building to "borrow" their lab.

And on this side of the Immortal Bird Base, Luo also infiltrated a certain laboratory.

……

"Hey, I don't eat people, you guys relax."

Luo sat on the lab counter, eating a jar of pickled cucumbers in his hand.

In front of him were several experimenters in white coats with stiff expressions.

They stood very stiffly, not daring to look directly at the demon in front of them.

"Go ahead with your work, I'll just take a look."

Luo sat on the counter and dangled his legs, chewing on a sour pickled cucumber in his mouth.

The experimenters were so panicked that they didn't know what to say.

…… Get rid of it, your ass is sitting on our console, telling us how to continue working?

Of course, even if they are given a hundred guts, they will not be able to say such words.

The staff of the entire experimental area knew that two people had escaped from the ark and broken into the experimental area not long ago, and even one of them even forced his way to the upper floor, and in the process, almost thirty or so experimental personnel who had not had time to evacuate were killed by him in an extremely cruel way.

These scholars, who have been immersed in scientific research for many years, have never encountered such an encounter.

Who would have thought that staying in the laboratory and cultivating some microorganisms would also kill them.

So when Luo suddenly appeared here, the first reaction of the researchers in the laboratory was - run.

Most of them "escaped" from the lab in a timely manner.

The rest of the ones are half a beat slower.

Law sat down in front of them with a big grin.

Not long ago, the higher-ups had withdrawn Luo's threat report, indicating that he was indeed eligible to roam freely in the experimental area.

……

"Okay, since you don't want to continue working, do me a favor."

Luo threw a small piece of pickled cucumber into his mouth, pointed to a culture bin in the laboratory and said:

"Tell me about what's grown there."

The cultivation chamber is full of the same fungi that Bonnie had mentioned.

For Luo's request, these experimenters did not dare to refuse.

One of them finally mustered up the courage to come up to Luo and tell him about the mushrooms that were growing in the cultivation chamber.

……

…

It's pretty much the same as Luo had speculated.

These colorful mushrooms are not native to nature, but synthetic species that have been artificially bred in the laboratory.

They used genetic technology to fuse the DNA of different fungi together to create such a creature.

The original purpose was to focus on the disease mechanism of a certain human body, and to try to combine some existing biological mechanisms to have a curative effect on this disease.

However, there are great drawbacks in the genetic experiment itself, after the biosynthesis is cultivated, they found that there is no such ideal effect as expected, first of all, the pathogenic gene can not be completely cured, only to achieve the effect of inhibition, and the bigger problem is that the synthetic fungus also has negative effects such as drug addiction, and if the dosage is not well controlled, the user will have great dependence.

Moreover, the use conditions of synthetic fungi are relatively harsh, and basically only have beneficial value for patients with this type of disease, and for normal humans, they are just a highly toxic organism.

Therefore, laboratories need to use completely closed isolation culture silos to cultivate these fungi.

……

After listening to a series of trembling introductions from the laboratory staff, Luo seemed to leave without understanding.

Everyone in the lab breathed a sigh of relief.

And for Luo, he basically figured out what he wanted to know.

As for what his purpose is and what he wants to do next, no one knows.

It is clear that Bonnie has some kind of strange disease in her, and these fungi have been bred for this disease in her body.

But this thing did not treat her disease well, on the contrary, it also caused her dependence on fungi, referred to as drug addiction, no wonder the "prison escape" that this child had worked so hard to stage before.

……

At the same time, on Klaus's side.

Harvey had crawled out of the treatment chamber in good spirits.

He was naked.

All the scars on his body have disappeared, and even the remaining blood stains have been cleaned up.

"Hoo ......"

Harvey let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the couch with a staggering sigh.

"Comfortable!"

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to capsize on several field missions in a row." Klaus was clutching a paper book and flipping through it.

The fact that he refers to Harvey's successive capsizing is naturally his operation against the narwhal and this hunt for Johnny Alton.

"How could I have thought that the energy cube that was lost in the headquarters before happened to fall into the hands of those two boys, Johnny was in charge of the development of the core technology of the energy cube back then, and this thing naturally became a weapon of great destruction in his hands, if it weren't for this, he would have been captured and imprisoned in the ark a long time ago." Harvey put his legs on the table and said in a graceful voice.

"It's really an oversight." Klaus nodded: "There were traces of the energy cube in Hilo City before, we should indeed have predicted the whereabouts of the energy cube, but these don't matter, the symbiote derivative experiment has been completed, as long as we complete the last step, it doesn't matter how much Johnny's kid tosses." ”

"So soon?" A look of frenzy flashed in Harvey's eyes.

"That's right, the experiment went even more smoothly than I thought." Klaus smiled.

He put down the book in his hand and turned the dial on his wrist.

The dial casts a virtual image in the air.

Displayed on the screen are a series of cumbersome data tables.

"I extracted the symbiotic material from Luo's blood after fusing with his cells, compared to the original symbiote, after fusing with the human body, it has greatly reduced some of its own uncontrollable properties, of course, in order to be able to refine the part of the substance we need to a greater extent, in the derivation experiment, I discarded all other irrelevant gene points, only the most critical one, and now the preliminary sample has been prepared." Klaus said, looking at the data on the virtual screen.

"That means we won't be free forever in a long time?" Harvey grinned.

"Soon? Not soon, it's very soon, and even today we can start experiments. ”

Compared to Harvey, who was slightly emotional, Klaus seemed much calmer.

"Then let's do the experiment today!" Harvey said.

"It's not impossible......

"That's okay, what's the?"

"Listen to me first." Klaus made a calming gesture and said to Harvey, "What I'm telling you is that I've discarded most of the symbiote's traits and only kept its re-alteration of the cancerous genes that were set in our genes, understand?" ”

"Isn't that what we're trying to do?" Harvey asked a little calmer.

"You still don't understand what I mean, it's not wrong that this is our most important purpose, but if that's all it means, we're throwing away all the other gifts in the symbiote, to put it simply, after using the products of derivative experiments, we're just getting rid of the control of headquarters, but from the nature of the biological mechanism, the symbiote doesn't bring us more changes, and we can never become creatures like the Rona fused." Klaus said, shaking his head.

"Wait, you still want to replicate all the traits of the symbiote fused?" Harvey frowned and said, "Or do you wish you could be like them?" Nabs? Sober up, we've achieved our goal, as long as we inject the products of the derivative experiment, we will be able to get rid of the control of the Immortal Bird HQ, what's so bad about that? ”

"Then you never thought about going further, did you?" Klaus's expression was still very calm.

"Nope!" Harvey replied very calmly, "I just want to get out of control, I've had enough of being a puppet for decades." ”

"But out of the headquarters, you will return to your normal state of life, except for the years of being a test subject of the 'Paradise Project', how old are you now? How many years will you live after you get out of control? In the past thirty years? Or twenty years? Your body will age like normal, and then your spirit will start to weaken, and then you will die a mediocre death. Klaus said word for word.

'What's so bad?' The 'Heaven Project' is a joke, it's not eternal life, and after being a part of it, I don't feel alive for a moment, I want freedom, friends, freedom! Don't tell me you've forgotten your original purpose, we've been working for this for more than a decade. Harvey's eyes lit up with frenzy again.

"It's because it took more than ten years that I'm a little unwilling, the symbiote is like a gift from God to the world, it gives us hope to return to freedom, but this gift contains not only to let us return to freedom, we can also get more." Klaus sighed.

"It means that you are reluctant to just become an ordinary person, you want to go further, right?" Harvey reached out and touched the top of his bare head.

"I need time, give me more time I was able to perfectly mine and replicate all the properties of the symbiote, now Luo is under our control, the symbiote has already had a deep fusion with his cells, we have an inexhaustible supply of symbiote matter, as long as I am given enough time, I can definitely make a complete symbiote, you are right, the 'Paradise Project' at the company headquarters is not immortal at all, that's fake, but this! This one! ”

Klaus held out his hand, and a virtual projection projected the symbiote matter that was currently being studied onto the palm of his hand.

"This! It is the opportunity for true eternal life! ”

His gaze fell on the rolling blue substance.

Klaus has always maintained a stable and peaceful appearance, and he seems to be always calm, no matter what the situation encounters, he is not shocked.

But this can be momentary, when he holds the symbiote in his hand, his face shows a fervor that far exceeds Harvey's fanaticism.

Harvey's fanaticism stems from his yearning for freedom.

And Klaus pursued more, he had greater ambitions.

He didn't rest on his laurels.

……

"Wake up, if it was really that easy, those scientific research institutions that got the symbionts decades earlier than us would have already made such creatures in batches, don't forget that these institutions have a high probability of having those fusion organisms in their hands, but after so many years, there are no instances related to them, there must be other problems in this, and it is even impossible to complete at all."

At this time, Harvey rarely calmed down, he found that the old friend in front of him who had been with him for decades suddenly became a little stranger, or he had not seen through Klaus at all after so many years.

For Harvey, he really just wanted to get out of the "Paradise Project", he originally thought that Klaus thought the same thing, but judging from what the other party said today, it was not the case.

Klaus wanted more.

On the one hand, he hopes that he can get rid of the "Heaven Project" of the headquarters, but on the other hand, he does not want to be reduced to a normal human being.

Perhaps because of his years of research in the field of biology, Klaus's outlook on life has changed greatly, he has seen more scientific mysteries at a deeper level, and has learned more fields that ordinary people can't reach, and his desires have become more fanatical.

He realized the insignificance of human beings as a living organism, and he never wanted to be this ordinary and small species again.

Klaus wanted to perfectly excavate all the mechanisms of the symbiote, and use the fusion of Luo to obtain more symbiote matter that had been stripped of resistance, so as to replicate the symbiote that could transform himself into a new creature.

From the bottom of his heart, Klaus longs for freedom, but he also longs for transcendence, and perhaps after seeing so many unusual creatures during his years of research, he realized the limits of the current degree of human evolution, which inspired more slightly distorted thinking.

……

"You're right, forty-four years, from the time the symbiote fell to the earth until now, no one has studied the symbiote perfectly, let alone copied the fusion version of the symbiote, so I said that I need time, I spent more than ten years can be regarded as a long time, but in fact, it is not worth mentioning at all compared to the whole life, and forty-four years is also not worth mentioning, if I can, I am willing to spend more time to study it."

Klaus gradually calmed down his emotions as he kept flipping through the research data on the virtual screen.

"Time, it's just a matter of time."

(End of chapter)