It was in this dark cottage that Lucifer and King met. At the time, King was in a cage next to him.

The moment he met King for the first time, Lucifer felt a sense of shame.

King was obviously locked in a cage, but he was as calm as a king, and he fell asleep indifferently. It's as if you're in a sun-drenched room instead of a cold iron cage. From time to time, it squinted at its new neighbor.

Lucifer once thought that he was the most beautiful and elegant dog in the world, but when he saw King, he felt that his thoughts were very ridiculous.

Suddenly, the door opened again, and a man in a white lab coat walked in with a cart.

"Number 108, it's your turn today." The white coat looked at the test record in his hand and walked in the direction of King.

"You're really fateful." The white coat sighed, "The same batch of people who came in as you are almost dead." ”

King opened his eyes and stared indifferently at the man in front of him.

Lucifer on the side had a confused look in his eyes and panicked, he didn't know what would happen to him in the future.

"Let's go, this is your 1328th drug trial. Hopefully, this medicine will be successful, and you should be able to live for a long time. The white coat continued.

King lay silent in the cage, completely unwilling to bother with the person in front of him. It sometimes feels that it is better to live so cruelly than to die. But it couldn't die, and it wanted to see its family again, to see the girl's smiling face.

King glanced at Lucifer next door, his eyes filled with fear of the unknown. At first, King lived in panic and despair, but now he is numb. After many drug trials, it gradually developed drug resistance in its body, and its physical fitness seemed to be better than before.

In this laboratory, King can be regarded as a veteran experiment. It watched as new experiments came in, and as their corpses were carried away.

The white coat carried King's dog cage to the cart and pushed it outside the doorway. Immediately after, he turned around and locked the little black room.

He pushed the iron cage through a narrow passageway, and it took him about a quarter of an hour to reach the king to the laboratory.

"Edward, number 108 delivered. This is the only survivor of the first batch of experiments, so try to take it easy and spare it a life. The white coat kindly advised.

"Number 108, I remember it. The name seems to be King, right? Edward put down the test tube in his hand, and finally looked away from the test bench and looked at King in the iron cage.

Edward suddenly looked at King with a loving look in his eyes, and gently reached out to stroke his head.

"Don't worry, this time the medicine is mild, and it is divided into three courses of administration, every 15 days." Edward said with a smile.

Every time he experimented on small animals, he would pray for a long time. Of course he wanted to keep them alive if he could. However, drug testing is a risky thing in itself.

He has seen dogs foaming at the mouth after being injected with drugs, convulsions and falling to the ground to death; I have also seen dogs suddenly go berserk after being injected with drugs and are euthanized.

Countless dogs have died in his drug lab. For the sake of scientific research, for the sake of academic results, he had to continue. The dream of human beings to pursue eternal life has never been abandoned since ancient times.

He is honored to be part of this research project for the benefit of human life sciences. But in the dead of night, his heart will always be tormented, and he will not be able to sleep night after night.

He's actually a guy who loves pet dogs, and he's had them himself. When he saw his dog die of parvovirus infection, he would cry and be reluctant. After that, he decided never to have a pet again.

He thought that the birth of the elixir of life meant that human beings could be free from disease. But later he realized that he was just being used. He did not expect that the elixir of life that he participated in the research would become the source of evil that would rob humanity of its future.

King looked at the scientist in front of him with a blank face, silently enduring all the pain.

This man, Edward, seemed a little different from the others here. He always looks at them with pity. But what is the use of sympathy and pity, he is not hurting them as always.

"King, when my elixir is successful, we'll leave here together, and we'll move into a big house with a garden when the time comes." Edward gently rubbed the hair from King's head.

King looked disdainful and thought to himself, "Whoever wants to live in a big house with you, I have a family of my own." King is starting to miss his cosy little nest a little.

"Don't move. I'll inject you with the potion. Edward's voice was exceptionally soft, and the movements of the injections were very gentle.

King didn't really feel much about the injection, it was like being bitten by a bug. It didn't matter how Edward moved, but his gentle appearance easily reminded him of his master's appearance.

The real discomfort is after the effect of the drug. Once, it suffered severe pain for a day and a night, even if it was injected with analgesics, it was in vain. At that time, it was rolling back and forth in the observation room in pain, and fainted several times.

At first, it didn't understand why humans were injecting it with drugs. It just accepted everything blankly, expecting that its own family would come and pick it up.

It thought it must have made a mistake and was being punished. As long as it obediently accepts all this, it will surely be forgiven and will be able to leave this hell.

However, what awaits it is endless darkness, hell has no end, and it will never return to the one it loves.

Recognizing the reality, it can only endure silently. It no longer has the luxury of expecting to leave alive, and it has relieved some of its suffering.

It was injected with drugs, and its vision slowly began to blur. It felt like its consciousness was being pulled away, and it seemed as if a fresh stream of blood was springing up in its body.

"Edward, it seems to be in a bit of a wrong state, isn't it too calm?" The lab coat frowned, staring at King in the observation room.

"This time the dosage is not that much, so the drug reaction is not so drastic." Edward explained, "I am very confident that this research will be a historic breakthrough. ”

"The sooner you finish, the less evil you do." The lab coat sighed and glanced at King who was lying in the observation room.

"It's not going to end so soon." Edward said calmly, "The dosage is different for every dog, and the drug experiments experienced are not all the same. If it succeeds in King's, we'll have to look into it further. So, it's important to reserve more dogs that haven't been tested yet. ”

"I've already informed the people above. Now that the ban on dogs is so strict, we don't have to worry about running out of experiments. The white coat said.

The words of the white coat undoubtedly gave Edward a shot in the arm. As long as the experimental materials are sufficient, he will always succeed if he tries the medicine a few more times.

"You recorded all its reactions, right?" Edward glanced at the file in his lab coat's hand.

"I'm doing something, what else are you worried about?" The white coat said confidently.

"It doesn't matter if you don't record it clearly, we still have surveillance footage to watch and play back." Edward pointed to the camera in the observation room and said with a smile.

"Watching the video and watching the scene, is there a little difference?" The white coat still wants to highlight the important role he plays.

"No more arguing with you, I'm going to go in and collect blood in a moment. When it regains consciousness, you push it back to rest, and the next injection is fifteen days later. Edward admonished, "Remember to separate the batches of the dogs, and the one that was just delivered is still locked up with King." ”

"No problem, I'll transfer in a moment." The white coat replied.

"I'll leave everything to you, I'll go in first." Edward placed the dagger from which the blood was collected, disinfectant alcohol, cotton balls, and hemostatic medicine into the medical tray. After packing up his tools, he walked into the observation room with a tray.

At this time, King had already fallen asleep. I don't have time to care about being cut and bleeding.

Edward disinfected the skin on King's thigh with alcohol and a cotton ball, then he picked up the dagger and slashed at King's thigh disinfection area.

Bright red blood instantly soaked the hair around King's wound, and the observation room was filled with the smell of disinfectant water, mixed with a slight smell of blood.

Edward quickly took out a small straw and extracted the blood and placed it in a sampling bottle. He then treated the wound on King's leg and sprinkled some anti-inflammatory and hemostatic powder.

Dogs are inherently better at healing than humans. The blood from King's wound had clotted within a few minutes.

When Edward saw that King's wound was healed, he left with peace of mind and went to the blood laboratory.

When King woke up again, he was back in the little dark room. The room is no longer as crowded as it used to be, and the number of cages has decreased significantly.

King squinted slightly, observing his surroundings. The neighbor who lives next door to it has not changed, and although it does not know the name of the neighbor, it has no leisure to communicate with it.

"Woohoo." Lucifer yelled at King, asking how King's body was, and saw King's front leg wrapped in a bandage.

King ignored his head and rested. At the moment, it really doesn't have the strength to deal with anyone.

Lucifer became frustrated when he saw that King was completely ignoring him. It had wanted to know more about the situation through King.

Lucifer lay on his side boredly, occasionally looking at King, and saw that he seemed to have been asleep for a long time, and if it hadn't heard his breathing, it would have thought King was dead.

While King was sleeping, people in white coats also came in several times, bringing them dog food and water, and cleaning up the iron cage by the way.

Lucifer at this moment is like a sinner waiting for torture to come. It can foretell a crisis, but it can't do anything about it. With its power, it is impossible to escape here with my sister.

For more than a month, Lucifer has been locked in a cage, watching the white coat take King away one after another and send him back. What it didn't expect was that this time King left and never came back.

It looked at the vacant space beside it, even though the neighbor had been quite cold for more than a month and had not paid attention to it at all. However, there is still a bit of a neighborhood feeling......

The next time Lucifer saw King, it was in the lab. At that time, King was no longer a dog, and it could be said that he was the initial form of canine human evolution. The hair on its body had not yet faded, and it lay asleep in the operating equipment of the laboratory.

If it hadn't been for its keen sense of smell that spotted King's scent, it probably wouldn't have imagined that the inhuman creature lying there would be King.

"Edward, none of these have been tested yet." The white coat attaches the corresponding number plate to the cage and hangs the iron dog tag around the dogs' necks.

"Okay, you register all of them." Edward left the console and walked to the kennel.

"Edward, what's going on with King?" The white coat looked at the monster lying in the instrument with some distress.

"The elixir has indeed made a breakthrough, but King's body has mutated and seems to have evolved." Edward frowned.

"It's not going to be Resident Evil, is it?" The white coat was a little worried.

"We just need to report on the progress of drug research, and as for King, we will hide it first." Edward looked at King worriedly, if the evolution of pet dogs was exposed, their drug research program would definitely be stopped, and it would also cause panic in society.

What's more, after spending so much time with King, he can't bear to see humans put him to death. After all, he was the one who caused all this with his own hands.

"Do you want to hide it?" The white coat felt unreliable, and in another month, someone would come to visit it.

"If I can hide it for a while, I'll think of a solution." Edward said earnestly.

"Okay, I'm a handyman anyway, just listen to what you say. I don't know anything else. The white coat said.

"Thank you, good brother." Edward said gratefully.

"You have to think about what to do next." The white coat sighed, "Are you going to destroy King's file?" ”

"Keep it for now, I'm going to back up all the data." Edward said.

Edward walked over to Lucifer and injected the drug into his neck. Subsequently, he expertly injected other dogs with the same drug.

Lucifer looked at the human in front of him in panic, and it felt as if its brain consciousness was about to disappear, followed by various violent shocks in its body. It was the first time it came into contact with the drug, and it seemed to be heavily affected by the drug.

The white coat was in a hurry, and the reaction of No. 13586 was completely different from King's previous one. He looked at the other dogs and saw that they were almost identical to 13586.

"Sure enough, things are more complicated than I thought......" Edward sighed.

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