Liu Bu and Luo Xinyu looked over in surprise. When they were brought back, it seemed like the Qing Consortium's combat troops were still dealing with the "Experimentals." Could the combat troops have brought the Experimentals back with them?
To be honest, the two of them were also curious as to what the Experimental was.
But a moment later, they were stunned. They saw a multi-layered reinforced steel cage being carried over, and a gray … person was lying inside!
The gray color was not the person's original skin color, but the color of dust and mud that had been stuck to the skin.
Liu Bu sized up the person in the cage in bewilderment. The person had been shot several times, but there was not a lot of blood flowing out of the muzzles. It was as though the moment the bullets entered their bodies, they had already controlled their skin and muscles to close their wounds.
This was something unimaginable to ordinary people, because no one could fully control their own bodies.
And this gray figure's arms and legs were chained up!
That iron chain was originally used to imprison this person somewhere, but it was broken by him. So the sound of the chains Liu Bu and the others heard that night came from this person?
At this moment, Liu Bu remembered Xu Xia's mutilated corpse and the human bite marks on it. He immediately vomited. When Xu Xianchu and the others said that it was a human who had bitten Xu Xia's corpse, he did not believe it. But now, he had no choice but to believe it.
The immense fear and disgust felt like a large hand was squeezing Liu Bu's stomach and squeezing everything out of it.
He did not have much food in his stomach, so all he vomited out was a pale green mixture of gastric juice and bile.
Qing Zhen looked at Liu Bu with interest. "It looks like you know a little about it. Have you seen a corpse that it has bitten before?"
Luo Xinyu's reaction was a little stronger than Liu Bu's. She forced herself to calm down and asked, "What on earth is this …"
"Since it's called an Experimental, it's naturally something used for experiments." Qing Zhen said, "Don't get me wrong. This thing has nothing to do with our Kyung Clan. They're products from before The Cataclysm, and we only recently learned of their existence."
"Before The Cataclysm?" Luo Xinyu seemed a little shocked. "How long has it been since The Cataclysm? Could they have lived for that long? Wait a minute, you said 'we' … "
At this time, Luo Xinyu suddenly realized that there might be more than one of these things!
Qing Zhen carefully sized up the "person" in the cage and said, "They seem to have only recently broken free from the confinement of the laboratory. Even I'm very curious as to how they managed to survive until now. These are living specimens."
Liu Bu shuddered. Qing Zhen was actually treating a living person as a specimen, even if that person was neither human nor ghost.
Suddenly, Luo Xinyu realized why the Kyung Clan Consortium had come to the Jing Mountains. They had even mobilized a large number of construction equipment and spared no expense in manpower and resources just to find the laboratory that had imprisoned those damned things!
When they realized there was more than one Experimental, they also realized why the combat troops had immediately called for reinforcements the moment they encountered the Experimental.
It was worried that there were others nearby!
"How many Experimentals did you encounter just now, and how many casualties were there when you captured him?" Qing Zhen asked.
Someone nearby said, "We only encountered this one. We mobilized five platoons, and we ended up with three dead and 13 injured."
Qing Zhen shook his head. "Capturing one Experimental is enough. If we encounter them again in the future, we can just eliminate them regardless of whether they live or die. Don't add to the casualties."
"Understood," an officer from the consortium's combat troops replied.
The Experimental in the cage was clearly not dead, because Luo Xinyu and the others could still see the rise and fall of his chest as he breathed.
However, she was a little puzzled. "It's been several centuries since The Cataclysm, right? Why are they still alive?"
This was the most difficult thing to understand. A normal human only had a lifespan of a few decades, or even a century. But if these Experimentals were products from before The Cataclysm, how could they have survived in the underground laboratory until now? This didn't make sense!
Even if their lifespans could be extended, what did these Experimentals eat in the underground laboratory?
Qing Zhen stood in front of the cage and said with a smile, "Isn't it because of this secret that I wanted to capture them? For example, multicellular organisms like humans rely on cell division as the basis for growth and reproduction. Logically speaking, cell division should be infinite. After all, if you can divide once, you can divide a second time or even more. But the strange thing is that all human cells come to an abrupt halt after dividing an average of 50 times. After that, they head towards an irreversible decline. "
This was the origin of human aging and death. After cells divided about 50 times, they would stop dividing. Then the human organs would continue to deteriorate until they died.
Qing Zhen looked at the person in the cage and continued, "I suspect that this laboratory might have mastered a way to allow cells to divide indefinitely in order to increase the human body's metabolic cycle and lifespan. But they didn't realize what the cost of doing so would be. "
Qing Zhen referred to the creatures in the cage as Ghouls, which were neither human nor ghost. In his opinion, these Ghouls had completely lost their rationality as humans. Their intelligence had degenerated to the point that they were no different from wild animals.
But in comparison to their intelligence, these Ghouls' physical strength and agility far exceeded that of normal humans. Even wild animals were no match for them.
Moreover, wild animals were orderly. Just as Ren Xiaosu had said, species still had their own order.
But these Experimentals were different. They had no order.
At this moment, the Experimental, who had suffered four or five gunshot wounds, woke up again. It suddenly arched its body and slammed into the steel cage like it wanted to use brute force to shatter the cage!
However, this cage seemed to have been specially made by the Kyung Clan Consortium. No matter how hard it slammed into it, the cage only deformed slightly and did not break.
The Experimental slowly stopped trying. Instead, it glared fiercely at Qing Zhen in front of it. Luo Xinyu and the others realized that no matter how violently the Experimental struggled, Qing Zhen remained as calm as a statue. He did not take a single step back in fear.
Qing Zhen removed the bullets from a handgun and threw it into the cage. However, the Experimental bit down on the gun's body and forcefully crushed the steel gun into pieces!
As Qing Zhen looked at the Experimental, he suddenly said, "Record it down. Its teeth have evolved, its pupils are narrow, and it's used to crawling. It's no longer human and is suspected to be a product of genetic editing. This laboratory is suspected to be the Pyro Company's secret research base from before The Cataclysm. "
Someone next to him immediately took out a pen and paper to record down what Qing Zhen had said verbatim. In contrast to Luo Xinyu and Liu Bu's surprise, the others seemed to have gotten used to Qing Zhen's composure.
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