vrcanaries What is the purpose of Chapter 215?
What is the purpose of Chapter 215?
"Are you also a 'mutator'?" Zuo Xiao looked at Shousui and asked. He could detect the aura of a sixth-level corpse king from the other party, and thought that he might be in the same situation as him.
He could see that the companions around Mo Yuankai were not simple, especially the one called He Ci, who was neither a superpower nor a zombie. He looked like an ordinary human, but he was the leader among them. Zuo Xiao could not see through him and could only guess that he should be a powerful human. Moreover, how simple could it be to combine zombies, humans and superpowers together as partners?
"Me?" Hearing the young man's question, Shousui temporarily interrupted the conversation with the system Xuansang, turned back and replied humbly to Zuo Xiao, "I shouldn't be, because I don't have any special abilities. I'm just a primary corpse king."
Although he has a zombie evolution system, this broken system, apart from being designed to block his mammary glands, only knows how to make him work, kill monsters, complete tasks, accumulate experience points to evolve. It has never given him any high-end skills that he can show off to show off.
Look at him, either he has evolved fins, or he has grown a vertebral tail, or he has grown a pair of wings to let him fly to heaven. Don’t you know he is afraid of heights? It is really useless and makes Shousui despise it. Moreover, this system-type "superpower" cannot be revealed casually, so as not to be coveted by others.
In this regard, Shousui was really afraid that after he responded to Zuo Xiao, "Yes, I am also a mutant.", the other party would ask him what his superpowers were out of curiosity, and then he would not be able to use any skills, and could only awkwardly start violent transformation? Finally, he said, "I am not talented, my superpower is 'Aba Aba Little Zombie Transformation!'"
Although his violent form had become a no-cooldown mode after he was promoted to the sixth-rank corpse king, meaning he could transform anytime and anywhere as long as he thought about it, Shousui thought about it and decided to give up, as he couldn't afford to lose face.
Faced with a host who despised him so much, Xuan Sang in the spiritual space twitched his mouth. He really wanted to come out and beat someone up. His hands were itchy!
"Isn't it?" Zuo Xiao was a little surprised when he saw him deny it, and couldn't help but stare at Shousui again.
As Shousui said, if he was just an ordinary sixth-level zombie king, he would be just like Shouchen beside him, a zombie king who had just begun to gain intelligence. He would definitely not be able to retain his human consciousness and communicate with him logically like he did now.
Shousui didn't know that Zuo Xiao was already very familiar with the 'superpowers' or 'mutants'. The mutants were called mutants because most of them were mutated from humans who participated in the gene unlocking experiment. Although the mutants became zombies, they retained all the characteristics of being human and also had extremely strong self-healing abilities and were immortal.
Obviously, Shousui's ambiguous answer was either because he didn't know enough about his own abilities as a 'mutator', or he wanted to hide his strength and keep a low profile, so he denied it.
Zuo Xiao only thought that the other party was the latter, because Mo Yuankai had said before that he thought Shousui and the others came only to investigate the relationship between the R virus and the Gene Lock Company. Since they knew that there was a connection between the two, they must also know everything about the "mutant".
Similarly, Zuo Xiao naturally didn't know that his guesses were all over the top. Shousui had only heard of the existence of the "mutators" and didn't know much about them. Otherwise, there would be no need to come here to investigate.
They didn't walk far before Zuo Xiao and his companion led Shousui and the others back to their experimental base.
But what surprised Shousui was that the camp where the other party settled in City Z was the headquarters of Gene Lock Company?
When several people stood in front of a dilapidated but still towering building and saw the words "Gene Lock Company", He Ci was startled for a moment, then he activated his newly unlocked domain perception skill to explore the surroundings, and only felt relieved after discovering that there was no danger around.
His domain perception ability was unlocked because his strength broke through to the "Red Crow Realm". In the domain centered on him, he can not only detect dangerous factors within the range, but also affect the speed of the enemies within his domain to slow down.
Although his current domain perception range is only 200 meters, as He Ci's strength increases, his domain perception range will continue to expand gradually.
When Shousui saw Zuo Xiao bringing them directly to the Gene Lock Company headquarters, he immediately became alert and asked suspiciously, "Haven't you already parted ways with Professor Lou and his people? Why are you still in contact with the Gene Lock Company?"
As soon as Zuo Xiao saw their expressions, he knew they had misunderstood. He explained, "Don't worry, there is no one else here, only Rong Yi and I."
Only then did Shousui feel at ease and continue to follow Zuo Xiao and the others into the building.
Zuo Xiao took them to the annex building and took the elevator all the way to the underground test base of the building.
Everyone kept looking at this underground test base. Except for the fact that there was no one there, most of the experimental equipment was still preserved. There were dried bloodstains all over the ground and walls, and traces of the disasters that had occurred in the past remained in every corner.
Rong Yi led them into a lounge and then walked away. Zuo Xiao brought out several bottles of mineral water and asked them to sit down. He couldn't help but ask He Ci and the others again, "So what do you want to do with me? And how did you know that I would definitely be in City Z?"
Combined with the previous conversation, Akai clearly did not mention himself to Shousui and the others, so how did they know to come to City Z to look for him?
He Ci spoke before Shou Sui, "We stayed in the safe base in City B for a while. The Amber City Lord took us in and encouraged all of us to start the gene unlocking experiment to become mutants. Most of my companions participated, but only a few survived. I suspect there is something wrong with their potion and that their intentions are not pure."
"And during this period, we learned that Mo Yuankai's sister was imprisoned by them. We wanted to rescue Mo Yuanchu and leave the B City base, but we accidentally discovered the secrets behind the Gene Lock Company developing the R virus and spreading it everywhere to create batches of mutants. After that, we were chased here by Amber's people."
"We learned about your existence from Amber. We came here mainly to find out the truth of the matter. Also, what is the purpose of Professor Lou, who you mentioned, creating a genetic drug to trick the survivors into starting a gene unlocking experiment to turn them into superpowers?"
He Ci and Shou Sui had already discussed it. The real purpose of their coming here was not only to investigate the truth of the incident, but also because of the system task. Of course, they would not tell everything, so they could only say it in this way.
"They also captured Yuanchu's sister?" Zuo Xiao picked out the key points he caught from He Ci's words. He subconsciously looked at Mo Yuankai, his eyes full of worry and heartache.
If they hurt Yuanchu's sister, how sad would Akai be? These people are really too hateful! Zuo Xiao's hands were already clenched into fists.
Mo Yuankai felt Zuo Xiaoluo's gaze on him, he turned to the young man and said concisely, "Don't worry too much, Yuanchu is now out of Amber's control, and my friend is taking care of him, so everything should be fine."
Mo Yuankai was actually not sure whether Mo Yuanchu was safe or not. Hou Jing just said that Mo Yuanchu was not in danger for the time being. But since they separated, Mo Yuankai was always worried whether Mo Yuanchu would be found by Amber's people, whether Hou Jing could take good care of Mo Yuanchu, etc. Although he did not show these, he was always worried.
"Did Sister Yuanchu start the gene unlocking experiment and awaken into a 'mutator'?" Zuo Xiao asked speculatively.
"We don't know the definition of 'mutators', we only know that Mo Yuanchu is not only able to heal his injuries quickly, but also has very strong abilities," He Ci said.
"It seems so." Zuo Xiao understood. Only for this reason would Lou Lin be so concerned about imprisoning and controlling Mo Yuanchu.
He glanced at Shousui. It seemed that the other party really didn't understand the "mutators"?
"This underground experimental base in City Z was where Lou Lin first started doing experiments. A lot of experimental data about the r virus is still preserved here. I'll get it for you to see for yourselves." After Zuo Xiao said this, he got up from his seat and went out.
Not long after, he came back with a pile of documents, and Rong Yi, who followed him in, also had a pile of documents in his arms.
After placing all the integrated information on the desktop, Zuo Xiao continued, "The original intention of establishing the Gene Lock Research and Development Company was that my father invested in it in order to cure my paraplegia. His company and even the entire research team never thought of harming anyone. It was Lou Lin, this lunatic, who used the authority and resources given to him by the company to conduct human experiments in secret. He not only created the r virus to stimulate the gene lock in the human body, but also used it on me without telling my father or anyone else."
"I was his guinea pig without knowing it. It wasn't until I died and crawled out of my grave that I realized I had been cheated."
"But when I discovered what Lou Lin had done, the whole world had already been plunged into a storm of virus raging. Moreover, most of the people in the company had already been won over by him, and the entire scientific research team was threatened and persecuted by him."
"I realized it later. After I accepted his treatment and recovered, Lou Lin had actually been secretly monitoring me. Seeing that the R virus lurking in my body had undergone a second evolution and mutated, turning me into a 'mutant', he was thinking of controlling me and dragging me into his evil ways."
"He treated human life as worthless, and I naturally didn't want to do that, so I fought back desperately. At that time, Lou Lin's power was not as strong as it is now. He couldn't do anything to me who was already a 'mutator', and I couldn't kill him either, so I could only drive him out of City Z. Lou Lin had someone secretly build a safe base in City B before the R virus broke out. I only found out about this later. The current doomsday must have been intentional on his part."
"He originally wanted to destroy these materials, luckily I tried my best to keep them. I will never allow my father's company and research team to be criticized by people who don't know the truth." Zuo Xiao picked out the important information and placed it on the table in front of He Ci and Shou Sui, motioning them to check it out.