Mechanical Flesh

Qi Yuan pushed the door open, just in time to see Tan Qiu wearing a white coat standing by the workbench from the back, manipulating a half-person-high instrument, as if testing something.

On the right side of Tan Qiu, there is a holographic computer. She is testing and recording the experimental data at the same time.

Qi Yuan just glanced at the projection screen full of data, and felt his head swell. Unless a computing center is built, no matter how powerful a transcendent is, they can't understand these things.

The room is very clean and simple. Apart from the workbench placed in the center, there is a cryogenic freezer on the wall facing the window. Through the light blue curved glass, you can see the inside The carcass of a black-toothed rat is frozen.

Whether it was the analyzer on the workbench or the cryogenic freezer by the wall, it was obviously not something originally owned by Heishi Town. These things were all research instruments brought by Tan Qiu from the Black Steel Shelter.

Qi Yuan did not disturb Tan Qiu's research, and walked to the side to carefully observe the black-toothed rat that was frozen like amber. It was the same as the black-toothed rat that he had seen before, with black hair softly attached to the body and sharp teeth. It is clearly visible, and you can even see the flesh and blood left between its teeth. The only thing that is different is its eyes.

The black-toothed rat's pupils were pitch-black, without a trace of white, clearly a depraved black-toothed rat.

Qi Yuan stared at the small bald scar on the head of the black-toothed rat for a long time. Although the black-toothed rats all looked the same, this black-toothed rat gave him a familiar feeling, as if it was the one that had been captured before. The black-toothed rat that he pulled over to dig the tunnel by himself!

Hadn't that black-toothed rat been killed by me in the ground, how could it have turned into a corrupted black-toothed rat and appeared here.

A doubt emerged in Qi Yuan's heart.

"Have you seen this fallen black-toothed rat before?" A hoarse female voice came from behind.

Qi Yuan felt a chill in his heart, he didn't even notice Tan Qiu approaching.

Could it be that this seemingly powerless researcher is also a powerful user?

"No!" Qi Yuan suppressed the shock in his heart, shook his head, and decisively denied her speculation.

On the bridge of Tan Qiu's nose was a pair of glasses with black frames, and strings of blue characters danced on the lenses, like a holographic projection screen.

Tan Qiu casually pressed the edge of the frame, and the jumping characters on the lens disappeared instantly, turning into two pieces of completely transparent glass.

Tan Qiu didn't dwell on the issue of the black-toothed rat, but just nodded lightly and let it go.

"Your name is Qi Yuan?" Tan Qiu asked.

"Yes!" Qi Yuan replied calmly.

Tan Qiu touched the frame again, and a blue light curtain slowly swept across Qi Yuan along her line of sight.

The light curtain brought a faint sense of shock, and Qi Yuan quickly realized that it was detecting his own body information.

Qi Yuan resisted the urge to shoot Tan Qiu, and silently endured the other party's detection. After the light curtain swept across his body and disappeared slowly, Tan Qiu frowned slightly.

"I thought you were a genetic warrior, but I didn't expect you to be an awakened one!"

Qi Yuan's heart tightened, but his face remained calm.

Awakened people are very common, but if Tan Qiu knows that in just a few days, she has changed from an ordinary person with no power to an awakened person with multiple supernatural abilities, even if she realizes that she is not gifted with super life With the existence of the tree, you will also realize that something is wrong. If you are not careful, you may be frozen like the black-toothed rat, and used as a specimen material for the experiment.

"I have initially tested your genetic sample, it is very clean and very stable, there is no trace of injection of evolutionary medicine, I did not expect that apart from those pure-blooded humans who have been raised in captivity, there will be such a powerful gene body in the wilderness."

Pure blood human! captivity!

Qi Yuan suddenly remembered the news revealed by Master Luo,

Suddenly a little nervous.

This Tan Qiu will not treat me as a pure-blooded human being, and then bring me back to the Black Steel Shelter for captivity!

Perhaps sensing Qi Yuan's vigilance, the corners of Tan Qiu's mouth rose slightly, and said:

"Don't be nervous, I won't dissect you and make you into an experimental specimen. I'm just curious, which shelter you escaped from."

"Is it the storm shelter that rioted because of the infiltration of psychic beasts, or the hope shelter that was almost destroyed by the Holy Court of Doom?"

"I don't understand what you're talking about!" Qi Yuan said expressionlessly.

"Don't worry, even though the Sanctuary of Storm and Hope issued a notice calling for the return of fleeing pure-blooded humans, they didn't issue a reward to you. They probably think that you have been polluted by the wilderness and are no longer the pure-blooded humans they need."

Tan Qiu thought he had guessed what Qi Yuan was thinking, and after taking a careful look at Qi Yuan, he said with a smile:

"Although I don't agree with the new human plan proposed above, your genes are indeed stronger than ordinary people. My research just needs a little stable gene sample, so I hope to collect some samples from you as my Experimental Materials."

"Of course, I won't ask for your sample materials in vain. In exchange, I can give you a second-level evolution potion, or help you with a mechanical modification!"

Good thing it was just a sample, if she tried to slice me up, I'd be really cold!

Qi Yuan quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but his face showed a trace of anger and unwillingness to bow his head under the eaves. After several consecutive changes in his face, he finally nodded.

Tan Qiu moved very quickly. Not only did he draw 100 milliliters of blood from Qi Yuan's body, but he also used scissors to cut a small piece of hair and a small piece of nail, which was regarded as the completion of the sample collection.

Qi Yuan took out the butcher he carried with him and put it on the workbench.

Knowing the Sanctuary's attitude towards mechanical weapons, Qi Yuan didn't expect to be able to obtain mechanical weapons from Tan Qiu, but it would be a good choice if he could modify the butcher.

"Can it be mechanically modified?"

Although the second-order genetic medicine is precious, it doesn't mean much to him. Qi Yuan didn't hesitate to designate the opportunity obtained by selling himself on the butcher.

The butcher is powerful, but it is still not enough for the place he is about to go to. The new check-in point is refreshed in the direction close to the Black Steel Shelter. Even if it is just an outside gathering point, there are many For a more powerful transcendent who only relies on a few first-level abilities, it is a few grades more difficult to complete the sign-in there than here.

Tan Qiu picked up the butcher and observed it for a while, and quickly judged its origin.

"The butchers produced by Steel Gate are still a generation old. I didn't expect to see such an old antique here!"

Tan Qiu played with it for a while, then let the butcher down casually.

"The model of this butcher is too old. If you don't have enough materials, modifying it is just to increase the firing speed by 10% or reduce some of the recoil. It shouldn't make much sense to you. "

"If you really want to modify the firearm, the Death Harvest in your hand is more suitable than this butcher. There are many parts that can be used in the rags in Situ's collection."

"The modified Death Harvest can fire two bursts, its power will increase by about 10%, and its aiming and effective killing distance will increase by 20%. Extraordinary, as long as you don’t have Tier 3 defensive enhancements, within 200 meters, you can hit hard with one shot! Even kill you!”

"Then modify Death Harvest!"

Qi Yuan is not someone who doesn't listen to persuasion, and made a decisive decision.

Although the practicability of the Death Harvest is lower than that of the Butcher, under certain circumstances, the Death Harvest is an extremely fierce killer!

If Tan Qiu's transformation and strengthening of Death Harvest can reach the level she said, the improvement of her own self will be no less than a first-order extraordinary ability.

"You bring the things here. It will take a day to modify them. Come and get them at this time tomorrow."

After Qi Yuan left, Hong Cang pushed the door in from the next room and came in. Seeing Tan Qiu holding the parameters of the death harvest test, he couldn't help asking:

"A first-order wilderness hunter doesn't seem to be worth a day of your time."

"I do this, of course I have my reasons."

While speaking, Tan Qiu put down Death Harvest, pressed the control button on the edge of the glasses, and a blue fan-shaped light curtain projected from the edge of the glasses, slowly sweeping across Death Harvest.

A holographic projection of Death's Harvest suddenly appeared on the workbench. Tan Qiu's fingers were as agile as flying, and he quickly disassembled the holographic projection of Death's Harvest into countless tiny parts.

Hong Cang stood beside the workbench, cast his eyes on the projection of Death Harvest, and said calmly:

"You are now a third-level researcher. According to regulations, all your genetic research projects need to be reported to the higher authorities. If someone finds out that your research projects have not been reported, you may be in trouble. You will be promoted to a third-level researcher. , Blocking some people's way, I'm afraid they will keep staring at you, waiting for you to make a mistake."

In the Black Steel Shelter, the Research Institute of Biology and Mechanics has a unique status and has an independent promotion system. The third-level researcher is already considered a high-level researcher, and the fourth-level researcher is no more than two-handed index, and there is only one fifth-level researcher. That is the director Maureen.

"Among the third-level researchers, you are the youngest and the one who is promoted the fastest. Although you have the shortest time to be promoted to the third-level researcher, in the eyes of many people, it is only a matter of time before you are promoted to the fourth level. Leave a hole for yourself."

Tan Qiu pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said calmly: "I will not make mistakes. A first-order genetic sample is just not enough to support a research project."

Hong Cang was silent for a while, and said slowly: "I have been with you for so long, and I know that you have a little habit. Whenever you lie, you will push the glasses on the bridge of your nose. Even if you don't wear glasses, you will Subconsciously make similar actions."

Tan Qiu froze, paused for a moment, and suddenly said in a deep voice:

"Do you think the new human project will be successful?"

Hong Cang was slightly taken aback, as if he didn't expect Tan Qiu to suddenly bring up this controversial topic.

More than 50 years ago, when the New Humanity Project was first proposed, it caused a lot of controversy. This controversy has continued to this day, and no unified answer has been reached. The Alliance, the Theological Society, and even the Holy Court of Doomsday silently started the implementation of the New Humanity Plan after that joint meeting.

At the beginning of the implementation of the new human plan, it encountered huge resistance and even caused serious turmoil, but it still continued. Under the secret promotion of many parties, as the first and second generations of new humans slowly came out The laboratory, integrated into ordinary people, has no reproductive isolation, does not completely crush the power of the old humans, and does not cause the division of the human race. Everyone’s opposition to the new human plan is not as strong as it was at the beginning, and they are gradually accepted. The presence.

In the eyes of many people, new humans seem to be not much different from other ordinary people except that they can awaken extraordinary abilities at a very young age.

"There are very few people who oppose it now, and it should be successful—" Hong Cang said with some hesitation.

"Have you even changed your position on this matter?" Tan Qiu took a deep look at Hong Cang.

"I just don't want to see turmoil caused by this plan. For me, old humans and new humans are all the same humans and should not be regarded as two completely different races." Hong Cang replied.

"If I told you that some of the new human beings kept in captivity in the laboratory in some shelters have developed to the fifth or even sixth generation, would you still think so?"

"How can this be!"

Hong Cang, who had been silent all the time, suddenly opened his mouth, as if he couldn't believe the news that Tan Qiu had leaked.

From the proposal of the New Humanity Project, it has only been 51 years. If it is the old era, at most the third generation can be reproduced. However, the fourth generation was reproduced, and the fifth and sixth generations could not be reached.

"Although this news has not been widely circulated, it is not considered hidden. I knew this news on the day I was promoted to a third-tier researcher, and I have already confirmed its authenticity."

"The new human laboratory in the Black Steel Shelter already has the fifth generation of new human beings. The progress of the flesh and blood alliance will not be slower than ours, it will only be faster. The sixth generation is only a conservative estimate."

"If what you said is true, why didn't the higher-ups stop the New Humanity Project?" Hong Cang muttered to himself, as if he still hadn't recovered from the shock of the news.

"Stop the new human project?" Tan Qiu had a mocking smile on his face.

"Why do you think the first and second generations of new humans walked out of the laboratory and integrated into the various classes of the shelter? Is it really to prove the value of their existence to others, or to prove that they are the same as others, or just to To alleviate the sharply opposed contradictions at that time?"

"None of them. The meaning of their existence is only to pave the way for the new human beings. The first generation of new human beings were originally selected evolutionaries with powerful genes and excellent genes. It has been fifteen years since they walked out of the laboratory. They Not only has she returned to human society perfectly, she has even reached a high position with the help and acquiescence of some people."

"Think about how many new humans have come out of the laboratory, and how many of them have already stood on top of us."

"Of the company's seventeen directors, the new humans have already occupied two seats, and it is very likely that there will be another seat this year."

"I can be sure that the proportion of new humans on the board of directors will become larger and larger. When they account for more than half of the board of directors, new humans will become the owners of the shelter!"

"You mean the higher ups are deliberately handing over power to new humans!" Hong Cang was startled.

Although he is a Tier 4, he is farther away from the real top of the shelter than as a Tier 3 researcher, so Hong Cang is not very concerned about the occasional personnel changes in the board of directors. In less than fifteen years, those new humans who have returned have already mastered such a great power.

"If it's just the transfer of power, it won't have much impact on most people. After all, the great power of the new era belongs to itself, and no matter how great the power is, it is not impossible to overthrow."

"But if the power of new humans also starts to crush ordinary people, then everything will never be reversed!"

"Starting from the second generation of new humans, each generation of new humans will have a higher starting point of strength, and the gap between new humans and ordinary people will also become larger and larger. If one day new humans can directly be born with four Do you think there will be room for ordinary people to survive for the descendants of supernatural abilities of even higher ranks?"

"But what does this have to do with Qi Yuan? Could it be that he is a new human from the next few generations?"

"Very likely!" Tan Qiu nodded.

"I have done a genetic comparison experiment between new humans, ordinary people, and evolutionaries. I found that the genetic stability of new humans is far stronger than that of other people, which means that their genes can withstand stronger shocks."

"But the gene locks of the new humans have not been enhanced accordingly, which means that they are more likely to break through the high-level threshold."

"If Qi Yuan is not the product of a genetic warrior, he is likely to be a new human who fled from another shelter. The specific situation needs to be returned to the laboratory for more detailed testing."

"Do you need—" Hong Cang didn't finish his sentence, and glanced at Tan Qiu.

"No need!" Tan Qiu shook his head, "I have collected enough genetic samples, killing him is meaningless, keeping him alive can provide more data."

"He should leave Blackstone Town and go to the gathering point around the Black Steel Shelter. You should pay more attention then. If he reaches the third level, you can consider absorbing him into the Shelter. I prefer living gene samples."

"What if he goes to the quicksand shelter?"

"Then put him inside." Tan Qiu glanced at the frozen black-toothed rat by the wall as he spoke.

"Compared to dying at the hands of the Xu family, he is more suitable to stay in my laboratory!"