Chapter 89: The Product of Gene Editing

Liu Bu and Luo Xingyu looked over in surprise, when they were brought back, the Qing Clan’s combat unit seemed to still be dealing with that “experimental body”, so the current commotion was the combat unit bringing the experimental body back.

To be honest, the two of them also have curiosity in their hearts, what in the world is that experimental body.

But the next moment they all froze, only to see a multilayer reinforced steel cage was carried over, inside the gray …… person is lying!

That gray is not the original skin color of this person, but the dust and dirt mixed with the color of the sticky skin presented.

Liu Bu was surprised and uncertain as he surveyed the person in the cage, the other person had been shot several times, but there was no large amount of blood coming out of the muzzle, and it seemed that the moment the bullet erupted into the body, they controlled their skin and muscles and closed their wounds.

This was unimaginable to normal people, as everyone was unable to fully master their own bodies.

And on the arms and legs of this gray silhouette, chains were locked!

That chain was originally used to imprison this person somewhere, but it was broken by him breaking free. So the sound of chains that Liu Bu and the others heard that night came from this person?

At this moment, Liu Bu remembered Xu Xia’s mutilated body, and the human teeth marks on the body, he immediately vomited, before when Xu Xian Chu and the others said that the person who tore into Xu Xia’s body was a human, he didn’t believe it, but now he couldn’t help but not believe it.

The immense fear and nausea was like a big hand holding Liu Bu’s stomach, pinching out everything in his stomach.

There wasn’t much food in his stomach either, so the only thing he spit out was a pale green mixture of gastric juices and bile.

Qing Zhen looked at Liu Bu with interest, “It seems like you guys have some knowledge of it, have you seen the corpses it has torn through?”

Luo Xinyu’s reaction at this time was a bit stronger than Liu Bu’s, she asked as if she was forcing herself to calm down, “What in the world is this ……”

“Since it’s called an experimental body, of course it’s something used for experiments,” Qing Zhen said, “And don’t get me wrong, this thing has nothing to do with our Qing Clan, they’re a product of the pre-cataclysmic period, and we’ve only recently learned of their existence.”

“Pre-catastrophe?” Luo Xinyu seemed a bit shocked, “How long has passed since the pre-catastrophe, can they live for so long? Wait, you said he ‘they’……”

At this point Luo Xinyu suddenly realized that there might be more than one of these damn things!

Qing Zhen looked carefully at the “person” in the cage, he said, “They seem to have broken free from the lab’s confinement only recently, even I’m curious as to how they’ve survived until now, this is a living specimen.”

Liu Bu shivered, this Qing Zhen was actually looking at a living person as a specimen, even if that person was no longer human or ghost.

Suddenly Luo Xingyu realized exactly why the Qing Consortium was here in this realm of mountains, they had even mobilized a large number of engineering work instruments, sparing no effort in terms of manpower and material resources, just to search for that laboratory that had once imprisoned these ghostly things!

When they realized that there was more than one head of this experimental body, they also realized why the combat troops would immediately call for support at the first moment they encountered the experimental body.

It was worried that it still had its kind in the vicinity!

“How many experimental bodies were encountered just now, and how many casualties were sustained in capturing him?” Qing Zhen asked.

Someone at the side said, “Only this one was encountered, 5 combat squads were utilized, 3 dead and 13 injured.”

Qing Zhen shook his head, “Capturing one experimental body is enough, and if you encounter it again afterward, you can eliminate it directly regardless of life and death, so don’t add to the casualties.”

“Understood,” an officer from the consortium’s combat unit replied.

The experimental subject in the cage was obviously not dead, as Luo Xinyu and the others could still see the rise and fall of his chest as he breathed.

Only she was a bit puzzled, “The Calamity is hundreds of years away from now anyways, why are they still alive?”

This was the most difficult thing to understand, a normal human’s lifespan was only a few decades, a little more than a hundred years, and if this experimental body was a product of the pre-catastrophe period, then how did they survive in the underground laboratory until now? This does not make sense!

Even if the lifespan can be extended, what do these experimental subjects eat in the underground laboratory?

Qing Zhen stood in front of the cage and laughed, ”Isn’t it precisely for this secret that I want to capture them? For example, multi-cellular organisms like humans use cell division as the basis for growth and reproduction. In theory, cell division should be infinite, after all, if you can divide for the first time, you can divide for the second time or even more, but strangely enough, all human cells come to a screeching halt when they divide an average of fifty times, and then move towards irreversible decay.”

This was the origin of human aging and death, after about fifty cell divisions, the cells would stop dividing, and then the body’s organs would decay down to death.

Qing Zhen looked at the person in the cage and continued, “I suspect that this lab may have mastered the method of allowing cells to divide indefinitely as a way to increase the metabolic cycle and lifespan of the human body. But they didn’t realize what the cost of doing so would be.”

Qing Zhen called the creatures in this cage human-ghosts, not human-ghosts. These human ghosts had completely lost their sanity as human beings in his opinion, with their IQs degraded to a level not too different from that of a wild beast.

But compared to IQ, the physical strength and flexibility of these human ghosts far exceeded that of normal humans, and even wild beasts could not match them.

Moreover, wild beasts were all about following order, and as Ren Xiaosu said, the species still had their order.

This experimental body was different, they had no order.

Right at this moment, the experimental body that had received four or five gunshot wounds awakened once again, and he suddenly arched his body to hit the steel cage, seemingly wanting to use brute force to shatter the cage!

As a result, this cage seemed to be specially made by the Qing Clan, no matter how he hit it, the cage was only slightly deformed but never broken by him.

The experimental body slowly stopped trying, but stared ferociously at Qing Zhen in front of him, at this time Luo Xin Yu they found that no matter how fierce the experimental body struggled just now, this Qing Zhen was as calm as a statue, and never retreated a step out of fear.

Qing Zhen threw a pistol exit bullet into the cage, the result that the experimental body actually bite the gun body, hard to the steel made of guns are bitten!

Qing Zhen and the experimental body stared at each other, he suddenly said: “Record, teeth evolution, pupils thin and narrow, used to crawl, no longer belong to the human category, suspected to be the product of gene editing. This lab is suspected to be a secret experimental base of the Fire Seed Company before the Calamity.”

Someone next to him immediately took out a pen and paper and recorded what Qing Zhen said, in contrast to Luo Xinyu and Liu Bu’s surprise, the others seemed to have long been accustomed to Qing Zhen’s calmness and composure.