Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1361: Chapter 749: One Less Bionic Body

The skeletal remains in the glass vessels and the words on the metal nameplates all exude an eerie atmosphere.

T3088.

T4901.

T5029.

These serial numbers seem unrelated, but if there’s any real pattern, it’s that the prefixes T3, T4, and T5 denote a distinction in levels.

On the entire wall, there are only three glass vessels marked with the T6 sequence nameplate, but even without the glass vessels being damaged, they are already empty inside.

In terms of rarity, T6 should be the rarest, meaning the rank should also be T6 highest and T3 lowest.

Endlessly lined glass vessels are arranged neatly, resembling coffins embedded into the stone wall.

This underground abyss resembles a huge mass grave.

A mass grave for bionic beings.

Zard looked at the surrounding dark environment and shivered.

Qing Chen had noticed that this guy had a particularly big courage when facing matters of the living world, but when dealing with matters related to the underworld, he was especially timid.

“No wonder Tinder Company built the secret base here; turns out they were conducting such unethical experiments,” the elder marveled: “If the Federation people knew, they would surely be condemned by everyone.”

When the words ‘bionic body’ appeared below the glass vessels, it already indicated the importance of this underground base.

And its serial numbers also indicated how terrifying the scale of experiments here once was.

More than three thousand bionic people? What a tremendous endeavor!

Qing Chen looked up across the sheer cliffs on both sides of the underground river, where the flashlight beam revealed dense rows of glass vessels, seemingly reaching up to the heavens.

He could even imagine, a thousand years ago, these vessels each contained a complete person, filled with green or blue liquid, like embryos and wombs, nurturing deformed life.

The glass vessels were all intact, with the bionic people inside turning into skeletal remains over the years in sealed vessels.

“Can the Death Shroud restore the skeletons to their original forms? If it can, wouldn’t we be able to see what people looked like a thousand years ago?” Zard curiously asked: “I wonder if they were men or women?”

Qing Chen calmly responded: “From the pelvis and pubic bone, they’re all men. Firstly, the male pelvis is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, funnel-shaped. Women’s pelvises are short and broad, cylindrical. Secondly, the male pubic bone interlocks in an inverted V, while the female’s is inverted U. If this were a normal experiment site, the variety of bionic types should be diverse, to collect various data. But here, all skeletal models are of adult males, so I suspect the bionic beings intended here were all war machines.”

Speaking, Qing Chen broke one of the glass vessels, and as it shattered, the skeleton inside quickly oxidized, turning gray.

“Huh,” Da Yu frowned: “This glass vessel, after so many years, still maintains its airtightness, yet the liquid in their glass containers, I thought it leaked and caused them to die inside the glass.”

Qing Chen said: “Boldly guessing, this was once one of Tinder Company’s most important secret experimental sites, where they manufactured a large number of bionic people. But one day, an accident occurred here, and someone manually shut down all experimental vessels, drained the nutrients and breathing liquid.”

At this moment, the flashlight in Qing Chen’s hand continued sweeping around, and the next second, he was stunned.

Everyone followed the light beam and discovered on the eighteenth row of arranged glass vessels, there was one already shattered.

“Was it accidental damage, or… did someone inside get out?” Da Yu frowned and asked.

“Wait here a moment,” Qing Chen said as he climbed up with his bare hands, climbing the rock wall as easily as walking on flat ground.

Soon, Qing Chen slowly came down: “There are no remains inside the glass vessel, and the metal nameplate outside has been forcibly torn off.”

The glass vessel was empty!

Everyone was shocked, Qin Yiyi hurriedly hid behind Qing Chen.

They all understood what this implied, that a bionic person survived that catastrophe long ago and actively broke the glass vessel to escape!

The elder looked crossly at Qin Yiyi, amazed that even the little ancestor had such thoughts, since back in the Fire Pit, you fearlessly ran to the holy ground, even using skulls as lanterns!

Qing Chen whispered: “Continue forward, but be more careful.”

“Even if it survived back then, it should have left here, or perished here,” the elder wondered: “This base has been abandoned for at least hundreds of years, it’s impossible for anything to have survived.”

“Hard to say,” Qing Chen shook his head: “Hope I’m overthinking.”

Only the Knight knew, Tinder did indeed manufacture ‘humanoid creatures’ with theoretically unlimited lifespans, not just Ren Xiaosu, but also those ‘test subjects’ that once wreaked havoc on human civilization.

All those test subjects coexisted with cancer cells, with Ren Xiaosu being the 001 test subject himself. So in theory, barring incidents, they could live for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

This is true immortality.

Qing Chen picked up a bone and handed it to Da Yu: “Help carry this, I want to take it back to City 10 and let Scientist No. 2 see if there’s anything to study.”