Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1366: Chapter 750: The Bionic Body That Disappeared from the Secret Base (3)

At this moment, the grey-skinned monkey was tightly restrained by Zard. Qing Chen squatted in front of it and said, ”A Fireseed experimental subject? I’ve seen something like this in the Li Family’s records. It’s said that there were hundreds of thousands of them initially, and they even destroyed several cities. Their collective combat power was immense, always keeping people on edge...”

This creature was hiding in the dark, likely intending to defeat Qing Chen and the others one by one.

The experimental subjects were indeed fierce and powerful. Back then, Qing’s Family dropped a nuclear bomb on the original site city of Taboo Land #008 just to kill these grey-skinned experimental subjects.

But the problem was, when they created havoc, it was because there were too many of them. Once their numbers dwindled, they weren’t that frightening anymore.

In the Li Family’s records, the most powerful individual combat strength of the experimental subjects back then was only equivalent to today’s B-Class Genetic Warrior.

Ordinary people might be scared by them, but the problem is... everyone in Qing Chen’s team is A-Class...

Qing Chen looked at that ferocious face and sighed, ”Brother, the times have changed.”

The grey experimental subject gradually calmed down, slowly retracting its fangs, and asked in a stiff voice, ”Who are you guys?”

Qing Chen was taken aback. He didn’t expect the other party to possess such clear consciousness and intelligence.

He knew that the experimental subjects were humans coexisting with cancer. A thousand years ago, the other party was just one of the humans.

It’s just that after coexisting with cancer, they began to crave material and energy like cancer, developing an irresistible desire for any protein.

He thoughtfully asked, ”It’s not your turn to ask us questions yet. Let me ask you first, did you escape from the vessel inside the laboratory, or from the glass vessel on the cliff wall?”

”Cliff wall?” The experimental subject rasped, ”Didn’t all the bionics on the cliff wall die?”

Qing Chen was startled, sensing something was amiss: ”Wait a minute, before interrogating him, find this place for me. I want all the bionics’ names! I feel there’s a big secret hidden here!”

A bionic escaped from a glass vessel on the cliff wall, but the experimental subject hadn’t seen the other. This can only mean that the bionic had already left the abyss!

The group split up to search, leaving only Qing Chen and Zard at the original spot. Qing Chen coldly watched the experimental subject: ”I hope that for every question I ask next, you answer truthfully. Otherwise, you will suffer a fate worse than death.”

The experimental subject was silent for a moment: ”In this place, a fate worse than death. Death isn’t scary.”

Qing Chen questioned: ”What were you doing before you joined the Tinder Company?”

The experimental subject pondered for a long time: ”It’s been so long... I was a teacher. I had lung cancer, and it was incurable. I gradually fell into despair. One day, people from the Tinder Company found me. They said they could cure me and would pay me 300,000 in cash afterward, so I went with them. Little did I know, that would be an endless journey.”

Indeed, before becoming experimental subjects, they were just pitiful people afflicted with cancer.

Qing Chen couldn’t let it live, but he understood its past.

This wasn’t a warrior trained meticulously, just a beast controlled by its carnivorous instincts.

Qing Chen asked: ”Since you have the ability to escape the laboratory, why don’t you leave this underground abyss?”

The experimental subject rasped: ”If I could bypass those Human-faced bugs, I would’ve left long ago. I also want to ask how you guys got down here.”

”Huh,” Qing Chen suddenly found it interesting.

Earlier, he was wondering why such a secretive laboratory would still bother raising a bunch of Human-faced bugs. Wasn’t the Tinder Company just asking for trouble?

According to the records, wherever there were experimental subjects, there would be Human-faced bugs at the entrance. It seemed like the two always appeared together.

Fireseed Lab #039 was like this, and so is this place now.

It was only at this moment that Qing Chen suddenly realized the role of the Human-faced bugs was indeed protective, but their responsibility was not only to prevent intruders but also to stop the experimental subjects from getting out!

The Tinder Company had prepared well. If their experiments failed, resulting in a leak of experimental subjects, then the Human-faced bugs would be Tinder Company’s last insurance, preventing experimental subjects from wreaking havoc on humanity!

Qing Chen asked: ”Let me ask you, were you the one who opened that door inside?”

He referred to the door he and Chen Jiazhang had just discovered.

The experimental subject shook its head: ”After the six of us awakened, we were trapped there for a long time. Despair, anger, made us lose the last bit of sanity and begin killing each other. I killed the other five, ate them, and awaited death. However, one day when I was about to starve to death, the door suddenly clicked open. I ran out frantically, but never saw who opened the door.”

Qing Chen nodded: ”That matches my hypothesis, but I’ll find other things to verify if you’re telling the truth, and I know how to verify it.”

At this time, Da Yu returned with a stack of documents: ”We couldn’t understand them, but there are serial numbers and names on them. They should be what you want. But the problem is, the nameplate on that glass vessel had already been torn off by someone. How will you find his identity?”

Qing Chen said: ”Bionics are clones. Since the Tinder Company cloned them, they must have recorded the source of their genes, who the original host was. He left the vessel and helped this experimental subject open the gate, tearing off his nameplate. He thinks he’s smart and that I can’t find him, but the issue is, I just have to note down all the other nameplates and then use elimination on the list.”

There were 10,023 bionic vessels on the cliff wall in the abyss. The Tinder Company registered 10,023 names on paper, but there were only 10,022 nameplates.

This method of elimination was much simpler for Qing Chen than re-sorting the data.

Soon, Qing Chen found the missing nameplate on page 27: T50381, the genetic fragment originating from the Northwestern Zong Clan, Zong Cheng.

Qing Chen suddenly looked up. It was clearly recorded in Hu’s Information Agency because this Zong Cheng, like the grand villain Liu Yue, possessed the rare ability to control Puppets.

Everyone suspected that the Taboo item, Puppeteer, was derived from either him or Liu Yue!

At this moment, Qing Chen felt he was incredibly close to the truth.