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Chapter 60
Looking at the unconscious Jarjoel lying on the ground, Imper murmured, "Teacher..."
What on earth happened? Even the instructor was caught.
Imper glared at the kidnapper who suddenly broke into her room and tied her up: "What do you want to do?"
Qi Heng pointed at the female insect on the test bench and said simply, "Perform surgery on him."
"That's the mentor's experimental subject." Imper blurted out.
The instructor never allowed them to touch his experimental subjects, let alone perform surgery on them! They had followed the instructor for several years and knew clearly how important this experimental subject was to him.
"You only have two choices: either remove the thing in his belly that is constantly sucking away the mother's nutrients and vitality, or die."
Yinper heard the other party's cold tone and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. It was obvious that the other party was not joking with him.
"The entire base is under my control. Neither you nor anyone else has the ability to resist."
"Do you understand?"
"...I can't do it." Imper's throat moved, and he said in a dry voice: "This experimental subject's instructor never lets us take action. If we do something rash, he might die..."
He thought that by saying this, the man in front of him would give up the idea of letting him do it, but the result was completely different from what he expected.
"Take action or die. It seems you chose the latter." Qi Heng picked up the thin scalpel beside him and said expressionlessly.
Imper had heard the same excuse once before, so he wasn't going to waste his time hearing it a second time.
"If you don't want to, I believe his other assistant will be happy to help." The cold blade lightly pressed against Imper's aorta, and only a slight force was needed to cut through the epidermis and sever the blood vessels.
"No! Wait, I can."
Unexpectedly, the other party would attack him without saying a word. Imper's breath hitched, and before he could make a move, he hurriedly said, "Believe me, Nedo can't do it."
"My success rate is higher when I take action, it's true."
Qi Heng stared at Yin Pei coldly and put down his raised hand: "It's better this way."
Just in case, Qi Heng sat by and waited while Imper was undergoing surgery.
In front of the experimental table, Imper felt the gaze behind him and pushed a strong anesthetic into the female insect's body to prevent the female insect from waking up in the middle of the operation.
All the equipment in the laboratory is sterilized, and the entire laboratory has self-disinfection and purification functions, so there is no need for any preoperative disinfection.
Imper put on gloves and used a scalpel to cut open the female insect's bulging abdomen, looking at the thing with a slight heartbeat under the red membrane.
The human doesn't look like a human, and the insect doesn't look like an insect. It is even more disgusting than the appearance of the female insect cubs of the Tianjia insect race. It is better to say that the human is partly like an insect than that the insect is partly like a human.
Imper took the knife and took the thing out without changing his expression... He had seen even more disgusting things in the years following his mentor. The source body of the Erdos Zerg used for gene fusion looked even more disgusting, and he had handled many dead fetuses that were half-finished products.
The laboratory was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard. Apart from the sound of breathing, the only other sounds were the slight noises made by Imper handling various items.
Qi Heng leaned back in his chair, seemingly staring at Imper, but actually he was looking at the information sent by A0.
He had confirmed Imper's ability in the last deduction. The other party was indeed a good student of Jeyol and had the talent and ability to perform this operation.
[Your Excellency, these production lines are located between Bases 1 and 2. Some are used to synthesize nutrient blocks, while others produce clothing and medicine... The total output is not high, but clothing is the highest-yielding product...]
Looking at the data sent by A0, A0 had collected all of this data within [time], but at that time he had more important things to do, so he only took a quick look at it.
[The production volume of pharmaceuticals is the lowest, while the production volume of nutrient blocks is fixed... I checked the surveillance footage at the production line, and there's an area with a lot of raw materials piled up.]
Judging from the raw material replenishment date, the supplies delivered on Falling Star Day contain ingredients that are difficult to obtain on Tianyun Star... List...
"Lord, please carefully examine the raw materials on this list. Some of them can be used to develop primary industry by upgrading production lines! — This is fantastic!" A0 is single-minded in rebuilding Tianjia civilization and is extremely enthusiastic about anything that can help achieve this goal.
You have to know that they were still thinking about how to re-develop technology. It would take a long time to start from scratch, especially when the people they could use were illiterate.
[Um. ]
Tianyun Star's supplies depend on the semi-annual delivery of Falling Stars, but it is also partially self-sufficient. After all, even if the number of people who can use industrially produced goods is small, they still add up to a lot.
When Qi Heng learned about the existence of the production line, he was somewhat surprised. Isn't it said that the environment of Tianyun Star is not suitable for the use of high-precision instruments? How could there be a production line?
However, after learning more about it, I found that these production lines are antiques that have been eliminated for countless generations, and their technological level is only about level one.
For the fourth-level Ikar civilization, it was unimaginably backward, but for Qi Heng it was just right.
A0 flipped through the plan drawn up by the Lord in the system, and while reading it, he felt sorry that the Lord had not implemented this plan earlier. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to wait so long before taking the next step.
The production line is located between Base No. 1 and Base No. 2. If you want to truly control it, you need to control Base No. 1 as well, otherwise it will easily arouse suspicion from Base No. 1.
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The operation is over.
After applying the final stitch to the wound, Imper let out a breath, removed his mask, and relaxed. He was truly terrified that something unexpected would happen during the operation, and that the cold-blooded man behind him would stab him to death.
The murderous intent on the other party's part at that time was not fake.
"Ahem." Imper turned around and coughed lightly as a gesture.
Qi Heng walked over, glanced at the parasite that was taken out next to him, and finally looked at Imper.
Without the mother's nourishment, it was on the verge of death in just a few breaths.
Of course, Imper knew this, but at this time he could only ignore it... The tutor's research was the tutor's, and had nothing to do with himself. In this situation where he couldn't even protect himself, it would be better to worry about himself first.
"No matter how many times I watch it, it's still disgusting," A0 said.
Imper's body stiffened under his condescending gaze. She didn't understand what he was thinking as he stared at her. He didn't think he wanted to get rid of her.
After a while, Imper heard the other person's voice.
"Tianyun Star is difficult to enter and exit. With your abilities, you can't leave without contacting the outside world."
"Am I right?"
Imper nodded silently.
He couldn't refute this point, especially after the other party took control of the base, the probability of survival for himself and others plummeted, and whether they lived or died depended on the other party's glance.
If he had not been at the mercy of others, he would not have hesitated for just a moment before obeying the other party's threat and performing the experiment on his supervisor's question as the other party wished.
Without special permission, one cannot leave Tianyun Star at will. People like them who are sent to Tianyun Star have an additional restriction - without permission, they cannot even leave the base.
But even so, Imper still had hope in her heart. Tomorrow was the Day of Falling Stars... If any problems arose, Major General Dorne, who was leading the handover, would definitely notice something was wrong, and then they would be rescued.
But, is it really that simple?
The other party looked fearless, as if he was not worried about any accidents at all.
"You can move freely within the base, but don't do anything you shouldn't do." Qi Heng said this, raising his chin slightly and looking at the test bench.
With A0 here, the entire base is under surveillance, so he is not worried about anything happening.
...Unless they can break through the blockade in the main control room and send out a call for help.
Of course, Qi Heng knew they couldn't do it. They didn't even have permission to enter the main control room, and Lei, who could open the door for them, didn't dare to do anything.
"Now, take your mentor and get out of here. He won't want to see you when he wakes up."
Imper obediently helped Jeyol up from the ground and then left the laboratory.
In the face of this intruder whose origin is unknown but whose strength is great, the best thing they can do is to be obedient and not do anything unnecessary.
Outside the laboratory.
Imper supported Jeyol, a look of deep worry on her face.
Why did this intruder let me perform surgery on that female insect? He wanted to save her. But why? Was there something worth exploiting, or was his true identity connected to the Tianjia Zerg?
Or maybe the other party is just... It would be nice if we could use a detector to check it.
Having spent a long time dealing with the Tianjia Zerg, Imper naturally had a way of identifying them. Even male Zergs that looked indistinguishable from humans could be identified using a pheromone detector.
What a pity. Given the current situation, pointing the detector at the other party is tantamount to seeking death.
Inside the laboratory.
The effect of anesthesia gradually wore off. The chestnut-haired female insect opened her eyes still a little dazed, and then she felt something was wrong.
Something about the body is wrong, the surroundings are wrong…even the people standing next to me are wrong.
The tall young man with black hair and black eyes said to him, "How does it feel to wake up?"
The female insect replied subconsciously: "It's very easy."
It really feels so relaxing. The heaviness in my body from the past seems to have disappeared, and the only bit of weakness I feel is negligible compared to the past.
At this time, the female insect felt a dull pain in her abdomen. She looked and found that her abdomen was flat and the parasite inside had disappeared.
"It's gone, it's gone." Touching the sutures on the wound, the female insect was a little dazed, her voice full of disbelief and surprise.
"Were you the one who saved me?" He asked this question, but his tone was firm.
For some reason, the female insect felt a sense of closeness towards the person in front of her. She hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are you of the same species as me? Well, you give me a very familiar feeling..." just like she felt from a member of the same species.
"Yes, I am of your same clan." Qi Heng confirmed the female insect's guess.
He knew the female insect before him could sense his abnormality, a hunch born from her innately powerful mental strength. Born A-rank, even in the past, that was considered excellent.
"I'm from 'Gray Mist' and was one of the people who infiltrated Sky Cloud Star with Gray Mist."
Facing the pure and blank eyes of the female insect, Qi Heng raised his hand and gently patted the female insect's head: "Sorry, I'm late."
"The same thing will never happen again."
Gray Mist was an organization he had invented for his subsequent plans, an organization formed to rescue the Tianjia Zerg and change the status quo of Tianjia civilization.
I've created the fake identity A0 and am using it myself, so I don't think it would be right if I didn't start an organization. Although I'm alone at the moment, I believe this organization will grow in no time.
More importantly, it is easier to recruit people (Yan) to join the gang if there is an organization. If I am alone, I will look like a lone hero or a commander without troops, which sounds very unreliable.
Although inventing an organization cannot change the facts, it can make some of the differences in oneself less strange. The advantage of relying on an organization is that you can use the organization as an excuse no matter what you come up with.
For example, any technology that does not belong to Tianyun Star and any secrets that are not accessible to the Tianjia Zerg on Tianyun Star can be attributed to the organization behind it, and to the outside world it can be said that this is support provided by the organization.
At the same time, this newly established organization can also give Yan and others some confidence, telling them that they are not alone in changing the current situation of the Zerg, because there are many companions who have already embarked on this path.
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The author has something to say: I'm back_(:з」∠)_, for today's update√Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution during 2022-09-02 23:44:31~2022-09-04 22:59:45~
Thanks to the little angels who threw grenades: 547007871;
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Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!