Chapter 55

Time flew by. Nearly a year had passed since the Second Prince and Yan Xuanjin successfully signed the Orc Project implementation plan with the Tracing Origin Faction. The Orc Project had also made substantial progress and entered a crucial phase: human experiments.

Honestly, Yan Xuanjin himself was somewhat averse to this experiment. Thinking of the suffering Ling Yun had endured in the lab, he couldn't stand the people of the Source Tracing Faction. He felt that not only had he failed to avenge Ling Yun, but he was also collaborating with them, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

But Lingyun himself no longer cares.

He spent the past year training and studying at the Dark Blade Base. Every second he spent with Yan Xuanjin was filled with joy, so much so that the pain of the past seemed to be shrouded in a thin veil, making it almost impossible to recall.

After such a long time, Ling Yun had already figured it out. He understood why these people had used those methods to treat him.

They were not wrong. They just chose the former between the future of mankind and the life of a cat, and as the latter, he just became a victim.

Lingyun had long since overcome the hurdle in his heart.

Yan Xuanjin is not.

But he himself is also a beneficiary and a member of the human race. How can he blame those researchers who continuously dedicate their youth to the future of mankind?

Intellectually, he understood that the existence of "guinea pigs" was inevitable in scientific research. But emotionally, he absolutely did not want this "guinea pig" to be Ling Yun.

He tried to compensate Lingyun, but he couldn't find a suitable way.

——Until the Orc Project entered the human experiment stage.

As soon as Yan Xuanjin received the news, he reported his name and became one of the experimental subjects of the third-generation orc plan.

Since the Orc Project was currently only known to the Imperial Military and high-ranking officials, this list was circulated within the military. Within two days, the twenty experimental subject slots were filled, with each station recommending one or two elite individuals as key subjects for this experiment.

The day after the list was submitted for review, all experimental subjects were gathered in the underground laboratory of the Tracing Department.

Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, Yan Xuanjin felt complicated - the furnishings in the laboratory were almost exactly the same as the laboratory where Ling Yun was at that time.

Thinking of Ling Yun, Yan Xuanjin felt a little warmer in his heart.

He did not tell him that he was here to undergo transformation under the Orc Plan, but lied and said that he was going on a solo secret mission for half a month.

When Lingyun found out, he was very nervous and pestered her every night to help him with his mental preparation. Even now, Yan Xuanjin could still sense Lingyun's warm guiding presence in his mental landscape.

It was as if he was accompanying him.

Yan Xuanjin and other experimental subjects stood in an empty area of ​​the laboratory, waiting for the experimenter to measure their physical data.

They were all soldiers. Even though they could recognize that the people around them were well-known figures in the military, they still tacitly stood in standard military posture, as if they were about to face a completely unknown and powerful enemy.

Indeed, gathering so many outstanding warriors from the empire does seem like a battle that will be difficult to win.

Yan Xuanjin could understand their thoughts very well. After all, most of them only knew a little about the orc plan.

The line was slowly moving, gradually shortening. Those who passed the test were divided into different rooms, facing different futures.

It was Yan Xuanjin's turn. He sat on the stool and silently allowed the experimenter to bring various testing instruments to him and record the various data displayed on the screen.

"Room 1, go in."

Yan Xuanjin stood up, walked to the door of Room 1 and pushed it open.

The metal door slammed shut behind him.

In the room, experimenter No. 009 had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Yan Xuanjin pushing the door in, he waved to him, indicating that he should come over.

"Release your spirit body."

Yan Xuanjin did as he was told, and the black wolf appeared at his feet, raising its head and staring at him vigilantly.

Experimenter 009 didn't seem to care at all about the hostility shown by Black Wolf. He looked at Yan Xuanjin's report displayed on the screen in the room, selected several glass bottles of different sizes from the tray of medicines of different colors at hand, mixed them into a glass container according to a certain proportion, and then used a syringe to extract the prepared medicine.

"Come on, show me your arm." 009 flicked the syringe and pushed the air out.

Yan Xuanjin walked over, spread his arms in front of him and clenched his fists.

A cotton swab soaked in alcohol was wiped twice around his elbow, and the needle tip pierced the skin and flesh, slowly injecting the light blue liquid into his body.

After the injection, 009 pulled out the needle, gave him a clean cotton swab to press the bleeding area, and took him to the observation area.

The black wolf followed at his feet, walking closely.

Opening the other door of Room 1, Yan Xuanjin felt a little uncomfortable when he saw the scene before him.

This is a spacious space, with many rooms of about ten square meters separated by thick glass. There is a bed and a small table inside. Apart from that, there is a simple toilet with an opaque lower half and a thick robotic arm connected to the ground.

The conditions in interstellar prisons are better than this.

But this is not what Yan Xuanjin cares about most.

What annoyed him most was the surveillance camera on the ceiling, which exposed his every move to those people.

Although he knew that this was a necessary observation method in the laboratory, he still felt depressed.

"This is your room, come in." Experimenter 009 opened the door of a transparent room and let Yan Xuanjin in.

Yan Xuanjin walked in and sat on the bed.

009 pointed to a small box protruding from the side of the door and said, "Your food will be delivered from here every day. The switches on both sides are in opposite states. If you close this side, the other side will open."

He pointed to a row of buttons next to the bed.

"If you have any needs, you can press this blue button. Aside from not being able to contact the outside world, we can basically meet all your other needs."

"But... once the drug takes effect, you might not have the energy to entertain yourself anymore."

"Good luck."

After 009 finished speaking, he left.

Yan Xuanjin half leaned against the bed, while Black Wolf also quietly placed his head beside the bed. He just watched as familiar faces were brought in one after another and locked up in such a narrow space.

He looked at the robotic arm in the room, speculating on its purpose.

call--

Yan Xuanjin felt that his heartbeat was abnormally fast, and guessed that the medicine was starting to take effect, so he simply lay flat on the bed and stopped looking at the people around him.

Plop, plop——

Plop, plop, plop——

His heartbeat quickened, and all the blood in his body seemed to be flowing back to that spot. The black wolf trembled all over and whimpered anxiously.

Yan Xuanjin only felt that his whole body was hot and his consciousness was becoming increasingly unclear.

He didn't know what the consequences would be if he fainted, so he could only pinch his palms to force himself to stay conscious.

The potion's power grew stronger, sending a throbbing pain through his body. It felt like ants were gnawing at his bones, or like concentrated sulfuric acid was blasting him, burning every muscle black.

Yan Xuanjin gritted his teeth, but the world in front of him became more and more blurry.

He involuntarily released his mental energy, desperately exhausting his mental image. The black wolf's figure had become illusory, and the potion's power also affected it. Yan Xuanjin's mental image was crumbling, and the black mist began to wreak havoc in his territory.

He had no way of doing anything and could only let his consciousness sink into silence.

He struggled in sweat, but finally fell into a deep sleep.

At the same time, the effects of the drugs in the bodies of the twenty experimental subjects had finished, and the remaining painful gene fusion and recombination were only sustained by their willpower.

The cameras in each room worked meticulously, transmitting their body reactions to the control room.

Many experimenters wore numbered tags on their chests and were rapidly observing and recording the reactions of the drugs. When they found any abnormalities, they immediately used robotic arms to inject the relevant drugs.

It was midnight on the capital planet. People were sleeping soundly, and the city was almost dark.

But in the underground laboratory, where they couldn't see, the lights were always on.