Densely packed swarms of insects, accompanied by a strange smile on the experimenter's face, and behind him a test chamber crawling with insects, and specimens of various parts of the test subject's body...
When these elements are combined together, the horror atmosphere is almost full.
If the machine that the leader of the Meteorite Sect had integrated was turned on again, they would have to start escaping immediately.
"There's something wrong with his smile!" Shen Yijin suppressed her nausea and replayed the scene in her mind several times before finally discovering the problem. "These bugs appeared after he lost consciousness and smiled! There was no smile on his face when you first knocked him unconscious."
When the experimenter was knocked unconscious, there was a moment of confusion and shock on his face.
When she was picking her hair to find the needle hole, he suddenly laughed again.
The experimenter's smile must be related to the bugs crawling out.
Shen Yijin found a glass tube and tried to suppress the corners of the experimenter's mouth.
His smile was suppressed, but the bugs were still coming out.
Shen Yijin thought to herself that this was bad. Judging from the situation, the bugs would only stop crawling out if the experimenter regained consciousness.
The hands of the clock on the wall were still moving forward without stopping. It was almost time to go to work. If we continued to allow these bugs to crawl out, the situation would become even more uncontrollable when the assistant opened the door from the outside.
Shen Yijin gritted his teeth, found a handy instrument, and smashed it on the experimenter's head.
The force was quite strong, enough to wake someone up in pain.
"Huh—" The experimenter made an ambiguous sound. When the insects that had already crawled out heard the sound, they turned around and started crawling into the pinhole-sized wound again.
Seeing this, Shen Yijin breathed a sigh of relief.
She turned to look at Nan Mingcheng. Nan Mingcheng's expression was distorted and he didn't move, as if he was petrified in place.
Shen Yijin immediately became alert, suspecting that a bug had entered Nan Mingcheng's body: "Are you okay?"
"It's nothing. I was just wondering, with so many bugs in the experimenter's head, has his head been eaten away by bugs? How can he still be alive without his head? Is he really still the same experimenter from the beginning?"
After recovering some of Jingxuan's memories, Nan Mingcheng mastered a lot of knowledge related to refining equipment.
He knew about puppet servants and had even made custom-made bodies for some ghost cultivators to inhabit.
But in this world with thin spiritual energy, it is difficult for ordinary people's souls to remain in their bodies without a brain. Even if the body can still move, it is just a physiological reaction caused by the nerve reflex arc.
The experimenter's mind is empty but he can still live a normal life. Could it be that a new soul has been replaced inside him a long time ago, and this soul has taken over the experimenter's memory and thinks that it is the experimenter, so it has been living the experimenter's life step by step?
"Impossible, I calculated his hexagram!" After listening to Nan Mingcheng's analysis, Shen Yijin denied it directly without hesitation.
She tells fortunes by looking at the soul. If the soul in the experimenter's body is not the original one, she will not be able to tell the experimenter's experience.
Shen Yijin was certain that the soul in the experimenter's body was original, but she couldn't tell whether the experimenter's head was empty.
But the clock on the wall had already reached half past eight, and the laboratory staff had already started working, leaving them no time to think too much about this issue.
The bugs in the lab hadn't completely returned to the experimenter's head yet, but Shen Yijin had already heard footsteps.
She pulled Nan Mingcheng and hid behind the iron frame again. After counting ten in her mind, the door of the laboratory was opened.
To Shen Yijin's surprise, the visitor did not panic or scream when he saw the scene in the laboratory, as if he was accustomed to it.
Chen Yijin heard a sigh, and her tone seemed to be quite disappointed. "It's only been a few days, how come there's another rejection reaction? Aren't all the brain nerves eaten clean and replaced by gnats? In this new world, Stinky Wolf's experimental skills have declined so much? At this rate, when will the restart plan be completed?"
The man walked into the lab while complaining.
Shen Yijin watched from a distance as a woman dressed as an assistant came in.
This female assistant was not tall, about 1.3 meters, and did not look like an adult. Her height was about the same as the female experimental subjects in the hive.
"Huh?" The female assistant, upon discovering the experimenter strapped to the operating table, curiously shouted at the machine fused by the Meteorite Sect's leader, "Leader, you've tied him up. Why don't you let him regain his sanity?"
After she finished speaking, she realized that the machine had not been turned on yet.
The female assistant looked around cautiously and didn't sense anyone else in the laboratory.
She carefully observed the machine that the leader had fused. The plug of the machine was plugged in, but the machine did not look like it was powered on.
She took up her hands and tapped the machine a few times, as if she was tapping an old device at home that kept breaking down.
After tapping a few times, the machine still didn't respond. The female assistant muttered quietly, "Is the machine broken? Really? It fails at the critical moment. I've advised the master not to merge with electronic devices before. These things sound powerful, but once the power is cut off, even if you have supernatural powers, it's useless. But the master refused to listen! Now the machine is broken, and it's useless to plug it in. He won't wake up!"
The female assistant temporarily gave up trying to wake up the master. She took out a one-centimeter-thick iron needle from her pocket and stabbed it hard into the experimenter's heart.
The insects sped up their crawling back, the experimenter's body moved up and down, and the wounds that had just been pricked healed quickly.
The bugs have all gone back, and it's only a matter of time before the experimenter wakes up.
The female assistant untied the restraints on the experimenter and left the laboratory muttering, "Hey, I have to quickly find Choulang and the others to discuss how to fix the master's machine. If the experimenter has a problem, it's a small matter. If the master's machine breaks down and the master can't wake up, that would be a big problem. The soul is trapped in the machine. Even if the machine can revive us, there is no way to bring the master back to life unless his soul dissipates from the machine on its own. But..."
The female assistant was worried and wanted to help her boss out of trouble as soon as possible, so she had no intention of caring about the experimenter.
She didn't realize that the instrument that the Sect Leader had fused wasn't actually plugged in. She had actually slapped the instrument a few times, but the connected plug was forged by Shen Yijin using her fox spirit power.
The door of the laboratory was closed again. Shen Yijin did not rush out. She waited for a while. When she did not see the female assistant come back, she hurried over and tied the experimenter to the operating table again.
After doing all this, she raised her head to look at the experimenter's head again, and her gaze met the experimenter's.
"Good morning. How was your sleep?" Shen Yijin smiled awkwardly.
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