Chapter 323, The Most Precious Experiment
Si Xu, already accustomed to the scratches on the wall, interrupted the two chattering and said, "There's a surprise ahead."
"Huh?" he said in surprise. Jiang Ran's first reaction was that danger was approaching, but after listening carefully, there was no other movement in the corridor.
Gu Yunqing spoke frankly and asked, "What surprise?" As he spoke, he looked eagerly expectant.
Si Xu didn't even look at him: "Let's go."
He knew exactly who had left those fingerprints in the torture chamber.
It is better to know nothing than to feel sympathy for the enemy because of knowing his name, which will affect your judgment.
However, his Jiang Ran is smart and can probably guess who this person is.
The light at the end of the corridor was broken and the light was dim. Si Xu walked around several laboratories but couldn't find the information he wanted.
He poked Jiang Ran, who was diligently searching through documents, and pointed to a corner of the corridor: "That's where the lab's most proud experimental products are stored."
The corner he pointed to was a small door, hidden among the laboratories and with no sense of existence.
Jiang Ran followed him and said, "Here?"
"Um."
Si Xu opened the combination lock on the wall, and a robotic female voice came from above their heads: "Fingerprint recognition passed, code 0007, please accept the pupil scan."
Jiang Ran: “…”
Fingerprint recognition? Eye scans? This lab has been abandoned for so long, and yet these security features are still functioning properly?
What important things are preserved here?
After the pupil scan, the small metallic door opened silently.
A dazzling light leaked out from the inner room, and Jiang Ran subconsciously raised his hands to cover his eyes.
"I... Holy shit!" Gu Yunqing exclaimed in a mixture of admiration and disbelief, "What the hell is this?!"
After his eyes got used to the light, Jiang Ran looked behind the door.
Unlike the narrow storage room she imagined, behind the small door was a vast space with bright lights. All facilities and equipment were operating normally, and a mechanical female voice echoed in the spacious laboratory.
"Petri dish A263 needs to have culture medium added."
"The temperature of petri dish A192 is too high. Please lower it to 26 degrees Celsius."
“…”
If it weren't for the fact that there was no one inside, Jiang Ran would have thought he had returned to the laboratory before the apocalypse.
"This is..." She walked into the bright laboratory, and as her footsteps crossed the line, a gentle reminder sounded in the laboratory.
"Dear guest, welcome to the A-Series Level 3 Laboratory. During your visit, please do not touch anything in the laboratory. Thank you for your cooperation and I wish you a pleasant journey."
Jiang Ran's mouth twitched at the sound that sounded like a friendly reminder from an amusement park. "Si Xu, what... are these things?"
She approached one of the petri dishes and looked at the metal material inside that resembled a human hand. She wondered, "Was this a public exhibition hall? A science and technology museum?"
That's not right. What kind of exhibition hall needs pupil scans? It's not an exhibition hall. What do those beeps mean?
"No." Si Xu's eyes fell on the petri dish, glanced at it, and looked away. "What I just said was to the investors who came to visit."
"Oh." Jiang Ran suddenly realized, "Isn't this laboratory hidden from the outside world like the Dongchao Research Institute? I thought..."
Being abandoned as well, she thought this place was just like the shady research institute outside the Dongchao base, and should not be known to the public.
"Quite the opposite," Si Xu said. "This is the laboratory that Xiling Base used to publicly announce. Whenever leaders, senior executives, or investors come to visit, this laboratory is a must-see."
Of course, those things that are inconvenient for investors to see will naturally not be seen by them.
"Just these things?" Jiang Ran asked, "What are these?"
She was about to get closer to study it, but Si Xu put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Follow me."
He led her inside, not forgetting to turn back and remind Gu Yunqing who was looking around: "Don't touch anything here."
Gu Yunqing: "I understand! I don't want to be shot into a hornet's nest yet."
Jiang Ran felt that he could no longer keep up with their pace: "...What do you mean?"
"There's an automatic defense system here. Once it senses that an outsider, whether or not someone has entered data, has touched the petri dish, the defense system will activate immediately."
"result?"
"Just like Gu Yunqing said, it was shot into a hornet's nest."
This laboratory is much larger than Jiang Ran expected.
After passing through two rooms filled with various mechanical equipment, the two finally arrived at their destination.
"This...!" Jiang Ran raised his hand to cover his mouth, took a deep breath, and swallowed back his exclamation.
There are still many petri dishes in the innermost room, but unlike the petri dishes in the outermost room, these petri dishes are all filled with young little girls.
"They..." As they got closer, Jiang Ran discovered that these children with their eyes closed, seemingly asleep, all had faces identical to Shen Youyou's. "Are they also... puppets developed in the laboratory?"
She suddenly remembered the name of this laboratory - Series A, Level 3.
Shen Youyou's code name is A117.
"Youyou also came from this laboratory?"
"Yes, but not really."
Jiang Ran didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
“Shen Youyou’s first generation was assembled here. Later, she was selected by Shen Lang and underwent a second reset and update.”
Jiang Ran didn't know how to respond.
She walked along the petri dish and went inside.
In the colorless culture medium, the girls wrapped in white lab coats closed their eyes, as if they were sleeping, quiet and peaceful.
Jiang Ran didn't know what kind of mood she was in after touring the entire laboratory. She also didn't know what the investors who came to visit would think after seeing it - would they think this was a good project? Why did she only feel suffocated and depressed?
"Jiang Ran, come here." She stopped and Si Xu called her from the long table against the wall, "Here."
Jiang Ran came to his senses and walked over to him: "What is this?"
"Settings table."
Si Xu entered the password, the entire desktop lit up, and the operation page was projected in front of the two of them.
A clear holographic projection appeared before his eyes. Jiang Ran's breath stagnated as he sighed, "I've only seen this in movies."
"Didn't you say that this world is also a novel you've read?"
Jiang Ran thought for a moment and said, "That's true—you know, in novels, nothing is impossible."
Si Xu laughed and clicked quickly on the page.
Before Jiang Ran could see clearly what he did, she saw two options pop up on the page, and Si Xu clicked "yes" again.
The prompt sounded again: "Instructions received, confirmed as Class A, operator, please enter fingerprint."
"Jiang Ran." He took her hand and said, "Enter your fingerprint."
Jiang Ran, who didn't understand what he was doing, reached out and pressed his fingerprint in a daze.
The prompt continues: "Confirm operator fingerprint, please enter the command."
Jiang Ran: "Ah? What order?"
Prompt tone: "Confirmed, thank you for your use."
Jiang Ran: “…” What happened? Did she enter a command? What command did she enter? How come she didn’t know she entered a command?
What on earth did this damn machine confirm?!
Seeing her dazed expression, Si Xu said, "Pfft."
(End of this chapter)
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