Laboratory 05
Sheng Wei lowered his head and saw Jiang Lin's hesitant eyes in the helmet.
"Actually, I have water-based abilities." As Jiang Lin spoke, a mist of water gathered on Sheng Wei's originally clear helmet.
Sheng Wei looked at the foggy helmet with horror. Although she had witnessed the power of Jiang Lin's supernatural powers that night in the laboratory, she had never expected her to manipulate them as easily as eating and drinking, as if every water molecule in the air was at her disposal.
Before Sheng Wei could react, the mist on her helmet suddenly boiled away and evaporated into the air. Her vision became clear again.
"You can control the temperature of water," Sheng Wei whispered as she leaned against Jiang Lin. She had seen other water-based abilities before, but compared to other abilities, water-based abilities were less lethal and generally used in the background. However, this was the first time she had seen a water-based ability as perverse as Jiang Lin's.
Jiang Lin nodded without saying anything.
Although he was very curious about how she had mastered her special ability to such perfection, Sheng Wei temporarily suppressed his curiosity when looking at the team members next to him.
Soon, Team 16 arrived at the cafeteria. As usual, lunch was the most substantial meal. After Jiang Lin received his meal, he sat next to Sheng Wei and discovered that she had two eggs.
Sheng Wei glanced at her and handed her an egg from his plate: "Eat more eggs, you will grow taller."
Jiang Lin took the egg blankly. She didn't expect that the joke Sheng Wei played at the door of the laboratory that night was actually true. He really gave her the egg to help her grow taller.
"Eat it. After your ability is assessed, you will have two eggs for lunch, plus the one I gave you. Eat three eggs a day to replenish your body." Sheng Wei had already peeled his own egg and finished it in no time.
Seeing that Sheng Wei's expression did not seem fake, Jiang Lin did not refuse and obediently finished eating the two eggs.
Although the food at the First Base was just so-so, compared to the three years she'd spent struggling in the apocalypse, it was like heaven. Jiang Lin thought to herself, "It wouldn't be bad if I could live like this forever."
After lunch, the patrolmen only had a short break before they had to get back to work. In the afternoon, Jiang Lin had become more familiar with the members of Team 16. Although they were still silent, they were much more relaxed.
Because she had to go for the ability assessment, she could finish work early in the afternoon. At four o'clock, Jiang Lin had already arrived at the ability center under the guidance of the bracelet.
It looked similar to the patrol center from the outside. As soon as she entered, she felt a gaze that was hard to ignore, just like the one she felt when she first arrived at the First Base.
Without hesitation, she looked towards the source of her gaze. It was a tall man in black combat uniform. Because he was not wearing a helmet indoors, Jiang Lin could see his face clearly.
His eyebrows were sharp, his eyes were sharp, and his features were angular. His tight combat uniform outlined his perfectly muscular figure. However, the oppressive feeling that permeated his body made it difficult to focus on his face. Jiang Lin swallowed silently and walked towards the staff in front.
"It's Ms. Jiang Lin, right? Please follow me this way." The staff knew her identity as soon as Jiang Lin swiped her wristband to come in. After checking again, they took her to the back room.
Before leaving, Jiang Lin couldn't help but look back at the icy handsome man again. Unexpectedly, this time her eyes met his. She turned her head back awkwardly, quickening her pace. She felt like she was being pricked, but she didn't dare turn her head to peek again.
"Please place your hand on this instrument and try to unleash your superpowers." A female technician in a white lab coat, approximately fifty years old, patiently instructed Jiang Lin on how to use the instrument. Jiang Lin saw the name tag on her white lab coat—Gu Yuzhi.
Jiang Lin put her hand on it and felt very cold. She tried to release her special ability, but out of caution she tried to restrain her strength.
"A-level water ability, not bad."
"Next, try your supernatural attack ability and try to penetrate the targets in front." Gu Yuzhi took Jiang Lin to another closed room. As soon as she finished speaking, the targets that were originally still began to move.
Jiang Lin didn't know the specific strength of the A-level superpower. He followed the experimenter's instructions, restrained his strength, and easily dealt with the moving targets in front of him.
Gu Yuzhi looked at Jiang Lin in surprise. The aggressiveness of her water-based ability was obviously beyond that of ordinary people.
"You can definitely be transferred to the special forces. I wonder if you are interested." Gu Yuzhi felt that Jiang Lin's potential was definitely more than that.
Jiang Lin shook her head. She felt that it was nice to stay in the patrol team with Sheng Wei and the others. It wasn't particularly dangerous and the benefits were good.
"Are you really not going to consider it? The director of the special forces is just outside, and I can introduce you to him. Although the risk factor will increase, the welfare benefits will also be improved, and you can live in a safer and better area." Gu Yuzhi felt that Jiang Lin was a bit of a waste of his talent to stay in the patrol team.
Although Jiang Lin was very moved by the second half of the sentence, she still shook her head.
Gu Yuzhi was not unhappy when she refused. Instead, he warmly escorted her out of the assessment room.
As soon as Jiang Lin went out, he saw that the oppressive icy handsome man had not left yet. The place where he stood was madly emitting cold air outside, and everyone around him wanted to stay eight feet away from him.
"Xiao Yan, you haven't left yet. Didn't you ask me to keep an eye out for talented people with strong superpowers?"
"Ms. Jiang is definitely one of the best in water-related abilities." Gu Yuzhi didn't seem to feel Wen Yan's coldness at all. Jiang Lin could sense the familiarity between them.
After Wen Yan heard about the water-related ability, there was a slight fluctuation on his cold face and a hint of doubt flashed across his eyes.
"It's a pity that she has no interest in special forces for the time being. But if she continues to develop, I think she can definitely surpass you." Gu Yuzhi felt that if a girl who could train her gentle water-based ability to this level grows up, her future in this doomsday will definitely be more than this.
Wen Yan did not refute. He had seen Jiang Lin without suppressing her strength, and she had surpassed him long ago.
After Jiang Lin left, she looked at Wen Yan with a half-smile: "You know her."
"Yeah, we met once." Wen Yan could feel that Jiang Lin didn't remember him at all, and he felt inexplicably lost.
"Stop talking, I have things to do." Gu Yuzhi waved at Wen Yan and walked back to the laboratory.
"Has the data been transferred?" As soon as Gu Yuzhi entered the laboratory, he saw the young assistant fiddling with the computer.
Hearing her voice, the assistant froze, as if frightened: "It has been passed on."
Gu Yuzhi didn't think much about it, just thought that her sudden words scared the person in front of her.
At this time, Shen Congyu, who was in the underground laboratory, received two reports, one from Lin Dehou in the patrol center and the other from the people they had planted in the ability assessment center. Both reports showed that Jiang Lin had an A-level water ability.
He dialed the phone in his hand: "Hello, the investigation results are out, it's not that person. The information given by Lin Dehou is consistent with our people."
"Well, keep investigating. We must not let the lab's projects be exposed."
Shen Congyu hung up the phone and browsed through all the people with earth-related abilities in the patrol center. He scrolled through each person's file one by one, and finally stopped at Sheng Wei's file.
[Name: Sheng Wei
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Ability: B-level earth ability
Position: Captain of Patrol Team 16
Residence: 46 areas
Relatives: None
He remembered that there was a child who was captured from Area 46. Most of the children they used for experiments were children of ordinary people who could not cause any trouble, or orphans wandering around the First Base.
Ordinary people couldn't possibly have the ability to break into the lab and save people, and orphans have no parents. Could it be that some of these orphans were adopted but their files weren't updated?
Shen Congyu closed his eyes and tried to connect the clues one by one in his mind. Suddenly, he remembered what the experimenter who interrogated the children that day said.
"I remember seeing these two guys when I came back from outside that day. They shot me in the leg. The taller one seemed to know one of the little boys. What was his name, Xiao He?"
He suddenly thought of something and searched through the files of the captured children. He actually found a little boy named Zhou He.
【Name: Zhou He
Gender: Male
Age: 10
Abilities: None
Residence: 46 areas
Relatives: Zhou Guanghai (deceased)
Shen Congyu felt as if he had grasped some truth. The fatigue of the past two days dissipated a lot in an instant. He sent a message to the people below: Investigate the relationship between Zhou Guanghai, Sheng Wei, and Zhou He.
After sending the message, he leaned back in his chair tiredly and closed his eyes.
…
In Area 99, Jiang Lin had already received her dinner and was on her way back to the courtyard. Perhaps it was because of the ability assessment results, but her dinner was much richer today. The porridge had some unknown vegetable leaves and some shredded meat that looked like chicken breast.
[Mission Trigger: You successfully stopped the unethical experiments being conducted in an underground laboratory, but their power is far greater than you imagined, and they are now investigating you. Will you rise to the challenge and investigate the purpose behind their experiments?
Mission Reward: Mysterious Gift Pack*1]
The sudden appearance of the 110 call disturbed Jiang Lin's happy mood due to the sumptuous dinner.
The reward for completing the mission last time was actually soil purifier. What will be in this mysterious gift bag? Jiang Lin accepted the mission and walked back with a heavier step. She didn't know when the group of people in the laboratory would investigate her.
Opening the door to the small courtyard, she felt much more at ease and looked around. There was no sign of intrusion. Having lived alone for so many years, Jiang Lin had always been very cautious.
She walked all the way to the dining table and just put down her dinner when she caught a glimpse of a small green thing in her peripheral vision. Jiang Lin turned her head in surprise and saw through the transparent part of the indoor greenhouse that several small sprouts had already emerged from the soil. Under the illumination of the fill light, they stood proudly.
Jiang Lin's heart seemed to be hit by something. She carefully entered the greenhouse and observed the tender sprouts closely. She wanted to reach out and touch these tender sprouts, but was afraid of poking these fragile little things.
[Host, the crops in the greenhouse will grow faster. They are actually very strong. Host, you can touch them.] 110 looked at Jiang Lin's movements of wanting to touch but not daring to, and inexplicably wanted to laugh.
Jiang Lin shook her head. Seeing plants growing again on the land, she felt unprecedented satisfaction.
Coming out of the greenhouse, Jiang Lin still had a light and unreal feeling that she had actually grown plants.
However, this joy was immediately broken by a sudden text message.
[Someone is following me, how are you?] It was sent by Sheng Wei. She hadn't expected those people in the lab to act so quickly. Were they already targeting Sheng Wei?
No, she couldn't just sit there and wait for death. Jiang Lin sent a message that she was safe, asked Sheng Wei to be alert, and began to think about the next steps.
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