Chapter 2 "..."
"Director, what's wrong?" The assistant asked, looking at the director who had stopped working.
"Have you completed the procedures I asked you to?" The director, who was busy conducting experiments and moving around both sides, still had time to ask questions even though he was busy.
"It's all taken care of." The assistant seemed a little confused, as the child in the previous story was no longer in the lab.
Although she didn't know why the director did this, she was certain that he was setting up a grand scheme.
He used all his connections, just to throw the child into a forest full of strange beasts.
What's truly terrifying there isn't the strange beasts, but the radiation—radiation that the human body cannot be immune to.
There are many strange beasts inside. The reason they became strange beasts is because of radiation, and some of them were even transformed from humans.
They turned into mindless monsters... and it was also an unspeakable failure for the entire nation, because their arrogance led to this tragedy.
Undeniably, it was this mutation that enabled the research institute to achieve its current level of success.
Of course, this was because the director knew about the accident in advance, which prevented the situation from escalating further.
She thought that perhaps the people on the other side of the country weren't entirely at ease with them managing such a dangerous forest.
Therefore, it was explicitly forbidden for anyone to enter this forest, and different forces sent people to guard it.
But the director disregarded all opposition and used all his connections just to get this little boy into that dangerous forest.
She could now see that the little boy definitely had some abilities, but that forest was still too dangerous for him.
Moreover, he's so young; he'll probably die unexpectedly within a few days. Besides, the gains are disproportionate; they probably won't get anything out of this experimental subject except for wasting his time.
But it was the director's order, and the director's orders had never failed. So even though they knew the order was completely illogical, they would still obey and no one would raise any questions.
"Director, do you mean we just need to place it on the outer perimeter or in the central area?" The assistant asked according to procedure, though she didn't really have high hopes. It was a place where there were no alien beasts, and the radiation was extremely strong, so going in would probably mean certain death.
If you put children inside, you might actually get some secrets that no one else knows.
McDang paused for a moment, then continued with the experiment. He said, "It's finally done. Now, put this camera on the child's head and project it directly into the inner circle."
The assistant nodded: "Okay, I'll put it in there...inner perimeter!" Her voice almost cracked by the end, and even she, usually so composed, couldn't help but be surprised.
If this thing were placed in the inner perimeter, it would die immediately! It's just a child, and even if it has great strength, it's useless. Inside, there's radiation that humans can't withstand. Any living thing that goes in would be instantly fused into one.
"That's right, it's that other camera that can block radiation. Remember to make sure the child takes it in." He spent two days and two nights working on it.
However, it probably won't last too long before it breaks down; as long as it can be taken inside, that's good enough.
Upon opening the system, I saw that the pseudonym read:
Vest #1
Name: Kendall
Age: 18
Intelligence: 10 (Will he be able to learn to speak?)
Strength (can be improved with talent): 80 (+800) (You're really ruthless, training like crazy.)
Charm: 75 (Increases charm by 20 when smiling; after all, that smile, like the protagonist's, can infect many people.)
Talents: Frenzy: Rapidly increases combat strength during battle, learns many combat techniques, and possesses a strong beastly instinct. Survival Master: Can quickly adapt to outdoor environments, is immune to most damage, and gradually builds resistance.
Personality: Warm, sunny, and cheerful
At first, he didn't quite understand what the use of this personality was, and he didn't quite understand why his innate personality was warm, sunny, and cheerful.
Then his system told him that he had to maintain his persona, which was his operating mode and could not be changed. In other words, as long as he was in this body, he had to maintain a warm, sunny, and cheerful personality.
Even now, he is still trying hard to appear sunny and cheerful. He practiced that smile for a very, very long time before he could achieve it.
It's absolutely the most infectious smile.
This avatar was given to you by the system, and its abilities aren't very strong. As long as you nurture this avatar for a year, you can draw another avatar. Even if you die in the middle, you'll still have one more chance to draw a card.
So the laboratory has been stuck on this radiation problem for a long time without any breakthrough.
The environment is becoming increasingly harsh. If the radiation issue cannot be resolved and no one can go in to investigate, humanity will face a major crisis, especially regarding food.
So it's worth it to use this pseudonym. If it succeeds, it will benefit all mankind. If it fails, it doesn't matter. He can just use another pseudonym. So there's nothing to be afraid of.
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Kendall sat quietly in the helicopter without offering any resistance.
He was brought here by only one person: the assistant and a pilot.
Perhaps because she felt he was about to die, the assistant, unusually soft-hearted, secretly gave him quite a lot of candy.
"You haven't experienced anything lucky, but at least the sugar is sweet," the assistant said, offering a rare dose of inspirational wisdom.
Then the assistant kept rambling on and on, giving him instructions and telling him a lot about things happening outside, mostly about the director.
After all, the spiritual energy revival had already begun when she was still young, and she was not born in a very peaceful era.
But she still tried her best to depict the outside world as beautiful. When she was a child, well, she couldn't remember exactly how much, but she felt that the world was peaceful and beautiful at that time.
It tells the story of why she followed the director, how he saved them, how great he was, and how decisive he was in rescuing them...
Kendall didn't interrupt, just quietly listened with a smile as he finished telling the story, secretly amused that he hadn't expected Kendall to think of him this way.
Is he really that imposing? He mustn't let them down.
"Sigh, we're almost there. There's a radiation zone ahead. You'll have to walk in yourself." Actually, she didn't know much about it either. Ordinary people couldn't enter the radiation zone, so she could only have the plane stay on the outskirts of the radiation zone.
Then give him a parachute and let him land on his own. As for whether he will obediently enter the forest, there's no need to worry about that.
After all, although there were only the two of them in the helicopter, there were more than just this one helicopter around. If he dared to escape, the shells would explode right in front of him in the next second.
She still remembers when she raised this question with the director.
The director said almost coldly, "Shoot directly." Wasn't that obvious? He was the one in charge; how could he not know what he was supposed to do? Of course, if the alternate account got out of control, he would know the situation immediately, wouldn't he?
"...Although I know it sounds a bit hypocritical to say this, I still hope you won't complain about the director. The director is actually very gentle. He wants to protect all of us. Maybe it's because he took all the responsibility upon himself that he decided to be the bad guy. So I don't want you to hate anyone before you die, especially the director." The assistant left these words at the end.
"I'm very lucky to have met the director; I'm lucky enough." Kendall once again flashed his standard smile.
He had practiced that smile for a long time before it became muscle memory. He really didn't expect that getting 10 points of intelligence would be so difficult. He had been holding back this question since he asked it, and only now was he finally able to say it without stumbling, so that his assistant wouldn't discover that this body had an intellectual disability.
Sure enough, seeing that smile made the assistant feel a little dazed.
Kendall nodded in satisfaction, then without looking back, picked up the parachute and jumped down. Only after watching the child slowly walk into the forest did she come back to her senses.
She then realized that her comment was a response to when he gave her candy.
But no matter how much she admired the director, she couldn't lie and say that the director was his good fortune, but rather that it was the end of his good fortune.
But he said without any hesitation that the director was his good fortune. Could it be that he has a parenting fetish and sees the director as his father? But something just doesn't feel right.
The assistant took out the data again. Sometimes she was very sensitive to data and could always spot something wrong immediately.
He held the photo in his hand and weighed it a couple of times. Looking at the photo of the child's smiling face, he finally realized something was wrong. The smiles of the children were almost identical, the curves were exactly the same... it was like a replica.
It looks so sincere, but it's actually just an imitation smile, a standard gesture, but it does make people feel comfortable.
After hesitating for a while about whether to report the matter, he thought that he probably wouldn't come back alive, so he put the document down and didn't pay attention to it anymore.
Meanwhile, the original entity was already preparing for its second identity.
After all, you have to be prepared for both possibilities. Now that your first alias isn't around, you might as well train your second one. It's all on its own anyway.
In this dangerous world, if you don't drag others down with you, they will drag you down with them.
So for the sake of a better world, he must strive with all his might.
Open the system and click on the card drawing system.
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