Wen Shifei stared at the spectral analysis data and energy fluctuation curves jumping wildly on the scanner screen, her face appearing even paler under the reflection of the faint blue light. Her breath suddenly stopped, and her pupils contracted in shock.
"The homology... is over ninety-eight percent!" Her voice trembled slightly as she looked up at Lu Cheneng and Ajie, her eyes filled with disbelief and chill. "The energy signatures contained in these reagents... are almost identical to the residual fluctuations of the signal source that remotely and forcibly awakened the Qingyi chip! They are... of the same origin!"
This conclusion struck Lu Cheneng's heart like an invisible hammer. The knuckles of Miyin's left arm tightened instantly, a subtle metallic grinding sound emanating from them. The burning pain in the chip within his brain seemed to intensify with this overwhelming rage. The chaebol... they weren't just creating monsters; they were using the same thing to remotely control his sister! He treated her like a weapon to be activated at will!
"Not only that," Wen Shifei's voice became more serious. She turned the scanner screen towards the two of them, showing a set of complex energy structure models. "Look here! This energy structure has extremely strong permeability and neural guidance! It can bypass most of the firewalls and suppression protocols we previously established and directly act on the lowest-level instruction set of the biochip... It's like... like a master key, which can forcibly rewrite the preset low-level instructions!"
Rewrite the instructions!
Those four words, like a poisoned ice spike, pierced Lu Chen's last shred of hope. He suddenly recalled his sister's painful convulsions in the isolation room as the chip went berserk. He also recalled the cold, chaotic, destructive energy fluctuations he felt as he forcibly suppressed the dark purple light with his mithril arm! If the chaebol could remotely inject this reagent energy... then Qingyi...
He didn't dare think about it anymore.
At that moment, Applejack muttered a curse: "Damn! That rat even left a 'gift'!" He was crouching where the gray rat had thrown the explosives when it tried to slip away, carefully using the barrel of his shotgun to pick at the charred remains of the explosive disc on the ground. From the edge of the twisted and deformed metal fragments, a small, palm-sized metal box, also blackened by smoke, emerged from the barrel. A corner of the box seemed to have been affected by the explosion, cracking slightly.
"What is it?" Wen Shifei immediately asked vigilantly.
Ajie frowned and carefully pried the box open with the barrel of his gun. In the gap, he could vaguely see several smaller syringe-like objects and a small piece of sticky, dark purple substance that looked like solidified grease. The sickening, fishy-sweet smell became even stronger.
"It looks like... a spare injection? And... what the hell is this thing?" Ajie poked the dark purple substance with the barrel of the gun, and it trembled slightly like a living thing.
Wen Shifei immediately pointed the portable scanner at the cracked metal box and the contents inside.
“Beep, beep, beep—!!!”
The scanner erupted with an alarm even sharper and more rapid than the one it had just used to detect the reagents! The screen was instantly bathed in a blinding red! The energy concentration reading soared like an out-of-control rocket, directly breaking through the instrument's upper threshold! At the same time, the spectral analysis revealed an energy structure even more chaotic, more primitive, and filled with destructive contamination!
"Oh my god..." Wen Shifei gasped, his voice distorted by extreme shock and fear. "This... this isn't a diluted reagent! This is... 'Source Material'! A highly concentrated sample of the original 'Source Material'! The activity... the activity is terrifyingly high! Gray Rat... he actually carries this hellish thing with him!"
Source quality!
The word echoed like the abyss, sending a chill through Lu Chentang and Wen Shifei's heads. They knew exactly what it meant—this was the most primitive, most violent "medicine" to create those uncontrolled monsters! The chaebol's core secret! How could Gray Rat, a black market middleman, possibly possess such a thing? And why was he carrying it on his person?
The stagnant air within the pumping station seemed to freeze in an instant, leaving only the shrill alarm of the scanner echoing wildly in the empty space, striking the rusted steel walls with a heart-pounding reverberation. Fragments of the truth, like venomous snakes in the darkness, were winding up bit by bit, cold and deadly.
Lu Cheneng, enduring the excruciating pain in his brain that threatened to tear at his nerves and the heavy, numb feeling brought on by the backlash of the mithril arm's energy, stepped over to the massive, headless corpse. The corpse exuded a strong stench. On its chest, covered in a rocky grayish-white stratum corneum, dark purple energy veins tangled like ugly earthworms. They had lost their luster, but they still pulsed faintly, as if a lingering vitality still lingered.
He half-crouched, his cold mithril fingers thrusting without hesitation into the gap between the sticky, tough cuticle and the festering flesh. His fingertips felt slippery and cold, accompanied by a subtle corrosive sensation. He groped for the unusually hard spot the mithril arm's energy had sensed during the previous battle.
Found it!
His fingertips touched a cold metal object embedded deep within his flesh. With a forceful tug, accompanied by the sticky sound of muscle and fascia being torn apart, a small, silver metal recorder, stained with blood and sticky tissue fluid, was forcibly pulled out!
He stood up, and the mercury lines on his mithril arm glowed faintly, forming a thin layer of energy film that quickly peeled away and evaporated the impurities on the recorder's surface. The metal casing of the instrument was revealed in the dim light, cold and exquisite. On its bottom, a tiny, precisely etched symbol was clearly visible -
Chaebol "beehive"!
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