Chapter 1 She Doesn't Want to Be Human Anymore
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Secret research institute in the deep forest.
Underground laboratory.
The small space is narrow and cramped, and the room is filled with various precision instruments.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of formaldehyde.
In the middle of the laboratory, on the cold operating table, a little girl with black hair and black eyes had her hands and feet tightly cuffed. Her skin was as pale as a dead person, her body was emaciated, and her eyes were empty.
The display connected to her body beeped frequently. Several researchers in white coats walked around nearby, testing the equipment and chatting as if no one was around.
"It's been six years, and we still haven't been able to discover her miraculous abilities. The higher-ups are already very unhappy. If there's no progress this time, her research funding will be stopped immediately, shit!"
"We all witnessed her ability to create things out of thin air!"
"So what? The research hasn't made any progress. Continuing to spend money on her is a waste. To us, she's no different from trash!"
"It cost me a million to buy her, plus all the research costs that took so long... Damn, all that money is gone!"
The researchers cursed.
The old man in a white coat who had been standing in front of the operating table, staring at the little girl, said, "This is the last time. If it doesn't work again, subject number zero will be discarded."
"Professor, what should we do?"
The old man turned around, his black-framed glasses flashing a cold luster, and said indifferently, "Vivisection!"
Those cold-blooded words echoed in the little girl's ears. There was no emotion on her face, and her eyes remained empty and wooden.
On her fourth birthday, her parents brought her here and said that if she could conjure something for them, they would buy her a sweet cake and celebrate her birthday.
She conjured up a delicious pear and looked at her parents expectantly.
But there was no birthday cake that day.
After she conjured something, these people appeared.
Her parents left happily with a large sum of money. No one looked at her or thought of taking her away.
For the next six years, she was locked in this glass house and studied like a monkey.
Continuous drug injections, blood and bone marrow extraction, machine dialysis, surgery...
She became the experimental subject here, number zero.
Innate lack of empathy.
"Little brat, it's really boring to have this dead look on your face every day. It's okay to smile or cry." Someone approached the operating table and reached out to slap her in the face.
He tried to use pain to make the little girl change her expression and cry.
"This kid is born without empathy, and his nerve endings are damaged, so he can't cry or laugh at all. You know that." Another person approached, wanting to prove what he said was true, and stabbed her thigh with a sharp scalpel.
The little girl's reflex twitched, her dark eyes moving slowly, but she didn't scream or cry.
The researchers laughed strangely, "See, he still looks like this, hahaha!"
"When she's vivisected later, what expression do you think she'll have?"
"Oh, wait, I'll record it, it's bound to be amazing!"
The knife cut through my flesh and it hurt so much.
The little girl's thin, sunken face gradually twisted due to the pain, and her black eyes gradually turned a strange scarlet.
The lines on the display next to it suddenly accelerated, and a warning sounded.
"Professor, she might not be able to hold on!"
"Don't worry, just keep going!"
Beep, beep—
Didi Didi——
The warning sound of the display instrument became more and more urgent, as if it was about to break through the instrument and rush out.
Invisible wave factors in the air quickly condensed, rotated, and generated heat.
There was a loud explosion.
A mushroom cloud rose into the sky from deep in the forest.
The underground laboratory was blown to pieces.
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North Vietnam.
The twenty-third year of Hongde, mid-winter.
During the coldest days of winter, the snow falls endlessly in the north.
The cold wind howled loudly, stirring up a cloud of snow wherever it passed.
A faint cry was heard from Dahuai Village, which is located at the border of Yuzhou and Xiangzhou.
The cry was mixed in with the cold wind, as weak as a cat's meow.
At noon, a chatty woman who was warming herself by the fire in the village glanced in a certain direction with her hands in her pockets. "I guess it's the Su family's baby. They're so poor that they don't even care about mice, and now they've given birth to a kid. They're not worried about not being able to raise him, huh."
"Why do you care whether other people's children are well-fed or not? Go sweep the snow off the roof later. It's been snowing non-stop these past few days, and it's piled up so thick it's about to collapse the beams."
After being caught and scolded by the man, the woman curled her lips and kept silent.
The Su family the woman was talking about was just two houses away from hers.
They are the poorest family in Dahuai Village.
The house only has a small, shabby yard, about the size of a palm, and three rooms.
At this moment, an old woman's voice could be heard from the dilapidated courtyard. "It's born! Xiu'er, help the midwife out, and then go to the kitchen to get a basin of hot water! Second wife, come in and help clean up the mess! Gentlemen, don't block the door, go to the kitchen first!"
The dusty door curtain of the main hall was immediately lifted up. The midwife weighed six copper coins in her hand and curled her lips silently, not wanting to stay any longer. A pretty woman in her twenties followed behind and carefully escorted her out. Without time to feel sorry for herself, she hurried to the kitchen to fetch a basin of hot water and returned to the house.
The cramped and dim room was filled with a strong smell of blood, and we had to clean it up quickly.
"Mom, is it a boy or a girl?" Su Xiu asked as she put the basin of hot water in place and rolled up her sleeves to get busy.
"Girl."
"That's great! We have another baby girl in our family."
"What's good about it? Girls are destined to suffer from the moment they are born." The old woman of the Su family wrapped the baby in swaddling clothes and gently patted the baby with her rough and deformed hands.
These words sounded like disgust, but Liu Yuelan, who had just given birth, and He Daxiang, Su Er's wife who was helping to clean up, both smiled.
After being married into the Su family for so many years, how could they not know their mother-in-law's temper?
He has a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
After a moment, the old woman of the Su family suddenly frowned, "Why is Xiaobao so quiet? He just cried when he came out. Maybe he got a cold?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the three young women in the room turned pale with fright.
Liu Yuelan didn't care about her weak body. She struggled to sit up, feeling anxious and distressed. "Mom, please let me see Xiaobao!"
Su Xiu and He Daxiang dropped their work and ran over.
As a result, he happened to meet the baby's slowly opening eyes.
It was dark, glossy, and revealed the dullness and confusion of a newly changed environment.
"..." Su Xiu chuckled, "Sister-in-law, don't let mother scare you. Xiaobao is fine. His eyes are big and black, and he is energetic and smart."
He Daxiang smiled innocently and said, "Little baby is very good, he doesn't like to cry and doesn't make noise."
The old woman of the Su family also relaxed her expression at this time. When she met those dark eyes, her weather-beaten face softened a little.
“…” Looking at the three heads popping up above, Yaobao’s eyebrows, which were so light that they were almost invisible, slowly frowned, and he looked as serious as a little old man.
What's going on?
She remembered that she had clearly died when the laboratory exploded.
Why is he alive again now?
She doesn't want to be human anymore.
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