Chapter 197 Deep Virtual Reality 24
"Destroy them?" Xie Ning's gaze fell on the sleeping half-humans, and a chill ran down his spine.
"Why would you think that?" the young man chuckled. "How adorable. They're still useful; why would we destroy them?"
The body's intact tissues and organs can be preserved and reused, while the rest will be used as nutrients.
Krono's inorganic voice rang out, "Dr. Ji and Director Crete urged the two staff members to hurry over."
Upon hearing this, the two stopped talking and quickened their pace to open the inner metal door.
Dr. Ji glanced at Xie Ning and gestured for her to put on the protective suit next to him and assist him.
Lying on the experimental table was a boy with delicate features. His face and other parts were different from the humanoid creature behind the glass wall outside. He did not seem to have failed in his mutation.
The boy stared with his clear black and white eyes, seemingly not understanding what these people were doing.
Xie Ning put on a mask and followed behind Dr. Ji, step by step staining his hands with blood. The boy struggled, but he couldn't make a sound, seemingly due to a failed development of his vocal cords.
Director Krite was adjusting the medicine on the side, his tone tinged with regret, "034's gene editing was very good, but unfortunately, it went wrong during the mutation process. Not only did it fail to activate the superpower, but it also lost its vocal cords. Otherwise, it could have been sold as a perfect android."
The boy has delicate features, the kind that many people would like.
"If it can be integrated with machinery, it could also be used as a weapon." Dr. Ji's eyes gleamed. Purely mechanical weapons have flaws and lack flexibility, but transforming newborn androids into mechanical weapons and then implanting their memories would be a great weapon.
After all, not everyone can awaken superpowers and talents, and it would be a great pity to destroy androids whose superpowers have not yet been awakened.
They are no longer satisfied with cold, mechanical humanoid weapons. Even with skin grafting technology, they are still cold and ruthless, only able to follow orders. But androids are different; they have thoughts and can do much more.
Xie Ning felt a chill run through her body.
She suddenly remembered Silver Moon's words: androids are tools of humans; they are not recognized or acknowledged, even though they possess memories, thoughts, and emotions.
Are they considered lives?
Xie Ning's gaze met the boy's tear-filled eyes. He was in pain, he was pleading, he didn't understand why he was being treated this way.
“You did a great job today.” Dr. Ji handed the tools back to Xie Ning on a tray to put away, then took off his gloves and began to talk to Crete, “...The rest is up to you.”
“Hey,” Crete said, not too happy, “Don’t push everything onto me. It was fine when you didn’t have many assistants, but now you have four, and you’re still dumping all the experimental subjects on me. That’s too much.”
"Ahem—" Dr. Ji realized he had gone a bit too far, then pointed at Xie Ning and said, "Then let Xie Ning take care of this for now." As for the rest, we'll talk about it later.
Xie Ning paused in her packing. She wanted to say that she wasn't good at taking care of people, but Dr. Ji didn't give her a chance to refuse.
"Xiao Chu, you hand over the information to Xiao Ning." He directly instructed the young man next to him to transfer the boy's file to Xie Ning.
Then, he took Xie Ning and Jiang Teng, who were testing the data, to the next laboratory. On the way, when they passed P1, Xie Ning glanced at the sign written in English that read "Alien Observation Room" and his heart was filled with turmoil.
She wondered if she was going crazy, actually thinking that those alien creatures might have been created in the lab here, or perhaps they were just captured alien creatures that were then observed and studied in the lab.
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