Chapter 70 Mortals and Players [VIP]
Chisa Mihara nervously grabbed the snake-eyed subject's arm, and they both swallowed at the same time.
The cat-eared researcher was about to speak up to remind people of the precautions when he was so shocked by Lin Chen's actions that his ears perked up.
A flash of blue light flashed from the scalpel in Lady Player's hand. With a gentle stroke, she slashed Red Name's arm—and a translucent projection of a DNA double helix emerged from the wound. She fiddled with the glowing genetic strands, adjusting the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle.
"Here... and here..." She muttered as she operated, completely unaware of the stunned expressions of the subjects.
The tied-up Red Name suddenly stopped struggling and looked at the changes happening on his arm in shock - fine scales appeared on the surface of his skin, feathers grew, and then quickly returned to normal.
Lin Chen entered a built-in mini-game. The three horizontal lines representing the gene library were on the far left, the unlocked shortcut gene key was at the top, and the target gene was in the center.
The target gene can be zoomed in or out at will, but not all genes can be replaced at will. Click on the newly obtained [Antifreeze] gene and it will automatically zoom in and track the replaceable gene fragment.
It is very simple to carry out a biological transformation.
"Do you want to change your skin?" Lin Chen asked him happily.
"I don't want to!" Redname screamed, "I just want to be a normal human!"
The player ignored Red Name's screams and coldly began to select the genes she had obtained.
"Hey? You won't listen to me, right? Then why are you asking me?" Red Name collapsed and began to cry. "You devil! Wuuwuwu!"
"Done." Lin Chen snapped her fingers, and the projection vanished instantly. She turned to the cat-eared researcher triumphantly: "He's become a glowing man."
The lab was completely silent. Mihara Chisa was the first to come to her senses, cautiously leaning in to observe. "Hey... Mr. Player, he doesn't seem to be glowing?"
The player frowned and turned back, only to find that the red name had indeed not changed.
She poked the man's arm in disbelief, picked him up, and turned him over and over. Then, the player's intelligence of 70 gave her a flash of inspiration, and she suddenly realized:
You have to be in the dark to see the light!
The highly mobile player casually swung a stone—she'd pulled it from her backpack—and it precisely hit the switch in the lab. Then, she showed the glowing red name to the NPCs, grinning triumphantly, "Look! It's glowing!"
The cat-eared NPC trembled as he picked up the tester. The data he saw nearly made him drop it. "You, you really did modify his genetic sequence... But how is that possible? How can it be done without a vector virus..."
"Master Player is amazing!" the clever little NPC suddenly cheered, her eyes sparkling. "This way, Juri-san's illness can be cured!"
Lin Shen was immersed in the self-revelation of "I am indeed a genius," and hearing this made him even more eager to try. Isn't it easy for a player to cure any disease?
She looked at the silent snake pupil experiment subject in the corner and asked the clever loli NPC: "What's the disease?"
The clever loli NPC opened her big eyes, covered her lips and shook her head at the player.
What disease is it that I, as a player, cannot listen to?
Lin Chen ran up to the Snake Pupil NPC and poked her arm, "What's wrong?"
The snake-eyed subject sighed and rolled up his sleeves, revealing the strange lines running down his arms. "Genetic collapse syndrome. A side effect of the lab... I only had three months left..."
The player immediately took out the AED that had been waiting in her backpack for a long time, and eagerly demonstrated it in front of the Snake Eye NPC.
Don't worry, I've been a mediocre NPC player for so many years... no, a miracle doctor! I can definitely cure you!
"The AED doesn't seem to be effective in treating my condition..." The snake-eyed NPC leaned back and silently moved a little further away from the AED in front of him.
The player put away the AED regretfully, took out a silver scalpel, and pressed the snake-eyed NPC onto the operating table.
In order to avoid a rollover, Lin Chen saved the game at the beginning.
——
After settling Shiratori Juri down, Lady Player suddenly turned around, grabbed a "red name" that had been abandoned, and brutally beat him. Then, with a grim smile on her face, she pulled out a dish that was so powerful just by glancing at it... and fed it to the man.
"I'll deal with you after it's over." Player left the man who was like a rag doll and walked calmly to the operating table.
Mihara Chisa and Arima Rinku watched Player's movements nervously.
From their perspective, they could only see countless DNA projections continuously expanding. Their hands were so fast that afterimages appeared. Shiratori Juri tightly grasped the iron rod.
Mihara Chisa held her breath, watching an elegant arc of light traverse the air. Countless objects unfolded before them, more intricate than anything else.
Wonderful.
There were no complicated instruments, and after Shiratori Juri overcame her initial stress reaction and found that she didn't feel anything, she was even able to comfort the nervous Mihara Chisa.
There was no screaming in pain during the entire "operation", and not even a drop of blood was splattered. The adults just waved their fingers at the world that they could not see clearly. It was that simple.
The black lines on Shiratori Juri's arms that were twisting like earthworms quickly faded away as if they had encountered a natural enemy.
Chisa Mihara blinked, wondering if she had missed some crucial step.
"Alright." Player put away the unused scalpel. She made a gesture as if she were shoving it into something in the void. After a moment, she took out a sandwich and took a bite. "I've always said I'm the living Hua Tuo."
Arima Rinku's cat ears twitched violently. He frantically checked the monitoring equipment, only to find that all indicators had returned to normal.
The symptoms of genetic collapse that had tormented Shiratori Juri for years were completely cured in just three minutes, without even a scar left.
Shiratori Juri slowly sat up and stroked his intact arm in disbelief.
Her fingertips repeatedly rubbed the area where the ulcer had been most severe, as if to confirm that this was not an illusion.
Chisa Mihara noticed that Sister Juri's snake tail scales, which had once turned gray due to genetic collapse, now had a healthy pearly luster and were even more beautiful than she remembered.
"Is this... the end?" Arima Rinku's voice trembled. The test report in his hand showed that not only had the gene collapse syndrome been cured, but also the side effects of the experiments that had accumulated in Shiratori Juri over the years had been eliminated.
Meanwhile, Master Player had already walked to the corner and started collecting the expensive genetic analyzer and other things she had taken out.
She muttered something they couldn't understand, and excitedly mentioned those "red names" who had given up struggling, as if she was considering what kind of gene replacement would be best for them.
Are all lives of equal weight in the eyes of God?
Mihara Chisa felt dizzy. She thought back to the past five years—Juri's painful groans, the pungent smell of disinfectant in the laboratory, and those test reports that never showed any hope.
And now, all of this is like a bad joke, easily exposed by Mr. Player.
Shiratori Juri slowly slid down the operating table, his snake tail drawing a smooth trajectory on the ground.
She wandered over to Player and bowed deeply, but she didn't know what to say. A thank you seemed more than an understatement, but what else could they offer this god who could easily change life and death?
"Can... can you tell me your name?" Shiratori Juri became unusually nervous.
Lady Player nodded and casually said, "Lin Chen." She was still focused on scaring the bad guys into tears.
Chisa Mihara knew very well that for this person, curing a terminal illness and dismantling a machine were essentially no different.
Arima Rinku stood there in a daze, the test report in his hand slipping silently.
The former researcher's expression was neither joy nor shock, but rather a blankness bordering on bewilderment.
He now recalled the all-nighters he had pulled, the countless manuscripts he had secretly read, and the experimental plans that ultimately failed.
Chisa Mihara rushed over and hugged Shiratori Juri's waist, burying her face in the new cold scales.
She could no longer smell the familiar stench of decay, only the pungent scent of metal and gunpowder—from Lord Player's hands, always holding the spoils of war.
This realization reminded them more cruelly than any test report: the unforgettable pain of mortals is nothing more than dust scattered when the gods lower their eyes.
But these dusts almost crushed their lives, causing them to struggle and sink for a quarter of their lives so far.
How... powerless.
——
Lin Chen wiped away the cold sweat that he didn't have at all, feeling relieved.
Scared to death, this snake pupil NPC and the red-named mini-game were completely different in difficulty! Not only was there a time limit, but the interface was so confusing that it nearly blinded her.
It's like saying, "You know the multiplication table? Now let's solve the Goldbach conjecture!"
It's filled with a feeling of helplessness as there is no tutorial for beginners and you have to fight the big boss just when you are familiar with the opposite key positions.
Lin Shen had just saved the file and excitedly opened the gene editing interface, wanting to show off his skills. However, his pupils trembled as he saw the interface of the snake pupil NPC.
Is this the first puzzle game I played, Producer? This is just a patchwork of music, puzzle, and real-time strategy, okay?
It’s just like the damn mathematics that first tells you it’s called finding patterns, but later you find out it’s actually a problem of proving monotone and boundedness.
Lin Chen was now filled with a fury of being deceived. On the left, he had to play "Rhythm Master" to beat the beat to stabilize the DNA chain, and on the right, he had to play "Legend" to solve puzzles and design sgRNA. In the middle, there were also human-computer verification and biology questions that would pop up. He almost wanted to tell the NPCs, "I can't save you. I'll die. Goodbye."
What lunatic wrote this built-in game code? Just wait and see if the players go out and rant on the forums about you.
If it weren't for the last bit of dignity that belonged to a player supporting her, she really wanted to leave this disgusting place.
Start this crazy little game, and the countdown numbers in the upper right corner jump more excitingly than being chased by a bazooka.
Lin Chen gritted his teeth and operated simultaneously - his left hand was tapping the beat of "Wild Dance" in the air, while his right hand was solving the riddle to find the correct gene, and also looking for different choices to replace the collapsed gene, and his eyes were fixed on the math problem that suddenly popped up: "Please calculate the allele frequency."
The player cursed the producer in his heart and cast an extremely vicious and cruel curse on him.
When the completion rate reaches 50%, the system will pop up a message [Please complete the chromatin immunoprecipitation game to unlock the next stage].
It directly pushed the player to the point of red temperature, and the instrument next to it went from silent to screaming and then back to silent in just thirty seconds.
The Snake Pupil NPC was on the operating table, his life in danger, and he said with his last breath,
"Thank you, Mr. Player... I'm not so honored to know your name. It always feels weird to call you by your code name."
Crying sounds gradually rose all around.
The player's face was stern. "You won't die," she said firmly. "You must live."
I've never heard of a player trying to save an NPC that wasn't killed by the plot but failing. Even if Nanook came in person today, there would only be one ending.
No one can take your life from me, not even yourself.
The player selects [Load File].
On her second attempt, she pushed the completion rate to 70%, but was defeated by the [Hi-C Chromatin Conformation Capture] mini-game that suddenly popped up, and died with hatred in her heart.
"Thank you, Mr. Player..."
[Load file] again.
Every step of the music game, decryption, and calculation was flawless. Lin Chen became even more focused. After all, she was only one step away from victory...
An evil red-named NPC without any eyes took advantage of the player's concentration and waited for an opportunity to strike. When it was suppressed by the smart loli NPC and the help of other NPCs, it stretched its neck and knocked the snake-eyed NPC crooked.
"Player never kills anyone, so I am worthy..." Before he could finish his complacent words, he was cut in half by the angry player.
The snake pupil NPC lying there shed tears,
"thank you……"
【Load file】.
This time, he'd first give the red-named player a good beating, then feed him the [Indescribably Wet Sweet and Sour Pork], lovingly provided by Squidward. The player, having vented his anger, returned to the operating table.
Faster than last time, with more precise movements, the player with a super memory gradually became adept at everything.
He completed the full combo in the musical note game on the left, cleared the pipe puzzle on the right in ten seconds, and even figured out the answer to the most disgusting math problems in his head.
When the system popped up a golden prompt of [Repair Completed], Lin Chen calmly put the unused scalpel back into his backpack, took out a [Bird's Egg and Pickle Sandwich] and took a bite.
tasty.
The player took back her props and walked briskly to the red-named person who dared to become her obstacle. She easily picked him up with one hand and looked at him as if he were a piece of fat meat.
"I think you've eaten too many red beans, lovesick."
The player smiled affectionately at the red name.
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