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As soon as the founder of Parachute just appeared on the screen, Xu Cheng asked someone to confirm the location where he was imprisoned.

However, things did not develop in a good direction.

The person who was sent came back soon and said solemnly: "He is missing."

Xu Cheng's voice almost got stuck in his throat: "Why didn't anyone notice?"

"I checked the surveillance footage. He escaped when the guards were changing shifts. No one noticed because he copied the previous surveillance footage directly to the next one. It was not until we compared and checked it frame by frame that we discovered this."

Xu Cheng closed his eyes.

It was a poor plan, but it worked especially well on the night of Independence Day, when all attention was focused on the palace.

What's even more terrifying is that the founder really ran away, which means that he is now in a place they don't know, which means that he can really control these experimental subjects to kill people according to his wishes!

He whispered, "Go find the technicians and try to locate his current location through the TV screen signal. Go!"

He looked around the banquet hall and saw that people had gone from being incredulous to being suspicious, and had actually started to observe the suspicious people around them.

The palace guards, under the emperor's orders, began to interrogate the guests who seemed to be behaving strangely. Xu Cheng saw that several suspicious people were surrounded. They were terrified, confused, and tried desperately to explain, but they still could not escape the approaching gunshots.

How is this different from the legendary medieval witch trials!

Xu Cheng vaguely felt that they had fallen into a self-proving trap.

Asking humans to prove their innocence and prove that they are not experimental subjects? How ridiculous!

But he had no choice.

Just when he was in despair, he heard——

[But they are not experimental subjects at all. ]

As soon as the sound was heard, the palace guards' fingers instantly took off the trigger and they all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

They don't want to kill anyone if they can help it.

Fortunately, they had a voice they could trust completely.

Xu Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief, his heart suddenly relaxed, fortunately he had Luo Tan.

But at this moment, he sensitively discovered that Luo Tan's expression changed.

【Behind me...】

Xu Cheng's eyes widened and he rushed over without thinking. He was three meters away from Luo Tan, but it took him less than two seconds to run in front of her and quickly throw her under him.

Then he felt a chill on his back.

He hadn't felt such deep fear for a long time. The severe pain prolonged the fear indefinitely, making him almost think that he had lived a lifetime.

What woke him up was Luo Chen's shocked expression. She seemed to touch his back, but he could no longer feel it. Then, she stretched out her palm in front of him, her face was pale, her lips were trembling, and her palm was a dazzling red: "It's all blood..."

Four or five hands rushed to half-lift Xu Cheng up. In the chaos, someone screamed, "Don't help him, let him lie down, otherwise the blood will flow faster!"

His lips were completely bloodless, but he still managed a smile towards Luo Chen, and then said in an almost inaudible voice, "It's okay."

At the last moment, he allowed the overwhelming attack to avoid his vital points, and now, the bloody hole from which blood was gushing out was only inches away from his heart.

Beside them, the humanoid experimental subject who had just stabbed Xu Cheng's back with his palm was hit in the middle of the eyebrows by a bullet and died.

At this time, the alarm rang and the first ten minutes passed.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the surroundings, Luo Tan asked, "Why did you save me just now?"

The whole world seemed to have suddenly quieted down.

Xu Cheng was lying on the ground, with a bright crystal lamp above his head and severe tearing pain on his back. But at that moment, the dazzling light and the burning pain seemed to have disappeared, returning to the hazy bubble beyond the sea level.

Xu Cheng thought about it seriously.

He couldn't talk about those vague senses of responsibility, and he couldn't let Luo Chen feel strange, but this didn't bother him, because there was a more real word that was about to come out, and it was exactly what he wanted to say at this moment, so he smiled:

"Because I wanted to save you. Because I didn't want you to die."

Fuck those false responsibilities and obligations, the real reason is that simple!

After he finished speaking, he looked at Luo Chen, but she avoided his gaze, then stood up and walked towards the dead subject, saying, "I'll go see what the characteristics of the subject are."

However, no matter from which angle you look at her movements, there is a sense of concealment.

Xu Cheng laughed, because he heard Luo Tan's complaints.

【Why do you say such cheesy things when you disagree with me? 】

…

While Xu Cheng was receiving emergency medical treatment, Luo Chen carefully observed the dead subjects, and then she actually discovered something -

[What the hell, there's a number like Area A xxx on its neck? Doesn't that mean we can find all the test subjects by just checking their necks one by one to see if there's a pattern on them?]

The palace guards, who were like ants on a hot pot, were anxiously running around but could not find a solution. Suddenly, their eyes lit up and they quickly ordered everyone to line up in several teams and check one by one.

But to their disappointment, they only found a subject with a number on its neck, and then killed it a second before it could attack.

[Ah, so not every subject's number is branded on their neck! Uh, but if we strip everyone naked, wouldn't that be inconsistent with our core values?]

The guards didn't know what core values ​​were, but they knew that it was okay to take a look at the neck, but it was absolutely unacceptable to strip everyone naked for inspection.

A new round of ten minutes soon arrived, but this time, no one died.

Everyone's eyes lit up.

This shows that the "kill them all" in the game rules does not require killing all of them. Even if you only kill one, you can gain ten minutes of safety.

But...it's only ten minutes!

What to do in the next ten minutes?

…

When everyone was at a loss, the old man on TV smiled triumphantly.

"Do you know why you lost?"

"For thousands of years, all species, except humans, have experienced population birth, expansion, decline, and extinction. During this long period of time, their biological characteristics have changed little by little, gradually accumulating to produce earth-shaking changes. This is the most important instinct that nature has given to living things - evolution."

"And what about humans? How many years have the human genes and the human population not evolved? When a biological population remains constant, that is the beginning of their degeneration!"

“You pride yourself on your civilization and technology, but your civilization and order cannot resist the power of evolution! I just used a little bit of the most superficial technology and works to trick you into going around in circles, hahahahahaha!”

"The wave of human evolution will begin today, and I will go down in history!"

…

While he was talking nonsense, Luo Tan stared at the system closely, afraid of missing any predictive information.

She called out to Xiao Ai in her heart:

Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai, are you broken? Otherwise, why hasn’t the next crisis been predicted yet?

Xiao Ai said: "Because the probability of the crisis has not yet reached the predictable range, don't worry, I will tell you when it reaches a certain probability! I will take care of it all."

Luo Chen suddenly realized her misunderstanding. The experimental subjects were not motionless. On the contrary, they moved around like ordinary people. Therefore, only at the node every ten minutes would the objects they were about to attack be fixed from a vast collection.

However, if we can only predict it then, it will be too late.

A very strange feeling arose in her heart.

It was like the rules of the game were against her.

But how is this possible?

She laughed to herself, and then tried her best to use her eyes to catch any abnormal people among the people around her.

The old man's words just now made many people raise their heads and focus their eyes on him. Luo Chen soon discovered that in the southeast corner of the square, there was a person who kept his head down. He was the only person in the audience who was not staring at the founder's movements.

[Is there something wrong with that person?] Just as Luo Tan was about to go in that direction, he heard Andre say from behind: "I'll go."

Even at this moment, he still had a smile on his face as always. He looked at Luo Tan deeply and said, "Take good care of yourself."

As soon as he finished speaking, he led several palace guards towards the direction of the strange man.

Ten steps... five steps... three steps...

Andre and his men were getting closer and closer to the man, but Luo Chen thought he might have seen it wrong, because the man who had always kept his head down actually raised his head at one point and said to Wang Chu in a respectful tone: "Your Highness Wang Chu, are you here..."

Andre stopped hesitantly. After a few seconds of silence, he said in a soothing tone: "Oh, it's nothing. I recognized the wrong person..." He turned around and was about to leave.

But at this moment, Luo Chen heard the system alarm prompt sound, and she immediately looked at the predicted animated picture. In the picture, the strange man suddenly jumped up and grabbed Andre's face with his sharp claws.

[That’s him! ]

At that moment, the flow of time seemed to slow down, and the scene changed rapidly, one scene after another unfolding in front of everyone. Just as the claws were about to pierce the back of Andre's head, Andre suddenly turned his head. This action obviously caught the attacker off guard, and the strength in his hand stagnated! At the same second, the attendant beside Andre raised his pistol, "Pah pah pah pah!" Several bullets hit the man's forehead, and the man slowly fell backwards, and with a "bang", he lay flat on the cold ground full of holes gnawed by rats.

Another ten minutes passed.

The following few times were not so smooth. Luo Chen always predicted the location of the subject before it was about to attack. Seven or eight times, there happened to be patrolling police officers around the subject, and the police were always able to react in a very short time and kill the subject who was about to attack. But there were also two or three times when no one was able to react when the subject attacked, resulting in one death and six injuries in a short period of time.

A-level experimental subjects can imitate human form very well and even blend into human society, but once they take action, they will reveal their animal characteristics. The only person who died was strangled to death by the tentacles of a huge mollusk. With the advanced medical treatment of the stars, even if the internal organs are ruptured, it is possible to save him in a short time, but when the victim is caught in the countless tentacles of the mollusk, the rescuers can't even see where he is stuffed. When the killing experiment subject finds him, every inch of his bones has been squeezed into powder by the thick tentacles that are as heavy as a thousand pounds.

When Luo Chen went to see Xu Cheng again, after more than an hour of emergency treatment, he had already woken up and looked much better. He asked Luo Chen: "How many experimental subjects have died?"

Luo Tan recalled and gave a number: "13."

Xu Cheng: "If I didn't miscount the number of culture dishes, there should only be two A-area test subjects left to be solved."

He added: "But there is also a possibility that the old man did not release all the experimental subjects."

Luo Tan waited for a while again, but this time, she did not wait for the system broadcast.

She breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that he kept two for himself."

The war situation is easing, but we should not take it lightly.

At this time, a policeman under Xu Cheng hurried in and reported to him: "Brother Xu, we seem to have located the founder of the parachute company."