Chapter 188 The Truth
As soon as Chi Wan finished speaking, he realized that he was naive.
If the country doesn't allow them to research these things, will they just obey?
Research like this cannot be carried out by one person alone. Li Mingyu probably not only has his own team, but also financial backers behind him.
And their research base is probably not even located in the country.
Sure enough, Gu Peijun smiled, but there was sarcasm in that smile: "For people like them, they don't care about what is allowed or not.
"I was a classmate of Li Mingyu and we entered the research institute together. I thought he was just interested in the topic of genetic evolution until I accidentally discovered that he had obtained funds from nowhere and had an island under his name.
"I felt something was wrong, but I already had Aye at that time, so I didn't make it public and just investigated secretly. It turned out that they were doing extremely dangerous and unethical human experiments on the island.
"At that time, they had already developed a so-called super gene, but there was no way to transcribe and express it directly. So, they turned their attention to pregnant women.
"Long before I found out about this, he had already used me as a test subject, codenamed 'Matrix'."
Hearing this, Chi Wan showed a trace of disbelief: "What kind of beast is this?!"
Although Li Xingye didn't say anything, the murderous aura in him could hardly be concealed.
Gu Peijun continued: "Li Mingyu said that they have also detected increasingly strong radiation levels. If this continues, the world will be destroyed sooner or later. Their original intention was just to research genes that are more in line with the direction of evolution to resist increasingly severe natural disasters.
"As you can see, the world was almost destroyed."
Chi Wan frowned: "So the appearance of zombies was not due to the so-called radiation?"
Gu Peijun shook her head: "It can only be said that this is the result of both. The radiation level did increase dramatically in a short period of time, and their purpose also changed from 'defense' at the beginning to 'offense'.
"They said they wanted to create a 'super race' that was stronger than ordinary people to resist the drastic changes that might come."
Chi Wan exclaimed, "Superpowers?! But that's not right. If only the genes they have researched can produce superpowers, then where do so many adults with superpowers come from?"
Chi Wan didn't understand.
Li Xingye suddenly said, "I'm afraid they only created zombies. On the contrary, the mutation of the superpowers is achieved through radiation."
Gu Peijun looked at her son, and her expression became somewhat bitter as she thought about the years she had been absent.
But he still nodded: "Aye is right, their so-called super race is the root cause of the zombies. The impact of radiation is more reflected in the environment.
"Later, in order to protect Aye, I sought help from the country. But the people behind Li Mingyu were indeed well-connected. Although I managed to escape, when the country sent people to investigate the island, they were gone.
"But I knew they wouldn't stop. After that, I completely lost contact with Li Mingyu. Until Aye was ten years old, the zombies broke out and the end of the world came."
Li Xingye whispered, "So, you fell into Li Mingyu's hands when I awakened my superpowers?"
Unexpectedly, Gu Peijun shook her head.
She gently stroked Li Xingye's face and said, "I left on my own initiative. After leaving Li Mingyu, I took the initiative to do a variety of genetic monitoring, including from birth to ten years old. I took you for various examinations every year.
"But the strange thing is that no matter how we checked, we didn't find any abnormalities in us. Later I thought that it might be that the state of pregnant women is different from that of ordinary people, and those original genes were completely integrated into normal genes during the gestation process.
"When the zombie virus broke out, I felt something was wrong with my body, and you started to have a fever. I thought I would turn into a zombie, but when I woke up, you were still sleeping in my arms, surrounded by zombie corpses.
"I wanted to take you away, but when I picked you up, I discovered something very scary."
Gu Peijun's expression was obviously so sad, but she never shed a tear.
A sentence suddenly popped up in Chi Wan's mind: Zombies have no tears.
She suddenly realized what the terrible thing that Gu Peijun had discovered was.
Li Xingye finally remembered the real memory that had already become blurred.
Gu Peijun did turn into a zombie, but there seemed to be some differences in her genetic expression, causing her to become a zombie that retained her self-awareness.
But no matter how much she retains her self-awareness, she is still a zombie and has the same zombie instincts.
To Gu Peijun, who had just changed her mind, the Li Xingye in front of her was no less than a banquet in front of someone who had been hungry for seven days.
She almost used up all her willpower in her life to let go of Li Xingye.
Gu Peijun smiled bitterly: "I can't guarantee how long I can control myself, but I'm worried that you won't be able to survive this fever. I can only wander around you and watch you from afar.
"After seeing you finally recover and awaken your superpowers, I wanted to talk to you. But... I was horrified to find that you are different from the others.
"When I was facing other psychics, or even ordinary people, I never had the same urgent desire to eat as I did with you. Especially after you awakened your psychic powers, I didn't even dare to get within 50 meters of you."
Chi Wan held Li Xingye's hand somewhat uncomfortably and cursed Li Mingyu a thousand times in his heart.
"Is it because of Hoshino-san's special ability, and the fusion of the so-called super gene?"
Chi Wan finally understood why Li Xingye’s abilities were different from those of others, and why the eighth-level zombie said that all zombies wanted Li Xingye’s genetic sequence.
Including Li Mingyu, who tried his best to obtain Li Xingye's sequence, probably because this is what he imagined himself to be like.
Li Xingye talked about something else: "Those crystal cores I found in the house were also given to me by you, right?"
Gu Peijun nodded: "The only thing that makes me feel lucky is that perhaps because I have the original sequence in my body, I can actually control low-level zombies. But the good times didn't last long, and the zombies are also evolving.
“My control over the high-level zombies kept decreasing until later, when they seemed to have discovered something and started hunting me, hoping to evolve to a deeper level. I had no choice but to start hiding my whereabouts.
"Later, I was unlucky and was chased by high-level zombies. I fell into Li Mingyu's hands and became a test subject again."
Unlike Chi Wan's reluctant expression, Gu Peijun was quite happy: "Actually, zombies don't feel pain. I don't care about those experiments. On the contrary, because of him, I can finally know about you."
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