Ruan Chen stood up, and it took her eyes a few seconds to adjust to the overly bright lights.
At that moment, she realized that this was not a computer room at all, and there was only one computer in front of her.
Starting from this computer, there were countless glass jars, some two or three meters high, lined up in front of it!
Long wires trailed behind each glass jar, connecting them to form a single, seemingly separate assembly.
However, these are not the main points.
Ruan Chen immediately recognized the person inside the glass jar.
No, that can no longer be called a "person".
She mechanically dragged her feet to the front of the glass jar, staring at the human body floating and sinking in the pale blue liquid.
Judging from his physique and facial features, he was an ordinary middle-aged human man. However, unlike normal humans, some of his limbs were twisted in a strange way, as if some kind of terrifying mutation had occurred. The bones covered under his thin skin seemed to gleam with a cold light.
Ruan Chen pinched her palm, took a deep breath to calm herself down, and continued walking forward.
The dozen or so glass jars in front were mostly the same, with men, women, old and young, only the parts of the twisted limbs were different.
As Ruan Chen moved forward, the changes in the human body inside the glass jar beside him became increasingly apparent.
The most noticeable thing is height.
The person in the glass jar in front of Ruan Chen is at least two meters tall, with large bones, and it's impossible to tell their gender.
His hands, through the pale blue liquid, were pressed against the glass jar. Ruan Chen could see clearly that he only had four fingers.
However, its length far exceeds that of a normal human finger, resembling the claw of a raptor. Upon closer inspection, an extremely sophisticated chip is embedded at the tip of the claw, where the nail would be.
The person in the glass jar beside him was the same, too tall, but this time the mutation was in his shoulder blades, from which two knife-like bone spurs grew, sharpened and reflecting a cold light.
The base of the bone spur is also embedded with sophisticated chips.
Ruan Chen could vaguely see that the internal structure of the scapula under the skin was also unusual, but he didn't know exactly what changes had occurred.
Ruan Chen thought she finally understood what this laboratory was used for.
Up to this point, she had only covered one-tenth of the distance.
Her dark gaze fell upon several glass jars that were noticeably taller and thicker in the distance, where the liquid inside was a pale red, like diluted blood.
Even from that great distance, she could clearly see the creature inside, which looked like an ancient behemoth.
Instead of strolling slowly as if on a visit, she quickened her pace and walked straight toward the deepest glass jar with a gloomy expression.
If this is a reformation plan that has been in the works for many years and violates human ethics, then the first thing she needs to know is how far the plan has progressed.
As she quickened her pace, a voice came from all directions—a very ordinary male voice, but Ruan Chen knew it was nobody.
"I'm quite surprised that you weren't scared."
"Then let me introduce this laboratory to you."
"All of this is the work of your most respected mentor."
Ruan Chen remained silent, as if she hadn't heard anything, but the image of her being ambushed by the strange man in Area A had already surfaced in her mind.
The man's face was covered in pockmarks, his arms were of different lengths, and one of his legs was turned outwards at an angle that no normal person could do. At that time, he was laughing so bitterly that he said it was Duan Jingfu who had turned him into this grotesque figure.
He said that Duan Jingfu wanted to develop an eighth-level mimicry weapon, so he sabotaged him in Crescent Bay and turned him into a failed experiment.
Ruan Chen later searched for information on mimicry weapons—in fact, the Ten Famous Swords belong to the category of mimicry weapons—they can change their form at will, perfectly match the pilot anytime and anywhere, and maximize their abilities in any environment.
However, ever since the Ten Famous Swords appeared in the human world like divine weapons descent from the heavens 1,500 years ago, human science and technology seemed to have suffered a break. No one has been able to develop weapons that are even close to the level of the Ten Famous Swords. The low-level mimicry weapons developed later are barely enough to kill people, let alone be used on the battlefield.
Therefore, there has always been speculation in the human world that the Ten Famous Swords did not originate from Earth.
Some extreme religions even interpret it as a gift from God.
Of course, these claims have all been vehemently denied by the authorities.
The voice of nobody continued.
"Ruan Chen, you must have thought of that too, right? On the day you were attacked in Area A, we were watching you from behind the cameras. It's just a pity that we couldn't contact you at the time, otherwise you might have already switched sides."
"Duan Jingfu wants to develop a mimicry weapon, but in the first step of material selection, he can't balance material cost and transformation capability. Ruan Chen, guess what the cheapest material with the best mimicry effect is?"
Ruan Chen, of course, did not answer him, and nobody did not feel embarrassed at all, continuing to direct and act out this one-man show.
"It is a human body."
"The Ten Famous Swords are not a gift from God. If you ask me, the human body is the gift from God, but you don't know how to cherish it."
"This material is virtually inexhaustible and requires no cost whatsoever."
"But where did these bodies come from? I bet the first thing you'll do when you get back is log into the missing persons registry."
Ruan Chen bit her lower lip hard and walked into the deepest part.
Even without her deliberately looking, a glance from the corner of her eye at the glass jars on either side revealed human figures that were growing larger and larger, their contortions becoming increasingly grotesque and bizarre.
Some were no longer recognizable as human, such as the glass jar she had just passed. The person inside had soft, translucent suction cups growing from its limbs to cling to the glass, and its head was shaped like some kind of amphibian, with its face covered in colorful scales.
What's even more terrifying is that the scales seem to breathe, rising and falling.
Ruan Chen bit her tongue until it bled. She couldn't tell whether her nausea came from the scene she saw or from the bloody taste in her mouth.
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