Chapter 84
As the metal doors opened layer by layer, the light pink gas in the room began to dissipate gradually.
Fu Qin looked at the long passage in front of him. He had been prepared to open it up layer by layer, but he never expected that there would be such a good thing as to go directly to the last level.
She stepped inside without hesitation.
Behind the small door is a corridor with cabinets on both sides and a door at the end.
The old housekeeper was waiting at the door. When he saw Fu Qin approaching, he opened the door for her and made an inviting gesture.
Fu Qin glanced at him and walked in.
The new room is different from the previous classical decoration and has returned to the same pure white laboratory style as the -5th floor.
As soon as he entered the room, Fu Qin was attracted by the crystal coffin in the middle of the room.
It looked out of place among a pile of experimental equipment.
Looking closely, one could see another person lying inside the crystal coffin. That person was also covered in various tubes, which extended outwards from the crystal coffin, radiating outwards and connected to various bizarre instruments.
After taking in the entire scene in the room, Fu Qin looked at the middle-aged man standing next to the crystal coffin.
The other person was dressed in a suit and tie, with short black hair combed back with hair wax. His grey eyes were dull, with wrinkles faintly visible at the corners of his eyes.
Before Fu Qin came here, he had searched for images of Anthony Luce, and this was exactly what he looked like.
Beside him was a man and a woman with strange temperaments. They were staring at Fu Qin vigilantly, as if as long as Fu Qin made any unusual movements, they would stand in front of Luce and charge forward for him.
Fu Qin had a vague feeling that these two people were also Zerg mutants, and their combat power was not low.
The door behind Fu Qin slowly closed. The old housekeeper did not come in, but chose to wait outside the house.
When the door was completely closed, Luce smiled at Fu Qin and said, "General Fu Qin, welcome to my humble home."
The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes are more obvious when he smiles. He doesn't look friendly, but rather mean.
Since Luce thought she had been infected and turned into a mutant, Fu Qin decided to go with the flow and keep up the disguise to let down the other party's vigilance.
She looked directly at Luce and asked, "What did you just say?"
"Huh? Don't you feel that your body's strength is increasing? Don't you think you can do anything?" Luce's expression was full of meaning when he said this.
Fu Qin: "So what if it is, so what if it isn't?"
Luce thought she was asking knowingly and sighed, "General, now that we've come this far, you should understand that you are our companions now. You can't return to the human camp."
"With you? You're not a mutant." Fu Qin continued.
Hearing this, Luce opened his arms with a smug expression, "I'm not, but they all listen to me."
This sentence confirmed Fu Qin's previous guess.
She asked directly: "So you are the one who has been doing this behind the scenes?"
"It's me." Luce admitted generously.
"What is your purpose in doing this?"
"Purpose?" Luce stroked his chin, seemingly contemplating the situation. "Don't you think the Zerg mutants that emerged from the millions of years of struggle between humans and the Zerg are a form of evolution? They're stronger than humans, more creative than the Zerg, combining the strengths of both species. It's an inevitable trend under the laws of natural selection. I simply accelerated the process."
"You mean by speeding up and dragging innocent people into your scheme? Even if they might die?"
Luce said as a matter of course: "In this world, the strong are respected, and the weak will eventually be eliminated. This is the law of nature. If they die because of this, it can only be blamed on their weakness."
There was no guilt on his face, he said what was in his heart.
Fu Qin frowned and asked, "Really? If Zerg mutants are really as good as you say, then why don't you turn yourself into a mutant?"
Luce's face froze for a moment, a little confused by Fu Qin's question, but he quickly regained his composure and said, "Of course I will become a mutant, but not now."
Fu Qin sneered in his heart, after all, he was afraid of death, right?
Other people’s lives are not lives, only his own life is the most precious.
They hold up the sanctimonious banner of evolution, but actually commit crimes against their own kind.
In the final analysis, they just want to hold power in their own hands and don't care about the lives of others.
Both double standards and hypocrisy.
Fu Qin was too lazy to play along and went straight to the point: "I have another question."
Luce was calm and composed: "You go ahead."
He has already regarded Fu Qin as his accomplice, and even being criticized does not affect his mood. He is still very patient when facing Fu Qin.
Fu Qin: "How did the mutants come about today? If I remember correctly, the mutants in the past could not infect other humans."
Luce did not directly answer Fu Qin's question. Instead, he pointed at the person in the crystal coffin and asked, "Do you know who he is?"
Fu Qin glanced at the crystal coffin and did not answer.
"You can come closer and take a look." Luce raised the corner of his mouth.
Fu Qin followed his instructions and walked closer to the crystal coffin, only to discover that there was a headless male corpse inside.
Judging from the clothes of the corpse, he should also be an old nobleman.
Fu Qin immediately thought of a name——
"Davis."
Luce applauded. "Yes, that's him."
His tone was cold, as if he was talking about a stranger.
Fu Qin looked at Luce again, "Are you studying his body?"
As a first-generation mutant, Davis was indeed the suspected source of infection, but as Zhou Xu said, the mutants' bodies lost their research value as the microorganisms in their blood died.
What’s more, the corpse has been there for more than 20 years.
"To be precise, this is not a corpse. He is not dead yet." Luce replied.
Fu Qin's heart skipped a beat: "What do you mean?"
It's not like she hasn't seen living mutants before. Even if their heads and bodies were separated, they were still alive and kicking and recovered quickly. They were not like this now, lying straight in the coffin with the wound still on.
Luce came to Fu Qin's side and stroked the lid of the crystal coffin. "I used a special method to keep him alive, but he is only alive. He can only maintain the most basic life metabolism."
"But that's enough."
"Duke Davis' body is like a treasure trove, with so much to explore. It's because of him that I was able to discover the key to mutants' mutations and extract and create this."
As he spoke, Luce took out a syringe from his pocket.
The liquid inside was as red as blood.
Luce twirled the syringe in his hand, his eyes obsessed. "This is how mutants appear today. Just inject this reagent into the body to trigger the infection."
Luce put the syringe back into his pocket. "Of course, besides direct injection, you can also vaporize the reagent into gas, which is the method you just saw in the living room. However, respiratory infections are not as likely to spread as blood infections, so it is only suitable for specific situations."
"Once it takes effect in the blood, the mutation officially begins. As long as you can survive this process and retain your sanity, the mutation is considered successful."
"If Davis is compared to the mother body, then the current mutants are his offspring."
"With Davis here, I can continue to create more mutants. Sooner or later, I will transform all of humanity into mutants."
Luce made bold statements.
But after hearing this, Fu Qin just wanted to beat someone up.
If everyone is infected as Luce said, then at least half of the world's population will be gone, which is almost the end of the world.
Thinking this way, Fu Qin actually did it.
She suddenly raised her fist and smashed it towards Luce with such force that Luce was sent flying and fell on the two guards behind him.
Luce covered his stomach and vomited blood, looking stunned, not understanding which step had gone wrong.
Fu Qin ignored him, turned around, looked at the crystal coffin, and gathered his strength again.
Since Davis is the source of the infection, now is the best time to destroy him.
If we don’t act now, when will we?
Seeing Fu Qin punching the crystal coffin, Luce ignored the pain in his body and immediately shouted, "Davis! Control her!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fu Qin punched the crystal coffin.
The surface of the crystal coffin cracked under Fuqin's heavy blow, but it was not enough to break it.
Just as Fu Qin raised his fist again, an emotionless electronic voice suddenly rang out: "I'm sorry, sir, I can't control her."
At the same time, the display screen in front of the crystal coffin lit up, and there was a horizontal line on it, which rose and fell with the sound of electronic sound.
It's the artificial intelligence here.
But giving the artificial intelligence the name of the former father-in-law is very intriguing.
Luce watched as Fu Qin punched the crystal coffin again, causing cracks to spread. He didn't bother to question the AI anymore and quickly directed the two people around him, "Stop her!"
The two of them obeyed the order and immediately rushed towards Fu Qin.
At this time, Fu Qin's third punch had already hit the crystal coffin lid.
With a loud "pop", the coffin lid completely shattered, exposing everything inside to the air.
The next moment, the two men were in front of Fu Qin and attacked with fists.
Fu Qin dodged immediately and then quickly fought back.
It is not easy to kill a mutant completely. In order to avoid being disturbed, Fu Qin decided to get rid of the two people in front of him first.
The three of them soon fought together.
Seeing that the guards were delaying Fuqin, Luce looked at the display again: "What's going on? Hasn't she been infected and mutated? How can you not control it?"
Artificial Intelligence: "After testing, she is not a mutant."
"How is that possible?!" Luce's eyes widened.
He was certain that Fu Qin had been pricked by the needle, and with the air filling the room, how could she not be infected?!
"She is not a living being and cannot be infected." The voice of the artificial intelligence remained calm.
Hearing this, Luce suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of Fu Qin, where his two guards were being beaten back step by step.
Luce looked at the display again, his eyes bloodshot, and gritted his teeth and said, "Then why didn't you tell me just now!"
"Because—" The electronic voice paused.
Then, Luce felt a sharp pain in his chest. He slowly lowered his head and saw a knife blade on his chest, with blood flowing down the wound.
Luce turned around in disbelief and found that the person who was supposed to be lying in the crystal coffin was standing behind him with the hilt of a knife in his hand.
In coordination with the headless man's movements, the AI continued, "You can die now."
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The villain died because of talking too much
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