After Picking Up the Rival Boss, It Smells Really Good - Chapter 10

Lu Lian looked up at Qin Gou. Despite wearing the bite inhibitor, he maintained an unnervingly composed and ascetic demeanor: “Do you trust him?”

“Readily available assistance – no reason to refuse it.” Qin Gou shifted the topic, “Moreover, according to Blaise, you’ll soon become part of the experiment. Our time is running out.”

Lu Lian offered no comment.

“There’s one more thing,” Qin Gou paused before continuing, “I want to rescue the other two human Experiment Subjects as well.”

Lu Lian raised an eyebrow, a rare reaction from him: “You sometimes possess an excess of compassion.”

“I’ve told you before,” Qin Gou sounded impatient with Lu Lian’s remark, lowering his voice, “I detest these forbidden core biological experiments involving illegal confinement.”

“What if they volunteered?” Lu Lian interrupted him, “Qin Gou, every human is different. For those who can never possess a Core Inhibitor in their lifetime, this is a dream come true.”

Qin Gou frowned: “Regardless, I still want to.”

Lu Lian turned away, unwilling to dwell on the matter: “Do as you wish, as long as it doesn’t disrupt the plan.”

The atmosphere grew tense. Not wanting to continue this topic, Qin Gou mentioned the shift change method 096 had told him about: “The current shift will begin returning from the inner layer at 2:45. Meanwhile, around 2:40, replacements will enter from outside. The entire route takes about 15 minutes. This creates a window of less than 10 minutes when the innermost Laboratory will be unguarded. I’ll take the opportunity to investigate while you stay here. No matter what happens, I’ll meet you with 5 minutes remaining, and we’ll leave directly.”

The sealed basement made it impossible to distinguish day from night. Qin Gou checked his watch – it was already 2:30 in the morning.

“I need to go to the Laboratory first,” Qin Gou told 096.

“What are you going to the Laboratory for.” 096 disapproved, given the time constraints.

“No choice.” Qin Gou declared with “righteous indignation”: “I must destroy these experimental data. Who knows how many more people these records could harm if they remain!”

“You’re risking everything for trivial gains!” 096 recalled those inhuman experiments with discomfort, reluctantly conceding, “Fine, alright, go ahead. I’ll wait here for you. If you’re not back within 5 minutes, I’m leaving first!”

The Laboratory stood at the end of the underground factory. With no guards present, Qin Gou barged straight in.

Unexpectedly, the Laboratory door was open, allowing him to proceed smoothly.

Inside the Laboratory were numerous Biological Solvents and Experiment Pods containing small insects like spiders. Various colored instrument lights flickered throughout. The entire Laboratory exuded an eerie atmosphere, revealing what a madman its owner must be.

Qin Gou quickly scanned the surroundings but didn’t spot the type of solvent container Blaise had used that morning.

His eyes swept over Blaise’s experiment table, which held many Biological Solvents but notably lacked the Forbidden Core Solvent he’d seen earlier.

A spider crawled slowly across the table surface, but curiously, it didn’t move straight – instead, it detoured whenever passing over an empty test tube box on the table. After watching for a moment, Qin Gou quickly walked over and removed the test tube box. Beneath it was surprisingly hollow!

Several dark red Forbidden Core Solvent containers were lined up side by side, with an experiment log placed beside them.

Qin Gou quickly took out one of the solvent containers and hastily opened the experiment log, scanning through it rapidly.

December 26th: Experiment officially begins. Most biological Experiment Subjects die during the first phase. Current survival rate: 3.6%.

All Experiment Subjects died during the second phase. Second phase survival rate: 0%.

The subsequent records continued to document the deaths of Experiment Subjects, from number 001 all the way to 135.

Until February 26th: Experiment Subject 136 achieved great success. Implanted Artificial Forbidden Core shows good adaptability. Mental Sea test level approximately D-grade. Test confirms Artificial Mind Sea can disrupt normal Mental Seas.

Experiment Subject 176 survived the second phase experiment. Mental Sea test level D-grade.

Experiment Subject 213 survived the second phase experiment. Mental Sea test level D-grade.

Experiment Subject 256 survived the second phase experiment. Mental Sea test level A-grade! Experimental progress achieved!

Qin Gou paused at this sentence. An A-grade Mental Sea was already an extremely rare high-level Mental Sea, let alone one that could disrupt normal human Mental Seas. If such artificial high-level Mental Seas could be mass-produced, it would overturn the entire post-stellar world.

The following content continued with repeated experiments until a string of red text appeared: Experiment Subject 256 missing! Experiment Subject 256 has escaped from the Experiment Pod! Full-scale pursuit underway!

Escaped? Qin Gou frowned. If such a dangerous Experiment Subject were to reach the outside world.

After Experiment Subject 256’s escape, the experiments showed little significant progress.

Until March 15th when the records took a turn: Experiment Subject 136’s Mental Sea experienced violent turbulence. The Experiment Subject died two hours later.

Then within less than 10 days, Experiment Subject 176 died in the same manner.

Research stagnated from this point.

Until about three days ago, Blaise wrote the latest experiment log.

“Perhaps animals inherently cannot withstand the power of the Forbidden Core, hence the low success rate. Attempting to use humans implanted with Artificial Forbidden Cores for experiments.”

A note was tucked within the experiment log, reading:

“There must be some flaw in the experimental solvent. Perhaps Caberry deceived me! I must find him!”

Caberry… Qin Gou didn’t have time to examine carefully. He quickly noted down several keywords, took the log and one solvent container, and left rapidly.

2:48.

096 glanced at the time. Two minutes remaining. Perhaps he shouldn’t be meddling in this business.

Thinking this, his feet ultimately didn’t move. He hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Lu Lian. For some reason, even though he wore a bite inhibitor like a caged beast, every time he saw him, he couldn’t help but feel somewhat intimidated.

“Hey, if your partner still doesn’t show up, I’m slipping away alone. I’ve already done more than enough…”

Lu Lian lazily lifted his eyelids upon hearing this, remaining unhurried despite the pressing time: “Each Experiment Pod operates in pairs of two. It’s both cooperation and mutual supervision. So you can only drag 073 down with you.”

“Guess what? If you leave alone, do you think 073 would report you?”

“Tch.” 096 irritably ran a hand over the back of his head, “Damn it, then he better hurry up and get here.”

Before the words fully faded, the Experiment Pod’s door slid open. 096 looked over eagerly: “Finally.”

096’s words cut off abruptly. At the doorway, Blaise stood watching the two of them with the cold gaze of a venomous snake locking onto its prey, a long syringe held in his hand.