058. Humanitarianism (Part 2)

  "This mission has been going on for 40 years. If you’ve noticed the internal structure of the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization, you’ll find it has three levels."

  Siqi spread out a structural diagram and introduced it to Li Aozhi and the others:

  "The first level is a normal tai and treatmeer used for external dispy. The patients in this se are indeed ied by the apocalypse. Although the professor shelters them for experimental purposes, without the professor... they would have died long ago."

  As she spoke, she looked curiously at Li Aozhi: "Since you've been in there and awakened your Are abilities, did they give you a rating? Judging by your appearance, you should be level four."

  "Level five."

  "Then you're really impressive." Siqi rolled her eyes at him. "The theory of apocalypse iion levels doesn’t hold water. Nurse Nordley and Assistant Physi Anna always had doubts about it, but no one questio due to the professreat charisma. You being a level five ied inside... makes me suspect the professor did it on purpose."

  The professor's high intelligend strong tactics made Siqi's statement unsurprising.

  "The ZX-102 ward is on the first level," Li Aozhi said. "My ward was even deeper than ZX-102. But no oioned ZX-102."

  "Because it’s a sdal, or more bluntly, it’s the starting point of internal division within the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization."

  Siqi’s tone was heavy:

  "From the beginning, 'Snow' received special attention from Frost-Pted. In the professor's view, this child’s innate iion level was four. Withur geic medication, the heavy resonance brought by her Are abilities would kill her before she tur. Based on this, both Nordley and Anna were very careful in taking care of her."

  "I think it's more than that," Li Aozhi tapped his finger oable. "To gain Frost-Pted’s attention, she must have had high-level Are abilities like me."

  "You guessed right."

  Siqi looked at him approvingly and said:

  "Snow's Are ability owerful mental force that could read and transmit thoughts, ideas, and brainwave ges within a certain range—equivalent te-scale telepathy and a psychiunicatiowork. In the military, it would be a more ve and powerful war work than quantum unication!"

  "This doesn’t sound right, it seems like... psychic perception."

  Li Aozhi frowned, muttering to himself.

  This wasn't Are power; it sounded like a sign of psychic awakening.

  The psychic media system on Blue Star wasn't well-developed. Extreme materialists often fused dominator and bizarre superhumans.

  "inally, Snow's research was supposed to st 18 years, tinuously cultivating, practig, aing at various age stages for observation. But Frost-Pted kept urging, even threatening to stop resource support. The professor, under pressure, had to start the research early."

  "Although Nurse Nordley and Assistant Physi Anna operated very cautiously, extrag a baby's brain—"

  Bang!

  Siqi was startled. She looked ahead and saw Li Aozhi punch the table, his gray eyes filled with blood vessels.

  "What did you say?" Li Aozhi's voice was icy cold. "They extracted a baby's brain?"

  "...Frost-Pted wao quickly uand the meism of this Are ability, so the physis of the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization removed Snow's brain from her body, pced it in a preservation tank, and studied it prehensively usirodes to emit signals. For example..."

  "For example, what?"

  "Reading the thoughts of political prisoners sent by Frost-Pted, transferring memories from abused Rose Army soldiers to others, trolling drones with brainwaves... these thiually turned into Frost-Pted’s actual bat power."

  Siqi’s tone became cautious:

  "You imagihat for an infant like Snow, she released too much Are energy daily and received too muformation. She soon couldn't release Are energy anymore, so someone suggested transpnting the brain bato her body, allowing Snow to grow for a while, and resuming the project at seven ht years old."

  "Frost-Pted agreed, but the transpnt surgery had an act... Snow's brain had released too much Are energy, possibly causing mutations in brain cells enes... In short, her body could no longer be patible."

  She paused and said:

  "Two months ter, she died of a massive heme due to reje."

  Li Aozhi slumped ba his chair, his fingers unsciously g into fists, his face filled with lingering anger.

  Qiu Ran leaned against the door, faintly hearing some side.

  Seeing Li Aozhi calm down a bit, Siqi tinued:

  "The sed level, outwardly cimed to be an intelligent mae processing workshop for produg various medial supplies, actually tains unspeakable secrets..."

  "I want those secrets."

  Li Aozhi, despite his bad mood, pressed on aiated with Dr. .

  "I ’t tell you... what happehere..."

  "What exactly happehere?"

  Qiu Ran curiously pressed her ear to the door, listening to the outside noise.

  "There..."

  Siqi hesitated, recalling some disgusting things. She shook her head firmly and said:

  "This part has nothing to do with you and won't help. If you want to truly solve your lifespan problem, I suggest you not think too mud go directly to the third level."

  Li Aozhi was dissatisfied but said nothing more.

  If even his current 【Charisma】 couldn’t get answers, it meant this part brought particurly severe harm to Siqi.

  He g Qiu Ran—she ressing her ear to the door, muttering a few words: "Seare by one... boss... take all the babies."

  Li Aozhi grew suspicious, instinctively grasping the in his hand, sensing danger approag from years of experience.

  But the progress of 《Unremembered》 had reached 41%, and his versation with Dr. Siqi was making rapid progress.

  Li Aozhi didn’t want to miss this opportunity.

  If he could push the task progress to 100%, he could jump to level 30 and gain an exceptionally strong specialty.

  With his seutation approag, Li Aozhi hoped to gain more experiend unlock important mutatiories early. This was crucial for him.

  So, without hesitation, he tio ask Dr. :

  "What's ohird level?"

  "I don’t know. But I know what es out of the third level."

  Siqi stared at Li Aozhi and said:

  "ercial-grade artificial Are users, officially named by Frost-Pted: Camity Armament."

  【Current Progress: 44.9%】

  "ercial?"

  Li Aozhi was stunned:

  "They treat living people as ons?"

  【Current Progress: 45.8%】

  "Li Aozhi!" Qiu Ran suddenly whispered, "Outside, there seems to be gunfire—and screams."

  "Yes." Siqi nodded.

  【Current Progress: 46.1%】

  "Li Aozhi, it seems the footsteps are ing this way."

  Qiu Ran shrank back.

  Siqi didn’t notice the ges outside and tinued nontly:

  "Ier world, you'll see various Are users who have lost their self-awareness and only know how to obey their masters. You try to defeat them and tear off the skin on the left side of their necks, where you'll see 'HAProduct,' meaning—"

  Bang!

  The moment, the ic door was violently flung open, a dark shadow rushing in like a ferocious beast.

  "—Abyss Product."

  As Siqi finished speaking, Li Aozhi sprang up, his gray eyes glowing with golden rings. Instantly, gravity reversed, and the dark shadow paused slightly but tio poun him.

  【Current Progress: 50%】

  Swish!

  Li Aozhi swept out the , immediately switg tactics. The ed around the shadow beast's neck, and he skillfully adjusted his gravity, turning and maneuvering, kig off the wall to ge dire in mid-air. Landing behind the shadow, he threw it over his shoulder with the help of gravity, flinging it into the corridor outside the sunken ship.

  Boom—

  The shadow hit the ground, splitting into three parts aurning to the corridor's end.

  "Stay inside, don’t move."

  Li Aozhi steadied himself, shook his neck, and stepped out of the ic. He looked up and saair of empty, hollow eyes staring back at him.

  At the end of the corridor stood a very thin girl, her oversized clothes c her one arm. The stench of rot emanating from her body was unbearable for Li Aozhi even from teers away.

  "【Shadow Assault】, Mu-level Are ability. (m, the 12th Greek letter)"

  Although the level isn't high, and the upper limit is average, the ability to release and trol shadow creatures born from one's life is still very tricky.

  Shadow creatures are posed of rinos, affected only by weak iion forces and gravity. Theoretically, Li Aozhi had the advantage.

  However, at his current level of gravity manipution, he couldn't directly tear the oppo apart.

  The previous strike didn't even engage in bat, indig that pure physical attacks couldn't cause damage.

  "To deal with shadows, fire, radiation, and gravity be effective... but I haven't mastered aed knowledge yet. Pure gravity pressure isn't very effective."

  This Are ability had a nasty trait: even if the shadow was killed hundreds of times, as long as the main body wasn't dead, it could tio resurrect. Even if the main body died hundreds of times, as long as the shadow wasn't destroyed, it could still live on as a 'zombie.'

  Li Aozhi's expression turned grim.

  "Ier world, you'll see various Are users who have lost their self-awareness and only obey their master's ands..."

  Dr. Siqi's words echoed in his ears.

  The girl's empty eyes and sudden attack made him suspicious.

  g—

  The dropped, and Li Aozhi shook his neck, his eyes fshing with golden rings:

  "Kill first, talk ter."

  The one-armed girl raised her hand, her wounds splitting open again, releasing shadows that gathered into a ferocious beast. Like a heavy truck, it charged at Li Aozhi with immense momentum and speed!

  FAL