Being a test subject is painful.
Chu Ran's internal monologue was a endless stream of comments, but her voice remained calm. "What else do you want to know?"
He Qiwu stared at her and smiled. "Nothing."
After they arrived at the God Summoning Society base, everything remained calm.
As soon as the pilot entered the gate, he went to accept his punishment, since they were a full hour late returning to the base. The two brothers quickly slipped away.
The God Summoning Society members they passed all quickly lowered their heads, not daring to meet He Qiwu's eyes.
Chu Ran glanced at He Qiwu and found she was already used to it.
At the end of the road was a silver-white door.
He Qiwu stood before the door, and a laser scanned her pupils and bones from top to bottom. After confirming her identity, the door opened.
A silver-gray operating console took up most of the space, with eight screens displaying surveillance feeds from different laboratories. On either side stood several culture vessels, with unknown corpses stored in pale blue liquid.
In the center was a seat.
An old man with graying hair sat aloft.
The old man looked at He Qiwu and Chu Ran, a hint of greed in his sharp gaze.
"Is the Divine Ruins Key on her?"
He Qiwu couldn't be bothered to respond. She walked over to the side and lazily sat on the console.
Chu Ran looked at the old man. "I've never seen the Divine Ruins Key."
The old man showed no sign of anger. He stepped down from his chair, his eyes gradually becoming murky as he examined Chu Ran like she was a rare treasure.
"You look somewhat like your... great-grandmother?"
Chu Ran looked at him like he was an idiot. "I don't even know who my great-grandmother is. Do you?"
The old man paused, thought for a moment, then burst into laughter. "She's really something. She managed to fool me, and apparently fooled you too."
"Don't you know? Professor Hu—actually, she should be called He An—is your great-grandmother."
"But she once accidentally entered the Divine Tomb and even recovered her Spiritual Power. So Central Star invited her to the lab as a guest for a while."
"She was lucky. After only a short time, an SS-level Zerg invaded Central Star. The lab was directly destroyed, and she vanished without a trace."
"Speaking of this, the God Summoning Society has been taking the blame for her for quite a while. The Human Federation issued a notice saying we kidnapped her for the secret of the Divine Tomb."
"Who doesn't want to know the secret of the Divine Tomb?"
"Unfortunately, we were too late. Someone else took her. When she reappeared, she had completely changed her appearance and was entirely different from before."
"Once just a warrior, she now displayed unparalleled medical talent. Her first paper was published in the top journal 'New Life.'"
"We suspected her, but she was so different from before that she spent so many years right under my nose without me noticing..."
A deep regret flashed in the old man's eyes. The Divine Ruins Key had been so close to him all along.
What a shame...
"I really didn't expect her to choose you as her test subject. But it's not surprising. Where would sudden medical talent come from? Probably because she herself was the perfect test subject."
"The first person to recover Spiritual Power—how valuable for research. It's just that most people can't bring themselves to be that ruthless."