Mechanical Flesh

　　 Qi Yuan pushed the door in, just in time to see Tan Qiu wearing a white coat standing next to the workbench, manipulating a half-person-height instrument, as if testing something.

　　 Tan Qiu’s right hand is placed with a holographic computer. She is testing and recording experimental data.

　　 Qi Yuan only glanced at the projection screen filled with data, and felt his brain swelled. Unless a computing center is built, no matter how powerful an extraordinary person can understand these things.

The room is very clean and simple. In addition to the workbench placed in the center, a cryo-freezer is erected on the wall facing the window. You can see the inside through the light blue curved glass. The corpse of a black-toothed rat is frozen.

　　 Whether it is the analyzer on the workbench or the low-temperature cryostat on the wall, it is obviously not something that Heishi Town originally possessed. These things are all research instruments that Tan Qiu brought from the Heigang Shelter.

Qi Yuan did not interrupt Tan Qiu's research. He walked to the side and carefully observed the black-toothed rat that was frozen like amber. Like the black-toothed rat I have seen before, the black hair is softly attached to the body and the sharp teeth are It is clearly visible, and even the flesh and blood remaining in its teeth, the only difference is its eyes.

　　 The pupils of this black-toothed rat are completely black, and there is no white of the eyes. It is clearly a fallen black-toothed rat.

Qi Yuan stared at the small bald scar on the black-toothed rat’s head for a long time. Although the black-toothed rat looks the same, the black-toothed rat gave him a familiar feeling. The black-toothed rat that he pulled over to dig the tunnel!

　　 Didn't the black tooth rat have been killed by me in the ground? How could it become a fallen black tooth rat and appear here.

　　 A doubt emerged in Qi Yuan's heart.

　　 "Have you seen this fallen black-toothed rat before?" Some hoarse female voices came from behind.

　　 Qi Yuan felt cold, he didn't even notice Tan Qiu's approach.

　　 Could it be that this researcher who seems to have no power is also a powerful person?

　　 "No!" Qi Yuan suppressed the shock in his heart, shook his head, and decisively denied her speculation.

　　 Tan Qiu’s nose is pressed against a pair of glasses with a black frame, and strings of blue characters are beating on the lenses, like a holographic projection screen.

　　 Tan Qiu clicked on the edge of the frame, and the beating characters on the lens disappeared instantly and turned into two completely transparent glass sheets.

　　 Tan Qiu didn't entangle the black-toothed mouse much, but just nodded gently, and then passed it.

　　 "Your name is Qi Yuan?" Tan Qiu asked.

　　 "Yes!" Qi Yuan replied calmly.

　　 Tan Qiu touched the frame again, and a blue light curtain slowly swept across Qi Yuan along her sight.

　　 The light curtain brought a faint touch inductance, and Qi Yuan quickly realized that this was detecting his own body information.

　　 Qi Yuanqiang resisted the urge to give Tan Qiu a shot, and silently withstood the other party's detection. After the light curtain swept over his body and slowly disappeared, Tan Qiu's brows frowned slightly.

　　 "I thought you were a genetic warrior, but I didn't expect you to be an awakened one!"

　　 Qi Yuan's heart tightened, but his face remained calm.

Awakened people are very common, but if Tan Qiu knows that in just a few days, she has changed from an ordinary person without the power of a chicken to an awakened person with a variety of extraordinary abilities, even if she is aware that she is not super talented in life. The existence of the tree will also realize that something is wrong. If you are not careful, you might be frozen like the black-toothed mouse and used as the specimen material for the experiment.

　　 "I have preliminarily tested your genetic sample. It is very clean and very stable. There is no trace of injection of evolution medicine. I did not expect that in addition to those pure-blooded human beings raised in captivity, there will be such a powerful genetic body as you in the wilderness."

　　 pure blood human! Captive!

　　 Qi Yuan suddenly remembered the news revealed by Master Luo, and suddenly became a little nervous.

　　 This Tanqiu will not treat me as a pure-blood human, and then take me back to the black steel shelter for captivity!

　　 Maybe he felt Qi Yuan's alert, and the corner of Tan Qiu's mouth rose slightly and said:

　　 "Don't be nervous, I won't solve you, and make you into an experimental specimen. I'm just a little curious about which shelter you came from."

　　 "Is it the shelter of the storm that rioted because of the infiltration of the soulless beast, or the shelter of hope that was almost destroyed by the doomsday sanctuary?"

　　 "I don't understand what you are talking about!" Qi Yuan said blankly.

　　 "Don't worry, although the storm and the Sanctuary of Hope issued an announcement calling for the return of the pure-blooded humans who flee, and did not issue a reward to you, they probably think that you have been polluted by the wilderness and are no longer the pure-blooded humans they need."

　　 Tan Qiu thought he had guessed Qi Yuan's mind, and after taking a close look at Qi Yuan, he smiled and said:

"Although I do not agree with the new human project proposed above, your genes are indeed stronger than ordinary people. My research just needs a stable genetic sample, so I hope to collect a sample from your body as mine. Experimental Materials."

　　 "Of course, I won't ask for your sample materials in vain. In exchange, I can give you a Tier 2 evolution potion or help you make a mechanical modification!"

　　 Fortunately, only a few samples were collected. If she wanted to slice me, I would really be cold!

　　 Qi Yuan quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but there was a trace of anger and unwillingness that people had to bow their heads under the eaves on his face. After changing his face several times, he finally nodded his head.

　　 Tan Qiu's movements are very fast. Not only did he draw a hundred milliliters of blood from Qi Yuan, he also used scissors to cut a small poke of his hair and a small piece of nails to complete the collection of samples.

　　 Qi Yuan took out the butcher he was carrying and put it on the workbench.

　　 Knowing the sanctuary’s attitude towards mechanical weapons, Qi Yuan did not expect to obtain mechanical weapons from Tan Qiu, but if he could modify the butcher, it would be a good choice.

　　 "Can it be mechanically modified?"

　　 Although Tier 2 Gene Potion was precious, it didn't mean much to him. Qi Yuan didn't hesitate to assign this opportunity to sell himself to the butcher.

The butcher’s power is powerful, but he still seems a little insufficient for the place he is about to go. The new sign-in point is refreshed in the direction close to the black steel shelter. Even if it is only the gathering point outside, there are many more than Blackstone Town. More powerful transcendents, relying only on a few first-order abilities, want to complete the check-in over there, and the difficulty is several grades higher than here.

　　 Tanqiu picked up the butcher and observed it for a while, and quickly figured out its origin.

　　 "The butchers produced by the Iron Gate are still a generation. I didn't expect to see this kind of old antique here!"

　　 Tan Qiu played with him for a while, and then put the butcher down.

"This butcher's model is too old. If you don't have enough materials, modifying it will only increase the excitation speed by 10% or reduce some of the recoil. It should be of little significance to you. "

　　 "If you really want to modify firearms, the Death Harvest in your hand is more suitable than this butcher. There are many parts in Situ's collection that can be used."

"The modified death harvest can achieve two bursts, and the power will increase by about 10%, and the aiming and effective killing distance will increase by 20%. If you cooperate with you to strengthen the extraordinary ability of bullets, even Tier 3 Extraordinary, as long as you don't have Tier 3 defense enhancements, you can take a heavy blow within two hundred meters! You can even kill!"

　　 "Then modify Death Reap!"

　　 Qi Yuan is not a person who does not listen to persuasion, he made a decisive decision.

　　 Although the practicality of death harvesting is lower than that of a butcher, under certain circumstances, death harvesting is an extremely fierce butcher!

　　 If you talk about Qiu's transformation and strengthening of Death Harvest, it can reach the level she said, and the improvement of her own self is no less than a first-order extraordinary ability.

　　 "You bring things here. It takes a day to refit. Come and get them at this time tomorrow."

　　 After Qi Yuan left, Hong Cang opened the door from the next room and walked in. He saw Tan Qiuzheng holding the death harvest test parameters and couldn't help but ask:

　　 "A Tier 1 wilderness hunter, it doesn't seem to be worth your day to waste."

　　 "I did this for my reasons."

　　 Tan Qiu said, putting down Death Reap, pressing the control button on the edge of the glasses, a blue fan-shaped light curtain projected from the edge of the glasses, slowly sweeping Death Reap.

　　 A handful of holographic projection of Death Reap suddenly appeared on the workbench, and Tan Qiu's fingers moved like flying, and quickly disassembled the holographic projection of Death Reap into countless tiny parts.

　　 Hong Cang stood beside the workbench, cast his gaze on the projection of Death Harvest, and said calmly:

"You are now a third-level researcher. According to the regulations, all your research projects in genetics need to be reported to it. If someone finds out that your research project has not been reported, I am afraid there will be trouble. You will be promoted to a third-level researcher. , Blocking the way of some people, they will probably keep staring at you, waiting for you to make a mistake."

In the Heigang Sanctuary, the Institute of Biology and Machinery has a unique position and has an independent promotion system. The third-level researcher is already considered as a high-level researcher. The fourth-level research institute is no more than the hands index, and there is only one fifth-level researcher. That is the director Maureen.

"In the third-level researcher, you are the youngest and the fastest promoted. Although you have been promoted to the third-tier researcher in the shortest time, in the eyes of many people, your promotion to the fourth-tier is only a matter of time. Why give it to a wilderness hunter? Leave your own flaws."

　　 Tan Qiu pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said faintly: "I can't make mistakes. A first-order genetic sample is simply not enough to support a research project."

Hearing this, Hong Cang was silent for a while, and slowly said, "I have been with you for so long, knowing that you have a small habit. Whenever you lie, you will push the glasses on the bridge of your nose. Even if you don't wear glasses, you will Make similar actions subconsciously."

　　 Tan Qiu's movements became stiff, and he paused for a moment, then suddenly said in a deep voice:

　　 "Do you think the New Human Project will succeed?"

　　 Hong Cang was taken aback for a moment. It seemed that Tan Qiu would suddenly throw up this controversial topic.

More than 50 years ago, when the New Mankind Project was first proposed, it caused a lot of controversy. This controversy has continued to this day without a unified answer, but whether it is the gate of truth, the doomsday arms, and the flesh and blood The Alliance, the Theological Society, and even the Doomsday Sacred Court silently started the implementation of the New Human Plan after that joint meeting.

At the beginning of the implementation of the new humanity plan, it encountered huge resistance and even caused serious turmoil, but it still continued. Under the secret promotion of many parties, as the first and second generations of new humans slowly walked out The laboratory, integrated into ordinary people, has no reproductive isolation, has not completely crushed the strength of the old humans, and has not caused the division of the human race. Everyone's opposition to the new human plan has not begun to be so fierce, and they have slowly accepted them. The presence.

　　 In the eyes of many people, apart from being able to awaken extraordinary abilities at a very young age, New Humans seem to be not much different from other ordinary people.

　　 "There are very few people who oppose it now, and it should succeed—" Hong Cang said hesitantly.

　　 "Have you even changed your position on this matter?" Tan Qiu gave Hong Cang a deep look.

　　 "I just don't want to see the turmoil caused by this plan. For me, the old humans or the new humans are the same human beings and should not be regarded as two completely different races." Hong Cang replied.

　　 "If I told you that the new humans in some shelters now housed in laboratories have developed to the fifth or even the sixth generation, would you still think so?"

"how can that be!"

　　 Hong Cang, who had been unwavering, suddenly grew his mouth, as if he couldn't believe the news that Tan Qiu had revealed.

From the proposal of the New Mankind Plan to the present, it’s only 51 years. If it is the old age, at most the third generation will be reproduced. Even if the time for the human body to mature in the new age has been shortened by a few years, it will take 51 years. However, the fourth generation can not reach the fifth and sixth generations.

　　 "Although this news has not been circulated on a large scale, it is not concealed. I learned about this news on the day I was promoted to a Tier 3 researcher, and I have confirmed its authenticity."

　　 "The new human laboratory of the Black Steel Sanctuary already has the fifth generation of new humans. The progress of the Flesh Alliance will not be slower than ours, but will only be faster. The sixth generation is just a conservative estimate."

　　 "If what you said is true, why didn't the new humanity project be stopped?" Hong Cang muttered to himself, as if he still hadn't recovered from the impact of the news.

　　 "Stop the New Human Project?" Tan Qiu leaked a mocking smile on his face.

"Why do you think that the first and second generations of new humans will come out of the laboratory and integrate into all levels of the shelter? Is it really to prove to others the value of their existence, or to prove that they are the same as others, or just to Alleviate the sharp contradictions at the time?"

"Neither. Their purpose of existence is just to pave the way for the new humans behind. The first generation of new humans was originally selected by some powerful and genetically excellent evolvers. They have been out of the laboratory for fifteen years. Not only has it returned to human society perfectly, it has even reached a high position with the help and acquiescence of some people."

　　 "You think about how many new humans are out of the laboratory, and then think about how many of them are already standing on top of us."

　　 "The company's seventeen directors, the new human has already occupied two seats, and it is very likely that another one will be added this year."

　　 "I can be sure that the proportion of new humans on the board of directors will become larger and larger. When their proportion on the board of directors exceeds half, the new humans will become the owners of the sanctuary!"

　　 "You mean the above is deliberately transferring rights to the new humans!" Hong Cang was shocked.

Although he is Tier 4, the distance from the real top of the sanctuary is farther than that of Tier 3 researcher. Therefore, Hong Cang is not very concerned about the occasional staff changes of the board of directors. It was not until today that he was reminded by Tan Qiu that he was short. In less than fifteen years, the new humans who have returned have already mastered such a large amount of power.

　　 "If it is only the transfer of power, it will not have much impact for most people. After all, the great power of the new era belongs to itself, and no matter how great power is, it is not impossible to overthrow it."

　　 "But if the power of the new humans also begins to crush ordinary people, then everything will never be reversed!"

"Starting from the second generation of new humans, each generation of new humans will have a higher starting point of strength, and the gap between the new humans and ordinary people will become larger and larger. If one day new humans can be born directly Do you think there will be room for ordinary people to survive the descendants of higher-level or even higher-level extraordinary abilities?"

　　 "But what does this have to do with Qi Yuan, is he a new human in the next few generations?"

　　 "It's very possible!" Tan Qiu nodded.

　　 "I have done genetic comparison experiments between new humans and ordinary people, as well as evolvers. I found that the genetic stability of new humans is much stronger than that of others, which means that their genes can withstand more powerful shocks.

　　 "But the gene lock of new humans has not been strengthened accordingly, which means that they are more likely to break through the high-end threshold."

　　 "If Qi Yuan is not the product of a genetic warrior, it is very likely that he is a new human who fled from other shelters. The specific situation needs to go back to the laboratory for more detailed testing."

　　 "Do you need—" Hong Cang glanced at Tan Qiu before he finished speaking.

　　 "No need!" Tan Qiu shook his head, "I have collected enough genetic samples. It doesn't make any sense to kill him. Let him stay alive and provide more data."

　　 "He should leave Blackstone Town and go to the gathering point around the Black Steel Shelter. You should pay more attention to it. If he reaches Tier 3, you can consider absorbing it into the shelter. I prefer live genetic samples."

　　 "What if he goes to the quicksand shelter?"

　　 "Then put him inside." When Tan Qiu spoke, he glanced at the black-toothed rat that had been frozen by the wall.

　　 "Rather than dying in the hands of Xu's family, he is more suitable to stay in my laboratory!"