bayedsolid Chapter 220 I Am Also an Experiment
Chapter 220 I Am Also an Experiment
"It doesn't seem like it. If it were just siren blood, there would be no need to put it in a safe."
Jiang Lin felt it wasn't that simple. Humans can donate 400 milliliters of blood, so surely these sea monsters would donate just as much. Why be so stingy and put it in a small glass bottle?
Ji Xing nodded, then suddenly looked at Jiang Lin with a curious gaze.
Jiang Lin: "What?"
“I was thinking, if Linlin had designed the dungeon, I definitely wouldn’t have been able to beat it,” Ji Xingyi said with a heartfelt admiration.
“That’s easy. All you have to do is take off your clothes and dance,” Jiang Lin chuckled and whispered in Ji Xingyi’s ear, “and I’ll let you pass the test.”
The unexpected lewd remark made Ji Xingyi's ears turn red again: "I can't dance."
"Can't you even twist it a couple of times?" Jiang Lin raised her hand and gave someone's butt a slap.
Ji Xingyi was startled and quickly grabbed Jiang Lin's hand that was causing trouble.
Liu Li's swearing starts at 0 frames per second, and Jiang Lin's jokes are just as good!
"From what they're saying, out of the 120 people injected with blue blood, anyone who develops blue spots is considered a failure. Failures will likely be sent back, like Song Yan." Ji Xingyi, fearing Jiang Lin might say something explosive again, quickly steered the conversation 180 degrees.
"Those who didn't develop blue spots enter the so-called second stage. Only two out of 120 people succeeded: Linlin, Liu Li, and could the other be Lu Xingtong?"
Jiang Lin wanted to pinch her again, but Ji Xingyi turned around alertly, so Jiang Lin had to reluctantly stop: "It's very likely. She's a new player with a newbie aura. It's normal that she's assigned to the Yellow Springs dungeon and has some special circumstances."
"But why is she the only one?" Ji Xingyi still remembered Huang Guanjie, that kid had quite a temper.
"We'll find out once we go take a look." Jiang Lin peered through the window in the door and, after confirming that no one was around, the two continued deeper inside.
Ji Xingyi pointed to the left; the direction Aiwei and the others had just left was to the left.
Jiang Lin shook his head.
Going this way now, it's easy to run into them head-on. Jiang Lin led Ji Xingyi back, returning to the portrait of the mermaid, this time choosing the path to the right.
Ivy and the others were in the left-hand area; the right-hand area on the first basement level was relatively safer.
To their surprise, the two of them turned right and found the third consultation room.
Using the same lock, Ji Xingyi opened the door in the same way.
The third consultation room is the same size as the sixth consultation room, but what's inside is chilling.
The walls on both sides are lined with cylindrical glass tanks, each about 0.6 meters in diameter. These tanks are filled with an unknown, light blue liquid and contain various strange creatures.
For example, a dog with light blue skin, no fur, but covered in fine blue fish scales.
For example, there's the blue fish with a cat's face.
A pig with a fish tail.
A hairless blue goat.
Jiang Lin glanced at them and knew that these were experimental products of genetic hybridization between terrestrial animals and sea monsters.
Ji Xingyi had never seen anything so bizarre before, and unconsciously walked closer to the tank containing the catfish.
Its face was also hairless, like a flattened head of a hairless cat pieced together with a fish body. It wasn't large, only about 40 centimeters long. It was currently suspended in the blue liquid, its eyes closed, as if…sleeping?
Ji Xingyi narrowed his eyes slightly.
Just then, the fish with the cat's face suddenly opened its eyes!
A loud "bang!"
The catfish seemed to have spotted an enemy and suddenly slammed violently against the glass!
Ji Xingyi gasped in shock, exclaiming in surprise, "Alive?"
Jiang Lin immediately came over and placed her palm on the glass.
The catfish, which had been frantically ramming around, seemed to have been soothed and gradually calmed down.
“Only it is still alive; the others are all dead,” Jiang Lin explained.
Ji Xing nodded and turned to walk towards the huge water vat in the very center of the room.
Besides the small water tanks filled with various bizarre creatures against the wall, the center of the third consultation room is a huge cylindrical water tank with a diameter of about 2 meters.
It was also filled with blue liquid, but contained nothing.
"This water tank is so big, what are they planning to put in it? Cattle or horses?" Ji Xingyi asked curiously.
Jiang Lin didn't answer immediately. His gaze fell on the water vat, and his face gradually darkened: "This is used... to hold people."
"Linlin?" Ji Xing frowned. He sensed that the aura emanating from Jiang Lin had suddenly changed.
Somewhat somber.
“I’ve said it before, I didn’t come out of a woman’s belly.” Jiang Lin looked at the blue liquid in the water tank, his thoughts drifting back to the past: “My birthday is the time when the embryo was successfully cultured, and my embryo also grew in such a vessel.”
Ji Xing was stunned and unconsciously tightened his grip on Jiang Lin's hand.
Jiang Lin turned to look at Ji Xingyi, her smile somewhat dim: "They are the siren's experiments, and I am also an experiment. I am an experiment of the new world."
Upon hearing this, Ji Xing hugged Jiang Lin tightly with heartache: "You are not an experiment, you are Jiang Lin, my Linlin."
Jiang Lin's eyes flickered slightly: "Do you know why my Chinese name is Jiang Lin?"
"17 is not a person's name, but his code name in the organization, and also the experimental subject's number, which is number 17."
"My number is zero, which means zero."
Jiang Lin's voice grew softer and softer: "The day I entered China was January 4th. According to the naming conventions of the Chinese, they gave me a surname that starts with J."
"Piecing things together, that is... Jiang Lin."
Ji Xingyi wasn't good at comforting people and didn't know what to say for a moment, so she kissed Jiang Lin's lips and said, "I don't care, you're my Linlin."
Jiang Lin grabbed Ji Xingyi by the back of the neck and gave her another deep kiss: "I'm not sad. The new world created me, which gave me the opportunity to meet you."
"I just want to tell you everything about me, my origins."
At this point, Jiang Lin paused, her fingertips tracing the corner of Ji Xingyi's mouth: "I didn't tell you before because I was afraid to. I'm sorry."
Ji Xingyi smiled slightly: "No need to apologize. I'm glad you're willing to talk to me."
Hearing about Jiang Lin's past from her own mouth was something Ji Xingyi had always dreamed of.
“You humans are all born from women’s wombs. As for me, I am merely an experimental subject created by the new world.” Jiang Lin looked into Ji Xingyi’s eyes and said in a low voice, “I’m afraid you can’t accept it.”
If Jiang Lin hadn't said anything, Ji Xingyi felt she would never have known that beneath Jiang Lin's arrogant demeanor lay a deep-seated fear of him.
"Linlin." Ji Xingyi kissed Jiang Lin's forehead reverently: "Your past has shaped who you are today. I love you, so how could I not accept your past?"