Chapter 189: Eternal Body

Qiao Yinuo swallowed, feeling cold all over. She couldn't understand those technical terms, but she understood the cruel reality hidden in these words.

"So... too many people died, and people's consciousness couldn't meet the demand, so they forcibly created pain?"

Huang Baien sighed and continued to lead the two inside. "They were people who were going to die anyway. Before they leave, being able to make a contribution to society..."

He didn't continue. Zheng Zizhou heard those sounds pouring into his eardrums, his fists gradually clenching.

Such scenes were being repeated in every compartment of this laboratory.

Every regressor was using their trauma to add bricks and tiles to that huge virtual world.

Their nightmares turned into the soil of the instances, and their fears turned into the prototypes of monsters.

Their deepest guilt and regrets turned into those tasks in the Inner World that could never be completed, and the exits that could never be reached.

Passing one door after another, they finally stopped at the door of a spacious laboratory.

Huang Baien swiped his card, and the door opened. Inside was a huge circular space with a high dome, filled with various instruments whose names he couldn't call out.

In the center were two rows of sleep pods.

Silver-white pod bodies, semi-transparent pod covers, inside which the outlines of people could be vaguely seen.

"What is this place?"

Qiao Yinuo asked. Huang Baien walked to the nearest sleep pod and reached out to wipe the dust that didn't exist on the pod cover.

A man was lying in the pod, blond, with a high nose bridge, and the woman beside him was put in by Huang Baien himself.

Adrian and Adele.

"Those are players who chose to stay in the instance."

"They thought they found a way to eternal life, thought that as long as they stayed in that world, they could live forever."

Huang Baien's fingers tapped lightly on the pod cover. "But the instance needs energy to maintain, and the energy comes from the consciousness support of the main world. When they choose to stay there, their bodies will enter this state of suspended animation."

"What will happen to them?" Zheng Zizhou asked.

Huang Baien turned his head and looked at him, his eyes complex.

"They will never wake up. Points are retained, they won't die, and they won't regress." He pulled the corners of his mouth. "But they will also never know they were deceived."

The echo reverberated in the space for a few rounds, and finally, no one spoke.

The woman in the office stood up. A brother in an experimental suit knocked on the door, came in, and said some things to her. The woman's face changed slightly, but she was calm again in an instant.

"Let her in."

"Dr. Ma."

Su Mian walked to the door, her hands in her pockets, looking straight at her. Ma Youhui looked back, leaning on the table and walking forward slowly. The brother closed the door, and the office was silent.

Actually, calling it an office is not as good as saying it was a remodeled laboratory. These people soaked in the laboratory all day to do projects, and no one used the office at all.

Except for a green office long table, this place was piled with various medical engineering instruments. Since the Progressive Regression Symbiosis Theory was confirmed, the Biological Institute had invested in other projects.

"Half a year no see, you've grown prettier again."

Ma Youhui looked at that increasingly exquisite and mature face and couldn't help but sigh. "It can be considered that your parents' genes are good..."

It was originally sighing about her appearance, but the topic took a sharp turn. "... to be able to give birth to an Eternal Body."

"What?"

Su Mian frowned, not understanding what she was saying.

Ma Youhui pulled a stool for her, signaling her to sit.

"Your genes are very powerful, belonging to the only one in the world. Why did you get so many illnesses but never died? It's not because you are strong, it's because of your genes."

"Genes gave you a fragile barrier, but also endowed you with a powerful immune system. Your body allows the acceptance of any weakness, but will not allow the host to die."

"In a sense, you are an immortal in a short life."

Su Mian lowered her eyes, digesting this huge amount of information, her fingertips rubbing, and only then looked up. "So, you aren't a psychologist at all, you have always been a researcher at the Biological Institute. You were just investigating me."

Hearing these words, Ma Youhui didn't show a surprised look. "Smart."

"Unique in the world, how could I not be interested? It's just that what I didn't expect was that you would choose to throw yourself into the net."

Her eyes became sharp instantly. "What are you looking for me for?"

Su Mian stood up. "Someone once told me that the Lord God of the Inner World is a human."

Ma Youhui sneered. "Are you pointing at me? Student Su Mian."

Su Mian shook her head. "I don't really want to know who the Lord God is. I just want to tell her that if this continues, more and more people will only die."

"Why not change the rules? Since it's a world created by humans, it should benefit humans, instead of letting humans kill each other..."

Before Su Mian finished speaking, Ma Youhui burst into laughter. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and shook her head.

"Whether you have points or not, you can survive. I've told you everything, what else do you want? Throwing yourself into the net here, isn't it just to find that little boyfriend of yours?"

She suddenly leaned forward, her eyes staring fixedly at Su Mian. Su Mian frowned and took a step back.

"Pretending to be a hero? You think the rules can be changed just by changing them? It's all hallucinated by you!!! It's all your fault!"

She suddenly raised her voice, and Su Mian was startled.

"To gather the twelve zodiacs, do you know how hard I looked for them? Those self-righteous guys, thinking they came from high dimensions, thinking they were so great, aren't they still from human consciousness!"

"Change the rules? Will those insane, ruthless Arbiters allow me to change the rules? Dream on. If they know the truth one day, it'll be good if they don't kill me."

"But every Arbiter has a weakness, you have never noticed it."

Su Mian was pressed by her shoulders, her face indifferent. "You just don't want to try, you are just afraid of death, just selfish."

"Shut up! You shut up!!!"

Ma Youhui choked Su Mian's neck. Su Mian gasped, kicking her with her feet. I don't know if it was because it was too hard, but Su Mian had a hallucination, seeing the black shadow around Ma Youhui.

Just as she was about to stop breathing, the door was kicked open, and Zheng Zizhou and others rushed in.

"Su Mian!!!"

Huang Baien lunged forward and bit her directly.

"Not allowed to bully my goddess!"

Ma Youhui let go in pain. Su Mian coughed violently, covering her neck and falling into the corner, her eyes opening weakly.

Zheng Zizhou: "If you don't want us to expose your Biological Institute, don't get close to her!"

Ma Youhui snorted coldly. "Exposing it, so what? The utilization value of dead people is just this much." ===== CHAPTER 190 =====