Chapter 2125: If I Were an AI, Would You Love Me? 36

Jin Chen didn't even leave his seat.

His expression was cold, the faint light from outside the glass seeping into his brow bone, the data flow in his pupils fluctuating momentarily, blue light flashing.

The mechanical guards preparing to charge in all halted, turning their heads to stare at the Dean.

"What are you doing!"

The Dean pressed the controller again, wary and shocked.

After a while, Xu He, who had finally come to accept it fully, softly sighed: "Teacher, I told you before, No. 520 isn't just a simple robot."

Suddenly, as the Dean lunged outward, the mechanical guards surrounded him, pressing his arms onto the table and covering his mouth.

Jin Chen rose, his clear, emotionless voice slowly reaching the Dean's ears: "Human, I don't have time to play your game of feigning ignorance while pulling strings."

Jin Chen searched a few places on the Dean's lab coat, the tiny storage device in the inner pocket slipping silently into his palm.

Jin Chen slipped it into his knuckle compartment without changing expression, his electronic neural synapses beginning to decode at high speed.

"Biological secret key, you can, carrying your own evidence of guilt on your person."

Jin Chen sneered.

Dean: "……"

He couldn't move an inch, glaring fiercely at Jin Chen, then looking at Xu Shuxing with eyes full of disappointment yet pleading.

Xu Shuxing walked over calmly, bypassing his biological father and throwing himself into Jin Chen's embrace.

Xu Shuxing leaned on Jin Chen's shoulder, gave a light yawn, the earlier anger soothed well by this embrace.

And he seemed to have cracked a little of that glass cover that isolated emotional fluctuations.

【Villain Heartthrob Value +5, total 85!】

He looked up at Jin Chen, full of sincerity and longing, a moist glow spreading over him,

Jin Chen embraced Xu Shuxing, controlling the mechanical bodies to lock the Dean in a room capable of playing footage.

Xu He's mood was still complicated; he followed closely inside and asked Jin Chen: "What are you planning to do?"

Jin Chen gently stroked Xu Shuxing's shoulder: "Please, Dean, watch a show."

"You humans all like watching plays, don't you."

Xu He: "……"

"Teacher… he," Xu He changed his address, "he still has his own influence here, and he brought back so many people; if he disappears too long it will startle the snake."

Jin Chen: "Don't worry, they're all under control."

Xu Shuxing nodded in agreement.

In the huge screen was the top level of the workshop at the Experiment Center.

The Dean was pressed to the ground to watch; Xu He stood at his side, sighing occasionally, unable to help shooting angry glances at him.

Jin Chen and Xu Shuxing sat at the back, half a room's distance apart.

Not long after sitting, Xu Shuxing furrowed his brow, straddled Jin Chen's thigh, facing him as he embraced his neck.

"I'm a bit tired."

"Good, go to sleep." Jin Chen touched his mask, making sure it wasn't askew, held him close, gently patted his back, and lowered his head to kiss his forehead.

Xu Shuxing found a comfortable position in the embrace, clutching one of Jin Chen's fingers tightly in his palm, his thoughts drifting away with drowsiness.

At that moment, behind Jin Chen, separated by a wall, the Governor and the officials of the Upper City Area, as well as the Experiment Center's biggest investor, were all locked in a room watching the screen.

Their screens were synchronized.

The replica was disguising itself as an ordinary lab assistant, sneaking into the workshop silently.

His movements were light and swift, he walked up to Professor Song and whispered: "Professor, just now someone sneaky entered Workshop No. 2 and knocked out a lab assistant."

Professor Song's face instantly turned pale, his eyes revealing hard-to-hide shock, immediately recalling his own ordeal.

"What? That person appeared again? Quick, take me to see!"

The replica nodded, leading Professor Song out of the workshop.

They reached a secluded corner; the replica suddenly turned and threw a punch at the back of Professor Song's head.

Professor Song's body stiffened abruptly, then collapsed helplessly to the floor, losing consciousness.

The replica quickly bound Professor Song, then returned to the workshop, operating the system to seal all entrances and exits of the workshop.

He stepped up to the control console, his fingers flying over the controls, and the screen immediately played a clip that sent sanity plummeting—a detailed record of the pathogen experiments conducted at the Experiment Center.

First to come into view was an excerpt from the experiment log:

Date: New Era Year 15, May 1

Location: Dark Space B Area Laboratory

Three hours after injection, Subject 09 exhibited violent spasms, allergy symptoms not improving, while conscious the entire outer skin layer peeled away, exposing a muscular net-like structure.

Visually resembling a mix of metal and pathogen tissue, the pathogen was not suppressed; even the cultured, enhanced pathogen could contaminate robots!

I believed the sample must be destroyed, but the Dean ordered continued observation……

It was watching me! Those eyes weren't human! No! Why conduct this experiment! Are they machines or humans—I can't tell anymore.

……

Experimental result: near death, untreatable, research value lost, per the Dean's order dumped into the Lower City Refugee Hut.

Xu He in the room quickly realized it was one of the several cases Jin Chen had been looking for.

He shivered all over, looking at the Dean with eyes of fear and disgust.

And the Dean was still struggling, struggling in disbelief.

These things were all destroyed—how could they still exist!

The trial in the workshop continued.

Next came a transcript of surveillance audio.

The background sound was a continuous beeping alarm, also mixed with the sound of liquid splashing.

——"Can't shut it off! The culture chamber is locked! The super-type mechanical body simply can't be controlled!"

In the midst of a scream.

——"Its… its hand went through the glass! Help!"

——"Go tell the Dean! The super-type mechanical body Mysterious Profound has lost control, an unknown red crystal substance has appeared inside it, and it has escaped!"

The screen flickered.

In the unclear monitoring, the scene was the Dean personally leading team members, conducting germ experiments on human bodies, even integrating them into mechanical bodies.

The scene was filled with bloodshed and cruelty.

Then, via the sensor Xu Suxing had previously installed here, the pain from the scene was transmitted to the bodies of the experimenters involved in the whole process.

The workshop's experimenters were startled by the sudden image, screaming nonstop; some even collapsed on the ground, their faces full of fear and horror, unable to tell whether it was their own hallucination or real pain.

The clone stood before the control console, voice cold and hard, aura bearing a hint of Jin Chen's true transmission: "Speak the truth, otherwise these images will keep playing until you break down."

One experimenter trembled, crawling on the ground, voice choked with desperate sobs: "I'll talk! I'll talk!"

"The Dean has been conducting illegal germ experiments, culturing active genes in human bodies, even discarding the infected in the Lower City District, leaving them to fend for themselves; we… we were forced into this!"

The killing intent in the clone's eyes continued as it pressed: "Anything else?"

Another experimenter collapsed on the ground, voice hoarse and weak: "He… he also used the mechanical body for live experiments, implanting the infected's genes into the mechanical body, attempting to create… a super-type mechanical body."

"Those infected… they had no idea they were being used as test subjects; at first it was just a normal infection, but we… no, it was the Dean, who lacked experiment specimens, so he lured them in under the pretense of treatment."