Chapter 2127: If I Were an AI, Would You Love Me? 38

Jin Chen's plan indeed caught the Dean's team off guard.

But having secretly conducted experiments for many years, they were not unprepared; as soon as they realized the contamination zone's main base had been infiltrated, they immediately activated the defense system.

What happened next, however, made all the experimenters involved in the bacteria experiment feel utterly screwed.

Not to mention that their communication equipment was clearly top‑notch, and even in the deepest part of the contamination zone it would not lose contact with the outside; the so‑called inability to reach the Upper City District Experimental Center was merely the Dean's unwillingness to expose himself.

But today it was just a damned malfunction.

No matter what method they used, it was useless.

The bacteria base was essentially completely cut off from the outside world.

I thought this was just an accident, but what followed was a signal cutoff, and all defense equipment suffered varying degrees of cyber‑attack in a short time.

—Someone was attacking their main system.

After realizing this, the experimenters at the bacteria base could only do their best to safeguard all secret data and experimental records.

The experimenters had long sensed the intruders' arrival. They knew that if captured, they would face strict judgment and endless imprisonment.

Rather than sit and wait for death, they might as well fight to the death.

"We can't let them succeed!" an experimenter hissed, fingers flying over the console.

Several attack combat units rushed out from the darkness, their metal shells glinting coldly in the light, the shells even stained with so much blood from killings that it could not be cleaned away.

The special forces members quickly entered combat mode.

Jin Chen's voice came through the communicator, calm and stern: "You can't beat them; press the third button on the left side of your wristband."

The members hesitated not at all, all pressing the button on their wristbands in unison.

Instantly, a special current burst from the wristbands, like a blue‑purple flying snake in the air, shooting straight at the charging combat units.

The current exploded on their metal shells, emitting a piercing "crackle" sound.

The attack combat units' movements halted instantly, as if controlled by some invisible force.

Under the current's control, the combat units swiftly reversed direction and lunged toward the laboratory entrance.

Their bodies slammed heavily into the metal door, producing a deafening roar; the door was completely sealed, allowing almost no one to pass in or out.

The experimenters stared, dumbfounded, at all of this.

Their plan had utterly failed, even the chance to flee was taken away.

Only when the intruding special forces members pressed guns to their heads did this absurd farce finally come to a halt.

"Keep moving forward," Jin Chen's voice came through the communicator, "and on the way, rescue the refugees locked up as test subjects."

Special Peace Bureau members swiftly acted, threading through the narrow corridors straight to the nest's core area.

Under Jin Chen's command, the members quickly located the lab storing the experimental bacteria and swiftly packed the samples.

The bacteria base's storage and number of test subjects were countless, leaving one feeling shocked.

Even though they had undergone multiple forced desensitization trainings by Jin Chen before arriving, merely thinking that each recorded experimental bacteria had once lived inside a similar body, and after death many were even extracted alive along with the most deeply infected organs, made the human special forces members unable to suppress their inner shock and anger.

They also couldn't tell what was useful or not; regardless, they just grabbed whatever they saw, following the orders of Article 520.

Another wave of members hurried to the basement, dim lighting casting over the narrow corridors, the air filled with a pungent moldy smell.

Pushing the door open, the sight before them was shocking.

Nearly hundreds of refugees were crammed into tiny cells, their bodies frail, each suffering varying degrees of bacterial infection, tortured beyond human shape, desperate and painful.

Seeing people not in lab coats appear, a faint hope ignited in their eyes.

"Save us…" a refugee near the cell door whispered pleadingly.

After a brief shock, the members swiftly acted, bundling themselves up more securely and then rescuing the refugees one by one.

"Mission accomplished," a member reported softly, his voice tinged with restrained excitement.

Jin Chen: "Good, burn this place down."

Member: "……"

"All right."

What the hell, you android, why are you so bandit‑like!

The special forces members gathered all the retrieved data, no longer subject to review by the experimental center, and Jin Chen sent it all to Song Shoujie's research institute.

The research on the suppressive vaccine is urgent.

—

Although the Dean's wife was hiding in the shadows, she largely realized something, knowing that everything could no longer be salvaged.

Upon realizing she was under surveillance, she actually chose to make her final call to Xu Sugxing.

She demanded to meet Xu Sugxing in person.

Accompanied by Jin Chen, Xu Sugxing arrived at the meeting place—arranged by the Special Peace Bureau; now the Dean's wife is also a key figure in the criminal case, and the bureau chief does not want any mishap.

Through the half‑shadow of the half‑closed door, Xu Sugxing saw a woman seated in the room, wearing a cheongsam.

His mother.

"Go on in," Jin Chen said, loosening his loose grip on Xu Sugxing's shoulder, then ruffling his hair, "I'll wait for you at the door."

Xu Sugxing nodded, leaned slightly against Jin Chen's palm, and pushed the door open to enter.

In an instant, he became expressionless again, and even when seated opposite the Dean's wife, he remained cold and solemn.

"Mother," Xu Sugxing called out, tightening the protective mask over his nose, his voice devoid of inflection.

The Dean's wife looked at him, then shook her head, "You know the truth of everything, yet you still wish to call me mother?"

"It's merely a title," Xu Sugxing said calmly, "You are my progenitor; that is an unchangeable fact."

"... Also."

The Dean's wife gave a bitter laugh, but could not sustain the smile; her gaze toward Xu Sugxing carried a hint of sorrow.

"You are fundamentally different from others; my plan has been very successful."

Not interacting with humans, devoid of human emotions, spending all days with mechanical bodies.

This allows, during the cultivation stage of active genes, maximal blocking of external interference factors.

"But I never imagined that, after so many years of cultivating you, it would be you who exposes all of this."

Xu Suxing: "Not me."

"It's my lover."

Xu Suxing said seriously: "He discovered your plot; he wants me to live."

So, no matter what pessimistic, bizarre thoughts he had before, they are all gone now.

Dean's wife frowned, glanced outside, "Is it No. 520?"

"This is the most unexpected thing for me and your father; you not only have feelings, but your love interest is also an android."