Chapter 778: Realization

Wei Yuan stood in an underground passage that was clearly opened temporarily, watching two demolition experts carrying explosives and setting them up at the end of the passage.

This was the last obstacle to the underground experimental area, and after the explosion, they would be able to enter. The hand Wei Yuan was holding the gun with was trembling; it was his body trembling, seemingly out of fear, but his mood was very calm, as if it were a kind of instinctive camouflage.

Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Wei Yuan summoned his courage and asked, "What's behind the passage?"

Ji Liuli said while wiping the large-caliber pistol in her hand, "There are two kinds of dangers. The first is a brand-new virus. As long as it reaches a certain quantity, it can awaken its own intelligence. This is a great discovery, it's just a pity that no way to control it has been found yet, otherwise it would be the greatest discovery in the company's history. And now, the alarm in the underground experimental area indicates that it has leaked."

"The second kind is those super-powered individuals in the bottom area who haven't been completed, or have failed."

"Super-powered individuals?"

"Where do you think so many super-powered individuals come from? Many of them are cultivated by the company, and then their memories are wiped and they are released."

"Why?" Wei Yuan didn't understand; the company was on one hand exterminating and chasing super-powered individuals, and on the other hand secretly cultivating them?

"To observe how super-powered individuals survive in ordinary human society. With the maturity of gene modification technology, there will be more and more super-powered individuals in the future. These people carry powerful abilities that clearly exceed the limits of ordinary people; how to adapt to society? This is obviously a problem, but the bigger problem is actually why it isn't society that adapts to them."

Wei Yuan had never thought of this possibility. If there was a group of people clearly more powerful than others, and in sufficient numbers, then they would inevitably obtain more rights and even privileges, and human society would also be stratified as a result. The greater the difference in ability, the more privileges there would be, and the greater the difference in hierarchy would be.

Wei Yuan instinctively felt that it should be like this when it developed to the end. He didn't know where this feeling of taking it for granted came from, but once he had a preset idea, the more he thought about it, the more he felt it would be like this.

Ji Liuli glanced at Wei Yuan and asked, "Do you know why the company wants to restrict super-powered individuals, and only wants to urge them to integrate into the lives of ordinary people, rather than the other way around?"

"Why?"

"Because the people sitting on the company's board of directors are a group of ordinary people, and they are all old men."

What kind of reason was this?

At this time, the demolition experts led everyone into the side passage, closed the gate, and began to count down. Then, with a roar, earth and stone fell from the passage.

A team of special service soldiers naturally entered the passage, and a moment later sent a signal that the entrance was safe. Then two doctors came over, injected Ji Liuli and Wei Yuan with blocking agents, waited quietly for five minutes, and then signaled that they could proceed.

Wei Yuan followed Ji Liuli to the end of the passage, where an entrance had already been blown open, and several strong soldiers were using demolition tools to further level and expand the entrance so that subsequent small vehicles could enter.

The area chosen for breaking in was a general warehouse, where some daily commonly used supplies were placed.

"Everything here may have already been infected. If any moving object wants to approach, shoot first," Ji Liuli instructed.

Wei Yuan nodded, without the slightest tension; his body instead became relaxed, so that his reactions would be faster and more agile.

A small team of soldiers on the side searched forward, and just as they walked to a row of shelves, a black shadow suddenly fell from the ceiling, and its speed was incredibly fast!

It landed directly on a soldier's helmet, and then a dense sound of "ding-ding" was emitted, clearly wanting to chisel through the helmet, but failed. But it immediately changed its strategy, suddenly exerting force to spring up, actually forcibly pulling off the soldier's head, with a long spine dragging behind it!

The soldiers immediately opened fire, but their reaction speed clearly couldn't keep up with that black shadow. The black shadow jumped a few times in the hail of bullets and escaped behind the shelves and disappeared. The sudden casualties instantly caused the atmosphere to solidify, and the lazy expression on Ji Liuli's face also disappeared a bit, and she was a bit puzzled.

That black shadow seemed to feel that one head wasn't enough to eat, and in the blink of an eye, it appeared again and pounced on another soldier! But it had only landed halfway when a dark green bullet suddenly flew from the side and hit it in mid-air!

The black shadow let out a shrill scream, green fluorescence appeared all over its body, revealing its original form; it turned out to be a monster shaped like a weasel, just much larger than a weasel.

Ji Liuli fired several shots in succession, blasting that monster into pieces, and nearly black blood splashed everywhere. Wei Yuan also raised his gun to aim, but had no chance to fire at all.

Seeing the monster die, Wei Yuan had just breathed a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw Ji Liuli turn her head slowly, and then her expression changed, and she opened her mouth as if saying something to him.

It was just that her movements were very slow, as if watching in slow motion, and the sound Wei Yuan heard in his ears also became low and distorted, and he couldn't hear what she was saying at all.

She actually raised her gun and aimed at Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan subconsciously wanted to dodge, but his body seemed to be ten thousand tons heavy, and it didn't listen to his command at all, and he had to use all his strength to move even a little bit.

Just at this moment, Wei Yuan felt a cold thing land on the back of his neck, and several sharp claws pierced his skin and nailed into his skull, and then a sharp pain of pulling came from his neck, preparing to pull off Wei Yuan's head!

Wei Yuan instinctively wanted to reach back and grab, but the instinct of long-term training first suppressed the impulse, instead pointing his gun at the side of his neck, intending to shoot through the side of his neck and then blast away the attacker on his back. Only this was the fastest.

But his body suddenly produced resistance at this moment, and his hand actually couldn't be raised!

Wei Yuan was shocked, and then the sharp pain in his neck reached an unbearable level, his body tissues began to tear, and Wei Yuan's neck bone, which was no different from an ordinary person's, reached the edge of the critical point.

His body was playing tricks again!

Wei Yuan's heart fell into an ice cellar; he didn't expect that the first step of exploration would fall into a killing trap, and the body that he thought had no problems actually had a backup plan, and it was launched at this most fatal moment!

Was he really going to die?

The fear of death once again shrouded Wei Yuan, and then Wei Yuan suddenly felt an inexplicable, indescribable rage: How could he die here?! Even if he were to die, he would drag the entire world to be buried with him, and he would make every living creature in this world trapped here, never to be liberated for eternity!!

The rage caused a certain point deep in Wei Yuan's consciousness to awaken, and it seemed that a world-destroying storm was about to erupt, destroying everything around, including Wei Yuan himself.

But just at this moment, Wei Yuan's peripheral vision suddenly saw something placed on the shelf; it was an ancient bronze lotus lamp, with a point of pale green lamp flame burning on it.

At the moment of seeing the lotus lamp, Wei Yuan suddenly felt two overlapping worlds appear before his eyes again. In the other world, the lotus lamp stood tall, ten thousand zhang high, and the lamp flame illuminated the dark place from an unknown distance.

The fine patterns on the lamp body now turned into a scripture. Wei Yuan instinctively stared at it, and suddenly, runes bloomed with glazed Buddha light, all surging toward Wei Yuan, and then a scripture appeared in Wei Yuan's consciousness: The Law of Emptiness and Form Indestructibility.

The scripture was activated immediately, and Wei Yuan's head and body were instantly plated with a layer of gold, even the torn skin and flesh were golden. Then the golden skin and flesh automatically closed, actually indestructible, directly cutting off and crushing the claws that had pierced into his body during the closing process, then turning them into micro-particles, and then being converted, becoming part of Wei Yuan's body.

In the blink of an eye, Wei Yuan's whole body turned golden, and a point of five-colored glazed light lit up between his eyebrows. He put his hands together and said, "So that's how it is."

His voice was like a bell.

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