This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 210 - Jiu Lins Research
Chapter 210: Chapter 210: Jiu Lin’s Research
Chapter 210: Chapter 210: Jiu Lin’s Research
“Whoa! What is this?” Sam dodged to the side of the door and shouted.
Chen Ke was also startled. It was unexpected, but this doctor turned out to be a Spiritual Ability User, and he also mastered a Transcendent skill.
He leaned against the wall, stuck his head out to peek inside the door, and saw Jiu Lin behind the office desk, tossing another ice spear towards him.
Chen Ke pulled his head back, just as a “bang” rang out—a blue ice spear pierced the door frame, jutting out a long section, barely a centimeter away from Chen Ke’s face.
“Chen Ke! Chen Ke!” Sam shouted anxiously. From his angle, it looked like Chen Ke had his head blown off.
“Be careful, she’s a Spiritual Ability User, just like Ying Baiyi,” Chen Ke bent down to tell Sam, glancing at him.
Seeing Chen Ke unscathed, Sam’s tense expression finally relaxed. He truly thought Chen Ke’s head had been blown off just now. The thought of being left alone made despair surge within him.
“Damn it, what are you spacing out for?!” Chen Ke scolded, looking at the dumbfounded Sam.
“Ah, no, I’m fine, I’m so glad…” Sam exhaled deeply.
Chen Ke knocked the blue ice spear off the door frame with the butt of his gun. The spear fell to the ground, shattered into several pieces, and the color slowly faded from blue to white.
Chen Ke peeked inside again, only for another blue ice spear to fly straight at him. His eyes widened, his upper body jerked back, but he was still not quick enough—half his head was sheared off.
“Bang!”
The ice spear was lodged in the wall, bursting into a burst of blue ice flowers. Chen Ke’s hands planted on the ground, his head instantly regenerating.
“Wow! Whoa! Chen Ke! Chen…” Sam saw what just happened, his dark face twisted up as he loudly called out Chen Ke’s name.
Chen Ke got up from the ground, looked at Sam, and gave him an OK sign.
“Holy shit! You were just…” Sam exclaimed in surprise, studying Chen Ke’s head, unable to believe his eyes.
“I almost got killed just now, but it’s no big deal, I moved fast,” Chen Ke nodded seriously.
“I saw your whole head get…” Sam still couldn’t believe it; he had witnessed Chen Ke’s head getting impaled by a huge chunk.
“You must be seeing things. I’m perfectly fine. Focus! Sam! Focus!” Chen Ke said earnestly.
Sam rubbed his eyes, starting to doubt whether it was sheer fear that had caused him to hallucinate.
Maybe because he didn’t want to face the world alone, Sam was paying extra attention to every move Chen Ke made. Was the moment just now an unreal fantasy caused by his excessive concern for Chen Ke?
“Sam, the doctor can only throw one ice spear at a time. I’ll draw her attention, and you shoot her full of holes while she has a break,” Chen Ke whispered.
“That’s too risky…!” Sam shook his head in refusal.
“Stop joking around. Do you want to fight her all night long!? We can only take the elevator up after we kill her,” Chen Ke said angrily, his face set with determination.
“Damn, you’re such a man. I thought people like you only existed in movies!” There was a tone of respect in Sam’s voice.
“It’s decided then. I’ll count down to three!” Chen Ke leaned against the wall, made a gesture, and prepared to stick his head out again.
Of course, his intention was not to be a target but to subdue Jiu Lin instantly with Killing Intent Trigger. He had to watch her for the skill to take effect.
However, Jiu Lin just needed to watch the doorway to spot Chen Ke instantly. Her ice spears were fast and accurate, creating a hard opportunity for Chen Ke to exploit.
“It’s time! It’s time!” Chen Ke whispered to himself, activating Spiritual Vision. He instantly spotted Jiu Lin’s blue silhouette behind medical equipment.
He stuck his head out once more, and time seemed to freeze in that instant.
Jiu Lin emerged from behind the medical equipment, her right hand raised high in a throwing gesture, and a blue ice lance appeared in her hand.
“Don’t think about throwing it this time!” Chen Ke thought. Killing Intent Trigger!
Red murderous intent surged from behind him and immediately flooded towards Jiu Lin. Chen Ke exhausted all his reserves of murderous energy, a dose enough to scare a normal person to death.
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Jiu Lin shuddered, the icicle she threw veered off towards the upper diagonal, “bang” it lodged in the ceiling above the doorway. Her eyes were dull, as if she had suffered some stimulation, and she stood frozen in place, staring blankly.
“Now’s the time, Sam!” Chen Ke shouted.
Sam darted out from behind the wall, aimed his gun at Jiu Lin, and repeatedly pulled the trigger.
“Bang Bang Bang!”
Three rifle bullets flew out, hitting Jiu Lin’s abdomen, chest, and neck. The bullets tumbled out from her back, taking with them a large chunk of open wounds. Her neck was broken, and Jiu Lin’s head was the first to separate from her body, hitting the wall behind.
“Wow! You killed her for good!” Chen Ke said.
“I thought that’s what you wanted!” Sam said, perplexed.
“Right, good job! Hopefully, we can find something useful from what she left behind,” Chen Ke said, giving a thumbs-up.
The two walked into the office, where Jiu Lin’s headless body made it hard not to feel repulsed, remembering that just moments ago, they had been standing here talking with her.
“So, where’s the elevator control?” Sam muttered to himself, rifling through the desk. Suddenly, as if struck by a thought, he looked up at Chen Ke.
“What?” Chen Ke asked.
“She’s dead, why don’t we stay here safely until morning?” asked Sam.
“If we just wanted to wait safely until morning, why would we have come out?” Chen Ke retorted, picking up a bag full of medicine and shaking it.
Sam sighed, and bowed his head, continuing to search for something resembling switches or remote controls.
Chen Ke didn’t think the elevator control system would be placed in an obvious place like a desk, so he picked up Jiu Lin’s laptop.
Fortunately, the laptop wasn’t locked. Maybe Jiu Lin saw no need to lock it. In any case, Chen Ke successfully logged into the system and accessed Jiu Lin’s Gmail account using the default username.
Chen Ke started browsing through these emails. She had frequent correspondence with a Dr. named Morgan Yu. Chen Ke guessed that these were not work-related emails but personal ones.
The sent mail records were still there, but the inbox was completely empty. He would never know what exactly Morgan Yu had said. He could only guess based on what Jiu Lin had sent.
Hundreds of emails spanned from 1999 up to right before the 2005 catastrophe. From them, Chen Ke roughly understood why this world had these strange creatures.
The first email from 1999 indicated that Jiu Lin was transferred from the Great Void research department of the Spiritual Ability Research Institute to a mysterious new project group. The research theme for this group was “a certain kind of controllable military-use mutated individual.”
For the whole next year, this new project group went full throttle. It wasn’t hard to guess that the so-called mutated individuals were based on human subjects.
The emails didn’t show any aversion to human experimentation, tackling it with an unethically free research environment, limitless funding, and a morale boost from direct authorization by the president.
Jiu Lin described this project group as “a scholar’s paradise” in the emails.
An email from 2002 indicated substantial progress in the project, and its research theme had evolved into “self-replicating, scalable military-use mutated individuals.”
Jiu Lin mentioned that the difficulty with self-replication lay in the fact that “meme transmission wasn’t an energy conduction process,” and what the military wanted wasn’t “one large individual splitting into several small ones,” but “1 begetting 2, 2 begetting 3, 3 begetting N to the Nth power.”
In 2003, emails noted that the “self-splitting” research had preliminary progress. Jiu Lin’s research team discovered an “extra pheromone” produced based on “human emotional empathy effects.”
When the “information” of an individual was secreted externally, it would be received by another individual through the five senses. If the pheromone’s intensity was high enough, the receptor of the pheromone would exhibit behavior responses consistent with the information carrier.
With this empathetic breakthrough, Jiu Lin’s team identified the strongest emotion for maximizing this effect: sorrow. After using hundreds of thousands of prisoners and orphans, they created the first prototype.
The emails described the manufacturing process as complicated yet interesting, placing the subject in a coma for as long as nine months, with personality infusion therapy.
This therapy infused all experiences containing torture, abuse, and other forms of pain into the subject’s mind, erasing and replacing the original personality, keeping them immersed in an infinite sea of suffering and sorrow.
And that was just the first step.
