Chapter Ninety-Two: Liu Shaoyu’s Genetic Rank

Chapter Ninety-Two: Liu Shaoyu’s Gene Rank

Liu Shaoyu lay quietly in the incubation pod, a sensation that felt strangely familiar to him, much like the scene from his last resurrection. Only this time, he was awake.

“Begin infusion of nutrient solution.”

At the command, an amber liquid flowed into the pod.

Liu Shaoyu was already familiar with this nutrient solution. It was a special synthetic fluid whose unusual composition allowed the human body to breathe it into the lungs, forming a protective layer over the entire organism.

Aside from the first time, when its entry into the lungs caused intense discomfort, anyone who had experienced it before would quickly grow used to it.

“Begin S-gene testing. Start hypnosis.”

At the order, Liu Shaoyu felt his consciousness begin to scatter. Then he fell into unconsciousness.

It had been a long time since Liu Shaoyu had been able to awaken and remember anything from a dream. The last time he could recall one after waking had been when he had first come back to life.

A stimulus from deep within his mind brought that sensation back to him once more.

“The target has entered deep sleep. Begin forced injection.”

Outside the isolation chamber stood, unmistakably, the elderly researcher who had greeted Liu Shaoyu and Long Runyuan when they opened the door.

Around him were two female assistant researchers, and behind them, a full-spectrum projection screen. In that screen, aside from Long Runyuan, there was also an unfamiliar face. Judging by his features, he even bore a slight resemblance to Long Runyuan.

This kind of full-spectrum light screen directly linked another location to the laboratory. It usually appeared only in the genetic testing of certain special individuals.

Those who sent them here paid exceptional attention to the test results and the process itself.

For some reason, it had appeared in Liu Shaoyu’s examination this time.

“Professor, the target’s data has begun fluctuating,” one of the assistants beside the elderly researcher said.

The old man addressed as the professor nodded and said, “Begin recording the data. Increase the laboratory shielding.”

A pulse of energy flowed through the room, and protective barriers activated across every wall of the laboratory. These measures were there to prevent excessive damage at the moment of genetic awakening.

“The data is rising. We’re about to reach the critical point.”

At this report, everyone in the room widened their eyes, ready to observe Liu Shaoyu’s condition at the moment of awakening.

At that moment, Liu Shaoyu floated silently in the incubation pod. The specially made protective suit outlined the perfect contours of his body.

Suddenly, his body began to tremble. Then the trembling grew violent.

Deep within his mind, Liu Shaoyu had been resting peacefully in this dream for an unknown length of time, when those blurred images appeared once more.

That figure from behind?

Liu Shaoyu found it somewhat familiar, full of warmth and closeness… but this couldn’t be real, could it? he thought. This inward doubt seemed to rouse the entire space, and the echo of his own questioning kept resounding all around him.

As if hearing the question, the figure’s steps forward slowed, then stopped abruptly.

It all made Liu Shaoyu more confused.

Who was he?

Who? Who? Who?

The echoes continued to ring out.

“My child...”

Suddenly, another female voice reverberated through the dream.

The voice felt so warm to Liu Shaoyu. Could this be...?

“My child...”

The woman’s voice kept echoing.

Liu Shaoyu tried to reach out, as if by doing so he might find the source of the voice. But it was all futile. Here, it seemed his body did not belong to him. He felt some invisible shackle pulling at him.

“Ah!!”

The sensation filled Liu Shaoyu with rage. Then that rage abruptly turned into a roar.

Inside the laboratory, Liu Shaoyu’s body was shaking violently. With each convulsion, the instruments in the room, and even the walls themselves, began to tremble.

“My God! What is this?” exclaimed a young female researcher beside him.

What astonished her was not the shaking walls, but the data curve before her eyes... a curve unlike anything seen before.

“Yes! That’s it! That’s it!” The old man in the center—the one called the professor—looked at once ecstatic. It was as though this curve were the very thing he had been dreaming of.

The two figures in the projection screen wore very different expressions. Long Runyuan looked confused; it was data even he had never seen, and he had even less idea what it meant.

The person beside Long Runyuan had his brows tightly locked, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Changes continued within the incubation pod. Because of Liu Shaoyu’s trembling, the nutrient fluid had already begun to surge. After a short while, bubbles started rising from the bottom.

“The nutrient solution temperature is rising. Target body temperature is heating rapidly.”

Liu Shaoyu in the dream felt it too. He felt as though his entire body were burning, and that burning seemed to come from every cell inside him.

“Ahhh! Roar—”

Liu Shaoyu felt his body becoming even less controllable. His throat gave voice to a relentless howl, and that howl slowly grew indistinct. Even the sound itself no longer seemed human.

But the people in the laboratory could not see that.

What they could see in the laboratory was...

“Energy output is too great. The detection equipment has begun to sustain damage. Data fluctuation is abnormal.”

“Capture the data! Quickly, upload it directly to the central computer,” the elderly researcher urgently said upon seeing the changes in the lab.

No sooner had he spoken than fine cracks began to appear in the incubation pod where Liu Shaoyu lay. Those fissures gradually spread across various instruments, and then crept toward the walls.

“The detection equipment is damaged... it is about to stop functioning.”

As the equipment in the laboratory continued to suffer damage, the holographic projection behind the elderly researcher also began to fluctuate. And then...

“Ah—”

The two assistants suddenly clutched their heads at the same time and cried out.

Before anyone could observe their reaction, the old researcher also felt as though something had pierced his mind.

In just an instant, a warmth surged through his body. A force from within himself directly repelled the stabbing pain.

“Is this... a mental attack?” The old man was no stranger to this sensation.

He hurriedly pressed the nearly unresponsive control panel.

“Overfrequency protection activated.”

Another wave of light rippled through the room. Only then did the expressions on the other two researchers’ faces finally return to normal.

“So powerful...?” the old researcher murmured in a daze.

He had actually been forced to activate overfrequency protection in order to withstand the mental assault.

“Inject the sedative.”

The old researcher had no choice but to end the experiment early. In the pod where Liu Shaoyu lay, the protective fluid had already begun to boil.

One must know that the boiling point of this nutrient solution was three times that of ordinary water... and this liquid was being inhaled into the lungs.

If it did not stop now... the consequences would be unimaginable.

The experimental equipment was already shaking violently. After great difficulty, the sedative was injected, and Liu Shaoyu’s body gradually returned to calm. Immediately afterward, coolant was introduced, and the temperature returned to normal.

In his view, this trial had already yielded the data he wanted.

Yet one small detail went unnoticed by anyone. On Liu Shaoyu’s neck, a tiny protrusion had appeared...

As the sedative was injected, that fan-shaped protrusion rapidly subsided and returned to stillness.

Within the dream, Liu Shaoyu suddenly lost consciousness.

Before his awareness dispersed, Liu Shaoyu felt himself slowly growing larger. Then he drifted away from the ground.

In the dream, Liu Shaoyu even had the strange feeling that... he seemed to have become some kind of creature that was not human.

A word to readers:

I set a scheduled release last night, only to discover it was posted immediately... so I hurried to write a chapter and upload it.