under the mask

Even though the secret experimental base has a complex structure, Grad knows the map by heart. He is even more familiar with various complicated passages and elevators than the researchers who have been here for many years.Of course, if you care about something, you will naturally know every detail of it, and you can copy it in your brain when you close your eyes.

Grade soon came to the third floor. Observation room No. [-] was on the left hand side of the third floor. After exiting the elevator, he walked through the back corridor. In the center on the left, after the metal wall was opened, there was a room of about [-] square meters. The observation room is divided into two parts. On the side of the door is a rectangular control room of about ten square meters, a row of control panels, and then a row of chairs. The observation room of fifty square meters is separated by a layer of reinforced glass. There is nothing there, except for the monitor and some hidden weapons and equipment, that is, the ground and walls.

At this moment, there were several researchers sitting in front of the console, and a young man in a black military uniform, who was Scott himself.

Grad nodded to the other researchers, and then scolded Scott with a sullen face: "Is the body just running around?"

The young and handsome second lieutenant didn't even bother to stand up. He sat in the chair and turned around. There were a few scarlet totem-like lines on his deep and handsome face, and the color of his pupils also turned into a kind of red and black. The color is like thick blood.

"Why, have you even forgotten the basic etiquette?" Grad frowned slightly, and his tone became a little more serious.

Scott looked at him coldly and said nothing, but surprisingly, it gave people the feeling that a child was angry with his parents.

Grade couldn't help but rubbed the center of his brows, and waved his hand to signal to the others what to do next. Leia beside him hesitated and walked to the console, pretending to concentrate on discussing softly with his colleagues.The prime minister just walked over and gently rubbed Scott's hard hair.

"You were recuperating in Palade some time ago, and your father has been very anxious without news of you," Grad said helplessly, "Should you go back to Verdegu's house first, why did you come here directly?"

Scott didn't even raise his eyebrows, only his straight shoulders relaxed unconsciously.His eyeballs were right and wrong staring at a button on Gradle's clothes, as if he had no intention of speaking at all.

Gradle's gaze sank.It seems to be... more serious.

Originally, after injecting the improved version of the gene repair potion, Scott's temperament changed drastically, but no matter what, he was still able to talk like a normal person, occasionally joked, and treated him very respectfully. He is a "person"... But as time changes, he also finds that Scott is getting colder and colder. Sudden madness like the last time in the interrogation room also happens from time to time. This time it is obviously more serious, and the lack of character is more and more obvious .

Tujia obviously began to doubt the changes in his son. If this continues, he is afraid that sooner or later he will notice Scott's "abnormality".

The only thing that hasn't changed about Scott is his trust.

"This totem, doesn't it have any effect?" Grad lifted Scott's chin and carefully examined those red lines.

"Have."

Scott finally spoke.

"I swallowed part of the flame." He suddenly showed a naive smile to Greed, with a pair of small dimples on his cheeks, which looked incredibly sunny.

Grad's fingers trembled slightly, and there was a trace of caution and ecstasy in his gaze towards Scott.

"Swallowed...fire?" he asked softly.Could it be the flame of the red pterosaur...

Scott didn't laugh anymore, but stubbornly looked up at the Prime Minister, his metallic voice was particularly stubborn: "I want to participate in the experiment."

Gray met his black eyes that reflected red light, and for some reason he couldn't say no.Scott usually would not go against his decision, so this time, could it be that he instinctively thought he would succeed?

"I promise you," he said slowly, but at the same time pinched Scott's chin and looked at him sternly: "Only one thing, we have to wait for a while after the human experiment is over."

A gleam flashed in Scott's eyes, and after a while he nodded obediently, agreeing.

Gray secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Just kidding, even if Scott was sure, he wouldn't let Scott take the risk.After so long, so many experiments, in the end, there was only a barely successful example like Scott. According to Clive, Scott is a super sample, and perhaps the final successful potion also has Scott as the base. can be developed.

Of course, he did not deny that he still had some affection for this capable and loyal subordinate.

"My lord, the experiment is about to begin." Leia shouted softly.

Grad let go of his hand and sat down next to Scott.

"Sample No. [-]," Leia took the electronic board and explained to the Prime Minister beside him: "In addition to containing the medicinal liquid that stimulates the potential of the gene, it also contains a special substance that we extracted from Sharman."

Grad nodded, indicating that it was time to start.

He knew that the original name of Clive Berkman's research project "Gene Restoration Potion" was actually "Transformer Research Project".He also listened to Clive when he gave lectures at the Union College. Clive's earliest inspiration came from shapeshifters, because the potential of human beings lies in the brain, and the development of the brain is the most difficult and little rewarding. Starting from genes, the result that can be obtained is nothing more than improving human physical fitness and intelligence, and passing this advantage to the next generation is a slow and long-term optimization process.

But shapeshifters are different. Although most people in the galaxy believe that the original state of shapeshifters is animal form, because maintaining animal shape makes shapeshifters stronger and possesses supernatural powers, making them closer to the elements of the universe. Clive took the risk of conducting illegal research and concluded that According to the opposite result, he believes that the original state of shapeshifters is actually the same as that of humans, and the shapeshifting is the result of maximizing benign mutations in their genes. The brain domain may not be developed, but there is no doubt that they have become stronger.

Clive is a genius, he wants to find a shortcut that can allow humans to directly enter this mutation, as powerful as a shapeshifter.In the end he did succeed.

This is the most precious stock solution.

The snow-white wall on the other side of the observation room suddenly slid to one side, and two well-armed soldiers escorted a prisoner wearing full electromagnetic pulse shackles in, let him stand in the middle of the observation room, and then opened the metal ring on the prisoner's neck. Then the shackles on the prisoner's hands and feet ejected eight virtual chains and fixed them on the upper and lower corners of the observation room, firmly fixing the prisoner in place.

After all preparations were completed, one of the soldiers reached out and pulled off the hood on the prisoner's head, revealing an extremely frightened and angry face.The prisoner was fixed all over, and there were eight electromagnetic chains to lock him, but he howled wildly like a beast driven to a dead end and struggled towards the console, his eyes were bloodshot with hatred——

In fact, he couldn't see anything on the opposite side at all, what was in front of him was just an opaque glass wall.

'Brother, they can't see it at all, so just give up. The soldier with the hood took a step back without looking sideways, and whispered a few words in his mouth: "Try hard to live." '

He and his colleagues looked at each other, and they both saw sympathy and fear in each other's eyes.Sympathy is naturally for the maddened person in the middle of the room, and fear...hope they never become that person in the room.

The two soldiers withdrew, leaving only one prisoner who was crying in despair.

On the side of the console, no one cared about the emotions of the prisoners. Leia and other researchers were making final adjustments before the experiment. Grad looked down at the communicator. Marian just sent him tomorrow's itinerary. I can spare one morning to spend my birthday with my precious son.Scott sat in the armchair, but his back was straight. Although he was staring at the glass, the focus of his eyes did not fall on the prisoner.

At that moment the door behind them slid open, and a researcher hurried in, bent over and whispered something in Gradle's ear.

"He said it?" Grad raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then waved his hand indifferently: "Of course it's no problem... since he is rarely interested."

The researcher got the approval, and hurried out again. After about 5 minutes, the door opened again, and a white-haired old man moved into the observation room very slowly surrounded by three or five people.

Leia and the others gasped in shock, then stood up and stepped aside.

It was the first time in nearly a decade that Greider had seen Clive Bockman, the great genetic father, outside the lab.

He stood up and met Clive's gaze with a smile. To outsiders, there was a wonderful aura between them, which was composed of the past, present and future, mixed with years of friendship, which seemed so special.

Clive's appearance is a bit too old for his age, especially now that human life spans are much longer than in the past.He may have been tall and tall in the past, but now his shoulders are bent, his back is slightly bent, his legs seem to be unable to bear the weight of his body, and he needs two adults to support him... His facial features should be handsome in the past, but now his skin is pale and loose. The broad forehead is horizontally covered with deep ravines, and the gray eyes are sunken, looking extremely tired.

He stared at Grad, his shoulders shrunk subconsciously, which was an instinctive reaction of self-protection, but at the same time, there was contempt and hatred in his eyes, which were carefully hidden in a flash, and the rest was calm and peaceful. numbness.

"It's been a long time since you came out of the lab, Clive." Greed smiled.

With the support of the two, Clive sat on the seat to Grad's left, casually, and said in a hoarse voice: "This experiment is very important, and I have to watch it myself to be at ease."

Gradle didn't say anything, and sat down again.

Clive narrowed his eyes and glanced at the prisoner on the opposite side, and said critically, "Not strong enough... what type of army is it?"

Leia stood behind him, and checked the electronic board in his hand: "Jagba Perkins...Mechanized infantryman, the citizen file shows that he is dead...No gene restoration agent has been injected." Of course, he was sent here The experimental samples are all people who have been treated cleanly. Such people must have no background, and usually do not have the opportunity to inject restoration potions at this age.

Clive was not very satisfied, but seeing the prisoner struggling endlessly, he nodded reluctantly: "I can still do this after injecting the paralyzing potion twelve hours ago... The physique is considered qualified... Let's start."

Not long after she joined the experimental base, Leia had secretly guessed about the identity of the laboratory tyrant, and she only had longing and admiration in her heart, so she always obeyed Clive's orders.She nodded to the other researcher, and joined her colleagues in pressing the two red buttons on the control panel.

Although the person on the other side of the glass wall who controls his own destiny cannot be seen, the prisoner named Jagba obviously sensed the arrival of a certain moment. He struggled forward desperately, his neck stretched out with blue veins, and he screamed hoarsely. , with protruding eyes.

Don't want to die - he doesn't want to die! !

Unscrew circular openings with a diameter of one inch on the walls on the left and right sides, and two metal mechanical arms slowly stretch out, each holding an extremely thin needle tube as long as a finger at the front end, and they gradually Approaching the prisoner, one headed toward the head, while the other sank slightly and deflected backwards, toward the spine.

At this time, the prisoner was completely like a mad beast. No matter how firmly the electromagnetic chain was fixed, his limbs and neck had deep blood clots due to too much strangulation, and the thin clothing was stained red.

"Control him," Clive's old face was cold and indifferent, and he ordered without any emotion: "Fix the head and spine, don't let him kill yourself."

Leia immediately entered the command on the control panel, and saw the imprisoning ring on the prisoner's neck making a light clicking sound, and the seemingly seamless dense metal decomposed into thin wires, and the two ends protruded to form a notch. A few seconds later, the two new chains joined together, and the chains extending from the cervical spine fixed the prisoner's back together, almost completely trapping the prisoner.

Before the prisoner could groan, the mechanical arm had already arrived in front of him. Two injections pierced his head and spine with lightning speed, and the tiny amount of medicine was injected in less than a second. A string of blood drops back into the wall, and almost at the same time, the prisoner convulsed violently. If it wasn't for the support of the chains, he might have collapsed into a ball.

Leia and the other researchers started to record nervously. The raised light screen on the control panel continuously scanned rows of data. They are already quite familiar with this set of procedures. I wonder if there will be any different surprises this time.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the atmosphere in front of the console changed from tension to anticipation to stagnation.

"Why is it still the same?" Grad didn't understand this, but felt that the prisoner lowered his head, and the frequency of convulsions was getting lower and lower, as if he was about to die.

"Teacher, the signs of life keep weakening... do you want another injection?" Leia was also a little disappointed, and turned to ask Clive.

"...No, wait a little longer." Clive didn't want to waste potions. After all, potions are not easy to make, and the experiment is not done just once. No response this time doesn't mean it's a failure.

At this moment, Scott stood up suddenly, and the seat fell on the floor with a harsh sound.

Everyone looked up at him, but the young second lieutenant just stared at the observation glass with red eyes, veins appeared on the back of his hand holding the glass, and his whole body exuded a terrifying aura of choosing someone to devour.

"Sit down Scott!" Gradle snapped.

Scott seemed to have never heard of it, and an excited smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Here we come—"

what is coming?

The next moment Greed understood.

The data on the control panel suddenly soared all the way from the bottom of the valley, and the prisoner hanging on the chain stopped convulsing, and the moment he raised his head, his whole body burst like a balloon filled with water—bang—clear liquid splashed on his head. Looking at the wall through the glass, it seems like a basin of water has been poured over it.

Leia stood up in a gaffe, she had never seen such a reaction—how could it explode?

Those liquids that looked like water were extremely dense, hanging on the glass wall and flowing down slowly. When they could barely see the other side of the observation room, they couldn't help but turn pale with shock. They only heard a series of cracking sounds, and then a black Shadow slammed into the glass wall, shaking the reinforced glass.

A monster's limbs were clinging to the glass, eyes twice the size of normal human pupils stared at them as if they were aiming at prey, as if they could see through the glass wall of a SLR.

All the researchers, including Leia, took a few steps back in fright, their hair standing on end.Is this a success?

The monster was completely reborn, with no hair on its body, and its clothes exploded and fell to the ground. From head to toe, it was covered with a layer of silver fish scale-like skin. There was a trail around the ears, elbows, fingers, and calves. A soft silvery translucent fin-like substance.It lay coldly on the glass, its lipless mouth opened and closed slightly, and a long silver-gray tongue deftly stuck out, dripping saliva.

very scary!Leia's face turned pale, and she lowered her head and wrote a few words tremblingly on the experiment record.In fact, the corpses left over from the failed experiments in the past have only more deformed and weird shapes, but... but those are all dead...

However, Clive was trembling with excitement, and looked at the monster with a flushed face: "Sharman... Sharman is indeed a shapeshifter! No, Sharman is a shapeshifter who has not fully evolved! If you adjust the proportion— A little less shaman gene extract - the shape will be better! One more may even grow fish tails! Leia!! Hurry up - write down what I said!!"

Leia held back her fear and walked up to Clive, observing the monster while making detailed experimental records.

Grad didn't move either, he sat on the seat and looked at the monster, frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.He sighed and turned his head to look to the right, then his expression changed drastically and he stood up: "Where's Scott?!"

A researcher pointed in the direction of the door tremblingly: "My lord, Scott walked out suddenly."

out?Gradle thought of Scott's bloodshot eyes just now, and an ominous premonition arose in their hearts.

This premonition was soon fulfilled, the door at the other end of the observation room suddenly slid open, a tall figure walked in slowly, and two figures lying on the ground could be glimpsed outside the slowly closing metal door.

Everyone was shocked by this scene, and looked at Scott standing in the center of the observation room in bewilderment, with the shackles and broken steps broken by the monster just now, and viscous liquid all over the ground.

"What's going on here?!" Grad almost didn't come up in one breath, and angrily opened the communication port connecting the two ends of the glass wall and roared: "Scott, what do you want to do?! Get out quickly-!!!"

Unfortunately, it was too late.The silver monster figure disappeared on the glass, and once again focused on it, it was already standing tightly against the wall on Scott's right, covered in scales, and seemed to attack the young second lieutenant at any time.

"Skett—!!" Gradle slammed into the console angrily and nervously, then gasped and yelled at the soldiers who rushed in: "Take someone to get him out!!"

"No no—" Clive shouted sharply while coughing, "Don't hurt my experimental sample!"

His lingering sound was still echoing in the room, the monster on the other end had already rushed towards Scott, the speed was as fast as a gust of wind, and the erect scales were like layers of steel knives, as long as it touched it, it would be cut off a layer of flesh.

Scott showed that rare handsome smile again, and only stretched out a hand wearing a leather glove, which just happened to be stuck on the neck of the monster that jumped in front of him within a second. His fingers sank deep into the layer of slippery scales, and the erected scales were vulnerable to breaking off, but embedded into the monster's own flesh. Before it had time to fight back, its neck was snapped off. tilted to one side.

Leia screamed in fright, and the electronic board in her hand fell to the ground. Clive sat weakly on the seat, covering the corners of his eyes in despair.

As if he was killing a fish, Scott tore off the monster's head with the other hand and threw it on the ground. The silver-gray blood splashed out covered most of his body and dripped from his marble-like face. .

He blinked indifferently, shook off the silver-gray blood beads on the slender eyelashes, and then raised his foot to step on the bald head—puff—the soft skull was suddenly crushed into mud, and the jaw was broken. Flew out and landed in a corner.

Everyone at the console was disgusted by this brutal and bloody scene. A few weaker researchers couldn't help vomiting, and even the guards turned blue.

Scott bent down, picking and picking in the small pile of mud with his gloved hands, and finally twisted out a substance the size of a fingernail with his two fingers. He twisted it and looked up under the light. Then he pressed it on his forehead, and the diamond-like stone melted into the skin, and the wound healed instantly.

"That's it..." He raised his head intoxicated, the red totems on his face gradually disappeared, but his eyes became even redder, and the original blackness was forced back a bit.

Clive's withered claw-like hands tremblingly pressed on the console, he stared at Scott without blinking, and countless guesses flashed through his head like crazy.Could it be... Could it be——

When this change happened, the dragon's lair on the North Norse Icefield finally had a movement after a long silence.

The heads of the two huge red pterosaurs sleeping close together moved slightly, the huge dragon pupils opened suddenly, and two long howls pierced through the frozen valley and thick clouds, thousands of kilometers seemed to be in the ear .

The black-haired boy at the other end woke up in a deep sleep, with double pounding heartbeats in his chest, he touched his lower abdomen, there was a gentle line raised there, and it was the first time he felt fetal movement so clearly after six months.

The author has something to say: There are a few points to explain:

[-]. Clive Berkman, as mentioned once before, is the father of genes, he created the gene repair medicine, and he is also one of the people who caused the civil war. Of course, this is not his fault. Everyone is innocent. Sin, he was nothing more than a scientist.He was about the same age as Rebes Claude's parents, less than sixty, which was actually considered young for Gary Vance. The reason why he was so old... well, there was a reason.

He can't be regarded as a good person in the simple sense... This person is a scientific madman, and in a certain way, he is an extremely cruel person.

[-]. Scott has evolved. He accepted this kind of experiment at the beginning, and it is the most successful one (from the appearance =V=).Half a year ago, he accidentally absorbed the flame of the red pterosaur (remember, he was sprayed with fire by Jacob), and now his power has been sublimated, and he has part of the attributes of the red pterosaur.He wanted to be strong, so he took the newly derived crystal nucleus from the skull of the monster in this chapter.

[-]. The most pitiful fish monster in this chapter.I don't know his identity, does anyone see something wrong... He is JB, the dead man who appeared in the Mermaid Hunt... Yes, at that time, the giant scorpion station retrieved fake corpses.

Because the number of experimental samples required by Grade's experimental base for more than ten years is astonishing, but they cannot be people with ordinary physiques, so... we can only find a way to get them from the army or from the people...