After typing the final period, Yan Anqing took his hands off the keyboard and sent a document titled "Feasibility Report on Grafting Limitless Cells with Electric Eel Tail Somatic Cells" to Jiang Xinyue, the forum-spamming expert.
He stood up, stretched a little, and waved at Ying Kai in the distance.
At that moment, Ying Kai wore insulated gloves and held an e-reader, reading while enjoying the "electric bath cultivation assistance device" Yan Anqing had built for him.
After a period of adaptation, Ying Kai had completely gotten used to this training. He had even learned to find pleasure in hardship, using reading to distract himself from the pain and shift his attention elsewhere.
"Calling it a day?"
Ying Kai climbed out of the discharge tank, casually wiped himself down, got dressed, and walked over to Yan Anqing with a grin.
"You can move on to the next stage."
Yan Anqing pointed toward a compartment in the southeast. "The thing I promised you is inside. Go take a look."
Gulp.
Ying Kai felt his salivary glands begin secreting uncontrollably.
He swallowed, then forced himself to enter the compartment.
Venom, riots, massacres, alien facehuggers...
Images of those classic film and television creatures involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
He had once thought only amateur crackpots could kill someone through experiments, but hadn't that highly ranked researcher surnamed Huang suffered genetic collapse on the spot and turned into a puddle of mush after an experimental mishap?
That person seemed to have been called Huang Zhaolan...
Before a terrifying force like biotechnology, no amount of caution was excessive.
Ying Kai carefully pushed open the door. What appeared before him was not the savage yet intelligent symbiote monster he had imagined.
"What's this?"
His gaze fell on a fist-sized, chubby, round little guinea pig with its