Chapter 1332: Appearance
Xiao Ran naturally understood what Durandal meant. Because of Yuzes's presence here, Durandal had not made it too explicit, merely describing the requirement as having sufficiently good physical qualities. Clearly, he wanted to use Participants—whose bodies had been datafied by Prometheus and strengthened to levels far beyond ordinary humans—for experiments.
Xiao Ran's answer was that Legion Participants could not be used. He could sometimes show no mercy toward enemies, but he had nothing to criticize in how he treated his own people. How could he allow Durandal to use Legion members as test subjects? Without certainty of a one hundred percent success rate—and even with a guaranteed success rate, without knowing what might happen after merging with the Native Species—Xiao Ran would never let his Legion members take such a risk.
Durandal needed research subjects with exceptional physical qualities, but ordinary lifeforms in Mission Worlds would not possess the kind of physique he sought. Of course, that applied only to ordinary people. There might be certain special individuals with remarkably strong bodies, but no enemies with such physical qualities had appeared so far.
There were several people in the Steel Dragon Squad with decent physical qualities, but Xiao Ran would not use them for experiments either.
Durandal had only asked Xiao Ran because he wanted to understand his attitude toward the matter. Seeing Xiao Ran reject it without hesitation, he nodded in understanding. "I understand. Although the lack of suitable test subjects will slow progress, I will continue my work."
Xiao Ran nodded as well. "If I find someone suitable, I'll hand them over to you."
Using clones or Photocopy Persons with physical qualities like Xiao Ran's was not impossible. But once Xiao Ran's physical qualities reached a certain level, even clones created from his genes could