"You came." Thought Control had already been waiting at the arrival platform.
Xia Fan got straight to the point. "That person... has awakened?"
"All its vital signs are normal, and its brainwaves have fallen back to a readable state. Theoretically speaking, it is now awake and no different from an ordinary person," Thought Control replied. "I notified you only after confirming this."
He took a deep breath. "Take me to see her."
The two took the elevator straight down into the core of the Escape Tower. After winding through countless turns, Xia Fan entered a heavily guarded biological laboratory. Its walls were pure white, so immaculate they resembled the doors of the Gate of Heavenly Dao; every panel of the ceiling was an adjustable light, currently giving off soft, natural illumination. At the far end of the room stood an enormous glass tank, within which a human body floated faintly.
This was the birthplace of synthetic lifeforms. The "Primordial Yao" had been pieced together bit by bit in a culture dish through artificial means.
In fact, this biological laboratory could also create legal lifeforms.
After all, Yao coding fragments were more complex and demanded a higher level of technology.
But constrained by the ethical restrictions of the Escape Law, such work had been absolutely forbidden, so Thought Control had never conducted any related experiments.
Xia Fan had spent considerable effort manually disabling that restriction, allowing her to bypass the review units and attempt this kind of synthesis.
He had assumed it would take quite some time, but Thought Control's progress had been faster than he expected.
Though the person before him possessed every trait of a legal lifeform, she was not a natural human in the true sense.
From the moment she had taken shape in the womb, she had