Han Dong's Discovery

Han Dong's Discovery

"No wonder the brain quality is inferior, and the required Load Value is so low.

"I have to find a suitable body before considering leaving the prison."

Han Dong was in no hurry to abandon this mentally deficient body. It still had some use, so he shifted his attention to the right arm.

This Campbell Frank had two peculiar parts on his body.

One was his head, and the other was his right arm.

However, the right arm's "peculiarity" was a compliment.

Its description on the Consciousness Layer gave it an "excellent" rating, and it even possessed the "Rapid Punch" skill... As a university professor, Han Dong spent all day immersed in laboratories and had no time to play games.

Still, during middle school, he had played online games like "Legend" and "World of Warcraft," so he knew a little about them.

"Let's give it a try!"

His right arm threw a punch.

Whoosh!

The sound of air tearing past brushed his ears, and faint afterimages of the fist even remained in the air.

"What a fast punch!"

Though Han Dong was a researcher, he had privately signed up for a gym membership... He understood that such punching speed could probably rival that of an international top-tier boxer.

"Let's test the strength of the punch."

Since it was not his own body anyway, Han Dong felt no pity as he threw a full-force punch at the prison wall.

Smack!

Drip, drip...

The skin and flesh split open, and blood dripped from his fist.

The thick black stone wall had been struck with an indentation about a centimeter deep... Never mind the hardness of the black stone itself.

Han Dong estimated that the strength of this man's right fist was probably infinitely close to the limits of humanity.

"I can't think anymore... I need to quickly switch to a body with a normal brain."

After roughly understanding the body's condition, Han Dong emptied his mind as much as possible and returned to the Processing Room, avoiding excessive Brain Burden.

During this time, Han Dong did not dare look at the prison's overall scale at all. He walked with his head lowered.

Han Dong did not dare act recklessly. If his body died outside the Processing Room, he could not guarantee that he would survive.

He returned to the Processing Room.

As Han Dong slowly raised his head, the sight before him immediately stunned him.

The so-called Processing Room was unlike an ordinary cell. It was roughly twenty times the size of a normal cell... It was actually a Biological Laboratory.

When the culture medium on the table entered Han Dong's vision,

he unconsciously began collecting data and conducting related analyses.

Oh no!

Smack!

A strange explosion echoed through the Processing Room.

All five senses vanished.

'You have voluntarily abandoned your body in the Processing Room. Please continue searching for a suitable body.'

"This idiot..."

Han Dong, once again reduced to a Cell Cluster, felt utterly helpless.

However, this also confirmed something. As long as he was inside the Processing Room, no matter what happened to his body, he himself would not be in any danger.

"Once I find a body, I'll definitely leave the prison and head into the Outside World... Before I know whether the Outside World is dangerous, I need to find a body strong enough and suitable enough for me!

"At the very least, its brain must be able to keep up with my consciousness."

After gaining a rough understanding of the current rules and the prison's general situation, Han Dong continued his journey in search of a body.

Seven years.

That was right.

In order to find a "suitable" body, his search lasted seven years.

As a university professor, he had long cultivated a perfectionist mindset through all sorts of precise experiments and academic papers.

Seven years, three months, and twelve days.

Inside an isolated cell roughly five hundred meters from the Processing Room.

Gerald Maritis—formerly a Devout Believer.

This was the 139th corpse Han Dong had encountered.

Head: excellent, possesses the "Holy Light Sensing" skill. Load requirement: 37.

Left arm: ordinary. Load requirement: 12.

Right arm: ordinary. Load requirement: 14.

Torso: inferior. Load requirement: 33.

Left foot: incomplete. Load requirement: 0.

Right foot: incomplete. Load requirement: 0.

"I've finally encountered a corpse with an excellent-quality head... What's strange is, why does a torso rated 'inferior' require 33 points of Load Value?"

A researcher's intuition was accurate.

The Cell Cluster slowly occupied the body.

The instant its Facial Features reactivated,

Han Dong was slightly moved.

This woman named Gerald Maritis must have suffered inhuman treatment before her death.

Moreover, his doubts about why a torso of merely inferior quality required 33 points of Load Value were also answered.

With the brain's nervous system fully activated, Han Dong could clearly feel waves of agonizing cramps coming from the woman's stomach. She must have swallowed some indigestible foreign object before her death.

Furthermore, although this woman's head had received an "excellent" rating,

Han Dong still felt that his thought processes were somewhat obstructed.

"A female believer's brain leans toward art and literature. It doesn't seem to suit a science-minded person like me... Its information processing and computational ability are still lacking, and I encounter obvious resistance when thinking through problems... I'll go to the Processing Room and check the abdomen first."

Upon returning to the Processing Room, Han Dong immediately found a clean scalpel.

The body's death had little effect on Han Dong... After some work, he held a key covered in sticky gastric fluid in his hand.

"The key to the Central Prison Chamber!?"

The only locked room in the prison was the Prison Management Room in the middle. Naturally, he linked the two upon obtaining the key... though he could not be completely certain yet.

At that moment, Han Dong activated the ability possessed by the head—"Holy Light Sensing."

The expenditure of a certain amount of Mental Strength left Han Dong feeling slightly fatigued.

Immediately afterward, a mass of holy light descended upon the abdominal incision... Under the warm glow of the holy light, the wound actually healed on its own at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Over seven years of exploring the prison, Han Dong had witnessed quite a few similarly "strange magics." Yet due to the limitations of the brain's thinking, he could not analyze or comprehend them in detail from a scientific perspective.

Once the body recovered, Han Dong immediately crawled toward the center of the prison.

For some reason, Han Dong felt excited. He desperately wanted to know what was hidden inside the room at the prison's center. "Since every cell and every prisoner has a detailed purpose and meaning,

"then the locked Prison Management Room will be no exception."

Click!

As the key successfully opened the lock,

the Prison Management Room, which had been marked in red within his consciousness, changed to a gray state.

"Could there be a perfect body inside?"

After standing at the doorway and observing for a while, he confirmed that there was no danger inside and no signs related to "No Entry."

Supporting his upper body with both hands, Han Dong crawled inside.

'The Prison Management Room has been opened. You may now perform "Cellular Separation" in the Prison Management Room.'

Han Dong immediately began inspecting the secret chamber.

It was a fairly spacious steel room containing only a thick Black Metal table.

The surrounding walls were covered with blueprints related to the prison's design, as well as information about certain special prisoners.

After a thorough inspection,

first, he found no complete bodies. He only found a head stored inside a glass hydraulic tank.

The reason it was "strange" was that this head had neither Facial Features nor hair.

It looked more like a boiled ostrich egg.

Second,

he also found quite a few research documents in the room. Most were incomplete, or their crucial words had been blacked out.

"...The information is severely incomplete. I can't infer the prison's origins or nature.

"Still, I can barely make out the purpose behind this prison's construction. It seems to have been intended to detain all the special prisoners in Europe for research on the 'cellular level.'

"It seems some incident occurred, leaving the prison in its current state.

"Sigh... This liberal arts student's brain reads quickly and can even rapidly fill in the implied meanings behind the text... But whenever I need this brain to perform calculations and analysis, it starts lagging."

Whenever his thinking was restricted, Han Dong felt extremely uncomfortable.

Over the past seven years, he had never found a decent head.

Temporarily setting aside his deductions about the prison's nature, Han Dong tried to search for hidden information in the room... especially information regarding the mysterious head.

His sharp and meticulous observation allowed Han Dong to discover a hidden button on one of the metal table's legs.

A complete document rose from the tabletop.

"What is this? 'Subspace Containment Measures—Prison Edition'?"