Kidnapping Adam (Third Update! Please Vote!)

Shen Li was stunned for two seconds, then looked at Gu Shen.

The latter's gaze gave him the answer.

The answer was simple, practically on the tip of his tongue—

Dead. Of course they were dead.

After being forcibly awakened and repeatedly stimulated, if evolution failed, how could any consciousness possibly remain? Gu Shen had seen an entire ship full of corpses in Rhine City. Those people had been the products of Deep Sea's repeated stimulation!

Their souls had shattered, leaving behind only their bodies.

For humanity as a whole, a mortality rate of one in a thousand was actually acceptable.

But—

Was that data real?

Gu Shen had yet to see the situation inside Sang Continent Grotto for himself.

As for the report provided by Deep Sea, he did not believe a word of it.

After the Main System's first "upgrade," it had begun managing every affair across the Five Continents... It had clearly developed an "awareness" of its own. At the very least, it knew how to exploit the rules and reassure the Five Continents Council. The numbers in this report differed by four-thousandths, but the real Deep Sea should not have even a one-in-a-million margin of error.

It knew everything!

It also knew this report was meant for the upper echelons of the Five Continents!

"Mr. Adam, setting those figures aside, what interests me is the wording you used just now."

Gu Shen looked at the man before him.

"You said 'Lion's Awakening.'"

Lion's Awakening was an Eastern Continent technology. This act had originally come from Lu Cheng's research.

Old Lu was dead.

Lion's Awakening Technology had been taken by Qin Ye.

After reaching the Source Tower, the technology had been restarted. But after so many years of secret research... it was no longer called Lion's Awakening.