"Special Researcher Feng Chen, the next experimental subject is ready. The experiment can begin at any time."
An experiment? Feng Chen glanced at the calendar on the wall. The date was all too familiar to him.
The year 2000.
The year that had left such a deep impression on Sirin.
"We have to find her quickly."
Although Feng Chen believed Sirin's heart was much stronger than it had been in the past, if something like this happened again, he couldn't guarantee that Sirin would be able to control herself and keep from unleashing the power of a Herrscher. Perhaps because she had experienced all this before, she would be even more vulnerable to the personality within the Herrscher Core taking control of her.
"What's the next experimental subject's name?"
The researcher who had come to report checked the roster and said,
"Her name is Sirin."
"Cancel the experiment. Bring the subject here."
"But—"
"Bring the subject here. I'll tell you why."
They were merely experimental subjects with a little value for research. Most researchers held the belief that any one of them would do.
However, Feng Chen quickly overturned that way of thinking.
"Look at this. This subject is so thin that she hasn't even received adequate nutrition. If you use her for an experiment, you probably won't get the best results. What a waste."
Feng Chen pointed at Sirin's emaciated body and displayed the medical examination records for every experimental subject from the previous month, along with the Babylon Tower laboratory's expenses for that month.
Then, right there on the spot, he calculated for the other researchers how much funding could be saved and how much the experiments could be sped up if the subjects were all in optimal condition.
"We wasted at least a third of our funding