Life Assimilation Experiment!

The three con artists executed a perfect plan.

The three people hidden by the Silent Lizard Skin went unnoticed the moment the two Law Giver entered.

As the old Scholar left, the Acrobat Gao San immediately flashed out and snapped Figor's neck. At the same time Cheng Shi opened the rat cage and released Li Yi, letting Li Yi approach the corpse and tear off the Soul Parasite token from his body and stick it on the corpse.

At that moment, Li Yi was "Regain New Life".

As everyone knows, the unfortunate attendant was unsurprisingly betrayed by his own people.

At this moment, he watched the sharp blade tip constantly moving across his body, his face dark and uncertain.

Clearly, this is a knight with Faith, but even the strongest Faith cannot withstand the interrogation of a demon, and Cheng Shi is precisely that demon who understands people's hearts best.

"Hmm, I can see that. You're not afraid of death, but that's okay. I know a little about psychology and I know that everyone has fears."

Your Faith seems very firm, but I happen to have something that can soften that firmness.

As he spoke, Cheng Shi took out a... black pill from his personal space.

Do you know what this is?

Disordered sedimentation, a specialty of the Twilight Church.

Perhaps you don't know what the Twilight Church is at this point, but I can tell you that it is a group of madmen hiding underground who are creating chaos, and the lucky ones who are watched by the "chaos".

Oh, I remember now, the chaos hasn't arrived yet. You probably haven't heard of His Divine Name, but that's alright. His Emissary, Lord Ultraman, has brought His Will here, to the Grand Inquisition.

All you need to know is that He is the lifelong enemy of [Order], the nightmare of all Order, and the end of all order.

Now, if you swallow this 'disorder sediment', you can be like them, completely abandoning 'Order' and embracing 'chaos'. In this way, what you now Faith and want to maintain will become what you despise and will destroy.

Isn't that interesting?

I'll give you one more chance. Are you willing to talk now?

Cheng Shi picked his nose with one hand and held the "Disordered Sediment" to his follower's lips with the other, rolling it over his trembling face and pale lips.

Normally, being forced to take medication might not be such a terrifying punishment, but when the interrogator in front of you is a weirdo who likes to pick his nose with a metal rod, the sense of oppressive terror instantly rises.

After all, you can't understand what kind of perverted behavior a psychopath might exhibit towards you.

Seeing that his attendant remained silent, Cheng Shi continued:

"Okay, let's get real. If you can answer my questions truthfully, at least... you'll die by my hand."

"Instead of dying at the hands of your so-called friends, you can still retain some dignity, how about that?"

A mix of emotions flashed across the attendant's eyes. He looked at Cheng Shi with fear and resentment, but after only a second of eye contact, he was defeated by those pure eyes that didn't look like those of a demon at all.

"I'll talk... I'll talk!"

Please don't turn me into His Believer; don't push me into chaos.

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow and smiled happily.

"That depends on whether the information you provide is true or false."

"It's true... it's all true. I've had enough of guarding these blasphemous things in this dark underground place..."

They are desecrating Order, they are defying the law, they are... abusing the rules...

The Experiment subjects I'm referring to are... all the Death Sentence inmates!

Including you all..."

As soon as the attendant finished speaking, the three swindlers present all narrowed their eyes. They first looked at the attendant together, and then quickly sized each other up.

Both Li Yi and Gao San nodded slightly to Cheng Shi, which undoubtedly showed that the person being interrogated was not lying.

That's interesting. Is the Tower of Reason using prisoners from the Grand Inquisition for Experiment?

Who gave them the audacity?

That the Great One, the Great One Figor mentioned before he died, who is he?

Is it a mastermind secretly colluding with the Tower of Reason? Or a mole cultivated within the Tower of Reason's Grand Inquisition?

This seemed like an interesting story, so much so that Cheng Shi wanted to pull up a stool and listen to him tell it slowly.

The follower had no choice but to recount everything that had happened in the underground Experiment, under the duress of the three con artists and the pressure of his Faith betrayal.

This attendant Nisik, and he was originally a member of the Iron Law Knights.

One day, along with many Iron Law Knights, he was chosen by a First Adjudicator to carry out the "Detroit Mission," and the destination of the mission was this place, the secret Experiment located beneath the Montrani Colosseum.

This Experiment had no name, and its existence was not recorded by the Grand Inquisition. In the first few years after their arrival, Nisik and his companions did not know the purpose of the Adjudicator's secret construction of this Experiment. They only knew that at the end of the year that the New Law Faction promulgated the Death Sentence, the Experiment was completed almost at the same time as the Montrani Colosseum. Since then, more and more people in Gaoshan County have been sentenced to Death Sentence.

But the so-called Death Sentence is not a crime at all, but a rhetoric and illusion used to cover up the contents of this Experiment.

Because this Experiment is sending out Experiment subjects wearing mysterious helmets, namely all the Death Sentence criminals, including Cheng Shi's Cheng Shi identity!

The Experiment conducted in the Experiment is not complicated; it has a simple and easy-to-understand name:

Life Assimilation Experiment!

The Experiment was conducted by Therius, the same old man who had walked out of here earlier.

Although none of the guards in this underground Experiment knew his true identity, with so much obvious "evidence," anyone could guess that he was a Scholar from the Tower of Reason.

To be honest, before the civil war broke out on the Surface, the Grand Inquisition and the Tower of Reason had a good relationship. They just had different Faith, but they had many similarities in the construction of [Civilization] and often cooperated.

However, this "gentleman's friendship is as light as water" state no longer existed after the Tower of Reason war first, and at this time, the Tower of Reason was already deeply mired in war!

Therius came to the Grand Inquisition before this period.

Of course, all the information about Therius's appearance was Nisik's speculation; the only thing he was certain about was the part concerning the Experiment.

The purpose of this Experiment was simple: the Adjudicator, who were prepared for any Tower of Reason, tested and manufactured a batch of weapons of mass destruction to prevent the flames of war from spreading to the borders of the Grand Inquisition!

Yes, a killing weapon!

A killing weapon similar to the War Machine Soldier of the Tower of Reason.

However, the War Machine Soldier of the Tower of Reason use the "Truth" of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, while the killing weapons produced here use the "Truth" of the Department of Life Extension Studies.

Therius is a Grand Scholar of the Life Extension System.

The Experiment involved injecting a mysterious drug called "Life Assimilation Agent" into the bodies of several "lucky" individuals who had been arrested for violating the new law, turning them into so-called "Life Assimilated Body."

When one of the Life Assimilated Body kills another Life Assimilated Body in the same group of drugs, the "assimilation power" buried deep within the victor's body will plunder the deceased's power in every way, thus piling the victor's life power to a higher level in a way that is almost like infusion and superposition.

This method is more like "reproduction" and "inheritance" between parallel life forms.

Through this process, the final victor will become a War Machine with excellent physique and outstanding strength. Furthermore, the "Life Assimilation Agent" has already been mixed with easily controllable life defects. Under the summoning of special means, these final victors will become the strongest warriors who obey orders without question.

That concludes the Experiment.

When Cheng Shi and the others heard this, their tightly furrowed brows remained furrowed for a long time.

What the attendant named Nisik said was indeed true; at least, he himself believed it to be true.

However, after listening to it once Cheng Shi still found many things he couldn't understand, such as:

Since it's going to be a fight between strangers, why bother wearing a helmet that looks expensive and even has the power of "prosperity"?

Furthermore, if it's just about killing each other, why take turns? In such cases, shouldn't group combat be more effective in unleashing the ferocity of the "weapons"?

Moreover, the group deathmatch format is obviously more attractive to the audience and can also sell high ticket prices.

Furthermore, from an Experiment perspective, since death can bring Experiment benefits, why make these people fight to the death in full view of everyone? Wouldn't it be better to just let them passively kill each other mechanically? This would also improve the efficiency of the Experiment.

There were too many questions, but Nisik could only answer a limited number. He had been tormented by the inner conflict of "worshipping [Order] while secretly breaking Order," and hadn't paid much attention to the details of the Experiment. So, faced with Cheng Shi's barrage of questions, he stammered and couldn't answer for a long time.

But knowing all this is enough. Cheng Shi now only wants to know one more thing:

"The Great One' you're referring to, is he the Adjudicator sent you here to be stationed? Who is he?"

Nisik's face paled, and he shook his head.

"No, it's not him. The Great One I'm referring to is..."

One of those three most distinguished and honored beings...

Lord Kainlaur, favored by the gods of Order, the Chief Judge of the Grand Inquisition, and the true mastermind of the Iron Law Knights.