Slaughter (23)

Because of the Evolver's excessively powerful life force, Idema had not died even after Ian split his head open with a single sword stroke.

But after Ian removed his Brain Attachment, the director's once-cunning, lively eyes turned cloudy and vacant.

It was not that all of Idema's intelligence had been granted by the Brain Attachment—he truly was a clever man, and his learning was worthy of his position. But the Brain Attachment's long-term presence had allowed Idema, a First Energy Level Evolver, to condense a soul ahead of time, and it had become part of Idema's soul.

And when Ian removed the Brain Attachment just now, he had also shattered Idema's soul, leaving him to use his own body, his already utterly ruined brain, to personally experience the pain of a "shattered soul."

"This is what you brought upon yourself, you scum."

Ian shook his head. He felt entirely at ease killing Idema. As the director of a laboratory like this, killing him ten times probably would not be enough to atone for even a tenth of his crimes. Besides, leaving him alive would make what came next extremely troublesome.

Better to kill him outright. The information had been gathered almost completely anyway.

With that thought, he reached out and opened the safe on the desk, his fingers brushing over the most important and core documents. "These are probably the core projects of Azure City Laboratory... If I'm not mistaken, they should be Nightmare Fusion, Artificial Soul, Brain Attachment cultivation..."

As he spoke, Ian's heart sank.

Because he had guessed correctly.

The Silver Chip scanned the documents, swiftly extracting keywords from them and proving that his guess had been right.

And in truth, Azure City Laboratory had been conducting human experiments all along... Countless people had lost their lives in