The answer was as expected. The sixty-year-old son supported his eighty-year-old father as they slowly withdrew.
They left the laboratory to Gray Serpent.
Once the door closed, the vigorous old man's face rapidly turned ashen.
The hand gripping his cane trembled slightly.
Even Old Master Yu's legs were shaking. His son quickly supported him, but his sixty-year-old body could barely bear the burden of holding up another person's weight.
"Gray Serpent must not think himself too important."
"Father is right."
Old Master Yu forced those words through clenched teeth, and Young Master Yu nodded lightly in complete agreement.
Gray Serpent was from Shencheng Medicine.
He was a competitor.
One must always remain on guard against competitors. Although Gray Serpent's technology was urgently needed, and although he greedily wanted to continue living in this world, he could not show it.
That would keep Gray Serpent from making outrageous demands.
The two old men slowly moved away. Gray Serpent silently calculated the time in the laboratory. Last Sunday, he had tossed a dissected Honkai beast corpse into the sewers. By now, the people from Schicksal should have arrived.
"First, test the combatants' strength. Then use Mutation Agent Alpha on those two old men."
Gray Serpent muttered to himself.
"We must consider the rigor of the data."
If one wanted immortality, one naturally had to pay a price.
It was like a ticket. If you wanted to gain something, you had to give something in return. The only difference was the cost. Gray Serpent was a fair man; he would not force anyone to eat a poisoned apple.
They wanted to eat it themselves, and Gray Serpent could do nothing about that.
"The corpse was cut up very cleanly, with no Honkai energy crystal residue. It was also washed by rain for