Jiang Cheng remained calm. "Of course, I want to help you, but you have to cooperate. I need to know what exactly happened here."
Liu Hui suppressed her agitation and couldn't help sighing. "What else could have happened? As you can see, this place is the Night Watch's testing ground."
"After the first generation of Deep Red... after you defected, the Night Watch secretly launched a new Deep Red breeding program. I was chosen then as one of the backup leaders of the project."
"I was still very young back then. I swear, before I came here, I never imagined it would look like this. But my superior told me that everything was for the continued survival of humanity. We had to eliminate the defected Deep Red, or they would bring catastrophe to this world."
"I believed him, as did countless other young people like me. We all believed that the Night Watch was the cornerstone of order in the darkness. That was why we joined."
"We devoted ourselves wholeheartedly to all kinds of complex experiments and treatments, hoping to cultivate even stronger warriors. But unfortunately, our test subjects... they were nowhere near as gifted as you were back then. During the forced process of accepting the Gate, most of the test subjects died. Those who survived were corrupted to varying degrees, and fewer than one in ten ultimately lived."
"What kind of people were those test subjects?" Jiang Cheng asked.
Liu Hui slowly shook her head, sorrow in her eyes that tugged at the heart. "They weren't criminals. They weren't people sent here to atone for their sins. They were Night Watch members just like me, most of them very young. Many had volunteered for the project out of pure enthusiasm, hoping to eradicate the Deep Red menace once