Chen Ye was writing a file in his room, but today's file was somewhat different from the usual ones.
He was documenting the changes in his body.
Chen Ye pulled back his lip and looked into the mirror. "Six more teeth have grown in."
Chen Ye tried moving his right eye. The next second, the pupil in his right eye split into nine.
When he moved it again, the nine pupils merged back into one.
"My pupil might split on its own if I'm not careful. I need to watch that. Besides that, all ten fingers can fire Silk Thread. The threads are nearly as hard as steel and can turn invisible."
Yes, Chen Ye's Silk Thread could become completely invisible, just like 003's.
And aside from the threads themselves, puppets controlled by Chen Ye's Silk Thread could also become invisible.
As for where the puppets came from, there were two ways to obtain them.
One was to touch an object, or an existing puppet-like creation, and directly control it by connecting it with Silk Thread.
The second was to pierce Silk Thread into a human body, which also allowed direct control.
Chen Ye had casually grabbed four extras before.
Beyond that, Chen Ye also possessed an ability similar to Sequence 005's. He could pick up rocks or metal and refine them.
He could refine them into metal weapons or metal puppets.
It was worth mentioning that neither metal puppets nor rock puppets generated heat themselves.
That meant thermal imaging devices could not detect invisible rock or metal puppets.
But in the end, whether they were puppets or not did not really matter.
Chen Ye could simply fire Silk Thread to slice apart living creatures, which was far easier than having puppets kill people.
So to Chen Ye, the greatest use of puppets was actually laying out threads.
Chen Ye's Silk Thread could only be fired in one direction. If it needed to turn midway, a puppet had to serve as the turning point.
That applied whether it went left to right or top to bottom.
For this purpose, Chen Ye had specifically created many small thread-laying puppets. They were tiny, made of metal, and had openings in the middle of their chests.
Theoretically, as long as he arranged these small puppets in advance, Chen Ye could use Silk Thread to cut through every corner of the area.
The advantages of Silk Thread were its speed, wide range, and powerful lethality.
Its drawbacks were that it took time to set up and was unsuitable for prolonged combat, since the threads would become tangled together.
Controlling puppets in battle was somewhat simpler.
First, there was no need to deliberately prepare the battlefield. Second, invisible metal puppets could not be detected by enemies, allowing them to catch their opponents off guard.
And as long as there were enough puppets, even prolonged combat would not pose much of a problem.
But correspondingly, puppets also had disadvantages.
First was the thread connecting Chen Ye to the puppet. Once that thread was cut, the puppet would lose its ability to move.
Furthermore, the puppet's offensive capabilities still depended on weapons.
When using cold weapons, it was difficult to guarantee killing an opponent in an instant.
But if they could be paired with firearms and the firearms were made invisible, the results would be entirely different.
Although the bullets fired could not become invisible, that was more than enough.
At the very least, the enemy would not know which direction the bullets were coming from, leaving them nowhere to dodge and nowhere to evade.
It was especially useful for engaging enemies at long range, reducing the chances of the Silk Thread being cut.
"Come to think of it, what organization were those people from before? How did they set their sights on 004?"
Among Chen Ye's creations, Queen Bee was the most human-like. Her appearance was almost no different from that of a human.
What, you're asking about Invisible Man?
You already know he's invisible, so just ignore him.
It would have been one thing if Fishman had been exposed, but Queen Bee should not have been exposed so quickly.
Chen Ye truly could not figure it out.
"Come to think of it, didn't I send Raven to record it? Where did he throw the videotape?"
When Chen Ye returned this time, he found that all his creations had vanished without a trace. None of them knew what they had gone off to do.
Having no leads, Chen Ye could only fill in the blanks himself.
For example, perhaps those people belonged to a special organization dedicated to dealing with supernatural phenomena or monsters?
That was quite possible.
For all he knew, this world might have many other containment organizations.
Chen Ye had read plenty of novels and watched plenty of movies. Once special factions appeared, there was never just one of them.
There had to be at least three.
Why?
Because triangles were stable.
And whenever special factions appeared, a bunch of supposedly overpowered characters would start causing all sorts of trouble.
Then all kinds of absurdly powerful figures would emerge one after another within those special organizations. Several groups would fight to the death, stopping just short of blowing up the Earth.
Before that sort of plot unfolded, however, a bunch of cannon fodder always showed up first to die.
Looking at it that way, those people from before should have been the cannon fodder introduced first.
Everyone around him was a potential enemy. If the great powers' organizations learned Chen Ye's secret, they would surely rise up and attack him together.
Chen Ye's speculation was not baseless. Take his Double-eared Pot, for example.
Since something as unreasonable as the Double-eared Pot existed in this world, there was no reason similar things would not exist as well.
And if such things existed, they were generally controlled by some agency or national organization.
If those things, like Chen Ye's Double-eared Pot, could also create superhumans, that would be even more troublesome.
Although all of the above was hypothetical, and the enemies Chen Ye had predicted were merely imaginary enemies, there was always the chance of the unexpected.
What if things really were just as he imagined?
Chen Ye took two bottles of reagent from the cabinet. "The experiment on the immortality properties of the vampire serum must begin. As long as I master immortality, even if everything collapses, it won't matter to me."
To Chen Ye, those people had never been his subordinates. They were experimental subjects.
Experimental subjects could be replaced at will. As long as he had the serum, he could create as many monsters like that as he wanted.
Leaving aside Chen Ye, who was busy outwitting the air, Nine-Tailed Fox was already overwhelmed with work.
"Damn it, is there really no other way to effectively deal with those monsters besides large-scale destructive weapons?"
"How is Chu Yang's situation?"
"He's still cooperating with the experiments. The results inside his body are already completely different from those of a human. Every metric is far beyond that of an ordinary person."
"If we can achieve a breakthrough in biotechnology through him, the development of the first-generation enhancement serum will make a tremendous leap forward."
"How much longer, exactly?"
"Uncertain, but I think it should be soon."
"Soon?"
"Do you know how powerful those monsters are?"
"When facing Sequence 006, I nearly took an entire squad to hell to see my great-grandmother!"
"If you and I switched positions, the moment that monster got even slightly angry, I guarantee it would beat you so badly even your mother wouldn't recognize you!"
"We need Chu Yang's abilities. We need them even more than you do!"
"I understand how you feel, but please calm down."
"Chu Yang is far more useful in the rear than on the front lines."
"If the enhancement serum can be successfully developed, then our hundred-man armed force will be able to face a thousand Number 002 head-on!"
"I don't care how many Number 002 that serum can let us fight. I only care whether my team members live or die right now!"
"Let me ask you: if a thousand Number 002 really appeared right now, or even ten thousand, who would be rushing to the front lines to deal with them?"
"Obviously, us!"
"Can't you look further ahead?"
"Further ahead?"
"You mean we should burn ourselves some paper offerings in advance, just in case?!"
"We don't even know how to survive the present. What fucking future are we supposed to think about? What future do we even have!"
"You..."
"What do you mean, me? Let me ask you: if your serum development fails and our entire front line is wiped out, will you take responsibility?"
"I..."
"What do you mean, I? I was suddenly transferred here to lead the fight against monsters. Do you think I wanted this? Do you think my brothers under me wanted this?"
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