The Temptation of Life's Revival

Life's Revival**

Meanwhile, on the seventh floor of the Northern Institute Research Center, in the monitoring center.

"What's going on? Why did the alarm suddenly go off?" Luo Bingyi, around sixty years old with a head full of graying hair, stormed in and loudly questioned the monitoring staff who came up to him.

"We don't know. No signs of intrusion have been found anywhere in the research center. The alarm's initial source came from an unknown location." Though he was being berated, the monitoring officer did not dare show any attitude and patiently explained to Luo Bingyi.

"You don't know the source? Are you a pig? How could you not know the source?"

After cursing him out, Luo Bingyi immediately entered several commands on the large electronic screen. Monitoring windows popped up one after another across the display, and Luo Bingyi stared without blinking.

Huh!

Just as the researcher had said, there were no signs of intrusion anywhere from the first through seventh floors of the Northern Institute Research Center. Could there have been some kind of malfunction?

No, that was absolutely impossible!

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Luo Bingyi's body trembled slightly. "All of you, leave first." After everyone had left, Luo Bingyi quickly entered several commands. Several new monitoring windows appeared on the large screen. Judging from their layout and the scenes shown in the footage, they were definitely not ordinary laboratories. These were secret locations within the Northern Institute Research Center that ordinary people could never know about.

In the room containing the cultivation tanks, Luo Bingyi finally spotted Hong Mo slowly walking around. Who was this guy? How had he suddenly appeared in the Eighth Sub-Nest?

Luo Bingyi stared at the completely ** Hong Mo, frowning in thought. After pondering for a while, he clicked the monitoring window again and brought up an extreme close-up of Hong Mo. It was a very familiar face, but where had he seen it before?

It was him? How could it be him?

Luo Bingyi's face was filled with disbelief as he stared fixedly at Hong Mo. This person had been confirmed dead years ago. How had he come back to life? As though recalling something, he switched the monitoring window again, moving it to the room where Hong Mo had first appeared. Sure enough, a damaged cultivation tank appeared in the footage, with pale green ** spilled all over the floor.

Luo Bingyi cursed crudely and paced anxiously around the monitoring room. How could this have happened? Yet his eyes suddenly lit up. The sudden situation had confused him completely. He was just an experimental subject—if he had escaped, they only needed to capture him again. The key was the value in this.

Value—yes, value! That experimental subject had definitely died. Luo Bingyi had personally examined him. So why had he awakened now? Perhaps awakening was not the right word. Resurrection was more fitting. Resurrection—what an immense **. Luo Bingyi suddenly looked at Hong Mo with a hungry expression, as though he had spotted some precious research material.

Life, resurrection, immortality—these had always been subjects that endlessly fascinated humanity.

While Hong Mo was being watched by the surveillance equipment, he seemed to notice the hidden camera as well and turned his head in that direction. This made his face even clearer.

A tiny camera was positioned overhead in front of Hong Mo. Hong Mo raised his right hand. A faint spark shot from his right index finger and struck the camera ahead. There was a problem with his ability field—it would be stimulated into retracting once it extended more than ten meters beyond his body—but he could still channel an electric current over such a short distance.

The screen immediately went black.

The excited Luo Bingyi entered several more commands, and Hong Mo's figure reappeared on the screen, though it was no longer as clear as before. Naturally, there was more than one surveillance camera. The one Hong Mo had destroyed was merely an obvious decoy placed in the open.

Although Luo Bingyi could hardly wait to put Hong Mo on an operating table and dissect him for research, he had not completely lost his head. Hong Mo was an esper, a "first-generation" source specimen. After sleeping for so many years and waking up again, no one knew whether he had gained any special abilities.

The most important thing now was to capture him first. However, there was a problem with where this experimental subject had appeared. That was the Eighth Sub-Nest, and the things inside were not something ordinary people could come into contact with.

"Notify the Special Security Department. Tell Captain Han to bring a team over. Have all researchers from the Special Research Department evacuate to the seventh floor or above. Everyone is to stand by until further instructions." Luo Bingyi issued his orders methodically.

"But Director Luo, several extremely important studies are currently underway below. Interrupting them like this will have a major impact. The possibility of failure is at least over 90%." A middle-aged woman asked doubtfully.

"Idiot! If I tell you to stop, then stop! If you want to die, stay down there. As long as the backup experimental data isn't lost, everything else is secondary." After saying that, Luo Bingyi ignored her and continued watching Hong Mo's situation.

Hong Mo slowly walked through the room, enduring the churning in his stomach as he looked at the bizarre corpses around him. Human ones, animal ones, intact ones, mutilated ones.

Hong Mo had more or less formed a guess about this place. It was nothing more than some experimental base. Like these experimental subjects, he was research material too, though he did not know why he had suddenly awakened. But there was no time to waste now. That camera had certainly exposed his information, and someone would probably be coming to capture him before long.

Hong Mo did not dwell further on the corpses. He quickened his pace and searched for a route leading outside.

The middle-aged female researcher who had been cursed at for no reason stood there with an ugly expression. A friend behind her, someone she was fairly close to, gently tugged at her.

"Yes, Director. We'll go right away." The female researcher answered in place of the previous woman, then pulled her friend toward the exit.

"Don't question the director's orders. Even if you can't understand them, any losses caused won't be blamed on you," the female researcher explained to her friend, who had only recently been transferred here, as they walked.

Not long afterward, the female researcher returned to report. "Director, everyone has evacuated, but we can't reach the deputy director."

"What? You can't reach Meiyue?" Luo Bingyi was startled, then lowered his head in thought. Right, Meiyue said she was preparing a new R Prime Blood Serum and told us not to disturb her under any circumstances. Luo Bingyi recalled what his daughter had told him several days ago.

Why did everything have to happen at once? Luo Bingyi's brow furrowed deeply. But now was not the time for experiments. The Eighth Sub-Nest was not far from Sub-Nest Six. If that experimental subject found Meiyue... Luo Bingyi did not dare imagine any further.

He shut off the monitoring equipment and hurried toward the underground secret research facility.

Not long after Luo Bingyi left, a tall, thin young man walked over. The guards nearby all saluted him. "Doctor."

"Mm. I need to look at something in here. May I go in?" The young man smiled gently, looking entirely harmless.

"Please go in, Doctor." After hesitating for a moment, the guard still agreed. Although the director had instructed them not to let anyone else in, this young man held no low position within the research center. A minor guard like him could not afford to offend him.

After entering the monitoring room, the young man's fingers flew across the controls, and the surveillance footage Luo Bingyi had just watched reappeared on the screen. This was...! The young man's heart shook.

Having interrupted his daughter's experiment, Luo Bingyi ran into the Special Security Squad just as Luo Meiyue stood there looking thoroughly displeased.

"Captain Han." Luo Bingyi's eyes lit up when he saw the five people across from him, and he stepped forward.

"Director Luo, what did you call us here for?"

"Mm, a 'first-generation' experimental subject has awakened for some unknown reason. Try to capture him alive. No—he must be captured alive. He can be injured, but he absolutely cannot die." Old Luo spoke urgently. Luo Meiyue, standing beside Luo Bingyi, was already in a bad mood because her experiment had been interrupted. She had no interest in this matter and turned to walk in another direction.

The members of the Special Security Squad were used to this and said nothing.

"Okay, shall we move out now?"

"Mm, leave now. The sooner, the better. It would be best if we reach him before he gets to the laboratories. That way, we can reduce the losses." Luo Bingyi nodded.

Hearing those orders, Han Nianming understood. The special experimental area was a thousand meters underground, and there were many important things there. If they were damaged, it would certainly be a tremendous loss to the research center.

Luo Bingyi, director of the Northern Institute Research Center, led the way to an elevator. "I'll remind you one last time: capture him alive. It doesn't matter if you die, but this experimental subject absolutely cannot die."

That was a rather harsh thing to say. The five people rapidly descended in the elevator. Everyone remained silent, but two of the espers were clearly distracted.

Ever since becoming espers, they had never been looked down upon like this. Yet this director had humiliated them so openly, saying that it did not matter if they died, so long as the experimental subject did not.

"That old man is really annoying." A seductively dressed woman leaned against the elevator and spoke flatly.

Though the others did not say anything, they clearly agreed with her. But how could they understand the temptation that the revival of life held for a researcher? It was the mystery of life itself!

Why does this chapter keep getting flagged whenever I post it? What exactly violated the rules again? That's just how things are in China—this gets censored, that gets censored. Do people really not know the truth in their hearts? What difference is it from burying one's head in the sand?