"I told you already, didn't I? Professor Zhong Lingfan sent me here to retrieve something."
Xu Zhi replied impatiently, then asked bluntly, "Where did you get this Aberration?"
The creatures they had worked so hard to study had all been effortlessly defeated by Xu Zhi. They had once relied on those things to protect the research institute!
But under Xu Zhi's "iron fist," they had finally been forced to face reality. They could only answer obediently, "We caught it outside the research institute on the day the mutation occurred."
"Just this one?" Xu Zhi pressed.
The other party nodded. "We only caught this one. The others ran too fast, and we didn't dare pursue them too deeply."
"How did you control it?"
All Aberrations were instinctively drawn toward the city center, yet this one was not.
"This..." The researchers exchanged glances, apparently weighing whether they should reveal this "secret."
Xu Zhi had thought these people would know better by now. She had not expected them to remain so stubborn.
"Then take your secret and die with it."
She had not actually intended to kill them, only to threaten them into cooperating. But once the words left her mouth, the hostility in her heart surged stronger and stronger. By the end, the words "go die" sounded almost heartfelt.
The killing intent nearly hit the researchers in the face, and they instantly caved.
"It was a black fruit!"
A black fruit?
Xu Zhi had not expected such an unexpected gain.
"Explain in detail," she ordered.
"At first, this Aberration truly refused to obey. It tried to escape at every moment, so we could only keep it confined. Then we made some preliminary research progress with Mutated Animals." Afraid Xu Zhi would not understand, the lead researcher added an explanation.
"Our research involved