Unable to wait any longer, Cheng Mingrui pressed his palm against the Growth Vat before him and activated his ability to deconstruct machinery. The Growth Vat's construction and some of the experiments conducted in it were all converted into information and fed into Cheng Mingrui's brain.
Unexpectedly, this information was not merely knowledge and intelligence. It also carried immense amounts of despair, pain, hatred, and other emotions.
The sheer volume of these emotions was overwhelming. Like a tidal wave, they instantly drowned Cheng Mingrui's rational consciousness.
Darkness, endless darkness. Pain, unrelenting pain. Even time seemed to have been swallowed by these negative emotions as they tormented soul after soul, leaving nothing but fragments and hatred.
Cheng Mingrui's main body could not even let out a scream before those emotions struck him down. The ten-meter-tall Ork Warlord toppled backward like a small mountain and lay flat on the ground.
The information contained memories, and those memories triggered emotions. Cheng Mingrui's physical body was already absurdly powerful in the material universe, but his mental resistance had yet to catch up.
Fortunately, the benefits his soul had gained from devouring the C'tan Shard had made it exceptionally resilient. Otherwise, it might have collapsed the instant that painful information struck.
While unconscious, Cheng Mingrui had many dreams.
In those dreams, Cheng Mingrui became all sorts of beings: Orks, Aeldari, countless alien species he could not name, and quite a few Hynths.
Through their eyes, Cheng Mingrui fought for his life in this dark, brutal laboratory. Sometimes the being whose perspective he shared won; sometimes they lost.
These battles took place not only between individuals, but between cells as well. The pain involved was even harder to put into words. For the lives and souls here, permanent death was the best possible end.
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