Lorimas's voice had grown so weak that almost no one but Su Bai, who held her in his arms, could hear her words.
"Lorimas wants you to know something." Su Bai looked toward Jialan, who seemed even older and more dispirited after the emotional blow. "She once promised that even if you left her first, she would love only you throughout all the long years ahead. Her life is about to end. She almost fulfilled that promise."
"But she's sorry, because at this final moment of her life, she has begun to hate you."
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
Holding Lorimas as she grew lighter and lighter in his arms, Su Bai walked over to Peng Zhen and the others sitting on the floor, then bent down and placed the two syringes in front of him. Although both syringes bore labels reading 99%, Su Bai knew that number was more likely a measure of the progress of Lorimas's experiment than its success rate.
Before the final filtering of an exceptional Experimental Subject like Lian Xiangyu, there might not have been much difference between a 99% success rate and a 0% success rate.
The meat Cheng Xun had made his subordinates and the volunteers eat in front of all the players earlier was probably from the same batch as the reagent in the syringes. Cheng Xun should therefore have known exactly what changes would occur once those reagents entered Lian Xiangyu's body, or anyone else's.
After Peng Zhen instinctively picked up the two syringes, he and Cheng Xun's other former subordinates suddenly turned their once-numb gazes toward Cheng Xun nearby. Cheng Xun was human too, a human who had lost Lorimas's protection and had little ability to fight. His body was also much weaker than that of a player with