The metal floor beneath Su Bai and the others gave off faint echoes in the dim light. The sound was amplified in the empty corridor, like invisible whispers lingering in his ears.
"Although the merfolk body we found had a great deal of irreversible decay, and that decay caused many unacceptable defects in the mutants..." Jiang Hong's voice echoed through the empty corridor. His eyes shone, his tone brimming with hope and anticipation, tinged with a barely perceptible madness. "Your ability, Mr. Su Heng, eliminated those defects in the mutants one by one!"
Kong Rui also looked silently at Su Bai, the same longing and fanaticism flickering in his eyes. Their gazes burned like flames, fixed intently on Su Bai, as though they expected him to perform some impossible miracle for them.
To Su Bai, their expectations were built on nothing more than their twisted fantasies.
"With Mr. Su here, even the negative effects caused by the merfolk's rotting flesh can be eliminated." Jiang Hong grew increasingly excited, as though he could already see the moment of their success. "That means even if our experimental material is only a rotting merfolk corpse, we have a chance to create a more complete 'drug' than the one those fish-men in the Nightmare World inject!"
As for their expectations, Su Bai could only offer an apology.
Outwardly, he maintained a reasonably calm demeanor, but inwardly, he sneered. He knew perfectly well that rather than help these people complete their absurd experiments, he would much prefer to destroy this revolting Underground Research Institute with his own hands.
"We're here." Jiang Hong's voice interrupted Su Bai's thoughts.
Ahead, a massive metal door suddenly came into view, its cold iron surface gleaming icily in the dim light.
Jiang Hong stepped forward and knocked on the metal