After passing through several checkpoints in the intricate metal passageways, Jiang Hai and Lin Jiayi finally arrived before an enormous silver-white metal door. Above it, the number thirteen was marked in large red characters.
Lin Jiayi stopped and said, "This is Research Laboratory No. 13. Only the laboratory owner's Identity Card and the master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall have authorization to open it. No one else, not even another Level 9 Soul Engineer, is permitted to enter. The surrounding metal is all titanium gold, a full meter thick. Even a Titled Douluo couldn't break into the laboratory through brute force in a short time. The laboratory also has a dedicated warning system that will sound an alarm immediately if anything is damaged!"
Jiang Hai nodded, took out his Identity Card, and swiped it over the reader beside the door. The metal door parted down the middle, revealing a vast laboratory before him.
The first things that caught his eye were enormous glass tanks. Inside them, the corpses of various creatures were preserved in a green liquid. There were Soul Beasts, as well as humans.
At the sight of the human specimens, Jiang Hai instinctively frowned.
Lin Jiayi said, "These biological specimens are already decades or even a century old. Most of the human specimens came from heinous criminals sentenced to death or severely wounded Soul Masters who signed voluntary agreements. Of course, some were Soul Engineers who conducted research here. Their records are in the research files. These Soul Engineers were heroes of humanity. They willingly gave their lives for the advancement of soul tool civilization. The Illustrious Virtue Hall also has strict orders: ordinary research is permitted, but desecrating these specimens' bodies is absolutely forbidden, as is taking any specimen out of the Illustrious Virtue Hall!"
Jiang Hai