Xia Xiu opened March's experiment diary and began to read.
------Experiment diary--------
1588/03/02, sunny-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item#4-331
This was a new research project: testing whether an undying lump of flesh could take on a human form-how insane!
As the documentation stated, the subject possessed a powerful ability to divide herself, but carried no potent [cognitive distortion] meme factor.
Apart from separating, merging, and changing her physical structure, she displayed no other anomalies or harmful properties. Did that mean direct contact was harmless too?
Honestly, I had a wonderful time with her. The experiments allowed me to request plenty of funding from the higher-ups, so this had been an incredibly happy period for me.
Well, when I looked at the subject now, watching her clumsy movements felt just like watching the cat I kept as a child.
If I ignored her writhing tentacles and the multiple eyes that suddenly appeared on her body from time to time, she actually looked rather cute.
Fuck!
Was it normal for me to think this way?
Just to be safe, I had already visited the Mind Management Department. Both the mind specialist and the psychiatrist said I was perfectly normal.
1588/03/25, light rain-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item#4-331
Had the higher-ups gone mad?
The proposal before me-"The feasibility of using 4-331 for human experimentation and battlefield deployment."
Weaponizing anomalies???
Heaven would never allow anything like this, yet the orders and the director were all... Had something happened?
Heaven was deeply wary of weaponizing anomalies, because they had once dealt Heaven an unparalleled blow. Previous anomaly weaponization efforts had been launched to contend with the four [Ether Sovereigns] in the [ether sea].
Now Heaven had already driven the four sovereigns out of Terra and back into the [ether sea].
Why?
Honestly, I would not have been surprised in the slightest if the Heretic Inquisition's Inspection Unit suddenly showed up and shot everyone here to pieces.
What blasphemy!
1588/06/05, light rain-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item#4-331
Following the plan, I successfully taught the subject basic Terran writing and grammar. She certainly lived up to being an anomaly, learning all of that in just two months.
Next came the human anatomy experiments. I bought her a huge pile of books on human anatomy to read.
Well, the first organ she formed was a mouth. She could not speak, but she could eat.
Do not ask me where her digestive organs were. I did not know either. Besides, she only ate and never excreted anything, which was rather convenient.
1588/07/05, cloudy-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item#4-331
Throughout this month, I personally made her things to eat.
Well, salty, sweet, spicy, sour... I gave her a little of everything.
Later, she wised up. If I did not eat something, she would not eat it either.
As a result, I now used the experiments as an excuse to eat delicious food every day. Naturally, she ate along with me.
I applied to conduct physical contact experiments a month ago. She did not hurt me. On the contrary, she was very affectionate toward me.
1588/07/15, light rain-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item#4-331
The subject-no, she, Lisa-became human (I named her Lisa).
1588/07/22, cloudy-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item#4-331
Her appearance changed every day. Previously, she looked like a girl of five or six. Now she looked sixteen or seventeen.
Moreover, she showed clear aversion toward the other experimenters and refused to cooperate with them. Only when I appeared would she obediently cooperate with the experiments.
Why was that?
I decided to apply to conduct the experiments independently. I would take sole responsibility for Lisa.
1588/08/10, sunny-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item4-331
Lisa now looked twenty-two or twenty-three, and her figure... was extremely aesthetically pleasing. However, her speech always came in fits and starts, even though her vocal organs were perfectly normal.
During this time, we had been living {this passage was crossed out}
During this time, my experiments hit a bottleneck. The pieces separated from Lisa could not take human form, and they exhibited distortion. The director was dissatisfied with this.
1588/10/05, cloudy-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item4-331
Lisa suddenly stole a kiss from me today...
Her eyes burned with passion as she looked at me.
1588/10/07, cloudy-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item4-331
Lisa became even bolder than before. Four tentacles pinned me against the wall, and her delicate, alluring face drew close to mine. Our noses touched, and we could feel each other's heartbeats.
{The subsequent handwriting was a jumble}
1588/10/15, sunny-Containment room
{A mass of chaotic handwriting; only one word and one symbol were legible on the entire page}
Love?
1588/10/15, sunny-Containment room
I decided to escape the [Central Containment Room] with Lisa. The director was already deeply dissatisfied with the project's lack of progress. He would do many terrible things to Lisa. I had to take her away from here.
No, not just away from here. We had to leave Orléans, leave Youyang!
1588/10/30, sunny-Containment room
Recently, I had been mapping the layout of Orléans's [Central Containment Room]. I had to devise a meticulous escape plan, and Lisa and I trained specifically for it.
1588/11/03, rain-Containment room
From [crossed out], I obtained a method of temporarily blocking Eden, along with the guards' patrol times and assignments.
The only remaining problem was eliminating the attraction flesh creations held for the flesh faction. We intended to leave Youyang by ship from Fog City. If we did not solve this problem, the flesh faction's people would catch us even if we escaped.
1588/11/19, sunny-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item4-331
Following my plan, Lisa trained herself to divide her body. As long as she kept splitting off these flesh duplicates with their fields, their sheer numbers would confuse the flesh faction's sensing.
1588/11/29, cloudy-Containment room
Assigned containment object: Item4-331
The plan entered the preparation stage.
1588/12/10, sunny-Containment room
We decided to put the plan into action tomorrow.
1588/12/11, heavy rain
I was sorry. I only wanted to take Lisa away from here...
I pretended Lisa had taken me hostage, then lured the Mechanical Golems into the trap we had prepared. Soon, we had dealt with all three golems.
Following the plan, I fled toward the sewers with Lisa. We crawled through filthy sewage pipes. Over the previous two months, I had been using pieces of flesh separated from Lisa to bore a hole here.
Fighting the physical urge to vomit, I kept crawling toward the outside. Freedom lay just ahead.
Heavy rain slanted down from the sky. Ignoring the stench on our bodies, Lisa and I kissed each other.
We were free!!!
1588/12/12, sunny
Sunlight fell on our shoulders. We were free people now.
Following the plan, I set off with Lisa. We would leave Youyang and go somewhere without the Sanctum, without flesh, without strife!
(End of chapter)
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