"Hm? A tongue?"
Xu Le was no longer some helpless college student who would be frightened by a deformed tongue sticking out in front of him.
Wasn't a malformed thing sticking itself out in front of him just asking to die?
Xu Le grabbed the tongue-like branch. Its slippery, slimy texture made it impossible for him to tell whether it was a tongue or a branch.
Xu Le yanked hard.
Crack, crack...
He dragged out a humanoid creature covered entirely in various kinds of mucus.
The reason this humanoid creature could not be called human went beyond its long, plantlike tongue.
Its head had also split completely open.
In other words, the tongue was protruding not from its mouth, but from its head.
Bubbles covered the humanoid creature, and golden energy like that of the Golden Tree moved beneath its skin.
The sight reminded Xu Le of Wang Shu exerting his strength.
"This creature... a sacrifice for the Life Inducement Potion?"
During his time in Lighthouse, Xu Le had become well aware of some of the research and experiments being conducted there.
Gu Jianuo had once told him that Lighthouse had conducted countless experiments. The fusion of Life's Guidance and the Golden Radiance Tree was only one of them.
This experiment appeared to be led by Gu Jianuo, but the person actually behind it was her mentor, Xiong Zemo.
So the presence of hybrid bioengineered humans here was actually quite normal.
Sizzle, sizzle!
After Xu Le pulled out the first bioengineered human, more and more tongues protruded from the walls.
Their conditions differed somewhat. Some had been completely assimilated by the Golden Tree's energy, while others were rejecting it.
One thing was certain, though: a large portion of the bioengineered humans here were still "alive." Whether they retained their own