"We originally planned to eliminate you because you appeared near the 'door.'"
"Now, it seems you bear no ill will toward humanity."
"We've now decided to place you in containment."
The doctor said a great deal in quick succession.
Lu Xiao quickly caught the key point.
"Containment? With free room and board?"
"That's great!"
Lu Xiao sat up and excitedly clasped the doctor's hand.
"I'll do exactly as you say."
"As long as you feed and house me, if you tell me to go east, I'll never go west."
The doctor nodded, then turned and said,
"The subject currently shows no aggressive tendencies. Safety classification provisionally set at S."
"Designation 292."
A staff member nearby quickly recorded the doctor's words.
Designation 292. Contained Anomaly name: Lost Person. Containment Level: Safe (provisional). Subject abilities: Unknown!!! (Pending research)! Containment requirements: Unknown!!! (Pending research)!
The staff member soon finished entering the Contained Anomaly's information, then handed the tablet to the doctor.
The doctor glanced at it, then nodded.
He looked at Lu Xiao again and smiled kindly.
"Do you have any special abilities?"
At that, Lu Xiao pondered for a moment, then answered very seriously,
"Does eating a lot count as a special ability?"
Everyone present froze at his words.
The doctor adjusted his monocle.
"Any other special abilities?"
Lu Xiao thought carefully, then shook his head.
The doctor thought for a moment, then told the staff member beside him,
"That'll do for now! Prepare a containment room for him!"
The staff member asked hesitantly,
"Should we put down 'eats a lot,' then?"
"Should I stuff your head up your ass, then?"
The doctor swore at him.
The staff member shrank back, not daring to argue.
He didn't doubt whether the doctor could do it, only whether the doctor would.
Once the registration work was complete, the doctor spoke kindly to Lu Xiao.
"Since your current Containment Level is S, meaning Safe."
"You may move around within the base's designated areas."
Lu Xiao paused, staring at the doctor with his dead-fish eyes.
"Didn't you say you were going to study me?"
The doctor waved a hand.
"The research will take place in the containment room!"
"No slicing me up?"
Lu Xiao didn't quite understand.
As far as he knew, research always involved slicing things up.
The doctor adjusted his monocle and instructed the assistant behind him,
"Take him to the containment room."
Inside the containment room.
Lu Xiao sat on a steel-framed bed in the center of the room.
The surrounding walls were all cast from steel.
They gleamed with a metallic sheen under the incandescent lights.
On the wall beside the door were three buttons.
One button bore a door icon.
One button bore a lightbulb icon.
The icon on the last one looked like a chicken drumstick.
Lu Xiao first pressed the button with the light icon.
Click!
In an instant, all the lights in the room went out.
Lu Xiao pressed the button again.
The dazzling incandescent lights came back on.
Then Lu Xiao pressed the button with the chicken drumstick icon.
Click!
A small hatch instantly opened in the wall beside him, revealing an opening.
Then a hamburger appeared in the opening.
Lu Xiao stared with his dead-fish eyes.
"They really do provide room and board! This is bliss!"
As he spoke, he reached for the hamburger.
Suddenly.
Click!
A gust of air blew out of the opening, blowing the hamburger out and onto the floor.
Silence fell over the scene.
Elsewhere.
The doctor and the other staff watching the surveillance feed also held their breath.
On the surveillance feed.
Lu Xiao stood motionless, looking down at the hamburger.
The scene was extremely eerie.
"Will this make him angry?"
A staff member asked quietly.
The doctor stared intently at the surveillance feed.
Elsewhere.
Lu Xiao paid no attention to the hamburger that had fallen onto the floor. Instead, he sank into thought.
"One hamburger won't fill me up!"
"I wonder if I can press it a few more times!"
He acted on the thought and pressed the button again.
Click!
Another hamburger appeared in the opening.
Then that hamburger, too, was blown onto the floor by a gust of air from the opening.
At that moment, a crazed look appeared on Lu Xiao's face.
Seeing Lu Xiao's crazed expression on the surveillance feed.
Every staff member's heart sank.
"It looks like his Containment Level needs to be changed!"
Someone suggested.
On the screen, Lu Xiao was laughing maniacally.
At the same time, he frantically pressed the button.
Before long, the hamburgers beside the wall had piled up as high as a small hill.
With a blissful expression, Lu Xiao plunged into the mountain of hamburgers.
He grabbed one in each hand and frantically stuffed them into his mouth.
The staff watching the surveillance feed breathed a sigh of relief.
Then they recorded two short lines on their tablets.
Sequence 292: Emotionally stable! Sequence 292: Enormous appetite!
Just then, the doctor standing at the front suddenly slapped his forehead.
"Oh no!"
At his words, all the staff present froze, then turned to look at him in unison.
"We forgot to remove the bullets from his body!"
The staff froze for only a moment before returning to their work.
They had long since grown used to this sort of thing.
Just then, an urgent voice rang out.
"Doctor! The test results for that piece of flesh are out!"
"Come take a look!"
Hearing this, the doctor immediately walked over to the testing machine.
The instant he saw the results, the monocle on his face fell straight to the floor and shattered.
Every staff member who saw the results froze involuntarily.
The test results showed that the cells in this piece of flesh were continually proliferating, then dividing, and finally dying.
The doctor roared at the staff member in charge of the tests,
"Where's the original piece of flesh?"
The staff member paused, then walked to the refrigerated cabinet and took out a container.
Inside that container was the very piece of flesh Lu Xiao had cut from his own chest.
The doctor opened the container and took out the flesh.
At that moment, the piece of flesh was still twitching slightly.
It looked exactly as it had when Lu Xiao first removed it from his body.
A faint smell of blood filled the doctor's nostrils.
A staff member beside him asked,
"Doctor! Is there something wrong with this tissue?"
The doctor's eyes shone with excitement. At that moment, he looked as though he had discovered a new continent.
"What an incredible discovery!"
He immediately cut a thin slice from the piece of flesh.
He placed it on the instrument to examine it.
PS: S stands for safe. An S-class Contained Anomaly is not necessarily weak.
Generally, only those that are not aggressive toward humans and do not attempt to break out of containment and escape are classified as Safe.
For example, a button that would destroy the entire world once pressed would also have a Containment Level of S.
Meanwhile, a Contained Anomaly that frequently slips out to enjoy the scenery would be classified as D, meaning Dangerous, even if it had never harmed anyone.
Because that button cannot move within the containment facility, it is classified as S, Safe, while the Contained Anomaly that can run off at any time is Class D.
There is also an R-Class. These Contained Anomalies generally possess great power and evil dispositions, with a strong urge to destroy and extreme malice toward humanity.
If something is designated R-Class, it is a Contained Anomaly that the prison wardens need to find a way to destroy.
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